Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Vitamin D and Cancer
There now seems to be a connection between breast, colon and prostate cancer and a lack of Vitamin D.
Even more amazing, one expert believes 25 per cent of breast cancer deaths could be avoided if the women had maintained adequate vitamin D levels throughout their life...This raises some big questions for Australians who have been living with the sun safe message for the last 20 years.
New study ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Intensively targeting blood sugar to near-normal levels in adults with type 2 diabetes at especially high risk for heart attack and stroke does not significantly reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as fatal or nonfatal heart attacks or stroke, but increases risk of death, compared to standard treatment.
Researchers from the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) clinical trial compared a medical strategy aimed at near-normal blood ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Oyster mushrooms do not taste like oysters but rather get their name from their resemblance to the shellfish. Oyster mushrooms are among the most abundant of wild mushrooms. They can be found throughout the year, most often on the trunks of dead trees.
Oyster mushrooms are the third largest cultivated mushroom. China, the world leader in Oyster production, contributes nearly 85% of the total world production of about a million tonnes.
Oyster ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
News release from The Alzheimer's Research Trust -18 July 2008
British researchers have shown that drug vaccination can remove amyloid plaques from the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, but unexpectedly found this did not slow down the disease.
The five-year study, funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust and published in the Lancet, examined 80 patients with mild to moderate dementia who had been immunised with AN1792, a drug which acts to ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
An natural treatment for depression is St. John's-wort. "St. John's-wort is the preferred treatment for mild depression in Europe," says Plant physiologist Stephen O. Duke who heads the USDA's Agricultural Research Service Natural Products Utilization Research Unit at Oxford, Mississippi. "Physicians there choose it four to five times more often than synthetic drugs because they believe it has fewer side effects. Europeans get their supply from Albania, but it grows ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
We showed previously that a diet rich in omega-6 fatty acids stimulates the growth and metastasis of human breast cancer cells [invasive breast cancer] in athymic nude mice. Overall, these results suggest that omega-3 fatty acids may have a place as adjuvant nutritional therapy in breast cancer and particularly as part of a neoadjuvant regimen. (Clin Cancer Res. 1996 Oct;2(10):1751-6).
Kevin Flatt's Comment: As breast cancer can spread to the lungs, ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The article below has to be regarded as a natural cure for lung cancer. D.H was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2000. As of April 2004 he managed an overall decrease in lung cancer tumor mass by about 90%.
Professor Ronald S. Pardini informed me (Kevin Flatt) in an email on Tuesday, 5 August 2008 that D.H.'s most recent CT scans show continued decreases in his lung cancer tumors to ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
DHA is often promoted as a dietary supplement to improve cardiovascular health. The polyunsaturated fatty acid DHA, short for docosahexaenoic acid, is found naturally in oil-rich fish, such as salmon and mackerel, along with another natural fatty acid, EPA (eicosapentanoic acid).
So researchers recently ran a study with high-triglyceride male volunteers, aged 39 to 66, to see the effect of DHA on both fasting and postmeal triglycerides and on the quantities ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Of the seven trials that compared the effect of garlic with that of placebo, three showed a significant lowering of systolic blood pressure and four in diastolic blood pressure. (J-Hypertens. 1994 Apr; 12(4): 463-8).
For example, the supine diastolic blood pressure in the group having garlic treatment fell from 102 to 91 mmHg after eight weeks and to 89 mmHg after 12 weeks. The blood cholesterol and triglycerides levels were also ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
High Protein Food & Weight loss: The highest protein food content and other high protein foods are listed at the bottom of this article.
A strategy that is gaining support for treating overweight and obesity, either when combined with energy restriction or its absence, is the manipulation of macronutrient composition; more precisely, reducing carbohydrate and increasing protein intake to improve body composition and blood lipids (fats).
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