THIS DIETARY PATTERN VIRTUALLY ELIMINATES COLON CANCER. Colon cancer is among one of the more prevalent types of cancer. It is also one of the cancers that we know greatly how to prevent. In this study, a diet based on fruits and veggies lowered risk by a massive 65%, while a meat, potatoes and refined carbs pattern led to a 220% increased risk. And add in probiotics, avoidance of processed foods with nitrates (although this does depend on genetic factors like the EPOH uniqueness / SNP).
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Diet, Body Size Influence Age of Menarche, Adolescent Growth – (10-16-00)
Diet, Body Size Influence Age of Menarche, Adolescent Growth
More evidence continues to accumulate relating lifestyle and diet as children to diseases later in life. Considering the poor state of our children’s diet and increase in processed and fast food, can we still continue to delude ourselves into believing that our lifespans will actually increase over the next few decades?
Am J Epidemiol 2000;152:446-52 Diet and body size in early childhood influence the age at which girls achieve menarche as well as their growth during adolescence. “Menarche occurred earlier in girls who were taller and who consumed more (age- and calorie-adjusted) animal protein and less vegetable protein as early as ages 3 to 5 years,” the investigators report. The girls experienced their peak height growth at a mean age of 11.12 years, and the mean peak growth velocity was 7.99 cm/year, Dr. Berkey’s team determined. Peak velocity was noted at a younger age among girls who consumed higher levels of fat than average between ages 1 and 2 years, ate more animal protein than average between ages 6 and 8 years, or were taller than average before they were 6 years of age. The risk of some adult diseases is thought to be influenced by adolescent growth and development factors, the researchers note, “and this paper suggests that several adolescent factors might be modifiable by dietary changes in young children.”
Diet, Exercise on BP, Insulin, Oxidative Stress, NO Availability – (10-31-02)
Diet, Exercise on BP, Insulin, Oxidative Stress, NO Availability
Need I say more? Obviously this wasn’t sponsored by the makers of Lipitor or Atenolol. 30-45 mins exercise per day and dietary modifications for 3 weeks. 3 weeks!!! That’s all it took to affect these markers. And yet, recommendations such as these are low on the list of what most patients get. I remember a 19-year old patient who found out she had cholesterol in the 300′s and triglerides in the upper 400′s. A CARDIOLOGIST told her to just eat a low fat diet. She was. Gummi bears, pop, twizzlers….Roberts et al., 10.1161/01.CIR.0000040584.91836.0D –
Clinical factors, diet, and drugs on upper GI glutathione system – (01-17-02)
Clinical factors, diet, and drugs on upper GI glutathione system
Glutathione is one of the body’s more powerful methods of dealing with toxins and free radicals. This article finds that fruits and veggies will increase the concentrations of glutathione and the related enzyme glutathione transferase. While this is no great shocker, it does indicate that high levels of these compounds through higher intake of fruits and veggies may be a first line of defense against toxins that we take in through our diet.
Gut — Abstracts: Hoensch et al. 50 (2): 235.
Association between diet and esophageal cancer in Taiwan – (06-10-04)
Association between diet and esophageal cancer in Taiwan
Preserved foods and overheated drinks were found to increase risk of esophageal cancer 3.4 fold. Increased fruits and veggies were protective. Wow. Such surprising findings… Sarcasm over the waste of money on an obvious outcome, this study find increased risk at intakes of preserved foods at least once per week. How bout 3 times a DAY here in the US.
Association between diet and esophageal cancer in Taiwan – J Gastroenterol Hepatol, Vol 19, Issue 6, pp. 632-637 (Abstract) –
SHOULD DIET BE A MEDICAL INTERVENTION? – (01-17-05)
SHOULD DIET BE A MEDICAL INTERVENTION?
I am truly hoping this is just a rhetorical question put forth by the author!! It still amazes me the resistance mainstream medicine has against lifestyle changes and the therapeutic and preventative potential. I know the typical medical training is not there for a full understanding, but how can such a large group be clearly blind to literally an avalanche of medical literature supporting the benefits of diet and lifestyle as therapy?
I had an email discussion (argument?) with a cardiologist a few weeks back. He was so far off the mark it was scary. I just hope he’s not practicing anymore. He felt my estimate of 25% prevalence of the metabolic syndrome was way too high (it’s not) and felt that in diabetes and CVD it is probably even lower (actually, it’s 88% in CVD patients).
But, he concluded by saying that patients don’t stay with lifestyle changes anyway so why recommend them. I responded by saying that it is not his job to guess what the patient will or will not do–it is his job to explain the options to the patient. Anything short of that is malpractice by lack of informed consent.
EXERCISE, DIET AND NUTRITION ARE LESS DANGEROUS THAN DRUGS – (03-28-05)
Effect of two alpha-glucosidase inhibitors on postprandial hyperglycemia correlates w/ abdominal symptoms
That’s just great. The person who is most likely to respond to this class of drugs is the one who has the most stomach upset from the drug. At some point don’t we have to decide that exercise, diet and targeted nutritional supplementation are just a little easier and less fatal?
RISK OF OVULATORY INFERTILITY – (08-13-07)
Dietary fatty acid intakes and the risk of ovulatory infertility.
Concerns of infertility, both male and female, are definitely becoming more commonplace. There is obviously a reason for this reduction in fertility; Mother Nature would not shut down the “reason to be” unless there was a darn good reason. Enter mainstream medicine, seemingly oblivious to Mother Nature’s plan, who proceeds to force fertility on a body that’s not ready for it. I remember a patient that was excited about seeing a fertility “specialist” a year or so ago.
She had done her research and she felt he was going to find out WHY she was not getting pregnant. He ran a single serum hormone test (salivary profile taken over a month is arguably one of the best ways to evaluate what the hormones are doing) and determined that she needed hormone shots!! Some “specialist”!!! No talk about celiac disease, thyroid problems, diet, heavy metal exposure… I guess that the sad part is that this is ALL I’ve ever heard about “specialists.” The use of assisted reproductive technologies is damaging the health of our society, increasing the rate of preterm babies and babies born with higher lifetime chances of developing diabetes, heart disease and obesity.