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PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE – (09-29-05)

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Increases in testicular cancer may be linked to the rise in maternal body weight

I’ve said it before and this is yet another sad example of what we can expect as we have unhealthy mothers given birth to unhealthy children and starting them off with unhealthy lifestyles. Expect to see several generations of reductions in life expectancies unless we, as a society, get on the ball and truly start educating people about prevention and health.

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ARE DAIRY PRODUCTS GOOD FOR US? – (07-09-07)

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Adolescent Milk Fat and Galactose Consumption and Testicular Germ Cell Cancers

Almost everyone alive today has grown up under the idea that “Milk it does a body good.” Unfortunately, the research behind this is weak at best. Most people would accept that the drug companies have a tendency to market their products in a positive light that may not always be true. But, when it comes to the dairy industry, it is nothing but altruistic and the claims are never questioned.

And yet the Courts recently forced the dairy industry to stop its claims of weight loss from dairy products because there is no evidence to support it. The idea that dairy is good for us is so ingrained in our culture that every public health recommendation, every school lunch program and every state medicaid program includes the recommendations for daily servings of dairy. But, so it’s not good for you–but bad? Dairy has been linked to Type 1 diabetes, increased IGF-1 levels which are linked to prostate and breast cancer and now testicular cancer at a frequency of 1 serving/day. Now THAT’S good marketing done on a poor product!!!

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