Increased Risk of Type II Diabetes, Liver Disease and High Triglycerides with This Ingredient

May 16th, 2013

 

The average American consumes about 12 teaspoons of high fructose corn syrup daily. That’s nearly 55 pounds per year  This new evidence clearly shows the link between the consumption of HFCS and the explosion of type II diabetes.

Researchers compared HFCS intake and the rates of type II diabetes in over 40 countries.  What was found was that type II diabetes was 20% more likely in countries consuming the highest amount of HFCS.

The worst thing is the US is the world’s largest HFCS producer and consumer.

University of California researchers recently revealed a frightening connection between high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).  Frightening because indications of NAFLD development began so quickly.

After just two weeks, subjects who consumed either fructose or HFCS as 25% of their daily caloric intake  showed significant blood level spikes of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides!

If you find yourself craving a daily soda or two, or some other treat that’s sweetened with HFCS, don’t fool yourself into thinking that a little bit won’t do any harm. Even small amounts of this Franken-sugar can lead to serious damage — and very quickly.

Sources:
“Added fructose ups lipids, even within USDA recommended limits” Steven Fox, Medscape Medical News, 7/30/11, medscape.com

“High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring” Randy Dotinga, HealthDay News, 3/19/10, healthday.com

“Global High Fructose Corn Syrup Use May Be fueling Diabetes Increase” Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 11/27/13, scientificamerican.com

 

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Coca Cola Launches So-Called Healthy Beverage

May 14th, 2013

 

Coca Cola just launched a new product called Fruitwater. Guess what it doesn’t contain??

Fruit!

They have chosen to fortify it with some nutrients to give the illusion of nutrition and that it isn’t liquid candy.  Unlike candy, Fruitwater has zero calories and is sweetened with Splenda, otherwise known as sucralose.

In animal studies, sucralose promoted obesity and weight gain. So anyone who drinks this candy water with the belief that it’s somehow healthy… Well, let’s just say they’ve been seriously mislead.

It’s time to admit that there is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you desire without paying the high price of harming your body in the long run. The “technology of foods” (artificial sweeteners and man-made foods) has gone too far, and will not secure eternal health, beauty, slimness, or youth. Laboratory sugar-free chemicals are not your answer.

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Salt – Friend or Foe?

May 9th, 2013

 

It’s time to set yourself free from fear of salt! If you’ve been denying a sprinkle of salt on your food, go ahead and shake it on your eggs, your meat and your vegetables — whatever foods you love to put a little salt on.

For nearly everyone, a few shakes of salt will not harm health. That’s because the saltshaker is not the problem. The real issue is the sodium intake that comes from processed and restaurant foods.

Salt consumption is a small fraction of sodium intake. But here’s the disconnect… About three in four consumers cook with less salt at home in order to avoid sodium. And more than two in three say they salt their food less. But only one-third cuts back on processed foods or restaurant visits.

For most people, overconsumption of sodium comes in the form of processed, chemically treated sodium. It’s lurking in convenient frozen and boxed meals lining supermarket shelves and in restaurant meals. They’re loaded. They’re virtual sodium bombs.

Want a good un-adultered salt to use? Try mineral-rich Celtic Sea Salt. Among the live minerals and trace elements found in Celtic sea salt are iodine, iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium and zinc. The 84 trace minerals provide the necessary nutrients and protect the body from the harshness of sodium chloride that we consume from commercial salt.

Sources:
“Consumers confused about sources of sodium” Institute of Food Technologists, 4/3/13, ift.org

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Multivitamin Study Results Claim No Benefits to Health – FInd Out Which Supplements They Used

May 7th, 2013

 

What is one plus one?

Now, what do you get when you give junk to thousands of middle-aged men?

You are right!  Junk.

You have probably heard the news that taking a multi-vitamin does not have a positive effect on cancer.  That is reduced it by a scant percent.

A newer study collected data from the same source.  It’s called the Physicians’ Health Study II.  The vitamin used was Centrum Silver and as you know the potency is laughably low.

Have you ever gone rock climbing with flip-flops?

If you ever do, you’ll not get very far – about the same results as you’ll get trying to prevent heart disease with a low-potency multi-vitamin. To make it even more interesting, this group of over 50-men included some who already had heart attacks or strokes.

The National Institutes of Health funded this study.  They might as well have just dumped their funding money into the garbage.

Sources:
“Health Buzz: Multivitamins Don’t Prevent Heart Disease: Study” Laura McMullen, U.S. News & World Report, 11/6/12, health.usnews.com

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Simple Tip Worth your Weight in Gold

May 1st, 2013

 

Here’s a simple health tip: Consume fewer calories–especially from highly processed, less nutritious foods. Your weight will be easier to manage and you’ll reduce diabetes risk.

In fact, if you follow that tip, you might find it actually easier to remember!

In a recent study, retirement-age subjects were divided into three groups. One group followed a diet that emphasized unsaturated fats. A second group followed a diet that restricted calorie intake by 30 percent. The third group continued their normal diets.

After three months, all subjects took a memory test. The calorie-restricted group scored an average of 20 percent higher than the other groups. The low-calorie group also reduced levels of insulin and C-reactive protein.  That’s a health boost!

According to the Alternative Health Journal, scientists are currently working to produce a drug that will mimic the effects of calorie reduction.

Seems easier to just eat less and eat the best quality you can afford.

To Your Good Health,

Reed Davis

Sources:
“Need a Memory Boost? Try This Secret Tactic, and Lose Weight at the Same Time!” Rob Huntley, Alternative Health Journal, 10/8/09, alternativehealthjournal.com

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Combating Risks of Lead Exposure

April 25th, 2013

 

I remember 3rd grade when Danny, the kid next to me, always had the teacher insisting tirelessly to stop chewing his pencil. Danny had many pencils in his pencil case that were virtually indistinguishable from the thousand of bite marks.

You hear a lot about lead exposure and its effects on children. Those effects get much less attention in adults.

As we age, lead is stored in bones. Over the past decade, researchers have found that bones release lead into the bloodstream along with calcium. Three events prompt this release: pregnancy, menopause, and aging. The phase-out of gasoline comes with a reduction of lead in the blood levels of children and women of childbearing age. However, many of us came of age way before unleaded gas and paint. It’s that lead, stored in our bones, that pose a heath risk.

For instance, here’s a list of health risks associated with lead exposure.  Notice how many of them are conditions we typically associate with aging.

• Anemia

• Behavioral problems

• Constipation

• Decreased sexual drive

• Decreased sperm production

• Fatigue

• Impaired motor skills

• Increased risk of miscarriage

• Joint and Muscle aches

• Loss of appetite

• Memory and cognitive function

• Nausea

• Reduced cognitive function

• Stomach cramps

The good news is that calcium supplements reduce calcium leaching from bones. Calcium supplements also happen to reduce lead leaching. Research shows that a daily dose of 1,200 mg of calcium significantly lowers blood levels of lead in nursing mothers.

But there is one catch.  Some calcium supplements actually contain lead.  A U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) symbol on the label indicates that a calcium supplement is lead-free. But not all lead-free products carry the symbol, because it’s voluntary.  This can be a little confusing, but I found two lead-free brands of calcium: Citracal and Nature Made.

Contact a qualified FDN practitioner, http://fdnmanager.com/practitioners/, to help you find the correct diet and health related practices to minimize your risk of lead exposure.

Sources: 
“Where Does Lead Go? Into Bones” Liz Szabo, USA Today, 10/30/07, usatoday.com “Lead – Health Effects” Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha.gov

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Latest HRT Study – Women Beware

April 23rd, 2013

 

It’s like another reality show.  Same story, just with different set of characters!

In 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative study linked HRT to a sharply increased risk of breast cancer.  Since then, the risks have piled up.  Research has linked heart attack, stroke, dementia, and ovarian cancer to HRT use.  Now, 11 years later, HRT pops up.  Again!

This time it has a hip new sound.  It’s the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS).  But the name doesn’t make much sense. Kronos prevents early estrogen? Really?  They should have been called it Kronos Early Menopause Symptom Prevention Study, but then the acronym would be KEMSPS. And that’s not as cute as “KEEPS.”

That’s our first tip that something is a bit strange.

The Kronos Longevity Research Institute designed a four-year study to examine the effects of HRT on women in early menopause. Most of the women in the earlier WHI study were about 10 years older than these women.So, of course, the new study got different results.  They were younger, you see.

Here is what they found:  First, menopause symptoms such as hot flashes were relieved. Second, there was no increased risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, or blood clots.  But this group of subjects may not have been large enough to detect an increase in dangers. After all, the WHI study included more than 20 times more women. It also went on for over five years before they detected deadly risks.

Finally, they tell us that the drugs improved cardiovascular risk markers.

That’s interesting.  There was a slight increase in HDL cholesterol. There was a slight decrease in LDL cholesterol.  Which is virtually meaningless when it comes to risk.

But here’s what IS meaningful. Triglycerides went up. C reactive protein went up. Those are serious red flags. They both mean that inflammation is an issue. And that’s a far more serious marker than any “slight” cholesterol changes.

So they hyped up the results to play up the good, while hoping nobody would notice the bad.

I hope women and their doctors actually notice what’s really going on here. It’s simply a new sales pitch for an old drug. The dangers are for real. And they’re already proven.

Sources:

“KEEPS Reports Hormone Therapy Provides Quality of Life Benefits for Newly Menopausal Women” North American Menopause Society press release, 10/3/12, menopause.org 

“Menopause Therapy Found Less Risky” Melinda Beck, Wall St. Journal, 10/3/12, online.wsj.com

 

 

 

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Present Day Docs Ignoring Powerful Natural Healers

April 19th, 2013

 

“An unfolding catastrophe.”

These are the warnings from England about antibiotic resistance.  The Chief Medical Officer claims that we are at risk of going back into the 19th century pre-antibiotic era.

The British Medical Journal says the situation is even worse than that.

Antibiotics, they profess, have completely altered the way doctors practice medicine.  If antibiotics were not used, many procedures that we know of and take for granted would not be possible.

Surgeries like hip or knee replacements would simply be too dangerous.  It is estimated that 1 out of 3 hip surgery patients would actually die without antibiotics.

But they are so incredibly focused on drugs to kill bacteria that they are ignoring the opportunity of highly effective non-drug antibiotics.   One in particular is 100% effective and even eradicates the superbugs that antibiotic resistance created!

We are talking about intravenous vitamin C (IVC).

Experts have shown, over 10 years ago, that there are no bacteria or viruses that can stand up to a high dose IVC. It kills ALL invading bacteria if the dose is high enough.

Vitamin C isn’t the be all end all either.  Colloidal silver, grapefruit seed extract, and olive leaf extract are first-rate antibiotics. But high dose IVC is superior because it reaches infection sites most effectively.

If you have a procedure planned that requires antibiotics, try discussing the use of IVC with your doctor.

Not easy?  You are probably right.

You can find a checklist for getting IVC in the hospital at DoctorYourself.Com (doctoryourself.com/strategies.html). With many useful tips, the list guides you through the whole process.

You may also find it helpful to have a doctor with IVC experience on your side.  For more answers regarding IVC try: http://ivcinfusions.com/

Wishing you the best in health!

Sources:
“Antimicrobial resistance—an unfolding catastrophe” British Medical Journal, Vol. 346, 3/13/13, bmj.com

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National Decrease in Breast Cancer Tied to Fewer Women Using Hormone Replacement Therapy

April 16th, 2013

 

A new study provides strong evidence that the dramatic decline in breast cancer cases in women over 50 since 2002 can be attributed to the decline in hormone replacement prescriptions for menopausal women.

Statistics analyzed by a large team of researchers and just published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the frequency of breast cancer diagnoses began falling after prescriptions for hormone replacement were curtailed following studies that showed cancer risks. The decrease in cases persisted into 2003 and up to the present, confirming that the trends are related.

The study says an estimated 16,000 fewer cases of breast cancer are being diagnosed each year because of the drop in hormone use, a complete reversal of a decades-long increase in cases.

The findings also explain another mystery about breast cancer — why the number of cases rose steadily for decades beyond what could simply be attributed to better detection methods. Increasing hormone use likely played a key role, researchers said.

Underscores the Dangers of Widely Using Untested Drugs

Two of the drugs studied were Premarin® and PremproTM, both of which have been targeted in numerous lawsuits against their pharmaceutical company maker. Premarin is a combined estrogen-progestin preparation, and Prempro is a conjugated equine (derived from a horse) estrogen drug.

Reaction to the study has been widespread. Some scientists are saying the findings underscore the danger of drug therapies becoming widely used before they have been thoroughly tested. Others said the findings should encourage more women to stop hormone use altogether or to continue at the lowest dose and for the shortest time necessary.

“We believe that the data are most consistent with a direct effect of hormone-replacement therapy on preclinical disease,” the study concluded, “but this conclusion does not rule out some contribution from changes in screening mammography. In any case, attempts to understand the rapid reduction in incidence using theoretical models of breast-cancer evolution and the effects of screening and treatment — such as those of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network — may lead to new insights into the development and prevention of breast cancer.”

Women Study, which has found that hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of ovarian cancer and endometrial (the lining of the womb) cancer. That study also supports the US study showing an increase in breast cancer.

SOURCE: New England Journal of Medicine, April 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/16/1670
Premarin and Prempro are trademarks of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Harmful Levels of Lead Found in Lipsticks!

April 11th, 2013

Lead in consumer products has been all over the news recently. Now comes new information that women’s cosmetic products, specifically lipstick, contain levels of lead that may prove harmful to the user.

Lead is a proven neurotoxin that can cause learning, language and behavioral problems according to information provided by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Recent testing by an independent laboratory during the month of September 2007 was conducted on products purchased in Boston; Hartford, Conn.; San Francisco and Minneapolis.

More than one half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead. Lead levels ranged from 0.03 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). None of the lipsticks tested listed lead as an ingredient.

Among the top brands tested that contained lead were the Proctor & Gamble Co. made Cover Girl® and L’Oreal® from France. Cover Girl’s Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red” tested at 0.56 ppm. L’Oreal Colour Riche “True Red” contained 0.65 ppm.

It’s interesting that the Food and Drug Administration sets no limits for the amount of lead allowed in lipstick, a disturbing absence of regulation of the $50 billion personal care products industry, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Compared to the FDA’s safe limit for candy at 0.1 ppm, one third of the brands tested exceeded this standard.

“Lead builds up in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels,” said Dr. Mark Mitchell, M.D and president of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice. “The latest studies show there is no safe level of lead exposure.”

An accumulation of lead in the body is additionally known to lower IQ, reduce school performance and increase aggression. Pregnant women and young children are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure. In some cases, lead has been linked to infertility and miscarriage.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is calling on the industry to create lead-free products as well as to work with their suppliers to guarantee lead-free raw materials. Additionally, they are calling upon the FDA to more strictly regulate the entire personal care products industry.

The good news is that the tests show it is possible to make lipstick without lead. Some 39 percent of the lipsticks revealed no lead present. Also, cost does not seem to be an issue. Some less expensive brands such as Revlon® at $7.49 contained no detectable lead while the much more expensive Dior® Addict brand at $24.50 had higher levels of lead than some tested.

Source: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, 2007. http://www.safecosmetics.org/newsroom/press.cfm?pressReleaseID=26

 

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