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Pharmaceutical television advertisements are a grand hoax

2007-01-30T12:25:00.000-07:00

Pharmaceutical television advertisements are a grand hoax

Wow I couldn't have said it better. This article says "Pharmaceutical medicine has now become the single greatest danger to the health and safety of the American people, and the FDA has become the single most dangerous organization in North America, far outweighing the dangers of terrorism."
If you care about your health, read this article now.

Demise of Pfizer's cholesterol drug shows need for changes in drug development, experts say | CP

2006-12-10T02:29:00.000-07:00

Demise of Pfizer's cholesterol drug shows need for changes in drug development, experts say | CP
Changes in drug development??? The average cost to develop a drug is 1.2 billion dollars. In 2005 drug companies spent 39.7 billion dollars and had 20 drugs approved. And what is the benefit?? In an attempt they say to streamline testing they are now picking candidates through genetic markers to save money. Or is that to skew their numbers??
Something doesn't smell right in big pharma.

Cosmetics makers to list ingredients on packaging

2006-11-16T09:52:00.000-07:00

Cosmetics makers to list ingredients on packaging
Here's a thumbs up to the Canadian Government. New regulations require listing of ingredients in things like makeup, perfume, skin cream, nail polish toothpaste, soap, shampoo and shaving cream.
Here is a hotlist of restricted ingredients, a list of ingredients that are used in Canada with their INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients)
I strongly believe that people should know what they put on their skin, as it's the largest organ in the body and what is on your skin ends up inside your body. This will force manufacturers to remove known carcinogens from their products. You just might find also that that skin cream you use, really causes oxidative stress from the preservatives they use.
Personally, I am a label reader and have started using a skin cream that is water based and preservative free, based on a new technology. I want my skin to stay as young as possible for as long as possible, without adding more environmental stress to my body.

Xylitol (artificial sweener) Dangerous to dogs (and humans?)

2006-10-01T22:24:00.000-06:00

Artificial sweeteners fatal to dogs... but not harmful to humans? Think about this one folks, and do some research.

Diabetics especially use artificial sweeteners, but the funny thing is, this report states that it causes insulin to spike. Does the same thing in humans... so before you indulge in a diet soda - think again.

Donuts for Doctors?

2006-09-18T20:10:00.000-06:00

Stop and think about this one...

What happens if your doctor is given gifts by the drug companies... consider...
is his or her treatment of you unbiased? Is it unbiased anyway, what with HMO's and who's got insurance and who doesn't dictating which treatment you will be put on or will be recommended.

Here's a wee quote:
"The policy also prohibits the doctors from accepting free drug samples and publishing articles in science journals that were ghostwritten by corporate authors."

Think about that one. Really, think about that.
And keep asking questions. Be informed. And take responsibility for your own health and treatment. You are in control of what happens to your body. Make sure you know the options and the implications. [if you are in dire circumstances, you have to take dire actions... if you're not in dire circumstances, don't be a guinea pig for medical science].

MEDICAL ETHICS: Stanford bans all gifts from drug companies

Wait to go, Stanford!

check out Dangerous Medicine and remember what your grandma used to say "You are what you eat". It's worth the effort and energy to eat well.

Grounding of 9/11 flights delayed flu season: study

2006-09-11T21:18:00.000-06:00

Here's something positive that came out of 9/11 flight grounding. It gave scientists data to show that flight travel increases the spread of flu, by the fact that flu season peaked 13 days later than normal in 2001/2 flu season, due to the grounding of flights. In France where they didn;t ground flights flu season peaked at it's normal time.
CBC News: Grounding of 9/11 flights delayed flu season: study

Healthy Employees are Cheaper

2006-08-30T16:59:00.000-06:00

It doesn't take rocket science to grasp that healthy employees will take less sick days. But did you also know that health employees also have less on the job accidents?

A 4 year study done at Xerox corp and published in 2001 showed that as health risks increased (smoking, inactivity, blood pressure, cholesterol and life disastisfaction) so too did work related injuries.

Study: Antidepressant drugs and adolescent suicide

2006-08-28T10:46:00.000-06:00

A study was recently published in the Archives of General Psychiatry titled Antidepressant Drug Therapy and Suicide in Severely Depressed Children and Adults .

The results were as follows:

Results In adults (aged 19-64 years), antidepressant drug treatment was not significantly associated with suicide attempts or suicide deaths. However, in children and adolescents (aged 6-18 years), antidepressant drug treatment was significantly associated with suicide attempts and suicide deaths.

Again that's bad news.

And once again, the good news is that eating properly helps one to feel better, you've expereinced that, haven't you?

Let me tell you a story. Very often, when I am travelling, I end up eating junk food or from a normally junk food/fast food restaurant. Even their seemingly good food is mass produced, hydroponically grown and lacks nutrients.

Well when I travel, I ofen feel fatigued and generally lack a sense of well being especially right after I eat.

Recently we were on a road trip to Portland Oregon and we were able to eat at a small independantly owned and operated wrap place where everything was fresh. What a difference that made in how I felt, even for a few hours afterwards.

We tried to time our return trip around a meal at the same town on the road, but that didn't work out. So it was fast food and feeling sluggish again.

Haven't you noticed the same thing?

Yet even though you eat perfectly well, the food we have available to us still lacks nutrients. I know of one company that produces a supplement made from organic vegetables, and they are sourcing some of their organic foods from Europe because the North American organic produce available to them is simply too toxic and too un-nutritious.

FDA reports - Drug Complaints at an all time high (March 2005)

2006-08-28T00:55:00.000-06:00

A report in March 2005 USA Today showed that Drug Complaints Reach a Record High. The FDA was blaming increased prescription use. Pharmaceutacals are a huge industry, folks.

Reporting of drug reactions are voluntary, so do you think that the numbers of reactions and drug issues reported might be a wee bit low? (or a LOT?)

I doubt we were put on this earth without all of the nutritional tools to stay healthy and to promote healing. Do you think that we lack drugs in our diets? Or do we lack nutrients? The body takes food, breaks it down into its various building blocks through the digestion process. Those building blocks are used by the body and its organs and systems to restore, maintain, and build proper structures and to function. One of our proper functions of our body is healing. Notice how your body is able to heal from a cut or a burn - all by itself. It can do much more, all by itself.

If your body couldn't heal from cancer, than people with immune system problem wouldn't die of cancer and infections.

Drugs are *sometimes* necessary when your body has done without proper nutrition for a long period of time.

The bad news is that our toxic food, our poor farming practises and our stressful lifestyle means that our bodies don't get all of the nutrition they need. The good news is that you can supplement to get those missing nutrients. The advantage of supplements is that you can play a game of "catch up" because supplements eliminate a great deal of the water and fibre from foods which takes up a lot of volume. Plus supplements are less expensive and less time consuming than sourcing all of those nutrients from foods and preparing them.

More bad news though - which supplements are the best? More good news. I happen to know.

How the NHS places a value on life

2006-08-21T09:56:00.000-06:00

The National Health Service in England has put a value of $60,000 (30,000 pounds) a year on life. This is the value for an added year of life provided by a treatment. Many of the new treatments cost much more than this or only extend life for less than a year on average. So they have decided not to fund these treatments. Think about how many supplements or alternative treatments you could have in a year at this cost. Changes your perspective about being too expensive doesn't it.
How the NHS places a value on life

AIDs symptoms assisted through nutrition in study

2006-08-15T10:19:00.000-06:00

AIDs is an auto-immune disease. It makes sense that supporting your immune system through nutrition rather than destroy it through toxic pharmaceutacals, is going to be beneficial.

In this study published in The Lancet 1994 more than 1000 pregnant women with AIDs in Tanzania were given a simple cheap synthetic multi-vitamin.

Vitamins Reduce Fetal Deaths, Improve Immune Status of Pregnant Women with HIV

The results show that there was a 40% reduction in fetal deaths, and an increase in birth weight, as well as an improvement in the mother's immune systems. So nutrition helps HIV - the drugs for HIV/AIDs make those that take them very ill, financially as well as physically.

We know that nutrients required by the body for optimal health go beyond vitamin supplements. How much better would these women have done with a full regeime of supplement support?

Why were the results of this study not shouted from the mountain tops? Money. Someone will lose money if you don't by the drugs.

ABC News: Your Hospital Stay Could Kill You

2006-08-09T15:32:00.000-06:00

With news like this article Your Hospital Stay Could Kill You it's best take as good of care of yourself as possible. Prevention is the best medicine.

Click here to request your free report: "10 Critical Keys to Vibrant Health and Longevity".

Categories: hosptialdangers, hospitalsafety, freehealthreport, longevity, wellness, prevention

Benefits of Coconut Oil

2006-08-08T22:34:00.000-06:00

Coconut Oil once given a bad rap (funny how that kind of marketing takes place!), but is a very healthy oil to use. In fact, after reading things such as this, I'm going to purchase some and use it for my stir frys and sauteing.

Here's a bit of a quote:
"Once thought of as an unhealthy oil due to its high saturated fat content, coconut oil is making a comeback as one of the healthiest oils and most nutritious of all foods. Unlike other sources of saturated fat, coconut oil contains medium and short chain fatty acids. Medium chain fatty acids are easier for the body to digest. Instead of being converted to fat, they are sent directly to the liver where they are metabolized for energy. This is the reason why people who supplement or cook with coconut oil report increased energy and weight loss. In addition, it has been shown to stimulate the thyroid gland and help people with thyroid problems."

Categories: coconutoil, transfats, saturatedfats, cholesterol, thyroid, healthyoil, cookingoil

Prostate Cancer Overcome with Glyconutrients [ABC 7 News Healthy Living]

2006-07-27T09:13:00.000-06:00

Story by Denise Dador
July 20, 2006

Six years ago, doctors told Pastor Richard Anderson he had the beginning stages of prostate cancer. Everyone urged him to act fast.

"Cut it out and get rid of it. And a doctor friend of mine just said the same thing, very strongly," Anderson said.

While the risks of incontinence and impotence concerned him, Richard scheduled surgery. The first opening was five weeks away. While he waited, he made some changes.

"I took all the sugar out of my diet and I began to take Ambrotose and carotenoid complex and flavanoid complex," Anderson said.

California man uses glyconutrients to successfully deal with prostate cancer.

Categories: cancer, prostatecancer, glyconutrients, glyconutrient

1.5 Mil Americans hurt by drug errors annually

2006-07-20T12:27:00.000-06:00

A Fox New report has revealed some interesting statistics.
On average, a hospitalized patient is subject to one medication error per day!!!

Drug errors in hospitals are a HUGE problem. They cost patients time, and money (an estimated additional $5,800 on your hospital bill for a single patient). How often does someone die in hospital and the report to the family is, "I'm sorry, we did all that we could". Many would not want to know. Many would not think to ask. If some families did think to ask, would they be given the right answers?

See the report here Fox News Report: 1.5 Million Americans Hurt by Drug Errors

On a related vein, here is a funny video produced by Prescription for Change.

--- and they say that Doctors kill more people than Guns do... here's the breakdown:

The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.

Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.

Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

(US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Then think about this:

The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000 (yes, eighty million!).

The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.

The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.

Statistically, then, doctors are about 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS A DOCTOR.

- I do not support the NRA.

- but I do support taking responsibility for your own health.

Categories: doctors, hospitaldeaths, medicalerror, medicationerror, hospitalerror, healthcare, healthnews

Glycomics identifies markers for Ovarian Cancer

2006-07-14T00:09:00.000-06:00

Eat your "sugars"

Previous tests for identifying ovarian cancer have been too unreliable to be useful.

In a new study "UCD scientists report using an emerging science known as glycomics to identify changes in the sugars attached to cellular proteins that appear to be characteristic of ovarian cancer. These altered sugars can be detected in the blood of ovarian cancer patients. The profile of sugars is different from that seen in healthy women."

Here is the article.

[You can supplement with these cell sugars called glyconutrients] Get in touch with me for information, because you want to take them with some understanding of others experiences of this nutritional science.

Categories: cancer, ovariancancer, glycomics, glycoprotein, glyconutrient, glyconutrients, glyconutrientsupplements, supplements, women, cellularcommunication, cancerpatient, sugars,

Disease Mongering - Pharmaceutacals change the 'rules' so more drugs are prescribed.

2006-06-20T11:05:00.000-06:00

If you click on the image you can view it full size.

Growing mass of evidence supports this.

Do you want to be responsible for your own health? Do you want to protect yourself?

Imagine having your own health "assurance" and being responsible for yourself and your future. Imagine what it would be like to not worry about the common aging illnesses that plague most people. If you could reverse the aging process, what would that be worth to you?
Glycowire.

I use a simple supplement plan that research shows is putting back in modern diets what we've processed out of the modern diet.

Categories: Prevention, HealthResearch, HealthNews, Supplements, Nutrition, Disease, Pharmaceutical, Illness, Wellness, Aging

Doctors Advance in Helping Body to Repair Itself

2006-06-15T09:20:00.000-06:00

Research is showing that the body can heal itself.

Vital Signs from NYTimes.com
Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Doctors Advance in Helping Body to Repair Itself
======================================================

Enshrined in textbooks, taught in schools and rarely
questioned was one truism of medicine: the only organs
that can regenerate their cells are the bone marrow,
the liver and, maybe, the kidney.

But now, researchers say, they are not so sure.

To their astonishment, scientists at Harvard Medical
School recently discovered that in mice, the
insulin-producing cells of the pancreas could
regenerate. Other experts, at New York Medical
College, just reported compelling evidence that human
hearts can grow new cells.

The findings have enormous implications, scientists
say, although it can be a long and harrowing path from

observations like these to medical treatments.

The encouraging news is that the body has an
unappreciated capacity to repair itself. But in making
that discovery, researchers also found a potential
therapeutic stumbling block: an underlying disease,
like diabetes, which kills pancreas cells, may outpace
the regeneration of those cells. Even adding new
cells, like ones derived from sources like stem cells,
may be futile. To regenerate tissues and organs,
it may be necessary first to cure an underlying
disease.

Nonetheless, some medical experts are optimistic.
"These are really intriguing results," said Dr.
Gregory Stock, who directs the program on medicine,
technology and society at the University of California
at Los Angeles School of Medicine. The results show
that "there may be ways of eliciting responses from
the body that we would not have dared to look for," he
said.

Vital Signs from NYTimes.com

They are admitting it now!

2006-06-05T21:20:00.000-06:00

Dr David Eddy says there is a big problem in medicine today...

"The problem is that we don't know what we are doing," he says. The high-tech health-care system costs the U.S. $2 trillion a year, yet there is little or no evidence that many widely used treatments and procedures actually work better than various cheaper alternatives.

All of this is actually quite frightening. Especially if you are one of the folks that think that regardless of what happens you will just go to the doctor and he will put you back together again.

The extended quote below is from the cover story of Business Week: right from the 'horses mouth' as we say in these parts - link to the full article here.
Medical Guesswork
From heart surgery to prostate care, the health industry knows little about which common treatments really work

VESTED INTERESTS
"Because there are no definitive answers, you are at the whim of where you are and who you talk to," says Dr. Gary M. Kirsh at the Urology Group in Cincinnati. Kirsh does many brachytherapies -- implanting radioactive seeds. But "if you drive one and a half hours down the road to Indianapolis, there is almost no brachytherapy," he says. Head to Loma Linda, Calif., where the first proton-beam therapy machine was installed, in 1990, and the rates of proton-beam treatment are far higher than in most other parts of the country. Go to a surgeon, and he'll probably recommend surgery. Go to a radiologist, and the chances are high of getting radiation instead. "Doctors often assume that they know what a patient wants, leading them to recommend the treatment they know best," says Dr. David E. Wennberg, president of Health Dialog Analytic Solutions.

More troubling, many doctors hold not just a professional interest in which treatment to offer, but a financial one as well. "There is no question that the economic interests of the physician enter into the decision," says Kirsh. The bottom line: The conventional wisdom in prostate cancer -- that surgery is the gold standard and the best chance for a cure -- is unsustainable. Strangely enough, however, the choice may not matter very much. "There really isn't good evidence to suggest that one treatment is better than another," says Klein.

Compared with the skepticism Eddy faced in the 1990s, many physicians now concur that traditional treatments for serious illnesses often aren't best. Yet this message can be hard for Americans to believe. "When there is more than one medical option, people mistakenly think that the more aggressive procedure is the best," says Annette M. Cormier O'Connor, senior scientist in clinical epidemiology at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. The message flies in the face of America's infatuation with the latest advances. "As a nation, we always want the best, the most recent technology," explains Dr. Joe Thompson, health adviser to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. "We spend a huge amount developing it, and we get a big increase in supply." New radiation machines for cancer or operating rooms for heart surgery are profit centers for hospitals, for instance (see BW Online, 07/18/05, "Is Heart Surgery Worth It?"). Once a hospital installs a shiny new catheter lab, it has a powerful incentive to refer more patients for the procedure. It's a classic case of increased supply driving demand, instead of the other way around. "Combine that with Americans' demand to be treated immediately, and it is a cauldron for overuse and inappropriate use," says Thompson.

The consequences for the U.S. are disturbing. This nation spends 2 1/2 times as much as any other country per person on health care. Yet middle-aged Americans are in far worse health than their British counterparts, who spend less than half as much and practice less intensive medicine, according to a new study. "The investment in health care in the U.S. is just not paying off," argues Gerard Anderson, director of the Center for Hospital Finance & Management at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health. Speaking not for attribution, the head of health care at one of America's largest corporations puts it more bluntly: "There is a massive amount of spending on things that really don't help patients, and even put them at greater risk. Everyone that's informed on the topic knows it, but it is such a scary thing to discuss that people are not willing to talk about it openly."

Of course, there are plenty of areas of medicine, from antibiotics and vaccines to early detection of certain tumors, where the benefits are huge and incontrovertible. But if these effective treatments are black and white, much of the rest of medicine is a dark shade of gray. "A lot of things we absolutely believe at the moment based on our intuition are ultimately absolutely wrong," says Dr. Paul Wallace, of the Care Management Institute.

...

Even when common treatments are proved to be dubious, physicians don't rush to change their practice. They may still firmly believe in the treatment -- or in the dollars it brings in.

Categories: doctors, medicine, healthresearch, healthnews, traditionaltreatments, prevention

Playing with pain: Three-year-old struggles to lead normal life with arthritis

2006-05-23T13:27:00.000-06:00

A three year old girl suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis uses micronutrients called 'glyconutrients' to manage the disease with positive results.

The Daily News Journal - www.dnj.com -

Read more about the glyconutrients at www.glycowire.com

Alkaline and Acidifying Food Lists

2006-05-21T22:19:00.000-06:00

A great list to follow if you've got gout.
(folks with gout should stick to mostly ALKALIZING FOODS.

The Wolfe Clinic - Acid & Alkaline Food Chart

NEWS Report: Vioxx risk seen with short-term use

2006-05-19T18:11:00.000-06:00

Doesn't it seem that every time you read a newspaper or turn on the news there is more information about a drug that has been proven not just toxic, but absolutely dangerous? And another drug company that has bent the truth in it's reports to the authorities about the safety and efficacy of it's formulation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12849536Report: Vioxx risk seen with short-term use Data showed all patients who took painkiller faced increased heart risk

Isn't it disheartening to put your faith and trust in a health care system that is being exposed like this time and again? Unfortunately it may sometimes be necessary to pop a pill for an ill when it has gone out of control.

The health care industry should be renamed the "sickness care" industry - because you only go when you are sick. (or rather, when your symptoms are serious enough to notice.)

Take care of your body - you only get one. - your body is made to restore, rebuild and repair itself with food. With natural substances.

Not so many years ago, the average person spent 50% of their income on food. Now our food is very inexpensive compared to that! But we should reasonably make sure that we are eating as best as we can, and with all of the nutrients that we need.

Its worth the time and trouble and money to supplement and research good supplements. Why? Because if your body breaks down, you can't turn exchange it for another one!

www.glyco.com/glycowire

Autism parents allege CDC cover-up

2006-05-19T10:52:00.000-06:00

Autism parent's groups has attacked the Center for Disease Control for conspiring to cover up a known link between the increase in mercury in vaccines, and the 6,000% increase in autism.

"The autism groups sponsored a full-page ad in today’s USA Today that reads, “If you caused a 6,000% increase in autism, wouldn’t you try to cover it up, too?” The ad alleges that the CDC “knows that the ambitious immunization schedule begun in the 1990s, nearly tripling the amount of mercury injected into our children, created an epidemic of autism in America.”"

Read the whole article here:
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/TheExecutive/040606_autism.html

www.glycostory.com/glycowire and go here to hear more about an advanced technology that has helped other children with autism.

Disney Loses Its Appetite for Happy Meal Tie-Ins

2006-05-15T13:20:00.000-06:00

Mcdonald's, the fast food giant is the worlds largest toy perveyor, which makes it a perfect relationship for promotion of family movies through collectables in Happy Meals. But no more. Disney has concerns over the growing obesity problem with children so it has not renewed it's contract with Mcdonald's.

It is estimated that the relationship gave Disney additional revenue of more than $1 billion. Will Mcdonald's suffer from this move? Not likely as much as Disney will - many other production houses are lining up to take their place.

Read the whole story here:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-mcdonalds8may08,1,1059324.story

Reverse the effects of fast food on your body and life: take the cellular health plan survey and walk down the road to good health
www.survey.artsplace.ca

FDA representative blatantly opposes "optimal health" for world population, strongly resists banning junk food advertising to children

2006-05-10T13:37:00.000-06:00

olks in Canada aren't immune to the ridiculous opposition of the FDA towards nutrition and supplementation in spite of the support of the World Health Organization. (WHO)

The WHO has been behind a strategy to reduce designed to "reduce the global burden of the non communicable diseases of under nutrition. These conditions account for 59% of the global burden of preventable disease include cancers, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and other serious and life threatening conditions."

Bodies in Canada and the US are in opposition to improving health through nutrition and instead defend advertising junk food to children.

Read the whole article here:

FDA representative blatantly and openly opposes "optimal health" for world population, strongly resists banning junk food advertising to children under Codex

2006-05-04T16:52:00.000-06:00

Small changes "add years to life"

Common sense.... eating better, stopping smoking, and exercising more can add years to your life expectancy. Have you had your ten servings of fruits and vegetables today? If you are like most of us the answer is no. So supplements may be the answer for you. Go to glycowire.com to learn about revolutionary supplements that are changing lives.

The Meatrix | Get Involved: Buy Local

2006-04-23T12:41:00.000-06:00

Great little movie on the practices of our big corporate farms. Spoofs on the popular movie The Matrix. I didn't know calves are fed milk substitutes that contain cow's blood. How is it that we are legally obligated to treat our companian animals humanely - why not our livestock?

At the very least, if you are one of my American friends reading this, you should demand that your dairy products come from cows that have NOT been fed the RBGH growth hormone in it. Do some reasearch and see why Canada and Europe have banned it.

The Meatrix | Get Involved: Buy Local

Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants

2006-04-20T12:34:00.000-06:00

Perhaps you've heard a lot negative stuff about using the microwave of late, but you may have been sceptical like myself. This is visual images, a simple test, you could easily replicate if you are the type of person who likes to see for yourself.

Click on the link to see someone's experiement!

Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants

Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Scientists discover stem cells can repair spine tissue

2006-03-29T09:04:00.000-07:00

Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Scientists discover stem cells can repair spine tissueThe latest research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, could offer new hope to paralysed patients.

Can Food Change Your Genes?

2006-03-20T19:34:00.000-07:00

PARADE Magazine | Live Longer, Better Wiser: Can Food Change Your Genes?

I'll say, I'll say - evidence (and a new area of scientific research) shows it can.

Argentina Becomes 20th Country to Issue a Patent for Technology Related to Mannatech's Glyconutritional Ambrotose Complex: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

2006-03-13T11:36:00.000-07:00

Argentina Becomes 20th Country to Issue a Patent for Technology Related to Mannatech's Glyconutritional Ambrotose Complex: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Founded in 1993, Mannatech is a leading wellness company and a pioneer in the field of glyconutritional research and development. The company announced a ground-breaking discovery in 1996 after formulating a nutritional supplement comprised of a unique blend of plant-based sugars, which are also referred to as glyconutrients ('glyco' is the Greek word for 'sweet.')

Medical research has found that eight glyconutrient sugars are needed at the cellular level for proper immune function. Six of these glyconutrients, however, are deficient in our modern diet, so Mannatech scours the world to find new and better sources of the missing nutrients. The effort has culminated in the Ambrotose complex.

Today Mannatech has more than two dozen glyconutritional products for adults and children that address issues such as health and nutrition, sports performance, weight management and skin care.

www.mannapages.com/matrix

Stress 'may speed up cell ageing'

2006-03-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Stress 'may speed up cell ageing'

Autism Declines As Vaccines Remove Mercury

2006-03-07T11:05:00.000-07:00

Autism Declines As Vaccines Remove Mercury

The title says it all! A study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows autism rates among children have decreased, rather than increased. The peak hit in 2003 and has actually decreased in 2006 from that peak. This corresponded to the decision of California and a few other states to remove thimerosal from childhood vaccines. (the study used California's database). Read the actual article in the Journal
March 10 Journal of American Physcians and Surgeons

CBC Marketplace: Chasing the Cancer Answer

2006-03-06T17:52:00.000-07:00

CBC Marketplace: Chasing the Cancer Answer

Here's part of an interview between Dr. Holland and Wendy Mesley from that show: (you don't have to be to adept at reading between the lines, here, folks...

Dr. James Holland is an oncologist, chemotherapy researcher and one of the founders of the conference (on cancer therapies). When he spoke with Marketplace host Wendy Mesley, he was straightforward about why prevention isn't a bigger priority:

MESLEY: This whole [conference] is about treating cancer, which is great, but why isn't there more on prevention?

HOLLAND: Well, this is a conference on therapies... But prevention is the ultimate goal and I think that you're right. Why is there so little done comparatively in cancer prevention? Because there are no companies that are devoted to cancer prevention as there are to cancer treatment.

MESLEY: Why not?

HOLLAND: Because there's no incentive economically for them.

MESLEY: So drug companies won't invest in prevention until there's a product to sell?

HOLLAND: In order to stay viable, any company has to make at least a break-even. They can't potentially invest all the time in charitable undertakings. That's philanthropy.

Steroid Rage May Last For Years

2006-03-06T10:05:00.000-07:00

I was unable to find the web source this article, I guess it is too new. But it has come through on some news health ezines, and that's where I got it. I don't want to lose the reference, so I have copied the article in it's entirty.

In spite of the headline, I know some will continue to use steroids because the pull of the win, and the competition is a powerful draw. People will continue to do things that they know are unsafe for them if it changes their appearance, or gives them a competitive edge, perhaps arguing that everyone else is doing it, so they have to.

Steroid rage may last for years
Source: UPI

BOSTON (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say anabolic steroids may flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression and keep it there for years.

An animal study by Northeastern University researchers, published in February's Behavioral Neuroscience, suggests that anabolic steroids not only make teens more aggressive, but may keep them that way into young adulthood.

Neuroscientists say the aggressiveness may last long enough to create serious behavioral problems for adults.

Richard Melloni Jr., and his colleagues at Northeastern University in Boston speculate that drug use during a critical window in brain development can change their wiring for good.

"Because the developing brain is more adaptable and pliable, steroids could change the trajectory if administered during development," he said in a release.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that nearly half a million eighth- and 10th-grade students abuse anabolic steroids each year.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International

Holographic Time.

2006-03-05T19:46:00.000-07:00

I thought this was a beautiful little movie, so I had to share it here. It has some important postive comments. To focus on the positives instead of the differences between us and our beliefs will bring us closer together. Taking that one step further, I believe that will teach us that our differences are mute.

Click on the link below to see the movie that I am referring to:

Holographic Time.

Hormones: Sources, Targets and Functions

2006-03-03T00:36:00.000-07:00

Hormones aren't just for gender related functions and expression. Check out this list. I don't know if it is complete or not, I had heard that there are 87 hormones in our bodies, but a quick search for functions of hormoned did not reveal those details.

Hormones: Sources, Targets and Functions

Red Meat May No Longer Be Fresh With New Treatment - News - MSNBC.com

2006-02-22T16:45:00.000-07:00

Red Meat May No Longer Be Fresh With New Treatment - News - MSNBC.com

The FDA has recently approved the use of carbon monoxide for giving red meat the appearance of being fresher, for longer. What does this mean? No more discounted meat... (this has been happening since 2002)

That's a bit confusing...

FDA approval does not necessarily mean products are safe for consumers. It may just mean that someone on the board of the FDA has financial friend in the chemical company or pharmaceutacal company that has just been approved.

However, the carbon monoxide as an addative is somewhat disturbing. But old meat is not, not really very disturbing.

If beef is aged to prime, it has been hung at warmer than refrigeration temperatures for 28 days. Grade A is - I think 14 days. So if it comes from Safeway after being aged only 5 or 6 days and sits in my refridgerator for a week, it is still not as old as it would be for Grade A and certainly not for prime. I think the biggest issue here is the consumers are so many generations away from the farmer ancestor that they don't know what real food looks like or tastes like. We've been conditioned by the corporation to think our meat has to be red to be fresh. So they make it red with additives, just like we think our apples need to be shiny so they put them in wax just for us. And our oranges need to be bright orange, so they shoot them with a syringe of orange dye. We like it that way.

If consumers knew what real food was supposed to look like, they might not want to eat it, but they would change their minds when they got hungry.

Red Meat May No Longer Be Fresh With New Treatment - News - MSNBC.com

ABC News: Actress Describes Mercury Poisoning Ordeal

2006-02-11T16:22:00.000-07:00

Actress Daphne Zuniga suffered mercury toxicity from consuming an average of 4 servings of fish weekly.

She is currently not consuming fish. Here's the story.
ABC News: Actress Describes Mercury Poisoning Ordeal

Apparently the Mercury in the enviroment is not going to go away any time soon, and it is a growing health issue. The best defence is supporting your body's health and it's ability to detox. You need to supplement with the right stuff to do that.

Here's one product that can make such approved claims:

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The immune system’s job is to recognize and eliminate foreign particles and maintain balance in every part of the body. The really amazing thing is, if the body has the right nourishment, that’s exactly what the immune system does.

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Patients' own stem cells may treat lupus

2006-02-02T10:30:00.000-07:00

Patients' own stem cells may treat lupus

Scientists are discovering that stem cells can help severe lupus, but their solution involves killing your immune system with chemotherapy and then returning your own stem cells to the bone marrow to regenerate a healthier immune system.
Why not stimulate your body to produce it's own new stem cells and rebuild it's own immune system through nutritional supplementation? Read this article and form your own opinion Glyconutrients and Stem Cells

Six fruits a day, may keep strokes away

2006-01-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

Six fruits a day, may keep strokes away

These days who eats 6 servings of fruit a day. So the only way I see to get that is to eat a quality supplement. Go here to see a full range of quality supplements that we take ourselves. (They also suggest that 7-20 servings help prevent other ills like cancer as well, so check out the antioxidants on this page)
Glyconutrient Supplements"

Asthma now hits one in 10 children, study says

2006-01-28T09:12:00.001-07:00

Asthma now hits one in 10 children, study says

1 in 10 kids have asthma! These are terrible statistics. Our environment and diet have changed drastically. Read how dietary supplements can affect your health. Glyconutrients and your health

India Digitizes Age-Old Wisdom

2006-01-21T12:39:00.000-07:00

In an effort to combat the patenting what was once unpatentable - life, living things, genes, organizms, seeds as well as the copywriting things that have been in use a substancial amount of time, India is registering its ancient wisdom. In order to protect the use and continuation of ancient wisdom and long used traditional healing remedies, including herbs, and yoga moves, India is creating a data base with this information. Go India.

To learn more about this issue, order this DVD entitled "The Future of Food". I guarrantee that you will encounter some eyebrow raising insights. It will change your purchasing habits and cause you to make different product choices.

To order the DVD click here:

Click to read the full news story:.
India Digitizes Age-Old Wisdom

Eat To Live: Spice up your health

2006-01-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

Eat To Live: Spice up your health

OK here's a bit about diet and health, something different. Bland american style food, is missing the spice and phytochemicals that can help reduce cancer. Preliminary studies show that tumeric, used in many East Indian dishes, has potential against prostrate cancer. Prostrate cancer so prevalent in the west is very low in India. So spice up your life, eat interesting and nurtrtious foods, and maybe you'll live longer.

Exercise Fends Off Dementia in Older Adults - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

2006-01-18T11:36:00.000-07:00

Exercise Fends Off Dementia in Older Adults - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

Exercise shown to reduce the risk of dementia by 30-40%. It goes to show that a healthy body can lead to a healthy mind. Execise and diet leading to a better life, hmmmm maybe they will find a drug that will do the same thing. (sorry just being sarcastic, I think it's not how long you live, it's the quality of life along the way. Being kept alive in a hospital bed by drugs isn't my idea of quality of life. Soooo do what you can now to increase the age of disablility)

Diabetes risk increases with processed meats

2006-01-05T11:55:00.000-07:00

Eating processed meats increases diabetes risk, study finds

Study of over 46,000 men shows that one is 46% more likely to develop type-2 diabetes (adult-onset diabetes) if consuming processed meats. The more you consume, the greater the risk.

Cleanse and refresh: DETOX I Salt baths, yoga and herbs can help undo damage from the season of excess

2006-01-03T12:17:00.000-07:00

Cleanse and refresh: DETOX I Salt baths, yoga and herbs can help undo damage from the season of excess

Cleansing baths are very helpful. Using Himalayan salt is especially good. Watch for more information from me on that shortly.

AOL News - Willie Nelson Markets 'BioWillie' Fuel

2006-01-03T12:07:00.000-07:00

AOL News - Willie Nelson Markets 'BioWillie' Fuel

Willie Nelson doesn't just express his opinion over things he sees in the world that need changing, he does something about it. Creation of BioWillie bio fuel is his response to the Iraq war and to his support for family farmers.

I wish everyone would step out on some things, and support those who do try to make a difference.

Panel deals fresh blow to S. Korean clone work

2005-12-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

Panel deals fresh blow to S. Korean clone work

Stem Cells are such an important topic, that researchers are willing to falsify their findings. The cloning of embryo's is so that the stem cells produced won't be rejected by the body's own immune system. Why not stimulate the body to produce it's own stem cells? Check out this Glyconutrients and Stem Cells

Acupuncture For Your Pets

2005-12-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

What a great idea - Acupuncture for your Pets - some with great results. Here's the story.

Acupuncture For Your Pets

Pets need nutritional supplements, too! Just like the food we eat - their food lacks the nutrients that was evident even just a couple of decades ago. Manufactured food is full of carbohydrates, that they weren't intended to eat. Most household pets are carnivore's. A diet as close to natural as possible is best, do your research, before making changes. And - supplement. What we consider to be normal aging diseases are nothing more than lack of nutrition, compounded over time, with both humans and animals. (Though made more complicated by enviornmental toxins and food additives, hormones and pesticides and herbicides. But even with such trash as that, good nutrition and quality supplements will help.)

CNN.com - AIDS expert has theory on vaccine's delay - Dec 25, 2005

2005-12-28T00:12:00.000-07:00

Not only is the AIDS vaccine held up because they want to make money on the drugs first (see link to news article below), but it is totally unnecessary when nutrition - which comes from the earth can nurture us and provide our bodies what they need to maintain and regenerate good health. Very kind and thoughtful of "mother nature" wasn't it? She provided everything we need to sustain and maintain good health and a prosperous life.

Exercise: A Key to Youthfulness

2005-12-08T11:35:00.000-07:00

We have blogged research on this very thing. It is so important to move... the body was designed to do just that. Move!

If you haven't your health, you haven't anything. Ask anyone who's sick.

Statistically we might be older when we reach that final breath, but we are not living longer. We are dying longer. Chronic diseases, chrones, arthritis, fibro mialgia, are things that restrict our activities. Ask someone who is sick, it is like death without dying.

Of course some may disagree with me - especially those who espouse the religions that believe suffering is somehow noble. Especially when there are currently answers for almost everything - and its not necessarily your doctor who has them all.

Christopher Crowley's book "Younger Next Year" is extols the virtues of exercise as an anti-aging therapy.

FDA considers experimenting on healthy kids - Children's Health - MSNBC.com

2005-12-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

FDA considers experimenting on healthy kids - Children's Health - MSNBC.com

Any Parent who would allow the FDA to give their child a drug that we know can cause brain damage for $570 is either ignorant and needs to be educated or plain doesn't love their children. Why not just let them main line crystal meth or snort a little cocaine? Same thing, only smaller dose. People have to speak up in order to protect our kids. This is insanity!

Before you get defensive, read a little on the history of the FDA and understand that they are not set up specifically to protect you, but to protect the interests of their corporate links. Yes there's good folks there, and yes there's some things that come out of it that are good. But they will sway to either public opinion or the almighty buck. You need to be personally responsible and don't just blindly trust. Do you homework on all drugs that enter your body before you take the toxic substance. Don't be afraid to ask your doctor questions.

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Health
FDA considers experimenting on healthy kids!!!
Study hopes to better understand ADHD in children
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:43 p.m. ET Sept. 3, 2004
WASHINGTON - Is it ethical in the name of science to give a healthy child as young as 9 a controlled substance? That?s the dilemma facing the Food and Drug Administration?s Pediatric Ethics subcommittee at its first-ever meeting on Sept. 10.

The research, proposed by the National Institute of Mental Health, includes Healthy Children among 9- to 18-year-olds who would receive a single 10 mg. dose of dextroamphetamine. (Adderall (amphetamine/dextroamphetamine)
The hoped-for payoff for research: A better understanding of how healthy brains work differently from those of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. DOES THE WORD "GUINEA PIG" MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?????

The payoff for families: $570.

Characterized by inattentiveness, overactivity and impulsiveness, ADHD affects up to 5 percent of schoolchildren. The disorder continues in roughly 60 percent of those youths as they age, although experts say the disorder is underdiagnosed in adults.

Dextroamphetamine, the active ingredient in such drugs as Dexedrine and Adderall, is prescribed commonly to increase attention span and calm restlessness. Doses vary with children?s needs, with daily doses as little as 5 mg. or as much as 30 mg.

Judith L. Rapoport, chief of child psychology at NIMH, within the National Institutes of Health, conducted a similar trial 20 years ago. The same stimulant was given to children at a higher dose. Researchers looked only at how the stimulant changed children?s behavior as they performed tasks. The stimulant improved attention span in the children, regardless of whether they had ADHD.

The new trial would add magnetic resonance images to map potential differences in brain activation patterns.

Risk vs. scientific gain
While Rapoport?s trial is little different from the earlier one, review boards that balance risk vs. scientific gain have changed dramatically in 20 years.

Indeed, an NIH review panel met twice and was unable to reach a consensus whether risk to healthy volunteers would be too high in the new study. They kicked the sensitive matter over the FDA?s new pediatrics ethics subcommittee.

The study would involve 14 children with ADHD, 14 healthy children, 12 pairs of identical twins and 12 pairs of fraternal twins. As the children completed specified tasks, their brain activity would be captured by MRIs.

Comparing twins ? one with ADHD, the other normal ? helps researchers tease out genetic explanations of differences in response to treatment.

In September 2003, an NIMH panel that reviewed the proposal?s scientific merit called the program an excellent submission. The panel noted that it would be the first ADHD study to compare twins, which has been useful in past studies on schizophrenia.

The panel that considers a safety of human subjects, however, was troubled by the youngest tested children?s age and the potential for coercion because each participant would be paid $570 for the 11-hour study.

The major stumbling block was determined to be the risk of giving a class 2 controlled substance to healthy children, which some fretted might breed future substance abuse.

Children in the 1980 NIH trial had no increased risk of drug abuse in the five years after the trial ended, researchers say in the study protocol.

Healthy kids face some risks
The most common side effects among healthy children given a single dose of the stimulant in past experiments was temporary insomnia and poor appetite. One brain-damaged child exposed to the medication suffered hallucinations.

Many ethicists expect the FDA subcommittee to use a primary litmus test: Does taking the stimulant pose more than a minimal increase to risks that healthy children face in everyday life?

Pearl O?Rourke, who oversees human research affairs, interviewed the heads of six review boards at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

?Five said they would not approve this study. And all five said, ?But we wish we could,?? O?Rourke said during a March 3 NIH discussion.

O?Rourke acknowledged that the review boards struggle with murky federal regulations, tightening case law, financing agencies that prefer pediatric studies and the threat of negative media coverage.

?I live in dread fear of what?s going to be on the front page of the paper,? she told the audience. ?So, when I heard this, three things hit my mind: Kids, ohmigod! Psychiatric disease. And a class 2 drug.?

The FDA panel could simply approve the plan if it should find it carried great scientific weight, said Dr. Douglas Diekema, director of medical ethics at Children?s Hospital in Seattle.

New Jersey attorney Alan C. Milstein said that would be the wrong call.

Milstein, who represented the family of an 18-year-old whose death in 1999 spurred greater federal oversight of gene therapy trials, pointed to a recent Maryland Supreme Court ruling. The court held that exposing healthy children to higher-than-minimum risk in a medical study is unethical.

?They can?t do this study. It doesn?t take a genius to figure out why they can?t do it,? Milstein said. ?I can?t believe that anybody is going to say it?s ethical to do this. It?s not even a close call.?

© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Beer really good for you, may help prevent cancer

2005-11-30T13:45:00.000-07:00

Beer really good for you, may help prevent cancer

Who knew? A few dark beers might actually be good for you. Maybe my friend "Norm" (no not the Cheers guy) will be telling me he drinks beer for medicinal reasons. Anti cancer and anti heart disease hmmmm, pour me a pint of that Guiness.

Psychology Today: Nutrition: How Sweet It Is

2005-11-29T12:11:00.000-07:00

"Nutrition: How Sweet it Is"

NEWS ITEM POSTED ON PSYCHOLOGY TODAY WEB SITE:

"Nutrition: How Sweet it Is"

It states:

"sugar is now being hailed as a healing substance at the forefront of a revolutionary science called glyconutrition"
and

"Glyconutrients also play key roles in stressed states. Over activation of the stress response is now thought to be the primary mechanism of depression."

and

"until we better understand how to heal ourselves with what we choose to eat, these so-called 'sweet medicines' can be found in powdery nutritional supplements, derived from plant substances. But your best bet, as always, is to eat a variety of unprocessed foods".

for the rest of the story -- click on the link below:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOArticle/pto-20040608-000001.asp

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Food (The Big Sleep)

2005-11-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

Turkey does not make one drowsy. I had heard this urban legend about chicken.

The apparent offending ingredient, tryptohan, is a natural sedative - however - it doesn't act as a sedative when there is protein present and unless it is taken isolated on an empty stomache.

If you have problems staying awake after a meal, cut down on your carbs and make sure you are taking your enzymes before you eat.

Turkey makes you sleep; myth

BBC NEWS | Health | Sugar 'may help in cancer fight'

2005-11-17T00:55:00.000-07:00

BBC News: Sugar 'may help in cancer fight'

The sugar works by stopping blood vessels forming

Natural sugars could hold the key to fighting cancer, a study says.

An Association for International Cancer Research team found a complex natural sugar from the glucose family can block the growth of tumours in tests on mice.

The sugar molecules work by inhibiting hormones tumours send out to make blood vessel grow, which tumours need if they are to thrive.

Cancer experts believe a sugar-based treatment could be used to halt tumour growth before it becomes dangerous.

The technique uses a complex natural sugar called heparin, the Clinical Cancer Research journal reported.

During the tests on mice, the sugar molecules were divided and purified before being injected into the mice.

Dr Jayson's research is exciting because it shows for the first time in mice that complex sugars can block the development of blood vessels by jamming these signals

Kat Arney, of Cancer Research UK

While it is only effective if the cancer is diagnosed early because it does not reduce the size of tumour, researchers said the technique may prove to be an effective treatment when combined with other cancer therapies.

Dr Mark Matfield, scientific consultant of AICR, said: "If someone has cancer, it has often spread so what you may find is that this treatment could be used once the initial tumour has been removed.

"It could be used to stop the cancer cells developing when they have spread. But we will have to see how it develops in future trials."

Lead researcher Professor Gordon Jayson, based at Manchester's Christie's Hospital, said clinical trials could start in the next two years.

Dr Kat Arney, science information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "Cancers depend on a supply of oxygen and nutrients, and they trick the body into growing new blood vessels by sending out chemical signals.

"Dr Jayson's research is exciting because it shows for the first time in mice that complex sugars can block the development of blood vessels by jamming these signals.

"Because adults don't normally need to grow new blood vessels, this discovery could lead to a highly specific and effective treatment for many types of cancer.

"However, this research is still at an early stage and it will be essential to develop these sugars further and test their actions in patients."

Bone marrow cells improve heart after attack-study

2005-11-13T13:27:00.000-07:00

Bone marrow cells improve heart after attack-study"Heart attack survivors whose hearts were infused with stem cells from their own bone marrow showed nearly twice the improvement in the organ's pumping ability as patients given a placebo"

U.K. Hospital Urges Patient to Seek Tests After Shaking Off HIV

2005-11-13T10:47:00.000-07:00

U.K. Hospital Urges Patient to Seek Tests After Shaking Off HIV
``I feel truly special and lucky,'' Stimpson said in the News of the World interview. ``I have no idea how I got rid of the virus. I was just taking daily SUPPLEMENTS to keep myself as healthy as possible.''

Simple test may show signature brain damage of fetal alcohol syndrome: study

2005-11-11T23:02:00.000-07:00

Simple test may show signature brain damage of fetal alcohol syndrome: study - Yahoo! News
A simple eye test may help to accurately diagnose Fetal Alcohol syndrome.

Herbinator: Hidden agendas

2005-11-11T22:35:00.000-07:00

I wrote this letter to the editor in response to the Calgary Herald's feature on the war on cancer. This local blogger picked it up and made a few comments on my letter, saying it was some good news to hear my views. Thanks, Herbinator

Re: "Canada's war on cancer," Oct 30.

You covered only the medical industry's answers to cancer through poison, cut-and-burn techniques. The pharmaceutical establishment's answer to every illness through our sickness care system is to treat the symptom and not the cause. In fact, the prognosis is generally only articulated after the treatment starts because then they have a better idea of how long it will take for the average patient to die as a result of poison, cut and burn.

Pharmacology is a lucrative industry, and has more to gain by ensuring they don't find cures. Your bleak picture supports corporations and shareholders by settling for a discussion on pain management drugs. Essentially, you encourage everyone to face certain death and simply manage the pain.

People participate in droves in the latest walk or run for the cure. Untold millions are raised annually, providing research money for pharmaceutical companies to create more expensive drugs with no results. More lucrative research, more money for the researchers, and no answers, except better pain management?

You failed to highlight alternative therapies where many find answers. Cancer need not be a death sentence. Our bodies make cancer cells every day, and our immune systems destroy them. Paint instead a picture of hope, where people win that war by strengthening their bodies' ability to do the job they were designed to do.

Adele Sanoy, Calgary

Subsequently an offended doctor from the Tom Baker Clinic responded to the article focusing her discussion on the care and hard work of her and her colleagues. Not my point. I am not negating her sincerity or efforts. I wish she would read my letter again.

As long as she continues to be sick of the conspiracy and the controversy over this, she will refuse to look at the facts.

Study Indicates Nutritional Deficiencies Lead to Aggression & Violence in Children

2005-10-31T16:14:00.000-07:00

JUNK FOOD DIETS PROMOTE YOUTH VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION

The American Journal of Psychiatry has published a new study connecting nutrient deficiencies to aggressive behavior in children.

Children who suffered deficiencies of zinc, iron, B vitamins and protein demonstrated a surprising 41% increase in aggression at age eight, and by age 17, they demonstrated a 51% increase in violent and antisocial behaviors. The study noted that 80% of the U.S. population now has deficiencies in one or more of these nutrients, due in major part to increasing consumption of junk foods and beverages.

Davis Gives FDA Deadline for Steroid Explanation

2005-10-23T11:10:00.000-06:00

FDA given Deadline for Steroid Explanation

"While the FDA does not approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness, FDA still has the responsibility to ensure that manufacturers do not mislead the consumer about dietary supplement contents," Davis wrote in the letter. "With the five dietary supplements tested in the previously mentioned Washington Post article, consumers could not know that they contained anabolic steroids."

Many folks are under the misconception that dietary supplements need to be FDA approved. They are not a regulating body for that.

Their ownly responsibility, currently, (with respect to supplements) is to ensure that supplement labels are not misleading. (as quoted above)

That's it.

But the other situation is the issue of 'what's in this supplement'. Of course they know. Why are they dragging their heels on this? Once again, the FDA is another agency that is multi-faceted and has multiple goals, and one of them is not likey your best interests. Else they would have never approved toxic aspartame.

But don't blame them, take responsibility for your health, and yourself. What you injest is largely your own personal responsibility. There are some things you would not know - ie: "What chemicals were used on this vegetable?" Even if you do eat organically, there are still things that spray over from the neighbor's field, the toxic groundwater, the generally poluted soil.

There is a supplement for enhacing sports performance that DOES NOT have any banned substances that are on the International Olympic Committee's world anti-doping list. There are 500 substances on that list, and the International Olympic Committee standardizes for the most elite athletes of the world.

Many elite athletes are using these sport enhancement and sport recovery products:
Capsules for athletic recovery
Sport workout drink

There are a couple of other ones that really assist with sports performance and athletics, specifically for cardiovascular and for cellular communication. If you email me, I can send you additional information.

OLPA - Hearings - 107th Congress First Session - Comprehensive Medical Care for Bioterrorism Exposure

2005-10-20T01:06:00.000-06:00

Interesting panel in congressional hearings on the threat of bioterrorism and whether or not nutrition can help. A couple of interesting comments I would like to remember. There is a paragraph worth quoting here: (emphasis is mine)

"Dr. McDaniel said that Government officials do not like to consider unconventional therapies because the agencies will be blamed if they turn out to be dangerous. Dr. McDaniel also said that research is very expensive; thus, agencies are reluctant to support studies that may not be successful."

Did you catch that? "Research is expensive..." yeah, so... "agencies are reluctant to support studies that may not be successful". That sounds like research grant-giving agencies are afraid to give research grant moneys to studies that they think might fail. Does that make it true research? Not really. If every hypothesis put forward can't be tested then some things that might be a cure for a particular disease might not get any research dollars IF the agencies don't think it will work. So then the scientists presumably go back and rewrite the grant requests for research that will get their approval. They have to make a living too, afterall. The rule of acedamia has always been "Publish or perish."

So you spend your reputation and hours and hours of your time trying to raise funds for research to be done on - hrm, let's say a breast cancer cure. You knock on your family's door, your friends and neighbors', and the cubical wall of the guy who sits next to you in the cube farm. You ask him to donate to your walk for a cure of breast cancer. Each one does or doesn't, but some feel compelled, out of guilt or compassion, or peer pressure... to open their wallets. The breast cancer campaigns raise millions upon millions of dollars annually. The numbers are staggering. The money goes to pay for advertising for the event, promotion, t-shirts for the volunteers, tables for registering, administration staff who stay on all year long, and finally research. But someone up there, gets to pick from a pile of grants applications, who gets the dough to test their hypothesis. I can bet you its not the guy who says a naturally occuring molecule in a plant needs some attention. It's going to go to the one who already had a $300 lunch with a drug company executive, who is promising to put his name on the patent if he would just test this particular compound. Looks like rat poison, in fact it is... but if we can show a statistical significance of an improvement in a symptom or two of 30% of the women who are desperate enough to be a guinea pig for this particular phase... we're gonna sell a ton and drugs and make a ton of money. Don't think that they have your well being on their hearts and in their minds. They are thinking of the stocks and the market share.

Oh, but we're supposed to be talking about bioterrorism here.. I digress. The rest of that paragraph reads as follows:

"Dr. Gorbach indicated that he has received several NIH grants for other research that he is conducting. However, all of his probiotics grant applications have been rejected. He said that NIH review committees and study sections do not believe in this kind of research. Even if NIH puts out a request for applications in this area, applications will get rejected in study sections."

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't find a solution for cancer? That's more than a little fishy to me. And shark cartilige is NOT the answer, contrary to that book title, sharks DO get cancer.

The rest of that article is here, have a skim over it. And see what you think.

OLPA - Hearings - 107th Congress First Session - Comprehensive Medical Care for Bioterrorism Exposure: "McDaniel"

Why Supplement

2005-10-20T00:37:00.000-06:00

You need to supplement. Our food is lacking in the nutrients that it had even just 20 years ago. Some illnesses that were rare and little understood when our grandparents were in their 20's are now epidemic. Some illnesses had not even been invented yet.

Why is that? A combination of things, I think... diet, lifestyle, toxins, exercise. No one component can stand on its own in providing us with good health. These days, health is an active pursuit, in our grandparents' days it was more of an passive result.

Do you need to supplement? I think so. Even our governments are finally admitting it. Don't wait until something dramatic happens. Start taking care of yourself, now. You can choose your future. Regardless of your age, and current condition, what you do today, from this day onward, can make a difference. There is hope for your health!

There is more great information along these lines on this article.

Why Supplement

WebMD with AOL Health - An Upside to Video Game Violence?

2005-10-12T10:14:00.000-06:00

Video Games May Distract Patients From Pain

This is very interesting. The body was created to move, so be active. We were meant to gather our food, not sit at a terminal and trade time for money and money for food. Which is what we have now.

So I find this very interesting that we see an incorporation of movement and brain activity helps to manage pain. I'm completely against the violence, but the concept is great. Television watching uses less calories than sleeping, so it shuts us completely off, because we can just stare at the tube and let it take over our thought processes. In that sense, though it is a useful tool, it robs us of our involvement in life. Hey, you asked for my opinion...

Brain Gym also helps, have you heard of that? Do a quick web-search to find out.

Categories: health, television, violence, videogames, gaming, video, games, painmanagement, pain, brain, brainactivity, braingym,

New Hormone Therapy for Menopause Approved

2005-09-30T21:57:00.000-06:00

Here we go again! Another drug approval for another nutritional deficient problem. If we could just all get enough phytosterols / pytogenins in our diets this wouldn't be an issue.

Menopause never existed in most of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, so what's the issue here? In some cultures, it and PMS still don't exist. Read this, but remember don't take DHEA but a nutrient that helps your body to make its own!

Clear evidence that our emotions affect our body--in this case, dramatic changes in the blood

2005-09-30T09:01:00.000-06:00

Clear evidence that our emotions affect our body--in this case, dramatic changes in the blood: "screen"

This is interesting, the correlation between our emotions and our health.

In my business I frequently come across people who seemingly do everything right, they eat properly, take our quality supplements, exercise. But they don't seem to get healthier. In some cases, its simply because they are miserable.

Happiness is a choice some have to be told to make.

In "What the Bleep Do We Know", a movie I highly recommmend, they discuss how science has proven that people become addicted to their negative emotions.

Choose to happy, and your health regeim will work better for you.

There are nutritional assists for our endocrine and hormonal and neurological systems.

You can read about it here:

***Important - don't take straight DHEA. Instead take a phytosterol supplement so that your body does the conversion itself. That way it is just food that your body converts to the hormones it needs, instead of taking hormones which is playing with fire inside the body.

|| JC Jang lab website, Welcome! ||

2005-09-26T01:36:00.000-06:00

Carbohydrate molecules are important for cell signalling in plants!

A whole department at the Ohio State University researching sugars as plants methods to cell signalling...

This is also YOUR bodies mode for cell signalling... commonly called "Glyconutrients"...

Supermarkets Selling Fish with Unsafe Mercury Levels

2005-09-17T08:57:00.000-06:00

DNC: Health News - Supermarkets Selling Fish with Unsafe Mercury Levels
Is fish safe to eat? This study tested 6-8 times more fish than the FDA has tested in 5 years and found: "Based on our test results, a 44-pound child eating six ounces of tuna weekly would be four times over the EPA's reference dose, and a 120-pound woman eating just six ounces of tuna weekly would be eating one and one-half times EPA's reference dose," To top this all off, the FDA is blocking California's efforts to protect families by requiring mercury warning labels on canned tuna in grocery stores.
Buy a product that supports the body's ability to remove harmful heavy metals click here

The caffeine jolt that can hurt kids

2005-09-16T14:34:00.000-06:00

The Globe and Mail: The caffeine jolt that can hurt kids

These new energy drinks contain more caffeine than is recommended for childern. The new Mountain Dew Energy (regular Mountain Dew in the US) contains 91 mg of caffeine and Red Bull contains 130 mg of caffeine. The label on Mountain Dew Energy in Canada says "Contains caffeine. Not recommended for children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, or caffeine sensitive persons." but who purchases these sugary caffeine laden drinks? Children. Do you know what your child is drinking?

A diet rich in beans may mean more protection against cancer

2005-09-16T09:58:00.000-06:00

A diet rich in beans may mean more protection against cancer

"InsP5 is a non-toxic, watersoluble compound found in most legumes — such as lentils, peas and beans — and in wheat bran and nuts. These properties make the compound a promising therapeutic agent since conventional chemotherapy agents can be toxic to different degrees, whereas in the study, the inositol phosphate agent was found to be non-toxic even when used at higher concentrations."
Hmmmmmm natural non-toxic versus toxic chemotherapy. Maybe there is something to natural compounds even though they're not toxic drugs.

Consumption of Soy May Reduce Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women

2005-09-13T09:58:00.000-06:00

Kansas City infoZine - Consumption of Soy May Reduce Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women
Study shows consumption of soy isoflavones (phytosterols) can reduce the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. To supplement your diet with phytosterols click here

Virgin olive oil kills pain like ibuprofen

2005-08-31T23:13:00.000-06:00

Olive oil instead of drugs? Let food be your medicine.
Virgin olive oil kills pain like ibuprofen

Coffee is number one source of antioxidants

2005-08-29T21:07:00.000-06:00

Coffee is the number one source of antioxidants in the US diet. This is good news and bad news. The good news is that coffee in moderation is not nescessarily bad for you. The bad news is that Americans aren't eating fruits and vegetables.

Coffee is number one source of antioxidants

You Do What You Eat - Connection Between Nutrition and Behavior

2005-08-21T09:44:00.000-06:00

http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4143

You do what you eat

Ode Magazine

Marco Visscher
This article appeared in Ode issue: 26

Forget tougher punishments and hiring more police. The solution to crime and violence is on your plate. Here’s how healthy food can reduce aggressive behaviour.

At first glance there seems nothing special about the students at this high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. They appear calm, interact comfortably with one another, and are focused on their schoolwork. No apparent problems.

And yet a couple of years ago, there was a police officer patrolling the halls at this school for developmentally challenged students. Many of the students were troublemakers, there was a lot of fighting with teachers and some of the kids carried weapons. School counsellor Greg Bretthauer remembers that when he first came to Appleton Central Alternative High School back in 1997 for a job interview: “I found the students to be rude, obnoxious and ill-mannered.” He had no desire to work with them, and turned down the job.

Several years later, Bretthauer took the job after seeing that the atmosphere at the school had changed profoundly Today he describes the students as “calm and well-behaved” in a new video documentary, Impact of Fresh, Healthy Foods on Learning and Behavior. Fights and offensive behaviour are extremely rare and the police officer is no longer needed. What happened?

A glance through the halls at Appleton Central Alternative provides the answer. The vending machines have been replaced by water coolers. The lunchroom took hamburgers and French fries off the menu, making room for fresh vegetables and fruits, whole-grain bread and a salad bar.

Is that all? Yes, that’s all. Principal LuAnn Coenen is still surprised when she speaks of the “astonishing” changes at the school since she decided to drastically alter the offering of food and drinks eight years ago. “I don’t have the vandalism. I don’t have the litter. I don’t have the need for high security.”

It is tempting to dismiss what happened at Appleton Central Alternative as the wild fantasies of health-food and vitamin-supplement fanatics. After all, scientists have never empirically investigated the changes at the school. Healthy nutrition—especially the effects of vitamin and mineral supplements—appears to divide people into opposing camps of fervent believers, who trust the anecdotes about diets changing people’s lives, and equally fervent sceptics, who dismiss these stories as hogwash.

And yet it is not such a radical idea, that food can affect the way our brains work—and thus our behaviour. The brain is an active machine: It only accounts for two percent of our body weight, but uses a whopping 20 percent of our energy. In order to generate that energy, we need a broad range of nutrients—vitamins, minerals and unsaturated fatty acids—that we get from nutritious meals. The question is: What are the consequences when we increasingly shovel junk food into our bodies?

It is irrefutably true that our eating habits have dramatically changed over the past 30-odd years. “Convenience foods” has become a catch-all term that covers all sorts of frozen, microwaved and out-and-out junk foods. The ingredients of the average meal have been transported thousands of kilometres before landing on our plates; it’s not hard to believe that some of the vitamins were lost in the process.

We already know obesity can result if we eat too much junk food, but there may be greater consequences of unhealthy diets than extra weight around our middles. Do examples like the high school in Wisconsin point to a direct connection between nutrition and behaviour? Is it simply coincidence that the increase in aggression, crime and social incivility in Western society has paralleled a spectacular change in our diet? Could there be a link between the two?

Stephen Schoenthaler, a criminal-justice professor at California State University in Stanislaus, has been researching the relationship between food and behaviour for more than 20 years He has proven that reducing the sugar and fat intake in our daily diets leads to higher IQs and better grades in school. When Schoenthaler supervised a change in meals served at 803 schools in low-income neighbourhoods in New York City, the number of students passing final exams rose from 11 percent below the national average to five percent above. He is best known for his work in youth detention centers. One of his studies showed that the number of violations of house rules fell by 37 percent when vending machines were removed and canned food in the cafeteria was replaced by fresh alternatives. He summarizes his findings this way: “Having a bad diet right now is a better predictor of future violence than past violent behaviour.”

But Schoenthaler’s work is under fire. A committee from his own university has recommended suspending him for his allegedly improper research methods: Schoenthaler didn’t always use a placebo as a control measure and his group of test subjects wasn’t always chosen at random. This criticism doesn’t refute Schoenthaler’s research that nutrition has an effect on behaviour. It means most of his studies simply lack the scientific soundness needed to earn the respect of his colleagues.

Recent research that—even Schoenthaler’s critics admit—was conducted flawlessly, showed similar conclusions. Bernard Gesch, physiologist at the University of Oxford, decided to test the anecdotal clues in the most thorough study so far in this field. In a prison for men between the ages of 18 and 21 in England’s Buckinghamshire, 231 volunteers were divided into two groups: One was given nutrition supplements along with their meals that contained our approximate daily needs for vitamins, minerals and fatty acids; the other group got placebos. Neither the prisoners, nor the guards, nor the researchers at the prison knew who took fake supplements and who got the real thing.

The researchers then tallied the number of times the participants violated prison rules, and compared it to the same data that had been collected in the months leading up to the nutrition study. The prisoners given supplements for four consecutive months committed an average of 26 percent fewer violations compared to the preceding period. Those given placebos showed no marked change in behaviour. For serious breaches of conduct, particularly the use of violence, the number of violations decreased 37 percent for the men given nutrition supplements, while the placebo group showed no change.

The experiment was carefully constructed, ruling out the possibility that ethnic, social, psychological or other variables could affect the outcome. Prisons are popular places to conduct studies for good reason: There is a strict routine; participants sleep and exercise the same number of hours every day and eat the same things at the same time. Says Gesch: “This is the only trial I have ever been involved with from the social sciences which is designed properly and with a good analysis.” As a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, Gesch emerges with convincing scientific proof that poor nutrition plays a role in triggering aggressive behaviour.

Indeed, the study proves what every parent already knows. Serve soda and candy at a children’s birthday party and you’ll get loud, hyperactive behaviour followed by tears and tantrums.

It works like this: Blood-sugar levels jump suddenly after you eat sugar, which initially gives you a burst of fresh energy. But then your blood sugar falls, and you become lethargic and sleepy. In an attempt to prevent blood-sugar levels from falling too low, your body produces adrenalin, which makes you irritable and explosive.

But sugar can’t be the only problem. After all, high blood-sugar levels mainly have a short-term effect on behaviour, while the research of Schoenthaler and Gesch indicates changes over a longer period. They suggest it is much more important that you get the right amount of vitamins, minerals and unsaturated fatty acids because these substances directly influence the brain, and therefore behaviour.

If these findings prove true, and they do look convincing, then we should be sounding an alarm about good nutrition. What are the long-term implications of the fact that the quality of our farmland has sharply declined in recent decades? The use of artificial fertilizer for years on end has diminished the levels of important minerals like magnesium, chromium and selenium, therefore present in much lower concentrations in our food (see box ).

The eating habits of children and young people also should be a cause for serious concern. Their diets now are rich in sugar, fats and carbohydrates, and poor in vegetables and fruit. Add to this an increasing lack of exercise among kids, and the problem becomes even worse. The World Health Organization (WHO) talks of an epidemic of overweight among children. Obesity, the official name for serious weight problems, is said to absorb up to six percent of the total health budget—a cautious estimate as all kinds of related diseases cannot be included in the exact calculation. Think of what this situation will look like when the current generation of overweight kids hits middle age.

The link between food and health is better understood by most people than the relationship between food and behaviour, so health has become the driving force behind many public campaigns to combat overweight. A discussion has arisen in a number of countries about introducing a tax on junk food, the proceeds of which would be spent on promoting healthy eating. In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in May he planned to spend an extra 280 million pounds (the equivalent of 420 million euros or $500 million U.S.) on improving school lunches after the famous television chef Jamie Oliver began speaking out on the issue.

Yet with crime a major political issue almost everywhere, it’s surprising more leaders have not embraced the idea of healthy eating as a recipe for safe streets and schools. After Gesch published his findings in 2002 in The British Journal of Psychiatry, the study was picked up by European and American media. The newspaper headlines were clear: “Healthy eating can cut crime”; “Eat right or become a criminal”; “Youth crime linked to consumption of junk food”; “Fighting crime one bite at a time.” Then the media went deafeningly silent.

Perhaps that’s because the relationship between nutrition and violence continues to be controversial in established professional circles. During their educations, doctors and psychologists are given scant training in nutrition, criminologists provided little awareness of biochemistry, and nutritionists offered no hands-on experience with lawbreakers or the mentally ill. As a result, the link between food and behaviour winds up in no-man’s-land. Even researchers interested in the subject are discouraged—not least of all because you can’t get a patent on natural nutrients like vitamins and minerals. Far more effort goes into pharmaceutical, rather than dietary, solutions.

The Netherlands currently is the only country where Gesch’s research is being explored. Plans to test the findings about nutrition supplements and behaviour further are being set up in 14 prisons, with nearly 500 subjects. Ap Zaalberg, leading the project for the Dutch Ministry of Justice, remembers how he and his colleagues reacted when they first heard of Gesch’s study. “Disbelief,” he states resolutely. “This was surely not true. But when I looked into the issue more closely, I landed in a world of hard science.”

Zaalberg knows diet is not the only factor that determines whether someone exhibits aggressive behaviour. “Aggression is not only determined by nutrition,” he states. “Background and drug use, for example, also play a role. Yet I increasingly see the introduction of vitamins and minerals as a very rational approach.”

“Most criminal-justice systems assume that criminal behaviour is entirely a matter of free will,” Gesch says. “But how exactly can you exercise free will without involving your brain? How exactly can the brain function without an adequate nutrient supply? Nutrition in fact could be a major player and, for sure, we have seriously underestimated its importance. I think nutrition may actually be one of the most straightforward factors to change antisocial behaviour. And we know that it’s not only highly effective, it’s also cheap and humane.”

Cheap it is. Natural Justice, the British charity institution chaired by Gesch, which is researching “the origins of anti-social and criminal behaviour,” estimates it would cost 3.5 million pounds (5.3 million euros or 6.4 million U.S. dollar) to provide supplements to all the prisoners in Great Britain. That is only a fraction of the current prison budget of 2 billion pounds (3 billion euros or 3.6 billion U.S. dollar).

It seems the link between nutrition and antisocial behaviour shows great promise as both political issue and human-interest story. How much longer will politicians concentrate on police and stricter surveillance as the answer to crime? When will they realize healthy food can help create a healthier society? After all, people would not only be more productive, but the cost of health care and of the criminal-justice system would decline. As is the case for a man’s love, the way to safety may be through the stomach.

As Bernard Gesch notes, “Few scientists are not convinced that diet is fundamental for the development of the human brain. Is it plausible that in the last 50 years we could have made spectacular changes to the human diet without any implications for the brain? I don’t think so. Now, evidence is mounting that putting poor fuel into the brain significantly affects social behaviour. We need to know more about the composition of the right nutrients. It could be the recipe for peace.”

Round-Up Proven Unsafe

2005-08-16T18:33:00.000-06:00

Do you use Round-up?

Do you eat fruits, vegetables or grains (corn bread, wheat/white bread, pasta foods) which have had round-up sprayed on them?

Do you eat meat in which the animals have been fed round-up treated corn and grains?

MOST LIKELY SO IF THEY ARE NOT ORGANIC! Do you need to be concerned?

NEW STUDIES: MONSANTO'S BEST SELLING "SAFE" PESTICIDE IS HIGHLY TOXIC

Two new peer-reviewed scientific studies have further confirmed the toxicity of glyphosate, the world's most commonly used herbicide. The June 2005 scientific journal "Environmental Health Perspectives" reports that glyphosate, sold by Monsanto under the brand name "Roundup," damages human placental cells at exposure levels ten times less than what the company claims is safe.

A study in the August journal A study in the August journal A study in the August journal Ecological Applications found that even when applied at concentrations that are one-third of the maximum concentrations typically found in waterways, Roundup still killed up to 71 percent of tadpoles in the study.

Similar glyphosate studies around the world have been equally alarming. The American Academy of Family Physicians epidemiological research has now linked exposure to the herbicide with increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a life-threatening cancer, while a Canadian study has linked glyphosate exposure with increased risk for miscarriage.

A 2002 study linked glyphosate exposure with increased incidence of attention deficit disorder in children. Despite these studies, Monsanto continues to advertise Roundup, sprayed heavily on 140 million acres of genetically engineered crops across the world, as one of the "safest" pesticides on the market. Learn more & take action: http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html

[Monsanto also makes the drug to treat Hodgkin's... interesting...]

"There are two obstacles to vibrant health and longevity: ignorance and complacency" -World Health Organization

Categories: Cancer, ChildrensHealth, Environment, HealthNews, HealthResearch, Toxins

Dangers of Amalgam Fillings

2005-08-04T00:21:00.000-06:00

Watch this video on the dangers of mercury amalgam fillings.

Dental hygenists and dentists are at risk for poisoning from using the mercury in the amalgam fillings (all amalgam have mercury in them). This means that you are at risk by having these fillings in your mouth. Heat, friction, (like grinding your teeth) release the mercury into your mouth, which gets absorbed into your body.

Immunostart (Available at www.store.artsplace.ca) is a good product for heavy metal detoxification. They should be sucked on in the mouth and not chewed, for greater effectiveness.

Breast cancer is BIG business - DRAFT

2005-07-28T01:40:00.000-06:00

DRAFT - Breast cander is BIG business!
(c) 2005 - Adele Sanoy

Disclaimer! This article is solely the opinion of the author and is not to reflect upon the publisher in any way. There are some facts presented (referenced) but other than that, do not believe the author. Think and discover for yourself what you
It is the intention of the author to enlighten. The author believes that every issue, like a coin has 3 sides. An obvious "pro" and obvious "con" and the usually overlooked edge, the third side, that give the coin it's 3rd dimension, it's truth, and it's value.

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will
have to ram it down their throats."

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Breast cancer is big business.

stats

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estimated number of woman in ---------- year ------------ year --------year
projected rise in
cost to patient

treatment
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Cancer is the world's 2nd largest industry - Second to oil.

So that's the things that we know... what about the other industries trying to cash in? There are many many corporations that market products to support breast cancer research claiming that procedes for the sale of a particular item will go to the breast cancer foundation. What portion? You should ask before you make your purchase, unless it is an item that you want anyway, Purchase the item the same way that you would any other item that you wanted, that wasn't going to support anything. But if you want to know, or if you are only compelled to purchase to support the cause, then you'd best ask. What percentage of this item will be given to the breast cancer foundation?

I know of a recent event, that sported many vendors. Its a lively annual festival, which draws thousands of patrons to an outdoor street, and is growing in its size and attendance on an annual basis. One vendor advertised that they procedes of the sale of a particular item would go towards breast cancer research. The item's ticket value. $25. The contribution made of that price? $1. I hope not too many people purchased thinking that they were getting a cute little bear, in exchange for a nice donation to breast cancer research. I'm not sharing this to make you cyinical (that's my job), but to make you wise. If you are going to contribute, then ask. If you don't like what you hear, give your money directly to the agency, or though another company's purchase that is more honorable.

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But lets also discuss the Breast cancer foundation itself. What exactly to they do with the money that is donated to them? What research studies do they contribute to (after the administrative fees are collected). I'm all for administrative fees. Someone should NOT work anywhere 8 hours a day, day in and day out without getting paid. Staff are expensive and deserve to get paid.

Of the fees that go directly to research, what are they researching? (I've probably bit off more than I can chew here)

I heard a very prominent and prolific researcher state recently (he's got his name on more patents and more a list of publications longer than I am tall in a font 4). He stated that researchers don't want to fail in their theories or what they set out to prove in their original premise. It reflects badly on them, and grant givers don't like to give grants to researchers who were not able to prove their claim. So it is rare that anything new and unknown gets tested. The researchers will keep pursuing grants (read: spending your hard earned dollars that you contributed) to prove theories that they already know based on previous research, that is correct. That way they can continue to collect additional grants, if they've had previous success.

What does this mean? New theories on what might "cure" cancer don't get researched with your contributed dollars.

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Breast cancer was already cured in rats in the laboratory in 1971!

Did you get that? Read it again. Breast cancer was cured in rats in the laboratory in 1971.

That's hogwash, you say. If it was cured in 1971, I would already know about it. No its not hogwash, it was rats. And it was 34 years ago as of this writting.

Here is the reference note: Note that the article appeared in the medical Journal of Surgical Oncology.
-Wolfe et al. "The effect of L-fucose on rat mammary tumor growth. I. In vivo studies." J Surg Oncol 1971 3:73-77.

Cancer Studies:
Journal of Surgical Oncology vol 4 no 2
3(1);79-88 (1971)

The Effect of l-Fucose on Rat Mammary Tumor Growth. II. In Vitro Studies
By James M. Roseman...

Page 87 - Table III

Effects of Various Sugars on Tumor Cell Growth

L-fucose 46.3%
D-Mannos 36.4%
D-glucose 14.6%
D-Galactose 18.1%
(Fucose, Mannose, Glucose and Galactose are "glyconutrients" - see sidebar).

And NO you would NOT necessarily know about it. Why? Because it was with a naturally occuring substance, that could not be succesfully replicated synthetically. Drugs can only be made synthetically for 2 reasons. To be toxic enough to establish an LD50, and to be patentable.

LD 50

Patentable is about one thing. Money. Patents aren't necessarily bad, to protect the technology and reward the organization who developed it. But in the case of the Big Pharma it is so that they have a monopoly and can charge you $100 a pill fot something that only costs a few pennies to produce in the laboratory. Oh, note, that drugs actually do cost a lot to produce, a lot for all of the research that goes into their development. But wait? Didn't you donate money towards that research as well???? The water is getting murkier instead of more clear.

Problems happened in the process of synthesising this plant sourced substance. It was hugely toxic. The complex little molecule could not be manufactured synthetically. So why not publish the findings anyway, tell everyone where to find it and prevent the deaths of needless millions of women and men since 1971? You answer that one yourself.

But there is good news. The molecule was a fucose molecule. And you can purchase it in a nutritional supplement.

Categories: Cancer, Environment, HealthResearch, Nutrition, Prevention, Supplements

EWG Report || BodyBurden 2 - The Pollution in Newborns

2005-07-27T23:05:00.002-06:00

EWG Report || BodyBurden 2 - The Pollution in Newborns

".tested umbilical cord blood from 10 random newborn babies in the U.S. for industrial chemicals and pesticides, and found they were born with an average of over 200 contaminants."

Protect your baby. Make sure that you are getting quality supplements. You can't control all of the the toxins in the air you breathe, the water you drink, or the food you eat, but you can do something. You can supplement with quality supplements that help your body and your baby's body to protect, repair, detox, restore and defend itself.

view a video on how to protect yourself

Contact us for more information

Categories: ChildrensHealth, Environment, Nutrition, Prevention, Supplements

Mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile

2005-07-27T12:52:00.000-06:00

West Nile has been found in Canada (Toronto and Saskatchewan)
Mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile

"The overall risk of becoming infected with WNV is low and most people bitten by an infected mosquito do not get sick. Some people are at higher risk, especially those over 55 years of age and persons with compromised immune systems due to illnesses such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease."
So instead of putting toxic chemicals on your skin, why not strengthen your immune system with dietary supplements. Glyconutrient supplements online

Circumcision Can Reduce AIDS Risk, Study Says

2005-07-27T09:53:00.000-06:00

Like the title says, what is shocking is that the 63% decrease in risk is a far better level of protection than the 30 percent reduction risk set as a target for an AIDS vaccine.
Circumcision Can Reduce AIDS Risk, Study Says

Study Will Test Stem Cell Therapy on Human Hearts

2005-07-26T09:42:00.000-06:00

Study in pigs show bone marrow stem cells had helped restore heart function and repaired damaged heart muscle by 50 to 75 percent.

Study Will Test Stem Cell Therapy on Human Hearts

Read about how glyconutrients support production of adult stem cells in your own body. Glyconutrients and Stem Cells

Glycobiology: The New Category in Preventive Medicine and Nutrition

2005-07-26T00:21:00.000-06:00

Glycobiology: The New Category in Preventive Medicine and Nutrition
by Victoria Arcadi, DC, DICCP

Finally, there is a category that truly will embrace preventative medicine, and especially chiropractic. This new category is called "glycobiology" or "glycoscience." This happens to be the most exciting new science that has ever hit medicine. The good news is that what we are dealing with are foods - foods that are nontoxic and are simply the building blocks of carbohydrates called monosaccharides or glyconutrients. They are nontoxic at any level, and I believe it to be real nutrition that goes inside the cell.

Countless papers are being written and published on this new science. These building blocks or glyconutrients (monosaccharides), of which there are eight essential monosaccharides, are responsible for the formation of glycoproteins, which attach to every cell wall and are responsible for cell-to-cell communication in the body. Without these glyconutrients or monosaccharides (single sugars or sugars), the cells in the body literally cannot talk to one another. You will then see conditions like autoimmune disease, which as we know, are the cells attacking the healthy cells of the body. Not to mention that the body cannot identify any invader cell, virus, infection, or for that matter, cancer cells, if these glyconutrients are not present in the glycoprotein structure.

More on the link above!

Dynamic Chiropractic
July 30, 2005, Volume 23, Issue 16

There is much more information on glyconutrients in this blog and on my web-site at www.artsplace.ca/health

'Healthy immigrant' effect fades after decade: report

2005-06-29T09:27:00.000-06:00

I guess it's no co-incidence, that if you start to eat and act like a Canadian you start to get the weight and health issues of Canadians. Just goes to show that something needs to be done about the diet and activity levels of the "average Canadian".
CBC News: 'Healthy immigrant' effect fades after decade: report

The Seattle Times: Health: The hidden big business behind your doctor's diagnosis

2005-06-27T19:06:00.000-06:00

Suddenly sick

People, please pay attention. Please people, think a little bit. I do not want to offend anyone, but think before you pop that pill that your doctor just gave to you.

Read this article and come back here to read more about this.

The Seattle Times: Health: The hidden big business behind your doctor's diagnosis

See also "The Big Pharma" and other postings on this blog.

Support your body with proper nutrition. Read, learn, grow. Good health is an active pursuit, not a passive result. There is no magic pill to fix years of toxin assault, lack of exercise, poor eating choices, foods depleted of nutrients, and the stressful lifestyles of the modern world. But there are some phenomenal nutrtional supplements available. Do your research and reading, and find some, stick with it, and expect a healing / detoxification crisis.

Your body can restore, repair and rebuild to optimal health provided you give it the resources to do so.

Children eat according to the size of the serving

2005-06-18T10:00:00.000-06:00

If children eat as much as is put on their plates, as this study shows, then the responsibility falls on the caregivers to help regulate the calories that children consume in a day. "These findings suggest that both the onus of controlling children's weight -- both in causing overweight in children as well as in its prevention -- must rest squarely in the hands of parents and other caregivers."

Children eat according to the size of the serving

Smoking, obesity speed up aging in cells: study

2005-06-13T23:13:00.000-06:00

Here's an interesting study, obesity damages your cells more than smoking. OK the difference isnt that great, so you can't use the I won't quit smoking because it makes me gain weight excuse. This is more support for a smoke free lifestyle and to maintain a healthy weight.

Smoking, obesity speed up aging in cells: study

Common Painkillers Raise Heart-Attack Risk, Study Indicates

2005-06-10T08:57:00.000-06:00

More bad news for drug makers, a study showing regular usage of over the counter pain killers could increase the risk of heart attack.

Common Painkillers Raise Heart-Attack Risk, Study Indicates

Low-glycemic may be better than low-fat diet

2005-06-06T22:20:00.000-06:00

Researchers in Boston found that when obese people consumed as many carbohydrates with a low-glycemic index as they wanted, they lost just as much weight in 12 months as people who stuck with a conventional, calorie-restricted low-fat diet.

Low-glycemic may be better than low-fat diet

Low glycemic eating is better for weight loss and better for your heart.

Common plastics packaging chemical linked to cancer

2005-05-31T13:22:00.000-06:00

Another reason to avoid plastic packaging for foods, the study shows BPA a chemical widely used in plastics is linked to breast cancer. It is also used in the linings of cans, and canned vegetables show the highest levels. So eat your vegetables fresh and raw. Also plastic beverage bottles leach more of the chemical as they age.

Common plastics packaging chemical linked to cancer

Cancer rate is expected to surge

2005-05-28T00:03:00.000-06:00

By Donna Wright
Source: Contra Costa Times

Cancer and aging experts warn that the aging of the baby boom population will create a cancer epidemic. For evidence they point to the numbers.

Half of all cancers now occur in people age 65 and older.

The first wave of boomers -- those born between 1946 and 1964 -- will be retiring within the coming decade.

The convergence of those two trends 20 years from now will result in 70 percent of all cancers occurring in the 65-and-older population, said Dr. Lodovico Balducci, program leader of the Senior Adult Oncology Program at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Center in Tampa, Fla.

Balducci warns that the coming epidemic will tax current medical resources to deal with the increase in cancer cases.

The treatment of cancer, Balducci said, is more complex for the elderly because of the aging process and the fact that most seniors have other complex medical problems that must be factored into their care.

Too few doctors are ready or able to provide that expertise, Balducci said.

Moreover, most clinical trials for new cancer treatments and drugs cut off at age 60.

Very little of what is learned in those trials, Balducci said, can be applied to the challenges of treating older cancer patients -- who most typically have a cluster of chronic conditions.

Balducci sees boomers themselves as the agents of change that will force the medical community to expand treatment of cancer in the elderly.

Dr. William E. Haley, professor and director of University of South Florida's School of Aging Studies, agrees. The coming cancer epidemic will have a profound effect on every level of society, he said.

Yet boomers are prepared to be their own advocates, according to Haley.

Aging boomers won't fit the mold of their retired elders, the USF experts said. Highly educated, boomers are known for their assertiveness and their demands, backed by their sheer numbers in making society change to fit their expectations.

They are used to being in control, says Dr. Bruce Robinson, chief of geriatrics for Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

At 53, Robinson is a boomer himself, so he knows what he is talking about.

He also knows that some of his colleagues in the doctor's lounge look to a future caseload of aging boomers with trepidation, even frustration.

"Boy, I hate baby boomers," one doctor told Robinson. "They want information. They want to be involved. They want answers."

Robinson's sees boomers' demands for involvement in their care as an important advantage.

"It's a win/win opportunity," said Robinson, a nationally known geriatrician (a specialist in the care of the elderly).

Patients need to become more effective in handling their own health problems, he said.

"Most medical problems plaguing the elderly are chronic diseases that require long periods of involvement," Robinson said. "The issue is how do you best manage your life, how do you participate in best preserving your health when presented with one of these problems?"

As more is learned about how malignancies develop and more effective treatments come on line, cancer is fast becoming a managed chronic disease rather than a death sentence, Balducci said.

Most people older than 65 already have to handle two or more chronic conditions, Balducci said. Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and respiratory conditions top the list.

Moreover, as we age our body's metabolism slows down. The physical changes of aging add challenges to prescribing effective cancer treatment for the elderly, Balducci said.

Dr. Nagi Kumar, director of Moffitt's Department of Nutrition, estimates that 60 percent of people older than 65 suffer from malnutrition. The causes, Kumar said, are numerous: the body's slowing metabolism, loss of taste sensation that begins at age 60, decreased thirst, malabsorption of nutrients in food consumed and tooth problems, including poor-fitting dentures that can make eating difficult or painful.

Moreover, most primary care physicians have neither the time during a typical office visit nor the skill to assess the complex medical challenges facing the elderly cancer patient, Robinson said.

Too often, the aging cancer patient is written off because too few health care providers understand the unique needs of the elderly or how to manage several chronic conditions at once, said Balducci.

Yet, new treatments and promising discoveries on how to control cancer by modifying genetic triggers that regulate cancer growth offer more tolerable and more effective treatments for the elderly.

"Treatment can be as effective in the elderly patient as in a younger patient," Balducci said.

But often those treatments are not offered to seniors, because socially accepted myths about aging are rampant in the medical profession, he added.

Balducci finds it frustrating that our youth-centered culture fails to understand that treatment can be as effective in an elderly patient as a younger person, if approached from the right perspective.

That perspective flows from a realization, he said, that life can be pleasurable for people in their 70s, 80s and 90s, even for those who have two or more chronic diseases.

Balducci warned that the coming cancer epidemic in the elderly will force the medical profession to change.

That change, he added, will not come from within the profession but from without -- namely the pressure baby boomers exert on the health care system to pay attention to aging issues.

The bottom line: Balducci warns that neither the medical community nor society in general can afford to ignore the coming cancer epidemic in the elderly.

"If we are to control cancer, we must control cancer in the elderly population," Balducci said.

Boomers themselves must become advocates for better care of the elderly.

Doctors, Robinson believes, must become better educators, guiding patients to accurate sources of information that will help them understand the medical conditions they must manage.

He sees the day when doctors will play the role of a medical reference librarian, with a range of sources at their fingertips to guide patients.

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Anti-Depressants Painkillers May Cause Internal Bleeding.

2005-05-27T11:32:00.000-06:00

This was written by Jenny Thompson of the Health Sciences Institute.

Can you guess how many people die each year due to gastrointestinal bleeding associated with the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)?

Keep in mind, NSAIDs are mostly non-prescription pain killers that include aspirin and ibuprofen. According to Reuters news service, about 16,000 deaths are attributed to GI bleeding linked with NSAID use yearly.

This is a familiar refrain, but I have to repeat it: If a dietary supplement were to cause more than 300 deaths every WEEK, it would be outlawed in a heartbeat. It would vanish. But aspirin? Ibuprofen? No problem. They're produced by giant drug companies. A few deaths? Well shucks, you have to break a few eggs to make omelets, right?

I came across this NSAID statistic in a Reuters article with a surprising headline: "Anti-Depressants May Cause Internal Bleeding." Researchers at Northwestern University Medical School reviewed medical records for nearly 550 patients with gastrointestinal bleeding. They found that ongoing use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) posed approximately the same risk for GI bleeding as NSAID use.

But guess what? This isn't news. Not to an Eli Lilly spokesperson who told Reuters that GI bleeding is already noted in packaging for Prozac (the popular SSRI made by Lilly). And while that may be true, I believe that this is the first indication that SSRIs may create a bleeding risk similar to NSAID use. (No specific SSRI brands were singled out by the Northwestern report.)

In yesterday's e-Alert ("Red Threads" 5/23/05) we saw how saffron may be as effective as Prozac in treating mild to moderate depression. Just one little difference: SSRIs may cause GI bleeding, while saffron has been used for centuries to TREAT digestive problems and inflammation.

SSRIs also don't give Spanish paella a savory, exotic flavor.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute
Sources:
"Anti-Depressants May Cause Internal Bleeding" Reuters, 5/16/05, reuters.com

Hope for your health

FDA Probes Reports of Blindness With Impotence Drugs

2005-05-27T10:22:00.000-06:00

Another class of drugs is on the hot seat.

"The FDA has 42 reports of the blindness, 38 among users of Viagra and four among users of Cialis. There were no cases reported among users of Levitra, the third impotence drug."

A representative from the drug manufacturers has said that "there is no proof that Viagra caused the blindness. He said that men who take Viagra often have high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which are also associated with the conditions that can cause blindness."

Could it be though, that since diabetes and high blood pressure are issues with circulation, and viagra is about redirecting blood flow, that viagra and its counterparts, aggravates the issues that diabetics and people with high blood pressure already have? That makes sense to me.

Like your mother always said "if you don't stop it, you could go blind."

Here is the full story:
FDA Probes Reports of Blindness With Impotence Drugs

But there is good news for your health. You are where you are because of your lifetime of food and lifestyle choices, and the toxic environment and food sources being depleted of its nutrients. But your body is an amazing machine. If you can give it what it is missing and what it needs more of, it has the miraculous ability to fix itself from the inside out from a multitude of ills.

To learn more about micornutrients that your body is missing go here.

Chemicals may damage male babies

2005-05-27T10:19:00.000-06:00

Professor Sharpe said the chemicals appeared to suppress production of the male sex hormone testosterone.

"Testosterone is absolutely critical to development - most of the things that make males different to females are down to pre-natal exposure to the hormone.

"It is not just the effect on genital development, but also on tissues throughout the body, including the brain."

Chemicals may damage male babies

Could this explain the feminization of the male species? Exposure to these chemicals when males are in the womb could change they way their brains develop. I have heard that microwaving things in plastic, or cling wrap releases even more of these hormone affecting chemicals.

Hot Growth Companies: Mannatech Profile

2005-05-26T22:22:00.000-06:00

Business Week picks Mannatech as it's number 6 Hot Growth company. "What exactly is glyconutrient technology? According to nutritional supplement provider Mannatech, it's the use of plant extracts to enhance cell-to-cell communication and overall physical health. It's a revolution akin to the invention of the personal computer or the digital video disc, the company claims."

Hot Growth Companies: Mannatech Profile

We are proud to be two of the 400,000 associates who promote the revolutionary products of this company of purpose.

Getting a bite on good health

2005-05-26T10:11:00.000-06:00

How many health helping foods do you have in your grocery cart?

Getting a bite on good health

Want to know if your medicine has any reported side effects, access Health Canada's CADRIS (Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Information System ) online.

UGA Research Magazine :: Spring 2004

2005-05-24T11:06:00.000-06:00

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny…" Albert Einstein

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That quote is relevant to the discovery of glyconutrients (in the area of glycobiology, or what MIT calls 'glycomics'.

Some researchers got laughed out of town by their peers when they that cells need to communicate, and others when they suggested that the communication system for cells are the carbohydrate molecules and not amino acids. They hypothesized that the complexity needed for communication inside of our bodies, cannot be accomplished solely by the amino acids.

Below is an article from the University of Georgia Research Magazine - about the studies involving glyconutrients and their implications for health and healing. These glyconutrients are available already from natural sources.

UGA Research Magazine :: Spring 2004 "Sweet Dreams"

Glycoscience: Biology’s Newest Uncharted Frontier
by Kathleen Cason
Like wallflowers at the homecoming dance, complex carbohydrates used to attract few suitors. In the world of giant biological molecules, their sexier cousins — DNA and proteins — commanded the most attention.

But over the past decade, the wallflowers have bloomed and scientists are hastening to uncover their secrets. And researchers at UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center are helping lead the way.

Complex carbohydrates are the next frontier in understanding the secret molecular messages that rule the life of our cells. These strings and branching “trees” of sugars have eluded study and their roles have long been neglected. But during the past two decades evidence has been mounting that these macromolecules deserve attention: Carbohydrates determine blood type, regulate plant growth, and even have roles in cancer, diabetes and human development.

For all cells — plant, microbe and animal — a sugar coating is at the cell’s outer perimeter. It’s what an invader first encounters; it’s what other cells touch. In it resides information that identifies the cell — this one’s a liver cell, that one a skin cell. It may glue similar cells together or unglue cancer cells, allowing them to break loose and travel throughout the body. When invader molecules from a virus, bacterium or fungus touch the outer perimeter, they may trigger self-defense mechanisms in plants or provoke immune responses in animals.

For several decades, CCRC researchers have been on the forefront of glycoscience (“glyco” means sugar). They not only study normal growth and development in plants and animals but also investigate disease processes. When tools did not exist to answer their research questions, CCRC scientists developed new ones. The methods they’ve developed are fueling plant and medical carbohydrate research, not just at the CCRC but worldwide.

“The biology is hard, the chemistry is hard, everything is hard,” said Gerald Hart, a CCRC adviser from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “In glycobiology, in terms of understanding and technology, we’re back where DNA and proteins were in the 1960s. There’s been a lot of progress in the past 10 years but we have a long way to go.”

The following is a snapshot of current research areas and the faculty pioneering glycoscience at the University of Georgia.

Plant cell walls and regulatory carbohydrates

a.. Research in this area focuses on the primary cell walls in plants: uncovering the composition of the walls, the structure of the polymers and how they assemble to form cell walls, and the biochemical pathways involved.
b.. Complex carbohydrates that regulate plant growth, development and responses either to the physical environment or to other organisms are studied by several research groups at the center.
New cancer diagnostics, vaccines and therapies

a.. Several studies focus on tumor-associated antigens that can be used to develop vaccines or diagnostic tests.
b.. Carbohydrate markers in the blood have been identified and used in a diagnostic test for choriocarcinoma — a rare cancer where embryos turn into deadly tumors.
c.. New research is under way to find carbohydrate markers to detect breast, prostate and ovarian cancers.
d.. Other studies seek to block the cell surface carbohydrates that allow cancer cells to spread.
e.. Pectin — a complex carbohydrate from plants — may have a role in prostate cancer prevention. CCRC scientists are examining pectin’s anti-cancer properties in a collaborative project with Medical College of Georgia researchers.
Vaccines and new carbohydrate-based drugs

a.. Studies of the polysaccharide coatings of various microbes may lead to new vaccines for bacterial meningitis, strep B infection and pathogenic yeast infection caused by Cryptococcus neoformans, which is a major cause of death in immuno-compromised patients.
b.. Other studies may lead to new diagnostic tests or medicines particularly for gonorrhea and the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which infects people with cystic fibrosis or who are immuno-compromised, such as cancer and burn patients.
c.. New adjuvants — substances added to vaccines to stimulate the immune system — are being tested in collaborative studies with UGA vet school scientists.
d.. Research on the identities and structures of polysaccharides from potential bioterrorism agents such as anthrax will help scientists develop better vaccines and treatments.
Other health-related topics
Other CCRC research focuses on:

a.. septic shock;
b.. immune responses;
c.. the mechanism of protein folding;
d.. type II diabetes;
e.. nervous system development;
f.. rheumatoid arthritis; and
g.. heparin synthesis.
Tools to study biologically important carbohydrates

a.. New methods using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are being developed and will help advance understanding of how cell surface carbohydrates interact with proteins.
b.. Computer simulations help uncover what happens when two molecules come in contact and may guide design of vaccines and drugs.
c.. New methods in mass spectrometry are speeding up progress in studying diseases such as ovarian cancer.
d.. New methods are being developed to synthesize biologically important oligosaccharides (molecules made of a dozen or so sugar units).
Robert Woods, a computational carbohydrate chemist, uses computers to study the role of carbohydrates in immune reactions and in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. His lab developed computer software — called GLYCAM — that enables them to simulate molecular structures, explore how molecules interact and make discoveries about those interactions that are otherwise impossible with currently available experimental technology.

Russell Carlson, a microbial biochemist, studies how bacteria interact with animal and plant cells. For example, his group studies the polysaccharide coat of the microbe that causes bacterial meningitis, with the idea of developing vaccines. Other studies may lead to new diagnostic tests or medicines particularly for bacteria that cause anthrax, gonorrhea and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ?? a bacterium that infects people with cystic fibrosis or who are immuno-compromised, such as cancer and burn patients.

Geert-Jan Boons, a synthetic carbohydrate chemist, develops methods to make the difficult task of synthesizing carbohydrates a bit easier. His lab uses these methods to synthesize biologically important carbohydrates or glycoconjugates (carbohydrates that attach to specific proteins), such as compounds related to cancer, inflammation and septic shock. Boons’ research may lead to development of novel carbohydrate-based drugs and vaccines. He received the 2003 Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the European Carbohydrate Association.

Debra Mohnen, a plant biochemist, devotes most of her research effort to understanding the enzymes and biosynthetic pathways involved in making pectin, a plant cell wall polysaccharide that is a natural gelling agent and has positive effects on human health. Her research not only increases current understanding of pectin’s function, synthesis and role in plant development but also may lead to ways to alter pectin’s gelling properties for use in the food industry. Her lab also investigates pectin’s surprising anticancer effects, especially as related to prostate cancer.

Ron Orlando, an analytical chemist, specializes in the mass spectrometer — an instrument that lets scientists detect small changes in a molecule undergoing a biological process. New methods developed in his lab help Orlando and his collaborators hunt for molecular markers to detect ovarian cancer and Chagas disease.

William York, a plant biochemist, studies the molecular structures of polymers that make up the walls surrounding growing plant cells. He has compiled his research results in databases that are accessible online, allowing other scientists to rapidly and accurately determine the structural features of these polymers. York’s databases provide fundamental information required to understand the molecular basis for plant growth and development.

Lance Wells, a protein biochemist and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scientist, is interested in understanding how the body senses nutrients. He studies a simple sugar — known by the abbreviation O-GlcNAc — that changes protein function when added to or removed from the protein. Excess O-GlcNAc on certain proteins may lead to type II diabetes and may be linked to cancer. Wells’ research may help identify new strategies for developing therapeutic agents for type II diabetes and cancer.

Michael Tiemeyer, a developmental glycobiologist, investigates cell surface carbohydrates related to nervous system development and is trying to uncover how cells know which carbohydrates to put on their surfaces. Prior to arriving at UGA, Tiemeyer discovered a protein called Tollo, which instructs nerve cells to present specific carbohydrates. His research findings may lead to ways to regenerate nerves, increase understanding of innate immunity and uncover ways to prevent tumor cells from spreading.

Michael Pierce, a cancer glycobiologist, investigates how cells recognize each other and what makes them adhere to one another. Specific sequences of sugars (called oligosaccharides) attached to cell membrane proteins determine whether cells stick together or slip apart. Pierce’s group looks for differences in oligosaccharides that distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells. Changes in oligosaccharides cause cancer cells to lose stickiness, slip loose, and become invasive (malignant) and metastatic cancers. His findings are being used to develop new serum-based cancer diagnostics and may lead to more targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic agents. (See Research Reporter Summer 1999)

Kelley Moremen, a molecular glycobiologist, focuses on understanding how certain proteins are modified from the time they are first made until they are released from cells. Proteins that undergo this modification process move through a series of cell compartments where carbohydrates are attached, trimmed and extended. The addition of sugars to proteins assists in protein folding (a necessary step for proper protein function), targeting defective proteins for disposal, as well as controlling protein stability, cell-cell communication and receptor binding. Moreman’s research has broad application to cancer and several human genetic diseases.

Michael Hahn, a plant biochemist, studies how plants perceive signals from the physical environment or from other organisms, and the cascade of specific events that leads to a response to those signals. Specifically, he looks at carbohydrate signals released from cell walls that “tell” plants to defend against attack or change metabolism to adapt to the cold. He also looks at how plant cell walls change as plants grow and develop or respond to their environment.

Peter Albersheim, CCRC co-director and plant biochemist, studies small carbohydrate molecules called oligosaccharins that act as signal molecules in plants. Once his research team determines the structures and functions of specific oligosaccharins, the scientists then try to uncover the mechanism by which these molecules function. Albersheim’s lab has discovered that these signal molecules trigger plant defenses as well as regulate plant growth and development. His lab also continues long-term research on the structures of the six polysaccharides found in plant cell walls.

James Prestegard, the Varian/GRA Eminent Scholar of NMR Spectroscopy, develops methods using nuclear magnetic resonance to study how cell surface carbohydrates interact with proteins that are involved in quite a variety of biological processes. His team’s new methods are used to study molecules involved in spread of cancer cells, inflammatory responses and neurological development, to name a few.

Alan Darvill, CCRC co-director and plant biochemist, studies the structure and function of complex carbohydrates in plant cell walls. His lab has studied five major types of complex carbohydrates apart from cellulose that comprise primary walls of plants. Researchers in his lab have undertaken the difficult task of unraveling the structure and functions of these polysaccharides. Darvill was named Regents Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2003.

Maor Bar-Peled, a biochemist and cell biologist, investigates the carbohydrate polymers that make up plant cell walls. He is interested in how and where they are made, the enzymes that make the molecules and the biological function of these polymers in plants. Bar-Peled’s group also studies the genes involved in nucleotide-sugar biosynthetic pathways. The nucleotide-sugars are important precursors for production of the thick polysaccharide capsule in the pathogenic yeast, Cryptococcus neoformans — a major cause of death in AIDS and immuno-compromised patients.

For more information, check out the CCRC Web site at www.ccrc.uga.edu or contact Alan Darvill at adarvill@ccrc.uga.edu and Peter Albersheim at palbersh@ccrc.uga.edu.

Kathleen Cason is associate director of Research Communications at the University of Georgia.

Red Delicious most nutritious

2005-05-24T10:15:00.000-06:00

All apples aren't created equally, as far as antioxidant value. Ontario study shows the skin of red delicious apples contain the most antioxidants.

The Globe and Mail: Red Delicious most nutritious

Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor

2005-05-23T08:49:00.000-06:00

Inability to understand sarcasm, could be caused by brain damage.
Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor