Month: March 2010

by: Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Dr. Max Gerson is known around the world as the father of natural cancer cures. Through his innovative and far-ahead-of-his-time natural healing therapies, many tens of thousands of people have cured their own cancers going all the way back to the 1930's. Today, the daughter of Dr. Gerson, Charlotte Gerson, carries the torch for the Gerson Therapy and the Gerson Institute (www.Gerson.org).

by: David Gutierrez

(NaturalNews) Large numbers of men who undergo treatment for testicular cancer suffer serious and long-term side effects or illness, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Oslo and published in the journal BJUI.

In the past, the rate of long-term side effects has not been well known because doctors are only required to report side effects that require medical intervention or threaten the patient's life.

"Current patients with testicular cancer should be informed about the risk of short-term and particularly long-term side-effects of their highly effective treatment" lead author Sophie D. Fossa said. "It is important to focus on reducing risks through healthy lifestyle choices and consider important issues like preserving future fertility."

Reviewing 40 studies published between 1990 and 2008, the researchers found that a full 30 percent of patients undergoing cisplatin-based chemotherapy may suffer from damage to their sensory nerves, while 20 percent of testicular cancer survivors suffer from hearing loss or ringing in their ears. The rate of chronic fatigue in survivors is 17 percent, which is twice as high as in the general population. As many as 25 percent of survivors suffer long-term damage to their circulatory systems. Testicular cancer survivors also have 1.8 times the general risk of developing another form of cancer.

"Gastrointestinal side-effects are common during both chemotherapy and radiotherapy and chemotherapy carries added risks like infections and blood clots," Fossa said. "Long-term problems include secondary cancers, heart problems, and conditions related to lower hormone levels."

Testicular cancer treatments increase a man's risk of pulmonary complications, death from heart complications, fertility reduction and dry ejaculation.

The best way to reduce the risk of dangerous side effects, Fossa said, is to maintain an active lifestyle and healthy weight, avoid tobacco, and for doctors to "provide adequate follow-up for patients who could develop life-threatening toxicity."

Although side effects of cancer treatment can pose serious risks throughout a person's lifetime, most patients receive only five to 10 years of follow-up care, at most.

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by: Ethan Huff

(NaturalNews) With hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, one would imagine that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be out in full force pulling these drugs from the market, right? Actually, the agency has recently been spending its time targeting a walnut manufacturer for making legitimate, scientifically-proven health claims about walnuts on its packaging.

Such behavior is nothing new for the rogue agency that spends all of its time ridding the market of natural products, legitimate health claims on food, and other important products and information that actually help people become healthy rather than remain disease-stricken pharmaceutical drug addicts. In the case of walnuts, though, the vast amount of studies concerning the numerous benefits of the nut makes the FDA's mission to stop all purveyance of this information utterly incomprehensible.

Walnuts are a rich source of alpha-linolenic acid, a plant form of the omega-3 fatty acid that has been scientifically proven to help protect the heart and lower cholesterol. Countless studies have shown that walnuts not only help to reduce bad cholesterol but also actually work to raise good cholesterol, all while reducing inflammation and decreasing blood pressure.

Walnuts are also rich in fiber and antioxidants. AARP Magazine ranked walnuts in its top ten list of the most powerful disease-fighting foods. Some Asian cultures actually refer to walnuts as "brain food", and it is commonly understood that eating a handful of walnuts improves brain function.

A Yale University study also found that walnuts can significantly improve cardiovascular health, particularly in people with type-2 diabetes. They are a dense source of vitamins and minerals and are high in protein, making them a great, healthy snack.

The FDA does not care about the truth, though. The agency deems any health claim made in reference to food a violation of the rules it has decreed. The FDA only allows health claims to be made for drugs that have gone through its multi-million dollar approval process. The agency has stated that simply making a health claim for a food or nutrient deems that food or nutrient an unapproved drug that must either be removed from the market or relabeled.

The FDA is an out-of-control, tyrannical agency that does the very opposite of what it was designed to do. It is lunacy for anyone to suggest that the agency needs even more power to do its job. The FDA has demonstrated itself to be a corrupt and utterly shameful mob of power-hungry, drug-pushing criminals. The American people need to disband this cabal of crooks and rebuild a real regulatory agency that protects the people from dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and that protects free speech and the free flow of health information.

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by: S. L. Baker

(NaturalNews) Stroke takes an enormous toll on health. In fact, it's the third leading cause of death in the US, according to the American Stroke Association. So imagine how much money Big Pharma could rake in if drug manufacturers came up with a medication that not only reduced the risk of having a stroke but slashed the risk of dying from a stroke in half. It turns out there's a substance already on the market that does just that. Only, it isn't an expensive prescription drug but a delicious, natural food — chocolate.

A report just released by Canadian scientists from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and the University of Toronto provides evidence that consuming chocolate regularly significantly reduces the odds of having a stroke. What's more, if a person who eats chocolate does suffer a stroke, their risk of dying afterwards is almost half that of non-chocolate eaters.

The research team reached these conclusions after analyzing three studies for any links between chocolate intake and strokes. Although one study didn't reveal any risk or benefit, two others did. A large study of 44,489 people showed that those who ate at least one serving of chocolate each week were 22 percent less likely to have a stroke than the research participants who didn't indulge in chocolate.
Another study of 1,169 people found that when someone did experience a stroke, if they ate 50 grams of chocolate each week they were about 50 percent less likely to die afterwards than those who had strokes but didn't eat chocolate. The researchers stated that chocolate's abundant antioxidant content could be the key to its apparent stroke-protective effect.

"More research is needed to determine whether chocolate truly lowers stroke risk, or whether healthier people are simply more likely to eat chocolate than others," study author Sarah Sahib, BScCA, of McMaster University, said in a statement to the media.

Historically, traditional healers have long contended that chocolate is good for body and spirit. For example, the ancient Aztecs and Mayans are believed to be the first people who drank a chocolate drink to help matters of the heart. And in recent years, scientists have found that some phytochemicals in chocolate can alter a person's sense of well being, producing a lift similar to the feeling of being in love. As NaturalNews has previously reported (http://www.naturalnews.com/023499_c…), Harvard Medical School scientists have discovered that cocoa, which is the main component of chocolate, may literally be good for the heart — their research shows it could reduce the risk of heart disease and also cancer.

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Only one major country has a higher infant death rate than the USA. What a disgrace. This alone should be enough to replace blind trust with severe doubt as we consider the health recommendations of our government and medical establishments. According to “experts” like Paul Offit, vaccines reduce the rate of all the “prevalent” infectious diseases… diseases that, according to them are often deadly. The question that remains unanswered is, “What is killing American infants to the degree that the USA is now in one of the worst positions on the infant mortality list?” Why hasn’t the CDC vaccine program given the USA the lowest infant mortality rate?

Of even greater prevalence than infant mortality, American has another major crisis brewing. When will society experience the well-deserved panic over our soaring autism rates? A study released in December 2009 by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that autism prevalence has increased from the 1994 rate of 1 in 150 to 1 in 110 for children born in 1998. This is a staggering 57% increase in just four years. More children are diagnosed with autism than cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. It is indeed the greatest pediatric healthcare concern of the times.

Dr. Boyd Haley, emeritus professor at University of Kentucky, was one of the first to propose that the organic-mercury compound, thimerosal, in vaccines was the most likely toxic agent involved in Gulf War Syndrome and autism. His comments bring truth to the topic. “The government and medical community are comfortable to calmly say, "The cause of autism is unknown", and the only thing they really know is that thimerosal in vaccines CERTAINLY isn't the cause. To ease parent's concerns and ensure them that thimerosal does not cause autism, the media constantly reports that the autism rate continues to increase even though thimerosal has been ‘removed’ from infant vaccines.

Yet everyone fails to mention to American parents that the latest reported CDC autism rate data was on children vaccinated in 1996, three years before the recommendation to remove thimerosal was even mentioned. This represents exceptionally poor journalism, or journalism being based on an agenda that precludes honest reporting.”

Yes, more questions than answers exist. But it is due time that we demand an answer from health care officials to the important question… What is killing American babies?

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by: Crusador Staff

A study conducted by Tufts University and published in the February 2010 edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Feb;91(2):337-42) investigated whether low vitamin B6 levels increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The scientists measured the following markers of inflammation and oxidative stress: C-reactive protein (CRP), and an oxidative DNA damage marker, urinary 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), in Puerto Rican adults who were living in Massachusetts (n = 1,205, aged 45 to 75 years).  Plasma pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP), the active form of vitamin B6, was also measured.

The researchers determined that low vitamin B6 concentrations were associated with inflammation, higher oxidative stress and metabolic conditions. They also found vitamin B6 may influence cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in older Puerto Rican adults through mechanisms other than homocysteine.
 
Thirty years ago Kilmer McCully, M.D. discovered that cholesterol and clogged arteries were not the causes, but rather the symptoms of heart disease. McCully's pioneering 1969 theory that linked homocysteine—an amino acid that accumulates in the blood—and heart disease was not embraced by the medical community. In fact, he was banished from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital and denied a new position for more than two years because of his research.
 
In one of McCully's archived articles titled “Homocystein” he noted the following:
 
“Because the B vitamins folic acid, pyridoxine ( vitamin B6 ) and cobalamin ( vitamin B12 ) are all involved in normal metabolism to prevent excessive production of homocysteine, the homocysteine theory of arteriosclerosis implicated deficiencies of these vitamins in human arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes and amputations from vascular disease.

Because the sensitive vitamins folic acid and pyridoxine are destroyed by traditional methods of food processing, such as milling of grains, canning, extraction of sugars and oils from whole foods, and addition of chemical additives to bleach or preserve foods, this theory helped to explain the large increase in vascular disease in the early and mid 20th century.

Similarly, the decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease beginning in the 1950s can be attributed to the addition of the synthetic B vitamins to the food supply by fortification of processed foods. Important support for the homocysteine theory was provided by the Framingham Heart Study, which showed that deficiencies of these B vitamins are widespread in older participants, leading to elevation of homocysteine levels and increased risk of plaques.
 
Many hundreds of studies by investigators worldwide have now proven that elevated homocysteine levels increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, and reduce longevity in diverse populations. In 1998 the US Food and Drug Administration mandated the addition of folic acid to refined flour, rice and other grain foods, the first such action since niacin, thiamin, riboflavin and iron were mandated for addition to refined grain foods in 1941.”
 
In a Crusador interview conducted several years ago with Christopher Barr he stated the following about B6 and heart health:
 
“As for the pyridoxal group collectively referred to as B6 it is ‘more than a feeling’ to quote the old Boston song as to its ‘most important status’ among ‘all the B vitamins’.  In fact, this is the single most important of all those nutrients classified as ‘vitamins’.  It is the only one of the so called ‘vitamins’ for which I make significant recommendations and I refer to ‘pyridoxals’ rather than ‘Vitamin B6’ in the interest of greater accuracy.
 
Pyridoxals are necessary for more than 100 enzyme systems involved in protein metabolism alone as well as hormone activities, nervous and immune system functions, red blood cell metabolism and production of hemoglobin.  There are none of the so called vitamins more involved in so many vital functions of the body.  Couple its need in so many functions with the callous removal of it from the food supply by modern day food processing and it is easy to see why it is the single most important of all of those nutrients identified as vitamins – easy to see for those bothering to look which is sadly too, too very few.
In recent years the build-up of an amino acid metabolite called homocysteine has been recognized as an important risk factor for heart disease – finally.  I first learned of this almost 30 years ago in the book, ‘Vitamin B6: The Doctor’s Report’ by Dr. John M. Ellis, M.D. published in 1973 by the mainstream giant Harper & Row publishing house.
 
Dr. Ellis wrote at length about the work from the 1960s of Dr. Kilmer McCully, M.D. at Harvard University regarding the substance of homocysteine.  Dr. McCully noted that homocysteine contributed to heart disease and that it was created because of a deficiency of pyridoxal.
 
McCully continued his researches and promotion of this very basic truth through the 1970s until his job at Harvard was threatened if he didn’t stop pressing the matter. It was about another 10 years before the matter of homocysteine as a risk factor for heart disease began to receive notice again and only in recent years before receiving significant notice. Folate and B-12 are involved in helping with the homocysteine problem though theirs are significantly lesser roles.
 
Dr. McCully at Harvard had discovered the biochemistry of how pyridoxal deficiency contributes to heart disease in the late 1960s as he followed up on the work of others from 1951 who had determined that pyridoxal deficiency can indeed result in heart disease.
 
Dr. Ellis came upon the work of McCully as he expanded his own researches on pyridoxal that he had begun in 1961.  His work was far more exhaustive with regard to pyridoxal and Ellis subsequently wrote the book on the subject – quite literally.”
 
What you should garner from this research is that high cholesterol is not the main culprit in heart disease even though cholesterol lowering drugs are some of the biggest selling pharmaceutical drugs on the market. The heart disease epidemic is just another extended problem our society suffers from consuming too many processed and refined foods that have been stripped of their vital vitamins and minerals for the sake of shelf life and the almighty dollar instead of concern for our health. Most diseases can be boiled down to two simple things – deficiencies and toxicities. The human body is assaulted with an overload of toxins from our food, air, and water, and severely deficient in necessary nutrition that the body’s cells are craving. No drug on planet earth addresses either of these two factors and in most cases add to the problem.
 
If you or your loved ones don’t want to become a victim of heart disease or die prematurely from a heart attack or stroke it would make excellent sense to start taking B6 in a whole food form as produced by Innate Response and sold through Crusador Enterprises.  Dr. John Ellis claims to have never lost a patient to heart disease who followed through with his recommendation of taking 200 mgs. per day.

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