Eating Nuts May Prevent Cancerous Lungs and Prostate

The appended article below indicates that nuts, particularly pistashio nuts, will help prevent Lung Cancer and Prostate Cancer, etc., etc. I have long recommended that a healthy alkaline diet should contain a wide array of nuts and nut milks, including almond, hazel, pecan, macadamea, and pine nut, just to name a few. I have also suggested for years that nuts be sprouted and also juiced before ingested because they are so hard if not impossible to digest.

The following article is just more evidence of the efficacy of my adivice.

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Dr. Robert O. Young

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Daily Dose of Nuts Reduces Cancer Risk
December 10, 2009

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A diet that incorporates a daily dose of pistachios may help reduce the risk of lung and other cancers.

"It is known that vitamin E provides a degree of protection against certain forms of cancer,” Ladia M. Hernandez, M.S., R.D., L.D., senior research dietitian in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, was quoted as saying. Higher intakes of gamma-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E, may reduce the risk of lung cancer.

"Pistachios are a good source of gamma-tocopherol,” said Hernandez. “Eating them increases intake of gamma-tocopherol so pistachios may help to decrease lung cancer risk."

Pistachios are known to be heart-healthy. They have a cholesterol-lowering effect and provide the antioxidants typically found in food products of plant origin. Hernandez and colleagues conducted a six-week, controlled clinical trial to determine whether the consumption of pistachios would increase serum levels of gamma-tocopherol.

"Because epidemiologic studies suggest gamma-tocopherol is protective against prostate cancer, pistachio intake may help," she said. "Other food sources that are a rich source of gamma-tocopherol include nuts such as peanuts, pecans, walnuts, soybean and corn oils."

The study, conducted at Texas Woman's University -- Houston Center, included 36 healthy participants who were randomized into either a control group or the intervention group, which ate a pistachio diet. After an initial baseline period, the intervention group was given about 2 ounces of pistachios per day. The control group continued with their normal diet.

Hernandez and colleagues found a significant increase in energy-adjusted dietary intake of gamma-tocopherol at weeks three and four in those on the pistachio diet. For those on the pistachio diet, cholesterol-adjusted serum gamma-tocopherol was significantly higher at the end of the intervention period. "Pistachios are one of those 'good-for-you' nuts, and 2 ounces per day could be incorporated into dietary strategies designed to reduce the risk of lung cancer without significant changes in body mass index," said Hernandez.

SOURCE: Presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer

Prevention Research Conference, Houston, TX, December 6-9, 2009
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Drinking Beer Will Make You Fat, Sterile and Feminized

The appended article below intends to support the thesis that Hops in beer, etc., helps to decrease the effects of testosterone on promoting the growth of prostate tumors. What the article does not say, is the way hops achieves that effect is by either mimicking an estrogen or deactivating testosterone or other androgens. This so-called science is VERY alarming to me, given the propensity of adolescents to drink copious quantities of beer! The effects would be "feminizing" to males and hyper-feminization in young women, and leading to a host of reproductive disorders, including fertility problems.

It may be that the syndrome referred to as "beer belly" or "acid gut" is even more malignant than just contributing to obesity. Large quantities of beer being consumed at frat parties, etc., may be causing young males not only to become obese, but also to develop breasts, lose libido, and cause the feminization of males
and the hyper-feminization of females.

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Hops may Prevent Prostate Cancer

December 9, 2009

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The natural compound xanthohumol, which is derived from hops, blocks the effects of the male hormone testosterone, aiding in the prevention of prostate cancer.

"We hope that one day we can demonstrate that xanthohumol prevents prostate cancer development, first in animal models and then in humans, but we are just at the beginning," Clarissa Gerhauser, Ph.D., group leader of cancer chemoprevention in the Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, was quoted as saying.

Xanthohumol belongs to the group of flavonoids that are found in many plants, fruit, vegetables and spices, especially in hops. Studies to date have shown that xanthohumol blocks the action of estrogen by binding to its receptor, which may lead to prevention of breast cancer. Since testosterone receptors behave similarly to estrogen receptors, the researchers sought to determine whether xanthohumol might not only block the effects of estrogen, but also of the male hormone androgen.

Dr. Gerhauser and colleagues stimulated hormone-dependent prostate cancer cells with testosterone, which led to a massive secretion of prostate specific antigen (PSA), an early indicator of prostate cancer in men. Cells were then treated with testosterone and xanthohumol. "Xanthohumol prevented the receptor from translocating to the cell nucleus, thus inhibiting its potential to stimulate the secretion of PSA and other hormone-dependent effects," Dr. Gerhauser said.

When researchers measured the anti-androgenic potential of xanthohumol in a rat model, they found that although xanthohumol was not able to prevent an increase in prostate weight after testosterone treatment, it could reduce testosterone-increased seminal vesicle weight.

Dr. Gerhauser said, "Although the prostate weights were not changed, xanthohumol still reduced the effects of hormone signaling, such as gene expression, measured in the prostate tissue."

SOURCE: Presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, Houston, TX, Dec. 6-9, 2009


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CT Scans Cause Death and Cancer

Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans, researchers said on Monday.

The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, add to mounting evidence that Americans are overexposed to radiation from diagnostic tests, especially from a specialized kind of X-ray called a computed tomography, or CT, scan.

"What we learned is there is a significant amount of radiation with these CT scans, more than what we thought, and there is a significant number of cancers," said Dr. Rita Redberg, editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine, where the studies were published.

"It's estimated that just from the CT scans done in one year, just in 2007, there will be 15,000 excess deaths," Redberg said in a telephone interview.

"We're doing millions of CT scans every year and the numbers are increasing. That is a lot of excess deaths."

CT scans give doctors a view inside the body, often eliminating the need for exploratory surgery. But CT scans involve much higher radiation dose than conventional X-rays. A chest CT scan exposes the patient to more than 100 times the radiation dose of a chest X-ray.

About 70 million CT scans were done on Americans in 2007, up from 3 million in 1980. Amy Berrington de Gonzalez of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues developed a computer model to estimate the impact of so many scans.

They estimated the scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers. A third of the projected cancers will occur in people who were ages 35 to 54 when they got their CT, two-thirds will occur in women and 15 percent will arise from scans done in children or teens.

The researchers estimated there will be an extra 2,000 excess breast cancers just from CT scans done in 2007.

UNNEEDED TESTS

Redberg, who wrote a commentary on the studies, said U.S. doctors' enthusiasm for the tests has led to an explosion in their use that is putting patients at risk.

"While certainly some of the scans are incredibly important and life saving, it is also certain that some of them were not necessary," Redberg said.

In a separate study, Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues analyzed data from 1,119 patients undergoing the 11 most common types of diagnostic CT scans at four institutions in 2008.

They found radiation dosage varied widely between different types of CT studies, from a median or midpoint of 2 millisieverts for a routine head CT scan to 31 millisieverts for a scan of the abdomen and pelvis, which often involves taking multiple images of the same organ.

By comparison, the average American is exposed to about 3 millisieverts of radiation a year from ground radon or flying in an airplane -- a level not considered a risk to health.

The researchers said efforts need to be taken to minimize CT radiation exposure, including reducing the number of unnecessary tests, cutting the dose per study, and standardizing the doses across facilities.

Imaging equipment makers such as GE Healthcare, Siemens, Philips and Toshiba Medical Systems are working to develop low-dose CT scanners.

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Autism Is ON The Rise

Almost one percent of American children had an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a large CDC surveillance study whose lead author called the condition a "significant public health issue."

Across 11 sites in the U.S., ASD prevalence in 2006 ranged from about one out of 80 children to one out of every 240 children, with an overall prevalence of one in 111 youngsters, according to a report by investigators from the CDC's Autism and Developmental Disorders Monitoring (ADDM) Network.

They reported their findings in the Dec. 18 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

"These new numbers are concerning and indicate that even more individuals, families, and communities are struggling to find answers," said lead author Catherine Rice, PhD, of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, during a conference call with reporters.

The overall estimate is slightly lower than that from a study using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health -- one in every 91 children -- that was published in October. (See Wider Net Catches More Cases of Autism Disorders)

However, among 10 ADDM sites that reported data in both 2002 and 2006, there was an average 57% increase in ASD prevalence. No single factor could explain the rise, researchers said.

Overall ASD prevalence was 4.5 times higher in boys than in girls: about one in every 70 boys and one in every 315 girls.

From 2002 to 2006, prevalence increased 60% in boys and 48% in girls (P<0.001 for both).

"Some of the increases are due to better detection, particularly among children who may not have come to attention in the past, including girls, Hispanic children, and children without cognitive impairment," Rice said.

"However, a simple explanation is not apparent and a true increase in risk cannot be ruled out."

Janet Farmer, PhD, of the Thompson Center for Autism and Neuro-developmental Disorders at the University of Missouri in Columbia, said that, taken together, the current findings and those presented in October" add substantially to the body of evidence that the prevalence of autism is increasing."

The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that all children be screened for autism when they are 18 and 24 months old.

These findings should reinforce that guidance, according to Shlomo Shinnar, MD, PhD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

This is "especially important, as early recognition and treatment improves outcomes," he wrote in an e-mail.

In a statement on its Web site, the advocacy group Autism Speaks placed the burden of dealing with ASDs on the federal government, calling for enhanced efforts and increased funding.

"Now that the government has confirmed that one percent of American children have autism, the question becomes what it will take to get our elected leaders to wake up and take on this crisis in an appropriate way," said Bob Wright, co-founder of the organization.

"We need meaningful action now that acknowledges the scope of this problem and allocates the resources necessary to take the fight against autism to a new level," he said.

In a teleconference reporting the October findings, Tom Insel, MD, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said President Barack Obama has proposed an increase in funding for autism research from $42 million this year to $48 million next year.

In 2006, the ADDM Network collected data from 11 areas of the U.S., including parts of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.

Health and education records were retrospectively reviewed to identify children with ASD, including autistic disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, and Asperger disorder. Only 8-year-olds were analyzed because previous studies have shown most children have been diagnosed by this age.

In 2006, ASD prevalence ranged from 4.2 per 1,000 children in Florida to 12.1 per 1,000 children in Arizona and Missouri.

All sites but Florida contributed data to the 2002 assessment. Among these sites, all but Colorado reported a significant increase in ASD prevalence ranging from 34% to 95% (P<0.01).

ASD diagnosis was made at a slightly younger age in 2006 than in 2002, but it was still delayed to an average age of 53 months. That was so despite the fact that anywhere from 70% to 95% of children had developmental concerns noted in their records before age 3.

ASD was more prevalent among non-Hispanic whites (9.9 per 1,000) than among non-Hispanic blacks (7.2) and Hispanics (5.9) (P<0.001).

Susan Hyman, MD, an expert in developmental disabilities at the University of Rochester in New York, said these are "important data for public health officials examining etiologic associations, educational services planning to meet the needs of the students they serve, and social service organizations who need to plan for adolescents and adults who will ultimately transition out of the educational system."

Responding to the report, Lisa Ackerman, executive director of the advocacy group Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), said in a statement that the group "strongly believes that we have a national epidemic on our hands that is not being adequately addressed."

The rapidity of the increase, the organization said, points to an environmental cause for the disorders.

"Therefore," the statement read, "we need to explore and research the environmental triggers that are affecting our children at approximately the same time in their lives -- regardless of race and ethnicity."

Rice said, "The CDC considers ASDs to be a significant public health issue. Increased concern in communities, continued demand for services, and increasing estimates of ASD prevalence underscore the need for a coordinated and strong response to improve the lives of people with ASDs"

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "ASD is the result of many different acidic contributors, including vaccinations, antibiotics and acidic foods and drinks. I have found great success in the prevention and reversal of ASD's with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. When children with ASD clear their bowels their brains clear as well. I have also found in all children with ASD low sodium levels and congestion and/or damage to the small and large intestine. The focal point of reversing ASD must be a holistic approach with a focus on healing the small bowel which in turn will calm the brain."

Primary source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Source reference:
Rice C, et al "Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders -- autism and developmental disabilities monitoring network, United States, 2006" MMWR 2009; 58: 1-24.

In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY' ®
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE
LIVING'™ for Health.

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Dietary and Metabolic Acids Can Make You Sick, Tried and Depressed

Although more men may be saved from dying of prostate cancer due to advances in screening and treatment, a new study suggests that emotional stress (which causes an increase of metabolic acid in the blood and then tissues) from being diagnosed with the disease carries deadly risks. A study of more than four million Swedish men over the age of 30 found that the diagnosis of prostate cancer, which occurred in more than 168,000 of them during the study period, amplified the risk of fatal heart problems and suicide.

In men who were diagnosed before 1987, the risk of a fatal heart attack during the week following diagnosis increased 11-fold, and the risk of suicide increased 800 percent. After 1987, the risks of suffering a non-fatal heart attack during the first week of diagnosis fell to 300 percent. But the risk of suicide, although small, held steady. During the year following diagnosis, the risk of both heart attacks and suicide diminished but did not disappear.

"The risks are highest during the first week after diagnosis and young men seem to be most vulnerable," the authors said in a statement, noting that men 54 years of age and under were the most vulnerable. "These unrecognized consequences of a prostate cancer diagnosis deserve the attention of health professionals to the increasing number of men that are diagnosed with this disease."

"Stress can be an important trigger for physiologic reactions, including increased risk of cardiovascular disease," Dr. Meir Stampfer, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, told ABC News. "The diagnosis of cancer also can cause high enough stress to see a noticeable increase in both heart disease and suicide."

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of the pH Miracle Center, "emotional stress requires energy and the consumption of energy leaves acidic residues that can make you sick, tired, and depressed."

One in six American men will develop a cancerous prostate at some point during his lifetime.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, "a cancerous prostate is not only preventable with an alkalizing lifestyle and diet but is also reversible with the same pH Miracle Plan. Once you understand that cancer is caused by dietary and/or metabolic acid then you can prevent a cancerous condition by maintaining the alkaline design of the body."


In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY' ®
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE
LIVING'™ for Health.

As someone that looks to improve their
health we are pleased to offer you this
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hour interview with Dr Robert O. Young
and Anthony Robbins. Click the link
below to listen:
http://tinyurl.com/krtfr4

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community? Visit our website at:
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Robert and Shelley Young go to:
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nature, but in opposition to what we
know of nature.' St. Augustine

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The pH Miracle for Reversing Stuttering

An unsolicited testimony from Angie Johnson Roach on The pH Miracle

My son began stuttering when he was 4 years old. We did every kind of therapy possible when in school and professionally and he seem to struggle more. In his early teens I started to Question his food choices. We tried him on more of a diabetic type diet, and saw improvement. Then we where introduced to the idea of Dr. Youngs alkaliaztion and "... See MoreSuper Greens". His fluency went from 35% to 100% with staying power in just a short time. If he eats cold cereal for breakfast, to many carbs and sweets. It's out the window. This has been almost 8-9 years ago. He's in College now and doing great. Stuttering is so rare, Good food choices, good Vitamins, especially B's and the good Omega Oils, both help with stress. I hope this can help someone today! Thanks to the Youngs we can make better choices. God bless you and Merry christmas!

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Eating Meat, Algae, and Mushrooms Will Kill You!

In this second part of my interview with Dr. Robert Young on You Tube, he talks about the consumption of mushrooms, algaes and meat and what it can to to your health.

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