Agiogenesis and cancer

This video is self explanatory.

I caught a really interesting piece on the news today – a 93 year old retired surgeon who still assists in surgeries at Loma Linda Hospital in California was shown in the operating room and also outside talking about his longevity. He was actually very attractive, full, and straight, with no waver in his voice, and was speaking like a passionate college professor as he said in answer to a question about his longevity “…You have to be stimulated. I feel stimulated in the operating room. There’s a certain amount of adrenaline of course, that I think it has something to do with it. ”

Wow! We need more elders like this! “Stimulation”, I like that word he used. You can think about what you love or what you have a passion for or what your bliss is. But thinking about what stimulates you is so tangible, because you can probably remember very easily when you felt that adrenaline rush, that mental excitement, that joyful feeling that makes your whole being sing!

What stimulates you?

Message extracted from “The Garden Diet” http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Friday, February 22, 2008 by: S.A Ramratan

Not long ago I had a friend say something along these lines, “I don’t smoke or drink – I won’t live longer, it will just seem that way!” This got me thinking. How do these factors combined affect health? I just so happened to read a great study in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) not long after about this exact topic.

A recent study published in the PLoS has highlighted four health factors that, when combined, can lead to a much longer life. There have been many studies highlighting the impact of smoking, exercise, alcohol consumption and an adequate intake of fruit and vegetables, but none that studied the synergistic effect of all four. These individual lifestyle factors have been well documented. The researchers wanted to see if small achievable lifestyle choices would make a measurable impact on health.

If you are a smoker, you have probably heard many people tell you to quit. If you are sedentary, you have probably heard that you should exercise. Most of us grew up with our mothers telling us to “eat our fruits and vegetables”. Others have been told by our doctors that moderate alcohol consumption, particularly red wine, can benefit our health. If you want to lead a healthier lifestyle, it is about the combined everyday actions that lead to good health, not just one focused action. This study brings us one step closer to understanding that the synergistic effect of our everyday actions can lead to a longer, healthier life.

The study examined 20,244 men and women from the U.K. living in the general community, aged 45–79 years old. They had no known cardiovascular disease or cancer at the baseline survey held in 1993–1997. Each participant was given one point against each of the four health factors, and assigned a score from zero to four. The health factors were: currently non-smoking, physically active, moderate alcohol intake (defined as 1–14 units a week) and plasma vitamin C >50 mmol/l. The plasma vitamin C levels indicate a fruit and vegetable intake of at least five servings a day. After an 11 year follow-up it was found that those with a score of four, compared to a score of zero, is equivalent to being 14 years younger in chronological age. Or to be clear – a person with a health score of 0 has the same risk of dying as a person with a health score of 4 who is 14 years older. Those with a score of four had a higher quality of life with those at a comparable age with a score of zero, and a significantly lower risk of death. This study shows that small, achievable lifestyle changes can have a marked effect on the length and quality of life of the general population.

If you are a non-smoker, non-drinker (or very low to moderate drinker), are active and eat your fruits and veggies – you are probably going to out-live your peers by many years, and live them well! And while the joke is true, you will live longer because you don’t smoke or drink; having a better quality of life will enable you to do things that your ( smoking, sedentary, drinking, “I don’t like vegetables”) peers won’t be able to do. Your youth and vitality will continue on for many more years (about 14 years in fact) and that is a lot of time to continue exploring the world and enjoying life!

Aging involves many factors, one of it being genetics with decide our rightful biological life spend. Other then this, the accumulation of toxic waste in the body, however, also exerts significant influence on the rate of aging. If wastes accumulate faster than the ability of the body to discard them, aging will be accelerated. Abusive factors such as overeating, poor diet, lack of sleep and rest, emotional stress, over or under-activity, digestive problems; are among the common factors that lead to accumulation of toxic waste in the body. Signs of cellular toxicity include fatigue, lethargy, problems in recuperating from stress, bad breath, poorly functioning bowels, skin eruptions, diminished resistance to disease, etc.

Young people indulge in unhealthy diet, overeating, engaging in toxic habits, ignoring the need for rest and sleep, etc., may think they are spared from repercussions because they continue to feel “good” despite the abuses. What they do not understand is that the damages they are doing to their body is cumulative, which often go unnoticed until they reach their late twenties, thirties, or older. Nevertheless the price to pay for our abuses can be a costly one.

Frequently clients tell me, “I wish I had learned about my biochemistry and how to apply Holistic Nutrition principles before my aging problems started”. My advice to them is always the same: Even though many of us tend to “get old too soon and be smart too late”, it is still better to be late than never.

“Your body has a blueprint for health — a design to prevent disease and eliminate catastrophic illness. The secret to health is not to look for magic bullets, but rather to work with your body’s inherent design. Optimize the overall health of your body, and it will do what it was designed to do — repair itself.”

Whole food nutritional supplements offer better health benefits than isolated vitamins and minerals

by Mike Adams

In the natural health community, what we’ve learned over the years as scientists and observers of human nature is that the human body is not designed to consume isolated nutrients and use them effectively. It must take in a full spectrum of supporting complementary nutrients as they exist in nature. So, for example, lycopene is one phytonutrient found in tomatoes that is well known to help prevent prostate cancer. But, in fact, if you take lycopene by itself, it’s not going to have nearly the positive effect of eating whole tomatoes or taking whole-food concentrates made from dried organic tomatoes. So getting these minerals in their full-spectrum natural ratios (ratios which they’re found in nature) is very important.

It’s also important to consider the density of these nutrients. If I were to ask you to eat 10 fresh tomatoes at one serving, you probably wouldn’t be able to get through more than five or six without feeling full. That’s because tomatoes have a lot of water, and they fill you up quickly. So you wouldn’t be able to get much nutrition from those tomatoes if you ate them raw. Certainly, they’re good for you in their raw form, and that’s the best way to eat them, but that’s not going to meet your nutritional needs.

In contrast, if you were to take these 10 tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It’s all about the density of nutrients. But let me be clear: I’m not at all saying that you shouldn’t eat raw tomatoes or other whole foods; what I’m saying is that raw foods are good for calories, but getting outstanding nutrition requires consuming whole food concentrates. Personally, I eat them both: fruits and vegetables for enjoyment and calories, combined with whole food concentrates for nutrition.

Avoid isolated vitamins and minerals

I also recommend that you move away from isolated vitamins and minerals. So forget about those cheap, low-cost bottles of vitamin C, vitamin E or those B vitamins you might find at the wholesale clubs, pharmacies or grocery stores. These are typically not going to do you very much good, because your body doesn’t need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. If you want vitamin C, go with whole-food concentrates. You’ll get plenty of vitamin C in a full-spectrum package that gives you antioxidants, phytonutrients, and cancer fighting compounds all at the same time; and none of that is actually listed on the label.

High-density whole food concentrates provide real nutrition

In the world of holistic nutrition, we take whole foods from nature that are grown organically, or we take microalgae and other superfood supplements, and we dry them, grind them up, put them into powders, and then encapsulate those powders or shape them into pills or tablets. That’s the way to get your nutrition in the modern world. That’s the way healthy people do it, and that’s the way I’ve been doing it for years. I can’t imagine living a single day without taking dozens of nutritional supplements made from whole-food concentrates. They aren’t pills or medicine, in my view: they’re just high-density food.

Eating smart

With added amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes and herbs, it might seem like dietary supplements could easily replace food as your source of nutrients.

But this isn’t the case. Whole foods – such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains – provide a complex combination of vitamins, minerals, fiber, phytochemicals, and antioxidants that promote health. If you depend on supplements rather than eating a variety of whole foods, you miss the potential benefits of these substances.

Your best source of micronutrients

Whole foods are your best source of vitamins and minerals. They offer three main benefits over supplements:

Whole foods are complex

They contain a variety of the micronutrients your body needs, not just one. For ex: an orange provides not only vitamin C, but beta carotene, calcium and other nutrients. Vitamin C supplements lack these other micronutrients.

Whole foods provide dietary fiber

Fiber is important for digestion and can help prevent certain diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, and prevent constipation.

Whole foods contain other substances that are important for good health

Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains contain naturally occurring phytochemicals which help protect against cancer, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. These foods also contain antioxidants that help protect against cell and tissue damage.

Source: MayoClinic.Com

In America water fasting is popular. In Europe the use of raw vegetable juices or fruit juices is more popular and used in many large medically supervised institutions.  Water-fasting requires mostly bed rest, while juice fasting which provides some nutrition interspersed with detoxification, allows one to continue working  as  there is sufficient energy present in most cases . This is possible because the body is spared from the use of enormous amounts of energy required by the digestive processes (juices require little effort to digest). This liberated energy is immediately directed by the body into the healing processes, thus allowing great changes to occur in a limited period of time.  Juice fasting can be done at home, with a minimum of expense, so that healing is possible for all who have the will to undertake the process.

There is nothing more inspiring than to look into a mirror every day and to see more youthful changes occurring along with better feelings, so that each day brings more hope and encouragement to continue on till the goal of daily living is reached. Yet, at the same time, the appetite can be reasonably content with the taste of delicious and refreshing juices, taken periodically several times during the day and carried in a thermos wherever you go.

After just 2 or more weeks, other foods such as easily digested proteins ( such as spirulina) and fats ( from nut and seeds) may be introduced into the diet, allowing the rebuilding and recasting of the body to proceed after the initial cleansing period has prepared the proper foundation for the reception of higher quality and more vital food materials.

Usually, within a few weeks, people feel much better and in 4 months time, the body becomes stabilized and feels consistently well. And within a period of less than one year, almost all health problems will have disappeared – even large tumors and growths.

Many people ask: Can Holistic Nutrition give some practical guidelines to maintain and preserve good health? What are the guidelines in cases of illness? How does one cope with it? So we are going to enumerate some do’s and don’ts.
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In their study of 50,000 male health professionals, Harvard scientists have found that men who ate red meat as a main dish 5 or more times a week had 4 times the risk of colon cancer compared with men who ate red meat less than once a month. Heavy consumers of red meat were also twice as likely to get prostate cancer.

In another study from Harvard, high-fiber diets rich in fruit and vegetables were associated with lower levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure while meat intake was associated with higher systolic blood pressure values. Other epidemiological studies suggest that regular consumption of fruit and vegetables protects against risk of stroke.

A study from Uruguay found that a high intake of fruit and vegetables was associated with a low risk of bowel cancer. Lettuce, apples, and bananas especially showed a significant protective effect. In a recent British study, the daily consumption of fresh fruit was associated with a 24% reduction in mortality from heart disease, a 32% reduction in mortality from cerebrovascular disease and a 21% reduction in all causes of mortality compared with a less frequent consumption of fruit.

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