In this Newsletter:
1. Naturopathic
Philosophy Highlight Fun Facts: Food as Medicine: Eating the Rainbow, How to
Scare People with Vitamins
2. Check out
my answers and blog on Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.
3. Updated
Link Resources on my
homepage
4. Radio For
Your Body-Mind-Soul:
· Body/Mind Dr. Northrup discusses the How to Get UNSTUCK from depression with Dr. Gordon.
· Mind/Soul Michael
Neil discuss Accidental
Success and another way to unstick from the mind chatter
5. Book of the week: Unstuck:
Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey out of Depression
· Dr. James
Gordon’s book portrays his clinical and personal experience with clinical
depression and provides a holistic model on how to get one’s life back.
6. A New Functional
Test For Heart Health Status–in your own home!
7. My Latest Blog on Low Cholesterol & Brain Function
Bonus Reads:
More information on Food as Medicine (Dr. Hyman)
Dr. Hyman explains using your fork to eat the rainbow:
Red Group
(tomatoes, pink grapefruit,
watermelon)
These contain the carotenoid lycopene,
which helps rid the body of free radicals that damage genes. Lycopene seems to
protect against prostate cancer as well as heart and lung disease. Processed
juices contain a lot of the beneficial ingredients. One glass of tomato juice
gives you 50 percent of the recommended lycopene.
Yellow/Green Group
(spinach greens, collard greens,
mustard greens, turnip greens, yellow corn, green peas, avocado, honeydew
melon)
These are sources of the carotenoids
lutein and zeaxanthin. These are believed to reduce the risk of cataracts and
age-related macular degeneration. Lutein is a yellow-green substance that
concentrates in the back of your eye. It may also reduce atherosclerosis.
Orange Group
(carrots, mangos, apricots,
cantaloupes, pumpkin, acorn squash, winter squash, sweet potatoes)
These contain alpha carotene, which
protects against cancer. They also contain beta-carotene, which the body
converts to vitamin A. It protects the skin against free-radical damage and
helps repair damaged DNA. Beta-carotene is also good for night vision. It’s
important to note that these beneficial nutrients can be received from other
foods, too. For instance, vitamins found in dairy products and meat. But it’s
not as beneficial because you get high calories and fat along with it.
Orange/Yellow Group
(pineapple, orange juice, oranges, tangerines,
peaches, papayas, nectarines)
These contain beta cryptothanxin,
which helps cells in the body communicate and may help prevent heart disease.
In addition, a single orange contains 170 percent of the recommended daily
vitamin C. It’s interesting to note that the skin of an orange is high in a
protective fat that has been found to kill cancer cells in humans and animals,
which highlights the fact that two-thirds of all drugs come from the plant
world.
Red/Purple Group
(beets, eggplant, purple grapes, red
wine, grape juice, prunes, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries,
strawberries, red apples)
These are loaded with powerful
antioxidants called anthocyanins believed to protect against heart disease by
preventing blood clots. They may also delay the aging of cells in the body.
There is some evidence they may help delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Green Group
(broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
Chinese cabbage or bok choi, kale)
These contain the chemicals
sulforaphane and isocyanate and they also contain indoles, all of which help
ward off cancer by inhibiting carcinogens. It’s a fact that ten percent of the
population – like George Bush Sr. – doesn’t like broccoli. But it is important
in diets because of the beneficial chemicals it contains.
White/Green Group
(leeks, scallions, garlic, onions,
celery, pears, white wine, endive, chives)
The onion family contains allicin,
which has anti-tumor properties. Other foods in this group contain antioxidant
flavonoids like quercetin and kaempferol.
Hyman, M. Eat Your Medicine: Food as Pharmacology. October 15, 2011.
Scaring People with Vitamins. (Orthomolecular.org)
(OMNS, Oct 20, 2011) Recent much
trumpeted anti-vitamin news is the product of pharmaceutical company payouts.
No, this is not one of “those” conspiracy theories. Here’s how it’s
done:
1) Cash to study authors. Many of
the authors of a recent negative vitamin E paper (1) have received substantial
income from the pharmaceutical industry. The names are available in the last
page of the paper (1556) in the “Conflict of Interest” section. You
will not see them in the brief summary at the JAMA website. A number of the
study authors have received money from pharmaceutical companies, including Merck,
Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Amgen,
Firmagon, and Novartis.
2) Advertising revenue. Many
popular magazines and almost all major medical journals receive income from the
pharmaceutical industry. The only question is, how much? Pick up a copy of the
publication and count the pharmaceutical ads. The more space sold, the more
revenue for the publication. If you try to find their advertisement revenue,
you’ll see that they don’t disclose it. So, just count the Pharma ads. Look in
them all: Readers Digest http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n11.shtml , JAMA,
Newsweek, Time, AARP Today, NEJM, Archives of Pediatrics. Even Prevention
magazine. Practically any major periodical.
3) Rigged trials. Yes, it
is true and yes it is provable. In a recent editorial, we explained how trials
of new drugs are often rigged at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n20.shtml . Studies
of the health benefits of vitamins and essential nutrients also appear to be
rigged. This can be easily done by using low doses to guarantee a negative
result, and by biasing the interpretation to show a statistical increase in
risk.
4) Bias in what is published, or
rejected for publication. The largest and most popular medical journals
receive very large income from pharmaceutical advertising. Peer-reviewed
research indicates that this influences what they print, and even what study
authors conclude from their data. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n02.shtml .
5) Censorship of what is indexed and
available to doctors and the public. Public tax money pays for censorship
in the largest public medical library on the planet: the US National Library of
Medicine (MEDLINE/PubMed). http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml. See
also: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n05.shtml.
Don’t Believe It?
How well were these pro-vitamin,
anti-drug studies covered in the mass media?
- A
Harvard study showed a 27% reduction in AIDS deaths among patients given
vitamin supplements. (2) - There
have been no deaths from vitamins in 27 years. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml - Antibiotics
cause 700,000 emergency room visits per year, just in the US. (3) - Modern
drug-and-cut medicine is at least the third leading cause of death in the
USA. Some estimates place medicine as the number one cause of death. (4) - Over
1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals,
doctors’ offices, and nursing homes. If in a hospital, a patient can
expect at least one medication error every single day. (5) - More
than 100,000 patients die every year, just in the US, from drugs properly
prescribed and taken as directed. (6)
Andrew Saul. How to Make People Believe Any Anti-Vitamin Scare.
October 20, 2011.http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n12.shtml. This
article may be reprinted free of charge provided 1) that there is clear
attribution to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and 2) that both the
OMNS free subscription link http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html and also
the OMNS archive link http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml are
included.
New
Functional Test for Measuring Blood Lipids:
Vitalchoice just introduced a new blood test to measure heart
risk. It looks like a promising test that patients can do on their own and be
guided by a practitioner. Read more here.
NEW! Omega-3 Blood Test. Our Vital Omega 3 and 6 HUFA Test
Provides the Most accurate measures of omega-related heart risk and guides diet
choices. October 11, 2011. http://newsletter.vitalchoice.com/e_article002234332.cfm?x=bk6V2Bw,b1h0JlRD
Excerpt from Cholesterol to the Rescue:
You Really
are a Fat Head! (And that’s good!)
Approximately 25% of your cholesterol is located in your brain and your
retina is approximately 60%. In fact, Low Density Lipoprotein (the “bad
cholesterol”) is actually a transport
mechanism to the eyes and omega fatty acids have been shown in various
studies to assist in neurotransmission and neurotransmitter production in the
brain.
What happens when the body’s brain and eye’s don’t get the necessary precursor,
cholesterol, to function? Read on for an eye and brain changing blog…..
