Broccoli Is A Wonder Vegetable!

Broccoli's a wonder veg... and now we know why: Chemical only found in the food helps maintain 'batteries' that power body's cells

By FIONA MACRAE

PUBLISHED: 20:40 EST, 30 July 2013 | UPDATED: 01:36 EST, 31 July 2013

Eating the glucoraphanin-rich broccoli led to improvements in the various chemical reactions that go on inside the 'batteries' in cells

Next time your child asks why they have to eat broccoli, you can give them the reason – thanks to scientists who made people eat it every day for three months.

They discovered that a chemical found solely in the vegetable helps maintain the health of the tiny ‘batteries’ which power the body’s cells. 

This, it is thought, helps ward off health problems including cancer and heart disease.

Scientists from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich ran detailed blood tests on men and women before and after they ate the vegetable.

Nineteen volunteers ate 400g of broccoli a week – three florets a day – alongside their normal food for three months. 

Another 19 ate a ‘super-broccoli’ called Beneforte, which is bred to be extra-rich in glucoraphanin, a plant chemical. The final group ate peas.

Eating the glucoraphanin-rich broccoli led to improvements in the various chemical reactions that go on inside mitochondria, the ‘batteries’ in cells. 

They also have several other vital functions, which all need to be in balance for good health. 

While researchers believe the same benefits could be obtained by eating normal broccoli, there’s some bad news if you’re not a fan of it – they think you’d need to eat three times as much.

A chemical found solely in the vegetable helps maintain the health of the tiny 'batteries' which power the body's cells

Researcher Professor Richard Mithen said: ‘Mitochondria are really, really important and when they start to go wrong it leads onto many of the diseases of ageing.

 

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National Cancer Institute Confirms That Conventional Cancer Treatments Drive Greater Malignancy!

This week, a National Cancer Institute commissioned panel’s report published in JAMA online confirmed that we all – public and professionals alike – should stop calling low-risk lesions like DCIS and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) ‘cancer.’

There are wide-reaching implications to this recommendation, including:

• Millions of women in this country have been diagnosed with DCIS, and millions of men with HGPIN, and subsequently [mis]treated. Are they now to be retroactively reclassified as ‘victims’ of iatrogenesis, with legal recourse to seek compensation?
• Anyone engaged in a cancer screening will now need to reconsider and weigh both the risks and benefits of such a ‘preventive’ strategy, considering that the likelihood of being diagnosed with a false positive over 10 years is already over 50% for women undergoing annual breast screening.
• The burgeoning pink ribbon-bedecked ‘breast cancer awareness’ industry will be forced to reformulate its message, as it is theoretically culpable for the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of millions of US women by propagating an entirely false concept of ‘cancer.’

As reported by Medscape:

The practice of oncology in the United States is in need of a host of reforms and initiatives to mitigate the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancer, according to a working group sanctioned by the National Cancer Institute.

Perhaps most dramatically, the group says that a number of premalignant conditions, including ductal carcinoma in situ and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, should no longer be called “cancer.”

Instead, the conditions should be labeled something more appropriate, such as indolent lesions of epithelial origin (IDLE), the working group suggests. The Viewpoint report was published online July 29 in JAMA.

Fundamentally, overdiagnosis results from the fact that screen-detected ‘cancers’ are disproportionately slower growing ones, present with few to no symptoms, and would never progress to cause harm if left undiagnosed and untreated.

As you can see by the graph above, it is the fast-growing tumors which will be more difficult to ‘detect early,’ and will progress rapidly enough to cause symptoms and perhaps even death unless treated aggressively. But even in the case of finding the tumor early enough to contain it through surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation, it is well-known that the minority subpopulation of cancer stem cells within these tumors will be enriched and therefore made more malignant through conventional treatment. For instance, radiotherapy radiation wavelengths were only recently found by UCLA Jonnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to transform breast cancer cells into highly malignant cancer stem-cell like cells, with 30 times higher malignancy post-treatment.

What this means is that not only are millions of screen-detected abnormalities not ‘cancer’ in the first place but even those which can be considered fast-growing are often being driven into greater malignancy by the conventional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery-based standard of cancer care itself.

Our entire world view of cancer needs to shift from an enemy that “attacks” us and that we must wage war against, to something our body does, presumably to survive an increasingly inhospitable, nutrient-deprived, carcinogen- and radiation-saturated environment, i.e. Cancer As An Ancient Survival Mechanism Unmasked.

When we look at cancer through the optic of fear and see it as an essentially chaos-driven infinitely expanding mass of cells, we are apt to make irrational choices. The physiological state of fear itself has been found to activate multidrug resistance proteins within cancer cells, explaining how our very perception of cancer can influence and/or determine its physiological status and/or trajectory within our body.

The NCI panel report opined:

“The word “cancer” often invokes the specter of an inexorably lethal process; however, cancers are heterogeneous and can follow multiple paths, not all of which progress to metastases and death, and include indolent disease that causes no harm during the patient’s lifetime.”

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Paying Until it Hurts and Medical Fantasies

The cost of medical care in the US is repeat theme in this blog, primarily because I find it outrageous.  I keep bringing it up because the New York Times is running a series on the cost of common procedures in the US. The most recent article is in the paper today and it caught my attention yet again.

The first article was on colonoscopies, the second on childbirth and today's on hip replacements.  The links to the articles are below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-explain-why-us-leads-the-world-in-health-expenditures.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/health/american-way-of-birth-costliest-in-the-world.html?pagewanted=all

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/health/for-medical-tourists-simple-math.html?pagewanted=all

The headline from today’s article concerns a Michael Shopenn who was turned down by his insurance company for a hip replacement due to a pre-existing condition. Mr. Shopenn started looking outside the United States for treatment. He found a hospital outside Brussels that charged only $13,660.  The cost in Belgium was about 6x less than in the US, where the typical charge is $78,000.

 

This got me thinking - this is purely my imagination running wild about how I might structure my cancer care if I had the ability and the means to do it.  My medical costs, outrage, business background and love of travel is fueling this fantasy.

My insurance covers between $2,500 and $8,500 for my monthly Sandostatin shots.  Let’s just say for example, that I could get a Sandostatin shot anywhere outside of the US for between $417 and $1,417 (the insurance coverage prices above divided by 6).    If I could get my insurance to pay half of what they are paying for the drug in the US ($1,250 - $4,250), I could find places to do my shots and  then pay for my airfare and hotel with the leftover funds.  I could also include my spouse in the cost but to be fair, we would pay for his travel expenses out of our own pockets. 

We could have great travels with trips all over the world while handling my cancer care.  Since I know that my shots are going to be every 28 days, I could book these trips well in advance to take advantage of early booking discounts.  It would be a win-win for both me and my company’s cost of insurance.  I probably don’t have enough vacation to do this for all 12 months but even if I did it for 6 months, the cost savings to my company would be substantial. 

Some places where I could surely get cheaper Sandostatin shots would be Switzerland, UK, France, Thailand, Belgium, Canada, India, Argentina and Australia, among others. I’m sure I could find some great things to see and do before or after my doctor appointments.

I’m guessing that most doctors in the US would not approve of a patient getting only half or none of the shots at their location.  They would not want to be responsible for anything that could happen when I got the shot elsewhere.  My company and their insurance carrier would never agree to this either.  Oh well, it was fun to think about.  Back to reality!

 

 

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Alkalarian Bill Clinton Says Stop Eating Meat and Dairy for the Good of the Country!

Bill Clinton says stop eating meat, dairy for the good of the country

Bill Clinton has an idea for something good we can all do for ourselves and our country: Go vegan. After having quadruple-bypass surgery in 2004, he realized he was at risk of never seeing his grandchildren. "So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival," he said. He added that the hardest part wasn't giving up meat and fish, but giving up yogurt and hard cheese. He said the country's diet problems are crippling the health care system. "You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, that of your family and your country," he said.

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Time To End The Tyranny of Licenses To Practice Medicine!

The tyranny of health guilds is both harmful to our health and destructive of our rights. It’s time for it to end. Our right to access the healthcare we choose must be restored.

Licensing Medicine Benefits Doctors, Not Patients

The inherent assumption behind licensing of medical practitioners is that people are too stupid to determine who is capable of helping them resolve their health problems. Are we really that stupid? Or is it a matter of small groups of people taking control over areas of commerce to create monopolies for themselves?

If I want to utilize a particular type of health practice, by what right does the government tell me that I can’t? Who has the right to presume to understand my needs better than I do myself?

Guilds and Greed

Licenses to practice medicine and an array of other health-related services are the result of pressure from guilds. Guilds are, simply, organizations of the practitioners of any art, skill, or practice for the purpose of promoting and protecting their ability to pursue and profit from what they do. To that end, they may set rules for themselves. It’s how the original Hippocratic Oath came to be. However, the primary purpose of that oath is not as it’s generally understood. Its purpose was to assure that the members would behave in a manner that would bring no harm to their common interests.

It’s natural, in the promotion of one’s interests, to try to keep anyone not of your guild from performing the same service that you do. The guild’s rules, though, are not necessarily concerned with the interests of the people. The betterment of its members is the primary concern. Of course, they’ll use the excuse that people might be harmed if someone who isn’t of their guild performs that service—but surely the fact that they have a vested interest in saying so should be all the reason we need to discount the claim.

Destroying the Opposition

Things have now gone so far that a man who produces a website about diabetes and nutrition—a man who cured himself of diabetes through nutrition—is under threat by the state of North Carolina for practicing as a nutritionist without a license. Steve Cooksey produces Diabetes Warrior, where he clarifies that he’s neither a doctor nor a nutritionist. He offers information and advice, along with his own personal experience of curing diabetes with diet. Had he done what the folk who are licensed as dieticians say, he’d still be fat and diabetic. Obviously, the officially licensed dieticians are not providing the best information.

Why should Steve or anyone else be required to get a license to give advice? No one’s forcing anyone to follow it.

A huge number of people have beaten cancer by going to non-AMA approved and nonlicensed practitioners. Many have made their own plans to cure themselves by reading and doing what makes sense to them. Yet, the medical profession’s guild has managed to create laws that say no one but they may offer advice or treatment for cancer. Anyone who does is at risk of criminal prosecution for practicing medicine without a license.

And the people are at risk from the surgeries and toxic chemicals they use to treat cancer, while claiming that they know best. Yet, the FDA is constantly stopping any alternative cancer treatments, and prosecuting the practitioners. It matters not if they’ve saved lives. It matters not if people will die because their treatment is banned. It matters not how much proof exists for the efficacy of their treatments. The FDA says it isn’t approved, so it’s illegal. They have no concern for the destruction of lives that result—and neither do most of the officially licensed doctors who provide only toxic life-destroying treatments for cancer.

Certainly, if a practitioner misrepresents what he does. If he lies about his credentials or training, he should be prosecuted for criminal misconduct. The people have a right to be protected against that sort of criminal behavior.

The Tragedy of Health Guild Tyranny

Anyone who wants to utilize only the services of a particular guild can do so whether they’re licensed or not. If the guild cannot survive without the protection of government-granted licenses, then perhaps that guild should not survive.

Of course, the obvious example of such a guild likely dying a rapid death without the protection of government licensing is modern medicine. The travesties produced by them are without comparison in the history of humanity. The methods used to treat people are some of the most devastating practices ever known:

• Cancer is treated with radiation, which causes cancer.
• Cancer is treated with chemotherapy, destroying the immune system, which is how the body can cure itself.
• Dentists routinely stuff mouths full of amalgams containing toxic mercury—and tell us it’s safe!
• Nutritionists push a diet on diabetics that will make the disease worse.
• Vaccinations are pushed on children while the rates of autism, neurological disorders, asthma, and diabetes skyrocket.
• Iatrogenic deaths are officially recognized as over 100,000 per year in the US alone. However, anyone who’s paying attention knows that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as the toll of routinely performed treatments is causing untold damage.  Routine procedures like umbilical cord clamping, massive use of antibiotics, steroids, statins, and so many other treatments are doing massive harm to people’s health.

Parents are now often forced to let their children be vaccinated. People who want to try alternative treatments cannot gain access because they’re illegal. The licensed nutritionists are designing school food programs that destroy health. The average child is now chronically ill. Most people today probably have no idea how good health feels.

And the costs of this travesty are bankrupting us all! Because we have little choice, healthcare is a virtual monopoly. Like all monopolies, they price their products as high as they can. The result is healthcare that’s so costly the majority cannot access it and it literally has bankrupt the country.

This is the disaster that’s been wrought by the tyranny of licensing health practitioners. It’s time for it to end, for this system is surely corrupted utterly as well as their big-bully government enforcers.

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Lies and More Lies From So-Called Evidence-Based Medicine!

Yet again, evidence-based medicine is shown to be a lie. In this case, the standard  treatment treatment for prostate cancer, radical surgery, provides no benefit, though it routinely maims.

Study Shows No Benefit from Surgery in Prostate Cancer

We can put another nail in the coffin of mainstream medicine’s claim to being scientific and evidence based. The standard treatment for prostate cancer is rapid and drastic surgical removal of the prostate. It’s been done for years on the presumption that removal eliminates the cancer. There has never, though, been any evidence documenting any truth that it’s effective—but surgeons have been pulling out their scalpels without scruple, leaving a swath of impotent and incontinent men behind.

Now, though, there is evidence. But it doesn’t show what all those doctors wanted to hear. Instead, it shows the opposite: There is no benefit in radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer in most cases!

Just as the claim that early cancer detection saves lives is often proving to be false, so are the routine treatments proving to be pointless—unless, of course, you’re a doctor who pockets a hefty fee with each and every surgery and office visit that results.

The Study

The Independent is reporting today on the results from the world’s largest randomized trial on prostate cancer treatment. Called the Prostate Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT), it was begun in 1994. They compared surgical removal of the prostate against doing nothing. They found no statistical benefit in surgery.

The results are not yet in print. They were presented at a Paris meeting of the European Association of Urology. It was attended by 11,000 specialists from all over the world.

The results were met with silence. According to The Independent, in contrast to the usual response to large trial results, mass notification via internet social media, nothing happened. As one expert stated:

I did not see any urologists enthusiastically tweeting about [this one].

One British urologist, Ben Challacombe, doesn’t agree with the results, saying:

We would offer milder treatment such as radiotherapy or watchful waiting. We are better than the US in putting men on surveillance.

But the fact is that there is little, if any, evidence of the efficacy of milder treatments, either. And while it’s certainly comforting, there is little to show that the British method of less aggressive treatment is an improvement over the American approach.

Lies and More Lies

The fact is that we’ve been lied to for years. Under the false banner of evidence-based medicine, fear is used to herd people into unnecessary and often dangerous tests, many of whom are then pressured into unnecessary and often crippling treatments. In many, if not most, cases, there has been no evidence to support the efficacy of either the early-detection shibboleth or the rush to extreme treatment.

Both early detection and drastic treatment have been based on nothing more than assumptions masqueraded as evidence. People are pressured into both early detection tests and drastic treatments with a combination of fear tactics, doctor-knows-best condescension, and plain old feels-good and sounds-good false logic.

Surely the time has arrived when doctors who perform these abusive treatments should be brought to justice. In the case of routine prostate surgery, half the men are left impotent and at least 10 percent are made incontinent—for no discernible benefit! And that doesn’t include the number who suffer from other injuries, such as drug-resistant infections. This is not treatment. It’s attack with intent to produce harm. Doctors know that their treatments are producing such results. They’ve claimed that it’s worthwhile because they’re saving lives. But they aren’t. What they’re doing is butchery, hidden behind false claims.

The truth is that modern medicine’s claims to being evidence based are little more than hot air spouted by a corrupt system that is now using its falsely-gained respect and trust to destroy every alternative approach to healing. Their method is to say, over and over again, that there’s no proof they work. Yet, modern medicine can’t prove its own methods work or are safe. By what right do they attempt to keep us from using other systems of healing?

Source:

• Study raises doubts over treatment for prostate cancer

You may be interested in reading: Time to End the Tyranny of Licenses to Practice Medicine

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