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Macrobiotic cancer treatment

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Macrobiotic recommendation how to feed for patients with cancer and other serious diseases

Only on the fingers of one hand is probably possible to count these that remember declaration of president USA Nixon from the year 1971: “We provided scientists so many resources and gave them enough possibilities, that during the two year, the cancer problem will be solved.” Today, nearly after thirty five years, the problem of cancer is still not solved.

According to present statistics it’s even increasing breast cancer and cancer of lungs. There also appeared completely new, so far incurable forms of cancer and they overgrow to pandemic. To the whole world epidemic.

Causes: modern civilization harms more than helps. Official science doesn’t keep up to correct their damaging consequencies. And can’t manage even to prevent them. It doesn’t know prevention in the right word meaning - as a elimination of cause.

To the problem of breast cancer, science even officialy admit unknowingness and incapability of prevention. In the world press, it does appear again in the half of 2005. In the connection with the most popular and most favourite pop star Kilie Minogue, after discovery her carcinoma was suggested surgical removal of tumour, irradiation and chemotherapy. Prevention was brushed with saying: “Against breast cancer doesn’t exist no other prevention than their timely discovery.”

Suffice however to carefully read american original of Kushi’s prominent book: Cancer prevention diet. There’s cited 31 scientific reports from years 1984 - 1993. Scientists from America, Japan, China, France, Scandinavia and others, in them on various examples show, that in prevention and treatment breast cancer is showing as positive factor consumption of foods from whole grains, soya cheese, fermented soy products, miso soups, seaweeds.
Say in another way: by partial researches is confirmed macrobiotic as a whole. Cow milk and milk products are, in the quoted scientific researches, valued as positively non beneficial. Up to dangerous. States there, that women, that were breastfeeded for a long time as a neonates are endangered less by breast cancer.

Other important findings

We will show almost trivial example of science demerger. One part of science in the last years as a advice for improvement of health, started extensive campaign, that encourage: Eat a lot of fruits. Other scientists did on the contrary participate on the concrete researches, that demonstrated negative influence of fruits on the cancer of women’s sexual organs. As announced Internation Journal of Cancer, they went out with these results:

Breast Cancer
With consumption of whole grains, decreased occurence of 64%, mortality fall of 70%
With consumption of legumes, decreased occurence of 43%, mortality fall of 46%
With consumption of fruits, INCREASED occurence of 64%, mortality raise of 44%

Cancer of the uterus (briefly)
Whole grains - occurence decreased of 58%
Legumes - occurence decreased of 46%
Fruits - occurence INCREASED of 54%

Cancer of the ovary
Whole grains - occurence decrease of 43%, mortality fall of 78%
Legumes - occurence decrease of 41%, mortality fall of 53%
Fruits - occurence INCREASED of 16%, mortality RAISE of 31%

For an interest yet at least few important figures: by consumption of milk, with all three cited forms of cancer (in the same order), increase occurance of 66%, 64%, 47%. Mortality increase: breast cancer of 73%, cancer of the uterus of 66%.

We could quote further. It’s however more benefical summary inform, that traditional energy medicine has in comparison with disjointed modern science for disposal in the long run verified complex system. It engages not only about details, but treatment as a whole. Nourishment and supplemental activities harmonize at the same time from the view of quality of two basic energies. And offer not only prevention of cancer, but also significant help with its treatment. What most expecially: it can effectively implement all in the practice - it teaches patients how to examine in the nature, how to provide external applications at home - and particularly: how to work in the kitchen.

What for the last broadly fifty years appeared as a solution of battle against cancer, but wasn’t versatilely effective? For example theory about this, that originators of cancer are bacteries. Later: that causation are viruses. Or: living environment in general. Eventually climate. Unsuitable environment in the place of working. Various radiances. Artificial ingredients in the foods and industrialy manufactured foods. Using of plastics. Excessive consumption of fats. Consumption of red meat. Or relatively new view, that cancer is isolated cell disorder.
In all we have introduced is always ONLY PIECE OF TRUTH.

It’s given by two mistakes

1. The view is narrowed to only one particular problem
2. It’s still common inability come from materialist view of the world (as a form of material) to view much deeper. To the recognition of world as a space with endless variants of various energy qualities. The stone is thick energy, the cauliflower is significantly less thick energy, curtain is yet more less thick, thought is rather dissipated energy, spiritual shell of our body has quality of the most light energetic waves and frequencies.

All existing variants, that are milliards, have own origin in the different ratio of two basic energies.

In the centripetal energy, contracting, densing, coming in the spirals from the whole infinite Universe.
And centrifugal energy, expansive, dilatating, releasing, dissipating, arising from the rotation of giant mass of our planet around own axis.

Both in the whirling spirals are creating, affecting and constantly changing all, what is in Universe and thus on our planet, and around her, do exist. Even our foods and through it also our bodies alone.

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Carrots

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

CARROTS
Like other orange and yellow vegetables high in beta-carotene, carrots have been associated with lower rates of heart disease, cancer, and other disorders. In Oriental medicine, they are especially good for the lungs and large intestine and their sweet taste nourishes the pancreas. See Carotenoids, Vegetables.

• Carrots Associated with Lower Cervical Cancer - An Italian case-control study found that 191 women with invasive cervical cancer consumed less carrots and green vegetables than healthy women. Both foods were highly protective, with almost a fivefold increased risk associated with eating carrots less often than once a week or green vegetables less often than once a day.
Source: C. La Vecchia et al., “Dietary Vitamin A and the Risk of Invasive Cervical Cancer,” International Journal of Cancer 34:319-22, 1984.

• Carrots Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer - Carrots may help protect against breast cancer. Scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported that eating carrots more than twice weekly, compared with no intake, was associated with 44 percent less breast cancer in a case-control study of 13,000 women conducted in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, in a study of the effect of 26 types or groups of vegetables and fruit on cancer development, Italian researchers reported that most vegetables protected against cancer of the colon and rectum, but only carrots lowered breast cancer risk.
Sources:: M. P. Longnecker, “Intake of Carrots, Spinach, and Supplements Containing Vitamin A in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer,” Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 6(11):887-92, 1997; S. Franceschi et al., “Role of Different Types of Vegetables and Fruit in the Prevention of Cancer of the Colon, Rectum, and Breast,” Epidemiology 9(3):338-41, 1998.

• Carrots Protect Against Vulvar Cancer - Italian researchers reported that in a study of 125 women with invasive vulvar cancer and 541 controls in the Milan area, women who ate high amounts of carrots had about half the risk of contacting the disease.
Source: F. Parazzini et al., “Selected Food Intake and Risk of Vulvar Cancer,” Cancer 76(11):2291-96, 1995.

• Carrots Protect Against Lung Cancer - In a case-control study involving over 300 women in Spain, scientists found that intake of yellow/orange vegetables, principally carrots, reduced the risk of lung cancer by almost two-thirds.
Source: A. Agudo et al., “Vegetable and Fruit Intake and the Risk of Lung Cancer in Women in Barcelona, Spain,” European Journal of Cancer 33(8):1256-61, 1997.

• Carrots Improve Liver Function - In laboratory studies, scientists in India reported that carrot extracts reduced acute liver damage in mice.
Source: A. Bishayee et al., “Hepatoprotective Activity of Carrot Against Carbon Tetrachloride Intoxification in Mouse Liver,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology 47(2):69-74, 1995.

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Cancer case histories

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

CANCER CASE HISTORIES
Over the last 20 years, many individuals have recovered from cancer after following a more balanced diet. The most popular anticancer diet, as the American Cancer Society notes on its Internet site, is the macrobiotic diet. The following case histories are drawn from publications of the East West Foundation, the Kushi Foundation, and One Peaceful World.
Note abbreviations below: CPD = The Cancer Prevention Diet by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack (St. Martin’s Press, 1993); CF = Cancer-Free by Ann Fawcett (Japan Publications, 1992) ; MAC = Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer by Michio Kushi (Avery, 1992); WHG = Women’s Health Guide by Gale Jack and Wendy Esko (One Peaceful World Press, 1997); OPWJ = One Peaceful World Journal. Other sources are listed in full.

Brain Tumor
• Dean Todd, a college student with a brain tumor, who recovered with the help of his mother, in Double Vision by Alexandra Todd, (New England University Press, 1995).
• Mona Sanders, a young woman from Columbus, Miss., with a brain tumor, in CF, CPD, and OPWJ 6: Spring, 1990.
• Brian Bonaventura, an auto worker in Columbus, Ohio, in CF and CPD.
• Melissa Hatch, a yoga teacher and wife living in Maine, in OPWJ 14: Summer 1993.
• Betty Sidoryk, a civil servant in the Canadian government, with inoperable brain stem tumor, in OPWJ 34: Spring 1998.

Breast Cancer
• Christine Akbar, a physicist who recovered from terminal inflammatory breast chapter; included in WHG.
• Phyllis W. Crabtree, an educator with two adult children, who had uterine cancer that had metastasized to the breast, in CF and summarized in CPD.
• Magdaline Cronley, a homemaker in Montauk, N.Y., with breast and lung cancer that had spread to the bones, in CF.
• Anne Kramer, a mother and grandmother in Washington, Mich., in CPD.
• Bonnie Kramer, a young mother from Torrington, Conn., with breast cancer metastasized to the bone, in CF, CPD, and OPWJ 4: Spring 1990.
• Sally Weil, a mother and schoolteacher living in New Jersey, in OPWJ 17: Winter 1994.
• Macrobiotics and Cancer Recovery Experience Video with Bonnie Kramer and Chris Akbar, Kushi Institute. Short interviews with two breast cancer survivors, 1997.

Colon Cancer
• Osbon Woodford, currently a macrobiotic teacher in Cleveland, in CF and CPD.
• Cecil Dudley, a senior from Columbus, Ohio, in CF and CFD.
• Vivien Newbold, M.D., a Philadelphia physician, relates the story of her husband who had colon cancer in CF and MAC.

Hodgkin’s Disease
• Maureen Duney of Belle Mead, N.J. in CPD.
• Emily Bellew, a young mother in Columbus, Ohio, in CF and CPD.

Kaposi’s Sarcoma
• Frank, a copywriter for a market research company in New York, with AIDS, in AIDS, Macrobiotics, and Natural Immunity by Michio Kushi and Martha Cottrell, M.D. (Japan Publications, 1990). Also in CPD.

Kidney Cancer
• Shinichiro Terayama, a physicist and management consultant, who had renal cell carcinoma that had metastasized to the lungs, in Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, M.D. (Knopf, 1995).

Leukemia
• Christina Pirello, a young woman from Florida, who married her counselor, Bob Pirello, and went on to become a macrobiotic teacher and chef with her own cooking program, Christina Cooks!, on educational TV, in CF, CPD, and OPWJ 7: Spring 1991.
• Doug Blampied, a New Hampshire insurance executive, in CF and OPWJ 5: Summer 1990.
• Paul Marks, who developed leukemia as a child and after recovering went on to become an acupuncturist in Arlington, Mass. in Michio Kushi, Cancer and Heart Disease (Japan Publications, 1985).

Liver Cancer
• Hilda Sorhagen, a Pennsylvania yoga teacher and mother of three, in CPD.
• Patient D, a middle aged man suffering from colon cancer that had spread to the liver, in a medical study reported by Vivien Newbold, M.D., in CF.

Lung Cancer
• Elizabeth Masters, a mother and an ex-cattle rancher who is now teaching macrobiotics in Kansas, in CPD and OPWJ 8: Summer 1991.
• Janet E. Vitt, R.N., a nurse in Cleveland who overcame lung cancer, Stage IV, which had spread to the liver, pancreas, abdomen, and lymph system, in OPWJ 37: Winter 1999.

Lymphoma
• Kathleen Raeder, in WHG and OPWJ 27: Summer 1996.
• Al Kapuler, a biologist, with cancer of the lymphatic system, in Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, M.D. Knopf, 1995.
• Joanne Villano-Napoli, a young woman from Brooklyn, in OPWJ 19: Summer 1994.
• Judy MacKenney, a Massachusetts housewife with inoperable, metastatic, Stage IV lymphoma, in OPWJ 33: Winter 1998.

Melanoma
• Virginia Brown, R..N, a nurse, in Virginia Brown, R.N., with Susan Stayman, Macrobiotic Miracle (Japan Publications, 1985). Also summarized in CF and CPD.
• Kin Liversidge, a Massachusetts father and mountain climber, in “From Melanoma to the Matterhorn,” OPWJ 31: Summer 1997.
• Marlene McKenna, a mother of four and investment broker in Providence, R.I., in CPD and CF.
• Betty Metzger, a homemaker in Shelby, Ohio, in CF and MAC.
• Michael Shanik, a Florida businessman living in Sarasota, in CF.
• Bill Templeton, a Dallas entrepreneur, in CF.
• Thomas Marron, a Rhode Island executive, in OPWJ #21: Winter 1995.
• Carter Breland, a retired school administrator in West Columbia, S.C. in OPWJ 15: Summer 1993.

Ovarian Tumors
• Milenka Dobic, a mother from Yugoslavia with ovarian and lymph cancer who is now a macrobiotic teacher and cook in Costa Mesa, Calif., in CPD and in Return to Paradise 2, OPW Press, Spring 1989.
• Gale Jack, a Texas schoolteacher, in Gale Jack, Promenade Home (Japan Publications, 1987).

Pancreatic Cancer
• Dr. Hugh Faulkner, a British physician, who reversed terminal pancreatic cancer in Hugh Faulkner, Physician Heal Thyself (One Peaceful World Press, 1992). Also summarized in CPD and CF.
• Jean Kohler, a music professor in Indiana, in Jean and Marie Ann Kohler, Healing Miracles from Macrobiotics (Parker Publishing, 1979). Also summarized in CPD.
• Norman Arnold, a businessman from Columbia, S.C., in CF and CPD.
• Jean Bailey, a homemaker in Ontario, Canada, who had pancreatic cancer and a bile duct tumor, in CF.
• Mary McDade, a homemaker in Leeds, England in OPWJ 20: Autumn 1994.

Prostate Cancer
• Dirk Benedict, the actor, in Dirk Benedict, Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy (Avery, 1993).
• Herb Walley, who is retired in Manchester, N.H., in CF and CPD.
• Bill Garnell, a telephone executive in Morristown, N.J., in CF.
• Edmund Hanley, a manufacturing executive from Muskegon, Mich., with prostate cancer which had metastasized to the bone, in CF and OPWJ 4: Spring 1990.
• Harold L. Harriman, a career Naval officer and aerospace executive, living in Merritt Island, Florida, in OPWJ 17: Winter 1994.
• J. R. Lee, an airline pilot in Dallas, in CF.
• Anthony Sattilaro, M.D., president of the Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia who had inoperable prostate cancer that had spread throughout his body, in Anthony Sallilaro with Tom Monte, Recalled by Life (Avon Books, 1982).

Skin Cancer
• Roger Randolph, a lawyer from Tulsa, in CPD.

Stomach Cancer
• Katsuhide Kitatani, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations who went on to found the U.N. Macrobiotic Society, in CF and CPD.

Thyroid Cancer
• Diane Silver Hassell, a Canadian who suffered from thyroid tumors and fibroids and who is now a macrobiotic teacher, in CF.
• Yuri Stavitsky, M.D., a Russian medical doctor working on the Chernobyl clean up with radiation sickness, including thyroid tumors, in CPD.

Uterine Cancer
• Elaine Nussbaum, a mother from New Jersey with an inoperable uterine tumor, who went on to become a nutritionist and macrobiotic teacher and counselor, Elaine Nussbaum, Recovery from Cancer (Avery, 1992. Also summarized in CF and CPD.
• Gladys Abeashie of Ghana in WHG and OPWJ 23: Summer 1995.
• Gloria Swanson, the film star, in CPD.
• Patient C, suffering from uterine and endometrial cancer, in a medical study reported by Vivien Newbold, M.D., in CF.

Vocal Tumor
• Laura Anne Fitzpatrick, a college student with a granular myoblastoma, currently teaching in Maine, in CPD.

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Breast feeding

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

BREAST-FEEDING
Mother’s milk has sustained the human species for countless generations. Breast milk is high in substances that confer natural immunity on the developing infant and protect against infection and disease. Breast-feeding also confers protection for the mother. See AIDS, Chocolate, Microwave, Mochi, Pesticides, Prenatal Nutrition, Rice, Sea Vegetables, Skin Problems, Vegetarian Diet.

• Breast-feeding Reduces Ear Infections - Breast-feeding can drastically reduce the number of ear infections in babies for the first four months, according to a University of Arizona study.
“The longer you can breast-feed exclusively, the fewer the episodes of ear infection, but four months is the minimum for significant protection,” noted Dr. Burris Duncan, who directed the study. His findings showed that 56 percent of babies who nursed for four months or more had infections compared to 68 percent of babies who were not nursed.
Source: B. Duncan, “Exclusive Breast-feeding for at Least 4 Months Protects Against Otitis Media,” Pedriatrics; 91:867-72, 1993.

• Breast-feeding Lowers Lymphoma Risk - Breast-feeding can reduce the risk of certain cancers for both mother and child. Researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md., found that infants breast-fed more than 6 months had a lower risk of developing cancer in childhood, especially lymphomas. In this study, children who were formula-fed or breast-fed for less than 6 months had approximately twice the risk of getting some childhood cancers by age 15 as those breast-fed for longer than 6 months. They also had five times the risk of getting lymphoma. “Mother’s milk contains substantial antimicrobial benefits for infants, increasing their resistance to many infections and possibly protecting them from many diseases, including lymphomas,” researchers reported.
Source: “Breast-Feeding Linked to Decreased Cancer Risk for Mother, Child,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 80:1362-63, 1988.

• Breast-feeding Promotes Mental Development - Children born prematurely who were breast-fed scored significantly higher on intelligence tests than those who did not. “Our evidence strongly suggests that human milk might have factors important to brain development,” noted Dr. Alan Lucas, director of the study and head of infant and child nutrition at the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, England.
On average, the children given breast milk scored eight points higher on a range of intelligence tests taken when they were eight years old.
Source: A. Lucas et al., “Breast Milk and Subsequent Intelligent Quotient in Children Born Preterm,” Lancet 339:261–64, 1992.

• Breast-feeding Lowers Breast Cancer Risk - In a Chinese medical study, researchers found that the longer the mother nursed, the less at risk she was of breast cancer. Mimi Yu, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, studied more than 500 Chinese women with breast cancer in Shanghai and 500 healthy women. The women she studied on an average nursed their various children for a cumulative total of nine years, a common pattern in China. “We believe that long periods of nursing would have the same protective effect for American women,” Yu reported.
Source: “Breast-Feeding Linked to Decreased Cancer Risk for Mother, Child,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 80:1362-63, 1988.

• Breast-Fed Children Smarter - Children who are breast-fed as babies are smarter and do better than kids brought up on bottled milk, according to a New Zealand study. In a study of more than one thousand children, researchers found that those who were breast-fed for 8 months or more tested between 35 and 59 percent higher in reading comprehension, mathematical ability, and scholastic ability when they were 10 to 13 years old.
Source: L. J. Horwood and D. M. Fergusson, “Breast-feeding and Later Cognitive and Academic Outcomes,” Pediatrics 101(1):E9, 1998.

• Attention Deficit Disorder Linked to Less Breast-feeding - In a case-control study of diet and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Purdue University researchers reported that children with ADHD were about half as likely to have been breast-fed as controls. The duration of breast-feeding was also significantly longer in ordinary children than those with this behavioral disorder characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. ADHD children were also found to have lower amounts of specific fatty acids, especially omega-3 fatty acids. These are found in vegetables, fruits, and other plant quality foods, as well as in fish and seafood.
Source: L. J. Stevens et al., “Essential Fatty Acid Metabolism in Boys with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 62:761-68, 1995.

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Breast cysts

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

BREAST CYSTS
Dairy food, sugar, and excessive fat are often the underlying cause of lumps, fibrocystic disease, tumors, and other breast disorders. Return to a more natural way of eating has helped many women live a normal, healthy life. See also Breast Cancer.

• Breast Cysts - Marlene Barrela, who directs a Spanish ministry program at a local church in Dallas, eliminated breast cysts on a macrobiotic diet.
Source: Gale Jack and Wendy Esko, editors, Women’s Health Guide, (Becket, MA: One Peaceful World Press, 1997).

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Breast cancer

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

BREAST CANCER
Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in modern society, affecting 1 in 8 women. Breast cancer rates are substantially lower in countries where plant-centered diets are eaten. The protective effects of miso, tofu, and other soy products high in phytoestrogens and isoflavones are being intensively studied around the world. See Carrots, Dairy, Estrogen, Isoflavones, Menopause, Menstrual Disorders, Miso, Phytoestrogens, Sea Vegetables, Soy Foods, Tofu, Tempeh, Vegetables, Vegetarian Diet, Vitamin D, War-Restricted Diet, Women’s Health.

• Macrobiotic Diet Lessens Breast Cancer Risk - Macrobiotic and vegetarian women are less likely to develop breast cancer, researchers at New England Medical Center in Boston reported. The scientists found that macrobiotic and vegetarian women process estrogen differently from other women and eliminate it more quickly from their body. The study involved 45 pre- and postmenopausal women, about half of whom were macrobiotic and vegetarian and half nonvegetarian.
The women consumed about the same number of total calories. Although the vegetarian women took in only one third as much animal protein and animal fat, they excreted two to three times as much estrogen. High levels of estrogen have been associated with the development of breast cancer. “The difference in estrogen metabolism may explain the lower incidence of breast cancer in vegetarian women,” the study concluded.
Source: B. R. Goldin et al., “Effect of Diet on Excretion of Estrogens in Pre- and Postmenopausal Incidence of Breast Cancer in Vegetarian Women,” Cancer Research 41:3771-73, 1981.

• Miso Retards Tumors - In laboratory experiments, Japanese researchers reported that chemically-induced breast tumors in rats could be significantly decreased by feeding the animals a diet consisting of 10 percent miso.
Source: T. Gotoh et al., “Chemoprevention of N-nitroso-N-methylurea-Induced Rat Mammary Carcinogenesis by Soy Foods or Biochanin A,” Japanese Journal of Cancer Research 89(2)137-42, 1998.

• Kombu Decreases Risk of Breast Cancer - In an experiment at the Harvard School of Public Health, laboratory animals fed a control diet with 5 percent Laminaria (kombu), a brown sea vegetable, developed induced mammary cancer later than animals not fed seaweed.
“Seaweed has shown consistent antitumor activity in several in vivo animal tests,” the researchers concluded. “In extrapolating these results to the Japanese population, seaweed may be an important factor in explaining the low rates of certain cancers in Japan. Breast cancer shows a three-fold-lower rate among premenopausal Japanese women and a nine-fold-lower rate among postmenopausal women in Japan than reported for women in the United States. Since low levels of exposure to some toxic substances have been shown to be carcinogenic, then it may be that low levels of daily intake of food with antitumor properties may reduce cancer incidence.”
Source: J. Teas, M. L. Harbison, and R. S. Gelman, “Dietary Seaweed [Laminaria] and Mammary Carcinogenesis in Rats,” Cancer Research 44:2758-61, 1984.

• Tofu and Miso Protect Against Breast Cancer - In a study of the effects of soy products on female hormones, Japanese scientists reported that consumption of miso and tofu reduced production of estradiol in 50 healthy premenopausal women. “Our results suggest that the consumption of soy products lowers the risk of developing breast cancer risk modifying estrogen metabolism,” the researchers concluded.
Source: C. Nagata, “Decreased Serum Estradiol Concentration Associated with High Dietary Intake of Soy Products in Premenopausal Japanese Women,” Nutrition and Cancer 29(3):228-33, 1997.

• Asian Diet Helps Heal - A diet high in soy foods, vegetables, and fish oil may reduce the risk of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by the Jonsson Cancer Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. John Glaspy put 25 American women in remission from breast cancer on an Asian-style diet and reported that in three months on the diet the ratio of omega-3 in the women’s blood rose fivefold. The omega-3 to omega-6 ratio in breast fat is considered a major indicator of risk for this disease. Source: D. Bagga et al., “Dietary Modulation of Omega-3/Omega-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Ratios in Patients with Breast Cancer,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 89(15):1123-31, 1997.

• Diet Lowers Risk for Hispanics - Hispanic women in the U.S. have the lowest mortality rate from breast cancer of all ethnic groups. University of Texas researchers reported that a study of 22 Hispanic women in the Houston area showed their mean intake of dietary fiber from grains, breads, beans, and vegetables was higher than other groups. “This may help explain the lower incidence of breast cancer among some Hispanic populations,” the study concluded.
Source: “Dietary Fiber, Hispanics, and Breast Cancer Risk?” Annals of the New York Academy of Science 837:524-36, 1997.

• Risks of Tamoxifen - Tamoxifen, a synthetic hormone that blocks estrogen, has been promoted for reducing the risk of breast cancer. However, it increases the risk of uterine cancer and blood clots. In a federal study, women who took tamoxifen had 45 percent fewer cases of breast cancer than controls, but over twice as much uterine cancer, nearly three times as many blood clots in the lungs, and 50 percent more blood clots in major veins.
For women age 50 or older, for every one thousand women treated with tamoxifen for five years, the drug might prevent 17 cases of invasive breast cancer, while causing 12 cases of endometrial cancer and 10 serious blood clots.
Source: Lawrence K. Altman, “Researchers Find the First Drug Known to Prevent Breast Cancer,” New York Times, April 7, 1998 and “Breast Cancer Breakthrough,” New York Times, April 8, 1998.

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Bovine Growth Hormone

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE
Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) is a genetically engineered hormone fed to dairy cows to boost milk production. While the FDA approved its use in 1995, health and consumer groups have expressed concerns about its safety and demanded that it be labelled.
Monsanto, the manufacturer, has sued natural foods stores and companies that label its products BGH-free, claiming that such labels unfairly disparage a legal product. A compromise on the issue of labeling was reached for the first time in 1997 when organic food companies in Illinois and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream settled a lawsuit against the state in which natural foods suppliers won the right to explain to consumers that they oppose recombinant BGH and would not use it on their products, though the FDA has found no significant difference between BGH-treated and untreated cows.
About 25 percent of the milk sold in the U.S. is made from cows treated with BGH.

• BGH and Breast Cancer - According to a recent study in Lancet, women with a relatively small increase in blood levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor I (IGF-1), a naturally occurring grown hormone, are up to seven times more likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women with lower levels.
Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, an environmental cancer specialist at the University of Illinois, explained that BGH milk is supercharged with high levels of abnormally potent IGF-1, up 10 times the levels in natural milk and over 10 times more potent. IGF-1 resists pasteurization, digestion by stomach enzymes, and is well absorbed across the intestinal wall, he stated.
“The entire nation is currently being subjected to an experiment involving large-scale adulteration of an age-old dietary staple by a poorly characterized and unlabeled biotechnology product. Disturbingly, this experiment benefits only a very small segment of the agriculture industry while providing no matching benefits to consumers. Even more disturbingly it poses major potential public health risks for the entire U.S. population.”
Source: S. Epstein, “Unlabeled Milk from Cows Treated with Biosynthetic Growth Hormones: A Case of Regulatory Abdication,” International Journal of Health Services 26(1): 173-185, 1996; PR Newswire via NewsEdge Corp., June 21, 1998.

• BGH Increases Cancer Risk - In a review of the evidence linking dairy and breast cancer, researchers with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine contend that the FDA’s approval of BHG, genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, was based on faulty assumptions and studies. While the FDA concluded that it did not differ chemically from natural BGH, studies indicate that BGH differs by 1 to 9 animao acids. The FDA also assumed that BGH is not orally active in humans and that its activity is destroyed during pasteurization, both of which have been contradicted by subsequent studies.
“A substantial body of medical evidence provides possible mechanisms by which milk may promote breast cancer,” the physicians conclude. “(1) IGF-1 and estrogens are present in all milk in micromolar to nanomolar concentrations; (2) IGF-1 is not destroyed during milk pasteurization; (3) IGF-1 has been shown to stimulate or initiate growth of human breast cancer cells; (4) IGF-1 acts synergistically with estrogens, which increase its effects even at nonomolar concentrations; (5) BGH increases IGF-1 levels in milk; (6) IGF-1 and BGH can possibly be absorbed intact from the GI gract; (7) IGF-1 can exert local mitogenic tissue effects and be cleaved to exert local mitogenic tissue effects.” While BGH has not been considered to be a danger because subsequent increase in govine milk IGF-1 levels are within the “normal range” based on untreated cows and human breast milk, the physicians assert that the “normal range” could be carcinogenic when milk is ingested regularly over a lifetime. They conclude that milk produced with BGH may increase the risk of cancer.
Source: J. L. Outwater et al., “Dairy Products and Breast Cancer: The IGF-1, Estrogen, and BGH Hypothesis,” Medical Hypotheses 48:453-61, 1997.

• BGH Effects on Cows - Injecting BGH reduces a cow’s life expectancy and increases the risk of disease, contributing to increased use of antibiotics. Increased mastitis results in increased secretion of white blood cells or pus into the milk.
Source: J. Fagan, Genetic Engineering: The Hazards, MIU Press, 1995, p. 113.

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