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Dr. Group's Quote of the Month: “The lack of joy and
happiness weakens the heart. Allowing joy and love to flow through your heart
will heal your emotions and bring balance and peacefulness to the
soul.”
Table of Contents for February 2004:
1. Editorial --
February is the month for “matters of the heart”
2. Featured Product -
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3. "Arch" Enemy
4. Sugar and Cancer
5. U.S. Government Backs
Junk Food Industry
6. Treatments for Constipation
| Editorial: February is the month for “matters of the
heart” |
February is the
month for “matters of the heart”. Love and appreciation are communicated in
various ways to those who mean the most to us in our life. Ironically the number
one way to show our love is through the giving of a food (candy) that contains
one of the most addictive and harmful substances to the human body—sugar.
Speaking of the heart, cardiovascular disease takes the lives of nearly half a
million women in America and is the number one killer of men and women alike.
Lifestyle interventions such as proper diet, exercise, not smoking, relieving
stress and negative emotions and weight maintenance can prevent cardiovascular
disease from occurring. At Global Healing Center we prefer to deal in the realm
of prevention. Unfortunately, Americans tend to “throw caution to the wind” and
think of prevention only after diagnosed with disease as in “If only I had taken
better care of myself.” 2004 is still in its infancy. It’s not too late to
decide that this will be the year to get your body healthy and in balance. We
are here to help and to guide you. Education is always the first step in getting
healthy. Let me encourage you to take that first step…today! Pour yourself a cup
of hot, herbal tea, relax and enjoy this month’s issue of Alternative Health
& Healing. We also invite you to surf over to www.ghchealth.com for
more educational articles and hi-tech supplementation. Currently, we are
implementing some major changes at the GHC site and we hope that you will like
what you see. Keep checking back through the next few weeks—we would love to
hear your comments.
Global Healing
Center, Inc. - Worldwide Leaders In Advanced Natural
Medicine
Dr. Edward Group III
& Dr. Loretta Lanphier
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“ARCH”
ENEMY
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/16393.htm
January 22, 2004 -- LAST
February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.
His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and
document the impact on his health.
Scores of cheeseburgers,
hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later, the formerly strapping
6-foot-2 New Yorker - who started out at a healthy 185 pounds - had packed on 25
pounds.
But his super-sized shape
was the least of his problems.
Within a few days of
beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of
his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's
entire body deteriorated. "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart
over the course of 30 days," Spurlock told The Post. His liver became toxic, his
cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered
headaches and depression.
Spurlock charted his journey
from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary, which he has taken to the
Sundance Film Festival with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.
"Super Size Me" explores the
obesity epidemic that plagues America today - a sort of "Bowling for Columbine"
for fast food.
As well as documenting his
own burger-fueled bulk-up, Spurlock travels to 20 cities across America,
interviewing people on the street, health experts and a lobbyist for the
fast-food industry.
Despite making dozens of
phone calls, Spurlock fails to get anyone from McDonald's to agree to an
on-camera interview. A spokeswoman for McDonald's told The Post yesterday that
no representatives from the corporation had seen "Super Size Me."
"Consumers can achieve
balance in their daily dining decisions by choosing from our array of quality
offerings and range of portion sizes to meet their taste and nutrition goals,"
McDonald's said in a statement.
Over the course of the film,
Spurlock is regularly examined by a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and
SoHo-based general practitioner Dr. Daryl Isaacs. "He was an extremely healthy
person who got very sick eating this McDonald's diet," Dr. Isaacs told The Post.
"None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly - he looked terrible. The
liver test was the most shocking thing - it became very, very abnormal."
Spurlock has since returned
to normal health. "The treatment was to just stop doing what he was doing," Dr.
Isaacs says.
Spurlock, who says he ate at
McDonald's only sporadically before his total immersion in the Mickey D's menu,
says he even began craving fat and sugar fixes between meals. "I got desperately
ill," he says. "My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never
had in my life. "My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so
quickly. It was amazing - and really frightening."
Spurlock's girlfriend, Alex
Jamieson, was horrified - she's a vegan chef. "She was completely disgusted by
me, not happy at all," he says. "But she realized what my goals were in trying
to educate people."
Spurlock, a film producer
who grew up in West Virginia and studied ballet for eight years, was spurred to
make his first feature film while watching TV on Thanksgiving Day, 2002.
"I was feeling like a
typical American on Thanksgiving - very bloated and happy on the couch - and at
some point on the news they were talking about two women who were suing
McDonald's.
"People from the food
industry were saying, 'You can't link kids being fat to our food - our food is
nutritious.' "I said, 'How nutritious is it really? Let's find out."
Not surprisingly, Spurlock
has steered clear of the Golden Arches since filming wrapped. "I have not had
McDonald's for seven months, but yesterday, during an interview, I had a bite of
a Big Mac," he says.
"I chewed it up, swallowed
it and I said, 'You know what, I'm pretty much done after that bite.'
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Sugar and Cancer -
Originally printed by The Alternative Research
Foundation
It puzzles me why the simple concept "sugar feeds cancer" can be so
dramatically overlooked as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment plan.
Of the 4 million cancer patients being treated in America today, hardly
any are offered any scientifically guided nutrition therapy beyond being told to
"just eat good foods." Most patients I work with arrive with a complete lack of
nutritional advice.I believe many cancer patients would have a major improvement
in their outcome if they controlled the supply of cancer's preferred fuel,
glucose.
By slowing the cancer's growth, patients allow their immune
systems and medical debulking therapies -- chemotherapy, radiation and surgery
to reduce the bulk of the tumor mass -- to catch up to the
disease.
Controlling one's blood-glucose levels through diet,
supplements, exercise, meditation and prescription drugs when necessary can be
one of the most crucial components to a cancer recovery program. The sound bite
-- sugar feeds cancer -- is simple. The explanation is a little more complex.
The 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., first
discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism
compared to healthy cells.
The crux of his Nobel thesis was that
malignant tumors frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic glycolysis -- a
process whereby glucose is used as a fuel by cancer cells with lactic acid as an
anaerobic byproduct -- compared to normal tissues.
The large amount of
lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then
transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate generates a
lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue
from lactic acid buildup. Thus, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic
pH.
This inefficient pathway for energy metabolism yields only 2 moles of
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy per mole of glucose, compared to 38 moles of
ATP in the complete aerobic oxidation of glucose.
By extracting only
about 5 percent (2 vs. 38 moles of ATP) of the available energy in the food
supply and the body's calorie stores, the cancer is "wasting" energy, and the
patient becomes tired and undernourished. This vicious cycle increases body
wasting.
It is one reason why 40 percent of cancer patients die from
malnutrition, or cachexia. Hence, cancer therapies should encompass regulating
blood-glucose levels via diet, supplements, non-oral solutions for cachectic
patients who lose their appetite, medication, exercise, gradual weight loss and
stress reduction. Professional guidance and patient self-discipline are crucial
at this point in the cancer process. The quest is not to eliminate sugars or
carbohydrates from the diet but rather to control blood glucose within a narrow
range to help starve the cancer and bolster immune function.
The
glycemic index is a measure of how a given food affects blood-glucose levels,
with each food assigned a numbered rating. The lower the rating, the slower the
digestion and absorption process, which provides a healthier, more gradual
infusion of sugars into the bloodstream.
Conversely, a high rating means
blood-glucose levels are increased quickly, which stimulates the pancreas to
secrete insulin to drop blood-sugar levels. This rapid fluctuation of
blood-sugar levels is unhealthy because of the stress it places on the body
Sugar in the Body and Diet
Sugar is a generic term
used to identify simple carbohydrates, which includes monosaccharides such as
fructose, glucose and galactose; and disaccharides such as maltose and sucrose
(white table sugar). Think of these sugars as different-shaped bricks in a wall.
When fructose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the
glycemic index registers as healthier, since this simple sugar is slowly
absorbed in the gut, then converted to glucose in the liver. This makes for
"time-release foods," which offer a more gradual rise and fall in blood-glucose
levels.
If glucose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the
glycemic index will be higher and less healthy for the individual. As the brick
wall is torn apart in digestion, the glucose is pumped across the intestinal
wall directly into the bloodstream, rapidly raising blood-glucose levels.
In other words, there is a "window of efficacy" for glucose in the
blood: levels too low make one feel lethargic and can create clinical
hypoglycemia; levels too high start creating the rippling effect of diabetic
health problems.
The 1997 American Diabetes Association blood-glucose
standards consider 126 mg glucose/dL blood or greater to be diabetic; 111 to 125
mg/dL is impaired glucose tolerance and less than 110 mg/dL is considered
normal.
Meanwhile, the Paleolithic diet of our ancestors, which
consisted of lean meats, vegetables and small amounts of whole grains, nuts,
seeds and fruits, is estimated to have generated blood glucose levels between 60
and 90 mg/dL.
Obviously, today's high-sugar diets are having unhealthy
effects as far as blood-sugar is concerned. Excess blood glucose may initiate
yeast overgrowth, blood vessel deterioration, heart disease and other health
conditions.
Understanding and using the glycemic index is an important
aspect of diet modification for cancer patients. However, there is also evidence
that sugars may feed cancer more efficiently than starches (comprised of long
chains of simple sugars), making the index slightly misleading. A study of rats
fed diets with equal calories from sugars and starches, for example, found the
animals on the high-sugar diet developed more cases of breast cancer.
The glycemic index is a useful tool in guiding the cancer patient toward
a healthier diet, but it is not infallible. By using the glycemic index alone,
one could be led to thinking a cup of white sugar is healthier than a baked
potato. This is because the glycemic index rating of a sugary food may be lower
than that of a starchy food. To be safe, I recommend less fruit, more
vegetables, and little to no refined sugars in the diet of cancer patients.
What the Literature Says
A mouse model of human
breast cancer demonstrated that tumors are sensitive to blood-glucose levels.
Sixty-eight mice were injected with an aggressive strain of breast cancer, then
fed diets to induce either high blood-sugar (hyperglycemia), normoglycemia or
low blood-sugar (hypoglycemia).
There was a dose-dependent response in
which the lower the blood glucose, the greater the survival rate. After 70 days,
8 of 24 hyperglycemic mice survived compared to 16 of 24 normoglycemic and 19 of
20 hypoglycemic. This suggests that regulating sugar intake is key to slowing
breast tumor growth.
In a human study, 10 healthy people were assessed
for fasting blood-glucose levels and the phagocytic index of neutrophils, which
measures immune-cell ability to envelop and destroy invaders such as cancer.
Eating 100 g carbohydrates from glucose, sucrose, honey and orange juice all
significantly decreased the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria. Starch
did not have this effect.
A four-year study at the National Institute of
Public Health and Environmental Protection in the Netherlands compared 111
biliary tract cancer patients with 480 controls. Cancer risk associated with the
intake of sugars, independent of other energy sources, more than doubled for the
cancer patients.
Furthermore, an epidemiological study in 21 modern
countries that keep track of morbidity and mortality (Europe, North America,
Japan and others) revealed that sugar intake is a strong risk factor that
contributes to higher breast cancer rates, particularly in older women.
Limiting sugar consumption may not be the only line of defense. In fact,
an interesting botanical extract from the avocado plant (Persea americana) is
showing promise as a new cancer adjunct.
When a purified avocado extract
called mannoheptulose was added to a number of tumor cell lines tested in vitro
by researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University in
Britain, they found it inhibited tumor cell glucose uptake by 25 to 75 percent,
and it inhibited the enzyme glucokinase responsible for glycolysis. It also
inhibited the growth rate of the cultured tumor cell lines.
The same
researchers gave lab animals a 1.7 mg/g body weight dose of mannoheptulose for
five days; it reduced tumors by 65 to 79 percent. Based on these studies, there
is good reason to believe that avocado extract could help cancer patients by
limiting glucose to the tumor cells.
Since cancer cells derive most of
their energy from anaerobic glycolysis, Joseph Gold, M.D., director of the
Syracuse (N.Y.) Cancer Research Institute and former U.S. Air Force research
physician, surmised that a chemical called hydrazine sulfate, used in rocket
fuel, could inhibit the excessive gluconeogenesis (making sugar from amino
acids) that occurs in cachectic cancer patients.
Gold's work
demonstrated hydrazine sulfate's ability to slow and reverse cachexia in
advanced cancer patients. A placebo-controlled trial followed 101 cancer
patients taking either 6 mg hydrazine sulfate three times/day or placebo. After
one month, 83 percent of hydrazine sulfate patients increased their weight,
compared to 53 percent on placebo.
A similar study by the same principal
researchers, partly funded by the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md.,
followed 65 patients. Those who took hydrazine sulfate and were in good physical
condition before the study began lived an average of 17 weeks longer.
The medical establishment may be missing the connection between sugar
and its role in tumorigenesis. Consider the million-dollar positive emission
tomography device, or PET scan, regarded as one of the ultimate cancer-detection
tools. PET scans use radioactively labeled glucose to detect sugar-hungry tumor
cells. PET scans are used to plot the progress of cancer patients and to assess
whether present protocols are effective.
In Europe, the "sugar feeds
cancer" concept is so well accepted that oncologists, or cancer doctors, use the
Systemic Cancer Multistep Therapy (SCMT) protocol. Conceived by Manfred von
Ardenne in Germany in 1965, SCMT entails injecting patients with glucose to
increase blood-glucose concentrations.
This lowers pH values in cancer
tissues via lactic acid formation. In turn, this intensifies the thermal
sensitivity of the malignant tumors and also induces rapid growth of the cancer.
Patients are then given whole-body hyperthermia (42 C core temperature) to
further stress the cancer cells, followed by chemotherapy or
radiation.
SCMT was tested on 103 patients with metastasized cancer or
recurrent primary tumors in a clinical phase-I study at the Von Ardenne
Institute of Applied Medical Research in Dresden, Germany. Five-year survival
rates in SCMT-treated patients increased by 25 to 50 percent, and the complete
rate of tumor regression increased by 30 to 50 percent. The protocol induces
rapid growth of the cancer, then treats the tumor with toxic therapies for a
dramatic improvement in outcome.
The irrefutable role of glucose in the
growth and metastasis of cancer cells can enhance many therapies. Some of these
include diets designed with the glycemic index in mind to regulate increases in
blood glucose, hence selectively starving the cancer cells; low-glucose TPN
solutions; avocado extract to inhibit glucose uptake in cancer cells; hydrazine
sulfate to inhibit gluconeogenesis in cancer cells; and SCMT.
A female
patient in her 50s, with lung cancer, came to our clinic, having been given a
death sentence by her Florida oncologist. She was cooperative and understood the
connection between nutrition and cancer. She changed her diet considerably,
leaving out 90 percent of the sugar she used to eat.
She found that
wheat bread and oat cereal now had their own wild sweetness, even without added
sugar. With appropriately restrained medical therapy -- including high-dose
radiation targeted to tumor sites and fractionated chemotherapy, a technique
that distributes the normal one large weekly chemo dose into a 60-hour infusion
lasting days -- a good attitude and an optimal nutrition program which included
Sam's formula nine times/day, she beat her terminal lung cancer. I saw her last
month, five years later and still disease-free, probably looking better than the
doctor who told her there was no hope.
| U.S. Government Backs Junk Food
Industry |
U.S. Government Backs Junk Food Industry - The Omnivore January 28,
2004
The U.S. government has
rejected the April 2003 report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which argued for a reduction in the
national recommendation of sugar consumption from 25 percent to 10 percent. The
report also recommends that governments should take steps to limit children’s
exposure to the advertisement of junk food.
The WHO and FAO’s report
angered the U.S. sugar lobby and food manufacturers and they decided to fight
back. They began lobbying to prevent the U.S. government from accepting the
proposals. The Sugar Association wrote a letter to WHO threatening them by
asking they show proof that sugar is linked to obesity, while a congressmen
recruited by the food industry insisted that the secretary of health cut off the
$406 million yearly contribution to WHO.
Also, the National Soft Drink
Association argued that 25 percent added sugar in the diet is not harmful and
there is no clear evidence that shows what they are stating is wrong. However,
there have been numerous studies conducted that show sugar is linked to
obesity.
A study conducted in 1990 found males and females who drank
artificially-sweetened soda for a three-week period significantly reduced their
calorie intake, while there was a decrease in body weight in the males. However,
both sexes who drank soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup for the same
period of time increased both their calorie intake and body weight.
We
as Americans can take simple steps to stop this obesity epidemic. Simple refusal
to purchase the sugar-laden drinks and food is the first step. And if we all did
this, then the issue between the U.S. government, food industry and the WHO/FAO
would become a non-issue.
| Treatments for
Constipation |
Treatments for Constipation
by Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, PhD,
DACBN
If you’re suffering from constipation, you are no
doubt looking for some answers to bring relief. Treatments for constipation vary
with the type of constipation from which you’re suffering. Most people do not
know that they should have 1 bowel movement for each meal they eat. At a minimum
people should have two bowel movements daily.
If you experience
constipation for more than 1 week, you should consult your healthcare provider
to determine the cause of your problem. Most people are suffering as a result of
lifestyle changes and choices. For some people, though, constipation can signal
a more serious problem such as a bowel obstruction or even colon cancer. If your
bowel movements smell foul it is your body giving you a warning signal! Listen
to your body.
If you’re diagnosed with a bowel obstruction, you and your
physician will have to make a decision about appropriate treatment. If you’re
suffering from constipation as a result of lifestyle, there are several
treatment options for you.
Changing your diet. People who have chronic
constipation will almost certainly need a change in diet. Increasing the amount
of fiber in the diet can help relieve chronic problems with constipation. Eating
raw fruits and vegetables, brown wild rice, flaxseeds, bran and whole grain
cereals will provide a good source of fiber.
Adding exercise. It’s also
important to increase the amount of activity you’re getting. Starting an
exercise program can help regulate your bowels. Exercise can be as simple as
taking a brisk 20 minute walk every morning or evening.
Keeping your body
hydrated. People who suffer from constipation are often dehydrated. Make sure to
drink 6-8 glasses of purified water each day. Avoid tap water! Tap water can
contain harmful chemicals, viruses and bacteria. I recommend adding raw organic
apple cider vinegar to the water you drink. Organic apple cider vinegar has been
used for centuries as a remedy for all sorts of health problems.
Check your
medications. Many medications are the cause of constipation. Check with your
healthcare provider to make sure that you’re not making your problem worse with
prescriptions. Be aware that there are natural alternatives available if you
know where to find them. A good source of information and high tech natural
alternatives to prescription drugs and surgery can be found at www.ghchealth.com
Be
wary of laxatives. Try to avoid over-the-counter laxatives. They are often very
harsh on the large intestine and overuse can actually cause more problems with
constipation. Laxatives can cause serious health problems such as diarrhea,
bloating, dehydration and damage to the intestinal lining.
Herbal
remedies. Many herbal supplements are designed to aid in constipation. If you
decide to try an herbal remedy, make sure that you talk with your physician
first. Some herbal remedies interfere with prescription medications you may be
taking. We suggest the following: Pure aloe vera, ginger, senna, yerba mate. The
best is a concentrated green formula such as “Perfect Food OM” manufactured by
Garden of Life.
Improve your bowel habits. Try to go the bathroom at the
same time every day, after meals and as soon as you feel the urge. Give yourself
enough time to go to the bathroom. Never, Never hold in a bowel movement.
Cleanse the colon weekly. It may be a good idea to begin a
colon-cleansing program every week that will help remove impacted feces from the
large intestine. It’s best to participate in a program, such as using oxygen
colon cleansers such as “Oxy-Powder”,that is non-invasive and will
not remove the good bacteria in the large intestine. Oxy-Powder will also deliver oxygen into
your system. This is the secret used by the stars in Hollywood.
It’s
always best to seek the advice of a healthcare professional before beginning any
treatment option. Everyone’s body is a little different. You’ll want to make
sure that your treatment choice is safe and will be effective for your
body.
Editor: Dr. Edward F. Group, III, DC, PhD, ND,
DABCN
Assistant Editor: Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CCN,
HHP
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“In finding
solutions to problems don’t be afraid to ‘step out of the box’. Your willingness
to do so may mean the difference between life and death. I have found that most
things are not ‘as they seem’. Educate yourself thoroughly and meet each problem
with the determination that there is a solution and that the solution may not be
what is ‘normally accepted’. The road less traveled may have the most answers."
- Dr. Edward F. Group,
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