New Ideas on Cancer Screening and Treatment

1.      Immunotherapy Drug : Blocks a molecule that prevents T cells in the immune system from going after cancer cells. Research shows promising for melanoma, lung cancer and head and neck cancer patients.

2.      Skin Cancer – Avoid too much sun exposure and tanning bed. A new tool a noninvasive imaging test may detect basil cell carcinoma and deadlier melanoma right away without a biopsy.  The procedure multiphoton microscopy uses short pulses of laser light to obtain high-resolution images to identify abnormal cells.

3.      Eating nuts such as almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts cashews and pecans will prevent recurring of colorectal cancer by 42 percent and lowered their risk of death by 57 percent. And exercise and healthiest diets during and after treatment lowered their risk of death by 42 percent and for recurring by 22 percent.

4.      A new tool called light scattering spectroscopy developed by Beth Israel Deacones Medical center in Boston for pancreatic cancer will analyze structural changes in cysts in the pancreas to detect if cysts are benign, precancerous or malignant.

5.      IsopPSA is a new blood test to detect structural changes in PSA protein that are associated with cancer. The new tool to replace old PSA text for men will prevent unnecessary biopsies.

The information is a summary of an article written by Catherine Winters in the Parade Magazine (6/16/2017), P. 14

5 Habits That Boost Your Workplace Effectiveness

1. Don’t start your day with email. Jumping into email first thing in the morning is a sure way to let other people’s agendas trump your own work objectives. It’s easy to spend a whole day responding to non-urgent requests and emptying your inbox, while never getting to any of your key deliverables.

• Do this instead: Take three minutes each evening before you leave the office to write down your thoughts on the most important tasks for the next day.
• Prioritize your to-do list from the previous evening and see what needs your attention.

2. Master the details. Research has shown that having goals that are too broad at the beginning of your career can cause you to lose effectiveness. While you may be eager to step into a bigger game, honing in on more detailed work and mastering a narrow area first can be a smarter strategy to make the most effective use of your time at work.

3. Harness group brainpower. Putting heads together helps increase your effectiveness at creativity and idea generation. Brainstorming sessions are an amazing way to collect a wide range of options in a short period.

• Save meeting time by using a whiteboard in a public area, like a conference room

4. Take a 15-minute breather. The last thing anyone feels like doing when they’re on a roll with an important project is to rest and regroup. But research shows that taking short breaks throughout the day can keep you from losing steam and burning out on a task. A brief break of 15 minutes or so every few hours can keep you mentally fresher, which in turn fuels productivity, improves decision-making and reactivates your interest in the project’s goals.

5. Expect interruptions. A major problem with effective planning is that people overschedule and overcommit, thinking they’ll be able to accomplish much more than anyone reasonably could do in one day. Part of the issue is that every workday has interruptions, and those aren’t built into your time table. 

Source: Robin Madell, author of “Surviving Your Thirties: Americans Talk About Life After 30” and co-author of “The Strong Principles: Career Success.”

High Fat Diet from Mayo Clincs study

And as it specifically relates to dementia, new research clearly shows us that individuals eating more of the “dreaded” fat actually have a substantial risk reduction for becoming demented while those with diets favoring carbohydrates the risk for dementia dramatically increased. The newest research is published by Mayo Clinics.

 

To assess the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 937 cognitive normal adults with median age of 75.9 were selected, followed fro 3.7 years. Cognitive assessment at baseline and every fifteen month and Foofrequency questionnaire at base line. The findings: Highest carbohydrates diet increase the risk 89% while highest saturate fat intake resulted in 36% decrease in MCI.  The conclusion, consuming a diet high in carbohydrate and low in saturate fat has an adverse implication for developing mild cognitive impairment.

 

Relative Intake of Macronutrients Impacts Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

Publication Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: Author(s) Rosebud O. Roberts, Lewis A. Roberts, Yonas E. Geda, Ruth H. Cha, V. Shane Pankratz, Helen M. O’Connor, David S. Knopman and Ronald C. Petersen

4 Reasons You Need Cholesterol

• Cholesterol is a fundamental component of every cell membrane in the human body including brain cells.

• Cholesterol is the raw material from which your body is able to manufacture vitamin D in the sunshine.

• Cholesterol is a brain antioxidant – protecting brain cells against the ravages of free radicals.

• Cholesterol is the raw material from which we manufacture the sex hormones including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and even cortisol as well.

Source: http://www.drperlmutter.com/cholesterol-fundamental-life

Stay Away From Soy

Monsanto selected cotton and soybean as its first tinkling crops by inserting its extremely toxic weed killer roundups so that the plants will withstand heavy dosage of roundups application. The safety for human consumption was never studied but today 90 percent of dietary products contain GMO soybeans.

According to NaturalNews, the modern age of industrial agriculture and manufacturing has dumped heavy metals, carninogens, plastics, and pesticides into the environment at alarming rates. These toxins are showing up in most human tissue cells today. One distinct chemical may be trapping these toxins in human cells, limiting the human body's ability to detoxify its own cells. In a new peer reviewed study, this sinister chemical, glyphosate, has been proven to inhibit the human cell's ability to detoxify altogether. Glyphosate, found in Monsanto's Roundup, is being deemed by publishers of the new study "one of the most dangerous chemicals" being unleashed into the environment today.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040482_glyphosate_monsanto_detoxification.html

I generally avoid soy bean dishes offered in the restaurant. I do use Trader Joe's organic soybean products Now I have to minimize the usage after I found out that soy contains phytic acid which will remove essential nutrients and minerals from your body.

The following information was from David Permutter M.D, a neurosurgeon, recent email. 

First, almost all the soy available these days is genetically modified. I feel quite strongly that GMO produced foods represent a significant health risk for humans (and animals for that matter.). This is food that could have been treated with dangerous pesticides such as Roundup, . Eating GMO food, or potentially GMO food, it’s an unnecessary way to introduce toxins into our bodies.

Second, soy is a legume. Soy is thus high in Phytic Acid. Phytic acid tends to bind  minerals and remove them from the body, which may lead to mineral deficiencies. In the process of adding what you think is actually a health-beneficial item to your diet, you are, in fact, removing essential nutrients and minerals from it instead.

The Dirtist and Cleanest Produce on the Super Market

The most toxic produce - apple. 99 percent of apples that were checked had some sort of pesticide residue on them.

Other fruits and vegetables on the Dirty Dozen are strawberries, grapes, celery, peaches, spinach, sweet bell peppers, imported nectarines, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, potatoes and imported snap peas. Leafy greens – kale and collard greens – and hot peppers were frequently contaminated with insecticides that are particularly toxic to human health. EWG details this problem in a section called Dirty Dozen-Plus.

EWG's Clean Fifteen consists of conventional produce with the least amount of pesticide residues. Avocados were the cleanest, with only 1 percent of samples showing any detectable pesticides. Other items on the list include corn, pineapples, cabbage, frozen sweet peas, onions, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwi, eggplant, grapefruit, cantaloupe, cauliflower and sweet potatoes.

Make sure you wash thoroughly (three times) and try to use organic produce whenever possible.

How much water do you need?

Do you believe that a person needs to drink eight glasses of water every day? If you do, you will spend a lot of time running to the bathroom.

Why do so many people believe this rule? The number originally came from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States Food and Nutrition Board, which publishes recommended daily allowances of nutrients. The 1945 edition of the Food and Nutrition Board recommended: "A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters (about 8 cups) daily in most instances." This amount is based on the calculation of one milliliter of water for each calorie of food. HOWEVER, the Board also noted that most of the water you need is in the food you eat.

All foods contain water. Even the driest nut or seed has a lot of water in it. Furthermore, when food is digested, it is converted to energy, carbon dioxide and WATER. Most people can get the fluid the body needs from food, and they only need to drink enough water to prevent constipation.

When you eat, the pyloric valve at the end of your stomach closes to keep food in the stomach. Then the stomach takes fluid that you drink and food that you eat and turns the solid food into liquid. If you don't drink enough fluid, your stomach takes fluid from your blood and adds it to the food in the stomach to create the soup. The pyloric valve will not let food pass to the intestines until this liquid soup is formed. Then the liquid soup passes to the intestines and remains a soup until it reaches your colon. Only then is the fluid absorbed to turn the soup into solid waste in the colon. If you do not have enough fluid in your body, your body extracts extra fluid from your stool and turns your stool into hard rocks, causing constipation.

A study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition shows that plain water is not needed as long as enough fluid is obtained from other drinks and food. Twenty-seven healthy men consumed one of two diets for three-day periods and were studied in a lab setting. The first diet included plain water while the second omitted it, relying on only foods, orange juice, diet soda, and coffee for fluid. None of the nine measures of hydration were affected.

A reasonable amount for a healthy human is one cup of water or any other fluid with each meal. If you have a problem with constipation you may not be drinking enough water, but if you are not constipated, you are getting plenty. You'll also want to replace fluids whenever you sweat a lot, particularly when you exercise or in hot weather. Drink water whenever you feel thirsty, but there's no health benefit from forcing yourself to drink eight glasses of water a day. Drinking too much water can be dangerous; see Hyponatremia. This is of particular concern if you are exercising in hot weather and fail to replace the salt you lose in sweat.

Source: Gabe Mirkin, M.D., Journal of the American College of Nutrition, April, 2003.