THE GREATEST MEDICINE OF ALL… IS TEACHING PEOPLE HOW NOT TO
NEED IT. IF YOU DON’T MAKE TIME FOR YOUR WELLNESS - YOU WILL BE FORCED TO MAKE
TIME FOR YOUR ILLNESS!
As Reported in Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Jan 23, 2023
ZERO DEATHS FROM VITAMINS IN 2022
Supplement Safety Confirmed by America's Largest Database
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor
The 39th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from vitamins in a report published in Clinical Toxicology. It is interesting that it is placed way back where nary a news reporter is likely to see it. But there it is: no deaths, none whatsoever, from vitamin A, niacin, pyridoxine (B-6) or from any other B-vitamin. There were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, or vitamin E. There were no deaths from multiple vitamins. There were no deaths from any vitamin at all.
"Compare that to an average of 200,000 people that are
killed by prescription drugs every year."
No deaths from vitamins. No deaths from minerals. Want to bet this will never be on the evening news? Well, have you seen it there? And why not? This is of real importance to the public. After all, at least two-thirds of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. A Harris Poll indicated that for American adults, the number is 86%. But let's just use the lower number. Should each of those people take only one single tablet daily, that still makes over 220,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of well over 80 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of vitamin supplements is all the more remarkable.
Throughout the entire year, coast to coast across the entire USA, there was not one single death from a vitamin or mineral supplement. If supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA, the news media, and even some physicians still claim, then where are the bodies?
(Andrew W. Saul is Editor-in-Chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, now in its 19th year of free publication. He is also a member of the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy; the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame; and is author or coauthor of twelve books. He has no financial connection whatsoever to the supplement or health products industry.)
Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to An Array Of Cancers, According To Study Of 197,000 People
In order to prolong their shelf life, highly processed food often contains additives such as flavor enhancers, sweeteners, and industrial chemicals.
People who eat more highly processed foods such as fast food and salty snacks could face an increased risk of cancer, especially ovarian cancer and breast cancer, researchers have found.
A study of more than 197,000 U.K. adults ages 40 to 69 was published this month by the Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal. The authors said this is one of the biggest sample sizes ever used to research the effects on health of ultraprocessed foods.
Ultraprocessed foods are items such as soda, sausages, salty snacks and microwavable meals that are produced in a highly industrialized environment. Those foods contain high amounts of sugar, fat and sodium and are low in essential nutrients such as fiber and vitamins.
But the lack of nutrients is not the only issue: In order to prolong their shelf life, highly processed food often contains additives such as flavor enhancers and sweeteners as well as industrial chemicals, some of which are introduced during the production process and some that leach into the food from packaging.
Some of those additives, known as endocrine disruptors, affect the human body's endocrine or hormonal system, which can lead to obesity and to a higher risk of hormone-sensitive cancers, such as breast and ovarian cancers, said Jeanine Genkinger, associate professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.
Chemicals in food
Phthalates, chemicals that are found in some types of food packaging and some fast-food products, are also a type of endocrine disruptor. "The chemicals get into food mainly through packaging and food handling equipment, like cellophane, paper and paperboard, and plastic in contact with food," according to the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. "Food is a major source of exposure to phthalates."
Over the years, the authors observed that every 10-percentage-point increase in consumption of ultraprocessed foods was associated with an increased risk of cancer overall, as well as with higher mortality rates from ovarian cancer and breast cancer.
But not everyone has the same cancer risks, Genkinger said. Lower-income people and people who don't have access to fresh food are often the most vulnerable.
Studies show that lower-income households purchase fewer healthy foods than higher-income households do and also buy more sugary drinks and snacks and fewer vegetables and fiber-rich foods.
Food deserts
One reason: In the U.S., one in five Black households is located in a "food desert" -- an area where it's difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food -- according to a report published by the consulting firm McKinsey & Coin 2021.
Last year, President Joe Biden spoke about the need to eliminate food deserts, defined as areas -- predominantly low- and moderate-income communities -- where people have to travel miles to purchase fresh produce and other healthy foods. The White House pledged grant and loan funding to encourage grocery stores to open in these areas.
As food prices have been rising -- in some cases at a record pace -- it has become even more difficult for lower-income households to purchase foods high in nutritional quality, Simone A. French, professor of epidemiology and community Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Minnesota, said in an email to MarketWatch.
And because the higher consumption of processed foods can lead to long-term health issues, Genkinger said, "individuals who are more disadvantaged” are going to be more vulnerable." But, she noted, "ultraprocessed foods [are] cheaper and easier to prepare."
The Lancet study adds to a growing body of research focused on the effects of eating processed foods on health. One 2022 study concluded that higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods could lead to cognitive decline.
The average consumption of ultraprocessed foods among the study's participants was close to 23% of total food intake. During the follow-up period, 15,921 individuals developed cancer and 4,009 cancer-related deaths occurred.
Surprisingly, according to a separate analysis of 99 peer-reviewed studies covering more than 1.3 million people, reported in 2021, ultraprocessed foods made up more than 50% of people's diets, on average, in both the U.S. and the U.K., far higher than the 23% reported by the U.K. participants in the Lancet survey.
Our Food May Be Giving Us Alzheimer's Disease, New Research Says
High amounts of certain foods trick our bodies into thinking we are about to enter a famine.
Our Western diet of sugars, salt, refined carbs and bad fats has been linked to higher risks of heart disease and diabetes, liver disease, strokes and multiple types of cancer. It is the lead cause of an obesity epidemic that is killing an estimated 300,000 Americans a year as well as costing the health system $173 billion.
Now a team of scientists argue it may be behind the Alzheimer's disease epidemic as well.
Sugars and other "high glycemic" carbs (meaning carbs that cause a quick spike in blood sugar), salty foods, alcohol, processed red meats, organ meats, shellfish and beer are among the foods named in a new paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and co-written by researchers from the Rocky Mountain VA Medical Center in Colorado, the University of Colorado, Boston University, the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Miami, and the National Institute of Cardiology in Mexico.
The paper links Alzheimer's with excessive fructose, the sugar normally associated with fruits, but the paper's main focus isn't on fruit. Fruits have "a relatively low fructose content" compared with processed foods, and also neutralizing factors in fruit such as fiber and vitamin C.
Instead, the real culprits are foods with "added sugars that contain fructose and glucose" such as table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, along with foods that stimulate the body to produce its own fructose: That means "high glycemic carbohydrates, alcohol, and salty foods."
The reason? When we consume a lot of fructose or these foods, it tricks our bodies into thinking we are about to enter a famine. And not just an intermittent fast, but the kind of "seasonal starvation that occurred in the middle Miocene subepoch," when humans were threatened with extinction, they argue.
These foods flip a "survival switch," causing a complex set of reactions by different parts of the body designed to make the human prepare for the famine above anything else: "an orchestrated response to encourage food and water intake, reduce resting metabolism, stimulate fat and glycogen accumulation, and induce insulin resistances as a means to reduce metabolism and preserve glucose supply for the brain."
The body also redirects energy to the parts of the brain specifically needed to survive a pending famine, such as those good for foraging. Other parts of the brain get less energy than they need as a result.
Alzheimer's disease results from a maladaptation to an evolutionary survival pathway that is used by many animals and was even essential to the survival of our distant ancestors millions of years ago," they argue.
The latest paper isn't the first to suggest a link between our toxic "Western" diet and Alzheimer's.
Lab rats in the past given lots of fructose have developed tau proteins and amyloid plaques in the brain, markers of dementia.
My Comment:
High-fructose corn syrup is used as a cheap sweetener in thousands of food products. It has been shown to cause many different serious health problems in humans. You should avoid it as much as possible.
Researchers also recently argued that switching from a Western diet to a healthier one could add a decade to the life expectancy of a young person in the U.S.
It's pretty intuitive that the Western diet would be bad for
us.
The good news is that we're really adaptive. If you're used to eating candy, an apple isn't going to taste like much. But after a few weeks without candy--and salts, and so on--that apple will taste a lot better.
Meanwhile Alzheimer's continues to run rampant, currently killing about 6 million Americans, with no cure in sight.
Until next time, stay healthy and happy.
JD Roma
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