Here it is.  More amazing news from the world of natural health.  I am often so surprised at how common sense and good judgment are thrown to the wind when people talk about health care.

Categories from  this months issue.

Page 1: Medical News

Page 3: Protect yourself from stress

Page 5: Cardiac Invalidism

Page 6: Radiation for cancer

Page 7: “Feel good” foods

Page 8: Alzheimer’s and coconut oil

For the full article click here.

 

This secret has been around for centuries.  Many other countries in the world have enjoyed these benefits without the USA ever taking notice until now. 

How would you like to:

-          Lose weight, and increase your metabolism.

-          Decrease your heart disease risk

o        Yes, you heard that right! (read on)

-          Improve digestive problems

-          Decrease illness from bacteria, viruses, and fungus.

-          Improve thyroid function.

 

My thought for the moment.  I find it so ironic that people are tricked into believing that soy is the savior oil for all problems, yet it slows down the thyroid.  And this health secret is shunned and made virtually unavailable, yet it improves thyroid function.

 

So what am I talking about?

 

If you go back to May 20, 2003 edition of

 

“Women’s World” they called it a

 “miracle food” because of some

of the reasons listed above. 

 

I first learned about the outstanding qualities of coconut oil from Mary Enig’s book, “Know Your Fats”.  She is one of the world authorities on fats and cholesterol.  I think one of the reasons she is so well respected is because she is NOT bought and paid for by FOOD INDUSTRY MONEY.

The world’s healthiest oil is coconut oil. 

 

Yes, for many of you, you have been avoiding this like the plague because of the “no-fat” craze of the past few decades.  This lunacy was fueled primarily by the corn oil industry.  Corporate profit can all too often overshadow science.

 

Coconut oil has a small structure than other saturated fats, so it goes right to your liver to be converted to energy.  This gives it less stress on your pancreas, liver, and your whole digestive system.

 

It is one of the best sources for lauric acid.   Mary Enig Ph.D says “lauric acid turns into monolaurin in the gut and this is what keeps infants fed human milk from getting sick even when they are exposed to lipid coated viruses and various pathogenic organisms.”   This is a proven bacteria, virus, and fungus fighter.  So in this day and age of new viruses, the better your immune system the healthier you will be.  “The AIDS virus is killed by monolaurin” says Dr. Enig.

 

MOST Common Myth about coconut oil

-Coconut oil will increase heart disease.

 

If coconut oil caused heart disease then there would be no Polynesian or Asian people left, they would have all died off from heart attacks.  Yet, there are more people living in Asia than anywhere else.

 If you want to read a lot about how saturated fats can save your life and improve your cholesterol and heart disease.  This site is for you.  

 

One last thing comment.  If coconut oil was bad for you, do you think they would put it in baby formulas?  Babies use lauric acid from mother’s milk to improve their immune systems.  This is one reason breast fed babies are healthier than bottle fed babies.  So to try and duplicate this, formula makers add coconut oil to their formulas.

               Some ways the Altman’s use coconut oil

 

1.       In place of other oils.  For instance, if you made muffins you could use coconut oil 1 for 1 for another oil or use half coconut oil and half butter

 

2.       It’s the most stable cooking/ frying oil.  For instance, vegetable oil turns into a toxic cocktail of “funny fats” and trans-fats when it is heated up.  It is much better to use coconut oil.

 

3.       We add it to juices or smoothies. (yummy, my kids love it too!) I eat it by the spoonful (although my wife can’t do this.)

 

There are a lot of antioxidants in coconut oil.  It helps to prevent sagging and wrinkled skin.  The oil is absorbed into the skin and connective tissues to keep them strong and supple.

 

Hey, one more thing, this only applies to virgin coconut oil.  Like anything else, quality is everything.

Would that be worth your next 10 minutes?

Let’s start with what we all know, or what we assume is true.  We can all agree that heart disease is the leading cause of death.

So why can’t we conquer heart disease?

Really heart disease is a new problem.  It has been a bugger for the past 60 years, but closer to the 1900’s it was rare, really rare.  Heart disease is a by-product of modern western living.  No disease has risen to prominence so fast.  In less than 50 years heart disease went from being rare to the leading cause of death and hasn’t looked back.

Early authors, implicated the FAT content of western diets as the main problem plugging up all the arteries.  Aahaa, Mr. Watson we have solved the mystery.   Not so fast.  After all, when patients come in, I see the box on their prescription sheets “follow a low-fat diet”, checked off.  I think that check box has been there for 60 years.

The current medical view is that the arteries accumulate plaque and slowly narrow.  In times of stress on the heart (exercise or emotional trauma) either the blood flow is insufficient and a patient gets “angina” (heart pain) or a piece of plaque breaks off and blocks the artery altogether and there is a sudden heart attack.  Death comes if the amount of damage to the heart is great enough.  Sounds logical.

Hey what about cholesterol?
That’s the gunk that is lining the arteries.  Dr. Ancel Keyes began this idea in the 1950’s and for more than 50 years nothing has really changed.  So now we have drugs to lower cholesterol and low-fat diets and since the nail is in the coffin there is only one question that remains.  Why do arteries plaque?  This is modern cardiology’s mission to find out “why”, and how to prevent plaque from breaking off.

If we skip all the medical, commercial, and pharmaceutical mumbo jumbo and just look at the facts, there are a lot of questions that still have not been answered.

• Why don’t people have a kidney, or liver, or pancreas attacks?  If there is plaque in the arteries, all of them are affected.  Why does the heart seem to suffer

• Not all heart attack victims have artery plaque? or blockages?  Ouch, how do you explain that fact.

• Blockages can occur without a resulting heart attack.

• According to actual autopsy research.  After a person dies from a heart attack the longer it takes to do an autopsy the more blockage a person has.  The authors concluded that the arterial blockages are a consequence, not a cause, of the heart attack.

• After a 20 year study by the VA and the NIH on bypass surgery, they concluded that long-term survival was no different between surgery and medications.

We clearly don’t know a lot about heart attacks.  The theory that blockages cause heart attacks is not a very strong one.

That is probably enough head spinning for one day.  We will look into another possibility that fits all of our criteria.  I’ll be nice and give you a clue.  Heart attacks are more common in diabetics for a particular reason.  The next article will have more juicy details.

“Foods given to babies are less nutritious than 10 to 20 years ago,” Dr. Samuel S. Gidding.  He also states, “By 19 months of age, on any given day, one-third of toddlers eat no fruit, and french fries are the most commonly consumed vegetables.   These practices are providing poor nutrition and causing kids to be overweight at their 2 year old check-ups.”

 

The real impact of heart disease is coming in early death to our kids. 

 

Dr. Gidding reminds parents that it is important to model healthy behaviors for their children by exercising regularly, eating healthy foods during family meals, and not smoking.

 

 

 

How do you prevent heart disease?

 

An international survey (27 countries) was released in September, 2005, stating that the bigger your waist size, the more your odds are of having a heart attack.  They also found that only about 60% of doctors knew that.

 

I was at the pool a few weeks ago and was amazed at the size of the waistline there.

 

From Professor Sidney Smith of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation; “Measuring waist circumference is a very important measure for cardiovascular risk…it is an easy, low cost indicator that should be added to measurements of their cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, lipid levels, and blood glucose.”

 

• A waist size of 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men in North America puts them in a high risk category for heart disease.

Abdominal obesity also has been linked to type-2 diabetes and increased blood pressure.

• “Avoid saturated fats”, “Limit cholesterol”, Use Poly unsaturated oils”, “Avoid Red meat”, “Don’t eat egg yolks”, “restrict salt”, you’ve heard it all before.

 

Every year since they started these recommendations heart disease has gotten worse.  There is no stopping the heart disease juggernaut with those kind of recommendations

• FACT: More than 60% of people with heart attacks have normal cholesterol

• FACT:  50% of all heart attacks victims have none of the standard risks (obesity, smoking, genetics, high cholesterol)  Their heart attack is their first sign of heart problems.

 

• Cholesterol isn’t the evil monster coming to get you in the middle of the night.

Stay tuned for more really cool info on heart disease that I know you haven’t heard.  I know that is a bold statement, but I’m pretty confident I have a few aces up my sleeve.  There is a new revolution in heart disease and you can be on the front lines.  It will likely be a series of articles.  Enjoy your eggs tomorrow morning.

How would you like to improve your odds with cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes all at the same time and save money?

Sounds pretty great right.  Almost unbelievable!  Thankfully it is true and as you will see very possible and somewhat free.  I’d like to say that you’ll even live longer but I can’t predict the future.   This simple solution could save over a million lives a year so please pass this along.  The #1 thing you can do is not eat sugar.  I know that sounds impossible, but even if you scale back, you’ll make a major difference.  Let me show you a few eye opening things about sugar and disease.

From the CDC:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

• Heart disease: 631,636
• Cancer: 559,888
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
• Diabetes: 72,449
• Alzheimer’s disease: 72,432

Not all of these are related to sugar, but I put them up there for a comparison.  Clearly heart disease and cancer are the biggest whales.

“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Now don’t call PETA because we are going to slay some whales.   Let’s start with the smallest problem.

#1 Diabetes: How is diabetes caused?

This really is about Type II only.  The driving force behind diabetes is the over consumption of sugar and simple carbohydrates.   It is really that simple.  The ridiculous recommendations for people to eat 6-11 servings of carbohydrates such as bread and cereal have given this country an epidemic of diabetics.   Don’t believe me, I can guarantee you that if you have a testing kit and are diabetic you’ll be amazed, test it yourself.
Give up the idea that cereal is good for you and open your mind to the world of real food and try this.

Actual patient example for breakfast:
Day 1: Cereal, toast, orange juice
Her blood sugar was 200 two hours later.

Day 2: After one of my lectures
Chicken, celery, cottage cheese.
Her blood sugar was 110 two hours later.

A simple diet change freed her from diabetes.  I wish the medical community would have the courage to tell people the truth.

#2 Cancer:  How does cancer start?

Good question and we have many answers for that.  It is often said that we get cancer everyday but our immune systems wipe out the problems before they really get rolling.  But if cancer does start, sugar   is probably the number one thing that will keep it going.

Johns Hopkins Press Release February 16, 1998

Johns Hopkins researchers have found evidence that some cancer cells are
such incredible sugar junkies that they’ll self­-destruct when deprived of
glucose, their biological sweet of choice.

“The change when we took away glucose was dramatic,” says Chi Van Dang, M.D.,
Ph.D., director of hematology. “By the next day, we knew very quickly that the cells we
had altered to resemble cancers were dying off in large numbers.”
Scientists have long suspected that the cancer cell’s heavy reliance on glucose, its main
source of strength and vitality, also could be one of its great weaknesses, and Dang’s new
results are among the most direct proofs yet of the idea.

One of our patient’s was going through a course of chemo and during one of the tests the “snack” that was given was a processed package of cookies.  When it comes to cancer and nutrition you have to fend for yourself.

Your brain still needs sugar to run well so a good plan if you don’t have cancer is to start decreasing what you eat.

• Have a much smaller piece of dessert

• Stop adding sugar to your coffee
• Stop eating toast or cereal for breakfast
• Choose water instead of soda
• Make fruit your sweetener
• Etc.

The one thing I have really noticed over the years is that the more I try and avoid sugar the more I dislike it.  I can’t eat very sweet things anymore.

#3 Heart Disease: How to prevent heart disease

It may not be what you think.

This is a very broad and mysterious problem.  There are many causes and contributing factors and cholesterol is the least of your concerns.  You can’t take a statin drug and sleep well at night thinking you are protected from a heart attack.  If that were true, the incidence of heart attacks would be going down year after year because more and more people are taking these drugs.  Drugs aren’t the answer.  Since many things contribute to heart disease, ponder how sugar may make it worse.

• Sugar increases insulin production in the body.  Insulin tells the body to store the sugar/carbs as fat AND hang on to it and not let it go.  This is one of the primary reasons 2/3 of America is obese.   Also, exercising to burn fat becomes pointless when the insulin won’t the body burn it as fuel.  This sobering fact alone contributes to heart disease through shear volume.   It takes at least 100 miles of blood vessels to support a pound of fat.  I’ve seen estimates up to 200 miles.  So for example, if you are 20 lbs. overweight you heart has to pump more blood volume through an extra 2000 miles of blood vessels.   That’s just more stress on it.

• Brace yourself.  This will probably be a new concept for you.  Don’t let that fool you.  Going back to the very beginning of the Cholesterol Theory there have been so many holes in the theory doctors have doubted it for over 50 years.  The only reason anyone believed it was because of advertising.   I’ll cover more of that later in another longer and larger article.  Those of you who read my book will realize that heart attacks occur from a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle, NOT from a blockage.  Just go with me here.  As we talked about in the book, a blockage is an after effect from a heart attack not the cause, so the BIG question is how does the heart suffer from lack of oxygen?

Since we are talking about sugar here I’ll give you sugar scenario.  Basically, sugar and oxygen combine to give you energy.  Your heart is an energy hog because it never rests.  If you consume enough sugar you will actually drop the overall blood sugar due to the action of insulin.  If you drop the blood sugar too fast often by combining a high sugar meal and exercise indirectly you can starve the heart of oxygen.  Without the blood sugar the oxygen can’t be used by the heart.  I am greatly simplifying it here, but just let that roll around awhile and it’ll make sense.

If everyone took this simple advice in this email, we could probably save over a million lives a year by decreasing heart attacks, improving cancer survivability, and eliminating type II diabetes and obesity.  Who knew national health care reform could be so simple.  Eat protein at every meal, take some good fats, eat your veggies and skip the packaged foods and viola` we have a new nation again.  It has to start with you.  At the bottom of the article you can make a large impact in the world by emailing it, Digging it, and using StumbleUpon.

Now if you cut back on your sugar and package food consumption, just think of all the money you’ll save on not buying bad food and getting better / cheaper health insurance.  Heck, if you lose weight you can shop in the clearance section for all the skinny clothes no one buys anymore.  Being healthy is a necessity and the ways you can save money are many.  Plus, you have more energy and look better.  Just even try and imagine how much money the government could save if we eliminated heart disease, cancer and diabetes.  The government won’t mandate that you eat less sugar, that is something you must do personally.