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- Asparagus for your health!
Can it cure cancer?
Eating locally with the seasons
May and June are the peak of asparagus season and provide an opportunity to stock up for the year on a nutrient rich powerhouse of health benefits. If you’re into eating with the seasons, then asparagus is the first fresh vegetable available after the long, hard Winter and […]
- Avoid These Top Five Cancer-Causing Foods
Cancer is a complex illness caused by numerous factors. Some, like those related to genetics, are out of your control but many, such as smoking and physical activity, are cancer risk factors you can drastically influence.
Your diet is one such factor that you can tweak to help lessen your risk of developing cancer down the […]
- Will Your Blood Pressure Pills Give You Cancer?
Talk about trading one problem for another… new research has unearthed a link between the most commonly prescribed type of blood pressure medication and a higher risk for cancer. We’re talking about the possibility of one additional cancer for every 105 people who take one of the angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) blood pressure medications… and if […]
- Secret chemicals revealed in perfumes & body sprays
President’s Cancer Panel Report Highlights Threat from Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals – Many Found in New Fragrance Study.
San Francisco - A new analysis reveals that top-selling fragrance products—from Britney Spears’ Curious and Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity to Calvin Klein Eternity and Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce —contain a dozen or more secret chemicals not listed on labels, multiple […]
- Is Your Sunscreen Dangerous?
As we’re all diligently slathering on sunscreen to prevent cancer, out comes a new report suggesting that ingredients in many brands — including the most popular ones — may actually raise cancer risk, and that’s not the only health problem associated with them. It isn’t just a single common ingredient that new research has raised […]
- Johns Hopkins Update
Johns Hopkins Update – Very Good Article AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPYIS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (’TRY’, BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins: 1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These […]
- Who Can Afford to Delay Prostate Cancer Treatment?
As bad as breast cancer is, at least women aren’t being told that they should just live with it — they get treatment. For many men with prostate cancer, the decision about how to proceed is often less clear, with many doctors advocating a “let’s see what happens” type of approach.
Prostate cancer now often gets […]
- Vitamin D3
Vitamin D3 is one of the most useful nutritional tools we have at our disposal for improving overall health. This vitamin is unique because cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) is a vitamin derived from 7-dehyrocholesterol; however, Vitamin D3 acquires hormone-like actions when cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) is converted to 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D3 (Calcitriol) by the liver and kidneys. […]
- “Hard to Digest” Suppliments
I wonder if Christie Aschwanden’s e-mail inbox suddenly filled up a few days ago.
You may recall Christie’s name from the e-Alert “Hard to Digest” (4/12/10). I had to take Christie to task for writing a Readers Digest article that brimmed with ridiculous arguments against dietary supplement use, and multivitamin use in particular.
She compared belief in […]
- Avodart
Men, if your doctor recommends a drug called Avodart to help lower your risk of prostate cancer, he’s going to offer some evidence that might seem convincing.
But let’s not rush into anything
Avodart is designed to treat enlarged prostate (also known as BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia). In a recent New England Journal of Medicine study, […]
