To Your Health!

[billyjoe]

Phoenix, Last year I ate a ton of raspberries from my patch that produced 90 quarts and mature at 3 different times. When I had my cholesterol checked in September it was the lowest it had been in years. My doctor says it was probably due to all the fiber in the berrries so I'm continuing the experiment this year. I've eaten at least a half cup of raspberries or strawberries each day since June 9th. By my next bloodwork I'll have about 100 straight days of eating the berries. I'll report the results here in September. Tried eating very strong Vietnamese cinnamon for months in cereal and yogurt and dropped just 1 point.

----------------------billy

[Phoenix7]

It’s that time of the year again: Snopes.com time.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/heartattacksandwater.asp

The article starts with another claim, but read on, the "timing" stuff
is a bit further down.

To your health! and by all means (and at any time) drink a glass of water
(tea, coffee, fruit juice, milk) to avoid dehydration.

Regards,

Karel

Karel thanx for the clarification. I am not overly concerned about water , because my primary reason for drinking water is to remain hydrated. I do walk pretty much on a daily basis, and I carry a 16 OZ bottle which I sip from as I walk, mostly in hot weather. Anyone who has High Blood Pressure should consult a qualified specialist to see that it is kept under control.

[Karel]

It’s that time of the year again: Snopes.com time.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/heartattacksandwater.asp

The article starts with another claim, but read on, the "timing" stuff
is a bit further down.

To your health! and by all means (and at any time) drink a glass of water
(tea, coffee, fruit juice, milk) to avoid dehydration.

Regards,

Karel

A Cardiologist comments on water consumption. Received this email from a health conscious friend , take it for what it is worth!

Heart Attack and Water
How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed
because they'll have to get up during the night?
Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this! Interesting...
I asked my doctor, why do people need to urinate so much at night time?
Answer from my Cardiac Doctor - Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body
when you are upright (legs swell).
When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc.) seeks level with the kidneys,
it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier.
This then ties in with the last statement!
Correct time to drink water. Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!
Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body:
2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs,
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion,
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure,
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack.
I can also add to this...
My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps.
Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.

[Phoenix7]

A Cardiologist comments on water consumption. Received this email from a health conscious friend , take it for what it is worth!

Heart Attack and Water
How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed
because they'll have to get up during the night?
Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this! Interesting...
I asked my doctor, why do people need to urinate so much at night time?
Answer from my Cardiac Doctor - Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body
when you are upright (legs swell).
When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc.) seeks level with the kidneys,
it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier.
This then ties in with the last statement!
Correct time to drink water. Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!
Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body:
2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs,
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion,
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure,
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack.
I can also add to this...
My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps.
Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.

[Phoenix7]

It is worse. If you have a dataset with enough variables, you are bound to find correlations like these. Less than worthless. But then, there are worse things than nibbling on nuts.

Regards, Karel

True other factors like smoking were not considered., and nuts do contain many calories .........so the old adage holds true ALL in moderation ; however, I do feel that nuts are better than potato chips or sugared candies.

[Karel]

that's just nuts.

(what was the p value?)

It is worse. If you have a dataset with enough variables, you are bound to find correlations like these. Less than worthless. But then, there are worse things than nibbling on nuts.

Regards, Karel

[billyjoe]

I haven't died in the last 20 years so there might be some truth in that study. Peanuts, cashews, filberts, pecans , walnuts, almonds, pistachios all my favorites. Are peanuts really nuts?

---------------billy

[jiesen]

that's just nuts.

(what was the p value?)

[Phoenix7]

NUTS FOR YOU!

A study published in the New England Journal Of Medicine combined data from 2 studies during a follow up study over a 20-24 year period . 27,429 DIED during that follow up period, but what they discovered was that those who ate nuts at least daily were 20% less likely to die of all causes than those eating no nuts! The reduced risk was most apparent for deaths from hearts disease 29% followed by deaths from cancer and lung disease.
Participants ate all kinds of nuts!

[Phoenix7]

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[Phoenix7]

Tumeric or Circumin research is indicating that curcumin may be among the most powerful and versatile health supplements impacting everything from colds to cancer.

In fact, important new findings have determined that this spice can:
• Protect against the ravages of aging
• Enhance heart health and inhibit the formation of LDL (bad) cholesterol
• Help protect against age related memory loss
• Help maintain healthy cells and neutralize damaging free radicals
• Maintain healthy, pain-free joints
• Reduce chronic and damaging inflammation
• Counteract damage caused by radiation
• Support healthy kidneys and liver
• Encourage the body's own detoxification efforts and help eliminate such health-damaging contaminants as heavy metals
• Help prevent blood platelets from sticking together, thereby improving circulation

[Phoenix7]

AMAZING POMEGRANATE JUICE!

As we age a major concern is artery blockage especially the carotid arteries.
An Israeli Study over 3 years consisted of 19 men and women , ages 65 to 75 with severe carotid artery blockage. 10 Participants drank 50 ml or about 2 ounces per day of 100% pomegranate juice,and 9 drank a placebo.
Among the pomegranate juice drinkers , plaque thickness decreased by an average of 13% after 3 months and 35% after one year.
FOLKS this is truly amazing because NO drug came close to reducing plaque like this.

I use Trader Joe's 100% Certified Pomegranate Juice with nothing added. I dilute 2 ounces with 2 ounces of water and drink this before a meal.

Other juices like POM are not that good because they contain too much sugar!

[Phoenix7]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/he...it_th_20140303

Rare Mutation Kills Off Gene Responsible for Diabetes
By GINA KOLATA MARCH 2, 2014



A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people from getting Type 2 diabetes. The effect is so pronounced — the mutation reduces risk by two-thirds — that it provides a promising new target for developing a drug to mimic the mutation’s effect.

The mutation destroys a gene used by pancreas cells where insulin is made. Those with the mutation seem to make slightly more insulin and have slightly lower blood glucose levels for their entire lives.

Already Pfizer, which helped finance the study, and Amgen, which owns a company whose data played a key role in the research, are starting programs aimed at developing drugs that act like the mutation, the companies said.

But Timothy Rolph, a Pfizer vice president, cautioned it can take 10 to 20 years to get a drug to market after discovering something new about human genetics and disease.

The study, published Sunday in Nature Genetics, involved a mutation so rare that finding it was only recently possible, with vast data from large numbers of people, researchers said.

“The study is a tour de force, and the authors are the top people in the field,” said Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the center for human nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

This is the first time in diabetes research that a mutation that destroys a gene has proved beneficial, noted Louis Philipson, director of the Kovler Diabetes Center at the University of Chicago. For drug development, he said, “that is very powerful.”

For scientists, the result was a surprise because the same mutation that protects people from diabetes, by destroying one copy of the gene, known as ZnT8, has the opposite effect in some strains of mice. Destroying that gene actually causes diabetes in the animals.

The work began four years ago when a group of geneticists from academic institutions and Pfizer decided to search for gene mutations that protect against diabetes. Usually researchers look for mutations that increase — rather than decrease — the risk of diseases, with the aim of determining who gets a disease, and why.

The group started with populations in Finland and Sweden, where 28,000 people had been studied for years. The data included their ages, weights and diseases, including diabetes.

They compared people at either end of the spectrum of diabetes risk. One group of 352 people had Type 2 diabetes even though their risk seemed low. Their average age was about 50, they were lean and they did not smoke. The other group of 406 people was just the opposite. Their average age was about 80, and, Dr. Rolph said, “they had all the bad habits — they were overweight, they drank, they smoked.” And yet these people did not have diabetes.

Two of the fat older people who were free of diabetes turned out to have a mutation that destroyed one copy of the ZnT8 gene. It was intriguing, but hard to know if the association was meaningful with only two people.

So the researchers expanded their work, studying the genes of 18,000 people in Sweden, fat and thin, old and young, with diabetes and without. They found another 31 people who seemed protected from diabetes and had mutations that destroyed the ZnT8 gene.

Then Dr. David Altshuler, deputy director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. and the study’s lead author, met with Dr. Kari Stefanson, chief executive of deCODE Genetics, a company with data on genes and diseases for the entire population of Iceland. The American drug company, Amgen, bought deCODE and its valuable genetic database.

Dr. Stefanson searched deCODE’s database and quickly found 39 people out of 5,440 who had a mutation that destroyed the gene and who did not have diabetes. In contrast, just nine out of 3,727 diabetes patients had the mutation.

“It took us five minutes,” Dr. Stefanson said. “It was a lovely little afternoon in our conference room.”

At that point, Dr. Altshuler said, the group wrote a paper and submitted it to a medical journal. It was rejected, he said, after one of the reviewers said it must be wrong because it contradicted what was known from studies with mice.

The group went back for more data. They mapped the genes of 13,000 more people and once again found mutations destroying the same gene and associated with a markedly reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes.

This time their paper was accepted for publication by Nature Genetics, Dr. Altshuler said.

Now the researchers are asking whether the mutation has any bad health effects.

So far, Dr. Stefanson said, none has been found. With his data he has established that people with the mutation are no more likely to get 750 diseases he searched for.

Interesting Study Thank You!

[riverbabe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/health/rare-gene-protects-against-type-2-diabetes-even-in-obese-people.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140303

Rare Mutation Kills Off Gene Responsible for Diabetes
By GINA KOLATA MARCH 2, 2014

A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people from getting Type 2 diabetes. The effect is so pronounced — the mutation reduces risk by two-thirds — that it provides a promising new target for developing a drug to mimic the mutation’s effect.

The mutation destroys a gene used by pancreas cells where insulin is made. Those with the mutation seem to make slightly more insulin and have slightly lower blood glucose levels for their entire lives.

Already Pfizer, which helped finance the study, and Amgen, which owns a company whose data played a key role in the research, are starting programs aimed at developing drugs that act like the mutation, the companies said.

But Timothy Rolph, a Pfizer vice president, cautioned it can take 10 to 20 years to get a drug to market after discovering something new about human genetics and disease.

The study, published Sunday in Nature Genetics, involved a mutation so rare that finding it was only recently possible, with vast data from large numbers of people, researchers said.

“The study is a tour de force, and the authors are the top people in the field,” said Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the center for human nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

This is the first time in diabetes research that a mutation that destroys a gene has proved beneficial, noted Louis Philipson, director of the Kovler Diabetes Center at the University of Chicago. For drug development, he said, “that is very powerful.”

For scientists, the result was a surprise because the same mutation that protects people from diabetes, by destroying one copy of the gene, known as ZnT8, has the opposite effect in some strains of mice. Destroying that gene actually causes diabetes in the animals.

The work began four years ago when a group of geneticists from academic institutions and Pfizer decided to search for gene mutations that protect against diabetes. Usually researchers look for mutations that increase — rather than decrease — the risk of diseases, with the aim of determining who gets a disease, and why.

The group started with populations in Finland and Sweden, where 28,000 people had been studied for years. The data included their ages, weights and diseases, including diabetes.

They compared people at either end of the spectrum of diabetes risk. One group of 352 people had Type 2 diabetes even though their risk seemed low. Their average age was about 50, they were lean and they did not smoke. The other group of 406 people was just the opposite. Their average age was about 80, and, Dr. Rolph said, “they had all the bad habits — they were overweight, they drank, they smoked.” And yet these people did not have diabetes.

Two of the fat older people who were free of diabetes turned out to have a mutation that destroyed one copy of the ZnT8 gene. It was intriguing, but hard to know if the association was meaningful with only two people.

So the researchers expanded their work, studying the genes of 18,000 people in Sweden, fat and thin, old and young, with diabetes and without. They found another 31 people who seemed protected from diabetes and had mutations that destroyed the ZnT8 gene.

Then Dr. David Altshuler, deputy director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. and the study’s lead author, met with Dr. Kari Stefanson, chief executive of deCODE Genetics, a company with data on genes and diseases for the entire population of Iceland. The American drug company, Amgen, bought deCODE and its valuable genetic database.

Dr. Stefanson searched deCODE’s database and quickly found 39 people out of 5,440 who had a mutation that destroyed the gene and who did not have diabetes. In contrast, just nine out of 3,727 diabetes patients had the mutation.

“It took us five minutes,” Dr. Stefanson said. “It was a lovely little afternoon in our conference room.”

At that point, Dr. Altshuler said, the group wrote a paper and submitted it to a medical journal. It was rejected, he said, after one of the reviewers said it must be wrong because it contradicted what was known from studies with mice.

The group went back for more data. They mapped the genes of 13,000 more people and once again found mutations destroying the same gene and associated with a markedly reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes.

This time their paper was accepted for publication by Nature Genetics, Dr. Altshuler said.

Now the researchers are asking whether the mutation has any bad health effects.

So far, Dr. Stefanson said, none has been found. With his data he has established that people with the mutation are no more likely to get 750 diseases he searched for.

[Phoenix7]

7 FOODS PROVEN TO FIGHT CANCER!

From A "Bottom Line" Report!

Back during World War II Cancer claimed 1 out of 80, Today the numbers have switched to 1 out 3 who will get cancer! What happened , well no one can say with absolute certainty but diet and lifestyles are factors. Too many processed foods consumed by obese individuals who do little or no excercise.
What may help is eating healthier organic foods and exercising. Here are 7 foods proven to fight cancer!

1. Cabbage 3 or more one-half servings per week of cabbage recommended.

2. Flaxseeds 1 or 2 teaspoons of ground flaxseed daily

3. Mushrooms Eat 1/2 cup of button mushrooms , 3-4 times per week!

4. Olives Eatr 8 olivs per day green or black!

5. Onions 2/2 cup of onions raw or cooked 3 times per week

6. Pumpkin 3 or more 1/2 cup servings per week! Look for pumpkin recipies on line.

7. Raspberries Eat 1/2 cup of raspberries , 2 or 3 times per week. Costco has excellent prices on fresh raspberries, they also have frozen Organic mixed berries which are super!