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OK - i write frequently about health issues and one of the most pressing we face today is that of obesity. I see people drinking diet or low calorie drinks as if they are helping them lose weight. At last a study that ’shuts that theory up’ once and for all. Straight and simple artificial sweeteners make you put on weight not lose it.
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Scientists at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, studied rats that were fed food with the artificial sweetener saccharin and rats fed food with glucose, a natural sugar.
In comparison to rats given yogurt sweetened with glucose, those that ate yogurt sweetened with saccharin went on to consume more calories and put on more weight and body fat.
The researchers said sweet foods may prompt the body to get ready to take in a lot of calories, but when sweetness in the form of artificial sweeteners is not followed by a large amount of calories, the body gets confused, which may lead to eating more or expending less energy than normal.
“The data clearly indicate that consuming a food sweetened with no-calorie saccharin can lead to greater body-weight gain and adiposity than would consuming the same food sweetened with high-calorie sugar,” Purdue researchers Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson wrote in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, published by the American Psychological Association.
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I see TV adverts and magazine articles promoting beauty products and in particular skin care solutions to the masses but I know from my own research that the constituents in these products in fact harm the skin especially when exposed to the sun. They actually accelerate the ageing of skin - so by using these mass market products women are actually harming their health and in the case of the youngsters who have yet to become mums the prospects of having normal healthy children (more of that in a later posting).
So my thread today is all about preservatives and parabens in particular in make-up and beauty products. The age old premise that ‘if you can’t say the name of something in a product’ then you shouldn’t eat it now applies to don’t put it on your skin.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for nearly one of every three cancers diagnosed in
So what does the new study actually tell us? Up to now it was known that parabens could be absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract or the blood, metabolized, and eventually excreted in the urine. But now the presence of intact parabens in tumour tissue shows that these chemicals can not only be absorbed through the skin but can also persist and accumulate in breast cancer tissue in their original form, without being degraded. (When parabens are eaten they are degraded and lose some of their constituents, making them less oestrogen-like). This is new information. We do not yet know how long they can persist and what effects they might have. Because controls with normal breast tissue were not done, we also don’t know if comparable levels of parabens would be found in normal tissue. Plus, the study did not identify the route by which the parabens entered the body. The chemical form of the parabens found suggests that the source was probably underarm cosmetics, though this needs to be confirmed. (This article does not say anything about the use of deodorants/antiperspirants by the women in the study.) Despite these limitations, this study represents an important first step.
Knowing that parabens can be absorbed through the skin and retained in breast tissue is necessary in order to investigate the causes and possible mechanisms of its action. The authors of this study write in their paper: “This adds parabens to the list of environmental estrogenic chemicals that can be found to accumulate in the human breast and already includes polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs).” This also raises the issue of possible interactions between all these chemicals and the influence that might have on their toxicity.
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Diabetes is rife with complicated names for simple situations. Insulin Resistance is just one of these terms that needs explanation.
Insulin resistance occurs when the body’s cells become less responsive to insulin. Therefore, the body must secrete more insulin to maintain normal metabolism.
I find that using a simple analogy often helps. Imagine that you go to a bar and drink a pint of beer every day at athe same time. The result is that your body gets used to having alcohol in the system for most of the day. To get the same or similar effect in week 2 you’d probably need to drink twice the amount every day to get a similar effect. That is what happens with insulin resistance.
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Insulin resistance, which is very common, doesn’t cause type 2 diabetes by itself. The pancreas usually rallies to compensate for the resistance by pumping out more insulin. For most people with insulin resistance, blood sugar levels stay within a normal range. But for some, the insulin-producing cells eventually fail to keep up with the increased demand. Blood sugar levels rise, resulting in type 2 diabetes.Diabetes or Uncontrolled Blood Glucose Levels
There is a great deal of fear around diabetes - i should know most of my family have been diagnosed with it and many have died because of ignorance and misplaced trust in drugs.
Diabetes, in very simple terms, occurs when the body for one reason is unable to control the glucose levels in the blood. This is normally achieved by the body’s natural production of Insulin and the body’s natural response
there are 2 cases when glucose levels are not controlled - insulin resistance and insulin exhaustion - both can occur at the same time but insulin resistance is the normal starting point.
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Living With Diabetes - controlling your blood glucose levels
Diabetes is a problem of such large scale that it is attarcting the attention of the fiscal controllers in Government around the world. It is wholly treatable but very costly and once drus are used they probably have to continue for the rest of a persons life.
What is not so well known is that with very simple dietary modification before onset we can prevent diabetes entirely. Once it has taken hold then we can achieve the same or similar result with a much more radical diateray regime. The point of this entry is to alert you to the fact that you can do a lot to prevent diabetes and it can be redressed without drug intervention in most if not the majority of cases.
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Living well with diabetes - controlling your blood glucose levels
The odds are that you or someone you know has diabetes already or is at risk for developing this disease. Nearly 21 million Americans—or roughly one in every 14 people—have diabetes, and many more are at risk. Of course, if you or someone you love has diabetes, the disorder is about much more than a statistic. It means a new way of life.
However, there’s plenty of good news emerging about diabetes. Research shows that keeping your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible is worth the time and effort. Rigorous blood sugar control can enable you to delay or even prevent the progression of diabetes and its debilitating long-term complications.
The treatment regimens needed to achieve and maintain near-normal, or “tight,” blood sugar control differ for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 treatment centers on replacing insulin to offset the body’s inability to produce it. Type 2 treatment typically relies on exercise, weight loss, and one or more medications to overcome insulin resistance and compensate for the insulin shortfall. Insulin injections, though, may become necessary. Most people with type 2 diabetes also have the added burden of managing one or more other conditions, such as obesity, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol. Your treatment goal, regardless of which type of diabetes you have, is to keep your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible to prevent damage to your eyes, kidneys, heart, nerves, and blood vessels.
Cholesterol - lowering with drugs is ineffective
Hey - seems as if my drift on Cholesterol is right on cue. To hear that drug companies in the advertisements are now saying that with small print like this
“In a large clinical study, 3 percent of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack
compared to 2 percent of patients taking Lipitor.”
- HOW DUMB do you have to get to realise that there is no real benefitIt begs the question “why would anyone take a drug like this when it improves results by just 1% over the placebo” - as a scientis that is surely questionable in terms of significance. In terms of money for the drug company its huge - how may read the fine print (if its there at all). We have been using food to reduce cholesterol for over 8 years and guess what it works.
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Phil Hughes - HomeopathLast month, I told you about the latest statin shockwave involving Vytorin and the failing grade it received in a recent study evaluating its effectiveness (2/21/08 eTip, subject line: “New recruits”). Not surprisingly, attention quickly shifted to other statins, and the question on the forefront of everyone’s mind — not to mention the cover of Business Week magazine — was “Do cholesterol drugs do any good?”
Now, you read the eTips three times a week, so I’m guessing chances are good that you’re as skeptical as Dr. Wright and I are about patent medications. But, I’ve got to say, the answer to the statin question even surprised me. Thanks to Dr. Wright, I’ve known for years that statins aren’t the miracle workers that Big Pharma makes them out to be. But I had no idea just how inflated that claim really is.
To get a better sense of statins’ effectiveness you have to look beyond the percentages the drug ads are always spouting out. The print ads for the drug claim that it helps reduce heart attack risk by 36 percent. But follow the asterisk next to that number down to the fine print at the bottom of the page and things get a whole lot less impressive. There it says “In a large clinical study, 3 percent of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack compared to 2 percent of patients taking Lipitor.”
Cholesterol - the truth is coming out now
For those of you that read this blog you will know that i have a bone to pick with the medical world who persist in pushing statin drugs to artificially lower cholesterol. They did it to me, or i allowed them to do it to me, for years until i said enough. Slowly bit by bit the real truth is coming out and this article continues that trend. If you are interested in this subject this article is a must read.
The widespread belief that “bad Cholesterol” ( LDL cholesterol) is a major factor driving heart disease — and that cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor and Crestor can protect us against fatal heart attacks — is turning out to be a theory filled with holes. These drugs, which are called “statins,” are the most widely-prescribed pills in the history of human medicine. In 2007 world-wide sales totaled $33 billion. They are particularly popular in the
We thought we knew how they worked. But last month, when Merck/Schering Plough finally released the dismal results of a clinical trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about 1 million people, the medical world was stunned. Dr. Steven E. Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic called the findings “shocking.” It turns out that while Zetia does lower cholesterol levels, the study failed to show any measurable medical benefit. This announcement caused both doctors and the mainstream media to take a second look at the received wisdom that “bad cholesterol” plays a major role in causing cardiac disease. A Business Week cover story asked the forbidden question, “Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?“
The answer, says Dr. Jon Abramson, a clinical instructor at
Finally — and here is the stunner — it turns out we don’t have any clear evidence that statins help the first group by lowering cholesterol levels. It’s true that they do lower cholesterol, but many researchers are no longer convinced that this is what helps patients avoid a second heart attack. It now seems likely that they work by reducing inflammation. In other words, these very expensive drugs seem to do the same thing that aspirin does. (Are they more effective than the humble aspirin? We’ll need head-to-head studies to find out.)
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