Nutrition and Wellness Information, Resources and Education

Archive for November, 2009

I’ve made a number of posts on Mammograms and Breast Cancer and will continue to provide important updates from reliable sources to share. This is from Dr. Pam Popper’s Newsletter. I’ve got her as a resource here at the right column, referred to as “The Wellness Forum“. Dr. Pam Popper is a great resource for very credible nutrition and health information in that she has a very scientific approach and is also quite blunt going by the research results of any topic she comments on. She is big on pointing out erronious information being distrubited to the public she is an awesome resource to check with when you are contemplting making changes in your lifestyle or going for a medical procedure or test.

She has her two latest Newsletters on this topic and clarifies the controvice that has been in the news on this.

Go Here for this info:
Wellness Forum Newsstand and see the last two issues (47) in two parts.

Here are a couple excerpts that I found particularly interesting:

“If breast and prostate cancer screening really worked, the researchers correctly noted, they should have resulted in incurable cancers being found early and treated when they could be cured. A large increase in the detection of early-stage cancers should have been accompanied by a decline in late-stage cancers. But this did not happen.”

“Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society told the New York Times in response to the earlier JAMA study that the organization would post a message on its website next year saying that screening for breast, prostate and certain other cancers results in the over-treatment of non-aggressive cancers while often missing more aggressive deadly cancers.”

“We don’t want people to panic,” he said, “But I’m admitting that American medicine has over-promised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.”

One thing that is not stated in this issue is that there is an alternative for screening in a test called Thermography.I’ve referred to it in previous postings I’ve done, but here is a podcast with Dr. Popper and a Clinical Thermographer, Theresa Spires, owner of Functional Imaging, about the technology and how it works, along with applications other than breast imaging, discussing it’s benefits and differences from Mammography. When going to this link scroll down to the “Breast Thermography” podcast and click t listen to that.Very informative.

If  you are in the South Florida area, you can call or visit Florida Natural Healthcare Center, one of their services is Thermography http://floridanaturalhealthcare.com/thermography.html 
Call them and let them know I referred you.

If  you are not in the South Florida area, you can go to a resource to locate a Thermography office near you by clicking here Thermography Services.

Wishing everyone a great fun filled Thanksgiving Holiday to you and yours.
We all have much to be grateful for, we all have loved ones and we all have many who love us. Remember to appreciate all that you have and how any issues that occur help you grow and learn new lessons. Be greatful for those challenges as well as they make each of you the wonderful person that you are.

Live and Love.

This is a follow-up to my previous post on new information from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Many sources, mostly western medicine sources keep sticking to the claim that family history (Genes) and old age are the biggest risk factor in spite of the fact that the actual evidence says otherwise. That Lifestyle; good nutrition and exercise have more of an impact on getting ANY disease. Meaning articles like this have it backwards http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33080081/ns/health-cancer/ns/health-cancer/ when studies studying cultures around the world have found when women of a certain culture have western changes in their diet, their risk of breast cancer increases dramatically.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Urban-lifestyle-major-cause-of-breast-cancer/articleshow/5233475.cms

One source that well documents the relationship between Diet and disease is the book “The China Study”. See exerpts here: http://www.thechinastudy.com/PDFs/ChinaStudy_Excerpt.pdf

In the Video at this link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34040273/ns/health-cancer/ the concern is regarding the number of cancers found compared to the number tested. The problem is women are more willing to get tested in the effort to be made aware sooner rather than later if there is a cancerous condition when the more important issue is using testing that can detect if the conditions exist where a cancer may develop such as thermography as per one of my previous posts on that testing procedure.

Here is an update to information regarding Mammograms. I’ve done previous posting on  this but with so much push in the mainstream media as well as some well meaning though misinformed illness prevention websites that generally dominate the realities of many medical screenings. Here is additional info from T.S. Wiley, warning of the dangers mammograms pose.

http://au.sys-con.com/node/1193464

If  you are in the South Florida area, you can call or visit Florida Natural Healthcare Center, one of their services is Thermography http://floridanaturalhealthcare.com/thermography.html 
Call them and let them know I referred you.

This article is very important for every parent to read. Not only does this pediatrition point out the issues with vaccinations and the research, or lack thereof regarding adequate testing of vaccines but their effectiveness and unknown risks. With regard to children he speaks of the differences as that apply to them.
http://articles.mercola.com:80/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/14/Expert-Pediatrician-Exposes-Vaccine-Myths.aspx