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Vitamin C and dairy linked to less abdominal weight 2008-03-17 02:19:00 An increased intake of vitamin C and dairy could reduce the accumulation of weight around the abdomen, reported to increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease, suggests a new study.Over 900 Iranian women aged between 40 and 60 years were found to have more central fat accumulation if their intakes of vitamin C, calcium, and dairy are low.Indeed, low vitamin C intake was associated with a 131 per cent increase in probability of central fat accumulation, while low calcium increased the probability by 30 per cent.The study, published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, looks set to continue the debate about whether dairy foods can promote weight loss, and what the mechanism behind such an effect could be.Leila Azadbakht and Ahmad Esmaillzadeh from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences used a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to evaluate dietary intakes.They report that the possibility of being centrally obese was increased in women with low vitamin C intakes (l ...

How Vitamin C Stops Cancer 2008-03-16 04:41:00 ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2007) — Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C - and potentially other antioxidants - can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors ¯ just not in the manner suggested by years of investigation.The conventional wisdom of how antioxidants such as vitamin C help prevent cancer growth is that they grab up volatile oxygen free radical molecules and prevent the damage they are known to do to our delicate DNA. The Hopkins study, led by Chi Dang, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and oncology and Johns Hopkins Family Professor in Oncology Research, unexpectedly found that the antioxidants' actual role may be to destabilize a tumor's ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions. Their work is detailed this week in Cancer Cell."The potential anticancer benefits of antioxidants have been the ...

CURING ALCOHOLISM NATURALLY 2008-03-15 04:52:00 Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND andElissa MeiningerNovember 17, 2005NewsWithViews.comOne of the most satisfying things about the natural healing arts is that when you are thoroughly committed to its principles, you discover a contentment you can never find in modern medicine. Natural healing is about making people whole. It’s about arranging all the elements of your life to be as supportive as possible in all ways so that when you pass from this life, you do so at peace with yourself and the world around you. It’s not about fighting off the evils of disease or postponing the grim reaper no matter what the cost. And it certainly isn’t about diagnosing some disease and declaring yourself a victim of that disease, a label you must carry through life like a scarlet letter branded on your forehead.The worst part of having a drinking problem is giving the behavior a name with the implication that once you have been branded an alcoholic, the next unspoken thought is “always an alcoholic”. ...

How to Practice Medicine Without A License 2008-03-13 23:15:00 New Book: The Vitamin C Foundation's Co-Founder has writtenCopyright 2008 by Owen Fonorow. Press ReleaseBook Web Site Forum Discussion... The book covers the fifty-plus year history of the vitamin C theory of heart disease as well as the 12-year history of the so-called Pauling-therapy®.Heart patients who decided to follow Linus Pauling's advice recovered in about 30 days. Many experienced significant relief in as little as ten days. These recoveries only occur after these former patients adopted the Pauling-therapy®, usually without their doctor's knowledge or consent. The book contains Pauling's specific detailed vitamin C and lysine dosage recommendations.These recommendations that have helped thousands of heart patients overcome their disease. The reasons that the therapy may not work for everyone are also explored. The book could have been appropriately titled Chronic Scurvy, which is a more accurate description of the cardiovascular disease process. Look for details [Here] ...

Magnesium May Lower Risk for Some Strokes in Male Smokers 2008-03-12 04:19:00 (HealthDay News) -- Increased consumption of magnesium-rich foods such as whole grains may reduce male smokers' risk of cerebral infarction, which occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked, a new Swedish study suggests.Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm analyzed the diets and other health/lifestyle habits and characteristics of 26,556 Finnish men, aged 50 to 69, who smoked but had never had a stroke. During an average of 13.6 years of follow-up, 2,702 of the men had cerebral infarctions, 383 had intracerebral hemorrhages (bleeding into the brain tissue), 196 had subarachnoid hemorrhages (bleeding between the brain and the tissues that cover it), and 84 had unspecified types of strokes.After they adjusted for age and cardiovascular risk factors (such as diabetes and cholesterol levels), the researchers concluded that men who consumed the most magnesium (an average of 589 milligrams per day) had a 15 percent lower risk for cerebral infarction than those who consum ...

Treatment Protocol for Alcoholism 2008-03-11 09:36:00 A Message from Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.:"Ever since I met Bill W, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous and we became close friends, I have had a personal interest in the treatment of alcoholism. Bill taught that there were three components to the treatment of alcoholism: spiritual, mental and medical. AA provided a spiritual home for alcoholics that many could not find anywhere else and helped them sustain abstinence. But for many AA alone was not enough; not everyone in AA had achieved a comfortable sobriety. Bill recognized that the other two components were important. When he heard of our use of niacin for treating alcoholics, he became very enthusiastic about it because niacin gave these unfortunate patients immense relief from their chronic depression and other physical and mental complaints. "Niacin is the most important single treatment for alcoholism, and it is one of the most reliable treatments. And it is safe, much safer than any of the modern psychiatric drugs. Niacin do ...

Greg Kunin Briefly Explains What Orthomolecular Medicine Is All About 2008-03-10 05:04:00 Greg Kunin Briefly Explains What Orthomolecular Medicine Is All About. ...

Orthomolecular treatment of anxiety disorders 2008-03-08 09:30:00 Anxiety disorders are life altering psychiatric conditions that severely impair the quality of life of those suffering from them. They are the most common psychiatric disorders in the United States, (1) and are characterized by numerous somatic symptoms, such as facial flushing, hyperhydrosis (excessive sweating), muscle tension, paresthesias (numbness and tingling), shallow breathing, syncope (fainting), and tachycardia (rapid heart rate).The emotional symptoms of anxiety disorders occur simultaneously with the somatic ones and include agitation, derealization (feelings of unreality), fearfulness, feelings of impending doom, irritability, nervousness, and shyness. Patients with anxiety disorders often report escape and avoidance behaviors that merely reinforce and perpetuate their ongoing anxiety.They also tend to engage in catastrophic thinking by over-predicting the negative consequences of events. (2) Patients tend to misinterpret benign bodily sensations as warning signals for mor ...

Orthomolecular Medicine: Natural Cure 2008-03-07 03:43:00 Orthomolecular medicine and Optimum nutrition are nutritional health and medical approaches that are based upon the premise that many diseases and abnormalities result from varing biochemical and/or chemical needs specific to each individual.It holds that they can be prevented, treated, or sometimes cured by achieving optimum levels for that individual's body of various biochemicals which are natural to the body, either through diet or metabolism. It normally employs doses of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements, and essential fatty acids. ...

ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE NEWS SERVICE 2008-03-05 22:05:00 "It is a matter of common knowledge that any processing that foods undergo serves to make them more harmful than unprocessed foods." (McDonald's Corporation legal statement, shown in the documentary "Supersize Me")The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 5, No. 2 for January 5, 2005)"Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A." Written and copyright 2004 by Andrew W. Saul of http://www.doctoryourself.com/ , which welcomes 1.5 million visitorsannually. Commercial use of the website or the contents of this Newsletter is strictly prohibited.ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE NEWS SERVICEMy long-time readers have likely taken notice that the DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter is now a monthly. Yes, after five years of twice- monthly publication, I am giving a nod to the reality of some 30,000 hits a day at the http://www.doctoryourself.com/ website. There is only so muchtime in a day.The good news: I will continue to assail your ears about every four weeks or so with my edifying editorials and h ...