Role Models of America

I see something green ......

 

You are very important to the well being of your family, your children, your husband in so many ways.  Alas all the things you do for them would be undone if it was not for you!  You take care of them well.... clean up after them constantly.... watch over them lovingly.... speak up for them all the time!  What does that have to do with green things? 

Do you realize that being the mother, wife, friend, companion in life there is one very important detail about you that no one can do but you?  That's take care of your own health.  No one can make YOU take your bath... brush your teeth... eat your greens ect.....

You alone as a woman are responsible to take super care of yourself.  Can you answer this question honestly?  When is the last time you ate something green?  Today start a healthy habit .... eat more green.  It's so good for you, and you will feel better too.

Do you know what's in those green veggies that builds up your body? They are super foods, full of nutriants, vitamins, minerals, strength building and free radical blockers.   Look it up. You are worth it.

Do You Realize?

 

Do you realize there is no one to take care of your personal health but you?  No one is checking  to see if you are having good health or not.  Even mother's have a shelf life!  No one is going to put their hand on your forehead and check if you have a fever or not. No one is going to ask if you have taken good care of your body - everyone has their own to worry about.  Seriously you take so much time with your family members health and trying to make sure they eat right, get enough sleep, stay reasonably clean from germs, not too many sweets ...... you finish this sentence.  But WHO is watching out for you?

Nurturing others is important, but without your own health you will not be able to nurture them very well.  Don't wait until sickness hits you before you rest, start now.  Don't wait until all of your engines collapse before you start taking vitamins, start now.

I had a conversation with some friends about the need for self care recently.  They laughed about making sure their kids ate right, but personally they didn't always do it themselves. Funny yes, but it shows how often we women put ourselves last in line for care.  When we really should be up front at the head of the line so we can truly have strength and energy to give out.

When is the last time you........ drank a full big glass of water or took your vitamins or simply laid down to rest for 10 minutes or gave yourself a colon cleanse to show your body you really DO care about it.

When you get into the habit of caring for yourself well, it will become natural, and you won't believe how much better you will feel!

Here's some things  to consider changing about how you take care of yourself:

1. Go shopping - not at the mall, but the health food store for some quality vitamins.  Ask the clerk to help you find the right ones for your age.
2. Put them by your make up - so when you get your hair and make up on, you will remember to feed your body nutrition. Don't just let them set in a cabinet!
3. Get a 20 oz glass and put it where you will use it, fill it with water and drink first thing in the morning.
4. Drink water for your meals - it's a super easy way to get your body's need for water in.
5. Drink another glass before you go to bed, there now..... every system in your body will work so much better!
6. Buy a good quality colon cleanse package at your health food store (ask the clerk for best and most gentle ones) And take the whole regiment (normally it's 2 weeks) this will clean out your 'septic system' and remove harmful toxins, and the buildup of many beginning bacterial infections and diseases.  Do this process twice a year.  You take a shower every day - for the outside of our bodies, why don't we think about cleansing from the inside?

Six little personal habits to start, and 6 huge payoffs in your health year round! 

Alternative Cancer Treatment

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .


Cancer Update from John Hopkins


1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard 
tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the per son's immune system is strong, the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer, it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, change diet and include supplements which can strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract, etc., and can cause organ damage to the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc.

7. Radiation--while destroying cancer cells--also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.  However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.  Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder.  By cutting off sugar, it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells.  Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame which is harmful.  A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts.  Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color.  A better substitute is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract.  Cancer feeds on mucus.  By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk, cancer cells are being starved.

C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment.  A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork.  Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.  About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for build ing healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.  Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate which contain a lot of caffeine.  Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.  The best water to drink is purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water.  Distilled water is acidic; avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes.  Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering.  By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.  A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.  Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment.  Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit.  Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level.  Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.



CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL……….

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.  He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat.  He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastic releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.  He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cook ed in the microwave.  As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.  Cover food with a paper towel instead.

 

Cancer Basics

CANCER BASICS - Article Excerpt from the Idaho Observer

View entire article at this link:
http://proliberty.com/observer/20050403.htm

"Acidosis" is the scientific term for a body that has become acidic— or has fallen below a pH of 7.0. In this state, the body’s system is deprived of oxygen causing you to be more susceptible to colds, flus and more serious diseases/infections; you also age at an accelerated rate.

Our modern lives give us ample opportunity to become acidic. Commonly-consumed acid-forming foods and beverages include meat, dairy products, sugar, coffee and alcohol. Environmental exposure to solvents, herbicides, pesticides and other chemical toxins boost our tendency to become acidic.

Acidosis is the cause of America’s #2 killer — cancer. In order to understand the basics of cancer, we must first understand the acid/alkaline balance. In understanding the acid/alkaline balance, the following summary makes perfect sense: The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

Over 75 years ago, Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded two Nobel prizes for demonstrating that cancer results when weakened cell respiration occurs due to lack of oxygen at the cellular level. According to Warburg, damaged cell respiration causes fermentation, resulting in low pH at the cellular level.

Dr. Warburg, in his Nobel Prize winning papers, described the environment of the cancer cell: A normal healthy cell undergoes an adverse change when it can no longer take in oxygen to convert glucose into energy. In the absence of oxygen, the cell reverts to a primal nutritional program to nourish itself by converting glucose through the process of fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the cell pH and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell division. The cancer cells then begin to multiply without restraint.

The lactic acid simultaneously causes severe local pain as it destroys cell enzymes; the cancer appears as a rapidly-growing external cell covering with a core of dead cells. We know cell masses of this description as "tumors."

Subsequent research by Keith Brewer, Ph.D and H.E. Satori has shown that cancer cannot exist when the body’s pH is raised to 8.0.

Dr. Brewer developed a protocol to therapeutically raise pH with the element cesium in conjunction with potassium.

God made the perfect body—and then we spend the rest of our lives starving it of the elements our cells need to function properly.

Doctors Otto Warburg and Linus Pauling won Nobel prizes in chemistry for identifying the true causes of diseases such as cancer at the molecular level—and what can be done to reverse the symptoms. The process is the opposite of complicated: It’s elemental. And, unlike the drugs, radiation treatments and surgeries bankrupting Americans today, many people diagnosed as terminal are reporting a reversal of their chronic symptoms after a few weeks for under $100.

You can do your own research by studying the work of doctors Warburg, Pauling, Keith Brewer, Fred Klenner and Irwin Stone.

Note: A group of chronic disease survivors formed Advanced Scientific Health (ASH) to help people understand how their bodies become ill and how to heal them nutritionally. To support the cause, compounding pharmacists are making the elements of orthomolecular nutrition available to ASH members at lab cost. The Idaho Observer, in conjunction with ASH, will publish a guide to orthomolecular nutrition by May 1, 2005. Call The Idaho Observer for more information
The Idaho Observer - P.O. Box 457 - Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869 - Phone: 208-255-2307

Click Here to Download Free Research Information and Free Audios
"Scientific Information That You May Not Be Able to Live Without"

 
Learn more about Advanced Scientific Health at:
The pH Advantage

DISCLAIMER - The information on this Blog is provided for educational and informational purposes only we are not attempting to prescribe, treat, or recommend and in no way is the information contained on this site intended to be a substitute for a health care provider's consultation. If you are ill please consult your own physician or appropriate health care provide

View entire article at this link:
http://proliberty.com/observer/20050403.htm

"Acidosis" is the scientific term for a body that has become acidic— or has fallen below a pH of 7.0. In this state, the body’s system is deprived of oxygen causing you to be more susceptible to colds, flus and more serious diseases/infections; you also age at an accelerated rate.

Our modern lives give us ample opportunity to become acidic. Commonly-consumed acid-forming foods and beverages include meat, dairy products, sugar, coffee and alcohol. Environmental exposure to solvents, herbicides, pesticides and other chemical toxins boost our tendency to become acidic.

Acidosis is the cause of America’s #2 killer — cancer. In order to understand the basics of cancer, we must first understand the acid/alkaline balance. In understanding the acid/alkaline balance, the following summary makes perfect sense: The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

Over 75 years ago, Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded two Nobel prizes for demonstrating that cancer results when weakened cell respiration occurs due to lack of oxygen at the cellular level. According to Warburg, damaged cell respiration causes fermentation, resulting in low pH at the cellular level.

Dr. Warburg, in his Nobel Prize winning papers, described the environment of the cancer cell: A normal healthy cell undergoes an adverse change when it can no longer take in oxygen to convert glucose into energy. In the absence of oxygen, the cell reverts to a primal nutritional program to nourish itself by converting glucose through the process of fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the cell pH and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell division. The cancer cells then begin to multiply without restraint.

The lactic acid simultaneously causes severe local pain as it destroys cell enzymes; the cancer appears as a rapidly-growing external cell covering with a core of dead cells. We know cell masses of this description as "tumors."

Subsequent research by Keith Brewer, Ph.D and H.E. Satori has shown that cancer cannot exist when the body’s pH is raised to 8.0.

Dr. Brewer developed a protocol to therapeutically raise pH with the element cesium in conjunction with potassium.

God made the perfect body—and then we spend the rest of our lives starving it of the elements our cells need to function properly.

Doctors Otto Warburg and Linus Pauling won Nobel prizes in chemistry for identifying the true causes of diseases such as cancer at the molecular level—and what can be done to reverse the symptoms. The process is the opposite of complicated: It’s elemental. And, unlike the drugs, radiation treatments and surgeries bankrupting Americans today, many people diagnosed as terminal are reporting a reversal of their chronic symptoms after a few weeks for under $100.

You can do your own research by studying the work of doctors Warburg, Pauling, Keith Brewer, Fred Klenner and Irwin Stone.

Note: A group of chronic disease survivors formed Advanced Scientific Health (ASH) to help people understand how their bodies become ill and how to heal them nutritionally. To support the cause, compounding pharmacists are making the elements of orthomolecular nutrition available to ASH members at lab cost. The Idaho Observer, in conjunction with ASH, will publish a guide to orthomolecular nutrition by May 1, 2005. Call The Idaho Observer for more information
The Idaho Observer - P.O. Box 457 - Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869 - Phone: 208-255-2307

Click Here to Download Free Research Information and Free Audios
"Scientific Information That You May Not Be Able to Live Without"

 
Learn more about Advanced Scientific Health at:
The pH Advantage

DISCLAIMER - The information on this Blog is provided for educational and informational purposes only we are not attempting to prescribe, treat, or recommend and in no way is the information contained on this site intended to be a substitute for a health care provider's consultation. If you are ill please consult your own physician or appropriate health care provide

Women and Heart Attacks

Hopefully you will never need this information, but one never knows! LADIES (& gentlemen) . . . .   PLEASE READ  ALL THE WAY  THROUGH!  She said she didn't feel well and had  a backache and was going to lay down on the bed with the he ating  pad.  Awhile later her husband went to check on her and she was not  breathing.  They were not able to revive her.  The following is something all women should definitely take  seriously.  Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men  have when experiencing a heart attack ...you know, the sudden stabbing  pain in  the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest &  dropping to the  floor that we see in the movies ?         Here is the true story of one woman's experience with a heart  attack . I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO  prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect  might've brought it on.  I was sitting all snugly & warm on  a cold evening, with my  purring cat in my lap, reading an  interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking,  'A-A-h, this is the life,' all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy  Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.       A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when  you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of a sandwich and washed  it down with a dash of water, and that hurried  bite seems to  feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in  slow motion and it is most uncomfortable.  You realize   you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more  thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its  progress down to the stomach.     This was my initial sensation---the  only trouble was that I hadn't  taken a bite of anything since about  5:00 p.m.  After  that had seemed to subside, the next  sensation was like little  squeezing motions that seemed to be racing  up my SPINE  (hindsight: it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining  speed  as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast  bone),  where one presses rhythmically when administering  CPR.        This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out  into both jaws.   AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about  what was happening. . . .we all have read and/or heard about  pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening,  haven't we?  I said aloud to myself and my cat, 'Dear God,  I think I'm having a heart attack!'     I lowered the foot rest, dumping my cat from my lap, started to take a  step and fell on the floor instead.  I thought to myself, 'If  this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next  room where the phone is or anywhere else...,but, on the other hand,  if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any  longer I may not be able to get up in a  moment.'     I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the   next room, and dialed the Paramedics [911].  I told the  dispatcher I thought  I was having a heart attack due to the  pressure building under the  sternum and radiating into my  jaws.  I didn't feel hysterical or afraid,  just stating  the facts.  She said she was sending the Paramedics over  immediately, asked if the front door was near to me,  and if  so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where   they could see me when they came in..     </  FONT> I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost  consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their  examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their  ambulance, or hearing the call they made to the St. Jude ER on the  way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the  Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap,  helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the  ambulance.      He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have  you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my  mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and  nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner  had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral  artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side  by side stints to hold open my right coronary  artery.     I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must  have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but  actually it took perhaps 4 or 5 minutes before the call, and both  the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home,  and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs  and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere  between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the  stints.       Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail?  I want  all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned  first hand.      1. Be aware that something very different is happening in  your body, not the usual men's symptoms, but inexplicable  things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act).   It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and  last) MI because they didn't know they were having one, and commonly  mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn  preparation, and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the  morning when they wake up....which  doesn't happen.     My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I  advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly  happening that you've not felt before.  It is better to have a  'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it  might be!       2. Note that I said 'Call the  Paramedics' [aka 911].   Ladies,       TIME IS   OF THE ESSENCE!        Do NOT try to  drive yourself to the ER . . . you're a hazard to  others on the road, and so is your panicked husband who will be  speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead  of the road.  Do NOT call your doctor --he doesn't know where  you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and  if it's daytime, his assistant (or answering service) will tell  you to call the Paramedics.  He doesn't carry the equipment in  his car that you need to be saved!  The Paramedics do,  principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP.  Your Dr. will be notified later.      3.  Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal  cholesterol count.  Research has discovered that a cholesterol  elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's  unbelievably high, and/or accompanied by high blood pressure).   MI's are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the  body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to  sludge things up in there.  Pain in the  jaw can wake you  from a sound sleep.  Let's be careful and be aware.  The  more we know, the better chance we could  survive!!     A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this  sends it to 10  people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one  life.  Please be a true friend and send this article to all  your friends!                                I JUST DID!!! size=2 width="100%" align=center> size=2 width="100%" align=center> size=2 width="100%" align=center>

7 Habits to Prevent Breast Cancer

 

All of the research that I have studied and continue to read, all points to 7 healthy habits that are simple and can be done by any woman!  Read for yourself and begin to change your personal health.  How?

• Eat organic whole grains, along with lots of fresh organic vegetables (raw as much as possible) and lots of fresh organic fruits (again raw as much as possible) will contribute to your health. Why organic?  Organic means the food was grown without the use of pesticides.  Pesticides are poisonous and research shows they may be linking to increased breast cancer levels!
• We all know that our immune system fights off disease, virus's and sicknesses from our bodies. So take care of your immune system - it's your built in healing system by God the Creator. How do you take care of it?  By eating foods that feed it and keep it strong.  It's a simple concept but oh so true.  and if the immune system gets weakened - free radicals are taking over!  Your immune system  can keep things under control with your help.
• Exercise regularly - keep looking for something that gets you moving that you enjoy doing.  Your body needs to move - it helps every system you have!
• Remove the harmful chemicals in your life, period.  Remove them.  It takes time to do this.  But did you know that everything you put on your skin - is going inside your body.  So take a look at the ingredients of your favorite lotion, creams, facials, make up, shampoos, etc ... and see if you know or can even pronounce what are the ingredients!  There are many healthy organic beauty treatments on the market now that will replace all of the products  that have yet to be discovered what havoc these chemicals causing. 
• Learn to manage the stress in your life. Stress lowers your body's immune system. There is no one that can de-stress you but you.  So take the time needed to relax regularly
• Stop drinking alcohol. Period. The links between alcohol and breast cancer are strong indications of possible connections.
• Work on your weight. If you weigh more than is natural for your age and height, the extra fatty tissue is adding estrogen to your body.  And extra estrogen promotes breast cancer.

I leave you with one question - can you change your lifestyle?

You can't ....... or you won't?

Gayla Holley

 

Have a Cup of Green Tea

Green Tea Ingredient Slows Breast Cancer

Antioxidant in Green Tea May Stop Breast Cancer Growth

By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

April 7, 2008 -- An antioxidant in green tea may be a powerful weapon against breast cancer.

A new study shows the green tea antioxidant EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) significantly slowed breast cancer growth in female mice.

 © 2008 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved.

Previous studies have suggested that this antioxidant may protect against breast cancer and other cancers, but this research has been limited, and the mechanism behind these effects isn't clear.

Researchers say the results suggest that green tea's anticancer effects may be largely because of its high content of EGCG, which helps the body's cells from becoming damaged and aging prematurely.

Behind Green Tea's Anticancer Effect

In the study, presented this week at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference, researchers examined the effects of the green tea antioxidant on several indicators of breast cancer growth in laboratory mice.

One group of the female mice was fed a solution of the antioxidant in water for five weeks while the other received regular drinking water. During the second week of the study, researchers injected both groups with breast cancer cells.

At the end of the study, researchers measured tumor size, weight, and density as well as VEGF protein levels associated with tumor growth.

The results showed that treatment with the green tea antioxidant decreased tumor size by 66% and weight by 68% compared with the control group. Mice fed the antioxidant also had significantly lower density of small blood vessels within tumors and VEGF protein levels.

Researcher Jian-Wei Gu, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, says the green tea antioxidant may work against breast cancer by suppressing blood vessel growth in breast tumors as well as slowing the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells.

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SOURCES:
Gu, J. "Oral Administration of EGCG, an Antioxidant Found in Green Tea, Inhibits Tumor Angiogenesis and Growth of Breast Cancer in Female Mice," presented at Experimental Biology 2008, April 6-9, 2008, San Diego.
News release, The American Physiological Society.

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How to Head off Cancer

This article is printed in the April 2008 Edition of the Good Housekeeping Magazine.

How to Head Off Cancer

Confused by conflicting medical studies?

These eight strategies will help keep you healthy.

1. Live the active life. Even if you're lean, you can't rest on your laurels. You can't rest, period. According to a recent study cosponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, thin women who exercise for less than an hour per week are up to 32 percent more likely to die of cancer than equally slender but more active women. Experts think that regular workouts may boost your immune system, so it'll be better equipped to stop precancerous cells from becoming malignant. Exercise seems to pay off most in the fight against breast cancer, but it also helps prevent colon and ovarian cancers. How much walking, jogging, biking, swimming, or playing tennis do you need to do? The American Cancer Society suggests 45 minutes, five or more days a week. But everyday activities like gardening, cleaning the house, and washing the car count too, many experts believe.

2. Pay attention to extra pounds. Excess weight makes you more vulnerable to cancer of the breast, cervix, uterus, ovary, colon, kidney, liver, and gallbladder. In fact, the more overweight you are, the higher your risk will be: In a major study of 900,000 Americans, the heaviest women had a 62 percent higher death rate from cancer than women of normal weight. But if you drop pounds, you'll help lower your levels of insulin and other factors that promote cancer growth, says Cynthia J. Stein, M.D., M.P.H., of Harvard. To find out whether your weight puts you at risk, check your body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Ideally, it should be under 25 (you can find GH's BMI calculator "http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/bmi-calculator" Do you have a ways to go to reach 25? Smaller losses help too. Even avoiding any more gain is beneficial, since it prevents your cancer risk from increasing.

3. Say yes to fruits and veggies. They contain potent cancer-fighting compounds called antioxidants, which protect against cancer of the lung, stomach, colon, rectum, larynx, pancreas, breast, and bladder. In fact, if we all ate five or more servings a day, cancer incidence worldwide would drop by 20 percent, according to a report cosponsored by the American Institute for Cancer Research. You should aim for at least three veggie and two fruit servings daily.

4. Get the tests that truly prevent. When it comes to cancer screening, the Pap smear and colonoscopy are special: They find precancerous growths, which can be removed, thereby stopping cancers from ever starting, explains Peter Greenwald, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute. If your Pap reveals cells on your cervix, the OB-GYN can remove them via an office procedure. During a colonoscopy, the doctor can snip out any polyps -- growths of benign tissue that sometimes turn into cancer -- as he's examining your large intestine. You should have a Pap every year if you're under 30; after that, if you've had three normal tests in a row, you may be screened only every two to three years. Colonoscopy screening should start at age 50, then be repeated every five to ten years.

5. Get your vitamin D. A few months ago, a review of more than 63 studies found that this vitamin offers real protection against colon, breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. We suspect it helps keep cells tightly knit together, which prevents rogue cells from breaking away and mutating into cancer, explains coauthor Edward D. Gorham, Ph.D., of the University,San Diego. The best source of vitamin D is sunlight. But you have to be sunscreen free for ten to 15 minutes a day, twice a week. Alternate sources of vitamin D: fortified dairy foods, cereals, and orange juice; oily fish; and most multivitamins. How much do you need? The daily requirement is set at 200 international units (IUs) for women under 50 and 400 IUs for those who are older. But many experts feel intake should be closer to 1,000 IUs. Talk with your doctor.

6. Consider the Pill. Take it for ten to 12 years and you'll slash your risk of endometrial cancer by more than 70 percent and your risk of ovarian cancer by 50 percent or more. Even if you're on oral contraceptives for only one year, your odds of getting these two cancers go down. And protection continues long after you stop taking the Pill, for up to 30 years.

7 Pop the right supplement. In a study, women who took a multivitamin with folic acid every day for at least 15 years cut their risk of colon cancer by 75 percent; other research has linked folic acid to better odds against breast, cervical, and ovarian cancers. 8 Do the obvious -- quit smoking. Now there's a new reason: Smokers have a 30 to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer, says a study from the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Of course, quitting also cuts your chances of developing other cigarette-related malignancies -- of the lung, cervix, bladder.

These Studies are printed in the 2008 April Edition of Good Housekeeping Magazine. Their everyday tricks: How cancer experts fight cancer.

"I think it's important to have a multivitamin every day, but I hate swallowing pills. So now I take a chewable Flintstones".Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Prevention Center,Cancer Research Center.

"Every Sunday, I make a huge pot of vegetable soup, wash a ton of lettuce, and stock up on carrots to eat the rest of the week". Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D., professor of medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine.

"I wouldn't get to the gym if left to my own devices. So I joined with coworkers; peer pressure definitely works! I've also found a simple way to keep my weight down: I gave up tortilla chips". Marji McCullough, Sc.D., R.D., senior epidemiologist, American Cancer Society