Monthly Archives: October 2010
Jacksonville Beach Florida Chiropractor Explains Cancer Fighting Super Foods
| October 29, 2010 | Posted by Dr.John under Jacksonville beach nutrition |
Super foods, as they have been dubbed, are actually foods that are nutrient dense but contain no additives or preservatives. Eaten alone or in combination with other foods, they provide nutrients needed by the body in high enough quantities to make a difference in your health and your life in general.
This begs the question: Why do we need pills when we have super foods? Medicine has its place, but to maintain overall health, lower risk of certain diseases, and to age well, you’ll need to create a healthy body. Daily care and feeding of the human machine is where we begin our lifetime of maintenance on our most precious asset – our body.
Cancer Fighting Super Foods:
One of the most destructive diseases, both for the person diagnosed and for the family, is cancer. Even though cancer remains somewhat of a mystery for most of us, research is proving more and more that healthy lifestyles can have a direct impact on your ability to ward off this terrible disease. Several super foods shown to have preventative properties are discussed here.
Cancer as an Illness:
Cancer in a few words is an overgrowth of cells. That’s medical. To you, it’s a disease that begins one place and weakens the body as it runs rampant throughout the body. Some cancers are hereditary. You are at risk if an immediate family member has been diagnosed before. Other cancers can come as a result of lifestyle choices.
In either case, you can help battle cancer. Improve your health as much as you can to decrease the chances of encountering cancer.
If cancer is already a part of your life, you have ways to help build your system to fight the disease. Unlike many years ago, cancer is often preventable and treatable. One way to fight cancer is with your diet.
Fighting Cancer with Food:
Natural foods are not just nourishment for your body but also nutrition and healing. These foods have incredible properties derived from the earth and the environment to give your body what it needs. Putting those things in your body will make a huge difference in your health and your life.
Tomatoes – This versatile vegetable/fruit contains lycopene, a powerful antioxidant. Lycopene helps to improve immunity. It also provides a layer of cell protectors against invaders like cancer. Unlike other raw veggies, tomatoes work best when they are cooked or processed. Eat fresh cooked tomatoes in homemade tomato paste, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, or stewed.
Strawberries – This spring and summer berry is great not only to eat fresh but also in desserts, on breakfast cereal, and in salads. They are full of antioxidants that have been shown to help slow the growth of cancerous tumors. Flavonoids are also part of the strawberry’s design. They are instrumental in helping prevent lung cancer.
Dark chocolate – Now you can tell your friends that when you reach for chocolate to treat yourself, you are reducing your risk of cancer. Dark chocolate contains the most cocoa solids of all the chocolates. This rich and luscious treat is full of antioxidants including flavonoids. Not only does it help reduce the size of tumors and inhibit some cancers, it also improves moods, fights certain illnesses by increasing immunity, and has more antioxidants than blueberries.
Broccoli – This and other cruciferous veggies help to reduce the size of certain cancerous tumors. Broccoli is also regarded as a de-toxifier, cleansing the system, which is seen as a benefit in both prevention of cancer and in treatment.
Be proactive in your health. Take a stand and change the things that you can control. Change your diet to include cancer fighting super foods to reduce your risk of cancer and to maintain a healthy life.
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As natural health care provider and chiropractor in Jacksonville Beach Fl., I see my job as educating, coaching, and nurturing my patients to better health and wellness.
Yours In Health,
Dr. John
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs may Be Dangerous to Your Health Says Dr. Davenport, A Chiropractic And Orthomolecular Physician In Jacksonville Beach Florida.
| October 26, 2010 | Posted by Dr.John under Jacksonville beach nutrition |
Statin drugs are used to lower cholesterol. They include Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium), Lescol (fluvastatin sodium), Altocor or Mevacor (lovastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin sodium), Zocor (simvastatin), and Crestor (rosuvastatin).
Most conventional medical doctors are convinced that statin drugs are harmless and should be routinely prescribed for anyone with cholesterol levels above 200. These doctors cite a number of studies in which statin use has lowered the number of coronary deaths compared to controls. But if we look a little deeper into these studies, we see that statin medications don’t significantly reduce the risk of death associated with heart disease.
Potential side effects of statin drugs: In fact, statins increase the risk of death overall. The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology reported on an analysis of all the major controlled trials before the year 2000 and found that long-term use of statins for primary prevention of heart disease produced a one percent greater risk of death over 10 years, compared to placebo.
Statins, beta-blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, and benzodiazepine drugs can all suppress the body’s formation of CoQ10.
CoQ10 is an enzyme that works with other enzymes to keep the body’s metabolic functions working at optimal levels. Small amounts of CoQ10 are found in food, but getting enough in our diets is a challenge.
We find it in meat, dairy, and certain vegetables. But it would take, for instance, one pound of sardines or two-and-a-half pounds of peanuts to provide just 30mg of CoQ10. In addition, blood levels of CoQ10 decrease with age, high blood pressure, statin use, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
A CoQ10 deficiency can lead to diffuse muscle pain and weakness as well as fatigue, angina (chest pain), hypertension, anxiety, depression, poor breathing, accelerated aging, mental confusion, poor memory, tingling or pain in the hands and feet, and even heart disease.
Dr. Karl Folkers, who has been honored with the Priestly Medal – the highest award bestowed by the American Chemical Society – for his work with CoQ10, believes that suboptimal nutrient intake in people is nearly universal and that these tendencies prevent the biosynthesis of CoQ10.
This biosynthesis of CoQ10 from the amino acid tyrosine is a complex, highly vulnerable, 17-step process. It requires at least seven vitamins (B2, B3, B6, folic acid, B12, C, and B5), and a number of drugs are known to deplete the body of some of these vitamins.
Researchers estimate that as little as a 25 percent decline in bodily CoQ10 will initiate several disease states, including high blood pressure, heart disease, fatigue, cancer, and immune dysfunction.
Considering the added stress posed in today’s society and the need for an ever-increasing amount of antioxidants. Unless we are supplementing with CoQ10, most of use are increasing our potential for disease.
If you would like to learn more about how you can stay health, Click Here to sign up for my free Health Matters Newsletter.
As natural health care provider and chiropractor in Jacksonville Beach Fl., I see my job as educating, coaching, and nurturing my patients to better health and wellness.
Yours In Health,
Dr. John
