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Burzynski, the Movie

"Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history.

His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDA testing in 2011–barring the ability to raise the required $300 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials.
When Antineoplastons are approved, it will mark the first time in history a single scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patent and distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough.
Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chose these medicines instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation - with full disclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery - as well as systematic (non-anecdotal) FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparing Antineoplastons to other available treatments—which is published within the peer-reviewed medical literature.
One form of cancer - diffuse, intrinsic, childhood brainstem glioma has never before been cured in any scientifically controlled clinical trial in the history of medicine. Antineoplastons hold the first cures in history - dozens of them. [ANP - PubMed 2003] [ANP - PubMed 2006] [ANP - Cancer Therapy 2007] [Rad & other - PubMed 2008] [Chemo/Rad - PubMed 2005] 

This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons."

http://www.burzynskimovie.com/

http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/

Bone health in children

"Parents have been taught that they should provide calcium in their children’s diet by offering them cow’s milk and other dairy products. It is not uncommon to encounter pre-pubertal youngsters consuming 40 – 60 ounces of cow’s milk daily and much more than that in teenagers, often with cheese in the daily diet as well. What parents do not know is that the detrimental effects of all that milk and cheese far outweigh any benefit. These negative effects include not only significant obesity but protein, sodium, and phosphate loading. The result of this high dietary protein, phosphate, and sodium is calcium wasting with osteopenia, and later life osteoporosis. Urinary tract complications are also common and include uricosuria and hypercalciuria with renal stones and bladder dysfunction.

I encourage my patients’ parents to aim for plant-based sources of calcium in their children’s diets and to increase their children’s physical activity. Although there is now a push to increase physical activity for obesity prevention, physicans and parents often are not knowledgeable about the important relationship between weight-bearing exercise and building strong bones in children. This is becoming more frequently recognized in the geriatric population.

Lanou’s (Amy Joy Lanou (alanou@unca.edu), assistant professor) assessment of the scientific evidence behind what really builds strong bones (http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7572/763) is helping to dispel the myth behind our unnecessarily high dairy recommendations. More widespread awareness of this evidence will help build a new paradigm in which we can keep children healthy, fit, and strong for life. Exercise, avoidance of animal protein, combined with adequate vitamin D and calcium intake from plant-based sources will do more for our children’s bones than pushing extra milk or calcium supplements."

Sincerely,

Roberta Gray, M.D.,FAAP
2871 Oak Park Rd.
Rock Hill, SC 29730

http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/bone-health-children

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead - A Joe Cross Film

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead - A great name for a documentary. Joe is an Australian who travels to the USA for work. He was obese and suffering from Urticaria which makes him allergic to many things. There is no cure. Well, there was no cure. Joe travelled for 60days across the USA talking to people and consuming only fresh fruit and vegetable juice which he made himself. At the end of the 60days he was no longer obese, felt great and was cured of Urticaria. He inspired many other people to try juicing and they all had positive results. I have heard about the benefits of juicing from other sources and I think this has tipped me over into wanting to try it!


http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

On Nutrition: Reasons to have a cup of tea

BY BARBARA QUINN, THE MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD JANUARY 13, 2012

"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea," wrote Bernard-Paul Heroux. (http://www.quotegarden.com/tea.html)

What is it about a cup of hot tea that is so...soothing? I happen to think it’s the warmth that emanates from pretty tea cups. But scientists credit a host of naturally-occurring compounds in tea with beneficial health effects. All tea comes from the same plant: Camellia sinensis. And over the centuries as this plant grew in the sun, says the USDA Agricultural Research Service, it formed chemicals called "polyphenols" to protect it from the elements. Polyphenols are family to "flavonoids" — health-promoting antioxidant substances found in many fruits and vegetables.

Read more:
http://www.canada.com/health/Nutrition+Reasons+have/5992221/story.html#ixzz1jTXBApkl

Doctors Report Rise in Obesity-Related Cancers in US

January 07, 2012

Carol Pearson | Washington

"The American Cancer Society says in its annual report that fewer Americans are dying of cancer, but doctors are seeing more patients with cancers linked to obesity, including pancreatic and kidney cancers. And while breast cancer patients are living longer, the risks of developing this type of tumor are rising along with the growing rates of obesity."

Check out the full story at the link below...

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/Report-Obesity-Related-Cancers-Rising-136871703.html

FDA limits some antibiotic use in food animals

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times / for the Booster Shots blog

January 4, 2012, 1:07 p.m.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration prohibited some unapproved uses of antibiotics in livestock on Wednesday.

Farmers will no longer be able to administer a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins to cattle, pigs, chicken and turkeys in unapproved doses or frequencies, or as a means of preventing disease, the agency said."

You can read the full story by clicking on the link below....

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-antibiotics-livestock-fda-20120104,0,5365917.story

The really sad part of this story is that it took so long for the FDA to act. Their unwillingness to act is a symptom of the influence the Food Industry has over the FDA.