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.

Infant Feeding Practices and Their Possible Relationship to the Etiology of Diabetes Mellitus

• American Academy of Pediatrics

Work Group on Cow's Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus

ABSTRACT

1. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus develops within a group of individuals who carry specific diabetes susceptibility traits. Because all of the potential diabetes "susceptibility genes" are not known, currently it is not possible to identify all individuals at risk. It appears, however, that a small percentage of such individuals will ever develop clinical diabetes mellitus.

2. The autoimmune destructive process may be triggered by a number of environmental events.

3. Early exposure of infants to cow's milk protein may be an important factor in the initiation of the β cell destructive process in some individuals. It is not known whether the cow's milk protein in commercially available infant formulas is associated with this process.

4. The avoidance of cow's milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM or delay its onset in susceptible individuals.

5. Research directed toward further defining the possible relationship between infant feeding practices and the development of IDDM is needed.

• Copyright © 1994 by the American Academy of Pediatrics

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/94/5/752.abstract

The Mainstreaming of Vegan Diets

Once the purview of a small group of devotees, more people -- including nutritionists -- are embracing plant-based eating plans

December 27, 2011

By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Vegan diets are considered by some to be extreme, a strict way of eating that exists on the radical fringes of vegetarianism.

But today, a growing number of people are giving vegan diets a second look, and nutritionists now believe that a well-thought-out vegan eating plan could be the most healthy way to live for most people.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/diet/articles/2011/12/27/the-mainstreaming-of-vegan-diets?msg=1

Giving babies salty food may create a lifelong preference

Diets including crackers, cereals and other high-sodium solid foods are linked to a greater fondness for salt, a study finds.

By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times

December 21, 2011

Feeding young babies solid foods such as crackers, cereals and bread, which tend to be high in salt, may set them up for a lifelong preference for salt, researchers reported Tuesday.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that efforts to reduce salt intake among Americans should begin early in life.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-babies-salt-20111221,0,6606273.story