Sunday, October 24, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Breast Cancer Link To Cleaning Products
US researchers found that women who reported high use of cleaning products, air fresheners and insect repellents had a higher risk of breast cancer compared with women who reported using them sparingly: however they cautioned that because the study relied on women's recall of product use, and their beliefs about how such products might contribute to cancer development could have influenced their recall, it should not be taken as proof of a link, but sufficient reason to research it more thoroughly.
You can read about how Dr Julia Brody, from the Silent Spring Institute, whose headquarters are in Newton, Massachusetts, and colleagues arrived at these findings in a report that was published online in the journal Environmental Health on 20 July.
For the study, which Brody and colleagues believe to be the first to investigate cleaning products and breast cancer, they conducted telephone interviews with 787 women in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1988 and 1995 and 721 women picked at random for comparison.
Brody told the press they found that:
"Women who reported the highest combined cleaning product use had a doubled risk of breast cancer compared to those with the lowest reported use."
She said use of air fresheners and products to control mold and mildew were linked to increased risk.
In the telephone interviews the researchers asked the women about product use, their beliefs about the causes of breast cancer, and their established and suspected breast cancer risk factors.
As well as looking for any links between product use and breast cancer risk, the researchers evaluated potential recall bias by doing what they called a "stratified analysis". They did this in two ways:
The results showed that:
But, they pointed out, the results also highlight the difficulties of trying to tease apart valid links from those tainted by recall bias, a common problem in studies that rely on self-reports.
"Recall bias may influence higher odds ratios for product use among participants who believed that chemicals and pollutants contribute to breast cancer," wrote the researchers.
However, they did not stop there, and raised an interesting counterpoint, arising from the results from the stratification analyses:
"Alternatively, the influence of experience on beliefs is another explanation, illustrated by the protective odds ratio for family history among women who do not believe heredity contributes 'a lot' "
Speculating on the potential influence of bias recall, Brody said that when people are diagnosed with cancer, they often think about what might have caused it: what happened in the past that may contributed to the disease?
"As a result, it may be that women with breast cancer more accurately recall their past product use or even over-estimate it," she said.
On the other hand, it could be that experience of a disease also affects our beliefs about what causes it.
"For example, women diagnosed with breast cancer are less likely to believe heredity contributes 'a lot', because most are the first in their family to get the disease," she added.
In other words, it is difficult to say which way recall bias might have influenced the results and whether such effects cancel each other out or reinforce each other.
Nonetheless, argued the researchers, given that it is biologically plausible that exposure to the sorts of chemicals contained in household cleaning products contribute to the development of breast cancer because many of them contain mammary gland carcinogens or chemicals that disrupt hormones.
In the light of the overall results, they recommended it would be worth doing a prospective study on the potential links between cleaning products and breast cancer that also brings in measurements from environmental and biological media. (Prospective studies avoid recall bias because they follow groups of people over time rather than ask them to recall the past).
If you would like a natural cleaner that kills more germs and pathogens, and is safe for your family click this link- http://www.kangenwaterlife.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/arkansas/go-green.html
"Self-reported chemicals exposure, beliefs about disease causation, and risk of breast cancer in the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study: a case-control study."
Ami R. Zota, Ann Aschengrau, Ruthann A. Rudel and Julia Green Brody.
Environmental Health Published online 20 July 2010.
DOI:10.1186/1476-069X-9-40
Additional source: BioMed Central (via ScienceDaily).
Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
You can read about how Dr Julia Brody, from the Silent Spring Institute, whose headquarters are in Newton, Massachusetts, and colleagues arrived at these findings in a report that was published online in the journal Environmental Health on 20 July.
For the study, which Brody and colleagues believe to be the first to investigate cleaning products and breast cancer, they conducted telephone interviews with 787 women in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1988 and 1995 and 721 women picked at random for comparison.
Brody told the press they found that:
"Women who reported the highest combined cleaning product use had a doubled risk of breast cancer compared to those with the lowest reported use."
She said use of air fresheners and products to control mold and mildew were linked to increased risk.
In the telephone interviews the researchers asked the women about product use, their beliefs about the causes of breast cancer, and their established and suspected breast cancer risk factors.
As well as looking for any links between product use and breast cancer risk, the researchers evaluated potential recall bias by doing what they called a "stratified analysis". They did this in two ways:
- In the first stratified analysis they looked at links between product use and breast cancer incidence arranged according to beliefs about whether chemicals and pollutants contribute to breast cancer.
- In the second they looked at links between family history and breast cancer incidence and also arranged them according to beliefs about how much family history contributes to breast cancer.
The results showed that:
- Risk of developing breast cancer was twice as high in the 25 per cent of women who reported the most combined cleaning product use compared to the 25 per cent who reported the least (they compared the uppermost "quartile" with the lowest: adjusted odds ratio OR was 2.1, with 95 per cent confidence interval CI ranging from 1.4 to 3.3).
- The result was similar for combined air freshener use (uppermost to lowest quartile comparison showed an adjusted OR = 1.9, with 95% CI ranging from 1.2 to 3.0).
- There was no such link with pesticide use.
- In the stratified analyses, the odds ratios for cleaning products linked to breast cancer risk were higher among participants who said they believed that pollutants contributed "a lot" to breast cancer, and tended towards null among participants who did not report such a belief.
- In comparison, the odds ratio for breast cancer and family history was also higher among women who believed that heredity contributed "a lot", and it was not so high among the rest (OR 2.6 versus 0.7 respectively: no overlap in the CIs).
But, they pointed out, the results also highlight the difficulties of trying to tease apart valid links from those tainted by recall bias, a common problem in studies that rely on self-reports.
"Recall bias may influence higher odds ratios for product use among participants who believed that chemicals and pollutants contribute to breast cancer," wrote the researchers.
However, they did not stop there, and raised an interesting counterpoint, arising from the results from the stratification analyses:
"Alternatively, the influence of experience on beliefs is another explanation, illustrated by the protective odds ratio for family history among women who do not believe heredity contributes 'a lot' "
Speculating on the potential influence of bias recall, Brody said that when people are diagnosed with cancer, they often think about what might have caused it: what happened in the past that may contributed to the disease?
"As a result, it may be that women with breast cancer more accurately recall their past product use or even over-estimate it," she said.
On the other hand, it could be that experience of a disease also affects our beliefs about what causes it.
"For example, women diagnosed with breast cancer are less likely to believe heredity contributes 'a lot', because most are the first in their family to get the disease," she added.
In other words, it is difficult to say which way recall bias might have influenced the results and whether such effects cancel each other out or reinforce each other.
Nonetheless, argued the researchers, given that it is biologically plausible that exposure to the sorts of chemicals contained in household cleaning products contribute to the development of breast cancer because many of them contain mammary gland carcinogens or chemicals that disrupt hormones.
In the light of the overall results, they recommended it would be worth doing a prospective study on the potential links between cleaning products and breast cancer that also brings in measurements from environmental and biological media. (Prospective studies avoid recall bias because they follow groups of people over time rather than ask them to recall the past).
If you would like a natural cleaner that kills more germs and pathogens, and is safe for your family click this link- http://www.kangenwaterlife.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/arkansas/go-green.html
"Self-reported chemicals exposure, beliefs about disease causation, and risk of breast cancer in the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study: a case-control study."
Ami R. Zota, Ann Aschengrau, Ruthann A. Rudel and Julia Green Brody.
Environmental Health Published online 20 July 2010.
DOI:10.1186/1476-069X-9-40
Additional source: BioMed Central (via ScienceDaily).
Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
Breast Cancer No Match For Peach & Plum Phenols Research Shows Alternatives to Chemotherapy
"Rich Lady" Beats Breast Cancer
AgriLife Research scientists say two phenolic compounds are responsible for the cancer cell deaths in the study, which was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. The phenols are organic compounds that occur in fruits. They are slightly acidic and may be associated with traits such as aroma, taste or color.
"It was a differential effect which is what you're looking for because in current cancer treatment with chemotherapy, the substance kills all cells, so it is really tough on the body," said Dr. David Byrne, AgriLife Research plant breeder who studies stone fruit. "Here, there is a five-fold difference in the toxic intensity. You can put it at a level where it will kill the cancer cells - the very aggressive ones - and not the normal ones."
Byrne and Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos originally studied the antioxidants and phytonutrients in plums and found them to match or exceed the blueberry which had been considered superior to other fruits in those categories.
"The following step was to choose some of these high antioxidant commercial varieties and study their anticancer properties," Cisneros-Zevallos said. "And we chose breast cancer as the target because it's one of the cancers with highest incidence among women. So it is of big concern."
According to the National Cancer Institute, there were 192,370 new cases of breast cancer in females and 1,910 cases in males in 2009. That year, 40,170 women and 440 men died from breast cancer. The World Health Organization reports that breast cancer accounts for 16 percent of the cancer deaths of women globally. Cisneros-Zevallos, an AgriLife Research food scientist, said the team compared normal cells to two types of breast cancer, including the most aggressive type. The cells were treated with an extract from two commercial varieties, the "Rich Lady" peach and the "Black Splendor" plum.
"These extracts killed the cancer cells but not the normal cells," Cisneros-Zevallos said.
A closer look at the extracts determined that two specific phenolic acid components - chlorogenic and neochlorogenic - were responsible for killing the cancer cells while not affecting the normal cells, Cisneros-Zevallos said.
The two compounds are very common in fruits, the researchers said, but the stone fruits such as plums and peaches have especially high levels.
"So this is very, very attractive from the point of view of being an alternative to typical chemotherapy which kills normal cells along with cancerous ones," Byrne added.
The team said laboratory tests also confirmed that the compounds prevented cancer from growing in animals given the compounds.
Byrne plans to examine more fully the lines of the varieties that were tested to see how these compounds might be incorporated into his research of breeding plums and peaches. Cisneros-Zevallos will continue testing these extracts and compounds in different types of cancer and conduct further studies of the molecular mechanisms involved.
The work documenting the health benefits of stone fruit has been supported by the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Tree Fruit Agreement.
Source:
Kathleen Phillips
Texas A&M AgriLife Communications
Friday, March 19, 2010
Tooth Soap The Natural Way To Brush
Because let's face it: You don't actually need to "scrub" your teeth with sand, chemical preservatives and sweeteners. Most toothpaste products are truly a joke -- they're loaded with synthetic chemicals that simply can't be considered safe for human consumption by any reasonable person. Cleaning your teeth only requires a type of soap, some water and some brushing action. You don't need dyes, sweeteners, sand and other nonsense ingredients.
Did I say sand? Yep: Most conventional toothpastes are made with "silicates" which is just another fancy word for sand. If you want to brush away your tooth enamel, scrub them with sand! But if you want to protect your teeth, then brush them with soap and water.
Of course, you wouldn't want to brush your teeth with regular household soaps. They're often loaded with fragrance chemicals that would taste awful. That's why Tooth Soap was created: It's formulated specifically for brushing your teeth, and it contains NO sweeteners, NO sand (silicates), NO fluoride, NO dyes, NO chemical stabilizers and absolutely none of the other chemicals often found in tooth-brushing products.
The ingredients of Tooth Soap are pure and simple:
• Specially formulated soap made from saponified coconut, palm, extra virgin olive oils
• Pure essential oil
That's it! (Plus, it's certified Kosher by Star-K.)
Tooth Soap, you see, really is soap for your teeth. This isn't a paste. It's not a gel. It's actually available in two forms:Liquid and Shreds. And it comes in Peppermint, Cinnamon, Spearmint and Ginger.
Right now we have the following on sale at the NaturalNews Store:
• Peppermint liquid and peppermint shreds
• Spearmint liquid and spearmint shreds
The deeply-discounted price is good while current supplies last: USE COUPON CODE SPRING
CLICK LINK http://toothsoap.com/healthy-products.php?af=1146887
Why I like Tooth Soap shreds
When it comes to Tooth Soap, I've used both the liquids and the shreds. They're both good products. Some people prefer the liquid, which they drop right into their mouth and start brushing.The shreds, on the other hand, are small waxy bits of solid Tooth Soap that dissolve into soap when you slightly chew on them and start brushing. So you put one in your mouth, chew on it a couple of times, then start brushing with a wet toothbrush. It immediately starts foaming up, generating an astounding volume of cleansing soap right in your mouth. It's super easy to use, and it really works! (I love these shreds. They're also perfect for traveling...)
Tooth Soap is also remarkably affordable! Way cheaper than most toothpaste products. One bottle of Tooth Soap shreds will last two people up to 3 months because you only need to use one shred per brushing. If you figure that's roughly 90 brushings multiplied by two people, it's 180 brushings in one container of Tooth Soap shreds. And thanks to the 40% off special we have going on right now, the price of this bottle is only $15.57 instead of the retail price of $25.95.
Dividing the sale price into 180 brushings means you're spending approximately 8.7 cents per brushing for what may be the most truly natural tooth cleansing product in the world!
That's competitive with products made with synthetic chemicals that fill your mouth with molecules that simply don't belong there!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
EGG WHITE PROTEIN
What Are Egg Whites?
Egg whites are exactly that, 100% pure liquid egg whites, just as if you cracked and separated them yourself at home. The only thing we did was to pasteurize them to avoid salmonella.
There are no additives or preservatives, no artificial ingredients or food colorings. Egg whites have a naturally light yellow color to them. You will notice this more in the bottle than in the frying pan.
The white substance floating on top of the bottles is the same white particle you see when you put an egg in the frying pan. This connects from the egg white to the egg yolk. We leave this in the egg whites because it has the highest concentration of protein in the egg. Just shake up the bottle before using. Egg whites are completely tasteless and odorless.
How Can Egg Whites Be Used?
They can be prepared and eaten the same way you eat eggs today. You can use them in baking and making pancakes or whatever you would normally use eggs for now. However, due to the heat pasteurization process, we do not recommend them for meringues or angel food cake.
They do make great omelets and scrambled eggs. Because the yolk is gone, so is the fat and the cholesterol. Therefore, the eggs tend to be fluffier and healthier without the yolk. They also make great smoothies and protein shakes, thanks to the pasteurization process that has eliminated the salmonella threat from drinking raw egg whites.
How Do I Measure Egg Whites?
3 tbsp of Egg Whites = 1 whole egg
2 tbsp of Egg Whites = 1 Egg White
1/2 cup of Egg Whites = 4-5 Egg Whites
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Is It Safe to Freeze Egg Whites?
Absolutely! You can even put a previously opened, partially used container of Egg Whites in the freezer. They will last indefinitely while frozen. To defrost, put the container on a paper plate and leave it overnight. Once defrosted, you must keep them in the refrigerator.
When Egg Whites freeze, the water separates from the egg and settles on top. Therefore, it may be necessary to Shake the bottle well before using. If the eggs tend to cook up watery, simply blend in a blender for a few seconds, or pour back and forth into another container to assure that the water mixes back into the egg.
For gallon containers, you nay need to pour back and forth into a larger pitcher. We do not recommend that you re-freeze the Egg Whites if it's not necessary.
What Is the "Shelf Life" of Egg Whites?
Our own personal tests have shown that Egg Whites, if maintained at 40 degrees or lower in the refrigerator, stay good for up to 6 to 8 months, even when opened. However, we recommend that you use them in 3 to 4 months to assure the best quality product.
If you freeze them, they will last indefinitely. To determine if they are good or not, the best test is to smell them. If there is any odor whatsoever, discard them. Egg Whites have no odor or taste.
What Is The Protein Benefit of Egg Whites?
Egg White protein is the purest form of protein known to man in the entire world. Each 8-ounce cup gives you 26 grams of pure protein, only 2 grams of carbohydrates, NO fat and NO cholesterol.
They are 100% bio-available, which means NONE of it's amino acids are wasted. No artificial protein powder can make that claim. Other high protein sourced foods and supplements need to be broken down before the body absorbs the protein.
All natural products have always been the recommended way to get the nutrients your body needs.
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How Are Egg Whites Separated?
The eggs are washed and placed onto a conveyor. The conveyor then cracks the eggs, drops them into a tray with holes in it. The tray catches the yolks but allows the Egg Whites to fall through the holes to another tray below.
A quality control person is there to clean out any broken yolks that might fall through with the whites. There is also a USDA Inspector that oversees the entire process to ensure consumer safety.
What Is Salmonella?
More than 90% of all eggs are free of contamination at the time they are laid. Contamination with Salmonella bacteria and with certain spoilage organisms occurs essentially afterward.
Proper washing and sanitizing of eggs eliminates most Salmonella and spoilage organisms deposited on the shell. Furthermore, our egg whites are pasteurized and 100% safe.
How Do You Pasteurize Egg Whites?
The Egg Whites are run through a series of heated tubes, almost like a big still, just hot enough to kill bacteria but not enough to cook the eggs. They are then tested for any signs of Salmonella bacteria.
What Happens To The Rest Of The Egg?
The yolks are sold to various companies that produce salad dressings, ice cream, mayo, etc. The egg shells are sold to various companies that include them in pet food as a calcium supplement.
I've been using Egg Whites International since 2004, following my pro rookie season. I was competing in the 250s, and at 6'2" I needed some new muscle very badly. In the first 30 days of using these Liquid Egg Whites in my protein drinks, I lost 3 lbs of body fat and gained 5 lbs of lean body mass.
Now I use one cup in every one of my shakes. Egg Whites International makes my favorite Protein drinks more bio-available allowing me to continue to make gains even though I'm now in my forties! I'm a lean 300 lbs in the off-season and a ripped 285 lbs on stage! Egg Whites International are a quick, easy way to increase and improve daily protein intake without increasing food volume!
- Toney Freeman
www.toneyfxman.com
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder
Read More Testimonials
This order comes with 4 - One Gallon Bottles.
Each GALLON OF 100% PURE LIQUID EGG WHITES are in an airtight, freezer safe plastic container.
Contains about 14 dozen egg whites per Gallon.
Based on 1/2 cup servings, for a 5 egg white omelet, each gallon will give at least 30 servings.
Must be refrigerated at all times.
Will stay good in your refrigerator for 3 to 4 months. Can be frozen indefinitely.
Egg whites are exactly that, 100% pure liquid egg whites, just as if you cracked and separated them yourself at home. The only thing we did was to pasteurize them to avoid salmonella.
There are no additives or preservatives, no artificial ingredients or food colorings. Egg whites have a naturally light yellow color to them. You will notice this more in the bottle than in the frying pan.
The white substance floating on top of the bottles is the same white particle you see when you put an egg in the frying pan. This connects from the egg white to the egg yolk. We leave this in the egg whites because it has the highest concentration of protein in the egg. Just shake up the bottle before using. Egg whites are completely tasteless and odorless.
How Can Egg Whites Be Used?
They can be prepared and eaten the same way you eat eggs today. You can use them in baking and making pancakes or whatever you would normally use eggs for now. However, due to the heat pasteurization process, we do not recommend them for meringues or angel food cake.
They do make great omelets and scrambled eggs. Because the yolk is gone, so is the fat and the cholesterol. Therefore, the eggs tend to be fluffier and healthier without the yolk. They also make great smoothies and protein shakes, thanks to the pasteurization process that has eliminated the salmonella threat from drinking raw egg whites.
How Do I Measure Egg Whites?
3 tbsp of Egg Whites = 1 whole egg
2 tbsp of Egg Whites = 1 Egg White
1/2 cup of Egg Whites = 4-5 Egg Whites
Is It Safe to Freeze Egg Whites?
Absolutely! You can even put a previously opened, partially used container of Egg Whites in the freezer. They will last indefinitely while frozen. To defrost, put the container on a paper plate and leave it overnight. Once defrosted, you must keep them in the refrigerator.
When Egg Whites freeze, the water separates from the egg and settles on top. Therefore, it may be necessary to Shake the bottle well before using. If the eggs tend to cook up watery, simply blend in a blender for a few seconds, or pour back and forth into another container to assure that the water mixes back into the egg.
For gallon containers, you nay need to pour back and forth into a larger pitcher. We do not recommend that you re-freeze the Egg Whites if it's not necessary.
What Is the "Shelf Life" of Egg Whites?
Our own personal tests have shown that Egg Whites, if maintained at 40 degrees or lower in the refrigerator, stay good for up to 6 to 8 months, even when opened. However, we recommend that you use them in 3 to 4 months to assure the best quality product.
If you freeze them, they will last indefinitely. To determine if they are good or not, the best test is to smell them. If there is any odor whatsoever, discard them. Egg Whites have no odor or taste.
What Is The Protein Benefit of Egg Whites?
Egg White protein is the purest form of protein known to man in the entire world. Each 8-ounce cup gives you 26 grams of pure protein, only 2 grams of carbohydrates, NO fat and NO cholesterol.
They are 100% bio-available, which means NONE of it's amino acids are wasted. No artificial protein powder can make that claim. Other high protein sourced foods and supplements need to be broken down before the body absorbs the protein.
All natural products have always been the recommended way to get the nutrients your body needs.
How Are Egg Whites Separated?
The eggs are washed and placed onto a conveyor. The conveyor then cracks the eggs, drops them into a tray with holes in it. The tray catches the yolks but allows the Egg Whites to fall through the holes to another tray below.
A quality control person is there to clean out any broken yolks that might fall through with the whites. There is also a USDA Inspector that oversees the entire process to ensure consumer safety.
What Is Salmonella?
More than 90% of all eggs are free of contamination at the time they are laid. Contamination with Salmonella bacteria and with certain spoilage organisms occurs essentially afterward.
Proper washing and sanitizing of eggs eliminates most Salmonella and spoilage organisms deposited on the shell. Furthermore, our egg whites are pasteurized and 100% safe.
How Do You Pasteurize Egg Whites?
The Egg Whites are run through a series of heated tubes, almost like a big still, just hot enough to kill bacteria but not enough to cook the eggs. They are then tested for any signs of Salmonella bacteria.
What Happens To The Rest Of The Egg?
The yolks are sold to various companies that produce salad dressings, ice cream, mayo, etc. The egg shells are sold to various companies that include them in pet food as a calcium supplement.
I've been using Egg Whites International since 2004, following my pro rookie season. I was competing in the 250s, and at 6'2" I needed some new muscle very badly. In the first 30 days of using these Liquid Egg Whites in my protein drinks, I lost 3 lbs of body fat and gained 5 lbs of lean body mass.
Now I use one cup in every one of my shakes. Egg Whites International makes my favorite Protein drinks more bio-available allowing me to continue to make gains even though I'm now in my forties! I'm a lean 300 lbs in the off-season and a ripped 285 lbs on stage! Egg Whites International are a quick, easy way to increase and improve daily protein intake without increasing food volume!
- Toney Freeman
www.toneyfxman.com
IFBB Pro Bodybuilder
Read More Testimonials
This order comes with 4 - One Gallon Bottles.
Each GALLON OF 100% PURE LIQUID EGG WHITES are in an airtight, freezer safe plastic container.
Contains about 14 dozen egg whites per Gallon.
Based on 1/2 cup servings, for a 5 egg white omelet, each gallon will give at least 30 servings.
Must be refrigerated at all times.
Will stay good in your refrigerator for 3 to 4 months. Can be frozen indefinitely.
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