Want some cancer with that burger? Eating meat linked to bladder cancer

(NaturalNews) No one wants cancer served up with their steak or hamburger. But that’s just what you may be getting. As NaturalNews has previously reported, numerous studies have linked meat consumption with cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/024966_inflammation_cancer_meat.html). Now comes evidence from scientists at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center that eating meat frequently, especially meat that is well done or cooked at high temperatures, significantly raises the risk of developing bladder cancer. These research cancer findings, recently announced at the American Association for Cancer Research’s 101st Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C., indicate that heterocyclic amines (HCAs), substances formed when meat (including beef, pork, poultry and fish) is cooked at high temperatures, may be what links meat to malignancies. Earlier research found strong evidence that 17 types of HCAs contribute to cancer. “It’s well known that meat cooked at high temperatures generates HCAs that can cause cancer,” study presenter Jie Lin, Ph.D., assistant professor in M. D. Anderson’s Department of Epidemiology, said in a statement to the media. “We wanted to find out if meat consumption increases the risk of developing bladder cancer and how genetic differences may play a part.” The M.D. Anderson researchers studied 884 patients with bladder cancer and 878 people who were cancer-free. The research subjects were matched by age, gender and ethnicity and followed for about 12 years. Using a standardized questionnaire designed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the scientists documented each participant’s dietary habits. Those who ate the most red meat had about one and a half times the risk of developing bladder cancer than the research subjects who ate little or no red meat. Beef steaks, pork chops and bacon raised bladder cancer risk the most. People who consumed a lot of well-done meat were at about twice the risk to develop bladder cancer as those who preferred rare meat. Even chicken and fish significantly upped the chances of getting cancer — but only if they were fried. The M.D. Anderson researchers also found that people with the highest estimated intake of three specific types of HCAs were more than two and a half times more likely to develop bladder cancer than those with a low intake of HCAs. In addition, the researchers analyzed study participants’ DNA to see if there were genetic variations that would make some people particularly more likely to develop cancer if they ate red meat. The results showed that people with seven or more specific genotypes who consumed a diet full of red meat had five times the risk of bladder cancer. “This research reinforces the relationship between diet and cancer,” lead author Xifeng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., professor in M. D. Anderson’s Department of Epidemiology, said in the media statement. “These results strongly support what we suspected: people, who eat a lot of red meat, particularly well-done red meat, such as fried or barbecued, seem to have a higher likelihood of bladder cancer. This effect is compounded if they carry high unfavorable genotypes in the HCA-metabolism pathway.” For more information: http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2010/well-done-meat-may-increase-bladder-cancer-risk.html http://www.naturalnews.com/025547.html http://www.naturalnews.com/025974_cancer_health_colon_cancer.html

KFC and Komen – What the Cluck? (Take action now!)

(NaturalNews) We’ve exposed the marketing fraud behind the Susan G. Komen “Buckets For the Cure” sham and we’ve satirized it with a hilarious online video and lots of editorial, but today it’s time to take action to let Susan G. Komen know their pinkwashing campaign has gone too far. To help us accomplish this, we’ve teamed up with Breast Cancer Action (www.BCaction.org), which is one of the very few honest non-profits out there. Barbara Brenner, the executive director of Breast Cancer Action, said this about Komen for the Cure: “This [partnership with KFC] will keep them in business for years. They talk about a cure, but this partnership will create more breast cancer. And Komen knows this.” So Breast Cancer Action has launched a “Stop the Pinkwashing” campaign. You can join in and let your voice be heard right here: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6098/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2758 Breast Cancer Action explains their take on the “Buckets for the Cure” sham as follows: We’ve seen a lot of outrageous stuff here at BCA, but we’ve never seen pink buckets of fried chicken being sold to “cure breast cancer”. KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have started a campaign telling us to buy buckets of unhealthy food to cure a disease that kills women. This pinkwashing is especially egregious because KFC, like most fast food chains, is overwhelmingly present in communities that have poor health outcomes. Susan G. Komen for the Cure knows that social inequities affect breast cancer mortality rates. Given this disconnect, we are especially disturbed by this partnership. It’s preposterous, and we have to tell them to stop. Every bucket makes a difference? Only to KFC’s bottom line. KFC is pinkwashing to make a profit, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure is accepting KFC’s bad-for-your-health money. Tell them to rethink this partnership. Say it to their face: The P.R. spinmeisters at Susan G. Komen You can also send emails directly to Andrea Rader and Emily Callahan , who are two of the top public relations executives at Komen for the Cure. Their direct emails are: Andrea Rader arader@komen.org Emily Callahan ecallahan@komen.org It’s okay that we’re publishing their emails because this is exactly what their job call for: Relating to the public. That’s why they call it “public relations.” If you send an email to these P.R. people, please respect the following guidelines: • Do NOT send threatening, insulting or otherwise spammy emails. • It is fine to express your displeasure or disagreement with the Bucket for the Cure program, but please do so with the support of reasoning that explains your position. (I.E. Fried chicken cannot cure cancer…) • Remember that if you email THEM, they will now have YOUR email address and they may send you back Susan G. Komen propaganda. • Once you email them, you can expect a canned reply containing yet more spin. It will explain, for example, that KFC has “healthy menu options” for people at the Komen for the Cure helps low-income women. (Actually, they primarily just go into black neighborhoods and irradiate the breasts of the women there.) But be prepared for a pretty hefty serving of pinkwashing B.S. when you receive your canned email reply. Also remember that their reply will seem genuine . You have to remember that all the people working at Susan G. Komen for the Cure actually believe they’re helping people . They “drank the kool-aid” so to speak, and they don’t see anything wrong with selling buckets of greasy fried chicken laced with MSG to African American women who will later be diagnosed with breast cancer. To them, that’s just their way of “helping women.” It’s sick and perverted, yes, but this is what they believe. So you’re probably not going to change their minds with one email, especially when their own salaries depend on keeping up the illusion that if people just buy more pink products, somehow a cure for breast cancer will be found. Here’s the take action petition again: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6098/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2758 Sources for this story include: CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/04/28/kfc.pink.bucket.campaign/

Low vitamin D levels are related to MS brain atrophy, cognitive function, studies show

Low vitamin D levels may be associated with more advanced physical disability and cognitive impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis, studies conducted by neurologists have shown.

Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic fatigue in brain injured patients

New evidence has shown that vitamin D deficiency is closely associated with the chronic fatigue that often follows post traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Buckets for the Cure challenged on the street by Jonathan Landsman

(NaturalNews) The host of the NaturalNews Talk Hour, Jonathan Landsman, recently hit the streets of New York to ask people what they thought about the idea of buckets of fried chicken curing cancer. This is in response to the recent alliance announcement between Komen for the Cure and Kentucky Fried Chicken, where pink buckets of chicken are now being touted as a way to “end breast cancer forever.” I recently wrote about the fraudulent marketing behind this Komen for the Cure sham. Read the full details here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028631_Komen_for_the_cure_pinkwashing.html Jonathan filmed his conversations with people on the street, and his hilarious video is available for viewing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvrzf-ZGPg When asked about using fried chicken to cure cancer, one man replies, “I don’t think that’s gonna cure breast cancer. The chicken itself is not even free range chicken, it’s probably processed on some kind of slaughterhouse farm. It’s horrendous. I don’t think it’s gonna cure anything.” Another woman says on the video, “If you want to support the breast cancer foundation, why don’t you just donate the money to the foundation instead of buying crappy chicken?” A third man adds, “That doesn’t look like something I would want to eat. I think it’s more likely to cause breast cancer. Doesn’t look too good to me. Deep fried.” Another woman who actually supports Komen for the Cure says, “If you value the life of a chicken and how they are put in these boxes, there are a lot of questions to be asked. Food, Inc. is a great movie to see.” A different woman adds on camera, “I think it’s horrible. I wouldn’t feed that to a pigeon. If you really want to help cure breast cancer, I think you should boycott all foods like this.” A man named Ethan says, “The Susan Komen organization should be focusing on healthful ways of curing this world, eradicating disease not encouraging it with this crap.” Watch the full video yourself at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvrzf-ZGPg

Susan G. Komen Buckets for the Cure program exposed: The buckets you buy make no difference (opinion)

(NaturalNews) The whole push behind the new “Buckets for the Cure” pinkwashing campaign by Komen for the Cure is to convince people to buy more fried chicken (which is laced with MSG, by the way) in order to “end breast cancer forever.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/images/KFC-SusanKomen-Cure-ScreenCapture02.jpg ) But NaturalNews has learned that there is no relationship between how many buckets of chicken are purchased by consumers and how much money KFC donates to Komen for the Cure. Consumer purchases of fried chicken don’t raise money for anything! As is stated directly on the Komen for the Cure promotional website, “Customer purchases of KFC buckets during the promotion will not directly increase the total contribution.” See the small print at the bottom of this screen capture: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/KFC-SusanKomen-Cure-ScreenCapture02.jpg And yet the Komen for the Cure website proudly proclaims, “Each bucket makes a difference. Help make the largest single donation to end breast cancer FOREVER.” This is an outright lie. Each bucket you buy doesn’t make any difference at all, as is admitted on their own website. This is an organization promoting fried chicken as a cure for breast cancer and using deceptive language to imply that buying fried chicken raises money for ending cancer. But you have to read the small print to learn that’s not really true. So we have layers of fraud upon fraud happening here: Fraud #1) Eating fried chicken will cure cancer. Fraud #2) Buying fried chicken will result in a monetary donation to Komen for the Cure. Fraud #3) That Komen for the Cure will ever “end breast cancer FOREVER.” These are all fraudulent marketing claims being made by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure non-profit, which is really a Big Pharma front group that causes breast cancer by irradiating women’s breasts with radiation machines (mammography). In the United States today, companies that have promoted the health benefits of cherries or walnuts are threatened with arrest and prosecution by the FDA, and yet a cancer industry front group is now openly claiming that fried chicken will cure breast cancer — and they get away with it! “Each bucket makes a difference,” they say. (http://www.naturalnews.com/images/KFC-EachBucket-Difference.jpg ) And yet, in reality, customer purchases of buckets of chicken “do not increase the total contribution.” Check out the “street talk” YouTube video by Jonathan Landsman which asks people on the street what they think about this idea of buying fried chicken to cure breast cancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvrzf-ZGPg Note that Komen for the Cure remains approved by the BBB and the Chamber of Commerce. And why not? If people eat more fried chicken laced with MSG, and then they end up in the hospital needing medical services, that’s good for the economy, right? What’s a little fraud as long as somebody’s making money? Fast food is great for the incomes of hospitals, cancer centers and funeral homes, by the way. See my CounterThink cartoon, “Business is Booming” to learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/028587_sick_care_health.html

Review of Bear Fruit Bars, USDA Organic real food bars made with nothing but fruit

(NaturalNews) In the world of food bars, it’s tricky to determine what’s really good for you. In this article, I’m going to reveal some common myths about food bars as well as a full review of certified USAD Organic Bear Fruit Bars (along with an amazing discount on getting some for yourself). First, let’s expose some of the myths of common fruit bars. The most popular fruit-and-nut bar on the market is Larabar . This bar, by the way, isn’t organic. It’s made almost entirely from conventionally-grown fruits and nuts. It’s not even owned by Lara anymore: She sold out to General Mills last year. So now Larabar is just another big-name brand with a mainstream product. Sure, it’s better for you than a Snicker’s bar, but it’s nowhere near the best that the industry has to offer. The second myth concerns so-called “energy bars.” In the food bar world, the term “energy bar” just means it’s made with a lot of sugars. I can call a sugar cube an “energy cube”, actually. Energy bars should probably be renamed “sugar bars” because they’re often made with high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids or other such sugars. The third myth is about “protein bars.” While there are some very nice protein bars on the market from companies like Jay Robb, Organic Food Bar and Greens Plus, most of the “high protein” bars on the market are loaded with isolated soy protein . In my view, that’s one of the worst proteins to consume. I’ve written about how soy protein is often extracted with the toxic (explosive) chemical called hexane . (http://www.naturalnews.com/026303.html) Introducing Bear Fruit Bars Bear Fruit Bars are made entirely from USDA-certified organic fruit such as Apples, Cherries, Blueberries and Raspberries. That’s it! There are no other ingredients whatsoever: • No additives • No preservatives • No artificial colors • No added sugars • No wheat, soy or nuts (no traces of peanuts, either) These bars are made only from organic fruit and nothing else. That makes them the simplest and most truly natural food bars available anywhere. Plus, they taste great! These are so good that even kids love them. And the USDA Organic seal is the real deal. This is what the Organic Consumers Association teaches everybody to look for. It’s the seal that means it’s truly organic . On top of that, these bars provide the all-important servings of fruits that are lacking in the diets of virtually everyone. According to a study undertaken by the USDA and the National Cancer Institute, then published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (in 2006), 60 percent of Americans aren’t eating enough fruits . Each Bear Fruit Bar provides from 1.5 to 2 servings of fruit, and it’s made with the peel of the organic fruit, which is where many of the most important nutrients are found. An amazing deal on Bear Fruit Bars for NaturalNews readers Bear Fruit Bars normally sell on the Morfoods website for $29 a box, or $116 for 80 bars (www.morfoods.com). That’s about $1.50 per bar. But thanks to our special arrangement with Morfoods, which makes Bear Fruit Bars, we’ve been able to offer Bear Fruit Bars at 30% off through this amazing deal: Get 80 bars of four different flavors for just $79.95. Or, you can pick up a box of 20 bars of any one flavor (apple, blueberry, cherry, raspberry) for just $24.95. Click here to take advantage of this special pricing . As you’ve come to expect, we’ve been able to secure the absolute best pricing you’ll find anywhere on these items. The NaturalNews Store is starting to become a bit famous, actually, for providing extremely high-end foods at amazingly good prices. (And we’ll keep bringing you these deals as best we can…) Bear Fruit Bars are among my top-recommended fruit bars. I travel with these because they make such an easy, nutritious snack on the plane, in a car, or hiking on a trail. They’re also super delicious, and we already know that blueberries, cherries, raspberries and other fruits offer their own unique health supporting benefits. Bear Fruit Bars offer a tasty, convenient way to increase your daily intake of these healthy fruits! Fascinating technology licensed from the USDA / ARS One of the interesting elements in this story centers around the question: How do these Bear Fruit Bars stay shelf stable even though they aren’t using any chemical preservatives? They’re actually good for two years without going bad. Pretty amazing shelf life for something with no chemicals, right? The answer may surprise you: They’re packaged using technology licensed from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), which developed a technique for drying the fruit just enough so that no bacteria can survive. Yet, surprisingly, the fruit stays chewy and pliable, sort of like a fruit leather but thicker and softer. You can read more about that USDA technology right here: http://www.naturalnews.com/022515.html To try these yourself, pick up our 4-pack of Bear Fruit Bars at 30% off retail price . At just $79.95 for 80 bars, it’s under a buck a bar (which is pretty amazing for USDA Organic fruit bars). Your whole family can enjoy these at work, at school, on the road and on the trail. Click here to save 30% on Bear Fruit Bars right now . I think you’ll really enjoy Bear Fruit Bars. I’m actually ordering a good number of extra boxes for my own travels.

New hope for patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

A daily dose of a specific form of vitamin E significantly improved the liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), according to a new study. In addition, Actos (pioglitazone), a drug used to treat diabetes, also improved many features of NASH but was associated with weight gain.

Is Drinking Water Really That Good For Your Health?

The health benefit of drinking water should be obvious to even the most casual observer. You can actually survive without food for months, but without water you would die after a few days, so needless to say, water is absolutely essential for all living things and the most important nutrient for your health.Good water is [...]

Trying to Deal With Hemorrhoids

As you begin to be affected by piles, the main piece of guidance you are just about certain to hear constantly is “Never pressurize.” Even though this holds true, it really is repeatedly not so practical. For what reason must you keep from pressuring? Is there certain pushing that could be worse than other ones? [...]

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