What To Do If You’re Diagnosed With Cancer

While receiving a diagnosis of cancer will trigger shock, fear and paralysis, you need to begin to take action. Here are some actions you can take that were reported by Renee Bacher in AARP Bulletin/ Real Possibilities March 2016.

1. Choose a doctor with a lot of experience treating your type of cancer and also the stage you are at.

2. Check with your insurance provider to find out what is covered.

3. Check with another specialist if your cancer is rare, difficult to treat or has reoccurred.

4. Ask your doctor if you can take a couple of weeks to explore all your options including non-medical.

5. Use a cancer center that has a team approach and offers a variety of services for your physical, mental and emotional care.

6. Bring friends or family to an appointment as you may have trouble thinking clearly. They can even record the conversations about the disease and treatment options for you to review later.

7. See if you can find a clinical trial by going to www.cancer.org.

8. Follow a treatment plan that feels right to you.

9. Explore Alternative therapies, e.g.: using Vitamin D3, keytone diets, etc.

Combining Foods That Increase the Nutritional Benefits Of The Food

There are some foods that when you combine them together increase the nutritional benefits verse eating the foods at separate meals.

1. Combining Fish & Wine. Researchers found that people who ate fish and drank some wine with a meal had higher concentrations of omega-3s than nondrinkers who ate the same amount of fish. Beer and alcohol drinkers also had an increase in omega-3s. Heavy smokers in this study wound up lowering their omega-3s.
2. Combining Lemon & Tea. There are a group of antioxidants in black and green tea that are good for cardiovascular health which are called catechins. These catechins tend to break down during digestion so that less than 20% are available to the body. If you add a squeeze of lemon about 80% of the catechins survive digestion. If you purchase bottled tea, make sure it has ascorbic acid listed on the label.
3. Citrus & Iron-Rich Foods. Iron is not easily absorbed in the body, as a matter of fact, only 2 to 20% of the iron in plant foods is absorbed. The absorption level in meats and fish is around 15 to 35%. Eating citrus fruits and other vitamin C rich foods will triple the absorption of iron by the body.
4. Fat & Salad. Salads are rich in carotenoids that reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, preserve bone density and prevent macular degeneration. Adding a fat based salad dressing with olive oil or adding 11/2 hard-boiled eggs can double the amount of carotenoids absorbed by the body.

(Reported Tonia Reinhard, MS, RD, Bottom Line Personal, February 15, 2016)  

  Dying At Home Versus Dying in a Hospital

 This is an unusual question to examine.  Are there benefits to a person dying at home versus dying in a hospital? That’s what researchers looked at by examining 352 relatives of cancer patients . They published their findings in BMC Medicine. The researchers found there were a couple of conditions that had be taken into account before making a decision. First, the patient and the relatives all had to agree to the patient dying at home. Second, the patient needed to have access to palliative care and nursing support during the final three months of the person’s life.

With these conditions met, the patient died at home peacefully, plus they had no more pain than when dying in a hospital. So…if everyone can agree to the conditions, then, it would seem to me, dying at home would be the preferred way to experience the end of life.

 
  An Unexpected Problem With The Vaccine Gardasil
 

Gardasil is a vaccine that was developed for girls to protect against the human papillomavirus. While the FDA approved it, there has been a lot of controversy about its safety. Now, another safety issue has been raised by the American College of Pediatricians that Gardasil could be linked to an increased occurrence of premature ovarian failure in girls within weeks to years after receiving the vaccine. Prior to the use of the HPV vaccine, there were no reports of premature ovarian failure. Since 2013 there have been 213 cases reported and almost all of them were associated with Gardasil.

The College pointed out that long-term ovarian function was not a part of the safety studies or vaccine trials done on Gardasil. Finally, the researchers said that since many physicians are unaware of this possible connection, the number of premature ovarian failure may be much greater.

So…if you are thinking of having your daughter vaccinated, you might want to investigate the issue first.

(Reported Alliance for Natural Health, March 8, 2016) 

  Birds Are A Lot Smarter Than We Realize

There are Antarctic seabirds called skuas. These birds are so clever that they can recognize individual humans after seeing them only a few times. These birds were living in isolated areas so they had not been around humans. Two researchers would visit the birds’ nests once a week to check on their eggs and chicks. The birds were not happy about this intrusion and would attack the researchers. In the experiment, one researcher was the intruder person and had checked the nest the week before. The other researcher had never been to the nest before. They recorded how close they could get to the nest before the birds attached. Then they split up and walked in opposite directions and observed which person the birds chased.

As the weeks progressed, the skuas attacked the humans from greater distances from the nest and they only attacked the intruder researcher. Even though the researchers wore identical clothes, the birds could accurately identify which were the intruder people even though they had never seen a human. So…quite impressive for what we call bird brains.

(Reported blogs.discovermagazine.com, 3/29/16)

Beta-Blockers Are Turning Out To Have Complications

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people taking beta-blockers for high blood pressure were more likely to have complications such as heart attack or stroke within 30 days after non cardiac surgery. This means that if you are scheduled for non- cardiac surgery, ask your doctor if you should switch to a different blood pressure drug or temporarily stop taking the medication before surgery. The beta-blockers included drugs such as Lopressor, Corgard and Inderal.

(Reported Bottom Line Personal January 15, 2016)

It’s Time For Breakfast, So What Are You Eating That’s Not On The Label?

The Alliance for Natural Health examined common breakfast foods for the presence of glyphosate, which is a toxic herbicide that is the active ingredient in Roundup and is produced by Monsanto. This toxic herbicide has been showing up in people’s blood, urine and even breast milk.

ANH decided to test 24 popular breakfast cereals and their ingredients. The findings confirmed that glyphosate is found in these foods. They were even finding it in some of the organic products. This means that even products that are not sprayed directly can be affected by glyphosate.

ANH also reported that another new study had found that 85% of cotton products, such as, gauze, cotton balls and feminine products tested positive for glyphosate. This news makes it even more important that Vermont’s labeling of foods containing GMO substances goes into effect and not be blocked by Congress. We need to have the choice of having GMO foods which definitely have glyphosate in it verse those that don’t add it to the crops.

(Reported by ANH-USA Newsletter on April 19, 2016)

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