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Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar and its role in the spread of cancer


American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:35 UTC
Scientists close in on molecular moves that let tumor cells act as stowaways in lymphatic system.

Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and extensive system of lymphatic vessels into something of a highway to metastasis. Yet research unveiled this week may aid in the development of therapeutics that will put the brakes on such cancer spread, and the researchers who completed the study say the findings may extend to other lymphatic disorders.

In the latest issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the team at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California, San Diego, reports an important advance in the understanding of the molecular machinery needed for lymphatic cell growth.

"In many carcinomas, lymphatic vessels grow and remodel around and sometimes within tumors. This allows tumor cells to go upstream to the lymph nodes," explains assistant professor Mark Fuster, who led the study. Once tumor cells hitch a ride to the lymph nodes, the disease can be more difficult to fight. "We were trying to understand the mechanisms that turn on the growth of lymphatic vessel cells in the laboratory."

Comment: Read Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer? to further understand how cancer cells appear to fuel themselves exclusively through glycolysis (creating energy through the fermentation of sugar in the cytoplasm). And how high-in-animal-fat ketogenic diet, which eliminates almost all carbohydrates, including sugar, helps to prevent cancer cells from spreading.

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Family

Height: Very Poor Women Are Shrinking, as Are Their Chances at a Better Life

Donald G. McNeil
New York Times
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:21 UTC
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The average height of very poor women in some developing countries has shrunk in recent decades, according to a new study by Harvard researchers.

Height is a reliable indicator of childhood nutrition, disease and poverty. Average heights have declined among women in 14 African countries, the study found, and stagnated in 21 more in Africa and South America. That suggests, the authors said, that poor women born in the last two decades, especially in Africa, are worse off than their mothers or grandmothers born after World War II.

"It's a sobering picture," said S. V. Subramanian, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author. "It tells you the world is not getting to be a better place for women of lower socioeconomic status. For them, it's getting worse."
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Bacon

Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer?

Richard Friebe
Time Magazine
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:12 UTC
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The women's hospital at the University of Würzburg used to be the biggest of its kind in Germany. Its former size is part of the historical burden it carries - countless women were involuntarily sterilized here when it stood in the geographical center of Nazi Germany.

Today, the capacity of the historical building overlooking the college town, where the baroque and mid-20th-century concrete stand in a jarring mix, has been downsized considerably. And the experiments within its walls are of a very different nature.

Since early 2007, Dr. Melanie Schmidt and biologist Ulrike Kämmerer, both at the Würzburg hospital, have been enrolling cancer patients in a Phase I clinical study of a most unexpected medication: fat. Their trial puts patients on a so-called ketogenic diet, which eliminates almost all carbohydrates, including sugar, and provides energy only from high-quality plant oils, such as hempseed and linseed oil, and protein from soy and animal products.
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Beaker

Pediatricians Seek Better Regulation of Toxins

Liz Szabo
USA Today
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:30 UTC
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The U.S. needs to do a better job protecting children and pregnant women from toxic chemicals, says a policy statement out today from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The group says children's developing brains and bodies are far more vulnerable than adults' to toxins. And while pediatricians typically spend more time in the clinic than on Capitol Hill, the policy's authors say they felt compelled to advocate for patients who can't defend themselves.

"Kids don't vote," says pediatrician Jerome Paulson of Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., lead author of the statement.

The pediatrics group is the latest of a growing number of medical organizations - including the American Medical Association, American Nurses Association and American Public Health Association - to call for changes in the way that the government regulates dangerous chemicals.

Comment: Advocates such as pediatricians are valid in their concern that toxic chemical exposures are having serious effects on children. The following article is just one example of the neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals:

Mind Games: How Toxic Chemicals are Impairing Children's Ability to Learn
"The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals have created a silent pandemic in modern society."
By pandemic, the authors of The Lancet study mean that learning and developmental disorders are common, cut across all walks of life in all geographic regions, and are ballooning in prevalence. Changing diagnostic criteria, along with the absence of a nationwide registry, makes vexing the work of constructing precise time trends. The estimate most often cited by the medical literature is that developmental disabilities now affect about one in every six U.S. children, and most of these are disabilities of the nervous system. If accurate, this figure means that the number of children with neurodevelopmental disorders now exceeds the number of children with asthma, which is also a problem of pandemic proportion.

By silent, the authors mean that these disorders are subclinical. They don't announce themselves on an X-ray or in a pathology lab. There is no medical test to herald their increasingly familiar presence among us.


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Syringe

Vaccine/Autism Researcher and Denier Indicted on 22 Counts

Russ McAfee
The PPJ Gazette
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:28 UTC
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"But. . .didn't the CDC, FDA, AMA, WHO, and dozens of other "medical" officials tell us there was "nothing whatsoever to worry about in getting the flu shot?"

Big pharma and their hired town criers have communicated the little bit of mercury found in flu (and other) vaccines won't hurt kids or pregnant women.

Funny, I could have sworn the National Coalition of Women identified thirty-five hundred (+) women who took the "swine flu" shot had still-born babies (link). Remember how our BigPharma front-men and medical barkers rushed them and their children to the front of the line for the shots? How people trusted what the "medical authorities" told them?

Recall also how England's Medical Authorities teamed With BigPharma to pillory Dr. Andrew Wakefield publicly? And arranged to have a technical paper he published pulled from their "respected" Lancet Journal for even suggesting a vaccine-autism connection? How the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Sunday Times, CNN, and the rest of BigPharma's elite-controlled "press" had a field day - all because Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor, said in his paper there might be a link between autism,MMR vaccines, and the gut?

Got to ask yourself why this doctor was publicly demonized. Can't duck the question any more.
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Bacon

Study finds eating fatty foods can help stop seizures


ABC 2
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:00 UTC

For decades, doctors have struggled to find a reliable way to stop seizures but now, they think they may have found a big help in an unlikely place.

It's a special diet, called the "KETO" diet.

On this diet, 90% of your food comes from fat, bacon, heavy cream, mayonnaise and you're virtually forbidden from eating starches and sugars.

Comment: Check out these articles for more information on how fat stimulates the vagus nerve and how such stimulation helps with epilepsy:

Fat fights inflammation

Vagus Nerve, Epilepsy and Drug Addiction

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Bacon

High fat diet 'can reverse kidney failure' in mice with diabetes


BBC
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:43 UTC
A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists.

The study, published in journal PLoS ONE, showed a "ketogenic diet" could reverse damage caused to tubes in the kidneys by too much sugar in the blood.

In the UK around a third of the 2.8m people with either type 1 or 2 diabetes go on to develop kidney damage.

Diabetes UK said it was "questionable" whether humans could sustain the diet.
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Health

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Hits Teens, Too

Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay News
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07 UTC
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Dutch study finds pediatricians more apt to diagnose the condition than general practitioners

Chronic fatigue syndrome, often thought to be a condition that only afflicts adults, affects adolescents as well but is often overlooked, according to a new Dutch report in Pediatrics.

Though the syndrome is much less common among teens than adults, it often goes undiagnosed, especially by general practice doctors, according to Dr. S.L. Nijhof, co-author of the report and a physician at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital at the University Medical Center in Utrecht.

Nijhof isn't referring to the tiredness typical of growing, busy teens. "Fatigue is a common complaint among adolescents, with a good prognosis," Nijhof said. "Chronic fatigue syndrome is much less common, but with serious consequences."

Nijhof and fellow researchers collected data from 354 general practitioners in the Netherlands who responded to a national survey focusing on new patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, including the prevalence of the condition among their patients, meaning the number of cases at any given time. They also gathered information from a registry that recorded new diagnoses of teen chronic fatigue patients at pediatric hospitals, including the number of new cases a year, or incidence of the condition.
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Nuke

Radioactive Iodine In Phoenix Arizona Milk 1600% Above EPA Drinking Water Limits

Alexander Higgins
blog.alexanderhiggins.com
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:45 UTC
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Levels Of Radioactive Iodine In Phoenix Arizona Milk Samples At Levels Up To 1600% Above EPA Drinking Water Limit.
Japan nuclear radiation in Phoenix, Arizona milk samples show radioactive Iodine contamination levels up to 1600% above EPA drinking water limits. To make matters worse those contamination levels of radiation do not even include Caesium or other radioactive isotopes which were not even reported in the Arizona tests.

An anonymous tip points me to Phoenix Arizona Japan Nuclear Radiation tests for radioactive Iodine-131 has been detected in milks samples at levels up to 1600% above federal EPA drinking water standards. These are the highest known levels of nuclear fallout in tests to date for Iodine radiation in any milk samples.
Tip: much higher than the major news have reported.
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Better Earth

La Pachamama: Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth

John Vidal
The Guardian
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:42 UTC
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation


Bolivia is set to pass the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country's rich mineral deposits as "blessings" and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.

The country, which has been pilloried by the US and Britain in the UN climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts, will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.

Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature "to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities".

Comment: If you disregard the editorial tie-in to this story about long-term rising temperatures from human activity causing climate change, the Bolivian government's demonstration of respect for Earth as a living entity is nevertheless admirable.

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