A case report on a woman diagnosed in August 2015 with stage 4 ER+/PR+/HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma who declined surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for an alternative protocol costing about $2,000 a month. The article says doctors confirmed her cancer had gone after 10 months.
Food Consumer
Politics
Just for today, don't think of yourself as a food activist - newsletter 110316 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter asking readers to back the #NoDAPL protests at Standing Rock and to drop single-issue labels, connecting the Dakota Access pipeline to what it calls collusion among Big Oil, Big Food, Big Pharma and other large industries.
Food
Eating raw garlic fights lung cancer
In a Chinese case-control study of 399 lung cancer cases and 466 controls, people eating raw garlic less than twice a week were 44% less likely to have lung cancer and those eating it twice a week or more 50% less likely. The design cannot establish cause.
Vitamins
Higher Dose of Vitamin D May Benefit Pregnant Women
USDA and UC Davis scientists report in The Journal of Nutrition that a vitamin D dose above the 400 IU common in prenatal supplements may reduce inflammation in pregnancy. Surveys suggest deficiency affects up to 69 percent of pregnant American women.
Diet
Why Holiday Eating Can Be Deadly
Adhesions left by past abdominal or pelvic surgery can squeeze the intestines shut, and a large holiday meal is often the trigger. The piece follows Dorise Hunt through seven surgeries for obstructions before she turned to a non-surgical therapy, the Clear Passage Approach.
Politics
Industry Watchdog: USDA Allowing Illegal “Organic” Produce Production
The Cornucopia Institute says the USDA has quietly let more than 100 soil-less operations be certified organic, and has filed a legal complaint against several agribusinesses and their certifiers. The National Organic Standards Board votes in November on whether to allow hydroponics.
Food
Jack of All Trades: Jackfruit Proving To Be An Appealing Meat Substitute Among Many Vegetarians & Vegans
Edward & Sons sells Native Forest Organic Young Jackfruit, grown in Sri Lanka and pitched as a vegan, soy-free and gluten-free meat substitute whose fleshy interior turns mild and meaty when cooked, suited to taco fillings and mock chicken salad.
Food
DuPont Nutrition & Health to Substantially Increase Probiotics Manufacturing Capacity
DuPont Nutrition & Health will spend about $100 million over two years to raise its US probiotics production capacity by another 70 percent, adding high-volume fermenters and other equipment in a second phase of expansion driven by growing global demand.
Diet
Home enteral nutrition helps gastrointestinal cancer patients
In a trial of 79 malnourished patients who had surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer, those given home enteral nutrition held their weight while those receiving only nutritional counselling lost 3.6 kg on average over two months, and they were more likely to finish chemotherapy.
Vitamins
Vitamin B12b boosts anticancer effect of ascorbic acid
A 2007 report by Russian Academy of Sciences researchers found vitamin B12b increased the hydrogen peroxide, oxidative stress, DNA strand breaks and cell death that ascorbic acid produced in human larynx carcinoma cells. Iron chelators and catalase blocked much of the effect.
Supplements
Oleanolic Acid Can be Another Cancer Treatment
A study in Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics reports that high salt-induced osmotic stress boosted cancer cell growth and aerobic glycolysis, and that oleanolic acid, found in olive oil and garlic, offset the rise in glycolytic enzymes and cut cell proliferation.
Food
Carrot juice may help leukemia
Treating myeloid and lymphoid leukaemia cell lines with carrot juice extract for up to 72 hours induced apoptosis and arrested the cell cycle, with lymphoid cells most sensitive and normal blood stem cells least affected, a UK laboratory study found.
Disease
Could bacteria cause breast cancer?
A study in Applied and Environmental Microbiology found Lactococcus and Streptococcus at high levels in breast cancer tissue, and Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus and Bacillus mainly in tissue from women without cancer. Whether the bacteria cause the disease is unknown.
Cancer
Isothiocyanates help fight breast cancer
Pairing lapatinib with sulforaphane, erucin or sulforaphene cut the viability and migration of both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant breast cancer cells in culture. Erucin worked best against the resistant cells, leading the authors to suggest isothiocyanates may shore up the drug's effect.
Politics
Trust the Feds? Are They Kidding? Newsletter 102716 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association newsletter revisits Rachel Carson's warning about the stream of new chemicals, argues U.S. regulators have delayed acting on glyphosate and atrazine while the EU banned dozens of pesticides, and cites the 2010 President's Cancer Panel.
Alerts
Crider Inc. Recalls Canned Organic Roasted Chicken Breast
Crider Inc. of Stillmore, Georgia is recalling about 5,610 pounds of Wild Planet Organic Roasted Chicken Breast produced January 16, 2016, after a distributor received two consumer complaints about foreign matter. The company received one report of a potential injury.
Lifestyle
Focusing on Pleasure of Eating Makes People Choose Smaller Portions
Writing in the Journal of Marketing Research, INSEAD's Pierre Chandon and UBC's Yann Cornil report that people chose smaller portions of chocolate cake when asked to vividly imagine the taste, smell and texture of similar desserts, and would pay more for them.
Food
Primal Essence Debuts New Line of Organic Herbal Super Teas
Primal Essence has launched a line of certified organic herbal Super Teas sold as whole-plant extracts. A squirt or two into hot or cold water makes a cup; 1.5-ounce bottles cost $9.99 and yield 50 or more cups, with no caffeine, sugar, gluten or GMOs.
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