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Flu Jab and Vitamin D  10.12.08

Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, “Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.”

 

Health officials say that every winter 36,000 people will die from it. But the National Vital Statistics Reports compiled by the CDC show that only 1,138 deaths a year occur due to influenza alone -- more than 34,000 of the “36,000″ flu deaths are actually pneumonic and cardiovascular deaths.

 

There is also a lack of evidence that young children benefit from flu shots. In fact, a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo. But there is also a risk of harm from the flu vaccine itself, particularly from the mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde it contains.

 
 
 
 
 
Psychologies Magazine Excerpt P187 
GREEN TEA - A bit misunderstood
Theres no doubt green tea is showing staggering health benefits in th elatest trials, its been found tha within four minutes of drinking a cup arteries can expand by four percent boosting heart health while the main antioxidant called ECGC may dissolve the brain plaques linked to Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease. These new findings add to previous trials showing anti-cancer activity, immune stimulation and even the ability to fight food poisoning, but you need to know a few things. First for maximum results don't drink the tea neat - add lemon. ' The catechins in green tea aren't actually absorbed by that well by our bodies' says Dr Mario Ferruzi from Purdue University in Indiana. 'About 80% of them are destroyed by the low acidity in the intestines'. Adding lemon juice increases acidity and boosts catechin absorption five fold. Also experiment with different varieties. Experts at the University of Colorado have found Matcha, a powdered form of green tea is at least three times more potent than normal green tea.
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Our Matcha Article in April's 2008 Essentials Magazine.
 
 

Joint research backs Tai Chi and Hydrotherapy to beat back pain.(The Times)

 

 

 Hydrotherapy and Tai Chi the Chinese exercise system can help older people with arthritis to move and feel better Australian research suggests.

Among men and women aged 60 and older with chronic osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, those who had hydrotherapy or practised Tai Chi over 12 weeks experienced significant reduction in pain and increased physical function scores. Participants in the hydrotherapy group were more likely to attend sessions than those just assigned to Tai Chi, the researchers from George Institute for International Health at the University of Sydney report in the medical journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
They randomly assigned 152 people to hydrotherapy, Tai Chi or a waiting group to hour long classes twice a week. At 24 weeks all improvements had been sustained and were greater than have been demonstrated in studies of traditional land based exercise for arthritis patients.(Reuters)
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Do people with lots of moles age better?
 
Having lots of moles may be a free ticket to aging gracefully. In study performed by King’s College in London, scientists found that the more moles a person had, the more likely their DNA was to have properties that fight off aging.

The researchers looked at the telomere length in cells of 1,800 twins. Telomeres are bundles of DNA found in all cells that protect chromosome ends, similar to the plastic tips on shoelaces that keep them from unraveling. Since telomeres get shorter as we age, they are also good indicators of how the heart, muscle, bones and arteries are aging.

Telomere length was found to be longer among people with a lot of moles (more than 100) than those with only a few (less than 25). In all, the extra telomere length amounted to the equivalent of six to seven years of aging!

Conventionally, having a lot of moles has been considered a risk factor for skin cancer, but this study points to a positive effect of moles on telomeres.

On average, people with white skin tend to have about 30 moles, though some may have up to 400. The function of moles, along with why some people have more than others, is currently unknown.
 
 
 
Vitamin D and Cancer
 
An American study scheduled for a June release compared the health of some 1,200 female patients, some of whom took a vitamin D supplement while others didn't.

The number of patients who reduced their risk of cancer by taking a vitamin D supplement -- 60 percent -- was so unexpectedly high that some initially believed it to be a typographical error.

This study, and many similar ones, may force conventional medicine to re-evaluate its vitamin D recommendations. A deficiency in vitamin D figures into many diseases in addition to cancer. One researcher pointed out, "We don't really know what the status of chronic disease is in the North American population, until we normalize vitamin D status."