Research presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium concluded that there is a link between starch intake and a greater risk of breast cancer recurrence. It is not just overall carbohydrate but starch intake and “women who increased their starch intake over one year were at a much likelier risk for recurring.”
Researchers analyzed a subset of 2,651 women who participated in the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Dietary Intervention Trial that enrolled 3,088 breast cancer survivors in a plant-based intervention trial. Subjects were followed for 7 years.
Researchers looked at how changes in carbohydrate intake influenced breast cancer recurrence in the subset of subjects. Carbohydrate intake data was obtained from multiple 24-hour dietary recalls at baseline and at one year later. In an annual telephone interview subjects reported what they had eaten during the past 24 hours. Carbohydrate intake at baseline was 233 grams daily. Women whose cancer recurred had a mean increase in carbohydrate intake of 2.3 grams a day during the first year whereas women whose cancer did not recur had a mean increase of 2.7 grams per day during the same period. Changes in starch intake were evaluated and the mean change for women who had recurrences was -4.1 grams a day and for those whose cancer did not return it was -8.7 grams a day. Overall, changes in starch accounted for 48% of the changes in carbohydrate intake. In addition, when changes in the starch intake were grouped into quartiles of change, the risk of recurrence was 9.1% among women who decreased their starch intake the most for the year compared to a risk of 14,2% for women who increased their starch intake the most over the year. After stratifying the sample by tumor grade, the researchers found that the increases observed were limited to women with lower-grade breast cancer.

Research published in Blood concluded that a compound found in fish oil kills cancer causing stem cells in the spleen and bone marrow of mice by activating a gene-p53-in leukemia stem cells that program the cell’s own death. “p53 is a tumor suppressor gene that regulates the responses to DNA damage and maintains genomic stability” according to the researcher. Killing the stem cells is important because they can divide and and produce more cancer cells.
The compound from fish oil that seems to target leukemia stem cells is delta-12-protagiandin J3, or D12-PGJ3. It killed the stem cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in mice.
Current treatment for leukemia is unable to kill the leukemia stem cells and the patient must continue to take medications or the disease will relapse because stem cells are resistant to the drugs. Thus, this is an important discovery.
During the study, researchers injected each mouse with about 600 nanograms of D12-PGJ3 daily for a week. Results showed that the mice were completely cured, the blood count was normal, and the spleen returned to a normal size. There was no relapse of the disease.
The researchers are currently studying whether or not the compound can be used to treat terminal stages of CML because currently there are no drugs available that can treat this stage of the disease.

Dr Stefan Ripich (left), Dr Joe Ahrens (center) and Devin Hastings were interviewed yesterday by Dr Carl O Helvie, Host, Holistic Health Show. Dr Ripich is a naturopathic physician and certified nurse practitioner who is in private practice in New Mexico and is author of the 30 Day Diabetes Cure. More information is available at: http://www.30daydiabetescure.com

Dr Joe Ahrens is CEO of ATM Metabolics, LLC, and has authored The Grapefruit Solution more information is available at: http://www.atmmetabolics.com

Devin Hastings is President of Minnesota Institute of Advanced Communications Skills and Owner, of MindBodyHypnosis. He is author of several books including 21st Century Medicine: New Answers for Those Who Suffer in Silence; Control Your Diabetes With Hypnosis: Anxiety, OCD and Hypnosis: New Answers for Those who Suffer in Silence: and Become a Certified Diabetes Motivational Coach. More information is available at: http://www.miacs.net

Enjoy the Interview Below.

Dr Shanahan is the Medical Director of the Bedford Center for Medical Nutrition in Bedford, New Hampshire and author of Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes need Transition Food and also Food Rules: A Doctor’s Guide to Healthy Eating.  More information is available at: http://www.trimprogram.com

Dr Ripich is a naturopathic physician and certified nurse practitioner who practices  in Sante Fe, New Mexico  and is the author of the 30 Day Diabetes Cure. More information is available at: http://www.30daydiabetescure.com

Enjoy the interviews below:

Guest of Dr Carl O Helvie, Host, of the Holistic Health Show on Saturday will be Dr Catherine Shanahan, M.D. and Dr Stefan Ripich, N.D. and N.P., who will talk about natural solutions for diabetes.

Dr Shanahan, who like to be called Dr Cate, is a board certified Family Practitioner and Medical Director of the Bedford Center for Medical Nutrition in Bedford, New Hampshire. She is also author of Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Transitional Food: and Food Rules: A doctors Guide to Healthy Eating. She uses a diet program that gets diabetics off medications. More information is available at: http://www.TRIMprogram.com

Dr Ripich is a Naturopathic Physician and Certified Nurse Practitioner. He practices in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is the author of The 30-Day Diabetes Cure which is available as a book and Video Coach DVD Set. He says that every patient who has followed this 30 day program has successfully reversed symptoms of type 2 diabetes. More information is available at: http://www.30daydiabetescure.com

On Saturday Dr Carl O Helvie, Host, Holistic Health Show will interview Dr James Occhiogrosso (left) and Mr Dwayne McCulley about natural solutions for diabetes.

Dr Occhiogrosso is a Natural Health Practitioner (N.D.), Master Herbalist (M.H.), Nutritional counselor (C.N.C.), and author of the book “Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life” – published by Glenbridge Publishing, Centennial, CO. in 2007 and several other books. He has several diabetic clients – and with the combination of herbal and nutritional supplements as well as lifestyle changes, most of them are maintaining good blood sugar control.

Dr Occhiogrosso specializing in natural anti-aging and other male and female health issues and maintains an active practice helping both men and women overcome hormonal and sexual issues associated with aging, including erectile dysfunction, lack of libido, PMS and menopausal problems, and often acts as an advisor for men with prostate cancer whose doctors recommend a “watchful waiting” or “active surveillance” approach. Salivary home hormone test kits as well as bio-identical hormone creams are available at his websites where you can also sign up for his free “Health Naturally” newsletter. More information is available at:
http://www.healthnaturallytoday.com http://www.prostatehealthnaturally.com

Mr Dwayne McCulley is an engineering graduate of Pennsylvania State University who used his 30 year engineering experience to wean himself off insulin and other drugs. He used a plant-based nutritional program and wrote a best selling book titled Death to Diabetes . Recently he completed a new books on juicing and a cookbook.
Dwayne travels around the country conducting corporate wellness workshops and webinars to help diabetics in the U.S. and around the world. More information is available at: http://www.DeathToDiabetes.com

A new study reported in the October issue of the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB journal) concluded that resveratrol in red wine stops breast cancer cells from growing by blocking the growth effects of estrogen. These findings vary from earlier findings about red wine and cancer. The researchers used several breast cancer cell lines expressing the estrogen receptor to test the effect of resveratrol. Comparing the growth of cells treated with resveratrol to those untreated they found an important reduction in cell growth in the cells treated with resveratrol but no reduction in growth of the untreated cells. Additional studies showed that this reduction in growth was related to a drastic reduction of estrogen receptor levels caused by the resveratrol. The authors concluded that although these findings are exciting, “in no way does it mean that people should go out and start drinking red wine or resveratrol supplements as a treatment for breast cancer.”

A recent study published in Nutrition and Cancer concluded that eating legumes at least 3 times a week and brown rice at least weekly may reduce the risk of colon polyps by 33 percent and 40 percent respectively. In addition,eating cooked green vegetables daily compared to less than 5 times a week was associated with a 24 percent reduction in polyps and eating dried fruits three times a week compared to less than once a week was associated with a 26 percent reduction.

Over Twenty eight hundred subjects participating in the Adventist Health Study -1 were evaluated for how often they ate specific foods. Twenty six years later during The Adventist Health Study-2 the subjects completed a questionaire and those in this study who had undergone colonoscopies were asked to indicate physician-diagnosed colorectal polyps. During the 26 years there were 441 subjects with colorectal polyps. Several possible confounding factors were assessed including family history of colorectal cancer, educational level, physical activity, smoking history, alcohol level, constipation, intake of sweets, pain medication, multivitamins and food. The factors shown to distort the effects of food and food groups were adjusted. More research should be carried out on food groups and polyps.

A new study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, and based upon mice research concluded that eating a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrate may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors.

The researchers implanted various strains of mice with human tumor cells or with mouse tumor cells and assigned them to one of two diets. One diet that was typical of Western diets contained about 55% carbohydrates, 23% protein and 22% fat. The other diet was high in protein, contained 15% carbohydrate , 58% protein, and 26% fat.

Findings showed that tumors consistently grew slower in the Hi-Protein, Lo-Carb diet. In one group of mice genetically predisposed to breast cancer half were placed on the Western type diet and half on the other diet. Almost half of those on the Western type diet developed breast cancer within the first year whereas none of those on the other type diet did. In addition, only one of the mice on the Western type diet reached age 2 (normal life span) and 70% of them died from cancer. Conversely over half of those on the Hi Protein, Lo-Carb diet live to age two and only 30% developed cancer.
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It is interesting that alternative physicians have utilized this information for years using an intervention that reduces carbohydrates as part of the insulin potentiation treatment. It is also interesting that 36 years ago when I was given 6 months to live when diagnosed with lung cancer and sought out an alternative physician , part of my alternative treatment was a diet that eliminated most carbohydrates and all simple sugars.

Researchers have shown for the first time that sulforaphane, one of the primary photochemicals in broccoli, cauliflower and other cruciferous vegetables, selectively target and kill cancer cells while leaving normal prostate cell unaffected. This adds to previous research that these vegetables help prevent cancer. It is believed that sulforaphanes is an inhibitor of histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes, that are a family of enzymes that affect access to DNA and play a role in whether certain genes such as tumor suppression genes are expressed or not.
The researchers concluded that consumption of sulforaphane-rich foods should be safe, simple, and affordable.