College Refuses to Graduate Overweight Students
December 21, 2009
Mercola
By Dr. Mercola
Lincoln University has introduced a unique way of tackling obesity. In 2006, the Pennsylvania university introduced its Fitness for Life program with the aim of encouraging students to lose weight.
The premise was that if a student had a body mass index (BMI) of above 30, which indicates obesity, then they should take some college-sanctioned steps to show they had lost weight or at least tried — or they cannot graduate.
The Fitness for Life course includes walking, Pilates, exercises and fitness games.
This year, some students have not completed the program, so they may not be able to graduate. Around 30 students are unlikely to graduate because they have not taken steps to reduce their BMI.
That obesity is a growing problem in the United States and many parts of the world is not in question.
It would certainly seem that Lincoln University made this decision with good intentions. However, obesity itself is not the underlying cause of any health problem. The underlying cause is usually an unhealthy diet which is overloaded with processed food and sugars like fructose, lack of exercise leading to increased insulin and leptin levels, and an overload of emotional stress that has not been addressed.
These are some of the primary factors that cause your body to become overweight or obese … and the cycle continues from there.
This is not an aesthetic issue, it’s a functional one; your body is designed to operate best when it’s at an ideal weight. Carrying around extra pounds will inevitably increase your risk of developing just about every chronic degenerative disease known to man.
To get an idea of how far-reaching the problems can be, browse through these 20 diseases and conditions that are directly attributable to being overweight. The list includes diabetes, cancer, heart failure, erectile dysfunction and many more.
Obesity has been on a steady rise since the 1960s, and today has been labeled the fastest-growing health threat in the United States.
Already, two-thirds of the U.S. population is already overweight, and a recent study found it’s possible that virtually every American adult could be overweight by 2048. Left unchecked, it seems the rates are climbing to 80% — or four out of five people.
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BPA Tied to Impotence in Men
November 11, 2009
ABCNews
By Joseph Brownstein
While environmental groups have sounded the alarm about the presence of bisphenol-A, or BPA, in products such as infant formula, baby bottles and other plastics, a new study provides some of the first evidence that the chemical can be harmful to humans, linking it to sexual dysfunction in men in high doses.
Researchers looked at 550 factory workers in China, some of whom were exposed to BPA as part of their job, and found that men who worked with BPA were four times more likely than their counterparts who did not work with the chemical to report some level of sexual dysfunction.
“The study certainly provides the human evidence to confirm animal studies, but one study is not going to answer any questions,” said Dr. De-kun Li, the study’s lead author and a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.
Li noted that while BPA’s presence has been confirmed in a number of consumer products, all studies before now had only shown harm in nonhuman populations.
“Up to this point, it’s largely, basically animal studies,” said Li, explaining that little has been done about BPA because of a lack of studies in people.
“There has been no human studies, at least in the context of the male reproductive system, so this has been dismissed by some critics,” he said of the potential harms BPA may pose.
But Li acknowledged that the current study will likely do little to change policy, since the levels of BPA were much higher than those encountered by the average person in his or her daily life. The average worker exposed to BPA had levels roughly 50 times higher than the average person.
“At this point … we don’t know the safety of the lower level,” he said, but noted that people do not need to worry too much. “We don’t have to be alarmed and go crazy.”
In the study, 15.5 percent of men exposed to BPA complained of erectile dysfunction more than half of the time, while only 4.4 percent of men not exposed to BPA had the same complaint. Meanwhile, 13.9 percent of men with BPA exposure on the job complained of difficulty ejaculating, while only 2.5 percent of men without the on-the-job BPA exposure had the same complaint.
While previous reports on BPA have relied heavily on animal studies, none have promoted a ban on the substance.
The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, considers BPA to be a substance of “some concern” — the third level of a five-part scale ranging from “serious concern” to “negligible concern.”
“There are insufficient data from studies in humans to reach a conclusion on reproductive or developmental hazards presented by current exposures to BPA, but there is limited evidence of developmental changes occurring in some animal studies at doses that are experienced by humans. It is uncertain if similar changes would occur in humans, but the possibility of adverse health effects cannot be dismissed,” the agency writes about BPA in its factsheet.
It is unclear exactly how BPA would cause sexual dysfunction, according to Dr. Michele Marcus, a professor and interim chair in the department of epidemiology and environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. One possible explanation, she said, is that BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, can mimic estrogen and block some effects of testosterone.
Avoiding BPA ‘Would Be My Advice,’ Doctor Says
Because his study does not provide answers for the average person looking to know if BPA will do him or her harm, Li said any steps would be strictly precautionary.
“It’s certainly based on everybody’s risk tolerance level,” he said, adding that avoiding BPA “would be my advice. It’s unlikely the regulatory agencies will do anything yet, because they would like to see the evidence from human studies.”
“If there’s credible evidence of the potential of harm, why not look for a safer alternative?” said Kathy Gerwig, vice president for workplace safety and environmental stewardship officer at Kaiser Permanente.
Gerwig said that while BPA has not been proven harmful, there were steps consumers could take if they wanted to reduce their BPA exposure.
“If you’re going to buy a rigid plastic bottle, look for one that is BPA-free,” she said.
Second, Gerwig recommended avoiding canned foods, which contain BPA in the linings, something she said would be advantageous because it promoted eating fresh foods.
Third, she said, “It’s a smart decision to stay away from heating foods in the microwave in plastics.”
Industrial Scale
Given the high levels of BPA industrial workers were exposed to in the study, many may be tempted to dismiss the much lower levels of exposure the average person experiences.
But paradoxically, lower levels may be more harmful, explained Dr. David Ozonoff, a professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health.
“These are hormone-like chemicals, and your body is used to responding to hormones at really low levels,” he said.
He compared it to two friends in a crowded bar trying to speak, who cannot do so because of the noise. In those circumstances, the noise may be cancelled out, while in a quieter room, that message may be heard and listened to.
For a signal that has the potential to be disruptive, said Ozonoff, a signal that can be “heard” can be more dangerous than a large number of signals that can be dismissed as static.
“That’s one of those things that we worry about,” he said.
Ozonoff said the study is still open to interpretation, and further studies will need to be done for any conclusions to be drawn about the potential harmfulness of BPA.
However, he concluded, “There’s nothing about this that should give any comfort to someone that thinks BPA is OK.”
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Pom-up the Volume – Pomegranate Douses Inflamation
November 06, 2009
Natural News
By David Gutierrez
Emerging research continues to strengthen the evidence that pomegranate extracts can be used to treat chronic inflammation, and the diseases that go along with it.
Short-term inflammation is a normal immune response, but chronic inflammation has been linked to a number of diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, dementia and autoimmune disorders. Scientists are increasingly coming to believe that pomegranate helps combat inflammation, in part due to its exceptionally high content of antioxidants, particularly those in the ellagitannin family, such as punicalagins and punicalins.
Prior research has already suggested that pomegranate may help prevent a number of inflammation-linked diseases. It has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer, to slow or even stop the formation of prostate tumors in mice, to increase the amount of oxygen available to the heart and to fight the onset of heart disease by preventing LDL (“bad”) cholesterol from oxidizing. Long-term consumption of pomegranate juice has also been linked to improvement in the symptoms of erectile dysfunction.
A research team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland was the first to demonstrate that pomegranate extract can act directly to combat inflammation. In a 2005 study, they showed that when injected into human cells, pomegranate extract lowered inflammation and levels of enzymes that can cause cartilage to break down, as in arthritis.
The researchers followed this up with a study, published fall of 2008 in the Journal of Inflammation, in which they fed 175 milliliters of pomegranate extract to four rabbits, then compared them with two rabbits who had been given only water. All the rabbits were experiencing chronic inflammation.
The researchers found that the levels of antioxidant markers significantly increased and the levels of inflammation markers significantly decreased in the rabbits after they were given pomegranate extract.
What Would You Choose? Viagra or Implant Surgery?
October 15, 2009
Abc News
By Joseph Brownstein
People may be used to getting spam e-mails offering discounts on Cialis, Levitra or Viagra, but if a new clinical trial is successful, men with erectile dysfunction may someday be flooded with e-mails for another option: a stent.
Medtronic has begun testing on a new pelvic stent for men who have not been helped by drugs. Investigators will begin with 50 patients at 10 different medical centers.
“This is a common problem. Men many times do not have satisfactory results from first-line medical therapies,” said Dr. Krishna Rocha-Singh, director of the Prairie Vascular Institute in Springfield, Ill., who installed the first of the stents in a patient last week.
Singh said erectile dysfunction can also be a sign of larger problems, with potential blockages of major blood vessels.
“Erectile dysfunction could be a symptom of a vascular source,” he said, noting that it could be an early sign of what could lead to heart attacks or strokes. “The patients we’re treating in our practice [with erectile dysfunction] had the same problem elsewhere in other parts of the body.”
By opening up blood flow, Singh explained, stenting might solve some of those problems. However, he pointed out, it remains to be seen which patients would be helped by the stent, a question he hopes the clinical trial will answer.
Other doctors in the field said the device may prove beneficial, but only to a small subset of men.
Best for Younger Men?
Dr. Jerome Richie, the chief of urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said, “I would foresee this stent as an application for younger individuals who have had traumatic injuries that decrease arterial inflow. Other than that selected group, I do not foresee widespread applicability.”
Dr. Ajay Nehra, a professor of urology at the Mayo Clinic, agreed that young men whose erectile dysfunction stemmed from traumatic injury would be the most likely to be helped, and said they may prefer a stenting operation to a pill, since an erection would not feel as medically induced later on.
“Men would ideally like to have natural, spontaneous erection, and that’s why the medical device is trying to look at alternative options than pills, per se,” said Nehra.
Will There Be Demand?
For many men with erectile dysfunction, the available pills do not help. For that reason, a number of doctors thought the stent could become a commercial success.
I’ve got your Erectile Dysfunction cure
September 29, 2009 by KT
Filed under Kevin's Blog
If you know someone in their 30’s, 40’s or 50’s suffering from erectile dysfunction, they have a serious medical problem. They need to wake up because you should be in your 70’s and 80’s and never have erectile dysfunction issues. And if they do, take notes…
What’s the cause of this problem?
* Mental and emotional stress. You need to do the thought field therapy techniques to resolve this issue.
* Diabetes. Someone may say, “I’m not diabetic.” Well, how do you know? You’re probably pre-diabetic. This is a major issue and you need to take control of it. Eleotin cures diabetes and that in itself almost always handles erectile dysfunction. If you don’t handle the diabetic issue or the pre-diabetic issue, you’re not going to solve the problem.
* High blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure issues, that’s going to cause problems with erectile dysfunction. So you need to address that, but never take the drugs prescribed for high blood pressure. In my book, More Natural Cures Revealed, I give you a whole bunch of cures for high blood pressure!
* Non-prescription and prescription drugs. Every single non-prescription and prescription drug can cause erectile dysfunction and the answer is not another drug.
* Circulation could be a major factor. You could have blockages in your arteries. You need to do either oral chelation or intravenous chelation. I would also use live cell therapy and the high precursors from AbleHeal.
* I would also take Vitamin E and not just any vitamin E; you’ve got to take the three brands that I recommend. There are also some herbs that are very powerful. Yohimbe and maca are two very powerful ones. Ginseng can also help a little bit. Chiropractic adjustments, surprisingly, can also help with getting energy flow back to that area in the male. Acupuncture is very effective. Alphabiotics is very effective.
When you address those causes the problem will be cured. Animals in the wild don’t have erectile dysfunction. Think about it. Our closest cousins, gorillas and chimpanzees, never have erectile dysfunction issues. They also don’t take any drugs. They don’t need Viagra. They’re fathering children in human years in their 90’s. Male gorillas have no erectile dysfunction ever in their life. But you, you’re 35 or 40 and already have erectile dysfunction.
Folks, you got to open your eyes, there is a major problem here!
Yours in health,
KT
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