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Greetings,
This week: Are you buying Sprite Green? Is the war on cancer being won really? Are Genetically Modified Crops Damaging Your Health? Is it true that psychiatry is making a killing? What can one do to lose fat?
Have a great week.
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D.I. Minkoff, M.D.
What can one do to lose fat?
The fat producing cells in the body are called adipocytes. Their product is making fat. They are located in many areas of the body for protection, warmth, and storage of energy.
Can a fat cell be turned into a muscle cell? That is, can you turn fat into muscle? Not any more than you can change a hair cell into a bone cell. A fat cell is a fat cell and a muscle cell is a muscle cell. But when there are more calories being eaten than used, the fat cell will take the excess calories and manufacture fat that is then stored in the fat cell. When it bulges it takes up more space (and weighs more) and you start seeing accumulations of it all over the body. A fat cell can increase its size by up to three times! If an average adult has 25 billion fat cells (some very obese people up to 350 billion) you can see that tripling the space that they take up could turn a 32 inch waist into a 50 inch waist.
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Is the war on cancer being won really?
The National Cancer Institute claims it is. But actual reversal in overall mortality has been minimal and the reduction in lung cancer deaths is from reduced smoking rather than advances in treatment.
"Overall five-year survival rates for all cancers have remained virtually static since 1970, from 49 to 54 percent for all races combined, and from 39 to 40 percent for African Americans. Dr. John Bailar, formerly an epidemiologist at the NCI and now chair of the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago, has found that reduced mortality rates are more likely the result of earlier detection and diagnosis rather than improved cancer treatments."
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Genetically Modified Crops Damage Health
Studies of the Week: Multiple 2008 Studies Confirm Genetically Modified Crops Damage Human Health and the Environment
Although genetically modified (GM) corn is banned in most of the world, it has been approved as "safe" for human consumption in the U.S. for 12 years and is now likely unknowingly consumed, in one form or another, by more than 90% of Americans on a regular basis. But a recent series of peer-reviewed studies were published in 2008 confirming previous studies indicating potentially severe health and environmental problems associated with the biotech crops. Recent alarming scientific research includes: 1) A new long term study by the Austrian government confirms previous findings that consumption of GM corn, for as little as 20 weeks, can damage the reproductive system, lower fertility rates and increase illness and death rates in offspring.
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Is it true that psychiatry is making a killing?
The psychiatric industry in raking in billions on bogus treatments and in the process ruining millions of lives. For the facts on this watch this video. It will give you some pause for thought and hopefully, some action.
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Are You Buying Sprite Green?
The first stevia sweetened soft drink, Sprite Green from Coke is on its way to stores. Pepsi is not far behind with SoBe Lifewater and Trop50, an orange juice drink shortly after that. And look for Stevia packets in restaurants and Starbucks soon too.
Is Stevia safe? Is there any risk? Now that it will be mass marketed we will see. The big boys are in this game. Merisant, the maker of Equal has their version call PureVia. Cargill, the giant agribusiness corp makes Truvia.
While it has no calories, and is sweet, does it spike insulin like sugar does? We know that people using artificial sweeteners are more likely to gain weight if they use them. Will this be true of Stevia too? Time will tell.

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