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Oncology, Oncology

Chemical Carcinogens: How Safe Are You?

 I would like to turn your attention toward a nagging question about foods, namely carcinogens in foods. We hear so much about them but what, really, are they? Mainly we've heard that carcinogens cause cancer and anticarcinogens prevent cancer. This idea was well articulated in an article by...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Diverticular Disease

Overview and Risk Factors Diverticula are herniations, or "outpouchings," of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscularis layer. They occur at susceptible sites in the colonic wall, most commonly in areas where intramural blood vessels penetrate and weaken the muscular layer....
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Pancreatitis

Overview and Risk Factors Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas caused by inappropriate activation of pancreatic enzymes (proteases, lipase, amylase) within and surrounding the pancreas, resulting in autodigestion of pancreatic tissue, necrosis, edema, and possibly hemorrhage. About...
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Gynecology and Obstetrics

Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause

Overview and Risk Factors At menopause, a woman's ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstrual periods become less frequent, eventually stopping altogether. The mean age of menopause in normal women in the United States is 51. Menopause that occurs...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Cholelithiasis

Overview and Risk Factors Cholelithiasis, or gallstones, is a common syndrome in which hard stones composed of cholesterol or bile pigments form in the gallbladder. If stones are present in the common bile duct, the condition is called choledocholithiasis. The syndrome occurs in up to 20% of women...
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Renal and Genitourinary, Renal and Genitourinary

How Does Animal Protein Stress the Kidneys?

Answer to a Reader's Question: Animal protein-based foods show a strong relationship to the formation of kidney stones. Here is a quote from the leading research investigator in the world on this topic:

"Urolithiasis [kidney stone formation] is a worldwide problem which appears...
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Oncology, Oncology

Food vs. Chemical Carcinogens

Answer to a Reader's Question:

Chemicals as carcinogens are widely believed to be the main cause of human cancer.  However, when directly compared, nutrient imbalances are far, far more substantial in their effect than chemicals. I have taken this argument, as a seminar, directly to...
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Endocrinology and Metabolism

Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

Cardiac Complications Diabetes mellitus (DM), both type 1 and type 2, affects many organ systems, particularly the heart, eyes, kidneys, and the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems. Also, macrosomia and birth complications occur more often in infants born to women with inadequately...
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Professional Accreditation, Credentials and Licensure

by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

Dietary intervention for disease reversal, weight loss and general health. Connect with others to get inspired or find out more about reversing disease with diet. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR LOG IN.

 

Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.