Prevent Chronic Diseases

YOUR HEALTH INFO/NOTES
Dr. Peter N. Pantel, Ph. D.

LIST OF SOME PRINCIPLES FOR AVOIDING HEART DISEASE ... HOW MUCH PROGRESS?

ALL WAYS = PREVENT-PREVENT-PREVENT! TYPE OF DIET AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS EVERY THING! Who said this and when?

• Do not get fat. If fat, reduce weight. Reduce saturated fats: Fats in beef, pork, lamb, sausage, margarine and solid shortenings and fats in dairy products.
• Prefer vegetable oils to solid fats and keep total fats to under 30% of your diet calories. Favor fresh vegetables, fruit and non fat dairy products.
• Avoid heavy use of salt and refined sugars.
• Good diets do not depend on drugs. Get plenty of exercise and outdoor recreation.
  
  WHO SAID THIS? Drs. Ancel & Margaret Keys - Fifty Years Ago.
  So much for seller driven attempts of 'modern' nutritional research and advice.
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  AND TEN BEST WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF NOT BEING HEALTHY!
  1- Smoke. The more the better
  2- Gain weight. The more the better
  3- Avoid natural, fresh foods.The less eaten the better.
  4- Eat mostly processed, canned or boxed foods.The more the better.
  5- Do not eat a variety of foods
  6- Do not eat fruit and vegetables.
  7- Eat mostly trans and saturated fatty acids.
  8- Best in fast food chains, cookies, chips etc..
  8- Believe health & nutritional claims in food packages.
  9- If you can walk it, don't. Use car.
  10- Do not even think about any type of work out, even fast walking.
  
  OR TO BE HEALTHY, EAT BALANCED MEALS, NATURAL, WHOLE UNPROCESSED FOODS, EAT YOUR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AND AVOID SATURATED AND TRANS FATS.

PHYTONUTRIENTS

HEALTH INFO/NOTES
Dr. Peter Pantel

Antioxidants

Lutein, Zeaxantin and Zink reduce risk of Macular Degenearation

Those who consume the most lutein and zeaxanthin least likely to develop age-related macular degeneration

Those whose diets contained the most lutein, zeaxanthin and zinc had the least risk for going blind in the center of the field of vision, a condition known as age-related macular degeneration or AMD, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia, followed over 2000 men and women for 5 and 10 years. Scientists also measured nutrients in the diet (not synthetic or concentrates) ncluding alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, beta-cyptoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, lycopene, vitamins A, C and E, iron and zinc.
Those who consumed the most zinc were 44% less likely to have AMD.
Those who consumed the most lutein and zeaxanthin were 65% less likely to develop Age Related Mcaular Degeneration. Those who consumed just above-average amounts of lutein and zeaxanthin were 34% less likely to develop early signs of AMD (reticular drusen), compared to those below average. Those who consumed the most zinc were 44% less likely to have any type of AMD compared to those who consumed less zinc.
Doctors noted that the results supported the Age-Related Eye Disease Study, a large multi-center U.S. study funded by the National Eye Institute that followed 4,700 participants and found that antioxidants protect against AMD.
Ophthalmology: July, 2007.

Effect of Nutrional Changes on Prostate Cancer

Sometimes we are told that cancer is genetic and there's not much that can be done to prevent it. Now, take a look at a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 17, 2008; http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/105/24/8369).

In this study, men followed a diet consisting of low fat foods, whole foods, plant foods, soy tofu/powder, fish oil, vitamin C, vitamin E, did light exercise and avoided meat, saturated fat, and processed or refined foods.

After just three months on this type of diet and life style, it was shown that more than 500 genes that promote abnormal prostate growth/cancer were turned off or reverted toward normal, while tumor fighting genes became more active.

This study seems to support our urging to take whole food supplements that provide phytonutrient rich, balanced, whole food supplements (for the 90% of us that do not eat the healthy 5- 9 servings of vegetables each day).

Natural Foods or Synthetic Pills?

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Dr. Peter Pantel, Ph.D. 410-823-6663

Experts that know will tell you to GET YOUR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS FROM FOOD, NOT PILLS

The FDA. NCI, ACS, AHA, ADA and other government and health associations all advise that we eat a 5-9 serving of fruit and vegetables each day to help prevent chronic diseases such as lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease and strokes, appetite, diabetes, macular degeneration, cataracts, allergies, memory loss and other diseases.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said ‘Eat Properly and Leave Drugs on Your Pharmacists' Shelf’. So, no one really says “Pop a Pill”.

Why We Need Supplements – In the Linnaeus classification system, Animals are defined as Mobile, Multicellular Organisms Unable to Synthesize their Own Nutrients. This means that all animals must eat Plants (or other animals that have eaten plants) in order to exist. In our view, nutrients might be described as follows:

• Nutrients- including proteins, carbohydrates and lipids.
• Vitamins – A, Bs, C, D, E, etc. Essential substances used in the synthesizing processes of the body
• Regular Minerals – copper, iron, calcium zinc, magnesium sodium, potassium and others that are found in rather large amount in the body such as blood, bones etc.
• Trace Minerals - Minerals present in minute quantities that help certain processes in the body- chromium selenium, molybdenum, boron and others.
• Phytochemicals – non vitamin, non-nutrient, non-mineral chemicals found only in plants which provide the body with protection against degrading, cell damaging processes.

Over the millions of years, we have evolved to take nutrients (vitamins and other phytochemicals ) from plants and use them to make the chemicals that our bodies need in order to function. Further, we have evolved to:

• receive very large numbers of whole plant nutrients
• utilize a large number of these nutrients, some similar and some very different, to make chemicals that we need in order to function
• utilize many plant nutrients that are balanced and work in a balanced way so as to not overwhelm our own chemistry.

This scenario certainly does not sound like the supplements we get from pills are a good substitute for whole food supplements when instead of thousands, contain one or several products, are synthetic or extracted from rocks, are unbalanced with excesses of some and deficient in other nutrients, and are not identical to the whole food products.

More to follow onspecific phytochemicals and their use.