Links to Selenium soil content and Cancer risk

This is a map highlighting the many diagnoses of skin cancer in the United States.  Here we can see the highest amounts are along the eastern seaboard and western coastlines, cornering itself in areas such as New England and the Northwestern United States.  Now that may sound weird to hear considering these areas also statistically receive less overall direct sunlight.  How is it that these skin cancer breakouts are not occurring in large amounts in areas in the so called "Sun Belt"?  Well that is because scientists are finally realizing that the sun is not bad for you!  The sun belt states have lower incidents of skin cancer due to there large amounts of sun exposure and vitamin D absorption. 

This is a map of the United States with low selenium content in soil levels.  Red areas are scarce in the mineral.  Selenium is something of a environmental protecting agent, in that it protects our cells from the constant barrage of carcinogens and pollutants.  Now if you look back at the map you first saw, you may notice some similarities.  Both maps show once again the New England and Northwestern states both have the highest skin cancer rates and the lowest Selenium soil levels.  Florida as an exception has one of the scarcest soil content levels of Selenium as of current, and a lower incident rate for skin cancer.  This is important because it lets us show the correlation between sun exposure and cancer rates.  Do not be afraid of the sun, take plenty of vitamin E and use a organic sunscreen to prevent the cooking of harsh petrochemicals into your skin and the blocking of healthy sun rays. 

Cooling Heat Flashes

Here are some Natural Solutions to hot flashes.  Many women have found relief in as quickly as two days from taking 800 i.u. of vitamin E.  Flashes have been reported to disappear completely when vitamin E is accompanied by 1,000-2,000mg of vitamin C and 1,000mg of of calcium.  Usually after a week its normally ok for you to reduce your dosage down to 400 i.u. This is believed to be due to vitamin E's antioxidant and circulatory supporting role in the human body.  Vitamin E can also be used in conjunction with vitamin C to cure cramps, headaches, lower cholesterol, reverse scars and prevent sunburn and skin cancer.

Nutrition No Bullsh$t

Standing in line at any modern supermarket, it may appear inconceivable that anyone today could have a deficiency of vitamins or minerals.  But behind all those pretty signs and bright colors, its all just smoke and mirrors.

THIS IS THE PROBLEM FOLKS!------>

Consider, for just a minute that about 25% of all calories we eat comes from added sugar, which contains nothing besides empty calories.  Right off the bat cross out 1/4 of your diet as a potential for vitamins.
If we do not take into consideration those who do not drink alcohol at all, those that drink at least a couple drinks a week consume 25% of all calories from alcohol. Sooo between the sugar and the booze, the average person is getting approx. 1/2 of his daily calorie input from nutritional blanks.
More calories in a typical modern diet come from processed fats: salad oils, cooking oils and fats added to almost everything!  Such fats contain only traces of vitamins and may constitute another 30% of empty bullsh$t calories.

Put all those together and you can see that the same technology that keeps us fat, happy and entertained  has also made it possible to waste almost 80% of our daily diets on food that couldn't keep a sewer rat alive and healthy.

EAT MORE RAW!

Breast Cancer and Diet

Florida  has one of the highest Breast Cancer rates in the United States, coincidentally it also the lowest soil levels of Selenium as well!  Selenium has been reported to decrease the occurrence of tumors in mice with great success, but a lack of this trace mineral may just cause your body to go crazy for it.
Foods, such as polyunsaturated fats found in corn and other vegetable oils increase the formation of DNA damaging free radicals (free radicals are starved for electrons and thrive in mineral deficient environments).  Women who eat 5 grams of these polyunsaturated fats daily increased their breast cancer risk by 69%! 

But wait there is hope ladies don't be discouraged.  A study released in 1998 involving 61,000 women from all ages found that the daily ingestion of at least 10 grams of  monounsaturated fat (the good kind found in olive oil and canola) about three-fourths of a tablespoon, cuts the risk of breast cancer in half.  Links to large amounts of vitamin C and a diet rich in Selenium have been reported to reduce or possibly reverse the formation of tumors. If your thinking of taking extra measures against breast cancer and you are considering Selenium, make sure you accompany it with the helper vitamins A and E to bolster extra protection.

Coffee: The Thiamine Menace

When you feel that first cup of coffee wearing off, you reach for another...Then another....Then another because your so worn out and tired from walking from the fax machine to the copy machine at the end of the hall.  First it picks you up, then it drops you on your head like a irresponsible teen mother on prom night.  Your left with a crushing fatigue, another victim of the coffee cycle.  And a victim of thiamine deficiency. 
Along with excessive sugar and alcohol, too much coffee seriously depletes the bodies stores of thiamine.  The result: jittery nerves, irritability and a feeling that your out of control.  Maybe you go around slamming cabinets, or sink into depression at the prospect of doing everyday tasks. 
Thiamine deficiency can lead to heart disease and cardiac failure if left unchecked and unchallenged for long periods of time.

Food Processing and Prep: the Vitamin Massacre

A whole healthy food is a different animal when its caged in a can, freezer packed or in a box.  Potatoes, for instance are potentially a regular, reliable source of vitamin C.  But today, many people eat potatoes reconstituted from instant mixes, not realizing that these potato products contain no vitamin C whatsoever.  Figures for citrus fruits(a staple source of vitamin C) are not much better.  Orange juice from a cardboard carton has up to 30% less vitamin C than fresh squeezed juice.  That wouldn't be so bad, but 40% of whats left of the vitamin C is biologically inactive(of no use at all). 

For years the USDA believed that a 6 oz pork loin delivered 5.4 mg of iron a substantial amount.  But recently the USDA has discovered that pork contains only 1.62 mg, 70% less than thought.  Beef the most popular meat in America contains 20% less iron than originally thought. 

Today there are more than 3,000 chemicals used in the commercial food we eat.  And in one way or another many of them are nutrient and immune system antagonist.  The plants we grow are deficient, so in turn we take them a boil the crap out of them, or steam them or even worse microwave those bad boys.  And as a result they contain 20% the original nutritional content after molecular destabilization by cooking.

No more Anti-Depressants try some Niacin

Niacin, a well known mineral beneficial of reversing schizophrenia and as well as alcoholism, may also be used to ditch the tranquilizers the doc is prescribing you.  Niacin works so well in the Nervous system that a research group Hoffman-La Roche Inc.  (The lovely Swiss people responsible for manufacturing Valium) has admitted that its effectiveness compares to that of certain tranquilizers of pharmaceutical grade.  They have found that like tranquilizers, niacinamide can induce "anti conflict" and "anti aggressive" feelings and that it relaxes muscles and relieves insomnia.  On a separate note use supplements of Niacinamide no more than 250 mg daily to relieve depression, swollen gums, headaches and even bad breath.