"One of the most stress-producing activities that we bring upon ourselves is that of negative perception. Before you perceive something about a situation or a person, make sure you have all the facts AND the possibilities. If you allow it, the mind has the capability to conceive unfounded and negative scenarios. Learn to give people the benefit of the doubt and don’t perceive anything until you are certain of ALL the facts. Because stress can bring the immune system down, keep perceptions and scenarios in check."

Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP, CH

Self-Discipline May Reduce Alzheimer's Risk

By Roxanne Khamsi
NewScientist.com news service

People who are meticulous and "finish what they start" may have a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a study involving Catholic nuns and priests...
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Deadly Secrets

By Devra Davis

The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies — a legacy that persists to this day.
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Seeing the Light of Day

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer

Artificial Illumination Can Affect More Than Your Mental Health. As Daylight Saving Time Comes to an End, What Happens to Our Internal Clocks?
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Dietary Supplement Fanatics Healthiest Of All

By Bill Sardi

A new study from the University of California at Berkely found that adults who take 17 different supplements daily tend to be far healthier than those taking little or none at all.
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IC professor writes about cancer's link to early puberty

By Linda Stout
Journal staff

Could early puberty in girls be linked to an increased chance of breast cancer when they get older?
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Cholesterol Is NOT The Cause of Heart Disease

By Ron Rosedale, MD

Cholesterol may be wrongly blamed for heart disease due to the many myths surrounding it...
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October Healthy Recipe

Marinated Mushrooms – Fabulous Appetizer!
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A double-blind, randomized clinical trial has shown that HIV-positive patients given supplemental nutrients can stop their decline into AIDS. Edith Namulemia, James Sparling and Harold Foster's findings were just published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.

The incidence of colorectal cancer can be cut by 12 per cent by consuming more fish per week, says a new meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. In addition, for every additional serving of fish consumed per week the risk of developing the cancer could be cut by four per cent, state the researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Estrogen-like compounds in soy foods can lower sperm count according a Harvard School of Public Health research presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The report, by Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD, bolsters concerns expressed by scientists, doctors and nutritionists who have warned that soy can adversely affect male fertility. America is in the midst of an epidemic of infertility, according to Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food. "Soy is heavily marketed as a health food, despite adverse effects on male fertility. Men who eat soy foods and drink soy milk are less likely to father children and more likely to experience loss of libido. This latest study shows lowered sperm concentration. Other researchers have linked soy consumption to poor sperm quality as well as lowered testosterone levels."

Dr. Edward Maxie performed studies for ten years (1963 – 73) on the use of gamma radiation to control post-harvest diseases in fruits and vegetables, with support from the Atomic Energy Commission. They found that diseases were often worse in irradiated than in non-irradiated citrus, because radiation-induced cellular injury and destruction cause reduced levels of the commodity’s disease resistance. Research concludes that irradiated strawberries "weep" from irradiation-caused injury when they are cut, citrus is also more sensitive to "chilling" injury, and changes occur in the color, odor, flavor, and texture of other irradiated produce, which may then require the addition of synthetic chemical flavoring additives, also proven to be harmful to humans.

When elderly nursing home residents contract pneumonia, it is a blow to their already fragile health. Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and colleagues report that maintaining normal serum zinc concentration in the blood may help reduce the risk of pneumonia development in that population.

South African AIDS researchers have begun warning hundreds of volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV in the midst of one of the world's most rampant epidemics. The move stems from the discovery last month that an AIDS vaccine developed by Merck & Co. might have led to more infections than it averted among study subjects in the United States and other countries.

Tamiflu—currently the most effective pharmaceutical weapon against a potential bird-flu pandemic—survives sewage treatment, according to a new study. Researchers warn this could prompt the virus to mutate into a drug-resistant strain. Environmental Science & Technology

Aspirin: It kills 20,000 Americans every year Common over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin kill around 20,000 Americans every year, and another 100,000 end up in hospital as a result of taking the drug, new research reveals. Painkillers known as NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs) are far more dangerous than people have been told, and can cause life-threatening gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, stomach perforations and ulcers. http://www.wddty.com/03363800371681349145/ aspirin-it-kills-20-000-americans-every-year.html

"He who does not use his endeavors to heal himself is a brother to him who commits suicide."
Proverbs 18:9 (Amplified)