Welcome to Issue 11

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATION

Effect of low-fat, fermented milk enriched with plant sterols on serum lipid profile and oxidative stress in moderate hypercholesterolemia1,2,3

Boris Hansel, et al.


Background: Plant sterol (PS)-enriched foods have been shown to reduce plasma LDL-cholesterol concentrations. In most studies, however, PSs were incorporated into food products of high fat content.

Objective: We examined the effect of daily consumption of PS-supplemented low-fat fermented milk (FM) on the plasma lipid profile and on systemic oxidative stress in hypercholesterolemic subjects.

Design: Hypercholesterolemic subjects (LDL-cholesterol concentrations 130 and 190 mg/dL; n = 194) consumed 2 low-fat portions of FM in the same meal daily for 6 wk. Subjects were randomly assigned to 2 groups: low-fat FM enriched with 0.8 g PS ester per portion or control FM. Plasma concentrations of lipids, oxidized LDL, ß-carotene, ß-sitosterol, campesterol, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein were measured during the trial.

Results: Plasma LDL-cholesterol concentrations were reduced by 9.5% and 7.8% after 3 and 6 wk, respectively, in the 1.6-g/d PS group compared with the control group, whereas plasma triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol concentrations were not significantly affected. In addition, there were no significant changes in serum ß-carotene on normalization to LDL cholesterol during the study period in both groups, whereas plasma concentrations of oxidized LDL were reduced significantly in the PS group compared with the control group (–1.73 compared with 1.40 U/L, respectively; P < 0.05). Plasma sitosterol concentrations were increased by 35% (P < 0.001 compared with control); however, campesterol concentrations did not change during the study period.

Conclusion: Daily consumption of 1.6 g PS in low-fat FM efficiently lowers LDL cholesterol in subjects with moderate hypercholesterolemia without deleterious effects on biomarkers of oxidative stress.
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THis might be a big waste of your time.
But:
Can you imagine why people think chiropractors are crazy?
No? Then watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3puqbnbJwSk

To think it is out in the general public....
Try to detect the subtle insanity, while you are at it...

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If you have the time and the interest, I think this little video is marvellous of a shadow pupetteer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGBJwcEEt7c

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maybe George should have brought Laura to Australia and seen a good chiropractor here :-)


WASHINGTON — Laura Bush will undergo surgery on Saturday to relieve pain from pinched nerves in her neck, her press secretary said Friday.

The problem prevented the first lady from accompanying President Bush to Australia this week for the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney.

Bush will be in Australia on Saturday, returning to Washington around dawn Sunday.

Spokeswoman Sally McDonough said Mrs. Bush was having elective outpatient surgery. She said the physician would use a minimally invasive procedure to take pressure off the nerve by enlarging the passageway where the nerve sits near the spinal column.

The first lady has been in discomfort for some time. She rubbed her right arm repeatedly during a meeting with reporters on Wednesday.

Mrs. Bush injured a nerve in her neck and shoulder earlier this year while hiking and has been treated with physical therapy since, McDonough said late last month. Her doctors strongly advised her to not travel overseas, saying such long flights could aggravate the problem and cause complications.

When the physical therapy did not work, doctors suggested surgery.

McDonough would not reveal where the surgery would be performed, saying that Mrs. Bush is a private citizen, not an elected official.
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AGAIN THE RUBBISH

http://www.atlasprofilax.ch/

This could be the most dangerous thing facing our profession at this point.
I am going to ask WFC if they are acting on it.
Get your local chiro boards to investigate it.
A patient sent it to me.
I raised awareness on it as much as a year ago.
Let me know if you have had any feedback on regulating this rubbish.

These nincompoops think that just because you can change a light bulb, you should be an electrician.

I never thought I'd see the day when atlas correction was performed in a beauty parlor.....ugh!


I just sent this email to a local propagator of this farce: NO RESPONSE to date.


Dear Gina's Human Tuning:

RE:
your web site

A concerned patient of mine alerted me to your latest "miracle" service, via your PDF document (attached).

I never thought I would see the day that adjusting the Human Atlas Bone was done in a beauty salon. Many of my beauty-therapy patients, I am sure, would be as disgusted as I.

Unless, of course, it is a (5 year undergrad, 1 year postgrad, registered with health dept.) chiropractor offering this service? If so, then I retract my statement with an unconditional apology.

Nevertheless, the information contained in your brochure (attached) is quiet incorrect. According to the trade practices act you must not provide information to the public which may cause inappropriate treatment or blatantly deceive. Most atlas are not "completely dislocated (luxated) in most humans?"

In my opinion, the only person who might believe this is the gullible, or untrained in the art, science and philosophy of atlas correction. An idiot may do likewise.

In my opinion, The only person who might ever state this should not be trusted with the truth.

Yours with appropriate professional sensibilities;

Joseph J. Ierano BSc DC BCAO MACC
Board Certified Atlas Orthogonist
Director: Atlas Orthogonal Australia Ltd
be specific
www.atlasorthogonal.com.au


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amazing when we have to actually regard that big star in the sky as being of benefit?
oh well, no more subterranean real estate dreams....

Sunshine: It does you more good than harm

06 September 2007
Think of sunshine and you're likely to think of skin cancer. But the sun's rays – the main source of vitamin D – are vital for our health and wellbeing, and do far more good than harm.

Even when we're developing in the womb, a vitamin D deficiency in the mother can cause us growth problems, skeletal deformities, and an increase in the risk of hip fractures later on.

When we grow up, a vitamin D deficiency can trigger osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fractures, common cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and heart problems.

Without the vitamin, only about 10 per cent of dietary calcium and 60 per cent of phosphorus gets absorbed by the body, and these are nutrients that are vital for bone mineral density.

People who live at high altitudes, where the sun's rays fall at such an angle that they cannot produce adequate amounts of vitamin D, are more likely to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma, and cancers such as colon, pancreatic, prostate, ovarian and breast.

Dr Michael Hollick, from the Boston University School of Medicine, recommends that the recommended daily intake of vitamin D should be increased to 1000 IUs.

He believes the best strategy to achieve this is a combined one of sunshine – but only so that it slightly reddens the skin – more oily fish in our diet, and supplements.

(Source: New England Journal of Medicine, 2007; 357: 266-81).

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HEALTH & FITNESS
Choice myths over exercise
Ever heard that exercising three times a week was enough? Don't believe all you hear.


Ever heard that exercising three times a week was enough? Or that stretching before training warms muscles and reduces injury?

Don't believe all you hear, consumer group Choice has warned in a new report.

They are all common exercising myths propagated by eager fitness instructors or lax health groups who haven't got all the facts. Among its 10 exercise myths, Choice found tri-weekly sessions were not enough.

According to the national physical activity guidelines, Australians should be exercising for a brief period every day.

Choice also debunked the popular myth that stretching before activity was beneficial, given most studies are mixed on its effect - from helping, to hindering, to not doing anything.

Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn said there were many common misconceptions, many of which related to the difference between burning fat and burning calories.

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Got some time to watch a video...history...
want to see a chiropractic legend?
Dr. Herb Reaver, "most imprisoned chiropractor" ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfC1w8mkXXs

very nice
thanks for this donald
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Not sure we need to cut out ALL grains, but here is a useful guide

Here’s the Best Tool to Improve Your Carbohydrate

The body converts all carbohydrates into glucose, or blood sugar. In order to digest blood sugar, the pancreas kicks into gear, producing the hormone insulin to make the sugar available to cells for metabolism.

Carbohydrates vary in how fast they turn into sugar in the body. The faster they breakdown, the higher the glycemic index (GI) score.


As you can see from the graph above, foods with a high GI spike your blood sugar very quickly – usually within the first 30 to 45 minutes after eating them. But the drop off is equally rapid and dramatic. That’s why you’ll feel tired and slow after the buzz of a high-carb meal wears off.

Here’s a table ranking some of the most common carbohydrates in the American diet:

Common Food Glycemic Index

High

95% Corn bread

80-90% Corn flakes, carrots, maltose, honey, white potatoes

70-79% Whole-grain bread, millet, white rice, new potatoes

Moderate

60-69% White bread, shredded wheat, bananas, raisins, Mars Bars

50-59% Spaghetti, corn, whole cereals, peas, yams, potato chips

40-49% Oatmeal, sweet potatoes, navy beans, oranges, orange juice

Low

30-39% Peaches, cherries, blueberries, apples, ice cream, milk

20-29% Kidney beans, lentils, fructose

10-19% Soybeans, peanuts

0-10% Most green vegetables

As you can see, starches are the chief culprits. They not only produce more blood sugar; they result in a more prolonged elevation in blood sugar and insulin than simple sugars.

The starchiest foods, like cornbread and potatoes, have glycemic ratings close to 100. Meanwhile, sweet foods like cherries only score 22. In other words, the relationship between sweetness and the glycemic rating has been misrepresented.

How does this work? All grains must be processed before humans can digest them. Everything from lasagna, bread, cookies, pizza, spaghetti, crackers and chips are heavy in starches. These foods cause an unnatural surge in insulin levels into the blood. This is what ultimately does the most harm. Too much insulin leads to inflammation, heart disease and excess fat deposition. And ultimately, it paradoxically robs you of energy.

Now we know it is also associated with age-related vision loss by contributing to the onset of AMD.

Here are a few simple tips to bear in mind before you dig into a high-carb meal:

Don’t eat grains, period. This includes “healthy whole grains.” Cereals are no more natural to your diet than the cardboard box with all that natural mother nature’s goodness pasted all over it.
Avoid potatoes and other tubers that grow below ground, like parsnips and sweet potatoes.
Eat vegetables that grow above ground.
Don’t eat corn. You are best not to classify it as a vegetable – it’s a grain.
Skip “low-fat” processed foods altogether.
Avoid container foods with added sweeteners especially high-fructose corn syrup. You’ll find it in many foods and drinks and it’s the absolute worse.
Focus on high-fiber foods. Fiber slows digestion, so the sugar in fiber-rich foods enters you bloodstream more slowly. You don’t need grains for fiber. The fiber in fruits and vegetables is best.

- received via:
http://www.alsearsmd.com/content/index.php?id=113

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Palmer Clinic Tour...New?

Now when I was at Palmer a decade ago, I was impressed by my well-rounded education. I was grateful for the physical examination expertise, as well as the upper cervical specific, and all the other diverse range of manual technique.

Leave the place for 10 years and what happens?
Is this report biased towards physiotherapy? OR is it a reflection of reality.
Maybe my friends who are over there can answer this.
Meanwhile, take a look
YouTube - Palmer Clinic Tour
The adjustment is blatantly absent.
Thanks Dr Sacha Samerski for this

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Ever wondered what the "wet specimen" was?

Look at this nice, brief video by Dr Stanley Bolton.
A living chiropractic legend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZMtJdKeQY&NR=1

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Conclusion says : Lowering cholesterol with drugs involves raising cancer risk.

Natural methods may yet prevail unless risk outweighs benefits, just like any drug.

CLINICAL RESEARCH: STATINS AND TOXICITY

Effect of the Magnitude of Lipid Lowering on Risk of Elevated Liver Enzymes, Rhabdomyolysis, and Cancer

Insights From Large Randomized Statin Trials

Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, MD, Prasad V. Maddukuri, MD, Hui Han, MD and Richard H. Karas, MD, PhD1,*
Molecular Cardiology Research Institute and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Manuscript received February 14, 2007; accepted February 21, 2007.
* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Richard H. Karas, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Box #80, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02111. (Email: rkaras@tufts-nemc.org).

Objectives: We sought to assess the relationship between the magnitude of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering and rates of elevated liver enzymes, rhabdomyolysis, and cancer.

Background: Although it is often assumed that statin-associated adverse events are proportional to LDL-C reduction, that assumption has not been validated.

Methods: Adverse events reported in large prospective randomized statin trials were evaluated. The relationship between LDL-C reduction and rates of elevated liver enzymes, rhabdomyolysis, and cancer per 100,000 person-years was assessed using weighted univariate regression.

Results: In 23 statin treatment arms with 309,506 person-years of follow-up, there was no significant relationship between percent LDL-C lowering and rates of elevated liver enzymes (R2 <0.001, p = 0.91) or rhabdomyolysis (R2 = 0.05, p = 0.16). Similar results were obtained when absolute LDL-C reduction or achieved LDL-C levels were considered. In contrast, for any 10% LDL-C reduction, rates of elevated liver enzymes increased significantly with higher statin doses. Additional analyses demonstrated a significant inverse association between cancer incidence and achieved LDL-C levels (R2 = 0.43, p = 0.009), whereas no such association was demonstrated with percent LDL-C reduction (R2 = 0.09, p = 0.92) or absolute LDL-C reduction (R2 = 0.05, p = 0.23).

Conclusions: Risk of statin-associated elevated liver enzymes or rhabdomyolysis is not related to the magnitude of LDL-C lowering. However, the risk of cancer is significantly associated with lower achieved LDL-C levels. These findings suggest that drug- and dose-specific effects are more important determinants of liver and muscle toxicity than magnitude of LDL-C lowering. Furthermore, the cardiovascular benefits of low achieved levels of LDL-C may in part be offset by an increased risk of cancer.

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More talk about clearing those arteries.

If you are interested in hopeful, real outcomes, watch this:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561806_print
you will have to login, I think, but this accompanies the video:

Although heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the United States for men and for women, it can be prevented and even reversed. In my 21-year Cleveland Clinic nutritional study,[1] I arrested and reversed advanced coronary artery disease in patients who had already undergone bypasses and angioplasties; some had even been told by their cardiologist that they had less than a year to live.

This study builds from epidemiological evidence in plant-based cultures, such as rural China, the Papua Highlanders, central Africa, and the Tarahumara Indians, where the inhabitants are virtually free of coronary disease.

The goal was for patients to achieve and maintain a total cholesterol less than 150 mg/dL and an LDL-cholesterol less than 80 mg/dL through plant-based nutrition. At this cholesterol level, the body does not deposit fat and cholesterol into arteries.

Results were published at 5, 12, and 16 years, and updated beyond 20 years in the book.[1-4] Compliant patients' angina diminished and largely disappeared; they achieved and maintained cholesterol goals; and angiographic evidence showed their disease had selectively reversed. Most importantly, they survived.

My recent book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, updates the study beyond 21 years, making it the longest of its type. Those patients told by expert cardiologists 20 years ago that they had less than a year to live who are alive and well in 2007 are a particularly compelling story.

Patients are empowered when they know they can control their disease, rather than rely on risky expensive inconsistent drugs, stents, or bypasses. Patients can maintain profound lifestyle changes when they recognize huge benefits.

Plant-based nutrition can eliminate some diseases. This is a clear message medicine must embrace and share with the public.

That's my opinion. I'm Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., Preventive Medicine Consultant, Cleveland Clinic.

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I like this.
Get your lungs pumping for a short time for big benefits.
From Dr Al Sears:

To explore my archive of over 400 articles, go to www.alsearmsd.com.


Al Sears, MD
12794 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 16
Wellington, FL 33414

Dear Joe,

Finally, the old theories of aerobic training are crumbling under the weight of new evidence. At the center of the breakthrough is lactic acid. You've probably heard of it, especially if you've ever had a coach or a trainer. Conventional wisdom said you had to avoid lactic acid because its build up in your muscles caused pain, fatigue and the soreness you feel after "over doing it".

We were told to exercise aerobically and not cross the dreaded lactic threshold. To do so would mean an-aerobic (without oxygen) exercise, which created the damaging lactic acid. That sparked the aerobics craze that reached its peak in the 1980's.

But this theory never jived with my real world experience of the benefits of exceeding your aerobic threshold (which would build lots of the dreaded lactic acid.) It turns out lactic acid is not only not your enemy. To the contrary, it's fuel for your muscles.

Dr. George Brooks from the University of California at Berkeley recently found that lactic acid is taken up and burned for energy by your mitochondria – the energy factories in your muscle cells.1 What's more, it can not create the after workout soreness because it is rapidly removed as you burn it for fuel. In other words, it's long gone before you get sore.

A high output, anaerobic workout is exactly what your body needs to increase your lungpower, build reserve capacity in your heart and melt away your fat stores.

To move your workout into the anaerobic range, the key feature I use is this: Create an "oxygen debt." Simply exercise at a pace you can't sustain as in a short sprint. Ask your lungs for more oxygen than they can provide. The difference between the oxygen you need and the oxygen you get is your oxygen debt. This will cause you to pant and continue to breathe hard even after you've stopped the sprint until you replace the oxygen you're lacking.

Let's say you pedal as fast as you can on a bike for 15 seconds. When you stop, you continue to pant. This is the kind of high-output challenge I'm talking about. You have reached a supra-aerobic zone. This is very different from doing an aerobic workout for 45 minutes.

Aerobic exercise is low to medium output held for an extended period. Anaerobic or supra-aerobic exercise is high output, but short in duration. Why is this important? For one thing, it restores an element of your native environment. Our ancestors lived in a world where our food fought back. Predators attacked without notice. They had to run or fight – fast and hard. These short bursts of high-output activity fine tuned our ancient ancestors and kept them fit. We still have the same physiology.

This is the basis for my PACE® program. I began using most of this program 25 years ago. I'm delighted to see University-based science catching up to the idea. More recently, I added progressivity to increase the benefits.

By making small changes in the same direction, your workouts can produce remarkable results. And you only need 12 minutes to achieve the desired effect.

In a matter of weeks, you can:

Lose pounds of belly fat
Build functional new muscle
Reverse heart disease
Build energy reserves available on demand
Strengthen your immune system
Reverse many of the changes of aging.
To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

1 Kolata G. Lactic Acid is Not Muscle's Foe, It's Fuel. The New York Times. May 16, 2006