Is cancer caused by a vitamin deficiency?

Is Cancer Actually Just a
Vitamin-Deficiency Disease?

    Supplements have gotten a lot of bad press lately. It's preposterous, considering all the evidence that taking nutritional supplements is the easiest, lowest-cost way to protect public health. A huge reduction in illness and healthcare costs would result if all Americans took just a few basic supplements.

    Supplements not only give you nutrients that may be hard to get from your regular diet, but they also protect against long-term diseases — including cancer.

    There's irrefutable evidence that supplements can save you from a host of chronic diseases. Below are some facts on nutritional deficiencies and the problems they cause. I've stuck to examples where the benefits are proven and obvious. Nothing here is far out or controversial. Read on to learn how essential supplements are for long-term health.

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Diseases linked to nutritional deficiency

    Here are just a few of the diseases common in our culture, along with the nutritional deficiencies connected to them:

• Cardiovascular disease — Significant deficiencies in vitamin D have been linked to peripheral artery disease, which usually precedes cardiovascular disease. Also, vitamins C, D, and E promote healthy endothelial function, which curbs the risk of heart disease. Coenzyme Q10 deficiencies cause cardiac problems as well.
• Osteoporosis — Long-term calcium deficiencies usually bring about problems in bone structure and strength. Most folks know about that connection. What's not as well-known is that vitamin D and magnesium are necessary for calcium to absorb properly in your body. If you have too little vitamin D in your body, you're at risk for osteoporosis.
• Prostate disease — Few people realize zinc is essential to a healthy prostate and to male reproductive and urinary health in general. Zinc supplementation has even been known to help men overcome erectile dysfunction.
• Underperforming thyroid (hypothyroidism) — Not nearly enough people get the 200 daily micrograms of iodine they need for general health. That dose is the bare minimum. Lack of iodine translates to millions of people feeling tired or cold, and has also been linked to breast cancer (see Issue #9). Long-term iodine deficiencies often turn into hypothyroidism.

    These common deficiencies are just the tip of the iceberg. Genetic diseases and toxins in food or the environment are also major causes of disease, but aside from that I wouldn't be surprised if every chronic disease or illness can be traced to a nutritional deficiency.

    Remember that diseases like cancer and diabetes are multi-causal: genes, toxins and nutritional deficiency all work together to make you sick. Of the three, nutritional deficiencies are the easiest to fix.

    If you've never taken supplements before, prepare yourself for a startling surprise if you begin. The standard American diet (SAD) is so lacking in nutrients that millions of us — perhaps hundreds of millions — are walking around with headaches, body aches, digestive upset, skin problems, sinus problems, frequent colds and flu, and many other diseases that may quickly disappear when you start taking the basic vitamins and minerals.

    To reap the most benefit from supplements, take them every day, long term. Do not treat them as drugs that you take when you're sick. A typical example is the person who starts taking vitamin C at the first sign of a cold. By then, it's a little bit late. Take vitamins every day of your life and there's a pretty good chance you won't get a cold, or it won't be as severe if you do get one.

Nutrition and cancer links

    Now, let's take the nutrition/disease link one step further…

    For starters, a higher magnesium intake appears to reduce the risk of colon cancer. This knowledge comes thanks to a recent study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition where a relationship between magnesium intake and colorectal cancer was demonstrated.

    Then you've got the studies that indicate a higher vitamin D intake reduces the risk of breast, prostate, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer. Note: you can get vitamin D for free, because your body makes its own when your skin is exposed to sunlight. Of course, you can also get vitamin D through dietary supplements, and during the winter you may have to.

    In fact, here's an interesting correlation. If you look at U.S. maps that show cancer mortality rates for prostate and breast cancer, you'll see mortality increase as you go farther north. People in Maine are more likely to come down with these two diseases than people in Georgia. It's almost certainly due to sun exposure, or the lack thereof.

    Women who have higher levels of carotenoids circulating in their bloodstreams also seem to have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, according to researchers from Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

    Beta carotene, the raw material from which the body makes vitamin A, is the best known carotenoid, but there are others. A diet of varied and colorful fruits and vegetables is the best way to benefit from a full range of carotenoids. In general, color — red, yellow, orange — is associated with nutrients.

    And don’t leave out B vitamins. They are known to stimulate immune function, most especially fighter T cells.

Still, make sure you buy the good stuff

    The way I see it, supplements are powerful tools when it comes to preventing or curing cancer. But that's simply because a healthy diet full of natural vitamins energizes your immune system. In turn, your immune system defeats cancer.

    If you were to take cancer cells and put them in a healthy person with a fully functioning immune system, in most cases, the cancer will be killed off. This proves how essential immunity is to the body. Immunity is improved by nutrition. Nutrition is enhanced through supplementation.

    This is exactly why doctors who understand the body's natural defenses tend to rally againstchemotherapy. It destroys your immune system -- your body's best shot at fighting off cancer in the first place.

    I'll concede that some of the vitamins on the market are junk. You've got to be vigilant about what you buy and from whom. Just as you do when you buy produce, consider how the vitamins were manufactured.

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in charge of regulating dietary supplements. They classify supplements as food, not drugs. This is a good thing. Contrast that with far too many drug approvals that are influenced by the money interests of pharmaceutical companies.

    In fact, dietary supplements don't actually require FDA approval before entering the market unless they include a new ingredient that's never been marketed before. In that case, the FDA has to be notified before the supplement goes to market, and the notifying company has to provide information that proves the ingredient is safe.

    Over the years, there have only been two or three times when a dietary supplement was deemed unsafe and pulled off the market (quite the opposite of the long list of disasters we've seen in prescription drugs). In each case, the charges were trumped up and the supplement was, in fact, safe and effective.

    One of the banned supplements was ephedra, which was created to help with weight loss/energy. Ephedra was -- and is -- safe if taken properly. But it's a stimulant and, if abused, it can cause problems. The other case was tryptophan, a natural substance that occurs in turkey, milk and many other foods. One manufacturer shipped contaminated tryptophan, so the FDA banned the supplement completely for many years. Tryptophan itself is completely safe; the problem was the contaminant.

    And that's it. Two cases of "bad" supplements, and they weren't even bad. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people rush to an emergency room every year with a bad reaction to a prescription drug — and the press doesn't mind at all. So remember that next time you hear some journalist yammering about the dangers of supplements.

    Forget all the high-tech machines and exotic chemicals you find in a hospital. Sometimes, your best bet for staying cancer-free comes from a tiny little vitamin.

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References:

"10 Foods That Help Fight Cancer." By Michele Bender, Special to Lifescript. Published November 22, 2012.
http://www.lifescript.com/health/centers/cancer/tips/10_foods_that_help_fight
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"B vitamins stimulate immune T cells that recognize and destroy pathogens." By John Phillip, NaturalNews.com. 17 October 2012.
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"Dietary supplement." Wikipedia.
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"Magnesium intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective studies." Chen GC, Pang Z, Liu QF. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2012 Nov;66(11):1182-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23031849

"Magnesium Intake Linked to Reduced Colon Cancer Risk." Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine, October 2012.
http://www.naturalstandard.com/news/news201210021.asp

"Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency Diseases." By James Occhiogrosso, N.D., Health Naturally.
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"Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention: Strengths and Limits of the Evidence." National Cancer Institute, FactSheet.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/vitamin-D

The Shocking Drink That Eats Your Bones And What You Should Drink Instead

Television commercials and advice from your doctor lead you to believe the secret to strong, healthy bones is drinking milk and taking drugs.

But that's a huge misconception and a big lie, believes Vivian Goldschmidt, MA, founder of Save Our Bones - the world's largest natural osteoporosis community.

Sure your bones need calcium, but if you consume large quantities of milk, you're actually draining your bones of this much needed mineral.

Here's why milk is a brutal bone thief:

Milk has an acidifying effect on your body.

Let me explain. Everything we put into our body gets processed and alters its acid/alkaline balance. And like everything in nature, the body tries to correct the imbalance. So because milk has an acidifying effect, your body automatically pulls calcium out of your bones to neutralize the acid attack.

Why calcium?

Because it is a potent neutralizer. That's why the main ingredient in some antacids is calcium.

Think of milk entering the body like a raging forest fire and your body's natural processes is the team of brave firefighters. So your body jumps into action and uses
calcium to put out the acidic attack. And even though milk contains 300 mg of calcium in one cup, unfortunately, the net result is a calcium deficit in your bones.

So what should you drink instead?

Vivian recommends drinking almond or rice milk as a delicious alternative to milk. And unsweetened fermented or cultured dairy products such as yogurt, kefir, and sour cream are okay to enjoy.

This is just some of shocking information in Vivian Goldschmidt's Save Our Bones Program.

In her program, Vivian proves that your bone health is in your hands, and if you give them what you need and stop consuming bone thieving foods and drinks you can have the bones you had when you were younger - without the help of your doctor and of drugs.

Since 2007, her program has helped over 200,000 people who sufferer with osteoporosis and osteopenia to naturally increase their bone density without pills, pain, or cost.

And now, she'd like to show you how you can do the same.

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More reasons to beware of chemotherapy

Beware the Double-Dose Poison Approach to Treating Cancer

    Recently, scientists across the U.S. paired all different variations of the 100 approved cancer drugs into 5,000 drug combinations. The goal was to find a two-drug combo more effective than any single drug. Since the agents tested were already approved for use by patients, the hope was that any promising new combinations could quickly be brought to market.

    The scientists involved called this approach "the first systematic characterization of approved drugs in a large number of cancer cell lines." I'd call it something else. . .

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The secret to curing cancer: You've been throwing it in the trash!     In 1921, a British doctor discovered that members of a remote native tribe were almost totally cancer-free. But when members of this tribe move away from their native land and change their diet, they get cancer just like anyone else.     It's all thanks to a food most of us throw away as waste — a food that's rich inamygdalin — what most of us call Laetrile.     Click here now and watch a video presentation about this cancer breakthrough. One cancer expert calls this overlooked food "the key to curing AND preventing cancer" — and you can benefit now — without going to a doctor or buying expensive supplements. This little throwaway food tastes great. Bill Clinton, of all people, eats a certain amygdalin-rich food all the time, and so can you. Click here now to watch the video!

    I prefer Bill Frezza's interpretation, a writer for Bio-IT World. He called it "curing cancer by throwing spaghetti at the wall."

Latest generation of medicines: Stuck in the mud

    The rationale behind this barbaric search for a better poison is that the agents in use already have FDA approval as individual drugs. So combining them to see if they make a miracle union is a lot cheaper and quicker than actually taking the time to come up with a new, truly effective drug.

    They've got plenty to work with. The FDA approved an unprecedented 31 new cancer drugs this year. In 2011, the agency approved 30 drugs, marking a seven-year high. But it's rare these drugs bring any kind of real breakthrough, like we saw with tamoxifen — and that was way back in the 1960s.

    Hoping for a quick-fix instead of putting in the effort to do things right is exactly what you never want to see in healthcare. The authorities who control the billions of dollars in cancer research are out of ideas.

    Even worse is that some of these combinations can be so toxic, it's only safe to administer them in tiny doses that might not be effective. You see, the experiments that tested 5,000 possible cancer drug combinations were performed in the lab on cancer cell lines.

    Doctors may not be able to use the resulting combos on real humans because they're deadly to the patient as well as to the cancer. When you put together two toxic cancer drugs you get a double-dose of poison.

    What we need is a medical establishment that diversifies its strategy beyond the exhausted drugs we know don't work. The National Institutes of Health even has something called an R21 Exploratory grant, intended to finance research into alternative treatments. But, according to Bill Frezza, that money appears to be too tied up in the Good-Buddies club of established researchers who peer-review and vote to fund their colleagues' projects more often than they give a grant to any innovative new researcher's ideas.

    Yes, the precious "War on Cancer" taxpayer dollars are parceled out to the pals of people in power.

The Band-Aid approach

    Medical research on traditional chemotherapy has stalled. We're not the only ones who see it. In a recent meeting of 100 cancer specialists at the World Oncology Forum in Switzerland, experts at least agreed on one thing: urgent action is needed. Not only are we lacking in innovative approaches, but cancer rates are rising both in the developed world and in poor countries.

    It wasn't long ago that they thought designer medicines built to interfere with tumor growth and suppression would make all the difference. Instead, those treatments only buy patients a month or two of life, and any excitement in the medical establishment quickly wanes.

    Just look at vemurafenib, a BRAF-inhibitor that melted tumors associated with malignant melanomas in only two weeks. Six months later, the cancer would come back, often stronger than before. Or Tarceva (for lung cancer), Avastin (for breast and colorectal cancer), Sutent (for renal cell carcinoma). All prompted great expectations but brought disappointment.

    What bothers me is that medical pundits say the future is in combining these drugs together, and exploring combinations between both new and old drugs. But instead of investing their energy in working out the cause of cancer, their biggest concern is that mixing drugs will be radically expensive. They've directed their focus to regulation and funding, instead of true innovation.

    Granted, cancer and money are inseparable. Americans spent over $23 billion last year on cancer drugs. Treating cancer has never come cheap, but now the cost of every new treatment seems to eclipse the ones that came before it. In spite of their hefty price tags, those drugs continue to overpromise and under-deliver.

You call this a War on Cancer?

    It's bad enough that this approach is like putting on a blindfold and trying to hit a moving target. But my real beef with the issue is that it's got nothing to do with actually curing cancer.

    Sure, the mixologists in the lab world might come up with a concoction that extends survival by an extra month or two. Some patients will choose the misery of chemo to gain those extra weeks.

    But better than that would be a cure. After 40 years and billions of dollars, you'd think we'd be further along.

    The question that remains, is what can we do about it? I believe the alternative treatments we talk about in this newsletter and in our books and reports are more promising than conventional chemotherapy.

    For late stage cancer, chemotherapy buys a few extra weeks or months (and sometimes not even that; the data are often manipulated to make it look like patients last a little longer on these drugs than do patients who don't receive them.) Meanwhile, my colleagues and I have seen and talked to people who gained years of life and sometimes complete remission thanks to alternative cancer treatments. And they did it without sickness, nausea, hair loss, "chemo brain," or the destruction of their immune systems that chemo brings.

    Even for early stage cancer, where conventional treatments are more successful, my first choice would be alternatives.

    One of the things you can do right now to improve your health, whether you have cancer or not, is to avoid the toxic chemicals found in processed foods. Our last issue covered the most deadly food additive of all. If you missed this important info, you can scroll down and read it now.

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"Safe" Ingredient Found in 6,000 Products
Can Lead to Cancer, Seizures,
Holes in Your Brain, and more

    Enjoying any of 6,000 popular foods and beverages can lead to leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas… along with brain, kidney, liver and lung cancers. These products contain what I call the most dangerous single food additive on earth.

    I'm basing that charge on the largest human study ever on the subject — based on over two million person-years worth of data. Keep reading and I'll identify this deadly chemical and give you the shocking new findings. . .

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The Blood Pressure Lie EXPOSED!     If you've been told you have high blood pressure, you're probably scared to death.     It is called "the silent killer."     With a name like that, it has to scare you.     And, if that's not scary enough, you were probably told to start taking a blood pressure drug immediately.     But, that wasn't all, was it? I bet you had to go and see a cardiologist next.     And, did the cardiologist tell you that if one drug didn't bring your pressure down, you might have to take a second drug at the same time? Often, there's even a third drug.     I know how the system works. I've been fighting against it for you for almost 30 years.     And, I know you don't want to be part of that group who's taking blood pressure medication for the rest of their lives.     So I'll let you in on a little secret...

    It's a safe guess that every American man, woman, and child has consumed aspartame at one time or another. More than 250 million people drink beverages containing this deadly chemical because they actually think it's a healthy choice!

    The facts say otherwise: these people are boosting their cancer risk far beyond anything you'd imagine. It's proven by a new study released by Harvard and then almost immediately scrubbed from the Internet. It appears that powerful interests want to protect aspartame from any criticism.

The dreadful consequences of a "safe" food choice

    This mega-study revealed some downright frightening results. As little as one diet soda a day leads to:

• 42% higher leukemia risk (men and women)
• 102% higher multiple myeloma risk (men only)
• 31% higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (men only)

    Researchers analyzed data from the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study gathered over a 22-year period. It included 77,218 women and 47,810 men, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years of data. That certainly seems like enough data to give us meaningful results.

    The study identified over this 22 year period:

• 1,324 non-Hodgkin lymphomas,
• 285 multiple myelomas, and
• 339 cases of leukemia.

    Aside from its sheer size (the largest aspartame study ever), this study was particularly thorough in its analysis of aspartame consumption. They evaluated dietary information every two years during the 22 year period, instead of at just one point in time.

    And make no mistake… Americans consume a LOT of aspartame — 10.5 million pounds per year -- eighty-six percent of which is from diet soda.

Previous studies — slammed by critics —
were absolutely right

    Several studies over a period of years found a link between aspartame consumption and cancer. But they were often criticized as too small, too short, or poorly constructed.

    This study puts those doubts to rest.

    And the results are not exactly surprising. But they are disturbing. Consider what we already new before this large-scale human study was released. . .

    One previous rat study found that of 48 experimental rats, up to 67% of all female rats developed golf ball sized (or larger) tumors. And 21% of the males developed similar cancerous growths.

    An Italian study connected aspartame intake to lymphomas, leukemia, and kidney cancer. This study confirmed aspartame as a carcinogen affecting multiple sites in both rats (males and females) and mice (males only).¹

"The truth isn't sweet when it
comes to artificial sweeteners."

    So screamed the headline of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) press release about a link between aspartame and cancers, especially blood cancers. Then suddenly they got cold feet and scrubbed the story.

    They also issued an "apology", stating that the data were "too weak to find a causal link".

    None of this is too surprising. If it becomes established that aspartame causes cancer, it could be equivalent to the long-running scandals over tobacco or asbestos. Can you imagine the frenzy of litigation against food and beverage makers? The lawsuits will never end.

Don't ignore a 22-year study of 125,000+ people

    Don't take a chance and ignore a large-scale, long-term study like this one that shows a link between aspartame and blood cancers.

    The long-term aspect is critically important, because one of the tricks industry uses to hide product toxicity is short term tests. Short-term studies reveal nothing about long-term risks. Based solely on short-term trials, the industry can get away with claiming aspartame is one of the most studied food additives ever, with no health concerns. And it's all blessed by the FDA.

    The reality is they never study the long-term effects, and those remain largely unknown till a product has been on the market for years — even decades — and the horrible consequences start showing up.

    As proof of that, shortly after the release and retraction of the Harvard study, the beverage industry quickly stated that aspartame has been "deemed safe for decades by the world's leading toxicologists".

    Unfortunately, most people don't know how short and poorly designed these industry-funded studies are, and the media choose not to tell you. So it's easy to be deceived.

Well-guarded secrets of a scary molecule

    Aspartame is the name of the active ingredient in artificial sweeteners like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.

    It was accidentally discovered in 1965 when James Schlatter, chemist for the G. D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.

    It turned out his discovery is some 200 times sweeter than table sugar, and was approved for dry foods in 1981 and carbonated beverages in 1983. Now get this: Already in the 1960s aspartame was labeled a dangerous chemical and shown to create holes in brain tissue and to cause brain and nerve damage in developing fetuses. But wait, there's more: Researchers also knew it causes cancer, migraines, headaches, seizures, convulsions, and even retinal damage.

    Anything this dangerous should have been removed from the market many years ago!

    It actually was removed for a time after initial approval, when Dr. John Olney of the Washington School of Medicine discovered that aspartic acid — a major aspartame ingredient — caused holes in the brains of animal subjects.

    There's a whole long and sordid story to be told about questionable lab practices, an FDA grand jury investigation of studies and more, but space prohibits its telling here and now. Interestingly, one of the government's prosecuting attorneys later joined the law firm representing Searle.

Don't trust the FDA to protect your health…

    One can only guess about the political shenanigans involved in gaining approval for aspartame.

    Finally, after the FDA received over 8,000 complaints about NutraSweet's side effects, a list of possible side effects was made public. Besides cancer and tumors, including brain cancer, aspartame is linked to a long laundry list of problems. I won't list them all here, but if you or a loved one suffer any symptoms or vexing health issues that won't resolve, it may be worth examining your diet for hidden aspartame.

    Be forewarned, to this day the FDA still denies a cancer link. By the time they admit it (if ever), it will be too late for you.

    Many chronic conditions are linked to aspartame:

• Memory loss
• Alzheimer's disease
• Dementia
• Brain lesions
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• ALS
• Parkinson's disease
• Epilepsy
• Hearing loss and vision problems

    We can hardly overstate the risk to infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and anyone with chronic health conditions. The book Prescription for Nutritional Healing by James and Phyllis Balch, lists aspartame as a "chemical poison". I'll show you in a moment just how true that is.

    But first, the acute conditions in the following list may also be linked to aspartame. Take a look and see if any of these shoes fit your feet. . .

• Hallucinations
• Infertility
• Diarrhea
• Seizures
• Depression
• Migraine and headaches
• Fatigue (blocks glucose from entering brain)
• Insomnia
• Nausea and abdominal pain
• Sleep problems
• Asthma and chest tightness
• Heart palpitations
• Weight gain
• Rashes

    Many of these conditions can also lead to early death.

Danger: brain damage ahead…

    Aspartame is comprised of three chemicals — aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.

    Aspartic acid, an amino acid also called aspartate, is a neurotransmitter in your brain. Its big problems come when taken in free form (not bound to proteins).

    Aspartate slowly destroys your neurons. Seventy-five percent of the neural cells in one area of your brain can be killed before you show any clinical symptoms of chronic illness. No wonder one key complaint from aspartame use is memory loss!

    Dr. Russell Blaylock, leading neurologist and neurosurgery professor at the Medical University of Mississippi, published an entire book detailing the damage caused by aspartate. He uses 500 scientific references to show the link to serious chronic neurological disorders.

    Phenylalanine is also an amino acid. Diet soda must carry a label warning people with phenylketonuria (PKU) not to drink it, because they cannot metabolize phenylalanine. But even those without PKU can experience a dangerous buildup of phenylalanine — leading to plummeting serotonin levels, depression, anxiety, and violent rages.

    One especially alarming account of the effects of spiked phenylalanine levels was documented in the Wednesday Journal article, "An Aspartame Nightmare." John Cook drank six to eight diet drinks daily.

    His symptoms began with memory loss and frequent headaches, and then moved to violent rages and severe mood swings. He didn't have PKU, yet a blood test showed a phenylalanine level of 80 mg/dl. (Safe levels of phenylalanine are under 10 mg/dl.) He also showed brain damage and abnormal brain function.

    When he cut aspartame from his diet, his symptoms improved.

    Methanol (aka wood alcohol) is a deadly poison. You may have heard of methanol as the poison that causes some "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead.

    Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in your body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin and a known carcinogen. It also causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects.

    Even the EPA calls methanol "a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion." EPA recommends a limit of 7.8 mg/day, yet a one-liter beverage (or 3 cans of diet soda) contains 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users may consume up to 250 mg per day — a staggering 32 times the EPA limit.

More dangerous for people than for test animals

    Due to your lack of a couple key enzymes that digest methanol — enzymes that lab animals have but you don't -- you're much more sensitive to its toxins than animals.

    In humans, ,methanol converts to formaldehyde via an enzyme called ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). This enzyme is more active in men than in women, which may explain the association between diet soda consumption and higher lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men, but not women.

    Methanol absorption spikes when heated to 86 degrees. This may occur when a product is improperly stored (diet drinks sitting in hot sun), or as part of a food product such as Jello.

    Another byproduct of aspartame is Diketopiperazine (DKP), implicated in brain tumors. Olney noted that DKP in the gut produces a powerful brain-tumor-causing chemical.

    DKP is also implicated as a cause of uterine polyps and blood cholesterol by FDA toxicologist Dr. Jacqueline Verrett (in her testimony before the U.S. Senate).

Don't drink it or eat it,
no matter how safe they claim it is!

    Don't believe the party line about aspartame safety. Avoid all products that contain it. I eat almost no processed or manufactured foods myself, and I don't drink sodas at all, regular or diet. If you give up aspartame-sweetened sodas, for heaven's sake don't go back to the ones with sugar or high fructose corn syrup. They're even worse.

    And it's not all about sodas. Considering that aspartame is hidden in 6,000 products*, check out the footnote below for a list. Aspartame is in a great many consumer items you might not think of, such as children's Tylenol, certain vitamins, laxatives (Metamucil), pharmaceuticals**…

    It pays to become an astute label reader and questioner!

    Janet Starr Hull, who holds a doctorate in nutrition, says about the latest aspartame reports,

I will never accept the news of aspartame safety. I think it is a 'business' decision to discredit/discount the research results that aspartame DOES cause cancer, major nerve disorders, birth defects, and brain imbalances. Think about it… can you imagine the chaos that will occur when the truth of aspartame dangers is accredited…

    Perhaps you're thinking it's worth the risk of cancer to keep your weight down? Don't count on it. There's evidence that aspartame causes people to gain weight, not lose it!

* Foods besides soda which may contain aspartame:

• Mints, chewing gum, hard candies, soft candy chews
• Flavored syrups for coffee, flavored water products
• Frozen ice cream, ice cream novelties and frozen ice, ice cream toppings
• Fruit spreads, jams/jellies
• Jell-O and pudding
• Iced tea powder and ready to drink, instant cocoa mix
• Juice blends and drinks
• Mousse
• Syrups
• Meal replacements, protein nutritional shakes, protein and nutritional bars,
• "No sugar added" and "Sugar Free" — any food!
• Veggie drinks
• Yogurt — drinkable, fat free, sugar free

    ** See this link for a list of OTC and prescription drugs containing aspartame:http://suewidemark.com/asparmeds.htm

    You get the idea.

    There may not be multi-million dollar studies going on regarding this approach, but believe me — it's more effective than trusting your health to experimental science.

SECOND HALF RUN PUSHES BOWIE STATE TO HUGE 84-80 WIN OVER JOHNSON C. SMITH

BOWIE, Md. – The Bowie State University Bulldogs used a huge second half run to claim an 84-80, cross-divisional contest against Johnson C. Smith. The victory improves Bowie State 5-6 overall and 1-1 in the conference. JCSU’s Golden Bulls move to 7-5 overall and 0-2 in the CIAA.

“We did a tremendous job defending in the second half” said an elated Bowie State head coach Darrell Brooks. “We didn’t press full court as much tonight as we normally do, but we thrive off of turnovers that lead into fast breaks.”

The opening half was close early until JCSU grasped an advantage. BSU scored the first five points, but JCSU’s Terrence Washington (Charleston, SC) put the Golden Bulls on the scoreboard with a layup. After about seven and half minutes of play, the contest reached its third tie off a jumper from Trevin Parks (Hickory, NC) of the Golden Bulls.

Following the jumper, Parks hit two free throws to give Johnson C. Smith a 20-18 lead. From there, the Golden Bulls had plenty of success feeding Emilio Parks (Ashtabula, OH) in the post. Bowie State went into the locker room at halftime trailing 51-43. The Bulldogs were outscored 34-18 in the paint for the first half.

The Parks’ duo combined for 28 points in the initial period. Trevin had 16 points off 83% (5-of-6) shooting and Emilio had 12 points shooting 75% (6-of-8) from the field. Washington added eight points to the first half total. Johnson C. Smith shot 63.6% (21-of-33) from the floor as a team, compared to 48% (16-of-35) for Bowie State.

Bulldogs senior Najee White (Jamaica Queens, N.Y.) led the Bulldogs with 17 points, followed by the leading scorer in NCAA Division II Byron Westmorland (Baltimore, Md.) with 12 points.

Johnson C. Smith stayed on the attack initially in the second half. After an old fashion three-point play from Robert Williams (Atlanta, GA), the Golden Bulls held a 64-51 advantage with 13:56 remaining. Bowie State turned the tides from that point with a 19-0 run over the next six minutes to regain the lead for good at 70-64. Prior to BSU’s burst, the last time the Bulldogs led was at the 13:33 mark of the first half.

The Golden Bulls got within two (76-74) with 3:05 left to play, but would not get any closer. Bowie State was able to close out the game from the foul line for the win.

Trevin Parks had a team-high 24 points, but he also had nine turnovers. Emilio Parks concluded with a double-double of 18 points and 11 rebounds. Williams added 13 points and four assists, while Washington had a contribution of 10 points, four rebounds, and a game-high four blocks.

White had a game-high 27 points to lead the Bulldogs, followed by a career-night by junior Ray Gatling (Oxon Hill, Md.) with 21. Westmorland ended the night 14 points.

Johnson C. Smith only shot 32% (8-of-25) from the field in the second half, including 0-6 from the three point line.

Bowie State closes out its three-game home stand Monday, January 7^th versus the defending CIAA Champions of Winston-Salem State University. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m. in the A.C. Jordan Arena.

JOHNSON C. SMITH WOMEN STEAL A 63-61 VICTORY OVER BOWIE STATE

 BOWIE, Md. - The Bowie State University women’s basketball team fell just short in a, 63-61, loss to visiting Johnson C. Smith Saturday evening at the A.C. Jordan Arena.

With the defeat, the Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-6 overall and 1-1 in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association while the Lady Golden Bulls improved to 5-7 and 3-1 in the CIAA.

Junior Brooke Miles (Upper Marlboro, Md.) led the way for Bowie State with 19 points, including going 5-for-7 from behind the three-point arc. Sophomore Jasmine McIntosh (Bowie, Md.) recorded her third BSU career double-double scoring 15 points and tied her season-high in rebounds with 12. McIntosh’s 12 rebounds also tied for game-high honors.

“It really wasn’t a good night for us but we’ll hopefully learn from this setback”, said Bowie State head coach Renard Smith.

The Lady Bulldogs controlled most of the game, leading by nine at the half. But the Lady Golden Bulls held the Lady Bulldogs to just six points over the next 5:41 while closing the deficit to, 46-41.

The Lady Bulldogs held the lead, 61-59, with 35 seconds remaining but Lady Golden Bulls’ LaKendra Wilkerson (Greensboro, N.C.) closed the game strong and tied the game, 61-61, with two free throws following a defensive rebound that she grabbed.

Wilkerson was her team’s workhorse as she went 10-for-12 from the free throw line and scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.

Prior to Wilkerson’s game-tying free throws, the Lady Bulldogs took their last lead of the game when BSU’s Miles hit a three-pointer with 53 seconds remaining to give her team a two-point advantage.

Johnson C. Smith sealed the game when Wilkerson hit two free throws with one second remaining to put her team up, 63-61, following Bowie State junior Moriah Goodman’s fifth foul and disqualification.

JCSU’s Brittany Dorsett (Winston-Salem, N.C.) scored a game-high 20 points in 40 minutes. Deanna Downer (Elberton, Ga.) chipped in 13 points, seven from the free throw line where the Lady Golden Bulls shot 81.8 percent (18-22) in the second half.

Lady Bulldogs’ sophomore Bria Robinson (Richmond, Va.) added 13 points in 22 minutes of action.

The Lady Bulldogs wrap up a three game home stand Monday (January 7^th) evening against Winston-Salem State. The Lady Rams and Lady Bulldogs are set for a 5:30 pm start.

Most dangerous food additive on earth is in 6,000 products

"Safe" Ingredient Found in 6,000 Products
Can Lead to Cancer, Seizures,
Holes in Your Brain, and more

    Enjoying any of 6,000 popular foods and beverages can lead to leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas… along with brain, kidney, liver and lung cancers. These products contain what I call the most dangerous single food additive on earth.

    I'm basing that charge on the largest human study ever on the subject — based on over two million person-years worth of data. Keep reading and I'll identify this deadly chemical and give you the shocking new findings. . .

Continued below. . .

The Blood Pressure Lie EXPOSED!     If you've been told you have high blood pressure, you're probably scared to death.     It is called "the silent killer."     With a name like that, it has to scare you.     And, if that's not scary enough, you were probably told to start taking a blood pressure drug immediately.     But, that wasn't all, was it? I bet you had to go and see a cardiologist next.     And, did the cardiologist tell you that if one drug didn't bring your pressure down, you might have to take a second drug at the same time? Often, there's even a third drug.     I know how the system works. I've been fighting against it for you for almost 30 years.     And, I know you don't want to be part of that group who's taking blood pressure medication for the rest of their lives.     So I'll let you in on a little secret...

    It's a safe guess that every American man, woman, and child has consumed aspartame at one time or another. More than 250 million people drink beverages containing this deadly chemical because they actually think it's a healthy choice!

    The facts say otherwise: these people are boosting their cancer risk far beyond anything you'd imagine. It's proven by a new study released by Harvard and then almost immediately scrubbed from the Internet. It appears that powerful interests want to protect aspartame from any criticism.

The dreadful consequences of a "safe" food choice

    This mega-study revealed some downright frightening results. As little as one diet soda a day leads to:

• 42% higher leukemia risk (men and women)
• 102% higher multiple myeloma risk (men only)
• 31% higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (men only)

    Researchers analyzed data from the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study gathered over a 22-year period. It included 77,218 women and 47,810 men, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years of data. That certainly seems like enough data to give us meaningful results.

    The study identified over this 22 year period:

• 1,324 non-Hodgkin lymphomas,
• 285 multiple myelomas, and
• 339 cases of leukemia.

    Aside from its sheer size (the largest aspartame study ever), this study was particularly thorough in its analysis of aspartame consumption. They evaluated dietary information every two years during the 22 year period, instead of at just one point in time.

    And make no mistake… Americans consume a LOT of aspartame — 10.5 million pounds per year -- eighty-six percent of which is from diet soda.

Previous studies — slammed by critics —
were absolutely right

    Several studies over a period of years found a link between aspartame consumption and cancer. But they were often criticized as too small, too short, or poorly constructed.

    This study puts those doubts to rest.

    And the results are not exactly surprising. But they are disturbing. Consider what we already new before this large-scale human study was released. . .

    One previous rat study found that of 48 experimental rats, up to 67% of all female rats developed golf ball sized (or larger) tumors. And 21% of the males developed similar cancerous growths.

    An Italian study connected aspartame intake to lymphomas, leukemia, and kidney cancer. This study confirmed aspartame as a carcinogen affecting multiple sites in both rats (males and females) and mice (males only).¹

"The truth isn't sweet when it
comes to artificial sweeteners."

    So screamed the headline of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) press release about a link between aspartame and cancers, especially blood cancers. Then suddenly they got cold feet and scrubbed the story.

    They also issued an "apology", stating that the data were "too weak to find a causal link".

    None of this is too surprising. If it becomes established that aspartame causes cancer, it could be equivalent to the long-running scandals over tobacco or asbestos. Can you imagine the frenzy of litigation against food and beverage makers? The lawsuits will never end.

Don't ignore a 22-year study of 125,000+ people

    Don't take a chance and ignore a large-scale, long-term study like this one that shows a link between aspartame and blood cancers.

    The long-term aspect is critically important, because one of the tricks industry uses to hide product toxicity is short term tests. Short-term studies reveal nothing about long-term risks. Based solely on short-term trials, the industry can get away with claiming aspartame is one of the most studied food additives ever, with no health concerns. And it's all blessed by the FDA.

    The reality is they never study the long-term effects, and those remain largely unknown till a product has been on the market for years — even decades — and the horrible consequences start showing up.

    As proof of that, shortly after the release and retraction of the Harvard study, the beverage industry quickly stated that aspartame has been "deemed safe for decades by the world's leading toxicologists".

    Unfortunately, most people don't know how short and poorly designed these industry-funded studies are, and the media choose not to tell you. So it's easy to be deceived.

Well-guarded secrets of a scary molecule

    Aspartame is the name of the active ingredient in artificial sweeteners like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.

    It was accidentally discovered in 1965 when James Schlatter, chemist for the G. D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.

    It turned out his discovery is some 200 times sweeter than table sugar, and was approved for dry foods in 1981 and carbonated beverages in 1983. Now get this: Already in the 1960s aspartame was labeled a dangerous chemical and shown to create holes in brain tissue and to cause brain and nerve damage in developing fetuses. But wait, there's more: Researchers also knew it causes cancer, migraines, headaches, seizures, convulsions, and even retinal damage.

    Anything this dangerous should have been removed from the market many years ago!

    It actually was removed for a time after initial approval, when Dr. John Olney of the Washington School of Medicine discovered that aspartic acid — a major aspartame ingredient — caused holes in the brains of animal subjects.

    There's a whole long and sordid story to be told about questionable lab practices, an FDA grand jury investigation of studies and more, but space prohibits its telling here and now. Interestingly, one of the government's prosecuting attorneys later joined the law firm representing Searle.

Don't trust the FDA to protect your health…

    One can only guess about the political shenanigans involved in gaining approval for aspartame.

    Finally, after the FDA received over 8,000 complaints about NutraSweet's side effects, a list of possible side effects was made public. Besides cancer and tumors, including brain cancer, aspartame is linked to a long laundry list of problems. I won't list them all here, but if you or a loved one suffer any symptoms or vexing health issues that won't resolve, it may be worth examining your diet for hidden aspartame.

    Be forewarned, to this day the FDA still denies a cancer link. By the time they admit it (if ever), it will be too late for you.

    Many chronic conditions are linked to aspartame:

• Memory loss
• Alzheimer's disease
• Dementia
• Brain lesions
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• ALS
• Parkinson's disease
• Epilepsy
• Hearing loss and vision problems

    We can hardly overstate the risk to infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and anyone with chronic health conditions. The book Prescription for Nutritional Healing by James and Phyllis Balch, lists aspartame as a "chemical poison". I'll show you in a moment just how true that is.

    But first, the acute conditions in the following list may also be linked to aspartame. Take a look and see if any of these shoes fit your feet. . .

• Hallucinations
• Infertility
• Diarrhea
• Seizures
• Depression
• Migraine and headaches
• Fatigue (blocks glucose from entering brain)
• Insomnia
• Nausea and abdominal pain
• Sleep problems
• Asthma and chest tightness
• Heart palpitations
• Weight gain
• Rashes

    Many of these conditions can also lead to early death.

Danger: brain damage ahead…

    Aspartame is comprised of three chemicals — aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.

    Aspartic acid, an amino acid also called aspartate, is a neurotransmitter in your brain. Its big problems come when taken in free form (not bound to proteins).

    Aspartate slowly destroys your neurons. Seventy-five percent of the neural cells in one area of your brain can be killed before you show any clinical symptoms of chronic illness. No wonder one key complaint from aspartame use is memory loss!

    Dr. Russell Blaylock, leading neurologist and neurosurgery professor at the Medical University of Mississippi, published an entire book detailing the damage caused by aspartate. He uses 500 scientific references to show the link to serious chronic neurological disorders.

    Phenylalanine is also an amino acid. Diet soda must carry a label warning people with phenylketonuria (PKU) not to drink it, because they cannot metabolize phenylalanine. But even those without PKU can experience a dangerous buildup of phenylalanine — leading to plummeting serotonin levels, depression, anxiety, and violent rages.

    One especially alarming account of the effects of spiked phenylalanine levels was documented in the Wednesday Journal article, "An Aspartame Nightmare." John Cook drank six to eight diet drinks daily.

    His symptoms began with memory loss and frequent headaches, and then moved to violent rages and severe mood swings. He didn't have PKU, yet a blood test showed a phenylalanine level of 80 mg/dl. (Safe levels of phenylalanine are under 10 mg/dl.) He also showed brain damage and abnormal brain function.

    When he cut aspartame from his diet, his symptoms improved.

    Methanol (aka wood alcohol) is a deadly poison. You may have heard of methanol as the poison that causes some "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead.

    Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in your body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin and a known carcinogen. It also causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects.

    Even the EPA calls methanol "a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion." EPA recommends a limit of 7.8 mg/day, yet a one-liter beverage (or 3 cans of diet soda) contains 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users may consume up to 250 mg per day — a staggering 32 times the EPA limit.

More dangerous for people than for test animals

    Due to your lack of a couple key enzymes that digest methanol — enzymes that lab animals have but you don't -- you're much more sensitive to its toxins than animals.

    In humans, ,methanol converts to formaldehyde via an enzyme called ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). This enzyme is more active in men than in women, which may explain the association between diet soda consumption and higher lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men, but not women.

    Methanol absorption spikes when heated to 86 degrees. This may occur when a product is improperly stored (diet drinks sitting in hot sun), or as part of a food product such as Jello.

    Another byproduct of aspartame is Diketopiperazine (DKP), implicated in brain tumors. Olney noted that DKP in the gut produces a powerful brain-tumor-causing chemical.

    DKP is also implicated as a cause of uterine polyps and blood cholesterol by FDA toxicologist Dr. Jacqueline Verrett (in her testimony before the U.S. Senate).

Don't drink it or eat it,
no matter how safe they claim it is!

    Don't believe the party line about aspartame safety. Avoid all products that contain it. I eat almost no processed or manufactured foods myself, and I don't drink sodas at all, regular or diet. If you give up aspartame-sweetened sodas, for heaven's sake don't go back to the ones with sugar or high fructose corn syrup. They're even worse.

    And it's not all about sodas. Considering that aspartame is hidden in 6,000 products*, check out the footnote below for a list. Aspartame is in a great many consumer items you might not think of, such as children's Tylenol, certain vitamins, laxatives (Metamucil), pharmaceuticals**…

    It pays to become an astute label reader and questioner!

    Janet Starr Hull, who holds a doctorate in nutrition, says about the latest aspartame reports,

I will never accept the news of aspartame safety. I think it is a 'business' decision to discredit/discount the research results that aspartame DOES cause cancer, major nerve disorders, birth defects, and brain imbalances. Think about it… can you imagine the chaos that will occur when the truth of aspartame dangers is accredited…

    Perhaps you're thinking it's worth the risk of cancer to keep your weight down? Don't count on it. There's evidence that aspartame causes people to gain weight, not lose it!

* Foods besides soda which may contain aspartame:

• Mints, chewing gum, hard candies, soft candy chews
• Flavored syrups for coffee, flavored water products
• Frozen ice cream, ice cream novelties and frozen ice, ice cream toppings
• Fruit spreads, jams/jellies
• Jell-O and pudding
• Iced tea powder and ready to drink, instant cocoa mix
• Juice blends and drinks
• Mousse
• Syrups
• Meal replacements, protein nutritional shakes, protein and nutritional bars,
• "No sugar added" and "Sugar Free" — any food!
• Veggie drinks
• Yogurt — drinkable, fat free, sugar free

    ** See this link for a list of OTC and prescription drugs containing aspartame:http://suewidemark.com/asparmeds.htm

Bowie State Men's Basketball Post Game Story

BOWIE STATE FALTERS IN 85-72 CONFERENCE OPENING LOSS TO LIVINGSTONE

BOWIE, Md. - Livingstone College (9-1 / 1-0 CIAA) shot 56 percent from the floor in the second half and 24 second points by Jody Hill (Detroit, Mich.) make the difference as Bowie State University drops conference opener 85-72. 

“Give credit to Livingstone, but we simply lost focus, especially in the second half”, said Bowie State head coach Darrell Brooks. “We knew Hill was a good shooter coming in, but we had some coverage errors that gave him some good, comfortable looks.”

Bowie State (4-6 / 0-1 CIAA) was led senior Najee White with a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds and fellow senior Byron Westmorland with 21 points.  Senior Dameatric Scott fell just short of a double-double, contributing 14 points and nine rebounds.  

The Livingstone Blue Bears led only once in the first half (3-2) before Bowie State opened a 12 point lead twice at 24-12 and 26-14. The Blue Bears would not go away, cutting the deficit to 38-34 by halftime. Omar Ford-Bey (Chester, Pa.), Eladio Espinoza (Summit, N.J.) and Mark Thomas (Saginaw, Mo.) led Livingstone with nine points each in the first period.

Westmorland, junior Carlos Smith and White combined for 26 first half points to lead the Bulldogs, but Bowie State committed nine of their season-tying 22 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.

Livingstone trimmed the Bowie State lead to 40-39 early in the second half following a pair of free throws by Ford-Bey. A Hill 3-pointer with 12:22 remaining in the game created the only tie at 48-48. The Blue Bears slowed pulled away, opening up a 69-59 double-digit lead with 6:05 left to play and were never threatened after that.

In addition to Hill’s game-high 26 points, Thomas added 17 points, Ford-Bey (15) and Espinoza (12 points). Anthony Welch swatted away a game-high five shots for Livingstone.

Neither team shot well from the charity stripe, with Livingstone making 25-of-41 free throws compared to Bowie State’s 19-of-30 from the free throw line.

When asked about Bowie State’s inability to get stops down the stretch, Brooks said “We’re a full court pressing team, but tonight we didn’t do a good job rotationally”.

The Bulldogs welcome Johnson C. Smith to BSU's A.C. Jordan Arena for a 7:30 pm conference clash on Saturday (January 5).