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Sunday, August 11, 2013

2103 Cancer Control Society Convention

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41st Annual
Cancer Control Society 
 2013 Convention
OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONALS
Aug. 31st Sept 1 & 2, 2013
Sat., Sun. & Mon. - Labor Day Weekend
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DOCTOR'S Symposium - $75.00
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd - ALL PROFESSIONALS & PUBLIC INVITED.
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Wed., Sept. 4thSat., Sept. 14 
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Read this before your next lawn treatment

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Read this BEFORE your next lawn treatment…


    Most lawns and gardens experience pesky weed growth that can choke your grass—and make you step up your weed-whacking efforts.

    For many folks this means a trip to the local hardware store to purchase herbicides.

    But before you resort to chemical weed killers, you should know that a recent study found the world's most popular brand may be linked to a host of health problems including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, infertility and Parkinson's disease! Keep reading and I'll explain...

Continued below. . .

You Will Probably Live To 100 Years
Whether You Want To Or Not
    The "rules" of aging have changed enormously in the days since I went to medical school. They still keep changing; life expectancy moves relentlessly upwards.

    We are all growing older, it's true. But that doesn't mean we have to age.

    Despite continuous propaganda from the authorities who want to bilk you of their retirement pension, humans are living longer than ever. Retirement age now means nothing.

    The fact is that at 65 years you are barely half-way through even today's lifespan. Some people alive now will reach 200 years of age and still be in good shape.

    Not sure? Did you know that, of all the people who ever reached the age of 65 years, half of them are still alive!

    What will put you in your grave, eventually, is not aging. It's ignorance. I promise you that you will die early if you don't know about anti-aging. You'll lose years that could be rightfully yours.

    In my remarkable eBook "Get Healthy For Your Next 100 Years" I tell you all the latest science, organ by organ, system by system, explaining what you need to know and what you need to do to stay healthy.

Best Regards,
Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MB ChB, PhD


    Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc., made these claims in a study published in the journal Entropy1.

    The authors dubbed the active ingredient in Monsanto's product Roundup® "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment!" It has been available under different brand names since the Monsanto patent expired in 2000.

    Whatever the brand name, the ingredient we're talking about is glyphosate, a chemical that is commonly sprayed over genetically modified (GM) crops designed to tolerate it.

    This means the toxin has made its way to your dinner table.

    According to Samsel and Seneff, the chemical residues you ingest in foods slowly disrupt normal body functions and can cause inflammation and disease throughout the body.

    Now you can bet the reaction from the chemical manufacturers was fast and furious!
Are these accusations based on bad science?
    Monsanto was quick to respond to the study conclusions, and attempted to tear holes in Samsel and Seneff's claims. A company blog post2 accused the authors of producing a paper of "low scientific quality" using "no new data and a piecemeal approach."

    Basically, Monsanto objected to the fact that the authors didn't conduct any new research. The company said Samsel and Seneff just compiled a review of recent literature to arrive at their cause-and-effect hypotheses.

    The blog post also attacked the scientists' credibility based on their ties to activist groups lobbying against GM foods.

    These counterattacks might make you less willing to condemn the popular weed killing product, at least until you have more information.

    But remember, Monsanto admits that these folks reviewed existing studies and literature.

    Clearly this means that other people have been investigating a connection between glyphosate and disease.

    For example, scientists raised similar concerns about the health effects of glyphosate in a study published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology3.

    These researchers determined that glyphosate has estrogenic properties that feed breast cancer tumors.

    What's more, a 2011 study4 from the U.S. Geological Survey found the chemical present in 60 to 100 percent of rain and air samples in the U.S! That surprised me, because I don't think of herbicides as an air pollution issue.

    The problem isn't confined to the United State. In Europe, testing showed that people in 18 countries had glyphosate in their bodies!

    With such a widespread presence on the planet, you can bet that humans aren't the only ones suffering the nasty side effects…
Glyphosate is an equal opportunity poison
    In a January 16, 2011 open letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, plant pathologist Dr. Don Huber warned of a link between Roundup Ready® (RR) crops and serious plant diseases, animal infertility and spontaneous abortions.

    Roundup Ready crops are genetically modified to withstand the effects of Roundup herbicide, so they survive the poison while weeds are killed.

Cancer Defeated Publications     Dr. Huber said a new infectious agent had been found in heavy concentrations in the RR soybean and corn crops. He was especially disturbed by what he called "an unprecedented trend of increasing plant and animal disease and disorders."

    Huber urged USDA to launch a multi-agency investigation and place a moratorium on deregulating RR crops until the relationship between glyphosate and these plants could be investigated more fully.

    So how did the government react to his requests?

    The administration fully deregulated Monsanto's RR alfalfa and sugar beets less than three weeks after receiving Dr. Huber's letter!

    Now, Dr. Huber’s letter concerned Roundup-Ready plants, not the weed killer as such. But it’s hard to separate the two because when you consume an RR crop presumably you’re eating herbicide residue, too. In fact, Dr. Huber maintains the herbicide actually becomes part of the plant. You can’t wash it off or remove it in any way.

    Maybe you'll find comfort in knowing that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting a standard registration review of glyphosate.

    They've decided to render a decision about whether to limit glyphosate use by the year2015. I find this disturbing. The safety of the product should be established before it's deregulated.

    In the meantime, you can at least avoid using the weed killer on your own lawn and garden if you'd like to reduce your exposure.

    This might mean you'll have to pull out the electric weed whacker… hire a gardener… or resign yourself to weeding the old-fashioned way — on your knees and with your hands…

    Any of these choices may be a safer, healthier alternative to the chemicals in the food supply that may be harming your health.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

These fruits tested best for stopping cancer cells

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The Fruits that Tested Best
for Stopping Cancer Cells


    Imagine if doctors started prescribing certain fruits to fight cancer—the second leading cause of death worldwide. You'd hear things like: "Take this berry for stomach cancer. Use this citrus fruit to treat your lung cancer." And so on.

    Incredibly, we're in the early stages of seeing that become a reality. Nutraceuticals—that is, foods used as drugs— are getting more attention every year as a way to fight or prevent the development of cancer.

    Now comes a study that directly compares the effect of different fruits on cancer cells. I was surprised by what they found. . .

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...


How one small fruit effectively halted liver cancer
    Recent evidence suggests not all fruits are created equal when it comes to halting the growth of cancer. Different fruits pack massively different combinations of phytonutrients. Wild bananas, for instance, contain anthocyanins. But not yellow bananas.

    So, in a petri-dish study using liver cancer cells, researchers decided to test the individual power of various fruits. As a control, they dripped water on the cancer cells—and nothing happened. The growth of the cancer cells didn't slow down at all.

    Next came a test for pineapples, then pears, then oranges. None made any appreciable difference in the cancer cell growth rate. But when the researchers tested high peach concentrations on the cancer cells, cancer cell proliferation dropped roughly 10 percent.

    That surprised me, because I've never seen peaches mentioned as a particularly healthy fruit. In view of this study, I think it's likely they contain a powerful phytonutrient that scientists haven't identified yet.

    That's alright by me. Peaches in season are my favorite fruit. Blueberries (not tested in this study) come in second for me. But purchasing fresh peaches is tricky because they have very heavy loads of pesticides when grown conventionally. An organic farmer once told me that it's almost impossible to grow them without some chemicals, so in farmer's markets you'll find a lot of "low-spray" peaches but probably few that can honestly claim to be "no-spray."
But peaches weren't the
most powerful anti-cancer fruit. . .
    Grapefruits and bananas each halted growth by about 40 percent. Apples, strawberries, and red grapes slowed cancer cell proliferation by 50 percent. Those figures are far higher than the score for peaches.

    But keep reading. This gets better. . .

    The two fruits really worth noticing were lemons and cranberries, with cranberries coming out on top. They both caused a dramatic drop in proliferation, and at tiny doses. For a fascinating video on the subject, click http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-common-fruit-fights-cancer-better.html.

    Does this mean that anybody suffering from liver cancer should start downing cranberries? It certainly wouldn't hurt, considering fruit treatments are generally quite safe. But we have to consider whether the same reaction would take place inside the human body. Studies in petri dishes are great. But they can't and don't tell the whole story. We need studies in live humans — not easy to do because it wouldn't be ethical to treat a cancer patient with nothing but bananas or lemons.
Fruits aren't the only edible treatment on the rise…
    This isn't the only promising study on fruits halting cancer. In another study, researchers took people who already had pre-cancerous changes in their mouths—a precursor to oral cancer, which has a very high death rate.

    Now, we know that in petri dish experiments, black raspberries can inhibit the growth of pre-malignant and malignant cells without affecting the growth of normal cells. But again, that's not the same as testing the effects on humans.

    Here's where it gets interesting. Researchers took those folks with pre-cancerous growths in their mouths and asked them to rub a black raspberry gel on the growths daily for six weeks. Incredibly, most of the lesions improved. Some completely regressed.

    The gel was chosen so test subjects wouldn't have to consume berries all day long, and because the gel stuck better to the gums where the lesions were. Because of the promising results, one group of researchers is working to create injectable berry implants.

    One reason to hope they come through with the implants is that it's hard to get access to black raspberries on a regular basis. You've probably noticed the stores usually stock red raspberries. Now, red raspberries are also a known cancer-fighter, but since this oral cancer study was conducted on black raspberries, those are the ones you'd want to use to have the best shot at getting the same results.

    Freeze-dried black raspberry powder is available, but then there's the risk of lost nutrition. Still, it's worth a try.

    Let me point out here that it's not just fruit that might save the day from cancer. Spinach appears to be the best vegetable for fighting breast cancer … and to be honest, it's at or near the top among salad greens for fighting a lot of other cancers including brain tumors, kidney cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, and pediatric brain tumors.

    But we're still a ways away from hearing doctors prescribe hefty doses of berries and vegetables to ward off cancer. Regardless ... I don't think it's far-fetched to believe that day might come, and maybe sooner than we think.
Whole foods diet wins out again
    The best you can do for now is to stick to a whole foods diet with lots of fresh greens and fruits. If you missed last week's article on juicing, look it up and consider this easy way of consuming large amounts of fresh, uncooked vegetables and fruit.

    Because it's nearly impossible to know which specific cancers you're most at risk for, your best bet is to eat a wide variety of the good stuff from nature. That'll cover your bases until we know more about which fruit or vegetable is best for which cancer.

    In the meantime, you may be wondering about the most palatable way to eat a cranberry. Cranberry juice from the store is not a great idea, because it's pasteurized, which destroys valuable nutrients. Instead, make your own cranberry juice. Blend a handful of frozen cranberries, water, and your natural sweetener of choice (I recommend agave or, better yet, xylitol). Then drink and enjoy—you'll get less than half the sugar of store-bought cranberry juice, and loads more phytonutrients.

    And whatever you do, try hard to buy organic fruits and vegetables to avoid the chemicals.

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

eFax®: Top 5 Reasons to use eFax® for Business Communications

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As you are well aware, online faxing is a much easier and efficient way of faxing these days. What you might not be so privy to is that online faxing can be a much safer way to share important business documents than other forms of communication. Here are the top five reasons to use eFax® for business communications: 
  1. Virus Threats: Faxes are delivered as a Portable Document Formats (PDF), which unlike emails are less likely to harbor viruses.
  2. Spam Filters: Faxes do not get blocked like emails by spam filters.
  3. Data Privacy and Encryption: Faxes are natively encrypted and can't be hacked or decoded. Emails on the other hand can be intercepted and read if not encrypted.
  4. Legal Acceptance: Email and file attachments can be great for every day communication but are not generally accepted for legal documentation because attached files do not provide a time-stamped image of a document.
  5. Flexibility with File Size: It is easier to send large files through online fax than email because online fax dos not fall under any file size caps put in place by email hosts.
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CRSCBL Final Regular Season Standings

 
 
Summer 2013 marks the ninth season of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League. The league consists of twelve teams, the Alexandria Aces, Baltimore Redbirds, Bethesda Big Train, DC Grays, Gaithersburg Giants, Herndon Braves, Presstman Cardinals, Rockville Express, Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, Southern Maryland Nationals, Vienna RiverDogs, and the Youse's Orioles.

2013 CRCBL Regular Season Standings:
 
TeamWLPCTGB
BETHESDA BIG TRAIN*
30
14
.682
-
Alexandria Aces  
27
17
.614
3
Gaithersburg Giants 2618
.591
4
Rockville Express   
25
19
.568
5
Youse's Orioles   
25
19
.568
5
Baltimore Redbirds   
25
19
.568
5
Vienna Riverdogs  
23
21
.523
7
Southern Maryland Nationals 
23
21
.523
7
DC Grays  
23
21
.523
7
Presstman Cardinals  
14
30
.318
16
Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts
13
31
.295
17
FCA Herndon Braves
10
34
.227
20

* = Clinched Regular Season Championship 
 
2013 Montgomery Cup Standings:

TEAM
W
L
PCT
GB
BETHESDA BIG TRAIN*102.833-
Gaithersburg Giants 75.5833
Rockville Express  48.3336
Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts  39.2507
 
* = Clinched Montgomery Cup


For information, please log onto: www.calripkenleague.org
 

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Big Train Fall in Championship Game; Another Great Season of Bethesda Baseball!

Big Train Fall to Redbirds in Championship
The Big Train hosted the Baltimore Redbirds this afternoon, as both teams squared off in the CRCBL Championship for the fifth consecutive season.

Justin Hepner (San Diego State) got the start for the Big Train, and went seven quality innings, giving up just two runs on three hits while recording five strikeouts. Box Score: L, 4-1
In the top of the fifth, the Big Train would score the first run of the game after Parker Guinn (Washington) led off the inning with a walk. The Big Train catcher then stole second and third base to give Johnny Cole (Coastal Carolina) a runner in scoring position with one out. Cole came through for the Big Train, hitting an RBI single to score Guinn and give the Big Train the 1-0 lead.
However, the Redbirds staged a comeback and got to the Big Train pitching for four runs in the next two innings. After scoring one in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game, Baltimore scored three more in the eighth to take the 4-1 lead heading into the top of the ninth.
The Big Train would get one base-runner in the ninth inning, as Kevin Tatum(Cornell) drew a one-out walk. However, Bethesda would fail to score any runs, and the Redbirds would go on to win the game 4-1.
The Big Train finishes the season with a combined 32-16 record, good for best in the CRCBL. The Big Train also walk away with some hardware, as they'll receive the Montgomery Cup for having the best record in match-ups against fellow Montgomery County opponents.
Another Incredible Season of
Bethesda Big Train Baseball 
 
The Bethesda Big Train would like to thank all of our great fans for all of their support all season long. Without the fans, the Bethesda Big Train would not be the great experience that we all know it to be.

We can't wait to see all of you back at Povich Field next summer for another season of great baseball, or even hopefully before that at any of our offseason events such as:
  • Garrett Stephenson Camp (now through August 23rd
  • Gio Gonzalez Camp (August 8th
  • The Bethesda Baseball Holiday Auction (November 17th
  • Our FanFest
  • The Big Train Celebrity Softball Classic
  • Any of our Community Events
  • Or Anything Else in Between...
Thanks again for all you continue to do to make the Big Train everything it is!

Eating 8 servings of vegetables is a piece of cake

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Eating Eight Servings of Vegetables is a
Piece of Cake
(Okay, not literally; but it is easy)


    Nearly every health authority recommends that you get six to eight servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Hardly anyone follows this advice.

    Although the majority of Americans say they are "trying" to eat more fruits and veggies, most are missing the mark. More than half are, in fact -- even when potatoes are counted as a vegetable (which you definitely shouldn't -- potatoes are just a step away from sugar).

    You're about to find out how to make it easy to eat your quota… and if you don't care much for vegetables — keep reading, because this approach makes them better tasting and more enjoyable, too.

Continued below. . .

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One of the best treats you can give your body
    Unless you've had your head stuck in the sand the past few years, you've probably heard a thing or two about juicing — or green smoothies. (I'll tell you the difference in a moment).

    What makes it so attractive is that juicing is an easy way to vastly increase the amount of vegetables in your daily diet. The benefits are remarkable. You'll notice a difference in the way you feel.

    Fresh juiced vegetables give your body an instant infusion of nutrients, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and other compounds in a form you can easily get down the hatch, digest, absorb and use. Just the way nature intended.

    Juiced vegetables work synergistically to give you the raw materials that promote healing, boost your energy level, and protect you from disease.

    Many people find they struggle with eating a couple of pounds of vegetables and fruits per day, but have no trouble when they switch to a glass of fresh vegetable juice.

    Here's another important benefit of juicing: Cooked food is poor in nutrition. Some health experts recommend consuming around 80 to 85 percent of your foods in their raw state. Cooking and processing food destroy valuable and sensitive micronutrients by changing both their shape and chemical composition. (For more about this, check out my Special Report, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.)

    It's a sure bet that hardly anyone eats 85 percent of their food raw. With juicing, it becomes easy, and the resulting increase in your intake of nutrients can hype your health to levels you've never experienced before.
6 more reasons to consider juicing
    If juicing's benefits are not already obvious, here are some other reasons to consider it.
  1. Green juices contain chlorophyll, an excellent detoxifier that purifies and helps rebuild blood cells (due to its similar structure to hemoglobin), removes mold, parasites and other toxins, and can help prevent and remove cancer cells.
  2. Cleanses your cells. According to macrobiotic.co.uk, all fundamental improvements in health start at the cellular level by oxygenating and cleansing your system of toxins and other foreign invaders. The cellular environment includes your lymphatic, digestive, and cardiovascular systems, and it's a matter of life and death to keep them clean.
  3. Extremely alkaline. Many health authorities teach that a fresh vegetable diet is alkaline rather than acidic, and for this reason places much less stress on the entire body. A high level of meat and carbohydrate consumption, on the other hand, makes the body more acidic and contributes to all the degenerative diseases — the so-called "diseases of aging." By this theory, eating vegetables alkalinizes the body.
  4. Fresh vegetable juice is a natural healer, and may contain nutrients that kill harmful microbes.
  5. A juice concocted from multiple vegetables lets you "hide" vegetables you don't like. Most people eat the same vegetables in their salad each and every day. That violates the wisdom of regular food rotation and raises the risk you could develop an allergy to a particular food. It's an axiom of food allergies that it's usually your favorite foods you're allergic to. Changing up your diet helps avoid this. Eating the same foods every day also robs you of nutrients provided by foods you've never tried.
  6. The vitamins, minerals, and other phytonutrients in juice are absorbed more quickly and easily, which helps restore your biochemical and mineral balance, and helps prevent disease and premature aging of cells. Easy absorption can be especially important if you've eaten a typical (i.e. bad) diet for many years. Juicing helps "pre-digest" the nutrients for you.
    The list could go on, but I think you get the idea.

    What do you lose when you juice instead of eating the whole vegetable? Fiber, and lots of it. While fiber has many benefits, it does have a few drawbacks. It fills us up faster so we eat fewer helpings of the vegetables we need. And once in the gut, it slows down the digestion and absorption of the nutrients embedded in the heavy fiber.

    Juicing gets most of the fiber out of the picture so you're mainly consuming the most nutritious parts of the vegetable, in much larger quantities than you ever would if you ate the whole thing — and the nutrients are absorbed quickly in the gut. I would say it's easy to consume two to three times the vegetables you now eat by taking them as juice.

    This is especially important if you're ill with cancer or other serious conditions — your body can absorb more because it doesn't have to break down fiber. And the nutrients are absorbed in a matter of 10 minutes or so, not hours.

    When it comes to healthy people, I have misgivings about advising them to do an end run around fiber (it's another component of food most people don't get enough of). But considering we have a health crisis brought on, in part, by not eating vegetables — juicing strikes me as a good choice.
Congratulations!
You've decided to try juicing… Now what?
    Whether you've never juiced before, or are already a pro, you can probably learn something from this tip sheet.
  1. Start with what you know and already enjoy. Juice should taste pleasant, not make you feel nauseous. Do what you can to make this fun, short of adding sugar or a shot of vodka.
  2. Use pesticide-free veggies. As much as possible, choose organic. Pesticides can lead to serious damage to your system, as we've detailed in Issue #40 and many other issues of this newsletter. Despite the misleading Stanford study in September of 2012, conventional pesticide exposure is much worse than they made it out to be1. If you juice your vegetables and thereby eat far more than ever before, you'll be taking in even more pesticide if you don't choose organic produce.

    Shortcomings in the Stanford study included using an odd statistical model no one understands, and failing to distinguish between single/multiple or light/heavy pesticide traces. It ignored the "cocktail effect" — multiple pesticides on a single fruit. Additionally, the researchers ignored a growing body of research about harm to human fetuses at very low levels of pesticide intake. Finally, scientists have discovered a lot about the way so-called low levels affect amphibians — and it ain't pretty. In short, you don’t want to eat pesticides.

    Make a special point of choosing organic when you purchase celery, spinach, kale, collard greens, lettuce, carrots, and cucumber. When grown conventionally, these vegetables are among the most contaminated by pesticides.
  3. Start with light, easy-to-digest vegetables (celery, fennel, and cucumbers).
  4. Then add red and green leaf lettuce, Romaine, endive, spinach, and escarole, followed by cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and bok choy.
  5. Finally, add a few pieces of the bitter greens (kale, collard, dandelion and mustard greens), some onion and garlic, sprouts, or any other fresh produce you haven't tried yet.
  6. Make your juice palatable, and even delicious, with these ideas:
    • Herbs are wonderful companions to veggies. Cilantro is a great detoxifier, but some people don't like it. You either love it or hate it.
    • Other favorites: basil, oregano, parsley, chives, mint…
    • Lemons and limes — they're low in sugar, and they can help cover the taste of more bitter veggies
    • Cranberries. Researchers say they're chock full of phytonutrients, contain five times the antioxidants of broccoli and may protect from cancer, stroke, and heart disease. But they also contain sugar, so keep to a limit of 4 ounces per pint of juice.
    • Fresh ginger. Gives your juice some kick! Start small, even tiny, because it's powerful. Ginger supports cardiovascular health and helps lower cholesterol. Again, season to taste. I'm not sure I'd include it every day.
    • Sea salt. A healthy, mineral-rich salt, unlike "normal" table salt which has nothing but sodium chloride and additives you don’t want (which keep it from clumping).
  7. Maximize vegetables and minimize fruits, especially if you struggle with your weight, have high blood pressure or uric acid, or are fighting a major health problem. Remember, sugar feeds cancer and heart disease, so limit your fruit to a few berries or a half an apple.
  8. Drink your juice immediately! Or store it very carefully. Otherwise it will start oxidizing. Vegetable juice is highly perishable.

    You can, however, store it up to 24 hours by: (1) Pouring it into an airtight jar, filling to the very top to minimize air, and covering tightly, or (2) Getting a food vacuum pump (like Food Saver) that will suck out all the air.

    Some people like taking their juice to work in a sealed coffee mug and drinking it there. Bear in mind that the longer you wait, the more the nutrients are compromised.
  9. Listen to your body, especially when first starting. If your stomach does cartwheels for hours after adding something you've never eaten before, don't force the issue. Just move on to a different vegetable next time.
Watch out for this common juicing mistake
    I'll be the first to admit that juicing does require a time commitment.

    So the natural tendency will be to find "natural" or organic juices from the store and call that good. Save the effort, right?

    Big mistake… and here's why.

    First of all, anything packaged absolutely fails on the point of drinking it right away, or within 20 minutes or even 24 hours. The sheer length of time between creation and consumption is enough to kill any nutrients and enzymes in these packaged juices.

    Perhaps even more important, bottled, store-bought juices are pasteurized, so the nutrients have been denatured through the heating process.

    This means you're drinking, in essence, empty calories. The nutrients have literally been boiled out of it. Better than Coke? Maybe, but still not beneficial... And hardly anyone is well served by empty calories. I see fresh, unpasteurized juices bottled and sold in some health food stores, but there's not much variety — mostly citrus and maybe carrot if you're lucky.
One more caution…
    Most people, unless they're using juicing to detoxify for a certain period of time, need other nutrients and more variety in their diet… those provided by high quality fats like coconut oil, butter, and olive oil, and high quality proteins such as true free-range organic eggs, beef, and chicken.

    So unless you're juicing under a doctor's guidance, I caution against the all-or-nothing mentality. Choose maybe one to two meals a day for juicing/smoothies, and then a more traditional meal for the rest.
Does a smoothie count as "juice"?
    Let's clear up the difference between juices and smoothies. They are different and require different machines.

    Call it "juice" ONLY when it's extracted and the fiber remains in the pulp collector on your machine. (Use it for soup broth.) Juicing gets more nutrient-dense food into your diet, that you might not be willing to eat if it involved consuming two pounds of whole broccoli, kale, Swiss chard or whatever. By juicing these and other vegetables you grab the nutrients without having to swallow as much stuff.

    A smoothie, on the other hand, has the whole food blended into a thick drink using the entire piece of produce (minus skin and seeds as appropriate). Its fiber helps fill you up, keep you regular, and is generally far more beneficial for someone who is in good health and for long-term use.

    Incidentally, my contributing editor declares smoothies are a great parental aid in getting kids to eat things that would usually make them turn up their noses. Healthy produce goes masquerading as a tasty drink.
How to choose a juicing machine
    If you don't already have a juicer or blender — or don't like the one you have — here are your choices…

    There are basically two types of juicers — centrifugal and masticating.

    A centrifugal juicer rips your produce at very high speeds of 3,000 to 7,000 rpm's to separate the juice from the pulp. The juice is extracted by the power of centrifugal force, similar to a washing machine spinning to remove water from clothes. The juicer is easy to use and to clean.

    But there's a major problem: The Gerson Institute — which builds its famous cancer protocol to a very large extent around juicing — does not recommend centrifugal machines because they kill off the beneficial enzymes through heat and oxygenation. The Gerson people pretty much originated the notion of juicing as a cancer treatment, almost a century ago, so I respect their position.

    That leaves masticating juicers. There are three types — the Champion juicer, the single gear juicer (crushes the produce), and the twin gear machine (presses and crushes the produce and strains the juice through a screen).

    The Rolls Royce of the juicing world, a twin gear machine priced at $2,500, is the Norwalk Press. Dr. Norman Walker created it in 1934, as a result of his search for the perfect juicer that would fully use the nutrients in the fruits and vegetables.

    There are also a number of blender options. The Rolls Royce in this category is the VitaMix, which is a versatile machine that can do a lot more than make smoothies, with a price point of $450-plus.

    Some machines are easier to clean than others. My contributing editor has used a VitaMix for nearly 20 years, and she says it's a cinch to clean — as long as you don't use any fats or oils, and you wash and rinse it out immediately.

    If you're new to juicing and smoothies, and you don't already have a machine, start with a moderately priced machine — or borrow one from someone who has one sitting around unused (there are a lot of people like that, because juicing is some work, and many people don't stick with it; check Ebay). You want to find out if you're committed to the process before you spend your life savings on a machine.
Share your favorite smoothie recipe with our readers
    One very simple combination to try is water, spinach, and an orange. Fill a blender about 2/3 full of spinach (don't pack down), a peeled and halved orange, 1-2 cups of water, and blend. The orange tones down the spinach a lot.

    If you juice or make smoothies, and you have a favorite combination of produce, please go to our Facebook page and comment on your favorite combo. https://www.facebook.com/CancerDefeated We'd love to hear from you!

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Big Train Win Thriller Against Aces, Championship Game TONIGHT at Povich

Big Train Win Thriller Against Aces, 
Will Play in Championship Tonight at Povich!
The Big Train hosted the Alexandria Aces on Friday night, as both teams hashed it out for the chance to play the Baltimore Redbirds in the CRCBL Championship on Saturday night.

Box Score: W, 5-4 | VIDEO: Post Game Interviews (Cole & Resnik)

Brock Larson (San Francisco) got the start for the Big Train, and gave the team six solid innings of one-run ball. Larson recorded four strikeouts, throwing 60 of his 92 pitches for strikes.

In the bottom of the third inning, the Big Train would draw first blood. For the third time in as many games, Ryne Willard (Tallahassee CC) came up with a clutch home run for the Big Train, this time a two-run shot that put the Big Train up 2-0.

In the fourth, the Big Train would extend their lead, as an RBI single from Mike Miedzianowski (High Point) scored Johnny Cole (Coastal Carolina) from second base to make the score 3-0.

Two innings later, the offense would add some cushion to the lead. With runners on second and third, Kevin Tatum (Cornell) hit an RBI single to push the lead to 4-0.

However, there's no such thing as a safe lead in the playoffs.

In the top of the seventh, the Aces would rally, scoring four runs off the Big Train bullpen to pull the score back even.

But the Big Train would answer in the bottom of the eighth. Johnny Cole would lead off the inning by drawing a walk, and would then advance to second base on a sac bunt by Mike Miedzianowski. After a walk to David Del Grande(Sacramento State), Ty France (San Diego State) would come up to the plate with runners on first and second and one out.

France would hit a single that was deep enough to give Cole a chance at scoring from second base. While Cole appeared to be out at the plate, Aces catcher Bobby Burns dropped the ball, allowing the run to score and the Big Train to take the 5-4 lead.

Will Resnik (High Point) would come on to pitch the ninth, and pitched his second no-hit inning to pick up the win and send the Big Train to the CRCBL Championship for the third consecutive year.

Friday night's victory sets the stage for a rematch of last year's league championship, as the Big Train will once against square off against the Baltimore Redbirds. Game 1 of the championship will be at 7:30 tonight at Povich Field, as Justin Hepner (San Diego State) takes the mound for the Big Train. 

Because the CRCBL uses a double-elimination format, the Redbirds (3-0 in the playoffs) would clinch the championship with a victory, while the Big Train (2-1 in the playoffs) will have to win tonight and tomorrow night. Both games will be played at Shirley Povich Field, so come cheer on your Big Train at home for the final times!

Tickets can be purchased here or at the gate!