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One of the first symptoms is poor REM sleep and leg cramps because Magnesium levels fall at night. Dr. Tarbizian, Director of Nutritional Medicine in Perth, Australia, a training clinic for doctors, expresses concern in this article that because Magnesium deficiency is difficult to diagnose, and not a pharmaceutical, many conventional physicians will have difficulty recognizing the health hazard. Dr. Tabrizian is the author of Nutritional Medicine: Fact or Fiction

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What Does That Research Report Really Mean?

When researchers reporting the results of a major clinical trial announce a 23 percent improvement in survival for lung cancer patients taking a new drug, it would be hard to see this as anything less than a breakthrough.

But examine this claim a little more closely and you will discover that the 23 percent improvement in survival actually translates into patients living for 12.5 months, rather than 10.2 months. Furthermore, a significant proportion ? 4.5 percent - of patients receiving the new wonder drug can be expected to die as a direct result of the treatment itself, a mortality rate which, according to one of the lead researchers involved, is "well within accepted limits."

There seems to be a vast and widening gulf between the way in which therapeutic advances of this sort are perceived and reported by the medical profession, and the real-world benefit that patients can expect to receive from submitting to such treatments.

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Apple Of The Orient aka Ebenaceae, Diospyros kaki

Several years ago we arrived home from the grocery store one afternoon to find these squatty orange persimmons sitting at our back door. I put them in the kitchen as they were really hard and persimmons are not one of my favorite foods so I would not hurry to ear one. Later in the evening I received a call from a dear friend asking me if I had found the fruit at our back door. I assured him I did. He wanted to know if we had eaten them and my reply was. "Are you nuts those persimmons are hard as a rock and not ready to eat!" He started laughing and said go get one and a knife and slice it as you would an apple and he wasn't going to get off the phone until I did! When sliced it appears to look like a star fish pattern inside. So, I grudgingly did as he said while dreading the taste that I knew I would encounter, I bit into a slice. If you've ever bitten into a native persimmon or an unripe Japanese variety, you know that they can be puckery bitter when not fully ripe. My taste buds received a huge shock as the taste was not at all the flavor of a persimmon. A new favorite food had entered my life that day. I now wait patiently every year until I can get some.

That favorite food is a Fuju Persimmon. And some things I have learned about it is very interesting is that it's;

A short squatty orange fruit known as the Apple of the Orient (Ebenaceae, Diospyros kaki). Fuju looks like a bright orange, medium-sized squatty tomato, is perhaps best-known in America as the Japanese, or Oriental, persimmon, occasionally Chinese plum or, when dried, Chinese fig. In Spanish, it is called caqui. Native to Japan, Burma, northern India and China, the tree can be found growing at altitudes from 6000-8000 ft (1830-2500m) Marco Polo wrote about the persimmon trade in the early 14th Century, and it is featured in ceremonies throughout Asia, where over two thousand cultivars exist. It was not until the late1800?s that grafted trees were distributed to California, but by 1930, there were close to 100,000 bearing trees around the state. The trees do well in the mild climate portions of California, and over 90% of the total U.S. persimmon fruit crop is grown there.

Eaten like an apple - has a crisp texture that makes it good for slicing and using of fruit trays or in fruit salads. Persimmons are used in main dishes to enhance the flavors in puddings, desserts, salsas, jams, candy, breads, cakes, stewed fruits, and salads or they can be eaten fresh, peeling and all. Dried persimmons, which have a chewy, jelly-like texture and unique sweet flavor, are also available.

Rich in nutrients, particularly such important vitamins as A and C, a little of the Bs, and E. Many minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, copper, and manganese, a little iron, and other trace minerals, are also present, especially when they are contained in the water and soil that nourishes the plants or trees. Fuju's are low in fat and high in fiber making for a great bowel stimulator.

I hope this info will help you choose a new favorite food!
Lena

This is not surprise except to those who are in denial!

Experts Agree Doughnuts a Totally Worthless Food

For many Americans, there's nothing quite like biting into a warm, hot-off-the-grease doughnut. Yet whether they're frosted or sprinkled, sugar-glazed or plain, one truth remains: Doughnuts' lack of nutritional quality makes most nutritionists wince.

What makes doughnuts so damaging to your health? For starters, they're packed with:

*Trans fats
*Artificial flavorings
*Refined sugar and flour
... all the "goodies" that contribute to a massive, health-harming outcome. (Even the typical glazed blueberry doughnut from Krispy Kreme contains artificial fruit made from sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn cereal and other assorted chemicals.)

USDA Dietary Contradiction

So, while most dietitians believe people should aim for an ideal diet--eliminating foods that have been stripped of many nutrients, packed with potentially detrimental ingredients like the unhealthy kinds of fats or both--the 2005 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) dietary recommendations veer Americans in a slightly different direction.

In fact, the USDA's new flawed food pyramid gives Americans the perfect excuse to indulge their sweet cravings by allowing for "discretionary calories" obtained from high-fat foods such as doughnuts. However, this junk food allowance is only risk-free if a person is not trying to lose weight and has met all other nutritional requirements according to the guidelines. It also assumes people will have the will-power to eat in moderation.

Doughnuts on the Brain

Tasty, feel-good foods like doughnuts are not only difficult to resist, they can actually lead to addiction for people who have stronger than normal genetic tendencies to enjoy foods that are especially high in fat and sugar.

Moreover, brain scan research found that high-carbohydrate foods like doughnuts--with their appealing texture and high sugar and fat content--artificially raise serotonin (linked to mood) and dopamine (associated with pleasurable sensations) levels in the brain, fueling addiction.

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Science is almost catching up. I've said this for years as has Dr. Garland and now we're being proven right... Just remember that too much of any good thing is bad... Sun is no exception...

Scientists Say Sunshine May Prevent Cancer
May 21, 2005
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

(AP) Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer. Now some scientists are questioning that advice. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer.

In the last three months alone, four separate studies found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer.

Many people aren't getting enough vitamin D. It's hard to do from food and fortified milk alone, and supplements are problematic.

So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.

No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that "safe sun" - 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen - is not only possible but helpful to health.

One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

His research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer.

"I would challenge anyone to find an area or nutrient or any factor that has such consistent anti-cancer benefits as vitamin D," Giovannucci told the cancer scientists. "The data are really quite remarkable."

The talk so impressed the American Cancer Society's chief epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Thun, that the society is reviewing its sun protection guidelines. "There is now intriguing evidence that vitamin D may have a role in the prevention as well as treatment of certain cancers," Thun said.

Even some dermatologists may be coming around. "I find the evidence to be mounting and increasingly compelling," said Dr. Allan Halpern, dermatology chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who advises several cancer groups.

The dilemma, he said, is a lack of consensus on how much vitamin D is needed or the best way to get it.

No source is ideal. Even if sunshine were to be recommended, the amount needed would depend on the season, time of day, where a person lives, skin color and other factors. Thun and others worry that folks might overdo it.

"People tend to go overboard with even a hint of encouragement to get more sun exposure," Thun said, adding that he'd prefer people get more of the nutrient from food or pills.

But this is difficult. Vitamin D occurs naturally in salmon, tuna and other oily fish, and is routinely added to milk. However, diet accounts for very little of the vitamin D circulating in blood, Giovannucci said.

Supplements contain the nutrient, but most use an old form - D-2 - that is far less potent than the more desirable D-3. Multivitamins typically contain only small amounts of D-2 and include vitamin A, which offsets many of D's benefits.

As a result, pills might not raise vitamin D levels much at all.

Government advisers can't even agree on an RDA, or recommended daily allowance for vitamin D. Instead, they say "adequate intake" is 200 international units a day up to age 50, 400 IUs for ages 50 to 70, and 600 IUs for people over 70.

Many scientists think adults need 1,000 IUs a day. Giovannucci's research suggests 1,500 IUs might be needed to significantly curb cancer.

How vitamin D may do this is still under study, but there are lots of reasons to think it can:

_Several studies observing large groups of people found that those with higher vitamin D levels also had lower rates of cancer. For some of these studies, doctors had blood samples to measure vitamin D, making the findings particularly strong. Even so, these studies aren't the gold standard of medical research - a comparison over many years of a large group of people who were given the vitamin with a large group who didn't take it. In the past, the best research has deflated health claims involving other nutrients, including vitamin E and beta carotene.

_Lab and animal studies show that vitamin D stifles abnormal cell growth, helps cells die when they are supposed to, and curbs formation of blood vessels that feed tumors.

_Cancer is more common in the elderly, and the skin makes less vitamin D as people age.

_Blacks have higher rates of cancer than whites and more pigment in their skin, which prevents them from making much vitamin D.

_Vitamin D gets trapped in fat, so obese people have lower blood levels of D. They also have higher rates of cancer.

_Diabetics, too, are prone to cancer, and their damaged kidneys have trouble converting vitamin D into a form the body can use.

_People in the northeastern United States and northerly regions of the globe like Scandinavia have higher cancer rates than those who get more sunshine year-round.

During short winter days, the sun's rays come in at too oblique an angle to spur the skin

to make vitamin D. That is why nutrition experts think vitamin D-3 supplements may be especially helpful during winter, and for dark-skinned people all the time.

But too much of the pill variety can cause a dangerous buildup of calcium in the body. The government says 2,000 IUs is the upper daily limit for anyone over a year old.

On the other hand, D from sunshine has no such limit. It's almost impossible to overdose when getting it this way. However, it is possible to get skin cancer. And this is where the dermatology establishment and Dr. Michael Holick part company.

Thirty years ago, Holick helped make the landmark discovery of how vitamin D works. Until last year, he was chief of endocrinology, nutrition and diabetes and a professor of dermatology at Boston University. Then he published a book, "The UV Advantage," urging people to get enough sunlight to make vitamin D.

"I am advocating common sense," not prolonged sunbathing or tanning salons, Holick said.

Skin cancer is rarely fatal, he notes. The most deadly form, melanoma, accounts for only 7,770 of the 570,280 cancer deaths expected to occur in the United States this year.

More than 1 million milder forms of skin cancer will occur, and these are the ones tied to chronic or prolonged suntanning.

Repeated sunburns - especially in childhood and among redheads and very fair-skinned people - have been linked to melanoma, but there is no credible scientific evidence that moderate sun exposure causes it, Holick contends.

"The problem has been that the American Academy of Dermatology has been unchallenged for 20 years," he says. "They have brainwashed the public at every level."

The head of Holick's department, Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, called his book an embarrassment and stripped him of his dermatology professorship, although he kept his other posts.

She also faulted his industry ties. Holick said the school has received $150,000 in grants from the Indoor Tanning Association for his research, far less than the consulting deals and grants that other scientists routinely take from drug companies.

In fact, industry has spent money attacking him. One such statement from the Sun Safety Alliance, funded in part by Coppertone and drug store chains, declared that "sunning to prevent vitamin D deficiency is like smoking to combat anxiety."

Earlier this month, the dermatology academy launched a "Don't Seek the Sun" campaign calling any advice to get sun "irresponsible." It quoted Dr. Vincent DeLeo, a Columbia University dermatologist, as saying: "Under no circumstances should anyone be misled into thinking that natural sunlight or tanning beds are better sources of vitamin D than foods or nutritional supplements."

That opinion is hardly unanimous, though, even among dermatologists.

"The statement that 'no sun exposure is good' I don't think is correct anymore," said Dr. Henry Lim, chairman of dermatology at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and an academy vice president.

Some wonder if vitamin D may turn out to be like another vitamin, folate. High intake of it was once thought to be important mostly for pregnant women, to prevent birth defects. However, since food makers began adding extra folate to flour in 1998, heart disease, stroke, blood pressure, colon cancer and osteoporosis have all fallen, suggesting the general public may have been folate-deficient after all.

With vitamin D, "some people believe that it is a partial deficiency that increases the cancer risk," said Hector DeLuca, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist who did landmark studies on the nutrient.

About a dozen major studies are under way to test vitamin D's ability to ward off cancer, said Dr. Peter Greenwald, chief of cancer prevention for the National Cancer Institute. Several others are testing its potential to treat the disease. Two recent studies reported encouraging signs in prostate and lung cancer.

As for sunshine, experts recommend moderation until more evidence is in hand.

"The skin can handle it, just like the liver can handle alcohol," said Dr. James Leyden,

professor emeritus of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, who has consulted for sunscreen makers.

"I like to have wine with dinner, but I don't think I should drink four bottles a day."

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp