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Confirmed Again: Statin Drugs Calcify The Coronary Arteries

Sayer Ji, Contributor
Activist Post

A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis found that statin use is associated with a 52% increased prevalence and extent of coronary artery plaques possessing calcium.[i] This study, published on August 24th, was preceded only three weeks earlier by one in the journal Diabetes Care, which found that coronary artery calcification "was significantly higher in more frequent statin users than in less frequent users," among patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis.

Coronary artery disease is one of the primary risk factors for heart attack and cardiac mortality, and calcification marks the end-stage of atherosclerosis, the gradual plaque-driven narrowing of the arteries, as the lumen (opening of the artery) can no longer compensate for the obstructive build-up of plaque by expanding, once the calcification process has taken place.

Statins are increasingly recognized to have profound cardiotoxic properties, despite their widespread use in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

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10 Reasons You Need Red Meat!

Roast beef cooked under high heat (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At the end of the prolonged study there were no signs of any nutritional deficiency, including vitamin C found in raw, red meats.

(Pork, "the other white meat," so called by the National Pork Board for an advertising campaign to overcome indoctrination of the public against red meat in favor of chicken and turkey, was recently approved for a 150° drop in the recommended cooking temperature. The new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines allow 1450° F as measured on a food thermometer, with a three-minute rest time, as a "safe final internal cooking temperature." Chapter 10 of Eatin' After Eden – The Meat of the Word, presents serious scientific, and scriptural arguments explaining why that may not be the case after all.)

Often toddlers and young children will eat tender beef when they won't touch other meats. We alternate these nutrient-dense treats at lunch as our main meal: beef, including liver, chicken, cold water fish, turkey, lamb when available, and sometimes meatless main meals using complementary protein. Wild game (non-scavenger) is enjoyable and healthy eating as well. Breakfast usually includes eggs with cheese or grass-fed beef sausage without nitrates or sugar.

Additionally, this book explains a great deal about each of the ten reasons listed below for enjoying grass-fed, red meat a couple times per week. This book is a good starting place if you are considering vegetarianism or veganism, about which there are two powerful chapters! Except for the first two items, this listing is not in order of importance.
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Vitamin D With Calcium Increases Lifespan

By Sylvia Booth Hubbard

Taking vitamin D combined with calcium can reduce mortality in the elderly, according to a Danish study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. The study's suggestion of an increased lifespan is only one of many benefits now being attributed to the "sunshine" vitamin, which is receiving increased recognition for its overall role in maintaining good health.

The study pooled data from eight randomized controlled trials, each including more than 1,000 participants. Almost 90 percent were women whose median age was 70. The patients were randomized to receive either vitamin D supplements alone or vitamin D with calcium.

During the three-year study, deaths were reduced by 9 percent in the groups treated with the vitamin D/calcium supplement. The researchers decided that the lower number of deaths wasn't due to a lower number of fractures, but represented a beneficial effect that went beyond the reduced risk of fracture.

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Important: At Risk For A Heart Attack? Find Out Now.

Medical Tests That Can Give You Cancer

original photograph by philip cosson showing the first comercial CT head scanner Image uploaded from the English Wikipedia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One of modern medicine's most valuable tools is the X-ray. But it comes with a dangerous price: ionizing radiation, a known carcinogen.

As recently as the early 1980s, X-rays accounted for just 11 percent of radiation exposure in Americans. Natural, background radiation accounted for most of the rest.

In the last 30 years, the use of X-rays and other radiation-producing diagnostic tests have skyrocketed. CT (computed tomography) scans, also called CAT scans, have gone from 3 million in the U.S. in 1980 to 70 million in 2006. A CT scan of the chest has the radiation dose of 100 routine chest X-rays.

A Columbia University study estimates that up to 2 percent of all cancers in the U.S. are caused by CT scans.

Read more: Medical Tests That Can Give You Cancer
Important: At Risk For A Heart Attack? Find Out Now.

Big trouble lies ahead if Alzheimer's is proven to be a form of diabetes

University of Maryland Research: Nicotine May Play Key Role in Promising Alzheimer's Therapy (Photo credit: University of Maryland Press Releases)

THE human brain evolved to seek out foods high in fat and sugar. But a preference that started out as a survival mechanism has, in our age of plenty, become a self-destructive compulsion.

It is well known that bad diets can trigger obesity and diabetes. There is growing evidence that they trigger Alzheimer's disease too, and some researchers now see it as just another form of diabetes (see "Food for thought: Eat your way to dementia").

If correct, this has enormous, and grave, implications. The world already faces an epidemic of diabetes. The prospect of a parallel epidemic of Alzheimer's is truly frightening, in terms of human suffering and monetary cost. Read More>>>>>>>>>>>

Chemical Used in Teflon & Non-Stick Cookware Linked to Heart Disease

Elizabeth Renter
Activist Post

Further presenting non-stick cookware dangers, a new study published in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine reveals a relation between PFOA (the chemical in Teflon, used in non-stick pans among other things) and heart disease. While scientists are cautious, as they always are, to say they are definitively linked, some say that steering clear of the chemical “just in case” wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Cooking up Heart Disease

According to the study published in the journal The Jama Network, researchers looked at PFOA presence and incidence of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. About 98 percent of Americans have traces of PFOA in them; those with the highest levels of the chemical were found to have double the odds of heart disease when compared with those having the lowest levels.

Also, those with higher PFOA, had a 78 percent higher risk of peripheral heart disease—where arteries narrow and harden.