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Americans are being kept in the dark about a natural cure for prostate cancer and osteoporosis by none other than the US Food and Drug Administration. [Image]
More scientific evidence confirms that walnuts have some amazing properties: not only did they reduce tumor size in mice, but they also lowered LDL, the “bad” kind of cholesterol that leads to heart disease, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition last week.
“If additional research determines that walnuts have the same effect in men as they do in mice, adhering to a diet that excludes walnuts to lower fat would mean that prostate cancer patients could miss out on the beneficial effects of walnuts,” said lead researcher Paul Davis.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men. One in six men will be diagnosed with it, but only one in 36 will die from the disease because most tumors do not spread beyond the local site, according to the National Cancer Institute.
“These characteristics of prostate cancer make adding walnuts to a diet attractive as part of prostate cancer prevention,” Davis added.
Walnuts have also been shown to reduce bone loss, a serious issue especially for post-menopausal women. But food packages cannot contain such information per the FDA.
Heart disease is a growing problem for the elderly. Because walnuts have a high level of linoleic and linolenic acid, they reduce the risk of heart disease by decreasing LDL-cholesterol and increasing HDL-cholesterol, research has shown several times, even as far back as 1993.
Adding further support to the benefits of a whole food diet, the 2012 study also led researchers to conclude, “The walnut diet’s beneficial effects probably represent the effects of whole walnuts’ multiple constituents and not via a specific fatty acid or tocopherols.”
The California Walnut Board funded the research, and is also funding a follow-up mouse study (co-funded by the American Institute for Cancer Research), to validate the findings and explore possible reasons for the beneficial effects of walnuts.
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The FDA also bans cherry sellers from making the claim that they may act as an anti-inflammatory and reduce pain, along with reducing tumor size, even though several studies have shown this likelihood.
You have to wonder why a governmental agency whose primary mission is to protect the public would ban scientific evidence showing beneficial effects of natural, unprocessed foods. The FDA bizarrely asserts that because natural foods have been scientifically shown to prevent or ameliorate disease, those foods are thus classified as drugs.
But, there’s a huge difference between what grows naturally on this planet and what chemists create in a lab. Natural foods neither require nor deserve governmental oversight. Truthful claims about curative or ameliorative effects should not be censored.
For some governmental agency to assert that natural foods are drugs because they are curative is absurd. For that agency to suppress such information about cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease and pain is just plain evil.
Healers have understood the medicinal benefits of food and herbs for thousands of years. Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
No regulation required.
Rady Ananda is an investigative reporter and researcher in the areas of health, environment, politics, and civil liberties. Her two websites, Food Freedom and COTO Report are essential reading.
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5 comments:
Here, here! Well said Rady. A very good and inspiring article. I say to hell with the FDA and all other similarly corrupt agencies!
Everyone should learn (and quickly) how to take care of their own health and that of their immediate family members and closest friends. All the necessary ingredients are within reach of us ... either through low wholesale prices or via the capacity to grow them ourselves (or grow them in cooperative groups).
If we all did that (instead of lazily poisoning ourselves on expensive, man-made pseudo food) then we would put an end to an undeserved profit stream that has only ever benefited the caviar eating and champagne sipping PTB.
Par for the course for the FDA. They can only justify their existence by keeping people scared and unhealthy. They're nothing more than enforcers for Big Pharma.
yum, so tasty! medicine??? guffaw.
Yesterday I was SHOCKED to see a commercial on network t.v. advertising McCormick black pepper as an anti-oxidant! Seriously ridiculous. First because their product is probably irradiated (as it is a non-organic spice, and these are usually irradiated as a means of controlling molds, but which also makes the product "dead."). And secondly, because of all things, black pepper is suspect for carcinogenic like properties, rather than being known as an anti-oxidant. But most ridiculous is the idea that they can advertise health benefits of a product subjected to ionizing radiation, but can't talk about the health benefits of naturally grown (and unbranded) foods like cherries and walnuts!
I have a theory that some foods give you visual clues about their nutritive value. If you look at a walnut, it looks a lot like a brain. If you look at a kiwi fruit, it looks like the iris of an eye. A noni fruit has the appearance of a mass of cells and a pomegranate looks like a heart and the berries are blood cells moving through it's chambers.
Not only may walnuts be good for all the ailments listed in the article, but
visually, the walnut says: Eat me! I am good for your brain. And other stuff too! Get it? Just thought I'd throw that in there.
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