Posted on 04/25/2011 7:14:47 PM PDT by decimon
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“Conversely, the study also found that men with the highest blood ratios of trans-fatty acids – which are linked to inflammation and heart disease and abundant in processed foods that contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils – had a 50 percent reduction in the risk of high-grade prostate cancer.”
Health, in two words: dynamic equilibrium.
Health, in one word: balance.
Can we just go back to eating what we want, hunh? Can we, can we?
Kinetic equilibrium?
If high omega-3 intake from fatty fish is a risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer, I would expect a high incidence among Japanese males.
Yet from what I find on the web, prostate cancer incidence in Japan is among the lowest in the world.
Other factors may be involved; one source said isoflavinoids (soy) may protect against prostate cancer.
When the food speakeasies start opening.
>> Can we just go back to eating what we want, hunh? Can we, can we?
Yes, you have permission, as long as you promise to worry yourself to death over it. :-)
Well this is just great, I finally had an evidence based supplement to take.
Yet from what I find on the web, prostate cancer incidence in Japan is among the lowest in the world.
Other factors may be involved; one source said isoflavinoids (soy) may protect against prostate cancer.
The Japanese Paradox?
THIS could be part of the issue with the study....having gone thru all this with my husband....who ended up getting HIFU in Mexico (because the FDA is JUST starting to look into it)....his HIFU doc felt biopsies are really a shot in the dark and NOT the best way to go. And, I also wonder WHICH trans fats they are talking about?
On the OTHER hand.....maybe this description of "trans fats" is why they work....they are the "poison" that keeps the "bad stuff" AWAY from the gland??? The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in.
"In other words, trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them!"
>> The Japanese Paradox?
I heard from some of my Japanese friends who smoke that smoking is not as dangerous for Japanese because their lungs are different and less prone to lung cancer.
They weren’t joking; they really believe that.
I might be high in both types of fat. Can't guess at if that's good or bad.
>> I finally had an evidence based supplement to take.
Maybe the caplets are OK, but just avoid the suppositories?
I don’t know how much iodine is in Omega 3 supplements but it has been posited that the Japanese have less prostate and breast cancer because of the iodine in the fish.
Have they changed the phrasing in biology textbooks since I last opened one?
They weren’t joking; they really believe that.
I think they're right about the lung cancer rate being lower despite smoking. Don't know if there's anything more than speculation to account for that.
I was trying to spoof Obama's "kinetic military operations."
Truer words never spoken. Which is why they will be generally ignored by all of those in the "scientific community" with their own axes to grind.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:27
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