Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Anti-Cancer?

A new Study indicates that adding extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) to your diet may be just what the doctor should order. Long known for its heart-healthy benefits, EVOO may even have cancer killing properties thanks to an antioxidant compound it contains call oleocanthal. Though scientists have known that oleocanthal killed some cancer cells without harming the good cells, no one really understood how it happened - until now. It turns out that oleocanthal "targets" cancer cells by rupturing and then killing off the lysosomes of cancer cells (where the cells store waste) within 30 minutes to an hour. However, noncarcerous cells are spared from such actions, suggesting that oleocanthal can eventually be used medicinally to prevent disease because of the targeted damage it exerts.  The findings also leave some helpful takeaways for clean eaters. Study co-author Paul Beslin, PhD, "Sample the oil. The more it stings you throat, the higher in oleocanthal it is."

Article from Clean Eating Magazine - June 2015

Over fed and malnourished

Let's take control of our Health!

Over the last few decades, America has become the most overfed yet undernourished nation in the world.

When we feel sick, we go straight to the doctor’s office, looking for a quick fix to relieve whatever ails us. And we think we are all well again

We get pills for feeling dizzy, pills for feeling sad, pills for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, indigestion, – you name it!

Yet, despite the ever-increasing variety of medicine available, current middle-aged Americans report feeling less healthy than the generation that preceded them.

Our life expectancies are reducing, as those of our children, who are expected to live 10 years less than we are. And most of us are dying from a small handful of the same avoidable diseases.

Leading causes of death in the United States:

1.     heart disease
2.     cancer
3.     chronic lower respiratory diseases
4.     stroke
5.     accidents
6.     Alzheimer’s disease
7.     diabetes
8.     influenza and pneumonia
9.     kidney diseases

source http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

Why then, with all the incredible medical advances of the last 50 years, are we getting less healthy as a population? It is because we are avoiding responsibility of our own health: failing to choose to live a healthy lifestyle, and instead relying on prescription medications, which often only treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of our health problems.

So how do we reclaim our health?

If we want to regain true health, we must eat and properly digest real, whole foods. Each day, the link between diet and disease becomes more and more apparent. Since processed food enter the standard American diet in the mid-– 20^th century, hospital visits, medicine prescriptions, and instances of obesity and its related issues has steadily increased. First came margarine, and fast food and frozen dinners, and now most Americans don’t understand what real, whole food is. The term whole food had to be created to define food not produced in a factory.

Is your food robbing your health?

Most of the foods sold in a typical market rob us of our health. We must steer clear of these unhealthy food products if we want to avoid contributing to gruesome American health statistics. We must change the way we eat. We need to significantly reduce the amount of processed food included in our diet.

If we don’t get back to basics and start eating plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains and unaltered meets, our prognosis could be horrible. According to the American Cancer Society, half of all men and one third of all women in the United States will develop cancer at some point in their lives. The American Heart Association states that over 82 million Americans suffer from some form of heart disease, and over780,000 of these people die each year. These are tragic statistics considering that these diseases can be prevented and potentially reversed – not with the pill or one doctor’s visit, but with a commitment to following healthy eating habits.