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Administration Announces Regulations Requiring New Health Insurance Plans to Provide Free Preventive Care

Administration Announces Regulations Requiring New Health Insurance Plans to Provide Free Preventive Care
WASHINGTON—-The Departments of Health and Human Services , Labor, and the Treasury issued new regulations today, requiring new private health plans to cover evidence-based preventive services and eliminate cost sharing requirements for such services.

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Cancer – Beat It! Sunrider Alternative Treatment, Preventive Care

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Cancer is an epidemic.

Everywhere I turn nowadays there are friends and family members telling me about someone they know that is going through it.

It is scary, but we must take all precautions, and if we are already going through it, it’s important to know and use these important facts:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body.

These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few

billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies.

These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.

However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be stevia. (We have the best called Sunny Dew or Sunectar) Available at http://opp.sunrider.com/SunGirl

Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.

About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.

Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.

Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. (Calli and Fortune Delight is concentrated green tea, without the tanic acids). Available at http://opp.sunrider.com/SunGirl

Water – best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy

metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become petrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system ( VitaFruit, Quinary, Alpha 20c ( Available at http://opp.sunrider.com/SunGirl)all great anti-oxidants, etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.

Other supplements like vitamin E (Energy Plus) are known to cause apoptosis, or

programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged,

unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.

Anger, resentment and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life!

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.

Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL , U.S. :

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.

Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.

Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital was on aTV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are

for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin.

So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded usthat a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper.

The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.

Cover food with a paper towel instead.

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How to Preventive Mastectomy

Breast surgery can be either a lumpectomy, where the tumor is removed, or a partial or modified radical mastectomy. With a lumpectomy, it is typically followed by radiation. This way, you get to keep your breast and studies have shown no difference in survival rates between lumpectomy/radiation and mastectomy.

When a pathologist looks at the cells, he or she is looking for abnormalities which could suggest that cancer might develop at a later date. Women may want to consider preventive measures if abnormalities are found to be present in the breast. Those can include careful monitoring with mammography, clinical breast exams and breast self-exams; prophylactic mastectomy (preventive breast removal) for women at very high risk of breast cancer and the use of the drug tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen.

Some women who have a high risk of developing breast cancer may choose to have a preventive mastectomy of both sides with reconstruction to prevent breast cancer from occurring. Women who have this procedure will have a much lower risk of developing the disease.

If your family has a history of breast cancer, you should be doing that anyway. If you do have the gene, you have a number of options. You can simply be frequently monitored to see if you do get cancer. Should you have your breasts and ovaries removed? Preventive oophorectomy (ovary resection) and mastectomy (breast resection) may help. You can take tamoxifen for 5 years.

Some women may choose to surgically remove their breasts in order to prevent breast cancer. This is called a preventive mastectomy. This is usually done by women who have a strong family history of breast cancer, as in several women (usually a woman’s mother, sisters and/or aunts) in the family have been diagnosed with breast cancer. This surgery reduces the risk of breast cancer by as much as 90%.

Sometimes, the surgeon will remove a larger part (but not the whole breast), and this is called a segmental or partial mastectomy. Most patients with DCIS that have a lumpectomy are treated with radiation therapy to prevent the local recurrence of DCIS. More advanced breast cancers are usually treated with a modified radical mastectomy. Modified radical mastectomy means removing the entire breast and dissecting the lymph nodes under the arm.

If there is a family history of breast cancer removal of both  breasts, or prophylactic mastectomy, may reduce the risk of developing breast cancer for a woman. Careful consideration must be given before a woman makes a decision to have prophylactic mastectomy. It is important that breast cancer risk assessments and counseling are undergone before making such a decision. Women who have prophylactic mastectomy may develop anxieties and depression as well as concern about their body image.

First the mastectomy was canceled. On Oct 10th, 2006 before her 2nd chemo treatment, the tumor marker had dropped from 180 to 76! The doctor couldn’t believe it. Char’s says, “I can’t say that I would have survived without the traditional treatments, however I do believe it’s everything including diet, exercise, H20 and sleep. What a concept!”

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Breast Cancer Preventive Method

This term may be the most frighten for every women. Among any other women disease, it seems that breast cancer is the one that happen very frequently and there are grater risk for them to dead or have to get an operation. Even though the current advanced medical technology helps a lot of women to safe from this disease but still it is the one that many of them do not want to get.

When the women who are age of 45 years old, they just start to aware of the disease and usually go to the doctor to get comprehensive check up. However, the trend of using preventive method to let them have minimal chance is now has become widely recognize and many of medical experts are also support on this treatment scheme. It is relevant to the course of action when the women have medical check up for breast cancer. In most case the result of the medical check up would tell them if they have risk of getting breast cancer or not. If they are like to have risk, then the doctor would suggest them to use preventive method first rather than advice on using medical treatment scheme or even immediately obtain the cancer operation. However, it is still depending on the characteristics of the risk, if the doctor can see the risk at the early stage of the cancer, he may advice the patient to obtain an operation.

And that’s what happening in general. Now I would like to talk about the preventive treatment of breast cancer, which now seems to be the most practical way and desirable way for everyone. However, it seems that there is no specific indication in terms of the special method that people have to do to perform effective protection. The advice that we can find everywhere is to eat good food, having exercise and keep the mind fresh and relax.

If we can just look by these advice, it may not very interesting to us because they are very common methods that any one can perform. People tend to look forward to see kind of new alternative ways of treatment rather than these general advice. However, in fact, this general advice looks not interesting, but I believe many people still can not do very effectively, even for the patients who already got cancer but they are unable to follow such easy instruction.

Therefore, I want to repeat again that these simple advice still very important. Even though there are some kind of alternative medicine available and the manufacturers advertise that the medicine has proved by the authority and produced by using natural material, but the way to prevent cancer by following instructions still be the easiest and costless in my opinion.

So if you are the patient who already took a comprehensive medical check up and found the risk of breast cancer and the doctor advice that you should perform or change the way you live in order to minimize those risk for the cancer to expand, I would suggest you to follow those simple instruction very strictly.

Preventive Mastectomy in Opposite Breast Boosts Survival Only Slightly

Preventive Mastectomy in Opposite Breast Boosts Survival Only Slightly
Title: Preventive Mastectomy in Opposite Breast Boosts Survival Only Slightly Category: Health News Created: 2/25/2010 4:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 2/26/2010

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