Scientists link plastics chemical to health risks

The original article can be found here: http://health.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100113-191519.html

Scientists link plastics chemical to health risks

They confirm BPA's link to heart risk; findings likely to restrict the chemical's use. -Reuters
Kate Kelland

Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Reuters

LONDON - Exposure to a chemical found in plastic containers is linked to heart disease, scientists said on Wednesday, confirming earlier findings and adding to pressure to ban its use in bottles and food packaging.

British and U.S. researchers studied the effects of the chemical bisphenol A using data from a U.S. government national nutrition survey in 2006 and found that high levels of it in urine samples were associated with heart disease.

Bisphenol A, known as BPA, is widely used in plastics and has been a growing concern for scientists in countries such as Britain, Canada and the United States, where food and drug regulators are examining its safety.

David Melzer, professor of epidemiology and public health at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, England, who led the study, said the research confirmed earlier findings of a link between BPA and heart problems.

The analysis also confirmed that BPA plays a role in diabetes and some forms of liver disease, said Melzer's team, who studied data on 1,493 people aged 18 to 74.

"Our latest analysis largely confirms the first analysis, and excludes the possibility that the original report was a statistical blip," they said in a statement.

BPA, used to stiffen plastic bottles and line cans, belongs to a class of compounds sometimes called endocrine disruptors.

The U.S. Endocrine Society called last June for better studies into BPA and presented research showing the chemical can affect the hearts of women and permanently damage the DNA of mice.

"The risks associated with exposure to BPA may be small, but they are relevant to very large numbers of people. This information is important since it provides a great opportunity for intervention to reduce the risks," said Exeter's Tamara Galloway, who worked on the study published by the Public Library of Science online science journal PLoS One.

URGING BANS

U.S. environmental health advocacy groups are urging a federal ban on BPA.

"There's enough research to take definitive action on this chemical to reduce exposures in people and the environment," Dr. Anila Jacob of the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization, said in a telephone interview.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering whether any action needs to be taken.

U.S. government toxicologists at the National Institutes of Health concluded in 2008 that BPA presents concern for harmful effects on development of the prostate and brain and for behavioral changes in fetuses, infants and children.

Canada's government plans to outlaw plastic baby bottles made with BPA. The charity Breast Cancer UK last month urged the British government to do the same because they said there was"compelling" evidence linking the chemical to breast cancer risk.

Experts estimate BPA is detectable in the bodies of more than 90 percent of U.S. and European populations. It is one of the world's highest production volume chemicals, with more than 2.2 million tonnes produced annually.

Multi-carotene and Yellow Orange Skin

If you have yellow orange on your palm, not to worry about it. The body is simply telling you that the Liver can no longer store carotenoid and now, it is releasing it to the bloodstream.

What we need to do is stop taking caroteniod related supplements and fruits.

It will take a few days to clear the colour. No big deal.

Plastic and Us

Recently, there is more awareness how plastic can affect our body. I believe some of us have been following the news regarding BPA. BPA stands for Bisphenol A. According to studies, BPA is presence in all polycarbonate products. What does that mean?

BPA is cancerous. It affects our endorince

News about BPA around the World, but not Singapore. Why? We are World class in other stuffs, except health stuffs.

• http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-21-BPA-phase-out_N.htm
• http://www.bisphenolafree.org/

EU Assessment said it is safe. You decide for yourself. http://www.bisphenol-a-europe.org/index.php?page=risk-assessment

BPA is used in various products. To put it simply, if the plastic is made of poly something that you can't pronounce, most likely it contains BPA. Here's the situation, many of us grew up with plastic around us. So, how does it harm us? One thing that we know for sure, BPA affects the endocrine system.
The endocrine system is very much involve with the body metabolism. According to the Lang study that is published this month (Sept 08), people with high level of BPA in their urine are significantly with both cardiovascular (heart diseases) and metabolism challenges (Diabetes). So what do you think?

When we eat take away food, the food is stored in plastic styrofoam box. Does styrofoam contain BPA? I still remember, in my childhood days, my mother always used our metal container to pack take away food. Those days, there is no such thing as styrofoam box.

When we drink soft drinks, have you ever thought that those plastic bottles contain BPA?

What about using those paper cup laced with some sort of plastic? How does it affect us when we pour hot drink into it? Did you realize that it actually softens?

When these plastic chemicals leak and goes into our body, it will affect our Liver tremendously. Afterall, our Liver is the only organ that can remove these toxins. Actually, I'm not sure if it can really remove it.

So for now, I will really suggest that we stay away from plastic as much as possible.

Do take Milk Thistle regularly to strengthen our Liver. Take 4 Milk Thistle per night every night.

Fatty Liver, Gallstone problem, Urinary Tract Infection and Elevated Blood Sugar

Recently, I got to know a good friend who is currently having health challenges. She is from Philippines and seriously speaking, I'm quite worry for her. The Filipino's diet is very oily, very sweet and very saltish. It is very unhealthy and thus, it will pose a serious health challenge to the nation.

Just imagine, the country has to spend millions or if not, billions of peso on public health instead of other investment objectives. I hope that this good friend of mine would be a healthy pretty lady as soon as possible.

She told me that she has elevated blood sugar and her doctor is just one step away to declare her a diabetes. I believe diabetes is not a permanent disease. It can be control and revert as long as we take control of our life.

She also told me there has been some abnormal growth in her breast. Breast is a very delicate organ in a woman's body. It is easily affected by the body hormone. Thus, a dysfunction Liver will also affect the breast. Not only that, nowadays, all the meat that we eat is full of synthetic hormones. All poultries, seafoods and etc... These hormones have a devastating effect on our body. That is why kids grow faster and bigger than before. And thus, it will also have devastating effects on the breast.

Let's say, if one day you are facing a similar problems like hers, what should you do? We need to break down the problems into two areas: Immediate and Long term.

So, what are the immediate tasks or objectives to achieve? Immediate objectives are something that we can achieve within a month.

• Remove the gallstones. If not, it will affect the Liver
• Start switching to healthy diet.
• Go onto a weight management program.

Long term objectives? Long term objectives as something that we can achieve within 3 months or longer.

• If a lady has urinary tract infections, it means the pro-biotics in the body has been wiped out. Most likely, she had taken anti-biotics before and the doctors didn't bother to explain the side-effect to her. This is very common as many doctors either don't understand or don't believe in this. Furthermore, if a lady has UTI, the doctor will most likely prescribe anti-biotics to solve it. This is just a temporary solution and the UTI will definitely come back again.
• A fatty liver will take a long time to heal. Hence, whoever has a fatty liver needs to start focusing on Liver-friendly diet. A fatty liver shows that the body has started to lose its ability to breakdown fats. Furthermore, the chances of getting heart-related problem is very high too. Especially clogged arteries.
  
• An elevated blood sugar shows 2 problems. Insulin resistance has started and the Liver maybe affecting the pancreas too. After all, Liver is the body biggest hormone producing organ and the pancreas is also control by the Liver in one way or another.
• Make daily exercise as part of our lifestyle. Walk at least 10,000 steps per day. Get a pedometer. It will be good if this 10,000 steps are walked continuously. If not, this should be the minimum numbers of steps achieve per day. If at the end of the day, you haven't achieved your 10,000 steps, then just continue to walk until you reach 10,000. Make it habit.

Let's start focusing on what we should do on a daily basis to resolve these problems. Success is a simple discipline repeat everyday.

As I mentioned before, we need to start focusing on Liver friendly diet. This will help the Liver to heal. According to Lin Haifeng, one day of damage requires three days of repair. Thus, when we are sick, it takes the body long time to heal completely because the sickness doesn't happen on a single day. It is a cumulative effect.

Breakfast:

• Take your breakfast as early as possible, and take it before brushing your teeth. Do you remember our teacher taught us to brush our teeth after meal, not before meal? However, it is important to scrap our tongue first thing in the morning and follow by a glass freshly squeezed lemon juice with warm water. This will heal the Liver.
• Then take your shower and etc...
  
• Take Power Breakfast. It gives the body enough nutrients to jump start the day. Also, it helps to balance blood sugar. If the breakfast is sugar rich or full of carbohydrates, it will make you crave for sugar the entire day.
  
• Besides Power Breakfast, you can also try this low GI breakfast. I got it from Patrick Holford low GI/GL breakfast menu. 56g of oats, 200ml of soya milk or 2 scoops of Nutrilite protein power with 200ml of water, 1 small teaspoon of manuka honey and 50g of flex seed.
  
• If you are taking the low GI/GL breakfast, then take the following supplements:
  
• Double X or Daily x 1
• Multi-carotene x 3 (If your skin has turned orange, stop taking it)
  
• Bio-C x 4
• Lecithin E x 4
• Calcium Magnesium x 1
• B-complex x 3
• Nutri Bifidus x 1 (This is the pro-biotics for your body)
  
• Ginseng x 1 (optional)
• COQ10 x 1 (optional)

Morning snack:

• Morning snack should be at least 2 hours before your lunch time. For example, if you have your breakfast at 7 to 7:30am, then your morning snack time will be around 9plus to 10. If you have to time it accurately. The main reason of taking morning snack is to balance the blood sugar and prevent over-eating during lunch time. Our aim is to eat more meals but eat less during each meal. This is the best way to balance blood sugar. Once our sugar is balanced, we start losing weight together with our 10,000 steps exercise per day.
  
• During your morning snack time, do give yourself at least 10 to 15 minutes break. Walk around, have some SUN and breath fresh air. The main aim is to stay away from the office as far as possible.
• What to take for morning snack? You can prepare some fruits. Here are some recommendations:
• Apple x 1. Do remember to scarp the wax on the apple skin. We need the skin as it contains fibre. Clean the apple with vegetable wash, not just running it under the tap water. The tap water is actually very dirty.
• If not apple, you can also take a small bowl of berries. It can be any kind of berries.
  
• If not berries, take a small bowl of grapes.
  
• Lastly, take a capsule of Nutrilite Omega fish oil.

Lunch:

• Well, it is lunch time now. What are we going to eat? Before we decide what to eat, do take 4 tablets of Nutrilite Fruit and Vegetable Fibre about 15 minutes before your lunch. These fibre tablets will do wonders in helping you to balance your blood sugar, absorb toxins from the colon and remove it in the morning easily.
• Focus on food that is great for our Liver and our brain:
• Lightly stir-fried or steam vegetables, or salad immersed in olive oil, but not too much of it.
  
• Have a small portion of either beef, chicken with no skin or pork with no skin. Your meat should be cooked in such a way that is easy for you to chew. It is difficult for you to chew, it will be difficult for your stomach to digest. For example, fried stuffs are oily and the meat are usually dry. They are bad for health. Meat that is steam, stew or cook in the soup is friendly to our stomach.
• If you can, have some bean curd too. Bean curd should be steam, stew or cook in the soup too.
• If you like to eat seafood, go for steam or lightly grilled or pan-fried. Only take seafood with scales and fins. Scales and fins only seafood.
  
• Vegetable should form 60 to 80% of your plate. The rest will be your meat, bean curd and seafood.
  
• If you are thirsty, drink water. In fact, it is good to drink lots of water before your meal, not after your meal or during your meal. Cold drink will make your stomach contract and loses blood flowing into it. It will make digestion more difficult. Hence, drinking room temperature or warm water is better for our stomach.
• After lunch, take the following supplements:
• Lecithin E x 4
• B-complex x 3
• Calcium Magnesium x 1
• Bio-C x 4
• Multi-carotene x 3 (If your skin has turned orange, stop taking it)
• Nutri Bifidus x 1

Afternoon snack:

• Your afternoon snack time should be around 3 plus to 4. It should be about 2 hours before your dinner time. As you can see, it is necessary for us to eat small meal during our lunch time because we are going to snack in the late afternoon. If not, our stomach will be too full and we can't snack. Snacking on healthy food will help to balance our blood sugar and thus, the crave for other fluids will eventually stop.
• Our afternoon snack will be the same as our morning snack.
  
• As for supplement, it will be the same too. 1 capsule of Nutrilite Salmon Omega fish oil.
• Have a 10 to 15 minutes break. Walk around outside the office. Breath some fresh air and have some Sunlight.

Afternoon snack 2:

• Afternoon snack 2 is optional. It makes sense if you have early lunch such as around 11plus to 12. If you have it during that timing, then your first afternoon snack will be around 2plus to 3plus.
• Thus, you may need to snack again around 5. If you are going to have dinner around 6, then just eat half the portion of usual snacks. Half an apple or half a bowl of berries or grapes.
• No supplement is required.

Dinner:

• Dinner is the important meal of the day. It is so important that we need to eat lesser than our lunch. This is the time whereby we need to start preparing our body to rest. Our body can only repair if it has enough raw materials and rest. If not, it won't repair and over the years, the body will breakdown and this is when all the chronic diseases start to surface. High blood pressure, diabetes and etc...
  
• And yet, many people got it wrong. They treat dinner as the least important meal. They eating a lot during this last meal of the day. Eating more than their breakfast and lunch combined. Isn't that amazing? By eating this much, our body can't rest. If it cannot rest, it cannot repair. If it cannot repair, it will breakdown.
• No wonder many families today have over-weight kids. It is common today to see youngsters suffering from chronic diseases during their height of their career. Afterall, chronic diseases take at least 10 years or more to develop. If you observe the timing, it all started when they were young, not when they start working.
  
• It is fine if our dinner is just like our lunch as long as it is not too late. We should have 4 hours of gap before we get onto our bed. If you want to sleep by 10, eat your dinner around 6pm. The later we eat, the lesser we should eat. The benchmark is dinner should not be more than lunch. Same as lunch or lesser.
  
• Dinner should be a meal that is friendly to the stomach.
  
• Supplements after dinner:
• Lecithin E x 4
• B-complex x 3
• Calcium Magnesium x 1
• Bio-C x 4
• Multi-carotene x 3 (If your skin has turned orange, stop taking it)
• Nutri Bifidus x 1
• After your dinner, check your pedometer. Have you achieved your 10,000 steps objective? If not, take a walk to achieve it. If you have achieved your 10,000 steps, give yourself a pat on the back. And still, go and take a 30 minutes walk.
  

1 hour before sleep:

• Before sleep is the time we want to give the body enough raw materials to repair. Especially raw materials for the Liver is very critical. Also, the Liver can only start repairing effectively if we sleep before 11pm. That is why people who sleeps past 11pm tend to age faster.
• Have an apple before you sleep, or have those fruits that you had been taking during your snack time. If you have listened to Jim Rohn CDs, he said his father has this habit of taking an apple before he sleeps and he lives to a ripe old age. If it is so easy to do it and save you thousands of medicines fees, why people is not doing it? Well, it is easy not to do it. He said we should be smarter than this and I totally agree with him.
• Supplements to take:
• Milk Thistle with Dandelion x 4 (very critical for the Liver)
• Bio-C x 4
• Multi-carotene x 3 (If your skin has turned orange, stop taking it)
• Lecithin E x 4. It is even better if you can take 8.
• Passion Flower and Chamomile x 1 (take this if you have trouble sleeping)

As for the gallstones problem, choose a weekend to do a gallstone flush. It will flush out most of the gallstones in the gall and it will help the Liver a lot. Once the gallstones are flushed out, it will enable the bile to release toxins. Click here to find the method for flushing gallstones. These are proven methods with success stories.

Lastly, it is time for us to take charge of our health. Our hard-earned money should be invested in ourselves first rather than going to other people pocket. All of us are just one step away to a healthy body.

Healthy Forever Disc 6 - Liang Zhi Da

Spread of cancer is due to accumulation of toxins in the blood.

Blood belongs to the body circulatory system. That means, whether it is clean or dirty. It will flow in the body. If filtration fails, toxins will accumulate. What is the largest filter organs in the body? That is Liver.

When dirty blood passes through the Liver, it will store in the Liver for cleansing before it leaves the Liver. If the Liver is impaired, dirty blood will flow out of the Liver and goes to the next organ. That is our kidney. It is not the kidney job to filter the blood. If this continues for a long time, kidney wil fail. When kidney fails, toxins will flow back to the body and it will circulate in the body.

This is what we called azotaemia. It means the blood is very toxic due to accumulation of waste products. That is the start of serious health problems. When the toxins in the blood accumulates to certain level and the kidneys cannot handle it any more, uraemia will happen. By this time, the body will have about 30 days or just a couple of weeks to survive.

Because the body does not allow toxins to flow in itself, it will accumulate the toxins and store it in one fix locations and the white blood cells will surround it, preventing it from spreading. When that happens, tumour will form.

When cancer is discovered, you still have about 3 months or more to live. This will give you opportunity to change your diet, lifestyle and do detox.

More about our Liver:

• It is one of the largest organ in the body.
• It has a lot of small blood vessels to do filtration.
• Blood flow into the Liver slowly. This is to allow the Liver to filter the blood.
  
• If dirty blood gets into the Liver, it will affect the Liver.
• The next organ that is very close to Liver is the gall bladder.

Gall bladder problem: There are 2 types of gall bladder problems: inflammation or gall stone.

1) How does Stomach digest?

Small intestine absorb. Liver is to differentiate between the good and the bad. If it is nutrients for the body, it will be send to the heart and the heart will pump it to different part of the body. If it is toxins, it will go either to the kidneys or the lung.

Western medicine is toxic. Thus, the Liver cannot allow it to circulate in the body. Hence, this toxins will accumulate in the body.

2) Breakdown of toxins to non-toxic waste.

This is to allow the body to remove the waste either through kidney or lung. There is a lot of toxins in water. Hence, we need to drink treated water. Many treated water is empty water. Thus, do not drink empty water.

Also, meat is very toxic. The more fattening it is, the more toxic it will be.

Toxins in vegetables are from pesticides. Remember to vegetable wash or Amway dishdrop to clean it.

Alcohol toxins damage Liver slowly. It is a silence killer.

3) Liver ability to store glucose, carotene, vitamin E, D and some vitamins B also determines the health of Liver.

When Liver is unable to store glucoses, body will experience fatigue. Glucose gives energy to the body. Thus, Liver problem patients tend to get tire easily. When we eat food, it will be converted to glucose to give us energy. And part of it is stored in the Liver. If Liver cannot store glucose and the body cannot burn or finish using it, it will be converted to fat as stored energy. That is when people is fat, they are weak.

4) Liver has the amazing ability to create and produce protein, lecithin, cholesterol and etc.

If Liver is impaired, then it will affect lecithin production. Liver produces 80% of lecithin in the body. If liver cannot produce lecithin, then it will affect the cholesterol level in the body. Because of too much cholesterol in ht body, this cholesterol will stick to unwanted waste in the blood or in the gall bladder to form gall stone. How to solve this problem? Reduces cholesterol intake and increases lecithin intake. This will help to improve the Liver conditions.

High cholesterol is due to eating too much animal organs or fats. Animal organ has the highest amount of bad cholesterol.

Old people has to take note, not to take seafood with no scales. Squids and crabs are seafood with no scale. These seafood has high amount of cholesterol. All these stuffs are bad for old people.

5) If Liver is affected, one of the problem will be thyroid.

6) When production of bile drops, the digestive system will have problem breaking down fats. then, you may start to have eczema. Most skin problems are related to inability to breakdown fats properly.

Also, unable to breakdown or metabolize fats will affect woman's health. Most woman's health problem are related to their reproductive system. Why? Eat too much oil. Imbalance of fat ratio. For man, prostate problem is also related to too much fatty food. Fatty food causes prostate to enlarge. Once it is enlarged, it will affect urine flow. Once urine flow is affected, bacteria will accumulate and inflammation of prostate will develop. Once inflammation starts, it will develop prostate cancer. So, fatty food is dangerous. Reduce your fatty food intake.

Liver controls hormone productions.

1. Man will have more female hormone. Breast area enlarge.
2. Woman will have more male hormone. Starts to have more hair growth above lips area. Woman start having mustache.

Inflammation of Liver -> Hardening of Liver -> Liver Cancer. Liver cancer is the highest death rate.

Remember, people seldom get sick tends not to look after their health. Once they get sick, they may not get up again.

Your health is not just for yourself. It is also affects the people around you. There are 5 types of Liver problem.

1. Acute Liver failure
2. Liver Cancer
3. Chronic Liver Disease such as hepatitis B
4. Hardening of Liver
5. Fatty Liver
   

To have a healthy Liver, is to have a balanced diet, good lifestyle and good supplementation of vitamins.

Liver problems have 4 symptoms:

1. Jaundice. Yellow discolouration of skin and eye. Yellow discolouration of urine is due to vitamin B12.
   
2. Pain in Liver area. If you always feel pain in the area, then you have a serious Liver problem. Most likely, you may have a fatty Liver. Liver is protected by our right rib cage.
3. If you always feel like vomitting or disgusted. This is a symptom of Liver problem.
4. Constantly feeling fatigue. If can lie down, the person will choose to lie down. If he can sit, he will choose to sit instead of stand. If he has to stand, he needs support. This is a symptom of fatigue.

What is bad for Liver?

1. Rubbish food.
2. Bad lifestyle. Sleep very late. Always sleep before 1ppm. Why sleep late affect Liver? Because lying down allow the Liver to receive 4 times more blood than sitting. That is why once you lie down, Liver will have more blood. More blood means more nourishment to the Liver with oxygen and nutrients. Then, the Liver will have chance to repair and recover. You have to lie to show plan. Just don't stay late. Sleep before 11pm.
3. Quick temper affects the Liver.
4. Long term medication will also affects the Liver.
   

There was once when the speaker went to Zhejiang China to give talk. There was this driver who drove him to the hotel. He said he is director of Cardioneurology in the local biggest hospital. He said he has high blood pressure and the speaker asked him whether he took medicine. The director said he does not take any medicine. In fact, he has been resisting it for more than 10 years. So, the speaker asked him why? The director told him that doctors know that long term in take of these medications will lead to erectile dysfunction.

Thus, medicines do not hurt you now. But it will definitely hurt you in the future.

How to take care of Liver?

1. Learn to relax. The more we relax, the better our Liver will be.
2. Don't stress ourselves. Don't over work.
3. Rest as much as possible.
4. Improve your blood flow. Take Salmon Fish Oil and Lecithin E.
5. Take Power Breakfast
6. Exercise and Rest. Do brisk walking, breath fresh air and sleep early.
7. Drink 1 litre of vegetable juices.
8. Drink 2 litre of water treatment system.
9. Stop eating rubbish food.
10. Stop eating meat and seafood with no scales like squids and crabs.
11. Take lots of local seasonal fruits.
12. Take reasonable amount of supplements.
    

Our life cannot purely depend on Nutrilite. We have to focus on our lifestyle and food.

Recommendation for Nutrilite that is good for the Liver:

1. Protein Powder
2. Daily
3. B-complex
4. Bio-C
5. Calcium Magnesium
6. Salmon Fish Oil
7. Lecithin E
8. Multi-carotene
9. Milk Thistle
10. COQ10
11. Garlic and Licorice

Talk Ends. Hope you find these translations useful.

to support this website.