Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Avoiding Common Dental Allergens

Gluten free Dental polishing pastes:

Some prophy polishing pastes are now listed as gluten free:
Denti-care (by Medicom)

Enamel Pro, Glitter and Ziroxide (by Premier Dental Products)

Kolorz (by Zenith Dental)

Nada Pumice (by Preventech)

Nupro (by Dentsply Professional)

Sparkle-Free (by Crosstex Intl.)

Uni-Pro (by Henry Schein, Inc.)


Ingredients can change. Always verify with the manufacturer. This list is not comprehensive

 

 

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

chicken recipes

Here's two easy chicken recipes.  I think the coconut-lime chicken works best with the skin on although I used skinless for both.  I asked the butcher to cut the backbone for me, at no extra charge and I put the whole thing gut side down on a cookie sheet lined with parchment.  The vegetables and apples were good too.   

 

For the Coconut lime, I used a pan with a rack as it instructs, but you could use a cookie sheet with the parchment too.  Just make sure it has sides.  I peeled the ginger and the garlic, sliced it a put it in my $10 electric chopper then dropped the bowl and blade in the dishwasher. (Love that thing.)  You could use dried garlic and ginger instead, just cut back the amounts accordingly.  Look at the bottles and see if they suggest an equivalent.  If not, I'd try 2 teaspoons of minced dried garlic, and 1/2 teaspoon of powdered ginger.  I used coconut palm sugar.  You could use agave.

 

Make it easier with chicken breasts.

 

 

 

yellow squash soup

8-10 yellow squash or as much as will fit in your pot.

wash, remove ends, slice 1/8" thick or use food processor to slice.  The thicker the slices the longer they take to cook.

put in pot and just cover with water.

Boil/simmer until they are soft (a fork goes through the edges without resistance)

pour in colander or use slotted spoon to remove the squash

put the squash back in the pan and use an immersion blender to make it smooth

or put it in a food processor or blender.

add milk (1/4-1/2 cup) to get your preferred thickness and taste

and salt and pepper to taste.  (It takes more salt than you think, but add slowly and taste after each addition.)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

for Jan Cruise survival 101, Gluten free and zoned

Cruise survival 101

Breakfast-omelet bar,  Insist on spray oil (you may have to wait for them to get it) and egg whites.  Stuff it with whatever you like (no potatoes).  Top with salsa or cheese.

Look for fresh berries.  They will be hard to find. Ask for some.  Don't eat the ones in syrup on the bar unless you are sure they have no added sugar.  If you can't get any look for fresh apples, pears, oranges.  If you love pineapple, melon, or tropical fruit, just get a few bites.  OR eat a small amount of oatmeal with a few berries.

look for raw almonds or walnuts.  Put some with the berries and stash some in your purse for later.

 

Go early for lunch or at an odd time while they are setting up.  Ask for the chef or someone that knows what is in the food.  Tell him you really need to eat gluten free.  He will most likely bend over backward to tell you what is safe to eat at the different food bars.  Avoid potatoes, corn, rice, grains.  Choose roasted meats, green vegetables, salads.  choose olive oil and vinegars for dressing. Avoid anything sitting in oil, you can bet it is soybean.

 

If you have a seated dinner, go early the first night and tell your water that you need a gluten free menu.  If they don't have one, ask for the manager to help you decide what you can eat.  On some of our cruises I got a dinner menu the night before so I could choose what I wanted and they would make it special for me. 

 

splurge on no sugar ice cream (ask and make sure it is gluten free first).  Find something else to do during, but if you go to the dessert extravaganza, look for the chocolate fountain and the strawberries.  Use more berries than chocolate.  Look for other fresh berries to cover with chocolate.  look for bananas foster (if you like it) and skip the ice cream.  Later you can order some XT from Zone labs and take it 30 min. before a non zoned meal.  It will reduce the blood sugar/insulin spikes.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

zoned and sugar free chocolate haystacks

This chocolate is a wonderful zone treat for those that can't tolerate store bought sugar free chocolates.  It's not meant to be very sweet.  Just enough to satisfy that chocolate craving.  Be careful adding the stevia because it can get bitter quickly.  Taste as you go and adjust to suite yourself.  I have also used agave instead of the stevia.  If you use it or a sweetener with added carbohydrates, then you need to add (as a side) some protein with it to balance the added carbs.  Always eat this with a zoned meal or a zoned snack.  Like other sugar free sweets, the sweet taste will pretrigger insulin.  If you eat it by itself, you may end up with an insulin spike and blood sugar drop.  Two things you are trying to avoid by eating in the zone.

 

1/2 square Bakers Unsweetened chocolate (for darker chocolate use 1 square)

1/4 Cup almond or coconut butter (not oil) I prefer coconut but it adds saturated fat.  Almond is better for you.

3-5 drops of stevia liquid

unsweetened coconut or sliced almonds or both, a good hand full.  Freeze for a few hours before using.

 

1.      Line a small cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2.      Remove the lid, and microwave the jar of almond or coconut butter just enough to stir it well then measure out 1/4 cup.

3.      Heat the chocolate in a small bowl in the microwave, just until melted.   The square will hold its shape so you need to touch it after 30 sec to see how melted it is.  Then try another 10-30 seconds.  Go slow, you want it melted but not terribly hot.

4.      Mix in the nut butter and stevia.  Taste after 3 drops and after each drop after that.  Too much and it will be bitter. 

5.      Mix in some of the coconut or almonds or both.  The chocolate sauce will be thin, but when the cold nuts are mixed in, it thickens and you should be able to drop it onto the parchment paper easily.  You can make haystacks by mounding it, or just coated nut crunch by spreading it out. 

6.      Refrigerate the filled cookie sheet until hard.   Break into pieces and store in a plastic container in the refrigerator. 

 

 

In the pictures below, the coconut wasn't frozen so the chocolate was very runny.  The almonds were frozen so they clump nicely.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Dr. Sears' response to the prostate cancer news

Omega-3 fatty acids and prostate cancer? Oh, really?

By Dr. Barry Sears

There was a recent publication suggesting that higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids are associated with a greater risk of prostate cancer (1). Of course, the immediate media response was to indicate that taking fish oil supplements is dangerous. Of course, let's not forgot, then, that eating fish must also be dangerous.

Before letting the media focus on sound bites, a realistic first step might be to analyze the data and use some common sense to see if it justifies the headlines.

Everyone in the cancer field agrees that inflammation drives cancers. I believe the best marker for inflammation is the AA/EPA ratio as I have outlined in my various books for more than a decade. The reason is simple: As the AA/EPA ratio decreases, you make fewer inflammatory hormones (i.e. eicosanoids coming from AA) and more anti-inflammatory hormones (i.e. resolvins coming from EPA). Bottom line, this means less inflammation in the body. So let's look at the fatty acid data as percent of the total fatty acids that was presented in this article.

Non-cancer Cancer Low-grade cancer High-grade cancer

EPA 0.6% 0.7% 0.7% 0.7%

AA 11.4% 11.2% 11.2% 11.3%

AA/EPA 19 16 16 16

Having decades of experience of doing fatty acid analyses, I can tell that these numbers are clinically insignificant. What does that mean? The numbers are basically the same. They might be statistically significant, but the differences definitely are not clinically relevant.

I have been very consistent over the years in stating that to have an impact on reducing inflammation, you have to have EPA levels greater than 4% of the total fatty acids, AA levels less than 9% of the total fatty acids and an AA/EPA ratio between 1.5 and 3. As you can see, the subjects in this article were nowhere close to those parameters. In fact, I would say all the subjects in this trial were identical relative to AA, EPA and the AA/EPA ratio. In other words, the analysis is meaningless.

Is there any population in the world that may have the ranges that I recommend? The answer is the Japanese population. Their levels of EPA are about 3% of total fatty acids, and they have an AA/EPA ratio of about 1.6 (2). This is where common sense hopefully comes into play. If the conclusion of the article was correct, then the Japanese should be decimated with prostate cancer. So what are the facts? The Japanese have one of lowest rates of prostate cancer incidence in the world. In fact, their rate of prostate cancer incidence is 10 times

lower than the United States (3). More importantly, the mortality from prostate cancer is also about 5 times less in Japan than in the United States (4). I emphasize the word mortality since prostate cancer is usually very slow growing so that males usually die with prostate cancer, not because of it. This is why the recent recommendation is to dramatically reduce the screening for prostate cancer because the harm of treatment usually outweighs the benefits of detection.

Common sense (and a little understanding of the biochemistry of inflammation) says that if you reduce inflammation (determined by your AA/EPA ratio), then your likelihood of living longer is greatly increased. The best way to reduce AA is to follow a strict Zone Diet. The best way to increase EPA is to take adequate levels of purified omega-3 fatty acids rich in EPA. It is obvious the subjects of this study were doing neither.

References

1. Brasky TM, Darke AK, Song X, Tangen CM, Goodma PJ, Thompson IM,

Meyskens FL, Goodman GE, Minasian LM, Parnes HL, Klein EA, and Kristal AR. "Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial." J Nat Cancer Inst DOIL10.109393 (2013)

2. Yokoyama M, Origasa H, Matsuzaki M, Matsuzawa Y, Saito Y, Ishikawa Y, Oikawa S, Sasaki J, Hishida H, Itakura H, Kita T, Kitabatake A, Nakaya N, Sakata T, Shimada K, and Shirato K. " Effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemic patients (JELIS): a randomised open-label, blinded endpoint analysis." Lancet 367:1090-1098 (2007)

3. Haas GP, Delongchamps N, Brawley OW, Wang CY, and de la Roza G.

"The worldwide epidemiology of prostate cancer: perspectives from autopsy studies." Can J Urol 15: 3866-3871 (2008)

4. Marugame T and Mizuno S. "Comparison of Prostate Cancer Mortality in Five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from the WHO Mortality Database (1960–2000)." Jpn J Clin Oncol 35: 690–691 (2005)

Thursday, July 11, 2013

fish oil and prostate Cancer

DR. Sears' response to the prostate study press.

From: Dave Schreck [mailto:dave@zonehealth.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:02 PM
To: Becky Price
Subject: RE: Fish Study

 

Hi Becky,

 

Yes, we've been bombarded…

Barry's response is attached and it also appears at: http://www.zonediet.com/blog/

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Dave

 

From: Becky Price [mailto:becky@ppricelaw.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:16 PM
To: Dave Schreck
Subject: FW: Fish Study

 

Dave- You are probably getting bombarded with this question, what is Dr. Sears' response?

Becky

 

Becky Bailes Price

My cell:  361-442-9308  |  becky@ppricelaw.com

 

From: Bill Price [mailto:weprice@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:49 PM
To: Paul Price; Becky Price
Subject: Fish Study

 

The two stories below are all over Fox and the national print media.  This study is said to apply only to men.  What think you?  One the main Fox docs who has supported taking fish oil said he though men should stop pending further studies.

 

 

Fish Oil May Raise Prostate Cancer Risk

 

Increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids, which is widely promoted as a way to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer, may increase the risk of prostate cancer (PCa), especially aggressive disease, according to a study that confirms the findings of previous investigations.

 

Theodore M. Brasky, PhD, of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, and colleagues studied 2,198 men enrolled in the SELECT (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial). Of these, 834 were diagnosed with PCa (156 with high-grade disease) and 1,364 were not. Compared with men in the lowest quartile of total long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, those in the highest quartile had a 44% and 71% increased risk of low- and high-grade disease, respectively, and a 43% increased risk of any PCa, Dr. Brasky's team reported online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

 

The researchers calculated the total long-chain omega-3 fatty acid level as the sum of eicosapentaenoic (EPA), dodosapentaenoic (DPA), and docosahexaenoic acids (DHA), which are derived from oily fish and fish oil supplements. High levels of each of these fatty acids were associated with an increased PCa risk. High levels of EPA were associated with an increased risk of low-grade PCa. High levels of DPA and DHA were associated with an increased risk of low-grade and total PCa.

 

The new findings corroborate those of a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by Dr. Brasky and colleagues in 2011. That study examined data from men enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. Compared with men in the lowest quartile of serum DHA, those in the highest quartile had a 2.5 times increased risk of high-grade PCa. The study also found that high serum levels of trans-fatty acids were associated with a decreased risk of high-grade disease.

 

The researchers said it is unclear from the present study why high levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids would increase PCa, but the replication of this finding in two large studies indicates the need for further research into possible mechanisms. One potentially harmful effect of omega-3 fatty acids is their conversion into compounds that can cause damage to cells and DNA, and their role in immunosuppression.

 

The SELECT trial enrolled 35,533 men who were randomly assigned to take vitamin E alone, selenium alone, and vitamin E in combination with selenium. Results showed that men who took vitamin E alone had a significant 17% increased risk of PCa compared with placebo recipients after a total follow-up of seven years. Men who took both vitamin E and selenium did not have an increased risk.

 

 

Study confirms link between high blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids and increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer

 

Consumption of fatty fish and fish-oil supplements linked to 71 percent higher risk

Dr. Alan Kristal

Senior author Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H., is a member of the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutch.

SEATTLE – July 10, 2013 – A second large, prospective study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the link between high blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of prostate cancer.

 

Published in the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the latest findings indicate that high concentrations of EPA, DPA and DHA – the three anti-inflammatory and metabolically related fatty acids derived from fatty fish and fish-oil supplements – are associated with a 71 percent increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer. The study also found a 44 percent increase in the risk of low-grade prostate cancer and an overall 43 percent increase in risk for all prostate cancers.

 

The increase in risk for high-grade prostate cancer is important because those tumors are more likely to be fatal.

 

The findings confirm a 2011 study published by the same Fred Hutch scientific team that reported a similar link between high blood concentrations of DHA and a more than doubling of the risk for developing high-grade prostate cancer. The latest study also confirms results from a large European study.

 

"The consistency of these findings suggests that these fatty acids are involved in prostate tumorigenesis and recommendations to increase long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake, in particular through supplementation, should consider its potential risks," the authors wrote.

 

 "We've shown once again that use of nutritional supplements may be harmful," said Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H., the paper's senior author and member of the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division. Kristal also noted a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that questioned the benefit of omega-3 supplementation for cardiovascular diseases. The analysis, which combined the data from 20 studies, found no reduction in all-cause mortality, heart attacks or strokes. 

 

Dr. Theodore Braskey

Corresponding author Theodore Brasky, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, was a postdoctoral trainee at Fred Hutch when the research was conducted.

"What's important is that we have been able to replicate our findings from 2011 and we have confirmed that marine omega-3 fatty acids play a role in prostate cancer occurrence," said corresponding author Theodore Brasky, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center who was a postdoctoral trainee at Fred Hutch when the research was conducted. "It's important to note, however, that these results do not address the question of whether omega-3's play a detrimental role in prostate cancer prognosis," he said.

 

Kristal said the findings in both Fred Hutch studies were surprising because omega-3 fatty acids are believed to have a host of positive health effects based on their anti-inflammatory properties. Inflammation plays a role in the development and growth of many cancers.

 

It is unclear from this study why high levels of omega-3 fatty acids would increase prostate cancer risk, according to the authors, however the replication of this finding in two large studies indicates the need for further research into possible mechanisms. One potentially harmful effect of omega-3 fatty acids is their conversion into compounds that can cause damage to cells and DNA, and their role in immunosuppression. Whether these effects impact cancer risk is not known.

 

The difference in blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids between the lowest and highest risk groups was about 2.5 percentage points  (3.2 percent vs. 5.7 percent), which is somewhat larger than the effect of eating salmon twice a week, Kristal said.

 

The current study analyzed data and specimens collected from men who participated in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), a large randomized, placebo-controlled trial to test whether selenium and vitamin E, either alone or combined, reduced prostate cancer risk. That study showed no benefit from selenium intake and an increase in prostate cancers in men who took vitamin E.

 

The group included in the this analysis consisted of 834 men who had been diagnosed with incident, primary prostate cancers (156 were high-grade cancer) along with a comparison group of 1,393 men selected randomly from the 35,500 participants in SELECT.

 

The National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funded the research.

 

Also participating in the study were additional Fred Hutch scientists and researchers from the University of Texas, University of California, University of Washington, National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.

 

Editor's note: Please contact Kristen Woodward, Fred Hutch media relations, to schedule interviews and to obtain an embargoed copy of the paper, "Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial."

 

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