Hello everyone! First of all I want to apologize for not blogging in quite a while. It seems I have been contacted by the compliance department of a certain Glyconutritional Company about this blog- which I have been posting since November of 2003. If you were looking for a particular blog from the past- it is most likely that I have deleted it. (I've deleted about 90% of the postings). Apparrently I cannot mention the name of the company or publish any information that is announced from other sources such as Yahoo Finance or any other source. So much for freedom of speech eh... I suppose this is because I am an Associate. But this is a blog isn't it? Does this make sense to anyone out there? Aren't I able to basically blog about just about anything? There are blogs out there about sex, dolls, movies, exercise, coffee cups, eyewear, and every other insignificant topic you can imagine.
One day I decided to blog about something I really believed in- something I want the whole world to know about- something I believe will enhance and even advance human health. At last! PURPOSE! I've felt good about all the energy I've put into this blog! I've even been contacted by many fellow associates thanking me. And now I've been told to I have to delete this blog in its entirety. Three years of blogging going into the waste basket... At the moment I don't know what to say.... I'd like to hear what your take is on this... Feel free to leave a comment..
Monday, November 14, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
New Way to Modify Sugar Molecules is Found
A strategy for modifying complex sugar molecules developed by University of Oklahoma scientists reportedly might improve some scientific studies.
Such sugars play an important role in cell communication, serve as docking pads for bacteria or viruses, or provide clinically useful markers for cancer detection.
From this, the rapidly growing field of glycomics has emerged, exploring which proteins are modified with which sugars, and the implications of such modifications.
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A strategy for modifying complex sugar molecules developed by University of Oklahoma scientists reportedly might improve some scientific studies.
Such sugars play an important role in cell communication, serve as docking pads for bacteria or viruses, or provide clinically useful markers for cancer detection.
From this, the rapidly growing field of glycomics has emerged, exploring which proteins are modified with which sugars, and the implications of such modifications.
Read More...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Cholesterol-Reducing Flavonoids Found in Citrus Peels
The focus of this blog is the discovery of Glyconutrients. However, other nutraceuticals are also being developed as we speak. This is more validation of the emerging "Wellness Industry" predicted to be a Trillion Dollar business by world renowned economist Paul Zane Pilzer.
The industry of Nutraceuticals has emerged based on non-toxic, functional food components standardized for higher quality and effectiveness. Nutraceuticals are natural high quality standardized supplements proven to have pharmacological health benefits as validated by medical and scientific research.
John A. Manthey, a chemist at the Winter Haven lab, is known for his work on citrus flavonoids in peel byproducts. His work has mainly focused on polymethoxylated flavones, or PMFs, which typically occur at very high concentrations in orange oil, especially in residues left behind after orange-oil processing. Orange-oil residues have traditionally been discarded as nonvalue wastes.
Manthey's research has shown that PMFs decrease blood serum levels of apoprotein B, the structural protein of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which is the major cholesterol carrier in the blood. If too much LDL cholesterol circulates, it can slowly lead to atherosclerosis, or clogged arteries, and eventually cause heart attacks and strokes. These problems are accelerated by chronic, low-grade inflammation in blood vessels.
Manthey's work on PMFs began 8 years ago, when he met scientists from KGK Synergize of London, Ontario, Canada. KGK specializes in research to identify health-promoting compounds called "nutraceuticals." Sometimes called "functional foods," nutraceuticals are natural, bioactive chemical compounds with disease-preventing or medicinal properties. They're being commercially produced by food, pharmaceutical, herbal and dietary supplement industries.
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The focus of this blog is the discovery of Glyconutrients. However, other nutraceuticals are also being developed as we speak. This is more validation of the emerging "Wellness Industry" predicted to be a Trillion Dollar business by world renowned economist Paul Zane Pilzer.
The industry of Nutraceuticals has emerged based on non-toxic, functional food components standardized for higher quality and effectiveness. Nutraceuticals are natural high quality standardized supplements proven to have pharmacological health benefits as validated by medical and scientific research.
John A. Manthey, a chemist at the Winter Haven lab, is known for his work on citrus flavonoids in peel byproducts. His work has mainly focused on polymethoxylated flavones, or PMFs, which typically occur at very high concentrations in orange oil, especially in residues left behind after orange-oil processing. Orange-oil residues have traditionally been discarded as nonvalue wastes.
Manthey's research has shown that PMFs decrease blood serum levels of apoprotein B, the structural protein of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which is the major cholesterol carrier in the blood. If too much LDL cholesterol circulates, it can slowly lead to atherosclerosis, or clogged arteries, and eventually cause heart attacks and strokes. These problems are accelerated by chronic, low-grade inflammation in blood vessels.
Manthey's work on PMFs began 8 years ago, when he met scientists from KGK Synergize of London, Ontario, Canada. KGK specializes in research to identify health-promoting compounds called "nutraceuticals." Sometimes called "functional foods," nutraceuticals are natural, bioactive chemical compounds with disease-preventing or medicinal properties. They're being commercially produced by food, pharmaceutical, herbal and dietary supplement industries.
Read more
Friday, July 29, 2005
CODEX/Pharma-Friendly Legislative Assault Threatens US Health Freedom: Nutrient 'Adverse Event Reporting' Distorts Supplement Safety
Are Pharma-friendly Congressmen introducing bills clearing the path for harmonization with pro-illness provisions in CODEX by making supplements unavailable either directly or by stealth?
The remarkable safety of inexpensive and effective supplements is a direct market threat to dangerous and expensive drugs. Four bills and an amendment designed to end Americans' access to nutrients and supplements have been introduced into Congress.
Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the pro-health freedom Natural Solutions Foundation notes that "The continuing corporate assault on natural medicine choices has taken a dangerous twist via coordinated legislative attacks in Congress on American's right to make natural health choices. Americans use nutritional supplements in chronic degenerative diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease. These killer diseases are poorly prevented or treated with highly profitable drugs while natural approaches usually offer better outcomes and more relief than drugs can without side effects and toxicity."
She estimates that every dollar of the $20 billion supplement industry probably costs Big Pharma $40 in direct and indirect lost revenue.
"No wonder Big Pharma lobbies Congress at nearly $1 Billion per year: healthy people are bad for their business!" she said.
Pharma-friendly, CODEX-ready legislation has been introduced into Congress which directly or indirectly guts the legislative protection classifying nutritional supplements as foods (for which no upper limits are permitted as unanimously enacted by Congress in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 [DSHEA]).
Once the DSHEA's protection is removed, there will be no barrier left to harmonization with CODEX standards like the recently ratified Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.
Davis' bill explicitly gives the FDA power to remove nutrients from the market if there is a theoretical risk even if no harm has ever been associated with the item. No such reporting requirement exists for drugs, including deadly ones like Vioxx (which the FDA blames for 55,000-188,000 American deaths), despite drug toxicity and dangers.
Laws that protect access to nutrition, like DSHEA, undercut pharmaceutical profits. Dietary supplements have an astonishing safety record: there are no deaths conclusively associated with any supplement despite hundreds of millions of doses while complications associated with even "properly used" pharmaceuticals are the fourth leading cause of death in the US while pharmaceutical "medical misadventure" causes more U.S. deaths than heart disease, the number 1 disease-related killer. ( http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm ).
Big Pharma's nearly $800 million Congressional lobbying investment has apparently bought enough friends to create this legislative assault on natural health choices. Just as in the mid 1990's when millions of health-focused Americans flooded Congress to assure passage of DSHEA, the tide of public health concern is rising against this Congressional assault on its health freedom.
PRESS RELEASE
Are Pharma-friendly Congressmen introducing bills clearing the path for harmonization with pro-illness provisions in CODEX by making supplements unavailable either directly or by stealth?
The remarkable safety of inexpensive and effective supplements is a direct market threat to dangerous and expensive drugs. Four bills and an amendment designed to end Americans' access to nutrients and supplements have been introduced into Congress.
Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the pro-health freedom Natural Solutions Foundation notes that "The continuing corporate assault on natural medicine choices has taken a dangerous twist via coordinated legislative attacks in Congress on American's right to make natural health choices. Americans use nutritional supplements in chronic degenerative diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease. These killer diseases are poorly prevented or treated with highly profitable drugs while natural approaches usually offer better outcomes and more relief than drugs can without side effects and toxicity."
She estimates that every dollar of the $20 billion supplement industry probably costs Big Pharma $40 in direct and indirect lost revenue.
"No wonder Big Pharma lobbies Congress at nearly $1 Billion per year: healthy people are bad for their business!" she said.
Pharma-friendly, CODEX-ready legislation has been introduced into Congress which directly or indirectly guts the legislative protection classifying nutritional supplements as foods (for which no upper limits are permitted as unanimously enacted by Congress in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 [DSHEA]).
Once the DSHEA's protection is removed, there will be no barrier left to harmonization with CODEX standards like the recently ratified Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.
Davis' bill explicitly gives the FDA power to remove nutrients from the market if there is a theoretical risk even if no harm has ever been associated with the item. No such reporting requirement exists for drugs, including deadly ones like Vioxx (which the FDA blames for 55,000-188,000 American deaths), despite drug toxicity and dangers.
Laws that protect access to nutrition, like DSHEA, undercut pharmaceutical profits. Dietary supplements have an astonishing safety record: there are no deaths conclusively associated with any supplement despite hundreds of millions of doses while complications associated with even "properly used" pharmaceuticals are the fourth leading cause of death in the US while pharmaceutical "medical misadventure" causes more U.S. deaths than heart disease, the number 1 disease-related killer. ( http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm ).
Big Pharma's nearly $800 million Congressional lobbying investment has apparently bought enough friends to create this legislative assault on natural health choices. Just as in the mid 1990's when millions of health-focused Americans flooded Congress to assure passage of DSHEA, the tide of public health concern is rising against this Congressional assault on its health freedom.
PRESS RELEASE
Friday, July 01, 2005
How Important is Nutrition in Generations to Come?
An experiment of over ten years was carried out several decades ago by a Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger. His interest was the effects of diet on laboratory animals- cats. He chose to study the effects of raw versus cooked diet. He fed half of the cats raw meat and raw milk, and the other half were fed cooked meat and pasteurized milk. Rapid deterioration was observed in the group that was fed cooked meat and milk, whereas the other group continued to flourish. Evidence of problems in the first cooked-diet group were in reproduction, such as miscarriages. The mothering behavior began to deteriorate, along with the coat becoming dull and rough. By the second generation the kittens in the cooked-group were so vicious they had to be handled with protective equipment. Does this sound like something children are experiencing today (ADD and ADHD come to mind.)? Next, skeletal melformations began to show, and by the third generation cats were unable to reproduce and died.
The experiment shows the powerful effects of diet in generations to follow. Makes you wonder if we, or generations to follow, may be guinea pigs in a mass scale experiment of a highly industrialized living? Is our present civilization already a part of Pottenger's experiment?
Pottenger's Cats . . .
Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD. He was dedicated to the cause of preventing chronic illness and made significant contributions to the understanding of the role of nutrition in maintaining good health. His chance observation regarding the effect of foods on the mortality rate of cats led to his classical experiments in cat feeding. More than 900 cats were studied over ten years. (to see the study click on the link below)
http://www.price-pottenger.org/Articles/PottsCats.htm
An experiment of over ten years was carried out several decades ago by a Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger. His interest was the effects of diet on laboratory animals- cats. He chose to study the effects of raw versus cooked diet. He fed half of the cats raw meat and raw milk, and the other half were fed cooked meat and pasteurized milk. Rapid deterioration was observed in the group that was fed cooked meat and milk, whereas the other group continued to flourish. Evidence of problems in the first cooked-diet group were in reproduction, such as miscarriages. The mothering behavior began to deteriorate, along with the coat becoming dull and rough. By the second generation the kittens in the cooked-group were so vicious they had to be handled with protective equipment. Does this sound like something children are experiencing today (ADD and ADHD come to mind.)? Next, skeletal melformations began to show, and by the third generation cats were unable to reproduce and died.
The experiment shows the powerful effects of diet in generations to follow. Makes you wonder if we, or generations to follow, may be guinea pigs in a mass scale experiment of a highly industrialized living? Is our present civilization already a part of Pottenger's experiment?
Pottenger's Cats . . .
Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD. He was dedicated to the cause of preventing chronic illness and made significant contributions to the understanding of the role of nutrition in maintaining good health. His chance observation regarding the effect of foods on the mortality rate of cats led to his classical experiments in cat feeding. More than 900 cats were studied over ten years. (to see the study click on the link below)
http://www.price-pottenger.org/Articles/PottsCats.htm
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Aloe Vera Expert Visits Uganda
New Vision (Kampala)
February 7, 2005 Posted to the web February 8, 2005
One of the scientists who discovered the nutritional value of aloe vera is in Uganda. The scientist met with health minister Jim Muhwezi at the ministry headquarters in Kampala on Friday.
The scientist is famous for the discovery of sugar molecules in aloe vera, which improve immunity. His discovery led to the development of the world-famous nutrients known as glyconutrients. Muhwezi said Uganda was endowed with a diversity of plants, which could be helpful in the fight against diseases.
Read more...
New Vision (Kampala)
February 7, 2005 Posted to the web February 8, 2005
One of the scientists who discovered the nutritional value of aloe vera is in Uganda. The scientist met with health minister Jim Muhwezi at the ministry headquarters in Kampala on Friday.
The scientist is famous for the discovery of sugar molecules in aloe vera, which improve immunity. His discovery led to the development of the world-famous nutrients known as glyconutrients. Muhwezi said Uganda was endowed with a diversity of plants, which could be helpful in the fight against diseases.
Read more...
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Tsunami Relief
Google has a page with sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region of Asia and east Africa where the tsunami hit. Please take a look at the page and see if you can help out in any way.
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html
If you can't help by donating money, you can help by praying. This time of tragedy calls for much prayer. The following are some ways to pray:
Pray for the people affected by this disaster every time you hear about it.
Pray for the healing of the injured.
Pray for the families world-wide who have lost loved ones.
Pray for those people who have lost their homes.
Pray that disease and the spread of disease is avoided.
Pray for the wisdom, safety, and strength of relief workers.
Thank you,
Albert
Google has a page with sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region of Asia and east Africa where the tsunami hit. Please take a look at the page and see if you can help out in any way.
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html
If you can't help by donating money, you can help by praying. This time of tragedy calls for much prayer. The following are some ways to pray:
Pray for the people affected by this disaster every time you hear about it.
Pray for the healing of the injured.
Pray for the families world-wide who have lost loved ones.
Pray for those people who have lost their homes.
Pray that disease and the spread of disease is avoided.
Pray for the wisdom, safety, and strength of relief workers.
Thank you,
Albert
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