New studies reveal that foods containing black squid ink fight cancer and tumor cells by preventing the growth of new blood vessels which causes tumor and cancer cells to grow. Also see the article, "Angiogenesis Foundation - Squid Ink Discovered to be Antiangiogenic."
One national new food trend is to eat black foods, especially squid ink pasta with black beans one day and black rice with blueberries the next. If you look at various natural food markets, stores and supermarkets are carrying more black foods such as black rice (also known as 'forbidden' rice) and squid ink pasta. See, Squid Ink Pasta: Cooking Terms: RecipeTips.com.
A state of body chemistry has to exist which favors the cancer cells to take hold and grow as if they were a virus or even a type of 'mold'. This state of body chemistry is controlled by heredity and environment. But diet is part of environment.
If you look at a patient with blood cancer, for example, leukemia, it seems as if the cancer is acting as if it were a virus, devouring the sugar in the blood in order to grow abnormally, reproduce, and spread. Check out Dr. Dr. Meyerhof's studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Myerhof was a 1922 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology.
You have to look at some of the studies by Nobel laureate in physiology, Dr. Meyerhof of the University of Pennsylvania, who felt that the growth of cancer cells might be stopped if biochemists could find a way to stop the tumor's appetite for sugar.
What scientists found, according to the book,Your Body Is Your Best Doctor, is that cancer cells need an abnormal amount of sugar for their growth. Dr. Myerhof studied glycolysis. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, with Archibald Vivian Hill, for his work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis, according to the Wikipedia website.
If you have a balanced body chemistry, you can be exposed to environmental toxins to a certain degree and not be made sick early on in your exposure to these toxins, of course, to a degree of exposure. So when scientists look at lactic acid, they note how lactic acid is essential for the growth of cancer cells. So how do you stop or limit the growth of cells that furiously feed on sugar? What scientists continue to research is whether if sugar is limited, perhaps the growth of cancer cells could be slowed.
That's why nutritionists and some doctors want people to limit the sugar level of their blood. According to Dr. Page's book, Your Body is Your Best Doctor, it notes, "We do not remember seeing a single cancer case that had a correct blood sugar level." And if you look at healthy people who don't have cancer, a correct blood sugar level can be obtained by many simply by eating a sugar-free diet.
Why Some Doctors Want to Inhibit the Anterior Pituitary Gland So It Wouldn't Be So Overactive
Some doctors even treated cancer patients with tiny doses of insulin to lower their high blood sugar levels, and these cancer patients were not diabetics. Diet also was changed so the cancer patients were not eating foods containing sugar, or even excess sugar.
The doctors were not really trying to control the blood sugar levels in cancer patients. Instead what they were trying to inhibit was the anterior pituitary gland, so it wouldn't be so overactive. The sugar levels of the blood of cancer patients serve as an index to the amounts of insulin or other glandular substance required, according to Dr. Page's book. That's why diet is important when you're trying to slow down or prevent cancer.
Cancer patients often test out with overactive anabolic glands. In fact about 95 percent of cancer cases had overactive anterior pituitary glands and also abnormally high sugar levels, according to the book, Your Body is Your Best Doctor, by Melvin E. Page, D.D.S, and H. Leon Abrams, Jr., page 178.
Cancer cells differ from normal cells from which cancel cells originate. But they differ only in their rate of growth and in their abnormal size. What might cause those high sugar levels and overactive anterior pituitary glands in cancer patients?
Why Glycolysis Happens
Why glycolysis happens is that the cancer cells split the sugar molecule into lactic acid molecules by a process that's related to alcoholic fermentation. That process is called glycolysis, acccording to Dr. Page's book, Your Body is Your Best Doctor, page 178.
Let's look at children's diets right here in the USA. Are kids getting too much sugar in their daily meals and snacks? Cancer kills more children between the ages of three and fifteen than any other disease, according to the American Cancer Society. If you've had a complete blood chemistry test when you go for a physical exam, you also might have your doctor or naturopath take a look at your endocrine patterns.
When you think of all the processed foods that contain sugar from ketchup to BBQ sauce, from sodas to some low-sodium soups, from some types of tomato sauce to condiments. Sugar seems to be everywhere. When you look at the box of one brand of sea salt, one of the ingredients is dextrose.
Now why would dextrose, a sugar be added to a box of commercial, supermarket shelf variety of sea salt? People buying the sea salt wouldn't have any idea that a sugar called dextrose has been added to the salt. Imagine someone rinsing his mouth with salt containing a type of sugar thinking that the salt water rinse would help prevent tooth decay or gum disease.
The point is whatever doctors and scientists are researching about tumors and cancers, it seems that these abnormal cells love sugar. And in some biology lab courses, rats were fed sugar to raise their blood pressure instead of salt.
Another preservative in some types of beef is the synthetic female hormone, stilbesterol given to beef cattle to help the cows gain weight. According to Dr. Page's book, Your Body is Your Best Doctor, "it has been proven that stilbesterol can cause cancer in rats."
So basically, with all these environmental hazards in foods, why add sugar to your diet? For the sake of your teeth, bones, and cells, you don't need excess sugar. Your brain will get enough sugar from the fruits and vegetables you eat without adding table sugar or sweet syrups to your salt, condiments, soups, processed foods, sauces, or other types of meals. As far as tumors, scientists around the world are studying how squid ink may prevent new blood vessels from growing in some types of tumors.
Anthocyanins in Black Foods and How Squid Ink Prevents New Blood Vessels From Growing In Some Tumors
Basically, black foods are healthy for their anti-cancer properties and the high amount of anti-oxidant in foods that are colored black. When it comes to black beans which contain high amounts of antioxidants, the black-colored plant foods also have health benefits. It's the chemicals in the black color in black beans that also fights cancer. See, Foods That Fight Cancer - American Institute for Cancer Research Blog. Also check out the articles on black beans at the Bean Institute site.
These plant pigments are more than coloring agents for fruit juices, wine, and other beverages. They also contain an array of health-promoting benefits.
When anthocynanins are eaten in large amounts by humans, these antioxidant flavonoids that protect specific body systems. They have some of the strongest physiological effects of any plant compounds, and they are also provide pigment for pansies, petunias, and plums. See the article, Anthocyanins by Marilyn Sterling, R.D. Anthocyanins have anti-inflammatory properties, which affect collagen and the nervous system. Check out the health benefits at the Anthocyanins article site.
For example black squid ink, usually sold in black pasta is supposed to stop tumors in their tracks by preventing new blood vessels from growing in tumors. See the latest studies on how squid ink stops new blood vessels from growing in cancer and tumor cells, "Angiogenesis Foundation - Squid Ink Discovered to be Antiangiogenic."
Another amazing study focuses on the health benefits of black rice bran. If you can't find black rice bran yet in the stores or online, make your own by grinding black rice into a meal. You won't get just the bran, but you will get a healthy meal or flour for making other foods such as crackers, breads, and brownies. Or check out the black rice bran sales online, for example, the site, Black Rice Bran Sale. Also see, The next big food fad is black rice bran | Smartplanet.
Black beans are supposed to have anti-oxidant properties to knock-out free radicals. And black rice, often called forbidden rice, is supposed to contain more anti-oxidants than blue berries and also due to the black coloring, help to destroy cancer and tumor cells. Check out the site, Black Foods Are the New Green | The Dr. Oz Show.
Cancer loves sugar. Go ahead and carve those initials on a piece of wood to display on your table the next time you decide to wolf down tons of sugary beverages and desserts. Here's why cancer loves sugar. Cancer cells work somewhat like a seed, and cannot grow unless the conditions are right. Visualize cancer as a Romeo figure, maybe dressed as Robin Hood or some medieval character in costume.
Picture sugar as a fluffy kitten, princess, or fairy-type image. But sugar's not so sparkly and pretty. Sugar keeps cancer cells reproducing. Sugar keeps the cancer cells immortal, so to speak. Here's how it all works.
Heredity and environment play a part, of course, but the epigenetic tags on the genes have to be switched on by a high-sugar diet to feed the cancer cells and keep them replicating. Cancer patients often test out with overactive anabolic glands, and doctors test patients for an overactive anterior pituitary gland and high levels of sugar in the patient's blood.
You can buy black rice in bulk food bins at the Whole Foods Market. In some stores it's also labeled as "forbidden rice." In fact, if you watched the Dr. Oz show this morning, May 5, 2011, on Dish Satellite Network channel 58 in Sacramento, you may have heard the show that featured black-colored foods such as squid ink pasta, black beans, and black rice.
The nation is ready for black rice. In fact, Whole Foods Market sells black rice in its bulk containers under the label, "Forbidden Rice." Centuries ago in China black rice was called "forbidden rice" because only the emperor could eat it, possibly because of its health benefits and delicious taste.
Some supermarkets carry black rice in various natural food aisles. Or you can buy black rice online.You can also mix black rice with brown rice or mahogany rice. Check out the articles, Influence of Cooking on Anthocyanins in Black Rice (Oryza sativa L. japonica var. SBR) and Phenolic Profiles and Antioxidant Activity of Black Rice Bran of Different Commercially Available Varieties.
The time has come for black rice bran also to be on store shelves. It's not available yet in local stores. But keep watching. In fact the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has a whole column of studies on black rice and its health effects. See the articles at this website using the key words in the site's search engine "black rice."
Scientists are reporting evidence that black rice — a little-known variety of the grain that is the staple food for one-third of the world population — may help soothe the inflammation involved in allergies, asthma, and other diseases. Their study appears in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Chinese black rice could replace blueberries as the supreme superfood for a fraction of the price and deliver more health benefits announced researchers at American Chemical Society's (ACS) annual fall meeting, according to an American Chemical Society Septemeber 7, 2010 press release, "ACS in the News."
According to an October 20, 2010 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, black rice bran may cut inflammation. See the article, "Black rice bran may help fight disease-related inflammation." See the article, "The Next Big Food Fad is Black Rice Bran."
Various universities study the health benefits and production of rice bran oil, rice bran, and whole-grain brown rice. For example, the University of California Cooperative and Extension (UCCE) Rice Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that fosters research in rice production management and facilitates the exchange of information and the development and spread of promising technologies.The project studies rice production in California, especially in the Sacramento area.
You'd have to eat many times more servings of black rice to get the same nutrients from black rice bran, which is difficult to find at this time in stores. But you can buy black rice and grind it to a flour in a coffee grinder or a dry grinder (such as a Vita-Mix dry grinder) and then sprinkle the black rice flour or meal over other foods.
As the studies on black rice bran reach the stores, availability of black rice bran may change. In the meantime, keep on grinding the black rice into flour and sprinkle it on foods. If you cook black rice, you'll find it's a very sticky rice and tastes good as a fruit-sweetened rice pudding, the way some people may eat it in China, for example. Black rice also is popular in Thailand and Indonesia.
For more information on black rice, see the California Rice Commission website. You might also look for black, Japonica and mahogany Japonica short grain rice in the Sacramento area. In fact, Sacramento and the surrounding valley areas are California's main rice-growing regions.
To buy black Japonica rice online, which may be a field blend of black and mahogany Japonica rice, check out the Max Vite, website where you can order just one bag of Lundberg Black Japonica Rice or as many as you want. Or you can also see the site, Lundberg Black Japonica Rice, 16-Ounces (Pack of 12): Amazon.com . Lundberg is located in N. California in Richvale, located approximately 80 miles north of Sacramento.
Black Japonica rice grains have a thick bran layer that is black or mahogany in color. The grains are sweet, nutty and musky in flavor and chewy, with a moist,crunchy texture. Best uses for black rice are for salads, soups, stuffings, and casseroles.
Zhimin Xu, associate professor at the Department of Food Science at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, explained in a September 1, 2010 American Chemical Society (ACS) announcement, "Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants."
Is there a way to make it easier to find black rice bran in Sacramento? The anthocyanin antioxidants are high in black rice and black rice bran. These are substances that may help fight heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.
If black rice bran has more antioxidants than brown rice bran, why is black rice harder to find in stores, but easy to obtain online? And a search for black rice bran online, brings up few places to order it, whereas black rice is easier to find online than in some stores locally, but the black rice is some brands may be often mixed with mahogony Japonica rice.
In Albany, California, Mendel Friedman, of the US Dept. of Agriculture, and colleagues have also done previous research showing some potential health benefits of eating black rice bran. But will you get the same benefits if black rice is easier to find than black rice bran in the stores or online? Keep on searching.
Stores may get the idea and start selling it. In the meantime, if all you can find is black rice, then be sure to soak it at least an hour before you cook it. Black rice takes longer to cook than brown rice. But after it's soaked and softened, then it cooks up like any other rice.
Also see the following sites selling black rice online, "Temple of Thai.com," and Black Jasmine Rice at the Alter Eco Fair Trade site. Lotus Foods sells back rice. It has been known in historic times in China as "forbidden rice." Some sites sell black rice from Thailand. Other sites sell black rice from China or other nations. Other sites sell California-grown black rice. Check out the search engine sites under the key words, "black rice."
Bran is the outer husk of the grain. Experiments, which were done in cell cultures, hinted that black rice bran suppressed the release of histamine, which causes inflammation, according to the news release, "Black rice bran may help fight disease-related inflammation."
In the new study, scientists tested the effects of black rice bran extract on skin inflammation in laboratory mice. When they injected the extract into the mice, it reduced skin inflammation by about 32 percent compared to control animals and also decreased production of certain substances known to promote inflammation. But will black rice bran work with people in a similar way to what worked with mice?
Brown rice bran extract did not have these effects, according to researchers. When the scientists fed the mice a diet containing 10 percent black rice bran, it reduced swelling associated with allergic contact dermatitis, a common type of skin irritation.
The findings "further demonstrate the potential value of black rice bran as an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic food ingredient and possibly also as a therapeutic agent for the treatment and prevention of diseases associated with chronic inflammation," the article notes.
You can read and download the original article based on the study, "Protective Effects of Black Rice Bran against Chemically-Induced Inflammation of Mouse Skin. " The study's contact is Mendel Friedman, Ph.D. Western Regional Research CenterAgricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, Calif. 94710.
If you're looking for black rice or black rice bran, try some of the ethnic Japanese grocers for Japonica black rice. You also can buy black rice online at various online sellers such as Amazon.com. For more information on rice see the site, Farmers' Rice Cooperative.
The Farmers' Rice Cooperative (FRC) is the largest grower-owned Rice Cooperative in California. FRC is the leader in rice milling and packaging technology in its facilities and a major supplier of premium medium grain and short grain rice for retail, food service, industrial and export. Products offered include rice flour, brewers, brown, second heads, waxy sweet, regular milled white rice, short grain, medium grain, long grain, stabilized rice bran.
Here are some facts about high blood pressure. What causes 90% of the older population to develop high blood pressure? See the May 3, 2010 Natural News article, Eat brown rice to prevent high blood pressure, lower heart attack risk.
According to an October 20, 2010 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, black rice bran may cut inflammation. See the article, "Black rice bran may help fight disease-related inflammation." See the article, "The Next Big Food Fad is Black Rice Bran."
UC Davis also researches the health benefits and production of rice bran oil, rice bran, and whole-grain brown rice.The University of California Cooperative and Extension (UCCE) Rice Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that fosters research in rice production management and facilitates the exchange of information and the development and spread of promising technologies.The project studies rice production in California, especially in the Sacramento area.
You'd have to eat many times more servings of black rice to get the same nutrients from black rice bran, which is difficult to find at this time in stores. But you can buy black rice and grind it to a flour in a coffee grinder or a dry grinder (such as a Vita-Mix dry grinder) and then sprinkle the black rice flour or meal over other foods.
As the studies on black rice bran reach the stores, availability of black rice bran may change. In the meantime, keep on grinding the black rice into flour and sprinkle it on foods.
If you cook black rice, you'll find it's a very sticky rice and tastes good as a fruit-sweetened rice pudding, the way some people may eat it in China, for example. Black rice also is popular in Thailand and Indonesia. Check out the California Rice Commission website. You might also look for black, Japonica and mahogany Japonica short grain rice.
Can blueberries help people with hypertension, according to researchers?
See the article, Blueberry Research | Antioxidant Benefits, Disease Prevention. Can a breakfast of brown and black rice with wild organic blueberries help to reduce certain types of hypertension? Research shows that brown rice with no added salt may help to reduce blood pressure, in some cases, especially when eaten with wild blueberries for breakfast. So who in the field of science is studying this topic?
The University of California, Davis, a study found that blueberries may reduce the build up of so called "bad" cholesterol that contributes to cardiovascular disease and stroke, according to UC Davis scientists. Antioxidants are believed to be the active component. See the UC Davis study published in the USDA Agricultural Research Service. July 2004; Food Navigator. August 2004.
Blueberries paired with black or brown rice and decaf green tea for a healthier breakfast recipe
Blueberries have the highest cellular antioxidant activity of selected fruits tested. Lead scientist Rui Hai Liu, Ph.D. used the cellular antioxidant activity (CAA) assay — a new assay developed by the Cornell University Department of Food Science — to determine antioxidant activity of antioxidants, foods, and dietary supplements.
Wild Blueberries outperformed two dozen commonly consumed fruits like pomegranates, strawberries, cultivated blueberries, cranberries, apples and red grapes. Antioxidant have been linked with anti-aging, anti-cancer and heart-health benefits. Check out these studies: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2008; 56(18): 8418-8426 and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2007; 55(22): 8896-8907.
A recent recommendation for detecting and treating high blood pressure is available from the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure of the National Heart and Lung Institutes, National Institutes of Health.
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