Although I am not a regular golfer, I still love the game.  Aside from playing, golf is my favorite spectator sport which is why, when I heard about the following report, I was mortified!

Experts are finding that golfers, even non-golfers who simply live near or on golf courses, are experiencing alarming increases in cancers of the brain, large intestine, liver, lung and prostate.

Are you one of the many people who always wanted to live next to a golf course?  Until golf courses change the way they take care of their greens and fairways, you are lucky you don’t.

In one recent study, by the University of Iowa, it was found that just working as a golf superintendent significantly increased the risk of developing one of these cancers and the risk of those actually maintaining the course, is even higher.

So what gives? According to some researchers, the culprit is 2,4-D —- one of the herbicides landscapers use to keep courses green and beautiful.

This weed killer was developed by a British research team at Rothamsted Experimental Station during World War II.  Their goal was to increase crop yields for a nation at war. Since its commercial release in 1946, 2,4-D has been extremely successful in controlling weeds in wheat, corn, rice, and other cereal grasses. It is also used to kill weeds alongside fences, highways and in hayfields and pastures.

OK. So most people who are dealing with weeds, in one way or another, know this about 2,4-D, but what most people do not know is that 2,4-D was a compound in the notorious Agent Orange herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

According to the U.S Department of Veteran Affairs, Vietnam vets exposed to Agent Orange tend to report higher incidences of: Acute/chronic leukemia—Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma—Liver cancer—Prostate cancer—Lung cancer—Soft tissue sarcoma—Throat cancer and—Male reproductive problems, including dead and reformed sperm.

As a golfer, I know you don’t want to stop playing golf.  So what do you do?  If you are a member of a golf club, get together with other members, both male and female, and demand your board ends the  use of pesticides on your golf course.  If you use a public course, get a group together and begin haunting the city council to do the same.

Pesticides are not only used on the golf course, they are extensively used on farms.  Good reason to eat organic.  People use 2,4-D on their lawns, garden, cracks in concrete walks and driveways.  You need to stop doing that.  Pull the weeds!—-the exercise is good for you.  Can’t pull weeds?  There are tools at the garden shop to help you do the job.  Limit your exposure to 2,4-D and live longer!

May your golf balls fly far and true!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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References:

“D. Lerda, R. Rizzi, Study of reproductive function in persons occupationally exposed to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).”, Mutation Research, Vol. 262 No. 1, pp. 47-50 1991. Retrieved August 28, 2010 from http://www.webcitation.org/5glwlknsa
EPA: Federal Register: 2,4-D, 2,4-DP, and 2,4-DB; Decision Not to Initiate Special Review.  Retrieved August 28, 2010 from http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/Aughst/Day-08/p15019.htm

Why Brain Cancer Killed My Friend Harry!

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My friend Harry died Saturday night.

Harry was a gem and loved by many.

Chemotherapy and radiation did him in.

Over a year ago Harry went to his doctor because he wasn’t feeling well.  He was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  A team of doctors recommended surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.

Slash — Burn — Radiate!

Harry of course didn’t catch a brain tumor, he developed it over the years.  How many?  Hard to tell.  Could have taken ten, twenty, thirty years.

Harry was a sugar-holic, and sugar feeds cancer.  Dr. Otto Warberg won a Nobel prize for this discovery many years ago.  Harry was also not too strict on other foods he ate.

It’s an old story, like so many others Harry got his body chemistry out of whack and so began, for him, the journey to brain cancer.  We know that others taking this same journey may develop breast, colon, prostate, pancreatic or other cancers, but for Harry it was brain cancer.

What’s tragic is that so many Americans have been brain washed by the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Koman Foundation, American Medical Association, the FDA, and other organizations that have sucked up billions of dollars for research to discover the cure for cancer, with no cure in sight from these researchers.

Using fear and marketing ploys such as “run for the cure”, etc. these organizations suck dollars out of the pockets of millions of people to fund research programs that are supposed to find the cure for cancer.

But they lie.  The money mostly goes for their inflated salaries and “make work” days. This has been going on for decades and will continue to go on for decades more unless people like us  and stop sending them money.  These organizations will never find the cure, because if they do, it will put them out of business!

Here in the US the only legal treatment for cancer is slash, burn, and radiate.  To do otherwise is a criminal act.

Most doctors treat cancer by attacking the tumor.  Heaven forbid they should look to get rid of the source that developed the tumor in the first place.

They crow success and remission if they eliminate the tumor, never mind that they have poisoned the whole body in doing so, and of course it is not their fault if a few years later the tumor returns or the patient dies.

Not their problem.  They followed the rules as established by the AMA, the FDA and the accepted advice of the pharmaceutical companies who make the incredibly profitable chemotherapy drugs.

So when Harry heard the sage advice of his doctors that his only chance for survival was slash, burn, and radiate, Harry, being one of the millions of Americans who believed in traditional medicine, agreed.

That decision, to agree to traditional medical treatment for his cancer  — was Harry’s death sentence.

None of Harry’s  medical people ever told him to stop eating sugar as that feeds cancer.

No one ever told Harry he needed to alkalize his body because cancer cells can’t survive in an alkaline media.

This advice is considered by the medical profession to be “Alternative” and is not in their vocabulary.

Doctors consider it a successful remission if you live two years after their treatment for cancer, and a cure, if you lived 5 years.

That is very sad, as contrary to what most doctors will tell you, there are many permanent cures for cancer other than slash, burn and radiate that will really cure your cancer once you have given your body a chance to heal itself by getting rid of the causes of your cancer and the cancer itself.

A good example is the hyperthermia treatment.  Administered under close medical supervision, the body is heated to a temperature of 107° F or higher. Heat kills cancer cells and has no effect on normal cells.

This process has been used all over Europe, particularly in Germany and Austria, and other parts of the world for decades.  There is a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico that has been successfully treating cancer patients for years.

Here in the US the FDA has ruled that hyperthermia is strictly experimental, totally ignoring the years of positive evidence of the successful treating of cancer with hyperthermia, with people living 20, 30 or 40 more years and dying of other causes.

This ruling is a major coup for the pharmaceutical companies, and the slash, burn, and radiate doctors, protecting their billions of dollars in profits each year.  To this day, the regular use of hyperthermia in the US is illegal.

Did you know that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline media, nor in an oxygen media?

Intravenous treatments of ozone, which flood the body with oxygen, have also proven an effective cure for cancer.  There are numerous other effective cures, including nutritional cures.

None of these so called alternative and illegal cures (in the US) just treat the cancer as most US doctors do, they treat the whole body without drugs, surgery, or radiation.

Every single cancer treatment program, other than conventional treatment given in the US, I have ever read or heard about, begins with a heavy flush of the colon to get rid of years of buildup of caked waste that has been emitting toxins for years.

After the colon cleanse, a program of detoxifying the rest of the body to free up the immune system enabling the body to heal itself.  Added to these treatments is a change to mostly, if not all, raw diet, along with nutritional supplements as part of the treatments.

Detoxification and nutrition are integral parts of hyperthermia, ozone, or other treatments.

Western medicine treats happenings in the body as individual events.  If there is a kidney problem, they treat the kidney; a tumor, they treat the tumor; a heart problem, they treat the heart.

The reality is that body is not made up of separate parts.  The body is made up of integrated parts, one dependent on the other, which is why holistic and naturopathic doctors treat the whole body to effect successful healing.

What holistic and naturopathic doctors know is that the source of the problem always starts elsewhere in the body, and to properly heal, you must eliminate the source.

No one has to get a developed disease.

Eat organic healthy food as much as possible, do not drink sodas or power drinks.

Do drink filtered clean water, not bottled water, exercise, and you will never develop a degenerative disease or become overweight.

Hypocrites said, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

Good health is not to be found in your doctor’s hands, it is found in your hands.  You make the decisions.

My friend Harry made the wrong choice of treatment, it cost him his life.

You still have a chance.  You can make the right choices.

Good bye Harry.  I cherish my experience in knowing you, and will miss you very much, as will many others.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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Can Asparagus Cure Cancer?

Recently we received a copy of an email that has been floating around the Internet for some time now implying that asparagus cures cancer.

The email introduced the origin of the story and several testimonials from people with claims that asparagus did indeed cure their cancer.

Wow!  That simple?  Asparagus?  So I did my research and lo and behold, there is a basis for their claims.

Although there are no valid scientific studies to back up their claims, there is enough nutritional evidence as to the anti-cancer properties of asparagus that one organization has filed for a grant to begin these studies.

And from all I have read with regard to asparagus and cancer, I would encourage you to eat your asparagus if you have cancer or wish to prevent cancer.

The following is a copy of the email article.  Following that is a biochemist’s explanation of why we should include asparagus as part of our protective arsenal.

THE ARTICLE:
Several years ago, I had a man seeking asparagus for a friend who had cancer. He gave me a photocopied copy  of an article, entitled, Asparagus for cancer ‘printed in Cancer News Journal, December 1979. I will share it here, just as it was shared with me: I am a biochemist, and have specialized in the relation of diet to health or over 50 years. Several years ago, I learned  of the discovery of Richard R. Vensal, D.D.S. that asparagus might cure cancer. Since then, I have worked  with him on his project We have accumulated a numb of favorable case histories. Here are a few examples:

Case No. 1, A man with an almost hopeless case  of Hodgkin’s disease (cancer of the lymph glands) who was completely incapacitated. Within 1 year of starting the asparagus therapy, his doctors were unable to detect any signs of cancer, and he was back on a  schedule of strenuous exercise.

Case No. 2, a successful businessman 68 years old who suffered from cancer of the bladder for 16 years. After years of medical treatments, including radiation without improvement, he went on asparagus. Within 3 months, examinations revealed that his bladder tumor had disappeared and that his kidneys were normal.

Case No. 3, a man who had lung cancer. On March 5th 1971, he was put on the operating table where they found lung cancer so widely spread that it was inoperable. The surgeon sewed him up and declared his case hopeless. On April 5th he heard about the Asparagus therapy and immediately started taking it By August, x-ray pictures revealed that all signs of the cancer had disappeared. He is back at his regular business routine.

Case No. 4, a woman who was troubled for a number of years with skin cancer. She finally developed different skin cancers which were diagnosed by the acting specialist as advanced. Within 3 months after starting on asparagus, her skin specialist said that her skin looked fine and no more skin lesions. This woman reported that the asparagus therapy also cured her kidney disease, which started in 1949. She had over 10 operations for kidney stones, and was receiving government disability payments for an inoperable, terminal, kidney condition. She attributes the cure of this kidney trouble entirely to the asparagus.

I was not surprised at this result, as `The elements of materia medica’, edited in1854 by a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania , stated that asparagus was used as a popular remedy for kidney stones. He even referred to experiments, in 1739, on the power of asparagus in dissolving stones. Note the dates!  We would have other case histories but the medical establishment has interfered with our obtaining some of the records. I am therefore appealing to readers tospread this good news and help us to gather a large number of case histories that will overwhelm the medical skeptics about this unbelievably simple and natural remedy.

For the treatment, asparagus should be cooked before using, and therefore canned asparagus is just as good as fresh. I have corresponded with the two leading canners of asparagus, Giant and Stokely, and I am satisfied that these brands contain no pesticides or preservatives.

Place the cooked asparagus in a blender and liquefy to make a puree, and store in the refrigerator. Give the patient 4 full tablespoons twice daily, morning and evening. Patients usually show some improvement in 2-4 weeks. It can be diluted with water and used as a cold or hot drink.

This suggested dosage is based on present experience, but certainly larger amounts can do no harm and may be needed in some cases. As a biochemist I am convinced of the old saying that `what cures can prevent.’ Based on this theory, my wife and I have been using asparagus puree as a beverage with our meals. We take 2 tablespoons diluted in water to suit our taste with breakfast and with dinner. I take mine hot and my wife prefers hers cold.

For years we have made it a practice to have blood surveys taken as part of our regular checkups. The last blood survey, taken by a medical doctor who specializes in the nutritional approach to health, showed substantial improvements in all categories over the last one, and we can attribute these improvements to nothing but  the asparagus drink.

As a biochemist, I have made an extensive study of all aspects of cancer, and all of the proposed cures. As a result, I am convinced that asparagus fits in better with the latest theories about cancer.

Asparagus contains a good supply of protein called histones, which are believed to be active in controlling cell growth.. For that reason, I believe asparagus can be said to contain a substance that I call cell growth normalizer. That accounts for its action on cancer and in acting as a general body tonic. In any event, regardless of theory, asparagus used as we suggest, is a harmless substance. The FDA cannot prevent you from using it and it may do you much good. It has been reported by the US National Cancer Institute, that asparagus is the highest tested food containing glutathione, which is considered one of the body’s most potent anti-carcinogens and antioxidants.

In any case, contrary to the impression given above there are no peer-reviewed medical studies proving that eating asparagus alone “prevents” or “cures” cancer.

That’s not to say asparagus offers no cancer-fighting benefits whatsoever — there’s a good chance it does, given that it contains vitamin D, folic acid, and the antioxidant glutathione, all thought to play some role in lowering risk factors for certain cancers.

By all means, eat your asparagus!

Dietary glutathione intake from food sources such as asparagus has been associated with protection against certain forms of cancer in addition to potent anti-viral properties.

Researchers at the Institute for Cancer Prevention found in preliminary studies that asparagus, the food with the highest glutathione concentration, is a potentially effective means of enhancing the body’s defense systems and preventing cancer development.

Tests conducted last year indicate that asparagus from Washington contain 70mg/100g of glutathione, a small protein composed of three amino acids: cysteine, glutamic acid and glycine which bind to fat-soluble toxins–more than twice the amount in any other common food.

The ICP study, led by Dr. Despina Komninou, will provide the basis for a major grant underwriting to the National Institutes of Health.  Clinic trials will determine if asparagus may be the ultimate disease prevention food.

So there you have it, eat your asparagus!  Not getting breast, prostate, colon, skin, or other cancers is the best cure of all!

To your good health and longevity and an end to cancer!

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.