Every month, I’ll be highlighting breast
cancer research that is going on RIGHT NOW! Harvested from different websites,
journals and podcasts, I’ll translate them into understandable English and
share them with you. Today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/breast-cancer-2013-breakthroughs-research_n_3996306.html
Even though 2013
isn’t over – though the car makers started advertising for the 2014s in March –
we’ve got here in the HuffPost, a quick overview of the breakthroughs the fight
against breast cancer has experienced over the past 10 months.
Positive reading
for ANYONE who wants a shot of hope.
I don’t want to
downplay this whiff of positive news – I want to point out that while lots of
work is being done on treatment, especially of the deadliest forms of breast
cancer, we’re still not-so-great on the prevention.
Certainly
earlier, safer, and more accurate mammograms are a strong step in that
direction. But only ONE of the ten deals with diet and one deals with exercise
(based on research done here in my home state, no less!) I’ve touched on
exercise here: http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/putting-it-all-together-exercise-isnt.html
and from March 13 to May 26 in 2012 I did a series on exercise and breast
cancer – but not on diet.
Maybe the reason
I haven’t gone into diet too much is because there’s SO MUCH HYPE. Maybe I stay
away from diet because there’s not enough there that is really, truly
QUANTIFIABLE. In other words, where are the numbers? When you tell me that
drinking the juice of the acai berry (the source of most of those “This one
WEIRD FACT/DRINK/FOOD…” advertising with the shrinking waistline and growing
muscles you always see on the side of your research page) will do whatever, I
need to see tests that support that.
Another thing
you see with the diet approach to cancer prevention is railing against “artificial
sweeteners” and food additives.
While I’m
absolutely certain that things that we eat and breathe and drink can kill us,
you rarely see anywhere near this data that nicotine, tar, chlorine, and every
one of the atoms that make up EVERYTHING WE COME INTO CONTACT WITH occurs...uh...in
nature. Otherwise we wouldn’t come
into contact with it.
Nutrasweet,
sodium cyclamate, acetaminophen, even DDT is made up of atoms that occur in
nature. Humans lack the skill of manipulating the universe deftly enough to
make atoms from nothing – that power is reserved for Mother Nature or God. The
things that receive the most abuse as being “man-made” flatters only Humanity.
More correctly, the compounds above are assembled by Humans – and not even
assembled in their entirety from loose matter.
The one slammed
most often, Nutrasweet, has the chemical formula C14H18N2O5 (please note that all of these atoms are
found in nature and are the major components of the class of molecules we call
carbohydrates and proteins) and is assembled from amino acids (for the geeks
out there, the amino acids are L-phenylalanine and L-aspartate. The “L” stands
for “levorotated”. Nothing more sinister than the way the molecule is built…
At any rate, the
upshot is that I’m going to do a series of blogs now that deal with breast
cancer prevention as it intersects the world of what we eat. My suspicion is
that instead of blaming chemicals we firmly believe are made by Humans and ipso
facto, they are EVIL AND GIVE US CANCER, we might examine the OVEReating
paradigm and how Humans were created/evolved to eat certain kinds of things and
we now overeat the kinds of things we evolved/were created to eat – and then
look at what kind of impact those things have on not only Human life, but on
breast cancer prevention.
So…enough for
now. See you later!
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