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Staying Healthy Today With Kirk Hamilton
October 25, 2009
Current Staying Healthy Today Interview
Prostate Cancer Treated as A Chronic Disease - One Oncologist's Approach
Kirk Hamilton interviews Dr. Mark Scholz, internist, oncologist and medical director of Prostate Oncology Specialists Inc. in Marina del Rey, CA.. Dr. Scholz places great emphasis on early detection and "active surveillance" of prostate cancer using less invasive medical therapies when appropriate, along with diet, supplements, exercise and spirit-mind/body practices. Dr. Scholz spends a great deal of his time on public education regarding prostate cancer through research, writing and such organizations as the Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI).
This Week's New Interview which will be posted on Wednesday 10-28-09 is by urologist Dr. Ronald Wheeler medical director of the Diagnostic Center for DiseaseTM in Sarasota, Florida specializing in the prevention, early detection and treatment of diseases of the prostate using diet, nutrition and lifestyle along with the latest in medical technology including Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spectroscopy (MRIS) using an HD-X 3.0 Tesla magnet for prostate cancer diagnosis and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) as a treatment for this condition.
Expert Interviews by Kirk Hamilton at www.Vitasearch.com
Cardiovascular Risk, Inflammation and Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), Frances Sofi, M.D., Ph.D., Italy, 10/2009; Hyperbilirubinemia and Prebiotics, Flavia Indrio, M.D., Ph.D., Italy, 10/2009; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Soy, Fumi Hirayama, Ph.D., Australia, 10/2009
I have done close to a 1000 interviews in print over the last 13 years of researchers from all over the world on nutrition and integrative medicine topics. I do one new interview per week for the www.Vitasearch.com site which is made available for free by Tishcon Corp. This is also were my previous work from 1989-2004 regarding the Clinical Pearls Database and the Expert Interviews is archived. I am very thankful to Tishcon Corporation for continuing to build the Clinical Pearls Database and Expert Interviews and make this a free educational service to the public and for professionals. We have a link to the Vitasearch.com on our home page under Educational Links. You can join their free nutrition research weekly E-newsletter called the VitagramTM at www.vitasearch.com.
Focus On Preventing Heart Disease and Good Health Will Follow!
I was at a medical conference regarding prostate cancer and the speaker shared a few interesting comments. Over the last 108 years the leading cause of death in the United States has been cardiovascular disease 107 of those 108 years. The one year it wasn't was from the pandemic Spanish flu of 1918. He also said to make sure any treatment you do to treat the prostate cancer won't increase the risk to cardiovascular disease. Point being that heart disease usually kills prostate cancer patients before the prostate cancer, so make sure your treatment doesn't increase the risk to heart disease while "killing" or controlling the prostate cancer. Similarly, along these same lines, always keep in the back of your mind when treating any disease to think about what you are doing for that person's heart disease risk.
In a recent interview with Dr. Caldwell Esseslsytn about reversing heart disease and his book Prevent and Reversing Heart Disease, when I asked how a decorated Army trauma surgeon and internationally known breast cancer, thyroid and parathyroid surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic gets into reversing heart disease his answer is very poignant:
KIRK HAMILTON: You are an internationally known thyroid and parathyroid and breast cancer surgeon, and you did your surgery in Vietnam, and then you've come full circle and you're dealing with low-fat, plant-based diets to reverse atherosclerosis. How did that occur?
DR. CALDWELL ESSELSTYN: Well, actually six or eight years after I joined the clinic I was chairman of our breast cancer task force and we were very, very active but I became really quite disheartened and disillusioned with the fact that no matter how many women I was operating on for breast cancer I truly was not doing one single thing for the next unsuspecting victim. That lead to a global sort of search of the literature and it was quite striking that in Kenya breast cancer was 20 times less frequent than in the United States and in rural Japan in the 1950s breast cancer was extremely infrequent. And yet when the Japanese women would migrate to the United States Japanese-Americans by the second and third generation now had the same rate of breast cancer as their Caucasian counterparts. Well so much for genes and even more compelling perhaps was cancer of the prostate which in the entire nation of Japan in 1958 - How many autopsy-proven deaths were there from cancer of the prostate? Eighteen! Eighteen in the entire nation! By 1978 they were now up to 237 which pales in comparison to the 28,000 who will die from cancer of the prostate this year in this country. So there was something that was very compelling that was going on and I perhaps made the mistake and assumption back in 1983, 84, that my bones would long be dust before I could get some answers with nutrition and cancer. In hindsight I'm not sure that's true, but nevertheless I therefore decided it would be more appropriate to look at the leading killer of women and men in Western civilization which is cardiovascular disease and heart attacks because in this global research it was very apparent that there were many cultures where heart disease and heart attacks were virtually nonexistent. I mean, even today if you're a cardiac surgeon and you go to rural China, or the Papua Highlands in New Guinea, or if you go to central Africa, or the Tarahumara Indians in northern Mexico, forget it. You'd better plan on selling pencils because you're not going to find cardiovascular disease there and it's largely because of that plant-based nutrition, and that's what made me feel that if we could get people to eat to save their heart they would actually then be saving themselves from cancer as well and I still think that's true.
The Key To Chronic Disease Prevention and Reversal Is To Eat A Nutrient Dense Diet That is Low In Caloric Density The point is that the same whole food, unrefined plant-based diet that can reverse heart disease also protects against prostate cancer and breast cancer. Curing heart disease with diet, exercise, nutritional supplements and stress management will go along way in preventing breast and prostate cancer.So there are two diet principles if you remember and apply them as much as you can will go a long way in achieving this goal not only preventing and/or reversing heart disease but prostate and breast cancers as well. You want to eat foods that are high in nutrient density and low in caloric density for optimal health. Or how Dr. Joel Fuhrman so excellently describes it: The Health Equation: H = N/C. Your health is dependent on the nutrient-per-calorie density of your diet. Dr. Fuhrman has measured this nutrient per calorie ratio of foods and lists from high to low what are the most rich foods from a nutrient per calorie perspective. Not surprising the highest ranking foods come from plant foods, especially green leafy vegetables. In descending order from high to low nutrient density: green leafy vegetable, solid greenvegetables, non-green vegetables, beans/legumes, fresh fruit, starchy vegetables, whole grains, raw nuts and seeds, fish, fat-free dairy, while meat and fowl, eggs, refined grains, full-fat diary, cheese, refined oil and sweets (Eat For Health, Joel Fuhrman, M.D., book 2, page 9, 2008). In general the more nutrient dense foods have the less caloric density. Therefore you get more protective plant chemicals and less calories so you naturally lose weight and stay lean, yet get the most amount of protection for your body with the rich nutrients that are in these unrefined plant foods. You can't go wrong with the "bean and green diet." Lots of green vegetables with beans and fruit to rapidly lose weight and provide cardio- and cancer protection. Start looking at food this way and you will get excited when you eat colorful plant food that taste good because you know you are also getting the best protection from disease! This includes the major killers - heart disease and cancer.
Until next time Stay and Be Well,
Kirk
kirkhamilton@prescription2000.com
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