Fight Cancer With Organic Tomatos

Organic fertilized tomatoes have higher antioxidant level than conventional fertilized tomatoes. Also more vitamin C.  Organic produce has significantly higher nutrient levels.

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Nutrition Before Medicine

The practice of medicine in America has become a mindless prescription-writing process. Doctors have become so pre-occupied with protecting  themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and appeasing boards and multiple insurance companies who are also afraid of lawsuits, that they've lost the freedom, and time to practice medicine.  So instead of physicians practicing the ancient art of diagnosing, treating, and experimenting, we have over-trained medical technicians who are issued manuals with a small list of solutions for every problem. If they choose a solution outside the small list of pre-approved solutions, they are likely to lose their practice.


All this to say, buyer beware.  Don't assume your doctor has invested due diligence, and exhausted all possibilities in your diagnosis or treatment.  Instead, assume he/she has simply prescribed a pharmaceutical or surgical solution that will keep him in good standing with the boards, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies.


Take the diagnosis, and do your homework. Search for nutritional solutions to your issue.  What nutrients are you lacking or getting too much of? What environmental issues might be contributing to your condition?  Don't be afraid to think outside the narrow box that the pharmaceutical and insurance companies have nailed you into.


You and I are paying the price for years of greedy litigious people committing an age old sin, the love of money. 1 Timothy 6:10 tells us "the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil," not money itself, or the pursuit of it, but the love of money.  

Choco-Tomato Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

Prevent skin cancer with antioxidants in pomegranates, tomatoes, dark chocolate, and tea. They migrate to surface of skin and repair ultraviolet damage.


Source: John La Puma, M.D.

Govt. Study Shows Food is Less Nutritious

The more corners we cut in mass farming operations, the fewer nutritients our crops will yield.

USDA study found from 1950 to 1999, nutrients are down: iron 15%, protein 6%, calcium 16%, phosphorous 9%, riboflavin 38%, vitamin C 20%. Journal of the American College of Nutrition

A British study compared chicken in 1940 vs. 2004. In 2004, chicken had 1/3 less protein, double the fat, and double the calories. RedOrbit
For the very best nutrition, buy local.

Cow’s Milk Causes Multiple Sclerosis

Antibody cross-reactivity between myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein and the milk protein butyrophilin in multiple sclerosis by Johannes Guggenmos in the January 1, 2004 issue of the Journal of Immunology found evidence that multiple sclerosis is caused from the consumption of cow’s milk – by causing attacks by the immune system through a process known as molecular mimicry.

You may have heard that multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease or “a disease where the body attacks itself” – and in this case the nervous system is attacked. Molecular mimicry is a natural response of the immune system against foreign proteins misdirected to our own tissues. In this case, cow-milk proteins enter the bloodstream through the intestinal wall. Antibodies are made against this foreign substance. Because of the similarity between the structure of these proteins and the ones that make up the nervous system tissues, these antibodies attack and destroy parts of the human brain (myelin). The resulting injury causes loss of vision, hearing, sensation and strength. Within 10 years of diagnosis, half of the victims of MS are wheel-chair bound, bed-ridden, or dead – unless they are fortunate enough to change their diet. With a healthy diet the risk of getting worse over the next 35 years is less than 5% (See on my home page the interview with Dr. Roy Swank on MS).

Guggenmos J, Schubart AS, Ogg S, Andersson M, Olsson T, Mather IH, Linington C. Antibody cross-reactivity between myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein and the milk protein butyrophilin in multiple sclerosis. J Immunol. 2004 Jan 1; 172(1): 661-8.

Watermelon Is More Nutritious at Room Temp

Iced down watermelon is a crowd pleaser at any July 4 event. Unfortunately, icing the melon down robs it of nutrients. Watermelon at room temperature has 40% more lycopene and 139% more beta carotene. One more simple pleasure ruined by too much education. ;-)

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Oil Change For Your Guts

Olive oil facilitates bioavailability. It allows you to absorb more nutrients from your food.

Example: absorb more lutein from green peppers, more capsanthin from red peppers, more lycopene from tomato, more limonenein from lemon, etc......

Think of it like oil in your car. Your car can run without oil for a few minutes -- before it grinds itself to death. Are you asking your body to grind nutrients out of your food with just water? Or worse, are you just using fatty animal grease that will clog and destroy your system instead of lightweight olive oil?

I found by switching from animal grease to olive oil, that it sharpened my mind as well as giving me more energy. I'm able to think more clearly and react more quickly than I could on a diet of animal grease. Try it for a week and let me know how it goes. I bet you'll feel a thousand times better.

Life is short. Get an oil change. :-)

Nitrites don't cause cancer alone, but there's more to the story

Nitrites in packaged meats make them look pink instead of brown. Nitrites combine with amino acids in the body to form nitrosamines, a known carcinogen.

Source: ChefMD, John La Puma, M.D.

The fridge robs food of nutrients

Watermelon at room temperature has 40% more lycopene and 139% more beta carotene than refrigerated.
ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine
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John La Puma, M.D.