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The researchers mentioned in the previous blog also found that sugar consumption stimulates squamous cell cancer in the neck, the head, the esophagus and the cervix as well as the lungs.

Want to avoid lung cancer ? Avoid sugar!

Researchers at the University of Texas in Dallas found that sugar stimulated one type of lung cancer, the squamous cell carcinoma.

Guys produce fewer sperms !

A new study has found that between 1973 and 2011 the sperm count has dropped by 52% in North Americans and Europeans men.

Artificial sweeteners make you fat !

A study published in 2017 in the Canadian Medical Association’s journal highlights the fact that artificial sweeteners actually have a negative impact on metabolism, intestinal bacteria and appetite.

High cholesterol ? Eat almonds!

A study published in June 2017 in the Journal of Nutrition confirms that eating almonds helps to increase the HDL, or “good cholesterol”.

Physical exercise and ADHD

Published July, 2017

A study published this year in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise has shown that daily physical exercise helps children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

OBESOGENS - The missing link in weight loss.

Published January, 2017

One of the most common New Year resolutions, and the one most often put to the test, is to lose weight. Indeed, losing weight is not as simple as we might think because several factors play an important role in weight gain.

Published September, 2016

Antibiotics

A recent Radio Canada interview with Dr. Karl Weiss, President of the Quebec Association of Medical Microbiologists and Infectiologists, is entitled "The End of Antibiotics".

Published September, 2016

Intense Period Of Stress

The start of the school year triggers an intense period of stress.

Strength Exercise

Published July, 2016

Strength training is not just for big muscles.

The benefits of dandelion

Published July, 2016

At the end of the 19th century the German pastor Sebastian Kneipp wrote "We are often buried under the plants that could cure us." Kneipp had no idea that in 2015 the University of Windsor in Ontario would endorse a study where individuals with inoperable cancers were treated with an extract of dandelion root.

A New Study Published in January 2016 in the Medical Journal

Published April, 2016

A new study published in January 2016 in the medical journal Cancer Research again emphasized the role of sugar (sucrose) in the development of breast cancer and its metastases.

Canada's food guide

Published April, 2016

According to a Senate report, Canada's Food Guide, "is in need of a drastic overhaul".

WHO - Sugar intake

Published March, 2016

Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to reduce sugar consumption for children and adults.

Cholesterol

Cholesterol levels are rapidly increasing among 6 to 19-year-olds.

Antibiotics

Antibiotics: The war against superbugs is stagnating is the title of an article published last December 11 in Radio Canada's electronic edition.

Weight and Fat Loss

We all know that in order to lose weight, it is essential to control one's eating habits. In the past, to our detriment, the emphasis has been on limiting fat consumption and reducing the number of calories.

Those deadly plastics !

Getting In Shape

After the holidays, whether or not one indulges in food excesses, most people start thinking about getting into shape.

Holiday Excess

It's the holiday season and with the holiday season comes holiday excess.

Milk Intake?

I’m always fascinated at how slowly conventional medicine acts or reacts to solid scientific information. This especially when the information contradicts medical “facts”.

Acidosis

Previously, I mentioned the consequences of subclinical acidosis as well as certain general recommendations to help correct it.

Menopause

Menopause is a hot topic!

Anxiety

Feeling anxious?

Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is not just in your head.

Fatigue

Tired of being tired?

Immunity

Antibiotics don’t work very well anymore.

Stress

Stress kills, this is no exaggeration.

Smoking Cessation

A vitamin B complex with high levels of vitamin B3 could therefore significantly help with smoking cessation.

Nuts – Advantages

In a preceding text, I mentioned a recent study that showed that individuals who consumed nuts daily had a reduced mortality rate

Stress and Magnesium

Magnesium is one of the most critical buffering (acidity reducing) minerals in the body. Research has shown a direct link between magnesium levels in the body and our “stressability.”

Magnesium

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of magnesium to human health. Indeed, it is involved in over 300 enzymes systems in the body.

Acidosis

Published August, 2015

Acidosis is the term used to describe a situation in which the body becomes too acidic.

Estrogen Excess

Published July, 2015

Estrogen excess is responsible for a plethora of health problems affecting women and, yes, men. These problems range from infertility and colorectal cancer in both men and women to PMS, endometriosis, breast and uterine cancer in women as well as prostate cancer in men.

Breakfast for Learning

Many North Americans may trivialise the idea that a whole month has been dedicated to eating breakfast - September is "Breakfast for Learning Month" - this of course bespeaks of our caloric comfort.

Alzheimer's Disease

Memory loss, and its resultant loss of identity, are painful in any social context. However, dementia seems to have an even greater impact in a society like ours where cognitive activity is greater than at any other time in the history of humanity.

Prostate Cancer

September is "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month".So, I'd like to offer my take on the prevention of prostate cancer.

Arthritis Month

September is "National Arthritis Awareness Month" and, in order to participate I'd like to add my two cents worth in order to stimulate the discussion.

National Mental Health Week

Published May, 2014

May 5th to11th has been designated National Mental Health Week. On its web, the Canadian Mental Health Association states that: "Mental health is not only the avoidance of serious mental illness. Your mental health is affected by numerous factors from your daily life, including the stress of balancing work with your health and relationships." My suggestion is that this definition is incomplete. Indeed, a perusal of the majority of "official" websites dealing with mental health either minimize or completely omit the role of nutrition in mental health. This is very unfortunate since our mental health is affected as much by our diet as it is by our relationships.

The (microbial) apocalypse is at our door!

Published May, 2014

When are we going to learn? In my book Candida Albicans, published in the late 90s I had already suggested that if we did not take care to increase our natural immunity, yeast infections would be minimal compared to the new immune challenges. Since then we have had SARS, mad cow decease, Lyme disease, west Nile virus, flesh eating bacteria and now, antibiotic resistance.

April is Irritable bowel awareness month

Irritable bowel, or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a diagnosis of exclusion. Or, if you prefer, it tells us what is going on, but not why. When someone suffers from a variety of gastrointestinal disorders, including gas, bloating, constipation or diarrhea, or both alternating, and tests are unable to detect the cause, they are generally told they have irritable bowel. In some cases the irritable bowel is associated with stress, in other cases the physician admits not knowing the cause.

Getting back into shape for summer.

In most of us the dawn of spring awakens the urge to get back into shape. Part of it may be due to vanity, our bodily flaws are more evident as we wear less clothing, and part of it may also be due to the realisation that being fit is being healthy. Unfortunately, for a lot of people getting back into shape is almost exclusively associated with weight loss through either calorie restriction, increased calorie expenditure, or both.

Cancer, a degenerative disease

As mentioned in a previous blog, a significant number of studies highlight the role of environmental pollutants and lifestyle in triggering and enhancing the development of cancer. These are the same factors that increase the risk as well as the incidence of cardiovascular disease as well as other degenerative diseases. I hint on some of these effects in my two part article on degenerative disease mentioned in a previous blog j: "Degenerative Diseases I - Putting the problem in perspective" and "Degenerative Diseases II - Natural Prevention and Treatment". It's worth taking a look at these to put things in perspective.

April 7th is World Health Day

In a previous blog I mentioned the increase incidence of cancer in North America. On World Health Day, we can also reflect on the increase in cardiovascular, infectious and cardiovascular diseases. Our society is not healthier than it was fifty years ago!

World autism day takes place during April

Though autism and autism related conditions are not nutritional and probably not environmental, research has shown that environmental factors as well as nutrition play a role in exacerbating or improving both the disease symptoms as well as treatment outcomes. Over fifty years ago American clinical psychologist, Dr. Bernard Rimland began using nutrition to help his autistic patients. In 1967 he founded the Autism Research Institute in order to further research on this disorder.

April is Daffodil Month... Cancer awareness month.

Though cancer treatment modalities have improved treatment outcome, cancer is still on the rise in North America. Cancers hit people younger and with more force than before. We can treat these increasingly high numbers of cancers more effectively, and with far less side effects than ever. However, we shouldn't have to treat them because people shouldn’t get them!