Greetings, gracious viewers
to today’s episode of
Healthy Living.
Today, March 8th
is International
Women’s Day, with
thousands of events being
held around the world
to mark the political,
social and economic
achievements of women.
In honor of this day,
our program features
excerpts of interviews with
physicians, nutritionists,
and dietary experts
regarding the direct relation
between diet and the
health status of women.
We begin with
the consumption
of animal products and
the very negative effects
they have on the female
reproductive system.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell,
an esteemed
nutritional biochemist
from the United States,
and author
of the acclaimed book
“The China Study”
provides his observations
on the consequences
of the intake
of dairy-based foods:
Dairy food has certain
characteristics with it
that when, especially
young people, in this case,
young girls,
are consuming dairy,
for example, to hopefully
to get stronger bones and
teeth and to grow faster,
as the ads have indicated,
they actually then
reach the age
of menarche or their
reproductive lives earlier.
So they reach the age
of menarche earlier,
their circulating estrogen
levels are higher;
they remain high
as long as they consume
that kind of diet;
they stop their
reproductive life later,
they have a longer period,
more estrogen exposure,
all in large measure
related to the kind of diet
they’re consuming.
So I would argue that as
far as food is concerned,
animal food is a problem,
especially dairy food.
I think
we should just simply
not be feeding dairy food
to our young people
and older people either.
By contrast,
soy, a plant-based food,
has a healing effect for those
undergoing menopause.
Soybeans, tofu also
provides proteins
to women who are
at the age of menopause
or are post-menopausal.
An estimated
60 grams daily, distributed
throughout the day,
from morning till evening
of soy will stop all these
symptoms of menopause
or the climacteric.
The World Health
Organization says
that breast cancer is
the most common form
of cancer for women
in both the developing
and developed countries.
In particular,
the health body cites
the adoption of
“western lifestyles”
as one of the main reasons
for the increasing trend
of this cancer
in developing nations.
In the West,
large amounts of meat
and dairy products
have become
a part of the standard diet
with disastrous
health consequences
being the result.
Breast cancer
is very complex from
a biological perspective,
and unfortunately,
over the years,
we’ve studied that it has
various factors that might
be related in isolation.
So we’ve learned
some things, but
it’s quite controversial
and debatable,
if people focus on
these individual studies
and individual entities.
When, however,
you put all this together
in a holistic kind
of interpretation, and
look at things collectively,
it becomes quite clear
to me that breast cancer
is a disease of the West.
It has been noted
by many people,
breast cancer
starts to emerge
as we start consuming
more animal-based foods,
especially dairy.
Studies that show
that women in Asia,
for example,
have less breast-cancer
than women over here
in North America,
and that can be attributed,
to their intake
of soy products.
There’s just
so many things related,
but it all goes back
to the fact that it
doesn't have cholesterol.
It doesn't have the fat.
It doesn't have
those types of things
that bring on disease.
Osteoporosis,
or bone density loss,
is most commonly found
in women after menopause,
particularly those
ages 45 to 55.
According to
the International
Osteoporosis Institute,
one-third of women
over 50 will experience
osteoporotic fractures
and annually
1.6 million hip fractures
due to osteoporosis
occur worldwide,
with some predicting
this number could reach
between 4.5 million
and 6.3 million by 2050.
What can be done to stem
this health epidemic?
We’re given information
to think that milk protects
us against osteoporosis
and taking calcium
protects us
against osteoporosis.
And it’s really
more a vitamin D
and exercise issue, not
a milk or a calcium issue.
People who take calcium
from milk and eat
a lot of animal products,
the acid production and
the acids being secreted
by the digestive tract
which is caused by
all the high protein
animal products,
that high protein causes
more pressure
on the kidneys,
and the acid causes
more calcium to be
leached out of the bones
and we lose
much more calcium
in the urine from the diet
high in animal protein.
So we lose too much calcium
if our diet is
too high animal protein.
We need some calcium
in the diet.
We need much more
vitamin D, much more
of those other nutrients
found in green vegetables,
because green vegetables
and sesame seeds are
also high in calcium, but
they also have vitamin K,
and other phytochemicals
that are important
for your bone health.
So the main message here
is that don’t
rely on medications
for osteoporosis,
don’t think
calcium is enough and
don’t think drinking milk
is going to protect you;
it’s not!
We have to
exercise vigorously,
we have to hop and jump
and bend and do things
to use our bones
and keep our legs
and our back strong.
After these messages,
we will present
more information
regarding the direct relation
between diet and the
health status of women.
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Welcome back to
Healthy Living for our
program commemorating
International
Women’s Day 2010
by featuring
the perspective of various
physicians, nutritionists,
and dietary experts
on women’s health issues
and their relation to diet.
For older women,
Alzheimer’s disease,
a form of dementia
or impairment
of cognitive abilities
in areas such as memory
and thinking
due to brain cell loss,
is increasingly becoming
an issue.
Women are twice as likely
as men of similar age
to experience
late-onset Alzheimer’s,
a form of the condition
occurring after age 65.
Dr. Steven Pratt, author
of “Superfoods Rx:
Fourteen Foods Proven
to Change Your Life”
refers to blueberries
as “brainberries”
for their beneficial effects
on brain health.
Recently the US-based
magazine Health,
named blueberries as
number two on their list
of “America’s Healthiest
Superfoods for Women”
for, among other reasons,
protecting our cells
and thus possibly helping
to prevent Alzheimer’s.
You’ve probably heard
that the berries
are good for your brain,
the blueberries
and raspberries and
pomegranates are really
good for your brain.
Well, they’re very rich
in many phytochemicals;
ellagic acid happens
to be one of them.
There are thousands
of phytochemicals
that are found in foods
and we’re just now
discovering some of those
and the powerful effects
that they have
on the brain.
They can protect the cells
from damage, and then
if the cells are damaged
it actually goes in
and repairs the damage.
There are some colors
like purple, some
blueberries or berries
that are also associated
with powerful
anti-aging antioxidants.
With cellular aging, one
grows older cell by cell,
not year by year.
One may be old at 30 or
young at 60 years of age.
Everything depends on
our brain cells
remaining young.
It is already known
that our brain
can get neurons back
and that memory
is related to the length
of the brain dendrites
and in turn
that we can achieve
such long dendrites
with certain proper food.
Recently a hot topic
in women’s health
is whether women have
sufficient levels of
vitamin D in their bodies.
A lack of vitamin D
has been linked to
many health conditions
such as depression,
heart disease, birth defects,
skin and other cancers,
and multiple sclerosis.
We get approximately
90% of our vitamin D
from our exposure
to the Sun, thus
making our nearest star
the simplest source
of nutrition around!
In several studies
a correlation has been shown
between those who
succumb more frequently
to colds and flus and
low levels of vitamin D.
For example, researchers
at Winthrop University
Hospital in Mineola,
New York, USA
found that when
Afro-Caribbean women
were given
vitamin D supplements
for three years, they
reduced their incidence
of cold and flu infections
by 70 percent.
The study suggested
that because the melanin
in darker skin slows
vitamin D production
when in sunlight,
these women
were previously deficient
in the vitamin.
So getting out there
and getting some fresh air,
the vitamin D that we get
from the sunshine affects
the health of the brain,
affects the immune
system of the body.
So it’s a package;
to have a healthy brain
means having
a healthy lifestyle.
Also having a healthy
brain are the thoughts
that we think,
what’s going on
and what do I say
when I talk to myself,
because negative thinking
can affect health and
it can affect the brain.
What am I surrounding
myself with?
What’s the external
environment?
So, creating a positive
environment, and I think
it’s very important to have
a healthy brain to share
love with each other,
to have relationships
with other people.
It expands those
neural connections.
Finally,
for innumerable reasons,
spiritual “food” is
the ultimate key to
maintaining good health
for both men and women.
Our body, our physical
is connected to our mental,
which is connected
to our spiritual
so they all work as one.
They can each boost
the other, but when I take
care of myself physically,
that’s going to affect
me mentally, and that’s
going to perhaps have
an effect on my desire for
spiritual things as well.
We have found that
social connections affect
the health of the brain
and also having
a relationship with God
and trusting so that we
are not filled with anxiety,
that we’re filled
with peace and joy.
And that we know
that things will work out,
and that we can depend,
and that we have a God
that’s going
to take care of us.
And I think that can
make all the difference.
Happiness is
your immune system.
Happiness, joy, love,
not receiving love,
giving, if you’re doing
these things,
if you’re able to find
a source to give love to,
if you’re able to be happy
with the life you’ve got.
That’s what
your immune system is,
is your soul’s happiness
with being in your body.
Beauty doesn’t
always come from
the face or the body.
Beauty from inside.
There are
two kinds of beauty.
The beauty from inside
is always everlasting
and always
endearing to everybody.
So what I mean is,
we have to be beautiful
inside out.
Our sincere thanks
goes to all the experts
featured on today’s program
for their wise thoughts
and guidance on
women’s health issues.
We wish all viewers a
very splendid International
Women’s Day 2010
and that you always
enjoy the very best
of health through the
nutritious and delicious
organic vegan diet and
compassionate living.
Thank you for joining us
on today’s Healthy Living.
Up next is
Science and Spirituality
after Noteworthy News.
May all be endowed
with blessed health,
beauty and happiness
as well as the love
and light of Heaven.