commercial dairy Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/commercial-dairy/ Your hub for fresh-picked health and wellness info Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:24:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AHA_Gradient_Bowl-150x150.jpg commercial dairy Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/commercial-dairy/ 32 32 The Role of Meat and Dairy Viruses in Cancer https://amazinghealthadvances.net/the-role-of-meat-and-dairy-viruses-in-cancer-6858/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-role-of-meat-and-dairy-viruses-in-cancer-6858 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/the-role-of-meat-and-dairy-viruses-in-cancer-6858/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2020 07:00:44 +0000 http://amazinghealthadvances.net/?p=9781 Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – “Nearly 20% of cancer cases arising worldwide can be linked to infectious agents, including viruses.” Seven viruses are now conclusively tied to human cancers, and, as new viruses enterinto human populations, the incidence and causes of cancer will likely change accordingly. The foundation of modern tumor virology was laid more than a century ago with the discovery of a cancer-causing chicken virus, for which a Nobel Prize was awarded. Another Nobel Prize went to the “medical doctor-turned-virologist” who discovered that the HPV virus was causing cervical cancer. In his acceptance speech, he mused that there may be a bovine polyoma virus—a multiple tumor virus in cattle—that could be playing a role in human colon cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer, but no polyoma virus had ever been discovered in meat…until now. As I discuss in my video The Role of Burger Viruses in Cancer, polyomaviruses are a particular concern—not only because they are known to be carcinogenic, but also because they can survive cooking temperatures. Since a single burger these days can contain meat from “many dozens of animals,” researchers felt “this could present an ideal situation for virus-hunting…” Researchers from the National Cancer Institute purchased meat samples from three separate supermarkets and found three different polyomaviruses in ground beef, as you can see at 1:52 in my video. Now, just because three types of “polyomavirus species are commonly detectable in food-grade ground beef” doesn’t necessarily mean they are causing human disease. What made this Nobel laureate suspect them? Well, for one thing, some people got cancer right where they had been vaccinated for smallpox—a whole bunch of different cancers, in fact. The vaccine had been harvested from the skin of calves, so “it is possible” there could have been some cancer-causing cow virus. “Many people are exposed to potentially virus-contaminated meat and dairy products” through their diets, but those in the industry, “such as farm workers, butchers, veterinarians, and employees in dairies,” would be even more exposed. Do these groups have higher cancer incidence? Indeed, it now appears to be clear “that workers in the meat industry are at increased risk of developing and dying from cancer.” Another reason to suspect the involvement of some kind of bovine infectious factor in colorectal cancer is the fact that there appear to be relatively low rates of colorectal cancer in countries where not a lot of beef is eaten. And, when meat consumption suddenly increases, rates shoot up, as you can see at 3:15 in my video. “The only exception is Mongolia where they have low rates of colon cancer and eat a lot of red meat, but there they eat yak.” Maybe yaks don’t harbor the same viruses. Can’t you just avoid steak tartare? Even steak cooked “medium” may not reach internal temperatures above 70° Celsius, and it takes temperatures higher than that to inactivate some of these viruses, so we would expect viruses to survive both cooking and pasteurization. In fact, researchers followed up with a paper suggesting the consumption of dairy products may “represent one of the main risk factors for the development of breast cancer” in humans. The recent discovery of a larger number of presumably new viruses in the blood, meat, and milk of dairy cows should be investigated, since one might speculate that infectious “agents present in dairy products possess a higher affinity to mammary [breast] cells,” since they came from breast cells. The fact that people with lactose intolerance, who tend to avoid milk and dairy throughout their lives, have lower rates of breast and other cancers could be seen as supporting this concept. Though, there are certainly other reasons dairy may increase cancer risk, such as increasing levels of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 or adversely affecting our gut microbiome. Or, for that matter, maybe the plant-based milks they’re drinking instead could be protective. That’s the problem with population studies: You can’t tease out cause and effect. It doesn’t matter how many viruses are found in retail beef, pork, and chicken, as you can see at 5:16 in my video, if we can’t connect the dots. Can’t we just look for the presence of these viruses within human tumors? Researchers have triedand did find some, but even if you don’t find any, that doesn’t necessarily mean viruses didn’t play a role. There’s a “viral hit-and-run” theory of cancer development that suggests that certain viruses can slip in and out of our DNA to initiate the cancer, but be long gone by the time the tumor matures. There’s still a lot of work to be done. But, if the link between bovine polyomaviruses and human disease pans out, the National Cancer Institute researchers envision the development of a high potency vaccine. So, just like the HPV vaccine may prevent cervical cancer from unsafe sex, perhaps one day, vaccines may prevent breast and colon cancer from unsafe sirloin. To read the original article click here. For more articles from Dr. Greger click here.

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]]> https://amazinghealthadvances.net/the-role-of-meat-and-dairy-viruses-in-cancer-6858/feed/ 0 The Danger of “Big Meat” and How to Build a Healthier Food System https://amazinghealthadvances.net/the-danger-of-big-meat-and-how-to-build-a-healthier-food-system-6838/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-danger-of-big-meat-and-how-to-build-a-healthier-food-system-6838 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/the-danger-of-big-meat-and-how-to-build-a-healthier-food-system-6838/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:00:41 +0000 http://amazinghealthadvances.net/?p=9708 Damon Hines via NaturalHealth365 – Fact: 99 percent of America’s farms are “factory farms,” where millions of animals are crammed into windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, and the animal products – meat, dairy, and poultry – routinely contaminated with toxic pesticides, antibiotics, parasites, and pathogens.  This is what we refer to as, the “Big Meat” industry and it’s at the heart of so many health issues. We can not ignore this reality: Big Meat is damaging to human health, as it’s loaded with artery clogging (toxic) fat – too much omega-6 and lower levels of beneficial omega-3 – which can lead to obesity, cancer, heart attacks, and a host of other serious and life-threatening health problems. Did you know that factory farms emit over 200 gases, including hydrogen sulfide and ammonia?  These gases further compound Big Meat’s damage to human health and the environment.  No, the facts can’t be changed. It’s too late for that. But we can rise up against them, find alternatives and new solutions, and do our part as consumers to consciously boycott Big Meat and its dirty deeds. The problem with “Big Meat” and a Call to Action The alternative to Big Meat is the “Regeneration Revolution,” an umbrella term that involves everything from farming innovation and consumer awareness to political/policy change, and new investment practices. America eats the cheapest, lowest grade food of any industrial nation.  That’s right, taxpayer money helps to support a highly-toxic, food supply that’s slowing poisoning an entire nation. It’s a problem further exacerbated by American consumers’ love for fast food and highly processed, nutritionally-deficient foods.  Roughly 80 percent of Americans patronize fast food restaurants, and the damage from the “Super Size Me” lifestyle is why America has become a leader in chronic diseases statistics and healthcare costs. But here’s the catch. The alternative to Big Meat is already in place. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel.  The U.S. has a $60 billion market for organic and grass fed and pastured food.  In addition, sales of plant-based alternative meat products (Impossible Burger, Beyond, etc.) have skyrockted. According to Neilsen, in May, sales of alternative meat products in grocery stores went up 264 percent.  As a side note: we do not suggest that these highly-processed, plant-based burgers are any better for your health. But, it does illustrate a point.  People truly want a greener, happier world.  Sadly, politicians, Corporate America and Big Meat have other ideas in mind. The Unraveling of Ecosystems and Wasting Away of “Moral Imaginations” Factory farming and the food/water crisis are all aspects of a wider dysboisis – a term commonly used by scientists to describe the collapse of gut biomes, but in recent years has been used to define the unraveling of ecosystems.  Radical change is needed to repair this “looming catastrophe,” a catastrophe of interlinked emergencies that scientists warn could result in global systemic collapse. Change starts with us, the consumers.  Boycotting Big Meat will protect our health, protect the health of meat industry workers, protect family farms, farm animals, rural economies, water supplies, air quality, soil health, and wildlife biodiversity. Take a stand. Support local, organic and regenerative farms.  Buy healthy, humane and environmentally-friendly foods. Author Mark O’ Connell sums it up best: “It’s not the melting of the ice-caps or the burning of the forests that seem to be the real apocalyptic scenario, but rather the slow atrophying of our moral imaginations.” Sources for this article include: Organicconsumers.org, Organicconsumers.org, Theguardian.com To read the original article click here. For more articles from NaturalHealth365 click here.

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