Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #38. Week ending Feb 14th, 2010
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1. Some Philosophy Of Weightloss
2. Candida And Yeast eBook Is Ready For General Consumption
3. Now I'm Not A Drunk But...
4. Those Damned Mayans Again!
5. Laughter (They Say) Is The Best Medicine
6. What's In A Word?

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This Week's Quote:

"Exercise is better than any drug or anything else we have for aging. There's no downside. If this were a drug, it would be the safest, most effective drug in the universe."

James O. Hill, professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado at Denver.

1. Some Philosophy Of Weight Loss

3 weeks ago I started writing about different weight loss methods. What started it off was my own success: losing 30 lbs on a fabulous program, using homeopathic HCG (I don't consider using undiluted HCG to be safe).

The surprise was I could eat a very low calorie diet (500 cals) without feeling hungry. Listen, anybody can lose weight eating only 500 calories! But you'd be very miserable and starving hungry all the time. With HCG, so the theory goes, you burn up your own fat for extra calories and so you don't feel hungry. Even if the explanation is wrong, I didn't feel hungry and others report that too.

If you didn't check out my free videos last time, go see them here: Fat Release System

What I like about this program is it's fast enough to keep you encouraged to go on. Some people have lost 3 lbs in a day. I lost 2 lbs on several days.

You have to take care though, when you feel light-headed. On all fast diets you can become suddenly hypoglycemic and feel quite faint. Make sure you are not driving a vehicle when you are prone to this.

I also felt tired and even unable to work at certain times. I told myself the result was worth losing a bit of work time. It depends how you approach things.

The most important aspect of all diet plans is your state of mind. I you want to do it, you will. But some people are easily put off and quit. Like smokers take one puff after quitting and then decide they have "failed" and just go back to full time smoking, dieters will often quit at the first cream bun!

Don't worry about it! I have joked often with friends that I have actually lost 50 lbs: I just kept losing the same 10 lbs over and over (I put some back on at Christmas, for example).

What's more important is to basically learn how to do it. Like learning to drive a vehicle; knowing you can step into the vehicle and drive it at any time is very empowering. You decide you feel good that week, few appointments, so you step on the gas pedal and diet hard. Then the following week you meet a few people for dinner, you relax, cheat a bit.

This is not a problem! Only giving up the diet permanently is the problem.

Sea Weed For Weight Loss

Here's a short piece I've been holding over. It will fit here:

An extract of Undaria pinnatifida – a brown seaweed – can help throw your appetite switch into the “off” position. It contains a compound called fucoxanthin.

One laboratory study found that mice that were fed fucoxanthin saw a marked reduction in abdominal fat.

More recently, researchers performed a double-blind clinical study on fucoxanthin with human test subjects. Patients in the control group who took a placebo lost just 3 pounds in 4 months. Those taking fucoxanthin dropped 15 pounds during the same time period, losing 5X more weight.

[SOURCES: Maeda H, et al. Fucoxanthin shows antiobesity effect through UCP1 expression in white adipose tissues. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Jul 1;332(2):392-7.
and Ramazanov, Z. Effect of fucoxanthin on energy expenditure in obese women: a double-blind, randomized and placebo-controlled trial]

2. Candida And Yeast eBook Is Ready For General Consumption

Just how common is infection with Candida albicans (the Thrush germ)? This is sometimes called a yeast infection and the Internet has lots of "experts" sprouting up, boasting yeast infection eBooks and "research", by which they mean looking up other people's work, like my alternative doctor website, and then writing their own "product", which they sell for around $40.

Internet marketing is so full of this crooked nonsense today, that it's almost embarrassing to be in the same arena. One can only hope to counter some of the ridiculous excesses by telling it like it is. I have been a Candida writer and "voice" since the early 80s, shortly after Dr. Orian Truss produced his seminal series of papers in the Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, under the title "The Missing Diagnosis".

The truth is Candida is everywhere. So are yeasts, since we eat a LOT of dietary yeast, which live in our intestines, where it is warm, wet and VERY sugary sweet!

But Candida, you probably know, comes from over use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, the birth control pill, or general immune debility, for whatever reason (such as cancer). As such it's largely an iatrogenic problem (meaning: caused by doctors).

Since the use of antibiotics has been so universal, Candida is a serious and almost universal problem. It's something everyone should know about and understand. Once again, I've prepared what I think is a great new eBook for you. The link to find out more is below...

Print-Friendly Format

I have hit on a new idea. The whole point of electronic download documents is we don't have to manufacture it and ship it to you. You can print out your own.

But I like to make these eBooks attractive. In fact I have started paying a lot of money to a great designer to give them some flair! Unfortunately, that conflicts with desktop printing, where color and flashy images add to the expense.

So what I am doing from now is to produce a print-friendly version AS WELL AS the fancy color version, loaded with images! The print-friendly version is black and white and text only, bunched rather tightly, to get as much info into as few a number of pages as possible. Voila! I wish I'd thought of this trick before...

More information about candida and yeast Infections

Candida, Yeast, Mold and Cancer

People who have been battling cancer should get this book. Dr. Simoncini, who claims all cancers are fungus (so wrong, he's dangerous). But the majority of cancer patients have the Candida problem, due to toxins from the cancer and/or the chemotherapy etc. Tackling the Candida vigorously, as outlined in this eBook, is a surefire way to boost your immune system and help it fight the cancer. Because, make no mistake, Candida in a cancer patient is a severe burden for the immune system. Eradicating it has helped hundreds of my patients survive indefinitely, with their tumor in remission.

3. Now I'm Not A Drunk But...

I wonder, sometimes, if my subscribers think I push alcohol too much! The thing is, it's been shown over and over that alcohol can have important benefits. I don't think this should be lost in the furore about drunkenness and driving under the influence.

I repeat what I always say, that most of the benefits attributable to alcohol come from wine. Lumping all types of alcoholic drinks together often obscures this important fact. [interestingly, just this very day, I read a study out of California, published in the American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition, showing that beer can help maintain strong bones, because of it's silicon content].

But back to wine. Everyone knows about resveratrol; that's only in red wine. Chardonnay, a white wine, keeps me firing on all cylinders! Now an interesting study from Brazil, that will appear in the April issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, has shown that one or two alcoholic drinks a day may help older people stay mentally sharp.

Researchers asked people 60 and older about their use of alcohol and tested them for dementia and other age-related mental impairments. Not surprisingly, heavy alcohol drinkers had higher rates of mental decline and dementia than elderly teetotalers. But mild to moderate alcohol consumption appeared to be somewhat protective.

For the purposes of the study, heavy alcohol use was defined as drinking 2 ounces of ethanol a day for men and 1 ounce of ethanol a day for women.

A 5-ounce glass of wine, a 12-ounce glass of regular beer, and a cocktail with 1 1/2 ounces of 80-proof liquor all have about 0.6 ounces of ethanol. So for a man, 3 glasses of wine, 3 beers or 3 shots all score as "moderate" (a bit more liberal than many studies, I may say).

Overall, about 8% of the study participants reported heavy alcohol use, including 17% of males and 3% of females. Heavy means MORE than 3 drinks a day.

In addition:

• A total of 42% of study participants drank alcohol but were not considered heavy drinkers, including 51% of males and 37% of females. 
• As a group, mild to moderate alcohol users were more highly educated and better off economically than nondrinkers. 
• About 19% of participants showed some evidence of cognitive and functional impairment and 6% were considered to have dementia. 
• Heavy alcohol use was found to be associated with more mental decline and dementia, especially in women, when compared to people who did not drink alcohol at all.

Of course this publication is accompanied by the usual party line rhetoric: "Can't recommend alcohol etc..." Why not, if your science is any good? I recommend wine highly (in moderation, naturally) as a great way to ease stress and enrich our lives with cameraderie. As the Italian's say "A day without wine is a day without sunshine".

Just don't overdo it, OK? (drinking with food is safest, this is rarely factored in by research studies)

4. Those Damned Mayans Again!

I received a number of protests about my condemnation of the Mayans for their barbarous human sacrifices. All took the tone I was stupid, ignorant or misinformed (or all three). One of the creepy things about the Mayan adoration cultists is they believe anyone who differs from their cherished views is wrong and ignorant. No debate. No nothing.

Several accused me of being swayed by the Mel Gibson movie. I knew of no Mel Gibson movie and still haven't had the chance to Google it yet. I do not take Hollywood for my reference sources but from historical facts.

The brutal truth, like it or not, is the Mayans were barbarous, crude killers. They slaughtered uncountable numbers in the stupid belief it affected what the gods thought or did. These critical correspondents can't face that reality and deny it. Just Spanish conquistador propaganda they claim. OK, what about all the bodies? There are bodies, LOTS of bodies, with the marks of ritual sacrifice.

Worst of all, they slaughtered children. Child sacrifice is well documented and took place on a disgusting scale. The little skeletons are dug up regularly.

The Mayans are gone. They didn't make it, I wrote. How smart is that? Guess what the response was to this one? I'm supposed to accept that the Mayans were so brilliant, they were transformed, vibrated at a higher level and ascended into a new dimension (higher than ours of course). No kidding, two people actually wrote this to me. It comes from a REALLY stupid book by James Redfield called "The Celestine Prophecy" (I read less that 20 pages and could tell there would be no revelation of any merit. I was right, it's a fraud).

The truth is the Mayans perished and are gone because they didn't take care of their children. My view is that any society which does not cherish its offspring will soon die out. The children are the future. Sacrificing children tells us where they were really at and it wasn't anything spiritual.

Another argument laid on me was that the Romans were a brilliant civilization and they too are gone (well, not gone because they have Italian descendents). Romans civilized? Yes, they were for a time. But then came corruption and cruelty on a scale earth had never seen before. They held barbarous games, where humans were devoured live by animals for entertainment--men, women and children. They espoused crucifixion, one of the most barbarous means of execution ever invented and they used it on tens of thousands (mostly innocent people). After the revolt of Spartacus the entire Appian Way was lined with crucified victims. Don't talk to ME about the Romans being civilized, for all that we speak 60% of their language!

Incidentally, the Romans also practised infanticide (child killing by the parents) on a scale that would stagger our modern values. According to US historian Will Durant, infanticide was so common in ancient Rome that "birth itself was an adventure." Famous writer Tacitus went so far as to condemn the Jews for their opposition to infanticide. He stated that the Jewish view that "it was a deadly sin to kill an unwanted child" was just another of the many "sinister and revolting practices" of the Jews (Histories 5.5).

The Ancient Greeks probably disappeared the same way. So common was infanticide in ancient Greece that Polybius (205-118 BCE) blamed the decline of ancient Greece on it (Histories, 6).

So please nobody else write to me and tell me I am ignorant and misinformed and that the Mayans were a wonderful people who have ascended into a higher reality. Me? I don't rate the Mayans, for all their impressive building works.

[Note: my wife Vivien reviews all my newsletters and points out that anyone can have their beliefs. True. But she forgot: that includes me! This is my opinion and I stand by it].

Phew! That said, let's calm down and look at something cute...

5. Laughter (they say) Is The Best Medicine!

I'm glad. Because that gives me an excuse to share with you a great website!

Laughter and smiles are proven healthy. These beat omega-3s, vitamin D, exercise, and low-carb diets into the dirt. There is nothing like laughter for beating off the negative. Remember Norman Cousins delightful book "The Anatomy Of An Illness"? Sure you do.

So if you want to laugh till it hurts (no need to go to ER though), check out:

www.failblog.org Check out the "Failed Valentine Movie" part way down. It's amazing!

[some of their items are in bad taste, so I don't recommend them all - beware!]

and

www.engrishfunny.com

I never heard of these before but I shall visit often, whenever I need a serotonin fix!

6. What's In A Word?

Furore (also spelled furor)

This is a word I used further up the page. It means excitement, commotion or even frenzy. It can also mean angry rage (same root as fury!).

Furor scribendi is Latin for "writing frenzy". I get that every day! I write, on average, 6,000 - 10,000 words a week and when I'm doing a book that can rise to past 20,000 in a week!

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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