Here is a link that I clicked on and followed and am glad I did -- I have many friends who have an interest in breast cancer and I'm going to email them this link and ask them to come and listen when they have time as well to listen to this recorded call.
With Pamela Benitez, M.D.
"Food is not just for calories and energy. Food is for prevention."
Home: Royal Oak Michigan
Medical Speciality: General Surgery
Education & Training: Graduated from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York in 1978. Completed residency in General Surgery at University of Michigan Hospitals - Ann Arbor in 1983. Board certified by the American Board of Surgery since 1984.
Current Position: Practices at the Rose Cancer Center of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Serves on the medical staffs of William Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oak (since 1988) and Troy (since 1991). Clinical Assistant Professor at Wayne State University (2009 - present).
Faculty appointments and academic positions: Director of Resident Education for Breast Surgical Services, Department of Surgery, William Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak (2006-07). Assistant Professor (1983-88) and Clinical Assistant Professor (1988-96), Department of Surgery, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan
Publications: Numerous articles on breast cancer in such publications as Cancer, The American Journal of Surgery, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Key personal accomplishment: Co-founder and Medical Director of the Shades of Pink Foundation, which provides temporary financial assistance to women experiencing financial distress as a result of a breast cancer diagnosis. Has trained for and participated in six breast cancer 3-Day, 60-mile walks.
Health Perspective: "We need to change our focus on what food will do for us. Food is not just for calories and energy. Food is for prevention. The scientific literature has told us for a long, long time that fruits and vegetables are the most important fuel we can put in our bodies to make a difference in terms of prevention and health.
Health Advice: "Lifestyle issues are a matter of personal choice. You are in control. You have choices. Make good ones."
Why she recommends Juice Plus+: "Good nutrition is so important in strengthening the immune and cardiovascular systems. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains has been proven to make a difference. Juice Plus+ provides added nutrition from a broad spectrum of fruits, vegetables, and grains."
We appreciate this information being provided to Lumigrate by Tom Kociemba - Please contact him at the information, below, with questions or if you want to learn more about this product Lumigrate is 'aligned with' in philosophy related to fruits and vegetables and nutrition, and Juice Plus is a very high-visibility company with many distributors out at many events so I wanted to have them included at Lumigrate for that reason also.
Tom Kociemba
623-533-4071
tom@kociemba.com [2]
www.tkociembajuiceplus.com [3]
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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [4] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Links:
[1] https://www.juiceplusvirtualoffice.com/uploads/fckeditor/nsa/Media/Prevention Plus Calls/Dr. Benitez.mp3
[2] mailto:tom@kociemba.com
[3] http://www.tkociembajuiceplus.com
[4] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[5] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-juice-plus-re-breast-cancer#comment-754
[6] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-juice-plus-re-breast-cancer#top
[7] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/login?destination=node/577%23comment-form
[8] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/register?destination=node/577%23comment-form
[9] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-juice-plus-re-breast-cancer#comment-755
[10] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-juice-plus-re-breast-cancer#comment-762
Comments
Mardy's Note: 12/8/11: The distributor who provided this content on Lumigrate at my encouragement and with my support in the past has messaged through Lumigrate to request the content he provided be removed as he doesn't wish to participate in this 'effort' anymore. The forums at Lumigrate are a social media format, similar to facebook. That would be like contacting facebook and saying "take everything I ever commented on or posted off". Many conversations and exchanges of other providers are woven in 'threads' and that would be disrespectful to the other forum participants who gave their time and energy to participate in the 'social' media of Lumigrate's forums. However, I have changed the UserName to be Juice Plus 007, removed the photo, and am posting this in the signature and removing the contact information that is set up in the signature in order to make it clear this contributor no longer wants to be 'connected' with the posts. Additionally, as time permits, I will work to replace the content with similar but that will entail selecting another person distributing for Juice Plus. I wanted JP represented on Lumigrate because it is a well-known company based on the concept of supplementing fruits and vegetables. Also because JP reaches many people due to it's vast number of distributors; there are 10 in Grand Junction, population 50k or so. In addition to removing the information in the signature for contact, I have changed the username and email address associated with it to route to me if anyone were to send a "private message" to JP007. My first step will be to edit out any internal contact information/links to the requestor. I guess you call this an "imposter"? Grins! I hope this is a clear statement for the users of Lumigrate to view related YOUR forum area and how I manage it. After all, it is YOUR health education (and mine) I'm advocating for but Lumigrate, at the end of the day, is my website. I care a great deal about the users of Lumigrate feeling they are being treated well and providing a forum area which is a FUN place to come get valid, progressive information in a streamlined way when searching for health information our audience of consumers is seeking.
You might take a peek at the Mardy's List portion of Lumigrate.com .... It only has a list so far of the providers in the Grand Junction area, but it serves as a model of how Lumigrate will be able to, in the future, create a listing service of medical providers that fit the model of 'integrative care'. I'm not forseeing that developing a whole lot until maybe mid 2011, but I have started working on resources for the Front Range / Denver area, as I have a whole lot of contacts over there.
Many of the providers on Lumigrate see patients 'remotely', FYI. Thanks for setting up this information for us, Tom... glad you're with the Grate Group! ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [4] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Here is another way to prevent breast cancer or any other chronic disease. The polyphenols in Juice PLUS combined with a pharmaceutical grade Omega III are very important in achieving disease prevention.
Are you taking enough fish oil?
Breast cancer accounts for more than 25 percent of all female cancers. Breast cancer is also strongly linked to obesity. This means as our obesity crisis accelerates, we can expect breast cancer rates to follow. The reason that breast cancer and obesity are linked is due to cellular inflammation caused by the diet. Simply stated, this means a diet rich in refined carbohydrates, low in fruits and vegetables, and high in vegetable oils rich in omega-6 fatty acids is a sure-fire prescription for increasing the likelihood of developing both obesity and ultimately breast cancer.
The biochemistry is complex, as Dr. Barry Sears explains in the book, “Toxic Fat,” but simply stated, omega-6 fatty acids make you fat and increases the likelihood of breast cancer, whereas omega-3 fatty acids make you thin and decrease the likelihood of breast cancer.
Dr. Sears has always recommended an anti-inflammatory diet (like The Zone diet), consisting primarily of low-glycemic carbohydrates (vegetables and fruits) balanced at every meal with adequate protein and dramatically limiting your intake of vegetable oils that are rich in omega-6 fatty acids.
Unfortunately, it is easier to change your religion than to change your diet. So if that is too hard to implement, then try this simpler change. Just take a supplement of purified fish oil every day. This dietary change only takes 15 seconds a day. Of course, the question is: how much?
A research article in the May 2010 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition begins to answer that question. Subjects at high risk of developing breast cancer were given various doses of omega-3 fatty acids ranging from 1 gram to 7 grams per day for six months. Although the blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids stabilized after 30 days, the amount of the omega-3 fatty acids in the breast tissue continued to increase in a dose-dependent manner for the next six months. This means the highest omega-3 fatty acid dose has the greatest impact in changing the fatty acid composition in the breast.
Earlier research indicated that the importance of the omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids ratio in the breast tissue is pretty clear from animal studies: The higher the omega-3 content of the breast tissue, the lower the risk of developing breast cancer. From this new study, it appears that 5-7 grams per day of purified omega-3 fatty acids are required to really change the levels of the fatty acid composition in the breast tissue of high-risk women. Perhaps not too surprisingly these results are very close to Dr. Sears’ recommendations for omega-3 fatty acids that he made in 2002 in his book The OmegaRx Zone.
It should also be pointed out that the researchers in this study did not have a placebo group using omega-6 fatty acids because of the risk of increasing the likelihood of turning on inflammatory genes that might lead to the development of breast cancer in these high-risk subjects. If these researchers were afraid of omega-6 fatty acids found in common vegetable oils, then think about what that means to you. Simply replace your vegetable oils with extra-virgin olive oil that is low in omega-6 fatty acids or other oils that are recommended for cooking/temperatures, and take a supplemental oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
That’s a dietary change everyone can easily make.
References:
Lee DY, et al. “Omega-3 fatty acid supplements in women at high risk of breast cancer have dose-dependent effects on breast adipose tissue fatty acid composition.” Am J Clin Nutr 91: 1185-1194 (2010)
Sears B. Toxic Fat. Thomas Nelson. Nashville, TN (2008)
Bagga D et al. “Long-chain n-3-to-n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid ratios in breast cancer adipose tissue from women with and without breast cancer.” Nutr Cancer 42: 180-185 (2002)
Sears B. The OmegaRx Zone. Regan Books. New York, NY (2002).
Mardy's Note: 12/8/11: The distributor who provided this content on Lumigrate at my encouragement and with my support in the past has messaged through Lumigrate to request the content he provided be removed as he doesn't wish to participate in this 'effort' anymore. The forums at Lumigrate are a social media format, similar to facebook. That would be like contacting facebook and saying "take everything I ever commented on or posted off". Many conversations and exchanges of other providers are woven in 'threads' and that would be disrespectful to the other forum participants who gave their time and energy to participate in the 'social' media of Lumigrate's forums. However, I have changed the UserName to be Juice Plus 007, removed the photo, and am posting this in the signature and removing the contact information that is set up in the signature in order to make it clear this contributor no longer wants to be 'connected' with the posts. Additionally, as time permits, I will work to replace the content with similar but that will entail selecting another person distributing for Juice Plus. I wanted JP represented on Lumigrate because it is a well-known company based on the concept of supplementing fruits and vegetables. Also because JP reaches many people due to it's vast number of distributors; there are 10 in Grand Junction, population 50k or so. In addition to removing the information in the signature for contact, I have changed the username and email address associated with it to route to me if anyone were to send a "private message" to JP007. My first step will be to edit out any internal contact information/links to the requestor. I guess you call this an "imposter"? Grins! I hope this is a clear statement for the users of Lumigrate to view related YOUR forum area and how I manage it. After all, it is YOUR health education (and mine) I'm advocating for but Lumigrate, at the end of the day, is my website. I care a great deal about the users of Lumigrate feeling they are being treated well and providing a forum area which is a FUN place to come get valid, progressive information in a streamlined way when searching for health information our audience of consumers is seeking.