Published January 29, 2010

Cut your risk of colon cancer in half

I’ve always said it’s a lot easier to prevent cancer than fight cancer. This is especially true with colon cancer. Once colon cancer hits, it’s very difficult to treat successfully. Fortunately, you can prevent most cases of colon cancer. In fact, it’s fairly easy to do. All you need to do is drink a lot of my favorite beverage.

As I’ve told you in the past, green tea is a magical elixir. It’s great for your heart, your brain, and for fighting infections. And it’s a powerful cancer fighter. Now we have research proving that green tea can help prevent colorectal adenomas. Adenomas are a collection of cells that can degenerate into cancer.

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Published January 28, 2010

Is mangosteen juice a scam?

You may have heard a lot of marketing pitches lately for mangosteen juice. This juice comes from the ancient Oriental mangosteen fruit. They call it the “Queen of Fruits.” I regularly visit the Orient to give lectures, and I see mangosteens at virtually every fruit vendor.

Here in the U.S., however, mangosteen is more than just the Queen of Fruits. Here it’s the queen of multilevel marketing.

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Published January 27, 2010

How osteoporosis can lead to cancer

I’ve told you in the past about serious problems with bisphosphonates, a specific class of osteoporosis drugs. They can actually cause you to lose bone! But these drugs are even worse than we thought.

It’s bad enough that these drugs can induce a catastrophic death to your jawbone called osteonecrosis. It’s bad enough that these drugs make bone denser at the cost of brittleness. Now there’s evidence that they cause cancer — of the esophagus.

According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, there have been 23 cases (of which 8 were fatal) reported in the United States. All of these cases were directly associated with Fosamax, Merck’s best-selling osteoporosis drug.

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