HPV vaccine – Good News?

Posted on September 11, 2017 by admin

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Don’t we need protection against the HPV virus?

The HPV virus has NOT yet been proven to cause cervical cancer

  • Only “remnants” (“fossils”) of the HPV virus have been found in women with cervical cancer. This is at most an association, and does not prove causation.
  • Some scientists point out that humanity has successfully dealt with genital warts for thousands of years simply thanks to the immune system.

The HPV vaccine has not been proven to reduce cervical cancer incidence

The HPV vaccine has already given rise to extremely serious side effects (including deaths and paralysis) worldwide

  • So much so that some countries (like Japan) have halted their vaccination programme

In short:

why are the “powers that be” forcing this dangerous vaccine on unsuspecting young women when its need has NOT been clearly established and when the safety of this vaccine is so strongly in doubt, given the high rate of very serious side effects?

Are we sacrificing young maidens for “the greater good”? Find out more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAzcMHaBvLs&feature=youtu.be

Also check out:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-19-evidence-hpv-vaccines-gardasil-severe-injuries-death.html

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Arthritis Due to Aging or “Wear and Tear”? Think Again!

Posted on September 1, 2017 by admin
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Ever been to the doctor with some kind of joint pain just to be told that it is “just wear and tear” (*shrug*)? I would probably be a millionaire if I had a tenner for each person that told me a story along these lines.

And yet, arthritis (particularly of the knee) is not just something that happens when we get older. Instead, new research suggests it is a preventable disease.

Arthritis has little to do with ageing or even ‘wear and tear’—instead, it is more likely to be caused by environmental factors, such as air pollution.

While cases of arthritis have doubled in the past hundred years, this epidemic is NOT due to us living longer or being heavier, which are just untested assumptions. (Read on…)

Researchers from Harvard University inspected the skeletons of 1,581 people from the 19th century who were aged 50 or over. They then compared them to those of 819 similar people who lived in the 20th century. After taking into account age and body mass index (BMI, a standard measure of obesity / overweight), it turned out that cases of knee arthritis had doubled in the later group, meaning neither age nor body weight are associated with the increase, and that this increase has to do with something else instead.

Big differences between the two centuries include the rise of industry and pollution, two world wars but also progressively more sedentary jobs and a change in agricultural and dietary practices which may well have had more of an impact on the disease than aging or weight increase.

It is also interesting to know:

  • Numerous studies have failed to find a direct relationship between pain and age.
  • Many chronic pain disorders occur less frequently with advancing age according to population studies.
  • Migraine pain, as well as low back, neck, and facial pain, is less common among older adults that it is among their younger counterparts.
  • Pain does not always progress. In a large cohort of patients with peripheral joint osteoarthritis, radiographic joint space narrowing worsened over 3 years, but this did not correlate consistently with worsening pain
  • The degree of pain experienced is more strongly associated with depression in older patients compared with younger adults. This may indicate another alternative explanation for factors involved in the arthritis epidemic.

How to avoid arthritis?

  • Eat well, mainly plant foods and ideally organic
  • Avoid / cut down on sugar and processed foods (particularly omega 6 fatty acids).
  • Avoid pesticide and chemical exposure in the air, food/water and on your skin
  • Exercise (particularly in a group, check out our Leicester classes!)
  • Practice gratitude – stay positive
  • Maintain a good social network

Emanuela
Holistic Fitness Consultant
www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

References

(Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1703856114)

https://wddty.com/news/2017/08/arthritis-has-nothing-to-do-with-old-age-or-wear-and-tear.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356472/

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Why is staying active this summer vitally important?

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

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By guest editor: Keisha Coggins

Keeping the body moving is vital through all seasons, however summer tends to be the time where we relax the most. Despite knowing the benefits of rest during this period, to keep off the aches and pains is best done while we are active through these summer months.

Here are a few insights of the effects of inactivity versus activity.

INACTIVE

  • Inactivity amongst individuals is the leading cause of deaths in developed countries. (WHO, 2002)
  • One study analyzed the global effect of inactivity on the increase of diseases. The researchers estimated that physical inactivity accounts for 6% of the burden of heart disease, 7% of type 2 diabetes, 10% of breast cancer, and 10% of colon cancer. Inactivity also causes 9% of premature mortality. These staggering statistics put the true dangers associated with inactivity into a global perspective. 
  • Studies have found that people who spend more time each day watching television, sitting, or riding in cars have a greater chance of dying early than people who are more active.

ACTIVE

  • Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. It lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and certain cancers, and it can also help control stress, improve sleep, boost mood, keep weight in check, and reduce the risk of falling and improve cognitive function in older adults.
  • Regular physical activity helps the body function better – it keeps heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other diseases at bay, and is a key component for losing weight.
  • Research has found that physical exercise has been valuable in the prevention of cognitive impairment, dementia in old age and has shown a “positive impact on brain metabolism… and general mood and sleep” (Mantura et al 2017)

Summer is a great time to utilise the weather and any outdoor sports or classes that will be running. Keeping active will be one of the best decisions you can make this summer.

Keisha   Keisha_LetsDoLeicester_250w

Emanuela’s comment:

Thank you, Keisha!

Cartwheels at the beach are great for some!  If are nowhere near a beach (or don’t want to risk a cartwheel), walking outdoors, especially in green areas, and playing in the park (or garden, if you have one), are great options to stay active and promote health this summer.

Involve the whole family! Make it a game…

For more structured exercise options, remember that we are keeping our classes going over the summer: Pilates and yoga are running throughout the summer and tai chi and vitality circuits are also available most of the summer!

http://www.pilatesfitness.co.uk/classes

Emanuela
Holistic Fitness Consultant
www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

Sources

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/staying-active/

Dunstan, D.W., et al., Television viewing time and mortality: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab). Circulation, 2010. 121(3): p. 384-91.

Matura, S. et al (2017) ‘Effects of aerobic exercise on brain metabolism and grey matter volume in older adults: results of the randomised controlled SMART trial,’ in Translational Psychiatry, 2017; 7 (7): e1172 DOI:10.1038/tp.2017.135

Patel, A.V., et al., Leisure time spent sitting in relation to total mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults. Am J Epidemiol, 2010. 172(4): p. 419-29.


van der Ploeg, H.P., Chey, T., Ding, D., Chau, J.Y., Stamatakis, E., Bauman, A.E. Standing time and all-cause mortality in a large cohort of Australian adults. Prev Med, 2014. 69C:187-191. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.10.004.

World Health Organisation, (2002), Reducing Risks and Promoting Healthy Life, Online: 31st July 2017 Access at http://www.who.int/whr/2002/en/

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Merck Admits… Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Eye Damage AND Shingles

Posted on July 5, 2017 by admin

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Merck Pharmaceutical’s shingles vaccine “Zostavax” was introduced in 2006

It was soon recognised that the vaccine could cause chickenpox. A study showed that, within ten minutes of being vaccinated with the shingles vaccine, Zostavax, 50% of those who had taken part in the study had skin samples testing positive for Zostavax VZV DNA, and could potentially infect unvaccinated individuals with chicken pox. So much for unvaccinated individuals putting others at risk! [1]

In August 2014, another side effect was added: shingles! You could not make this up. The vaccine that has always been aggressively marketed to prevent seniors from contracting this excruciating condition was found to actually cause shingles in some individuals. [2]

In February 2016, the FDA approved the addition to the label warning of another potential Zostavax vaccine side effect: “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis”. [2]

Necrotizing retinitis and keratitis cause inflammation and scarring of the eye tissue and can lead to permanent vision loss, unless treated quickly. WebMD reports that:

  • 20 individuals (children and adults) developed keratitis within a month of receiving a chickenpox or shingles vaccine.
  • Keratitis symptoms for adults developed within 24 days of vaccination, while
  • symptoms in children began within 14 days of vaccination.

“Researchers concluded there is a probable relationship between the vaccine and the eye inflammation”. Worryingly, researchers do not know why the shingles shot may cause keratitis, though the condition has been linked to autoimmune disorders. 

The connection between vaccines and autoimmune disease has been widely acknowledged, most recently by medical researchers worldwide in a compilation of studies published in 2015 in the medical textbook, Vaccines & Autoimmunity. 

“UCLA researchers found that only one in 175 people who get the vaccine will be able to dodge a shingles flare-up”[2]. 

  • Merck claims Zostavax is 50% effective: in the placebo group, 3.3 percent of the study participants developed shingles, compared to 1.6 percent in the vaccine group. These are quite low incidences. So, while that is a 50% difference,
  • the real, absolute risk reduction is just 1.7 percentage points. That is peanuts!

Side Effects

According to its current warning label, Zostovax’s most common side effects are “headache, redness, pain, itching, swelling, hard lump, warmth, or bruising where the shot was given.”  However, more serious “side effects” include:

  • allergic reactions, which may be serious and may include difficulty in breathing or swallowing
  • chickenpox
  • fever
  • hives at the injection site
  • joint pain
  • muscle pain
  • nausea
  • rash
  • rash at the injection site
  • shingles
  • swollen glands near the injection site (that may last a few days to a few weeks)

And these are only the recognised ones!

In the meantime, pharmaceutical companies get paid $150-$300 a shot for this seriously questionable shingles vaccine that can give you shingles!

[1] http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-researcher-blog/scientists-prove-those-vaccinated-for-shingles-can-infect-others-with-chicken-pox

[2] http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-researcher-blog/merck-admits-shingles-vaccine-can-cause-eye-damage-and-shingles

 

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Surgery – the Answer to Your Back Problems?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by admin

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Fed up with back pain? Surgery seems such a convenient answer to our prayers. But is it?

Could surgery be the solution to your back pain worries, particularly that pesky lower back pain?

[There are probably some acute cases where surgery is likely warranted, particularly neck and upper back fractures due to impact/systemic infections where motor and/or sensory nerves are being severely compromised with significant loss of strength and/or proprioception. I am not addressing these specific cases here]

Frankly, in general, it is unlikely to be much help.

1. People given epidural anaesthesia for any reason (including back pain) complained of back pain afterwards

Epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during childbirth and for outpatient ‘awake’ surgery has been found to cause a high incidence of long-term back pain. It seems the cause is bad posture for some time during and after surgery, often without realising.

On the other hand, in a study of 9000 patients given epidurals for surgery other than childbirth, one in 50 complained of backache afterward.

Hysterectomy surgery in particular has been implicated in back pain (and other nasty complications) in women

2. Back Surgery Has a POOR TRACK RECORD for “Fixing” Back Pain or Even Just for “Postoperative Happiness”

What if you ALREADY have back pain, have had it for a while and are frankly “fed up” with it? Surely it could not get any worse anyway? Well…

Professor Gordon Waddell, a renowned Scottish orthopaedic and author of The Back Pain Revolution (Churchill Livingston, 1999), doesn’t like to mince words. “Back surgery,” he once remarked, “has been accused of leaving more tragic human wreckage in its wake than any other operation in history.”

The latest evidence shows that the figures have hardly improved.

For back patients who undergo surgery:

  • 15-20% will fall into the category of ‘the failed back’, the official term for people with chronic, considerable back pain that doctors cannot fix.
  • Considering that half a million patients go under the knife in the US every year, that means that up to 100,000 people a year emerge from back surgery every year in considerably more pain than they were before they went to their doctor – and this is in the US only!

Back-pain treatments has traditionally followed fashionable ideas relating to theories about the cause of the pain… sacroiliac joint, joint facets and so on.

The most popular operations currently include:

  • laminectomy, where nearby bone and/or ligaments are removed to give the nerve branching off the central spinal cord more space to move without getting trapped by the spine
  • discectomy, removing all or part of a bulging or ‘slipped’ disc, the cushion separating each vertebra from another, that presses spinal nerve, causing back pain
  • disc replacement, where the disc is replaced by an artificial implant made of metal and plastic
  • fusion, where a degenerated disc is removed and the vertebrae above and below it are joined together, leaving that segment of the spine locked in position

Recent major reviews of all the evidence for the various kinds of surgery for back pain show that, like their predecessors, all these latest operations offer minimal advantages over doing nothing or undergoing rehabilitation.

How well does fusion work?

Actually, fusion usually makes things worse

In a 2010 study, researchers studied the records for 1,450 patients in the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation database who had diagnoses of disc degeneration, disc herniation or radiculopathy, where a nerve is pinched or irritated, causing tingling and weakness of the limbs.

Two years after surgery:

  • only 26% of those who had had surgery had returned to work, whereas
  • 67% of patients who did not have surgery had returned to work

Of the patients who had had fusion surgery:

  • 36% had complications
  • 27% required another operation
  • 11% were permanently disabled (compared with only 2 per cent of patients not having surgery)
  • 17 had died (compared with 11 of the controls).

After surgery, there was a 41% increase in the use of painkillers like morphine, while around 75% of patients continue taking opiates after surgery.

“Lumbar fusion . . . is associated with significant increase in disability,”  the researchers declared

Does Tiger Woods know, has he ever looked at these stats? He first had a microdiscectomy in 2014, then two other back surgeries and in April 2017 he had a fusion . This shows that even being a top level athlete and having lots of money to spend on securing “the best surgeons” are no guarantees that you can find an easy surgical solution to your back troubles!

By cause of pain:

  • When two independent reviewers surveyed all the available evidence on all major procedures, those patients with low back pain and common degenerative changes who’d undergone fusion fared no better than those who had intensive rehabilitation, with less than half having optimal outcomes
  • Disc problems and spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spaces in the spine, causing pressure on the spinal cord and nerves): patients on average experience improvement either with or without surgery. A study comparing fusion with intensive rehabilitation concluded that surgery only provides “short-term benefits” which “diminish with long-term follow-up
  • Surgery for slipped disc. The jury is out (See for details)
  • Disc replacement.

A Cochrane review of seven studies comparing fusion with disc replacement in a total of 1,474 patients, those getting their discs replaced had slightly better outcomes than those being fused, but the differences were NOT significant. The researchers cautioned, “because we believe that harm and complications may occur after years, we believe that the spine surgery community should be prudent about adopting this technology on a large scale”

  • Laminectomy – no good evidence

While surgeons have a whole palette of laminectomy techniques, when a group of Cochrane researchers compared three new surgical techniques with the ‘gold-standard’ laminectomy, they found no differences between any of them, plus such poor study designs that they could not determine surgical outcomes in many instances.

A recent Cochrane review of randomized controlled trials found that surgery had little benefit but also had serious side effects in 10-24% of cases. These side effects included:

  • spinal fractures
  • coronary ischaemia (narrowed heart blood vessels)
  • respiratory distress
  • blood clots
  • stroke
  • death due to fluid accumulation in the lungs

Non-surgical (conservative) management of back pain

  • A recent Cochrane review of randomized controlled trials compared surgery for spinal stenosis with non-surgical management. Although the studies were high quality, the researchers could find little benefit with surgery and, instead, found evidence of serious side-effects in 10–24% of surgery cases compared with none when patients were managed conservatively (no surgery).
  • I remember reading a couple of years back in an article that Tiger Woods (now caught up in a series of expensive back surgeries) wished he had never had that first back surgery.
  • Surgical back solutions should at best be seen as “the last resort”. Most people can do much more than they think via conservative approaches that will require them to work for it, but will be much better for their bodies in the short, mid and long term.
  • Conservative management (“reduction”) of back pain beats the alternative in my opinion. More on this in another article. Stay tuned!

Emanuela – www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

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References

https://wddty.com/magazine/1993/december/back-pain-the-dangers-of-surgery-2.html

https://www.wddty.com/magazine/2015/december/hysterectomys-dirty-little-secret-back-pain.html

https://www.wddty.com/magazine/2016/may/so-you-think-you-need-back-surgery.html

http://www.latimes.com/sports/more/la-sp-tiger-woods-back-surgery-20170420-story.html

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Could Fizzy Water Be Making You Fat?

Posted on June 5, 2017 by admin

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The Daily Telegraph recently reported that “Fizzy water could cause obesity by encouraging you to eat more”. The story comes from a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.

Previously, quite a few studies had highlighted a link between obesity and soft drinks, which is most likely to be related to:

  • their sugar content (and particularly high-fructose corn syrup) or even
  • (zero-calorie or low-calorie) sweeteners.

Now, it seems that perhaps the carbon dioxide they contain could also be at fault, that carbonation by itself could lead to weight gain. This would mean that even sparkling water would be leading to weight gain.

What is the research on this? Researchers from Birzeit University in Palestine ran two studies, one on rodents and one on humans. The findings for the rodent study were:

  • the rodents that drank carbonated (sparkling) water ate 20% more and gained more weight over 6 months than those that drank still (flat) water.
  • the rodents drinking carbonated water had higher levels of the hormone ghrelin (hunger hormone, higher levels of which encourage eating more)

The findings from the human study were:

  • in the human volunteers, ghrelin levels were higher after drinking fizzy drinks one hour after food – three-folds higher than after flat soda, and six-folds higher than after water.
  • probably more interesting stuff, to which I do not have access

Discussion

  • This indicate that carbonation and ghrelin production *just MIGHT* be an additional explanation for increased appetite and incidence of obesity. However…
  • Limitations:
    • I have to wonder… does the timing of the fizzy drink matter? Drinking in the morning or in a fasted state, or after only a LIGHT breakfast (as in the human study) may be different to drinking the sparkling water after a substantial meal or later in the day.
    • the study only included a small sample of just 20 male subjects, all aged 18-23 (hardly representative of human lifespan)
    • this is not enough participants to allow drawing any conclusions
    • it is impossible to extrapolate these findings to all males, any females, people in different age brackets or other populations with different genes and food environments.
  • Study Significance
    • These studies simply raise the possibility that carbonated drinks (also known as “fizzy drinks”)- even if unsweetened and containing no sweeteners whatsoever – could stimulate appetite and increase weight-gain risk
    • This hypothesis definitely warrants further investigation
    • It is possible that the effect noticed is due to a host of other reasons, such as that people who consume lots of fizzy drinks may also be more likely to have a less healthy diet and to be doing less exercise

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

What does it mean for us now? While science does it thing, we can certainly try going “fizzy-free” to see if that has any impact on our hunger levels or body weight…

REFERENCES

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/15/fizzy-water-could-cause-obesity-encouraging-eat/

Carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages induces ghrelin release and increased food consumption in male rats: Implications on the onset of obesity, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228348

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2017-05-15-can-fizzy-water-make-you-fat-/

http://thehealthscienceacademy.org/science-catch-up/

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The Benefits of Walking

Posted on May 7, 2017 by admin

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WALKING is GOOD for the BRAIN

The foot’s impact on a hard surface during walking increases the flow of blood to the brain.

Steady walking of one metre a second produces pressure waves through the arteries, which “significantly increase” cerebral blood flow (CBF), according to researchers from the New Mexico Highlands University.

Although the impact with the ground is not as significant as that from running, it seems to e enough to improve blood flow. This mechanisms, according to biologists, had been thought to be involuntarily regulated and basically unaffected by exercise.

Researchers tested the effects of walking with a group of 12 volunteers (admittedly NOT a large group!). Volunteers were monitored as they stood still and when they walked steadily. The same researchers had earlier tested the blood flow of runners, whose foot impact measured around 4-5 G-force. Although the impact was far less when walking, it was still sufficient to improve brain function and create “an overall sense of wellbeing”, the researchers said.

References

Experimental Biology conference 2017, Chicago, April 24, 2017

 

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Do you want to know the truth… about vaccines?

Posted on April 14, 2017 by admin

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It’s heart-wrenching when I hear this statistic…

“This is the first generation of kids that are not expected to outlive their parents.”

Despite all our medical advancements… despite all the money and all the research and all the science, incidents of chronic illness and disease are rising every year.

Find out more here…

Asthma, childhood diabetes, food allergies, digestive disorders, developmental delays, ADHD, autism, eczema, epilepsy, Alzheimers, brain damage, etc… all of these rates are rising.

Simultaneously, the US government-required vaccine schedule for children has increased from 5 doses in 1960 to 24 doses in 1983 to 69 doses in 2016.

In fact, the US now gives 3X more childhood vaccines than most developed countries, yet the US have some of the highest rates of childhood issues NOT seen in other countries. And we all know that where the US go, we generally follow… (UK among the first followers, then the rest of the pack)

And so we have questions…

Are vaccines to blame? What are the risks we are not being told about? Where are the safety studies on the combined doses of all these vaccines? What are our alternatives to stay healthy and prevent disease?

The Truth About Vaccines is a documentary series that is bringing education and empowerment for folks to this heated debate.

This series aired mid-April 2017 but is still available to purchase.

Over 60 renowned doctors, health experts, researchers, and activists have contributed to make this the largest documentary of its kind ever released on the topic of vaccines.

If you missed the live streaming, you owe it to yourself (especially if you have a young family!) to invest in this series.

Click here to watch the rest of it for free

To your health,

Emanuela
Holistic Fitness Consultant
www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

 

 

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Olive Oil Use and HALVED Risk of Fractures in Recent Study

Posted on March 26, 2017 by admin

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Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) intake associated with a decreased risk of bone fractures in a 7-year follow-up (García-Gavilán et al., 2017). This new study involving 870 participants followed for several years indicates that regularly eating extra virgin olive oil reduced their risk of osteoporotic fractures by 51%.

TYPE of OLIVE OIL

The study used EVOO, NOT just regular “olive oil”. Regular olive oil is 80% refined, and its consumption was not associated with a lower risk of fractures in the same study. This difference might be explained by the fact that EVOO is much higher in polyphenols than standard olive oil, potentially translating into increased antioxidant capacity and positive epigenetic adaptations in the body.

ASSOCIATION vs CAUSATION

This study found an association between regular EVOO consumption and lower osteoporitic fracture. Of course, association does not imply causation, so it may be that the result is partly due to the fact that this population was pouring some EVOO on top of daily health-promoting fresh salads and vegetables. Therefore, pouring EVOO on top of fast-food burgers or similar would likely NOT reduce osteoporotic fractures in the manner that was found in this study.

HOW TO USE EVOO

You can add a little extra virgin olive oil to your salads or finished dishes, but avoid using the “extra virgin” version for high-heat cooking. This is because the combustible solids in EVOO can degrade into harmful oxidation products during high-heat cooking

COOKING OILS

For cooking, use coconut or macadamia oils, for instance. Butter will work too. Avoid using “vegetable” or “seed” oils, particularly long-life (i.e. hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated) ones.  Unfortunately, it is this type of unsuitable oil that is generally used in food outlets in the UK. If you know of a restaurant where this is not done, do let me know!

IN SHORT:

  • Eat plain, whole foods, add a little extra virgin olive oil
  • Avoid boxed/processed, pre-made food and especially fast food!

Emanuela
Holistic Therapist, Personal Trainer, Pilates Specialist
www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

References

Extra virgin olive oil consumption reduces the risk of osteoporotic fractures in the PREDIMED trial, Garcia-Gavilan JF et al, Clin Nutr 2017 Jan 13. pii: S0261-5614(17)30006-7. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2016.12.030. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143667

 

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Antibiotics Resistance – a Ticking Time Bomb in UK Livestock and Meat

Posted on March 20, 2017 by admin

Superbugs in Meat sold by All Seven Major UK Supermarkets - source: S oil Association

Superbugs in Meat sold by All Seven Major UK Supermarkets – source: S oil Association

Already for a few years, Prof Dame Sally Davies has been saying that antibiotic resistance is “a ticking time bomb”. And more and more studies support her statement.

In 2016, E. Coli resistant to the “critically important” antibiotics were found in 24% of meat sold at all major 7 supermarkets, a 4-fold increase on 2015 figures.

23% of chicken in UK Supermarkets Positive for E. Coli RESISTANT to the

24% of chicken in UK Supermarkets Positive for E. Coli RESISTANT to the “Critically Important” Drugs – source: Soil Association

HIGH Increase in Antibiotic Resistance - source: Soil Association

HIGH Increase in Antibiotic Resistance since 2015 – source: Soil Association

Emma Rose of the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics said: “These findings show the level of antibiotic resistance on retail meat to be worse than expected. Supermarkets must now publicly commit to polices which prohibit the routine mass-medication of groups of healthy animals, and take immediate steps to reduce farm use of the ‘Critically Important’ drugs.”

Dr Ron Daniels BEM, CEO of the UK Sepsis Trust said: “This study highlights a worrying trend towards rising resistance in E.coli on UK retail meat. E.coli in people is the greatest cause of deaths from sepsis, and poor antimicrobial stewardship in intensive farming is undoubtedly contributing to this trend. It’s of paramount importance that we act decisively to reduce this immediate threat to human life.”

Why is this happening?

Antibiotic % given to farm animals – source: Soil Association

Intensive farming & Routine Antibiotic Use - source: Soil Association

Intensive farming & Routine Antibiotic Use

Intensive Farming - Daily Antibiotics - Crazy Policy!!!

Intensive Farming – Daily Antibiotics – Crazy Policy!!!

The overuse of antibiotics used to mass medicate livestock on British farms is likely to be undermining the treatment of E. coli urinary-tract and blood-poisoning infections in humans. Some of the antibiotics tested are used in far greater quantities in livestock farming than in human medicine.

 

Implications for Human Health

Antibiotics Overuse Creates Deadly Superbugs - source: Soil Association

Antibiotics Overuse Creates Deadly Superbugs – source: Soil Association

Antibiotic Resistance and Decreased Effectiveness - source: Soil Association

Antibiotic Resistance and Decreased Effectiveness – source: Soil Association

E. coli is a serious problm - source: Soil Association

E. coli is a serious problem – source: Soil Association

Health Crisis - source: Soil Association

Health Crisis – source: Soil Association

ACTION POINTS

What can we do?

As individuals, we can:

  • Join the Soil Association’s “Save our Antibiotics” Campaign
  • Reduce meat consumption
  • Buy organic and free-range
  • Buy local from farmers you can trust to treat their animals well
  • Tell your friends about this issue
  • Pressurise supermarkets to reduce use of antibiotics, particularly their routine use
  • Ask our MPs to prioritise this issue

Farming sector and society as a whole:

Stop Routine Use of Antibiotics - source: Soil Association

Stop Routine Use of Antibiotics – source: Soil Association

Good Welfare, NOT Antibiotics - source: Soil Association

Good Welfare, NOT Antibiotics – source: Soil Association

Animal welfare will benefit ALL.

https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-antibiotics/

References

https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-antibiotics/supermarket-superbugs/

https://www.soilassociation.org/media-centre/press-releases/shocking-levels-of-antibiotic-resistant-ecoli-bacteria-found-in-uk-supermarket-meat/

https://www.soilassociation.org/blogs/2016/april/12/minimising-antibiotic-use/

https://www.soilassociation.org/our-campaigns/save-our-antibiotics/

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