The Food Corporations have  for long time advocated their genetically modified food products (GMOs)as safe, however science has taken pause at some of the immunological and potential neoplastic disease caused by them. But, today there may be a safe alternative for GMOs. A London, England institute is looking at 3D printing of food. In a time where food shortages, increased food prices and exposure of foods to toxins this may be a way to look at more seriously. Find more about this story on NPR(National Public Radio).

National Institutes of Health Permits Dr. Moreau's Chimera

The National Institutes of Health today announced that it will be utilizing new genetic engineering techniques that allow the splicing of animal DNA with human DNA! This area of research was always viewed as "hands off" since the experiments by Eugenicist such as Dr.  Josef Mengele in Nazi Germany. Yet, this hasn't stopped the funding of this project , The Chimera Project to proceed.

The NIH , stated that this will allow animals to develop human organs that can be later be harvested. Stem cells will be injected into lower life form animals and the tissue of organs can grow potentially in any organ to reproduce human organs.

This includes human brain cells growing in animals such as pigs and sheep for now. The NIH is leaving hands off to inject the stem cells in Simian species such as monkeys and great apes. However, the moral, ethical and philosophical issue that is burning is that if the neurological tissue develops in a sheep and takes on human emotions, feelings, or consciousness what makes that animal no longer an animal and now partially human or all human for that matter?

We are entering into a strange world of Dr Moreau who in a fictionalized movie spliced various species of animals with humans .

What is Next?

Dr. Marcus Wells is a past Clinical Associate of the NIH where he served in the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.

Cellular Death

New data from the U.S. National Toxicology Program reveal an increase of high frequency wave exposure like those with cell phones may could an increase in heart disease and brain disease. The rat studies show increase rate in tumors in these organs. 

The only support to remedy the problem released by the FDA was to limit one's cell phone use. However, in age where this device is not only a necessity it is also a billion dollar business that is not likely to go away too soon. Cell phone industry producers give only only nebulous statistics stating no rise in the tumors  has occurred as the population rises. Anyone with high school bio-statistics and epidemiology know this is a confounding factor. If percentages stay the same as population rises, it means death morbidity and mortality actually is rising regardless.

Can Your Pacemaker Be "Hacked"

In the last week of July 2013 , the largest convention of computer hackers met in Las Vegas. The major group called Black Hat consists of mostly "legal" hackers from all over the world who have hacked ATM machines, the Pentagon and other Electronic databases such as banks. Most of the hackers work for electronic and security firms by testing their security systems online. Even General Kieth Alexander head of the National Security Agency (NSA) was invited and gave an hour long speech to the conspicuous group of attendees. It appears that the government, particularly our intelligence agencies are desperately seeking "hackers" and recruiting them for the nation's top spy agencies! How interesting and coincidental. But, perhaps the biggest and brightest star of "hackers" in the world , Barnaby Jack, suddenly died approximately a week-and-a-half before the convention at the age of 36. Jack is the one who was made famous for being able to make ATM machines spit out cash with a device from remote distances. But, the genius-hacker had just demonstrated how electronic and other bio-medical devices made by companies such as Medtronic could be hacked into. For example, he was able to show how a hacker could "hack" into a patient's pacemaker device from remote distances by merely knowing or artificially making up passwords. Jack showed how the medical devices could be rendered useless or deliver alternate rhythms. The device could then be made to either stop the heart if the correct signal is sent. Not only this, Jack's hacking skill was capable of getting an implanted defibrillator to deliver electronic shocks from the hacker as well.

Another "expert hacker" Jay Radcliffe has shown how insulin pumps can also be hacked into remotely and deliver dangerous levels of insulin for an unsuspecting patient relying on such a device. As bio-medical devices become more reliant on "wi-fi" , new novel ways to hack into a person's device will become possible. He states that the digital inter-connected system makes these and other possibilities widespread in the future world. In a new Lifelock commercial, the company of electronic and digital files security shows a medical doctor who loses his laptop in a New York Taxi. The scenario could be a real possibility. While many feel that companies in the the digital security business are a real necessity, many critics are concerned with the massive build-up of companies who collect and store medical records of patients. Since the approval of the Affordable Care Act , it has been mandatory that medical practitioners such as physicians apply their offices with either new medical systems are completely new computers that allow them to download all of their patient records. These computers cost are not only costly but draw much concern for medical doctors who are hesistant about downloading all of their patient's records on digital files because of the risk of security such as hacking and also the risk of legal liability do to computer hacking as well. New computer medical records firms that collect medical records such as Serner in Kansas City, Missouri or Epic in Minneapolis,MN have compiled so much data , they are sill figuring out what to do with it. These companies have gathered hundreds of thousands of data on patients. At the time these companies are only "gatherers" but the logistics of utilizing this data will become ever more important and powerful in a new healthcare system that mandates healthcare purchase.If a biomedical or pharmaceutical company wanted to "pattern" the behavior of a patient or lifestyle it could use these data to predict purchasing and enhance their marketing. Then their is the little thing called blackmail. If a hacker wanted medical data of a certain individual , they could collect that data for nefarious purposes. The power of these types of companies and their potential use to serve or their vulnerability to computer hacking will also become prevalent in a "brave new world".

Orwell"s Prediction Speaks: "Lets Talk About The Bio-Medical Micro-Chip for A Moment"

Question. How many of us would allow ourselves to be voluntarily "micro-chipped" to improve our health, reduce crime, reduce racism, sexism, ageism, prevent all diseases, all pain, negative emotions , and allow us all to live in a projected holographic state of "nirvana" always ,everyday for all our natural born days? What if being "legally" micro-chipped guaranteed everyone equal rights, security, a home, a car, free education, free healthcare, free medicine ,nutritional balance a secure lifestyle ,job selection with month long vacations? What if the micro-chip helped stop all wars, reduced stress, worries and the thought of a poor condition state of starvation, poverty, hate, and inequality in the world? Would you be in the least bit interested...just a little? What if this offer was a "legal" contract that would be effective immediately upon signing? Now, think of all of the worlds problems and issues of people getting along that we have today. Now, what is the alternative to eradicating all of mankind's ills so rapidly the likes of which this technology can perform? If there existed a microchip that could via a holographically programmed database

do all of these things, what would be the downside of it? I'm just hypothetically speaking. Think, people, just where we are headed?

Orwell"s Prediction Speaks: "Lets Talk About The Bio-Medical Micro-Chip for A Moment"

Question. How many of us would allow ourselves to be voluntarily "micro-chipped" to improve our health, reduce crime, reduce racism, sexism, ageism, prevent all diseases, all pain, negative emotions , and allow us all to live in a projected holographic state of "nirvana" always ,everyday for all our natural born days? What if being "legally" micro-chipped guaranteed everyone equal rights, security, a home, a car, free education, free healthcare, free medicine ,nutritional balance a secure lifestyle ,job selection with month long vacations? What if the micro-chip helped stop all wars, reduced stress, worries and the thought of a poor condition state of starvation, poverty, hate, and inequality in the world? Would you be in the least bit interested...just a little? What if this offer was a "legal" contract that would be effective immediately upon signing? Now, think of all of the worlds problems and issues of people getting along that we have today. Now, what is the alternative to eradicating all of mankind's ills so rapidly the likes of which this technology can perform? If there existed a microchip that could via a holographically programmed database

do all of these things, what would be the downside of it? I'm just hypothetically speaking. Think, people, just where we are headed?

3-D Bio-Printers Allow Scientist to Be "Co-Creators"

The latest "game changer" in biomedical technology is undoubtedly the three dimensional bio-printer. It takes bio-labelled(DNA) and bio-copied protein to be used to make virtually any body part. Not, only can a 3-D bio-printer do this, but a regular 3-D printer has been used to make dental dentures and hearing aids. Now, a titanium jaw has been replicated by a 3-D bio-printer for implantation into a patient's mandible.

The Biggest Game Changer In Medicine Ever :Part 1

With the advent of wireless real-time hand held devices that can monitor all bodily functions, one would think that it would be another few years for the next big step in health. But, one only has to blink their eyes to wait to see the latest and perhaps the greatest innovations in medicine. Bio-medical technology has advanced in ground breaking tech to allow you to "print" your own body part! Sounds like science fiction? But, its's not. As Early as 2008 Japanese scientist Makoto Nakomura had started developing a three-dimensional bio-printer(3-DBP)). The chemist set about making a printer that "prints out" human tissue for bio-tubing to replace worn out blood vessels. Today this technology has advancde even further where one's own DNA can be used to "copy" and print a 3-D structure based on an individual's own the DNA blueprint. Virtually any blood vessel or organ such as a liver, kidney or heart could be actually "printed' into existence. The journal Science

Wireless Medicine & Digital Doctors Part 4

Doctors of the 21st century will be "hard-wired" technicians geared up with new ultrasonic stethoscopes, miniature tablets with applications that pull up algorithms for diagnosing and others that take echocardiograms and EKG(ECG), along with x-rays or bone density by the bedside. All this will become pretty much standard. On admission patients will have a sticker about the size of a band-aid placed on their skin that acts as a wireless digital device that monitors blood, oxygen, heart rate, heart rhythm, blood sugar, metabolism,respirations and temperature. In the time which it takes to write vitals and perform a history and physical exam today, virtually 90 % of the diagnosis will have already been made by digital wireless device input. The triaging of a patients before "hitting" the floor will make for faster as well as more efficient physician diagnostics and utilization of their time. These "Band-Aid" technologies are not meant just for hospitalized patients either, but for everyday normal healthy personal uses. Personal devices are already being built to be placed into the Nike running shoe to measure personal metrics for example.Tje Nike shoe's ability to help patients with a sensor that can improve balance for walking and improve ambulating normally. Today's Technology has gotten so advanced that these wireless devices can now assist in diagnosing are assist in numerous chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's, asthma, breast cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease, diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure, sleep disorders and obesity. Many of these technologies will utilize an application that can extrapalate your own DNAs code. Your genomic material(DNA) can be genotyped and phenotyped based on DN markers. The genetic material will be monitored for predisposing diseases not noted at birth or later in life.This is preventive medicine on a molecular level with the use of bio-medical technology.

Wireless Medicine & Digital Doctors Part 3

Perhaps one of the greatest pioneers in "Wireless Medicine" is Dr. Eric Topol a world re-known cardiologist and author of the book the Creative Destruction of Medicine . He has helped co-create a very useful digital tool known as "Band-Aid" technology. These "band aids" are stick on digital sensors that can be placed virtually almost any place on the human body to scan its physiologic activity. Currently these sensors can give real time -continuous data of an organism or organ's function. These include sensors for continuous heart rate even fetal heart tones. Other monitoring functions that can be monitored are continuous glucose and sleep-wake cycles. These sensors can count a person's caloric intake and output in real time as well as provide information on dietary restrictions. Both the quantity and quality of the calorie of a meal can be monitored. These can all be helpful for the dietician, sleep specialist, diabetic specialist all sub-specialist including primary care physicians. General Electric's upgrade on the hand-held ultrasound makes old fashioned stethoscopes a thing of the past for nostalgia sake.The old stethoscope used for over a hundred years will become a virtual museum piece yet revered relic. The newer brand GE devices can perform abdominal, cardiac and fetal echo(ultrasound) imaging in real time, as well. The "band-aid" bio-med tech has also taken to further pronounced forms of heart monitoring. Once upon a time to measure the heart's activity for 24 hours required a large bulky device strapped to the chest . Now a "band-aid" strip can be placed that looks like a patch which can monitor heart rhythms and rates interrupted for prolong lengths of time. A patient won't have the discomfort of larger , clumsier boxes and wires hanging off them. These new "band-aid" technologies can monitor not only heart rate and rhythm, but also blood conduction(how thick or think blood flows), body temperature, respiration and oxygenation. These heart devices are currently most effective in heart failure patients. These will become evermore important in providing info to cardiologist, pulmonologist, critical care specialist as well as primary care physicians in both remote and academic locations by exchanging information more readily. Other types of "personal metrics" will be able to be used daily for individuals who want to measure and maintain "tighter" control of their body's own activities. Virtually every activity in life will be able to be measured in some value or its data interpreted mathematically. This is already exampled by Phillip's fitbit that measures food calories, weight, metabolism, sleep and yes- even sexual activity. These devices are merely a glimpse into the future for all of us. But, the question still remains as to just how far is it taking us and to what levels? Is this the future....no, it's here already. Dr. Topols book reads more like a "re-creation" of medicine in the future as opposed to merely the "destruction" of current medical methodology.

Wireless Medicine & Digital Doctors Part 2

Today there is an application on your smart device for almost everything and that includes for medical doctors. It used to be that medical students and residents alike would have to lug around large charts and handbooks on therapeutics to thumb there way at 2:00 A.M. to diagnose their patient. Now, all they have to do is push the "app" called "MedCalc" which can digitally upload for all types of diagnosis based on inputting symptoms they are observing. The same goes for the App called, Evernote. eProcates is another "app" that stores all types of drug dosages for precise usages. ZX Calculate gives risk profiles and if that's not enough today's intern can use his or her electronic stethoscopes that can increase the sounds of the heart beat higher and better acoustic amplitudes. Even the prestigious journal The Archives of Internal Medicine reveals in one study how residents with Ipads can increase efficiency and the timeliness of doing orders.These technologies are being moderately used , but with new apps being applied to these devices a new type of faster, more efficient and accurate type of medical diagnosis will be integrated to assist practitioners.

Wireless Medicine and Digital Doctors Part 1

By now most of us have seen the commercials by General Electric, Verizon and Cisco revealing their digital biomedical technology in passing. But, it hasn't really registered to most that these devices are now being produced to be held in the palm of your hand. Another company also making real strides in hand-held and small device technology is Samsung. Not to be overlooked , Samsung is well advanced into the 21st century's new version of how we all will be diagnosed and treated by our smart devices(cell phones, tablets, lap tops). Doctors in the 21st century will have a new team player in the lab, ER, clinic and hospital. Samsung has a really neat portable ultrasound device that gives real time data in 3-D. the Accuvix is 21.5 inches and can be used on the go. There's no need of going to a hospital or clinic to wait for long hours anymore. Samsung's digital x-ray, the X-GEO is another device that can be utilized for more practical x-rays on the go. The "Lab-on-a Disc" blood scanner at only 18 pounds is compact and just like a large state-of-the-art lab can do up to eighteen blood chemistry tests from remote geographical locations. So, if you're caught out in the sticks somewhere practicing medicine-no worries. All it takes is a squirt of blood on a disk-like device and blood is canned. What does this all spell? Diagnostics can really be done in real time and at lower costs. It is time to utilize these technologies and they benefits they offer in reducing inefficiency, waste and costs to those of us who utilize it.

The Human-Digital Interface Part 4

In February the BBC did a series on various technological devices that are having an impact currently on our medical culture and those that are on the drawing board . Many of these devices are already developed for usage in the medical industry for uses that seem like they are from a Star Trek episode. One of the most interesting areas that computers and robots are having an impact on medicine is in the surgery suite. The University of Amsterdam has been fine tuning the use of a robotic arm controlled by a computer to allow for remote surgery. The device would allow a surgeon in Hong Kong to use a "joy stick- like" device to perform surgery on a patient in Brazil. The robotic device is so precise and flexible that it can do incisions more accurately than a human surgeon.The "real" human surgeon will be able to "feel" the instrument and feel the incision as if they were doing the surgery, even though it will be a virtual cut.The sensitivity of the "joy stick" device allows the actual surgeons hand to have the same sensitivity of making the incision. The Dutch inventors call this relationship between the robotic arm and the actual user , the "master-slave" model. The robotic arm has a computer that allows for fine use, fine cuts and filters any trimmer in the actual users hand. The device would also allow the surgeon to perform suturing as well, hold a needle and to perform the operation. The Device has already been used in retinal eye surgery and reduces risks done under the human held "knife". But, even more advanced technologies will permit even smarter computers to make the operational "decision" as to how to make an incision independently based on the "mapping" of an individuals anatomy and will calculate the diseased organs based on normal pre-downloaded anantomical mapping. Every contingency of making an incision and knowing the difference between normal anatomy from the diseased portion will already be downloaded so that the computer can make more indpendent determinations of how to perform the surgery with the robotic sterotopic arm . The physician will be the "back -up" to the computer. At Brown University, "holographic surgery" will make these possiblities a reality. The University's computer engineering department takes a multi-dsciplnary approach by using bio-technicians, computer engineers, bioegineers, psychologist, bio-ethicist and other professionals to make biomedical devices that will allow paraplegics to walk and the blind to "see" via bio-tech. The Brown team is designing a computer to act and think like a brain with its Erstaz Program. Virtual reality devices will become more common especially in the use in the medical world daily.

"Cool" Digital Health Will Change American Healthcare Forever

Digital health technology companies are making an amazing impact on our health directly and indirectly, today. What was once considered "Star Trek" gadgetry will not only be seen in medical ICUs, but in everyday usage. The potential impact on changing what and how we consider normal use of health tools could be seen as a paradigm shift of monumental proportions. So, much of an impact is it that accounting firms such as Price-Waterhouse & Cooper has done extensive research on its growth. It has found that digital health funding went up by 45 % in 2012 to 1.4 Billion USD from only 898 Million USD in 2011. A new type of Population health is about to emerge on the horizon if the gadgets become a common market item and even more so if the demand goes up by health groups, HMOs , medical doctors and medical facilities requiring them as medical regular policy. Some of these gadgets are about the size of a wrist watch and some , yet even smaller at the size of a microchip. Tele-health gadegets will allow a medical doctor or any clinician the ability to remotely "track" their patients health in virtualy real time with the device. On a larger scale health groups and government health research agencies in public health could retrieve mountains of materials on populations to conduct demographic trends in record time. Numerous statistics on the rates, prevelances and outcomes on trends or habits could possibly be predicted at a faster time to prevent disease or steer the (food/beverage/pharmaceutical) markets. Think about it everytime a commercial retail store asks for your email, phone number or asks for your retail savings card. These data will input your consumer based habit and file it to the databank. Millions of population studies can be done from this treasure trove of information. As these currently help banks, credit card companies and retailers in tracking you , it can also help insurance copanies and public health agencies to implement health measures. These gadgets will contain an instant feedback mechanism as well to allow patients to communicate to their healthcare provider about their treatment and how they are feeling almost immediately. Many of these types of applications exist already that allow patients to give opinions , but rather on a certain doctors care. Companies such as ZocDoc, Health Top, Health Grades, Vitals and RateMD are social media -like applications that do just this. If these apps are on more mobile and smaller devices with wi-fi, incredible feedback and monitoring can check a consumers decision in chosing a clinic to go to. We already see how biometrics has been used to scan in Airports, but be prepared for more of it being utilized with wi-fi. A company called Fitbits(Jawbone and Axon as well) uses this now. Healthrageous and Keas are nother companies that gives tech to allow tracking of a patient use health incentives and promote health. Surgeons are already using robotic arms in the OR(operating room) with computers that allow nearly flawless incisions. The ability of Tele-surgery by performing surgery remotely by a doctor who gives a computer instructions so that the robotic arm the actual cutting is conceivable at this time as well. You can be in Rome , Italy and the surgeon in Japan and have the surgery by vitrual operations. So, what does all this mean in general? It means that medicine and healthcare are about to introduce a newer "brave new world" that may be the starting point of accepting these types of devices into society. It will be another "giant leap for mankind" Are there any moral, ethical, legal and bio-technical issues to be concerned about? "You bet ya", but the ends justifies the means and the cost- benefits ratio of this type of tech in the the general public is great.They can allow a health support by being used either as a mandatory tool or provide a person with health credits to a spas of your choice are too good to pass up by the health corporations, government agencies and "YOU" - the consumer who loves gadgetry.

The Digital Human Interface: Part 2

Imagine the year is 2014 and you receive a reminder by your smart phone that you have a doctor's appointment, but instead of getting into your Eco-car and getting into traffic you open up your laptop. It is predicted that the laptop or your tablet will act as a "digital clinic" set up with sensors that can take your blood pressure, heart rate, heart's oxygentation, lung's carbon-dioxide level, basal metabolic rate, cholesterol level, stress level, risk of mortality rate ;then with a special scanner take bone mineral readings, measure cancer bio-markers for tumors as well. With your hand being placed on your laptop, tablet or notepad the same scanner will use sonar by using sound waves to map out an echocardiogram and an EKG(ECG). The trade show even showed scanners that can read the brain. Within that one scan by your laptop the cost of going to your primary care doctor goes down dramatically.

The Digital Human Interface Is Already Here

In Las Vegas this week , the world's largest "techy" trade show premiers with the latest gadgets in high technology to be revealed at the CES. As the challenges of health and wellness stack up against the average person in a post-modern world, perhaps technology will make up for the losing battle of losing weight, controlling calories and monitoring heart disease as easy as clicking a mouse. New technologies that count the number of times you chew your food from a digital counter placed on a fork or new metabolic monitors worn simply and utilized to see if you over ate too many calories or have an imbalanced metabolism are all readily available at the CES trade show. These technologies and others such as pulse oximetry that reads blood gases(from the lungs CO2 and 0xygen) and dyno-map that can determine blood pressure used already in hospital ICUs will open up a flood gate on body monitoring in real time. As most of us are fast paced and on the go and hardly have time to sit, watch television, do work , watch our caloric intake , basal metabolic rate or blood pressure: these type of technologies will cross the divide. Now, you can have technology that will adapt all information from your smart phone. There is little doubt that your medical doctor, clinic, hospital , 3rd party providers or others that have corporate interst in your health status will soon have access to these data to read from to determine your health status and your impact on society. It is the realistic world we live in and only at the tip of the iceberg. For example, distant-surgery can be done by virtual technology. Once a robot has been programmed to stereotopically map the normal human anatomy, the computer will take over the surgery. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, simple smart-technology(nano-technology) will be available to determine and detect not only the caloric quantity , but the caloric quality. That is reading cholesterol, triglyceride and glucose levels in real time as your exercise counter counts how many steps you will need to take to burn those extra calories. At the fast food restaurant , your "chew monitor" will determine how well you eat or if you overate. Other digital technology via your smart phone might be able to do a small radio scan on your bones or a small ECG(electrocardiogram), or sound wave study(ECHO) on your heart. These data will be fed into a major super database where both physicians and other health monitoring profilers can determine your status in "real time". You don't need to look any further than the CES trade show in Las Vegas to find out whats next to be on your smart phone in the "Super Smart Era" of technology and health.

Loose Juice and Plastic Bottles

Latest reports about juices including apple, grape and orange juice show serious concerns. The concerns have raised eyebrows from studies looking at several types of juices used daily by kids having toxins in them. These juices used daily contain arsenic, lead and pesticides. Shortly after Dr. Mehmet Oz's exposure of suspected amounts of arsenic in apple juice raised a furor in the media and food consumer protection world.But, the concerns of juices didn't end there. Certain orange juice imported from Brazil began to make headlines about possessing dangerous pesticides. But, the concern doesn't end there either. Newer reports now look at grape juice containing lead. These studies have reported several brands having over the Federal sandard of 10 parts per billion of an allowable amount of toxic substance in a consumer product.The harm of these toxins include brain, heart disease as well as liver dysfunction.Discoveries reveal that some baby foods and products sold as childrens fruit snacks are also included in these exposed substances.

Also this week the FDA decided not to disallow BPA a dangerous toxin found in plastic bottle products such as baby formula bottles to continue.BPA is noted to cause pediatric neurological and developmenal problems and has been banned by some countries in Europe and Canada.

All of these concerns have occurred after a major Food Safety Bill was passed just in 2011.

The bigger long term question is what effects this may have on a growing population of targeted youth. What impacts will these exposures have on their personal health and the rising cost of health care in the future in general.

The need of prevention becomes evermore important . There are already concerns and documented obesity, heart, liver, diabetic , cancer and blood pressure problems in children who consume table sugar, aspartame, sucralose, agave, and high fructose corn syrup.

Label warnings may not be enough for parents to avoid exposure risks for kids. Investing in prevention and more organic based foods is important , but as food sources themselves may lack health nutrients adding vitamins to daily regimens is also important.

A Natrual Way to Relax

We've all read about deep breathing as a means to help us relax, but other methods and natural products may induce that state. Kava kava, valerian root, chamomile tea, St. John's Wort, SAMe, Melatonin, and Tryptophan the amino acid and Casein from warmed milk may help you relax and may be a easy gentler means to defeat insomnia also.

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The New Food Model

For years the current food model has basically limited its view of foods to 4 basic groups, even though that is technically accurate it may not be complete. Foods explained as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and dairy are in some ways essential along with activity as the model suggests, but we must expand that view further. Metabolism , not the Gastro-intestinal system is the system that stabilizes all functioning to maintain health. To be more specific, it's cellular metabolism that is the place where the mechanics of a process bio-energetics maintains life.

The Food Model needs to address our new and modern generations understanding and awareness of alternative proteins such as Soy, Whey, Casein, and sources such as brown rice, chick peas, lentils, walnuts, and beans. It needs to show alternative carbohydrate and sugar sources besides sucrose and honey, but more fruits. It should include natural sweetners that are alternatives to table sugar such as Stevia and others such as Xylitol. There are other fats beside the unsaturated fats in many fried foods and red meats and the poly-unsaturated fats from plant sources. There are mono-unsaturated fats from olive oil and oils from canola as well. Our new Food Model must reflect fats that are healthy particularly the Essential Fats found in Omega 3,6,9 oils particularly DHA, EPA, ALA, GLA. The linonlenic acid and linoleic acids from flax, flax seed, safflower, black currant, evening primrose, sunflower, soy, peanut, borage oil, wheat germ and eggs are important alternatives .

But, the food model should also reflect "micro-nutrients" that are the essential building blocks of human life . This is how "cellular bio-fuels" are able to utilize and sustain nutritional balance and produce energy. These "micro-foods" or "nano-nutrition" include vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes(pro-biotics), and minerals(electrolytes). They are consumed as direct or indirectly as foods and need to be addressed in the overall model.

How can a food model be complete without "nano-nutrition" that are being put together and manufactured in the cell daily? They effect the biochemical processing to make foods available for the cell for metabolism when we are on auto-pilot, they act as biochemicals that can fight potential mutations that later lead to diseases such as cancer or heart disease . A an on a even more "micro" level, they make available electrons from atoms that "act" as nutrient fortifiers such as iron delivering oxygen or sulfur being carried in cysteine or vitamins aiding calcium delivery for bones, teeth and muscles.The trace element Chromium Picolinate helps stabilize blood sugar(this is not the hexavalent toxic form). There is the protein carrier known as L-carnitine which is known to carry and remove fat so it can be burned more efficiently as energy as well.

Another area that is not touched in the current foods model are herbals(roots, berries,cereals, teas). They were the first medicines and foods from a hunter-gathering society until the start of the 20th century. Many of the indigenous cultures still utilize them as the sole source of healing, but many a western drug laboratory will tell you that their research of herbs in the jungles of South America were the basis for many of their pharmaceutical products.Many organic herbal plants contain important sources to maintain longevity and balanced metabolism. Guarana from South America has an anti-platelet chemical to reduce clot formation, Ginko helps memory, Gynemma helps stabilizes blood sugar.

THE BAD SIDE OF NUTRITION
As nutrition is healthy there can be a bad side to nutrition or unhealthy forms of it. The "back side" is this unhealthy part that must be understood as well so as to avoid it. There are unhealthy fats such as the saturated fats that is causing the primary fat source leading to obesity today, but others include trans or hydrogenated fats seen in fat greasy fried foods. Many margarines , french fries, hamburgers and snack foods contain these fats. An associated "bad product" that is a by-product of this frying process especially with french fries is Acrilimide.It is known to be a potential carcinogen.

Are there bad proteins? Protein shakes drew a lot of concern and were associated with numerous health problems as a sole a sole dietary source for weight loss and needs to always to be carefully reviewed and understood. Some who are in a weight or body building program have resorted to creatinine as a means to build muscle mass, but be cautious with it as weight gain and redistribution of electrolytes might be an issue. However, healthier amino acid sources such as Branched Chain Amino Acids(BCAAs) may serve as a better source to help build lean muscle mass.

Some concerns have been raised about sources of soy proteins. The tip is to know your sources of soy. Fermented soy is healthier and also be aware of soy isolates which may be a concern . As a caveat the phyto-estrogen in soy acts as an inhibitor of natural estrogen which may give women protection, but ironically may be the cause of concerns for extra estrogen loads leading to health issues. Be aware.

In this new era everything will potentially be cloned, so that genetically modified organisms(products) to make meats particularly be in the markets. The "frankin-fish" that are being farmed may have some issue with it as we do not know its effects on the cells. But, other concerns for meats is enhancing their protein with growth hormones and estrogen. We still need to understand the concern of antiobiotics being fed to livestock as well as pesticides, insecticides and herbicides. We should be aware of irradiated foods or foods from irradiated locations as well.

What about bad carbohydrates? As there are good sources with fruits and vegetables there are also bad sugar sources. Most of them which are in question are "processed" sugars. The average American consumes up to 120-150 pounds of table sugar(sucrose) annually, but other sweetner substances are bringing more concerns than table sugar to the health of Americans today. These substances are found in soft drinks, snacks, and cereals that children are particularly fond of.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is particularly concerned about High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS) which appears to be the primary cause for rising rates of childhood obesity, premature heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes , liver disease and precocious puberty especially in girls. Another sweet substance is Aspartame which comes from a processed methanol-like substance. There have been reports it has been associated with several neruological disorders such as seizures, brain turmors and effects on cognitive functioning.Sucralose(the pink stuff) was discoverd accidentally as a pesticide agent. Need I say more. But, this are the things that we are sprinkling on top of our foods.

Even how we cook foods has grave concerns. Microwaving has the ability to denature protein. Overcooking to a burnt crisp not only makes more carcinogenic agents such as oxygen free radicals, but the National Cancer Institute studies showed how barbecued and grilled foods did pose a noticeable threat to our diet. When the fat portion on meats are cooked the smoke in it can contain Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHS) a known carcinogen to occur. But, when the meaty protein of chicken, steak, and even fish are overcooked their is a change in the meat substance creating a carcinogen known as Heterocyclic Amines.

The food model has to be broadened into a wider inclusive interactive model that can educate and demonstrate how these foods effect not just our diet , but our lifestyles.

Learn more from Dr. Wells book "Nano-Nutrition" on how to utilize the best and healthiest sources of micro-nutrients and bio-fuels for a more balanced metabolism and healthier lifestyle to prevent chronic illness.
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What Makes Fish So Good

For a long time fish was taken only as a delicacy or for those of us on holiday. But, studies indicate fish are healthier sources of protein and micronutrients, too. The Omega 3 oil in fatty fish are high also in calcium. The higher protein containing fish also include salmon, mackrel, sardines and tuna. Tuna is noted for having high amounts of selenium which works as an antioxidant and helps cardiac functioning especially for those with heart failure.It has potassium that helps cellular electricity and helps reduce blood pressure.Tuna also has Vitamin D to make strong bones and Magnesium. While Herring has higher Vitamin B6 and Phosphorous.

Omega 3 oil has properties that reduce blood viscosity or thickness that causes the aggregation of platelets that make clots. It also reduces lipids or the fats in the blood. Omega 3 oil appears to repair damaged circulation to tissue by improving blood flow and reduce inflammation in the blood vessels.

Omega 3 oil has been indicated in reducing Parkison's Disease, Alzheimers and improving overall cognition for brain functioning.

Always be aware of your fish sources. Cold compressed fish are best for Omega 3 oil. Be cautious of mercury poisoning or PCBs(benzenze derivatives, and Poly-Aromoatic Hydrocarbons from oil and gas and toxic locations.

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