Amazon JIVA Essence of Life Category:  Health/Wellness Publisher: Safe Goods ISBN-10:  1884820921 Pages: 88 Copyright: October 28, 2008 ISBN-13: 9781884820922 Doctor finds inflammation a cause of cancer. Dr. Vijaya Nair, MD FAMS, MS, after years of researching the cause and treatment of cancer concludes that inflammation is a key contributor to major diseases plaguing our citizens. In her new book, Prevent Cancer, Strokes, Heart Attacks and other Deadly Killers! Dr. Nair claims that although inflammation is your immune system’s way of protecting you from physical trauma or foreign invaders, such as viruses and bacteria, many times it forgets to shut itself off and ends up destroying the very tissues and organs it was meant to protect. “It’s a major contributor to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and many more life-threatening conditions. Control inflammation and you control disease,” Dr. Nair says. Through her research, Dr. Nair has found that all types of inflammation can cause cancer. Whether the inflammation is caused by an infection (such as hepatitis), a mechanical irritant (such as kidney stones), or a chemical irritant (such as stomach acid) the result is the same. Chronic, low-grade inflammation greatly increases your risk of developing cancer. Arthritis conditions see an avalanche of inflammatory chemicals being released — and those inflammatory chemicals wear away the joint cartilage. The first step in any program to combat arthritis then isn’t to stop the pain, but to stop the inflammation! With the development of the condition of Alzheimer’s, inflammation plays a role and also makes it progress faster. That’s because the plaques and tangles themselves are mechanical irritants to the brain. The inflammation they create causes the release of brain-killing chemicals. From these examples we can see the root cause of most disease is the body’s inability to control inflammation. Prevent Cancer, Strokes, Heart Attacks and other Deadly Killers reveals some non-drug methods to reduce or eliminate inflammation and thus speed recovery. According to Dr. Nair, this is the first place modern medicine should start looking for treatment and prevention. What do cancer, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, digestive tract diseases, macular degeneration and chronc fatigue syndrom have in common? They're all caused by chronic, low-grade inflammation. In her ground breaking new book, esteemed researcher and epidemiologist, Dr. Vijaya nair discusses the hidden cause behind some of America's most deadly diseases - and reveals natural anti-inflammatory remedies that can help prevent and treat them. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, and backed by numerous scientific research studies, PREVENT Cancer, Strokes, Heart Attacks and other Deadly Killers! explains: ...What triggers chronic, low-grade inflammation ...How inflammation causes cancer, destroys your joints, damages your heart, affects your digestive tract, robs you of your eyesight, hurts your brain, and reduces your energy ...The seven research-backed, natural inflammatory remedies that can change your health ...Simple lifestyle changes you can make to live inflammation-free Excerpt Introduction How I came to write this book “Happiness lies, first of all, in health.” -George William Curtis (American writer, 1824-1892) If you’re like me, you’re keenly interested in preserving or regaining your health, yet you reserve a healthy dose of skepticism about anything promoted as a “miracle cure.” I’ll be the first to acknowledge that many of the natural supplements available today have big claims but little scientific backing. Too often, when you dig a little deeper you’ll find these claims are either distortions of the truth or downright fabrications. So for much of my life I, like many people, disregarded herbal therapies as a valid possibility for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s. When you look at my background you may understand why. Although I was born in Singapore, an island nation in Southeast Asia, my academic studies were similar to that of any Western doctor. I was initially trained as a psychiatrist (a medical doctor who specializes in mental health) in my home country. I later moved to the United States and completed my post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and at Columbia University. I then taught epidemiology (the study of identifying risk factors for disease) at Columbia. If I was going to be convinced of the validity of herbal therapies I had to see factual evidence! However, my unquestioning support of Western medicine started to crack while I was doing research at Columbia. In all the studies I was coming across and helping to direct, one thing was striking — conventional treatments for chronic illnesses had shocking and often painful side effects. For example, standard cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation not only made people sick to their stomachs, bone-achingly tired, and skinny as a rail, but sometimes the side effects were so severe they actually killed the patient! Sadly, many patients were not even told what the risks of these drugs were or how they were going to affect them before starting treatment. Worse yet, these treatments weren’t even helping us win the war against cancer. Despite $200 billion dollars invested in conventional cancer treatments since 1970, as of 2002, Western medicine hadn’t made a dent in the rate of cancer deaths.1 In fact, the U.S. death rate from cancer remained unchanged from 1950 to 2002.2 So what we had were highly toxic treatments that were not actually saving people’s lives. I started to wonder if there was a better way.

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PREVENT CANCER, Strokes, Heart Attacks and Other Deadly Killers

What do cancer, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, digestive tract diseases, macular degeneration and chronic fatigue syndrome have all in common? They’re all caused by chronic, low-grade inflammation. Nair, a researcher and epidemiologist, discusses the hidden cause behind some of America’s deadly diseases and reveals natural anti-inflammatory remedies that can help prevent and treat them. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, and backed by numerous scientific research studies, she explains what triggers chronic, low-grade inflammation and how it causes cancer, destroys your joints, damages your heart, affects your digestive tract, robs you of your eye sight, harms your brain and reduces your energy. Nair lists her top seven research-backed, natural anti-inflammatory remedies that can change your health and offers simple lifestyle changes you can make to live inflammation-free.


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Prevent Cancer
Vijaya Nair
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The best way to fight cancer is to never get it. "Prevent Cancer: Strokes, Heart Attacks, and Other Deadly Killers" is Vijaya Nair's guide to cancer prevention, claiming that these ailments are caused by a constant inflammation of the body. Persistent exposure to this leads to many major ailments that many fear as they go through life, and Nair seeks to explain her theory as well as offering tips on avoiding inflammation in everyday life. "Prevent Cancer" is a new approach to health and prevention of cancer, highly recommended.

Bharat B. Aggarwalk, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, Chief Cytokine Research Lab, Univ. of TX MD Anderson Cancer Center
Renown scientist and epidemiologist, Dr. Vijaya Nair has written a concise book for the lay public that both brilliantly and simply outlines how to prevent the most chronic of the illnesses and diseases that afflict the American population today.