Overall Risk of Cancer Cut By 37%...
by Warren J. Matthews
What do you think about this?
* Overall cancer risk reduced by 37%
* Overall reduction in cancer
mortality rates by 50%
* 30% reduction of colorectal
cancer.
Sounds like the sort of claims someone standing on a soapbox trying to sell snake oil would make... but
SURPRISE ... these statements are coming from the mainstream ... and the results are from simple natural
multi-vitamins NOT pharmaceutical drugs!
But that is not all! It is now being said that if everyone over 65 took a multi every day that the US taxpayer would save $1.6 billion over 5 years in
Medicare costs due to a reduced incidence of coronary artery disease and other diseases triggered by weak immune systems.
These figures do NOT factor in the financial savings brought about by the reduction of colorectal cancer,
diabetes, prostate cancer and a whole host of other ailments that can likely be avoided through proper nutritional supplementation. If these were factored
in then the savings would be MUCH greater.
OK... who is saying these things?
Earlier this month there was a conference in Washington DC entitled "Multivitamins and Public
Health: Exploring the Evidence."
Presented at this conference were the results of a study just completed by the Lewin Group (a health care consulting firm). It was funded by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare which is part of Wyeth Pharmaceutical Group. This is what the researchers did:
They analyzed more than 125 clinical studies plus scientific literature to determine whether or not multivitamins gave any health benefits and if so,
whether these benefits translated into savings in healthcare bills for people 65 years of age or older.
The director of the Lewin Group, Allen Dobson, PhD put the study results into perspective when he said, "finding any cost savings for preventative measures
is unusual and finding cost savings of this magnitude ($1.6B) is very rare."
It is a refreshing turn around for someone associated with 'mainstream' medicine to actually concede that
preventive measures actually do work. As you have probably noticed over the last couple of years there have been many misleading statements from spokespeople in the 'mainstream' medical field doing their best to
discourage people from the use of natural preventive remedies.
More positive 'mainstream' comments...
The positive 'mainstream' comment doesn't end with this study! During the same week that the conference
in Washington was held the results of another study was published in the American Journal of Epidermiology
which is a 'mainstream' publication. This was a study carried out by Harvard during the last twenty years.
The results will no doubt annoy many opponents of natural preventive medicines but the facts speak for
themselves. Here are the highlights:
* The study involved approximately
145,000 middle aged or elderly
adults.
* In 1982 these adults were surveyed
regarding their multi-vitamin use.
* Their use was reassessed 10 years
later in 1992.
* They were then followed up again
over the next five years.
* During that period 797 of the
participants developed
colorectal cancer.
What the researchers found is that after adjusting for 'health conscious' behaviors those participants that
had regularly used multi vitamins since the start of the study (at least 10 years) had a 30% decreased risk
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BIO:
Warren is the Chairman of Xtend Life Natural Products, designer and manufacturer of Total Balance, a highly
advanced supplement designed to provide complete immune support. Total Balance is the worlds first multi-nutrient supplement featuring an enteric
coating. This unique coating allows your body to absorb virtually 100% of it's 85 nutrients.
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