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What's Wrong With Peanut Butter (1-29-2011)

   In The China Study by the doctors Campbell, peanut butter is identified as a concern factor for aflatoxin in the United States.  Why?  Because every sample of U.S. sold peanut butter that was tested showed 100 times the acceptable limit of aflatoxin, which is a toxic mold that grows on grains, and on peanuts.  Aflatoxin causes liver cancer in people, and in lab rats when they are fed a diet of 14% (or more) animal-based proteins.  The animal-based protein they used in the rat studies was casein, which makes up around 80% of the proteins in cow's milk.  

   Converting the rat studies for people, just 6 large (12 ounce) glasses of milk has about 72 grams of protein, times 4 to convert to calories equals 288 calories from milk proteins.  Since the "average" American gets around 2,000 calories per day, 288 calories from milk protein is 14.4% of total calories.  

   There is a chart in The China Study that shows there is a huge spike in foci (seed cancer cell) growth starting at 14% casein diets, and the rats fed 14% or more casein diets and aflatoxin all die of liver cancer by around the age of 2 years, while all rats fed 5% milk casein diets (or vegan diets) will be alive with no liver cancer at the age of 2 years, even if you give them high levels of aflatoxin.  (The average lifespan of a rat is 2 years.)

   Whole peanuts do not have a problem with aflatoxin, but peanut butter does.  Why?  Because nice, pretty, clean peanuts are selected to be sold as whole peanuts, but ugly, wrinkled, moldy peanuts are made into peanut butter, and the mold in the wrinkles of the peanuts is apparently the dangerous aflatoxin.  So please, stop feeding your children and your family peanut butter and large amounts of milk, cheese, yoghurt, and other dairy products.  And in The China Study, there is no difference made between the animal-based proteins in milk, and the animal-based proteins found in eggs, meat, poultry or fish, as far as cancer is concerned.  (See the article titled, "The 5% Animal-Based Protein Limit," further down this page.)

   The solution: grind your own peanut butter from clean, unblemished peanuts, and limit your family's animal-based proteins to no more than 5% of total diet, which is 25 grams of animal-based proteins per 2,000 total calories.  25 grams of animal-based proteins can be found in as little as 2 large glasses of milk (24 ounces), or in 2 yoghurts, or in 3 ounces of cheese, or in 3 ounces of meat, poultry, or fish.  So you can eat, or feed your family just one 3 ounce serving of meat, poultry, fish, or cheese per day, or drink 2 large glasses of milk per day, but beyond that, every other calorie you and your family consume should be entirely plant-based (also known as vegan).

 

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My 45 Minutes of Fame (1-11-2011)

   I recently appeared on Jay Korinek's radio show, "The New WHFR Journal," on a PRI radio station in Dearborn Michigan.  I appeared on Jay's Christmas health special on December 17th, 2010, talking about my new book, "Protecting Your Family With Food," subtitled "Eating Right Made Simple."  Jay had previously informed me that he planned to have me on for 15 minutes of his hour long program, but then the 15 minutes stretched on to a half hour and then a little over 45 minutes.

   A podcast of the 45 minute interview and discussion is available through WHFR's website, whfr.fm.  Go to "Podcast" and select "The New WHFR Journal Podcast for December 17, 2010."  Or you can Listen to the podcast here (the interview starts at 2 min 55 seconds and runs to 51 minutes 45 seconds).

   You can read the press release about my appearance here.

   Protecting Your Family With Food looks back over the last 20 to 25 years of scientific studies, and explains in plain English how simple food choices can protect your entire family from getting cancer, high cholesterol, and heart disease, as these diseases have been shown to be almost entirely controllable by diet.

   Protecting Your Family With Food is sold in the U.S. on Amazon.com, in the U.K. on Amazon.co.uk, is available as a digital Kindle book, and is available internationally from createspace.  It is also available through distribution to book stores in the U.S.

-Robert Korczynski

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Is Sugar Really Sugar? (11-19-2010)

(This is an update to an article further down the page titled, "the talking points of high fructose corn syrup.")

   In September of 2008, 4 commercials started airing (and continued to air for about the next two years) for high fructose corn syrup, they had 4 talking points:

   1) That it has the same calories as sugar, 2) That it’s made from corn, 3) That it has no artificial ingredients, and 4) That it’s fine in moderation. 

 

   Those commercials have finally been pulled after almost two years, and after a slight pause, a new commercial has been released from the makers of corn sugar products.  This new commercial only has one thing to say, "whether it is corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference, sugar is sugar."

 

   Since ADM is the corporation that originally negotiated the high import tax on cane sugar in the early 1970s to give U.S. grown corn sugar an advantage, I will assume that ADM is the money behind the high fructose corn syrup commercials.  And it appears that they have lost the war of words, and have abandoned defending high fructose corn syrup, and pulled the commercials mid summer of 2010.  

   In the last year and a half, many manufacturers have started advertising new versions of existing products, variously called, “simply,” “home style,” “original recipe,” “special recipe,” or some variation, and if you check the ingredients, you will find that they have replace the high fructose corn syrup with some other form of sugar, usually cane sugar.  

   Most noticeably, Jarritos Mexican soda advertised on the radio that they had “cane sugar, none of that high fructose corn syrup stuff,” and of course, Snapple who had been advertising for years that they were made from, “the best stuff on Earth,” advertised that they had found, “better stuff,” which was code for, “we switched from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar.”  And a recently purchased blue juice drink from Ocean Spray stated quite clearly in the ingredients list that there was cane sugar or beet sugar used, in other words, none of the newly positioned, "corn sugar."  

   Switching gears, ADM is now making a desperate plea for just "corn sugar," and have released a new commercial with only one talking point, and there may be 2 to 3 more commercials, soon to follow.  In this new commercial, a man who looks too grey to be the boys’s father, indicates that the boy next to him is his son, and that he had, “heard some things about corn sugar,” so he had, “done some research,” (or something similar) and had found that, “Whether it is corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference, sugar is sugar.”  [Update 12/27/2010: Another commercial was released in which a woman says she "consulted with experts," (or something similar) and then delivers the new talking point.]

   I had never heard of "corn sugar" before the commercial, I had only heard of corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup, and I have never seen a bag of "corn sugar" sitting next to the cane sugar and beet sugar in the grocery store.  As much as the commercial raises my suspicions, and makes me wonder if corn sugar is somehow worse than cane sugar, and that your body just might be able to tell the difference, I will agree with ADM, sugar is sugar, and avoiding all forms of added sugar is suggested in An Anti-Cancer Diet.

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The 5% Animal-Based Protein Limit  (6-18-2010)

   In The China Study (2006), Campbell and Campbell clearly show from rat studies that eating more than 5% of your total diet from animal-based foods produces mutant cells and cancer, when exposed to even small amounts of a known, "carcinogen," but diets under 5% animal-based protein and diets that are entirely plant-based (Vegan) do not produce mutant cells, and do not produce cancer, even when exposed to high levels of a, "carcinogen."  

   Why is carcinogen in quotes?  Because if there were truly carcinogens in the world, they would mutate cells and produce cancer regardless of diet, but they do not.  If there is any carcinogen in the world, it is animal-based proteins over 5% of total diet. 

   For an average American eating 2,000 calories per day, 5% is only 25 grams of animal-based protein, or about 3 ounces of meat or cheese per day.  The standard American diet often includes at least 25 grams of animal-based protein per meal, and often totals 14% - 20% animal-based protein per day, which produces mutated cells and cancer when exposed to, "carcinogens."  Switching to a 5% or less animal-based protein diet will also halt any cancer that is developing, so the best plan for your family is to only eat a small portion of meat, poultry, fish, dairy, or eggs 2 or 3 times a week, and all of your other meals should be entirely plant-based, or simply make all of your meals entirely plant-based, which is easier than counting grams of protein.      

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Cheeseburgers, Cancer, and Meditation  (2/22/2010)

Eating, "too many cheeseburgers," is not only bad for cholesterol numbers, but is also, “high risk behavior,” for cancer, according to one of the world's leading researchers on stem cells, Doris Taylor, ph.D., director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Dr Taylor and her colleges at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis are famous for growing embryonic stem cells for a rat heart in another rat’s dead heart that they had washed out and connected to nutrients, so they do know a lot about stem cells.  Dr Taylor said in an NPR interview first aired in 2008 that while she can’t prove it yet, she will be working in the next few years to show that cancer cells are just stem cells that were copied after the telomeres fell off the end of the genetic strand, and that meditation lengthens telomeres.  Listen to the interview here. 

 

Every part of your body has stem cells, and each time a cell is damaged in your heart, for example, a new cell must be made to replace it, and so a stem cell for the heart (that is in the heart tissue) is made to replace the damaged cell of the heart, a liver stem cell makes another liver cell, a skin stem cell makes a replacement skin cell.  Dr Taylor says that we all have billions of stem cells throughout our bodies, we have them in our bone marrow, skin, liver, heart, lungs, etc.  The problem is that each time a copy is made to replace a damaged cell, the end cap of the genetic strand (called the telomere) gets shorter, and then another cell is damaged, and it makes another copy and the end cap gets even shorter.  

 

When it gets too small, the end cap falls off of the DNA double helix, and if a copy is made to replace a damaged cell now, Dr Taylor says that she believes that it makes a cancer cell.  She says that both stem cells and cancer cells have the ability to move anywhere they want and to make new cells of any kind.  

The difference is that stem cells with intact telomeres are part of the team, they follow orders and do what they are told.  Cancer cells have all of the abilities of a stem cell, but they don’t follow orders and they don’t make the kind of cells they were created to make.  For example, in the liver, a copy of a liver stem cell with its telomere fallen off (called a cancer cell) might make skin cells if that’s all it can do, remember, it’s broken.

The bad news: so constantly abusing your cardiovascular system and digestive organs with, "too many cheeseburgers," causes them to have to replace cells more often, which can wear out the telomeres, which can lead to the variety of internal cancers we see today.

The good news: Dr Taylor stated quite clearly that while meditation has not yet been proven to lengthen telomeres, stress has been proven to shorten telomeres.  This means that the following is a true statement.  Since meditation eliminates stress, and stress shortens telomeres, and when telomeres get too short they fall off, and if Dr Taylor is right and this forms cancer cells, then meditation prevents cancer. 

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Being Overweight Causes Cancer (10-17-2009)   

"The importance of weight control, physical activity, and diet in cancer prevention:  Evidence suggests that one-third of the more than 500,000 cancer deaths that occur in the United States each year can be attributed to diet and physical activity habits, including overweight and obesity..."  - Excerpt taken from the 2008 American Cancer Society report.

   The guidelines laid out in An Anti-Cancer Diet are designed to help anyone lose weight, as being overweight now accounts for as many cancer deaths per year as exposure to all tobacco products combined (in the U.S.).  Since smoking cigarettes only accounts for a portion of all tobacco-related cancer deaths, this means that you now have a greater chance of getting cancer and dying just from eating the wrong foods, and being overweight or obese, than you do from smoking cigarettes.

   As usual, the foods that are bad for you all share one thing in common, they are all animal products, either meat, dairy, or eggs.  Avoiding these foods lowers your cancer risk by eliminating the acidic by-products formed in your body by digesting animal proteins.  These foods have long been known to be the main cause of heart disease, but over the last decade or so, they are also turning out to be one of the main causes of prostate cancer, breast cancer, and many other kinds of cancer.
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The Talking Points of High-Fructose Corn Syrup (12-3-2008)

   Starting in September of 2008, a series of public relations ads were released that contain the new talking points of high-fructose corn syrup.  It seems that many consumers have been making the choice to avoid products containing high-fructose corn syrup, and in an attempt to mold public opinion, millions of dollars have been spent to produce three television commercials, and millions more have been spent to air them. 

   The first commercial to air involves a young white couple having a romantic picnic at a park, and the lady offers the man a lick of her popsicle.  

   He says something like, “You don’t love me very much, do you?”  

   “Why?” she asks.  

   “Because that has high-fructose corn syrup in it.”  

   “And?”

   “Well, you know what they say...” he stumbles, and then looks dumb.

   “What?” she asks, “That it has the same calories as sugar?  That it’s made from corn?  That it has no artificial ingredients?  And that it’s fine in moderation?”

   The second commercial to air is set in a backyard birthday party at a black woman’s house.  The item in question is some red drink in a gallon jug from the store.  The dialog is basically the same, except a rude white lady starts with, “Ooh, you don’t care about the kids very much, do you?”  After that, the commercial plays out pretty much the same, with the exact same dialogue for the talking points.

   The third commercial shows two white teenagers sitting at a kitchen table, the older one is eating some standard breakfast cereal.  The younger teenager says something like, “You don’t care about your body much, do you?”  After that, it has the same basic dialogue, and the same four talking points.

 

   Let’s look at the four talking points common to all three commercials. 

   1)  That it has the same calories as sugar.

   2)  That it’s made from corn.

   3)  That it has no artificial ingredients.

   4)  And that it’s fine in moderation.

   Number four is very revealing.  It says that high-fructose corn syrup is, “fine in moderation.”  Which means they are admitting that it is not fine if consumed in anything that could be deemed, “above moderation.”  

   According to the three television commercials, the average person will encounter high-fructose corn syrup in their breakfast cereal, at a birthday party in the red drink, and in the popsicle they have to cool down at the park.  Is that moderation?

   In fact, all name brand sodas and most packaged and boxed foods have had high-fructose corn syrup in them since the late 1970s in America, so consuming it in moderation is very difficult.  The only way to consume high-fructose corn syrup in moderation is to avoid it in all the food you buy at the store to bring home, and then you will only consume it when you eat out, or drink a soda, or eat some junk food.

   If you are old enough to remember the summer Coca-Cola introduced, “New Coke” took the original Coca-Cola away, and then brought it back later that summer under the name, “Coke Classic,” that was the summer that most sodas (and most canned and packaged foods) switched to using high-fructose corn syrup in America.  It can only be good that thirty years later a public relations firm was hired to do damage control for high-fructose corn syrup.  This shows that many consumers are avoiding products with high-fructose corn syrup, and millions of dollars have been spent on what can only be called slick propaganda ads.

   High-fructose corn syrup is very refined, and can hit the bloodstream very quickly, which can result in big responding spikes in insulin.  This could be linked with why, “adult onset diabetes,” has been striking people as young as in their teens in the last few decades in America.  High-fructose corn syrup may also be linked to the increased rates of obesity in America over the last 30 years.  Obesity rates began to rise in the 1980s after a few years of all name brand products switching over to high-fructose corn syrup.  

   According to the American Cancer Society, obesity and diet now account for as many cancer deaths per year as all forms of tobacco use combined in the United States.  From an anti-cancer perspective, high-fructose corn syrup should be on the short list of things to avoid on the ingredient labels of food purchased at the grocery store.

   1)  Avoid high-fructose corn syrup.

   2)  Avoid MSG (which turns off the instinct to stop eating).

   3)  Avoid hydrogenated oils and partially hydrogenated oils. 

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What Is rBGH/rBST? (4-24-2008)

(All dairy products pose a cancer risk, products made from cow's milk more so, and rBST treated cow's milk poses the highest cancer risk.  The section following this summarizes why you should avoid all dairy products, even those with a label about rBGH/rBST.)

  
Have you ever seen the labels saying, "There is No use of rBGH (or rBST) in the raising of these cows for milk," or something similar?

 
    The background: first, rBST is a growth hormone or, "growth stimulant," that Monsanto created in the early 1990's using the, "recombinant," process; they grew it in E. coli bacteria, and extracted and purified it; rBST is marketed and sold under a variety of names, including rBGH.

    Canada, the European Union, and the rest of the world refused to allow rBST into their countries; it was banned in 1999 in both Canada and the E.U., where evidence of increased hoof and udder infections, and higher rates of cows getting sick (or going lame) weighed in unfavorably against the claimed 10 - 20% increase in milk production. 

The year Monsanto first marketed rBST (1995), a Japanese study on rats showed that BST crosses thru the intestinal walls, and is absorbed into the system; it is not digested because it is surrounded by so much casein (80% of the proteins in cow's milk).  This same study showed that large amounts of BST caused tumors in rats.  Read more about rBST here.

   And for the claimed 10 - 20% increase in milk production from the use of rBST (aka rBGH), one of the side effects is that you get an 80% - 1,000% increase in, "Insulin-like Growth Factors" (2 - 10 times higher levels of 

"IGF-1").  The next article covers IGFs in some detail, as high levels of IGFs have been tied to higher cancer rates. 

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Why Avoid All Dairy Products? (4-24-2008)

   Many scientific studies over the last fifteen years have shown that high levels of a group of peptides, or short proteins (found in animal milk) called, “Insulin-like Growth Factors,” or, “IGFs,” have been linked to higher rates of both breast cancer and prostate cancer; while diets rich in soy foods, like soymilk and tofu, have been shown to lower cancer risk.  A few facts on IGFs:

1) Studies have shown that there are receptors on the breast tissue for not only estrogen, but also for IGFs, and increased levels of IGFs induced mammary tumors in rats.

2) "In addition, bovine IGF-1 and human IGF-1 are identical (i.e. they have the exact same amino acid sequence)."  Read more here, from the paper submitted in defence of the state of Maine.  In 2002, Monsanto tried to force Maine to stop labeling milk with, "no rBST/rBGH," labels.

3) Increased levels of IGF-1 are not only linked with breast cancer (through numerous studies), but also with prostate cancer.  The basics are that animal-based saturated fats already raise your blood's insulin levels, and all types of animal milk has IGFs, and then add increased levels from rBST treated cow's milk, and you get high insulin levels, and very high levels of IGF-1 specifically.  All studies show prostate and breast cancers rates go up with higher IGF-1 levels, and down with lower IGF-1 levels.    

4) Soy products lower IGF levels, while dairy products raise levels; many studies have shown that a plant-based diet, rich in soy foods, produces the lowest rates of prostate cancer and breast cancer.  So simply eliminating dairy, and changing cow's milk to soy milk may be one of the most significant changes you can make in your diet, if you want to prevent or reverse prostate or breast cancers.  

5) It does not seem like the issue is only with cow's milk, as all animal milks also have IGFs, but the 2 things that make cow's milk worse than goat's milk (for example) are the increased levels of IGF-1 in rBST/rBGH treated cows in America, and the fact that human and cow IGF-1 are identical.

So to sum up:

1) All animal milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, etc. is therefore bad for you, because they all contain IGFs.
2) Cow and human IGF-1 is identical, but all milk has some form of IGF-1.
3) Cows injected with rBST/rBGH produce milk with higher levels of IGF-1.
4) IGF levels go hand in hand with cancers, as higher levels result in higher rates of prostate and breast cancers, and lower levels result in the lowest rates.
5) Dairy products raise IGF-1 levels, while soy products lower IGF-1 levels.

Switching from cow's milk to soymilk is the easiest, and most effective way to lower your IGF levels, which will lower the odds of you being diagnosed with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and many other cancers.

 

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The Maple-Lemon-Cayenne Cleanse (6-7-2007)

   In An Anti-Cancer Diet a cleanse is mentioned that is made with Grade B Maple syrup, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and water, and provides all the minerals and nutrients necessary for up to 30 days.  Get Grade B Maple syrup, as Grade A does not have enough minerals in it.  Bentonite clay, and Psyllium seed hulls can be used as well, and many people try to stay on the Maple-Lemon-Cayenne cleanse for 10 to 14 days.  This drink is sometimes referred to as the, “Master Cleanse.”

   Liquid Bentonite clay, and powdered Psyllium seed hulls (Metamucil, etc.) have been added to the recommended Maple-Lemon-Cayenne cleanse.  They are suggested because the lemon juice and cayenne pepper help to flush impurities out of your body (and into your intestines) where Bentonite and Psyllium come into play, picking up different types of impurities and moving them out of your system.

   Bentonite is a kind of clay that has a large negatively charged surface area when powdered and swollen with water, and many metals can be attracted to this; Bentonite acts like thousands of tiny magnets moving through your intestines, grabbing any impurities that are positively charged.  Powered Psyllium seed hulls, when mixed with water, absorb many other things in your intestinal tract.  Psyllium grabs different things than Bentonite, and they work well together, picking up almost everything being flushed from your system by the Maple-Lemon-Cayenne cleanse.

Recipe:

  (Weaker):  ¼ cup maple, ¼ cup lemon, ¼ teaspoon cayenne; mix with 1 quart of water.

  (Stronger): ½ cup maple, ½ cup lemon, ½ teaspoon cayenne; mix with 1 quart of water.

   Make some up in the morning, and take it with you, drinking it throughout the day; try to drink around 2 quarts of the spicy lemonade per day, and another two quarts of water, as well.

Schedule: 

  Breakfast is: liquid Bentonite (1 Tbs per 8 ounces of water) and Psyllium (1 Tbs per 8 ounces of water), then at least 10 ounces of lemonade cleanse.

  (Drink at least another 8 ounces of water or lemonade cleanse in-between “meals.”)

  Lunch is: Psyllium (1 Tbs per 8 oz water), then at least 10 ounces of lemonade cleanse.

  (Drink at least another 8 oz of water or lemonade cleanse in-between “meals.”)

  Dinner is: Bentonite (1Tbs per 8 oz water) and Psyllium (1 Tbs per 8 oz water), and at least 10 ounces of the Maple-Lemon cleanse. 

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[End of recent articles by Robert Korczynski, including, "black tea is just as good as green tea," "top 5 easy ways to extend your life," "what's wrong with peanut butter," "my 45 minutes of fame," "is sugar really sugar," "the 5% animal-based protein limit," "cheeseburgers cancer and meditation," "being overweight causes cancer," "the talking points of high-fructose corn syrup," "what is rBGH/rBST," "why avoid all dairy products," and "the maple-lemon-cayenne cleanse."]