Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Epidemiologists, who specialize in unlocking the mystery of where, why, and in whom disease occurs, have found that the risk of prostate cancer for black men in America climbs from south to north. When it comes to prostate cancer in black men, the risk is considerably lower in sunny Florida. But as you move north, the rate of prostate cancer in black men climbs until it peaks in the often cloud-covered heights of the Northeast. There is a growing belief among some researchers that a lack of vitamin D may also be one of the reasons we get sick more often in the winter than in the summer months. |
Bill Sardi
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 The 1983 to 1989 five-year relative survival for colon cancer was 61% among white men, 59% among white women, 48% among black men, and 49% among black women. Analysis of the National Cancer Institute's Black/White Cancer Survival Study found that black men and women with colorectal cancer had a 50% greater probability of dying of colon cancer than did white men and women. These differences in survival rates are likely related to diminished vitamin D synthesis in the skin of dark-skinned people.
The best diet only provides a few hundred units of vitamin D, even when fortified milk is consumed. |
| Then after 1991, death rates for white and black men began to drop sharply. The ACS says mortality rates (in 1998-99) were the lowest since 1950 in white men, and the lowest since 1969 (when those rates were first recorded) in black men. [ACS March 31, 2003]
Since there is no effective treatment that prolongs life, just how could the American Cancer Society have come to the conclusion that the PSA test prolongs survival? Experts agree there has been no significant drop in prostate cancer mortality rates for decades. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| When it comes to prostate cancer in black men, the risk is considerably lower in sunny Florida. But as you move north, the rate of prostate cancer in black men climbs until it peaks in the often cloud-covered heights of the Northeast. There is a growing belief among some researchers that a lack of vitamin D may also be one of the reasons we get sick more often in the winter than in the summer months.
The combination of excess cholesterol and lack of exposure to sufficient sunlight may well be part of the reason that African Americans have such a high rate of heart disease. |
Devra Davis
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 More black men got lung cancer, though they tended to smoke less. Many cancer victims were women who hadn't smoked. Were the ovens a factor? That was what Steelworkers Union chief epidemiologist William Lloyd and many others wanted to find out.
As far as I can tell, Doll never published directly on Redmond's studies. But a letter found in the archives of Robert Kehoe, the head of the industry-funded Kettering labs at the University of Cincinnati, makes it clear that Doll tracked this matter closely for many years. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 She could only have relationships with black men. Later, any man resonated with the early stepfather. She switched to sex with women. It seemed much safer to her. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| But as you move north, the rate of prostate cancer in black men climbs until it peaks in the often cloud-covered heights of the Northeast. There is a growing belief among some researchers that a lack of vitamin D may also be one of the reasons we get sick more often in the winter than in the summer months.
The combination of excess cholesterol and lack of exposure to sufficient sunlight may well be part of the reason that African Americans have such a high rate of heart disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By combining three simple observations -- the sunlight blocking capacity of darkly pigmented skin, ultraviolet light intensity at geographic latitudes, and recent research showing vitamin D's ability to prevent cancer tumors from growing -- Adams has pieced together a powerful, yet obvious explanation for why black men and women experience far more serious cancers than whites. The cancer industry, meanwhile, remains baffled by the difference and claims to not understand why black women experience more severe cancers than white women.
The real explanation for the difference? |
Bill Sardi
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| Cancer Biotherapy Radiopharm 20:467-78, 2005]
There is more to learn. black men develop lung cancer at a higher rate than do Caucasian men. The reason for this is obvious, but for some reason escapes the attention of cancer doctors. Dark-skinned people have low levels of vitamin D due to melanin in their skin, and that's why they require far more sunshine to produce the same amount of vitamin D as do Caucasians.
There is yet another intriguing link to lung cancer. |
| Analysis of the National Cancer Institute's Black/White Cancer Survival Study found that black men and women with colorectal cancer had a 50% greater probability of dying of colon cancer than did white men and women. These differences in survival rates are likely related to diminished vitamin D synthesis in the skin of dark-skinned people.
The best diet only provides a few hundred units of vitamin D, even when fortified milk is consumed. |
| The ACS says mortality rates (in 1998-99) were the lowest since 1950 in white men, and the lowest since 1969 (when those rates were first recorded) in black men. [ACS March 31, 2003]
Since there is no effective treatment that prolongs life, just how could the American Cancer Society have come to the conclusion that the PSA test prolongs survival? Experts agree there has been no significant drop in prostate cancer mortality rates for decades. |
Devra Davis
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| Black men who sought work in the well-paying steel industry were offered only the dirtiest, most dangerous posts. They could not be machinists, carpenters, chemists or electricians; those jobs were reserved for men of British, Scottish or other European ancestry.40 They could work atop or next to the coke ovens, where searing heat and fumes regularly burned holes through their boots. They could haul steaming molten trash from the blast furnaces and ovens.
By the time Redmond started her work, the pension funds of the coke oven workers were quite rich. They still are. |
| At first only local white men and women were hired for the plants, along with a few black men. Segregated facilities were maintained, including separate day care and school programs for the workers' children. When production needs grew, black women were allowed into the workforce.
A half century later, Phil recalled the patients he would see at the arsenal. "We had a hospital on the grounds to take care of all casualties—black or white—that would arise from routine army work, including that at the nearby arsenal. Most of the patients I saw in the dispensary came from the chemical plant. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Lyle RM, Melby CL, Hyner GC et al: Blood pressure and metabolic effects of calcium supplementation on normotensive white and black men. JAMA; 257(13): 1772-1776. 1987
Malberti F, Surian M, Poggio F et al: Efficacy and safety of long-term treatment with calcium carbonate as a phosphate binder. Am J Kidney Dis; 12(6):487-491. 1988
McKane WR, Khosla S, Egan KS et al: Role of calcium intake in modulating age-related increases in parathyroid function and bone resorption. J Clin Endocrinol Metab; 81(5):1699-1703. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not surprisingly, black women suffer extremely high rates of breast cancer while black men show similarly high levels of prostate cancer. The white-dominated medical industry pretends to be "mystified" by all this. Why won't conventional medicine simple tell black people the truth about vitamin D, skin pigmentation and cancer? Why do oncologists try to keep black people ignorant about their vitamin D deficiencies?
#10: Why is it illegal for nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their products? |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Further support of the role of vitamin D insufficiency in cancer development relates to the finding that in addition to their well-documented low 25(OH) D levels as a group, black men in the United States have a 40% higher rate for total cancer mortality, whereas black women have a 20% higher mortality rate compared to their white counterparts [79]. Giovannucci et al. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 However, the association of increasing dietary potassium intake and decreasing stroke mortality only occurred in black men and hypertensive (page 246) men in one study.5 Others have found an association between increased risk of stroke and the combination of low dietary potassium plus high salt intake.6 Increasing dietary potassium has lowered blood pressure in humans, which by itself should reduce the risk of stroke.7 However, some of the protective effect of potassium appears to extend beyond its ability to lower blood pressure (page 246). |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| There remains the debate as to whether vitamin D status should be improved by diet or sun exposure. In a study of persons with a diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer, for whom sun exposure was the likely cause of this cancer, there were lower rates of second cancers (colon, gastric, and rectal cancers) [80]. Thus, there must be better understanding of the role of vitamin D, which for many people is through sun exposure. Although sun exposure increases the risk of developing skin cancer [51], it has the potential to reduce the risk of developing more severe forms of cancer [80].
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Then, throw in factors such as how vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, and look at the skyrocketing rates of prostate cancer in black men who live in northern climates, such as the UK, Canada, and the northern United States. The answer is so obvious that it's almost laughable that the modern medical community hasn't stumbled across this.
I find it absolutely amazing that doctors aren't taught this stuff. I mean, what are they learning in medical school? If they're not learning about how humans should experience the natural environment and prevent chronic disease, then what are they learning? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why prostate cancer is epidemic among black men -- it's a simple, but widespread, sunlight deficiency.
Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.
Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Additional risk for black men and bald men may be related to higher levels of the male hormone androgen.
What are the symptoms?
• frequent, difficult, or painful urination
• dribbling
• blood in the urine
• painful ejaculation
• hip or back pain
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Henry Hobhouse
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 In that year the drafters of the Constitution, in their wisdom, had recognized the contradiction between white men who had just wrested their freedom from the tyrannical British monarchy and the black men who were chattels. Nearly all the politicians of the federal period owned slaves, some of them a great many; a few had black or mulatto mistresses. In public they deplored slavery; in private they were slave owners. In practice, what could be done about the social problem presented by the black man? |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Effect of diet on plasma and urinary hormones in South African black men with prostatic cancer. Cancer Res 1982;42:3864-69.
89. Cleary MP, Zisk JF. Anti-obesity effect of two different levels of dehydroepiandrosterone in lean and obese middle-aged female zucker rats. IntJ Obesity 1986;10:193-204.
90. Gansler T, Meller S, Cleary J. Chronic administration of dehydroepiandrosterone reduces pancreatic B-cell hyperplasia and hyperinsulinemia in genetically obese zucker rats. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1985;180:155-62.
91. NestlerJE, Barlascini CO, CloreJN, Blackard WG. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Lung cancer rates in black men are some 40 percent higher and have been increasing more rapidly than in whites over the last few decades. While more black men identify themselves as current smokers, they have in fact smoked less and started smoking later in life than white men.4042
* From 1973-1991, annual lung cancer mortality rates in females increased nine time faster than in males, 4.6% compared with 0.5%, and lung cancer is up to three times more likely to develop in females than in males with comparable smoking habits. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 When researchers compared levels of vitamin D in black men in sun-drenched Zaire with black men who had moved to northern Europe, the men who moved to northern Europe showed much lower levels of vitamin D, and their incidence of prostate cancer was higher.
Scandinavian countries suffer an extremely high death rate from prostate cancer, while Japan's rate is low. The U.S. lies somewhere in between. Interestingly, Japanese men who immigrate to the U.S. have an incidence rate close to that of men born in the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The message to black men needs to be: get several minutes of natural sunlight on your bare skin every single day. And if you can't do that, then take cod liver oil supplements or get other sources of vitamin D into your diet immediately. Conventional medicine has universally failed to deliver this urgent message to black Americans.
Other studies show that black women suffer from more aggressive forms of breast cancer. Once again, it's no surprise: chronic vitamin D deficiency directly promotes breast cancer in women. And it is black women, once again, who are lacking vitamin D the most. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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| When researchers compared levels of vitamin D in black men in sun-drenched Zaire with black men who had moved to northern Europe, the men who moved to northern Europe showed much lower levels of vitamin D, and their incidence of prostate cancer was higher.
Scandinavian countries suffer an extremely high death rate from prostate cancer, while Japan's rate is low. The U.S. lies somewhere in between. Interestingly, Japanese men who immigrate to the U.S. have an incidence rate close to that of men born in the U.S. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 One out of every four hamburgers that McDonald's now sells is to an inner-city consumer and, disproportionately, to young black men.36 It's also not so easy when the advertising clout of McDonald's is $800 million a year and, well. . . when was the last time you were seduced by a broccoli ad on TV?
"You don't know how to cook collard greens, girl?" Cathrine says, imitating herself talking to young black women in the neighborhood who grew up on fast food and never learned the healthy aspects of their traditional African-American cuisine. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 Colin McCord and Harold Freeman observed that "black men in Harlem were less likely to reach the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh," a country synonymous with natural and man-contrived disasters, abject poverty, and malnutrition.
Social dislocation, and alienation at work and in the world, are less dramatic but equally important and pervasive contributors to ill health. Over the last thirty years the increased incidence of a variety of disorders has been closely linked with removal from familiar settings and supportive communities. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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 In addition, death rates are higher in blacks, and black women are more seriously affected than black men. Reasons for these differences include obesity, socioeconomic status, and genetics.
Obesity is a growing problem among American blacks, particularly in women. Both the amount and the distribution of fat contribute to the high rate of diabetes in blacks. Although the prevalence of obesity is higher in the poor economic groups, poverty cannot explain all of the excess obesity that occurs in U.S. blacks. |
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