Volume 2 Issue 4
Authors: Thomas Tallberg MD
Abstract: The article describes a new academic form of traditional Chinese medicine, since now specific functional therapeutic factors have been delineated and are fed - not only as exotic curative herbs. Cancer therapy should aim to prevent recurrent disease by compensating the complex chronic metabolic deficiency causing cancer, by active dietary substitution. Surgery and toxic treatments remove only symptoms of this aetiological longstanding metabolic deficiency leading to cancer without even trying to intervene in the aetiology, therefore this malignant disease may recur. The causative metabolic deficiency in cancer can be corrected by specific supplementary dietary bio-modulation. Genetic weakness can also be compensated by dietary means, but not by gene-therapy since several genes are affected. The curative effect is improved if specific metabolic supplementation is combined with active stimulation of the patients’ immunity using autologous polymerised tumour tissue as vaccines. Bio-immunotherapy has cured hundreds of cancer patients and experimental animals in prospective randomized studies. When the aetiological deficiency is corrected cell-specific mitochondria are activated and become electron dense. They gather around the tumour cell nucleus and induce them to regain normal healthy transcription. A cluster of organ specific mitochondria appear to regulate oncogene transcription back into normal without apoptosis, mimicking spontaneous cures. Good clinical results have been obtained with renal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, prostate and patients suffering from basal cell cancer. The treatment is economical since it includes only natural metabolic factors, thus it is also ethical, and does not cause side-effects. The special autologous vaccines employed fulfil all requirements that have to be placed on tumour vaccines. The central nervous system with its billions of vital lipids form “lipidomics”, which acts in synergy with “genomics” and “proteomics” to sustain normal mammalian health. Organ/cell-specific mitochondria could be used as bio-technological cancer “precision remedies” in the future. With the present improved understanding of the aetiology of prostate cancer therapeutic studies, with patients suffering from multiple bone metastases, are planned to be started.
Keywords: Biological Cancer Therapy; Autologous Cancer Vaccine; Mitochondrial Regulation of Genes; Cancer Aetiology; Cancer Metabolic Deficiency; Dietary Compensation; Functional Food
Authors: Richard Visser
Abstract: This paper proposes three tools for the prevention of childhood obesity: a guide for healthy living, specific platform and philosophical foundations. A guide for healthy living explains the principal characteristics of balanced food and physical activity to prevent childhood obesity. The specific platform for childhood obesity prevention shows how it is possible to inform and motivate the population and stakeholders to act against the obesity. Philosophical foundations present the basis for obesity prevention. The holistic approach of these tools facilitates comprehension of the ways to prevent the childhood obesity.
Keywords: Prevention of Childhood Obesity; Guide; Specific Platform; Philosophical Foundations; Healthy Living
Authors: Arnulf Kolstad
Abstract: China has had a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years, where holism and body systems have a central place. TCM has gained a foothold also outside China. But does China have an alternative psychology where psychological functions are perceived in a different way with that in the West? Are there specific therapies and treatment procedures based on this understanding? This is discussed in the article and there are given examples of how the traditional Chinese culture understands human thinking, emotions and minor mental health problems. The dialectical way to deal with life represents a different philosophy with the one most common in the West. The Chinese focuses on the whole, the context and the relational. The self-perception and perception of others is based on an understanding of human beings as inter-dependent and linked to each other. Good mental health depends on the perception of being included and integrated in a social network, and according to traditional Chinese view associated with the sense of self as dependent, integrated and relational.
Keywords: Traditional Chinese Medicine; Psychology; Harmony; Balance; Confucius
Authors: TTheresa B. Kuhlenschmidt; Mark S. Kuhlenschmidt; Daniel J. Koch; Paul C. Davidson; Prasanta K. Kalita
Abstract: Vegetated filter strips (VFS) are effective in reducing sediment, nutrient, and pathogenic contamination from livestock production facilities to water resources. However, more work is needed to determine the physical parameters of VFS that affect the reduction of pathogens like Cryptosporidium parvum (C. parvum). Due to the large numbers of organisms required for adequate measurement of recovery and transport rates, as well as the necessity to dispose of pathogen-contaminated soil after each experiment, large-scale soil beds are not practical. Laboratory-scaled soil beds (0.31 m x 0.61 m x 0.15 m) were designed in this study and used in conjunction with a small-scale rainfall simulator to investigate the effect of vegetation and other parameters (e.g. slope, soil type, and rainfall intensity) on surface and near-surface transport of C. parvum in the soil. This study confirms that VFS are very effective in controlling C. parvum transport in surface runoff with reductions as high as 97%. In addition, the small-scale system developed represents the trends observed in previous studies using field-applicable, large-scale simulators. This indicates the small-scale, laboratory-sized system can be used to determine optimum conditions for VFS allowing for site-specific design of VFS to minimize pathogen contamination from animal production facilities.
Keywords: Water Quality; Public Health