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
of developing colon/rectal cancer.  

They also found that those people who had only recently
started taking supplements had no protection in the
short term and that the benefits only manifested
themselves over the long term. This is an important
point to remember. Start early not later. Increasing
your immunity from cancer is a steady building up
process over the long term.  

This study ties in with another well known study in
which selenium (in the correct form) was found to
reduce the incidence of all cancers by 37% and
overall mortality from cancer by 50%.  

These two studies only deal with vitamins and one
mineral. They do not include the many reputable
studies that have clearly established antioxidants
on their own also play a major role in cancer
prevention. Unfortunately most people never get to
hear about most of these studies. If they did
and they acted upon it a lot of pain and suffering
could be avoided.  

  
Now here is something to think about!  

If the risk of cardiovascular disease and other
diseases brought on by poor immunity can be reduced
significantly by a simple multi vitamin, and further,
that the risk of colon/rectal cancer can be also
reduced by 30% through multi-vitamins, and in
addition, if the risk of other cancers can be
reduced by 37% by just one mineral,selenium.

What would happen to your overall risk profile if
you did the following?  

 * You took all the key nutrients proven in clinical
   studies to be effective for cardiovascular health  
 * Digestive health  
 * Hormonal health  
 * Key organ health including the brain  
 * And included selected enzymes and immunity enhancing
   herbal extracts  
 * Used the latest scientific knowledge of synergy and
   metabolic pathways to magnify the effects of the
   individual substances and you put them all into a
   capsule or tablet?  

I know the answer because we have done just this when
we produced Total Balance which was developed firstly
for the protection of my own family and secondly for
the benefit of our customers world-wide. But... I can't
tell you what I believe is the answer because I would
get into trouble with the authorities as it is not
proven as yet by clinical trials. Instead we can only
relate to clinical studies that have been carried out
on the individual nutrients that we use.  

But... I can leave it to your imagination. To help your
imagination whilst pondering on this I can tell you that
multi-vitamin products are very weak (but they are
inexpensive).

Other vitamin like products such as the quite common
alpha lipoic acid are many more times potent that common
vitamins. Same thing applies to some of the other
amino acids, herbal extracts and enzymes.  

I've related to you the results of the studies from a
just a few vitamins and one mineral. I think that you
would get the picture and understand what I am getting
at if you studied the ingredient list of Total Balance.
 
The efficacy of the Total Balance formula for overall
health is not just a few times greater than a typical
multi, but hundreds of time more potent. This is not
an idle comment but one based on science.  

It is important to aim to enter your latter years free
from the negative effects of pharmaceutical drugs. It is
never too soon to start your prevention program!  
  

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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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