Entries by Chet Zelasko

Processed Meat and Cancer: The Science

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In response to the headlines about processed foods and colorectal cancer, I decided to look at some of the research on cancer and colorectal cancer. Rather then write a long drawn-out article, I’m going to give you the bottom line on what I found.

  • The risk of getting any type of cancer in a lifetime is one in two for men and one in three for women (1). The lifetime risk of getting colon cancer is 4.84% for men and 4.49% for women. If the risk is an average of 18% higher by eating . . .

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Processed Meat and Cancer: The Headlines

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Processed Meat Causes Cancer! That was the type of headline that dominated the Internet news sites, newspapers, and local and network news. One very well known nutrition expert wrote this comment:

The just-released report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer judging processed meat as clearly carcinogenic and red meat as probably carcinogenic has caused consternation among meat producers and consumers.

Note the verbiage that says processed meat is clearly carcinogenic. More about that in a minute. California just announced it’s considering adding processed meat to the . . .

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It’s Showtime!

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While I was in Richmond, VA, this past weekend, I was interviewed about my Real-Life Detox book on the local ABC affiliate WRIC. I had contacted Darrielle Snipes, the host of their morning show a few weeks ago and said I would be in the area; would she be interested in talking about detox and cleansing? She called me and said that would work. I had prepared by having my Toastmasters group ask me the toughest questions they could about detoxing. After I arrived at the studio, we went over the questions she would ask. They were . . .

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It’s Still Not Over

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Here’s the update on the woman I talked about in Thursday’s message. Over the years, we’ve become email friends and so when I hear from her, it always makes me feel good, mostly because that means she’s still alive. This was no different. She’s had some challenges but more of the self-inflicted kind. I’m going to tell you a little more about her because of what she wrote in her email.

She has chronic kidney disease, and it was her . . .

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It Won’t Be Tomorrow

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This is what I wrote over five years ago:

“I recently got an e-mail from a woman who was in shock. She has a family history of a very serious condition that left many of her relatives dead in their 40s and 50s. She’s in her mid-60s and feels good with some minor issues but none related to what affected her relatives. But when she went to see a specialist to discuss a specific test result, he said, “I’m sorry. It won’t be tomorrow...” She couldn’t really remember much . . .

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It’s Not Over…

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Stunned silence. That’s what happened to almost 110,000 people Saturday night. Why? Because they witnessed the improbable, some would say close to the impossible. If you watch any news or read about it on the Internet, you know a University of Michigan player made only one mistake in the game against Michigan State. MSU took advantage of it and scored the winning touchdown with no time left on the clock.

I did not see it live; I was in the Detroit airport getting to my connecting flight. But even there, people simply did not believe what they saw . . .

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Exercise and Chemotherapy

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The last study on exercise I’m going to look at this week examines the possibility of using exercise as training before chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy drugs are toxic to the body. The closer they can be designed for cancer cells without harming normal cells, the better, but we haven’t advanced to the point where that’s possible in every case. One chemotherapy, doxorubicin, is highly effective for some cancers, but it’s toxic to the heart. Researchers split a group of rats into three groups. One remained sedentary, one was allowed to run on a running wheel in their cage . . .

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Exercise and Breast Cancer Treatment

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Cancer treatment isn’t for wimps. Surgery can be difficult as can radiation treatment. But of all the common treatments that really seem to knock people for a loop, chemotherapy is tops. Nausea. Fatigue. Hair loss. Fortunately, there are some medications that can help with those side effects, but one of the things that may help the most is exercise. Let’s take a look at a study published just this month.

Researchers in Germany put women undergoing chemotherapy on a weight-training program, an endurance program, or continued with standard care that included neither. They were interested in how . . .

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Start with Physical Therapy

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I talked with hundreds of people in Cincinnati this past weekend, and many had issues with pain and discomfort. I can relate—I’ve got a shoulder that’s killing me. While everyone wants to know which supplements can help, it all begins with physical therapy.

The most-asked question was about lower back pain, which afflicts more people than any other joint or joints. Many people claim to have bulging discs. You know something? That’s nothing special; it’s the results of walking upright combined with carrying too much weight on the front side. If you can get . . .

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Trial and Answer for Your Health

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We are alive today because our ancestors survived. That seems like stating the obvious, but think about it for a minute. They ate whatever gave them fuel to stay alive and didn’t kill them. It was trial and error, and I’m guessing many died from eating the wrong things. They experienced times of feast and times of famine. They ate what was available whether it was meat, roots, berries, greens, or whatever. They learned to grow food, both plants and animals. Their diets ranged from high-fat and protein like the Inuit to the plant-based diets of . . .

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