Comments by J. C. Spencer
Some schools are thinking more about healthful foods, less junk foods, and health sugars at school. This article helps show the way and is descriptive of things to come. There is a shift in the way people are thinking about healthcare, wellness, and prevention especially for their children. Candy, cupcakes, and other desserts need not disappear when we use good sugars like trehalose in the recipes even when sugar is the lead ingredient. I applaud the writer, the school and Gateway Newspaper for this article.

The days of school parties with cupcakes and candy as treats are fading quickly.

With raising concerns of inactivity, obesity and poor eating habits, school districts have developed nutrition and wellness policies to encourage healthy lifestyles.

And that means no junk food.

Scientists again prove that mother’s breast milk helps children for the next number of years, perhaps for life. Results of a study of 14,000 children causes doctors to scratch their heads. Glycomics, the study of sugars, holds the answer to why children who consume the sugars found in mother’s breast milk perform better.

Breast Feeding Results

Subject: Houston public charity to evaluate effects of the sugar trehalose on devastating Huntington’s disease (HD).

May 5, 2008 (Houston) Huntington’s is one of the most devastating health challenges known to humans. Huntington’s is hereditary and children normally have the gene but do not develop the tremors until later in life. There is no known cure for this deadly neurodegenerative disease.

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Mitochondria micrograph source: University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

Here is the Abstract from a significant Alzheimer’s / Trehalose research paper entitled, 

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Editor’s comment by J. C. Spencer: Genetic testing reveals the predisposition of the genes to cause or allow specific diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and other devastating challenges. We are living in a new era of disastrous sickness care where prevention is vitally needed. A new focus on a wellness system is the answer to the current crisis. Exciting news is that glycomics may offer the possibility for turning off the genes that cause or allow Huntington’s. Science papers and our own pilot surveys and imperial evidence at The Endowment for Medical Research indicate that may be what specific sugars are achieving.

By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Americans may be much more willing to get genetic tests showing predisposition to diseases with this week's expected final passage by Congress of a bill barring discrimination based on one's genetics, experts say.

From the Foreword by Robert K. Murray, MD, PhD:
I came to know JC Spencer via his founding of The Endowment for Medical Research (Houston, Texas) and through his organization (and that of his many inspiring colleagues) of the first two Glycomics Medical Conferences sponsored by The Endowment. A major aim of these very successful and well attended Conferences was to inform healthcare workers and others of the new scientific area of Glycomics and its possible application to helping individuals suffering from chronic neurodegenerative conditions.

Comment by J. C. Spencer:
Replacing bad foods with better foods for optimal health is the bend in the road that everyone MUST take or the bend in the road will be the end of the road.  The obvious paradigm shift in healthcare is moving rapidly toward more and better supplementation and functional foods.  The general public is demanding it.  We are seeing a revival of what the father of medicine, Hippocrates said, “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.“ 

Medical News Fri 18 April, 2008 Newswise

Foods that may provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, identified as functional foods, are becoming a key part of everyday life, according to a new article appearing in Food Technology, a publication of the scientific Institute of Food Technologists.