Comments by J. C. Spencer

Children are becoming diabetic younger and younger. Sugar imbalance is a serious matter with obesity only one of the many concerns. Withholding sweets from kids is a difficult challenge parents have. My grandfather owned a grocery store when I was a child and I had access to all the candy I wanted. Fortunately, I did not crave sweets. Giving kids what they want may be the most harmful thing you can do to destroy his or her life over time. Now, there appears to be a compounding problem.

Pre-diabetic testing may not be soon enough to take preventive action. Replacing harmful sugar with the healthful sugar trehalose may be the quickest and best means of helping prevent obesity and all the consequences that come with it. Kids are eating what they should not.

Now today’s story.

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Study suggests test used to spot pre-diabetes in kids misses 2 out of 3

In Huntington's disease, which afflicts about one in 10,000 Americans, one gene is defective -- making it difficult for patients to walk, talk or swallow.

So, if there was a way to "silence" that one gene there could potentially be a cure.

That's the promise of RNA interference technology, and it has three Seattle-area companies trying to find a way to make it deliver. 

"There has been no other technology that has been capable of shutting off aberrant genes," said H. Stewart Parker, the chief executive of Seattle-based Targeted Genetics.

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.

Commentary by J. C. Spencer

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

Atherton Healthcare fined $100,000

By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer

The Wall Street Journal this week printed an article entitled Dealing with the Cost of Alzheimer’s which you can read at the end of this installment about cutting healthcare costs.  Rising healthcare cost is becoming more serious and bringing down corporations and destroying the life savings of families.

In helping set the stage for our detailed plan for cutting healthcare costs, let me quote brief statements from my book Expand Your Mind - Improve Your Brain Chapters 4 and 38 before the Wall Street Journal article: