Comments by J. C. Spencer

The art of cooking for your health is called CULINARY MEDICINE by the U.S.NEWS and World Report. Here is how they address diabetes in the kitchen. Add to this plan throwing sugar bowl away. Better yet, replace it with a bowl of the sugar trehalose. According to this article you have the possibility for improving or reversing diabetes. Here is a part of that article.

Turn Your Kitchen Into a ClinicBy Lindsay Lyon

John La Puma is a doctor, a chef, and a big believer in "culinary medicine," which holds that the art of cooking can be scientifically applied to fight disease. La Puma, who taught the first cooking and nutrition course for medical students in the country at SUNY Upstate Medical University-Syracuse, explains in a new book written with Rebecca Powell Marx, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy, how everyone can add "medicine chests" to their kitchen pantries. He spoke with U.S. News about the book, in which he offers foods to eat for 40 conditions, plus 50 easy recipes to try. Edited excerpts:

Comments by J. C. Spencer

A new study links increase in children’s sugar consumption to child obesity epidemic. Significant sugar increase the last ten years gives rise for concern. Contrast this picture with a diabetic who reported his sugar load was lowered by drinking sugar water sweetened with the healthful sugar trehalose. Two main things seem to be happening when a child starts consuming trehalose by putting it on his or her cereal and in beverages. (1) It reduces the harmful sugar intake of the child and (2) surprisingly, it reduces the craving for sweets.

Now, for the report on the study.

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Study Shows Children's Consumption of
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on the Rise

Findings Suggest Beverages May Have Contributed to the Childhood Obesity Epidemic

A News Report out of Dublin, Ireland this morning supports our own findings about glycomics and cell damage repair and neural degeneration and repair. A new book is touted as the first book linking glycomics and nerve cell damage repair. The title of the book is "Neural Degeneration and Repair: Gene Expression Profiling, Proteomics and Systems Biology". The book is selling for $113 EU which is about $175 US. Well, it is not quite the first book to link glycomics to neurodegenerative repair. Read more about Expand Your Mind - Improve Your Brain by clicking on the cover of my book.

Analysis of Nerve Cell Damage and Repair using Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Glycomics and Systems Biology

Comments by J. C. Spencer

Research confirms the role glycomics will play in tomorrow’s healthcare. The science of the sugars that form glycoprotein receptors is growing rapidly. Glycoproteins cover human cells like fuzz on a peach and is the OS (operating system) for the data of the DNA, RNA, and cell signals. Nearly 450,000 references to published papers on glycoproteins are available on the NIH (National Institutes of Health) website at www.pubmed.gov . This press release deals with how these sugars deal with anti-inflammatory activity and improve autoimmune diseases.

Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle, NY, USA
DURHAM, NH Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Glycomics Center have helped identify a specific carbohydrate structure.

This is a more comprehensive report on the sugar that holds life together. This is a short significant lesson in glycomics and is a key to LIFE.

Healthful sugars hit the NEWS this past week as it was reported that certain sugars hold cells together and can link to treatment for autoimmune diseases. The University of New Hampshire Glycomics Center reported that their scientists identified a specific carbohydrate structure that confers anti-inflammatory activity to a glycoprotein antibody. That sugar is N-acetylneuraminic acid that I mention in my book, Expand Your Mind - Improve Your Brain.

The German scientist Ernst Klenk in 1942 coined the word ganglioside for lipids newly isolated from ganglion cells of the brain. These oligoglycosylceramides contain N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid) residues and join, by way of glycosidic linkages, to the monosaccharides.

I discuss the importance of pH in my book and it is very interesting that the polar head groups of the lipids that Ernst Klenk worked with carry a net-negative charge at pH 7.0. This is why they are able to link. A lower pH would be too acid and push them apart. (over simplified)