Hi All,
Remember how they used to always tell us how dangerous it was to eat meat treated with preservatives based on nitrates and nitrites? Well, now they claim that they were wrong, the first time. Now they say that nitrates and nitrites are actually quite good for us, after all. So now we can add the nitrate and nitrite "hoax" to a long list of reversals that "researchers" have made in recent years. Of course, now that I think about it, I don't recall them ever explaining why certain vegetables, with 100 times as much nitrate content as processed meats, were not 100 times more dangerous than processed meats, or even dangerous at all, for that matter. Obviously, the original claim was just another case of using "selective" data, in order to get the desired results.
Medical researchers keep shooting themselves in the foot, and they expect us to treat them as though they are respected scientists, rather then the bumbling comedy writers that they appear to be. When I was younger, I used to feel a bit apprehensive when I would ignore their boisterous claims about how "bad" certain foods were for us, but I kept on eating it anyway. These days, though, I've learned to recognize most of it as pretty good "fictional" prose, and it's usually worth a good laugh or two. LOL.
http://foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng. ... ach-health
Tex
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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Tex, that is such interesting information isn't it?
Regarding nitrates & nitrites/nitric oxide, always been curious about the FACT that those of us with MC and other IBD'S have 50-100 times the NO levels of gas production. Why and how does this happen?
I wonder then if it might be prudent, especially during a flare to avoid foods high in nitrates since studies now are showing that reducing NO levels may be benefit IBD symptoms.
Here's an enlightening article about the role of NO and UC, Chrons, MC and LC.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/fu ... 99.00453.x
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Joanna
Regarding nitrates & nitrites/nitric oxide, always been curious about the FACT that those of us with MC and other IBD'S have 50-100 times the NO levels of gas production. Why and how does this happen?
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headline ... rcher.htmlWe found an increased production of nitric oxide in the intestine in both collagenic and lymphocytary colitis, says Martin Olesen. There also proved to be a correlation between the activity of the disease and the concentration of nitric oxide. One theory in this case is that drugs that reduce the production of nitric oxide in the intestines could help patients with microscopic colitis.
I wonder then if it might be prudent, especially during a flare to avoid foods high in nitrates since studies now are showing that reducing NO levels may be benefit IBD symptoms.
Here's an enlightening article about the role of NO and UC, Chrons, MC and LC.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/fu ... 99.00453.x
Love,
Joanna
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Joanna,
I think that you may be misreading the second article that you provided a link for. The fact that high levels of nitrous oxide are present with IBDs, doesn't necessarily mean that the NO is causing the inflammation. It may mean that the body is producing those levels in an effort to protect and defend itself from whatever is actually causing the inflammation. Consider this quote from the Blackwell-Synergy article:
One thing that really grabbed my attention with this article was the observation that, "Surprisingly, even higher rates of production have been observed in COC—a condition which is never associated with injurious inflammation". They use COC to represent Collagenous Collitis, and they were comparing NO levels between CC and UC. Anyway, I never thought of the inflammation from CC as being "benign", (non-injurious), but I suppose, in a sense, it is, since it does not lead to lesions in the mucosa.
Thanks for the links.
Love,
Tex
I think that you may be misreading the second article that you provided a link for. The fact that high levels of nitrous oxide are present with IBDs, doesn't necessarily mean that the NO is causing the inflammation. It may mean that the body is producing those levels in an effort to protect and defend itself from whatever is actually causing the inflammation. Consider this quote from the Blackwell-Synergy article:
The red emphasis is mine, of course. At any rate, unless I'm confused here, when I read that article, I get the impression that NO, (as the article says), "promotes mucosal integrity". Isn't that what it says?Surprisingly, even higher rates of production have been observed in COC—a condition which is never associated with injurious inflammation. The latter observation favours the notion that NO promotes mucosal integrity. Further evidence for a protective role of NO in chronic inflammatory bowel disorders is provided by the observation of increased susceptibility to the induction of experimental colitis in ‘knock-out’ mice deficient in iNOS.
One thing that really grabbed my attention with this article was the observation that, "Surprisingly, even higher rates of production have been observed in COC—a condition which is never associated with injurious inflammation". They use COC to represent Collagenous Collitis, and they were comparing NO levels between CC and UC. Anyway, I never thought of the inflammation from CC as being "benign", (non-injurious), but I suppose, in a sense, it is, since it does not lead to lesions in the mucosa.
Thanks for the links.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.