Practitioners of conventional medicine are in the majority, and patients are well informed about conventional treatment options. Many patients, however, are not aware of alternative therapies nor do they respond well to traditional conventional therapies. It is the purpose of the Holistic Health Center, LLC to provide alternative information so we can make more informed choices.
At Holistic Health Center, LLC. we believe in the body's innate ability to heal itself, and we help you help nature. We treat you as a whole person, with compassion and understanding, and we apply our extensive scientific, holistic and naturopathic knowledge to create a unique care plan for your individual physiology and issues.
In the treatment of cancer, conventional medicine includes surgery, chemotherapy (the use of drugs), and radiation. By contrast, alternative therapy includes nutritional supplements, enzymes, diet, detoxification, lifestyle changes, stress control and prevention.
Which is best? That depends on one's view regarding the nature of cancer. Conventional practitioners view cancer as the tumor, whereas alternative doctors see the tumor as merely the symptom of the cancer. Alternative doctors are more interested in what caused it to appear in the first place.
Those in conventional medicine believe that anything that removes or reduces the tumor is good, even if it weakens the body in the process. Since practitioners of alternative medicine focus on the cause of the tumor, they believe that anything which helps the body eliminate the tumor is progress.The goal of this program is to provide treatment options for people with cancer to find the right cancer treatment. Our aim is to answer the complex questions about treatment alternatives. What therapy might be best? What approach might offer the best chances for survival and quality of life? We feel it is important to understand all options in order for people to make truly informed decisions about treatment. We believe people with cancer have two very fundamental rights — the right to know and the right to choose.
This web site is not intended to provide medical advice to anyone regarding the type of cancer treatment they should choose. This web site simply provides educational information about various cancer treatments. The decision to take alternative or conventional treatments is your responsibility. It is never the choice of a doctor, health advisor, or author. It is your body and anyone who tells you what treatment to take instead of providing information about all your treatment options and letting you decide, is abusing their position.
Smart patients are making treatment decisions in a relaxed, pressure-free environment. A doctor's office is far from a pressure-free environment. Smart patients are making treatment decisions at home, alone without anyone around to make the decision excessively emotional and with all their information at their fingertips.
This program is not represented as a cure for cancer, but rather a means of restoring the system's natural balance. The restoration of the natural immune system allows the patient's own body to treat itself. The resulting changes can significantly extend the lives of people with cancer, as borne out by clinical research and records. Many times success for patients with advanced metastatic disease is measured by life extension and enhanced quality of life that is many times experienced while undergoing non-toxic approaches.
The immune system is the body's front-line defense against cancer. Although there have been some notable improvements in chemotherapy and radiation technologies, these approaches impact the immune system and many believe they can actually cause cancer if one does not detoxify the body and rebuild the immune system after these approaches are used. Typically nutritional supplementation and other forms of alternative therapy help to strengthen the immune system and help the body to overcome cancer.
The objective of the "Winning Against Cancer Program" is to restore the cancer patient's immune competency to a level by which it can control cancer. The body's own complex tumor fighting system may well be the first, the best, and the last line of defense against cancers. Therefore restoring the immune system to enable it to destroy cancer cells becomes the prime objective. Holistic Health Center,LLC. uses a 7 step process to accomplish this objective. The process is called The Magnificent 7 and it is broken down as follows.
1. Testing– A nutritional assessment test is done in the office or at your home and includes a detailed 20 page detailed nutrition report. It takes about 20 minutes to complete. The hair mineral analysis test: includes a 20 page detailed report of cancer causing heavy metals in your system, The Navarro urine test for cancer detects the presence of cancer cells even before signs or symptoms develop. A Ph saliva test identifies the ideal pH range of saliva as about 6.4 – 7.2 (Below 6.4 is too acidic, above 7.2 is too alkaline). This test needs to be done at home and needs to be repeated several times to track improvement. Cancer patients are usually a pH of 4.5 (very acidic). Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment. These are good tests to take especially if on an anti-cancer diet.
Read more about nutritional testing.
2. Detoxification– To eliminate substances which may be burdening the immune system, compromising metabolic processes and blocking energy flow (e.g. heavy metals, pesticides, environmental toxins, and metabolic wastes). This takes the form of herbal and nutritional products that open up the elimination channels (liver, kidney, colon, and urinary system), plus the elimination of parasites and heavy metals. This is a critical step and must be done to remove cancer causing toxins from your body.
3. Nutrition– This is by far the biggest and the most important of the steps since it is designed to boost the immune system, to increase natural mechanisms for eliminating the tumor, and to prevent reoccurrences. Typically this includes nutritional supplements, anti-oxidants, and immune support nutrients), and diet (such as frequent raw vegetable juices, whole grains, legumes and elimination of foods which feed cancer and weaken the immune system). Holistic Health Center,LLC has specific diets to battle cancer. See Dr. Kilday for details. Supplementation: there are many vitamins and herbs that kill cancer. We offer only the ones that are backed by research. There are 10 supplements we recommend for all cancer patients. Again a consultation with Dr. Kilday will be required to determine which additional supplements will fight your cancer. Nutrition plays an important role in every stage of the fight against cancer: resisting it, suppressing its development and reducing its spread. Many nutrients are involved, and most are available as supplements. Vitamins and minerals are certainly important, but so are many plant compounds, friendly bacteria and specialized fats, like omega-3 fatty acids.
Read more about cancer and nutrition.
4. Exercise – Studies have shown that cancer patients who exercise during treatment have a higher success rate. Brisk walking for 20 -30 minutes a day with very light weights is sufficient.
5. Oxygenation – Brings vital energy to the cells, reverses tumor growth and facilitates the elimination of pathogens (fungi, bacteria and viruses) which may be weakening the immune system. This is done with a product we carry in stock.
Read more about oxygenation and cancer.
6. Mental State – Depression, studies show that 25% of cancer patients are clinically depressed. People who are depressed can have blood oxygen levels 30% lower than the norm. Low oxygen increases cancer risk. Depressed people get more cancers also a stress study showed that stress (emotional, work-related and other forms) causes cellular inflammation, which in turn stimulated two cancer causing genes inside the cell. Stress and depression can be treated with counseling and supplements. Contact Dr. Kilday for details.
7. Spiritual Connection – To connect or re-connect the individual with God, to strengthen their purpose for being alive and to strengthen their will to live. This may take the form of prayer, meditation, and/or spiritual counseling.
Read more about spritual connection.


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TOWARD EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: Trends in the Association of Poverty With Overweight Among US Adolescents, 1971–2004
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
January/February 2007, Volume :32 Number 1 , page 61 - 61 [Free]
Hayman, Laura L.
Miech, R. A., Kumanyika, S. K., Stettler, N., Link, B. G., Phelan, J. C., & Chang, V. W. (2006). Journal of the American Medical Association, 295(20), 2385-2393.
During the past three decades, the prevalence of adolescent overweight in the United States has increased substantially. Recent national efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services advocate for efforts to reduce health disparities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Central to this goal, with regard to adolescent overweight and its attendant comorbidities, are data on socioeconomic differences in the prevalence and trends of overweight. Toward this goal, this study was designed to examine the trends in the prevalence of overweight among adolescents aged 12-17 years by family poverty status in four nationally representative cross-sectional data sets spanning from 1971 to 2004. Overweight, the primary outcome measure, was defined as body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile for age and sex in the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts. Intermediate outcome measures included physical inactivity in the past 30 days, proportion of caloric intake from sweetened beverages (as determined by a 24-hour recall), and whether participants skipped breakfast (24-hour recall). Results indicated that the trends in the association of adolescent overweight with family poverty differed by age stratum (P = .01). In 12-14-year-old adolescents, prevalence did not differ significantly by family poverty status in any of the other surveys; however, among non-Hispanic black adolescents, overweight prevalence increased faster in nonpoor versus poor families. A widening disparity that disfavored adolescents from poor families was present in the 15-17-year-old adolescents. This observed trend was similar among male, female, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black adolescents. Taken together, this resulted in an overall prevalence of overweight in 1999-2004 that was 50% higher from the adolescents in poor versus nonpoor families (23.3% vs. 14.4%, respectively; P < .001). Supplementary analyses also suggest that physical inactivity, sweetened beverage consumption, and skipping breakfast contribute to these observed disparities in adolescent overweight. Collectively, these results indicate that poor families, those living below the poverty line, have an excess burden of overweight in older (15-17 years old) but not younger (12-14 years old) adolescents. These results support the usefulness of a life course perspective that considers results specific to life stages, and also points to the importance of potentially modifiable health behaviors associated with overweight as potential targets for prevention programs designed to reduce this recently identified disparity.
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Laura L. Hayman
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2000). Healthy People 2010. Washington, DC: Author. [Context Link]

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Q: Switching views using Core Animation not working? Currently I am having a issue switching views using Core Animation. I want to fade through black switching to my next view.
Right now it does not do anything besides lose touch events from my original view.
What am I doing wrong in the code below?
Edit1 Code:
    - (void)changeView1ToView2 {
    CABasicAnimation *fadeout= [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
    [fadeout setDelegate:self];
    [UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:@selector(animationDidStop:finished:)];
    [fadeout setToValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:0]];
    [fadeout setDuration:0.5];
    [[self.view layer] addAnimation:fadeout forKey:@"alpha"];
}
- (void)animationDidStop:(CAAnimation *)theAnimation finished:(BOOL)flag {
    [self.view addSubview:self.view2.view];
    self.view2.view.frame = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
    [self.view2.view setAlpha:0];
    CABasicAnimation *fadein = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
    [fadein setToValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0]];
    [fadein setDuration:0.5];
    [[self.view2.view layer] addAnimation:fadein forKey:@"alpha"];
}

Ok I added self, look at my new code above. view2 is a UIViewController, thats why I am doing .view after it. The app is only going to be available on iOS 5 or up so thats not a problem. But what I am trying to achieve is switching views using Core Animation, and have each UIViewController manage their own views. I am just switching views using Core Animation instead of usual means.

A: If you're looking to have only one root view on screen at one time (and by the looks of that call to [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds, you are), then I'd suggest swapping the views at the UIWindow level. Without animations, this would look something like this:
// Assuming UIViewControllers called view1 and view2 as members of some
// (non-UIViewController) controller class (self, in this case)
//and that view1.view is in the application's window's subviews collection
[self.view1.view removeFromSuperview];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate.window addSubview:self.view2.view];

In terms of not seeing the views actually swap, you need to ensure that your animation preserves the changes you make during the animation. Specifically, you need to set the following:
myAnimation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
myAnimation.removedOnCompletion = NO;

Your methods can then be adjusted to take all this into account. For example, your animationDidStop:finished: method might look like this:
- (void)animationDidStop:(CAAnimation *)theAnimation finished:(BOOL)flag
{
    [self.view1.view removeFromSuperview];

    [self.view2.view setAlpha:0];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate.window addSubview:self.view2.view];

    CABasicAnimation *fadein = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
    [fadein setToValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0]];
    [fadein setDuration:0.5];
    fadein.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
    fadein.removedOnCompletion = NO;
    [[self.view2.view layer] addAnimation:fadein forKey:@"alpha"];
}

You may need to muck around with it a bit to ensure that everything is firing correctly.

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New Delhi: Industry chamber Assocham on Sunday asked the government to clearly define the scope of e-commerce under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, as the current definition is wide enough to even cover commodity derivatives exchanges.
"E-commerce definition, as given in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) dispensation, has been left so wide that it could go well beyond Amazon or Flipkart marketplace platforms and may even cover the commodity exchanges," the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) said in a statement here.
"It covers all businesses where the supply of goods/services is through a digital or electronic network," Assocham said.
"The commodities exchanges cannot be treated as electronic commerce operator in their legal capacity as well as in common parlance," it added.
The industry organisation said it fears futures and commodity exchanges may get treated as electronic marketplaces even though derivatives trading means no delivery of actual goods.
In a communication addressed to various ministries, Assocham has also sought clarity on treatment of goods and services under GST for exports, gems and jewellery, micro, small and medium (MSME) sector, banking and telecom.
"Assocham would like a seamless and flawless roll out of the GST to infuse a sense of confidence among the consumers, trade and industry. Eventually, the GST should become a showpiece of our reforms," Assocham Secretary General D.S. Rawat said in the statement.
The industry lobby noted that the Central GST law is silent on exemptions provided on interest on loans.
"The exemption under services tax, which exempts interest, should be replicated under GST," it said.
GST being a unification of multiple indirect taxes into a single law "it is presumed current exemption would be continued for banking and other financial institution, including non-banking financial company, as these exemptions create the basic foundation for taxing services provided by them," it added.