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Monday, September 14, 2009
Prostate Cancer Research Institute Annual Conference
Over the weekend I attended PCRI’s annual convention on prostate cancer research and treatment. I was particularly struck by Dr. David Heber’s presentation on nutrition and prostate cancer. I’ll be posting more information over the next few days, but PCRI is a very good source of information and support for prostate cancer survivors and those newly diagnosed.
MyBikeInfo iPhone and iPod Touch Application
If you are a cyclist and use MyBikeInfo for iPhone/iPod Touch, just click the link below to receive infrequent updates about improvements and new functionality to MyBikeInfo iPhone/iPod Touch application. You may unsubscribe at any time. By the way, you can use MyBikeInfo to track information on your motorcycle, as well. Plus, with MyBikeInfo’s RSS functionality, you can have real-time feeds from all of your favorite websites in one handy place on your iPhone. Proceeds go to prostate cancer awareness and prevention.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
TSG, Inc. Releases MyBikeInfo iPhone Application
In these difficult economic times, it’s especially difficult for non-profit entities to raise funds to support their charitable missions. As a result, Robert Hess, CEO of TSG, Inc., and Founder and President of the Prostate Cancer Awareness Project (PCaAP), embarked on a program to create a self-funding mechanism for the PCaAP.
Because the PCaAP uses bicycling events to disseminate it’s “Early Detection, Early Treatment” message and to drive healthy lifestyle activities, the logical choice was something related to cycling. The result, after 9 months of technical development led by Mr. Prem Sundaram, is the MyBikeInfo iPhone application.
The application stores all of the information necessary for a proper positioning fit for an unlimited number of bicycles and includes the ability to create RSS feeds within the application. It’s available now in the iTunes application store. Full details are at http://www.mybikeinfo.com. Proceeds go to prostate cancer awareness and testing for men without medical insurance.
TSG, Inc. is pleased to pleased to support the Prostate Cancer Awareness Project.
Initial reviews look pretty good. See velogirlscoaching in San Francisco.
Monday, August 24, 2009
2009 Tour de Skyline Drive Completed
We just completed the 2009 edition of the Tour de Skyline Drive. Our annual two-day event from Front Royal, VIrginia to Luray, Virginia and back along the beautiful Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. Pictures will be on the event website - TourdeSkyLineDrive.org - in a few days. Click the following link to see the Channel 3, Winchester, Virginia report on the event. Cyclist Tour Raises Prostate Cancer Awareness
Keep the rubber side down and Test-Track-Treat-Live.
Best regards, Robert
Keep the rubber side down and Test-Track-Treat-Live.
Best regards, Robert
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Alpe d'Huez for Prostate Cancer Awareness
As part of our prostate cancer awareness program, I rented a bicycle during my July visit to Italy and France and climbed the Alpe d'Huez in our current bicycling kit - although it's a bit difficult to see the logo in the picture. I learned that the Dutch cancer foundation does an annual fundraiser on the Alpe d'Huez that raised 5 million Euros on June 6, 2009. I've got an idea for a similar event here in the US.
To my dismay, however, I had forgotten to take my bicycle fit dimensions with me, so I made the climb with a less than optimal bicycle adjustment. But, I'll never need to suffer like that again. My firm, TSG, has just released an iPhone application, MyBikeInfo, that records every possible dimension of a bicycle adjustment for all types of bicycles: road, time trial, track, mountain, etc.
The application is available now from the iTunes application store, and 50% of all proceeds are going to the Prostate Cancer Awareness Project to support awareness and annual testing for men without health insurance. Give it try! You should be able to access the app from the MyBikeInfo website, but if that does not work, just open your iTunes application and search for MyBikeInfo.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Dietary fat from red meat and dairy linked to pancreatic cancer
29000 Men Comment
There seems to be a growing body of research clearly pointing to the relationship between dietary habits and cancers of all types. There is similar research concerning prostate cancer. These insights give each of us a means of affecting our current and future susceptibility to cancer. There currently are over 2 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States. A change in dietary intake could potentially have an important effect on longetivity.
Report Summary
High intake of dietary fats from red meat and dairy products was associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, revealed by researchers. This study was undertaken because research relating fat intake to pancreatic cancer was inconclusive.
The new study is published online June 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
To examine the association, Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon, Ph.D., of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues analyzed a cohort of over 500,000 people from the National Institutes of Health – AARP Diet and Health Study.
Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1995 and 1996 and were followed prospectively for an average of 6 years to track a variety of health outcomes, including pancreatic cancer.
Men and women who consumed high amounts of total fats had 53% and 23% higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer, respectively, compared with men and women who had the lowest fat consumption. Participants who consumed high amounts of saturated fats had 36% higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer compared with those who consumed low amounts.
"We observed positive associations between pancreatic cancer and intakes of total, saturated, and monounsaturated fat overall, particularly from red meat and dairy food sources. We did not observe any consistent association with polyunsaturated or fat from plant food sources," the authors write. "Altogether, these results suggest a role for animal fat in pancreatic carcinogenesis."
In an accompanying editorial, Brian M. Wolpin, M.D., MPH, of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., DrPH, of the Harvard School of Public Health, call the study well-performed and a good addition to the understanding of pancreatic cancer.
They do note, however, that there is insufficient epidemiological and laboratory evidence to confirm the importance of animal fats or even that meat is the important factor, as opposed to other dietary or lifestyle preferences associated with meat consumption.
"With further investigation, this work has the potential to provide interesting clues to the mechanisms underlying pancreatic tumorigenesis," the editorialists write.
There seems to be a growing body of research clearly pointing to the relationship between dietary habits and cancers of all types. There is similar research concerning prostate cancer. These insights give each of us a means of affecting our current and future susceptibility to cancer. There currently are over 2 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States. A change in dietary intake could potentially have an important effect on longetivity.
Report Summary
High intake of dietary fats from red meat and dairy products was associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, revealed by researchers. This study was undertaken because research relating fat intake to pancreatic cancer was inconclusive.
The new study is published online June 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
To examine the association, Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon, Ph.D., of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues analyzed a cohort of over 500,000 people from the National Institutes of Health – AARP Diet and Health Study.
Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1995 and 1996 and were followed prospectively for an average of 6 years to track a variety of health outcomes, including pancreatic cancer.
Men and women who consumed high amounts of total fats had 53% and 23% higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer, respectively, compared with men and women who had the lowest fat consumption. Participants who consumed high amounts of saturated fats had 36% higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer compared with those who consumed low amounts.
"We observed positive associations between pancreatic cancer and intakes of total, saturated, and monounsaturated fat overall, particularly from red meat and dairy food sources. We did not observe any consistent association with polyunsaturated or fat from plant food sources," the authors write. "Altogether, these results suggest a role for animal fat in pancreatic carcinogenesis."
In an accompanying editorial, Brian M. Wolpin, M.D., MPH, of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., DrPH, of the Harvard School of Public Health, call the study well-performed and a good addition to the understanding of pancreatic cancer.
They do note, however, that there is insufficient epidemiological and laboratory evidence to confirm the importance of animal fats or even that meat is the important factor, as opposed to other dietary or lifestyle preferences associated with meat consumption.
"With further investigation, this work has the potential to provide interesting clues to the mechanisms underlying pancreatic tumorigenesis," the editorialists write.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
15 Pounds in 15 Months. Will They Kill Me?
29000Men Comment
I just finished watching Mike Anderson’s movie, Healing Cancer, and I must say that it made a major impact on my thinking.
If you have read my short bio on the blog, you know my prostate cancer background. After my treatment, I searched for ways that I could affect the potential future recurrence of my prostate cancer. The only options I found were diet and exercise, because I wasn’t in the position to change my environment either by lowering work stress or by physically moving to a new location (I live in Manhattan Beach, CA).
I adopted a vegetarian diet and got back on my bicycle. Within 6 months I had dropped to 142 pounds, my weight at the time I graduated from college and entered the US Army. I felt great, although I looked a bit thin to most people (that’s why you see me sporting a beard - it makes my face look a bit fuller).
However, over the past year I relaxed my diet to include chicken, turkey, and an occasional fling with red meat, but also more non-vegetable carbohydrates and, of course, the cheese that I love. The result? My weight has increased to 158 pounds (my normal weight at surgery was 162 pounds - I stand 5’10“).
Yesterday, I reverted to my vegetarian regime and I’ll follow my progress on this blog. I would be very interested in hearing from other PCa survivors about their reflections on Mike Anderson’s research.
Best regards, Robert.
Test.Track.Treat.Live.™
PS: If you are a motorcyclist, check out http://www.tourdeusa.org. I'll be riding across the US and back in 2010 to get guys thinking about prostate cancer. I would love to have company along the way.
I just finished watching Mike Anderson’s movie, Healing Cancer, and I must say that it made a major impact on my thinking.
If you have read my short bio on the blog, you know my prostate cancer background. After my treatment, I searched for ways that I could affect the potential future recurrence of my prostate cancer. The only options I found were diet and exercise, because I wasn’t in the position to change my environment either by lowering work stress or by physically moving to a new location (I live in Manhattan Beach, CA).
I adopted a vegetarian diet and got back on my bicycle. Within 6 months I had dropped to 142 pounds, my weight at the time I graduated from college and entered the US Army. I felt great, although I looked a bit thin to most people (that’s why you see me sporting a beard - it makes my face look a bit fuller).
However, over the past year I relaxed my diet to include chicken, turkey, and an occasional fling with red meat, but also more non-vegetable carbohydrates and, of course, the cheese that I love. The result? My weight has increased to 158 pounds (my normal weight at surgery was 162 pounds - I stand 5’10“).
Yesterday, I reverted to my vegetarian regime and I’ll follow my progress on this blog. I would be very interested in hearing from other PCa survivors about their reflections on Mike Anderson’s research.
Best regards, Robert.
Test.Track.Treat.Live.™
PS: If you are a motorcyclist, check out http://www.tourdeusa.org. I'll be riding across the US and back in 2010 to get guys thinking about prostate cancer. I would love to have company along the way.
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