Beverage "Yerba Maté" May Have Ties to Head/Neck Cancers
D.
development of research and information sharing about botanical and
herbal products, has issued an abstract in their July 31st edition of
"HerbClip" that discusses the South American beverage Maté, sometime
called "Yerba Maté," and its possible ties to head and neck cancers.
This beverage is increasingly seen in coffee shops, health food
stores, natural products retailers and sometimes even mainstream
grocery stores. It's popularity is gaining in the USA, and it is
reputed to have more than $250 Million in sales in this country.
Yerba mate (pronounced yair-ba mah-tay) is known to South Americans as
the "Drink of the Gods;" it is a hot beverage made from the dried
leaves of the Ilex Paraguariense bush indigenous to Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay and Uruguay. And thanks to its robust caffeine content, the
drink is a natural stimulant. The drink is traditionally steeped and
served in hollowed-out gourds, sipped through metal straws designed to
filter out stems and leaf bits. It was first consumed by the Guarani
Indians centuries ago. Today, it is not uncommon in Argentina to see
businessmen walking down the street sipping out of a Maté gourd.
However, there may be a very dangerous connection between cancers of
the head and neck and maté consumption. "HerbClip" reports on a study
done in "Head and Neck" which used modern informatics on a number of
previously published research studies. Although there were a number of
issues that need further research (difference between hot and cold
maté consumption, smoking and alcohol use among participants, etc.)
the researchers made some very specific claims: "Maté consumption
plays a significant and independent role in the development of upper
aeodigestive tract cancers," and "Maté drinking should be considered
one of the risk factors for cancer of the neck and head."
It should be noted that further research is being conducted to
determine the mechanism of carcinogenic action.
Dave
The above full-text article was extracted from http://shamvswham.blogspot.com/
Mark Thorson
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> The American Botanical Council, a non-profit dedicated to the
> development of research and information sharing about botanical and
> herbal products, has issued an abstract in their July 31st edition of
> "HerbClip" that discusses the South American beverage Maté, sometime
> called "Yerba Maté," and its possible ties to head and neck cancers.
Whoa! You accused me of citing a "third tier journal"
when I quoted from a refereed, peer-reviewed research
journal. And here you are summarizing a piece in HerbClip,
the unrefereed publication of a public relations outfit
for the herbal supplements industry. The HerbClip piece
is itself a summary of a meta-analysis (a paper study
which analyzes the results of other studies).
Your article is a summary of a summary of a meta-analysis.
What a pile of crap. You dare to call my citation
a "third tier journal" -- even though it is backed up
by confirming research in other journals -- but you
shamelessly plug the mouthpiece of the herbal
supplements industry as though it had the same
standing as a genuine research journal.
This shows just how far you'll go to please the
supplement companies you'd like to have as sponsors
for your commercial blogspot web site. Being honest
isn't on your agenda. All you care about is trying
to get your share of the billions of dollars spent
on supplements.
Mark Thorson
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> However, as a Pharmaceutical industry chemist, you SHOULD know that
Once again, you can't tear yourself away from
your lying accusation that I'm a "Pharmaceutical
industry chemist", because once you've gone
down that road you have too much ego invested in it
to stop. You can't admit you were just fabricating
spin, because that would be the same thing as
admitting everything I've said about you is correct.
Falsely accusing someone of being a "Pharmaceutical
industry chemist" in this newsgroup is exactly like
accusing someone of being a Communist back in the
1950's. You are practicing a form of neo-McCarthyism.
You do that because you don't have any defense
for your crap articles. You can't pretend that
HerbClip is a peer-reviewed, refereed journal,
because it isn't. It's the mouthpiece of an
herbal supplement industry trade group.
Your only alternative is to attack the critic,
rather than the criticism. That further
demonstrates the complete lack of credibility
behind your poorly researched articles.
You only care about your Internet-get-rich-quick
scheme. You only care about driving traffic
to your commercial blogspot web site, in the
vain hope you will be rewarded by sponsorship
from the supplement companies you cater to.