CHIQUI ROA (CR): Dr. Romulo de Villa is a certified Biochemist, Molecular and Nutritional Oncologist, Professor of Biochemistry, Nutrition and Molecular Biology, and Bio Technology Consultant.  He finished his MD degree from Far Eastern University Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation.  He obtained his certificate degree in teaching Biochemistry and his PhD Degree in Molecular Biology and Bio Technology from UP Manila and Diliman respectively.  An aspect of Dr. de Villa’s dissertation research on ___ Drug Resistance of Carcinomas, completed under University of California Los Angeles program was published in 1994 in Cancer Investigation.  Dr. de Villa’s ___ institutions serving as a professor, chairman, scientist, and consultant. He worked for the FEU Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, the Department of Health, the ___ Center Cooperative, the Research in Bio Technology Division of St Luke’s Medical Center and the Cancer Institute, and in 1999 he founded the Molecular Oncology Society of the Philippines. Dr. De Villa’s expertise in molecular medicine was recognized in the year 2000 by the head of the Pain Management Center of St. Luke’s Medical Center where he now serves as a visiting consultant of the Molecular Biology of Pain. All right, without further ado, Dr. Romulo de Villa.

 

DR. ROMULO DE VILLA (RDV): I’m tasked to speak to you about nutrition, diet, what foods to eat, and I made it very simple really. I made it into a traffic light of nutrition, and whenever you see the traffic light from now on, you’ll remember this lecture; because you’ll see the green light, the yellow light, and the red light, right? When it is the green light, what does it mean?

 

AUDIENCE (A):  Go

 

(RDV):  Okay go eat these foods and go process the foods this way.  When it’s yellow, what does that mean?  Caution!  That means prepare to stop.  Not go.  Prepare to stop.   Most Filipinos, Filipino drivers when they see yellow, it means go faster.  Isn’t it?  But it really means prepare to stop.  So those categories, foods and processing that I will put in there, in this traffic light of nutrition, that means prepare to stop.  Okay?  And then you have the red light.  What does that mean?

 

(A):  Stop.

 

(RDV):  Stop na talaga.  Right?  Pero Filipino drivers, abutan ng malapit na dun sa intersection, pag nag red light, go!  Go even faster.  Step on the floor.  And I think most people, you will realize later on, that the category of stop that I put for food before processing most of us really go even faster for these foods.  So I say follow really the traffic light or else you’ll get into an accident.  And the accident can be heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, and the dreaded cancer.  So traffic light of nutrition; but before I go into that actual traffic light, let me tell you something about myself.

I’m a scientist.  I’m a PhD also.  I’m not only an MD, I’m also a PhD.  Being a scientist, it’s in my blood to do research.  So, can I do a quick survey on you?  What kind of foods do you eat more often?  Is it more of refined or unrefined?  It’s white rice, white bread and white sugar.  Those are refined foods. So, who eats more of the refined?  And who eats more of the unrefined?  That’s brown rice, unpolished rice.  That’s muscovado sugar if you use sugar.  And then that’s whole wheat bread, or rye bread, whole grain breads.  Some change in life already because once you get hit by cancer you know, one of realization:  “Did I do something wrong?  I need to change my lifestyle.”  They say it’s the lifestyle.  So I need to change this. Preserved food or fresh food?  Who eats more of the preserved than fresh?  Fresh, raw, that’s not cooked.  Who eats more of the peeled or unpeeled?  More of the peeled.  Of course may exceptions yun.  Actually it’s better yung unpeeled because it’s in the peel that you have the vitamins and the minerals.  There are lots of nutrients there but of course may exceptions yun di ba?  You like to eat pineapple or guyabano unpeeled?

Dr. Romeo de Villa MOLECULAR & NUTRITIONAL ONCOLOGIST

Cooked or uncooked food?  We eat more of cooked.  Actually the one on the right is the one that’s healthier.  I placed them all there. The one on the left is less healthy or unhealthy.  Who likes to use the elevator, escalator, car, telephone, PDA, cellphone, all these conveniences in life?  Everybody, right?  Like me also, I like those conveniences but be aware that it reduces your physical activity.  It is very important, physical activity is very important for health.

 

Now who feels the urge to move every time you eat a large meat?  Kokonti na lang kami.  You know there’s such a thing as the gastro cholic reflex.  Once you eat, your stomach gets filled, you will feel the urge to move.  Maybe you can’t move because you’re in the middle of a lecture like me, but you feel the urge to move.  Ah who has relatives and friends with heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes and hypertension?  I think everybody. It’s not rare and it’s not uncommon anymore.  And I know there are lots here who are suffering from these diseases.  So this is what I want to teach you; for those with the disease, so that it will not further aggravate, and those without the disease yet, to prevent it.

Now, man’s long term survival depends on two things.  One is continuous flow of energy, that means input/output, so important is physical activity.  The best physical activity, whenever you walk, walk briskly.  Huwag nyo lang babanggain yung mga nasa harap.  So you can’t walk pag ganun.  Walk briskly.  Second is provision of nutrients and even non-nutrients.  Non nutrients before, now considered a nutrient like fiber; before it is not considered a nutrient but now it’s considered a nutrient.  Iba na.  May paradigm shift na tayo.  Even if it’s not digested nor absorbed, we find that it’s very important.  It’s very important for cancer.  Why?  Prevention and even in the management of cancer.  Why?  Because cancer is an avid glucose feeder, and with fiber in your diet, your blood sugar after the meal does not shoot up very high, very fast.  It becomes gradual.  In your addition of fiber in the diet, it is just simply supplementation fiber in the food, lowers the curve and so your glycemic index is affected.  It goes down.  Lower glycemic index.  So you have proper amounts.

 

Proper amounts and proper proportions.  The key here is not just the amount but the proportions.  Dapat within the RDA, you know, Recommended Dietary Allowance, that’s the proper amount pero dapat proper proportions din.  The best supplement can be lahat sila within the recommended dietary allowance.  Yet, they are all properly absorbed, pumapasok sa katawan kasi tama yung proportion nila.

 

Now our body’s in automatic control.  Hindi na natin iisipin masyado, it’s in automatic control.  Pero meron tayong mga nako-control sa ating katawan.  Kontrolado natin kung ano papasok natin sa ating bibig.  Yung kakainin natin.  Yung iinumin natin, kontrolado din natin yan.  Even yung hihingahin natin.  Kasi puwede tayong magsalita sabihin:  “Can you please smoke outside?” or “This is an airconditioned room.”  Sa mall, the outside of the stores is still inside an airconditioned room.  So yun.  And also yung physical activity, kontrolado natin yan.  You can choose to walk more briskly or not.  

 

But how do we choose our food?  Saan natin bine-base yan?  No 1.  Taste.  Pag masarap, kakainin, pag hindi masarap, hindi kakainin.  Kung hindi masyadong masarap, healthy, di bale na lang.  Mas gusto ko yung mas masarap.  So, ano ba ang nagpapasarap ng pagkain?  Yung fatty, yung mataas sa cholesterol, yung fried, yung sweet, matamis, salty.  Yan yung mga pampalasa.  And sa mga pag-aaral, napakita na.  Fat is a risk factor for breast cancer.  High fat diet.  Yung matatamis, makes you gain weight, accumulate fat.  Ganun pa rin.  Psychological gratification, pangalawa lang.  Convenience is another basis.  Syempre, kung nandyan na lalabas ka na lang dito, nandyan na ang pagkain.  So ako, nagdala ako ng sarili ko.  May baon ako dyan. Banana at saka atis.

Convenience – packed, canned.  Yung mga processing na yan, may nangyayari sa pagkain.  May nawawala, vitamins, nawawala.  When you can, minerals din nawawala.  And cost, of course, kasama yan.  And least of all, health.  Health pala.  Health na yung sinisigaw nya eh.  Health ok. And it should be like this:  We should choose our food based on health.  So mamaya makikita nyo, which are the healthy ones.

 

Cost.  Ang consequence ng food choices, ano yan?  This will lead to poor quality of life, hihina hina ka, hapon, gabi, mahina.  We age faster.  Yung mga sakit nga na dapat 70, 80, 90; 20, 30, 40 yrs old meron na.  Breast cancer, 70, 80, 90 dapat yan.  Pero 20, 30, 40 nagkakaroon na.  You know.  Modern day diseases, etong lumalabas, yun na nga, cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis.

 

Itong traffic light of nutrition, is actually para sa lahat na yan, may sakit o wala, may cancer o wala.  So eto ngayon – killers on a rampage – yan na ngayon ang pumapatay sa atin, like non-infectious disease like:  Hypertension, diseases of the heart, yan ang pagkakakasakit ngayon. Tumataas na.  And sa pagkamatay ng mga Pilipino, pinakamataas ngayon ang heart disease at saka vascular, tapos yung cancer #5.  That was in 1997.  Recent data shows, ang cancer, nasa #3, o #2 na. Kung nandun kayo sa itaas kanina, nadinig nyo kay Dr. Marco, sa US pababa na yung heart disease as a killer, and ang cancer, steady.  Dahil bumababa na ang heart disease, magiging #1 na ang cancer.  And in Singapore and in Japan, #1 ang cancer as a killer.  Eh tayo, Pilipino, gumagaya tayo sa US, di ba?  So kung paganun na ang sa US magiging #1 ang cancer, ano kaya ang mangyayari sa Pilipinas?

So, eto na yung trend. Pababa yung infectious disease as a killer and heart disease, pataas; and cancer, pataas din.  So nabaligtad na yung pumapatay sa Pilipino.  Hindi Abu Sayaf, NPA, accidents, hindi yan.  Yung non‑communicable, yung heart disease, and cancer.  So, yung Department of Health natin, kambyo, atras, tapos lipat sa ibang lugar.

DOH is shifting gear to taking care of people before they get sick.  So eto ngayon yung aking parang personal drive - to teach everybody this traffic light of nutrition so that hindi tayo mababangga sa mga ganitong sakit.

 

So, ano ba yung healthy diet?  Tingnan nyo:  Eat raw fruits and vegetables.  Yan, yung nasa green, dun ako mag-fo-focus.  Eat enough dietary fiber.  Balance energy intake.  Balance fat intake.  If you don’t, it’s straightforward, this is the consequence.  Ako, sa mga anak ko, ganun ang pagtuturo ko eh.  Etong consequence, kung ganitong gagawin mo, etong consequence.  Kung ganitong gagawin mo, etong consequence niyan.  Ngayon pumili ka ng consequence na gusto mo.  Alam mo na kung anong gagawin mo.  So, if I want to develop heart disease what will I do?  Hindi ako kakain ng raw foods and vegetables.  What else?  Vascular problem – not eat enough dietary fiber.  Ano pa ang gagawin ko? Other lifestyle?  Adequate physical activity, not smoking, not exposed to cigarette smoke.  Nandyan din yung heart disease.  So hindi ako masyado kikilos.  Lagi akong magpapark malapit na malapit dun sa gate, may driver ako tagahatid sa akin, ganyan.  Tapos, alalay lagi lahat.  No physical activity.  I get diabetes, heart disease.  Not smoking, so I’ll smoke, I’ll get cancer.

So eto ngayon ang today’s unhealthy lifestyle.  There’s too much stress.  Excessive stress.  Pollution is everywhere.  Exessive alcohol consumption.  Low physical activity because of the vehicles, elevator, washing machine, cellphones and all the conveniences in life.  Don’t get me wrong.  They’re still good, you still use them, but be aware that your physical activity is going to go down.  So compensate.

 

A convenient, but unhealthy diet.  Presence of food additives – coloring, flavoring, preserving.  Micro nutrient deficient diet in fast foods and in junk foods.  Unbalanced diet - that means lack of fruits and vegetables, whole grain cereals, fish, full cream milk and boiled eggs.  I’m a proponent of full cream powdered milk and boiled eggs.  Later I’ll show you the evidence, your honors.

Guess what’s coming to dinner?  For those who have not changed their lifestyle, diet lifestyle, it’s all those chemicals and toxins in the processing.  From the farm, to the factory, to the grocery, to your dinner table.  Now, what’s the reason for increasing mortality? Yung pagkakamatay sa non communicable disease, cardiovascular and cancer?   Dalawang revolution.  Yung agricultural revolution and industrial revolution.

 

Agricultural revolution has brought pollution into the air, into the land, and into the water.  And I will teach you and show you that from the air, land, and water, it gets to our food.  And what foods?  So that you can avoid them.

 

Increased corn and soya production.  Production of foods, feeds using corn and soya milk for fattening of pork, cattle, poultry and even fish.  Hindi naman yun ang pagkain nila.  Pinupuwersang kainin yun.  So sa cattle, you eat the cattle, that has eaten the grass, the grass-fed.  Milk from cattle also that has eaten grass, not the feeds.  Because the feeds contain the toxins called dioxane, so it gets there because of the heating, industrial processing of the feeds, nasasama doon.

Then you have industrial pollution.  Industrial pollution - pollution of the air, land, and water again.  Production of margarine and butter compound that contains transfat, that’s the key. It’s the transfat.  We now know transfat is the risk factor for developing degenerative disease. Because you have unhydrogenated, unsaturated fats.  Unsaturated fats are good but when you hydrogenate them it turns into transfats.  Refinement of rice, wheat, and sugar where you have reduced the fiber content. That’s the essence of refinement. You reduce the fiber content.

So now I go on to this – traffic light of foods and processing.  So again GO means GO.  Right?  Yellow, Caution means what?  Prepare to stop and The Stop means really stop.  Step on brake not on the gas.  

 

So I will summarize again on that food – pollution accumulates in certain foods, certain foods – bioaccumulation.  Living organisms; accumulate in living organisms because accumulation of the herbicides and pesticides.  Now sabi fruits and vegetables. nandun yung herbicides and pesticides.  Hindi ka na kakain ng fruits and vegetables.  Right?  Wrong!  Because, really, better yung organically grown.  Right? But did you know in the North Pole and in the South Pole, is there agricultural practice there?  It accumulates not in the fruits and in the vegetables but it accumulates down the line, because uulan, babagyo, uulan, mauulanan, it will be washed.  Saan pupunta yung pesticides and herbicides?  Sa soil.  And then from the soil, to the streams, to the rivers, back to the sea. That’s the water cycle.  Yun yung water cycle.  Biological mechanisms of accumulation.  Water cycle, it goes back to the sea – the water, but hintayin natin sa river, nagpunta na dun yung pesticide and herbicide.  Sasamahan yun ng sewage.  Right?  Dun din naman napupunta yung sewage natin eh, di ba?  So sasamahan yun. Anong ginamit nyo sa bahay?  May pesticide din dun pamatay ng cockroach, panlinis ng banyo - muriatic acid, at kung anu-ano pa ginagamit sa bahay.  So lahat yan pupunta dun.  Industries, factories, everybody, lahat ng establishments, sewage goes to the river.  And the river, hintayin pa natin.  Yung mga factory mismo, saan sila naka-locate?  Sa tabi ng river.  Para walang transportation cost.  Yung waste nila dump na lang sa river.  So dun din pupunta.  Eh dun nag ipun-ipon yang mga yan.  Tapos pabagal ng pabagal yung flow ng tubig hanggang sa mouth ng river it’s very wide already, very wide – sa Paranaque, sa Navotas, ganyan, very wide na and mabagal na mabagal na yung flow ng tubig – anong manyayari dun sa pollution?  Magse settle sa ilalim.  Sino nabubuhay sa ilalim?  Yung crabs, yung shells, yung shrimps.  Dun sa medyo baybay ng dagat, nandun yung squids, oysters, iba pang mga shells.  So doon naiipon.  Bioaccumulation of the pollution from the air, the water, and the land. 

Now sila sila, food chain is also a mechanism of accumulation, the food chain. Sila sila nagkakainan.  If you’re lowest in the food chain and you have the pollution, eto sa itaas, kinain ito, hindi lang naman isa kinain nya.  Lets say sampu lang.  One pollution unit sa baba, eto kumain ng sampu nito, x 10, so 1 magiging 10.  And then, para madaling isipin, another 10.  Ito naman sampu nito kinain.  Eh ten na bawat isa, so 100.  Then so on and so forth.  Sino ang nandun sa taas?  Diet - ano ba yun?  Maraming plant foods doon.  Right?  More on plant based diet.  That’s the reason. Industrial chemicals, lahat nasasama.  Mining,  san papunta ang tubig na ginagamit doon sa mining?  Sa river din.  Mining for gold.  What’s the mineral that’s used to mine for gold?  Mercury.  It lifts out and takes out the outer gold para umangat sya mahiwalay from the rock, yun yung mecury.  Tapos tapon yun sa river, papunta, ganun din.

Now, processing.  Processing produces toxic substances.  Exposure to high heat of cooking.  Above 100 degrees centigrade.  We found that they are converted; the unsaturated fats are converted to lipid peroxide.  Now what is a peroxide?  Agua oxenada.  San ginagamit yun?  Pambuhay ba yun o pampatay?  Pampatay ng bacteria.  Pang dry up ng skin para mabilis yung wound healing.  Eventually mabubuhay tayo di ba?  Kasi nawala yung infection pero pinatay mo yung tissue dun, pinatay mo yung bacteria dun. So it’s dangerous and these are lipid peroxides.  The lipids turn into peroxides when you do high heat cooking of unsaturated fats.  Don’t get me wrong, unsaturated fats are still healthy but when you use them for cooking or they’re exposed to high heat above 100 degrees centigrade, they turn into peroxides.  So what’s the best use of olive oil?  Salad dressing, not for frying.  High temperature cooking, baking and frying of starch based foods ano yan?  Cakes, cookies and pastries, they produce acrylamides. Acrylamides.  The food that has the highest acrylamide from studies in Canada and in Europe, they found that the food highest in acrylamides is the high heat of cooking ng potatoes.  And what is that?  Fried potatoes.  So French fries, and potato chips, they have the highest acrylamide.  And what is acrylamide?  It’s a nerve poison. And the acrylamide, there are some studies now, hindi pa well proven but there’s some evidence that it can also lead to cancer, because there’s some evidence that it is a chemical that damages also the cells, or the genes of the cells leading into cancer.  So potato chips, french fries, cakes, cookies and pastries, baked foods, baked starchy foods, they have acrylamides.  Now ang pinaka worst nga dyan is potato chips and french fries.  Why?  Because we cook them with unsaturated fat.  Healthy kasi ang unsaturated oils.  So we cook it with unsaturated oil, but they produce peroxides.  So aside from highest in acrylamide, meron pa syang peroxide. Double hit. Double barrel gun yan. Now another is broiling meat in charcoal.  This produces carcinogenic substances such as benzopyrine and methyl colantrine, just examples.  You don’t know what those are, but they are carcinogenic substances, they cause cancer.  Also heating food in plastic, plastic containers. They release the chemicals in the plastic.  When plastic was made, may solvent yan na ginagamit.  Tapos may mol, i-injent dun sa mold tapos magso-solidify, magpo-polymerize yung plastic, so magiging porma na nung mold.  What do you think kung polymerized na ganun? Tapos yung solvent nya, puwedeng ma trap doon sa polymers ng plastic. And when it’s trapped there, you heat the container, high heat, what happens , lalabas  yung chemicals papunta dun sa food. I’ll show it in a while.

So, where do you want me to start? STOP, CAUTION or GO?

 

(A): Go

 

(RDV): Go muna para hindi nakaka depress.

 

Now these foods, if you follow this, this is actually, I call it also a diet that will starve the cancer cells.  It’s a diet that starves the cancer cells.  There are three principles that I follow, but there are already evidence with regards to that.  And that’s fiber - one, the other one is sugar, third one is balance of inflammation, because inflammation has been found to be another common factor in the development of the degenerative diseases.

 

Dalawang common factors sa development ng degenerative diseases. Yung bilis ng pag age - cancer, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, yang mga yan, degenerative diseases.  Lifestyle diseases, and one of them is excessive inflammation, yung isa is excessive free radicals in the body; and these free radicals come from chemicals and toxins.  They generate free radicals in our body. And itong free radicals na ito ang ginagawa nya, sinisira nya yung katawan natin, so it degenerates.  Now to balance your free radicals, which are oxidants, they do oxidative damage, oxidants sila, oxidative damage, so you need anti‑oxidants.  Now it’s not just one anti-oxidant but multiple, iba’t iba. It’s a mix, it’s a variety. And all these foods na nasa GO has the anti oxidants. And all those foods na nasa STOP has the free radical generating chemicals.

 

(A): Which is green there?

 

(RDV): Green – low. In the traffic light , yung green nasa baba.

GO is here – GO here. Ok

CAUTION here, CAUTION, there. And STOP goes to the top.

 

So this is going to be time is up for me and you just copy that and you just believe me with that. Then we’re ok.

Now would you like me to continue?

 

(A): yes…

 

(RDV): So you want me to start with GO.  Sa GO you have those three that will kill the cancer cells that is chemicals and toxins that generate free radicals.  What else will feed the cancer cells?  Excessive glucose, that’s known by everybody.  Sugar.  Excessive sugar and then excessive inflammation.  It’s all excessive.  And yung foods na nandun sa GO will balance that or will take that out.  And therefore, these three things that feed the cancer cells, mawawala.  So the cancer cells will starve.

For cardiovascular disease, these same foods, iba lang ang pagkaka explain.  Iba lang point of view but it’s the same foods.  So fish. Let’s go first to fish.  Deep sea temperate fish, that’s the best.  Deep sea temperate fish.  Deep sea temperate.  Why temperate?  Yung nasa malamig na lugar.  Yung omega 3. Omega 3 is found in the colder regions.  More in the cold.  Why?  Because ang omega 3 fatty acid - this is unsaturated fatty acid.  Omega 3 fatty acid is an anti-freeze.  If you have enough omega 3, you will not feel as old.  So the the fish will not freeze in the cold waters with this, with the omega 3.  So they are high in omega 3.  Now what’s the use of, bakit itataas natin ang omega 3?  That is to balance the omega 6.  There should be a balance, remember I told you, that’s not just the amount but the proportion.  There should be balance and proportion of omega 3 to omega 6. Omega 3 to omega 6 should be 1:1.  That is the best. Omega 3 to Omega 6 in your diet should be 1:1.  Omega 6 is another unsaturated fatty acid, and these are both essential, I mean, we need it both but they should be in the proper balance.  1:1 up to 1:4, omega 3 to omega 6.   Cooking oil, vegetable cooking oil, has 1:6.  Sobra na ng omega 6 or has 1:9.  Sobra sobra that’s why it’s fat.  Ok 1:9.   Sobra sobra ng omega 6.  So both are needed pero pag sumobra yung omega 6 that is the one that promotes excessive inflammation.  Excessive inflammation.  This can lead to heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis and cancer.  So we need to balance that with omega 3.  Now take the fish that is less polluted with chemicals.  So deep sea temperate. Why?  Yung fish na bottom dwelling na nandun sa river, hindi sila.  Because in the river I just told you right, you know where the pollution is.  It’s in the river, it is in the fresh water.  Nandyan ang pollution.  But if you have no choice, what is the better choice?  Hindi yung fresh water fish na nasa ilalim.  Dalag o hito.  Ano ang better?  Yung fish na nakakalanngoy sa taas.  Hindi sila nae-expose so much.  And may kaliskis, so ano yung fish na yun?  Yung bangus at saka tilapia.  But you would think that they would still have some amount of chemicals and toxins.  Less nga lang so if you choose lesser of the evil yun ang lesser of the evil.  Evil pa rin.

Now let’s go to full cream powdered milk.  So, full cream powdered milk. Why full cream?  And why powdered?  And why milk?  Sabi, milk feeds cancer cells.  Merong nagsasabi, no milk, marami sa mga alternative doctors nagsasabi, no milk.  No milk, ok.  Bakit no milk?  Because the milk may contain dioxins.  So how do you avoid that dioxin?  Get the milk from the cows that has been fed not with feeds but with grass.  Saan yung mga cows na yun?

 

(A): Sa Switzerland.

 

(RDV): Sa New Zealand.  Very wise.  Hindi sa US.  So ang mga US alternative physicians, sasabihin talaga no milk.  Wala silang choice.  Eh tayo, all over the world nakakauha tayo ng gatas sa US, sa Australia, sa New Zealand, so pumili na kayo kung saan.  So that wala yung dioxins.  Another reason.  Milk daw feeds cancer cells, “daw.”  I reviewed the study already, and when I looked at the study, it was an erroneous conclusion.  Why, because these are the two studies, and you make the conclusion from those two studies.  One study has shown that if you drink milk it mixes with your saliva.  That the saliva plus milk together is mucoid in character, and so you feel like parang lumala yata yung plema ko, dumami.  Ina-aggravate.  I used to tell that to my children.  Pag may ubo, wag muna mag gatas, because of that.  But when I reviewed the study recently lang nga, dahil sinasabi yun, I found na the study showed that it is mucoid in character, it does not increase mucus production but the combination of saliva and milk is mucoid in character, so you think tumaas ang mucus production ko, but hindi.  Now the next study is about cancer cells being grown in the laboratory. I grow cancer cells in the laboratory.  I do research on cancer.  I have a cancer research lab at FEU, and these cancer cells, they produce mucoid material and in fact that’s one of our targets in the research that we are doing.  We are targeting a protein, a glycoprotein that is a protein that is part of a mucus.  So cancer cells produce mucus.  It’s not that mucus feeds the cancer cells.  Cancer cells produce mucus.  So when they grow they produce mucus.  Feed them with the foods that they have.  The glucose, and they will produce mucus.  So, baliktad.  Now you make the conclusion.  Does milk feed cancer cells?  No!

Now, why powdered?  Studies show that if you heat protein, it gets denatured, and that’s the purpose of cooking – to heat the protein and denature the protein so that it will improve the digestion of the protein.  You digest the protein completely to their unit structure which is amino acids, and the amino acids, you get the value from that, and we make our own proteins.  But they found that the milk proteins, if it is not denatured, this is not human study but a study in cows, kasi puwede nila i-feed tapos i-poke, butasin yung intestine, tapos kumuha ng sample.  Gusto nyo ba gawin natin sa tao yun?  Hindi!  So hindi na natin gagawin yun.  Ok na yung ginawa sa cow, and they found that the milk protein gets digested into peptides.

Peptides.  A peptide is yung amino acid, isang amino acid, another amino acid nakadugtong, another amino acid, another amino acid, apat lang sila, short chain of amino acid.  That is a peptide.  A protein is a chain of amino acids mahabang mahaba. 100, 200, 300 amino acids, dugtong dugtong, that is a protein.  Pero ang peptide, maiksi lang.  So yung milk protein na mahabang mahaba nagkakaputol putol into peptides, and they found that these peptides from milk protein, have biologic function.  Some of them can work like a drug.  It’s an ACE inhibitor.  You know they are, sa hypertensive, pampababa ng blood pressure, an ACE inhibitor drug, and so may ACE inhibition action sya pero hindi as strong as a drug, mild lang.  So milk can help lower your blood pressure.  Powdered milk is not heated to high temperatures.  Fresh milk is UHT.  UHT - Ultra Heat Treated.  That’s what it means by UHT.  So better yung powdered milk.  Powdered milk is flash drying of the milk.  Flash drying uses low heat and some processes, yung mga expensive machines, freeze drying.  That means cold temperature pa nga.  It’s dried in cold temperature.  So better yung powdered milk.  You get biological benefits from there.  Meron din yung working like an aspirin na peptide.  Meron din doon na peptide that activates the immune system on the dot.  Meron din peptide doon that regulates the flow of food through your intestines.  Gastric emptying, kinokontrol nya.  So powdered milk is very good. Not filled milk.  Full Cream Milk.  No to the fresh. 

So why full cream?

 

Now the anti-carcinogens are found in the cream of the milk.  There’s two already identified. One is conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA.  You look in the internet. It’s an anti-carcinogen. Second, the cream of the milk has 20%, get this. Kaya sinasabi low fat skimmed milk because the cream of the milk is saturated fat, right?  But not all saturated fats are bad.  It is the long chain saturated fat that is bad.  Long chain, chain of carbons yun eh, pag mahaba, long chain - carbons, long chain saturated fat.  There’s a medium chain and there’s a short chain.
What is found in the milk?  20% short chain saturated fat.  That’s butyric acid.  It’s the long chain that is bad.  Where do you get the long chain?  Pork.  Long chain saturated fat.  Where do you get the omega 6 excess?  Pork.  Strike 2 na ang pork.

 

Strike 3, strike 3 ko pa yung pork para out na sya.  Hindi ko na di-discuss-in mamaya, strike out na eh.  Third strike on pork, because it is a fatty animal and because when I look at the listing of chemicals and toxins that man is exposed to, man is exposed to these chemicals and toxins are more of fat solubles.  80% of them are fat soluble.  Where would they go, sa pork.  Even in the meat.  I’ve done the experiment already.  I just repeat and repeat it to make sure that it is so and then I’ll have it published.  But I’ve done the initial, preliminary studies.  I’ve taken lean meat of pork, cooked it and looked for fat.  There is fat in the meat.  And there’s a study which show that pesticides in the fat of the pork.  In the obvious fat, may pesticide.  When they look at the meat, mas mataas ang pesticide dun sa meat, even higher in the liver, and highest in the brain of the pig.  Sisig, patay na yung sisig.  Highest in the brain.  Because these pesticides are fat soluble.  Pinaka mataas na fat sa brain.  So hindi ko na pupuntahan mamaya yung pork.

 

Your full cream milk, 20% is butyric acid.  It’s short chain and they are now doing a prospective study to verify it more strongly but they found the risk that the butyric acid lowers the risk of developing colon cancers.  Butyric acid, and butyric acid is found in the cream of the milk.  So drink full cream powdered milk.  So, your honors, I’ve given you the evidences for each of those words - full cream powdered milk.  So if I’m made to stop right now you know that I have evidence for each one of those. So anytime I can stop.

Question about breast cancer:

 

(Q):  I’m not a breast cancer survivor, but I know breast cancer survivors are very worried about drinking milk, so does this mean now that they can?  Because, you know, the full cream milk having the butyric acid?

 

(RDV):  Yes, I do advise full cream powdered milk, from New Zealand.  I don’t want to say the brand but from New Zealand.  They’re many brands.  There are three that are popular brands that are from New Zealand.

 

(CR): You know I can add, we can say that the ones, the milk that’s from New Zealand they are not ashamed to say so.  In other words, you will know right away.  That is the first thing that they want you to know.  Alright!  Anyone who wants to ask more questions?

 

(Q1): How much fruits they can eat because there’s sugar in it?  And I heard them asking also if they could take Equal?  I suppose it wasn’t answered properly a while ago.  Also they’re asking if they could eat raw fish?  Sashimi?

 

(RDV): No problem with the raw fish, except that if its raw fish na close to the land, close to soil, because you have the pollution there.  The other one, the first one was?

 

(Q2): Sugar in the fruits.

 

(RDV):  Sugar in the fruits is not a problem.  As long as the fruit is a, the whole fruit, nothing but the fruit.

 

(Q3): They are asking also about Equal? If they can use Equal?

 

(RDV): Ah let me say something else about that, because we juice the fruit, right?  And when you juice the fruit the fruits juice has the fiber out.  I don’t advise that.  I advise that you blender the fruit with the fiber.  Today, ang dinala ko lang ngayon is water but I always have prepared in the morning blendered fruit, it varies.  So kahapon it was guava, the other day it was guyabano, and akala ng mga tao lagi sa akin.  “Doc you are always bringing milk?” No, maputi lang yung fruit na binlender.

 

(Q4): How about the carrot juice?

 

(RDV):  Carrot juice. Hindi naman yan matamis talaga na, not like a fruit na matamis.  But still if you can take with the fiber, better with the fiber.  Yung fiber nga ginagawang parang flour na eh, with the carrot cake di ba?  Kainin mo na yung the entire carrot.  Whole fruit is still better.  If it is not the best, whole food is still better.

 

(Q5):  Dr. de Villa, before we go on, do you have a website?  Many are asking because perhaps, many of our questions would be available. Do you have one?  A website please, tell them your address.

 

(RDV): I have two.  The other one is new, mas madaling matandaan yun but I’m still updating that.  I’ll give you first the one that is often updated.  Mas madalas kong na-a-update sya.  And that’s the one in geocities so yung libre lang, walang bayad yun. www.geocities.com/romulodevilla dire-diretso, small letters, no space in between, small letters lahat, and the one which I have started and it’s paid, inaayos pa.  It’s www.drdevilla.com.  No space in between.

 

(Q6): And these websites, they have the opportunity to ask you questions?  Will you be able to answer them back?  Meron bang email.

 

(RDV): Yes, may email dun.

 

(Q7): May email doon, okay.  Great.  Because as you can see, box office hit kayo Dr. De Villa, people keep coming in, because everything you say releases oooohs and aaaahs, and eyebrows raising. Again, we are sorry because we are pressed for time. We will ask a couple of more questions, but at least now you know Dr. de Villa’s website, and if I don’t get your questions asked today, then perhaps you can ask it there.

 

(Q8):  There is a milk which is consisting of short chain peptides.  They call it a hypo-allergenic milk.  It is a powdered milk but it is not full cream, it has a mixture of vegetable fat, and it’s a milk for babies.  Would you recommend that even for adults?  Are you familiar with this kind of milk?

 

(RDV): Yeah, I’ve seen that but I don’t recommend that use of oil.

 

(Q9):  The use of vegetable fat?  It’s rich in omega 3 that’s what they say.

 

(RDV):  I’ll tell you how cooking oil is made, and so from there you make the conclusion.  Cooking oil is refined, mixed and deodorized.  Every step, you use a chemical.  To refine, refinement removes a lot of things.  A lot of nutrients dissolved in the oil itself, mixed, you have to use a chemical there, and then deodorants.  All refined oils.  The only oil that is not refined is virgin.  That’s why it’s virgin, it’s not refined. Virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, those are unrefined.

 

(Q10):  Doc I have a question. We’re told not to eat beans, nuts, and legumes for those with arthritis, so, it has to be a NO for us.  It is a NO?

 

(RDV):  No, it is ok.  You need to test first.  You stop pork beause this is what I did.  I have, it runs in our family, I have yung arthritis, yung uric acid na nagdedeposit dyan, nasa pamilya talaga ng mga De Villa.  If you see some of the De Villas kung maglakad eh parang stiff yung back, it’s because of that and usually sa amin, sa pamilya, dito nag dedeposit, hindi classical na dito yung uric acid, and that happened to me about 20 yrs ago.

 

(CR):  Doc, ah 5 yrs old pa lang ho kayo nun?  Doc, two more questions, then we’ll take one last question from the floor.  Is it safe to heat food in a microwaveable non plastic container ?

 

(RDV):  Ah yes.

 

(CR):  Alright and a lot of people are asking about cooking food with coconut milk.  Please explain the positive effects of cooking food with coconut milk and what’s the best way of cooking with coconut milk?

 

(RDV):  Yes, you can cook in coconut milk, but you add the coconut milk sa kalagitnaan.  Why? Because you don’t want the water, all the water there in that milk to evaporate and it’s going to be oil cooking. When you cook in oil, that’s going to be already 200, 300 degrees centigrade. Whatever unsaturated fat there is in the food or in the oil, it turns into peroxides.

 

(Q11):  Ok last na. Because you talked a lot about full cream, there’s one question asking if low fat is ok also or the non-fat powdered.  Ok lang yun?  For breast cancer?

 

(RDV):  If you drink that, you lose on the benefit of the cream of the milk.

 

(CR):  Ok, our last question.  Go ahead.

 

(Q12):  Doctor, there are washing liquids that are advertised that it can wash away pesticides , how true is this, and what’s the proper way of washing vegetables?

 

(RDV):  When you wash the vegetables, it’s only the one that’s on the surface, on the peel, that’s is washed out.  What’s the best way?  You can add a little vinegar, mix with vinegar because vinegar is acid and most of the bad bacteria do not survive acid.  Acid.  Or you can use the other side of the fence which is baking soda.  So it’s either you use something acidic or you use baking soda.

 

(CR):  The last one Doc, just a follow up Doc because this was brought up kanina hindi lang  nasagot, yung the case of Equal and Splenda and all of the sweeteners, which one is good, which one is bad.  Is Equal in particular no?

 

(RDV):  Well, controversial pa yung aspartame, but there are studies showing na wala naman but these are studies that are done in lower animals; when you do it in man, it’s not always true.  So if it’s true in lower animals, it may not be necessarily true in man, but it maybe also true.  So, we don’t really know.

 

(CR):  Dr. De villa, we have kept you here longer than we should.  Thank you so much for indulging us today.