Mark Schapiro
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 Eight months after RoHS, the EU's directive banning all hazardous chemicals and minerals in electronic devices, the Chinese equivalent came into force: the "Administration on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products" sent a signal that China would no longer allow itself to be the world's dumping ground for hazardous products.9
As a Basel Action Network investigation showed, at least 50 percent of the e-waste that is collected for recycling in the United States is shipped to scrap yeards in developing countries like Taiwan, the Philippines, Nigeria, and China. |
| These and other emerging economies, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, will be responsible for increasing percentages of the world's chemicals, minerals, and manufactured goods over the coming decades. This is where the action moves to in establishing new guideposts for environmental protection.
Nowhere have the implications of this dynamic become clearer than in China —the room from which comes the elephant of the global economy. |
| China's new standards are drawn directly from European Union regulations, and target the same six toxic chemicals and minerals as the European RoHS directive: lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and PBDE flame retardants. The derisive moniker "made in China"—long associated with dismal safety protections— is being turned inside-out as U.S. electronics companies must now demonstrate the safety of their products for Chinese consumers. |
| The components decay, spring leaks, form cracks; their connections dissolve, and the atmospheric forces of moisture and heat work their destructive tricks. The minerals and chemicals that once held that shiny whatever-it-is together disperse into the environment. The EPA has concluded that e-waste is growing nearly three times faster than municipal waste.' They are the components of a time-release toxic debt-load for the multiplicity of cool and complicated electronic connections of modern life. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Take Appropriate Supplements
Aside from making certain that you are consuming a balanced whole foods diet, you may want to consider supplementing with vitamins, minerals, and herbs that have been shown to help improve and restore sleep. The following information highlights specific nutritional supplements known to aid sleep.
Vitamins
Good nutritional status is essential for good health, and any serious deficiencies are likely ultimately have some impact on your sleep. However, a few specific vitamins are more directly involved in sleep, particularly B vitamins and vitamin E. |
| Because in their whole form, they come packaged with complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, and more—a veritable cornucopia of healthy nutrients. Plus, the fiber that they contain helps moderate the release of sugars into the bloodstream. These days, most of us are aware that fiber has many health benefits, from promoting good digestive function to helping reduce risk of certain diseases, including heart disease and cancer. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 A number of plants and minerals in the region are particulatly rich sources of potassium ot sodium alkalis that can be used in cleaning. In more than one place, the Bible has something to say on the subject. One of the relevant verses, mixing metaphor with practical advice, occurs in Jeremiah 2:22. "For though thou wash thee with nitte, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God."14
In the literal Hebrew text, nobody is actually doing anything with soap in any modern sense of the word. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The rapid reversal of the seven stages is accelerated by green juice fasting and natural supplements (discussed in next chapter) of herbs, minerals, high-protease enzymes, and digestive enzymes with our food to build up the amylase, and liquid zeolite (Natural Cellular Defense, or NCD) when combined with the green juice fasting to help pull out the heavy metals and 65,000 environmental toxins. We have also found that the NCD seemed to help in decreasing the FBS. With this integrated approach the results of the Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program are so rapid and consistent. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 These formulas entail natural chelating agents, including amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Following are ingredients to look for when choosing a heavy metal cleanse product.
Heavy Metal Cleanse Ingredients
Morning Formula* biotin manganese vitamin B2 boron molybdenum vitamin B3 calcium selenium vitamin B5 chromium vanadium vitamin copper vitamin C vitamin B12 folic acid vitamin B1 zinc magnesium
* Do not start a heavy metal cleanse without first completing a total-body cleanse. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The presence of protein and the presence of other minerals in the joint fluid
Acid-base imbalance allows calcium crystals from the bone and cartilage to migrate into the joint fluid. Dehydration can increase the concentration of uric acid and calcium in the joint. In the joint fluid, these crystals lead to inflammation.
When Dr. Hyon Choi of Harvard analyzed diets of forty-seven thousand participants in the twelve-year Health Professions Study, he found that those in the top twentieth percentile of animal-meat intake (and particularly seafood intake) had 40 to 50 percent more gout attacks. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Herbs that should be taken in this form are ones containing minerals as primary constituents (alfalfa, horsetail, nettles, oat straw). As long as the patient has reasonable digestive function, capsules are a superior way to ingest mineral-rich herbs. The drawback of capsules in general, whether they contain ground herbs or a spray-dried extract, is that they are more difficult to digest than liquids. Patients (especially young children) who can't swallow capsules also cannot use this type of product. |
| Many have antiarthritic and anabolic activity, and they regulate Cortisol, thus reducing the gradual loss of minerals from bones (bone demineraliza-tion, which can lead to osteoporosis). They can help prevent and treat musculoskeletal health problems, including fibromyalgia and muscle pain in the back and neck and assist in recovery following trauma or surgery. a*. The following adaptogens can be used as aids in musculoskeletal system health: American ginseng, amla, ashwagandha, Asian ginseng, eleuthero, he shou wu, lycium, rhaponticum, rhodiola, schisandra, and shilajit. |
| This legislation places herbal products in a clearly defined regulatory category of dietary supplements, along with a number of other products including vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. When the DSHEA was passed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimated that there were about four thousand dietary supplements on the market. After this law was passed, the number has increased dramatically to more than thirty thousand, with more than one thousand being added each year. |
| Constituents: Shilajit is composed of humus, various minerals, di-benzo-alpha-pyrones, and organic acids such as fulvic, humic, benzoic, and hippuric acids.
History/Ethnobotany
Shilajit is a tarlike bituminous substance that in hot weather oozes out of cracks in rocks. In ayurvedic tradition, this herbal/mineral compound is considered a rasayana.
Ancient texts describe four types of shilajit by color: red, yellow, bluish-grey, and black to brown. It is this latter type that is used in medicine. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| The 12-15 pounds of produce juiced fresh each day will contain all the protein, fat, carbohydrates, enzymes, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals you require. In fact, you will actually be consuming more bioavailable nutrition than you perhaps ever have in your lifetime, due to the nutrient density of the foods you are juicing, and the superfoods, essential fatty acids, and supplements you add. Here is your baseline for a Juice Feast of 4-5 quarts per day of nutrient-dense green juices made with the following ingredients:
?Base—celery, cucumber
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| According to David Wolfe in Eating for Beauty:
Green leaves are the best source of alkaline minerals, contain the best fiber, have many calming, anti-stress properties, and are the best source of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a blood-builder and one of nature's greatest healers. Green, leafy foods are the most abundant foods on earth. In July 1940, a comprehensive study, reported by Dr. Benjamin Gurskin, director of experimental pathology at Temple University, in the American Journal of Surgery, focused on 1,200 patients treated with chlorophyll. |
| This is why we also suggest the use of HCl supplementation to assist in the digestion of protein, assimilation of minerals, and B-12. In other words, digestive enzymes on many levels provide a tonic effect on the overall healing energy and capacity of the organism.
NATURAL CELLULAR DEFENSE (NCD)
Another important component of our supplement program is the use of NCD (Natural Cellular Defense), a liquid purified form of natural zeolite that safely chelates out heavy metals. Heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, and a total of 70,000 chemicals are used commercially in the U.S. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| You eat veggies and fruits to pack your vault with potassium, magnesium, and calcium, but the sodium chloride you eat zaps your potassium, magnesium, and calcium—and then urine exiles the good minerals.
Lean meat, including seafood, pork tenderloin, skinless chicken breast, and skinless turkey breast, produces about 9 points (milli-equivalents or mEq) of acid per 3.5-ounce serving. Nuts and whole grains give you about 7 points of acid per equivalent serving; bread and legumes, about half that. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Our means for getting nutrient-dense plant foods will be fully discussed in the recipe section, but here let us investigate key minerals that can help support and heal the pancreatic beta cells, improve insulin sensitivity, regulate blood glucose levels, and prevent or reverse diabetic complications.
VANADIUM
Vanadium is an important trace mineral in healing diabetes naturally. It seems to keep blood sugar from rising too high. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| The green base has more fiber, minerals (magnesium, potassium, calcium), antioxidants, vitamins (folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin K), and a whole host of nutrients. All of this comes in a package that has almost no calories and generates antacid to alkalinize your metabolism.
You can serve all of the meat entrees and egg dishes on a bed of greens. Let the juices and flavors from the meat and vegetables serve as dressing rather than separating the greens into a salad bowl. The interaction of textures and flavors makes the food interesting and tasty. |
Mark Sircus
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 The ratio of minerals and vitamins to each other is important. Scientists from the University of Helsinki said, "The present average sodium intakes, approximately 3000-4500 mg/day in various industrialized populations, are very high, that is, 2-3-fold in comparison with the current Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) of 1500 mg.
The sodium intakes markedly exceed even the level of 2500 mg, which has been recently given as the maximum level of daily intake that is likely to pose no risk of adverse effects on blood pressure or otherwise. |
| Traditionally, it's been recommended to take calcium and magnesium in a ratio of 2:1, because that is the ratio that these minerals are found in bone. But magnesium is less easily absorbed than calcium, so this ratio may not be valid for a lot of people, and in fact many calcium/magnesium combinations found in health food stores often have additional magnesium.
Magnesium is just one of many helpful remedies and/or supplements for that might be helpful for fibromyalgia. It's not a cure, but it may be helpful in relieving some of the symptoms. |
| Aldosterone is one such hormone, and helps to control the balance of magnesium and other minerals in the body. Interestingly aldosterone needs magnesium to be produced and it also regulates magnesium's balance.8 Cholesterol, that most maligned compound, is actually crucial for health and is the mother of hormones from the adrenal cortex, including cortisone, hydrocortisone, aldosterone, and DHEA.
DHEA-S is a natural substance that has been shown to improve sexual desire and overall quality of life.
Flaunted as a "fountain of youth," DHEA is a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands. |
| Muscle endurance and total work capacity, declines rapidly with nutritional deficiency in the area of key minerals like zinc and magnesium.
"Magnesium is essential to a diet for people who are under a lot of stress or want to experience the ultimate rush," says Dr. James Thor, National Director of Extreme Sports Medicine. "Several reasons, one is if you are working out in a gym, or continual stress excessive amounts of lactic acid in the muscle have been linked to higher levels of anxiety," Dr. Thor adds. Large amounts of magnesium are lost when a person is under stress. |
| Finally, strong chelating substances, such as phytic acid in grains, oxalic acid in green leafy vegetables and tannins in tea, may bind with ionized minerals in the digestive tract and prevent them from being absorbed.
Most drugs will adversely affect how magnesium taken orally is absorbed or how quickly it will be excreted. Consider the antipsychotic drugs used to treat children with autism for behavior control. Zyprexa, Risperdal, and others can cause hyperglycemia, which causes increased excretion of orally administered magnesium. |
| Improving your mineral status by eating a whole food diet used to ensure that you get the right minerals in the correct quantities and proportions. But today supplementing is necessary because of increased chemical body burdens and the decreased mineral food values. Re-mineralization will improve the levels of long-term imbalances with truly life-changing results, and very quickly if administered in highly bioavaliable forms.
Magnesium rapidly distributes throughout the body following absorption. Normal plasma levels of magnesium range from about 1.6 to 2.1 nM. |
Michael Pollan
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 It's no wonder we've been hardwired by natural selection to prize sweet foods: Sugar as it is ordinarily found in nature— in fruits and some vegetables—gives us a slow-release form of energy accompanied by minerals and all sorts of crucial micronutrients we can get nowhere else. (Even in honey, the purest form of sugar found in nature, you find some valuable micronutrients.)
One of the most momentous changes in the American diet since 1909 (when the USDA first began keeping track) has been the increase in the percentage of calories coming from sugars, from 13 percent to 20 percent. |
| Building on Prout's discovery, Justus von Liebig, the great German scientist credited as one of the founders of organic chemistry, added a couple of minerals to the big three and declared that the mystery of animal nutrition—how food turns into flesh and energy—had been solved. This is the very same Liebig who identified the macronutrients in soil—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (known to farmers and gardeners by their periodic table initials, N, P, and K). Liebig claimed that all that plants need to live and grow are these three chemicals, period. |
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