| The minerals in carbonated drinks trigger those happy endorphins, and the carbon dioxide can help to push toxins out of our system. Drink sparkling water as a treat not a primary beverage. Balance it with spring
Never drink any beverage that has a plastic taste! water and properly filtered tap water. The following waters are some recommendations:
¦ Highland Spring Sparkling Natural Mineral Water (pH 7.8)
¦ San Pellegrino Sparkling Natural Mineral Water (pH 7.7)
¦ Apollinaris Sparkling Natural Mineral Water (pH 7.0) • Perrier (pH 5.4 |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 This leads to malabsorption of all nutrients (vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates) and, typically, weight loss, although many other conditions can ensue as well.
The reason this occurs is not wholly understood, but one theory is that there is a lack of appropriate digestive enzymes. Another theory is that the immune system perceives a part of the gluten protein to be 'foreign' and attacks it. In the ensuing battle, the immune system inadvertently damages the intestinal lining. |
Sue Palmer
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 A long-term study at the University of Southern California claimed that if children's diets lacked a variety of minerals in the first three years, the children were more likely to be irritable and aggressive at eight years old, more likely to swear and cheat at eleven, and more likely to steal and bully at seventeen. Over the years, studies of children with ADHD and dyslexia have frequently pointed towards various mineral and vitamin deficiencies, usually resulting in a surge in the sales of food supplements. But when human beings eat a balanced diet, supplements aren't generally necessary. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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| Other blood tests can be used to identify deficiencies of iron, vitamins such as folic acid, or minerals such as calcium. Such blood tests are useful for screening relatives or to ascertain whether a gluten sensitivity may be the cause of symptoms or of nutrient deficiency. These tests do not make the diagnosis, but indicate the advisability of a biopsy test.
If abdominal symptoms are troublesome or develop despite treatment, a barium X-ray of the intestine, which involves swallowing a tasteless white liquid, may be advised. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The proponents of this directive say that it's about protecting patients from all these dangerous vitamins, minerals, supplements, plant extracts and antioxidants that are so dangerous for people. They say, "We're going to keep you safe!" Let me tell you what I think. It's an attempt to outlaw nutrition. It is an attempt to criminalize those who would offer nutritional products that can actually prevent and even treat chronic diseases.
Why would anyone want to do this? Well, look at what it's trying to ban. |
| They've got to outlaw vitamin C, vitamin E, and minerals that prevent disease. They've got to criminalize them. Their strategy right now is to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. This whole Food Supplements Directive in Europe is really nothing more than an attempt to protect profits. By doing that, they're committing a crime against humanity, in my belief. They're trying to say that it should be illegal for people to choose foods, medicines, and healing compounds provided by nature. |
Sue Palmer
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| This means children with a sugar habit are likely to end up deficient in the minerals and vitamins found in a balanced diet. For instance, in a review of studies in 2005 the British Nutrition
Foundation found that 50 per cent of children had a marginal intake of vitamin A and 75 per cent had a marginal intake of zinc, both essential nutrients. |
KC Craichy
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 Water is the main solvent for foods, vitamins, and minerals; it also energizes food and food substances and increases the body's rate of absorption of the essential substances these foods provide.
¦ Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in collecting oxygen from the lungs, and it normalizes the blood manufacturing systems in the bone marrow, which helps to prevent leukemia and lymphoma.
¦ Water clears toxic waste from the body and transports it to the liver and kidneys for disposal.
¦ Water is the main lubricant in the joint spaces and helps prevent arthritis and back pain. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 The three other chelating compounds that bind minerals and remove them are penicillamine for copper, desferoxamine for aluminum and iron, and EDTA for iron and other compounds. This is called chelation therapy when it is given by vein in a series of treatments.
Finally, natural antidotes should be used, such as selenium against mercury and cadmium, malic acid against aluminum, zinc and manganese against copper, and zinc against cadmium. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 D levels;
?raise blood pressure, bad cholesterol (LDL), and triglycerides;
?stimulate an inflammatory response; and
?produce insulin resistance.
Over time, all of these changes can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
The nutrients you eat regulate your metabolism and determine how well it works. A diet high in magnesium—an alkaline mineral?improves insulin sensitivity and glucose control. Saturated fats and simple carbohydrates, on the other hand, make you store energy as fat and reduce your insulin sensitivity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you consume spirulina, you are automatically getting these minerals in a highly bio-available form.
Other good sources of calcium include green, leafy vegetable like spinach. The darker the vegetable, the more calcium it contains, generally speaking. So, if you want to get a lot of calcium into your diet, you can also consume increasing quantities of these green, leafy vegetables. That would include spinach, kale, broccoli, and of course, all of the popular salad greens, the darker the better.
What about coral calcium? |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The ships returned with tea, ballasted with mercury, other minerals, and porcelain, which Europeans were unable to make until the eighteenth century, as mentioned above. Very roughly, a quarter of all tea imported was to be matched by heavy goods—ballast— called kentledge in the eighteenth century; and from the ships' records available, about a quarter of all the kentledge was porcelain. Therefore, for every 100 tons of tea, 6 percent by weight of porcelain was imported into Europe. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| If you have not reached the state of well being you want, then start to add other individual vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids. The main objective of this book is to describe these nutrients and how to use them well enough so that you can use them with safety. All these nutrients are compatible and can be taken together, usually with food in the stomach. Nutrients are compatible with all medication and with each other.
Step 3. |
| The outer coating of the wheat berry or the bran is rich in minerals and vitamins and the richest source of nutrients is the germ. In milling white flour, both the bran and the germ are discarded, and by eating the white flour (bread, pastry, pasta), we are depriving ourselves of the most nourishing part of the wheat berry. Nearly 200 years ago it was shown by a French army surgeon that dogs fed on whole-meal bread alone were kept alive and healthy, while similar animals fed on white bread quickly sickened and died. Eating whole grain foods provides all the nutrition available in that plant. |
| Minerals, antioxidants, and B-vitamins (especially pyridoxine), in conjunction with optimal amounts of omega-3 EFAs, produce the necessary prostaglandins.
Dr Rudin and Dr Felix suggest that pellagra is due to the deficiency of these prostaglandins and that this may occur for two reasons: (1) a deficiency of these cofactors, such as vitamin B-3, the best known cause of pellagra; and (2) a deficiency of the essential fatty acids so that even in the presence of these cofactors not enough prostaglandins can be made. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we want to invest the effort of testing the whole population for something, let's start by testing for nutritional deficiencies and treating those with low-cost, commonly available vitamins, minerals and food supplements that can not only prevent chronic disease, but can actually help reverse diseases. Let's start there.
See, don't make the mistake of thinking that public health policy is driven by genuine public health needs. It's actually driven by the mindset of conventional medicine, which is to treat everything with drugs, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Like essential vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, EFAs are essential nutrients that play a major role in our health and well-being.
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There are two series or classes of essential fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6 series. Omega-3 essential fatty acids are highly reactive fatty acids, some of which are converted in the body into the essential prostaglandins. They are needed for growth, for many metabolic roles, for the integrity of the cell membranes, and for preventing skin from drying and flaking. One of the best sources is linseed oil made from flax seed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: But you still offer electrolytes, the minerals that people need to replace?
Bovio: Absolutely. The electrolytes can be more readily absorbed because we have less carbohydrates and no sugar. Our drink specifically contains calcium chloride, magnesium, potassium, sodium, selenium, zinc, and phosphorus in ratios that the body can recognize. It's a tremendous difference for how the body feels.
Mike: Some of the popular products also have artificial colors in them. What about your products? What does it have? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's just plain old tap water (that starts out with all the same contaminants you get out of your kitchen faucet), but filtered and "enhanced" with some minerals.
Once Coca-Cola had a profitable water product in the mix, their message about water was magically transformed into something a lot more pro-water. Hooking up with Ideas.com, Coca-Cola solicited water product branding ideas from consumers, promising a $5,000 award to the best idea submitted. Their idea solicitation text read, "Many doctors have suggested that people should drink eight glasses of water a day. |
Mike Adams
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| Instead, you want to get your vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals from natural sources — plant sources. And there are several categories of foods we can talk about here that provide this kind of nutrition.
Get your nutrition from superfoods
I often talk about superfoods. And "superfoods" is just a label given to foods and food sources that meet these criteria of offering high-density nutrition without excess calories and fiber. |
| We're eating plenty of food if you just count the calories, but not nearly enough of the right kinds of foods that provide nutrition in the form of phytonutrients, minerals, enzymes, healthy oils, vitamins, and other important nutrients. Malnutrition is alarmingly widespread: perhaps three-fourths of the population is deficient in zinc. Most people are deficient in magnesium. Nearly everyone who doesn't supplement with nutritional supplements in America is deficient in various B vitamins. |
| And simultaneously, nearly everything alive on the planet needs certain minerals and vitamins in order to stay alive. Just like a plant, if you don't get good nutrition, your body and mind will experience stunted growth and chronic disease. You will still be alive but your quality of life will be greatly impaired if you don't get optimum nutrition. Just like the sunflower on the left, your body will operate at less than its full potential.
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| Your skeletal system is in a constant state of transition, losing and gaining minerals and other nutrients as your body's physical demands shift.
Your body is not a fixed, static object. It is a dynamic object and it is constantly exchanging material with your surrounding environment. It is said that 99.99% of all of the atoms in your body are exchanged with the environment each and every year.
In this way, you are not only the food you eat, you are the food you eat today. |
| If the plant showed spots on the leaves, due to a nutritional deficiency typically caused by a lack of minerals, the drug companies might come up with an anti-spotting chemical, that when sprayed on garden plants, would turn them bright green and cover up the spots. If plants had yellow leaves from a lack of water or poor nutrition, pharmaceutical companies might offer expensive retro-viruses that would enter the plants' cells and reprogram their DNA to always produce green pigmentation, no matter what level of water the plant was actually receiving. |
| They need more fertilizer, or they need minerals like copper and zinc. Perhaps they just need fresh water!
Beyond infectious disease: nutrition and metabolic disorders
Of course, there can also be pests and infections in plants. In human populations, that's like contracting an infectious disease. But realize that the vast majority of conventional medicine that is practiced today is focused on metabolic disorders, not infectious diseases. In fact, the leading causes of death in America are all nutritionally related disorders: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, strokes, and so on. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Like essential vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, EFAs are essential nutrients that play a major role in our health and well-being.
The omega-3 group are chemically more reactive than the omega-6 group, have lower melting points (they are more liquid at room temperature), and are made in cold climate plants to make them more resistant to freezing. However, they must be in balance with omega-6 fatty acids. The omega- 6 essential fatty acids play an equally important role in maintaining health. They are made in the body by adding one double (unsaturated) bond to linoleic acid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about limiting or eliminating your consumption of red meat and instead nourish your body with the phytonutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and even the living energy of plants. That's how you'll be the healthiest you can be. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 There are more than 4,000 of these compounds, and they fall into many classes and subclasses including flavonoids, anthocyanins, and isoflavones. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 The minerals in old-fashioned soy products are better assimilated than those found in modern soy products thanks to the deactivation of phytates.22 However, the high salt content of miso, natto, and soy sauce leads many health practitioners to advise eating them "sparingly."23
Miso, tempeh and other old-fashioned fermented products also contain essential fatty acids (EFAs). The slow fermentation process may change the fatty acid composition of soybeans, but without damaging the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So even though these countries are stockpiling Tamiflu, people would actually be far better protected by acquiring potent antiviral herbs, minerals and supplements as a protection against the bird flu virus.
But knowing the way most people think, few will actually prepare for this. And frankly, they might get away with it. There is a real possibility that the bird flu virus could be a bust. Maybe it will never become a pandemic. |
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