Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Changes in Nutritional Quality of Milk
Available data on the effects of hormones on the nutritional status and composition of milk, including protein subfractions, vitamins, and minerals, are minimal. However, it is clear that the hormones induce a wide range of measurable changes in milk composition. Increased fat yields and concentrations have been noted (Bitman et al, 1989). |
Carol Simontacchi
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 They irrigated their fields with local waters that were rich in minerals.
Prior to the twentieth century, people ate seasonally when food was at its peak. And they ate locally; nothing was picked green and shipped long distances in refrigerated trucks. Their food nearly pulsated with life. They rarely suffered from "diseases of civilization" like heart disease and arthritis.
Now, we eat from plastic boxes and cardboard containers. We ingest pseudo-foods designed in a chemist's laboratory, or foods that have been genetically modified to resemble something else. We slurp sugary chemical brews. |
| If adequate amounts of these minerals are not available in the diet, the body pulls them out of bones and teeth—a situation that can lead to osteoporosis and a variety of other disorders.
Finally, fruits and vegetables are a rich source of antioxidant nutrients, which have been shown to protect against coronary disease, cancer, and other serious disorders. For all of these reasons, I recommend that you incorporate at least seven servings of vegetables and two servings of fruit into your daily diet. |
Mike Adams
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 Hormone replacement therapy is a fraud; the real solution to boosting bone density is to avoid the foods and beverages that strip away bone minerals and combine that with physical exercise that creates a healthy level of stress on your bones.
Calcium, as you probably know, is also important for bone strength. The dairy industry has for many years engaged in what I consider to be a completely distorted propaganda campaign to try to convince people that milk is the best source of calcium. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 It is made up of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins, minerals, and numerous co-factor substances that facilitate healthy function and structure. These substances work together in an effort to maintain natural balance. The human body performs millions of self-regulatory steps every minute in an attempt to deal with stress and maintain natural balance.
Drugs are powerful, forcing self-regulation to take a back seat and thereby forcing natural balance to take a back seat. It is impossible to predict all consequences of any drug taken for a long period of time. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 The Lindora folks recommend vitamin and mineral supplements (they sell their own, which is no surprise), essential fatty acids, potassium, and calcium—though they are way behind the curve on this one, failing to mention the importance of bone-supporting minerals like magnesium, manganese, and boron and vitamins like vitamin D, not to mention weight training!
Their recommendations on exercise are limited to walking. Most exercise specialists now feel that weight loss will not be achieved with walking alone, and nearly all recommend weight training as part of any program. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 These two minerals relax the nervous system.
Super Prescription #5 Probiotic
Take a probiotic to maintain good bacteria levels in the digestive tract. Take as directed on the container. study involving
21 cases of youths ages 4 to 19 with ADHD found that daily supplementation of phosphatidyl-serine at dosages between 200 and 300 mg daily for 4 months benefited greater than 90 percent of cases. Attention and learning were the symptoms most improved. |
Mike Adams
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| Ensure the presence of calcium and other supporting minerals, such as magnesium and strontium, in your bloodstream.
«¦ Support the mineral absorption with the presence of vitamin D, which can be generated through sensible exposure to natural sunlight—or it can be consumed as a nutritional supplement or through fish oils.
*" Ensure regular physical stress on the bones. Without physical stress, the bones will not adapt and build stronger mineral density (walking, jogging, strength training, etc).
If you really want bone mineral density, you have to do all four of these things correctly. |
| Many of them are minerals, including iron and zinc. A pregnancy also requires a tremendous amount of protein. It should come from healthy protein sources such as free-range animals or, ideally, plant-based proteins. However, if there's one case in which I support to consumption of red meat, it's during pregnancy.
Yes—I actually do support the consumption of red meat during pregnancy only. |
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Cordyceps mushrooms www.NewChapter. |
David R. Montgomery
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 In many soils, its inaccessibility limits plant growth. Consequently, phosphorus-based fertilizers greatly enhance a crop's productivity. The only natural sources of phosphorus other than rock weathering are relatively rare deposits of guano or more common but less concentrated calcium-phosphate rock. By 1908 the United States was the largest single producer of phosphate in the world, mining more than two and a half million tons from deposits in South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Almost half of U.S. phosphate production was exported, most of it to Europe. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Leung et al 1996; Pedersen 1994; Kamen 1991; Murray 1991; de Graca Ribeiro Campos et al 1990; Guan et al 1984).
Bee pollen has more amino acids and vitamins than other amino-acid-containing products like beef, eggs, or cheese. Bee pollen is one of the few vegetable sources of vitamin B12 (Scheer 1992). A tablespoonful of bee pollen contains about 45 calories and is 15% lecithin (which is required for normal fat metabolism) by weight (Kamen 1991). |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| These minerals help calm the nervous system.
Super Prescription #5 Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)
Take 250 mg or 0.5 ml two to three times daily. Passionflower relaxes the nerves and is gentle enough to use during the day.
Super Prescription #6 B-complex
Take a 50 mg complex one to two times daily. B vitamins help combat the effects of stress and will balance your brain chemicals. Vitamin B6 is especially important.
Super Prescription #7 GABA
Take 500 mg two to three times daily between meals. This amino acid has a calming effect. |
| Nutritional deficiencies of essential fatty acids, B vitamins, magnesium and other minerals, and iron appear to play a role. Finally, do not underestimate the role of emotional stress and its relationship to ADHD. The breakdown of the family unit in our culture places abnormal stresses on a child which can result in attention and behavior changes.
If your child has ADHD, try the home-care suggestions here for at least a month and optimally for three months. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| EVERY PERSON IS DIFFERENT
There are many factors that come to bear on this issue besides vitamins and minerals. Food, stress, and sleep are of major importance. If a person eats well, exercises, effectively manages stress, gets adequate sleep, and has no signs of leptin resistance, insulin resistance, or adrenaline resistance, then they have achieved the goal. They are in excellent natural balance. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Meal-replacement drinks are commonly available from natural health-care practitioners and at health-food stores.
People who have diabetes should avoid fasts. And, if you have a chronic health condition, you should fast only under the supervision of a medical professional.
People who do not react well to fasts often do better on the modified versions, such as those that use meal-replacement drinks.
If you have little experience in fasting, work with a nutrition-oriented doctor for guidance.
Up to 90% of Celiac Disease Cases Undiagnosed
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Jack Challem
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 So I started taking supplements of these minerals, including chromium, magnesium, and zinc. I also increased my intake of alpha-lipoic acid, a vitamin-like nutrient involved in regulating blood sugar and insulin levels. But supplements were not the entire solution. Two years later a nutritionist coached me on eating more wholesome foods as a way to lose weight and control my blood sugar. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| A greens formula that contains sup^r green foods, such as chlorella, spirulina, and others, has an alkalinizing effect and is nch in minerals. Take as directed on the container.
Soy protein powder has been shown to protect against bone loss. Take 40 grams daily; this amount contains 90 mg of jsoflavones.
Strontium is a nutrient that was shovTi to be helpful in increasing bone density when combined with calcium. Take 340 to $80 mg daily.
Homeopathy
Pick the remedy that best matches your symptoms in this section. For acute fracture pain, take a 30C potency four times qaily. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 In brief:
• Fruit contains all the nutrients we need
• Fruit allows the body to cleanse and repair itself
• Fruit in its natural state is appealing to all our senses
• All fruit leaves an alkaline residue or end product in the body
• Fruit regulates your blood sugar
If you follow Step 1 of Perfect Health you will find yourself satisfying the body's need for glucose and supplying yourself with ample vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants so that you will save yourself the cost of expensive, useless supplements, while at the same time benefiting your health. |
| The natural antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals help the body do repair work very efficiently and this is what helps slow down the aging process as well as keep you healthy.
It is important to remember that fruit does not do anything to your body; rather your body uses the fruit that you have eaten. Fruit causes very little strain on the body as it contains no toxic or poisonous elements such as those found in virtually every other food.
For example, certain vegetables such as spinach contain oxalic acid, which prevents the absorption of iron. |
| The protein (and, yes, there is some protein in all fruit) is in its broken-down form (amino acids) and the minerals and vitamins are in the most usable form. This is referred to by some as an organic state, meaning that these vital nutrients are bonded to a carbon molecule. This bonding is made possible by photosynthesis (the effect that natural light and sun have on plants) and cannot be duplicated in a laboratory (one of the many reasons I am not keen on vitamin and mineral supplementation). In this bonded form the nutrients are 100 percent usable. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Low stomach acidity inevitably and dramatically impacts digestion and absorption of most nutrients necessary for health. Most minerals, including such important ones as iron, zinc, calcium, and the B-complex vitamins (folic acid and others) need certain amounts of stomach acids in order to be absorbed at all. Without stomach acid, nutritional deficiencies inevitably develop leading to disease.
Besides absorption, stomach acid has many other important functions. |
| In addition, in order to digest the released minerals and vitamins, hydrochloric acid in the stomach has to be very strong, with a pH between 1 and 2.
These two conditions are absolutely, vitally, necessary for the assimilation of nutrients from greens. Obviously, when I tried to eat plain greens I did not chew my greens well enough and possibly did not have a high enough level of hydrochloric acid in my stomach. As a result, I experienced unpleasant signs of indigestion and formed a general dislike for greens altogether. |
| If we care which nutrients we receive from plants, we absolutely cannot ignore the quality of nutrients plants receive from the soil because we literally consume minerals from the soil through plants. The quality of the soil in which plants grow has an immense influence on the health of the people and animals who eat plants. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Chromium is an example of a trace mineral, because it is required in micrograms (1/100th of a milligram), as opposed to minerals like calcium, which are required in milligrams.
DOSAGE RECOMMENDATIONS
More people are becoming aware of the new Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) that have been released by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Science. The Dietary Reference Intakes refer to four nutrient reference values that can be used to assess diet, as well as for other purposes. |
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| The dosage used to prevent infection is two capsules daily during cold-and-flu season, along with your year-round multisupplement.
•Reduce exposure to toxins. You are more vulnerable to a viral infection when your body is "distracted" by having to deal with toxins that can damage or suppress the immune system. Toxins aren't necessarily exotic—they include sugar and alcohol consumed to excess, fast food and other unhealthy food laced with artificial preservatives and/or pesticides. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 Medicinal Plants in The Chinese Pharmacopoeia
As noted, Chinese traditional drugs are composed of materials derived from plants, animals, and minerals. Based on a nationwide survey, at least 80 percent of Chinese traditional and herbal drugs are from plant origin, from five editions of The Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. These drugs identify 7,295 plant species of therapeutic value (see Tables 2.2 and 2.3). |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 As simple carbohydrates lacking in fiber and nutrients, refined sugars are anti-nutrients that deplete the body of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They also cause a dramatic rise and rapid fall in blood sugar levels. Eating these simple carbohydrates is like driving a car with a stuck accelerator: you speed around for a short time, then run out of gas. |
| Most Americans have a deficiency of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes because they do not eat a large enough variety and quantity of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. Enzymes are not only contained in fresh, living (raw) foods, but also produced in the body. The combination of the two sources of enzymes work together for proper digestion, assimilation, and elimination of the foods you eat. Unfortunately, most Americans eat very little fresh, living food. |
| Hormone residues and additives from cattle-raising practices also mean that calcium and other minerals are incompletely absorbed.
In cattle tests, calves given their own mother's milk that had first been pasteurized, didn't live six weeks!
Linda Page, N.D. Healthy Healing
Cute milk-mustache ads aside, worldwide research increasingly indicates that milk consumption, especially in childhood, can lead to very serious problems: diabetes, heart disease, infant anemia, Crohn's disease, M.S., infertility, and asthma. |
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