| It tops wheat in amino acids, protein, some minerals, and B vitamins. Spelt also is used to make a variety of pastas and can be substituted in most recipes calling for wheat or rice.
Gluten-sensitive people tolerate spelt better than any other grain. High in carbohydrates, it contains more crude fiber and protein than wheat. Spelt also has all eight essential amino acids necessary in the daily diet to ensure proper cell maintenance. Spelt has special carbohydrates called mucopolysaccharides, which play a decisive role in blood clotting and stimulate the immune system. | | They are certain nutrients, minerals, phytochemicals, herbs, and enzymes that counteract the harmful effects of free radicals on the body. As the cells in your body burn fuel (food) for energy, they also burn oxygen, a process that creates atoms, molecules, and portions of molecules known as free radicals. These toxic molecules contain unpaired electrons that bind to and destroy healthy cells, creating more free radicals to attack other healthy cells. This results in oxidative damage to cells and tissues—similar to the formation of rust on your car. | | A group of nutrients beyond the realm of traditional nutrients (like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals) called phytochemicals (phyto is the Greek word for "plant") are powerful ammunition in the war against cancer, aging, and other illnesses. These nutrient-rich chemicals are formed by nature to work with the human body, not against it, as drugs often do. The role of phytochemicals in plants is to protect the plant against biological and environmental hazards. Fortunately, if humans consume plants rich in these chemicals, tremendous health benefits can be achieved as well. | | The vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants found in our food are the front-line defense against premature aging, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, allergies, and most other illnesses. While conventional medicine was trying, and often failing, to heal with an ever-expanding grab bag of drugs, I decided to explore the road less traveled—a holistic route to vital health using nature's remedies, remedies that do not have the life-threatening side effects of prescription drugs. | | Compounds known as antioxidants—particularly vitamins A, C, and E; selenium; and zinc—as well as other vitamins and minerals, help to maintain a powerful immune response. Selenium is lacking in most of our soils, so it may be necessary to take supplements to get enough.
All fresh fruits and berries are beneficial for the immune system, but particularly good choices include apricots, kiwis, avocados, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries. |
Covert Bailey
See book keywords and concepts |  The minerals in sports drinks, particularly sodium, prolong your thirst, so you are more likely to keep drinking until fully rehydrated. The minerals also inhibit urine production. People who rehydrate with a sodium solution keep drinking until they're about 82 percent rehydrated.
Drinking a sports drink containing glucose and other sugars before an event presents a problem. The sugar causes blood insulin to rise, and insulin inhibits the release of fatty acids from fat cells. For the first half hour of the event, your fat cells won't release the primary fuel. | | Electrolytes are simply minerals. When minerals dissolve in the bloodstream, they form salts that take on an electrical charge. In a sense, they're like little batteries. Without these batteries, nerve impulses could not be conducted; the brain couldn't make all its phone calls directing body movement and function. Electrolytes are also responsible for maintaining fluid levels in the body by regulating the water balance inside and outside cells. Even the body's delicate acid/alkaline balance is carefully monitored and controlled in part by electrolytes. | | Water also stimulates the production of urine, something you do not want more of when you are dehydrated. The minerals in sports drinks, particularly sodium, prolong your thirst, so you are more likely to keep drinking until fully rehydrated. The minerals also inhibit urine production. People who rehydrate with a sodium solution keep drinking until they're about 82 percent rehydrated.
Drinking a sports drink containing glucose and other sugars before an event presents a problem. The sugar causes blood insulin to rise, and insulin inhibits the release of fatty acids from fat cells. | | Electrolytes are simply minerals. When minerals dissolve in the bloodstream, they form salts that take on an electrical charge. In a sense, they're like little batteries. Without these batteries, nerve impulses could not be conducted; the brain couldn't make all its phone calls directing body movement and function. Electrolytes are also responsible for maintaining fluid levels in the body by regulating the water balance inside and outside cells. Even the body's delicate acid/alkaline balance is carefully monitored and controlled in part by electrolytes. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition to the high-quality protein you get when you substitute soy for animal protein, you get a bonus of vitamins, minerals, and a good dose of phytonutrients. Soy has a healthy mix of fats and no cholesterol. In one study, the substitution of soy for animal products reduced coronary artery disease risk in the study subjects because of their subsequent reductions in blood lipids (such as LDL), homocysteine, and blood pressure. For those of us eating a typical American diet, what this means is that soy is so good because much of what we eat is so bad for us! | | It's not just one particular phytonutrient in a food that makes the difference; it also seems that fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other substances in that food also enhance and regulate the actions of the phytochemicals.
What About Organic Foods?
There's no question that organic foods are better for the environment and thus for all creatures (including us) in that environment because they reduce the threat of pesticides. But are they better from a nutrient standpoint? This is a developing story. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
See book keywords and concepts |  All these forms of traditional medicine use herbs and minerals and have many features in common. Naturally, many plants are common to all systems and to various official drugs that were formerly (or still) included in the British Pharmacopoeia (BP), European Pharmacopoeia (Eur. Ph.) and US Pharmacopoeia (USP).
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is arguably the most ancient of all medicinal traditions. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Micronutrients include vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals (chemicals found in plants that aren't vitamins or minerals, but which have distinct effects in the body).
Plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, and whole grains, are the best food sources of cancer-preventive micronutrients. Fruits and vegetables contain phytochemicals and other bioactive compounds shown to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antitumor effects. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It's high in minerals (especially iron), and with its sweet, earthy flavor and crisp texture is considered a choice Okinawan vegetable. It's also a popular folk medicine in many parts of the world (considered a "blood purifier"). It's a member of the Compositae, or chrysanthemum, family, whose more familiar members include lettuce, artichoke, sunflower, chamomile, and marigold. Another species of wild burdock (Arctium minus) is a common American weed with burrs for seeds.
Weight and health benefits. | | Unlike our typical Western diet, with its overemphasis on animal proteins, fats, and processed and refined foods, the Okinawan diet was filled with unprocessed plant foods that are high in fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals and are naturally low in fat. This diet provides more than adequate protein, has little cholesterol, and has been shown to dramatically improve health.
The Caloric Density Pyramid
A quick look at the Caloric Density Pyramid in figure 3.2 will help you visualize just where various kinds of foods stand in terms of caloric density. | | But you have to be smart here too, because a diet based on cheese pizza, corn chips, French fries, white bread, sodas, white rice, sugared cereals, and cookies could technically be considered a plant-based diet, even though these refined and processed foods contain mostly empty calories and are deficient in vitamins, minerals, fiber, phytochemicals, and everything else that's good for you. They're also very high in caloric density. You'd not only gain weight in a New York minute eating those kinds of foods, but your health would take a nosedive while you were at it. | | Polished rice, the type most of us generally eat, has had the husk and bran completely removed and contains fewer vitamins, minerals, oils, and fiber than either semi-polished or brown rice. Brown, obviously, is the nutritional winner. A big advantage of rice as a grain in general is that fewer people are allergic to it than they are to wheat and other grains.
How to use it. Rice dishes can be spicy or tangy, savory or sweet. Traditionally eaten with legumes, such as tofu and other types of beans, rice soaks up gravies and sauces and cools and refreshes the palate when served with spicy food. | | Wheat germ, the embryo of the berry, is a concentrated source of vitamins, minerals, and protein. It has a nutty flavor and is very rich in oil, which causes it to turn rancid quickly. Removing the germ and bran led to longer-lasting but less nutritious white flour. Wheat germ is sold in both toasted and natural forms, and it is used to add nutrition to a variety of foods. Wheat germ oil, an extraction of the germ, is a strongly flavored and expensive health food supplement high in vitamin E. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
See book keywords and concepts |  These minerals are quickly lost from fallen fruits and leaves, and unless recovered rapidly they can be washed away in the heavy rains characteristic of this type of forest. The fungal mycorrhizae can quickly recycle these soluble minerals, and they can return almost twenty times as much phosphorus and potassium to the trees as is lost to the rains. The constant temperature and high humidity of the rain forest floor provides a perfect environment for fungi—one that allows particularly rapid growth. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Colloidal minerals obtained from the ocean floor may also contain unwanted amounts of mercury and heavy metals. Some herbal products may contain contaminants or potentially harmful ingredients. A few herbal products have even been found to contain amounts of FDA-controlled prescription medications as unlisted ingredients. | | According to the USDA, 80 percent of Americans are not getting even the RDA of one or more of the essential vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients. And 91 percent are not eating the government's recommendation of five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Yet we recommend eight to ten servings, not five! | | When digestion works well, you take in the energy of the sun stored in food, and the minerals and vitamins that food has absorbed from the soil, and all the other wonderful and important plant molecules (phytonutrients) whose workings we haven't yet unraveled but which seem to have specific therapeutic effects in the human body. | | One result is that, without stomach acid, your body can't absorb minerals or vitamin B12 (making you anemic—vitamin B]2 is essential for the proper production of red blood cells by the bone marrow).
Another potential problem: You may not be producing adequate amounts of digestive enzymes to break down food properly. Perhaps you are ingesting foods or medicines that impair digestion, such as antacids. Antacids may relieve some symptoms of indigestion, yet they also impair normal function. | | We also recommend vitamins to support the liver, such as the B vitamins; minerals including magnesium, choline, and lecithin; and certain foods, including garlic, onions, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, and cauliflower.
This brings up what we call the NCR concept. We believe we should all be eating foods with a high nutrient-to-calorie ratio, or NCR. We want our patients to eat foods that offer many nutrients, but not many calories. When a diet is predominantly composed of foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients, you will find a high level of oxidative stress. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | Just as it takes a variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes to process food so that your cells can use it, drugs also go through changes as the body uses them. They are changed as they are made useful, as they are being used, and as they are being excreted from the body. Any interference in this process caused by nutritional deficiencies or interference from other drugs, food, or alcohol can raise or lower drug levels. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Micronutrients include vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals (chemicals found in plants that aren't vitamins or minerals, but which have distinct effects in the body).
Plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, and whole grains, are the best food sources of cancer-preventive micronutrients. Fruits and vegetables contain phytochemicals and other bioactive compounds shown to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antitumor effects. |
Patrick Holford
See book keywords and concepts |  Supplement vitamin C every day, as this protects you from toxic minerals, plus a multimineral containing zinc, calcium, and selenium.
Antioxidants—The Power of Prevention
Since the 1980s, more and more research has confirmed that many of the twentieth century's most common diseases are associated with a shortage of antioxidant nutrients and helped by their supplementation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  High in minerals, phytonutrients.
Cyanotech - Growers of spirulina superfood in Hawaii. Green living company that uses some renewable energy. Grows the most pure spirulina in the world using deep ocean seawater.
Living Fuel - Phenomenal superfood formulas and food bars. Full product line, uses quality ingredients and no junk. Lots of chia and quality plant proteins.
SGN Nutrition - Makers of Emerald Balance and the delicious XBalance chocolate superfood powder (makes great smoothies). Very tasty, easy to feed to kids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There simply isn't enough nutrition available in the everyday foods consumed by people to provide sufficient quantities of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, and other nutrients needed by the human body. That's why the healthiest people in the world are precisely those who take nutritional supplements on a regular basis.
I am one of those people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There are many situations in which you want to boost your immune system function using commonly available foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements, and by far the best results will be achieved if you both get the vaccination and are able to boost your immune system function using these strategies that are well demonstrated to boost your immune system function. |
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