Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Grind the dried beans into a powder, then add ground sesame seeds (rich in minerals) and honey. Drink with warm water.
WARNING: Avoid alcohol. Although a drink may loosen up your inhibitions, too much alcohol depresses the nervous system.
APPETITE STIMULANTS
Food is the fuel that keeps your body going and your energy levels high — which is the reason a healthy appetite is so important for overall wellness. While vitamin and mineral supplements can help, there is no substitute for eating complete, well-balanced meals. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
See book keywords and concepts |  And he pointed out the deleterious effects of commercially refined foods. He was known to have said, "Stay close to nature and its eternal laws will protect you."2
Dr. Gerson's focus on unprocessed foods and nutritional balance was virtually unheard of in the 1930s and 1940s since nutritional science had not become fully developed or accepted yet. In 1936, his innovative ideas for treating serious illnesses with nutrition were not enthusiastically received. Although Dr. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | In addition, because spirulina is so high in protein, minerals and essential fatty acids, it is a healthy energy food that is especially useful for people on low-calorie diets. Kelp is another seaweed that is an energy-booster.
Seaweed in your salad
Spirulina and other algaes can be purchased in powdered form and added to dressings or sprinkled directly on salad. Other types of seaweed such as Hikiki (a dark, spaghetti-looking seaweed) and Wakame and Nori (two other types of leafy seaweeds) are becoming more available through ethnic food stores and health food shops. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
See book keywords and concepts |  This book will tell you the facts about vitamins, minerals, herbs, healthy fats, and other healing foods. It will address the tremendous confusion and controversy about high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets and say why I am convinced they are not the saviors we thought they were. It will also demonstrate to you how nutritional supplements can make a difference in our lives. It also includes a section devoted to the special needs of women and children. New antiaging strategies are discussed as well.
This book is intended to expand your consciousness. | | They contain more vitamins, minerals, and fiber than their lighter, whiter, and fluffier counterparts found in commercially packaged goods. In their whole form, grains contain a seed and a covering to protect the seed. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and modern processing, it became easier to remove the germ and bran layers, making available to the general public white flour that had once been reserved only for the wealthy. | | Although healing is truly a multifaceted process, this book offers clear and concise information about vitamins, minerals, fat, fiber, and cholesterol. It includes valuable facts about exercise and healing foods as well as the latest information about antiaging strategies. It also explains how nutritional supplements can make a difference in your life.
One more thing. I realize that I provide a lot of information—maybe more information than you want. | | A good prescription for disease prevention and antiaging tactics includes a healthy diet: targeted nutritional supplementation with vitamins, minerals, and herbs; chlorophyll-containing foods; and mild to moderate exercise regimens. Those seeking a more aggressive approach may consider the leading hormonal and protein therapies.
When fighting age and disease, we must not forget the environment. I am genuinely concerned about the deterioration of the water supply in this country. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Turn to page 50 for natural sources of these minerals.
DlET Aim for a low-fat, high-fiber, low-sodium diet that's about 25 percent calories from fat. Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. (Naturalists specifically recommend millet to combat cellulite.) Keep meats to a minimum and read the labels on prepared foods. For more information on weight loss, refer to page 509. exercise Pick an aerobic activity you enjoy and stick with it for at least 20 minutes 3 times a week. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Crucial to the antioxidant arsenal are dietary nutrients, such as sulfhydryl proteins/amino acids like cysteine; vitamins E and C; beta-carotene; and the minerals selenium, zinc, manganese, and copper. Other nutrients that have antioxidant capability are vitamins B-l, B-2, B-3, and B-5, dimethylglycine, glycine, glutamic acid, and factors such as coenzyme Q-10, lipoic acid, and glutathione. |
Prevention Magazine
See book keywords and concepts |  Stripped only of the outer, inedible hull, it's the best source of fiber, minerals, and thiamin. It also has a more distinctive, nuttier flavor than its highly processed counterparts. You can generally find hulled barley at health food stores.
Try it baked. Unless you're extremely fond of cooked barley, it's unlikely that you're ever going to eat 1 cup a day, the amount recommended by Dr. Jenkins to get the most healing power. Here's another way to get more barley into your diet. Add it to baked goods. You can substitute about 1 l/z cups of barley flour for every 3 cups of regular flour. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts |  Two of the most important minerals in this regard are sodium and potassium, Dr. Young says. For optimal fluid regulation, your body needs to have a proper balance of both.
Unfortunately, most people get too much sodium and barely enough potassium. This can raise your blood pressure and your potential for fluid retention, Dr. Young says.
He suggests that you double your potassium intake to about 5,000 milligrams a day by consuming potassium-rich foods such as fruits and vegetables. |
Elaine Feuer
See book keywords and concepts |  A few months later Senator Hatch and Congressman Bill Richardson sponsored the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, to establish a regulatory framework for vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, and other dietary supplements; to protect supplements from being arbitrarily removed from the market as food additives; and to protect consumers by guaranteeing their right to obtain safe nutritional products and truthful, science-based information about their benefits.
In his introductory statement for the House bill, Rep. |
American Medical Publishing
See book keywords and concepts | | They are available in a variety of forms, including water infusions (teas), powders, tablets, capsules, and elixirs, and may be marketed as single substances or in combination with other materials, such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and non-nutrient ingredients. Although data on the availability, consumer use, and health effects of herbals are very limited, some herbal ingredients have been associated with serious adverse health effects.
A. | | Many contain vitamins and minerals to supplement the amounts of these nutrients that people get from the food they eat. There also are many products on the market that contain other substances like high-potency free amino acids, botanicals, enzymes, herbs, animal extracts, and bioflavanoids.
The FDA's review of the safety and efficacy of these products is significantly less than for drugs and other products it regulates. Be cautious about using any supplement that claims to treat, prevent or cure a serious disease. | | When your doctor prescribes a new drug, discuss all OTC and prescription drugs, dietary supplements, vitamins, botanicals, minerals and herbals you take, as well as the foods you eat. Ask your pharmacist for the package insert for each prescription drug you take. The package insert provides more information about potential drug interactions.
Before taking a drug, ask your doctor or pharmacist the following questions: "Can I take it with other drugs? Should I avoid certain foods, beverages or other products? What are possible drug interaction signs I should know about? | | That means a healthy diet, with daily adequate amounts of vitamins A, D, E, C, B complex, and the minerals calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, zinc and beta cerotine.
No. 3 — Synthroid — Used for cases of underactive thyroid and other thyroid problems. Perhaps one of the safest of all prescription drugs. Very few problems and few if any deaths are reported as a result of this drug.
Potential Dangers — Side effects are rare, but can include heart palpitations, rapid heart beat, weight loss, tremors, headaches, nervousness and a few more. | | That means a healthy diet, with daily adequate amounts of vitamins A, D, E, C, B complex, and the minerals calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, zinc and beta cerotine.
No. 27 — Prempro — This is another estrogen supplement drug, sometimes used in lieu of Premarin, the No. 1 drug on our list. The female hormone that occurs naturally in the human body. Prempro is prescribed for women experiencing menopause, osteoporosis, ovarian failure, breast cancer, prostate cancer in men, bleeding of the uterus, vaginal irritation, birth control and Turner's
Syndrome. | | That means a healthy diet, with daily adequate amounts of vitamins A, D, E, C, B complex, and the minerals calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, zinc and beta cerotine.
No. 31 — Acetaminophen with codeine — Most commonly called Tylenol-3, this is a widely prescribed pain killer for minor to moderate pain.
Potential Dangers — This is a highly addictive drug. Codeine is an opiate, meaning it is originally designed after the opium drug. Also, because this drug contain Tylenol, it is potentially danger to the liver. |
Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin
See book keywords and concepts |  There are also claims that brain performance can be enhanced or preserved by taking large amounts of certain naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, or plant extracts. While there is no question that a well-balanced diet and physical exercise are important for maintaining a healthy brain, there is no clear scientific evidence to support the claimed memory benefits of specific dietary supplements.
We believe a more prudent route to brain health is to harness the brain's ability to manufacture its own natural nutrients. |
Mary G. Enig
See book keywords and concepts |  There are special manuals that list all the enzymes by number and give all the known specific information about their individual reactions such as how much substrate they need to be efficient, whether or not there is a feedback effect when too much product is formed, which vitamins or minerals they need as cofactors, at what temperatures they work most efficiently, at what temperatures they are denatured, and whether they work best in acid conditions or alkaline conditions. | | Outline of Digestive and Metabolic Pathways
Mouth chewing and mixing salivary enzymes split starch
Esophagus food slides down no enzyme function
Stomach food churned into chyle cells produce hydrochloric acid pepsin starts to digest proteins gastric lipase may work carbohydrates hydrolyzed by acid
Upper (Small) Intestine bile acids from gallbladder enzymes from pancreas amylases, lipases, trypsin and other proteases Duodenum, Jejunum, Ileum absorb digested nutrients
Large Intestine
Colon conserves water and minerals passes undigested waste
Figure 2.2 Digestive Pathways ? | | Coconut oil is added to infant formulas to try to duplicate human milk; the lauric acid provides antimicrobial support and the absorption of minerals is enhanced.
Next Questions: Subject: Re: Re question on coconut oil Dear Mary, Here are a few more questions: is its image being rehabilitated, with growing awareness about difference in saturated fats, and their virtues w/ respect to hydrogenated oils? Confirm why oils are hydrogenated. .for longer shelf life? Hydrogenation gets rid of double bonds (EFAs) they are unsaturated. Problem now with supply? | | Hydrogenation catalysts in the United States are usually made of nickel and sulfur, but they can be made of more expensive minerals such as platinum, palladium, or rhodium. Some of these catalysts have been made of copper chromite.
Cerotic acid is a saturated fatty acid with 26 carbons and no double bonds. The usual food sources of this fatty acid, other than that found in animal brains, are plant and insect waxes. It has a systematic name of hexacosanoic acid, a shorthand designation of C26:0, a melting point of 87.7°C, and a molecular weight of 396.7. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
See book keywords and concepts |  CHAPTER NINE
Vitamins, minerals, and
Cofactors: The Myths Revealed
Up to now we have focused on various diseases that are blamed on excessive fat consumption. We've presented powerful evidence that the low-fat theory of nutrition has not fulfilled its promise, and that low-carbohydrate nutrition is a valuable tool in the fight against disease. This alternative to the fat theory is based not only on clinical information from over ten thousand patients in Dr. |
Dr. John Heinerman
See book keywords and concepts |  Consult the Product Appendix under Naturally Vitamins, Wakunaga, Trace minerals, and Pines for further information on the previously mentioned supplements.)
A Place Where Fleas Flourish
I can think of nothing better to close this section with than reciting for readers a place where fleas actually flourish because certain humans want them to. I'm speaking, of course, about the research-and-development facility appropriately called Flea World. It is operated by the Heska Corporation of Fort Collins, Colorado. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  If you want "insurance," she advises a daily antioxidant multiple containing 100 percent of the daily values for vitamins and minerals.
Many supplements are expensive forms of nutrients readily available from food, say Kleiner and Clark, who offer these recipes for homemade "muscle builders":
Kleiner's muscle-building formula: 8 ounces nonfat milk, 1 packet Carnation Instant Breakfast, 1 banana, 1 tablespoon peanut butter. Blend until smooth. One serving contains 438 calories, 70 grams carbohydrate, 17 grams protein, 10 grams fat.
Clark's protein shake: ! |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | These cofactors include the minerals magnesium, selenium, and zinc, and vitamins C, E, B-3, and B-6. To be sure your body has sufficient amounts of these building blocks, you need to eat a whole-foods/unrefined diet. By definition, this is vitamin and mineral rich. For extra assurance, I advise most of my patients to take a multiple vitamin/mineral supplement. | | When you begin to look at eating in a larger context, you will realize that sound nutrition involves more than establishing correct amounts of calories, protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. It is even more than whole-foods "hazard-free" eating. Ultimately, it becomes an art of individual balance.
DIETARY HAZARDS
In the last two decades, modern medicine has dramatically altered its accepted attitudes about the relationship between diet and health. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts | | Other minerals are probably just as important for people with diabetes, so it's a good idea to take a multivitamin/mineral that covers all your bases, Dr. Wynsome says. Manganese and zinc, in particular, are also involved in blood sugar control.
The Fats You Need
Too often, we think of fat as bad, especially when we've been told that we need to lose weight.
Everyone needs some fat, however, and certain types actually help diabetes, Dr. Wynsome says. | | Healthy Heartthrobs
Certain minerals play important roles in maintaining your heart's proper rhythm. These include potassium, magnesium, sodium, chloride, and calcium. Here again, a proper ratio is important.
When magnesium levels in the heart are low, people can develop certain types of heart arrhythmias, some of them potentially very dangerous, says Carla Sueta, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
One type of potential arrhythmia problem affects the upper chamber, or atrium, of the heart. |
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