| In fact, the DVs for some minerals, such as chromium and magnesium, may even be set too high, Dr. Russell says. If many older people don't get the recommended amounts, it's possibly because they aren't eating the foods that supply these needed nutrients.
How Do You Know When Enough Is Enough?
If you take in more supplements than your body can handle, what was beneficial at a lower dose becomes potentially toxic, says Henry Lukaski, Ph.D., research leader for mineral nutrient functions at the USD A research center in North Dakota. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
See book keywords and concepts |  In this chapter, we will focus on vitamins, minerals, and cofactors. We'll define these terms a little later, but it's important to first debunk a popular myth: You must eat large quantities of fruits and vegetables to get your daily supply of vitamins. This is absolutely not true! While we do get some vitamins from fruits and vegetables, we can get most of them from animal foods.
Even more importandy, there are many vitamins and cofactors that we only get from animal foods. This means that if you don't eat any animal foods, you will probably develop a deficiency in some vitamins. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts |  They include protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.
Then there are the phytonutrients, Pbyto means "plant," so phytonutri-ents are simply nutrients derived from plants. Phytonutrients may promote good health, but unlike vitamins, they have not been found to be essential, says Cyndi Thomson, R,D?Ph.D., clinical nutrition research specialist at the University of Arizona Cancer Prevention Center in Tucson.
Then where does that leave our green vegetables? Weren't we all told to eat our peas and broccoli or we'd wither and fade away? |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
See book keywords and concepts | | Chapter 9 provides some insight into the availability of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in various foods.
Let's look at some more numbers to get a clear picture of the average American diet. Saturated fat has been heralded as the primary cause of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity in this country. How much saturated fat does the average American eat each day? The same USDA survey shows that Americans got about 11 percent of total calories from saturated fat. Protein consumption each day was about 15 percent of calories. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  You will be able to retain more calcium each day when you replace animal protein with soy protein and you will actually replace lost calcium and other minerals by eating the recommended calcium-rich foods. This is the only way, short of using drugs with harsh side effects, that you can actually send osteoporosis into remission.
Today, there are advanced methods of diagnosing and monitoring the progression of osteoporosis. Your doctor can use a bone densitometry or bone-density scan, which measures the amount of bone mineral content in specific areas of the body. |
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., and Jo Robinson
See book keywords and concepts |  Ultimately, fat is as essential to your health as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, carbohydrates, and protein. Good fat is good food.
All well and good, you might say, but won't eating fat make you fat? No matter how beneficial certain fats may be to your health, they're reputed to be a leading cause of obesity. This widely held belief has spawned a multibillion-dollar low-fat-food industry and launched a dozen best-selling books, but, as you will see, it is not based entirely on scientific fact. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Protein from animal foods contains an amino-acid profile (individual amino acids bonded together form proteins) that can accelerate the loss of calcium and other minerals from the skeleton. Many animal-protein foods are relatively high in the sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine. Some preliminary research has linked a high-methionine diet to cancer in laboratory animals; several studies have shown that low-methionine diets may help prevent or reverse cancer. Other conflicting studies suggest a role for methionine in protecting against some forms of cancer. | | Phytofood Products That Fight Breast and Ovarian Cancer
The following formula foods (also known as functional foods or biodesigned foods) contain anticancer phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and nonvitamin nutrients now being tested by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other health research organizations. These formula foods are sold nationwide in health-food stores and some pharmacies and supermarkets. Appendix IV (pages 365-68) contains the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of product manufacturers.
Have one serving of any one of the following products each day. | | Certain vitamins, minerals, and nutrients can effectively boost the safety and cancer-stopping power of traditional cancer treatments. For example:
• Antioxidants, such as carotenoids, vitamin E, and selenium, enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy while providing protection against damage to normal cells.
• Vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, and selenium help stop tumor cells from rejecting anticancer drugs. These same nutrients protect against heart damage caused by anticancer drugs called anthracyclines and they scavenge harmful free radicals produced by radiotherapy. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts |  The treatment then encompasses options of conventional therapies, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, plus a range of unconventional therapies, including nutrition, based on a macrobiotic, vegetarian, or
¦ 1AC m fish-vegetarian diet, and supplements of vitamins, minerals, botanicals, whole foods, phytochemicals, and other agents with documented scientific validity. Nutrition is but one of seven components of his therapy. Foremost is conveying hope, giving the patient a positive attitude, a passion for life, the idea that "you can fight for your life." Next is proper medical care. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts | | The DV column on a label lists the percentages of the DV for vitamins or minerals in a serving of a food or in a single dose of a supplement, based on an intake of 2,000 calories a day. The DV for vitamin C, for instance, is 60 milligrams, so a supplement containing 60 milligrams has 100 percent of the
DV. The label of a supplement containing 30 milligrams of vitamin C would indicate that it has 50 percent of the DV. |
David Brownstein
See book keywords and concepts |  The thyroid gland cannot appropriately manufacture and release its hormone without adequate amounts of minerals in the diet.
Fluoride has been added to our water supply to help prevent cavities in the teeth. As a mineral, fluoride is similar to iodine. In fact, the ingestion of fluoride has been shown to decrease the ingestion of iodine. The thyroid gland has the highest concentration of iodine in the body and uses iodine to manufacture the active thyroid hormones. In medicine, fluoride was once used to slow down an overactive thyroid gland. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts | | This leads to abnormal excretion of minerals, particularly sodium, along with low blood pressure and low blood volume. Correcting the insufficiency with the proper steroids may relieve the symptoms of chronic fatigue.
And this is where licorice comes in. Licorice, in fact, is a natural steroid, with activity very similar to the powerful steroidal drug cortisone, says Italian physician Dr. Riccardo Baschetti, who uses licorice to treat his own chronic fatigue syndrome. Licorice, like steroidal drugs, can also raise blood pressure and cause fluid retention. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
See book keywords and concepts |  Healthy soil is made up of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and micro arthropods. minerals ingested by fungi and bacteria may not be available to plants, but the tiny predatory protozoa, nematodes, and micro arthropods eat bacteria, fungi, and each other and then release their nutrients in fecal matter.6
Unfortunately, chemical fertilizers and pesticides kill many of these beneficial organisms by providing unbalanced nutrient supply. | | To compensate for what has been lost during the cooking and canning process, pet food manufacturers add vitamins, minerals, and amino acids to their products. It has been shown, however, that these synthetic vitamins are not absorbed by the body as well as vitamins that occur through a natural diet.41 have always favored a wholesome raw diet over synthetic pills and concoctions. Science has not been able to duplicate what nature has perfected over millions of years, and I don't believe we ever will. | | The images that pet food manufacturers promulgate—images of whole chicken, choice cuts of beef, fresh grains, vitamins, and minerals that meet all your pet's needs for a healthy existence— are a bit deceiving. What they don't tell you is that instead of whole chicken, manufacturers have substituted chicken heads, feet, intestines, and bowels. The choice cuts of beef have been replaced with cow brains, tongue, esophagus, ears, and any other part that is condemned for human consumption. Grains used in pet foods have not been tested for impurities such as mold or pesticides. | | It is a whole food supplement, which contains complex proteins, natural vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that all work together to help repair and maintain connective tissue and joint function. Glycosaminoglycans (chondroitin-4-sulfate, dermatan sulfate, chondroitin-6-sulfate, heparin sulfate, chondroitin polysulfate, heparin, and hyaluronic acid) make up 10-15 percent of perna.
Perna seems to enhance the regenerative pathways of the cell, including the chondrocytes (cartilage cells) in the synovial membranes. | | In short, all the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes, and unknown nutrients in raw, live, unprocessed foods are needed for optimum health.
At Highlands Veterinary Hospital, a number of different modalities—acupuncture, nutrition, biological response modifiers, and herbs—are all used to cure asthmatic patients. I have found that the only way to affect a long-term cure is the use of a natural raw food diet and biological response modifiers (substances that rebalance the immune system). | | Remember, a balanced natural raw food diet—with all the nutrients in their natural synergistic state including vitamins (known and unknown), minerals, essential fatty acids, and raw protein sources—will prevent not only heart disease, but 90 percent of all disease I see on a daily basis.
HERBS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS Astragalus
We have all heard about astragalus's legendary immune-stimulating ability; however, recent studies suggest that it may have some use in cardiovascular disease as well. Astragalus is a Chinese herb often used as a "Qi tonic" in traditional Chinese medicine. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Supplement with vitamins and minerals, and consider additional antioxidants like Ginkgo biloba.
• Avoid monosodium glutamate (MSG), also labeled as hydrolyzed soy, vegetable, or plant protein, autolyzed yeast, textured protein, sodium or calcium caseinate, soy or whey isolate.
• Avoid synthetic additives such as colors, flavors, enhancers, stabilizers, and binders.
• Avoid products containing caffeine. | | Nutrition includes everything we eat and drink—protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and everything that goes along for the ride, such as sweeteners, preservatives, fillers, colors, flavors, and binders. The goal of good nutrition is to take in substances that promote good health and avoid taking in harmful substances. The results of good nutrition are often profound.
Without good nutrition, the behavior of any child with ADD may well worsen, and the child who does not have ADD may act as though he does, as the case of Michael shows. | | Understanding trace element/mineral physiology is important since hair analysis usually includes the levels of essential nutritional minerals as well as levels of toxic metals.
For example, a low zinc level on hair analysis does not mean a child should be given zinc. Other factors must be taken into consideration. The discussion of these factors is beyond the scope of this book, but it is essential to keep in mind that a hair analysis is for screening only and must never be used to make a diagnosis. | | Consequently, tissues may be burdened with toxic metals, or deficient in desirable trace minerals, and the blood levels may be "perfectly normal." The disparity
The second group in which testing for toxic metals is needed includes any child who has learning or behavioral problems. These problems include learning disability, dyslexia, autism, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior, poor academic performance, excessive shyness or avoidant behavior, unexplained fatigue or listlessness. between blood levels and the levels in specific organs was documented more than twenty years ago. | | A patient undergoing chelation treatment must supplement nutritional minerals since DMSA will also increase the excretion rates of these. A rapid detoxification should be avoided to reduce the likelihood of gastrointestinal or kidney toxicity.
There are several other chelating medications, including EDTA and DMPS. EDTA is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract however, and must be taken intravenously or intramuscularly. Intramuscular administration is quite painful. DMPS is also an intravenous treatment, but it does not cross the blood-brain-barrier. | | Because they are growing rapidly, children absorb minerals such as calcium to build bones at a high rate through their gastrointestinal tracts. However, this mechanism also promotes a higher rate of heavy metal absorption. A toddler absorbs five times the amount of lead an adult does, and children put things into their mouths and travel much closer to the ground, where atmospheric metals settle.
For the first three years of life, children's brains are even more vulnerable to toxic exposure because their blood-brain barriers have not yet fully developed. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
See book keywords and concepts |  In several studies, boron has been found to help people better absorb and use minerals such as calcium and magnesium.
"Boron also seems to play a role in the body's ability to generate energy, especially during exercise," says Dr. Hunt. He found that animals that were exercised and got adequate boron in their diets gained more weight and grew larger than animals that were exercised and fed a low-boron diet.
Boron may work by activating certain hormones, Dr. Hunt says. In postmenopausal women, adequate boron raised blood levels of both estrogen and testosterone. |
Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Obtaining Phytonutrients: Diet Versus Supplementation
Phytochemical supplements are taking their place on the shelves of drug and natural food stores next to vitamins and minerals. However, supplements may not be as useful in maintaining optimal health as is a phytochemical-rich diet. Studies designed to measure the effects of supplementation with the antioxidant beta-carotene on the prevention of both lung and colorectal cancer have been disappointing for supplement advocates and have demonstrated the superiority of fruits and vegetables as a method of disease prevention. |
Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts |  The reason: water dilutes concentrations of minerals that can crystallize into stones. Studies show that people who excrete less than one liter of urine a day are much more apt to have kidney stones than those who put out twice that much. Fluids are particularly beneficial to the one-third of stone-formers who do not eat excessive protein, sodium, oxalate and calcium, but have an extra sensitivity that promotes high urinary mineral concentrations.
Unfortunately, most people think they drink more fluids than they actually do. | | Vitamins and minerals can double as antioxidants. So can enzymes and myriad exotic compounds that have various biochemical duties. Antioxidants are heavily concentrated in plant foods; they are also found in seafood, and occasionally in animal foods. | | Foods contain vitamins, minerals and other more exotic compounds that new research shows can broadly stimulate immune functioning, increasing your resistance to various viral and bacterial infections, as well as cancerous growths that flourish or die according to the operation of immune mechanisms.
HOW FOOD CAN INFLUENCE IMMUNITY
What you eat can strongly influence the performance of white blood cells, the frontline warriors against infection and cancer. |
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