| While the reasons for taking vitamins and minerals are now based on solid science, shopping for nutrients is still nothing less than overwhelming.
You know what happens when you make a trip to your local pharmacy or supermarket to buy nutrients. You're faced with overwhelming choices. Shelf
XI after shelf in aisle after aisle offers nothing but confusion. Letters and numbers, single nutrients and combinations, capsules and tablets, bottles in different sizes and colors from different companies, covered with enticing claims that compete for your attention and your precious consumer dollar. |
| The result can be a mineral deficiency throughout your body—and a potentially toxic buildup of minerals in the liver.
Antioxidant Protection
Although alcohol devastates the body both directly as a toxin and indi-tectly through nutrient loss, scientists are beginning to suspect that it may also affect the body by destroying or otherwise interfering with the body's use of the antioxidants vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium. Antioxidants are substances that protect your body's healthy molecules against damage by unstable molecules called free radicals. |
Frances Darragh and Louise Darragh Law
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 However, if it is overrefined, it leaches the minerals out of the body. Honey is a very concentrated sugar so use small amounts only. Other excellent sweeteners are: maple syrup, rice or barley malt, and fruit concentrates.
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Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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 The root contains polysaccharides, volatile oils, inulin, mucilage, and minerals including calcium, phosphorus, sodium and iron, and vitamins including thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and ascorbic acid.
Contraindications: Long term use or excessive doses of the seed can cause urinary tract irritation. It is contraindicated in pregnancy due to the oxytocic effect and uterine stimulant action on animal uteri.404
Butcher s broom -
Ruscus aculeatus in the Liliaceae or Lily family.
Part used: Root.
Taste/smell: Soapy taste. |
David Brownstein
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 Fahrenheit, the enzymes, vitamins, minerals and chemical reactions can take place optimally. Small variations in temperature, either elevated or depressed, will decrease the utilization of these items.
How can you accurately measure this metabolic activity? This is a very difficult task. For over 50 years, physicians have been trying to develop a laboratory test that will actually measure the metabolism of the body. First, they relied on the Basal
Metabolism Test, which proved inaccurate. Next, they relied on the protein-bound iodine test (i.e., PBI), which also failed. |
Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
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| Dosage: Infusion: 1 heaping tablespoon per cup of water or decoction if minerals are desired; or 1:1 fresh + D strength liquid extract: 10-60 drops 1-4 times per day.
Mental picture and specific indications: It is indicated for profuse discharges from mucous membranes, sensations of heat and itching. Nettle favors elimination of uric acid. Symptoms are worse from very cold air, water, cool moist air, touch and the symptoms return at the same time each year.401
Use: (a) Alterative, (b) Alkalizing diuretic, (c) Urinary tract tonic. |
David Brownstein
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 Since a filter system removes many minerals from tap water, as well as the toxic agents mentioned above, it is important that you add a daily multiple vitamin-mineral supplement to your dietary regimen.
My primary recommendation on the use of water is that you ensure an adequate water intake every day. It is impossible to achieve optimum health or to recover from a chronic illness without adequate water intake. I recommend that you take your weight in pounds, divide it by two and use this figure as the amount of water in ounces to ingest on a daily basis. (See Figure 6. |
| For arthritic patients, the most common minerals I recommend supplementing are the following:
1. Magnesium Magnesium is essential for catalyzing hundreds of reactions in the body. A diet high in carbohydrates and processed food can cause a deficiency of magnesium. It is impossible to maintain health without adequate magnesium levels. Inadequate magnesium levels lead to a poorly functioning immune and hormonal system. Magnesium is found in animal products, nuts and vegetables. Recommended dose: 400mg per day.
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| We must think about the food we eat and eat healthy food that will replenish our bodies with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other healthy items. Eating a poor diet will ensure failure in overcoming a chronic illness. The Standard American Diet, which includes too many carbohydrates (particularly high glycemic, refined carbohydrates), does not provide enough nutrition to support the immune system. Simply eliminating refined sugar and flour as well as trans fatty acids from the diet is a great place to begin. |
| I often tell my patients: "Don't bother taking vitamins, minerals, herbs, natural hormones, etc., if you are not going to drink adequate amounts of water. You are wasting your time and money." It sounds too good to be true; simply drinking more water and eliminating other drinks that can lead to dehydration, is a simple and effective way of beginning the healing process.
Determining whether there is an infectious etiology (or cause) of a chronic illness (as described in Chapter 2) is the next step. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
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| For the time being it seems best to fertilize hemp according to the uptake of minerals. Considering the data collected by Bredemann and Mathieu, nutrients harvested per ton of above-ground dry matter can be estimated at: 15 kg of N, 5 kg of P2O5, 17 kg of K2O, 3 kg of MgO and 15 kg of CaO. Fertilization trials might allow a more accurate fertilization strategy; this type of research, however, does not seem to be a priority.
Sowing dates recommended in the literature vary. Optimum sowing date will depend much on the specific spring weather conditions in each country. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 Disorders of assimilation, whether of nutrients like glucose (diabetes), fats (high blood cholesterol and lipids, obesity) or minerals (e.g. iron deficiency anaemia) or of oxygen (anaemia, arteriosclerosis), may constitute part of wider patterns of disharmony, linked in old systems to inadequate nurturing (excessive sweet, fat and alcohol consumption for example being seen as a regression to unfulfilled infantile needs). In herbal medicine aromatic and bitter digestives (and cholagogues) were accorded wider roles than merely improving digestive performance. |
Frances Darragh and Louise Darragh Law
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| Due to loss of salt and minerals, give electrolyte solution (or make up V2 tsp. salt, 8 tsp. sugar/honey in 2.1 cups boiled water). Take as frequent small drinks.
Avoid reexposure to heat. Watch for shock reaction.
DESCRIPTION—HEATSTROKE
Vomiting, headache, nausea; red, hot, and dry skin—not even armpits are moist; increase in temperature pulse; drowsiness; maybe diarrhea. In serious cases there may be delirium and eventually unconsciousness. Heatstroke can be very dangerous.
WHAT TO DO
• This is an emergency. SEEK MEDICAL AID. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 Whole grains are filled with many important nutrients, including vitamin E, the B vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, and many other important phytonutrients. Whole grains contain a substantial amount of insoluble fiber. Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, contain soluble fiber. The combination of these two forms of fiber promotes bowel regularity and protects against colon cancer. It is estimated that colon cancer in the United States could be reduced by as much as one-third if people just consumed more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and less refined "white" starches. |
C. P. Khare
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 The seed lowers blood serum cholesterol; also possesses purgative and diuretic properties.
Use in Western herbal
The use of Carthamus tinctorius, in the West, is based on its use in Chinese medicine.
In Chinese medicine, the flowers are given to stimulate menstruation and to relieve abdominal pain. The flowers are also used to cleanse and heal wounds and sores. An infusion is given to children and infants in measles, fevers and eruptive skin affections.
Chinese research indicates that the flowers and the oil can reduce coronary artery disease and lower cholesterol levels. |
Marion Nestle
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 Food technologists develop these products by adding desirable components, such as vitamins, minerals, herbals, fiber, or other ingredients that might reduce disease risk factors, or by reducing undesirable components, such as fat, saturated fat, ^raws-saturated fatty acids, sugar, or salt. This chapter
TABLE 32. |
| In support of this petition, P&G submitted 150 animal and human studies and 150,000 pages of data related to the effects of olestra on absorption and excretion of drugs, vitamins, carotenoids (plant precursors of vitamin A that have antioxidant properties), and minerals, as well as on hormone levels, intestinal function, and certain gastrointestinal diseases.5 Late in 1995 the FDA provided a summary of this information to a subcommittee of its Food Advisory Committee and to the parent committee itself. |
| Because messages to eat less fat and sugar are so well recognized by the public, potato chips, sugared cereals, and candies can appear to be healthful just because they are low in fat or contain added vitamins or minerals. Low-fat cookies, olestra-fried chips, zinc-fortified breakfast cereals, vitamin-supplemented candies, and stanol-supplemented margarines may lull people into a false sense of dietary security: "Fortified junk foods are still junk. . . . Fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, and low-fat milk and yogurt are packed with nutrients or phytochemicals. . . . |
| These are categorized as sources of energy (carbohydrate, fat, protein, alcohol); essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements; fiber; and water. Other nutrients also may be required under certain conditions. In addition, "phytochemical" substances in plant foods, although they are not considered essential (because people can live without them), may nevertheless protect the body against cancer and other diseases. A great deal of attention is focused on dietary fat, and Table 40 explains the different types. |
John Robbins
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 Most of these diets are deficient in major nutrients, such as dietary fiber and carbohydrates, as well as in specific vitamins, minerals, and protective phytochemicals. Further, they put the body on a low-calorie diet roller coaster. When the body is starved for calories, it loses weight, but it also goes into survival mode —slowing metabolism and burning fewer calories. When normal caloric intake is resumed, rapid weight gain almost always results. |
| What we know
Amount of minerals in organic food compared to conventional food:;
Calcium: 63 percent higher
Chromium: 78 percent higher
Iodine: 73 percent higher
Iron: 59 percent higher
Magnesium: 138 percent higher
Potassium: 125 percent higher
Selenium: 390 percent higher
Zinc 60 percent higher
In dramatic contrast to genetic engineering, organic farming is an expression of what Aldo Leopold called "a land ethic," extending the concept of community to include all the species of life with which we share the planet. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 Indications: Used as a caffeine-free tea beverage. It is lower in tannins compared to black tea for which it is often substituted. In its country of origin, it is used in numerous ways including as a traditional refreshment drink and as a healthy tea beverage, for example in pediatrics for gastrointestinal complaints. Based on in vitro data, the daily intake of alkaline extracts of rooibos tea could suppress HIV infection due to the presence of polysaccharides in the extract [8], though a clinical evaluation has yet to be conducted. |
Robyn Landis
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 Citrus (Antioxidant compounds, including vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients)
CLEANSING EXTREMES Fasting
I'm personally not enthused about total fasting. Modified fasts in which you can have juice or other thin liquids, providing at least some sustenance, make more sense to me. I think it is important to consider that in the case of fasting, there is a price paid for whatever cleansing is accomplished. |
| These grasses are a concentrated source of chlorophyll, B vitamins, vitamin K for bone metabolism, minerals, and enzymes. A teaspoon a day of the powder can be stirred into juice.
Chlorophyll can be used by itself and is an excellent blood cleanser and purifier—cooling, calming, and not extremely strong, so it's appropriate for kids. It's also a good source of magnesium. Interestingly, it's the same molecule as hemoglobin, except instead of iron, chlorophyll has magnesium, which makes chlorophyll green and hemoglobin red. |
| Algae are a rich, broad-spectrum source of minerals as well.
Studies show that milk is not great for osteoporosis. In fact, the countries with highest osteoporosis rates are those that have the highest milk consumption. Absorption and retention, not intake, are the issues.
Loss of bone mass is typically caused by excessive calcium loss, not inadequate calcium intake, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (which has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the popular "celebrity milk mustache" advertising campaign). |
| Valerian root can be used for this purpose too (see section on relaxant herbs, pages 304-309, for still more suggestions).
The minerals calcium and magnesium can be especially helpful in cases with pain and anxiety. Many studies suggest that marginal magnesium deficiency is a possible cause of PMS. A processed diet, with high intake of sugar and other refined carbohydrates, is often partly to blame, since magnesium is stripped from grains in the refining process. |
| Now we can talk about vitamins, minerals, phy-tonutrients, antioxidants, herbs, Ayurvedic or Chinese body-type diets, organics, and a host of other enhancing issues that do indeed build on the basics. Now we can deal with which foods, in the massive smorgasbord of foods that might fuel you, are optimal for your specific constitution and specific lifestyle, or which foods in that range of choices contain anti-aging or cancer-fighting phytonutrients.
Very Specific Diets
One could adopt any number of specialized dietary guidelines beyond these fairly basic recommendations. |
Marion Nestle
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| Despite these technical distinctions, the term fortification usually refers to any addition of vitamins or minerals to food.
As a public health approach, fortification was designed to overcome widespread deficiencies of certain key nutrients in the diets of the general population. The practice dates to the early 1830s, when a French chemist advocated the addition of iodine to table salt to prevent goiter (enlarged thyroid glands). |
Ralph W. Moss PhD
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 This included precursors of most of today's methods, including surgery, cautery, minerals, and herbs. The Egyptians even knew about photosensitizing agents, 3,500 years before the Food and Drug Administration approved Sanofi's Photofrin® for the treatment of stage I diffuse lung cancer.
Some of the diagnoses in the Ebers Papyrus have been proven right over the years—they are "surprisingly accurate," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica (4:342). I am particularly intrigued by a recent development that confirms how astute the Egyptians could be. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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 The next important discovery was that when heated in a charcoal fire, those minerals yield copper. These ores were much more abundant than native metals, and thus larger amounts of metals became available. The Egyptians exploited mines in the Sinai peninsula, and produced thousands of tons of copper during the predynastic period (about 3200 bc).
Bronze was the most important result of early attempts of rendering copper more resistant by adding different metals. |
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