John Heinerman
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 And plain malnourishment, which deprives the body of essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes necessary for growth, is a fourth. I have noticed as an anthropologist that in those cultures which have access to plenty of sulphur-rich foods, their young children don't suffer very much from stunted growth. Since bussels sprouts contain sulphur, it will be of obvious value here. As to how the sulphur works in this regard, still remains a mystery. |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
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 Of course, the higher concentration of minerals in dried apricots has its price-more calories than apricots that are
At the Market: The ideal fresh apricot has a golden orange color. A pink blush indicates sweetness. If harvested while too immature, an apricot may never fully ripen or reach peak flavor. When ripe, apricots feel soft. Avoid shriveled apricots. When shopping for canned apricots, always check labels to be sure that the contents are packed in juice, not in heavy syrup. In choosing dried apricots, look for ones that aren't too shriveled. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Vitamins, minerals, and Heart Disease
Studies based on laboratory animals have shown that low nutrient levels of vitamin B6, vitamin C, copper, chromium, magnesium, and others are associated with buildup of arterial plaque, even if there is no cholesterol or saturated fat in the diet at all. The Nurses Health Study followed up 87,000 women for over a period of eight years and found that those women with the highest level of vitamin C in their blood had a 3 5 percent lower risk of heart disease than those with the lowest level of vitamin C. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 However, the absent minerals must be replaced through food intake or judiciously selected supplements.
DRINKING WATER AS THERAPY
Some of the many health problems that respond favorably to drinking water therapy include fever, diabetes, rheumatism, arthritis, constipation, common colds, gallstones, edema, smoking, alcohol drinking, drug intake, digestive problems, and athletic cramps. See also the individual listings of health problems in Part 3.
Fever: Drinking 2 to 3 pints of cold water (about 40°F) can reduce a high fever from V2 to 2 degrees in 10 minutes. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 The use of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, and other nonprescription supplements may be even more of a problem for biomedicine and its practitioners. This is not surprising. Each year the evidence for their effectiveness is accumulating, and popular acceptance and use is skyrocketing. These substances, packaged as pills and capsules and advertised as therapies for specific conditions, look like and are used in ways that are similar to the medicines they claim to supplement or replace. They are, in short, therapeutic and economic rivals. |
| It doesn't, however, begin to address the question of the correspondences between the Chinese theory of their action and the Western chemical analysis, or the reasons why apparently improbable combinations of herbs, minerals, and animal products may have the powerful, mutually enhancing, "synergistic" effects they do.
We are, in fact, just now beginning to grapple with questions like these. |
John Heinerman
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| It is not possible to list the minerals for every berry here, but I've chosen red and black currants as composition models of what is fairly typical for the other berries.
The table below shows the content range for a number of trace elements occurring in both species of currants.
Mineral
Red and Black Currant
Potassium
3 1-3-4 grams
Calcium
0.40-0.72 grams
Magnesium
0.14-0.24 grams
Phosphorus
0.47-0.58 grams
Sulphur
0.16-0.23 grams
Iron
7.9-12 milligrams
Copper
5.4-19 milligrams
Manganese
1.9-3 1 milligrams
Zinc
2.0-3-1 milligrams
Molybdenum
1. |
| Both vitamins are necessary for supporting strong immune defenses, while the two minerals keep bones and teeth firm, and the heart and skin healthy.
Where berries really shine nutritionally is in their remarkable trace element contents. While not exactly equal to better known sources for such micronutrients as seafood, seaweeds, and algae, berries are one of the very few plant foods (along with some nuts and seeds) that contain a sufficient variety of trace elements to benefit the body.
Trace elements are vital for a number of different bodily functions. |
| Within apricots may be found those life-giving nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and oils that go to work to keep the skin fairly supple and young. Of course, the Hunzukuts have lifespans similar to our own, with just a handful reaching the century mark. However, the surprise in store for those who are able to go there is that they don't look old, even though they are old!
Cancer; Failing Eyesight; Second-Hand Smoke, Sluggish Liver.
All four of these health problems, while different in their clinical symptoms, nevertheless share a common factor. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 Whether zinc supplementation protects against bone loss has not yet been proven, though in one trial, combining minerals including zinc with calcium supplementation was more effective than calcium supplementation by itself.51 Many nutritionally oriented doctors recommend that people with osteoporosis and those trying to protect themselves from this condition supplement 10-30 mg of zinc per day.
Copper (p. 285) is needed for normal bone synthesis. A recent controlled 2-year study reported that 3 mg of copper per day prevented bone loss. |
| Part Two: Nutritional Supplements Look here for information about specific vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other nutrients (such as CoQ10). Each nutrient entry includes information about where it is found, health concerns in which the nutrient might be supportive, suggested dosage ranges, and possible side effects or interactions. Part Three: Herbs Look here for information about specific herbs. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 From utilizing crystals for communication, information storage, solar power, and laser applications in industry and medicine, we are slowly discovering that the gems and minerals of the Earth hold undreamt-of potentials for serving humankind. Modern thinkers are very narrow-minded, however, in believing that our present culture is the first to develop such crystalline technologies. In general, scientists have tended to believe that the more ancient in time a civilization, the more primitive its technology must have been. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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| I work now with some of the thousands of herbs, minerals, and animal substances of the Chinese pharmacopeia and am deeply impressed by the sophistication of the system that determines their use. Some herbs produce heat, others cool; some tonify qi, others disperse it, and each has a particular affinity for specific organs. With David Donne, for example, I prescribed a combination of herbs designed to dispel dampness and wind, to warm blood, and to tonify the qi, particularly in the kidney and spleen. |
| I may eliminate foods that for one reason or another seem to be deleterious; and I suggest vitamins, minerals, and other food supplements that make up for deficiencies or enhance functioning. There is convincing scientific evidence for most of these therapies, and hundreds or thousands of years of experience back up others. But beyond any of these specific prescriptions, I am aiming at something else: I want people to discover the great joy of eating and to reclaim the intuitive knowledge of what and when and how much is good for them to eat. |
James Green
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 Theoretically, distilled water is completely empty of dissolved minerals and is therefore a hungry, most powerful solvent, ready and eager to dissolve any water-soluble thing it can get its lusty molecules up against. Rainwater is the soft water I most like to use. It's more wild and whimsical than distilled water, but it's not always there for you when you need it. I'll talk more about the dynamics of active and saturated menstrua when I discuss "circulatory displacement" in the chapter on infusions (which will clearly illustrate why it's prudent to "shake your tinctures"). |
| The apian chemistries of these accomplices blend magically with the water and od portions of lotions and creams carrying with them an enormous array of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that nourish our body and enhance our wellness. Herbal tinctures and/or liquid concentrates including Aloe vera juice and aromatic hydrosols or floral waters (see Chapter Ten, "Distillation of Hydrosols") can be included in a lotion as part of the water content, bringing with them a host of nutritional and therapeutic actions. |
John Heinerman
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| These two minerals are important for carbohydrate metabolism and maintaining normal blood sugar levels within the body.
THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS
Enrico C, an Italian by birth, came to America with his parents in the early 1950s when he was a boy. They settled down in the borough of Queens N.Y. His family brought with them their ethnic "love affair with food." "My mother used to cook all kinds of things, most of which were heavy in starch, often very oily, and usually very sweet," he told me.
When Enrico turned ten years of age, certain symptoms began to manifest themselves in his body. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 Fossils are formed when minerals in groundwater replace materials in bones and tissue, creating a replica in stone of the original organism. The study of fossils is the domain of paleontology. The oldest fossils (of mats of algae) are 3.5 billion years old. fa The term is used figuratively to refer to a person with very old-fashioned or outmoded viewpoints: "That old fossil of a radio announcer still thinks that the Beatles are a new group!" fossil fuels Coal, petroleum, and natural gas. fa All of these fuels were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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| This refreshing drink replaces many needed minerals, and sometimes is the only remedy needed by some hay fever sufferers.
Each day, drink copious amounts of water. In the early part of the morning, swallow a freeze-dried capsule of stinging nettle leaf. According to Dr. Andrew Weil, who lives in southern Arizona, an area rife with allergic rhinitis, freeze-dried nettle protects his patients and himself, and usually vanquishes the need to take antihistamines. Call 1-800-332-4372 for a product source.
During the Hayflower Season: Shower often to remove pollutants and pollen. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Hahnemann and his early followers conducted more experiments, called provings, in which they gave large amounts of herbs, minerals and animal extracts to healthy people and recorded all of the symptoms they developed. Later, Dr. Hahnemann compiled these experiments into a book, Materia Medica, a reference guide first published in 1811 that helps practitioners match a patient's symptoms with a corresponding homeopathic remedy.
Making Poisons Work for Us
But Dr. Hahnemann had to overcome one major obstacle. |
| Homeopathy, a form of medicine that relies on minute amounts of herbs, minerals and other substances to stimulate a person's natural defenses and help the body heal itself, often tames illnesses with a single dose of medicine and causes virtually no side effects, proponents say. Worldwide, homeopathy is commonly practiced in many countries, including India, Mexico and Russia. About four in every ten people in France and one in three people in England—including the British royal family—use homeopathy, according to the National Center for Homeopathy. |
| And vitamins and minerals are in their natural state in foods, not in supplements."
"It's like taking a fiber supplement. It may be better than not having any fiber, but you're always better off eating high-fiber foods than taking a supplement," adds Dr. Stern. "Once you take the fiber out of a food, the fiber is dehydrated, it doesn't represent all of the types of fiber in foods, and it may not work the same way."
Another problem with supplements: Exposure to air and light has a detrimental effect, so each time you open the bottle, the pills get weaker. |
| Because many vitamins and minerals are inactivated by heat, the higher the temperature and the longer the cooking time, the more you may be depriving yourself of nutrients in food.
"The key to getting the most nutrients from whatever you're cooking is to not overcook it," says Barbara Klein, Ph.D., professor of foods and nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and associate scientific editor for the Journal of Food Science. "Go for the shortest cooking time possible with the least amount of water, whether you're cooking in or on a stove, microwaving or steaming. |
| Unless you're consuming 4,000 to 5,000 calories of healthy foods a day— about twice the amount of the typical American—you're not even getting the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for several trace minerals, let alone amounts that can help prevent and treat disease."
Supplements can also be fairly inexpensive. If you shop carefully, for as little as nine cents a day you can gulp down a brand-name multivitamin/mineral supplement that provides all of the essential nutrients you'd get from a whole day of healthy eating. |
| To do that, you need to start eating the foods you eliminated, but only get other micronutrients that you can't get in a pill—trace minerals and other compounds that are believed to play key roles in protecting against certain diseases and possibly even helping to heal them," says Barbara Klein, Ph.D., associate scientific editor for the Journal of Food Science.
Among these compounds are phytochemicals, which are natural chemicals found in all plants—but not in most vitamin supplements—that may protect the plants against their stresses, such as sunlight, disease and being eaten by animals. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 Women's bones slowly begin to lose minerals and become less dense even before menopause. After menopause, however, the pace accelerates rapidly for five to ten years. Estrogen inhibits
Investigators Found fewer than three percent of women on estrogen replacement therapy continued to lose bone density from the spine. bone resorption and progesterone stimulates bone formation. Unless a woman is taking these hormones, she has about a one-in-four chance of developing serious osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis increases the risk of bone fractures and all their ensuring complications. |
| By age 40, however, minerals begin to be leached out of the bones, making them more brittle. The extreme version of this condition is known as osteoporosis, a disease that affects 10 to 15 million Americans and causes some 1.3 million fractures a year. Of these, some 120,000 are elderly women who break their hips— accidents whose complications result in close to 20,000 annual deaths.
ESTROGEN: HOW IT CAN EASE MENOPAUSE
Proponents of estrogen cite both scientific studies and the experience of numerous women to show that this female hormone can ease or eliminate menopausal woes. |
| Exercise: Stair climbing daily for 20 minutes daily, walks 1 mile daily Supplements: Multivitamin with minerals daily in addition to:
400 I.U.vitamin D occasionally coenzyme Q10
Dietary Protocol: High fiber, low fat with moderate protein. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| A diet that contains the proper proportions of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water necessary to maintain good health. barbiturates (bahr-BICH-uh-rits, bahr-BICH-uh-rayts) Substances derived from an organic compound that are used as sedatives and sleep inducers. Barbiturates, which work by depressing the activity of the central nervous system, are sometimes used in the treatment of illnesses such as epilepsy. benign (bi-NEYEN) A descriptive term for conditions that present no danger to life or well-being. Benign is the opposite of malignant. |
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