| The sheer volume of sugar that people consume substitutes for food with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other needed nutrients. Sugar is often accompanied by fat in foods such as cakes, pastries, pies, cookies, ice cream, and chocolate. How to cut back on sugar:
ž Look at labels of processed foods and stay away from those with sugar high on the list of ingredients. Check labels for different names for sugar, such as sucrose, dextrose, corn syrup, fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, molasses, and honey. | | Valuable minerals such as iron and zinc, which most of us don't get enough of, are also removed.
Microbial contaminants include Giardia, viruses, and coliform or other bacteria.
Organic contaminants include pesticides, solvents such as trichloroethylene, and many other chemicals. Some cause cancer or harm the liver, kidney, or nervous system. Some organic chemicals in tap water are volatile, which means they vaporize easily and can be inhaled when you take a shower.
Radioactive contaminants include radium and radon, which may cause cancer. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is extremely high in vitamins, minerals, and beta-carotene (dandelion has 14,000 International Units of vitamin A per 100 grams, compared with 11,000 International Units for carrots). Studies show that dandelion increases the flow of bile and relieves liver congestion.
Milk thistie (Silybum marianum). This common plant contains powerful liver-protecting substances, and its extract is stocked by the National Poison Control Center as an emergency treatment for ingestion of poisonous mushrooms (particularly the death angel mushroom). | | In particular, studies have shown that supplementing diets with vitamins and minerals that exceed the Recommended Dietary Allowances improves measures of immune response and increases resistance to infectious disease.12 The body especially demands nutrients that assist with the rapid protein synthesis of antibodies and the production of T and B cells. In one study, R. K. Chandra gave nutritional supplements to elderly people and found that they had half the number of colds, flus, and other infections, compared with a group that didn't receive the supplements, and recovered in half the time. |
Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland
See book keywords and concepts | | Except for avocados, they're all low in fat and most are packed with fiber, vitamins, and minerals, especially vitamins A and C. But there are some real superstars in the produce department—because of their high fiber and/or vitamin content, you'd do well to make them regulars in your diet. Here are some or the very best:
>• Vegetables: spinach, collard greens, and kale; sweet potato or potato (baked, with the skin); acorn or butternut squash; and broccoli and asparagus.
>¦ Fruits: watermelon, papaya, cantaloupe, mango, orange, grapefruit, banana, honeydew melon, and strawberries. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  What you do not get is just as important—the minerals: magnesium, zinc, copper, manganese, boron. Many people are not aware of boron as a nutrient, but boron might turn out to be essential to our joints' health. These are what you do not get with our current, typical American diet. We lack the substances that prevent the joints from repairing themselves from the damage they get. That is why you want to start eating a whole food diet, rich in organic vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
Dr. Rich Ribner tells this story: "Recently, a woman came to the clinic with a terrible case of arthritis. | | Today, a steer is born, taken from its mother and put on a diet of powdered milk, synthetic vitamins, minerals, and antibiotics. Drugs in its food reduce its activities to save on feed. Next, it is permitted to eat some pasture grass, but this is supplemented with processed feed premixed with antibiotics and growth-promoting drugs. At six months, it weighs 500 pounds and is ready for the feed lot. Here it is doused with pesticides and then placed in a pen that is lit around the clock to change natural sleep rhythms and encourage continuous feeding. | | Basic Nutrition_
Basic nutrition begins with six major nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Along with an understanding of these basic nutrients, for good health you also need to be aware of the air you breathe, the balance of enzymes in your body, and the function of antioxidants in helping your body to combat disease and degenerative processes. Your body needs all of these nutrients every day. How much you need of each depends on your health as well as your energy needs. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is approximately 96 percent water, with the balance of its active contents consisting of essential oil, amino acids, vitamin, minerals, and enzymes. Aloe's primary strength as a healing agent lies in the fact of it being able to regenerate damaged tissues. Such actions have long made it a powerful therapy for wounds such as burns, cuts, and bruises. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
A traditional remedy for diabetes in the Arabian peninsula, several peer review studies indicate aloe may indeed be an effective treatment for symptoms associated with the disease. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  When asked to think of minerals important for health, most people know that calcium is good for their bones, that iron is important for their blood, that zinc is needed by the prostate. But rarely does anyone mention sulfur.
In the next chapter we will look at the MSM's "pedigree" and its connection to DMSO and sulfur. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts |  As a child, I'm supposed to know before reading the passage that chemistry has to do with minerals, water, and solutions, that numbers of people are concerned about the quality of life, that quality of life has something to do with water and solutions. Understanding that passage will be easy if I already know what "chemistry," "solution," and "declining quality of life" are supposed to signify.
But just consider the words of that last phrase one by one, "declining quality of life." They presuppose a whole realm of background knowledge that has no existence in the words themselves. | | L-uh-kuhts, siL-uh-kayts) The main minerals found in many rocks. Silicates are composed of atoms of silicon, oxygen, and elements such as potassium, sodium, or calcium, under great heat and pressure. Silicates make up about one-quarter of the crust of the earth. fa Mica and quartz are silicates. smog A haze or fog composed of water vapor, complex molecules, and suspended particles. | | Factors of production not created (though harnessed) by effort. minerals and fossil fuels are examples of natural resources. negative income tax A plan to raise the income of the poor by direct cash subsidies. Instead of paying an income tax, the poor would receive a cash payment from the government. net What remains after all deductions have been made. (Compare gross.)
New York Stock Exchange The largest stock exchange in the United States, located on Wall Street in New York City. |
Lesley Tierra
See book keywords and concepts |  The primary compounds of a plant are the elements it needs to live on: its vitamins, minerals, sugars, starches and so forth. Yet, plants also produce secondary compounds in small quantities which have various biological effects. These are the active constituents of the plant that are studied for their therapeutic uses.
There are thousands of chemicals in plants. Here, we are only considering the main medicinal plant constituents. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts | | Rock structures that grow up from the floors of caves as watet drips down and deposits minerals. (Compare stalactites.) fa Stalagmites grow very slowly. stratification The process by which materials form themselves into layers, as occurs in the solid portion of the earth in sedimentary and some igneous rocks. fa The atmosphere and the ocean also exhibit stratification, with the warmer materials occupying the upper layers. stratosphere (sTRAT-uh-sfeer) The region of the atmosphere of the earth above the troposphere.
Stalactites and stalagmites. The Luray Caverns, Virginia. | | Synfuels are substances made through the extraction of petroleum or coal from minerals found in the western United States. fa The cost of synfuels is presently too high to make them commercially attractive. synthetic polymers (poL-uh-muhrz) Industrially produced chemical substances consisting of a number of molecules linked together with covalent bonds. Examples include plastics, synthetic fibers such as nylon, and synthetic rubber. |
Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon
See book keywords and concepts |  The trouble is that many water pills deplete the body of minerals, including sodium, potassium, and magnesium. We can probably do without the sodium, but both potassium and magnesium are crucial for normal heart function. Cortisone (Cortone) and similar drugs such as betamethasone (Celestone), dexamethasone (Decadron), hydrocortisone (Cortef, Hydrocortone), prednisone, prednisolone (Delta-Cortef), and methylpredniso-lone (Medrol) may also deplete potassium, so close monitoring is essential if this combination is necessary. | | With other diuretics, important minerals (especially potassium and magnesium) are lost along with the fluid. With this group of drugs, however, potassium is conserved.
INSTRUCTIONS
Midamor and Dyrenium may upset the stomach, so they are best taken right after meals. Maxzide can be taken without regard to meals. Midamor and Aldactone may interfere with the alertness and coordination necessary for driving. Periodic blood tests for magnesium and potassium are advisable.
Relafen nabumetone
Voltaren diclofenac etc. | | But once you learn about minerals, you won't want to take them at the same time as this antibiotic.
A woman being treated for Chlamydia infection might not know it was not clearing up. Her doctor might not realize it, either. Weeks and months could go by before he discovered the problem, and by then serious complications that can lead to infertility might be in progress.
An even more dangerous situation could occur if a person had Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This disease can kill if it is not treated quickly and appropriately, preferably with tetracycline. | | Blood levels of these minerals should be monitored.
INSTRUCTIONS
Taking a diuretic early in the day may reduce nighttime urination. If it upsets the stomach, it may be taken with food or milk. See the Food and Drug Compatibility Table on pages 59-73. brand name
DiaBeta, Glynase,
Micronase Diabinese Glucotrol Orinase Tolinase generic name glyburide chlorpropamide glipizide tolbutamide tolazamide
DESCRIPTION
These pills are prescribed for non-insulin-dependent diabetics. | | With other diuretics, important minerals (especially potassium and magnesium) are lost along with the fluid. With the above group of drugs, however, potassium is conserved.
INSTRUCTIONS
Midamor and Dyrenium may upset the stomach, so they are best taken right after meals. Maxzide can be taken without regard to meals. Midamor and Aldactone may interfere with the alertness and coordination necessary for driving. Periodic blood tests for magnesium and potassium are advisable. | | Blood levels of these minerals should be monitored.
INSTRUCTIONS
Taking a diuretic early in the day may reduce nighttime urination. If it causes stomach upset, the drug may be taken with food or milk. See the Food and Drug Compatibility Table on pages 59-73 for specifics.
INTERACTION
Often when blood pressure is not completely controlled by the initial medication, the doctor will prescribe a second medicine in addition. As a result, a patient may need to take both an ACE inhibitor blood pressure drug and a strong diuretic. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Physicians know that you need a certain level of these minerals in your diet and can often trace health problems to low intakes.
The late Carl Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D., a world-renowned expert on nutritional medicine, once described sulfur as "the forgotten essential element."
The cause of sulfur neglect is anchored to the widespread assumption that a person's sulfur requirement is met when protein intake is adequate. When not enough protein is ingested, deficiency diseases develop—the kind you see associated with starvation in Africa, for instances, where bodies literally fall apart. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
See book keywords and concepts | | Best results are achieved using arthritis combinations with compatible vitamins, minerals and diet. (See Ailments)
— comes in regular or concentrated capsules. MOST COMMON USES
Arthritis Gout Rheumatism
Bursitis
Case History:
K.'s 90 year old father was in much pain with arthritis and was confined to a wheel chair. He started taking arthritis combination #1 and noticed less pain within six weeks. He was able to get out of his wheelchair and walk with a walker and finally a cane.
Blood Builder Combinations
1.__________Kelp, Alfalfa, Dandelion.
2. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | We look at a lot of minerals, including tin and even arsenic," she said. "But sulfur isn't even among them."
Americans are notoriously deficient in many important nutrients because of our poor eating habits, which has a lot to do with our poor health statistics. A 1996 University of San Francisco study that made nationwide headlines concluded that nearly 100 million of us—40 per cent of the population—are afflicted with some form of chronic ailment. Could there be an unrecognized sulfur deficiency—marginal enough to contribute to this bleak statistic? Nobody has a real answer yet.
Melvyn R. |
Robert Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden
See book keywords and concepts |  The geomagnetic record is written in two places: in igneous rocks bearing magnetic minerals, and in ocean floor sediments. Magnetic particles in molten rock are free to move and align themselves with the prevailing magnetic field. As the rock cools they're frozen in place. In the same way magnetic particles settling onto the ocean floor reflect the orientation of the field at the time of the deposit. | | Dowsing may involve an unconscious sense of the electromagnetic fields of underground water or minerals, an idea given some support by Russian experiments in the 1960s. Nikolai N. Sochevanov, now with the USSR's Ministry of Geology, found that the accuracy of forty professional dowsers diminished by at least three fourths when he wound a current-carrying wire around their wrists or brought a horseshoe magnet near their heads.
Biological semiconductors even offer a possible basis for the aura often reported around living things by "sensitives. | | At higher frequencies, living things absorbed only small amounts of ionizing X rays and gamma rays from space and from radioactive minerals in rocks. Large parts of the energy spectrum were totally silent.
We'll never experience that quiet world again. In 1893 Nikola Tesla lit the Chicago World's Fair with the first AC power system, and two years later he began the modern era of electrical engineering by harnessing Niagara Falls. In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent a radiotelegraph message across the Atlantic, using without acknowledgment a machine designed by the prolific Tesla. |
Lesley Tierra
See book keywords and concepts | | In general, warming herbs have a spicy or complex sweet taste (made up of complex carbohydrates), with more minerals and protein. Examples include/e««e/, elecampane, angelica, prickly ash, cinnamon, ginseng and astragalus. Overall, cooling herbs have a sour, bitter or salty taste. They are more eliminating in effect. Examples include dandelion, golden seal, red clover and peppermint.
Yang herbs are warming, energizing and circulating. They include hard leaves, twigs, branches, seeds, barks and roots which take a long time to grow and mature. They have little or no volatile oils. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | That's because nutritional supplements, based on vitamins, minerals, herbs, and natural substances such as MSM, are not patentable.
The major impetus behind MSM's growing popularity is word of mouth. As people experience the healing benefits of MSM, we find they often become enthusiastic emissaries eager to tell family members and friends who have pain problems. One such example is Father Sam, a 46-year-old parish priest in rural Pennsylvania. An avid jogger who has also enjoyed lifting weights in the past, he suffered two sports injuries that left him with a bad shoulder and bad knees. |
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