Ron Garner
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 Of course, these side effects only exist in the imagination of the pharmaceutical interest groups and on the drawing boards of their global pr-machinery. vitamins, minerals and amino acids are the building blocks of life and the body can eliminate any surplus of them without any problems.24
Much of the Codex agenda with regards to natural health supplements is now law in parts of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Codex dietary supplement rules are in effect in Norway and Germany. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Adequate intake of several vitamins, minerals, and herbs enhances the immune system and reduces the risk of developing infection or disease.
The immune system is suppressed during times of stress. Optimal nutrition helps maintain a strong immune system and combat the harmful effects of stress. Other challenges to a healthy immune system include chronic lack of sleep, overwork, and the aging process. Immunity gradually declines over the years, increasing susceptibility to infection. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 These items offer little in terms of protein, fiber, vitamins, or minerals. What they do offer is lots of "empty calories" in the form of sugar, white flour, and fat. They fill you up with extra calories and leave you with little interest in the foods that give your body a fighting chance to prevent heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.
How can you make healthier food choices and avoid the pitfalls of junk food? Here are a few guidelines: þRead labels carefully. |
Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD
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 Participants were instructed to avoid taking all medications, vitamins, or supplements on the day of the study until they had completed the study. No food was permitted and only water was allowed for consumption until completion of the study.
Each participant provided a predose morning urine collection (second void of the morning). Then subjects orally dissolved their assigned testing lozenge (placebo or active). Participants drank only water and ate no food until they completed their final postdose urine collection between one to two hours after taking their lozenge. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Also keeping frozen vegetables available can add volume, vitamins, and minerals to make a meal in a snap.
Tip #3
Prepare meals ahead of time. There is usually more time on the weekend to cook and enjoy meals with family and friends. Get a head start on busy weekday meals by making some meals ahead of time or making double batches of some recipes and freezing them for another day. tion, since it only provides fat and sugar. |
| PGX is available in capsules (either hard or soft gelatin), as a zero-calorie drink mix, as granules to be added into food and beverages, and in a sophisticated low-carbohydrate, very low-glycemic index meal replacement drink containing undenatured whey protein, natural flavors, and sweeteners along with vitamins and minerals. The primary supplier of PGX is Natural Factors, who offers PGX in their SlimStyles family of products for weight loss. These products can be found in health food stores throughout North America or via a number of e-tailers on the Internet. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 These formulas entail natural chelating agents, including amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Following are ingredients to look for when choosing a heavy metal cleanse product.
Heavy Metal Cleanse Ingredients
Morning Formula* biotin manganese vitamin B2 boron molybdenum vitamin B3 calcium selenium vitamin B5 chromium vanadium vitamin copper vitamin C vitamin B12 folic acid vitamin B1 zinc magnesium
* Do not start a heavy metal cleanse without first completing a total-body cleanse. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Alternative Medicines and Recommendations
There are many people who believe that vitamins boost immunity and prevent infections. For many years, the famous scientist Linus Pauling promoted vitamin C in high doses for the prevention and treatment of the common cold; however no one has ever been able to show that prophylactic vitamin C prevents colds. At best, it might reduce the duration of the cold by one day. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| And Norwegian investigators found that habitual tea drinkers are among the most likely to use dietary supplements such as vitamins or fish oil.8
The healthful habits of tea drinkers that had been revealed incidentally in studies focused on other issues were interesting enough to prompt Dr. Bernhard Schwarz from the University of Vienna, Austria, to undertake a direct comparison of the lifestyles of tea and coffee drinkers. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Vitamins and supplements are classified as foods, not drugs. Lobbyists for the vitamin and supplement industry have blocked efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the federal agency responsible for health, to get involved. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Eat a Variety of Vegetables and Fruits Daily
Fruits and green, leafy vegetables are a veritable treasure-trove of important vitamins, minerals, and, particularly, antioxidants. They are high in fiber, low in fat, and supply vitamin-like compounds called phytonutri-ents. Green tea falls into this category of recommendations.
þ Avoid Obesity
Research shows that a person 40 percent or more above his or her ideal weight has a 33 percent greater risk of developing cancer than a person who is not overweight. Conversely, weight reduction can reduce the risk of cancer in obese people. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Nutrient elements including magnesium, chromium, zinc, copper, and selenium are necessary cofactors for hundreds of important enzymes and also are essential for the normal functions of vitamins. The levels of these elements in hair correlate to levels in organs and other tissues. Toxic elements, on the other hand, may be 200 to 300 times more highly concentrated in hair than in blood or urine.
Therefore, hair is often the tissue of choice for detection of recent exposure to elements such as arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, lead, antimony, and mercury. |
| Every day it's becoming easier and more economical to live a better life as organic foods flood our regular markets and we no longer have to special-order supplements and vitamins. Often we can find exactly what we're looking for at our local grocery store. There is so much that you can do starting today that costs very little but that can have an enormous impact on your health.
To repeat, your body has an enormous capacity to heal itself, and with my RENEW program you will give your body what it needs to operate on all cylinders—without breaking the bank. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 This intestinal microflora plays an important role in digestion and production of essential vitamins and protects the GI tract from pathogen colonization. Although the intestinal microflora appears to be relatively stable, it can be altered by environmental factors such as disease, antibiotics, and diet. Further, it has been postulated that dominant bacterial groups influence the well-being of their host by forming close interactions with the mammalian cells. |
| The anti-inflammatory effects of fibrous foods are commonly attributed to the short-chain fatty acids produced during colonic fermentation [49], but the harmful effect of a refined sugar diet may be more related to lack of immunoregulatory and anti-inflammatory micronutrients such as vitamins, phytochemicals, and antioxidants provided by fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. As mentioned, several dietary lipids can also affect the inflammatory process [22, 27, 34-40].
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| In addition to vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, a good diet is an excellent source of antioxidants and protective phytochemicals not found in nutrient supplements. If, however, the patient is unable or unwilling to consume an adequate diet, vitamin and mineral supplements and/or liquid meal "replacement" supplements may be appropriate. Numerous oral supplements are available with varying lipid mixtures, protein sources, fiber, and other additives. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Preservatives in Pet Foods
Take note that commercial pet food companies usually purchase large quantities of these vitamins and minerals already mixed together, called premixes. This means that your pet is ingesting preservatives from a number of different sources. Artificial flavors, garlic, cheese, and bacon are often added to pet foods to make it more palatable. These flavors, plus the added dyes, which turn the gray matter a bright red, are to give the consumer the impression that the can of dog or cat food is wholesome. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| MercOut has designed a program for bringing mercury out to measure it, and then employs special compounds with vitamins, minerals, and herbs for effective removal.
ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES TO ENCOURAGE TOXIN ELIMINATION
The following recommendations will enhance your natural detoxification systems—both during your active herbal cleansing program and as a routine habit when you are not on the herbal regimens. I encourage you to incorporate as many of these as possible into your overall program, and, once again, you'll find samples of cleansing schedules that include these ideas in Chapter 8. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| For instance, in the Heart Protection Study, 20,536 patients with heart disease or diabetes were randomized to receive vitamins (a combination of vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C) or a matched placebo for five years. There was no difference in the mortality rates in the vitamin vs. placebo groups (14.1% vs. 13.5%). There were also no differences in rates of heart attacks (10.4% vs. 10.2%), stroke, cancer, or any other health outcome assessed.13 In the Primary Prevention Project Study, 4,495 patients were randomized to vitamin E, aspirin, or no treatment. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Grain, although inexpensive, is a poor source of protein, omega-3 fats, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and vitamins, and it generates an inordinate amount of acid in the American diet. About 1 percent or more of the world's population is allergic to gluten—a protein in wheat, barley, rye, and (sometimes) oats, causing bowel inflammation that leads to faulty absorption and vitamin D deficiency.
We know that you're better off eating more lean protein and three times as much produce as protein. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 While FDA involvement would spuriously skyrocket the cost of many vitamins and supplements and place them outside the affordability range for many people, it is not easy to know which products are worthy of your financial investments at present. This darkens the cloak of suspicion for many physicians. For now, I can only advise you on the products I've tested and found to be of high quality, and hope for some standards to be developed in the future. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Although we have given details above of foods that are rich in particular vitamins and minerals, you may find that an optimum level of these substances can be maintained most effectively through supplementation.Supplements that contain a variety of ingredients are available in liquid, tablet or powder form from health food stores and pharmacies, and the recommended daily dosage is usually supplied with the particular product. If in doubt about what supplements would do you the most good, consult a practitioner. |
| These vitamins are easily absorbed in the form of cod liver oil. Cod liver oil, along with castor oil, was claimed in the past to 'help oil the joints', and will no doubt conjure up some childhood memories for the more mature readers of this book. They were cure-alls used by mothers earlier this century.
Many a child trying to avoid going to school by claiming they 'weren't feeling well' was soon sent scurrying out the door by the threat of a 'dose of oil to fix you up'. Today, cod liver oil is available in convenient and more digestible capsules or tablets. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 One day, while hooked up to an IV that was dripping vitamins into his system, Harry saw Dr. Julian Kenyon, one of the founders of the clinic and a respected researcher of alternative health care. During their conversation, Harry asked Kenyon who he thought were the best researchers into alternative health care in the world. He named Peter Fraser among a few others, and on Harry's request, he provided Peter's contact information. A few months later, Harry actually wrote to Peter, an Australian, telling him of his interest in alternative therapies and asking about his work. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Daily supplement (multiple vitamins and minerals)
?Vitamin D supplements (see recommendations in chapter 5)
?Magnesium supplement
?Concentrated omega-3 fatty acid supplement
Don't forget that while you're popping these pills, you also need to eat good food or the picture will be incomplete.
Dietary changes can be tough to handle, but supplements are inexpensive insurance policies. They buy you some wiggle room with
90 your diet as you tackle dietary challenges. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Max Gerson claimed you have to load your body with vitamins from organic fruits and vegetables and detoxify your body with enemas. Acupuncturists declared that your governor meridian had excess yin. Psychologists thought you are refusing to let go of your past. None of them gives you a clear explanation of what is going on, and, anyway, how could they all be right? But there had to be a system. I was sure that there was some way to know what was really going on in my body and that there was something I could do to help my body fix itself. If such a system existed, I was determined to find it. |
Tom Bohager
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 When treating anemia, it is critical to support the digestive and immune systems and restore energy through improving the absorption of vital minerals and vitamins, particularly iron. Enzyme therapy supports all of these goals and can also be used to help the body maintain a correct pH balance. |
Ray D. Strand
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 These are primarily the B cofactors: folic acid, vitamins Bl, B2, B6, and B12. We need a good store of both the antioxidant minerals and cofactors if we are going to have any hope of winning the war within.
The battleground is actually more complicated than I have just described. You see, the number of free radicals we produce is never constant. The production of free radicals varies in the daily process of normal metabolism and reduction of oxygen, and our defense system never knows exactly how many free radicals it will have to deal with on any given day. |
David De Angelis
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 Yet, any disease is viewed as something that happens beyond your will, despite preventive medicine and simple rules of living (correct diet, physical training, suitable vitamins, stress lessening) that could bring about not only the decrease of psychosomatic disease (like refractive errors) but also increasing the level of personal well-being and living standards. Thus, health does not mean absence of disease, but a state of complete well-being concerning all personal aspects (emotional, mental, bodily). |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| I took all the right vitamins and herbs in megadoses. I tried many different treatments. You do feel better for a little while, but then you relapse. Sometimes the relapses are quite severe. Finally, it got to the point where I had just enough energy to see people, make a pittance of a living, answer the phone, and do what I had to do to survive. I was turning into a vegetable at what should have been the peak of my life."
Like Harry, Peter searched outside of his known world and his comfort zone for help. |
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