| The microflora complete digestion of foods, protect us against pathogens, synthesize vitamins, reduce cholesterol, balance hormones, and stimulate our immune systems.
Breast-feeding encourages the growth of "friendly" bacteria known as Bifidobacterium. ž"Friendly" bacteria prefer dining on plant-food remnants, and pathogens prefer eating meat and other "junk-food."
Dietary fiber and other smaller undigestible sugars, all from plants, provide the bulk of the food for our bowel bacteria. |
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 Aside from the basic vitamins, some other supplements have shown promise for people with diabetes.
Cinnamon. Cinnamon has been shown to cut fasting glucose levels by 18 to 29 percent. As little as V2 teaspoon of ordinary cinnamon added to your morning oatmeal or other foods not only seems to reduce blood sugar, but also appears to reduce blood cholesterol levels.2 Some of cinnamon's helpful effects may be explained by compounds called polyphenol polymers, which are found in the spice and have an insulinlike action.3
Magnesium. |
| In June 2002, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended taking a multivitamin not just once a day but twice, to ensure adequate amounts of vitamins B12 and D.1 For women attempting to conceive, a multivitamin plus a 400-microgram folic acid supplement is recommended.
For adults, it is a good idea to choose a multivitamin without iron because most people already have plenty of stored iron and do not need more (if you have a history of anemia, your doctor should advise you about whether you need iron supplements). |
| Let's look at specific vitamins and other nutritional compounds, starting with the basics.
Multivitamin. Taking a multivitamin is a good idea for a few reasons.
First, it provides vitamin B12, which you need for healthy blood and nerves. Yes, you can find vitamin B12in some fortified products, such as breakfast cereals and soy milk, but most sources are animal derived and supply unwanted cholesterol and fat. Many people, particularly older people, tend to run low on vitamin B12 regardless of their diets, perhaps because their bodies become less efficient at absorbing it. |
| Not only will you skip all the animal fat and cholesterol, you will get much more of the healthy nutrients your body needs: soluble fiber to cut cholesterol, healthy vitamins to reduce cancer risk, potassium to lower blood pressure, and antioxidants to knock out free radicals, to name a few.
Even so, you are making a big change, and you are likely to wonder whether you are missing out on anything. Let me offer a word of reassurance. If you choose your meals from a variety of whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits and add any common daily multivitamin, you will have your bases covered. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 More specifically, the consumption of foods and beverages that actually deplete the body of its essential nutrients, and the lack of foods and beverages that provide good nutrition -- the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, amino acids, fiber and all the other elements that the human body needs in order to be healthy and free of chronic disease.
Today, the conventional medical community is looking at these disease correlations, such as the correlation between diabetes and heart disease, and using that as a justification to more aggressively treat the symptoms of one of those diseases. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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| But avoiding these healthful foods would leave them very low in important vitamins and minerals.
I encourage you to discuss this issue with your doctor and your dietitian, but the answer is not to avoid vegetables. What matters is maintaining a fairly steady amount of them in your diet so your warfarin dosage does not need to be continually adjusted. If you eat lots of healthy vegetables and then suddenly stop, warfarin's actions become stronger, increasing the risk of bleeding. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Earlier generations who did not take Flintstones vitamins (because they did not exist when they were young) have lower divorce rates than more recent generations.
Explanation for Fact 2: One-year-olds have very small feet and very little knowledge. Two-year-olds have larger feet and more knowledge. Ten-year-olds know much more and have much larger feet than babies. Get it? Even if all adults are considered, there are enough babies and children in the world to make the fact true.
Explanation for Fact 3: The number one predictor of cancer is age. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is how doctors have come to believe the incredible: That food has nothing to do with health, that antioxidants will kill you, that herbs interfere with drugs, and that only drugs can treat or cure disease. It's a cult-like belief system handed down by the high priests of conventional medicine, and if this intricate web of false beliefs was actually subjected to genuine scientific scrutiny, it would crumble into a thousand pieces of junk science and marketing propaganda. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 And it tastes great.
The most important reasons why this drink mix provides the perfect way to start the day are that it is extremely filling and it exerts a tremendous blood sugar stabilizing effect. We have done our own intensive research on the SlimStyles Weight Loss Drink with our patients. To verify our results because they were so phenomenal, we had Sydney University's Glycemic Index Research Service (SUGIRS) perform an evaluation. As you can see below, the drink mix produces an incredible effect on stabilizing blood sugar levels for at least two hours. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I spent four years locked up in the psychiatric ward before vitamins enabled me to leave that behind, and I will be damned if I am ever going to go back into that kind of scenario. That was hell on earth, and so I have a lot to motivate me to educate people about what freedom even means in a general sense.
It has been said that once you have lost and then regained your freedom, you are always pressing against unseen bars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you own a vitamin manufacturing company, just keep making your "illegal" vitamins and wait for the inevitable armed raid. As your spy cams record armed law enforcement personnel raiding your vitamin factory, you'll be making history while providing precisely the kind of images that will stir public opinion to the point of overturning this unjust law.
Some laws demand to be broken
Am I advocating breaking the law? Absolutely. When an idea this unjust manages to become law, it is not only our right to break the law, it is our responsibility to do so. There are some rights that are God-given. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That covers a broad spectrum of substances, including foods in common form, vitamins and minerals. We can expect them to expand later to include herbs, but for the time being herbs are not on the table.
Mike: Now from the point of view of many readers, what you have described so far does not sound too bad, having basic standards for food and supplements. Where does Codex go wrong from there?
John: To make it simple for your readers, what Codex does wrong is it only attempts to assess supposed risks of these substances. |
| They are looking to do a witch-hunt against safe vitamins.
Mike: Can you give us an example? Name a vitamin that would be affected by this, then tell us how it would be affected.
John: You can look at a table that is on the Alliance for Natural Health's web site, which shows the German risk assessment paper that was actually generated by the Federal Institute of Risk Assessment. This is an entity run by a man named Dr. (Rolf) Grosklaus. Dr. |
| Mike: That is the whole point of it, of course, is to put all the blame on the vitamins. Look at the way conventional medicine treats herbs today; they always say the herb interferes with the medication.
John: Well, this is Senator Hatch doing a 180, becoming a traitor looking to stab us in the back. Unless consumers raise bloody hell, and unless we can stir up the grass roots in Utah to get him to back off, we are going to have problems here. |
| They would like to regulate vitamins and minerals to non-therapeutic potency levels that could not do any real good. Vitamin C at 200 milligrams, just to give one of many possible examples, or vitamin B6 at something like 1.3 milligrams.
Mike: When I take vitamin C, I take 1,000 milligrams, and that is not even a very large dose. So you are saying that they would reduce it to a maximum of 200 milligrams per dose?
John: Yes. They do not want to make it easy for you to be able to afford to take vitamin C to bowel tolerance. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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| Fruits are loaded with vitamins and of course have no fat or cholesterol. Many people with diabetes imagine that
Grapefruit Interacts with Medications
Surprising as it sounds, if you are on medications, you may need to avoid grapefruit. This citrus fruit inhibits intestinal enzymes that metabolize several medications.18 A glass of grapefruit juice can measurably increase the blood concentrations of cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as atorvastatin (Lipitor), simvastatin (Zocor), and lovastatin (Mevacor), among others. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 An important conclusion from this research is that the more structured water there is in a system, the better the enzyme systems function, the more easily the minerals and vitamins are assimilated into the cells, and the better the enzymes metabolize.
This research is of particular significance because it correlates with the SOEF theory that the more energy in a system, the more structured it is, and the healthier and the better it functions. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies have shown that the intracellular water of cancer cells has significantly less structure than normal cells. |
Jack Challem
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 B-Complex vitamins. Play diverse roles in DNA synthesis, repair, and regulation.
Vitamin C. Enables generic stem cells to become specialized heart cells; it is also needed in energy-generating chemical reactions and the formation of proteins.
Vitamin D. Performs diverse hormonelike functions affecting bone density, immunity, and cancer risk.
Vitamin E. Protects DNA from free-radical damage and also helps regulate some genes.
Vitamin-like Nutrients
Alpha-Lip oic Acid. Plays key roles in the production of energy and, as an antioxidant, in protecting DNA from damage.
Coenzyme Q10. |
KC Craichy
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 Water is the main solvent for foods, vitamins, and minerals; it also energizes food and food substances and increases the body's rate of absorption of the essential substances these foods provide.
¦ Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in collecting oxygen from the lungs, and it normalizes the blood manufacturing systems in the bone marrow, which helps to prevent leukemia and lymphoma.
¦ Water clears toxic waste from the body and transports it to the liver and kidneys for disposal.
¦ Water is the main lubricant in the joint spaces and helps prevent arthritis and back pain. |
| The 250 calories from the Coke are comprised solely of more than 60 grams of sugar—no protein, no vitamins, no helpful minerals, no fats, and no fiber. Oh, but it does deliver an unhealthy dose of caffeine and food coloring. Those refined sugars go right into your bloodstream and cause your insulin levels to spike, and the calories you don't burn find their way to your waistline.
Another factor that calorie counting doesn't account for is the amount of food that remains undigested and is subsequently excreted from the body. |
| Scientists in Europe have discovered that increasing numbers of complex drugs—including heart medication, antidepressants, anti-epileptics, anti-cancer chemicals, cholesterol-lowering medicines, sex hormones, antibiotics, hormone replacement, aspirin, vitamins, and ibuprofen—are surviving the human digestive system, passing through sewage works, and entering rivers and the sea.
Although much of this preliminary research on this topic has been done in the United Kingdom, it is just as relevant a concern for us in the United States. The U.S. |
| Not only were our foods deprived of one of nature's premier antioxidants, Vitamin E, they were also deprived of all the B-complex vitamins that naturally reside within the wheat germ itself. It was at this point in American history that cardiovascular disease became the number-one killer of Americans, seemingly overnight.
As we now know, one of the chief causes of cardiovascular disease is a toxic amino acid called homocysteine, which is produced naturally within the body as the normal product of metabolism. |
Jay Joseph
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 Pellagra was wiped out in the United States by the relief programs of the 1930s, and, more importantly, by a federally-mandated World War II-era program requiring the enrichment of flour and corn meal with the vitamins needed to prevent pellagra. In other words, once the environmental factor was identified and eliminated, any possible genetic predisposition had been rendered unimportant. Perhaps this explains why, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever bothered to perform a pellagra twin or adoption study.
But let us go further. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| Another generally accepted property of structured water is that it has a higher solubility for minerals than unstructured water. Like vitamins, minerals also become surrounded by a structured water cell because of their polarity, and are absorbed more readily for similar reasons. The implication is that people with higher SOEF energy have more structured water in their systems and are therefore better able to absorb needed minerals.
A detailed description of structured water and how to structure water is offered in Chapter 29. |
| Food has additional factors - proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, enzymes, subtle hormone factors, alkaloids, auxones, pacifarins (natural antibiotic substances), thousands of phytonutrients, and whatever new micro factors have been or will be discovered. These new discoveries have only reinforced our materialistic-mechanistic conceptions of food and the human system. Many people are still holding tightly to the caloric approach of Lavoisier. Calorie counting is still in vogue today. |
| They are high in enzymes, predigested complete proteins, chelated minerals, nucleic acids, vitamins, RNA, DNA, and Bu. These foods, he found, regenerate and revitalize the human organism. In this category, we have all sprouts - soaked and germinated nuts and seeds, sprouted grains, and legumes, as well as the sprouted young wheat grass and other grasses eaten whole or juiced. Sprouting is not a new development. Not only did the Essenes use this technique, but the history of sprouting goes as far back as 3000 B.C. in China with the recorded use of bean sprouts. |
KC Craichy
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| The tragic result of this massive deficiency of B vitamins within the body is that the body has now become prone to the many potentially lethal symptoms of B-vitamin deficiency, including insanity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, chronic fatigue, cerebral dysfunction, and even outright death. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| Trace minerals, iron, manganese, zinc, and other electron carriers are essential for the conduction of this bioelectricity through the cytochrome oxidase system and through our antioxidant system. vitamins A, C, and E, selenium, and various antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase serve to protect this electron energy flow from being disrupted by free radicals, which steal electrons from the system. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 B12. It's also an excellent source of heme iron and zinc.
6. Olive oil: Olive oil contains primarily monounsaturated fat and is a staple in the diet of individuals living in the Mediterranean region who demonstrate very low rates of chronic disease. When olive oil is the predominant source of lipids, fat intakes greater than 40 percent of total energy are compatible with good health and are associated with no adverse effects.
7. Water: Water is second to oxygen in maintaining life. Even minimal changes in body water can impair performance.
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