| From the nutritional perspective, exposing foods to what is equivalent to over a billion chest x-rays depletes them of vitamins, especially A, B complex, C, E, K and beta carotene. Radiation can cause a 20% to 80% loss of any of these nutrients, amino acids and the essential fatty acids.27b-55 Milk loses 70% of it's A, Bj and B2when it is irradiated.
Irradiation can increase or double the price of altered food produce. Irradiated meat can cost 20 to 75 cents more per pound. |
| Leone, "Influences of Age, Sex Strain of Rat and Fat Soluble vitamins on Hemorrhagic Syndromes in Rats Fed Irradiated Beef," Federation Proceedings, 1960: 19, 1045-1054.
58 "Ralston Purina Company: Final Report: A Chronic Toxicity, Oncogenieity and Multigeneration Reproduction Study Using CA-I Mice to Evaluate Frozen Thermally Sterilized, Cobalt-60 Irradiated and I -MeV Electron Irradiated Chicken Meat," The Ralston Purina Company, June 1983.
59 Lusskin, R. M., "Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of Irradiated Chicken by the Sex-linked Recessive Lethal Test in Drosophilia melanogaster. |
| In particular, most need antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, E, the B's, glutathione, taurine and CoQIO, as well as the omega 3, 6, and 9 essential fatty acids. When indicated the present levels of nutrients in your body should be examined prior to the creation of your individualized nutrient program, but this can be expensive.4 Check with an environmental medical specialist. |
| In 1950, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved cyclamates as a sweetener in everything from children's vitamins to canned ham. In 1939 The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare announced a ban on cyclamates because of complaints about birth defects, tumors and other serious health effects. It took 20 more years before the FDA reviewed the ignored evidence of its own original research.79'80,81
• For nearly 20 years before the FDA declared a moratorium on silicone breast implants, the manufacturer knew the risks. |
| Antioxidants, including vitamins B2, C and E, essential fatty acids, superoxide dismutase, N acetyl cysteine, L cysteine, folic acid, selenium and garlic would help to strengthen the immune system. L glutathione is needed and helpful because this is a major component in the human body's antioxidant defense system. (Ask your doctor about the new under the tongue form available from College Pharmacy: 800.888.9358. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 It is extremely high in B vitamins and can be added to cereals and other foods. The most popular way to take it is in drinks, juices, and shakes. Many people like the powdered form on popcorn.
Brewer's yeast consists of 50 percent protein, is very high in vitamin B12, and contains the vital trace minerals selenium and chromium, which are lacking in highly processed foods. It is also rich in nucleic acids, including RNA, which is a necessary building block for the body. Brewer's yeast comes in several forms: powder, flake, and tablet. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 There isn't any way around it: As a woman gets older, her body needs ample doses of rest, nutritional supplements (including vitamins and antioxidants), and physical activity in order to stay healthy.
Though we may not think twice about it when we're young, maintaining our cellular energy reserves becomes a major challenge as we get older. Our cellular repair mechanisms simply can't protect us from oxidative damage as well as they once did. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 The Flintstones, for example, are TV and movie characters, but are also toys, vitamins, and cereals. Children find advertisements fantastically engaging because of fast-paced animation, clever story lines, and the use of captivating characters.
Groups with a strong interest in protecting children call for a ban on children's advertising. The food industry opposes any change. For the sake of public health, for the common good, and for the welfare of our children, which side deserves your support? |
Jack Challem
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 For more than twenty-five years, I have been reading scientific and medical journals; talking with nutritionally oriented biologists, biochemists, and physicians; and writing about how vitamins, minerals, and other aspects of nutrition can greatly improve health. I have also published original research articles in medical journals, something rare for nutrition writers. Though I am not a medical scientist, I have a solid understanding of the science behind the health benefits of nutrition and supplements. |
Patrick Holford
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 Ninety-six percent of the body is made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which form carbohydrate, protein, and fat, as well as vitamins. The remaining 4 percent is made from minerals.
These minerals are mainly used to regulate and balance our body chemistry; the exceptions are calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, which are the major constituents of bone. These three, plus sodium and potassium, which control the water balance in the body, are called macrominerals because we need relatively large amounts each day (300 to 3,000 mg). |
| Yet people were still sick and, one by one, the classic vitamin-deficiency diseases such as scurvy and rickets were solved as new vitamins were discovered. The importance of minerals was also established, but all these vital nutrients were still dealt with in a very mechanical way. All each person needed was the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of each nutrient, a level considered to be sufficient to protect the body against deficiency diseases. Yet, according to Dr. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 A well-hydrated person produces colorless urine—not counting the color of vitamins or color additives in food. A comparatively dehydrated person produces yellow urine. A truly dehydrated person produces urine that is orange in color. An exception is those who are on diuretics and flush water out of their already dehydrated bodies and yet produce colorless urine.
The body needs no less than two quarts of water and a half teaspoon of salt every day to compensate for its natural losses in urine, respiration, and perspiration. Less than this amount will place a burden on the kidneys. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Bean sprouts are low in calories (only 26 calories per cup) but high in protein, vitamins A and C, and folic acid—a dieter's dream food.
How to use it. Sprouts are terrific in salads, stir-fries, and almost any mixed vegetable dish. To maintain their crisp texture, they should be stir-fried no longer than about 30 seconds—add just before you're finished cooking. They're best when bought fresh (avoid any that look limp or are brownish in color), but they can be stored in the fridge in a sealed plastic bag with a bit of water for a day or two. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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| Water is the main solvent for all foods, vitamins, and minerals. It is used in the breakdown of food into smaller particles and their eventual metabolism and assimilation.
9. Water energizes food, and food particles are then able to supply the body with this energy during digestion. This is why food without water has absolutely no energy value for the body.
10. Water increases the body's rate of absorption of essential substances in food.
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Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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| It still has about 5 grams of fiber and lots of vitamins and minerals, so as far as breakfast cereals go it's rather healthy But eating this stuff by the handful—and especially the bowlful—will give you a big wallop of unwanted calories.
There is a way you can have your cake (or cereal) and eat it too. Here's how: Have a smaller serving than that recommended on the box—say, xfi cup instead of the recommended 3/4 cup. Then fill your cereal bowl with low-CD fruit—say, xfi cup strawberries (CD 0.3) and add x/i cup low-fat soymilk (CD 0.3) or skim or 1% milk (both CD 0.4 |
| Unlike our typical Western diet, with its overemphasis on animal proteins, fats, and processed and refined foods, the Okinawan diet was filled with unprocessed plant foods that are high in fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals and are naturally low in fat. This diet provides more than adequate protein, has little cholesterol, and has been shown to dramatically improve health.
The Caloric Density Pyramid
A quick look at the Caloric Density Pyramid in figure 3.2 will help you visualize just where various kinds of foods stand in terms of caloric density. |
| While it's true that egg yolks have a lot of cholesterol and may slightly affect blood cholesterol levels, eggs also contain nutrients that may help lower the risk for heart disease, including protein, vitamins B12 and D, riboflavin, and folate. So it's a pretty even trade-off. Bottom line: When eaten in moderation, eggs can be part of a healthy diet. Individuals with diabetes should limit themselves to no more than two or three eggs a week, though, as the Nurses' Health Study found an egg a day might increase the risk for heart disease in diabetics. |
| It's low in sodium and a good source of fiber, calcium, potassium, iron, vitamins E and Bg, riboflavin, thiamin, pantothenic acid, and folic acid. The question isn't what the sweet potato has; it's what doesn't it have! A complex carbohydrate food source lower in Gl than regular white potatoes, sweet potatoes also provide carotenoids (e.g., beta-carotene, lycopene), which may be a factor in reducing the risk of certain cancers and are good sources of saponins and flavonoids, healthy compounds also found in tea.3
How to use it. |
Walter Last
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 However, as mentioned, this killing effect may be inhibited by high levels of antioxidants, especially vitamins E and A, which, paradoxically, accumulate in tumors and protect them. Therefore, avoid vitamin E and high doses of vitamin A for one or two weeks before your oxygen therapy and minimize your intake of all antioxidants during the several weeks of intensive oxygen therapy. Afterwards, return to a long-term intake of high amounts of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory remedies (see step 46). |
| The major antioxidants include the vitamins A, C, and E, the minerals selenium and zinc as components of antioxidant enzyme systems, the plant pigments beta-carotene, bioflavonoids, and anthocyanins, as well as phenols and catechols in grape seed extract, green tea, and generally in colored fruit and vegetables. Other powerful antioxidants are alpha-lipoic acid and negative hydrogen as in Microhydrin or electrolytic reduced water (ERW) produced with water ionizers. Whether you take antioxidants as supplements or as part of a high-quality diet, make sure you get plenty. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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| The items you need, like pain relievers, bandages, cough remedies, and vitamins, not to mention the pharmacy, are in the rear of the store, requiring you to pass through aisles of items you did not intend to buy Many people gravitate naturally to the center aisles, home to a large collection of candies and foods. When you leave the pharmacy and walk back along the far aisle, notice what you encounter.
Children are valuable consumers, affecting billions of dollars in sales each year. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 It contains a perfect blend of vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats for
Breast milk is nature's perfect food. optimal growth and development. Without question breast milk is one of the wonders of nature.
Children who are breastfed not only take in important nutrients from the milk, but they also receive antibodies and other substances necessary to protect them against childhood illnesses such as ear infections, later in life.
Breastfed chddren are healthier than those who are not. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Undernutrition
A lack of vitamins and minerals may deplete levels of nutrients essential for optimal mitochondrial function.
Stress
Practicing stress reduction techniques on a regular basis can help your mitochondria stay healthy.
Lack of exercise
Probably the best way to keep your mitochondria healthy is to engage in regular aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise prompts our bodies to manufacture new, young, and healthy mitochondria. We recommend thirty minutes of aerobic exercise four days per week. |
Patrick Holford
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| Supplement your diet to ensure optimum levels of vitamins.
Elemental Health from Calcium to Zinc
More than a hundred years ago, the Russian chemist Mendeleyev noticed that all the basic constituents of matter, the elements, could be arranged in a pattern according to their chemical properties. From this he produced what is known as the periodic table. There were many gaps where elements should be, and sure enough, over the years these missing elements have been discovered. All matter, including your body, is made out of these elements. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| They would then tell me they had read articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about the work of Dr Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond who were reporting good results when they used massive dosages of certain vitamins on adult schizophrenics. At first I was quite skeptical about the reports that some of the parents sent me about the improvement they saw in their sick children.... As the number of parent experimenters grew it began to include more parents whom I knew personally to be intelligent and reliable people. |
| The number of side effects, as it is for all the vitamins, is remarkably low and vitamin B-3 is considered safe by the American Medical Association and approved by the FDA in the United States.
Vitamin C or Ascorbic Acid
Very few people knew about vitamin C until Professor Linus Pauling issued his first book on Vitamin C and the Common Cold in 1970. There was a marked increase in sales of vitamin C following that report. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| Another problem that arises from relying on food alone for vitamins and minerals is that sometimes the foods rich in a specific nutrient are not necessarily the best conveyors of these nutrients.
Strangely enough, calcium-rich foods can actually impair your absorption of calcium. Dairy products, certainly high in calcium, are also high in protein, which has a calcium-depleting effect by increasing calcium loss in the urine. The largest distinctive component of protein is nitrogen, and when our bodies process nitrogen, it gets excreted in the urine, pulling calcium with it. |
| The more you eat, the less vitamins you need.
• Your sex life worsens as you age.
• When you have a sour stomach, you should take antacids.
• Eggs cause heart disease.
• Heart disease is a disease of the heart.
• There's no need to worry about dental fillings.
• Antibiotics are a practical way to deal with infections.
• Vitamin RDAs meet your nutritional needs.
• Chocolate is always bad for you.
• You can't reverse biological aging.
• Disease is genetic.
• A calorie is a calorie.
• Water is a healthful drink.
• Milk is the best source of calcium. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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| From the ADA's Nutrition Fact Sheet called "Straight Facts on Beverage Choices":
Regular carbonated soft drinks contain calories; milk and juice contain calories, vitamins, and minerals—all beverages can have a place in a well-balanced eating pattern.11
The fact sheet was paid for by a grant from the National Soft Drink Association. The soft drink association in turn uses statements from the American Dietetic Association as proof that soft drinks can be a part of a well-balanced diet. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| The more people eat, the more vitamins they require. Excessive food intake (calories) is the main cause of oxidative stress and increases the body's antioxidant requirement significantly. (In brief, oxidative stress, which you will read about on pages 145—46, means that you are suffering from free radical damage, which can be compared to our bodies developing too much oxidation, or "rust.")
This means that (e) is correct. Eating less means a lower antioxidant and vitamin requirement. |
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