Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Include all snacks and condiments (i.e., mayonnaise, ketchup, salad dressing, etc.) indicating the brand names when applicable to make it easy to determine if they are pseudofoods or not. Include at least one weekend day if you eat differently on the weekend. Eat what you normally eat. Be honest and objective, with an emphasis on objective. Don't beat yourself up about where you are. Where you are headed is what's important.
You may also want to indicate any symptoms you experience at the bottom of the food diary page for each day. Write the time that you first became aware of the symptom. |
John Croft
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 They are also rich in minerals and B-group vitamins, providing a nicely balanced mineral supplement to the body in a form that is easily assimilated. However, it is the iodine content that has been the important component for people suffering from goiter, the other valuable components simply being a bonus. Iodine naturally present in kelp tablets is reported to be more slowly assimilated than that in iodine solutions thus reducing the likelihood of allergic reactions. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 Food and Product Summary
Today, many foods are highly processed or refined, which robs them of essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Many contain harmful chemicals. The research findings of top nutritionists, physicians and dentists have led to the discovery that devitalized foods are the major cause of poor health, illness, dental problems, cancer and premature death. The huge increase in the last 70 years of degenerative diseases such as heart disease and arthritis substantiate this. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 This is in large part due to the cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals, as well as the natural fiber that these healthful foods provide. However, few people know that diets high in fresh fruits and vegetables also protect against the cancer-prone condition of estrogen dominance. One of the ways they do this is by providing our bodies with what are called "phytoestrogens."
Phytoestrogens, or plant estrogens, are natural compounds found in plants that have weak estrogen-like activity in humans. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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| Salt has no vitamins, no organic minerals and no nutrients of any kind! Instead, it is harmful and causes trouble in the kidneys, bladder, heart, arteries, veins and blood vessels. Salt is the main cause of waterlogged tissues that cause swelling and edema (dropsy).
• Salt may act as a heart poison. It also can increase the irritability of the nervous system.
• Salt acts to rob calcium from the body and attacks the mucous lining throughout the body.
If salt is so dangerous to health, why is it used so widely? Mainly because it's a habit ingrained over the years. |
| The fast assists the body to assimilate proteins, fats, carbohydrates, starches, sugars, minerals, vitamins and all the other essential nutrients necessary for the body to work efficiently and with more strength.
Good! You have decided to take the Health and Happiness road to Higher Health. There will be a few rough spots as you begin, but soon you will be hiking along the Pathway of Health and Long-Lasting Youthfulness!
Miracles Happen With Fasting!
I started Louise on a 7 day distilled water fast. |
| High homocysteine blood levels (safe - 6-8 mcm/L) and dietary deficiencies of vitamins (B6, B12, folic acid and CoQlQ) are underlying causes of osteoporosis, diabetes, heart andkidneydiseases. - Kilmer S. McCully, M.D. www. homocysteine, com
Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra recommends CoQ 7 0 supplements to combat heart disease, cancer, gum disease and ageing, www.sinatramd.com
Eat Healthy - Live Healthy - Live Long
When we fast for a 24 to 36 hour period, or from 3 to 10 days, all the Vital Force in the body is used for internal purification... which includes purification of the arteries in the body. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Fiber (page 512)
Insoluble fiber from grains delays the onset of mammary (breast) cancer in animals.8 In an analysis of the data from many studies, people who eat relatively high amounts of whole grains were reported to be at low risk for breast cancer.9
In some studies, the protective effect of fiber against the risk of breast cancer has been stronger in young women than in older women.10 This finding might occur because fiber has been reported to lowet estrogen levels in premenopausal women but not in postmenopausal women. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 Dairy Products (O to 2 servings)
Dairy products provide protein, calcium, riboflavin, vitamins A and D, and several other minerals. While dairy products are not essential foods, they are a significant part of the diet for many people. The reason we limit total dairy intake is because we do not want dairy products to displace high-fiber, phy-tochemical-rich plant foods. If you do use dairy products, select those that are fat-free or at least low in fat (preferably one percent or less), as dairy fat is highly saturated. |
| Two major drawbacks of the very low-fat diets are that they may reduce the absorption of protective vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, and they may provide insufficient essential fatty acids. In addition, nutrient-dense, higher-fat plant foods such as nuts, seeds, avocados, and olives are often unnecessarily eliminated. These foods are important sources of trace minerals and the antioxidant vitamin E. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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| If you drink fruit and vegetable juices, you are drinking distilled water plus certain nutrients such as fruit sugars, organic minerals and vitamins. But if you drink lake, river, well or spring water, you are drinking undistilled water, plus the inorganic minerals that the water has picked up. Some of this water is known as hard water, meaning it has high inorganic mineral concentrations that can cause health problems.
Now, let me give you a short lesson in chemistry. There are two kinds of chemicals - inorganic and organic. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Alcohol destroys B vitamins, magnesium, and chromium, and can be a potent depressant for some people.
Limit caffeine, as it intensifies anxiety and contributes to fibrocystic breast disease.
Limit dairy products. They are high in fat, interfere with magnesium absorption, and may cause constipation.
Limit fat intake to 30% of total calories.
Limit the consumption of cold foods.
Limit protein intake to 1 g/kg of body weight.
Avoid licorice. Licorice stimulates the production of aldosterone. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Just as it takes a variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes to process food so that your cells can use it, drugs also go through changes as the body uses them. They are changed as they are made useful, as they are being used, and as they are being excreted from the body. Any interference in this process caused by nutritional deficiencies or interference from other drugs, food, or alcohol can raise or lower drug levels. |
| If you're in pain, you may be in the position of having to pick your poisons, so here's a health-protecting strategy: If you're going to take acetaminophen, take the liver-protective herb milk thistle beforehand (follow directions on the bottle) and add 500 mg of the amino acid cysteine to your daily vitamins. Cysteine is the precursor to glutathione. Also be sure to avoid alcohol when you're taking acetaminophen.
Because drugs have potent and specific actions, they can easily become toxic in excess. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 They're next. First, zinc." I checked Joshua's weight in his record. "Please give him 30 milligrams of zinc (as zinc picolinate) daily. The capsules are small, but you can empty one out into juice if he can't swallow it."
"What does zinc do?"
"Helps improve the function of the immune system in a numbet of different ways—helps increase resistance against infection. Next, vitamin A—at Joshua's weight—20,000 IU daily for the next few months."
"How many months?"
"We'll keep an eye on those little bumps on the skin on the back of his upper arms. Those are usually signs of insufficient vitamin A. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Larger terpenoid molecules are essential components of human metabolism and include the adrenal hormones, the membrane component cholesterol, and the lipid soluble vitamins A, E, and K. An even greater variety of terpenoid molecules exist as secondary metabolites in plants and fungi, as well as some bacteria and insects.
While not essential for viability, terpenes enable plants to prosper in their specific environments. They have a variety of natural functions. They may be flavors or scents or act as growth regulators, defense secretions, or pollinator attractants. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Vegetables are nature's perfect source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Next time you get a snack attack, try some carrot or celery sticks. Also try jicama (hick-ah-ma) sticks, a starchy Mexican vegetable that looks like a big potato and has a mild, sweet taste. When you cook vegetables, lightly steam or stir fry them. If you've been used to boiled vegetables, you'll be amazed at how tasty and flavorful lightly cooked vegetables are.
If you have a sweet tooth, switch to fruit. Grapes are especially sweet. Apples and pears make good afternoon snacks. |
| With chronic use of these medications, digestion is compromised and decreased absorption of some vitamins and minerals can result. Once the food finally makes its way into the intestines, it isn't broken down enough for it to be properly absorbed.
There are other factors that contribute to low secretion of stomach acid. Drinking icy cold liquids with meals can suppress it, and stomach acid levels decline with age. A large percentage of people over 50 make too little stomach acid for thorough digestion of food. |
| Although the sugars in fruit are still sugar, they aren't absorbed as quickly as refined white sugar and unlike white sugar, a piece of fruit has vitamins, minerals, and fiber. (If you have a craving for chocolate, you may be deficient in magnesium-—try munching on some figs or almonds.) Don't overdo it with the dried fruit; when the water is removed, fruit becomes a highly concentrated source of sugar and calories. When you get an afternoon or evening craving for fat, try a handful of unsalted nuts such as almonds or cashews. |
John Croft
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| In particular, the very important B-group vitamins and the minerals calcium, magnesium, and zinc are depleted by heavy alcohol consumption, exacerbating these and other conditions—osteoporosis for instance.
Avoidance of these unpleasant symptoms is, of course, possible by abstinence from alcohol consumption. However, it is possible to consume alcohol in moderation and still avoid or minimize all of the adverse effects described above. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| In 2001 some of the world's biggest drug companies, including Roche, were fined a record £523 million ($871 million) for conspiring to increase the price of vitamins.142
We would urge AARP, especially, to become more involved in prevention of disease and not to rely so heavily on drugs. At present, the AARP recommendations for diet and nutrition assume that seniors are getting all the nutrition they need in an average diet. At most, they suggest extra calcium and a multiple vitamin/mineral supplement. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 Don't take with:
Any other medicines (including over-the-counter drugs such as cough and cold medicines, laxatives, antacids, diet pills, caffeine, nose drops or vitamins) without consulting your doctor.
OVERDOSE
SYMPTOMS:
Confusion, excitement, seizures, coma. WHAT TO DO:
* Dial 911 (emergency) for an ambulance or medical help or poison center 1-800-222-1222. Then give first aid immediately.
* See emergency information on last 3 pages of this book.
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SYMPTOMS
WHAT TO DO
Life-threatening:
In case of overdose, see previous column. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Also be aware that with all recommendations of herbs, vitamins, minerals, and other types of natural supplements, including those mentioned in this book, what works for one person, or even for most people, might not work for you. If you take something and feel worse, or have some type of negative side effect, stop taking it and/or consult a health care professional. Each of us is unique in our biochemistry and your best guide to what works best for you is attention to how your body responds.
THE PRESSURES OF BEING AN M.D.
If you have a typical M.D. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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| Don't take with:
Any other medicines (including over-the-counter drugs such as cough and cold medicines, laxatives, antacids, diet pills, caffeine, nose drops or vitamins) without consulting your doctor.
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SYMPTOMS
WHAT TO DO
Life-threatening:
None expected.
Common:
Skin rash on face and hands.
Continue. Tell doctor at next visit.
Infrequent:
• Dizziness, drowsiness, unexplained fatigue, low back pain, pain on urinating, clumsiness, unusual eye movements, appetite loss.
• Vomiting, skin darkening, depression, headache, muscle pain.
Discontinue. Call doctor right away.
Continue. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
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 Or notice how many breads there are labeled "vitamin-enriched" or "fortified," which means so much of the natural fiber (which contains the vitamins) has been stripped away that some nutrients had to be added back in!
I realize that I'm describing more than any one patient's eating patterns. It's the nutritional state of the union that's to blame for what's happening internally to many millions of us. Usually, the serious damage doesn't show up until you're in your fifties or sixties. But the invisible harm is being done decades earlier, setting the stage for the future catastrophe. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| Cooking destroys important natural enzymes that aid the body in assimilating nutrients, and highly processed foods are practically devoid of much-needed vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochecmials. Fresh fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, provide us with many different nutrients that help our bodies defend against the development of cancer.
When we, in modern industrialized countries, do eat fresh fruits and vegetables, we are often eating produce that was grown in depleted sods. |
Marion Nestle
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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires special labeling when a food is produced under certain conditions: when biotechnology's use introduces an allergen or when it substantially changes the food's nutritional content, like vitamins or fat, or its composition. Otherwise, special labeling is not required. Would you say you support or oppose this policy of FDA?" Only 27% answered oppose?
Regardless of survey results, the makers of transgenic foods are convinced that labeling would have a chilling effect on sales. |
| It is understandable that we might find simple, "reductionist" approaches to such problems—like genetically engineering vitamins into rice—preferable to the messy business of political action to address world poverty.
This part of the book deals with how and why the safety of genetically modified foods became a surrogate for concerns about larger social issues. |
| Most people just eat the endosperm, however, because millers remove the bran layers when they convert brown rice to white rice (which is why rice in the United States is enriched with several vitamins and iron).
Rice bran and highly pigmented fruits and vegetables (such as melons or carrots) make beta-carotene in a series of steps in which precursor molecules are converted to beta-carotene by specific enzymes (which are proteins), one for each step. Rice endosperm lacks three of the required enzymes. |
| Antibiotics act by blocking specific steps in the synthesis of structures or in metabolic processes unique to bacteria: cell walls (penicillin), cell membranes (polymyxin B), proteins (streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline), nucleic acids (rifampin), or folic acid vitamins (sulfonamide, trimethoprim). When animals or humans take antibiotics appropriately—in the right dose for the right length of time—the drugs suppress the growth of all sensitive bacteria. Bacteria, however, are exceedingly small, and the normal digestive tract contains hundreds of billions of them. |
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