G. Edward Griffin
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 Instead of rushing into battle to "protect the people," as it has done in the case of those "dangerous" health foods and vitamins, it warmly embraces and defends the cartel food processors and chemical firms that otherwise might be damaged by loss of markets.
The following statements, taken from official FDA "Fact Sheets," tell the story with no need for further comment:
In general, there is little difference between fresh and processed foods. Modern processing methods retain most vitamin and mineral values.... |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| The intake of vitamins E and B6 and lecithin may also be crucial to preventing arteriosclerosis, though research is still in progress.
Cancer of the Large Bowel and Rectum
A relationship between the amount of fiber in the diet and the incidence of bowel cancer (the more food, the less cancer) is increasingly apparent. The time required for food residues to travel from stomach to rectum is the crucial factor. Fiber provides bulk, and speeds this process. Because of refined foods and high-fat, high refined sugar intake, the fiber content of the average American diet is very low. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 Today, 50 percent of Americans take vitamins and mineral supplements, but only 35 percent remember to take them regularly.
Weight loss continues to be an obsession, leading to an endless run of diet books that attempt to explain some secret about carbohydrates or protein as the single key to weight loss. Eating plans like the Atkins diet tell people what they want to hear. They can eat the foods they love and still lose weight. This is true, but the wide variety of phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables is missing from the high-protein/high-fat, meat- and cheese-rich Atkins diet. |
William Duffy
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 To absorb this "predigested carbohydrate," the body has to deplete its store of vitamins and minerals; imbalance is created. Since the stress is continual if the diet is sugar-heavy, the eventual results are chronic ill health.]
Senator Schweiker. Now, the FTC made the sugar associates quit advertising that sugar was an energy builder and nutrient. Now, say carbohydrate is an energy builder but to say sugar is an energy builder nutrient, the FTC made them cease and desist, so we are getting in a very close area here of what impression the public has.
Dr. Adamson. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| This is the basic vitamin pill that has the
RDA levels of all vitamins and minerals. If you take this and eat an equal amount in your diet, there will be no problem. Vitamin E, 400 IUs. The multimineral/multivitamin pill contains only about 15 to 30 IUs of the RDA recommendation for this vitamin. This is supposed to avoid vitamin E deficiency, but it is not enough for you to gain the antioxidant benefits vitamin E can provide. Between 200 and 800 IUs have been shown to have the greatest benefit on immune function for the elderly and to have antioxidant activity for heart disease prevention. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 Although healing is truly a multifaceted process, this book offers clear and concise information about vitamins, minerals, fat, fiber, and cholesterol. It includes valuable facts about exercise and healing foods as well as the latest information about antiaging strategies. It also explains how nutritional supplements can make a difference in your life.
One more thing. I realize that I provide a lot of information—maybe more information than you want. |
William Duffy
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| In French, for instance, Riz complet is rice with all the natural minerals and vitamins intact, unpolished, and unprocessed. In English, one has to make do with the appelation brown rice—an inexact description of its color. This makes all sorts of hanky panky possible. A little coloring is added to polished rice, and it's sold in the supermarket as brown rice. It's brown, all right, but nowhere near being complete.
In French, the word for grape is raisin. What we call the raisin in English, the French call raisin sec. Dried grape. We need to be reminded that the raisin is a dried grape. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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| Some people question why they need to take vitamins and minerals in a supplemental form when they can get them in the foods they eat. Unfortunately, the "apple a day" principle does not hold as true today as it did a century ago. In this day and age, the need for vitamin and mineral supplementation is critical. Few adults (perhaps 9 percent) eat a balanced diet containing at least five to nine servings of fruits or vegetables per day. |
| We need a wide assortment of vitamins, minerals, and accessory nutrients to stay healthy and to help prevent disease. We also need to eat in a way that satisfies our hunger but will not make us fat. You may not be getting everything you need from the food you eat, even with my recommended menu. Why not?
Most food doesn't come with a label that specifies how much of each nutrient is in the portion you eat. Your brain tells you when you're hungry, but your brain can't tell you if it needs a particular vitamin or mineral. It can't say, "I need a magnesium fix today, and I'm running short on iron. |
| Minerals, like vitamins, perform many functions in the body, particularly at the cellular level. Herbs have been used medicinally for centuries, though they are little appreciated by Western medicine today. And enzymes and friendly bacteria help nutrients do their work by enhancing their absorption by the body. While a full discussion of all the different varieties of minerals, botanicals, enzymes, and friendly bacteria is beyond the scope of this book, I will describe some of the most useful ones in this chapter. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 Lastly, when using vitamins, minerals, or other natural substances, ask a health-care professional what dosage is appropriate for the child being treated.
Colic
Colic refers to spasmodic pains in the abdomen seen in young infants or children and is accompanied by irritability or crying. Colic also refers to conditions of gas or other digestive irritability in infants up to three months old. According to Dr. Smith, colic is often due to an alkaline, high-sodium internal condition, but it can also be caused by overfeeding, swallowing air, or emotional upset. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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| A good prescription for disease prevention and antiaging tactics includes a healthy diet: targeted nutritional supplementation with vitamins, minerals, and herbs; chlorophyll-containing foods; and mild to moderate exercise regimens. Those seeking a more aggressive approach may consider the leading hormonal and protein therapies.
When fighting age and disease, we must not forget the environment. I am genuinely concerned about the deterioration of the water supply in this country. |
Patrick Holford
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 If a quarter of your diet by weight, and two-thirds by calories, consists of such dismembered foods, there is little room left to accommodate the necessary levels of the essential nutrients. Wheat, for example, has twenty-five nutrients removed in the refining process that turns it into white flour, yet only four (iron, B1; B2, and B3) are replaced. On average, 87 percent of the essential minerals zinc, chromium, and manganese are lost. Have we been shortchanged?
This raises three questions. What is "need"? Are the RDA levels enough? How can we achieve the necessary intake? |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| We scorned vitamins as placebos. Interns and residents boasted of their ability to make a diagnosis from test results without ever seeing the patient. When patients died, it was a point of pride if they died with all their lab values "within normal limits." During the 1960s, in the midst of my medical training, my orthodox values were confronted by the blatant discrepancies of our society and by the Vietnam war. I temporarily left school to come to terms with these social upheavals, and later further questioned the validity of orthodox assumptions about other areas of life, as well. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| Aside from the more unusual supplements, there are familiar vitamins and minerals that have helped relieve the symptoms of arthritis, and I use them routinely with my patients.
Pantothenic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, has been shown to help prevent and alleviate arthritis. The connection between this nutrient and arthritis was made nearly forty years ago, and researchers are still struggling to come up with a definitive study that shows precisely how it works. But we do know that many people find relief from their symptoms with pantothenic acid. I suggest a supplement of 3 g. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 Pollen is costly to produce, packed as it is with nitrogen-rich proteins, fats, nucleic acids, and vitamins. Some evidence suggests that a higher proportion of Neotropical rain forest plants are dioecious—that is, have separate male and female plants—than in temperate habitats. Mating is more difficult for dioecious plants because they cannot pollinate themselves or another individual of the same sex. Although this problem is shared with dioecious temperate zone plants, the rarefied plant communities of the tropical rain forest render it a particularly tricky one. |
Leo Galland
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 It consisted of white rice, bananas, and a powdered drink made from rice protein supplemented with individual amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and fruc-tooligosaccharides, a vegetable extract that supports healing in the large intestine. The nutritional therapy decreased his symptoms by about two-thirds, as we awaited the results of the stool tests. Many samples had to be examined before the parasite was found, an amoeba called Entamoeba histolytica, exactly the organism that Edith had predicted. Treatment with two antibiotics, metronidazole and di-iodoquinol, completely halted John's symptoms. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 A balanced diet must include some fats because, in addition to providing energy for the body, they are necessary for the absorption of certain vitamins. fa Many people consume too much fat in their diet; this imbalance can contribute to various diseases (such as disorders of the heart). Some fats, called saturated fats, have been found to raise the level of cholesterol in the blood, while other fats, called unsaturated fats, may help reduce blood cholesterol levels.
FDA See Food and Drug Administration. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| You should continue to take any regular prescribed medications while on the diet, but it's best to eliminate vitamins, minerals, and OTC medications like laxatives. The basic elimination diet for adults and children allows all vegetables save corn and all fruits but citrus fruits, fresh meats (free of preservatives), drinks such as water and juices of the fruits allowed, all nuts but peanuts, honey, pure maple syrup, safflower and sunflower oils, noniodized salt, rice, and oats.
See the tables listing all foods allowed on an elimination diet as well as foods to be avoided. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 They come packaged with beneficial vitamins and minerals, which you don't get much of in most very sweet foods.
Training for Short Duration Events
Training for shorter events isn't much different from what we described above for longer races. i t->--1-1-1-1-1-¦-r-
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Time (in minutes) Figure 9-3 AVOID SUGAR TWO HOURS BEFORE INTENSE EXERTION
Don't make the mistake of loading up on sugar just before exercise and then wondering why your performance suffers. Your performance is substandard because you've caused your body to go into hypoglycemic shock. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| Pantethine is the active form of pantothenic acid, one of the vitamins in the B complex.
Another factor in cataract development that we can control is exposure to ultraviolet light. Long-term exposure to ultraviolet light ultimately damages the lens of the eye by causing the release of free radicals. You can avoid the problem by wearing dark sunglasses and/or a brimmed hat whenever you're in the sun.
Recent research has also shown that cigarette smoke can lead to the development of cataracts and plays a significant role in worsening cataracts that have already developed. |
| Indeed, quite recently a cover story in The New York Times was titled "Support Grows for vitamins as Roadblocks to Heart
Disease." It seems that every day there's new evidence supporting the protective ability of certain nutrients against the development of atherosclerosis, among other diseases.
One nutrient that has received a great deal of attention in this regard is vitamin B6, or pyridoxine. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for vitamins are felt by many experts to be too low. Dr. Pauling (a Nobel Prize winner in biochemisty, and more recently the most influential and persistent advocate of the use of
Vitamin C to prevent and minimize colds) believes we should call the RDA values the Minimum Daily Allowance (MDA) and then propose a Recommended Daily Intake for each vitamin presented as a range instead of just one figure (see Table 3).
2. The requirements for a given vitamin vary from individual to individual. This is true in the "normal" state of health. |
Leo Galland
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| The important vitamins for EFA metabolism are E, C, A, and B5 (niacin), and the important minerals are selenium, zinc, and manganese.
Nutritional Therapy: The First Three Levels
Understanding the effects of nutrients on cellular communication has allowed me to shape nutritional therapies tailored to the needs of individuals, using data from scientific studies. These therapies are built around three broad strategies, one level at a time. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Elderly or very inactive people usually eat less, and should particularly avoid foods high in calories and low in vitamins and minerals. Persons under inordinant stress or with physical or mental ailments need more protein and calories.
The Alternative Food Pattern
The food pattern of health competence is much more compatible with health and well-being than the typical contemporary American diet. It depends heavily on the first three principles of good nutrition just outlined, and will help people avoid the disorders that are significantly related to our prevalent diet. |
Leo Galland
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| I supplemented the diet with magnesium and with extra doses of vitamins C and E. I advised Mike to keep his exposure to lawn maintenance chemicals to the minimum level permitted by his present job and to stop taking Indocin because of the damage it was doing to his intestine. Finally, I prescribed a strong antibiotic called floxacin to kill bacteria infecting his prostate.
A remarkable thing happened. Within a few days of starting the antibiotic, his joint pain and fatigue improved dramatically. When he stopped floxacin, the pain and fatigue returned. |
| The hospital's dietitian noticed that Stephan had received little more than intravenous sugar, water, and vitamins since his admission. She asked Stephan's doctors to request nutritional consultation, which allowed me to examine his record and make recommendations. The poor man's nutritional problems were glaring. He had been fed so little protein that the protein level in his blood had dropped by 50 percent and he could not mount an effective immune response, When I presented this fact, as tactfully as I could, to Stephan's doctors, they looked at me as if to say, "Come on, Galland. |
| They manufacture half a dozen vitamins, nourish the cells of the small and large intestine, help the immune system to develop normally, and inhibit the growth of disease-producing yeasts and bacteria. I'll discuss these friendly flora in Chapter Eight.
Toxins that enter the body from the intestinal tract are directly transported to the liver, which is the chief site for detoxifying enzymes in the body. The chemical processes of liver detoxification proceed continuously and spontaneously, supported by a nutritious diet. They are extremely complex and barely comprehended by most physicians. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| The supplements are important in improving heart function if you have angina, but you can no more rely on vitamins and minerals alone to help you than you can rely on nitroglycerin. You have to make changes in the way you live.
If you have angina, exercise is very important, but it should be done in a supervised situation. Make sure you discuss this with your cardiologist and ask for concrete recommendations.
Caffeine is a problem for people with heart disease, as it heightens the blood pressure and puts stress on the circulatory system. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| My dreams have suggested specific vitamins and herbs to take during stressful periods. Once when I was contemplating a long trip, my dreams specifically told me that it would be too exhausting, and that instead I should practice relaxation exercises and spend time in nature. Dreams have also encouraged me to take up jogging by showing me graceful gazelle-like movements. In dreams I find I can jog away from tense situations.
Dreams offer models to reach a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. To integrate the wisdom of your inner dreamer, you must test these models in everyday life. |
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