Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 It's loaded with vitamins and minerals, packed with fiber, and naturally sweet and delicious. For baked goods or to sweeten your tea, use whole food sweetners such as those listed earlier including honey, maple syrup, and agave. If you are looking for a natural noncaloric sweetener that has little to no effect on blood sugar, go with Stevia or xylitol (birch sugar). artificial colorings, flavorings & preservatives
Food additives of all kinds have long been suspected, and frequently proven to cause adverse health conditions including cancer, hyperactivity, ADHD, and allergic reactions. |
Jacky Law
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 Let's clamp down on vitamins and minerals.' It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. While the EU has been busy drafting legislation, we seem to have been sleepwalking into a situation where chemists and health stores will be purged of hundreds of nutritional supplements.26
Protection or control?
Nutrition is an interesting area of medicine because it has seemingly bounded its way into the surgery via the back door. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And knowing that you obviously have to get the vitamins and minerals and nutrition that you get in vegetables, I got turned onto this product and haven't stopped drinking it since.
Mike: So what are the top four or five ingredients in this product?
Wright: The most prominent would be, let's see, let's run down the actual list. There's the barley, first and foremost, then the spirulina, the chlorella cracked cell and the spinach powder.
Mike: Excellent.
Wright: We've also got a page on the website where you can see how we're compared against other green products. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Getting the Most from Your Multivitamin
The levels of various vitamins and minerals needed can vary dramatically among individuals according to need, whether or not they are taking medication, their exposure to chemicals, and the presence of disease. In addition, many people use nutrients over a short term for therapeutic purposes and take higher levels than they might take over the long term. Because of this, nutrient levels can only ever be approximate. |
| For example, most children's diets are low in nutrients, so giving them vitamins and minerals could improve their schoolwork. Other studies show that young people in prison commit 35 percent fewer violent offenses after just two weeks of getting a good level of vitamins, minerals, and essential fats. The bottom line is that you have to give the brain what it needs if you want it to work properly, and if you don't, you can't be too surprised if things go wrong.
Diet
To cleanse your body of unwanted toxins and encourage optimum brain function, follow the diet suggested in chapter 3. |
David Wolfe
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 Melons contain most of their vitamins and minerals near the edge of the rind.
Boost The Immune System
Juice:
2 cloves of garlic 1 slice of ginger
1 handful of parsley 4 pears
1 ounce (30 ml) of organic stone-crushed, cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil
Process all ingredients through a juicer, except for olive oil, which can be stirred in with a spoon, or blended into the juice. Garlic and ginger are natural antibiotics that assist the immune system. Parsley is rich in iron to build strong red-blood corpuscles. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Elderly women are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of weight loss impacting their bone health. Weight loss in this group may lead to accelerated bone loss and a higher risk of fractures, particularly of the hip.34
Studies have shown that excessive animal protein in the diet may promote bone loss. It particularly causes an increase in urinary excretion of calcium. Raising daily animal protein intake from 47 to 142 grams doubles the excretion of calcium in the urine.35 Calcium is mobilized from the bone to buffer the acidic breakdown products of protein. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's got tons of vitamins and minerals; it's an especially excellent source of potassium, fiber, calcium and iron. It's got protein in it as well.
Mike: Does this fall under the category of raw foods?
Levine: Yes, definitely, a raw food. We have a website, www.lotusfoods.com, which shares wonderful recipes on how to use and prepare the kaipen, as well as the cassava sesame crisp. All of these products can be bought on the website as well.
Mike: Are there other places where customers can buy them?
Levine: Not really. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People think, "OK, I've covered all my vitamins and minerals for the day because I took this one pill, and that's it." I have to laugh at that, because even though multivitamin pills may be helping them in some way, they don't provide sufficient nutrition for peak health or disease prevention.
In fact, if you ever find a study or a headline in the newspaper that says something like "Vitamin E is shown to have no benefits," that's because they were using an isolated, synthetic source of vitamin E. And, as is typical, they no doubt used very low dosage amounts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On top of that, chicken soup often has noodles in it, and those noodles are made with refined white flour, which also depletes vitamins and minerals from your body. So, chicken soup really offers nothing of value except, perhaps, the onions and garlic (the medicinal plants in the broth).
In contrast to processed salt, sea salt or Himalayan salt is very good for you. Mined from natural salt deposits, these salts contain an array of health-promoting minerals (including trace minerals), far beyond the sodium and chloride found in typical processed salt. |
Jack Challem
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 Inadequate levels of vitamins and minerals become "rate-limiting" factors—that is, they slow or inhibit the rate of necessary chemical reactions.
If this idea seems a bit arcane, consider that the rates of these chemical reactions affect your heart function, your healing time, your energy levels, your thinking and memory, your resistance to infection and cancer, your body's ability to detoxify noxious chemicals, and every other physical function. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Levels of vitamins and minerals Desired in a Multivitamin
Essential Supplements
Total Daily Amount
Vitamin A* (retinol or beta-carotene)
5,000-10,000 IU
Vitamin C
60 mg
Vitamin D
400-800 IU
Vitamin E**
40-400 IU
Thiamin
3-25 mg
Riboflavin
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Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Nutritional value a rich source of vitamins and minerals, especially calcium and vitamins A and C. It helps with the digestion of proteins and stimulates the appetite. notes Scarified unripe fruit of papaya is a source of papain, an antibacterial protease enzyme used as meat tenderiser and to clarify beer.
Carpobrotus edulis sour fig
Sour fig leaves and flower
Sour figs
Description The sour fig or pigface is a succulent creeper with thick trailing stems and erect, angular, fleshy leaves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'd be chewing food constantly just to get the essential vitamins and minerals into your diet that you're supposed to get to avoid chronic disease.
And yet, at the same time, you'd be getting 10,000 calories, which is five times the calories you need, meaning that you'd be packing on pounds at the rate of around two pounds of body fat per day.
So, obviously this is not a strategy for being healthy. |
| It means you have to supplement if you're going to be healthy, and meet the minimum requirements for vitamins and minerals. So, what I'm saying is that the average American must take nutritional supplements if they want to prevent chronic disease, or even meet the basic minimum requirements for nutrient intake.
If you want to exceed those requirements and actually have superior health (that is health that goes beyond just preventing disease and actually taps into the mental and physical performance potential of the human being), then you will need to supplement at very high levels. |
| The point I'm trying to make here is that based on my own calculations of the nutritional makeup of typical American food, the average person would have to consume 10,000 calories a day just to meet the minimum USRDA requirements for all the vitamins and minerals that are tracked by the USRDA chart.
10,000 calories a day is five times the food intake that an average adult human being should be consuming. In other words, you would have to eat ravenously -- you would have to engage in non-stop, belly-splitting consumption. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 The tomato as dietary staple did not enter into common use until the mid-nineteenth century; today, it is one of the primary sources of vitamins and minerals in the Western diet.
THE TOMATO: FRUIT, VEGETABLE ... OR POISON?
Ancient beliefs held that the tomato was a dangerous thing. Although this may amuse us, we have to credit our ancestors for their sense of observation: the tomato does in fact belong to the Solanaceae, or nightshade family, some of whose members, such as tobacco, belladonna, mandrake root, and datura, or angel's trumpet, contain very powerful, harmful, or fatal alkaloids. |
| These books contain all the relevant information on the ways of obtaining a balanced intake of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates as well as vitamins and minerals. We wish to bring something else to the table, as it were: the perspective of scientists interested in the role played by diet in the development of cancer and in making better known certain foods that may indeed help reduce the risk of developing this disease. |
| In nutritional terms, the foods we eat are generally divided into two categories: macronutrients, which include carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids
(fats); and micronutrients, generally defined as vitamins and minerals. This picture, however, is incomplete. Fruits and vegetables contain appreciable quantities of compounds that do not fit into this description. These compounds belong to another class of molecules: phytochemicals, from the Greek phyto, or plant. |
| In summary
• Edible plants (fruits and vegetables) are not mere sources of vitamins and minerals. They also contain many thousands of phytochemical compounds that play key roles in maintaining the health of these plants.
• Phytochemicals have very powerful anti-cancer activity that targets the processes involved in the development of a tumour.
• A diet based on a regular intake of foods containing exceptional levels of phytochemical compounds represents the strongest weapon currently at our disposal in the prevention of cancer.
NUTRACEUTICALS: Foods That Fight Cancer
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now this is a favorite myth of conventional medicine, which is to say that all you need to have adequate nutrition is to eat three balanced meals a day, and you'll get all the vitamins and minerals you need. You don't need any supplementation whatsoever.
That's a common myth promoted by people in conventional medicine who really don't have the education or the understanding in nutrition that we would now consider to be authoritative. There have been significant advances in the understanding of nutrition over the last couple of decades. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 In supplements, vitamins and minerals are not bonded to a carbon molecule and, as such, are in an "inorganic" form and therefore only 4-10 percent usable. This will result in 90-96 percent of your hard-earned money ending up in the sewage system as your kidneys and stomach have to work very hard to eliminate these unbonded nutrients in your urine. The safest supplement to take is considered to be vitamin C and taking it can result in gout, arthritis, kidney stones, stomach ulcers, anemia, and osteoporosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They contain beta carotine, they are high in vitamins and minerals, and they're loaded with phytonutrients that actually prevent chronic disease.
I can say that independently, although the company that makes this product probably couldn't make that kind of claim, but the facts are out about this, and we know nutrition really works to prevent disease, and we know that Chinese wolfberries, or the NingXia wolfberries, contain phenomenal quantities of phytonuytrients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Six hours after greens are cut, they have lost at least 50 percent of the vitamins and minerals that they had in them at one time.
Mike: Greens? Can you be more specific?
Kevala: Greens – lettuces, kale, mustard greens, dandelion greens, spinach – any and all of the above. I know dandelions sound a little weird; they did for me, too. They're still a little bitter, but lovely reader, have heart. With a nice macadamia nut sauce, you can make anything go down. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have to have the proper vitamins and minerals to make your brain work right. You have to have the proper lipids, again, to make your brain work right, for brain function. You have to balance your pH because your brain won't function if you're too alkaline or too acid. Then, you live the lifestyle. We put all those together, and that's live foods and fasting; fasting clears the brain. There was research done in Russia with schizophrenics, incurable schizophrenics, and they water fasted them. |
Michele Simon
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 This of course says nothing about the dismal nutritional quality of these foods, which are devoid of fiber as well as vitamins and minerals that are especially important for growing children. And while it's true that the "Apple Dippers" in the Happy Meal contain fewer calories than french fries, this "improvement" hardly compensates for the heavy dose of sugar delivered by the dipping sauce that kids are sure to love.
Celebrity Halos and Target Marketing
Another time-honored marketing gimmick that McDonald's uses to maximum effect is celebrity endorsements. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| We know that the hormonal system must have essential fatty acids, plenty of vitamins and minerals (from fresh fruits and vegetables, not tablets) to function optimally, but what we don't realize is that heated fats and fried foods such as fast food, margarine, and coffee and tea creamers prevent your body from utilizing those essential fatty acids and in so doing upset the hormonal system. Your skin may respond to this by "breaking out" in pustules, becoming dry and sensitive, or simply by aging faster. |
| We seem to know a great deal about the vitamins and minerals that sustain our health, yet without water we would simply not be able to utilize any of these nutrients effectively. As our bodies are made up of approximately 60 percent water, it is perhaps the single most important nutrient. It is often the most neglected one, too. k/kp Do liU /Veed In/afar?
Dehydration can have a serious impact on your physical health and mental well-being. The central nervous system is the first to show functional changes when the body is not sufficiently hydrated. |
| Shortages or deficiencies in vitamins and minerals can also result in mental and emotional problems. Low iron levels can result in impaired judgment and reasoning, and low zinc levels can contribute to anorexia, bulimia, and a craving for salt and sugar. Milk is a cause of both iron and zinc deficiencies. Taking supplements is not the answer. These are inorganic, artificial substances that the body cannot metabolize fully. The answer is to eat a diet high in raw food (at least 75-80 percent). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It becomes coagulated and you lose 78 percent of the vitamins and minerals. If you go live, you can eat half as much and still get the same amount. That's a 50 percent reduction in your input, so you're now achieving undereating, without at all feeling like you're undereating because we need that much live food. It's still a lot of live food.
Mike: I definitely noticed that here and experienced it myself. You get full on about half the amount of food.
Cousens: That's right, and that's the beauty of it, so now we have the easy reversal of aging, because what has research showed us? |
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