| Immune-boosting nutrients
Your immune strength is totally dependent on an optimal intake of vitamins and minerals. Deficiency of vitamins A, Bl5 B2, B6, B12, folic acid, C, and E suppresses immunity, as does deficiency of iron, zinc, magnesium, and selenium. Vitamins B^ B2, and B5 have mild immune-boosting effects compared with B6. The production of antibodies, so critical in any infection, depends upon B6, as does T-cell function. The ideal daily intake is probably 50 to 100 mg. B12 and folic acid also both appear essential for proper B-cell and T-cell function. |
| This diet would have yielded substantially larger amounts of vitamins and minerals than our modern diet does. For example, the estimated intake of vitamin A in those times, principally from beta-carotene, was above 30,000 IU a day, more than twenty times today's average. The meat our ancestors ate was also fit and organic, not fat and full of antibiotics, hormones, and pesticide residues.
In addition, through the study of evolution it becomes clear that the environment we choose determines our diet, which alters our design and prospects for future survival. |
| Ruth Harrell heard of a case in which the IQ of a Down syndrome child rose from 20 to 90 points after nutritional intervention, she decided to explore the idea that many mentally retarded children might have been born with increased needs for certain vitamins and minerals.4
In her first study, Dr. Harrell took twenty-two mentally retarded children and divided them into two groups. One group received vitamin and mineral supplements, the other placebos. After four months, the IQ in the group taking the supplements had increased by between 5 and 9.6 points; those on placebos showed no change. |
| Their formation is also blocked by too much saturated fat or fried food or a lack of certain key vitamins and minerals. The skin is also a route that the body can use to get rid of toxins. A certain kind of dermatitis, called acrodermatitis, responds exceptionally well to zinc supplementation and is primarily caused by zinc deficiency.
Diet advice
Generally a vegan-type diet, low in saturated fat but with enough essential fats from seeds, is best. If you suspect an allergy to dairy products or wheat, test for this by avoiding these foods. |
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 Stress-filled lifestyle is depleting body's vitamins and minerals.
Fear. Overattention to everyone else's needs, and not enough attention toward your own has depleted your body's vitamins and minerals.
I nourish my body with love, and schedule time to meet my body's needs.
I am important and deserve love. When I am healthy and happy, everyone benefits.
WALNUTS (see "Nuts")
YOGURT (for frozen yogurt, see "Ice Cream")
Feeling stuck and wanting a push in the right direction. Some depression because of self-compromise.
I give myself permission to correct and change my life. |
| Stress-filled lifestyle is depleting your body's vitamins and minerals.
Fear. Overattention to everyone else's needs, and not enough attention toward your own has depleted your body's vitamins and minerals.
GRANOLA (see "Cereal")
ICE CREAM
(also see "Sherbet")
Chocolate
Chocolate chip
Fear. Disappointment over love life, turned into depression or self-blame.
Fear and anger. Feeling angry that love life is unsatisfying, which triggers self-blame and depression.
I take my time and trust that solutions will present themselves to me. I slow down and stay open to observations of love. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Many foods rich in whole-grain carbohydrates are also good sources of essential vitamins and minerals. During digestion, all carbohydrates are broken down in the intestine into their simplest form—glucose, or blood sugar—which then enters the blood. As blood sugar levels rise, the body's normal response is to trigger the pancreas to release more of the hormone insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin helps the body's cells use the sugar for energy. This, in turn, helps return blood sugar levels to normal. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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 Recently it has become apparent that pharmaceutical drugs may interfere with the absorption or metabolism of many vitamins and minerals, causing important deficiencies. The inability to properly absorb Vitamin B 12 in persons taking the proton pump inhibitors Prevacid (lansoprazole) and Prilosec (omeprazole) is discussed in detail in Chapter 26 Dementia In The Elderly (Alzheimer's Disease).
If you are taking pharmaceutical medicines, the chart in Appendix "A", will alert you to possible problems of your medicine interacting negatively with the essential vitamins and minerals. |
Michael Lerner
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 Moss, The Cancer Industry (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 233.
Can vitamins and minerals Help? The Scientific View: Micro nutrients
There seems to be little question among scientists that vitamins and minerals can prevent, inhibit, and occasionally accelerate some forms of cancer. They may also play a role in reversal of some forms of cancer. |
Peter Pringle
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 Despite big improvements in global food supplies since the '60s, more than two billion people, especially women and children, lacked sufficient vitamins and minerals in their diets, particularly vitamin A and iron. In 1990 heads of state at the World Food Summit for Children set a goal of eliminating vitamin A deficiency by the year 2000. Several aid programs were launched to distribute vitamin A capsules, to add iron to wheat flour, and to educate poor people about their diet. But distribution was uneven and often impossible in remote areas. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Anna and I imagine trying to prove that these heirloom tomatoes have more vitamins and minerals than the hard, flavorless ones we could buy down the street. But is that the only point?
The people we meet remind us what eating organic food is also about. Regardless of quantifiable difference in nutrients, it is healthier to eat organic food. It's healthiet for the soil and watet, for our bodies, and for the farmers and farmworkers who tend crops free from chemicals.
As Anna and I talk, a swarm of kindergartners rush by with their teachers in tow. |
Elaine Feuer
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 Between 1966 and 1973, the FDA proposed new dietary legislation which would have allowed them to regulate most vitamins and minerals as drugs: Vitamins that exceeded 150 percent of the RDA would have been classified as over-the-counter drugs; Vitamins A and D, and Vitamin C in excess of 90 milligrams would have been designated prescription drugs; combinations of vitamins and minerals would have been prohibited.
1U The FDA has recently sanctioned clinical trials of thalidomide as an AIDS treatment. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 Secondly, the more-than-adequate levels of vitamins and minerals that many of us believe we obtain may be inadequate during times of physical or emotional stress. And finally and most surprisingly, large numbers of us are not, even at the best of times, taking in the RDAs for some essential vitamins and minerals. Some recent studies have indicated significant deficiencies in major portions of the population. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Although the vitamins and minerals in these foods are a factor, nonnutritive constituents are believed to also play a significant anti-carcinogenic role.
Two mechanisms have been suggested by which such dietary components may inhibit carcinogenesis: by blocking the action of carcinogens or tumor promoters and by suppressing the evolution of initiated cells.98 Blocking agents act by at least four mechanisms:
1. Inhibit the metabolism of noncarcinogenic compounds into carcinogenic compounds
2. Induce enzyme systems that detoxify carcinogens
3. Scavenge free radicals
4. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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 The simple message of this chapter is that, contrary to popular opinion, fruits and vegetables are not required for vitamins and minerals. In fact, essential vitamins and minerals reside in animal foods; moreover, many invaluable nutrients can only be found in appreciable quantities in animal foods. So the next time you're eating a piece of fruit or a serving of vegetables, ask yourself, "Have I had enough CoQIO, L-carnitine, vitamin D, selenium, calcium, and vitamin B12 today? |
Kevin Trudeau
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 However, the number of articles that have been written and broadcast stating the dangers of natural supplements such as herbs, vitamins and minerals is staggering. The fact is drugs, both over-the-counter nonprescription and prescription drugs, are infinitely more dangerous than any vitamin, mineral or herb. There are virtually no reported cases of anyone dying from taking a natural supplement in its proper dose. However, there are hundreds of thousands of documented deaths that have occurred by taking an over-the-counter nonprescription or prescription drug in its proper dosage. |
| The great thing about these juices as they are not "vitamins and minerals," they are simply fruit juices, which means you are getting the vitamins, minerals and cofactors in their complete natural state and in the exact proportion nature intended. This is a good example of a whole-food supplement as I describe in my book. I would highly encourage anyone and everyone to drink these juices on a regular basis. I believe you will see spectacular health benefits. |
| They raid companies unannounced to seize products such as bread, herbal remedies, vitamins and minerals, computers, files, research data, and equipment. They conduct these raids with armed agents with guns drawn. They seize harmless products, papers, documents, and computers, like the Gestapo did in Nazi Germany, without provocation, with no customer or consumer complaints, and without warning.
There have been several outstanding books and articles written about how the FDA operates. But in the end, the FDA is the agency that approves drugs. |
| This campaign is designed to encourage Congress to ban more natural remedies, as well as require supplements as harmless as basic vitamins and minerals to be classified as drugs and be sold by prescription and manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. This is being touted under the guise of safety. Safety has nothing to do with it. Why?
Ephedra was banned because 153 deaths have been linked to taking ephedra. Now, millions of people were taking ephedra. If you take any group of ten million people, over a year, there's a good chance that 153 people in that group will die. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So essentially, what you have here with Ensure, is a predominantly sugar-water product that has been fortified with a few vitamins and minerals. With that in mind, let's go back to the front label and take a look at all of the claims. It says, 'Complete, balanced nutrition to help stay healthy, active, and energetic.'
Well, perhaps the only word that's true here is 'energetic' because in the food industry, energy is typically associated with sugar. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| This is so the drug companies can control all natural vitamins and minerals. When the pharmaceutical companies control this industry they will either raise the prices dramatically and start charging you exorbitant prices for all-natural herbs, vitamins, and minerals, or they will simply take them off the market since they will control them, therefore, making it impossible for you to have natural options to drugs. This is being systematically done so that the pharmaceutical industry can control and monopolize health care. This should be a violation of antitrust laws. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So these are ingredients that, when consumed, will tend to deplete certain vitamins and minerals from the body. You can read some of the studies on that at Google Scholar.
Put another way, you could get practically the same nutrition by drinking a can of soda and taking a tiny, low-grade multivitamin. That would be almost identical to this product, in my opinion. Not exactly the same, but very similar. And yet here for 32 oz, this product sells for around $5. You can get 32 oz of soft drinks for a fraction of that price and it gives you much of the same ingredients. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 The nutritious value of the berries should not be forgotten, being rich in many vitamins and minerals.1
Relevant Research
Preventative and Therapeutic Effects
CONSTITUENTS125
þ tannins: gallotannins, elagitannins.
þ miscellaneous: flavonoids (rutin), polypepetides.
COMMON USES
Red raspberry leaf is considered by many herbalists to be particularly useful as a partus praeparator, preparing the uterus for childbirth and aiding delivery. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Fruits and vegetables contain easily absorbed vitamins and minerals, calories for immediate energy production, and vital phytonutrients. These naturally occurring plant nutrients protect us from disease, help heal imbalances, and accelerate the healing process.
To make fresh juices, which are superior to bottled juices, you will need a juicer. The centrifugal force juicers are easy to clean and extract juice well from the pulp of the plants. If you have an orange juice squeezer, you can make fresh citrus juice. |
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. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Cholesterol-Busting Supplements
If your cholesterol is over 300, you'll want to add the following vitamins and minerals to the Six Core Principles for Optimal Health for six months. Most of these essential nutrients are antioxidants that help lower your LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels:
Vitamin C: 1,000 mg three times daily. If this high a dose gives you diarrhea, back off the dose until it goes away.
Magnesium: 300 mg dady
Calcium: 200 mg daily
Copper: 2 to 3 mg daily
Vitamin E: 400IU (total 800IU daily). |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| Reich also reasoned that the minimum daily requirements of vitamins and minerals was way too low, and he was the first doctor in North America to prescribe "mega doses" of vitamin and mineral supplements. He figured out that a big factor behind why so many people showed signs of calcium deficiency was because they did not have enough vitamin D in their bodies. Even though calcium is one of the most important bioelements, it is also one of the more difficult elements for the body to assimilate. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 In addition to its rich supply of essential nutrients, maca contains alkaloids, tannins, and saponins.3 See the table on page 340 for a specific nutritional profile of dried maca root.
A chemical analysis conducted in 1981 showed the presence of biologically active aromatic isothiocyanates (a common chemical found in the mustard family of plants and shown to be a wood preservative and insecticide).4 Chemical research shows maca root contains a chemical called p-methoxybenzyl isothio-cyanate, which has reputed aphrodisiac properties. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Nature's Answer FOR KIDS. This is a line of herbal extracts designed for children. They are made using alcohol, like standard extracts, but the alcohol is then removed and replaced with glycerin, which is a preservative and a natural sweetener. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 Not only is fuel burned, but vitamins and minerals are used up in the process. If you supply no energy whatsoever—that is, if you do a water fast—the body may be forced to dig into its existing resources to make do. Then it will raid structural protein and steal vitamins and minerals from the least vital tissues. If this continues, the cells robbed become unable to function and die. Like a freezing man in a blizzard, stranded in a cabin with no firewood—who strips boards off the walls to burn—you begin to cannibalize your own tissues. |
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