Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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 Iron, fluoride, selenium, and zinc are among the eighteen essential trace minerals. vitamins and minerals work together, influencing how well the body absorbs both.
Vitamins and minerals have been studied for decades, and a great deal is known about the sources and roles of each, as well as about what happens when the body takes in too much or too little of a particular substance. This information is given in the chart at the end of the chapter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People also engage in lifestyle habits that deplete the vitamins and minerals they've managed to absorb from their foods. These habits include the consumption of caffeine, soft drinks, tobacco, white flour, added sugars, and other ingredients that actually strip nutrients away from your body.
To top it off, they're subjected to chronic stress conditions like work stress, environmental stress (breathing polluted air, drinking polluted water), relationship stress, lack of sleep, lack of sunlight, and so on. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 It detoxifies, builds proteins and fats, secretes hormones, stores vitamins and minerals, produces bile necessary for digestion, and a hundred or so other functions vital to maintaining proper health. When the liver becomes diseased, any number of health-threatening conditions can arise.
Two of the most common liver problems we hear about are hepatitis and cirrhosis. Both can be fatal. Hepatitis is a general term which indicates inflammation. A number of different conditions can produce hepatitis, among them are alcohol, drugs, viruses, and bacteria. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 When information is presented from the government, such as lifespan, recommended daily allowances of vitamins and minerals, the food pyramid, etc., you absolutely have to know that this information is false, fraudulent, and misleading. The government puts out this information based 100 percent on how much money they have received from the various lobbying groups that want certain things to be said by the government. Remember, it's always all about the money. Corporations want to make billions of dollars in additional profits. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| The second way is to add to the child's diet a mixture containing all the essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, and vitamins and minerals with enough fiber. Adding these substances to a good food will diminish their nutritional value. It is even worse when they are added to processed foods which have already lost a good deal of their nutritional value. Other additives such as processed fats and oils distort the diet in the same way as do the sugars. |
the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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 These foods also provide a mix of vitamins and minerals that assist in the chemical reaction needed to fuel muscles. "Think of vitamins and minerals as 'oil' for the muscle engine," says Dr. Clarkson.
Help from the Doctor
If your muscles suddenly become weak for no apparent reason, view the situation as a potentially life-threatening emergency and go to the nearest hospital for treatment. And if your muscles have slowly become weaker for unexplained reasons, see your doctor to get a handle on what's happening. |
| Get enough vitamins and minerals. To make sure you're getting adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals—especially iron— consider taking a daily multivitamin supplement.
"Take iron supplements only as recommended by your doctor," suggests Dr. Stankiewicz. "B12 injections and prescription zinc medications are also available from your doctor." Over-the-counter zinc medications are not recommended, he says.
Wash away mouth infections. If glossitis develops while you're taking antibiotics for another infection, using a salt mouthwash can ease the assault on your taste buds. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 The physical demands of training may use up so many vitamins and minerals that the body has insufficient means to maintain hormonal production. phosphates and polyphosphates—found in many food products, such as soft drinks, processed meats, and cheese—can interfere with the absorption of nutrients. cigarettes contribute to hormonal problems by increasing the need for vitamins and minerals to detoxify the poisons in tobacco smoke. This reduces the amount of nutrients available for hormone production. stress is a major contributor to hormonal imbalance. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 These substances interfere with the action and absorption of some vitamins and minerals. However, proper preparation of dried legumes—soaking and cooking—makes them harmless.
Beans are infamous for causing intestinal distress (bloating) and flatulence (gas). When sugars, starches, and fiber reach the large intestine without being digested or absorbed, friendly bacteria in the bowel consume them. Gas is a byproduct of this bacterial action. Bloating and gas are more likely if beans are not eaten regularly. |
| For instance, white flour retains only 20 percent of the vitamins and minerals and 25 percent of the fiber contained in the whole-wheat kernel. For an illustration, of the effects of refining grain on the nutritive value of foods, see Table 11.1 below.
Today, most refined grain products are "enriched." That means they must meet standards set by the FDA for adding back the lost nutrients in amounts at or near the levels found in the original kernel.
TABLE 11. |
| Other Important Nutrients
In addition to fiber, carbohydrates, and high concentrations of protein, whole grains contain essential vitamins and minerals, including B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin), vitamin E, folate, calcium, selenium, iron, magnesium, and zinc. Grains also contain phytochemicals, the nonnutritive biochemistry to help to prevent disease. (See Chapter 7.) The main phytochemicals in whole grains are beta-glucans, lignin, tocotrienols, phytoestrogens, and phytic acid. They help to lower cholesterol and prevent cancer and heart disease. |
| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as healthy and able to meet the recommended dietary allowances of those vitamins and minerals for which standards have been established. (See Chapter 35.)
SELECTING VEGETABLES
Whenever possible, it is best to purchase organically grown vegetables. Commercial farmers' routine use of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides can leave toxic residues in vegetables. Choosing organic vegetables, when available, eliminates the potential risk posed by these chemicals. (See Chapter 18. |
| It is high in protein and contains virtually all the vitamins and minerals the body needs, plus chlorophyll for cleansing. Make sure the spirulina you buy is of high quality. Earthrise Spirulina from Earthrise Nutritionals is a good choice. Kyo-Green from Wakunaga is another excellent choice that contains additional nutrients.
Drink only quality water and plenty of it. You can dilute juices with it, but use only unsweetened juices with no additives. Do not use tomato or orange juice because of their high acidity. |
| Choose cooking methods that minimize losses of vitamins and minerals. For vegetables, the best method is to steam the vegetables lightly and eat them while they are still crunchy. When steaming vegetables, use as little water as possible and save the water once they are finished cooking—use the vegetable water for soup stock so that you get the benefit of all the nutrients dissolved in the water. Avoid frying (with the exception of stir-frying) entirely. Always remember that every cooking method has its drawbacks and may destroy vitamin value to a certain extent. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| According to Dr Rudin, there is a rational explanation why both vitamins and minerals and essential fatty acids should all be therapeutic. The essential fatty acids are partially converted into prostaglandins. Therefore a deficiency of essential fatty acids will lead to a deficiency of prostaglandins. According to Rudin this is the cause of pellagra. But vitamin B-3 is also needed to assist in the conversion of essential fatty acids. Thus a deficiency of vitamin B- 3 will lead again to a deficiency of prostaglandins and yield a somewhat similar end result. |
Dianne Onstad
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 Canned fruits lose varying amounts of vitamin C and beta carotene during processing (along with smaller quantities of other vitamins and minerals), and the processing turns their alkaline properties acidic and therefore detrimental to the body. Additionally, fruit packed in heavy syrup can be highly caloric. Freezing fresh fruit, however, has the effect of prolonging its life; the majority of frozen fruits are flash-frozen without having been heated, so there is very little nutrient loss, and most have no added sugar. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| They hope that the public remains generally ignorant and that people will never develop the same enthusiasm and affection for amino acids that they now have for vitamins and minerals. They are trying to forestall a problem they see developing which would go against their policies. The FDA should be restricted to making sure that all products sold are non-toxic (that is, less toxic than are the over-the-counter drugs they allow all drug stores to dispense so freely) and that the label requirements are met. I would be happier if they would put aspirin on prescription. |
American Medical Publishing
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| Certain vitamins and minerals that are safe when consumed at low levels are toxic at higher doses. The difference between a safe low dose and a toxic higher dose is quite large for some vitamins and minerals and quite small for others.
A. Vitamin A
Vitamin A is found in several forms in dietary supplements. Preformed vitamin A (vitamin A acetate and vitamin A palmitate) has well-recognized toxicity when consumed at levels of 25,000 International Units (IU) per day, or higher. |
Gary Null
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| Lengacher and colleagues at the College of Nursing, University of South Florida, questioned a series of 105 women with breast cancer and found that 64 percent regularly used vitamins and minerals and 33 percent regularly used antioxidants, herbs, and health foods. Of the 105 women, 49 percent prayed and received spiritual healing, 37 percent went to support groups, and 21 percent focused on humor or laughter therapy. Massage was used by 27 percent of all participants at least once after diagnosis. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Other vitamins and minerals may also be effective for a further proportion of such children and would to seem to warrant investigation on a priority basis." In a report to the annual meeting of the National Society for Autistic Children in 1975, entitled "Where Does Research Lead from Here?" Rimland answered, "It continues to lead very strongly in the direction of orthomolecular psychiatry. The vitamins were not only found to be of benefit in a absolute sense, but were also of benefit to a far greater percentage of the children in the study than were the drugs which had been previously used. |
| Excessive intake of dairy products crowds other foods out of the diet, foods which are richer in vitamins and minerals. Another factor is chronic inflammation of the intestine which decreases absorption of nutrients. I have already referred to protein deficiency caused by the milk. Another common deficiency is zinc and pyridoxine. I have been surprised at the large number of children I have seen who had white areas in their finger nails. This is due to a deficiency of pyridoxine and zinc. Most often these children are heavy consumers of dairy products. |
Gary Null
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| Recommended vitamins and minerals are vitamin C, vitamin A, and zinc. Actually, the best treatment is intravenous vitamin C, for which you have to go to a doctor. An extremely high dose of up to 50,000 or 75,000 mg streaming through the body will eliminate a lot of negative bacteria. Buffered vitamin C, taken daily in doses as high as 20,000 mg, will also create the necessary acidity in the urine. |
| Or if you're an older patient with a few nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, and apathy, doctors jump to the conclusion that you're suffering from depression, instead of a lack of vitamins and minerals or a bad diet. If you admit to having stress in your life (and who doesn't?) then the doctor is further convinced that you're depressed. You may be told that you should learn to relax and slow down but, for a doctor, the easiest and most common treatment of depression is medication.
In my book on depression I list the following conditions that are often misdiagnosed as depression. |
| In fact, we are finding out that we just can't function properly without a wide array of vitamins and minerals that act as necessary cofactors in all the metabolic processes in the body.
And unfortunately the typical American diet does not provide us with enough essential vitamins. Because vitamin C and the B complex vitamins are water soluble and rapidly excreted from the body, they must be replenished daily. |
| CAM therapy usage in order of frequency were psychological and spiritual therapies (65 percent), vitamins and minerals (46 percent), and herbs (42 percent). Sixty-eight percent of CAM users informed their medical doctors, and 69 percent used CAM after conventional care.57
Herbs for Cancer
Many studies are being performed using herbs to treat cancer with excellent results. Zhao and a group at Shanghai University found that two Chinese herbal formulas, one called Chinese Jianpi herbs and one called SRRS, inhibit gastric cancer cell growth. |
Dianne Onstad
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| The absolutely best cornmeal is stone-ground whole-grain corn, which retains not only the germ but also a robust flavor and the full complement of vitamins and minerals. The commercial supermarket's degerminated, overmilled, overheated, synthetic, vitamin-enriched cornmeal contains less than half the nutrients of whole-grain cornmeal and even less taste. Cornmeal can be made into a porridge known as cornpone or used in cakes, breads, tamales, desserts, and pancakes. |
| When this starch in its original form is consumed, the same vitamins and minerals are available to be used by the body. When man refines carbohydrates and sugars, he produces starches and sugars free of the othet nutrients with which they are normally associated. This is one of the reasons why excessive consumption of sugar generally depletes the body's stores of vitamins.
Caries Tooth decay.
Carminative An agent that checks the fotmation of gas in the gastrointestinal tract and aids in dispelling whatever gas has already formed. The after-dinner mint is the most familiar carminative. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 General Detoxification Nutrient Program
The following program has ranges on most nutrients and supplies the body with the vitamins and minerals, amino and fatty acids that support our tissues, our healthy liver as well as the overall process of detoxification. See page 102 for specific programs for Detox Diet. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Nutritional supplements such as vitamins and minerals are health insurance. You are making sure your body has everything it needs to stay balanced and tuned.
A lot of people ask, "Why do I need to take vitamins if I eat well?" First, much of the soil our food is grown in is depleted of essential minerals.
Second, by the time food gets on your table, sometimes weeks after it has been picked, it has lost many of its important vitamins, such as vitamin C. |
Dianne Onstad
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| Fully ripe bananas are composed of 76 percent water, 20 percent sugar, 12 percent starch, a large contingent of vitamins and minerals, and a great deal of fiber. Green bananas contain antinutri-ents, proteins that inhibit the actions of amylase, an enzyme that permits digestion of starch and other complex carbohydrates; thus wait until they are fully ripe before eating. Antifungal and antibiotic principles are found in both the peel and pulp of fully ripened bananas. |
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