Richard Lucas
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 Constituents of Papaya
The papaya contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals. It also provides enzymes—the most important being papain, which greatly resembles pepsin in its digestive action. The natural papain enzyme is extracted from the papaya, made into tablets, and sold on the market—mainly as an aid for protein digestion.
Chinese Usage of Papaya
After the introduction of papaya into China, the Chinese quickly learned to appreciate the usefulness of the papaya in rendering meat tender, as well as its alimentary and medicinal qualities. |
Annemarie Colbin
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 It also holds that because the soil isn't what it used to be in terms of nutrient content, because we don't always eat as well as we should and therefore might be missing some nutrients unknowingly, we should supplement our diet with vitamins and minerals in concentrated form. These will serve as medicine for current ills, as well as insurance against possible future deficiencies. Whatever nutrients are taken in excess, it is held, will simply be excreted by the body. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 Let's look at the vitamins and minerals that have the best evidence to support their use in disease prevention.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is known as ascorbic acid to the scientific community and is famous for its role in preventing scurvy, whose characteristic bleeding gums, swollen joints, and muscle weakness were described as far back as the days of the Egyptians. Its cure—found in 1747 by Scottish surgeon James Lind—by supplementing the diet of the British Navy with vitamin C-rich limes, earned the British seamen the nickname "limeys. |
Mark Bricklin
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 It's a very active system, and many vitamins and minerals impinge upon it in different ways."
Probably 50 milligrams of zinc a day continued for several weeks would be sufficient to determine if this mineral will help. If taste is then normalized, the amount of zinc could probably be cut in half.
In recent trials, zinc has been tested on ordinary, "healthy" people who show no overt signs of zinc deficiency, with some interesting results. One study of young women reviewed their zinc status by analyzing their blood, saliva, hair and diet. |
| Basically, her supplement program consists of safe, moderate levels of just about all vitamins and minerals. Judging by some letters that Ms. Hull has published in her "Lupus Lifeline," this across-the-board approach to bolstering nutrition sometimes pay off in dramatic improvement. At least that's what the people say who have tried it.
Those who have lupus should keep in mind that remissions that may last for years are common. Have a hopeful outlook, because many who were terribly ill have recovered to enjoy many years of near-normal health.
To contact LEANON, write to P.O. |
| Orthodox or unorthodox, many chiropractors also concern themselves with exercise and nutriton and may recommend vitamins and minerals or a change in diet. Whatever the therapy, the person receiving treatment has the right to ask the chiropractor where and when he or she received such training, the certification involved and what kinds of seminars are attended in an attempt to keep up with manipulation and alternative therapies. Professionals who have kept up and are good at what they do are much less likely to take offense at being questioned. |
| Worse, many people with colitis eat a very bland or soft diet, which is probably lacking in a wide variety of vitamins and minerals. Where there is bleeding, there will probably also be anemia, so iron supplementation is often required.
In severe cases, where absorption is seriously impaired, the physician may have to administer a good deal of required nutrients by injection. In most cases, generous amounts of multivitamin and mul-timineral tablets will be beneficial. |
| There is a lot more to life—and, yes, more to the health of our arteries—than fats and oils, vitamins and minerals. So go out and seek good friends and good times. What's the purpose of living, anyway?
Heel Spurs
As an alternative to surgery, great relief from the pain of a heel spur may be obtained by inserting a properly fitted pad of foam rubber into the bottoms of your shoes. |
| The second point is that the defensive and reparative processes are complex functions often involving many different types of tissues and enzymes. vitamins and minerals are interwoven with many of these functions. If one link in a chain of events is weakened, the end result might fall short of expectations, even though all other aspects of the process are intact. For example, inadequate blood flow due to atherosclerosis may prevent the healing of a laceration, even though the basic mechanisms of repair are functioning properly. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 If you decide to start supplementing your diet with vitamins and minerals, make sure to buy them in the best bioavailable formulation possible.
Advantages of natural vitamins
• natural complexes are protein in nature, in the form of an enzyme or co-enzyme.
• natural complexes carry trace mineral activators necessary for the vitamin to act as a biochemical catalyst.
• synthetic vitamins are only a fraction of the real biologically active nutritional complex, therefore helping repair our cells and tissues in only a fraction of the way a natural complex would. |
| Today we are bombarded with over-processed, low-nutrient foods and polluted environments, all of which make it difficult to get the proper amount of vitamins and minerals we need from diet alone. USDA scientists have estimated that in order to get just 200 micrograms of chromium (the amount that most anti-aging specialists recommend) you'd
112 have to consume over 12,000 calories a day of the typical American diet.
Yet it's not enough simply to start taking supplements. Some forms of mineral supplements are harder for your body to digest or absorb. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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| Now there is grudging acceptance throughout the medical profession that some vitamins and minerals taken in amounts difficult or impossible to achieve through dietary means alone may help prevent certain diseases and promote your general well-being.
The fear doctors have of recommending vitamins is that the public will start popping dangerous quantities of them. Fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K) are stored in the body and can accumulate to toxic levels if consumed in extremely high doses (megadoses) for extended periods of time. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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| Like other key anti-aging vitamins and minerals, CoQ-10 boosts the immune function. Almost 30 years ago, in 1968, Emile Bliznakov demonstrated the healthy effects of CoQ-10 on the immune system. Bliznakov injected rats with a closely related variant of CoQ-10, called CoQ-6, and observed the rate of phagocytosis, or foreign substance removal. It was discovered that CoQ-6-treated rats removed foreign antigens twice as fast as the untreated rats. These rats also experienced a dramatic increase in their production of antibodies—a 247 percent increase! |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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| Whole wheat grain has twenty-two vitamins and minerals in the bran and germ (the fiber). Okinawans make delicious udon noodles and very fine somen noodles from wheat flour. Try our somen chample recipe on page 346.
Small, Round Whole Grains
• Amaranth. Amaranth was thought to have spiritual power by the ancient Aztecs. They used it to make beautiful figures of various gods, which were then eaten in religious festivities. Amaranth has a high protein content and also has all eight essential amino acids. |
Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
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 That is done by maintaining a daily adequate intake of some crucial vitamins and minerals as well as some other nutrients. Individual requirements may depart substantially from these recommendations.
VITAMINS
(Daily requirements unless otherwise noted)
Vitamin A 10,000 I.U. Vitamin B Complex Vitamin B1 25 mg Vitamin B2 25 mg Vitamin B6 25 mg Vitamin B12 3 meg Vitamin C 500-1,000 mg Vitamin D 400 I.U. Vitamin E 400 I.U. |
| Because of its high content of several important nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, Red Clover has become a dependable nutritive supplement in all forms of degenerative disease (6). Antibiotic tests on Red Clover have shown it to possess activity against several bacteria, the most significant of which is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (7).
CHAPARRAL and its properties are covered extensively in the chapters on ARTHRITIS, BONE-FLESH-CARTILAGE, and SKIN DISORDERS. Here, I will only discuss the research on the herb's possible role in curing cancer. |
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KELP is useful in this blend as a provider of iodine, vitamins and minerals. The prevention of painful conditions such as rheumatism and arthritis can sometimes be accomplished through nutrition. We know, for example, that an excess of acid-forming foods can precipitate painful episodes, as in the case of uric acid contribution to rheumatic pain. Acidity and lack of essential nutrients that insure the health of the nerves and their insulating sheaths can lead to inflammation and neuritis. |
| See Also infertility; respiratory ailments; diabetes; female tonic; prostate; nerves & glands; digestion
CAYENNE operates by distributing nutrients, catalyzing reactions, stimulating glandular activity, and providing its own important vitamins and minerals.
IRISH MOSS, a close relative of Kelp, supplies its own quantities of iodine, trace elements and tissue salts.
OTHER NUTRIENTS
The thyroid requires good nutritional support in addition to adequate iodine. Individual needs may depart substantially from the following general recommendations. |
Ben Davis
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| She took the full range of vitamins and minerals, as well. At the end of this time her blood tested out perfectly normal.
Brewer's yeast can help the pancreas produce insulin, thus helping to prevent diabetes. In mild cases, it can be eaten for breakfast: have a sliced banana covered with wheat germ, ground sunflower seeds and brewer's yeast with milk. One woman who did this discovered that traces of sugar in her urine vanished. |
| It seems impossible to boil, fry, bake or stew the vitamins and minerals out of tomatoes. They are exceptionally good.
FOODS TO EAT SPARINGLY!
The following list consists of acid-forming foods, which when eaten in very small amounts are good foods, but they are concentrated foods and should be used very, very sparingly. Many people have enjoyed perfect health by omitting most of them altogether. |
John Heinerman
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 This enables him or her to correctly understand the particular vitamins and minerals inherent in every produce item juiced. That way, he or she will know which of several juices might be the best to drink for meeting certain nutritional deficiencies.
Fourthly, a large number of diverse anecdotes and case studies are given, which show specific advantages for individual juices. None of the other juice books utilize this kind of first-hand field experience as I do. |
| And yet, we spend millions on herbicides to kill the dandelions in our lawns, while we pay millions more for diet supplements to give ourselves the vitamins and minerals that the dandelion could easily furnish."
He would occasionally throw "wild parties" for a selected group of friends. Every food and beverage served would have come from the wild, hence the name of "wild parties." He liked to tell his friends that the "green punch" they were drinking was really his special recipe for dandelion greens, pigweed, and parsley juices combined into one concoction. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 GRAINS: THINK WHOLE EOR HEALTH
Major sources of fiber and complex carbohydrates, real whole grains—not those pasty white flours and rice most often seen on American tables—are also rich in vitamins and minerals, which we need to prevent heart disease and cancer. This superiority makes them essential to our nutritional pharmacy.
Whole grains of any variety are more nutritionally complete than white or partially processed grains, such as couscous and cracked wheat berries, which are, in turn, better for us than the more processed flours, breads, and noodles. |
| Wheat and other whole grains provide a rich source of nutrients—complex carbohydrates, protein, oils, and roughage, as well as an excellent balance of vitamins and minerals. Grinding wheat with stone rollers blends these ingredients together, providing a product so nutritionally rich that it is quick to spoil. It is also susceptible to attack by vermin and fungi if not used immediately. |
William Duffy
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 During the court proceedings, the FDA contended that listing of vitamins and minerals on the packages of enriched sugar was misbranding in that they were "not nutritionally significant because adequate amounts of these nutrients are available in the average American diet."
Was the FDA saying that you don't need enriched sugar because you've already got enriched bread? The federal judge threw the FDA case out of court with legal scolding. "If the government's case were valid," he said, "any vitamin fortified product could be singled out and challenged on the ground that... |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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| Supplements: A diverse and broad spectrum ranging from vitamins and minerals to amino acids and fatty acids, use glandulars, coenzymes and metabolic intermediaries e.g., 300 mg/day coenzyme Q-10, 500 mg/day L-carnitine This supplementation is individualized via metabolic balancing. Pro-Greens vegetable mixtures; broad range of growth factors obtained from fractionation of glandulars. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 Did the vitamins and minerals fuel enzymatic reactions? Or all of the above?
I think it is fair to say that if we all simply ate better (if we ate real food) instead of waiting for scientists and studies and the advice of the
"professionals," the answers to these questions would be moot. Our obsessive need to check with the experts before we sit down to a meal is unique to this century. Until the past few decades (since man started tampering with the food supply), we ate what nature provided, grew healthy brains, and never gave it another thought. |
Andrew L. Stoll
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 The best way to get these antioxidants is in food and by taking selected supplemental vitamins and minerals. A supplement may not have the same positive effect as whole food. This is probably because plants contain other useful phytochemicals beyond the known antioxidants that we have identified. Many of these phytochemicals appear to work syner-gistically with each other, but have not been well studied.
By using foods to obtain needed substances, we are absorbing many different and powerful types of antioxidants, such as ly-copene and rosmarnic acid. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
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| A 1996 German study examined the effects of DMAE along with vitamins and minerals on sixty men and women between the ages of forty and sixty-five who had difficulty concentrating during mental exercises. In this study, researchers obtained EEG recordings of volunteers before they began taking DMAE or a placebo, and again after twelve weeks of supplementation. There were no changes in the brain waves of the subjects taking the placebo. |
| Plant foods are also nature's richest sources of antioxidant vitamins and minerals, which counteract oxidation, the number one contributor to aging and illness. Leafy green vegetables contain lots of vitamin A. Sweet potatoes, squash, and other yellow-
I've monitored thousands of patients on various diets. As a medical doctor, I've seen firsthand the powerful effects of food on the human body.
I want to tell you about the diet I recommend for the bulk of my patients. Of course, I make individual allowances for those with allergies, digestive problems, and even personal food preferences. |
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