Dr. Gary Null
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 These are high in the amino acid methionine, which the body converts into homocysteine, a substance that causes both osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. vitamins and minerals. Women over 25 need adequate calcium, approximately 1,000 mg in supplement form, and an additional 500—1,000 mg from the diet. After 40.1,500-2,000 mg is needed. Women on estrogen replacement therapy require between 1,200 and 1,500 mg. |
Michael Janson, M.D.
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 They say the debate is not about vitamins and minerals when sold in what they call reasonable potencies. What they call reasonable is far too low to be used as a guideline for optimum health. FDA considers as a drug any higher potencies of vitamins or minerals, or dietary supplements that have no essential requirement in human nutrition, or products consumed for health enhancement or therapy. Again, the real public health danger is from restricting access to dietary supplements, not their potential side effects.
Specific Points
1. Without the passage of S. |
Mary G. Enig
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 They may carry percent Daily Values for protein, vitamins and minerals, however, because these nutrients are the only ones for which FDA has set Daily Values for this age group.
Chapter 6
An Overview of Dietary Fat Intake Recommendations
How Sound Is the Advice on Fats Currently Being Given to the Public?
All the advice being given to people about making changes in the amounts of saturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated fatty acids they should consume in their diets is supposed to be based on the need to improve the kinds of fat we are eating in order to improve our health. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
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 Protein supplies certain amino acids that our bodies do not manufacture, and protein-rich foods also contain important vitamins and minerals.
You must supply your body with protein. The problem is this: How can you get the protein you need for health without interfering with the serotonin production required for emotional well-being and appetite control? How can proteins and carbohydrates both do their jobs without the former undermining the latter?
It's not easy. |
Carl C. Pfeiffer
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 These demands are not met by junk foods or by standard vitamins and minerals, which are high in copper, and low in zinc and manganese, and devoid of selenium and molybdenum. Teenagers may need Ziman Fortified or Vicon Plus, plus selenium and molybdenum. These two preparations are designed to give adequate zinc, manganese, and vitamins, but no copper, which is abundant in drinking water. Extra vitamin C and B6 may sometimes be needed. |
Gale Maleskey
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 For most vitamins and minerals, the amounts that are safe and beneficial are far below the amounts that are toxic," he concludes.
Pushing the Limits
Given the careful guidelines that scientists have established, it may seem odd that some doctors prescribe doses that are much higher than what is usually considered safe. This is a considered risk, because large amounts—even amounts that could be toxic—may be needed to treat a particular condition.
If you're taking large, therapeutic doses of a vitamin or mineral for a long period of time, you need to be careful, says Dr. Hathcock. |
| A Little Something Extra
To help us get our DVs of vitamins and minerals as well as ineet other basic nutritional requirements, nutrients are routinely added to foods that many of us eat nearly every day. When this is done, the foods are called fortified or enriched. This program, regulated by the federal government, has been highly successful in helping to eliminate severe nutritional deficiencies.
In the United States, iodine has been added to salt since 1930. |
| Age differences, sex differences, and stage of life can also affect your nutrient needs, meaning that your actual daily requirements for vitamins and minerals may vary from the DV for many reasons. Women generally need more nutrients when they're pregnant or breastfeeding, which is understandable enough, since they are essentially eating for two. For both men and women, vitamin and mineral requirements are likely to change somewhat with age, and very active or athletic people are likely to need more than those who are less active. |
| As we develop better technology, we can scrutinize the additional properties of vitamins and minerals even more closely, Dr. Combs adds. "We can measure things we couldn't even conceive of earlier." Within the last four decades, for example, the ability to measure zinc has improved tremendously. "Twenty-five years ago, we thought there were five or six zinc-containing enzymes because that's all we could measure," Dr. Combs observes. "Now we know there are two or three hundred, simply because we can detect tinier and tinier amounts. |
| If you eat a healthful diet, you'll get many of the vitamins and minerals that you'll find in a multi, but many diets come up short on the following nutrients, experts say. You can get them by taking a multi along with a few individual supplements- Here are the suggested amounts.
Daily Multivitamin/Mineral Supplement
?Vitamin A/beta-carotene: 5,000 international units
?Vitamin B6: 2 milligrams
?Vitamin D: 400 international units
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| Of course, food is the most obvious natural source of vitamins, and the Earth is the most natural source of minerals, but the vitamins and minerals in supplements are several times removed from their original sources. While some manufacturers isolate vitamin E from soybean oil and derive vitamin C from acerola berries, supplemental vitamins aren't often made that way these days.
Although some people think "natural" means "better," there's a practical reason for synthetic vitamins: The laboratory process is much more efficient and less expensive than isolating these nutrients from foods. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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 The truth is, vitamins and minerals are abundantly available in animal foods, and generally animal
156 life without bread foods supply more of them per individual serving than does any single serving of a fruit, vegetable, or grain.
One reason meats supply so many vitamins is because they are from animals that also need these vitamins to live. The similar physiology between some animals and humans is the reason animals do supply nutrients that closely match human needs. After all, people are much more closely related to a pig or cow than to a vegetable (well, most people, anyway!). |
| 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?"
After all, as we mentioned in chapter 2, Stefansson and Anderson admitted themselves into the Bellevue Hospital in New York and ate only meat for a year straight! And what happened to them? They left the hospital healthier than when they arrived! |
| Not only are most of the vitamins and minerals essential for life found in abundance in animal foods, some of these nutrients are found only in animal foods.
COFACTORS
Cofactors are another very important class of small molecules. These vitamin-like substances can be made in the body or obtained from the diet, whereas vitamins can be obtained only from the diet (or via diet supplementation).
Several cofactors are worth mentioning here because they perform extremely important functions, and because they are primarily found in animal foods. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 It is becoming clear that dietary factors other than vitamins and minerals play an even more crucial role than traditionally acclaimed vitamins. Antioxidants 300 times more powerful than vitamin E have been found in beans, soy products, and seed oils. And recent experimental studies concur that switching from the traditional Japanese diet yields a subsequent rise of colon and prostate cancer—hallmarks of the affluent diet.
Another cancer combatant is chlorophyll, the green pigment found in dark green plants and a necessary component of photosynthesis. |
Mary G. Enig
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| In addition to the obvious need for additional energy from fats and carbohydrates, as well as the need for adequate protein, vitamins and minerals, there is a requirement for additional special fats and oils. This is because there is the need to include more adequate omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acid sources.
The whole diet should include about 3 to 5 percent of the energy (calories) as omega-6 fatty acids and half as much as omega-3 fatty acids. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 Nutrient Value: Broccoli is blessed with mucho vitamins and minerals?calcium, folic acid, potassium—along with antioxidants, enzymes, and protein. In fact, there is more protein in a broccoli dinner than there is in bread or wheat. And it's low in calories. It gets its adrenal-building powers from its stock of pantothenic acid.
Selection and Care: Choose dark green broccoli. Buds should be tightly closed. Florets that have begun to soften and yellow are no longer ripe. Look for fresh green leaves and firm stalks. Broccoli can be steamed or enjoyed raw. |
Elaine Feuer
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 Supplementation with vitamins and minerals; natural or herbal antibiotics; digestive enzymes.
4. Oxygen therapies: H2O2 Homozone, stabilized electrolytes of oxygen.
5. Systematic detoxification: I'm sure my recovery may have been more rapid had I the time and funds to partake in an extended stay at one of the alternative health clinics located in Mexico. Given this as unaffordable, I listened to many lectures offered by the practitioners who run those clinics (numbering about thirty now), and applied their nutritional and detoxification experience to my own. |
| THE AMERICAN MEDICAL MONOPOLY
Most of the orthodox medical profession oppose the manufacture, sale, and distribution of vitamins and minerals as food or food supplements. Organizations helping to enforce this archaic system are the FDA—whose employees are generally recruited from the medical and pharmaceutical industries and law enforcement agencies; the Department of Health & Human Services; state Departments of Health (who work with the FDA); and the various medical foundations (such as the American Cancer Society). |
| According to Senator Proxmire:
"The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against the manufacture, sale, and distribution of vitamins and minerals as food or food supplements. They are out to get the health food industry and to drive the health food stores out of business. And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice."
The 1976 Proxmire Amendment classified nutritional supplements as foods and gave consumers access to them at a reasonable cost. |
| The FDA obtained new, arbitrary powers—powers that they would abuse in their stringent regulation of vitamins and minerals.
HISTORY OF FDA EFFORTS TO RESTRICT DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
In 1962 the FDA (with encouragement from the AMA) published regulations setting minimum and maximum levels for dietary supplements—an enraged citizen protest resulted in the withdrawal of these directives. |
| We feed our farm animals better, giving them all of the vitamins and minerals we take out of the foods for humans."
Our food decisions are made for us by government and industry: Congress, regulatory agencies, and university researchers are influenced by powerful agriculture and food industry lobbyists. The FDA and AMA have extolled the food production industry on its volume, variety, and value of provisions, to the detriment of the public's health. Modern nutrient deficiencies have coincided with an epidemic of unexplained chronic conditions. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Another supplement I recommend is Vita-Sprout, from Maximum Living, a product that uses the sprouts and vegetables highest in phytochemicals, antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins and minerals which have been freeze-dried during their most nutritionally active phase to create a formula high in cancer preventive nutrients.
If all the recommendations I have given you seem impossible or unrealistic, I'll give you one you cannot refuse: Consume garlic. Now-a-days you don't have to isolate yourself or be afraid to lose your love life. There are many products with odorless garlic. |
| To increase shelf life, farmers harvest their fruits and vegetables long before they are mature, even though it's well established that they absorb most of their vitamins and minerals when they are almost ripe. In order to protect produce from dents, scrapes, and bruises, vegetables and fruits are boxed or piled. Packaging and transportation compromises nutritional value even more. If picked and left outside more than two or three hours, their nutritional value is further reduced 40 to 50 %. In storage, they lose more nutrients. |
| They will never fill up with vitamins and minerals sitting on supermarket shelves or on your kitchen counters! Potatoes lose up to 78 % of their vitamin C in a week. Spinach greens, asparagus, broccoli and peas lose 50 % of their vitamins before they ever get to market. However, industrial toxins like aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, nickel, and mercury will remain in us long after we are buried.
"Fresh" produce have the inconvenience of time restriction; processed, they have very long shelf lives and are much more profitable. |
| What we can deduce from the study in Finland is that minimal amounts of vitamins and minerals can't compete with the vast damage caused by the cigarettes. I shall ask Jay Hutchinson to write a letter to the Chinese and Japanese to warn them about the dangers of beta carotene and selenium reported; and also ask them why the have such a low incidence of cancer and why the Japanese, that smoke twice as much as the Finnish, have half the incidence of cancer of the lung!
It is certainly true that there is at present a controversy about vitamin supplements. |
| However, as they eat their corn flakes in the morning, both are totally convinced that they are taking, in one serving, vitamins and minerals sufficient to meet their needs for the day. After all, it says so on the back of the box!
If they were interested, doctors would design a diet based on specific nutritional requirements that take into account the age, gender and health of the individual. I would dare say, however, that this is an impossible task because few doctors are informed about nutrition and they spend so little time with their patients. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 In addition to containing many vitamins and minerals, brown rice contains the mineral silicon, which is a necessary element for the body. Some investigators suggest that silicon can help prevent burnout in high-performance individuals who drive themselves excessively in both their personal and professional lives. To cook brown rice, rinse the grains thoroughly and soak in water for several minutes, then rinse and drain. Add one cup of grain to two cups of water and a pinch of salt in a saucepan. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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| We will discuss more of these substances throughout the book, particularly in the chapter on vitamins and minerals.
Once inside our cells, glucose gets broken down by the process of glycolysis, just as in bacteria. This breakdown takes place outside the mitochondria. Two possibilities may now occur. The product from glycolysis (pyruvate) can either move into the mitochondria to be oxidized, or it can be broken down to lactate outside the mitochondria by a fermentative process similar to the one described for bacteria. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 Protein, carbohydrate, fiber and fat form the next level of importance. vitamins and minerals are the essential micronutrients required for health.
Above these essential substances are two levels of quasi (meaning "as if it were") nutrients. Conditionally essential nutrients include Coenzyme-QlO, carnitine, EPA and GLA (fatty acids) and much more. Some people may require these nutrients in the diet during certain stressful phases of their lives. Minor dietary constituents (MDCs) include a wide variety of plant compounds that have shown remarkable anticancer abilities. |
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