| Others provide a cornucopia of vitamins and minerals, but no protein. No food provides everything. "Rating" them would involve making a decision about which essential vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients are more important, and that's impossible. You need them all. However, I did put stars on the foods I thought were exceptional in terms of nutritional value.
That said, there are some key factors to be aware of when reading this book. Four, to be exact. Having a passing acquaintance with them will enrich your understanding of the things that make foods healthy. |
| Milk from grass-fed cows contains higher levels of cancer-fighting CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) and will be richer in the full gamut of vitamins and minerals. Vitally important nutrients like vitamins A and D are greatest in milk from cows eating green grass. And the healthy enzymes contained in raw milk help the body assimilate all those great nutrients, including, by the way, calcium. According to Connecticut naturopath Dr. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The final step in food processing is the addition of vitamins and minerals, to make up for what was lost during the initial heat-stripping phase. In an ironic sense, food processing might be defined thus: taking a food from nature, removing everything natural from it, then adding preservatives, dyes, bleaches, flavors, emulsifiers, and stabilizers to make it taste, look, feel, and smell like what it was originally supposed to be, but no longer is. The resemblance is there, but little else remains. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Learning about the different vitamins and minerals in the foods we eat can be useful in maintaining some semblance of a balanced diet. With this knowledge you can maximize your natural nutrients by eating organic foods as often as possible because testing indicates that organic products have higher levels of nutrients than non-organic products.
Along those lines, I once had a heated debate over supplements with Charles Damiano. |
| The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book
Shari Lieberman, Nancy Pauling Bruning ISBN: 1583331522
Book Description: While implementing the latest research, the authors expertly cut through the confusing fads and hype surrounding exotic (and less essential) nutrients to help people decide which vitamins and minerals are necessary in their diets, and the appropriate dosage. herbal remedies and natural healing
Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care
Andrew Weil, M.D. |
| To make matters worse, when food processors claim to fortify these foods by adding vitamins and minerals, they are inserting chemicals that imitate, not really replace, the natural nutrients found in food. These are poor imitations that may do more harm than good."
In the face of the multitude of products that make claims of improved health, it is ironic that your best source may end up being the simple once-a-day multivitamin and mineral supplement that started it all. "I recommend using supplements that are manufactured directly from plant or nature-based sources. |
Ray D. Strand
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 The Problems Eyes Have
The role of oxidative stress as the cause of degenerative changes in the eyes has generated significant interest in the use of antioxidant vitamins and minerals as a means of preventing or even treating age-related eye diseases. No fewer than six large, multicentered clinical trials are presently ongoing to study carefully the use of various nutritional supplements in the following diseases.1
Cataracts
Cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure for patients more than sixty years of age. Its economic impact on the U.S. health-care system is tremendous. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The radiation breaks down any vitamins and minerals in the food and changes their natural structure. Your body cannot handle these irradiated molecules and they eventually weaken your immune and digestive system from the harmful molecules and the lack of proper nutrition.
Important Facts about the Toxic Effects of Microwaves
1. Drs. Hans Ulrich Hertel and Dr. Bernard H. Blanc performed a clinical study, which first appeared in the journal Franz Weber, showing the degenerative forces of microwave ovens. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 As a result, the nutrients are shown as a percentage of a daily value (DV). For vitamins and minerals, these DVs are based on reference daily intakes, which in turn are based on the RDAs from 1968 [55]. For macronutrients, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and potassium, the DVs are based on Daily Reference Values. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Raw juice therapy helps flush out the toxins and supplies enzymes as well as raw vitamins and minerals, Dr. Hodes says. Colonic irrigation will help clean out the colon of years of accumulated putrefaction and helps the body function properly. Drinking distilled water, at least in the beginning or for part of the treatment, is also beneficial, along with the use of herbal noncaffeinated teas.
Dr. Hodes also recommends that a practitioner of biological dentistry remove, in proper sequence, your silver-mercury dental amalgam fillings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid isolated vitamins and minerals
I also recommend that you move away from isolated vitamins and minerals. So forget about those cheap, low-cost bottles of vitamin C, vitamin E or those B vitamins you might find at the wholesale clubs, pharmacies or grocery stores. These are typically not going to do you very much good, because your body doesn't need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. If you want vitamin C, go with whole-food concentrates. |
David Steinman
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 In one area of the factory, Buckles showed me giant fermentation vats where friendly bacteria, nourished with simple vitamins and minerals, were used to produce biological enzymes that catalyzed initial reactions that turned corn to starch and eventually into polylactides that became the coagulated and smoothened polymers.
I realized that what I was seeing here in Blair, Nebraska, was a plastic distillation and manufacturing plant not unlike those in the chemical corridors of Texas, Louisiana, Delaware, and New Jersey. |
| What he meant was, the vitamins and minerals being sold today are largely synthetic. Once our vitamin and mineral supplements were fashioned from whole foods such as cereal grasses, and they were packed with organic whole food goodness. But in the last fifty years, many of the most popular vitamin and mineral formulas are derived from almost wholly synthetically created nutrients more likely to have been fashioned from petrochemical starter materials and inorganic minerals in a laboratory than harvested from the Earth." On the other hand, he said, New Chapter takes its wisdom from Nature. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Indeed, the association between fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain intakes and reduced risk of disease is often stronger than the association between intakes of their nutrient components (such as fiber, vitamins and minerals, or carotenoids) and risk. The reasons for this are not well understood, but they might include unmeasured food components, interactions among the components within a food, and inaccurate composition data for the components. |
Jack Challem
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 The Nutrition Reporter™
Dozens of articles on vitamins and minerals. www.nutritionreporter.com
The Official No More Bad Moods Web Site www.foodmoodsolution.com
Price-Pottenger Foundation
A Web site dedicated to two twentieth-century nutritional pioneers. www.price-pottenger. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Many fruits, vegetables, and dairy products are high in sugars such as fructose and lactose, but these foods are also important sources of many vitamins and minerals. In contrast, foods such as nondiet carbonated beverages or fruit-flavored punches usually supply few nutrients other than energy. Thus, the guideline urges Americans to avoid foods that are high in added sugars (and a table lists examples of these foods: soft drinks, sugars and candy, cakes, cookies, pies, fruit-flavored drinks and fruit punch, and dairy desserts). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Since sugar-loaded junk foods strip our bodies of such nutrients, we benefit from these extra vitamins and minerals.
* Organic foods are safer. The soil organic foods are grown in is richer, containing no herbicides or pesticides to destroy or dissolve the natural nutrients in the plants and the fruits. On the other hand, regular crops are contaminated with pesticides, other chemicals, and irradiation, and undergo genetic modification. Organic foods are exposed to fewer nitrates and other harmful residues. sf Organic foods are healthier for children in their growth years. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| The American PHS II enrolled 15,000 physicians aged 55 years and older in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test [3-carotene, vitamin E (400 IU synthetic on alternate days), vitamin C (500 mg/d), and multivitamin (RDA of most vitamins and minerals) ina2x2x2x2 factorial design [86]. This study will be completed in December 2007. The effect of supplementation on the prevention of total and prostate cancer, CVD, and age-related eye diseases (cataracts and macular degeneration) are being examined. |
| MICRONUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ATHLETES
The daily requirement for at least some vitamins and minerals is increased beyond population levels in people undertaking a strenuous exercise program. The potential reasons for this increased requirement are increased loss through sweat, urine, and perhaps feces and through increased production of free radicals. Unfortunately, at present we are unable to quantify the additional micronutrient requirements of athletes. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Goldwag notes, significant weight loss is likely to bring about "marked deprivation of the essential nutrients, including the amino acids needed to manufacture the proper proteins, as well as a deficiency in many vitamins and minerals. That in itself can then aggravate the depression."
There are many straightforward solutions to at least some of the challenges associated with depression. Dr. Goldwag suggests preparing food in advance. "I recommend preparing a raw salad once a week. Certain fresh vegetables can be stored for quite a period in a refrigerator and will keep quite well. |
| But what you have here is an industry making about one-fourth the amount of money as all the herbs and organic produce, all of the natural food stores and the vitamins and minerals that are sold, everything that we call the health movement. Electroconvulsive therapy makes that amount of money, and kills one in ten thousand people.
Here's something else to consider: 51 percent of all senior citizens in nursing homes are given antipsychotic medication and yet less than one half of 1 percent have ever been diagnosed as psychotic. The horrors continue. |
| Calapai explains, "The vitamins and minerals that we recommend are based upon the individual's particular needs. We check to see if the patient is deficient in different nutrients or if they're not absorbing certain nutrients present in their diet. The ranges are individually different and depend on the result of the physical exam."
Chelation therapy is an easily administered alternative to drugs and surgery that involves the infusion into the bloodstream of the amino acid EDTA, which moves through blood vessels and removes toxic metals. |
| Some of these elderly people have difficulty absorbing vitamins and minerals simply because of long-term chronic deficiencies, so an injectable program becomes very helpful." He also uses disodium-magnesium EDTA chelation therapy to remove calcium from soft tissues, where it doesn't belong, and to try to get it back into the bone, where it does belong. The chelation process, which is an intravenous treatment, helps with soft tissue decalcification, in addition to removing heavy metals. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| MAX Study: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the health effects of antioxidant vitamins and minerals. Arch. Intern. Med. 164, 2335-2342.
60. Meyer, F., Galan, P., Douville, P., Bairati, I., Kegle, P., Bertrais, S., Estaquio, C, and Hercberg, S. (2005). Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplementation and prostate cancer prevention in the SU.VI.MAX trial. Int. J. Cancer 116(2), 182-186.
61. Clark, L. C, Combs G. F. Jr., Turnbull, B. W., Slate, E. H, Chalker, D. K., Chow, J., Davis, L. S., Glover, R. A., Graham, G. F., Gross, E. G, Krongrad, A., Lesher, J. L., Park, H. K., Sanders, B. B. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Where you find a healthy dose of phytonutrients, you often find a cornucopia of vitamins and minerals.
Calcium and Magnesium for Women
Women have an extra need for these minerals, so you would do well to add a calcium/magnesium supplement containing the proper ratio of these important macronutrients. Avoid carbonate forms of calcium (e.g., Turns), and instead look for a calcium-magnesium chelate containing a 2:1 ratio. This would be taken in addition to your multivitamin-mineral formula. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Perhaps this plant has the same vitamins and minerals as a food you've tasted in the past.
Your sensual awareness of the plant is crucial because it is fundamental to the successful movement into a co-creative partnership. This is the level where you begin to understand the personality of the plant and can determine whether there is mutual compatibility. Does this encounter spark your interest in this plant so that your excitement motivates you to move to an even deeper level? From the plant's perspective, it is stimulated by your attention and receives your resonant energy. |
Hyla Cass
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 In this chapter, we'll be looking at each of the various nutrients, including the fuel-supplying carbohydrates, the building-block proteins and fats, and the catalysts and cofactors, otherwise known as vitamins and minerals. We'll finish with a list of the basics that will get you—and keep you—in vibrant health.
I also hope to inspire you to get started with a basic, well-rounded supplement program to provide a rock-solid nutritional foundation. Then, as you read later chapters on individual drugs, you can fine-tune your program. |
| Recent analyses of nearly a dozen popular diet plans show that none of them provide 100 percent of the RDAs for thirteen vitamins and minerals. What's more, the RDAs are a one-size-hts-all approach to nutrition, and each of us has different requirements. Individual physiology, lifestyle, stress, age, prescription drug use, and physical condition all weigh heavily on our nutritional needs. The RDA is not enough to keep us in optimal health.
Consider this research. |
| NIH fact sheets on vitamins and minerals.
Seafood Choices Alliance—www.seafoodchoices.org: Check this site to ensure that you are choosing seafood that is sustainable and as nontoxic as possible.
Website of medical writer and diabetes consultant David Mendosa—www.mendosa. com: Includes an extensive listing of glycemic indices of foods and information about diabetes.
Chapter 3: Prescriptions for Blood Sugar Balance Books
Braly, James, M.D. and Patrick Holford. The H Factor: Homocysteine, the Best Single Indicator of Whether You Are Likely to Live Longer or Die Yowng. |
| Any drug that causes an increase in urination can drain the body's levels of water-soluble nutrients, including B vitamins and minerals such as magnesium and potassium. The major offenders here are drugs used to treat hypertension, particularly the diuretics that reduce blood pressure by flushing more water out of the body.
OTHER FACTORS THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO DRUG-NUTRIENT DEPLETION
Traits both inborn and acquired can raise your chances of becoming nutrient-depleted due to the medications you take. For example:
?Being under chronic or intense stress, either physically or mentally. |
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