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OTHER NUTRIENTS
Since appetites often wane during periods of fever and infectious illness when the body's needs are greater than ever, it is very important to supplement the diet whenever possible with good high potency vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Individual needs may depart substantially from the following general recommendations. |
| We know it contains many important substances, including several saponins, many sterols, fla-vonoids, coumarins, alkaloids, acids, vitamins, amine acids, sugars, proteins (25% by weight), minerals, trace elements and other nutrients. Overall, it is one of the most nutritious foods known. Recent research has found that Alfalfa saponins inhibit increases in blood cholesterol levels by 25% when high cholesterol diets are fed to monkeys (43), rats (44-45), and rabbits (46-47). |
| Horsetail is rich in several other minerals that the body uses to rebuild injured tissue.
CHAPARRAL has substantial clinical and experimental support as a treatment for skin cancer (see DETOXIFY/NURTURE for details). In addition, at the Brooks hospital in Boston, a team of scientists found that the antioxidant nature of NDGA (nordihydroquaiaretic acid), the primary constituent of Chaparral, significantly inhibited the formation of dental caries (73-74% by one measure, 80-83% by another) (3). |
| SIBERIAN GINSENG, through the interplay of its many active constituents, including the panaxosides, ginsengosides, essential oils, carbohydrates, organic acids, amino acids, peptides, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes and sterols, is often able to normalize physiological imbalances (10). In this case, research has shown that it can raise abnormally low blood sugar levels (11-12) and that it can lower abnormally high blood sugar levels (12-13). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Or, to put it another way, your body's metabolism gets ramped up on refined carbs because you're putting in a bunch of low-quality fuel that has no vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and antioxidants."
How are processed grains similar to low-grade fuel? Well, those refined carbs are turned into glucose more quickly, meaning that your body doesn't need to work so hard to break down and digest them, because, as Dr. Wil-lett has explained, machinery has already done the work for you during processing. |
| They provide vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. They tend to be more filling and satisfying. They're more slowly metabolized so you don't have rapid blood sugar swings. And they have fiber, which could help prevent cancer and other diseases."
Cutting or Curtailing Carbs Could Take Off Your Weight
In recent years, researchers have been discovering that the excessive intake of these fast-acting carbs could be a primary cause of the rise in numbers on your bathroom scale.
Nutritionist Dr. Lieberman explains why. |
| Indeed, malnourished children weren't getting crucial minerals like zinc and iron, B vitamins, and protein, which are needed to develop a healthy nervous system and are required for mental and emotional health and stability.
Sugar Could Make You Blue by Robbing Your Body of Chromium and More
Most people mistakenly assume that if they eat sugar and take vitamins at the same time they won't be harmed. "As long as you eat refined sugars, many essential nutrients will be depleted from the body," says Nancy Appleton, Ph.D. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The healing power of minerals, special nutrients and trace elements. Rocklin CA: Prima Publishing, 1997, p. 312.
Connor SL, Connor WE. Are fish oils beneficial in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease? Am J Clin Nutr 1997 Oct; 66(4 Suppl):1020S-1031S.
Ello-Martin et al. Dietary energy density in the treatment of obesity: A year-long trial comparing 2 weight-loss diets. Am J Clin Nutr 2007 Jun; 85(6): 1465-77.
Erkkila AT, Lichtenstein AH. Fiber and cardiovascular disease risk: How strong is the evidence? / Cardiovasc Nurs 2006 Jan-Feb; 21(l):3-8. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is this attitude that allows people to go out and plunder the planet; strip the planet of its minerals, raw materials and clean water, then dump polluted water back in to the rivers, streams and oceans; to use clean air and return only toxic waste, jet fuel exhaust, car exhaust and coal plant exhaust into the atmosphere. Corporations say, "This piece of paper from the U.S. Patent Office says I own this gene sequence, this seed, this piece of land." It's amazing.
Native Americans had it right when they laughed at the white man who said, "We'll trade you these beads for Manhattan Island. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Scraped off the Arctic by glaciers and dropped in temperate latitudes by strong winds, the deep loess soils of the wotld's breadbaskets are incredibly fertile owing to a high proportion of fresh minerals. The absence of stones makes loess relatively easy to plow. But with little natural cohesion, loess erodes rapidly if stripped of vegetation and exposed to wind or rain.
Grazed by buffalo for at least two hundred thousand years, the Great Plains had a thick cover of tough grass that protected the fragile loess. |
Michael Pollan
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 Also, easy access to the major nutrients means that industrial crops develop smaller and shallower root systems than organically grown plants; deeply rooted plants have access to more soil minerals. Biological activity in the soil almost certainly plays a role as well; the slow decomposition of organic matter releases a wide range of plant nutrients, possibly including compounds science hasn't yet identified as important. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The synthetic forms of B vitamins, the non-coenzyme forms, or the cheapest minerals they can find and so on. That fools many consumers who do not know the difference.
Dr. Liers: I also want to talk a little bit about excipients. You need a certain amount of excipients to make something. You cannot do without them. For example, if you make a 3-milligram melatonin, and it is in the smallest number-four cap you can get, you still must have a hundred milligrams of something else filling it up.
The drug industry uses dicalcium phosphate. I do not go near dicalcium phosphate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Unlike the traditional nutrients (protein, fat, vitamins, minerals), phytonutrients are not "essential" for life, so some people prefer the term "phytochemical".
2. What are the Major Classes of Phytonutrients? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For me, vitamin D is in there because you need to get those minerals into the connective tissues and the bones in order to have a strong structure in the body.
Joint Health Formula works. It is so effective compared to most of the stuff available elsewhere. If you take some other product when you run out of our Joint Heath Formula, you'll generally know it right away.
Mike: I have seen other supplements for joint health or bone health. For example, the warehouse clubs have the cheapest vitamins I have ever seen in the world. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Keep in mind that because the minerals that comprise this powder have shine, their effect on skin is quite prominent—not really what you want if you're using powder to control or minimize shine.
© $$$ Inner Light Loose Powder ($19) comes in only two shades, which is extremely limiting given Aveda's multicultural foundation and concealer colors. Compared to the top loose powders, this talc-free option, while decidedly light, is drier and has way too much shine to look convincing in daylight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We may also put in nutritional yeast, and other factors like chia seeds, vitamins, and minerals, depending on the day.
We love conjugated linoleic acid. We think CLA is wonderful. The big dog gets the CLA to build the muscles, and because she is old and she has trouble making it around. We are trying to build strength so she can continue to function.
We have around 150 products that we sell, between HPDI and 2Docs, Inc. We could go on talking for a long time. I have another 150 product designs sitting in my head. It is all synergistic. |
Marshall Editions
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 Supplements: Medications used to treat acid reflux deplete the body of vitamin B12, folate, and various minerals. Take a multivitamin/multimineral supplement to compensate for this problem. Take 500 mg of choline, sold as plain choline or phosphatidylcholine, three times a day. To treat chronic acid reflux, take this in combination with 1,000 mg of pantothenic acid twice a day and 500 mg of thiamine first think in the morning for one month to see if symptoms resolve. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Like the thin pieces of paper that compose a deck of cards, clay is made up of layered minerals with cations—like potassium, calcium, and magnesium—sandwiched in between silicate sheets. Water that works its way into the clay structure can dissolve cations, contributing to a soil solution rich in plant-essential nutrients.
Fresh clays therefore make for fertile soil, with lots of cations loosely held on mineral surfaces. But as weathering continues, more of the nutrients get leached from a soil as fewer elements remain sandwiched between the silicates. |
| Rainwater infiltrating down into barren ground slowly leached elements out of near-surface materials, transforming rock-forming minerals into clays. Water slowly percolating down through soils redistributed the new clays, forming primitive mineral soils. The world's oldest fossil soil is more than three billion years old, almost as old as the most ancient sedimentary rock and probably land itself. Clay formation appears to have dominated early soil formation; the earliest fossil soils are unusually rich in potassium because there were no plants to remove nutrients from the clays. |
| Some scientists have proposed that clay minerals even played a key role in the evolution of life by providing highly reactive surfaces that acted as a substrate upon which organic molecules assembled into living organisms. The fossil record of life in marine sediments extends back to about the same time as the oldest soil. Perhaps it is no coincidence that guanine and cytosine (two of the four key bases in DNA) form in clay-rich solutions. |
| Whitney thought fertilizers sped the breakdown of soil minerals, accelerating soil production. Pumped up on fertilizers, the whole system could run faster.
In effect, Whitney conceived of the soil as a machine that required tuning in order to sustain high crop yields. He thought that American farmers' destructive habit of ignoring the particular type of soil in theit fields reflected the fact that they didn't stay on their land very long. In 1910 more than half of America's farmers had been on their land for less than five years, not long enough to get to know their dirt. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| People think fruit juice concentrate is as healthy as fruit, but it's stripped of most of its vitamins, minerals, and fiber," she explains.
6. HONEY IS MUCH BETTER FOR YOU THAN SUGAR, AND WE PROCESS IT DIFFERENTLY.
NOT TRUE. While widely touted as a much safer alternative to sugar, honey is made up of roughly one-third fructose, one-third glucose, and a little maltose, along with nearly 20 percent water. "It's a common misunderstanding that honey is different from other sugars or sweeteners," Dr. Appleton says. "But honey is even more concentrated than table sugar. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Lentils are also a terrific source of folate and a good source of at least seven minerals. One cup provides 37 percent of the Daily Value for iron and 49 percent of the Daily Value for manganese, an important trace mineral that's essential for growth, reproduction, wound healing, peak brain function, and the proper metabolism of sugars, insulin, and cholesterol. worth knowing
Unlike beans, lentils need no presoaking and are ready in 20 to 30 minutes. Brown and green lentils hold their shape well after cooking and are excellent for salads or other dishes where you want texture. |
Ron Garner
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 During this resting time we abstain from eating solid food and take a few natural food source supplements to ensure the body is getting required minerals, enzymes, and bowel flora. It is also necessary to have at least one good bowel movement daily while on a detoxification program. Bowel stagnation increases toxicity, blocks healing, and defeats the purpose of fasting. During fasting, it is also helpful to have an enema each day to remove toxins and prevent their resorption into the blood, organs, and tissues. The use of colonic irrigations would be even more effective. |
| We are consuming incomplete nutrition because the food lacks the natural vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes necessary to maintain life and build vitality. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Other minerals are used for the same purpose as talc, and though they may sound more exotic, they are not any better for the skin. Including cornstarch or rice starch in powders can help create a beautiful texture and these are interesting substitutes for talc, but they can also be a skin concern because there is evidence that they can clog pores and cause breakouts. I try to screen for these in that regard.
When it comes to bronzing powders, I generally suggest using them as a contour color and not as an all-over face color. Darkening the face almost always makes for an overdone look. |
| It consists primarily of water, slip agents, triglyceride, several thickeners, shea butter, film-forming agent, preservatives, a menthol derivative, several plant extracts, minerals, and a tiny amount of vitamin E. Avon refers to this as their "most advanced and powerful facial lifting product ever." Well, it isn't, at least not from any published research, or any research Avon is willing to part with, and not in comparison to other products Avon sells. |
| Be forewarned that sleeping with this product on your face will result in makeup stains on your pillowcase, and that leaving this stuff on overnight would most likely be drying and irritating. minerals on the skin, even plain talc or chalk or soil of any kind, aren't soothing in the least, and need to be washed off, not worn to bed, and this product is no exception.
Getting back to the mineral claims—is there anything to them? Does this "pure mineral concentrate" hold the secret to revitalized, youthful skin? |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 According to NES theory, the constant metabolizing and processing of fats, minerals, proteins, and carbohydrates in the stomach and bowel linings actually generates an energy field of what is known as magnetic confetti, those tiny bits of magnetic energy left over from the forming and breaking of bonds and other such biochemical processes. However, the huge toxic load that can accumulate in these organs because of foods contaminated by chemicals from pesticides and fertilizers may severely compromise the bioenergetics of your stomach field. |
| Because of these specific links, Integrator 3 is involved bioenergetically in your ability to absorb nutrients, especially various minerals and proteins. Finally, certain organ lining tissues show up in Integrator 3, including epithelial tissue and all of the mucosae of your nose, throat, bronchi, and stomach.
If you are familiar with TCM, you know that the small intestine meridian travels up to the neck and shoulder blades. Peter confirmed this pathway in Energetic Integrator 3 through his matching experiments. |
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