Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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 Proteins: 31.1 gm. vitamin B: Thiamine .67 mg.; Calories: 552 Riboflavin none; Niacin 1.4 mg. Fat: 47.4 gm.
Carbohydrates: 11.6gm.
Reported health benefits: The pignolia, or pine nut as it is sometimes called, is one of the best sources of protein in the nut family. It has been found to be a good aid in nourishing and building a strong body for those suffering from emaciation. It is also recommended in cases of low blood pressure and run-down conditions. |
| Calcium: 47 mg. vitamin C: 11 mg. Iron: 1.5 mg.
Protein: 2.9 gm. Phosphorus: 66 mg.
Calories: 13 to 82
Reported health benefits: Salsify or oyster plant, as it is sometimes known, is recommended as a good general body builder; also beneficial in cases of insomnia, colitis and neuritis.
Preparation: There are a number of delicious preparations of this vegetable. For the basic cooking take eight roots salsify; wash, scrape clean, and slice thin into water to which one tablespoon vinegar has been added. Drain. |
| Niacin .6 mg. vitamin C: 8 mg. Protein: 1.2 gm. Calories: 31
Fat: .2 gm.
Carbohydrates: 7.3 gm. Calcium: 21 mg. Iron: .8 mg. Phosphorus: 44 mg. Potassium: 200 mg.
Reported health benefits: The pumpkin is valuable for cases of dropsy (abnormal accumulations of fluids in cavities of the body), infected or inflamed intestines, stomach ulcers and hemorrhoids. Pumpkin also raises blood pressure and thus helps the blood in carrying nourishment to various parts of the body.
Preparation: Most pumpkins are used for pies, although pumpkin cookies and pumpkin custard dishes are popular. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 This activated vitamin D aids in calcium absorption. (2) The trained women ate more carbohydrate, which is known to increase the body's calcium absorption. (3) The trained women had more growth hormone, which might increase calcium absorption and make bones stronger.
Another Tufts study examined the bone health of older women before and after a one-year-long exercise training program.24 The women were divided into four groups:
Group 1 walked at a brisk pace for 45 minutes, 4 days a week. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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| It meets the requirements for classification as a vitamin and is considered essential for growth and for the prevention of fatty livers. It retains its value despite exposure to heat and is well preserved in dried foods over long periods.
In addition to participating in the transport and metabolism of fats, it plays a role in the normal functioning of nerves and is important in the metabolism process, especially in the synthesis of some proteins.
Result of deficiency. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Naturopathic physicians Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno recommend bromelain for the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome that does not respond to vitamin B6 supplements or that has been diagnosed as potentially requiring surgery.
• Crohn's disease, diabetes, gastric ulcers, and gastric upset. Bromelain intensifies the digestive process by breaking down proteins. This makes it easier for the stomach to pass food to the intestine. This effect can counteract gastropare-sis, a condition caused by long-term diabetic nerve damage in which the stomach is unable to pass food along properly. |
Christopher Hobbs
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 LEM also contains various nucleic acid derivatives; vitamin B compounds, especially B-l (thiamine) and B-2 (riboflavin); ergosterol; and eritadenine, an anticholesteremic agent (Sharon, 1988; Breene, 1990). Besides active polysaccharides and protein-polysaccharide complexes, water-soluble lignins were isolated from LEM (Hanafusa et al, 1990). Both lentinan and LEM have been studied extensively for their interesting biological effects, which will be reviewed in the following Pharmacology section. |
| Bl, B2, and vitamin P (Ying, 1987), while the dried mycelium is a source of Bl, B2, B5 (niacin), B6, and B7 (biotin), but not B12 (Solomko and Eliseeva, 1988). One analysis of oyster mushrooms, including P. ostreatus, revealed appreciable amounts of all essential amino acids with the exception of tryptophan. The protein quality was high enough to nearly equal animal-derived protein (Eden and Wuensch, 1991). Grown in a medium of peat extract, the mushroom has high protein content and high concentrations of essential fatty acids and minerals (Manu-Tawiah and Martin, 1987). |
Frank A. Oski, M.D.
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 In addition, vitamin D and body hormones play an important role in increasing calcium absorption.
The lack of relationship between the calcium in your diet and the amount that ultimately gets into your blood and then to your bones and teeth is best illustrated by the comparisons that have been made between infants drinking human milk or cow milk. As I've said previously, cow milk contains 1,200 milligrams of calcium per quart; human milk has only 300 milligrams per quart. Yet, despite these differences, the infant receiving human milk actually absorbs more calcium into his body. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| In fact, studies have shown that exposing shiitake to direct sunlight for 3 hours/day increases its vitamin D2 content up to 5 times. Shiitake is an efficient source for this nutrient, containing between 873 and 4,381 IU/100 g of dry mushroom weight (Kobayashi, 1988; Kiribunchi, 1990; Takamura et al, 1991; Takeuchi et al, 1991). Sunlight exposure also increases the free amino acid content which is about 2,180 mg% in the dry fruiting bodies, and it makes them sweeter and less bitter (Kiribuchi, 1991). |
Frank A. Oski, M.D.
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| Some products are therefore fortified with vitamin A. Check the label to be sure.
Powdered milk is marketed as powdered whole milk or powdered skim milk. Both have had most of their water removed. The powdered skim milk has also had most of the fat removed before it is dried. Powdered milk of either variety is much less expensive than the fluid form from which it is derived. In general, powdered milk costs only one-third as much as whole milk. It possessed the same nutritional advantages of the liquid milk and produces the same problems as well. |
Stanton Peele
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 A wide variety of drug (along with hormone and vitamin) therapies, as well as psychological counseling, are now actively marketed for relieving PMS symptoms. Later in the 1980s, PMS has been joined in popularity by postpartum depression (PPD). At the International Congress of Psychology in Australia in the fall of 1988, I (along with all other attendees) was presented with a packet including an advertisement from a private treatment center saying a third of mothers suffer from PPD. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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| Calcium: 11 mg. vitamin C: .5 mg. Iron: .7 mg.
Protein: .4 gm. Phosphorus: 17 mg.
Calories: 57
Reported health benefits: Beneficial in cases of sluggish liver, constipation, arthritis, and acidosis.
Preparation: This fruit should be eaten only when very ripe, or else it is very acid-forming. It should not be eaten raw, and is usually made into jellies, preserves or marmalades.
To make a quince honey jelly, wash, pare and core one and one-half pounds quinces. Add two and one-half cups water to parings and cook for thirty minutes. Grate or grind quinces or slice very thin. |
Elaine Feuer
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 The New York Times entitled its front page article on the Finnish study, "Vitamin Supplements Are Seen As No Guard Against Diseases." Once again following the "official line," the media disregarded the multitude of studies that demonstrate the benefits of antioxidants used in optimum amounts. In their effort to mislead the public about nutrition, the government wasted $40 million of taxpayers' money on a study that should never have been undertaken in the first place.
BENEFITS FROM HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH ? |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Sunlight is needed for the proper functioning of the whole endocrine system and for the production of vitamin D needed for the fetus. If one lives in a northern climate with limited sunlight, at least three hours per day of exposure to full-spectrum lighting is helpful.
Adequate sleep, rest, and relaxation are important to recover from the stresses of modern life. From the hours of ten in the evening to two in the early morning the immune system does its most regenerating, while we are asleep.
One of my nutritional mentors, Dr. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Cassava, bitter almonds, apricot pits, lentils, millet, beans and sweet potatoes all contain a tremendously beneficial phytochemical, Amygdalin, also called vitamin B17, which is the crown jewel in the extrinsic nutritional defense mechanism against cancer.
Amounts of Fruits and Vegetables for Cancer Prevention
Five or more servings of fruits and vegetables daily will help to prevent cancer. A serving equals one-half cup of fruit or vegetables, a cup of raw leafy vegetables, a medium-sized piece of raw fruit, or 170 grams of fruit or vegetable juice. |
| Other potent free-radical fighting supplements are coenzyme Q10, SOD (superoxide dismutase), and vitamin B17, otherwise known as Laetrile and Amygdalin.
In theory, if we are able to neutralize free radicals, we can diminish the incidence of disease and slow the aging process. Dr. John P. Richey, Jr. of the School of Medicine of Louisville University uses antioxidants to prolong the average life span of rats up to 64%. |
| Giovannucci's team discovered that a high intake of folic acid, from fresh vegetables and fruit and vitamin supplements, lowered the risk of tumor development.
Other research shows folic acid directs the growth of new cells in the body. A shortage or lack of this nutrient may contribute to improper or abnormal cell formation. We now know that a lack of folic acid in early stages of pregnancy increases the chances of birth defects.
Who are we going to believe? The nutritionally challenged minds of the scientists? |
Leo Galland
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 I recommend these frequently to patients in my medical practice and have been impressed with their safety and efficacy:
1. vitamin C, two thousand milligrams per day, taken in divided doses, increases the activity of phagocytes.90
2. Exposure to full-spectrum artificial light, ten thousand lux for thirty minutes per day, during the winter, can improve mood and the function of natural killer cells in people prone to winter depression.91 You can buy an apparatus for delivering full-spectrum light of this intensity from Bio-Brite, Inc. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| Thirty-three of the studies show vitamin C and bioflavonoids in berries, cantaloupes, citrus fruits and green leafy vegetables protect us against cancer of the cervix, the esophagus and stomach. Even the skeptical National Cancer Institute recommends eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day to help prevent cancer.
A Japanese researcher, T. Harayama, conducted a 10 year study of 265,118 subjects who answered questions about their dietary intake. |
| Amygdalin was protecting these people from developing cancer and called it vitamin B17. Later, his research group found that Amygdalin also had powerful cancer killer capabilities because it contains cyanide that destroys cancer cells. Already judged as therapeutically ineffective, health officials now claimed that laetrile was also a poison! Interestingly, we constantly eat produce with cyanide, about 1200 natural foods have it. We have treated over 40,000 patients with high dosages of
Amygdalin and never had one case of cyanide poisoning. |
George R. Schwartz
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 Elmer McCollum, a well-known vitamin chemist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was advised that Larrowe should drop the idea of antifreeze and set out to manufacture glutamate.
Larrowe contacted Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Ikeda and offered them an opportunity to buy his wastewater glutamate, and in 1926 Dr. Ikeda, Dr. Suzuki, and Dr. Suzuki's son arrived from Japan. Laboriously, they made their way to Mason City, Iowa.
The corporate team was convinced that they could manufacture glutamate and sell it in the Orient and in the United States through the Larrowe-Suzuki Company. |
| The example of vitamin C and scurvy is illustrative. For example, scurvy began to increase with the growth of sailing and shipping. From the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, more than two million deaths were attributed to scurvy. James Lind, a Scottish physician, demonstrated the cause in the late 1700s as a lack of fresh fruit. Yet, 50 years after his "proof ships still routinely left port for prolonged sea voyages without a supply of fruit. |
| Modern medicine accepts the idea of deficiency diseases such as scurvy, but even now we are seeing more patients with initially unidentified vitamin deficiency symptoms. In a similar manner, we are often ignoring the toxic effects of MSG. We now have a substantial body of evidence—scientific studies and case reports—that MSG will cause troublesome reactions for many people and seriously harm their health and well-being.
It has been more than 30 years since the first case report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is more than 28 years since Dr. Schaumberg, Dr. |
Elaine Feuer
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| Two-time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling lost the respect and gained the ridicule of mainstream medicine when he became an adamant supporter of vitamin C. Alternative-minded physicians were (and still are) publicly derided by the medical establishment; some have even had their licenses revoked.12
For years the AMA engaged in an illegal boycott against chiropractors; an injunction against their boycott was finally affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on 7 February 1990. |
| Researchers at UCLA recently analyzed a ten-year federal health survey, reporting that low vitamin C intake was a strong predictor of death from heart disease: Men who consumed 300 milligrams daily (five times the RDA) suffered 40 percent fewer deaths than those consuming 50 milligrams. Researchers at Harvard are seeing similar results with beta carotene and its relation to cardiovascular disease. |
Gale Maleskey
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 May help: Allergies, asthma, carpal tunnel syndrome, bruises, gout, high cholesterol, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, low immunity, arthritis, and sciatica. With vitamin C, used for gingivitis, colds and flu, canker sores, cold sores, menopausal discomforts, heavy menstrual bleeding, vaginitis, and genital herpes. May also strengthen capillaries, enhance connective tissue repair, decrease risk of heart disease and stroke, and help prevent cancer.
Special instructions: Take with food. |
Elaine Feuer
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| Across the state of Texas, the FDA confiscated such products as vitamin C, aloe vera, and herbal teas—health food stores were being raided for Sleepytime Tea! When dozens of food supplements were seized in simultaneous raids on twelve Whole Foods Markets, Sun Harvest Farms, and Ye Seekers Horizon, the story was buried on the last page of the Sports Section of the Dallas Morning News. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| It couldn't be done with megadoses of vitamin or mineral supplementation, however. The only thing that worked to reverse the aging process and bring the animals back to a normal state of health was to give them raw foods. Dr. Kollath called these heat-sensitive, unknown factors in the raw food "auxones." Most likely what he termed auxones were enzymes. There are many other factors in raw foods that also support health, but the enzymes are probably the most significant.
Similar animal research was done over a ten-year period by Francis Pottenger, M.D., using 900 cats. |
Mary G. Enig
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 Ultraviolet (UV) light is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum responsible for changing the cholesterol in the skin into the first form of vitamin D. It is also the part of the sun's spectrum responsible for tanning of the skin, or for burning of the skin on excessive exposure especially in people with fan skin. The wavelength for UV averages about 300 nm, which is between visible light (about 600 nm) and x rays (about 50 nm), and it is invisible to the eye.
Unsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids with one or more double bonds. |
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