Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To outlaw vitamins is to criminalize nature. If vitamin C is to be outlawed today, then will oranges be outlawed next year? What about orange extract? Orange juice?
If plants grown in organic soils contain trace minerals that are on the EU ban list, will those vegetables also be outlawed?
That's where all this is headed: the outright banning of anything from nature. One day, you could be thrown in prison for growing broccoli in your own garden. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And of course, B vitamins are water soluble vitamins.
Moving on in the herbs category, of course there are many, many healing herbs for heart health, including herbs like garlic, onions, and juniper berries. But I think that the big solution here when it comes to avoiding atherosclerosis, and doing what many people describe as unclogging their arteries, really comes down to avoiding hydrogenated oils, fried foods, and trans fatty acids.
This is a disorder for which avoidance is really the best treatment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A tremendous number of anti-viral vitamins, minerals, Amazon herbs, Chinese herbs, and nutritional supplements are available right now to boost immune system function and fight off viral infections (including the H5N1 strain). As far as vitamins and minerals go, the two best defenders against viral infections are vitamin C and zinc. In the world of herbs, echinacea and astragalus have earned a strong reputation as virus fighters. A wide assortment of foods also help boost immune system function: foods like garlic, ginger and onions. |
Alex Steffen
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 He wanted to create a store that sold healthy food, rather than a place that sold mostly vitamins and supplements, as so many "health-food" stores of the day did. That first store succeeded just enough—selling a sufficient volume of more expensive, but higher-quality foods—that in a few years he expanded to a second store and then a third. The business simply brought in more income than it cost to run, and generated enough profit to eventually expand into larger and larger stores. |
| In 2006 the scope of the lab will expand into growing and distributing the Moringa oleifeira plant (packed with vitamins, minerals, eighteen amino acids, chlorophyll, omega-3 oils, phytonutrients, and antioxidants) and the Artemisia annua plant, which is used to treat malaria (a leading killer in the Global South) and boosts the immune system.
Many people in rural Zimbabwe, influenced by the media and by their dependence on outside institutions, perceive their small farms and villages as useless and themselves as without opportunity. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| The three Bs are vitamins Bl, B2 and B3 while PEA stands for Protein, vitamin E, and vitamin A. Researchers say that people who are deficient in these nutrients are more likely to get nuclear cataracts. You can defend against deficiency and vision loss at the same time when you know what foods to eat.
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| Here's how certain vitamins can help.
Enjoy more E. By preventing the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, vitamin E guards your arteries from plaque build-up — or so the theory goes. Once the hero of heart health, vitamin E's reputation has diminished lately. Several recent studies have found no conclusive evidence that vitamin E provides any benefits to your heart.
But don't dismiss vitamin E just yet. A new Italian study showed that vitamin E was absorbed better when taken with food. |
| So blast away at asthma's overall effects by insuring your diet contains plenty of vitamins A, C, and E as well as the minerals magnesium and selenium. All have been proven to help prevent or reduce asthma symptoms.
Jump-start your breathing with a jolt of Java
You're probably familiar with a half-dozen reasons why coffee isn't good for you. Well, if you have asthma, here's why you can indulge in a cup or two of Java without guilt. The caffeine in your coffee may actually improve your ability to breathe for up to four hours. |
| And here's why - they contain vitamins and minerals that attack diabetes head on.
Gain ground with grapes. A natural grape compound called pterostilbene could lower blood sugar, fight diabetes, and even take on cancer. Dr. Agnes M. Rimando, a chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who researches this odd-sounding substance says, "My study is saying that there's another compound in grapes with equal cancer-fighting power as resveratrol, but which has antidiabetic properties as well. |
Greg Critser
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 The growing alternative-medicine movement, with its reliance on herbs and vitamins, appealed to a generation concerned with what was natural. The movie version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest rekindled old suspicions about psychiatric medications, one of the industry's most profitable monopolies. News stories about abuse of Valium, one of the most profitable postwar drugs, led to its reclassification as a controlled substance in 1978, making it harder to prescribe. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| It's loaded with vitamins and plant compounds called phytochemicals, which protect your stomach's lining. Broccoli, broccoli sprouts, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower — all members of cabbage's family tree - could be beneficial, too.
Cranberry juice. Health experts have known for years that cranberry juice fights urinary tract infections. This tart drink has its own type of phytochemicals that prevent bacteria from setting up shop.
Now researchers believe it might work against H. pylori in your stomach. |
Greg Critser
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| And that does not include the vitamins and testosterone. Rock on ...
By the turn of this century, superseniorism, like risk reduction and performance drugs, was doing one thing above all else: it was creating and expanding a new pharmaceutical appetite — and among seniors, the appetite for pills, by the end of the 1990s, seemed to know no end. Putting aside all of the off-label prescribing and the taking of supplements, seniors were using more pills than ever before. Over-the-counter medication use was also at an all-time high. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 The Nutrients and Other Substances at Risk ore than 30 health-enhancing substances—including vitamins, minerals, and phyto-chemicals—are depleted by the medications included in this book. Sometimes the problem is severe, sometimes it is subtle; sometimes it comes on rapidly, and other times it doesn't strike for years.
This chapter briefly describes the health-enhancing substances robbed by medications. (These substances are collectively called nutrients for convenience, even though they're not all nutrients. |
| BEWARE THE FOLIC ACID THIEVES
Aspirin, ibuprofen, Celebrex, hydrocortisone, birth control pills, the Tegretol used for seizures, the Tagamet given for ulcers, the Decadron prescribed for asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, the phenobarbital taken for seizures and insomnia, the Cli-noril specified for ankylosing spondylitis, gout, and other forms of arthritis, and numerous other drugs can rob you of this member of the B family of vitamins.
A deficiency of folic acid can cause fatigue, shortness of breath, irritability, and weakness. |
| Bulk agents" such as psyllium gum, used to keep blood sugar under control and reduce weight, can diminish the absorption of riboflavin, vitamins A, C, and B12, prompting increased susceptibility to infections, sore tongue, depression, anxiety, crusty skin, reproductive problems, and dry eyes. And that's just the beginning of the list of medications that can block the absorption of nutrients.
Unfortunately, even when nutrients are properly absorbed, they aren't necessarily "protected," because certain drugs increase their rate of excretion from the body. |
| A member of the B family of vitamins, folic acid helps the body produce red blood cells. A shortage of this vitamin means you'll have fewer red blood cells ferrying oxygen to your body tissues, which means that you'll soon start feeling very tired. A lack of folic acid can also set off gastrointestinal difficulties by triggering abnormal development of the cells lining the stomach and intestines.
The obvious solution is to give everyone who takes Naprosyn a folic acid supplement—or to make sure that their diets contain plenty of the vitamin— to replace what the drug takes away. |
| A growing body of scientific evidence proves that many common drugs interfere with our ability to digest, absorb, transport, metabolize, synthesize, utilize, or excrete certain vitamins, minerals, and other vital substances. These drugs can also hamper the actions of these vital substances within the body.
Several drugs make it difficult to absorb nutrients. For example, Tagamet (cimetidine), a medicine used for ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (heartburn), and other problems, can reduce the secretion of intestinal fluids needed to absorb vitamin B12. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 The vital signs are usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of the person's general physical condition. vitamins Complex organic compounds that are needed in small amounts by the body for normal growth and metabolism. An important part of a balanced diet, vitamins occur naturally in foods, and may be added to processed foods to increase their nutritional value. Many vitamins have been identified, and each plays a specific role in the functioning of the body. For example, vitamin C is needed for the proper healing of wounds and broken bones; vitamin A helps the body resist infection. |
Greg Critser
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| In the early 1900s, it began manufacturing dried milk, eventually emerging as the United Kingdom's principal purveyor of baby formula, food, and vitamins. After WWII, the firm got into pharmaceuticals. Some of its hits were Bi2 for pernicious anemia, streptomycin for TB treatment, and albuterol for asthma. It was, by the late 1970s, a middling, predictable player — one that its president, an intense, enterprising man named Paul Girolamo, believed was ready to jump to the next rung of competition.
The reason for Girolamo's optimism was a new Glaxo drug called ranitidine, or Zantac. |
| Leschly came to Squibb, a 125-year-old conglomerate of candy, vitamins, drugs and toothbrushes, via an unusual route. The son of a Danish brewer, he went to college in the late 1950s, majoring in business and pharmacy, intending to follow in his father's footsteps. Instead, he entered the professional tennis world, where he played alongside Hie Nastasi and Jorgen Ulrich, two of the era's greats. For a decade, Leschly bombed around the European tennis circuit, eventually coming under the sponsorship of Novo, a Danish pharmaceuticals company. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Aside from all of this, the FDA also has a rather lengthy history of suppressing alternative medicines such as herbal medicine, nutritional supplements, vitamins, homeopathy and other modalities that are not under the control of the pharmaceutical industry. This is something that has not received much public attention, but which may receive attention in the years ahead as the true criminal behavior of the FDA begins to unravel and be made public. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Strawberries are loaded with antioxidants, including vitamins C and E, ellagic acid, assorted carotenoids, and antho-cyanins. These mighty berries can cut cholesterol levels by 10 percent. So why not toss some into your breakfast cereal?
• Sweet potatoes are crammed with fiber, potassium, beta carotene, folate, and vitamin C to lower your blood pressure and keep your arteries clear.
For variety, and more protection against atherosclerosis, try artichokes, guava, oranges, pomegranate juice, prunes, pumpkin, and rhubarb. Your options are wide open - just like your arteries. |
Jacky Law
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 You can't carry a single nutritional supplement around as a talisman for superhealth,' he says, 'because usually specific vitamins, minerals or enzymes are necessary to ensure the key nutrient is absorbed.'28
Because these areas are so complex, ordinary people would benefit if their doctors were able not only to help them interpret the facts as they are known, but also to consider using some of the evidence of using food in preference to drugs. |
David Wolfe
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 Melons contain most of their vitamins and minerals near the edge of the rind.
Boost The Immune System
Juice:
2 cloves of garlic 1 slice of ginger
1 handful of parsley 4 pears
1 ounce (30 ml) of organic stone-crushed, cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil
Process all ingredients through a juicer, except for olive oil, which can be stirred in with a spoon, or blended into the juice. Garlic and ginger are natural antibiotics that assist the immune system. Parsley is rich in iron to build strong red-blood corpuscles. |
Jacky Law
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| Specifically, Di Bella said the state should pay for his Multiterapia Di Bella (MDB, a cocktail of drugs and vitamins), just as it did for Glivec, Tamoxifen and all the other prescription anticancers.
Some say the retired doctor was a pawn in one of Italy's political storms. And had he been operating alone, the refusals by the health authorities to fund his treatment may well have gone unnoticed, as they had in the past. But occasionally events act to bring together a number of seemingly unrelated forces to create a whirlwind of such intensity that basic infrastructures become unsettled. |
| Old, natural and obvious things, such as safe drugs that have been around for years, broccoli, walking sticks, or vitamins, for example, don't get patented and there is therefore little incentive to deepen our understanding of their benefits, except in the dwindling public health sector.
Moreover, most patent laws do not insist that inventions be significant advances in any way, only that they are novel, useful and not obvious. In a sense, they are tangible stamps of approval to give what is essentially an idea some currency in the marketplace. |
Mike Adams
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| I've covered this briefly in the previous section, where I discussed the idea that you would have to eat 10,000 calories a day just to get the vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients that you need in order to experience optimum health. I also explained that no human being can eat 10,000 calories a day. You simply can't move that much food through your system.
High nutritional density, low caloric density
So what does a human being actually need in order to get optimum nutrition? The answer is quite simple. |
| If you think of the colors of the rainbow as different nutrients or vitamins, then natural sunlight combines all of those colors into one multi-colored white light and projects that healing white light all the way through space to arrive on planet earth, where it can touch your skin and have a powerful healing effect.
Natural sunlight is, I believe, absolutely essential for optimum human health. |
Jacky Law
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| Let's clamp down on vitamins and minerals.' It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. While the EU has been busy drafting legislation, we seem to have been sleepwalking into a situation where chemists and health stores will be purged of hundreds of nutritional supplements.26
Protection or control?
Nutrition is an interesting area of medicine because it has seemingly bounded its way into the surgery via the back door. |
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