Leo Galland
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 Include prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbs, and nutritional supplements.
Do you take antibiotics for respiratory infections, ear infections, sinus infections, cystitis, or the flu?__
If you do, please pay special attention to pages 246-61.
Section 2. Your Family Tree.
Are there any patterns of illness that run in your family? heart disease? _ diabetes? _ high blood pressure? _ depression? _ alcoholism? _ attention deficit disorder? _ asthma? _ allergy? _ osteoporosis? _ cancer? _ arthritis? _ auto-immune diseases? _ obesity? _ eating disorders? |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 This doesn't mean that natural changes that occur in women's bodies during menstruation should be treated as an illness; PMS is best viewed as a collection of symptoms that can be relieved through diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, herbs and, in severe cases, hormone therapy.
Both physical and emotional factors affect hormonal regulation, therefore, you not only have to learn how to improve your diet but how to deal with stress and emotional problems.
Diet
Even before you consider using supplements for PMS, be sure that you are eating the right foods. |
Robyn Landis
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 McCaleb emphasizes that the fact that such nutritional supplements are concentrated is the whole point, the very nature of dietary supplements: "They are concentrated ways to supplement the diet with something in a convenient form." Thus, some herbal supplements are concentrated as well.
The TDH proposal exempted the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs Vivarin and No-Doz, which contain pure caffeine. No one would call them food. Primatene is an OTC drug that contains ephedrine, the major active chemical purified from ma huang. Millions of Americans use this drug every day to treat asthma. |
| Pharmacognosists may insist that medicinal herbs are not foods or nutritional supplements, because anything used to treat disease or improve health must conform to the definition of the word drug. Pharmacognosists also typically see no difference between natural and synthetic substances.
Unfortunately, though we'd like to hope otherwise, classifying herbs as "drugs" may be the only way herbs will ever get studied, taught, and covered by insurance in this country. |
| Instead, the show lumped herbal medicine, herbal "drugs" for feelgood stimulation, and vitamins and mineral and nutritional supplements all into one basket—and it was presented, at best, as a questionable basket. This lack of distinction has been broadly perpetuated by most media as the furor has spread, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Prime Time Live, and CNN. (Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council and editor of HerbalGram, sent a letter to the New York Times correcting numerous misleading and false statements, but his letter was not published. |
Marion Nestle
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 Protecting your heatth care rights The Nutritional Health Alliance (NHA) is an organized coalition of manufacturers, retailer, health cary professionals and concerned consumers who are committed lo protecting vour nutritional right to choose wellness over illness his coordinated effort promises to be the most
What the NHA is doing to protect your family's nutritional rights
^Preventing the FDA Task T Forte from undermining the Proxmire Law and attacking nutritional supplements such as herbs, amino acids and trace minerals.
^ Lobbying against l iR 3642ft. |
| The new NLEA regulations gin: each of the 50 states the same enforcement powers as the FDA to also indiscriminately impose and enforce severe penalties against honest, suppliers of quality nutritional supplements. § In preparation for increased enforcement activities, the FTJA has hired 100 criminal investigators led by a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service. These new G-men will be unleashed on the supplement industry to enforce unwarranted restrictions designed to limit your access to preventative health care. |
| The FDA Is Once Again Attempting To Take Away Your Family's Right To Choose Safe And Beneficial nutritional supplements lrnost from its inception, the FDA has voiced AMA policy in attacking pre-
-iventarive health care and in particular, nutritional supplementation.
The results are 2 billion dollars a day in health care costs and millions of concerned Americans who cannot afford health insurance.
Congressional letter writing campaign in history. |
| Later that year, the FDA made one last attempt to classify nutritional supplements as over-the-counter drugs. It recruited a panel of nutrition scientists to produce a monograph on vitamin and mineral supplements and used the monograph in a way that could not have been better designed to provoke opposition: It defined vitamin and mineral supplements as drugs that would be "labeled for use in the prevention or treatment of a deficiency when the need for such therapy has been determined by a physician (emphasis added). |
| I am one of the millions of Americans outraged by the Food and Drug Administration's unwarranted efforts to keep me from purchasing the nutritional supplements I desire," wrote one Times reader. Another complained that the FDA "is overreaching its authority to a frightening degree and extending into areas that consumers are far better able to deal with themselves individually. "The FDA," wrote a third, is trying "to gull the public into not fighting to have the proposed rules changed. |
| The Times interpreted this action as "part of the agency's increased efforts to stop manufacturers of nutritional supplements from making unproven claims for their products, to bar their use by doctors unless first approved by the agency, and to halt their sale as medicines."16
The Times characterized the FDA as opposed to the idea that supplements "can be effective, whether or not they are backed by science." It reported protests to the FDA action, among them a press conference at which celebrities urged the public to "start screaming at Congress and the White House not to let the F.D.A. |
Ruth Winter
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 The agency also inspects food plants, imported food products, and feed mills that make feeds containing medications or nutritional supplements that are destined for human consumption. And it regulates radiation-emitting products such as microwave ovens. FDA also enforces pesticide tolerances established by the Environmental Protection Agency for all domestically produced and imported foods, except for foods under USDA jurisdiction.
FD and C COLORS • Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Colors. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 Manufacturers of nutritional supplements and herbs, as well as health food stores, have been the target of FDA seizures in an attempt to block the manufacture and sale of numerous natural substances whose therapeutic effects have been scientifically validated.
These strong-arm tactics are being used despite the estimate of former Surgeon General c. Everett Koop that, out of 2.1 million deaths a year in the U.S., 1.6 million are related to poor nutrition.1 The bias against alternative medicine on both the state and federal level has
PRICE GOUGING BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
The U.S. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Clinical investigations on older adults using nutritional supplements of various mixtures of vitamins E, C, coenzyme Q10, B6, and selenium, have provided some encouraging results in delaying the progression of Alzheimer's. If you are not already taking some combination of antioxidants daily, you should!
Minerals
Zinc—According to a 1990 study reported in Family Practice News, zinc deficiency may be related to Alzheimer's. The mineral has been found to be in low levels in the hippocampus (memory center) of the brain in 'Alzheimer's patients. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 Table 11.1 nutritional supplements for Chemotherapy
Nutritional Supplement Daily Dose
Lipoic acid
200-600 mg
Fat-soluble vitamin B,
50-200 mg
Coenzyme B6
50-200 mg
Liquid vitamin B12 and folic acid
2-4 mg each taken under the tongue
(Hydroxy Folate)
Vitamin B complex or multivitamin
20-50 mg with each B vitamin
PCO phytosome (grape seed
200-400 mg or pycnogenol)
Hypericum (St. John's wort)
3-6 capsules daily (use 0. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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 I wanted the book to serve as a bridge between the two opposing camps and hoped that it would bring the investigation of nutritional supplements onto a higher plane, where the consumer would be better served.
In large part I feel rewarded for my effort, as that book managed to garner strong support in both camps, drew both closer to the center and brought many serious researchers, previously alienated by the extremes on both sides, into the supplement arena. |
| Things that are helpful in this syndrome include dietary modification, mild exercise, stress reduction and the use of nutritional supplements. The amino acid L-tyrosine, taken at 1.5 to 6 grams daily, has also been found to be useful. Some CFS sufferers say they are helped by some of the substances used in chronic viral syndromes (see next section). A drug available in Europe called S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), which is a derivate of the amino acid L-methionine, is showing promise in the treatment of some of the symptoms of CFS, especially the aches, pains and depression.
The Formula
1) Diet. |
| The use of nutritional supplements is sometimes useful in the treatment of PMS symptoms. I have often had success in treating PMS by using specific nutrients for specific symptoms. L-tyrosine appears helpful for depression and fatigue, perhaps the most disabling symptoms of PMS. Vitamin E often relieves breast tenderness. Phosphatidylcholine is sometimes useful in controlling some mood and memory problems. Vitamin B6 has been reported to occasionally relieve some PMS symptoms, especially the emotional ones. Scattered reports suggest that L-carnitine may help with bloating. |
| They should be regarded as drugs and not as nutritional supplements or anti-aging substances that can be taken without medical supervision.
Transfer Factor
("Soluble Cellular Immunity")
The discoverer of transfer factor called it "soluble cellular immunity." It is an extract of healthy lymphocytes, cells of immunity, and is used in an effort to transfer cell-mediated immunity from a healthy person to an immune-compromised person. The healthy person is one who is known to be immune or resistant to the problem being treated. |
| Charcoal should be taken at least one hour before or after therapeutic drugs or nutritional supplements are taken. Those on prescription drugs should use charcoal only with their doctors' approval. Those who take very high doses of charcoal (e.g., 50 grams per day or higher) over long periods of time should supplement with a well-balanced vitamin/mineral formula. High doses of charcoal, in any case, should be taken only with medical supervision.
Note that charcoal is available in tablets, powder and capsules. |
| It analyzes all the vitamins and minerals that have any genuine relevance as nutritional supplements. It does the same for the amino acids and many other substances. Each analysis is structured so that you can quickly and easily determine what the nutrient is, what it does—and doesn't—do, who it's good for, what ailments it can help treat or prevent, what amounts it should be taken in, what it should be taken with, what precautions apply and so on. This book provides more consumer guidance than any other currently on the market. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 Kessler and I disagreed about herbs and nutritional supplements. He has come down rather hard on them, while I am convinced that they can be useful. They're a cheap way to prevent some conditions, ameliorate others and even cure a few. But the FDA does not allow any medicinal claims for herbs and supplements unless they have been proven to FDA satisfaction with extensive clinical trials.
As of 1995, it cost $500 million to jump through the FDA hoops to prove any new drug, herb or supplement to be safe and effective. Few marketers of herbs or supplements have that kind of spending money. |
National Women's Health Network
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 In addition, many nutritional supplements containing combinations of vitamins and minerals are promoted for bone health. These combination supplements, besides being unproven, are much more expensive than basic calcium carbonate.
As we have said throughout this book, low bone mineral density is not the same as fracture risk. Some studies show that women who eat diets rich in calcium lose less bone and are less likely to fracture. A fourteen-year study of older men and women found that hip fractures occurred less in those whose diets contained moderate amounts of calcium. |
Jack Challem
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 Medline
The world's largest database of medical journal articles, providing free abstracts (summaries) of more than 8 million articles. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Melissa Diane Smith
Nutrition consultant and expert on the health hazards of grains, including information from the book Going Against the Grain. www.melissadianesmith.com
Merck Manual
The online edition of your physician's standard medical reference book. www.merck.com
Nutrient Data Laboratory Food Composition
Type in nearly any food or food product and you instantly get its nutritional breakdown per cup or 100 grams. www.nal.usda. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| As appropriate, nutritional supplements are utilized to correct deficiencies, normalize the inflammatory process, and promote healing of the damaged mucosa. Botanical medicines are used to promote healing and normalize the intestinal flora.
Diet
All allergens, wheat, corn, and dairy products, and carrageenan-containing foods should be eliminated. The diet should be high in complex carbohydrates and fiber, and low in sugar and refined carbohydrates. |
Ruth Winter
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| METHACRYCLIC ACID-DIVINDYL BENZENE COPOLYMER • Used as a carrier for vitamin B12 in nutritional supplements.
METHANEARSONIC ACID • Used in or on cottonseed hulls used for animal feed. See Arsenic.
METHANE DICHLORIDE • Colorless, volatile liquid with the odor of chloroform used to dilute color and extract chemicals. It is used to decaffeinate coffee, fruits, hops, spices, and vegetables. FDA permits residues of 30 ppm in spice oleoresins, 2.2 percent in hops extract, and 10 ppm in decaffeinated coffee. Moderately toxic by ingestion. An experimental cancer-causing and tumor-causing agent. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| In addition to nutritional supplements there is another botanical medicine that has been shown to offer great promise in halting the progress of macular degeneration. For reasons unknown, its effects seem to be much more specific for the function of the eye than the other supplements mentioned above. The botanical is called Ginkgo biloba, and it's available at health food stores.
Natural prescription for Macular degeneration
• Increase the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables in the diet.
IN ADDITION TO YOUR DAILY SUPPLEMENTS, PACE xxiv, TAKE
• Vitamin C: 1,000 mg. daily. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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| The Food and Drug Administration: Medical Establishment Cops
The FDA's suppression of alternative medicine, and especially of nutritional supplements, constitutes a war for power with billions of dollars and American's health at stake, according to Julian Whitaker, M.D., past President of the American Preventive Medical Association and editor of Health and Healing. "This is not a reasonable debate on public safety or honesty in labeling," says Dr. Whitaker. "It is an ugly struggle for power."
The FDA is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, funded annually through the U.S. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| In the Resources section of this book, you'll find an organization that will refer you to an alternative health care professional in your area.
Chromium and Niacin: Partners in Blood Sugar Control
Chromium is one of your key supplements when you need better blood sugar control. The people who make those awful bottled "natural" fruit drinks and teas aren't going to like this, but it's possible that the steep rise in our consumption of high fructose corn syrup has contributed to the rise in diabetes by depleting chromium. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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| While most experts agree that nutritional supplements are vital for a variety of illnesses, injuries, and age-related problems, vitamin and mineral supplements can also help to maintain optimal physical and psychological health, and promote longevity and chronic disease prevention.
~ * ver since the term vitamin was coined almost 100 years ago to describe the discovery of the * ^ essential life substances in foods, scientists have debated the issue of nutritional adequacy. Medical science has long held that healthy adults do not need supplementation if they consume a healthful, varied diet. |
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