James A. Howenstine, MD
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 A surprising and disconcerting finding in this study was that 46% of those regularly taking vitamin supplements were found to be lacking adequate Vitamin D in their blood.
Some observers believe that the cause for this deficiency of Vitamin D lies in inadequate exposure to sunlight. I recommend that sunlight should be permitted into contact with the skin of the face and arms at least 15 to 30 minutes, three times weekly. Too much sun is harmful, of course, but too little is equally bad.
Vitamin D deficiency is not a problem in tropical countries where sun exposure is normal. |
Marion Nestle
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 Researchers from both agencies agreed that before the start of the campaign, high-fiber cereals were more likely to be eaten by people who were white, more highly educated, nonsmokers, and users of vitamin supplements. They also agreed that sales of Kellogg cereals and other high-fiber products increased in the months following the campaign. Differing, however, were their interpretations of why the sales increased. |
| Pharmaceutical companies began adding herbal and vitamin supplements to over-the-counter drugs. Furthermore, companies attempted to position both foods and drugs as supplements, expressly to take advantage of the more relaxed regulatory requirements for health claims on those products. |
| One possibility is that improved maternal nutrition might help reduce AIDS transmission rates, as suggested by studies using vitamin supplements, but the benefits of this approach have yet to be confirmed.46 Nevertheless, advocates, international agencies, and formula companies might do the most good by making sure that pregnant women and nursing mothers are adequately nourished and by encouraging women who choose to breast-feed to do so exclusively. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
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 Remember that nondairy does not mean milk free, and that medicines and vitamin supplements may also contain milk products, so be sure to ask your pharmacist.
Avoid products that contain curds, whey, casein, sodium caseinate, lactalbumin (most all ingredients beginning with lad), recaldent (found in some chewing gums), and chicken broth (many brands contain milk solids). Many "natural ingredients" may also contain dairy products; check with the manufacturer.
TO MINIMIZE CHOLESTEROL AND SATURATED FAT
?Skim milk (4 mg cholesterol, 0.28 g saturated fat per cup).
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Marion Nestle
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| Sponsors of nutrition journals include such companies as Coca-Cola, Gerber, Nestle/Carnation, Monsanto, Procter & Gamble, Roche Vitamins, Slim-Fast Foods, and the Sugar Association, as well as others that make baby food or formula, vitamin supplements, functional foods, diet products, sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals, and genetically modified crops—virtually all of them products with nutritional attributes considered controversial and currently under debate. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Other causes include poor dental hygiene, cavities, smoking, throat or sinus infections, gum disease, Sjogren's syndrome, abscessed or impacted teeth, large doses of vitamin supplements, or (in children) a foreign body lodged in a nostril. Halitosis is also an occasional side effect of taking large dosages of insulin.
Bad breath that results from eating cabbage, garlic, or onions usually dissipates in a few hours. Lingering bad breath from eating these foods usually signals a digestive disturbance that allows odors from these foods to reach the breath. |
Gary Null
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 Improvements in learning ability, and in behavior, were so dramatic that the experimenters, who had intended to test the efficacy of vitamins in bringing about the same results, could hardly measure any significant changes attributable to vitamin supplements.163
This experiment is especially important because learning-disabled children are one group who seem so often to get into trouble with their schools and with the police. |
| Some kidney disorder victims should nor "self-medicate" with vitamin supplements that contain vitamin D, advises W. H. Taylor, M.D., United Liverpool (England) Hospital.11
A Practical Guide to Using Vitamin D
A prime source of vitamin D is plain old healthy sunshine. Just a brief twenty-minute exposure to sunlight will catalyze the synthesis of vitamin D that is a result of the biochemical reaction of certain oil glands beneath the skin and ultraviolet light.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 They recommended that patients with head and neck tumors be given vitamin supplements in order to prevent a second tumor from forming (5).
In early 1992, Italian scientists reported that a combination of vitamin A with vitamins C and E could correct abnormalities in the cells of the rectum in people who had had polyps removed. Such abnormalities are believed to eventually progress to cancer in many cases. They reported their finding in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI). |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 As with many patients, however, once he was cured his physician stopped his medicine—the vitamin supplements. His fever returned, and soon he was back in the hospital with cancer. It took somewhat longer the second time, but after vitamin C therapy the cancer disappeared again. The trucker remained in good health (ibid.).
Cameron continued to treat terminal cancer patients with vitamin C, and he soon had 4,000 cases in his records. The results appeared to be better when the treatment started earlier, however. |
Thomas Bartram
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 No treatment can cure, but certain herb teas rich in minerals (Alfalfa, Red Clover) together with Kelp (either in tablet or powder form) may help children, with possible improvements in IQ. vitamin supplements - A, D, Thiamine, Riboflavin, B6, B12, C and E improve a child's physical and mental health - as do also the minerals: Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, Manganese. Copper, Iron and Iodine.
Children with Down's syndrome run an increased risk of coeliac disease, due to disturbed immunity. A substantial evidence is held in America that links a low level of Selenium in the mother. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 Safety Information—The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) decreed in 1960 that over-the-counter vitamin supplements could not contain more than 400 micrograms of folic acid. This limit was established not because folic acid is itself toxic but to prevent people's taking doses of folic acid large enough to mask the visible blood profile symptoms of pernicious anemia (caused by B]2 deficiency, see discussion on page 75). Pernicious anemia is easily treatable, but if it goes undetected can cause irreversible nerve damage. |
Marion Nestle
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| A lobbying organization of the pharmaceutical industry, joined by 12 drug companies producing vitamin supplements, took the FDA to court on a technicality: The group argued that the FDA could not implement its proposals because it had never held hearings on this issue. Even critics concerned about "FDA's failure to serve as an effective counterweight against the 'corporate greed and irresponsibility' of the $i25-billion food industry" complained bitterly about the agency's narrow interpretation of the scientific evidence related to nutritional supplements. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 Seek the advice of an expert in this field before purchasing vitamin supplements.
For cancer patients undergoing conventional treatments, I recommend starting nutritional supplementation at least one week prior to surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. The benefits of supplement use will be described more fully throughout this chapter and include the following;
1. Supplements can decrease short-term toxic side effects. Nutrients can help lessen hair loss and nausea and provide extra energy and faster recovery from immune suppression. |
| Epidemiologic studies have shown a connection between a high-fat diet and prostate cancer risk7 while other research has begun to show significant protection from risk by increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, and vitamin supplements.8,9 One study demonstrated a 45 percent risk reduction when subjects ate at least ten servings per week of tomato-based foods rich in lycopene.10 Other studies have focused on the preventive value of supplements, with promising results:
• Vitamin E has shown an ability to inhibit prostate cancer growth in human cells11 as well as cell-culture studies. |
Rex Adams
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 I also started taking vitamin supplements every day, including vitamin E, B complex, cod liver oil capsules, and vitamin C with bioflavanoids.
"At the end of three months my hands were completely cured. In addition, I received unexpected bonuses. My gray hair is beginning to darken and I passed my eye examination for a driver's license without my glasses. Needless to say, I am continuing my new diet and taking natural vitamins."
Massage Is Miracle Medicine Food That Restored Hair!
R.N. reports: "Two years ago I decided to do something about my thinning hair. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 So, there are my basic four vitamin supplements to complement the so-called basic four food groups. Someday, all of the vitamins, minerals, and other protective substances you need will, hopefully, be in the foods you eat. Until that day, the dietary supplements listed above are strongly supported by nutrition science. Beyond these few supplements, there are others you may wish to take and I will tell you about those. They are for the more nutrition savvy among you who would like to go beyond the basics. v Selenium, 50 to 200 micrograms per day in the form of selenomethionine. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 Orthodox medicine has long thought that all the vitamins an individual needs are provided by a balanced diet. vitamin supplements have been downplayed in most medical education programs around the country until quite recently. Traditional physicians have tended to criticize the overuse of vitamins by holistic ipractitioners and lay people as contributing to their status as a panacea for many illnesses. The controversy over vitamin efficacy is also a reflection of the differing views between the orthodox medical standard of neutrality, and the therapeutic goal of wellness. |
| Orthodox physicians and hospital nutritionists proclaim that the RDA of vitamins provides all that is needed, and since that amount occurs naturally in a balanced diet, no vitamin supplements are required. The RDA is based upon studies which have determined the minimum amount of each vitamin that will prevent a vitamin deficiency disorder from occurring. If a person takes 50 milligrams of vitamin C a day, then that individual will not get scurvy. A state of "no scurvy," or neutrality, is actually a far cry from a state of optimal health and wellness. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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 Today, regular use of milk thistle extract can be considered a modern necessity—every bit as important as a healthful diet, exercise, rest, and the most common vitamin supplements.
History
Milk thistle has been used to support liver health for more than 2,000 years. As early as A.D. 23, Pliny the Elder recommended a mixture of milk thistle juice and honey for improving digestion by stimulating the flow of bile. During the sixteenth century, the British herbalist Gerard called milk thistle "the best remedy that grows against all melancholy diseases. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 The good news is that I was able to help Josef, like many other patients, get back to his life without surgery, through diet modification, vitamin supplements, and a treatment called chelation. The bad news is that too many Americans don't realize they have options other than surgery and medication when they have heart trouble, or that they can actually prevent heart disease through these same options.
We've all heard the statistics: heart disease is the "number one killer" in the United States. In 1996, sixty million Americans had some form of heart disease —more than one in four. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 If recent FDA rulings are allowed to stand, it will be illegal to claim or even imply that vitamin supplements derived from organic sources are superior to those that are synthesized. They will even forbid the manufacturer to identify the source on the label. Thus, truth in packaging is declared illegal by the FDA! of low dosage tablets for routine, daily use probably will drop to about the same as that of any other vitamin. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 With many common micronutrient deficiencies in the western diet, it makes sense that a major study in Australia found that regular use of vitamin supplements was a protective factor against colon cancer.
-MACRONUTRIENTS: fiber, complex carbohydrates, plant protein, special fatty acids (EPA, GLA, ALA), clean water
Meanwhile, we also eat alarmingly high amounts of: fat, salt, sugar, cholesterol, alcohol, caffeine, food additives and toxins. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Antioxidants—A combined effort by American and Chinese investigators researched the effect of combined vitamin supplements on cancer (particularly esophageal and stomach cancer) on approximately thirty-thousand residents of a rural village in China. After about five years, the researchers discovered that people taking a specific antioxidant vitamin-mineral combination (beta carotene, vitamin E, and selenium) experienced a statistically significant drop in their death rate from all causes, not just cancer. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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| Perhaps for this reason the Johns Hopkins researchers were quick to warn the public against vitamin supplements because in large amounts "they can be toxic," according to the report in the Times (November 13,1986). They recommended a balanced diet instead. The American Cancer Society, which had belatedly jumped on the diet-and-can-cer bandwagon, agreed.
"Our feeling is that if you eat a good, balanced diet you get all the beta carotene you need," added Dr. Lawrence Garfinkel of the American Cancer Society (ibid.). |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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| Evidence is gradually accumulating that even well-fed individuals can profit—in terms of optimizing health—by taking vitamin supplements in prudent amounts. In addition to their role in metabolism, certain vitamins are antioxidants and as such protect tissues against toxic oxygen damage. This protection helps establish a preventive role for vitamins with respect to a number of degenerative diseases.
_Vitamin A/Beta-Carotene
I. OVERVIEW: The "Miracle" Vitamin
Vitamin A, among nutrients, continues to be the real newsmaker, grabbing headlines everywhere. |
Stephen Fried
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 For years, the world's strip-malls were increasingly populated by weight-loss "centers" that sold whatever foods, vitamin supplements and quasi-medicinal products went along with the diet plan du jour. But as new weight-loss medicines became popular just as managed care was squeezing physicians into new lines of work, many diet centers quickly hired doctors and added prescriptions to their product lines. In some cases, doctors opened their own competing weight-loss centers. They all sold the same things: hope and access to diet pills which, in time, became one and the same. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| In general, patients with inflammatory bowel disease should be placed on therapeutic vitamin supplements of at least five times the RDA. Several minerals may also need to be supplemented at equally high levels. Dietary treatment involves the use of either an elemental or an elimination diet (described below).
Elemental diets
The elemental diet has been shown to be an effective non-toxic alternative to corticosteroids as the primary treatment of acute IBD. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 However, many are colored and sweetened, often artificially, as are the common children's chewables. With vitamin supplements, as with foods, reading labels may help us determine their origins and the manufacturing policies.
Many liquid injectable vitamins are available for use in treating certain illnesses. These can be used in the hospital, doctor's office, or, occasionally, at home for intramuscular injection. B-complex and vitamin B12 injections are commonly given. Intravenous vitamins are used by some doctors in the clinical setting.
O WHO NEEDS VITAMINS? |
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