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07 Feb

Essential Nutrients, Part 4: Reversal of Deficiencies

Impressive work is being done with vitamins, minerals and EFAs in the treatment of degenerative diseases. Much is being learned, and people are being relieved of degenerative afflictions that resist treatment with drugs, surgery, and radiation. Gaps in Knowledge Although

05 Feb

Essential Nutrients, Part 3: Major Sources of Deficiencies

Nutrients and fiber are lost during the processing of wheat.

Since deficiencies are widespread, we might well ask why this is so. Without going into a long explanation, let us examine what happens when whole wheat grain is turned into white flour. The following table shows the percentages of essential

31 Jan

Essential Nutrients, Part 2: Deficiencies

Over 60% of North American people get less than the recommended amounts of one or more essential nutrients.

One might expect that diets in affluent industrial nations would also be nutritionally affluent, but this is not the case. Even though we have the necessary technology, money is not usually a problem, and we have both time and choices,

29 Jan

Essential Nutrients, Part 1: Components

To tell the complete story of nutrition, we must acknowledge all essential nutrients required by our body for health. Nutrients cannot work in isolation. All essential nutrients work as a team to build and support health, and to repair damage.

03 Jan

Caring For Essential Fatty Acids

Linoleic acid and Alpha-linolenic acid are Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) that are essential to our health. They are also very temperamental. Light, air, and heat destroy them. Nature packages these oils in seeds that keep out light, air, and heat.

01 Jan

Lecithin

Lecithin is a phospholipid (PL) supplement that can help improve both our digestion and our health. The name ‘lecithin’ was derived from the Greek word for egg yolk from which it was first isolated, and it is the best known

27 Dec

Fitness, Food, And More, Part 8: Poisons

you can sweat out oil-soluble toxins by increasing your intake of good oils made with health in mind.

What is poison, and why is poison poisonous? Poison is any substance (or energy) that blocks, inhibits or derails natural interactions between the molecules that build and run the biochemical architecture of your body. They are poisonous because they interfere

25 Dec

Fitness, Food, And More Part 7: Essential Nutrients

Most essential nutrients come from a program of organic, whole, plant-based foods, herbs and spices.

18 minerals, 13 vitamins, 8 amino acids and 2 fatty acids are ‘essential’ by a specific definition developed by researchers. Essential nutrients are those that fit the following definition. Life can’t make them from anything else in

20 Dec

Fitness, Food, And More, Part 6: Fresh Food

Fresh whole raw organic food is delightful. Fresh, whole, raw, organically grown, toxin-free, in season, local, sun-ripe, mostly plant-based food is nature’s health mandate for humans. Eat mostly that way to have the longest and healthiest physical existence. Since

29 Nov

The Sugar-Fat Connection, Part 6: Identifying What Really Is To Blame

‘Refined’ foods are actually ‘nutrient-impoverished’.

My last article covered additional issues caused by sugar overconsumption. In this final article in the series, I'll talk about the history of sugar consumption. Many researchers consider sugars to be the major dietary cause of degenerative diseases. Some

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