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12 Feb

Essential Nutrients, Part 5: More Reversals of Deficiencies

Minerals Mineral supplements are available in the form of inorganic salts, organic acid salts, and amino acid chelates. All three forms have merit. Inorganic phosphates, sulfates, and chlorides are important for electrolyte balance; organic ascorbates, acetates, and citrates are natural

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

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.

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

13 Aug

More Cholesterol Controversy, Part 3

Only a diet rich in fresh greens and fruits can provide the necessary amounts of Vitamin C.

Since making cholesterol requires energy, some researchers suggest that having cholesterol in our diet is an evolutionary advantage, and claim that meat, egg, and dairy eaters are better adapted for survival than vegetarians. However, the fact that so many people

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