MCVitamins News
Your Nutritional Education Site
1. Things that Stop Nerve Damage Repair
2. An Important Cause of Chronic Fatigue
3. Fiber - It can Lower Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Levels
4. The Right Diet for a Diabetic
5. Low Carb Thanksgiving Recipes
Things that Stop Nerve Damage Repair (Worth reading even if you don't have Neuropathy)
While working with our customers to help them reduce
and eliminate their neuropathy there are some things we learned that can
lengthen the time it takes to see an improvement in one’s neuropathy symptoms.
One
of the things we found is that some of our customers are unknowingly creating a
vitamin B deficiency as a result of their daily activities. B vitamins are vital
for healthy nerves!
For example, some of the things that cause a B
vitamin deficiency are heavy drinking of coffee, tea and soft drinks. This
includes de-caffeinated coffee, tea and soft drinks. These beverages act as
diuretics that cause the loss of both water and water-soluble B vitamins from
the body.
Also, heavy smoking or drinking of alcohol, antibiotics, birth
control pills, and stress can all burn up B vitamins.
And of course,
there are many prescription medications that cause
neuropathy as a side effect.
If you are taking one or more
of the medications listed below, it can greatly increase the amount of time it
will take for you to see results in repairing and reversing your nerve damage.
The
following blood pressure medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side
effect:
Aceon, Altace, Hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), Hydrodiuril, Lisinopril, Perindopril, Prinivil, Ramipril, Zestril.
The
following cholesterol medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side
effect:
Advicor, Altocor, Altoprev, Atorvastatin, Baycol, Caduet, Cerivastatin, Crestor, Fluvastatin, Lescol, Lescol XL, Lipex, Lipitor, Lipobay, Lovastatin, Mevacor, Pravachol, Pravastatin, Pravigard Pac, Rosuvastatin, Simvastatin, Vytorin, Zocor.
It’s
recommended that if you’re taking any of the above mentioned medications, that
you speak to your doctor about getting off of these and replacing them with a
natural supplement.
Minimally, your doctor should put you on a medication
that does not cause neuropathy, so that the Nerve Support Formula can
nourish the cells of your body so that your body can more effectively repair the
nerve damage.
If your doctor is not willing to work with you on
this then you should find a doctor who will.
The Nerve Support
Formula is a medical food that is specifically formulated for the dietary
management of neuropathy, and it works extremely well.
But remember, if
you are trying to put a fire out with one hand, it does not help if you are
pouring gasoline on it with the other hand!
Here is what some of our
customers are saying about using the WSN Nerve Support Formula:
“I am
both amazed and delighted with the results I am experiencing from my first order
of the Nerve Support Formula! After only 19 days of taking the 4 capsules a day
I am free of that awful constant burning in my feet.” - Jeff Hadfield,
Manitoba, Canada
"Within just three weeks of starting on your
Nerve Support Formula my neuropathy and the pain has decreased dramatically. I
am so pleased!” - Betty Latham, Nevada
You can find out more about
the WSN Nerve Support Formula by going here
http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/nerve-support-formula.htm
Gammaretrovirus Thought to be Important Cause of Chronic Fatigue
Earlier this month, a study published in the journal Science answered a question that medical scientists had been asking since 2006, when they learned of a novel virus found in prostate tumors called xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV: Was it a human infection?
Read about this and what does it show http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/12/Gammaretrovirus-Thought-to-be-Important-Cause-of-Chronic-Fatigue.aspx
Fiber - It Can Lower Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Levels
A diet rich in fiber has been shown to lower cholesterol and blood sugar in diabetics. Many diabetics can significantly lower their blood sugar, and as a result, reduce their diabetic and cholesterol medications or stop taking them altogether, by eating lots of high fiber foods.
A recent study published in the May issue of The New England Journal of Medicine found that blood sugar levels were reduced by 8.9% on a high fiber diet. It also lowered cholesterol and triglycerides.
Fiber comes from the cell walls of plants. Additionally, fiber and water work together to keep the bowels regular.
Unfortunately, the majority of high fiber foods also contain a high amount of carbohydrates, and if you are diabetic, those will increase your blood sugar levels dramatically.
Below are lists of low-carb foods that are also high in fiber, along with the
approximate number of grams of fiber they contain.
The fiber content shown is for a quantity of 1/2 cup.
Low-Carb Fruits
Low-Carb Vegetables
Including more of the above foods in your diet will help in lowering blood
sugar and cholesterol levels.
You should make changes to your diet to include more high fiber foods, and do it
gradually. Just add a few grams at a time so that your digestive system can
adjust.
It’s best to increase the amount of fiber in your diet over several weeks. This prevents problems with stomach-aches, bloating, gas, and diarrhea.
The message is, increase the amount of fiber in your diet!Need to maintain normal blood sugar go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/diabetes.htm find out more about Diabetes and what you can do about it.
What is the correct diet for a diabetic?
The low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet has been promoted for many years as the healthy diet for both the general public as well as for diabetics. As a result of this ongoing dietary advertising campaign, surveys indicate that America as a whole is now consuming far less fat and eating far more carbohydrates.
What is the result?
The result is that greater numbers of Americans today, instead of being healthy, are being diagnosed with degenerative diseases. Over thirty-five hundred (3,500+) people are being newly diagnosed as diabetic every day in the United States! Many diabetics who follow the low-fat/high-carbohydrate guidelines, find themselves having to use greater amounts of oral diabetic drugs or increasing amounts of insulin to try and keep their blood sugar levels under control.
The reason this is occurring is that the low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet is not only wrong, it is destructive to your health, and the basic cause of many of the degenerative diseases that have become so widespread.
Carbohydrates are converted to the simple sugar called “glucose” by your digestive system. Glucose passes through the walls of your intestines and loads up your blood stream with sugar, far more sugar than your body was designed to handle.
The true information regarding diet, especially for those who are insulin resistant, pre-diabetic or diabetic, has been researched and proven by medical doctors who are diabetic specialists. What this research shows can be seen in the following excerpts:
“So how much carbohydrates do our bodies really need? The answer may surprise you. Although for years, newspapers, magazines, and television talk shows have told you to load up on complex carbohydrates, like whole-grain breads, cereals, and pasta (because it was thought these foods form the basis of a “healthy diet”). In fact, your daily requirement for carbohydrate is actually zero. You read that right – none!”
“Were you to make a search of all the textbooks in any medical library, you would find diseases caused by both protein and essential fat deficiency, but there are no diseases caused by carbohydrate deficiency.”
“Why don’t you need carbohydrates? Your body – actually your liver – has the ability to take dietary protein or fat (your own body fat) and make glucose from it. The liver can make a couple of cups of sugar each day, which is more than enough to provide glucose for the few tissues in the body that prefer to use it. Most of the body, however, prefers to fuel itself with dietary or stored fat or with ketones [ketones: the natural break-down product of burning fat] instead of glucose.”“Incredible as it may sound, you could do quite nicely without ever eating another bite of starch or sugar – as long as you had plenty of protein and fat. And that’s just what all humans did for the three to four million years we were around prior to the beginning of farming.”
“We lived by hunting and fishing (the meat, poultry, and fish of our diets today) and gathering what grew wild: roots, shoots, nuts and berries – and a bit of fruit in season. Not a bite of bread, cereal, rice, pasta, potatoes, or sugar.”
“Does that mean you should eat a diet without any carbohydrates? Not necessarily, but you could. And when you’re initially working to correct your health, lose weight, control your blood sugar, or lower your cholesterol and triglycerides or blood pressure, you’ll want to focus on limiting your carbs more tightly.”
“You don’t have to stay on a strict low-carb diet for the long term – it’s merely an effective tool to correct the problem quickly. Once near your goals (in weight or health) you can become more liberal with your carb limits, expand your intake of foods, and enjoy eating an even wider variety of fruits, vegetables, and even some higher-carb foods occasionally.”
Excerpted from: The 30-Day Low Carb Diet Solution
By Michael R. Eades, M.D. and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
If you have not yet already done so, adjust your diet and reduce your carbohydrate intake. Along with taking the correct supplements, it will improve your cholesterol levels, triglycerides and blood pressure.
Our Recommendation for a Diabetic Diet - KETO
Low Carb Thanksgiving Recipes
Low Carb Giblet Gravy
Giblets and
turkey neck
1 stalk celery with leaves, chopped
2 bay leaves
1/2 small onion, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Separate liver
from giblets and refrigerate in Ziploc bag. Put remaining giblets and turkey
neck in large saucepan and cover with 6 cups water. Add veggies and spices.
Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer covered for 2 1/2 hours.
Add liver and cook 15 minutes more.
Remove giblets from liquid. Remove bay leaves, then liquefy in blender with
veggies.
Chop giblets and add to liquid. Heat and add additional
Salt and pepper to taste.
Serve as a thin "au jus" over turkey and dressing, or continue to cook uncovered to reduce the volume down further.
About 10 carbs in the entire recipe.
Low Carb Holiday Stuffing
9 ounces crushed
pork rinds
2 eggs, raw
2 eggs, hard-boiled and coarsely chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, diced
1 tablespoons poultry seasoning
black pepper to taste
1-2 cups chicken broth, with chicken fat not removed or melt a stick of butter
into the broth
Sauté onions and celery in some chicken fat until clear. Set aside in a large bowl. Combine the Pork Rinks, poultry seasoning and black pepper, Mix well.
Start adding
chicken stock until it is moistened, but not soggy. This should be the
consistency of raw cake batter. Add more chicken broth if needed.
When Dressing is at the right consistency, fold in the chopped eggs and pour
into a 9 x 13” greased baking pan and bake at 350° F for approx. 45 minutes.
Watch out for browning. Dressing is done when you touch the center and it
springs back lightly like a cake. Don’t let it get too brown or it will be
dry.
Low Carb Thanksgiving Pumpkin Dessert
1 cup whole milk
ricotta
2 packets stevia
1/2 tablespoon pumpkin spice
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Whipped cream
Mix it together with a spoon. Make whipped cream topping.
1/2 cup servings
=5 carbs
Low Carb and Other Diets go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/Diets/weight-loss-diets.htm
Need to control and maintain blood sugar, go to Glucose Support Formula
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