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1. Why Nutritional supplements when addressing health
challenges.
2. Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers
wondering: What is this stuff?
3. Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly, Part
1 of 2
4. Do
you like Salt on your Food?
Using Nutritional Supplements to address health challenges, how does it work?
Most people grow up using drugs as the therapy to turn to when they are sick? But why is nutrition a much better method?
First the definition of Nutrition:
Nu-tri-tion n. (taken from dictionary.com)
1. The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues.
2. The science or study that deals with food and nourishment, especially in humans.
3. A source of nourishment; food.
Now
if you think about what you learned in school, you
know that the body is designed to discard old damaged
cells.
and make new cells.
What does the body need to do that? the correct nutrition. It needs not only protein, carbohydrates and fats, but it needs all the enzymes, vitamins, minerals and co-factors normally found in food. It needs it to build healthy cells. It needs natural vitamins to give the body what it needs to produce energy and to function (digestion, movement, etc. etc.)
Proteins are the building blocks. You need other nutrients to make the body work.... but you also need nutrients so the body can replicate its old cells and build health new ones.
This is especially important when the body needs to replace injured or damaged cells. If it isn't getting the right tools - the right nutrients, it can't do that and will reproduce cells that won't do the job.
"The assumption that human technology could improve on the wisdom of nature has become a primary cause of disease in the modern world. We dissect food, take out the most glaringly obvious parts, attempt to recreate them in a laboratory, and label them as 'active ingredients'. In fact it is the symphony of nutrients working synergistically that provides the quantum healing power of whole foods."
September 2002 issue of the American Journal of Natural Medicine feature article by Patrick Quillan, PhD
The body given the correct nutrients will make things right in the body. The body may need a lot of a specific vitamins for a while, which is why we have whole food supplements.
Why Supplements & not Drug Therapy?
"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's the substitution of artificial therapy over natural, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poison in trying to correct the reactions of starvation." Dr. Royal Lee - January 12, 1951
Drugs are used to cover up symptoms and alleviate suffering. But drugs work by forcing the body to do something that it normally wouldn't do, covering up deficiencies, and will have side effects.
Going to the cause of the problem and giving the body what it needs to fix the problem is what nutritional healing is all about.
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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers wondering: What is this stuff?
http://www.naturalnews.com/028323_Hydrolyzed_Vegetable_Protein_HVP.html
Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly, Part 1 of 2
Do you like Salt on your Food?
I can observe nutritional deficiencies by what a
person chooses to eat. One
of the easiest ones is observing whether a person likes salty foods and
does he like to add salt to his food.
What does this mean?
A deficiency of salt?
No, it indicates that your adrenal glands are not functioning as
well as they should. It is
commonly called adrenal fatigue or adrenal exhaustion.
What are some other symptoms of adrenal fatigue
besides salt cravings – increased PMS symptoms, lack of energy, muscle
weakness, fluid retention mild constipation alternating with diarrhea
– there are many others, including the tendency to get the flu (as the
adrenals are a major factor in your immune system).
There is also a feeling of being less able to handle stress, mild
depression and absent-mindedness.
The adrenal glands are two small glands that sit
over the kidneys. (Kidneys=renal; ad=above). They are responsible for
secreting over 50 different hormones. They are responsible for the
regulation of the mineral metabolism (sodium, potassium, chloride),
water balance, metabolism (utilization and distribution of
carbohydrates, protein, and fat), allergic and immune reactions (such as
hypersensitivity, allergies, and autoimmune diseases), and production of
the male and female hormones (progesterone, testosterone, estrogens,
DHEA, etc.).
You may have been experiencing this condition for
years. Although there is increasing physician awareness, many are not
familiar with adrenal fatigue as a distinct syndrome. Because of this
lack of knowledge, patients suffer because they are not properly
diagnosed or treated.
The onset of adrenal fatigue and exhaustion can
occur because of financial pressures, infections, emotional stress,
smoking, drugs, poor eating habits, sugar and white flour products,
unemployment and several other stressors. Stressors are something that create either physical or mental
stress.
After experiencing many of these events over a long
period of time, the adrenal glands tend to produce less cortical, the
body’s master stress hormone. The main role in the body is to enable
us to handle stress and maintain our immune systems. The adrenal
gland’s struggle to meet the need for high amounts of cortical
production eventually leading to the adrenal fatigue.
Another symptom is that some people feel tired in
the morning, feeling better at noon and then have a lull at about 2-4
PM. They tend to feel
better at 6PM and feel they work better at night. Sometimes they are exhausted at 9PM and in bed by 11 PM.
It is hard to test for a true diagnosis of adrenal
fatigue. Sometimes you have
to test the adrenals and the thyroid because they work together as does
all the glands.
It is important for patients to eat regular meals,
chew food well, and eat by 10 AM and again for lunch. Patients should
look to avoid any hydrogenated fats, caffeine, chocolate, white
carbohydrates (flour sugar, etc) and junk foods. Diets should have a
heavy emphasis on vegetables and protein. Sea salt should be used instead of refined table salt.
Supplementation is also an important component.