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"Indeed, n-3 fatty acids are today called essential because human beings cannot produce them on their own and must acquire them from their diets. Our brains are fatty organs, with over 50 percent of their structure being composed of fat, and essential fatty acids such as n-3 fatty acids make up nearly 30 percent of our nerve cell membranes, keeping them elastic and permeable so that electrical signals can pass through with efficiency. In fact, the synaptic junctions where nerve cells connect with one another are made of about 60 percent n-3 fatty acids." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In fact, other multi-country studies that have considered the implications of multiple human diets have confirmed that intake of fat in red meats was the strongest dietary risk factor for Alzheimer's, while consumption of fish such as salmon, tuna, herring, and sardines seemed to reduce the risk." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Henry David Thoreau Minimizing red meat and scaling down saturated fats Population-level research consistently illustrates that one of the most important components of protecting your cognitive health is to avoid a diet high in saturated fats, which tend to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. diets high in red meat intake and low in fruit and vegetable intake—a consumption pattern common to most of us in the West—have been linked to vascular disease, inflammation, the production of free radicals that may contribute to neurodegeneration, and a diminution of blood supply to the brain." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Since we human beings spend a significant portion of our lives eating, what we put into our bodies as part of our everyday diets is perhaps one of the most important modifiable risk factors we have. It is difficult to draw direct associations between particular foods or nutritional components and the prevention of brain aging. After all, we don't eat foods in isolation, but rather in varying combinations that affect their absorption, and, beyond that, diet is only one aspect of an intricate causal matrix responsible for human health and disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Or do you INFLUENCE OF GLYCEMIC INDEX ON GLYCEMIC RESPONSE, APPETITE, AND FOOD INTAKE IN HEALTHY ADULTS High glycemic index (Gl) diets are commonly promoted as a way to enhance appetite and promote weight gain. Support for these ideas is mainly based on the results of very short term studies done under artificial settings. So a study by Brazilian researchers published in September 2005 in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes Care put these ideas to the test. Two groups of adults consumed either only low- or only high-GI foods for eight days under carefully controlled conditions." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"They also suggested that people who live in soft water areas, those taking diuretics, and/or those predisposed to magnesium loss or ectopic beats may require additional magnesium in their diets. The incidence of magnesium deficiency has been on the rise in recent years. This situation has led to an increase in studies attempting to correlate these deficiencies with an increased risk for a variety of disease syndromes." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"American diets by and large contain great amounts of saturated fat and omega-6 fatty acids and are relatively deficient in omega-3 fats. Grass-fed beef provides a fatty acid profile superior to corn-fed beef raised on synthetic anabolic steroids and growth-promoting agents that are used to quickly fatten and mature the cattle. ?cheese and yogurt (organic) Carbohydrates: The Benefits of Soluble Fiber Any mention of carbohydrates throws many people into a state of confusion: there are so-called good and bad carbs, complex carbs, high- and low-fiber carbs, sugars and starches, and so on." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Theoretically, as long as we are completely healthy and eat diets high in vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, and as long as we are not exposed to an overabundance of environmental toxins that stimulate free-radical formation, there is no need for coenzyme Qiq supplementation. But how many of us meet all these criteria? As I said earlier, the body's manufacture of coenzyme Qiq is complex. While it takes place in virtually every cell in the body, especially the liver, coenzyme Qiq synthesis requires multiple vitamins, cofactors, and amino acids." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The answer is urbanization of diets. The two diet elements that figure into kidney stone formation are hydration and acid-base balance, determined by dietary composition. Calcium-containing stones are the most common, but what regulates the concentration of calcium in urine is your daily intake of water, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and protein. The less water you drink, the higher the concentration of calcium and acid in your urine and the higher your risk for stone formation. Similarly, the more calcium you take in, the more you have available to discard in urine." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "All the diets provided the same amount of calories and salt. African Americans with high blood pressure and those without high blood pressure all lowered their blood pressure numbers, and those with high blood pressure on the combination diet showed the greatest reduction. The blood pressure reduction in this group, amazingly, mirrored that of people who take blood pressure medication. The DASH diet also had beneficial effects on other aspects of the metabolic syndrome. The combination diet caused a 50 percent improvement in insulin sensitivity." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Although vitamin A is important, in industrialized societies where people typically have access to good foods, vitamin A is not a limiting nutrient in diets. In addition, your daily multiple vitamin probably contains 100 percent of the DRI of vitamin A, so you want to avoid duplication and possible toxicity. Fish oil supplements have only about 30 percent omega-3 by weight. This means that a 1,000-milligram gelcap of fish oil has only about 300 milligrams of omega-3 fat. In other words, to get 3,000 milligrams, you would have to take ten gelcaps a day." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "As immigrants and other Americans left their farms and began living and working in cities, their diets began to change. Then the mechanization of the food industry compounded these dietary changes: canned and frozen produce replaced fresh fruits and vegetables. Free-range cattle gave way to feedlots. Fresh, lean meat was replaced by processed and canned meats. Foods such as canned ham—high in salt, saturated fat, and sugar—became popular, and the population explosion increased the demand for these inexpensive, well-preserved, tasty, and convenient foods." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In fact, the people with the longest life expectancy and fewest heart attacks have diets low in olive oil but high in plant foods. We do need to keep in mind that there are very few studies on the topic at this moment, so we can only make a suggestive warning rather than a definitive statement about the adverse affect of olive oil on cardiovascular health. One study reported in the March 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that eating olive oil can lower high blood pressure." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Beans are a major food source in most of the world, but have somehow been forgotten in most North American diets. Beans are rich sources of antioxidants, fiber, trace minerals, and phytoestrogens, and they should be a regular part of your diet. Phytosterols You've probably never heard of them, but phytosterols are plant compounds that can improve estrogen metabolism, lower cholesterol absorption from your food, and lower cholesterol production in your liver. I use them a lot in my practice in lieu of Lipitor or other lipid-lowering medications and if women are having breast tenderness." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In a recent study, a daily dose of 1,050 mg of benfotiamine dramatically reduced endothelial and oxidative damage in patients who were on high-glycotoxin diets. Lower doses have shown benefit in type 2 diabetic patients in the context of painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy. No side effects have been reported from the use of benfotiamine. Carnosine and Its Precursors Carnosine is a molecule (dipeptide) composed of two amino acids, beta-alanine and histidine." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Today we realize that vast numbers of people eat poorly and do not get the proper nutrition from their diets that their bodies need to sustain good health. Moreover, a global wave of positive nutritional research has rendered the conventional viewpoint on supplementation utterly obsolete. Many thousands of published studies have shown that individual 92 nutrients at doses higher than those usually present in food have a significant preventive and therapeutic effect for serious diseases, not just nutritional deficiency states. In 2002, the standard-bearer for mainstream U.S." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"There are documented cases of people following strict macrobiotic diets that develop weakness, weight loss, and severe nutritional deficiencies, that evolve into disease states. It's also well established that both children and adults consuming primarily vegetarian-type foods tend to have lower concentrations of carnitine in their plasma compared to those eating foods rich in animal sources. Many anecdotal cases exist where L-carnitine deficiency in an individual who was on a vegetarian diet in their infancy or childhood." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The studies that show that saturated fat in diets lead to cancer and heart disease may just be looking at the health of those in group one. As the old adage goes, "everything in moderation." For year, the Mediterranean diet has toted benefits for cardiovascular health. It uses mainly olive oil and fish in this diet. Olive oil, like other plant-based fats have a heating point at which the oil tends to oxidize. Butter, lard and coconut oil are said to be saturated fats but they can be heated to a high temperature for cooking without turning into a trans-fat." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"My experience and the experience of the families in my practice have left no doubt in my mind: artificially flavored and colored foods should be removed from our children's diets because of what these ingredients do to their brains. These are big steps for a family that eats a lot of processed or packaged foods. Your kids will do great on this diet, and you will, too. Tell the kids what they can eat, not what they can't eat. View this as an adventure in a new way of eating, rather than something meant to limit or punish." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, fruits, while cheaper than cigarettes or alcohol, are too expensive for people on subsistence diets. Although bananas and oranges are certainly affordable, you can live without them. Very little fresh fruit has been available at restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, but now Apple Dippers are becoming the norm. Fruits today play an integral role in preventative, wellness medicine. We seem to think that we're only now realizing how important fruits are, but in many cases we're only now rediscovering lost wisdom." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Bananas, an essential part of many tropical countries' diets, are the primary source of carbohydrates throughout East Africa. Seventy-two million metric tons are produced every year in the developing world—compared to a mere one metric ton in the developed world. To save the Cavendish from viral extinction requires uncovering varieties that are resistant to the new virus. Unfortunately, as the search for these forgotten strains has gotten under way, researchers have discovered that many wild banana varieties have disappeared as a result of logging and mass urbanization." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Weight-Loss diets To lose weight, a person must eat fewer calories than he or she burns. How one attempts to do this varies tremendously. Some people use the slow and steady approach of dietary and lifestyle modifications—basically, eating less and exercising more. Others try weight-loss pills, fasting and other rapid-fire approaches, or one of the many weight-loss diets described in books or offered commercially. Some of the most popular weight-loss diets include: The Atkins diet A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet with few limits of the amount of food that can be eaten." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Breast cancer rates in Mediterranean countries are relatively low despite diets that contain up to 40 percent olive oil fat. Furthermore, epidemiological studies over the past two decades have consistently failed to establish any causal relationship between breast cancer and the consumption of fat per se, though meat and dairy fats heavily contaminated with carcinogenic pesticides and industrial pollutants do appear to play a role. Finally, these increasing cancer rates also cannot be attributed to genetic factors." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Cooking food expanded our diets. Smelting metals allowed us to make more sturdy tools. Several thousand years later came the wheel, creating both a revolution in transport and a wealth of new technology. The potter's wheel, the waterwheel, the windmill, the spinning wheel, the pulley, and almost every piece of machinery humanity has ever invented are dependent on the properties of the wheel. The Industrial Revolution integrated the efficiency of the wheel with the energy of fire. Steam power replaced animal power and led to factories and increased production." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Again, most of us launch into diets with unrealistic expectations that inevitably undermine our efforts to lose weight, because when we don't see the life-changing results we hoped for, we get discouraged and return to bingeing. Dieting leads to weight loss and improved health and vigor—period, the end. From any rational point of view, getting thin and healthy should be reason enough to forgo the trench fries, but as you've already discovered, irrational forces tend to win the food wars." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"THE CAUSES OF DIVERTICULITIS The causes of this disorder are low fibre diets, a weakened intestinal wall and aging. Chronic constipation and straining with hard stools weaken the intestine wall over time. People who smoke, are obese, stressed, have cardiovascular or gallbladder disease tend to have a greater incidence of diverticulitis." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In an observational study, women whose diets contained the highest proportion of animal protein were almost four times more likely to suffer a fractured hip than women whose primary source of protein was vegetables. This is just a sampling of some of the research that doesn't get pushed out into the public's awareness by commercial sponsors. Where might you find additional information about bone health to guide your decisions? Almost half of Americans turn to the Internet for health information." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Another downside of eating high fat and high protein diets is that over time gallstones may develop. This happens when the gallbladder excretes a lot of bile and it becomes stagnant and crystallizes. These crystals made of cholesterol or calcium turn into gallstones. Surgical removal of the gallbladder may be necessary, but this further reduces the excretion of bile. Make wise food choices and your body will reward you! GENERAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR BILE PRODUCTION Bile Salts Ox bile is often used as a digestive aid." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "I have scoured many good books on detoxification diets. Here is some good advice for doing a dietary detox. Avoid the following for 21 days: i. Fruit juices contribute to yeast overgrowth and acidity because they have no fibre or solids in the liquid. They are empty calories. ii. Wheat, rye, spelt and barley contain gluten that can cause problems with digestion, the nervous system and energy. iii. Yeast, mould and fungi feed bad bacteria in the gut and are found in baked goods, wine, beer, whiskey, cheese, mushrooms. iv." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Throughout the crisis, West African governments still exported food while tens of thou- sands of their citizens subsisted on meager diets from humanitarian aid programs. This particular drought cycle was unusually persistent. The clima-tologist Jule Charney believes the drought was reinforced by what he calls "biogeographical feedback": changes in the Sahelian land surface caused by the human impact on the fragile ecosystem of the arid lands. Interestingly, the same drought did not persist in the Sahel's southern equivalent, the Kalahari, where there are no dense herder populations." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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