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"His study demonstrated an 11 percent increase in bone density in the group that was given dietary advice, hormones, and nutritional supplements (500 mg calcium citrate, 600 mg magnesium oxide, vitamin C, vitamin B-complex, vitamin D, zinc, copper, manganese, and boron). The group that received the dietary advice plus the hormones but no supplementation had an average increase of only 0.7 percent.93 An 11 percent increase in bone density is greater than that found in studies of calcium or hormone replacement therapy taken either separately or together." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The other participants in the study, 303 people in all, functioned as a control group, and were given no particular dietary advice beyond being asked by their physicians to eat prudently. On average, they ate a diet that the American Heart Association describes as "comparable to what is typically consumed in the United States." It derived about 34 percent of its calories from fat—12 percent from saturated fat, n percent from monounsaturated fat, and 6 percent from polyunsaturated fat—and included about 312 milligrams a day of cholesterol." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"In one community based study, patients receiving risk factor screening and targeted dietary advice had only 1-3% lower cholesterol than the unscreened controls after a three-year follow-up.38 The Task Force gives a "B" grade for periodic screening of men age 35-65 and women 45-65. There is insufficient evidence (Grade "C") to so recommend for those over age 65 or young adults without a family history of cardiovascular disease. There is little doubt that lowering blood pressure in hypertensive adults is beneficial, reducing mortality from several common diseases." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Current medical practice actually exacerbates illness via drugs, excessive surgeries, toxic and invasive diagnostic testing procedures and even counterproductive, harmful dietary advice. The practitioners do this instead of teaching patients to minimize disease-causing factors like improper diet, pollution, inadequate sleep, excess emotional stress and insufficient exercise! The pharmaceutical juggernaut and its pocketbook are holding the health care field hostage." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"This disconnect I believe is what creates most of our misunderstanding about dietary advice. Here's Dr. Roy Walford's (the longevity researcher who headed up Biosphere II) favorite example: We know that Japanese women are remarkably resistant to developing breast cancer; they also drink a lot of green tea. Many people have made the association between drinking green tea or its active ingredient, a catechin called ECGC, and cancer prevention. But not so fast. Japanese women also all have black hair. We could just as easily make the association that having black hair prevents breast cancer." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"In particular, the diet must adequately provide micronutrients such as iron and calcium. dietary advice and modification are most likely to be effective if there is parental involvement, because parental attitudes, purchase, and presentation of food as well as modeling of eating behavior can impact a child's intake [132]. Some child-feeding practices can have negative (and unintended) effects on a child's food preferences and ability to control food intake [135]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Dietary advice for reducing cardiovascular risk. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online), CD002128. 33. Hooper, L., Summerbell, C. D., Higgins, J. P., et al. (2001). Reduced or modified dietary fat for preventing cardiovascular disease. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online), CD002137. 34. Ordovas, J. M. (2001). Genetics, postprandial lipemia and obesity. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovasc. Dis. 11, 118-133. 35. Davidson, N. O., and Shelness, G. S. (2000). Apolipoprotein B:mRNA editing, lipoprotein assembly, and presecretory degradation. Annu. Rev. Nutr. 20, 169-193. 36." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "There have been three large secondary prevention intervention studies where patients with CHD were given dietary advice to consume at least two servings of fatty fish a week (20CMKX) grams of fish) or given supplemental fish oil capsules (850 mg EPA and DHA and 1800mg EPA). These interventions resulted in a 21-29% reduction in all-cause mortality [108], 45% reduction in sudden death from MI [108, 109], and 19% reduction in all coronary events [110]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Lack of benefit of dietary advice to men with angina: Results of a controlled trial. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 57, 193-200. 113. Leaf, A., Albert, C. M., Josephson, M., et al. (2005). Prevention of fatal arrhythmias in high-risk subjects by fish oil n-3 fatty acid intake. Circulation 112, 2762-2768. 114. Raitt, M. H., Connor, W. E., Morris, C, et al. (2005). Fish oil supplementation and risk of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in patients with implantable defibrillators: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 293, 2884-2891. 115. Leaf, A., Xiao, Y. F., Kang, J. X., and Billman, G." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The group that received the dietary advice plus the hormones but no supplementation had an average increase of only 0.7 percent.93 An 11 percent increase in bone density is greater than that found in studies of calcium or hormone replacement therapy taken either separately or together. However, in most studies on bone density or osteoporosis-related fractures, the benefits of calcium have been observed without magnesium supplementation. A study looking at calcium absorption found no benefit on calcium absorption in postmenopausal women taking magnesium." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Other prevention strategies include dietary advice, exercise including strength training, vitamin D, calcium, trace minerals and nutrients, and low alcohol intake. The practitioner should monitor the bone density over time. For women of this age who actually have osteoporosis, bis-phosphonates may be a good choice. Calcium and vitamin D have important but modest benefits in women who already have osteoporosis." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Additional dietary advice, plus botanical and nutritional therapies for the prevention and treatment of yeast vaginitis, is discussed in Chapter 20. Ice packs over the pelvic region can reduce inflammation and pain in cases of acute PID. Cold or ice packs placed over the region of the uterus while putting the feet in a tub of hot water can further assist in reducing the inflammation, congestion, and pain in the pelvic area. Alternating hot and cold sitz baths can also be used to improve circulation in the pelvic area and improve the healing time from the infection." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"All three helped to amplify the signal of nutritionism: journalism by uncritically reporting the latest dietary studies on its front pages; the food industry by marketing dubious foodlike products on the basis of tenuous health claims; and the government by taking it upon itself to issue official dietary advice based on sketchy science in the first place and corrupted by political pressure in the second. The novel food products the industry designed according to the latest nutritionist specs certainly helped push real food off our plates." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Even nutrition scientists who have been chastened by decades of conflict and confusion about dietary advice would answer my question "So what are you still sure of?" with some variation on the recommendation to "eat more plants." (Though Marion Nestle was slightly more circumspect: "Certainly eating plants isn't harmful.") That plants are good for humans to eat probably doesn't need much elaboration, but the story of vitamin C, an antioxidant we depend primarily on plants to supply us, points to the evolutionary reasons why this might have become the case." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The Lyon Diet Heart Study randomized people who had a heart attack between 1988 and 1992 either to be counseled on eating a Mediterranean-type diet or to receive routine post-heart attack dietary advice (reduced intake of total and saturated fat) from their doctors. Over almost four years of follow-up, the people on the Mediterranean diet experienced 70 percent less heart disease than the people in the control group (4 percent versus 12 percent), about three times the reduction in the risk of further heart disease achieved with statin drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"By framing dietary advice in terms of good and bad nutrients, and by burying the recommendation that we should eat less of any particular actual food, it was easy for the take-home message of the 1977 and 1982 dietary guidelines to be simplified as follows: Eat more low-fat foods. And that is precisely what we did. We're always happy to receive a dispensation to eat more of something (with the possible exception of oat bran), and one of the things nutritionism reliably gives us is some such dispensation: low-fat cookies then, low-carb beer now." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "This corruption of a control group by popular dietary advice is called the treatment effect.) So it's hardly surprising that the health outcomes of the two groups would not greatly differ—by the end, they might have been consuming pretty much the same diet. I say "might have been" because we actually have little idea what these women were really eating. Like most people asked about their diet, they lied about it—which brings us to what is perhaps the single biggest problem in doing nutrition science." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"As I explained in Food Politics, these functions did not cause conflict as long as dietary advice encouraged people to eat more of U.S. agricultural products. When chronic diseases replaced infectious diseases among the leading causes of death, however, dietary advice shifted. Health officials began to recommend restrictions on the intake of fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol as a means to prevent heart disease. For the first time, following dietary advice meant eating less, and particularly less of foods containing fat and cholesterol: meat, dairy, eggs, and fried and processed foods." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"We're concerned that many of the group's fans may misinterpret the ADA's dietary advice to their detriment and wrongly assume that it's fine to consume an abundance of refined carbs instead of wholesome, intact carbs. Despite our disappointment, we're hopeful that this very needed, influential, and inspiring organization will, at some point soon, change its recommendations. Renowned endocrinologist Diana Schwarzbein, M.D., who has helped many diabetics at her Endocrinology Institute of Santa Barbara, is one physician who finds the American Diabetes Association position insupportable." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Eating Habits Follow the dietary advice described in chapter 5, with a particular emphasis on eating coldwater fish (such as salmon, sardines, and mackerel), which are high in omega-3 fats. These fats are needed for normal brain development and function. Indeed, the high incidence of bipolar disorder in teenagers might reflect inadequate brain development resulting from a low intake of fish oil. Psychological Tips People with bipolar disorder will benefit from a stable home and work environment." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"In one study, men with heart disease were assigned to receive either no dietary advice (control group) or a low-fat diet supplemented with unsaturated fat (corn oil). Although treatment with corn oil reduced serum cholesterol, it also nearly doubled the incidence of heart attacks, compared with the control group.3 This adverse effect of corn oil may have resulted from a depletion of vitamin E (unsaturated fats increase vitamin E requirements)." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "One group was advised to discontinue all soft drinks, while the other was given no dietary advice (control group). After 3 years, the men in the no-soft-drink group developed significantly fewer new stones than the men in the control group. However, the improvement occurred only in men whose usual soft drinks contained phosphoric acid (primarily cola beverages). Among those who consumed soft drinks other than colas, discontinuing them did not reduce the risk of stones." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Although Josh was initially perplexed by the dietary advice, he followed through, and his wife began making him high-protein breakfasts before work. Within a couple of days, Josh's mood lightened up considerably. As he practiced the stress- and anger-control techniques, his moods and aggressive behavior continued to improve. Neurotransmitters That Stimulate Your Mind Acetylcholine What it does. Acetylcholine is a key neurotransmitter involved in the thinking processes, memory, motivation, and arousal." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"In an often-quoted study, 158 women with fibrocystic breast disease were randomly assigned to consume a diet free of methylxanthines or to a control group receiving no dietary advice. Four months later, the condition had improved by an average of about 25% in the women in the methylxanthine-free group, but it had become slightly worse in the women in the control group. Although the difference between the two groups was highly statistically significant, the authors of the study concluded that the improvement was minor and was probably of little clinical significance." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Either way, he gives the same sugar-shunning dietary advice. Moreover, some doctors are reluctant to order the GTT for their patients, because it can be grueling and traumatic for a hypoglycemic, whose blood sugar levels are jerked around with the glucose solution and for whom it can be tough to not eat for hours without getting the shakes, headaches, dizziness, and so on. In fact, if a patient becomes ill, the test may have to be cut short. Physicians who won't order the GTT for their patients prefer to rely on symptoms to make their diagnosis. "The test is meaningless." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Ultimately, some observers suspect that consumers will pay scant attention to the government's dietary advice in any case. "I don't think many people read them or understand them, because the government puts very little muscle into marketing them," obesity and eating disorders expert Dr. Brownell told the New York Times. "If you ask 10 people on the street do they know about this or previous guidelines, no one will know anything," Dr. Brownell remarks, "but if you ask them what candy melts in your mouth not in your hand, 9 out of 10 will know." U.S." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Consumers were constantly being duped by fads, yet remained intensely interested in nutrient supplements and dietary advice coming from any source, whether that source was a diet book or a government official. One day in late spring of 1979, while doing my more routine work, I got a call from the director of the public affairs office at the FASEB who coordinated the work of our congressional "liaison" committee. Ellis informed me that there was yet another new committee being formed within one of the FASEB Societies, the American Institute of Nutrition, that might interest me." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"This dietary advice for shingles has not been subjected to scientific study. Lifestyle changes that may be helpful Stress and depression (page 145) have been linked to outbreaks of shingles in some,2' 3 but not all,4 studies.5 A small, preliminary study found that four children with shingles outbreaks, but who were otherwise healthy, all reported experiencing severe, chronic child abuse when the shingles first appeared.6 Among adults, how a stressful event is perceived appears to be more important than the event itself." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"I would stay away from any of the ADA's dietary advice. You never know what kind of sickness you may develop because of it. The truth of the matter is that real chocolate consists of largely fermented, roasted chocolate beans that are packed with nutrients. The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztecs of Mexico, who called it "bitter water." They associated chocolate with the goddess of fertility. It was always used as a beverage, never as a solid food. Its numerous benefits were known to them." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Plus, various medical organizations offer different, sometimes divergent dietary advice. You've got the American Heart Association focusing on dietary fat and cholesterol; the American Diabetes Association concentrating on carbohydrates and blood sugar; and the National Cancer Institute recommending those five-a-day fruit/veggie diets for cancer prevention, just to name a few.34 Unified Dietary Guidelines Thankfully, the recent creation of the Unified Dietary Guidelines should help clarify and simplify dietary advice and put matters into perspective." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

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