| How to Store Supplements
You do not need to take special precautions when storing most dietary supplements. It is usually sufficient to keep them on a shelf in a pantry or on the kitchen counter. Most of the products are quite stable if kept in dry, room-temperature conditions. As with any food, do not leave them for prolonged periods in a hot car or in a closed carrier out in the sun, where they will easily get overheated.
Sometimes people are tempted to put their supplements in the refrigerator, but this is not a good idea. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 Reduce dietary supplements that use aluminum as a binding agent.
7. Drink bottled water.
8. Reduce uptake of aluminum by increasing calcium foods.
9. Reduce intake of baked goods unless ingredients include a non-aluminum baking soda.
10. Increase silicon intake since it reduces uptake and removal of aluminum. Dietary sources include: unrefined grains, cereal products, and root vegetables.
11. Reduce processed breakfast cereals.
Appendix F
Better Brands
Don't have time to shop for organic foods? Buy them through the mail from mail-order companies.
Mail Order Organic Foods
Good Eats
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Gale Maleskey
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 De-Felice, in fact, who coined the term nutraceutical to describe food or dietary supplements that offer health benefits, including disease prevention and treatment.
According to Dr. DeFelice, our current appetite for supplements can be traced back to the 1980s, when the word began to spread—from researchers to physicians to reporters to consumers—that calcium helps to prevent osteoporosis. The sales of calcium supplements took off, opening the door for the increased popularity of other supplements like fiber and fish oil, says Dr. DeFelice. |
Donald M. Epstein
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 They are rarely given dietary supplements to support their health and to help neutralize the harmful effects of medical treatment. Fresh air and sunlight are rarely available to hospital patients.
Often isolated from their emotional support system, patients spend most of the day and night under some form of sedation, and bathed in high electromagnetic radiation while resting in the hospital bed. A hospital stay reinforces the dark myths that tell us that we are alone and helpless, that our bodies are stupid, and that the only way to heal is to do what a professional tells us to do. |
John Robbins
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 Citizens for Health
Empowers consumers to make informed health choices; areas of focus include dietary supplements, complementary and alternative medicine, food and water safety. P. O. Box 2260, Boulder, CO 80306; 800-357-2211; www.citizens.org
Food and Water
Leads tenacious and effective public campaigns against toxic food technologies, including food irradiation, pesticides, and GMOs, while stimulating efforts to build safe, sustainable alternatives; publishes the Food and Water journal and Wild Matters. 389 Rt. 215, Walden, VP 05873; 800-EAT-SAFE; www.foodandwater. |
Elaine Feuer
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 To seize dietary supplements.
FDA agents seized a Vitamin B12 complex manufactured in Germany, which Dr. Wright used to treat patients with allergies—the German form of Vitamin B12 is the only injectable vitamin that does not contain preservatives or additives. |
| On 31 March 1993 Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Policy for the FDA, stated:
"From a scientific standpoint, the claimed benefits of many of these products [amino acid and herbal products] are better evaluated in pharmacological rather than nutritional terms. . . It is a simple fact that these products are legally drugs and properly regulated as such."
David Adams, another FDA Deputy Commissioner for Policy, warned the Drug Information Association at its annual meeting in July of 1993:
"Pay careful attention to what is happening [with dietary supplements] in the legislative arena ... |
| FDA RAIDS OF VITAMINS AND NATURAL FOOD PRODUCTS
Despite the passage of the Proxmire Amendment, the FDA continued in its attempts to limit public access to dietary supplements by claiming they were either toxic, a dangerous food additive, or labeled with "unsubstantiated" therapeutic claims. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the FDA raided medical clinics, health food manufacturers and health food stores throughout the United States, seizing hundreds of natural food substances. |
| The conflict between orthodox and alternative medicine has little to do with science and everything to do with economics: If most diseases could be successfully managed with dietary supplements (a projection based on thousands of clinical studies), nutrients would replace the majority of pharmaceutical drugs.
I was given access to True Health files, documents, videotapes, and audiotapes. Pam Chaplin, Lennie Myers, Bill Sanders (pseudonym), Randy Koppang, and Harvey Brennan (pseudonym) were interviewed for the purposes of this book. Statements from Dr. Boyer, Dr. Pyfer, and Dr. |
| Some of the dietary supplements that would have been restricted or banned by the FDA are: essential fatty acids?evening primrose oil, borage oil, black current seed oil, flax seed oil; herbs—such as echinacea, ginkgo, garlic, pau d'arco, valerian, ginseng and other popular Chinese herbs; all amino acids—such as L-lysine, L-glutamine; enzymes—such as bromelain and quercitin; co-enzyme Q10; diet formulas; antioxidant formulas; and PABA. The potency of vitamins would have been dramatically reduced to those levels found in food. |
Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin
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 While there is no question that a well-balanced diet and physical exercise are important for maintaining a healthy brain, there is no clear scientific evidence to support the claimed memory benefits of specific dietary supplements.
We believe a more prudent route to brain health is to harness the brain's ability to manufacture its own natural nutrients. With this approach, neurotrophins and similar molecules will be produced in the right places, and in the right amounts, without side effects. stimulate the memory of events associated with them. |
Gale Maleskey
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| Often, the researchers run across dietary supplements that have been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry or the medical profession in favor of pharmaceutical drugs that can be patented, says Al Czap, president of Thorne Research.
"In many cases, things are out there, readily available. We just have to open our eyes to look for them," Czap says. "We look at virtually every journal in the world, from biochemical to phytochemical to obscure European journals. We find many things that have been overlooked or that show potential. |
Ralph Moss, PhD
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 But avoid foods with added citrus oils and especially avoid taking dietary supplements of citrus bioflavonoids themselves, especially if you are taking tamoxifen.
The dose that is possibly harmful to humans is 280 milligrams per day. Until there is more definitive data in humans, I recommend that people taking tamoxifen avoid taking high-dose supplements of citrus bioflavonoids.
Many of the ingredients in Pycnogenol have now been isolated and studied, but it has greater effects as a mixture than its purified components do individually, since the components work together synergisticaHy. |
Earl Mindell
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 What Vitamins Are
We must obtain vitamins from natural foods, or dietary supplements in order to sustain life.
When I mention the word vitamin, most people think pill. Thinking pill brings to mind confusing images of medicine and drugs. Though vitamins can and certainly often do the work of both medicine and drugs, they are neither.
• Quite simply, vitamins are organic substances necessary for life. Vitamins are essential to the normal functioning of our bodies and, save for a few exceptions, cannot be manufactured or synthesized internally. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 The Color Code is designed to minimize this damage by teaching you to eat protective foods and dietary supplements within a healthy diet.
DNA and Genes
When translated, the information found in DNA provides the text that sets the stage for the development of all your physical and behavioral attributes, including hair, nails, internal organs, bones, brain, personality, and the sperm or egg cells necessary for passing your genes on to the next generation. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
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 A petition for extension in dietary supplements was terminated in 1973. Addition of fluorine compounds to food is limited to that from fluoridation of public water supplies and to that resulting from the fluoridation of bottled water within limits set by the FDA.
FLUORO C2-8 ALKKYLDIMETHICONE • An antifoaming ingredient. See Silicones.
FLUOROSALAN • A salicylide used as an antiseptic ingredient. See Salicylides. FOAM STABILIZERS • Used in soft drinks and brewing. See Vegetable Gums. FOENICULUM VULGARE • See Fennel. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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 Check the list of dietary supplements you will need to purchase
8. Refer to the mail-order list for hard-to-find items
9. Use the lists of professional associations for help in finding a nutritionally minded doctor in your area
10. Check out the references for support groups
Pick Your Place to Shop
You have no doubt discovered there is a big difference in supermarkets. Most of us look for convenience first and therefore check out the store closest to home. |
| John Glenn chapter 14
Recommended Supplements
In previous chapters, I shared the scientific studies that have identified the dietary supplements needed to help overcome AD/HD and elaborated on the outcomes of preliminary and clinical trials that used specific supplements to alleviate AD/HD. Now, I'd like to discuss a supplement plan based on these and other research findings. |
| This is yet another insight as to why dietary supplements are so important in overcoming AD/HD.
Professors Sidney V. Stohs and Debasis Bagchi, of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to the information on zinc's role by examining the previous work that had been done on zinc's antioxidant function. From the accumulated evidence, they concluded that zinc displaces other minerals that have demonstrated free-radical potential. Iron and copper are two such minerals. They described the protection of LCPs from free-radical damage as either "push" or "pull" actions. |
| That means eating good animal and vegetable sources of LCPs or taking dietary supplements that provide them. Strict vegetarian (vegan) diets contain plenty of linoleic and linolenic fatty acids that are the direct predecessors of LCPs. Yet, those on vegan diets are usually low in LCPs because of their bodies' inefficient processing of the fatty acids in dietary oils. The high-carbohydrate diet of vegetarians may also reduce LCP conversion. I do not recommend vegetarian or low-fat diets for children, especially those with AD/HD, because of these conditions. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| The Color Code of fruits and vegetables you are incorporating into your diet, in combination with the few essential vitamins and minerals, will give you what you need to protect your DNA; additional herbal dietary supplements should be regarded only as the fine-tuning. So first practice getting the diet down. Then add your core supplements. Finally, choose those additional supplements and herbs you would like to take.
Notice, I ask you to choose, given the information you have. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| Fish oils are available as dietary supplements, with concentrated amounts of zoochemicals, and are one of the keys to success with my 30-Day Plan.
Hydrogenated fats are made from unsaturated oils by forcing hydrogen atoms into some open spaces between carbons. Consequently, they are solid at room temperature. Heat and pressure are required to hydro-genate oils, and this produces harmful fats called trans fats. Scientists have implicated trans fats with some types of cancer. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| Until that day, the dietary supplements listed above are strongly supported by nutrition science. Beyond these few supplements, there are others you may wish to take and I will tell you about those. They are for the more nutrition savvy among you who would like to go beyond the basics. v Selenium, 50 to 200 micrograms per day in the form of selenomethionine. |
Paul A. Offit, M.D.m Bonnie Fass-Offit, M.D. and Louis M. Bell, M.D.
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 This law allowed herbs, plant products, vitamins, and some chemicals to be sold as dietary supplements provided that health or therapeutic claims were not specified on the label. What constitutes a therapeutic claim is apparently unclear. For example, some preparations of Echinacea purpurea have labels that contain phrases like "immune support formula."
In a sense, the FDA has taken a step back from these "alternative" products. When you go to the pharmacist and ask for an antibiotic prescription to be filled, you can be guaranteed of two things. |
John Boik
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 SUMMARY
Four dietary supplements that have a reported effect on cancer are DMSO, bovine or shark cartilage, bromelain and multienzyme formulas, and urea. DMSO may be useful as a free radical scavenger and as a solvent to carry other anticancer agents into tumor cells. Bovine and shark cartilage may be useful as antiangiogenic agents in treating solid tumors, as immune stimulants, or as collagenase inhibitors. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 While it did not have a significant effect on tumor incidence, the weights of the tumors "tended to be lower in rats fed the dietary supplements compared with the controls." In addition, "the incidence of tumor-bearing rats with large tumors was significantly lower in rats fed canthaxanthin than in the control rats." By the end of the experiment, rats receiving canthaxanthin had blood and tissue levels of vitamin A somewhat lower than controls. This was further proof that the anticancer effects of carotenes could not be dependent on vitamin A activity (4). |
| Cardiff researchers gave mice dietary supplements of essential fatty acids in the form of evening primrose oil and fish oil. Olive oil as well as normal laboratory chow lacking the essential fatty acids served as the controls.
"Animals treated with essential fatty acids developed tumors which were significantly smaller" than in olive oil and regular lab chow control groups. |
Michael Lerner
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 These recommendations apply only to foods as sources of nutrients—not to dietary supplements of individual nutrients. . . . There is very little information on the effects of various levels of individual nutrients on the risk of cancer in humans. Therefore, the committee is unable to predict the health effects of high and potentially toxic doses of isolated nutrients consumed in the form of supplements [emphasis added],
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Gary Null
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 B vitamins help the body's enzymes to release energy from the food you eat and the dietary supplements you take.
• Metabolism. Because of its important role in the enzymatic system, the B complex promotes proper metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins throughout the body, normalizing your appetite and digestion.
• Cells. Vitamin B complex helps keep the body supplied with plenty of oxygen and helps form red blood cells. In this way, it is a depression- and fatigue-fighter par excellence. It helps build your cells' immunity to infection, too.
• Organs. |
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