31 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS, TIPS & TIDBITS
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13. FIRST Assure Optimal Nutrition underlies the medical principle of first not to cause harm. In other words, first insure that an illness cannot be cured or helped by nutrition. Nutritional medicine is also called naturopathic or orthomolecular medicine or psychiatry. The stupid idea that a "well balanced diet" gives optimum amounts of the nutrients you need is based on dogma, not on science. While a 'balanced & varied' diet with lots of fruits, veggies & whole-grains is truly a superb idea (JNCI; 00-1-19), no scientist can say that even such diet (and more importantly your actual diet) has your optimum amounts of selenium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, vanadium, silicon, molybdenum, chromium, vitamins C, E, etc.
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18. ASPIRIN daily kills about 46 Americans, as many as die from ![]() Aspirin, Tylenol, Celebrex & Vioxx work by reducing inflammation and/or pain from omega-6 oil-based molecules. The omega-3 family of oils, and most effectively fish oil, does the same but more gently, more safely and with more flavor (some would say: with too much flavor). These omega-3 effects are from "COX-regulation" in addition to the electro-chemical effects of the oil itself. These omega-3 benefits are evident in heart disease, in gut diseases like colitis and Crohn's, in arthritis, and health in general. JAMA sounded an alarm in 2001 about COX-2 inhibitors Celebrex & Vioxx regarding 50% more heart attacks. Three years later Vioxx® was pulled off the shelves, then Bextra and Celebrex is under a similar cloud: they reduce one of the really good prostaglandins (prostacyclin PGI-2) and prevent bones from healing.
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Stanol-sterol margarines, policosanol, fibrates, gugulipid, dextrothyroxine, estrogen, ezetimibe [Zetia, Ezetrol, part of Vytorin / Inegy -click for warning] and
torcetrapib all 'manage cholesterol' in various ways but have never shown to save lives, just like Lipitor.
Twenty percent of 1st time Zocor users were motivated by cholesterol fear instilled by a football coach (Merck annual report). Pfizer also uses sports figures and, before Feb. 25 2008,
a doctor who had never practiced.
Within each location however people with heart disease were found to have higher blood pressures. The report and editorial interpret this as if blood pressure causes heart disease; thus the potential for drug treatment. The reverse is more logical: the heart pumping into hardened less functional arteries evidently causes higher pressures than if pumping into healthy ones.
If a food has as much as 1/10th of an egg, a whole food with all the nutrients to make a new chicken and no evidence of harm, it won't be endorsed but sawdust with over 10% of 1 of only 6 required nutrients (fiber) qualifies. Endorsements based on saturated fat and cholesterol and only
one added nutrient is irresponsible. America's most reliable source of heart-health information, according to itself, must change its orientation if it doesn't want to remain
part of the core problem. Using dedicated doctors and without corporate money, simple science based advise should be given, endorsing all | |||||||||||
Another bone-density risk is low vitamin K intake (green leaf veggies, broccoli and cabbage: 2/3rd reduced hip fractures in high vs. low intake --AJCN; May 2000). Note that Coumad(r)in / Warfarin and antibiotics mess with vitamin K (think: Koagulation, Klotting, Kalcium and Koumad(r)in).
--PPS High protein (even milk) or soft-drink intake eats calcium from bones
--PPPS High omega-3 (fish oil) helps grow bone! [T Terano or BA Watkins]. Also, lowest vitamins [= highest homocysteine]: men 4x and women 2x the hip fractures in the Framingham Study.
--PPPPS Paradox: faster bone loss in bone, faster bone growth in arteries. In the lab, this happens by the presence of oxidized LDL-cholesterol [think: egg and milk powder].
29. People and animals store some types of fat they eat. For example a rare 15 carbon fat in blood cells is indicative for milk use while 20 mg of butt-fat ("adipose tissue aspirate") scientifically reveals your long-term consumption of animal and plant type fats. Feed chickens flaxseed or fish(!), their eggs retain omega-3.
Naturally saturated tropical fats [link under palm-tree], tallow and butter are much healthier -and certainly for frying- than the common "vegetable" oils, margarines and shortening (think: French fry and donut) as shown in the Figure 1 in NEJM. Surprise, fats are as important as protein: surrounding and controlling every cell and every factory in and on each cell. There are hundreds of fat combinations in the miscellaneous cell walls that "host" this machinery: channels, proteins, enzymes and some DNA -all of which these fats control. They, the fats of the host-membranes, control where the guest proteins go, how they behave and fats may perform tasks for the guest proteins. Fats, in a balance between omega-3 and -6, control every motion, emotion, pain and heart beat, with your brain effectively a glob of smart fat ... so much for the lowly fat!
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