Newsletter 12-31-2010

1. Mainstream Drugs are neither Safe nor Effective Part III
2. Sugar
3. Eating too Many Carbs - A Simple Yet Effective Way To Normalize Blood Sugar & Insulin Spikes After Eating a High Carbohyrdrate Meal
4. Health Myths and Legends - Are your vitamins doing you any good?
5. What to expect when taking Natural vitamins - Whole Food Vitamins.

Over 95% of the 24,000 plus FDA approved medicines have side effects. In many instance those side effects lead to further conditions requiring still more drugs with more side effects in a never ending cycle. Millions of serious adverse reactions are reported each year and over 140,000 deaths in hospitals and homes happen each year even when the drugs have been properly prescribed and administered.

It will be everywhere for the holidays, so we suggest you read up about this health opponent and find out what to take when you do eat too much.

Eating too Many Carbs - A Simple Yet Effective Way To Normalize Blood Sugar & Insulin Spikes After Eating a High Carbohyrdrate Meal

This information is offered as a solution for those times when a diabetic, because of social reasons, a party, or special occasion, will be eating more carbohydrates than would normally be eaten.

A study done in Sweden in 2001 showed that blood sugar spikes were held in check when pickles preserved in vinegar were consumed immediately after a high-carbohydrate breakfast. Earlier Swedish research indicated that vinegar might help control blood sugar spikes.

As a result of the earlier research, Carol S. Johnston, Ph.D., from the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University, created a study to put vinegar to the test on three groups of subjects: ten type 2 diabetics, 11 subjects who showed symptoms of pre-diabetic insulin resistance, and eight subjects with normal insulin sensitivity. None of the subjects were taking any diabetes medications.

Subjects were randomly assigned to consume the apple cider vinegar or a placebo drink. Two minutes later, each subject ate a meal consisting of a white bagel with butter and a glass of orange juice, containing approximately 90 grams of total carbohydrates. Blood samples were collected before the meal, and 30 minutes and 60 minutes after the meal.

Dr. Johnston and her team reported several significant results:

And here's the most surprising result: Pre-diabetic subjects (insulin resistant) who drank vinegar actually had lower blood glucose levels than subjects with normal insulin sensitivity who also drank vinegar.

Dr. Johnston notes that vinegar dietary supplements may not be useful for managing glucose and insulin spikes associated with meals as they don't contain acetic acid [ acetic acid: a colorless acid with a pungent odor that is the main component of vinegar ] — the key ingredient she feels is responsible for vinegar's effectiveness.

Apple cider vinegar is another vinegar that works well. It is recommended that the typical apple cider vinegar product carried by large grocery chains carry be avoided. Instead, look for raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, usually available at many health food stores.

To make a quantity of your own salad dressing just mix one part oil (or water) to two parts vinegar. Condiments such as garlic and/or onion powder, salt and pepper, should be added to taste.

Three tablespoons of this type of salad dressing will supply you with the two tablespoons of vinegar needed for the above results.

Health Myths and Legends - Are your vitamins doing you any good?

There are many myths and misconceptions that have been floating around for years and years. People unknowingly spread this false information because they’ve heard others saying the same thing. They have heard it in commercials and in other advertisements. It really get confusing because sometimes the so-called authorities are the ones spreading these untruths. McVitamins is issuing a health issue “Health Myths and Legends” to help you understand.

In an effort to protect themselves and their families from frightening and serious health problems, people are changing their diets and are taking herbs and supplements. Why do they need vitamin supplements? Due to the depletion and demineralization of topsoil, the contaminations of produce from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, the over processing, enriching and preservation – foods just don’t have the same nutritional value they once had. To get the same amount of iron that was available to Popeye in one can of spinach, today he would have to consume 65 cans. An orange that once contained 50 mg of natural Vitamin C complex in 1950, now contains 5 mg.

We’ve all have gotten used to reading literature proclaiming the benefits of vitamins, deciding what is wrong with us and heading to the health food store to buy what we’ve decided we need We often end up buying all kinds of supplements - but are we any healthier? People are still fatigued, still overweight, still fighting the cholesterol battle, etc. etc. etc.

The body runs on vitamins, minerals, nutrients and oxygen just like your car runs on gas, water and oxygen. But what happens if you put the wrong gas, or worse some other liquid, into your car? Not only will it not work, it may damage the engine. The same thing can happen when you put the wrong vitamins in your body.

We can get healthier if we understand what most vitamins today really are – they’re synthetic. Let’s talk about synthetic vitamins

Natural: These are vitamins not tapered with and are the way they are in nature, not tapered with in any way that might change their molecular structure or biochemical actions. This can also be called whole food supplements.

Crystalline – these are vitamins originally from food but treated with heat, caustic, high-powered solvents (such a s benzene or toluene) chemicals, and distillations to reduce them to a specific vitamin.

Synthetic – These are vitamins made in a laboratory that are chemically reconstructed versions of the crystalline vitamins from other known sources. Thiamine mononitrate (a synthetic vitamin labeled as B1), is made from coal. It’s not “organic” just because it has carbon in its molecular structure.

One of the most perilous deceptions is the passing off of these phony, synthetic vitamins and saying that the body does not know the difference. In the long run, we will compound our health problems by taking them.

Keep in mind that synthetic vitamins are not the vitamin available in foods, but synthesized (made in a laboratory) fractions (parts) of a vitamin complex, The analogy here is essentially the same as an automobile salesman handing you a wheel from a car and telling you the wheel is an automobile.

In an example we look at vitamin C. You can buy “vitamin C” that is called
”Ascorbic Acid”. Ascorbic acid is only one small part of the vitamin C complex. Vitamin C has enzymes, co-enzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, activators, and other unknown factors that enable the vitamin to go into the biochemical operation.

In turn, the human physiology cannot properly utilize these synthetic fractions in the way that natural complexes work in the body and are essential to tissue repair and the sustenance of life.

When a person starts taking a fraction of a vitamin – and has sufficient reserves in his body of all the other components of the vitamin to recombine and process, the person may experience some improvement for a time. However when those reserves are drained, the vitamin will no longer benefit the person. Thus, a person may feel an increase in energy for a short period of time, but if taken for an extended period of time, the effects will reverse.

When vitamins were first discovered, they were discovered in foods. When foods were studied a lot was learned. Studies that show that vitamins work use a food source nutrient. In studies showing that vitamins don’t work, a synthetic was always used.

Additionally, the body actually has to recognize what you are putting into your body as food. Like the finicky cat, that looks at some new food offered it and says “what is that?” You’re body does the same thing. It doesn’t recognize the synthetic vitamins and often just sends it right back out of the body.

A synthetic vitamin fraction can only be utilized for a drug or pharmacological effect. The effect of a drug is palliative - meaning a making or covering over of symptoms - it isn't curative. The disease process remains unchanged or progressively gets worse for lack of proper attention.

What is needed is vitamins that come from whole food, which comes along with all the co-factors present when you eat a food.

Tissue and cell repair, or replacement, require the following to restore the approximately 24 billion cells that break down each day in the human body.

· A discontinuance of organic or inorganic poisons either inhaled or ingested in bad air, bad food and/or bad water.

What is a natural vitamin or supplement? It is a whole food supplement, made from food, not made in the laboratory.

Definition: Whole food vitamins – vitamin supplements made from food and not synthetics made in the laboratory.

Most brands of supplements available today are made from synthetics These are chemical compounds that have been manufactured in a laboratory to copy the molecular structure of natural vitamins. Your body normally gets nutrients from food. Thus obtaining your vitamins from whole food supplements, (real food) will allow the body to actually use the nutrients in the supplement.

There are two needs for supplements. One is to take nutrients that your body needs on a daily basis that you probably don't get in the food you eat. With today's processed foods which often don't have the all the nutrients you need, it is important to supplement your diet with these nutrients so your body functions properly.

The second use is to provide the body with the specific nutrients it needs to repair or address the cause of a body problem. Deficiencies in essential nutrients can create all sorts of disease.

Will it be like a drug that forces the body to do something, but which has side effects because it is foreign to the body? No. Reducing or reversing damage can take time as your body has to go through the process of repairing the cells.

You are constantly making new cells to replace old cells. Old cells might have been made with insufficient nutrients, well now that you give the body the right nutrients, you will get new healthy cells.

For example, it is well known that a broken bone heals in about 6 weeks. During that time, the area of the break will continue to hurt on and off even as it gets better. You may also be aware that if you give your body the nutrients it needs to fix broken bones, the healing will be quicker and you will have less pain.

So, when you start taking supplements, you may not feel a difference immediately. It takes time for the cells to rebuild and any change or for you to relief from your symptoms. But it tells you that progress is being made and it will continue to get better.

Generally, you will notice a change in the first couple of weeks, but everyone is different.

An example of this is taking supplements for neuropathy. The nerves are the most sensitive nerves in the body. When they are damaged they can create a great deal of pain, numbness, and if a motor nerve is damaged the muscles will effect a person's coordination.. If you want to just cover up the pain, you can take a drug or a topical cream, but if you want lasting relief, you want to give the body the nutrients it needs to repair any damage. It make take some time though. Each person has their own genetic makeup and it can take different amounts of time for this problem to be reversed.

This is important to know. I’ve known a number of people who gave up taking needed nutrients because they didn’t get quick results thus robbing themselves of the relief that they seek.

Any condition probably took years to create, and although it won't take the same amount of time to fix, give your body some time before you give up on nutritional healing.

Of course, I've known some people who take the needed nutrients and get very quick results. That can always be the case, but if it takes longer, just know that you will be a healthier person by continuing to give your body what it needs.

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