Fitness and Health: A Practical Guide to Nutrition, Exercise and Avoiding Disease

The lab may want to provide you with special collection containers, as some samples need to be properly preserved. In some insta ...

bedtime. For children, a glass of apple juice or milk just before bed can promote tooth decay, and fluoride won’t necessarily re ...

The three best water filters include activated-carbon systems, reverse-osmosis systems and distillation units. Each one will fil ...

Water (and other foods) stored in plastic containers may not be as safe to drink as once thought. For many years, plastic has be ...

17. Dietary Supplements Throughout this book I have emphasized the need to eat real food and avoid processed, synthetic and arti ...

almost all cases, this should not take much time. For example, if you have asthma symptoms and want to see if the nutrient choli ...

hydrates, a macronutrient. Fatigue, excess blood loss and the habit of chewing on ice may indicate the need for iron, a micronut ...

The primary difference between HSAIDS and products made from real food, which contain truly natural nutrients in food doses, is ...

nutrients, whether from the diet or from other supplements. They can also interfere with over-the-counter or prescription drugs. ...

A cell’s sensitive DNA, vital for normal function, can be damaged by consuming as little as 500 mg of synthetic vitamin C (asco ...

treat. While researchers have found for decades that consumption of fruits and vegetables significantly decrease the risk of man ...

In addition, tocotrienols are powerful substances that have potent anti-cancer actions, reduce cholesterol and perform other vit ...

unhulled seeds such as flax and sesame — that contain the best sources of all the phytonutrients. Some plant compounds in this c ...

This information is not new to many in the natural health field. Going back more than 100 years, a key part of the organic movem ...

18 Real ‘Real-Food’ Dietary Supplements While many are familiar with the term “designer drugs,” the same marketing hype exists i ...

and magnesium to manganese and zinc — exist on earth in a natural form (most came from the sun during the earth’s creation). But ...

Vitamin E Complex Vitamin E is also called alpha-tocopherol. However, as discussed in the previous chapter, alpha-tocopherol is ...

Whole-Food Multiple Supplements The natural counterpart to the synthetic multiple vitamins is the whole-food multiple-vitamin/mi ...

spring when natural series 1 eicosanoid levels are low, often need this supplement. GLA is also essential for carrying calcium t ...

ly are low in other B vitamins too. Here are two important surveys associated with the need for more B vitamins. The first speci ...