Minerals versus Cancer, Part III
The Best Sources of Iron
If you are concerned about your iron intake, consider some of these sources:
* Lean meats and shellfish
* Whole grain or enriched cereals
* Dried apricots, prunes, or raisins
* Nuts and wheat germ
* Dried beans and peas
* Leafy green vegetables
Liver, especially pork liver, contains large amounts of iron. But it is also rich in cholesterol. Too many of us eat too much of cholesterol-containing foods. Egg yolk has a moderate iron content; it is high in cholesterol, too.
The iron in flesh foods, called heme iron, is best absorbed by the body. Yet studies have found no more iron-deficiency anemia among vegetarians than among meat eaters.
One possible explanation is vitamin C. It enhances absorption of the iron in foods. Vegetarians often consume more vitamin C than meat-eaters. The vitamin C may compensate for the absence of meat in their diets.
A Look at Lead
Lead has long been in the headlines. Lead poisoning has occurred too frequently among children – often from eating chips of old paint that contained lead.
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Categories: Cancer, NUTRITION Tags: Cancer, Canned foods, cholesterol, iron, kidney cancer, lead, lead poisoning, minerals, vegetarians, vitamin C
We Won’t Get Fooled Again
Something Wrong with “Politically Correct” Healthy Nutrition?
“Avoid saturated fats.”
Saturated fats play many important roles in the body. They provide integrity to the cell wall, promote the body’s use of essential fatty acids, enhance the immune system, protect the liver and contribute to strong bones. The lungs and the kidneys cannot work without saturated fat. Saturated fats do not cause heart disease. In fact, saturated fats are the preferred food for the heart. Because your body needs saturated fats, it makes them out of carbohydrates and excess protein when there are not enough in the diet.
“Limit cholesterol.”
Dietary cholesterol contributes to the strength of the intestinal wall and helps babies and children develop a healthy brain and nervous system. Foods that contain cholesterol also provide many other important nutrients. Only oxidized cholesterol, found in most powdered milk and powdered eggs, contributes to heart disease. Powdered milk is added to 1% and 2% milk.
Categories: Healthy Lifestyle Tags: cholesterol, coenzyme-Q10, eggs, lean meat, lowfat milk, polyunsaturated oils, red meat, salt, saturated fats, soy foods
Saturated Fats for the Kidney’s Health
One of the body’s most important organs is the kidney. Properly functioning kidneys are essential for maintaining proper blood volume and composition; for filtering and excreting or saving various chemical metabolites; and for helping to maintain proper blood pressure. Hypertension (high blood pressure) is known to result from improperly functioning kidneys. Research carried out during the last few years indicates that both saturated fat and cholesterol play important roles in maintaining kidney function, as do the omega-3 fatty acids.
Categories: Kidney Tags: alpha-linolenic acid, cholesterol, coconut oil, DHA, EPA, fish oil-type omega-3 fatty acids, flax oil-type omega-3 fatty acid, Hypertension, immune dysfunction, kidney's health, myristic acid, omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 oils, palmitic acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids, saturated fats, stearic acid, trans-fatty-acids
Dangerous Trans Fats
What the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
Two decades ago I read a study about the analysis of cholesterol in the arteries of people who died of coronary artery disease. It turned out that much of the gunk lining these arteries wasn’t cholesterol at all – it was Crisco - hydrogenated vegetable oil. Since then I have been warning people not to eat anything with vegetable shortening that is chemically more like plastics than food. Today we call these substances trans fats. The industry has known about this for at least that long! Only now, after even more publicity than they could squelch, they’ve started to do something about it.
Categories: NUTRITION, Toxin Tags: cholesterol, coronary artery disease, fats, HDL, hydrogenated vegetable oil, LDL, nutrition facts label, trans fats
Raw Food is Live Food
The Good Science that Good for You
A raw food diet is not just good for you – it’s also good science! You don’t have to take our word for it, have ‘faith’ or trust the latest nutrition guru.
Science proves that cooking not only destroys nutrition and enzymes, but chemically changes foods from the substances needed for health into free-radicals and poisons that destroy our health!
On this article you’ll find out what happens when you eat raw, whole foods rather than cooked or prepared foods! You’ll see numerous references from scientific literature you can check out for yourself.
Don’t give away responsibility for your health to the government, medical industry or food industry. Don’t even take my word for it! Discover the facts for yourself — start here today!
