Going Back To The Basics ofHuman Health

voiding the Fads, the Trends, and the Bold-faced Lies

Revised Edition

MARY FROSI M.A.

KHELLY WEBB D.C.3461 SAUSAIIT0 AVt.

Los ALAlllIos, cA 9072056a 594-8669

AUTHOR'S NOTE

This booklet is based on the following principles:

1. I don't claim to know everything.2. You and I are always learning.3. This book is a compilation of numerous

medical and nutritional studies which Ihave read and want to share with you.

4. You and I are fellow travelers on the roadto health and wellness.

Mary Frost has a B.A. in Journalism from the'University of Texas and a Masters of Arts andLiberal Arts from St. Johns College (The GreatBooks Program). She has been actively involvedin health and nutrition for more than 15 years andbrings her experience and studies to the fore as anutritional j ournalist.

This booklet is intended for educational purposesonly, and should not be used as a guide fordiagnosis or treatment of any kind.

Table of Contents

Introduction-Why Whole Food Supplements? . . . . . xHeal thCr is is . . . . . .1What toDo? . . . . . .2What is Wrong with This Picture? . . . . . 3WhereDoWeStar t? . . . . .3Deforesta t ion. . . . . .4Incor rec tFarmingMethods . . . . .6Fungicides and Pesticides Are Not Working . . .9Soi l i sa l iv ingSubstance . . . . .11HowDoesaPlantProtec t l tse l f? . . . . .12The Importance of Trace Minerals . . . . 13Let 'sGetReal . . . . I4TheChemica l iza t ionofFoods. . . . . . . 18A Dark Period for the FDA Begins. . . .21The Persecution of Dr. Lee. . . . .22A Word or Two About Oils. . . . .27PoisonsFoundinRef inedOi ls . . . . . . .28Water-TheCruc ia lCommodi ty . . . . .30Synthetic Vitamins Taken as Supplements . . . 31Why Natural Food Complexes Faded

f romView . . . . .32Just What Are Natural Complexes? . . .34Rats and the RD,{s

(RecommendedDailyAllowances). . . . . . 38Getting to the Core of the Matter . . . . .39Whole, Natural Vitamins vs. Synthetic. . . . . . 4lPotency Is Not Milligrams or Micrograms . . .43Synthet icsAreNotasEf fec t ive . . . . . .44Ant iox idants-TheControversy. . . . .46Ant iox idantsasaFad. . . .48

Fads, Trends, and Bold-Faced Lies. . . .49Why Do I Need Vitamins and Minerals

If I'm Eating Well? . . . 50AWordAbout StandardProcess. . . . . .55The Work in Nutrition Has Alreadv

BeenDone . . .58A Sobering Word . .59Ancient Civilizations and Low-Fat Diets . . . . 60What 'sHappeningHere? . . . . . .62Which Way is Your Metabolism Going? . . . . . 63Dieting is Failing . .65MoreThanJustFat . . . . .66HighBloodPressure . . . .66EnterCholes tero l . . . . . . .69Diabetes . . . .72Hear tD isease . . . . .73Don't Forget The Eicosanoids . .75A Doctor's View . . 77Digest ionvs. Ind igest ion . . . . . .79What is Health? . . . 81Look inTheMir ror . . . . .82SummingUp. . . . .84Action Steps to Function Optimally. . . . . . . . 85How Does Your Health Professional

KnowWhatYouNeed?. . . . . . . . . .87Footnotes . . .90

Introduction -Why Whole Food Supplements?

Most of us have gotten used to reading literatureproclaiming the benefits of vitamins, deciding what iswrong with us, and heading to the health food store tobuy what we have decided we need. Often, we end upbuying all kinds of supplements and, we are still notany healthier.

I was a health food store junkie myself before Ifound a health professional who tested me for what Ineeded. I was getting frequent sinus infections (7 in2years) that always resulted in laryngitis. I was takingVitamin A (25,000iu), Vitamin E (400iu), ascorbic acidwith rosehips (3,000m9), Kyolic garlic, echinacea,golden seal, and homeopathics, and they were nothelping. Truthfully, I was afraid that my immunesystem was weakening, and I had visions of dying ofpneumonia.

Fortunately, I found a health professional whodetermined what my health problem was, and gotme started on some supplements from StandardProcess, a company that has manufactured whole foodsupplements since 1929.I do not get sick anymore. If Istart to get the sniffies, I take some Standard Processsupplements and I am quickly over them. Before, Iwould take the protocol mentioned above and I wouldstill get sick. I could not prevent it.

What I have come to realize, over the years thatI have been with Standard Process, is that we cannotunderstand what this company offers in the way ofnutritional supplements unless we understand whathas happened, step by step, to our food supply, and

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we cannot understand what Standard Process is unlesswe understand what most vitamins today really are.

For years Americans have gotten used to the"new and improved" idea. We don't evr:n know whatthe truth is. We don't know how to step back andevaluate whether the information being advertised is afad or not. We are told not to eat butter, eat margarineinstead. Then 20 years later we are told that margarineis a trans-fatty acid and dangerous for us. We are toldnot to eat eggs or beefbecause they can causecholesterol problems, then years later we are told thatthey are OK.

So, we are presented with "new medical facts"that are advertised in such a way as to persuade us tochange our eating habits and go in a different direction.What we are getting is what Ralph Nader calls "pseudo-science". And what we are getting are geneticallyengineered foods, faulty infomercial health tips,incorrect information about what we are already eating,and tricky nutritional labels that we have no way ofdeciphering.

We need to stop listening to what Dr. BernardJensen and Mark Anderson call "those televisionadvertising managers practicing medicine without abrain". This booklet is an attempt to pull back thecamouflage and look at the inner workings of thisgigantic mess. This will show why we must tune outthe antacid and the low-fat diet food commercials, andwhy we must watch out for synthetic vitamins bythemselves or hidden in an herbal formula or anaromatherapy oil. This booklet is a guide to know howto evaluate all this and stav healthv.

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Standard Process has always been available onlythrough health professionals. Most people come toStandard Process in desperation. Accustomed to readinglabels, very little on the bottles makes sense to them.But after a while of taking the specific supplementsthey were tested to need, most people are amazed atthe difference and want to know more.

In the years that I have been with StandardProcess, I have seen amazing results with all kinds ofproblems that people present to me. Standard Processproducts really help to build the immune system andmake people stronger and healthier.

But taking Standard Process products wasn't allthat I needed, because eating a low-fat diet had metired and fatigued most of the time and I couldn't figureit out. Someone introduced me to Jay Robb's FatBurning Diet and, within a short time, I felt my lifeforce coming back. It was then that I realized theimportance of blood sugar and optimum health. I readeverything I could get my hands on about this, whichled me to the book, Protein Power, I quote extensivelyhere. This book leaves no stone unturned in exposingthe deadly issue of excessive insulin in the body.

I hope you enjoy reading this information- andthat it opens your eyes to what the real issues ofhealth in America today really are.

I go into these issues in a lot more depth in mynext book, The Biegest Cover-up o_f the 20th Century.

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Thus we should beware of clinging tovulgar opinions, and judge things byreason's way, not by popular say.

Montaigne (1533-1592)

Health Crisis

Today, Americans are in a health crisis. Statisticsabound:

*3 out of every 4 Americans will get heartdisease - 2 out of every 4 will die from it.

*According to the American DiabetesAssociation, the number of diabetics hasincreased from 6 to 16 million in the last 15years, and another 2l million have "impairedglucose tolerance."

?kSome form of depression, anxiety, or fatigueaffects over 50%o of the population.

*200,000 Americans die yearly from highblood pressure and stroke.

*Roughly 25o/o of all adult Americans are" s ignific antly ov erw e.ight. "

From these statistics, if you filled aBoeingT4TJumbo Jet to capacity (300 people) and computed intoairline crashes the number of deaths resulting from heartdisease, hypertension, and diabetes, you would have3,650 Jumbo Jet crashes a year! That would be 10 JumboJets falling out of the sky every day!

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How many of us would fly again with such risksinvolved? It is pretty sick thinking, but it creates whatscholars have named the "outrage" factor: (how peoplereact differently to death or disability from a specificcause).

And outraged is what we as a nation should be!But we are more concerned when a plane crashesbecause of the publicity than we are of the number ofpeople dying from heart disease every year. Yet, thereis a lot of human misery reflected in these frighteningstatistics, plus the billions of dollars involved in thehealth care needs these people require. OrthodoxMedical Care spending is now estimated at $200 billion.

What to Do?

In the attempt to protect themselves and theirfamilies from these frightening occurences, Americansare changing their diets and are taking herbs andsupplements. The money spent on the AlternativeHealth Industry is estimated at over $1 billion this pastyear. Over-the-counter vitamin sales are at $9 billion.This means that most people buy their vitaminsfrom a store clerk!!!

And yet, people are getting sicker. They pumpvitamins and eat "right", but that does not seem to bethe answer. They are still fatigued, still overweight, stillfighting the cholesterol battle, etc..., etc...

Nearly every week, my clients and I get at least2 or 3 mailers touting some "New Medical Cure" or"Amazing Discoveries". It was in response to thisdeluge of material that my clients have urged me towrite this booklet- To enable people to wade

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through all this information and make an informeddecision.

What is Wrong with This Picture?

When people are trying so hard to do the rightthing, why aren't the results long-term? Why do theyfeel so great when they start taking vitamins and laterfeel fatigued again? Why are 95% of the people who loseweight unable to keep it offi Why are the statistics onheart disease, hypertension, and diabetes getting worse?

My studies have left me to conclude that the 3major culprits are:

1) The harm that is done to our food beforeit even gets to us. The depletion anddemineralization of America's topsoil, thecontamination of produce by excessive useof pesticides and fungicides, thechemicalization of food through over-processing, enriching, preserving, and thecontamination of water through fluoridation

2) Synthetic vitamins taken as supplements

3) Low-Fat, Low-Protein, High-Carbohydrate Diets

Where Do We Start?

Foods are not what they seem anymore.Consider these facts:

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*In order to get the iron that was available inone cup of spinach in 1945, you would haveto consume 65 cups today.

*An orange that contained 50mg of naturalvitamin C complex in 1950 now contains5mg.

In most instances, that lovely green salad onyour table is practically dead nutritionally!

We are producing less nutritious food atthe highest cost in history while UnitedStates farmers are going bankrupt. (l)

How can this be? America's topsoil has beendepleted through:

1) Deforestation

2) Incorrect Farming Methods

3) Overuse of Fungicides and Pesticides

Deforestation

Deforestation, while not in itself responsible forour nutritionally-dead foods, marks the first majorassault in the dismantling of our natural ecosystem.The cutting down of massive amounts of trees "laidbare" a disrespect for Mother Nature and a lack ofinterest in Her inner workings that paved the way forour lack of health today.

When settlers began arriving in America in thel6th century they found a land in pristine condition.

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After thousands of years of use by Native Americans,the water was still pure. The land was so fertile, that ifyou dropped a seed on it, it would grow. Trees andforests were everywhere. In fact, in the Iroquoi Nationfolklore, they would speak of how a squirrel could hopfrom tree to tree from the Atlantic Ocean to theMississippi River! When they gave directions,"grandfather trees" were used as landmarks.

Today, we are lucky to have any good topsoil, orany forests at all.

In Iowa, topsoils that were once a footdeep, today are less than six inches deep.Although it doesn't sound like much, sixinches can be devastating. The UnitedStates Department of Agriculture estimatesthat a six-inch loss of topsoil, such as thecurrent one in the southern Piedmont, iscapable of reducing crop yields by 40%per year. (2)

The European settlers of this country found 18 to25 inches of rich topsoil in the 1700's. Now, mostfarmlands are like those in Iowa. In fact, the duststorms that occured in the 1930's in Kansas that lefttopsoil on desktops in Washington D.C. are about toreturn-- statistics say that in 1977,5 million acres wereseverely eroded by wind, and by 1988 estimates wereat 25 million acres. (Areas double the size of Marylandand Massachusetts combined.)

Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman statedin March of 1989, 'It's no secret the central

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part ofAmerica is blowing away rightnow'. (3)

The natural trees, grasses, and vegetation thatonce anchored the soil are gone. To date, over 260million acres of trees in America have been cut tomake way for raising livestock! Trees shade the soil,hold the soil in place, and act os pumps to draw wuterup near the sudace of the ground, thus keeping watertables high. Without trees, the soil gets baked dry bythe sun, and eventually gets blown away by the windor wasted away by rains.

West Texas was once covered with tall grasses;now it is a flat, barren area where high winds carryingloose soil can turn the sky black. Over-grazing cattlepulled these grasses out of the soil, leaving nothing tohold it in place.

When you see all of the starving people in EastAfrica, what you are seeing is famine caused by a landlaid bare through deforestation. In Ethiopia, forexample, 90o/o of the land was covered by forests in1890- now barely 5!/o remains. Environmentalists,realizing this, have tried to stop the current destructionof the Brazilian rainforests, but the massive cuttingdown of trees continues. America's National Parks, ourlast forest reseryes, are being threatened today byadjacent mining activities, clear-cutting, oil and gasexploration, and many other related activities.

Incorrect Farming Methods

The massive use of chemical fertilizers, whichare manufactured and shipped around the world by the

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millions of tons per year, has come to be an acceptedmethod of forcing plants to grow. This method wasconceived in a paper published by the renownedGerman chemist, Baron Justus von Liebig, in 1855. Inthis document, von Liebig determined that the onlyminerals plants needed were nitrogen, phosphorus, andpotassium.

The German chemical industry flourished on thispremise, and agressively marketed it to farmers. Theimbalance in trace minerals, fungus, and microbial lifethat this "artificial manure" created was later regrettedby von Liebig. At the end of his life, he wrote,"Nature herself points...out to man the propercourse of proceeding for keeping up theproductiveness of the land.'o (4)

Some 20 years later after von Liebig's death, thefamed German naturalist Julius Hensel ridiculed thisnitrogen-phosphorus-potassium theory and encouragedfarmers to spread a finely crushed, minerally richrock dust on their land. "Those who did were amazedat the quality, strength, and drought resistancy of theircrops." (5)

The thriving chemical industrialists were sovicious and vigorous in their attempt to discreditHensel that his book could not be found anywherefor many years.

The high-handed techniques used by the chemicalindustrialists illustrate how an idea that went againsteconomic interests of the time could be squelched withsuchferocity that the consumers (in this case, the

farmers) were led to conclude that it was false.

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In 1940, Sir Albert Howard published hislandmark book, An Agricultural Testament. In it hepromoted Hensel's rock dust theories and gave asobering warning about the use of chemical fertilizers:

The principle followed, based on the vonLiebig tradition, is that any deficiencies inthe soil can be made up by the addition ofsuitable chemicals (man-made). This isbased on a complete misconception ofplant nutrition. It is superficial andfundamentally unsound. It takes noaccount of the life of the soil, includingmycorrhizal association- the living fungusbridge which connects the soil and sap.Artificial manures lead inevitably toartificial nutrition, artificial food,artificial animals, and finally, toartificial men and women. (6)

These chemical fertilizers kill most of themicroorganisms and worms in the topsoil, then theytrickle down through the ground to contaminateunderground water supplies. In 1989, the NutrientTesting Laboratory ran mineral analysis tests oncommercial produce from regions around the UnitedStates: Sodium levels were high in all produce tested,while many other trace elements were not even present.The reason for this is because chemical fertilizers arehighly concentrated inorganic salts.

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Fungicides and Pesticides Are Not Working

Farming has become a high tech industry,combining technology and economics to exploit theland they farm for profit. "The result: modernagriculture reduces the role of soil to a substance ofconvenient texture that holds plants in the verticalposition while chemicals are forced up their shart.Plants stand in the field and receive a chemicalenema. " (7)

The modern farmer looks down from theair-conditioned cab of his $100,000 JohnDeere tractor and says 'What's this?'Hesees a little fungus growing on the plantand he says, 'We aren't going to put upwith this. We know how to deal with thelikes of you!'

He gets into his pickup truck, heads downto the agriculture chemical supply station,and returns loaded with barels ofchemosterilants, with skull and crossboneson their labels. Now he is ready to treat theplant. In the back of his pickup truck arebarrels with labels that say things like: 'Use

extreme caution- do not inhale-use inwell-ventilated areas-do not allow anycontact with skin and hair-do not disposenear water-keep away from livestock andfeed-may cause blindness or death iftaken internally - read all instructionscarefully -federal law requires application

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in accordance with label data', and hethinks, 'This looks good. Let's apply this toour growing food.'(8)

Land that once was fertile in the MississippiDelta is so devoid of worms (a sign of healthy soil) andother microbiotic life that the remains of harvestedcrops cannot be turned under any more. This is due toso many years of soil sterilization that the soil is nowincapable of even rotting and composting.

Pesticide production from 1947 to 1960 increasedfrom 259,000 pounds per year to almost 6.4 millionpounds! Yet, "Crop loss due to insect damage hasdoubled since World War II, from 7Yo to l4%." (9)

Insecticides are so deadly, that one form, Zyklan B,was what the Nazis used to gas millions of their victimsin the concentration camps from 1939 to1945. Another,Methyl Isocyanafe, caused the death of over 3,500people in Bhopal, India, and maimed 200,000 more.

Pesticide residues can be found in plants grownin soil previously sprayed years before. In fact, organicfarmers in California deal with "Certified Organic"labeling as follows: No chemical fertilizers orpesticidesifungicides can be used on the land for 3years, and the land is built-up organically. At the end ofthose 3 years, the produce is tested for pesticideresidue. If there is any, the farmer must wait anotheryear and have his produce tested again before he canlabel it "Certified Organic".

You would think that the failure of pesticides toeliminate crop damage would cause these chemicalcompanies to look at possibly contributing to a naturalsolution. Not so. Mother Jones, in its JanlFeb 1997

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issue, did an article on The Future of Food. Frompotato and corn seeds that are genetically altered tohave a built-in pesticide to soybean seeds that aregenetically manipulated to survive direct applicationsof Roundup (so that the manufacturer can sell more),these companies are on a destructive track. Thearticle did ask an important question: '7s anyoneprotecting the consumers? "

Soil is a Living Substance

Soil is the basis of all life. The plants that growin soil are the food for the animals on the lowest end ofthe food chain. These animals are the the food supplyfor the animals at the highest end of the chain.

William Albrecht, PhD, of the University ofMissouri, found that he could cure undulent fever inlivestock and humans by adding trace minerals to thesoil in which their food was grown (Henry Ford's onlyson, Edsel, died from undulent fever.). Albrecht provedthat mineral deficiencies and agri-chemical toxicitycaused plant vulnerability to fungus, drought, insects,and disease in general.

Good soil is composed of 45% minerals andmillions of microorganisms. Dr. Albrecht and Dr.Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process, were adamantabout this:

When we see a symptom in the plant, itwill always correlate to a poison ordeficiency in the soil; when we see adisease in the human, it will relate to apoison or deficiency in the food. (10)

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Mineral-deficient soil is targeted ss one of theoriginal sources of disease in the world today.

Simply stated, food crops grown ondepleted soil produce malnourishedbodies, and disease preys on malnourishedbodies. ( l l )

How Does A Plant Protect Itself?

What these high tech farmers are lacking is trueunderstanding of the plant's immune system. At theroot system, little offshoots called rootlets have hair-like fungi growing on them called mycorrhiza.

Mineral-rich soil has millions of microorganismsliving in it, and their primary function is to decomposeanything that falls on the land, and to break downmineral deposits into plant food. The plant doesn't getdevoured by these organisms (bacteria) because themycorchiza secretes antibiotics to protect the plant(Keep in mind that penicillin comes from a fungus).

Nature gave fungi and bacteria aninteresting relationship. They are naturalantagonists. They keep each other in checkthrough their competition...the plant, thusprotected, is free to absorb the mineralsthat soil microbial life has released withoutfear of infection from soil-bome bacteria. (12)

If you see a fungus growing on a plant, it is aself-produced fungus because there was somethinginferior about the quality of the plant. Nature grows

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fungus on the inferior plant, then it dies, decomposes,and begins again-until it gets it right.

The Importance of Trace Minerals

"Human bodies require nutrition found in theform of plants, meat, milk, and eggs.,' (13) Sinceanimals get their food directly or indirectly fromplants, and plants get their food from the soil, there is adirect link to human health from the soil.

Much is now said in the news media of theimportance of different trace minerals such asselenium, boron, chromium etc. . .. But just the absenceof one mineral can cause great health problems.

*Without the trace mineral cobalt, the humanbody cannot manufacture Brz.

*Without potassium, the heart muscle can beharmed, and the result can be a racing of theheartbeat or tachycardia.

*Without zinc, selenium, sulfur, and iron, theliver would be sluggish and/or weak in itsability to repair damaged tissue, fightinfection, and detoxifu the blood and thebowel.

Remember, plants do not manufacture traceminerals, they absorb them. The health of the soil'smicrobial life depends upon the trace minerals in thesoil, and so do en4ymes, the most important ingredientin plant, animal, and human biochemistry. Allmetabolic processes at every level depend on enzymes.

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Often, enzymes vital to our immune systems need therarest trace minerals in order to function.

There are 92 known trace elements. As researchcontinues, it is reasonable to assume that the role ofevery mineral will be discovered, with the notableexception of leado aluminium, cadmium, andmercurT, which are toxic.

Dr. Wallach, in his tape Dead Doctors Don't Lie,expounds the importance of trace minerals. I totallyagree with him. The source he recommends comesfrom fossilized prehistoric plant life, but containsaluminium and cadmium, as stated on the label.Standard Process's All-Organic Trace Minerals doesnot contain aluminium or cadmium. Dr. Royal Lee, inhis foresight, chose the location for Standard Process'sfarms in a rich, fertile area known as the KettleMorraine, which was formed by retreating glaciers inthe last Ice Age. AII Standard Process products areharvested with all trace minerals intact.

Let's Get Real

As we drive in our air-conditioned cars to ourair-conditioned office and sit down in front of ourcomputers-only to go home at night and sit in frontof the TV, we are prey to an assault of informationunparalleled in history. Yet, so much of what we heardoes not take total,factual information into account.(See the Atlas of Planetary Management on the next 2pages)

The advocates of whole foods and organicfarming are so out-talked by advocates of big businessthat we can hardly hear the truth through all of their

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blaring. But our bodies know what is happening. Theinnate intelligence in our bodies is telling us throughheart disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, and obesity thatsomething is amiss. And our souls are telling us thatprofits aren't everything.

Although the popular ecology movementgrabs an occasional headline, what ourpolitical leaders, scientists, and doctors areunwilling to come to grips with is that weare on the threshold of vast humanannihilation. (14)

Consider what historian V.G. Simkovich had tosay about the ruins of ancient civilizations:

Look at the unpeopled valleys, at the deadand buried cities, and you can decipherthere the promise and the prophecy ofus.... Depleted of humus by constantcropping, land could no longer rewardlabor and support life, so the peopleabandoned it. Deserted, it became a desert;the light soil was washed by the rain andblown around by the shifting winds. (15)

There is a possibilty to reverse this trend. JohnD. Hamaker, in his monumental work, The Survival ofCivilization, does give us some guidelines.

Hamaker believes that an all-out globaleffort to remineralize the Earth's soils(with rock dust) and the planting ofbillions of trees, coupled with the

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elimination of fossil fuel burning, and thedevelopement of alternative sources ofpower (for example, hydrogen, solar, andwind) can restore the carbon balancebetween the land and atmosphere. ( l6)

The Chemicalization of Foods

So, we have chopped down millions of acrers o1-trees, ovebgrazed millions of acres of natural vegetation,poured chemical f-ertil izers on the soil, and sprayecl thcplants with fungicides and pesticides. Nou,, the stuge isset to really attock our food supply in eurnesll Sincewhole, natural foods tend to decay or go rancidquickly, methods for producing a long shelf l ife wentinto high gear.

When we walk through a grocery store and readlabels, it can be a journey through a chemical laboratory.All the contents have preservatives, additives, andsynthetic vitamins that we have just come to take forgranted. The shocking truth of how all these substancescame to be in our foods is not fully understood, butshould be.

As Dr. Bemard Jensen and Mark Anderson pointedout in their book, Emptv Harvest, within a generationfollowing World War I, the foods of commerce took over.

The food supply became bleached, refined,chemically preserved, pasteu rized,sterilized, homogenized, hydrogenated,artificially colored, defibered, highlysugared, highly salted, syntheticallyfortified (enriched), canned, and generally

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exposed to hundreds of new man-madechemicals. (17)

How did this happen? Where was the Food andDrug Administration? The Pure Food and Drug Lawwas subverted and manipulated by commercialinterests starting in 1912. Atthat time, thesecommercial interests forced Dr. Harvey W. Wiley fromhis office as founder and head of the Bureau ofChemistry now known as the FDA. As you can see inthe cartoon on the next page, Dr. Wiley's departure wasseen as an open frolic of synthetic food enhancers.

When he had filed suit against Coca-Cola tokeep this artificial product off the market and prohibitits interstate transport, Dr. Wiley said:

No food product in our country wouldhave any trace of benzoic acid, sulfurousacid or sulfites or any alum or saccharin,save for medical purposes. No soft drinkwould contain caffeine or theobromine. Nobleached flour would enter interstatecommerce. Our foods and drugs would bewholly without any form of adulterationand misbranding. The health of our peoplewould be vastly improved and the lifegreatly extended. The manufacturers ofour food supply, and especially themillers, would devote their energies toimproving the public health and promotinghappiness in every home by theproduction of whole ground, unboltedcereal flours and meals. (l g)

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A Dark Period for the FDA Begins

Dr. Wiley's departure led the way for areplacement in the form of Dr. Elmer M. Nelson. acommercially-backed man placed in the front line of alldecision-making.

The following is a quote from Dr. Nelson,stestimony given in federal court to block health foodmanufacturers from comparing the quality of theirproducts to their synthetic, processed counterparts.

It is wholly unscientifc to state that a well-fed body is more able to resist disease than aless well-fed body,. My overall opinion is thatthere hasn't been enough experimentation toprove dietary deficiencies make one moresusceptible to disease. ( 19)

Unbelievable? Incredible? How many peopletoday know that dietary deficiencies can lead todegenerative diseases, infectious diseases, andfunctional diseases? The American public has been theofficial testing "lab" for this kind of fallacious thinking,and it was this kind of reasoning that Dr. Nelson andhis team of "experts" expounded for over I0 years incourt to get the OK on the synthetics that we have infoods today.

It is important to note that landmark works innutrition by Dr. Weston Price, Dr. Francis pottenger,Dr. Roger Williams, Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan, and Dr.Royal Lee were totally ignored and treated withdisdain.

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The truth was helpless in the facc of an FDA thathad unlimited taxpayer dollars at its disposal topromote the commercial interests of the time.

The Persecution of Dr. Lee

. . .we must not assume that science atrdtruth march straight ahead rurd that thc'present is the beneficiary of theaccumulated knowledge of the past.Because, in many instances-and healthand nutrition is one-the past is full ofdeception and factual manipulationresulting in the inheritance of a tarnishedview of scientific progess.

Empty Harvest

Dr. Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process, wasa pioneer in the field of nutrition (some consider himthe world's greatest nutritionist). His processingtechniques are even today so far beyond whatanyone else is doing in the supplement industry asto seem an undreamed of possibility.

Dr. Lee's genius as an electronic inventor led tomore than 100 electronic patents (such as the governorfor electric motors and the Phono-Cardiograph). Heinvented advanced weapons control systems duringWWil, and he assisted NASA with his motor controldesign for their Lunar Guidance Systems. However, Dr.Lee's overwhelming passion was nutrition. Heincorporated Dr. Albrecht's experiments anddiscoveries with soil into his own research; and, foralmost 50 years, Dr. Lee "amassed an encyclopedic

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body of knowledge in plant, animal, and human healthand its links to soil, food processing, diet, andnutrition.... To coordinate and communicate nutritionalbreakthroughs from both his own laboratory andlaboratories throughout the world, he estabiished TheLee Foundation for Nutritional Research, which in itsday was the world's largest clearing house fornutritional information for doctors, homemakers, andagriculturalists." (20)

In 1937 , at the same time Dr. Lee was in courtfighting the FDA to be able to advertise Zypan (thehydrochloric acid tablet he designed to heip withdigestion), camel cigarettes was able to advertise inL-ife magazine that smoking cigarettes would promotedigestion!!! This Camel ad can be seen in EmotyHarvest and it shows a Thanksgiving meal divided intofive courses, with short blurbs on how smoking inbetween each course will "help your digestion-to runsmoothly". (21) A food editor, Miss Dorothy Malone,is pictured in one corner of the ad, saying, .;It's smartto have Camels on the table. My own personalexperience is that smoking camels with my meals andafterwards builds up a sense of digestive well-being."(22)The cigarette ad went on to say, ..Enjoy Cameis allyou wish- all through the day." (23)

How many people were powerfully persuaded tosmoke cigarettes because of advertising? Many peoplefeel that if it is advertised, it is gospel. Advertisingcreates fads and trends. Today, cigarette companieiwould never be allowed to make such claims.Hundreds of thousands of people with lung cancer andemphyserna followed this type of advertising advice.

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What about another ad, from 1955, reported inEmotv Harvest. that claims that "Science shows howsugar can help keep your appetite-and weight-undercontrol." (2a) This ad actually promoted elevatingblood sugar to cut down the sensation of hunger.Millions of people have become diabetics followingsuch fallacious advice.

Yet, during the years that these and many othermisleading ads were allowed to be printed by the FDA,Dr. Lee was constantly in Federal Court, trying to getthe right to advertise his nutritional productsl If thissounds upside down, it is!

...Dr. Lee and other pioneers exposed thechronic malnutrition rampant in ournation, how indigestion was caused by theworn-out digestive tracts of the civilizeddiet, how dental caries, diabetes, and otherdiseases were caused by sugar, and theywere persecuted with the full power andunlimited taxpayer resources of the FDA.Dr. Lee was branded a racketeerbecause he promoted whole, natural,unadulterated foods with their vitaminsand minerals intact. When he designeddigestive aids with enzymes and calciumproducts to replace the loss of the mineralsthrough processing and sugarized diets, hewas branded a faddist and extremist whowas duping the public. (25)

Dr. Lee was trying to give the public a way ofgetting the vitamins and other nutrients that were

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removed from flour and rice by commercial milling.He knew that these factors were the reason for theepidemic of coronary heart attacks that was sweepingthe country in the early 1920's. And every time he triedto advertise anything that related to what was going on,he ended up in court.

As Dr. Lee's and other's voices got muffied out,the marketplace became filled with grains and cerealsthat had artificial vitamins added back into them. all forhuge profits.

The newsletter of The Center for Sciencein the Public Interest, Nutritional Action(Vol. 16, No. 1), reports that the onlydifference between General Mills'Wheaties and Total cereals is that 1.5cents' worth of synthetic vitamins aresprayed on Total. Total is then sold for 65cents more than Wheaties. This practicealone has generated $425 million inadditional profits since l97Z for GeneralMills. (26)

Sadly, these huge profits mean that millions ofpeople have ingested untold pounds of chemic alizedand enriched food. Sadly also, the world that Dr. Wiley,Dr. Lee, and others envisioned was not allowed to be.

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Dr Royal Lee (1895-1967)

Perhaps the world's greatest nutrit ionist, Dr Lee was also a prolif ic electronicinventor Here he is working on his farnous Lee Flour Mill He designed it sothe average household could have wholesome, tresh, low-heat, stone-groundflour with the vitamin-rich germ and fiber-full bran intact His Lee Foundalionfor Nutrit ional Research was a l ighthouse as food adulteralion and commer-cialism sweot the twentieth cenlurv

I'hoto untl cuplion bv permission o/ \llrk -'indet'son

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A Word or Two About Oils

One hundred years ago, heart attackswere practically unheard of in the U.S.The first recorded case of atherosclerosiswas in 1910; the first reported heart attackwas in 1912. Alzheimer's disease did notexist. One person in 100,000 haddiabetes, and in Europe, cancer caused3.4oh of all deaths. Now about two-thirdsof Americans develop atherosclerosisl50o/o die of cardiovascular disease.Alzheimer's is the fourth leading causeof death. One in 20 has some form ofdiabetes. One in four (28o/o) developscancer-500,000 of them die. Otherdegenerative conditions which haveexploded in numbers since the turn of thecentury include multiple sclerosis, kidneydegeneration, liver degeneration, andothers. One hundred years ago, peopleate fresh, whole foods including plenty ofmeat, butter, and lard. But they did notordinarily eat any refined, processed, orchemicalized foods, did not eat anyrefined and altered oils or fats. All theseare now commonly consumed. (27)

Many of the steps used to process vegetable oilscan affect the nutritional content and balance of theseproducts. Expeller-pressed oils and hydraulic-pressedoils are first subjected to temperatures of 200 degrees F

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and up. The oils are then de-gummed, which removeschlorophyll, vitamin E, lecithin, and many mineralsand trace elements. Then an alkaline wash seperatesout even even more nutrients. Next, the oil is bleachedand then deodorized by steam distillation attemperatures over 450 dcgrees F.

The resulting oil is colorless, tasteless,odorless, altered, and, of course, devoid ofnutrients. Any vitamin complexes in theoriginal fbod are gone; any possibleremnants of nutrients are only fractions. (28)

Since the FDA has established no legalmeaning for the term "cold pressed", a manufacturercan use the term on labels, even if the oil has beenheated, degummed, bleached, refined, or otherwisechemically altered.

Poisons Found in Refined Oils

The raw materials for oils now come from large,chemically-farmed fields. Very often, these over-refinedoils contain pesticide residue, which interferes withnerve function and oxidation processes in the humanbody. These pesticide residues are only some of thetoxic substances that are found in altered oils.

Trans-fatty acids, another toxic substance,make up, on the average, almost l|yo of the total fatsin the American Diet. Trans-fatty acids are made byforcing hydrogen into raw, polyunsaturated oilmolecules under high temperature and pressure. The oil

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is chemically altered so that the oil is more solid andhas a longer shelf life.

People are encouraged to eat low fat. They avoidanimal products and consume large quantities ofmargarine, cookies, cake, and white bread, whichgreatly increases their intake of trans-fatty acids.

Nutritional researcher, John Finnegan,states: 'There is more and more evidenceshowing that the main cause of heartdisease and one of the main causes ofcancer is the harmful effects frompoisonous trans-fats and other compoundsin refined oils.'(29)

If you are confused as to how to identify trans-fatty acids, here are the key markers:

1) The words "partially hydrogenated" inthe list of ingredients on a product.

2) Oil that is packaged in a clear bottle.Sunlight can penetrate and cause the oilsto go rancid. Unfortunately, you will evenfind these in most health food stores, wherealmost all "are usually manufactured by thesame refineries as supermarket oils." (30)Buy oil in cans or dark brown glassbottles.

3) Oils that are odorless and tasteless.Fresh, natural oils have their own delicateflavor and aroma.

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We need the unsaturated fatty acids from goodoils for many reasons: healthy skin and hair,maintenance of normal growth, hormoneproduction, proper digestion, wound healing,calcium metabolism, etc.... Obviously, we have to becareful to choose good oils to get the job done.

Water- The Crucial Commodity

Both the endocrine system and the immunesystem are the most vitamin and mineral dependent ofall the systems in our bodies. One of the worst poisonsour glands can encounter, sodiumfluoride, is nowadded to most municipal drinking water. Calciumfluoride. a natural form of fluoride found in traceamounts in well water, was not, unfortunately, chosenby the municipalities. Sodium fluoride is a highlytoxic by-product of aluminium production and candestroy the enzymes that make vitamins work inyour body!

Dr. Lee was one of the first informed opponentsto fluoridation. He called it "an attempt to treat adeficiency disease (dental caries), a case of starvation,with a poisonous drug." (31) In fact, Dr. Lee developedthe first patent for making protein-bound iodine so thatone can ingest it orally and not burn the stomach.

Protein-bound iodine is a very importantradiation protective factor. Your body makes thyroxinout of it, and if you are deficient in it, your body maytry to make thyroxin out of the next closest material,sodium fluoride, another halogen molecule. This thenweakens the thvroid.

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Non-fluoridated cities across the U.S. have hadthe same amount of dental caries as those cities that arefluoridated (Chemical and Engineering News, August l,1988)!! Americans have been forced to medicate theirpublic water, yet studies have shown over and overagain, it not only does not prevent caries, but it is toxic!

The thyroid, the endocrine gland of metabolism,helps the body adapt between heat and cold. Mostpeople have such unresponsive thyroids that theirbodies do not respond appropriately to the temperaturechanges that winter brings. A weak thyroid results inunprocessed metabolic waste accumulating in thesystem. When this waste-loaded lymph backs up intothe sytem or lymph nodes, the bowel becomes sluggish.

Many naturalist doctors agree that as themetabolic waste continues to build up, the person getsthe flu or a cold. The flu is a violent detoxificationprocess that helps the body get rid of its wastes. A coldis a case of the bacteria living on the unprocessedmetabolic waste.

So, whatever you do, supporting your thyroidnutritionally has become necessary for optimum health.

Synthetic Vitamins Taken as Supplements

With such an unethical beginning, the FDA hasleft the public with a commercial food industrystaggering in its size and revenues, and a health carecrisis that is out of control.

Now we have our food supply thoroughlycomrpted and polluted. In an effort to help themselves,people take "natural" and "organic" supplements.

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But the truth is, when you purchase theseproducts, you are merely getting more of what isbeing dumped into our food supply!!!

Thiamine HCL and Thiamine Mononitrate as Btcome from coal tar; d-alpha tocopherols as Vitamin Eare.fractions extracted from processed and refinedfood oils (mainly cottonseed and soybean oil); dl-alphatocopherols are manufactured in a laboratory; andascorbic acid as Vitamin C is made from refined cornsugar, just to name a few.

How did this happen? What exactly do the terms"natural" and "organic" mean according to the FDA?

*Natural- anything that ultimately comesfrom nature, including chemicals, since theyultimately come from nature

*Organic- anything that contains a carbonmolecule (DDT has a carbon base)

By leaving these terms basically undefined, ourimagination is left to "fill in the blanks". Is this whatwe had in mind when we purchascd a "natural"vitamin, or an "organic" supplement? Imagine a farmwhere no pesticides are used and the land is fertilizedwith composting? Well, thut is not the way it is.

Why Natural Food Complexes Faded FromView

In the beginning of vitamin research, almost allof the scientific experiments used natural, food-sourcednutrients, and a lot was learned. Nutrients are difficultfor the FDA and other agencies to control. But

isolating vitamins and standard\zingthem as drugsgives them a means of controlling them.

For the pharmaceutical companies,vitamin fractions such as 'Vitamins'A, C,beta-carotene, and E; trace minerals aszinc and selenium (usually sold ininorganic and imbalanced forms),coenzyme Q, and many other specificnutrients can be cheaply manufactured andsold at huge profits. (32)

Judith DeCava, in her book The Real TruthAbout Vitamins and Antioxidants, talks about the"standard medical view", which is an "attempt to blendmedicine with nutrition, using chemically-isolatednutrients as drugs." DeCava makes some importantpoints:

l) "Medical schools in this country are nowstandardized (if not homogenized) and nomatter what medical school one attends, onegets essentially the same instruction..." (83)

2) "Doctors believe that their educationgives them a strange sort of infallability tolend their expertise in areas of medicinefor which they have received no training,as in nutrition, leading them to discountideas and even valid research." (84) This issupported by the fact that in 1991 , only 22out of the 127 accredited U.S. MedicalSchools required a single course in nutrition.

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3) "News of nutrients from 1962 onward-whether in medical journals, newspapers,TV, radio- are nearly or entirely all basedon studies using the fractionated, crystalline-pure, synthetic chemicals. The obviousconsequence follows: The nutritionindustry has turned into a money-grabbing, hustling, lying, cheating scam,as described by a sales rep of a veryreputable supplement company." (33)

Cellular malnutrition as a cause of diseases hasbeen drifted away from in orthodox medicine, andsynthetic vitamins, which have druglike effects, havebeen embraced. Often, these synthetics actuallycontaminate the internal environment of the body. Butthese synthetics, unlike whole food concentrates, canbe easily mass-produced by large pharmaceuticalcompanies, who can store and distribute them. As aresult, these isolated synthetics are used in nearly allnutritional supplements, whether found in a drug store,health food store, or nutritionist's office.

Just What are Natural Complexes?

Vitamins are "groups of chemically relatedcompounds". There is a part that is identified as theorganic nutrient of the vitamin, i.e., ascorbic acid asVitamin C. But then there are enzymes, coenzymestantioxidants, trace elements, activators, and otherunknown factors that enable the vitamin to go intobiochemical operation (See diagrams on the next2pages).

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With foods and food concentrates-containing whole nutritional complexthe body can choose its needs forassimilation and excrete what it does notneed; this is called 'selective absorption'.On the other hand. with fractionated orisolated andlor synthetic vitamins, there isno choice; the body must handle thechemical in some manner and can sufferconsequences of bio-chemical imbalancesand toxic overdose. (34)

This living vitamin complex can not be takenapart and re-assembled and work the way it didbefore. In fact, it won't work at all, yet this is exactlywhat has been done to produce chemically-pure,fractionated vitamins !

Once the vitamin complex has been separatedinto its components and is dead and inert, it is then thatthe "scierrtific method" takes it and develops trials orexperiments with it.

Synthetic, fractionated, crystalline-purevitamins are not whole, naturalcompounds. They are not food whichhuman systems are familiar with. Howcould any scientist say that the bodydoes not know the difference betweennatural and synthetic vitamins? (35)

...true science is now judged on the basisof an experimental method whichmeasures, classifies, and duplicates

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reactions and effects of single chemicals.This rules out testing natural vitamincomplexes. . ..This also rules out clinicalobservati seeing how a patient isdoing and communicating with him/her asto individual benefits, needs, andresponses. (36)

Indeed, FDA officials 'have consistentlytended to leave out of their thinking boththe human element in disease and theidea that cellular malnutrition is aprominent cause of disease.' (37)

Rats and the RDA's (Recommended DailyAllowances)

The "scientific studies" I have previouslymentioned substitute synthetic, crystalline-purevitamins for whole food complexes, and ignore thehuman element by substituting rats, chicks, and rabbitsfor humans. A zoo would never feed all the differentanimals the same food or the same proportions, yet theRDA for humans is now based on Rat Bioassay.

The bioassay method is based upon thedirect measurement of a vitamin'sbiological activity in preventing or curingcertain specific pathological (disease)conditions in a predetermined experimentalanimal. . ..This method expressesmeasurement. in terms of units. So. the

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. amount found to alleviate disease in the' rat or other laboratory animal is

"translated" into the amount and formneeded for humans. (38)

Rats are scavengers. Humans are not. The veryphysiological makeup of lower animals enables them toeat, digest, and utilize foods and rubbish which we cannot. And here is the kicker:

...laboratory animals fed ascorbic acid-the manufactured, chemically-pure fractionof the Vitamin C complex- can convertthat chemical into the required Vitamin Ccomplex. Such animals with scurvy, whenfed ascorbic acid, may improve so thatsymptoms are relieved. Humans withscuryy, when fed ascorbic acid, do notimprove Yery much, if at all. (39)

Getting to the Core of the Matter

Now we come to the reason why syntheticvitamins are not good for you. Take, for example,ascorbic acid as Vitamin C. If a person has sufficientreserves of the other components of the C complex(enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, trace elementactivators, and other unknown factors) to recombineand process an intake of ascorbic acid, then that personwill experience some improvement for a time. Whenthese reserves are drained, the ascorbic acid will nolonger benefit that person. The very symptoms that

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the person was trying to eliminate will return, and theperson will then have a full-blown Vitamin C deficiency.

This is what occurs with all syntheticvitamins: the body treats them as toxins,leading to the 'expensive urine' of excessvitamin intake referred to frequently, sincethe human system via the urinary tractattempts to rid itself of the major quantityof such foreign chemicals. (40)

Many people feel an energy increase, often aeuphoria, when they start to take synthetic vitamins.But taking excessive amounts for an extended period oftime will cause the effects to reverse. Take, forexample, synthetic Thiamine (Br). It "will initiallyallay fatigue but will eventually cause fatigue by thebuildup of pyruvic acid. This leads to the vicious cycleof thinking more and more Thiamine is needed,resulting in more and more fatigue along with otheraccumulated complaints." (4 I )

Because of the different amounts of storedreserves people have, there are two situations thatsincere nutritionists in whole complex research keeppointing out:

1) Vitamins cannot be standardized,because there is no way of telling whatdifferent people's needs are and there isno way to calculate their reserves.

2) Individual people's abilities to process,recombine, and eliminate synthetic

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vitamins are full of contradictory effects(i.e., good, bad, or indifferent effects).

Whole, Natural Vitamins vs. Synthetic

Judith DeCava said it succintly when she said,

...taking one or more such vitamin partscan create an imbalance of vitamins,which is worse than a deficiency. (42)

Synthetic supplements can unbalance aperson's biochemistrY. (43)

DeCava goes into different studies comparingwhole, natural vs. synthetic vitamins, and the whole,natural ones always come up ahead. But, do we, asconsumers, know what is natural and what is not? Ifthe labeling of "natural" is so subjective and undefined,how can one tell the difference?

The named source of the vitamin is the best clue.So, for your information, the following is a list of themost common synthetic forms of vitamins. Please takethis book and fold it over and compare this list to thevitamins and foods you have in your kitchen cupboards.

You can read more about synthetic vitomins andtheir history in my next book, The Biggest Cover-up ofthe 20th Centurv.

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Vitamin A

Vitamin Br

Vitamin B:

Vitamin C

Vitamin D

Vitamin E

Vitamin K

Synthetic VitaminAcetateRetinal PalmitateBeta Carotene

Thiamine HCLThiamine Mononitrate

Niacin

Ascorbic AcidPycnogenols

Irradiated Ergosterol

d-Alpha Tocopheroldl-Alpha Tocopherold-Alpha Succinate

K: or Menadione

We are also used to seeing listings in highmilligram potency, howeveq a high number ofmilligrams is also an indication of a synthetic source.

The B vitamins should be taken as a whole, witholl members of the group.In nature, all the B's arealways found together- never is one isolated fromthe rest.

Dr. Royal Lee said that a "a natural combinationof Vitamin B Cornplex, a complete source in naturalbalance including intact synergists, is from 10 to 50times more potent in humans, unit for unit, than is achemically purified or synthetic complex." Dr. Lee alsostressed that in order to get the highest potency andeffectiveness, "a number of therapeutically activesources must be tapped", as in Standard Process'sCataplex B (Cataplex means Whole Food Complex).

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Standard Process lists on its Cataplex B thefollowing milligrams per 3 tablets:

Th iamine . . .0 .95mgNiac in . . . .20 .44mgVitamin Bo . . . . . . 0.95mg

This is afar cry from the majority of Bcomplexes on the market, which range from 50-l00mgfor each B.

Cataplex B does not list every B however.Reading the ingredients, the first 2 are Bovine LiverPowder and Nutritional Yeast. So, foods that containthe entire B complex are the base for this product.

Potency Is Not Milligrams or Micrograms

Potency is defined as',the strength, ability, orcapacity to bring about a particular result." (44)Potency is taken then to mean effectiveness to thegeneral public. "High Potency" vitamins require a largeamount of the fractured vitamin to achieve a specificreaction, although not necessarily a nutritionar reaction.

A minute amount of a vitamin in its whole foodform is more effective nutritionally than a large amountof a synthetic bne.

Let us take a look at a story about a medicaldoctor held captive in a North Korean prisoner of warcamp during The Korean War (1950-1953).

After a period of time with an inadequate diet,many of the doctor's fellow prisoners of war began toshow signs of beriberi, a disease that results from asevere thiamin (Br) deficiency. He notified The Red

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Cross, and they sent him some Bt, in the syntheticform, Thiamine HCL. The doctor gave this to hispatients, but their health continued to deteriorate. Thispuzzledhim, since Bt was the medical treatmentrecommended in the Materia Medica.

The doctor's North Korean guards whispered tohim that the beriberi could be cured by using ricepolish, the nutritive-rich germ of the rice that isremoved when rice is refined. He thought it wasabsurd, but he had nothing to lose, so he started giving

his patients a teaspoon or more of rice polisheveryday. Within a short time, his patients symptomsstarted to abate and the beriberi plague ceased!

It is important to note here that it would take a

ton (2,000 pounds) of unmilled rice to produce a levelteaspoon of thiamin (Br)! ! ! The amount the prisoners

of war were getting would equate down to theamount on the head of Pin!

Synthetics Are Not as Effective

Vitamin E "loses up to 99% of its potency whenseperated from its natural synergists." (45) When you

take just the tocopherols, you are throwing out the real

Vitamin E. The tocopherols are nature's way ofprotecting and preserving Vitamin E, like the peel of a

banana.

In one test study, the vitamin E-deficientlaboratory animals fed tocopherols diedsooner then the control animals thatreceived no vitamin at all. (46)

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Silver foxes were fed a synthetic diet sothat every component of the diet would beknown. The animals were given all of theknown B vitamins - in synthetic form-but they did not grow; their fur deteriorated,and finally they died. Another group offoxes on the same diet were given achange after a short time: added to theirrations was yeast and liver, both sources ofnatural whole B complex. These animalsgrew normally and the quality of their furimproved with their health. (47)

Modern-day studies, utilizing ascorbic acid(the crystalline-pure fraction) rather thanvitamin C complex, find the syntheticfraction has virtually no effect on pneumonia,bronchitis, or other pulmonary problemseven though sufferers show low serumlevels of vitamin C. . .daily intake of ascorbicacid supplements reduces the total whiteblood cell count, compromising the immuneresponse rather than assisting it. (48)

Confusion around ascorbic acid is created byreports of how it has helped to fight colds andinfections. Dr. Jensen points out that "the answerprobably lies more in ascorbic acid's pH balanceinfluence (Acid/Alkaline balance) than any otherfactor." (49) Since most infectious bacteria thrive in analkaline pH, high consumption of ascorbic acid thencreates an acid environment that the bacteria cannotthrive in. Dr. D.C. Jarvis, in his book Folk Medicine,

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talks about the importance of the Acid/Alkaline balancein the body's immune system. Jarvis promotes theintake of 2l tablespoons of apple cider vinegar daily.Apple cider vinegar is 5o/o acetic acid, which isnormally found in the body.

Over and over again, it has been proven that thenatural, whole food complexes that Mother Naturecreated are perfectly balanced to work with humanphysiology to correct a vast number of disorders.However, it is to be emphasized here that a good diet isthe basis of health, and supplements are the means ofcatching up for lost time nutritionally.

Antioxidants-The Controversy

The controversy over the need for antioxidantshas been going on for some time. Those who advocatethe need for antioxidants usually know nothing aboutwhole food complexes. Remember, most of the newson vitamins from 1962 onward has been "nearly orentirely all based on studies using the fractionated,crystalline-pure, synthetic chemicals." (50)

Antioxidants are the part of the vitamin complexthat prevent or inhibit oxidation. Vitamin E is a naturalpart of polyunsaturated fatty acids and protects oilsfrom deteriorating. In fact, if the oil is rancid, itindicates that the Vitamin E, A, and carotenes havebeen destroyed. And, Vitamin E (Alpha tocopherols),Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), and Beta carotene arethe most widely touted antioxidants.

Using antioxidants alone as nutritionalsupplements means ingesting fractions,

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isolated substances, not whole complexes. Itwould be like eating the peel of a bananawithout the banana, or like eating theshel l of a nut without the nut meat. (51)

To make matters worse, most commercialantioxidants are produced in pharmaceuticalmanufacturing plants. "Hoffman-LaRouche, forexample, a huge pharmaceutical (drug) conglomerate,is building a plant in Freeport, Texas, to turn out 350tons of synthetic beta-carotene, or enough to supply asix milligram capsule daily to every American adultevery year." (52)

This crystalline-pure form cannot perform as anutrient. To attribute the beneficial effects of fruits andvegetables to a single food component, such ascarotenes, is useless. There are 50 to 60 carotenes foundin the typical American diet, and "humans need complexfood sources of even similar or related nutrients, thisaccording to individual needs at specific times." (53)

We hear much talk about t'free radicalst'attacking human cells and weakening our immunesystems. Oxidation is a process whereby a moleculecontains one or more unpaired electrons (Atoms containa nucleus, protons, neutrons, and electrons. Theelectrons move around the nucleus in pairs.), In the freeradical theory, these molecules try to pick up an electronfrom another molecule, thus starting a chain reaction.

However, as Judith DeCava's studies point out,most honest scientists know that "every compoundexcreted by the body is in one form or another boundto oxygen for elimination." (5a) In simple terms,oxidation is nature's way of dealing with tissues that

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are injured by removing damaged cells. It is also anormal way to eliminate cellular waste and debris.

Antioxidants as a Fad

Most of the research on synthesized antioxidantshas been done in test tubes or on microscopic slides,with little concern about the human body's ability toabsorb them With a vast majority of studies notperformed on humans, how can anyone promoteunknown benefits?

In fact, too many synthetic antioxidants cancause fatigue and muscle weakness. Denham Harman,M.D., Ph.D., the "father" of the free radical theory ofaging, said that he personally would take moreantioxidants, but "I can't afford to be fatigued." (55)What he listed as his personal intake was 400iu of"Vitamin Ett, 2,000mg of "Vitamin Ctt, and 25r000iuof Beta-carotene every day.

Toxic effects from large intakes of syntheticantioxidants have been reported, which are a scaryeffect from supplements that are supposed to preventdisease and aging. Natural food complexes do notcause adverse effects.

So, antioxidants are widely touted for all of us totake, yet:

1) The process, oxidation, that syntheticantioxidants are supposed to protect usfrom, is a natural by-product of cellularcombustion.

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2) When taken in large doses, thesesynthetic antioxidants cause fatigue andmuscular weakness.

3) When taken in even larger doses, thesesynthetic antioxidants are toxic.

Here is a prime example of a "new medical fact"that has become an accepted way of thinking fornutritionally-minded people. If this is not afad, what is?

Fads, Trends, and Bold-Faced Lies

Fad is defined by Webster as, "an exaggeratedlyfussy attitude, especially about eating or not eatingcertain kinds of food." My definition of a "Fad" is:

1) You keep eating a certain way, eventhough you look and feel worse.

2) You keep eating a certain w?y, because itis advertised and talked about, eventhough you look and feel worse.

3) You know all of the "scientific reasons"for eating this way, even though you lookand feel worse.

All of these definitions certainly fit into ourtimes today. People keep eating low-fat in spite of theobesity, heart disease, and diabetes all around them.

' Webster defines a trend as, "a dominantmovement revealed by a statistical process". Americanshave been on an unnatural trend in their food sourcesfor nearly 100 years. As Dr. Jensen and Mark Anderson

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in Empty Harvest put it, "As a culture, we are not justunnatural-it is deeper. We are anti-natural." (56)

Bold-faced is defined by Webster as, "showingan impudent lack of shame." An impudent lack ofshame is evident by those who proclaim that the humanbody cannot tell the difference between natural andsynthetic vitamins and foods.

Why Do I Need Vitamins and Minerals ifI'm Eating Well?

Vitamins are factors that cause health.Vitamins act as facilitators in all of the chemicalreactions in the body. Because most people have likesand dislikes that keep them from eating foods such askale, broccoli, etc... in the quantities necessary to getthe needed nutrients from them, vitamin supplementsare a must.

Remember, due to chemical fertilizers whichkeep plants from absorbing trace minerals andcommercial milling of wheat and other grains that removeall nufients, Americans have been consuming a verypoor diet since WWI. These nutritional deficiencieshave caused:

.. .the previously unanticipatedphenomenon of many geneticallytransmitted conditions, because theyoriginated in deficiency and poisoningpatterns of forebearers. (57)

Dr. Lee said in 1950, 'Trace mineraldeficiency, it is evident, cen act also to

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impair hereditary transmission. As thesetrace minerals and determinants (cellblueprints) are combined organically intoprotein linkages, it is evident how thenature of these minerals in our foods areof vital importance.' (58)

The monumental work, Nutrition and Ph)tsicalDegeneration, by Dr. Weston Price, D.D.S., graphicallyshows that inferior genetic traits were passed alongto the next generation as soon as the parents began toeat what Dr. Price called "the foods of commerce".

Dr. Price traveled to primitive cultures aroundthe world in the 1930's and photographed two differentgroups within each culture. One group ate theirtraditional, unadulterated diet. The second group atecivilized counterfeit and adulterated foods. (See thephotographs on the next 3 pages)

So, basically we ure the second, third, and

fourth generations in this synthetic diet transmission.We are in need of as much nutritional building ss wecan possibly gel To continue to consume syntheticvitamins to build up an immune system alreadyweakened by synthetic foods and vitamins will not work!

In fact, these synthetic vitamins are oftenpoisonous. 'oln January of 1952, Dr. Lee announced: 'I

could write volumes on how synthetic vitamins likethiamine castrate the descendants of the victim whouses even as much as double the daily requirement."'(80) Dr. Lee then cited a study by Dr. Barnett Sure(Jol. Natr., Aug., 1939). Dr. Sure studied two groups ofpigs, feeding one'group twice the daily requirement ofsynthetic B and the other group the same antount of

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I )hotos and capt ions by pcrmission of the [ ) r icc- l l r t tcnger Foundat ion, Cahfornia

Natives on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. The dentalarches here reach a hioh deoree of excellence.

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l )hotos and capt ions by permission of thc [ ) r icc-Pt) t tcnger Foundat ion, Cal i forni . r

The contrast belween the primitive and modernized natives infacial and dental arch form is as striking here as elsewhere. These youngnatives were born lo parents who had adopted our modern foods of com-merce. Note the narrowed faces and dental arches with pinched nostri ls andcrowding of the teeth Their magnificent heredity could nol protecl them

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[ ) ho tos a r rd cap t i ons bv pc rm iss i on o t t h ( ' [ ) r i ce Po t t t ' ngc r Foun r l a t i on , Ca l i f o rn i a

Above: brothers, lsle of Harris The younger at lefl uses modernfood and has rampanl tooth decay Brother at right uses nalive food and hasexcellent teeth Note narrowed face and arch of younger brolher. Below: typi-cal rampant tooth decay, modernized Gaelic Right: typical excellent teeth ofpr imi t ive Gael ic .

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natural B. "The result: ALL of the first generationoffspring from the pigs fed the synthetic vitamin wereSTERILE." (81) It is obvious that synthetic B, inaddition to NOT being a nutrient, is a genetic poison.

Humans, unlike pigs, take more than onegeneration to reap this genetic damage. A 1981 reportfrom The University of Florida stated that the Americanmale sperm count in 1929 was at approximately 100million sperm cells per milliliter of semen. By 1973 thespenn count had dropped to 60 million/ml. Then sevenyears later, in 1980, the average count had droppedto 20 million/ml.!

What in the world happened to bringabout such a honible drop in male fertilityin just 61 years? One very possibleexplanation could very well lie in thehistorical use of synthetic B and othercounterfeit nutrients. . .. Since World WarII the American people, and people ofother countries as well, have had a dailyration of a genetic poison in most of thebread, flour products, cereals and otherfood items that are forced, by law, toenrich with the only cost-feasible enricher:synthetic vitamins. (82)

A Word About Standard Process

Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Royal'

Lee, and his name should be a household word. Aspreviously mentioned, Dr. Lee was a brilliant andprolific electronic inventor, with more than 100

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electrical patents. From the 1920's to the mid-1960's,Dr. Lee amassed information about plant, animal, andhuman health and how it all tied into the soil, foodprocessing, diet, and nutrition.

With this information, he founded The LeeFoundation for Nutritional Research, a clearing houseof information for doctors, lay people, and farmers. In1929, he formulated Catalyn, a concentrated multiplevitamin, trace mineral, and enzyme product. Everytime a new trace mineral, erTzyme, or micro-nutrient isdiscovered, Catalyn is analyzed, and the substance isalways found to be present in it.

Dr. Lee once said that it took him longer todevelop a nutritional formula than to come up with oneof his electrical inventions. This was due to thecomplexity of factors already present in nature.

As doctors would encounter some illness ordisease in the field, Dr. Lee would go to his laboratoryand devel op a whole food supplement that wouldsupport a natural healing process. Thus, the entireStandard Process line came into being.

Because Dr. Lee insisted that foods weretherapeutic, he was always in court, fighting the FDAwhich insisted that only drugs could be calledtherapeutic. Finally, he was told to either burn everycopy of his Therapeutic Food Manual, or go to jail for7 years!!! He was willing to go, but his family beggedhim not to, so all of the manuals were burned!Remember what the German chemical industrialists didto Julius Hensel's book on rock dust. Hensel's bookcould not be found for many years, and was squelchedso that the consumers were lead to conclude that it was

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false. Fortunately for us, a copy of Dr. Lee's book wasstored in the archives of a non-profit organization andreprinted years later for the benefit of all.

Standard Process whole food supplements aremade according to the rigid guidelines set by Dr. Lee.All of the natural foods used are grown on richfarmland, in thick, black topsoil that is free fromchemical fertilizers and pesticides. Dr. Lee's formulasare made from whole foods concentrated to clinicalpotency. For example, Standard Process takes 31000gallons of beets and concentrates them into a powderthat could fit into a briefcase. This is then added toStandard Process' Betafood and AF Betafood, whichhelp the gall bladder.

With Standard Process'Cataplex E (Cataplexmeans whole complex), you get the E complex in theform that Dr. Lee discovered was the richest source ofthe E complex: the juice of the whole pea plant!

If this sounds weak or impotent, remember whatpotency really is: The strength, ability, or capacity tobring about a particular result.

These potent nutrients can help us to catch up forlost time nutritionally. What this catching up for losttime nutritionally really means is best illustrated by thefollowing quote from Dr..Bruce West.

If you had a heart problem with high bloodfats and poor digestion, my best R* wouldbe some powerful dietary changes. Forstarters, if this were feasible, I would liketo see you consume daily: a pound of raw,organic liver; a couple buckets of organicwheat germ and high-selenium yeast; a

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small wheelbarrow full of organic beetsand beet tops; gallons of freshly squeezedvegetable juices; and plenty of raw, fresh-pressed organic oils such as flax oil.

Naturally, this is impossible. So, insteadwe use supplements which are condensed

from thesefoods und other nutrients. (85)

Since Dr. Lee believed that we, as humans, needthe nutrition from both plants and animals, manyStandard Process products have both. An example ofthis would be Folic acid and Brz. Folic acid is derivedfrom plants, Btz from liver. So Standard Process hasCarrot Powder and Bovine Liver as their listed sourcesfor these vitamins. All Standard Process products aretested and retested countless times by Certified LabTechs to ensure the purity of all nutrients used.

The Work in Nutrition Has Already Been Done!

Everything we need to know about nutrition hasalready been done by Mother Nature herself. Nature isthe chemist, and all that a biochemist can do is tounlock the already existing relstionshlps within andbetween all of these micronutrient factors, split themup, identiff them, and test them to see what happens ifa laboratory animal goes without them.

This happens on a regular basis. Everyday a"new" discovery hits the news media. (Co Enzyme Q-10, Co Enzyme PQQ, Antioxidants, Selenium,Pycnogenols, Phyto-chemicals, etc.. .)

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The interesting thing here is that Standard

Process contains all of these "ne'w" discoveries,because whole food supplements contain all of the

synergists (enzymes, coenzymes, trace minerals, and all

of the unknown factors yet to be discovered). By

taking foods intact, you always get everything you

need. You also do not have to play the guessing game

of figuring out how much of a new discovery you need

to take.When you have a bottle of Vitamin E (d-Alpha

tocopherol), a bottte of selenium, and a bottle of Co-

enzyme Q-10, what you actually have are parts of the

E complex that are being purchased separately. It takes

some playing around to get the dosages right, but most

importantly, what you are getting is dead and inert,

and there are milny other components which you are

not getting.

A Sobering Word

J.I. Rodale, the American naturalist, wrotewisely in his classic work The Complete Book of Food

and Nutrition:

We must take vitamins if we wish to behealthy and the nation as a whole must doit, or God alone knows what will happento the second or third generations comingup- generations inheriting weaknessespassed on to them by us, generationswhich few of us will live to see unless weaugment our diet with vitamins andminerals. And, as parting advice, don't

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take coal tar (synthetic) vitamins.Examine every bottle. Be sure that thevitamins you take are extracted fromfood. Scientific research proves that thisis best. (59)

It couldn't have been said any better. RemembeqThiamine HCL and Thiamine Mononitrate come fromcoal tar and are in all commercisl breads. Vitamin Brzcomes from activated sewage sludge and vitamin D isconcocted from irradiated oil.

Ancient Civilizations and Low Fat Diets

With our food supply polluted and our syntheticvitamins in hand, what else can be done to ruin ourhealth? Well, we could be encouraged to eat a diet lowin fats and protein and high in carbohydrates, thusinsuring that we ingest more refined, chemicalizedfoods and create blood sugar problems that really dous in.

Let's go back in time, with Drs. Mary andMichael Eades, whose book, Protein Power, waspublished in January 1996. The Eades start with thefact that "for 2 million years humans ate a diet ofmainly meat, fat, nuts, and berries. 8,000 years ago welearned to farm, and as our consumption of grainincreased, our health declined. That is only 400 to 500generations ago, whereas genetic evolutionary changestake a minimum of 1,000 generations- or another8,000 to 10,000 years." (60)

In fact, the Drs. Eades note that anthropologistscan tell whether the skull they are examining was that

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of a hunter-gatherer (protein eater) or a farmer (mainlycarbohydrate eater). The well-formed, strong bones andteeth belong to the tall hunters. The farmers have signsof stunted growth and tooth decay.

Since there is so much information available tous about the ancient Egyptians, through their recordsand their mummies, they are a good starting point forhistorical nutritional evaluation. We know that theyate the perfect low-fat diet: lots of whole grains,fresh fruits and vegetables, along with some fish andfowl, and hardly any fat.

So what do paleopathologists find when theyexamine these mummies? (Paleopathology, amongother modern techniques, applies forensic science tothe early remains of man) They can tell what thecorpse died of, its age, sex, health status, and numerousother things.

When paleopathologists dissected thearteries of the Egyptian mummies, theydid not find smooth, supple arterial wallsbut rather arteries choked with greasy,cholesterol-laden deposits that were oftencalcified, exhibiting an advanced stage ofatherosclerotic disease. Many subjects hadarteries that were scarred and thickened,indicating the presence of high bloodpressure. Pathologists today find the samediseased changes when examining tissuefrom a victim of heart altack, stroke,diabetes, or other disease found inconjunction with late-stage heart disease.In fact it appears that cardiovascular

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disease was as prevalent in ancientEgypt as it is in America today. (61)

What's Happening Here?

Since humans were hunter-gatherers for such along period, our metabolisms were designed to copewith food supplies that were unpredictable. Whatenabled us to store food for the lean times was insulin-

Unfortunately, a diet heavy incarbohydrate also sends our insulin levelssoaring, and our body interprets this as aneed to store calories, to make cholesterol,and to conserve water- all important toour survival way back then. (62)

We would constantly have to be hooked up to ourenergy source (food) in order to merely f,rnction, if it werenot for insulin. Insulin stores fat in our bodies, and thisfat acts like a built-in battery, which gets re-chargedwhen we eat, and used for energy when we don't.

So, diet is the best way to control insulin, in fact,it is the only way. Consumption of large quantities ofcarbohydrate produce large quantities of insulin.This is because carbohydrates are composed of varioussugar molecules, or glucose, bonded chemically. Onceyou have eaten a carbohydrate, even a complexcarbohydrate, your body has digestive eruymes thatbreak these chemical bonds and release the sugarmolecules into the blood.

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Insulin springs into action when the bloodsugar starts to climb too high, as it doesafter a carbohydrate meal. The elevatedblood sugar triggers the pancreas tosynthesize and release insulin into thebloodstream. This insulin first makes apass through the liver, where it shuts downany sugar production that may still begoing on, then travels on to the rest of thebody, where it acts on sensors or receptorsscattered across the surfaces of muscle andfat cells. These receptors, when activatedby insulin, initiate a series of reactions thatpump sugar (along with protein and fat)from the blood into the interior of the cellsfor use now or storage for later. Insulinstimulates the fat cells to take up fat andsugar from the blood and store it away asbody fat, especially in the middle of thebody, within the abdomen, and around thevital organs. (63)

Which Way is Your Metabolism Going?

Since nature over and over again works withcomplementary factors (witness the fungus-bacteriarelationship in plants), it is no wonder that our bodieshave two hormones, insulin and glucagon, to store andrelease energy. Insulin causes our metabolism tostore excess food energy for later and keeps ourblood sugar from getting too high. Glucagon allowsour bodies to burn our stored fat for energy andkeeps our blood sugar from getting too low.

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These functions of storing fat or burning fat areactive to some degree all the time. The question is,which energy pathway predominates? Are we mainlystoring or mainly burning fat for energy? It isimportant to note that the fat in the bloodstream couldcome from these sources:

1) fat consumed in the diet

2) fat made from excess carbohydrate andprotein in the diet

3) fat liberated from storage in the fat cells

So, our bodies can make plenty of fat from carbo-hydrate-low fat cookies and potato chips included!

In fact, the number-one foods consumed bymost Americans are white bread, rolls, and crackers.Number-two are doughnuts, cookies, and cake, andnumber-three are alcoholic beverages. (Statistics from asurvey conducted in 1983 by the National Center forHealth Statisitics)

The Drs. Eades point out that the combinationof high carbohydrate with low protein caused thegreatest increase in insulin production- more thancarbohydrate itself This is interesting, especially in lightof the foods Americans love, like hamburgers and fries,pizza, macaroni and cheese, eggs and hash browns,cereal and milk, etc..., all protein/carbohydratecombinations. The Drs. Eades also note that dietary fatin and of itself cannot cause problems with cholesterolunless vou eat carbohvdrates with the fat.

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Dieting is Failing

In a brilliant and controversial essay onintelligence published in the winter 1969issue of Harvard Educational Review,Arthur R. Jensen, a professor ofpsychology at the University of Californiaat Berkeley, wrote: 'In other fields, whenbridges do not stand, when aircraft do notfly, when machines do not work, whentreatments do not cure, despite allconscientious efforts on the part of manypersons to make them do so, one beginsto question the basic assumptions,principles, theories, and hypotheses thatguide one's efforts.' Most physicians,dieticians, and nutritionists have beenlocked in the notorious clean and well-litprison of a single idea for decades. Theseexperts have been treating obesity with low-calorie, I ow- fat, hi gh-complex-carbohydratediets, then standing around wringing theirhands, watching 95Yo of their patientsregain their weight. Perhaps inevitably theyblame the patient for the failure. (64)

Obviously, the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet isout of step with people's biochemistry- in fact, itactually strengtfens an enzyme called LipoproteinLipase-a fat storage enzyme. To switch to a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet keeps insulin levels low,so that the Lipoprotein Lipase is not getting any

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stimulation. Instead, Hormone- Sens itiv e Lipas e, whichreleases fat from the fat cells into the blood, isstimulated.

More Than Just Fat

High insulin levels are the major cause ofobesity, but according to Drs. Eades and the manymedical studies they quote, the following are allsymptoms of elevated insulin levels:

1) High Blood Pressure

2) High Blood Cholesterol and TriglycerideLevels

3) Diabetes (Adult-onset specifically)

4) Heart Disease

High Blood Pressure

Excessive insulin causes high blood pressure byforcing the kidneys to retain sodium, even when thereis too much, and this results in fluid retention. Inanother way, excessive insulin increases the thicknessof the arterial walls, making them less elastic andnaffower. In a final way, insulin stimulates the adrenalsto constrict the blood vessels and increase the heartrate, thus raising blood pressure.

Unfortunately, most doctors treat only thesymptoms and often in a way that makesthe real problem worse. Il for example,you go to your doctor and find that your

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cholesterol level and blood pressure aretoo high, we can just about guarantee thatyou will leave the office with instructionsto go on a low-fat diet and to return to theoffice for a recheck in a month or so. Ifyou follow this advice and go on the low-fat diet, what happens? By decreasingyour fat intake you usually decrease yourprotein intake, because virtually all foodsthat are protein-rich contain substantialamounts of fat. Meat, eggs, cheese, mostdarry products-the best sources of completedietary protein- are all taboo or severelyrestricted on a low-fat diet. With thisprotein and fat restriction, the only foodcomponent left in the diet is carbohydrate,which by default results in your eating ahigh-carbohydrate, low-protein diet-thevery diet that maximizes insulinproduction. If you had hyperinsulinemia tobegin with- and if you have elevatedcholesterol and high blood pressure, youcan bet that you do-increasing yourbody's production of insulin isn't going tohelp. A month later, your doctor willprobably find that your cholesterol hasdecreased slightly (due to the caloricrestriction), but not enough to put it in thenormal range, and that your blood pressureis about the same, maybe even a littlehigher. Now when you leave the office,you'll go with a prescription for a high

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blood pressure medicine, a more stringentdiet, and perhaps a prescription for acholesterol-lowering medicine as well.

You leave with your prescriptions, yoursample medicines, your new dietinstruction sheets, and a nagging worry.You know that you followed the diet to theletter, so why didn't it work? And youwonder, am I going to have to take thesemedicines for the rest of my life? Youcomply with your doctor's orders andreturn at the appointed time for yourfollow-up visit. Your doctor finds that yourblood pressure is down to normal and yourcholesterol level has fallen into the normalrange. You are relieved, and this timewhen you leave you're happy, your doctorishappy, and the drug companies areecstatic: they have just signed you on as anew customer to the tune of between $50and $200 per month for life.

On the surface this story seems to have ahuppy ending, but does it really? Whilelooking for all the world like anothertriumph of modern medicine over disease,the treatment of your elevated cholesteroland high blood pressure is only acamouflage. (65)

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WARNING: The Drs. Eades found that a highprotein/low carbohydrate diet was so effective inlowering blood pressure that their patients who were onmedication to lower their blood pressure felt dizzy andfaint within a few days, and had to be taken off of theirmedication very quickly. So, do not attempt this diet ifyou are on medication to lower your blood pressurewithout being under the care of a physician.

Enter Cholesterol

At the beginning of their chapter in ProteinPower entitled "Cholesterol Madness," the Drs. Eadeslet you know that, with careful reading, "by the timeyou finish this chapter you will know more aboutcholesterol than 95 per cent of the physicians inpractice today." (86)

And, of course, cholesterol has become bigbusiness. Whenever mass paranoia startsto breq a legion rises up ready to exploitit. The food processing industry and theiradvertisers now emblazon the containers ofedibles as diverse as soft drinks andcornflakes with the superfluous statement'contains no cholesterol'. Cholesterol angstis not lost on the various govemmental andprivate research funding bodies responsiblefor underwriting all kinds of medicalresearch. These groups disburse hundredsof millions of dollars to eager researchlabs throughout the world, allowing themto pursue the secrets of cholesterol in

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ever-more-intricate studies. (66)

Cholesterol, as the Drs. Eades point out, isessential for life. Only 7Yo of the body's cholesterol isfound in the blood. "The bulk of the cholesterol in yourbody, the other 93oA, is located in every cell of thebody, where its unique waxy, soapy consistencyprovides the cell membranes with their structuralintegrity and regulates the flow of nutrients into andwaste products out of the cells." (67) Some cholesterolcomes from food, but 80% is produced by the bodyitself, mostly in the liver.

Cholesterol is the building block for hormonesand the major component of liver bile, and your brainand nerves need cholesterol for normal electrical signaltransmission.

The number one point to remember here is thatthe cholesterol levels are regulated inside the cell.When the supply runs low, the cell can either makemore cholesterol or send LDL receptors (messengers)to the surface and snatch the next circulating LDLparticle out of the blood.

LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) is sometimesseen as the villain in the cholesterol drama. And it canbe, if there is too much of it. But the truth is, there isagain a natural relationship between LDL and HDL(High Density Lipoprotein). LDI carries cholesterol tothe tissues for deposition and HDL gathers cholesterolfrom these tissues and carries it back to the liver to bedisposed of. The flow one way or the other is whatmedical researchers have used to quantiff risk for heartdisease.

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Insulin cranks up the cell's cholesterol_manufacturing ability, so that they don,t need to snatchany from the bloodstream and LDL levels rise. cJearly,the more LDL receptors we have pulling cholesterolfrom the blood, the better.

The artery-clogging damage that occurs withelevated insulin levels is analogous to ,.having a bigpowerful air conditioner in a house and putting thethermostat that controls it into a small, hot, airtightcloset. The cooling machinery could be cranking outenough cold air to form icicles on the woodworkthroughout the house, but the thermostat in the closetwould never know. As far as it knows, the air is hotand needs cooling, so it calls for more cold aiq and inspite of the icicles forming on it, the air conditionerkeeps huffing and struggling along to pump cold airout." (68) So, the cholesterol plaque is like the iciclesin the house.

The key to lowering elevated cholesterollevels is not in the restriction of dietarycholesterol or fat but in the dietarymanipulation of the internal cholesterolregulatory system. (69)

...By eating a diet that reduces insulinlevels...you reduce the signal telling thecells to make cholesterol, they mustharvest it from the blood to have enough,and your blood cholesterol levels-especially the "bad" LDL-fall rapidly.Even while eating a diet that contains redmeat, egg yolk, cheese, butter, and cream,

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as long as you control your insulin output,your cholesterol will remain in the healthy180-200 mg/dl range. (87)

Diabetes

In the case of Type II or Adult Onset Diabetes, astage called "insulin resistance" or "impaired glucosetolerance" is a forerunner. Years of lifestyle abuse startin childhood. Studies done in the United States haveshown that many children from ages five on consumeapproximately one cup (200 grams) of sugar a day. Ifyou included the carbohydrate they consume, thatfigure would double. (Remember, any carbohydrate ismetabolized exactly like sugar)

After 30 or 40 years of this excess, the metabolicgears start to slip and middle age spread sets in. Theperson may even be eating less, but he/she is gainingweight. The insulin sensors in the tissues become moreand more sluggish, and the pancreatic beta cells startworking overtime to make more and more insulin tobring the blood sugar back into the normal range. At thispoint, if the blood glucose exceeds a certain threshold,typically 140 mg/dl, it will then be at such a highconcentration in the blood that it destroys the beta cells.

This increase in blood sugar, in addition to goingthrough the stage of insulin resistance to diabetes, hasemotional components as well as physical. The"enriched" grains that most people consume causevitamin depletion, especially the B complex. Some ofthe symptoms of B Complex Deficiency Syndrome, asit is called, are fatigue, nervousness, depression, andforgetfullness.

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Also, there is an entire body of work (which willnot be gotten into here) that addresses the lack ofamino acids as being an important component inclinically depressed individuals.

The important thing to remember here is thatdiet is the only method svailable to treat excessinsulin. A high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet canreduce insulin levels in a matter of days and reduceblood pressure and cholesterol or triglyceride levels. Ina period of months, it can result in a steady loss ofexcess stored body fat.

It's important to remember, however, thateven though the regimen works rapidly toreturn insulin sensitivity to normal in mostpeople, it works only as long as youfollow it. It doesn't return you to yourchildhood levels of imperviousness tocarbohydrate assault. You must continue tofollow the guidelines to maintain thechanges; a return to your former eatinghabits will return you to your formerproblems.(70)

Heart Disease

In the case of heart disease, problems arise whenthe flow of blood to any area of the heart is reducedsignificantly, or is cut offcompletely. Apparently, theheart could pump on forever with adequate suppliesof oxygen-rich blood.

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When a person has a heart attack, it is usuallybrought on by a blockage ofa coronary artery createdby the build-up of plaque.

Plaque forms over a long period of time,progressing in a stepwise fashion, startingwith the infiltration of cholesterol into thelining of the artery and proceeding to thedevelopment of the mature lesion. (71)

The five steps in the plaque-forming process are:

1) Cholesterol in the LDL form makes itsway into the arterial lining.

2) The trapped cholesterol becomeschemically altered.

3) Foam cells form. These are scavenger cellsthat eat the altered LDL and bloat up.

4) Fatty streaks form as there are more andmore foam cells.

5) These faff streaks collect to form plaque.

Insulin, by its action on the cholesterolsynthesis pathway located within the cells,helps to create and sustain excessamounts of LDL in blood... and alsoincreases the proliferation of smoothmuscle cell-s in the artery and theirmigration into the area of plaqueformation. (72)

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In a study done in the 1960's by Dr. AnatolioCruz, insulin was injected into the large arteries in thelegs of dogs. One leg was injected with insulin. Theother leg was injected with saline. After eight months,the arteries injected with insulin had a pronouncedaccumulation of cholesterol and were alreadythickening.

Don't Forget the Eicosanoids

I have mainly used the Drs. Eades'book toillustrate the importance of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. But, Dr. Atkins New DietaryRevolution and Dr. Barry Sears' The Zone are bothcurrently on the New York Times Best Sellers List andboth expound the same dietary principles.

It is Dr. Sears who brought eicosanoids into thepublic arena. He even describes optimal health as thedynamic balance between the various eicosanoids.

You can view eicosanoids as the biologicalglue that holds together the human body.In that regard they are the most powerfulagents known to man, yet they are totallycontrolled by diet.

Barry Sears, Ph.D., author of The Zone

Again, our body works as a balance of opposingforces. There are almost 100 powerful eicosanoids inthe body. They control whether your blood vesselscontract or dilate, whether you have a headache or not,inflammation in a joint or not, whether you suffer fromallergies or do not, sleep well or poorly, whether you

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form tumors or not, and on and on. In fact, mostcardiac drugs are eicosanoids inhibitors.

So, there are "goodt' and ('bsdtt eicosanoids,and they are all produced from the dietary fat Linoleicacid, which is present in practically all foods. Essentialfatty acids are the building blocks of eicosanoids, butLinoleic acid is the only true essential fat from whichall other fats can be made.

The Drs. Eades point out that foods have aninfluence on the eicosanoid factorv at 2 differentpoints:

L) Where Linoleic acid enters the system.Since Linoleic acid is found in nearly allfoods, a person should have plentyavailable.

2) Where the critical gatekeeper enzymedelta 6 desaturase shifts the production togood or bad eicosanoids. Dietary proteinis the only factor that speeds up thisgatekeeper. The factors that slow it down are:A) AgingB) StressC) DiseaseD) Trans-fatty acids, such as margarine

and the partially-hydrogenated oilsfound in thousands of commercialfoods "cause health damage becausethey inhibit the formation of goodeicosanoids." (73)

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E) High-Carbohydrate, Low- ProteinDiets stimulate excess insulin, whichsends the production of badeicosanoids soaring.

Obviously, there is not too much we can doabout aging. Our fast-paced American way of lifemakes stress a common factor in almost everyone,s lifeand no matter how hard we try we can still get theoccasional cold or flu.

Since aging, stress, and disease are pretty muchbeyond our control, we are left with the remainingthree factors, all dietary. By excercising control andnot consuming trans-fatty acids, adding good oils toour diets, and switching to a high protein, lowcarbohydrate diet, we can do a lot to produce goodeicosanoids and experience good health.

A Doctor's View

From the previous explanations of all of thehavoc that excess insulin causes in our bodies, it is nowonder that more and more medical doctors arequestioning the very principles on which our healthsystem is based.

Dr. Atkins, in his Health Revelations (Vol. IVNo. 5, May 1996), talks about the rigid orthodoxy ofCecil's Textbook of Medicine, which is the book thatgets doctors through medical school. Atkins says that:

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"Cecil's teems with. . .misinformation. . .the book'scommon denominator is preservation of an outdatedstafus quo, which can be summed up this way: 'Make

sure non-pharmacological treatments fail, thenprescribe drugs.' That rigid teaching is a miseducationand an unconscionable disservice to patients. A doctorwho passed the boards because he or she kneweverything in Cecil's Textbook of Medicine wouldhave no value at the Atkins Center. Treatment bytextbook has no place in your health, either." (74)

The growing frustration with standard medicalviews is also illustrated in the following:

Robert D. Willix, Jr., M.D., was a hard-charging medical doctor who haddeveloped the only open-heart surgeryprogram in the state of South Dakota. Heperformed about 2,000 coronary bypassoperations and finally realized he was nothelping people. He has not picked up ascalpel since 1981, but, he says, 'I 've

saved more patients than I did as asurgeon.' Simply, he explains, 'I used tolook at things the same way as the medicalestablishment. Basically, their view is thatthe body is a sort of machine you fix whenit breaks down. I shucked off thisdangerous, mistaken point of view andlearned how human beings really work.Over the past 40 years, evidence has beenpiling up that the way the body works istotally different from what the medicalprofession thinks.' Nevertheless, the

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medical way of thinking still prevails. (75)

Even though these standard medical viewsprevail, it is the Drs. Atkins, Eades, Sears, Willix, andothers who are getting their messages out there, andthey need to be heard.

Digestion vs. Indigestion

Well, by now we are all set to start eating moreprotein. But, we stop and think: one of the reasonsmany of us stopped eating meat was that it gave usheartburn. Also, sometimes after eating meat, we feltsluggish and the food just sat in our stomachs.

Indigestion plagues almost everyone. Thgamet isthe #1 selling drug in the world, and vendingmachines will soon start carrying Pepsid AC and Tums."Epigastral reflux" is becoming a household word. So,indigestion is common. But, what exactly is digestion?

In order to digest food, stay immune fromparasites, and avoid getting candida, you must haveplenty of hydrochloric acid (HCL) in your stomach.This "arch-villain" in all the antacid commercials isreally a good guy.In fact, your stomach is an acidmachine!

When the stomach digests, it churns the food andmixes it with HCL, juices, pepsin, and enzymes. Ifthere is no HCL, the food begins to rot andferment.As it ferments, it then develops abnormal acids thatare stinging and burning. Your stomach starts churningharder and harder, trying to digest the food in it, andsometimes some of these deviant acids, along with

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what little HCL remains, gets backed up into theesophagus.

What you really need is more HCL, and to takean antacid at this point makes sure that you have amass of undigested food in your stomach. What doesn'tget digested by your stomach then puts a burden onyour liver and pancreas to get the job done, and theycan't. Your body then begins to get toxic and full ofpoisons from this undigested matter.

Once again, Mother Nature designed the humanbody with a digestive assembly line to split open foodmolecules, break them down into vitamins, minerals,trace elements, fatty acids, amino acids, and enzymes.Then your body eliminates what is not used throughthe bowel.

With an undigested food mass decaying andtravelling through the thirty feet of the gastro-intestinaltract, all kinds of undesirable bacteria and viruses startscavenging this waste. Parasites, which could havebeen inadvertently swallowed and should have beendestroyed by the HCL, are now finding a toxicenvironment to start livingin. Candida Albicans, afungus your body has in place to kill undesirablebacteria (remember the bacteria-fungus relationship inplants), starts to multiply in order to handle the everlarger volume of bacteria.

If this sounds disgusting, it is! The body isstarting to break down through this continuouspoisoning.

If you have a concentration of bacterialiving in some organ of the body, you havea staph infection or strep in the throat, for

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instance, they are there because ofunhealthy, devitalized tissue andunprocessed metabolic waste...disease isnot the presence of something evil, butrather the lack of the presence ofsomething essential. (7 6)

So, eating correctly is important, and digesting itis just as important! Standard Process makes anexcellent HCL supplement, Zypan, which also includespancreatin and pepsin to help the stomach get the jobdone.

What is Health?

Sadly, we do not even know how to identifugood health anymore.

The World Health Aganintion defines healthas'a state of complete physical, mental,and social well-being and not merely theabsence of disease or infirmity.'(77)

Everyday one sees people with pasty, sallowcomplexions, either yellow, grey, or sometimes evenwhite. That they have poor blood quality is not eventhought of. There is hardly a grocery store, fast foodchain, or office you can go into without seeingsomeone with their wrists immobilized in a brace forcarpal-tunnel syndrome. We blame repetitive work forthis; never does it occur to us that human ligaments areweakened by insufficient protein, C complex, andtrace minerals.

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Babies are born with all kinds of abnormalities,and we just figure that, statistically, this is the way it is.Many people are obese, yet we never look at all of thecarbohydrate they consume. Nibbling on a low-fatcookie is even encouraged! Varicose veins, easybruising, gums that bleed easily, stretch-marks,popping or cracking of the joints, and slipped discs arejust accepted as nor-mal wear and tear on the body. Noone would ever think that these are signs of sabclinicalscurvJ,, a C complex deficiency! Impaired woundhealing, hair loss, dry skin, and eczema are accepted asa part of our genetic makeup. However, these are allsigns of a Wtamin F, or fatty-acid' deficiency(Remember, trans-fatty acids can cause Vitamin Fdeficiencies).

We rationalize all this and more and keep onmoving-but tiredly. Fatigue has gotten so commonthat we even have a syndrome devoted to it (Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome).

Look in the Mirror

One of the most common nutritional deficienciesin America today is B Complex DeficiencySyndrome. Some of the symptoms of BCD are:

Indigestion AnxietYWeakness and Fatigue DePressionDizzinessForgetfullnessUneasinessRage

Mental ConfusionImpaired IntellectHostilityCraving for Sweets

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The tendency to cry for no reason is one of themost common complaints. The second and mostclassical symptom of BCD is a constant feeling thatsomething dreadful is about to happen.

Adelle Davis, in her book, Let's Eat Right ToKeep Fit, points out that, when the B vitamins areundersupplied, many changes take place in the tongue.

As the deficiencies of these vitaminsbecome more severe, clumps of taste budsfuse and grow together, pulling apart fromother clumps and thus forming grooves orfissures. The first groove usually formsdown the center of the tongue. In a severeB-vitamin deficiency, the tongue may beso cut by grooves and fissures that it lookslike a relief map of the Grand Canyon andthe surrounding territory or a flank steakrun through a tenderizing machine. (78)

People who are in a "brain fog" are oftendeficient in B vitamins. Also, dim vision in the elderly,and swollen, red eyelids is another B vitamindeficiency (Bz specifically).

With some of these vitamin deficiencies asguidelines, you can see where many Americans arestaming for different nutrients. Stop taking all of thesedeficiency signs for granted and get to your healthprofessional and start getting these deficienciescorrected.

Learn more about how to identify nutritionaldeficiencies in my next book, The Biqqest Cover-upof the 20th Centurv. _g3 _

Summing Up

This booklet has been presented in an effort toeducate you about natural food and soil, whole foodsupplements vs. synthetic, and the importance ofprotein and natural fats in the diet. It is an attempt togo back to the basics of human health, because it is inthe basic diet of our forefathers that we are truelyprotected from all this craziness.

So much of our modern living tends todesensitize people and hold them in a lethargic state.

...hollow food grown on empty soilkeeps...bodies and minds dull,unproductive in manufacturing thechemical compounds of the brain andendocrine system. To once quote SurgeonGeneral Parran, 'Many well-to-doAmericans who can eqt what they like areso badly fed as to be physically inferiorand mentally dull.'

Enfeebled as such, in this disconnectedlife, people actually don't want to knowwhat is happening in reality, so they safelyread about unreality in supermarkettabloids and popular magazines, which, nomatter how outrageous the stories, requireno response or action on their parts. Theygulp their sugared pop and nibble theirhydrogenated chips, oblivious to thegarbage and radiation that infiltrates theirwater, their air, their soil. Pathetically,

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their biggest fear is 'losing it all'. Afraidof dying, the fear of truly living is greater.

The feeling seems to be, "There is only somuch of the 'good life', not everyone canhave it, and I am lucky to have my share. Idon't know Mother Earth, but I'll rest mysoul in the bosom of Mother GeneralMills, or Mother Fxxon, or MotherSquibb, or Mother Del Monte, or MotherDu Pont, or Mother Safeway." Of course,loyalty to these 'mothers'is as deep as apaycheck or discount coupon. (79)

And then we wonder about the crime rate,problems with our children in school, and socialproblems of all kinds. It is an unhealthy world we livein. All we can do is start with ourselves. We need to getourselves and our families healthy first, then ourfriends, and then work gradually out to our communityand so on.

So, instead of running from one new "healthdiscovery" to another and ignoring the way ourforefathers ate, embrace it. Remember, over 100 yearsago people ate fresh whole foods including plenty ofmeat, butter, and lard. Go back to the basics. It hasbeen proven to work.

Action Steps to Function Optimally

At this point, it is obvious that you need certainbasics. According to the Drs. Eades, they are asfollows:

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1) Plenty of protein, ranging from 60-90grams/day for women and 80-110grams/day for men. Be sure that, as muchas you can, you eat antibiotic andhormone-free meat and eggs from chickensthat are cage-free. Also, raw milk and rawmilk products have the most live enzymesand vitamins. (Pasteurizing becamenecessary because of the sanitationproblems in dairies years ago. Today, theseraw milk dairies are inspected frequentlyand have to meet a much higher standardthan the dairies where milk is pasteurized.)

2) Plenty of fresh vegetables and frtits, notjuiced, but eaten in their whole form.Vegetables and fruits need to be looked atfor their carbohydrate content, whichshould be no more than 60 grams a day. (30grams a day are recommended to loseweight, so you will need to purchase acarbohydrate and protein gram counter)Make sure that produce purchased is"certified organic". Again, in California,this means that farmers cannot usechemical fertilizers or pesticides for theprevious 3 years. The soil is built upthrough organic means. After 3 years, theproduce grown on this land is tested forpesticide residue. If there is none, then thelabel "certified organic" can be put on theproduce, and in most cases this produce has250oh more nutrients than commercially

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grown produce. If "certified organic" isnot available, eat fresh produce anyway.

3) Water, 6-8 glasses a day. (Avoid tap water,drink purified water instead.)

4) Exercise. You can't be optimally healthyjust sitting or lying down all day long.

5) 1-3 tablespoons of raw olive oil everyday- and use butter too.

6) Adequate amounts of all importantvitamins and minerals taken daily, andwhatever digestive enzymes you need.Remember, supplements are the means ofcatching up for lost time nutritionally. Atllof these should be determined bv ahealth professional.

How Does A Health Professional KnowWhat You Need?

There are several methods used to determine thecause of your health problems. These techniques haveall had successful results, and a health professionalmay use more than one. I have gone into detail only onthose methods that most people are not familiar with:

1) Blood, Saliva, Urine, and Hair Samples

2) Symptom Survey Forms-These havebeen carefully worked out over a lO-yearclinical trial period by many doctors. Byusing a grouping of symptoms, they can

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help determine glandular imbalances, bloodsugar handling, gall bladder function, etc...

3) Reflex Analysis-There are many reflexsystems that have been developed over thelast 70 years. Drs. DeJarnette, Rees,Barnett, Goodheart, and Versendaal havedone extensive research on their reflexsystems. Many trials matching blood andurine labwork have proved the accuracy ofreflex analysis in determining the cause ofany condition.

4) Acoustic-Cardiograph Machine - Basedon the original phono-cardiograph inventedby Dr. Lee, this machine has a microphonethat "listens" to the heart beat and recordsthe heart function graphically. An EKGmachine measures an electrical current as itflows through the heart, and will only tell ifdamage or trauma has been done to theheart muscle. An Acoustic-Cardiograph cantell you if and where the heart is starting tomalfunction. Any distortions in the beatingpattern are picked tp, recorded, andinterpreted. It is important to note here thatthe heart reflects the sum total of nutritionin the body. The body will beg, borrow,and steal from its reserves to keep the hearthealthy. If the heart is not functioningoptimally, then what is getting put into thebody is not doing the job. (Remember thesections on insulin and the damage it does.)

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5) Clinical Experience- This is the overallpicture of wellness the health professionalgets by carefully observing his/her patient'sskin tone, tongue, etc...

In summing up, I hope that the information inthis booklet will set you firmly on the path to wellness.For further guidance, contact your health professional.

Ode to a Shelf-Life

Ah, but to last longer on the shelfIt certainly has made an industry of wealth

To enrich, store, and transport has been the goalMy body doesn't know the difference, I am told

If I could but last as long as theeOh odorless oils, canned foods, cereal, and

candY -Anonvmous

If you like Goinq Back to the Basics qf HumanHealth. be sure to read my next book, The BigeestCover-up o.f the 20th Centurv. You'll be amazed.

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Footnotes

l. Jensen, Dr. Bernard and Mark Anderson, EmptyHarvest, p. 14.Ib id, p.5.Ib id, p.73.Liebig, Baron Justus von, The Natural Laws of Husbandry.Jensen, Dr. Bernard and MarkAnderson, Empty Harvest, p'75.Howard, Sir Albert, An Agricultural Testament, OxfotdUniversity Press.Jensen, Dr. Bemard and MarkAnderson, Empty Harvest, p'32.

8. Ibid, pp. 57-58.9. United States Deparment of Agriculture.

10. Jensen, Dr. Bernard and MarkAnderson, E*pty Harvest,pp.46-47.

l l . Ib id, p.8.12. Ibid, p. 55.13. Ib id, p.7.14. Ibid, p.27.15. Ibid.16. Ibid, p.97.17. Ib id, p.37.18. Wiley, Dr. Harvey W., M.D., The History of a Crime

Against the Pure Food Law.19. Washington Post, October 26,1949.20. Jensen, Dr. Bemard and MarkAnderson, Empty Harvest, p-36.21. bid, p. 38.22. Ibid.23. Ibid.24. Ibid, p. 39.25. Ibid, p. 40.26. Ibid, pp. 126-127.27. West, B., M.D., "Oils and Disease", Health Alert, Vol. I l,

Issue 3, (March 1994), p. 4; Dorman, Thomas A., M.D',Searchfor Health, (November 1994), p. 100.

28. DeCava, Judith A., M.S., LNC, The Real Truth AboutWtamins and Antioxidants, P' 134.

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Suggested Reading:

1. Empty Harvest, Dr. Bemard Jensen andMark Anderson

2. The Real Truth About Vitamins and Antioxidants,Judith A. DeCava, M.S., LNC

3. Protein Power, Michael R. Eades M.D. AndMary Dan Eades, M.D.

4. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,Weston A. Price, D.D.S.

5. Dr. Atkins'New Diet Revolution,Robert C. Atkins. M.D.

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ied in obscurity - which have made us rethink our knowledge and ideasof what good nutrition is.

Ms. Frost specializes in gathering nutritional information and puttingthe pieces together so the reader can comprehend the subject of nutritionand health in its entirety. Her particular focus is on foundational issues ofhealth and nutrition and the negative impacts of today's lifestyle and diet.According to Ms. Frost, "I try to take the approach that a lot of peopletoday are reading about nutrition and doctoring themselves. They are read-ing many books and trying to understand, but they find themselves moreconfused. ln Going Back to the Basics of Human Health,I've tried to putit in easy-to-read language, summarizingit so people can quickly picturewhat truly makes them unhealthy. I want them to know how they gotwhere they are."

Cunently, Ms. Frost is working on another nutrition-oriented book that isyet to be titled. In it, she will investigate some of the greatest works ever doneby the pioneers of nutrition such as Dr. Price's book titled Nutrition andPhysical Degeneration, as well as Dr. Pottenger's book, Pottenger's Cats.In addition, Ms. Frost will summarize the body of work by Dr. Royal Ire, oneof the 20th Century's true geniuses in clinical nutrition. Dr. Lee's depth ofunderstanding of whole foods and the relationships of the vitamins and cofac-tors makes one wonder why we keep trying to reinvent the wheel.

An ongoing theme of Ms. Frost's new book will be how humankind re-gressed from looking at food as the basis of nutrition, to using synthesizedchemicals and crystals and calling them nutrition. For instance, 90Vo of theVitamin B sold in the United States is made from coal tar rather than food.

Ms. Frost herself encapsulated her next offeringby stating, "I'm hopingtoconvey the biggest ongoing cover-up of the 20'h and 21" Centuries. A lot ofpeople are making quadrillions of dollars selling fake food and they don't wantto be challenged. Health food stores are selling synthetic vitamins, puffed ricecrackers that kill laboratory rats, and they don't even know it."