James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Size Matters
Population studies also reveal a significant statistic—that if you started life as a full-term infant whose weight was low at birth due to poor nutrition, you're more likely to grow up
?to become obese;
?to have type 2 diabetes; and/or
?to have high blood pressure
Epidemiological studies in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and India also show that low-birth-weight babies who have fast catchup growth in early childhood are more likely than their peers to develop obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or heart disease. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Because African-Americans are disproportionately represented in lower socioeconomic classes, they are more susceptible to suffering from the effects of poor nutrition, being exposed to neurotoxins such as mercury, lead, and arsenic in drinking water, acquiring less cumulative education relative to those in higher financial classes, holding less cognitively stimulating jobs, having less free time to exercise—all factors that have a bearing on brain health through the course of one's life. Genetic predisposition is only a small part of the story of a person's health. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 It has to do with the poor nutrition of the parents, which affects the developing brain of the fetus. Then the child is raised on a very poor diet, so the brain, which may be genetically weakened, becomes even more significantly weakened. Their neurotransmitters have lower amounts, their endorphins are not working quite right and so their brain is actually altered to the point where they need to do something to feel okay. That takes us to the epidemic of addictions which are also mental health diseases. |
| When there is a real learning problem, the "number one cause is poor nutrition," says nutritionist Howard Pleper, author of The ADD Diet Book. Again, the problem is lifestyle. Because "we believe in instant gratification, it's easy to go out and get foods with chemicals and additives, especially preservatives, so that if we decide not to eat it today, we can eat it three years from now. Also, the soil in which our food is grown is depleted of the essential nutrients, even the soil in which 'organic' fruits and vegetables are grown. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 And it is this functional reserve that must be protected and that can be impaired by poor digestion, poor nutrition, a weakness in bile excretion, a genetic abnormality, or excessive exposure to toxins. It's critical that we care for and protect this indispensable organ as best we can. Yes, it's the most resilient organ in the body ... but it is built this way because of how critical it is to maintain our life.
In the RENEW program, you will take an active role in supporting and optimizing a healthy liver detoxification system. |
| A limited number of health risk behaviors, such as cigarette smoking, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and underuse of prevention practices, are linked to chronic diseases. But as thp evidence mounts on the contribution of toxins to the progression and sustainability of chronic disease, there is a call to action. I continue to be amazed by how effective a detoxification program can be for a person—even someone who didn't think he or she was "toxic" and who doesn't have any specific health concern. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Overeating, poor nutrition, lack of sleep, not drinking enough fresh water, use of pharmaceutical drugs and stimulants, etc., all deplete the body's energy reserves and render it susceptible to a toxicity crisis that may involve bacterial, viral or fungal infections. On the other hand, cleansing the body from accumulated waste material and establishing a healthy diet and lifestyle, set the preconditions for the body to heal itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 However, treating outer blemishes with expensive, chemical-laden beauty products does little to address the root cause of the problem: poor nutrition and exposure to toxins in dietary and personal care products.
"Your skin is the fingerprint of what is going on inside your body, and all skin conditions, from psoriasis to acne to aging, are the manifestations of your body's internal needs, including its nutritional needs," says Dr. Georgiana Donadio, founder of the National Institute of Whole Health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Toxic metals, very poor nutrition, and stress are making everything go downhill.
Mike: Isn't it impressive how many people are actually still alive and kicking given this? They get up in the morning. They shampoo with toxic fragrance chemicals. They drink the coffee, which depletes adrenals, and they smoke a cigarette. They suck car exhaust commuting to work. This burden is daily, and they do not take nutrition. How are they even alive?
Dr. Liers: I do think the body has some wisdom in terms of compartmentalization. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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Andreas Moritz
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| In so many cases, it is sugar, insulin resistance, and poor nutrition that are causing the mental irritation, poor concentration and nervousness. Giving the child more loving attention is often enough to make him feel safe and secure and to help restore his emotional and physical balance.
Steroids, Arthritis Drugs, and NSAID's
A medical investigation in the United States has shown that three times more people die from legal prescription drugs than from illegal narcotic drugs, such as heroin and cocaine. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 How do we know these are adaptive responses, as opposed to birth defects resulting from the mother's poor nutrition? Because the health problems—thickened arteries and increased weight— only occurred when the baby sheep were provided with normal diets. Baby sheep whose mothers were undernourished while pregnant showed no sign of arterial thickening when they were also undernourished as toddlers.
Most of the epigenetic effects currently under study involve mothers, not fathers. |
Michael Pollan
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 He was also something of a monomaniac on the subject of diet, certain that poor nutrition could explain not just tooth decay and heart disease but just about everything else that bedeviled humankind, including juvenile delinquency, the collapse of civilizations, and war.
Still, the data he painstakingly gathered from his control groups, and the lines of connection he was able to trace, not only between diet and health but also between the way a people produces food and that food's nutritional quality, remain valuable today. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The effects of poor nutrition during pregnancy can be seen in the increase of birth defects during times of famine.2 But a standard Western diet (high in fats, salt, and sugar and low in complex carbohydrates) also lacks essential vitamins and minerals needed during pregnancy and breast-feeding, which can compromise your baby's health.3 The appropriate diet is well balanced and varied and includes fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, beans, and fish, with a limit on refined sugars, processed foods, and saturated fats. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| According to the thrifty phenotype hypothesis, fetuses that experience poor nutrition develop "thrifty" metabolisms that are much more efficient at hoarding energy. When a baby with a thrifty phenotype was born 10,000 years ago during a time of relative famine, its conservationist metabolism helped it survive. When a baby with a thrifty metabolism is born in the twenty-first century surrounded by abundant food (that is also often nutritionally poor but calorie rich), it gets fat. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Stress can also result from poor nutrition, too little sleep, too little exercise, and even by imagined experiences, such as frightening dreams or movies. There is almost no end to the things that stress us out.
I do a lot of work with veterans. About two years ago, a fifty-five-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War came to my office seeking help with his symptoms associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a problem that affects a large number of war veterans involving the subconscious and conscious repetition of trauma and a heightened vulnerability to stress of any kind. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Is it possible that the methyl markers triggered by poor nutrition during the famine were passed on to the next generation? That's not known yet, but the effects of methyla-tion, it seems, are real.
Many leading epigenetic scholars think epigenetic changes represent evolution's subtle effort to tweak an existing genome, although that's still quite contentious. The scientists at Duke who published the mouse study wrote:
Our findings show that early nutrition can influence the establishment of epigenetic marks ... [that] affect all tissues, including, presumably, the germ line. |
Marshall Editions
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 Risk factors such as poor nutrition should be identified and corrected wherever possible.
Exercise: Engage in physical activity on a daily basis. Performing weight bearing exercises, which work your bones and muscles, is especially important.
Vitamins and supplements: Increase your intake of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) to about 400-1,000 IU daily. Also take 45 mg of vitamin K2 and 1,800 mg of calcium hydroxyapetite a day. In postmenopausal women, minimal amounts of natural estrogen and natural progesterone may be helpful. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Astaxanthin as internal sunscreen
Astaxanthin also functions as an internal sunscreen. poor nutrition, not the sun, causes sunburns, by the way. In order to get sunburned, you have to be exposed to excessive ultraviolet radiation and suffer from extremely poor nutrition. But with Astaxanthin, you can have an internal sunscreen that prevents your skin from burning even when exposed to excessive ultraviolet radiation.
This is important, as sunlight is beneficial to human health. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 It is not surprising that poor nutrition increases susceptibility to the virus.
Selenium deficiency is a direct cause of the disease. HIV/AIDS produces a selenium deficiency in the body, and these patients die from this serious deficiency. The evidence is very powerful. In Senegal, there is a high level of unprotected sexual activity, yet in 1999, less than one per one thousand of the population of over 9 million had HIV/AIDS. In sharp contrast, in surrounding countries, such as South Africa, deaths from AIDS in 1999 were around 75 per 1000. |
| There is an increased likelihood of getting cancer of the colon due to the combination of poor nutrition and back-pressure.
When too much sugar is present, it will be absorbed into the blood stream too quickly and compromise the ability of the body to deal with these amounts. The body is used to absorbing the sugar slowly as it is released from its foods by digestion. If the sugar cannot all be absorbed, it will find its way down to the colon, where there should not be any, and provide food for organisms that should not be there, such as the yeasts. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 In all three cases, poor nutrition is the culprit. Now let us look at some specific conditions and what you can do to prevent them. If you have a pre-existing condition, you can still do much good by improving your nutrition.
The Remarkable Effect of Practicing Good Nutrition From the Very Beginning
Nutrition and the Gene
Research of the past twenty years has taught us that early nutrition may have a profound effect on development of, or protection from, later diseases, a phenomenon that goes beyond the direct effect on the disease itself. |
Mike Adams
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| If poor nutrition wasn't so widespread, the lucrative disease treatment industry would collapse due to lack of customers.
When you look at cancer for example, it's actually caused by consuming certain cancer-causing foods and ingredients while avoiding foods and ingredients that can prevent and reverse cancer. In this way, if the cancer industries were to actually start promoting nutrition and talking about the foods people could use to avoid cancer, they would experience a great financial loss because fewer people would need expensive cancer treatments and drugs. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Malnutrition Studies
The amount of disease caused by poor nutrition has been studied in institutions, primarily hospitals and nursing homes. These are the last places in the world you would expect nutrition to be neglected. In one study, it was found half the surgical patients suffered protein-calorie malnutrition, and the general medical patients were even worse off. In another study, 20% of the patients studied were deficient in each nutrient examined. |
Mike Adams
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| With all the profit that's at stake here, it's little wonder that you almost never hear the truth about the correlation between nutrition and health: 90% of chronic disease is caused by poor nutrition.
Let's introduce Nutritional Law Number Three:
90% of all chronic disease in humans is caused by nutritional imbalances and deficiencies.
At the fundamental level, nutrition in humans is not that different from nutrition in plants and animals. Just like plants and animals, we all need lots of water. |
| They drink a lot of cow's milk, which actually has very poor nutrition for human beings given that it is designed for baby cows, not humans.
They eat a lot of red meat, which contains heart-damaging saturated animal fats and lacks fiber. They take cheap vitamins that offer synthetic forms of vitamins and minerals rather than natural, organic forms. People also engage in lifestyle habits that deplete the vitamins and minerals they've managed to absorb from their foods. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| This movement, called peristalsis, consists of alternate contraction and dilation, like squeezing a toothpaste
There is an increased likelihood of getting cancer of the colon due to the combination of poor nutrition and back-pressure. container to expel the contents. When the foods remain undigested and when there is too little bulk or fiber, the intestine and colon have great difficulty in performing their main function. This results in a number of pathological changes that have been considered separate diseases but are really various expressions of the one disease, the saccharine disease. |
Mike Adams
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| Finally, it's also clear that it's far more expensive to treat diseases caused by poor nutrition than it is to prevent disease by offering outstanding nutrition in the first place. In other words, disease prevention is very affordable when you focus on feeding your plants and animals the nutrients they need to experience optimal health.
Good health is pre-programmed
One more thing worth mentioning that I brought up in the sunflower example: each of these biological systems automatically knows how to be healthy if given the proper nutrition. |
| If plants had yellow leaves from a lack of water or poor nutrition, pharmaceutical companies might offer expensive retro-viruses that would enter the plants' cells and reprogram their DNA to always produce green pigmentation, no matter what level of water the plant was actually receiving.
These are the kinds of approaches that characterize the way in which the pharmaceutical industry treats human beings. The typical pharmaceutical solution is to cover up the symptoms and ignore the root cause of the problem. Because, after all, drug companies aren't in the business of nutrition. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Severe stress, chronic inflammation and poor nutrition can all deplete alpha-lipoic acid levels.
Another powerful and universal antioxidant is glutathione. This antioxidant is especially important in protecting cells from an extremely wide variety of reactive oxygen species, many of which are resistant to other antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and the carotenoids. Glutathione is present in all cells, including brain cells. Several studies have shown that the lower a person's glutathione levels are, the greater their risk of cancer. |
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