Ron Garner
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 CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL CARE
If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow;.... the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research
HEALTHCARE OR DISEASE CARE?
Conventional medical care treats symptoms of disease. True healthcare works to correct the causes of disease. And, although the present allopathic system is often referred to as "traditional medicine," it is not. True traditional medicine is healthcare that uses natural methods, foods, and herbs, and has been practiced since the beginning of civilization. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In addition to being grateful for making progress toward losing my unwanted belly fat, I am thankful for (list three things):_
Your Belly Flat Food Diary
Most nutritionists and dietitians agree that keeping a food diary is critical to weight loss success. Keeping a thirty-day Food Diary will help you make hormone-healthy eating an easy habit to keep. It will also help you better identify when, where, how and with whom all your good intentions go by the wayside to the detriment of your waist size.
Here are a three helpful hints:
• Write everything down.
Keep your diary with you all day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Note that these astonishing effects were achieved on what many nutritionists consider to be a low dose of vitamin D. Exposure to sunlight, which creates even more vitamin D in the body, was not tested or considered, and the quality of the calcium supplements was likely not as high as it could have been (it was probably calcium carbonate and not high-grade calcium malate, aspartate or similar forms). What does all this mean? |
Michael Pollan
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 Different nutritionists have given the credit for the benefits of whole grain to different nutrients: the fiber in the bran, the folic acid and other B vitamins in the germ, or the antioxidants or the various minerals. In 2003 the .American Journal of Clinical Nutrition* published an unusually nonreductionist study demonstrating that no one of those nutrients alone can explain the benefits of whole-grain foods: The typical reductive analysis of isolated nutrients could not explain the improved health of the whole-grain eaters.
For the study, University of Minnesota epidemiologists David R. |
| Thirty years later, we have good reason to believe that putting the nutritionists in charge of the menu and the kitchen has not only ruined an untold number
"whole-grain goodness" to the rafters. Watch out for those health claims. of meals, but also has done little for our health, except very possibly to make it worse.
These are strong words, I know. Here are a couple more: What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Ever since 1943," he wrote, "I have tried to call my work on niacinamide to the attention of leading hematologists, nutritionists and gerontologists through conversations with them, by sending them copies of my monograph and paper on this subject and by two talks on the usefulness of niacinamide and other vitamins, which I gave at International Gerontological Congresses in 1951 and 1954. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Besides, she argued, nutritionists "have long cautioned that children should not drink more than 4 to 12 ounces of juice a day, depending on their age, because it has a lot of sugar and calories without the fiber found in whole fruit and, with the exception of orange and grapefruit juice, not much else."
Indeed, "the bottom line is that the Snapple drinks are basically sugar water. That doesn't make them good for you. That makes them marginally better than soda," adds Dr. Jonny Bowden, author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. |
| Now, let's take a look at some not-so-sweet developments and trends that researchers, nutritionists, and junk food critics believe have contributed to our country's obesity epidemic and concurrent health crisis.
Ballooning Portion Sizes Have Become the Norm
In the past two to four decades, corporations have been jacking up portion sizes of everything from cookies to French fries to popcorn to soda. While customers might think they're getting greater value, obesity experts find the phenomenon alarming. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 Many people studying nutrition become confused because there are so many opposing opinions. Some nutritionists advise a high-protein diet. Some nutritionists promote a low-carbohydrate diet. There are nutritionists who endorse a raw fruit, vegetarian or lacto-vegetarian diet. Each authority says that his is the best diet. I respect every scientist's views in the field of nutrition. He or she has come to these conclusions by study, research and observation. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| In addition, physicians and nutritionists are learning and passing on more valuable information.
What follows is a significant selection, though not a complete one (due to space constraints), of medical studies and articles that were helpful when writing this book. Please note that I've included URLs whenever possible, but given the realities of the Internet, where websites get updated often, and the fact that this book was five years in the making, some links cited may no longer be active. |
Michael Pollan
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| What it fails to see is a people with a completely different relationship to food than we have. nutritionists pay far more attention to the chemistry of food than to the sociology or ecology of eating. All their studies of the benefits of red wine or foie gras overlook the fact that the French eat very differently than we do.They seldom snack, and they eat most of their food at meals shared with other people. They eat small portions and don't come back for seconds. And they spend considerably more time eating than we do. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| We're appalled, as are nutritionists, by this typical American diet.
A number of other recent studies also point to the alarming escalation in our consumption of soft drinks and other processed, sugary foods around the globe.
One study, published in Obesity Research, aptly titled "The Sweetening of the World's Diet," showed that "80 percent of this sweet increase comes from soft drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages," according to the study's coauthor Barry M. Popkin, Ph.D., nutrition professor and economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Michael Pollan
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| Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, a seemingly unavoidable approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. "The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science," points out Marion Nestle, a New York University nutritionist, "is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle."
If nutrition scientists know this, why do they do it anyway? Because a nutrient bias is built into the way science is done. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One thing is certain: They sure didn't invite any nutritionists to the task force. All it would have taken was one person standing up and saying, "Um, excuse me. Has anybody thought this might be related to vitamin D?" No such person, it seems, was invited to the task force. In fact, it was less of a "task force" and more of a self-serving oncology orgy fest that was clearly designed to sell one thing to black woman: Mammography.
Myth vs. Fact About Breast Cancer
Let's get to some facts about breast cancer. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This false assumption is the main reason I believe physicians, registered dietitians, nutritionists, and the health-care community in general show such resistance to nutritional supplementation.
As you search the medical literature about oxidative stress and the amount of nutrients needed to prevent it, the level of nutritional supplementation is signif-icantiy greater than RDA levels. A good example of this is vitamin E. The recommended daily allowance of vitamin E is 10IU, and in some schedules as high as 30 IU. The average American diet contains 8-10 IU. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The study followed 8,171 women who were instructed to take relatively small amounts of these vitamins for more than nine years (600 IU of vitamin E, 500mg of vitamin C and 50mg of beta carotene were taken every other day -- a very small dose according to most modern nutritionists).
Despite these encouraging findings about the positive impact of antioxidants on health, nearly all the headlines in the mainstream media today are proclaiming vitamins E and C to be useless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Except for a few radical nutritionists like myself and other independent writers, practially nobody is warning the U.S. public over the dangers of sodium nitrite, MSG, aspartame and fluoride. It took years just to get consensus on the fact that trans fatty acids are dangerous to health, and even then, the FDA still refuses to ban them from the food supply, kow-towing to the interests of giant food corporations who insist they need hydrogenated oils to ensure longer shelf life for their food products (which guantees more profits). |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Specialist herb gardeners or nurseries and herbal nutritionists will give you more specific information. And of course you don't have to make your own remedies: health food shops carry prepared herbal medicines and formulas, as will any practising herbalist. You should also consult a herbalist for further recommendations if the common herbal remedies for asthma do not improve your condition. |
| It is well recognised by naturopaths, nutritionists and dietitians that when the body eliminates excessive toxins, the liver and other organs function more efficiently. Indirectly this improves the body's metabolism and so builds up the immune system. This is a basic principle of good health. Just remember the maxim 'We are tomorrow what we eat today'. If you eat a diet that is high in grains, fruit and vegetables?and consequently high in roughage—better health will be the result and indirectly the likelihood of asthma will be reduced. |
| However, it is a widely held belief by naturopaths, nutritionists and dietitians that a high proportion of people today are in fact suffering from deficiencies of one kind or another and that this is possibly the greatest threat we face to our health and longevity.
Many people still believe that eating a well-balanced diet will provide all the vitamins, minerals and enzymes necessary for good health. In ideal circumstances this is the case, but in reality a well-balanced diet is usually found in books and rarely on the table. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Don't believe those nutritionists who claim a calorie is a calorie. When it comes to protein, it's simply not true.
THE SECRET OF QUICK WEIGHT LOSS
Yet another benefit of eating protein during the Teardown phase is that proteins can be broken down into sugar, through a process called gluconeogenesis. Here's how it works: the primary fuel your brain uses is glucose, or sugar-no surprise, there-which it prefers to all others. Your brain will switch over to burning fat, as anyone who has followed a true high-fat/low-carb diet knows, but it's not happy about it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Both are pet owners and practicing holistic nutritionists who believe that good nutrition is the key to preventing disease and enhancing health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Most educated nutritionists agree that the daily dose of vitamin D for an adult should be at least 1000 IUs, perhaps as high as 1400. But the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IoM), which controls the recommendations on these things, currently states that adults under 50 only need 200 IUs of vitamin D a day. This policy is, in my opinion, an organized conspiracy to keep the American people diseased by making sure they stay deficient in anti-cancer nutrients. It serves the interests of all the powerful corporations and non-profits that run Washington. And yes, it is a conspiracy. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Nowadays, a number of nutritionists and experts recommend that their carb-cutting clients watch out for white bread, white rice, and other sweets or starchy foods because "they rank high on the glycemic index." What this means is that they trigger a dramatic rise in blood sugar levels.
Essentially, the premise of the glycemic index is to encourage people to be cautious or shy away from foods with a GI of 70 or higher because they provide the biggest blood sugar blast. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Many nutritionists and dieticians may then give the advice to eat even more fiber because only fiber can absorb such toxic substances as ammonia, which is very caustic, and protect the intestinal walls against injury. But it is highly unlikely that a fermenting and putrefying mass of undigested fiber, which produces ammonia, reabsorbs it in the same "breath." Nutritional science assumes that the nutritional ingredients of food alone determine whether they have physiological value for us or not. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Enlisting nutritionists to boost the healthful qualities of his products, which he turned out in hygienically spotless conditions, Hershey and his chocolate bars and cocoa soon commanded the American market. Everything was mechanized, with machines and conveyor belts organized into a true assembly-line operation. Hershey's best-selling bar contained almonds imported from southern Europe, dropped by machines into the waiting molds. And by the late 1920s, some 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) of Hershey's Cocoa was being produced each day by the factory. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Colin Campbell of Cornell, one of the world's most respected nutritionists and coauthor of The China Study, said most clearly and forcibly what other faculty members were feeling:
"If we are reasonably sure of what our data from these studies are telling us, then why must we be reticent about recommending a diet which we know is safe and healthy? Scientists can no longer take the attitude that the public cannot benefit from information they are not ready for. We must have the integrity to tell them the truth and let them decide what to do with it. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The Deadliest Fats Ever Made
Mary Enig, PhD, fellow, American College of Nutrition, and president, Maryland nutritionists Association. She is author of Know Your Fats (Bethesda Press) and Eat Fat, Lose Fat (Penguin).
The US government recently mandated that trans fatty acids be listed on the nutrition facts label of every food. However, that's not enough to ensure that you're not getting these in your diet.
To learn about trans fatty acids—and how to avoid them—we spoke to Mary Enig, a biochemist and one of the first experts to warn people about the dangers of trans fatty acids. |
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