Tom Bohager
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 Recommendations for lowering triglyceride levels include dietary changes to lower fat intake and regular exercise. Enzymes can be used to improve digestion, particularly the digestion of fats; improve the breakdown of fats in the body; and improve cardiovascular health. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 However, hypertension is easily and painlessly diagnosed through a blood pressure test, and most hypertensives can lower and even normalize their blood pressure through dietary changes, exercise, and weight reduction. Powerful medications are available when these measures fail.
Hypertension is dangerous because the damage it does to blood vessel linings can lead to a series of severe pathologies, including atherosclerosis. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Because motivation for dietary changes may be high during pregnancy, it is an opportune time to establish healthier eating habits and influence those of other family members, father included.
D. Visceral Obesity, Inflammation and Insulin Resistance: Major Predictors of Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a syndrome of diseases with different causes. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Another study of 50 women with endometriosis examined the effect of dietary changes, specifically the reduction of glycemic carbohydrates, the addition of omega-3 and omega-9 fatty acids, and the elimination of foods with caffeine and tyramine, and found a significant reduction in symptoms after eight weeks.59
By increasing intake of vegetables, specifically those that enhance liver function, the buildup of toxins and metabolites that produce cell damage is prevented. |
| If you have peripheral vascular disease, coronary artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, diabetes, or metabolic syndrome, discuss testing and management with your practitioner as well as all available options, including exercise, weight management, dietary changes, aspirin, drug treatment, and nutritional supplement interventions.
Triglycerides are an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease in women, but especially when increased triglycerides are present in association with low HDL levels. |
Ron Garner
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 However, these dietary changes should be made gradually to allow the body time to adjust to new foods.
This degree of an acid condition indicates another, seemingly contradictory, problem. Although the body is overburdened with too much acid, the stomach is not producing enough acid to properly convert food in digestion. The reason for this is that the stomach's parietal cells, which produce acid for digestion, are so toxic they cannot work efficiently. Supplementation with betaine hydrochloride plus digestive enzymes may be required as a temporary measure. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Nutrients depleted: If you do decide you want to try Xenical or Alli's program—which, like most weight-loss regimens, involves drastic dietary changes and exercise—you can also expect to be depleted of important fatty acids and fat-soluble nutrients, including vitamins A, D, E, K, and the carotenes.
Needed supplements:
• High-potency multivitamin: Use a multivitamin that contains all of the fat-soluble nutrients and with a meal for better absorption. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Many doctors haven't heard of what I call "bad cholesterol with an attitude," and even if he or she has, your doctor has been taught that neither statin drugs nor dietary changes have any effect on it and therefore they don't bother testing you for it.
If your ancestors hail from northern Europe or the British Isles, there's a good chance you carry the gene. The harsh climate in northern Europe meant that the diet was often deficient in vitamin C, predisposing the population to scurvy. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| While chemo is often a hard road, nutritional and dietary changes can reduce the side effects of this difficult medical treatment.
Action: Many drugs belong in this category. Most work to interfere with the replication of cancer cells, though they also destroy normal cells in the process.
Side effects: These vary, depending on the drug; most commonly they include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, anemia, mouth sores, hair loss, changes in taste and smell, infertility, early menopause, fatigue, pain in hands and feet due to nerve damage, bone loss, excess tear production, and memory loss. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Nutritional Supplements
Although dietary changes alone can have a powerful effect in reducing the incidence of heart disease, they may not be enough for everyone. Lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, inhibiting blood clots, preventing oxidative damage to the vessel walls, and several other mechanisms are all effects that can be achieved with the therapeutic use of nutritional/herbal supplements. This is an exciting and successful area for alternative medicine to make an impact on a large segment of the population. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 The dietary changes that have helped my patients over the past twenty years can help you, too. They can actually make you immune to heart attacks. And there is considerable evidence that they have benefits far beyond coronary artery disease. If you eat to save your heart, you eat to save yourself from other diseases of nutritional extravagance: from strokes, hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis, adult-onset diabetes, and possibly senile mental impairment, as well. |
Jack Challem
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 When did these dietary changes begin? They actually started thousands of years ago, but around 1900 the pace of food processing and refining accelerated, largely because of the industrialization of food processing. At that time, grain millers began to separate the wheat germ (seed) from its surrounding endosperm (consisting mostly of starch). With this change, whole-grain brown bread gave way to refined white flour and white bread. The more nutritious germ was often fed to livestock because they thrived on it, while people preferred the starchy portion. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 She began vitamin D replacement and made dietary changes, and when she filled out our MHAQ questionnaire a year later, her scores were 1.625-20-60-20-5, even though she was taking much less medication. Her pain had dropped by 75 percent; she no longer had headaches; and she was less tired. Ansella felt worlds better.
When chronic pain is all over the body, doctors often label it fibromyalgia. But most of these people are suffering from severe vitamin D deficiency, or osteomalacia. They have migratory pain that waxes and wanes—referred to as their "good days and bad days. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| The one-year Diet and Exercise for Elevated Risk (DEER) trial [54] was not designed as a weight loss trial; however, overweight and obese participants among 197 men recruited to have low HDL cholesterol combined with elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol received individual counseling on weight reduction if assigned to a group-based dietary intervention, with or without exercise, but not if assigned to exercise only or control, both of which were instructed not to make dietary changes. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 I did a history and physical on her and we made some dietary changes, but basically this woman was profoundly hypothyroid. We put her on a quarter of a grain of thyroid, which is what I start my patients with before building them up very gradually. A quarter of a grain is the smallest dose available. It's such a small quantity that most pharmacies don't even carry it, because when doctors order thyroid they don't even think to order so small a dose. But a quarter of a grain of thyroid was enough. |
| We have very conscious parents in our practice and many of these parents have made these dietary changes. The same is true of allergens—from a homeopathic point of view, this is the result of an imbalance in a person, not the cause of the problem. Most of the kids that we see have seen allergists or addressed the allergies and they're still having problems.
"In homeopathy, each person is treated as a unique human being. There are over 2000 homeopathic medicines. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 The doctor spends the next ten minutes talking to her about making dietary changes, eating more fruits and vegetables, as well as foods high in antioxidants, B vitamins, and fish, which is high in omega-3 fatty acids that also seem to have cardio-protective benefits in addition to cognitive ones. He explains the importance of diet in keeping cholesterol and blood pressure low and reducing the risk for diabetes.
"But what's even more important than what you eat is with whom you eat," he says. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| To complete the vitamin D supplementation package, you must make the necessary dietary changes and/or take the right supplements to restore normal magnesium levels.
Magnesium restoration, unlike the vitamin D upgrade, can take many months. The problem is, you can't accurately assess your magnesium status very easily with commonly available blood tests. If you're assessing your magnesium level, you'll get more information from a written analysis of your eating patterns than you will from blood tests. |
| We attributed most of the uric acid improvement to dietary changes because he'd also had dramatic weight loss and decreased his blood pressure, neither of which should have been affected by the medications. At five months he had lost six more pounds, and his blood pressure was stable at 142/92. Mark hadn't experienced any gout attacks since his initial visit. The final plan: he was going to continue his new and improved diet and the vitamin D supplements; and he would see his family physician for further treatment of his elevated blood pressure. |
| New information suggests that vitamin D may also lower your risk of skin cancer. dietary changes are most effective at lowering the risk of bowel cancer.
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The Vitamin D Cure for Your Bones, Joints, and Teeth t first glance, the role of vitamin D in bone development seems obvious. Vitamin D builds bone. Or does it?
Vitamin D influences skeletal growth during the nine-month fetal period and your childhood years. The D hormone is important in all aspects of bone production. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Unless you have an underlying disease, reactive hypoglycemia is relatively easy to treat with some simple dietary changes, which you'll learn about shortly.
Now that you've learned about the condition that "rarely exists"—at least according to many in the medical profession—you may have been marveling in disbelief at the multiple agonies of misdiagnosed sufferers who've spent years searching for answers to their problems. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Then the mechanization of the food industry compounded these dietary changes: canned and frozen produce replaced fresh fruits and vegetables. Free-range cattle gave way to feedlots. Fresh, lean meat was replaced by processed and canned meats. Foods such as canned ham—high in salt, saturated fat, and sugar—became popular, and the population explosion increased the demand for these inexpensive, well-preserved, tasty, and convenient foods.
The result of these altered lifestyles was an urbanization picture of decreased vitamin D production and increased consumption of wrong foods. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| The draft suggested dietary changes, including limiting the consumption of "free" sugars to less than 10 percent of caloric intake. ("Free" signifies sugars that are added to foods you don't think of as sweet, such as mayonnaise, some mustards, ketchup, processed meats, peanut butter, and many snack foods.)
The recommendation set off a storm of protest. Rather than applauding the report, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a scathing 28-page critique concluding that the WHO document was scientifically flawed. Then the Washington, D.C. |
| Research suggests at least 10 million Americans who appear to be headed toward the disease can sharply lower their chances of getting diabetes simply through dietary changes and exercise. For instance, the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), which examined 3,234 people at high risk for diabetes for three years, found that participants were able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by 58 percent by losing weight and exercising regularly. |
| Nashville, Tennessee, who had tried in vain for three years to get pregnant, is one of many women who've benefited from drastic dietary changes. When her new, blood-sugar-savvy endocrinologist discovered insulin resistance in addition to her PCOS (which another M.D. diagnosed), he instructed her to "quit eating white foods like white sugar, white rice, and white potatoes."
"I asked my doctor, 'How is cutting out all white foods going to help me have a baby?'" recalls Bea, who used to consume large quantities of sugary and carb-filled foods. |
| As we well know, it can be a challenge to make positive dietary changes, especially given that we're continually tempted by a barrage of persuasive ads, aggressive marketing, and even free samples of sugary or much-like-sugar foods.
We concede that sellers of sweet, refined foods are fighting to survive, if not thrive, but let's bear in mind that the rest of us are fighting to stay healthy and trim at the same time. Not an easy problem to resolve.
Dr. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 There are only two proven ways to reduce cholesterol and hypertension: (1) with powerful drugs (see chapter 5), taken over a period of time, which have significant side effects; and (2) modifications of behavioral risk factors such as smoking, alcohol intake and exercise habits, or dietary changes, particularly decreasing the intake of fatty foods and sodium, or to change life habits with a resulting stress reduction.
The lessons for this book are twofold: (1) drugs treats the sign, not the underlying cause of a problem. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 If neither is chosen, dietary changes may reduce the possibility of vitamin K deficiency bleeding. While extra vitamin K intake during pregnancy does not increase vitamin K in the unborn child, large amounts of vitamin K intake during breastfeeding can increase the infant's blood vitamin K levels. The vitamin K deficiency bleeding problems normally occur one to seven weeks after birth. Mothers would need to eat a cup of broccoli or other vitamin K-rich food and a large green salad coupled with extra supplementation to boost the infant's vitamin K levels. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Balancing estrogen levels through liver cleansing and dietary changes is very important for any woman suffering from female disorders. It is a well-known fact that fibroids tend to shrink and disappear after menopause when estrogen levels decrease. The liver is in charge of breaking down estrogen, but is prevented from doing so properly when it is congested with intrahepatic gallstones. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The Step 2 diet typically drops the level of LDL another 3 to 7 percent. The dietary changes, along with an exercise program designed to reduce weight, should be done in women who are overweight. Even a small weight loss of 5 to 10 pounds has been associated with a greater reduction in LDL cholesterol than just the Step 1 diet and no weight loss. Weight loss also results in raising HDL-cholesterol levels, lowering triglycerides levels, and lowering blood pressure.154
The TLCDiet. |
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