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 Notably, the research team also found when dietary fats were added to the mix, the antioxidant properties of vitamin C were neutralized, and the carcinogenic N-nitrosamine was formed.
"These results indicate that the presence of lipid can markedly alter the protective effects of antioxidants with respect to potentially carcinogenic nitrosative chemistry occurring in the human stomach, and illustrate how a diet rich in lipids can directly influence gastric biochemistry," said lead author Emilie Combet.
Lipids are substances of the fat group and are insoluble in water. |
| REPPED: The anti-cancer benefits of vitamin C can be dramatically reduced by intake of dietary fats, according to a new study conducted at the University of Glasgow. The results of the study, which simulated what happens in the human stomach, were presented earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Biology in Glasgow.
Researchers investigated how vitamin C affects the acidification of nitrite in the stomach. This acidification can lead to production of potentially carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds related to stomach cancer. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
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 According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the definition of a dietary supplement is "any product taken by mouth that contains a so-called dietary ingredient and its label clearly states that it is a dietary supplement. The 'dietary ingredients' in dietary supplements may include vitamins, minerals, herbs, colloidal minerals, trace elements and amino acids as well as substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, metabolites, extracts or concentrates. dietary supplements can be found in many forms such as pills, tablets, capsules, liquids or powders. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 Orlistat accomplishes this by interfering with the action of enzymes that break down dietary fat and make it available for absorption in the digestive tract. As a result, less fat can be absorbed, and much of it is carried out along with the stool. Orlistat is typically used in conjunction with a weight-control diet to treat obese patients who also have diabetes, elevated blood pressure, or other serious conditions.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's more common side effects include headache, abdominal pain, fecal urgency, and fatty, oily stool. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Vitamins and dietary supplements are not only useless; they're so dangerous that they should be regulated or banned.
The only thing more dangerous than dietary supplements is allowing the public to have access to accurate information about dietary supplements. To maintain control, the public must be kept ignorant of the medicinal uses of all substances other than patented chemicals.
Most diseases are caused by pharmaceutical deficiencies and can only be treated with pharmaceutical supplementation.
Botanicals interfere with pharmaceuticals, not the other way around. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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| Neither do they alert you to all the potential problems that arise when you mix supplements and/or food with drugs or change your dietary or supplement regimens. Some drugs work by interfering with a certain nutrient in your body, so taking in more of that nutrient can interfere with these drugs' actions. There's also the possibility that taking a supplement to replenish a deficiency caused by one drug may interfere with or heighten the actions of a second drug you're taking. |
| And surveys of dietary habits have found a similar link between magnesium intake and stroke: A greater intake of magnesium is associated with a lesser risk of stroke.
Daily Requirement
The RDA for magnesium is 400 mg per day for men ages 19 to 30 and 420 mg per day for men ages 31 and up. The RDA is 310 mg per day for women ages 19 to 30 and 320 mg per day for women ages 31 and up.
Safety and Side Effects
The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for supplemental magnesium for adult men and women is 350 mg per day. |
| The only true solution to these problems is to replace the nutrients that have disappeared via supplements, wise dietary choices, or both.
DRUGS THAT ROB YOU OF MAGNESIUM
Magnesium is a vital mineral that helps the heart beat. It's also linked to migraine headaches: Up to 50 percent of those who suffer from these terrible headaches are deficient in magnesium. |
| Lovastatin is used along with dietary therapy to reduce total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, as well as to prevent or slow the progression of coronary artery disease.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's side effects include blurred vision, muscle cramps, joint pain, and a potentially fatal muscle disease called rhabdomyolysis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Post-1994 with DSHEA there are very specific guidelines as a dietary supplement company that we operate within. So when DSHEA came into being, there were still people who said, "Dietary supplements just aren't regulated." Well, that's completely false. They are regulated. They fall within the guidelines of the FDA. There's page after page after page of recommendations. What is a dietary supplement, what isn't a dietary supplement, what you can say about it, what you can't say about it and how you promote it to the marketplace. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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| The mineral can be crowded out of the intestinal absorption areas by calcium, and its absorption can also be slowed by dietary fat, phosphate, and other substances that bind to it during the digestion process and make it insoluble.
Roughly half of the magnesium in your body is inside your cells, and the other half is bound up with calcium and phosphorus in your bones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Overhaul national dietary guidelines to benefit consumers, not Big Business
As every honest nutritionist will readily admit, the dietary guidelines invented by the USDA (that's the U.S. Department of Agriculture) amount to little more than a national marketing campaign for grain processors, junk food companies, dairy farms and meat producers. It's no surprise, of course, since those are the exact same organizations that strong-armed the USDA into creating the "My Pyramid" nutritional guidelines in the first place. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Free speech" is granted to pharmaceutical companies, but not to dietary supplement companies. It is my belief that free speech is not free if it only selectively allowed.
So we have a conspiratorial trio now working in concert to keep you stupid and diseased: The mainstream media (which takes billions of dollars each year from drug companies), the drug companies (which earn billions of dollars each year selling advertised drugs), and the FDA (which enforces the monopoly and eliminates competition by censoring truthful information about dietary supplements). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 My theory is that a lot of patients actually lie to their doctors about what kind of dietary changes they are making, just like they might lie about alcohol or tobacco consumption. When doctors ask, "How is your diet?" the patient may say, "I've stopped eating meat, cheese, fried foods and drinking soft drinks." But most patients actually have not made those changes, and the doctors are left with a misimpression that dramatic dietary changes have very little effect on blood chemistry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not only is his amendment completely irrelevant to this legislation, he will, as always, figure some way to attack dietary supplements. I'll keep you posted.
We must also get our amendment, THE PEOPLE'S AMENDMENT, into this legislation (see action letter at following this article).
The People are Now Being Heard
We have word that the offices of Hatch, Harkin, Enzi, Kennedy, and many other Senators are being flooded by your concerns regarding what this bill can do to undermine health freedom and your access to dietary supplements. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The only thing more dangerous than dietary supplements is allowing the public to have access to accurate information about dietary supplements. To maintain control, the public must be kept ignorant of the medicinal uses of all substances other than patented chemicals.
Most diseases are caused by pharmaceutical deficiencies and can only be treated with pharmaceutical supplementation.
Botanicals interfere with pharmaceuticals, not the other way around. There is no such thing as a pharmaceutical that interferes with an herb. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Overhaul national dietary guidelines to benefit consumers, not Big Business
As every honest nutritionist will readily admit, the dietary guidelines invented by the USDA (that's the U.S. Department of Agriculture) amount to little more than a national marketing campaign for grain processors, junk food companies, dairy farms and meat producers. It's no surprise, of course, since those are the exact same organizations that strong-armed the USDA into creating the "My Pyramid" nutritional guidelines in the first place. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Action item:
Please keep up the pressure to protect dietary supplements, functional foods, and free access to your natural health options. Click here to get information on contacting your senators.
Here's a sample letter you can use to send to your senator. (Customize it into your own words for maximum impact.)
The People's Amendment:
S.1082 - Please Amend to Protect dietary Supplements
May 9, 2007
The Honorable (Senator First and Last Name)
Address
Dear Senator Last Name;
The issue of drug safety is of the utmost importance to myself and all Americans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As one of the 150 million Americans that rely on dietary supplements to keep myself and my family well, I am especially concerned that this legislation broadens FDA regulatory power to harass functional foods and dietary supplements - which has nothing whatsoever to do with drug safety.
It is vital that the terms "food" and "food ingredients" be removed from this legislation. There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients - which are governed by different laws. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 And, indeed, there have been reports of health improvements following dietary manipulation. Much of the research on the effects of diet on rheumatological diseases, including FM, comes from Scandinavia. A number of trials have shown some success in reducing symptoms and signs of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis following limited periods of fasting and with subsequent strict dietary restriction. Similarly, being on a strict vegan diet for three months led to improved sleep and less pain in a group of FM patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| HARKIN: So, to make this absolutely clear, what you are saying is that the bill we are debating would in no way interfere with consumers' access to dietary supplements?
SEN. HATCH: To add to that point, it seems that the language could, in fact, help dietary supplement consumers, because it would allow collaboration between government and industry to conduct research on issues that might be helpful to supplement consumers?
SEN. KENNEDY: Yes, that is the case.
SEN. ENZI: I agree with Chairman Kennedy's assessment.
SEN. HATCH: I thank you for those assurances and that clarification.
SEN. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This bill authorizes the creation of a new regulatory category that enables the FDA and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to attack dietary supplements and functional foods.
I am sure you and other Senators were not intending to create such concern among the 150 million Americans who rely on dietary supplements to assist their health, and this matter is easily corrected with a simple amendment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In this example, the cranberry tablets generally would be regulated as "dietary supplements" ...if they were labeled for use to "maintain the health of the urinary tract" rather than "prevent urinary tract infections." The cranberry tablets would be regulated as "drugs" ...if they were labeled for use to "treat urinary tract infections" even if they were labeled as dietary supplements. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Please Amend to Protect dietary Supplements
May 9, 2007
The Honorable (Senator First and Last Name)
Address
Dear Senator Last Name;
The issue of drug safety is of the utmost importance to myself and all Americans. I am concerned that the legislation, as currently written, opens the door for considerable regulatory confusion enabling the FDA to use S.1082 to undermine my access to safe and effective dietary supplements.
There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and food ingredients -- which are governed by different laws. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So when DSHEA came into being, there were still people who said, "Dietary supplements just aren't regulated." Well, that's completely false. They are regulated. They fall within the guidelines of the FDA. There's page after page after page of recommendations. What is a dietary supplement, what isn't a dietary supplement, what you can say about it, what you can't say about it and how you promote it to the marketplace.
So it is regulated, and the thing with DSHEA is, the DSHEA laws that require enforcement from the FDA, in many cases, simply haven't been enforced. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Prescription for dietary Wellness is a resource and guide that advocates using superlative nutrition to heal existing health problems, provide protection against further disease, and halt the premature aging process in its tracks. The information in this book can help people to make crucial choices that will lead to vigorous health—safely, naturally, and inexpensively, as our Creator provided and intended. Included is vital evidence of inherent dangers from the way food is farmed, processed, transported/ imported, and prepared, and how to fight the growing effects on health. |
| Chapter Two
Basic dietary Guidelines
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it... or leave it.
—Buddy Hackett, comedian
The purpose of this book is to help you understand how and why the choices you make concerning the food you eat affect every single area of your life. Deciding what to eat may be the single most important choice you make each day. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet during the same time, dietary knowledge, especially related to the danger of excessive animal fat, has incteased. And smoking has declined significantly. So it is difficult to isolate the direct effect of screening on cardiovascular health, or even on serum cholesterol levels. In one community based study, patients receiving risk factor screening and targeted dietary advice had only 1-3% lower cholesterol than the unscreened controls after a three-year follow-up.38 The Task Force gives a "B" grade for periodic screening of men age 35-65 and women 45-65. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The only thing more dangerous than dietary supplements is allowing the public to have access to accurate information about dietary supplements. To maintain control, the public must be kept ignorant of the medicinal uses of all substances other than patented chemicals.
Most diseases are caused by pharmaceutical deficiencies and can only be treated with pharmaceutical supplementation.
Botanicals interfere with pharmaceuticals, not the other way around. There is no such thing as a pharmaceutical that interferes with an herb. |
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