Articles - Nutrition
An Update On The Importance Of The Good Fats, Or How Fat Foils Cancer
In the last few years, some very important research has revealed a major underlying cause of cancer and how to prevent it. This new information also provides new answers to our present epidemic of heart disease. To begin this discussion, first a brief review of the essential fatty acids. They’re called essential because, if we don’t get them in our diet, we will eventually get sick and die.
Iodine and Fibrocystic Disease
Fibrocystic disease occurs most frequently in the breasts, uterus, and/or ovaries and it is very common. It affects most women in our society at one time or another. In almost every case, fibrocystic disease is curable.
Why You Need To Supplement Your Diet
As you age, your body’s metabolism changes from optimal in youth to good in middle age to rapidly declining in old age. The good news is that if you keep the amounts of vitamins and minerals within your body at levels associated with youth and vigor, you can experience youthfulness into your elderly years.
Dr. David’s Basic Self-Help Program
I put this program in a couple of newsletters every year as a reminder that we all need to add certain micronutrients to our diets that big agribusiness has taken away.
Let’s Talk About Weight Loss
Your body must have genuine replacement parts. Genuine replacement parts are proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. These are considered essential. Without the right amount of each in the correct balance, we become sick and eventually die. There are no essential carbohydrates.
Preventics is changing the Vitamin D & A to a straight Vitamin D
The research on Vitamin D continues to emerge, and questions of optimum dosage continue to be raised. Some authorities think that 2000 iu should be sufficient for all “healthy” adults, and some feel that biochemical individuality suggests that some so-called “healthy” adults may need 10,000iu or more to be in an optimum state.
Carbohydrates …the third article in a series on eating a healthy diet
All carbohydrate foods end up as energy or fat, and contrary to what you might have heard, fat and not carbohydrate is the human bodies preferred source of energy. Vegetables and fruits are good for us, as the research makes clear, but good for whom, and then how much qualifies as good are the questions.
Eating Local, Thinking Global
By now I hope we all know that eating locally grown food is good for the planet. Local food, picked ripe, contains greater amounts of the essential critical nutrients, and if the local crop is organically grown, it contains a significantly greater amount of these essentials.
The Importance Of Fat …and The Misinformation Surrounding It
Since I was a boy I have watched the heart disease, cancer, and diabetes statistics escalate as we have eaten ourselves into chronic ill health. You can’t live without fat, it’s essential, and must be considered when we talk about giving the body genuine replacement parts for the healing of illness and the repair of daily wear and tear.
Protein Is Our Most Misunderstood Food …and the truth may create a path to a robust life and healthy old age for you and your family
Protein seems like the most likely place to start because you and I are mostly protein. In fact, the only organ that isn’t mostly protein is the brain, which is 60% fat by weight. The structures of our cells are made up of cell wall-like structures composed of an outer and inner layer of protein with a middle layer of fat. The enzymes that make all the chemical reactions take place are predominantly protein…