Americas Best and Brightest are Eating Cheap Food!
Two forward thinking teachers at the Annapolis Naval Academy recently hosted a screening of the movie .
This movie contrasts the confinement farm production against small organic farmers who are using common sense instead of putting the almighty dollar first.
In the film, there is a scene where the chickens in the commercial production system are all being fed like they are in prison.
This picture really hit home with the Midshipmen as they realized it looked incredibly similar to how they themselves were being fed!
Liz Reitzig, and representative and I both spoke with the group after the screening and were amazed at how interested they were in the real food message, and were anxious to help!
The Soldiers were none too happy when we explained how soy was a junk food, and how real food like butter is much more valuable. They also mentioned that the terrorists that they battle eat better than them!
They also brought up the point that making real milk illegal is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Well, we agree whole heartedly! Seems like no-one cares about the constitution any more.
We have better weapons than our terrorist enemies, but the armed services definitely don’t use common sense when it comes to food.
Napoleon wrote “ an Army Marches on its Stomach!”
It is distressful to see our brave young people defending our nation and drinking soy milk!
Kevin Brown is President of and co-author of the . He serves as a Fellow on the , and is president of . Kevin and his wife Tracy are Chapter leaders for the , a non-profit organization that is helping restore real food to its rightful place in the American diet.
A new study just presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2010 shows that consuming 150 milligrams – about three tablespoons – of flaxseed lignans daily decreases cholesterol in men by almost 10 percent within three months. , a part of the 21 day , includes flaxseed meal and is a convenient, tasty way to support purification and lower your cholesterol on a daily basis!
from the sponsored by the European Association for the Study of the Liver, Vienna
Since the time of , philosophers have pondered the question, what is truth?
The latest insight comes from gastroenterologist Dr. Thierry Poynard, of Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, who has calculated that, in gastroenterology at least, truth is an entity with a half-life of 55 years.
He analyzed 474 studies on hepatitis and cirrhosis published in 1945-99. He wanted to learn how long a study’s main conclusions stood the test of time. He determined that by 2009, subsequent work had rendered 19% of the findings obsolete and 21% were proved false. By his estimate, the half-life of truth was 55 years.
Time Saving Truth From Falsehood And Envy by Francois Lemoyne (public domain)
His hypothesis had been that the of a study’s lead author–that is, the total number of scientific publications in which that author has been cited–would correlate with the study’s ‘truth survival.’ Nope. It didn’t matter how illustrious and extensive a researcher’s scientific output was in terms of the work’s truth survival. But studies deemed of high methodologic quality were three-fold more likely to have a long truth survival.
In an NIH-funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, research found that daily vitamin E improved the livers of patients who have a type of liver disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The study results are welcome findings because there are currently no approved treatments for the disease, says a Saint Louis University researcher on the project...
A hormone mimic called Octreotide may be effective for treating polycystic liver disease (PLD) caused by ADPKD, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The study is the first clinical trial performed in the United States to test the effects of this agent in PLD...
A daily dose of a specific form of vitamin E significantly improved the liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), according to a study funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health. Results were published April 28 online in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Chromium has received great press lately in the natural health world as the mineral cure for diabetes. I love to find gems in nature’s pharamacy, and this one truly is a gem. In fact, it is the chromium in rubies that gives them their lovely red glow. But there’s more to chromium than meets the eye.
Diabetes
But first, to define diabetes. According to Hannah Bartlett and Frank Eperjesi, in their article about nutritional supplementation, “Diabetes is a disorder of the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in which the body cannot produce insulin or cannot use it to its full potential.” Insulin plays a central role in metabolism, acting essentially as the “passkey holder” for glucose to enter cells to fuel cellular metabolism. Memory and cognition are also enhanced by the presence of insulin. It’s therefore imperative that insulin levels be regulated and held fairly consistent in the body. (Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 2008 28: 503–523 Nutritional supplementation for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review Hannah E. Bartlett and Frank Eperjesi, Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham)
Chromium’s role
Chromium makes up part of a molecule discovered by Dr. Walter Mertz, called glucose tolerance factor (GTF,) and, while it can be found in the diet, it’s not easy to get enough of it through diet alone for those with trouble regulating insulin. Bartlett and Eperjesi report that, “recent review of clinical studies of chromium picolinate supplementation in diabetes mellitus found that 13 of 15 studies reported a significant improvement in at least one outcome of glycaemic control. Pooled data showed substantial reductions in hyperglycaemia and hyperinsulinaemia, equating to a reduced risk of disease complications, with chromium picolinate supplementation (Broadhurst and Domenico, 2006).”
The beauty of using chromium as a tool for insulin-regulation is that, at recommended doses, it has no significant effects on those who have normal blood glucose levels, as indicated by a study conducted in Egypt, where they reported that, “fasting serum glucose level was not modified in normal rats but significantly reduced in diabetic rats that had received CrPic supplement.”
But there’s more
Remember that GTF molecule we mentioned, which is a cofactor for insulin? It’s actually a combination of chromium with niacin, a B-vitamin which is often used therapeutically for regulation of cholesterol levels., writes, “currently, niacin is the most widely prescribed treatment for elevated cholesterol. However, the megadoses necessary to obtain benefits (500 mg to 4500 mg) are known to cause side effects including skin flushing, gout, and liver damage.
Studies have shown that chromium and niacin work synergistically, and together, can reduce cholesterol at doses that avoid niacin’s side effects.”
What now?
It’s important to be aware of the dietary sources of chromium, as well as the dietary practices that can deplete the body of chromium. Not surprisingly, the best way to rid your body of chromium is to eat high amounts of sugar. So, next time you’re tempted to go overboard in the pastry department, opt for one of these options instead:
But if you know you’re having a hard time regulating your blood glucose, diet might not be enough. Recommended doses for chromium picolinate are 400-1,000 mg, with 2-18 mg niacin, and always take them with food.
In my practice, I recommend using , available through because it gives you the niacin in the same capsule with the chromium, and in small enough doses that you need to take three caps daily. It’s advisable to spread these out through the day (one with each primary meal, for example) to reap maximum benefit. After all, you don’t eat once in the morning, and think you’ve met your nutritional needs for the day, and a nutritional supplement should be no different.
To sum up
Get your chromium. If you’re already healthy, it’s an easy thing to do; just make wise food choices. If you’re looking to regulate an already out-of-balance system, chromium supplementation can be a great first step, as it lays a foundation of nutritional building blocks for healing.
Sources:
Refaie FM, Esmat AY, Mohamed AF, Aboul Nour WH. [Epub ahead of print] “Effect of chromium supplementation on the diabetes induced-oxidative stress in liver and brain of adult rats.” Biometals. 2009 Aug 20.Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt.)
Hannah E. Bartlett and Frank Eperjesi. “Nutritional supplementation for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review” Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 2008 28: 503–523, Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham
Metabolic Syndrome :- a medical condition (sometimes called Insulin Resistance or Syndrome X) that is characterized by a cluster of health-related findings that include abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, elevated triglyceride levels, elevated blood sugar levels and below-normal levels of HDL cholesterol
