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A recent government survey, part of the
National Diet and Nutrition Survey, has shown that the average diet in
Great Britain does not provide adequate nutrients.(1)
Vitamins A, some B vitamins, vitamin C,
iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iodine and copper were highlighted.
Two NDNS surveys were compared - 1986/7
and 2000/1. In the space of only fourteen years they show that there has
been a marked decline in intakes of key nutrients in our diet.
Particularly short were vitamin A,
vitamin B12, iron, magnesium, copper and zinc.
Inadequate intakes of these and other
nutrients have been associated with increased risk of most of the main
degenerative diseases, including heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis,
diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Food supplements are a cost effective and
efficient means of increasing micronutrient intake and their use is
increasingly supported by medical researchers who have highlighted the
health implications of inadequate micronutrient consumption.(2)
(2) Fairfield KM, Fletcher RH. Vitamins
for chronic disease prevention in adults: scientific review. Journal of
the American Medical Association, 2002; 287(23): 3116-26
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Here is a selection of recommended
multivitamin and mineral supplements to choose from to help safeguard your
health.
Also recommended (but read
contra-indications, e.g. not suitable for people taking blood thinning
medications, etc.)
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“Adults
Urged to Take Daily Multivitamin”
After
reviewing studies done over the past 36 years in which low
vitamin intake was linked to various illnesses, Dr Kathleen M
Fairfield and Robert H Fletcher of Harvard Medical School in
Boston, concluded that everyone should take a multivitamin
daily. They recommend this as a low cost, low risk way to obtain
a substantial health benefit.
Note: The information on this website is not a substitute for
diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner
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"No
man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system
with the minerals he requires for perfect health because his stomach isn't
big enough to hold them."
(Farm
Land Mineral Depletion and Senate Document no.264 1936)
These are Verbatim
Unabridged Extracts from the 74th Congress 2nd Session:
Senate Document No. 264, 1936
"The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now
being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of
certain minerals, are starving us - no matter how much of them we eat.
"Laboratory tests prove that the fruits, the vegetables, the grains,
the eggs, and even the milk and the meats of today are not what they were
a few generations ago (which doubtless explains why our forefathers
thrived on a selection of foods that would starve us!)"
"It is bad news to learn from our leading
authorities that 99% of the American people are deficient in these
minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important
minerals actually results in disease. Any upset of the balance, any
considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body
requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives."
"Certainly our physical well-being is more
directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our system than upon
calories or vitamins or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein or
carbohydrates we consume."
Read
more of the Senate document
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Wheat, Dairy, Yeast and Sugar Free Foods and their Alternatives |
Read this article for a
list of dairy, wheat and sugar free foods and a shopping list of
alternatives 'without'
more
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"When
I first went to see him I had to be carried in," reports Les.
"Later I was able to walk on my own." But more good news was to
follow. "After one session I went home as usual to lie on the settee.
Then suddenly, my right eye opened with a sort of pop, then my left eye -
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