Getting an Education in NutritionBy Donald PayneHello again, dear readers. What a fantastic summer! I hope yours was as fruitful and enjoyable as mine has been. When I left you in the last issue, I was gathering my courage and energy to visit Las Vegas for the annual National Nutritional Foods Association convention. It’s held every July at the Sands Expo Center in the Venetian Hotel on the famous Las Vegas Strip. The emphasis every year is on educating us workers in the natural-products industry about the latest advances in nutritional and herbal sciences and updating us on the state of the American public’s health. The advances in the area of using foods, nutrition, herbs, and homeopathy and aromatherapy as medicine are vast and quite promising. The state of health of the American people is another story. It is truly a sad story that so many great people become so sick for lack of a better education on how to eat and what dietary supplements can do to change their health for the better, in some cases dramatically for the better. Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Murray N.D. (Dr. Murray is a faculty member and serves on the board of trustees of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington), in his address “Inflammation—A Natural Perspective,” spoke about how chronic micro-inflammation is the underlying cause of all the degenerative diseases in the world today. He discussed how we can use diet and supplements to slow down and reverse these inflammations. Dr. Murray presented results of double-blind studies done on herbs such as turmeric, green tea, bromelain, Vitamin E, and other supplements. The results proved consistently to reduce inflammation and consistently to help with pain and/or chronic diseases. One of the best slides he presented showed us that a study performed and recorded by our own National Institutes of Health projected that the use of folic acid (a B vitamin) and 400 IUs of Vitamin E alone would save our country more than $2 billion per year in the prevention of heart disease and birth defects. Two supplements = $2 billion! Then I attended a fantastic seminar, “Preventing Heart Disease: Reducing Multiple Risk Factors with One Herbal Supplement,” from Dr. Matthew Budoff MD FACC, assistant professor of medicine, UCLA School of Medicine; program director, division of cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; and director, Electron Beam CT Laboratory, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. (Talk about credentials.) Anyway, according to Dr. Budoff’s seminar, in the United States we experience 1.5 million heart attacks per year. In one-third of them, the outcome is death. Of these cases, 685,000 people didn’t even know they had heart disease. So, as he said, the goal is to prevent heart attacks. The risk factors include:
Dr. Budoff then explained that he was commissioned by UCLA Medical Center and Wakunaga of America to use aged garlic extract (AGE) in placebo-controlled double-blind tests to see how it affected risk factors for heart disease. He was surprised to find that the AGE lowered elevated LDL, raised HDL levels, lowered high blood pressure, dramatically lowered homocysteine levels (homocysteine is a protein that causes platelets to clump together), and lowered elevated blood sugar levels by 17 percent. And no other garlic did this. It was the Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract that was so successful. He also said that he has now begun to use the Kyolic garlic himself. Me, too! (However, the Kyolic garlic did not make people stop smoking, nor did it make them more active. I guess some things don’t come from a supplement.) One last note: The Kyolic garlic, when used with the prescription drugs Plavix and/or Coumadin, did help to increase blood circulation in patients with peripheral neuropathy but did not increase bruising or affect blood-clotting time, as proven with electron beam thermography. So it is safe to take with almost any medication. I attended so many educational seminars packed into three days that I would need the entire Lotus Guide to present all my notes from all of the seminars. But to impart to you the information that most affected me, let’s just say I have added three supplements to my usual routine. They are: 1. Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract formula 100 I am so grateful that every year my work sends several of us to these amazing educational conventions. Knowledge truly is power. I have promised for years that I will learn and share these natural healing truths with every one of you. And of course I have endless gratitude for those who are grasping this knowledge and healing yourself, your community, and the world one by one. Thank you, Donald Payne is a nutrition specialist at S&S Produce in Chico CA. He has dedicated his life to alternative ways of dealing with allergies and staying healthy. He studied and practice Oriental Medicine in Chicago. He also studied acupuncture and alternative healing methods that led him into a long career in health foods. This article was re-published using permission from the Lotus Guide Magazine and it is copyrighted. No reproduction of this article is allowed without the express consent of the Lotus Guide Magazine. The Lotus Guide Magazine is produced and published out of Chico Ca. This article and all other articles found at Last Chance Fitness should never be considered a substitute for professional medical advice. Consult your physician before making any health decisions. Last Chance Fitness will not be held responsible for any actions you take based on the suggestions or opinions given freely in the above article. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the staff of Last Chance Fitness. |
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