Deficiency:
(also see Nerves or Essential
Fatty Acids)
Diabetes: (also see
Pancreas)
Diets
Digestion
Disease: (also see Heart
Disease)
Drugs
Deficiency: (see Nerves or Essential
Fatty Acids)
95% of Americans are EFA deficient: Reference: Fats That Heal,
Fats That Kill, Udo Erasmus, Alive Books, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 1993,
page 314.
Symptoms of EFA deficiency: headaches, hormonal imbalances, dry skin
and a lack of cardiovascular support. Reference: Erasmus, U. (1993).Fats
that Heal, Fats that Kill,Alive Books: Burnaby BC, Canada
3 generations of EFA deficiency resulted in reduced brain size in
rats. Reference: British Journal of Nutrition,1973; 29:127-137.
Diabetes: (see Pancreas)
“Our results underscore the importance of tight glucose [sugar]
control in limiting beta-cell destruction…” Glucose [sugar
from carbohydrates] causes diabetes. Reference: Diabetes 2001;
50 1683-1690.
Symptoms of Diabetes
Type 1- These symptoms often come on suddenly and very severely;
-Exceptional Thirst
-Dry Mouth
-Need to Urinate Often
-Weight Loss (though you’re hungry and eating)
-Weakness and Tiredness
-Blurry Vision
Type 2- Sometimes symptoms don’t occur or come on gradually.
-Blurry Vision
-Cuts or Sores that are slow to heal
-Itchy Skin, Yeast Infections
-Increased Thirst
-Dry Mouth
-Need to Urinate Often
-Leg Pain
1999: Diet of 50% fat [half fat!], 30% protein, and
20% [low] carbohydrates improves weight loss and blood lipid profiles
in type II diabetics. Reference: Abstract of presentation before
1999 meeting of Endocrine Society: by James Hayes, MD, endocrinologist.
Diets:
“Diets high in polyunsaturated fat have been more effective
than low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets in lowering cholesterol as well
as the incidence of heart disease.” Reference: New England
Journal of Medicine, 1997, 337:1491-1499.
Digestion:
60%-70% of protein eaten is used to fuel energy of
digestion. Only 30%-40% is left for body structure — like muscles
— and system function — like enzyme production. Reference:
Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach. Dawn B. Marks, Allan
D. Marks, Colleen M. Smith, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, August
1996, ISBN: 068305595X
Daily Elimination - Also, it is expected by most
people that solid elimination should take place daily, but when not
following a high fiber diet, it is natural for the body not to eliminate
solid waste but every 2 to 3 days. This is because proteins produce
much less waste product and it takes more time for the body to build
up enough waste to be eliminated.
Disease:
One way disease works: The body can produce its own "cleansing"
agents (such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions) when the need
arises. Also, these agents can be transmitted from others, or as in
the case of Mad Cow Disease, by humans ingesting prions* by eating
the flesh of the cow or other infected animal.
When these agents start cleaning out the toxins in the body, the toxins
are dumped into the blood stream to be filtered and eliminated from
the body. These toxins then cause symptoms, which the doctor diagnoses
as "disease" and the doctor then NAMES the disease according
to the symptoms it produces.
The medical and pharmaceutical establishment then tries to produce
a DRUG to STOP the cleansing process, in order to STOP the patient's
uncomfortable symptoms. But the drug NEVER cures the "disease"
- it just stops the cleansing process so the patient's body remains
sick and filled with the toxins, even though the patient may feel
somewhat better - at least for a time. Reference: ©Copyright
Dr. Joseph Mercola, 2003. All Rights Reserved. www.mercola.com
*Prions: A microscopic protein particle similar to a virus but lacking
nucleic acid, thought to be the infectious agent responsible for Scrapie
(a livestock disease) and certain other degenerative diseases of the
nervous system.
Drugs:
Cholesterol-lowering drugs do not work significantly. Reference:
Journal of American Medical Association, 1994, No. 272, pgs 1335-1340.