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Two questions today and both in the nutrient end of foods... Grace wants a list of foods to get the exact amounts of vitamins and minerals and Marie wants my opinion on Glyconutrients. Think you might learn a bit from both answers...

Steve's Motivator this week, "THE BROADCASTING STATION" is so right on with today and our life... Learn and be healthy...  If you enjoy Steve's weekly Motivator let him know and tell him you read it in "A Natural Environmental Health Facts Ask Lena Health Q & A ezine." mailto:Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com  

I answer all health questions to the best of my ability using what I gleaned from 20-years as a Medical Office Nurse and Administrator along with my education in nutritional and alternative modes. I am not a doctor and you should not think of me as one.

Q & A is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! 

My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

IF YOU HAVE A HEALTH QUESTION 
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Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena
 

QUESTION #1:

Hi Lena,

Thanks for all your answers to my question, I really am very grateful. Please can you list out the foods one can take to get the various types of vitamins and minerals for me? For example: To get vitamin A you should take . . . . . To get vitamin B, you should take  . . . . .  And so on and so forth for all the vitamins and minerals. I will really appreciate if you do.

Thanks.
Grace.
 
ANSWER:
 
Hi Grace,

You are welcome and I would be happy to do that list BUT it simply isn't possible. And if you could eat the amounts needed you would very soon be suffering from obesity, because the ground our foods are grown in no longer contain near enough of the vitamins and minerals necessary for promoting our good health, making it necessary to eat over-the-top amounts of food. That is why you must supplement with complete 84 mineral and trace minerals and meganutrient vitamins daily to supply that need... Stick with 9 servings daily of a variety of raw or steamed vegetables, raw fruits, whole grains and nuts as much as possible but supplementing is the only true way to obtain all those vitamins and minerals. Factually though, you will have to eat so many fruits, vegetables and grains that it would be a 24/7 eat-athon in order to consume all you need from foods to get sufficient vitamins and minerals. Our body's are so lacking in those - even anyone who eats all healthy foods - that obesity has gone wild from the constant hunger, which is the body asking for sufficient nutrients.

If you read "A Natural Environmental Health Facts" ezine you will find a food listed each week, which usually lists vitamin and mineral content. But to make a list of those that contain the amount of needed nutrient foods is simply too cumbersome and time consuming to do, if it were at all possible, which it isn't... Eating fresh, raw or frozen fruits and vegetables along with grains and nuts daily is necessary but not sufficient to supply those needs... The same identical looking fruit or vegetable can have varying amounts of vitamins and minerals depending on where it's grown and if it's organic or non-organic so that we can only know which ones but not how much of each vitamin or mineral exists in them. Just remember that organic grown produce, fruits, nuts and grains contains more nutrients and no chemicals that is responsible for altering the way your body digests them.

I'm not giving you new information as most of this was known in 1936...

Regard,
Lena
 
QUESTION #2:
 
Hi Lena,
 
What do you know about glyconutrients and just how important are they?
 
Thank-you,
 Marie
 
 
ANSWER:
 
Thanks for the question Marie! Here goes but it might be more than you really wanted to know?
 
Fairly new term, and not discovered until recently are that Glyconutrients is an overall term for the eight essential sugars required by our body to stay healthy. And it is looking very much like the body's real need for health is glyconutrients rather than proteins as so many have touted for so long.
 
The following definitions might help explain some of this new "Glyco" terminology:
 
Glyco means "sweet" used when describing a sugar or carbohydrate molecule. With "Sugar", "Carbohydrate" and "Saccharides", all used interchangeably.
Glycoforms are large sugar molecules that combine with proteins and/or fats to cover the surfaces of all cells. These are then known as "glycoproteins" or "glycolipids".
Glycoproteins are sugar and protein molecules found coating the surface of every cell in the human body that contains a nucleus.
Glycolipids are molecules made of sugars and fats. "Lipid" and "Fat" are often used interchangeably.
Glyconutrients are the foods and nutritional needs providing saccharides along with other glycoforms essential to the body and scarce in most diets. The ability of cells to communicate, cohere, and work together to keep us healthy and balanced come from those essential sugars. Glyconutrients have powerful effects on the immune system. When used along with surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation, glyconutrients have proven to help lessen the side effects of these treatments while helping the body to recover and heal itself more quickly than if only the treatments were implemented.
 
Glyconutrients are very important to the brain and nervous system - from memory and sleep to anxiety and depression. In addition, they have a role in helping the body handle cholesterol and fats by lowering triglycerides and low-density lipoproteins (LDL) while, at the same time, raising the good cholesterol (HDL). Commercials have long touted the benefits of eating oatmeal to bring down cholesterol. What they aren't telling is why, as it is actually the sugars (beta-glucans) in oatmeal that are responsible for that happening.
 
Another essential glyconutrient function is to help retain bone density and muscle mass. The body undergoes wear and tear as it ages. Cells and tissues require the regeneration and necessity of being replaced, remodeled, and renewed continually. Exercise helps the body to develop new blood vessels while increasing muscle mass. Certain kinds of tissues adapt to exercise by increasing the size and number of cells. Adapting to, healing, and recovery are all forms of that remodeling. Essential sugars play important roles in these processes.  If body builders only knew that it's not steroids they need but glyconutrients in abundance to build those masses of muscles?
 
There is so much suspected potential to these sugars that it is looking to be very mind-boggling and still mostly undocumented and unknown!
 
While not a magical cure-all glyconutrients are essential and vital to every body's health! Glyconutrients are not found in meats and dairy foods but in fruits and vegetables. Since our society eats so few fruits and veggies and when they do eat them they are usually cooked, which removes most of the glyconutrients therefore they are deplete in their bodies and when you add the lack of minerals making it possible to digest what little is in the foods we can understand why illness and disease is so rampant in our society? Luckily we can supplement those giving us a running chance on staying healthy! Of course fresh would be much better!
 
I hope this satisfactorily answered your question Marie!
Lena
 

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MOTIVATOR
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THE BROADCASTING STATION

George Washington Carver observed, "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." But it is sometimes hard to hear the message when it is broadcast by equipment that is dirty, corroded and abused. Carver was born 150 years ago, before we used terms like toxic waste, air pollution, global warming and deforestation. Today, we have figured out that we need to take good care of the broadcasting station if we are to hear what the Divine is saying.

This is a beautiful and fragile planet we live on. As much as we can fall in love with magnificent sunsets and pristine landscapes, few people have ever experienced its beauty as acutely as those who've seen it from afar.

Senator Jake Garn was one of those privileged people. He observed earth aboard Discovery Space Shuttle and wrote of that experience in "Parade Magazine" (11-3-85). ?I know now what if feels like to be out of this world," he said. "The experience is exhilarating, breathtaking, awesome. No. Those words aren't strong enough; space flight is indescribable." Listen to these words from his space diary:

    "I was overcome by the beauty of the earth below. I don't
    think the words exist to convey what it's like to see the earth
    from space. The curve of the earth, the swirling eddies, the
    patterns of clouds marbling the surface above the brilliantly
    blue color of the water and the blue-green of the land...the
    sheer beauty of the earth and the excitement of being in a
    position to see it made this the greatest experience of my life.
    Using binoculars, I once counted 22 discernible layers of blue
    in the band of sunrise color that would be seen from earth
    simply as blue..."

This is indeed a beautiful and fragile planet. But it's changing. And we humans are the cause of much of it. George Burns once quipped, "I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." All right, he lived to be 100, but we can bring those days of clean air back. We can live simply and responsibly. We can walk gently upon the face of the earth.

And with our broadcasting station once again in good order, I think I know what we'll hear God saying: "Thank you."
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FOOD OF THE WEEK
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A "dried unripe berry"

This week's fruit is a bit different and most people have no clue that it's actually a fruit.  

Known as Jamaican Pepper, Myrtle Pepper, Pimento, Newspice, and Clove Pepper but most commonly called Allspice! A "dried unripe berry" of the Pimenta dioica, which belongs to the family Myrtaceae.  

The tree grows to a height of about 30 ft and has aromatic, glossy green leaves and white flowers. The fruit berry, when dried, is widely used as a spice. Its wood was once in such demand for the making of walking sticks that the tree became endangered and was nearly driven to extinction. 

Spanish explorers happened on to the Allspice plant in Jamaica in the beginning of the 16th century.  The Spaniards thought the fruits look like pepper so they gave it the name of Jamaican Pepper and pimento from the word "pimienta", Spanish for peppercorn. 

The English name "Allspice" was given because the spice is said to have the aroma of several spices including cloves, pepper and even cinnamon and nutmeg. 

The green Allspice berries are picked and then dried.  They are very high in eugenol which is the main flavoring substance of the berry. 

Allspice is used to treat indigestion, flatulence, and muscle pain. Allspice is an antioxidant, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory to reduce pain and inflammation. It contains Vitamins C, B-1, B-2 and beta carotene along with a few minerals. Allspice is sometimes added to commercial medicines to improve their flavor. 

Folklore has it that for centuries the Mayan Indians used Allspice to embalm the bodies of important leaders. 

Allspice is available as whole berries or ground.  Grinding your own whole berries will provide the most intense flavor and longest shelf life.  

Allspice is used in seasonings, sauces, sausages, ketchup, jams, pumpkin, gravies, roasts, hams, baked goods, and teas. Caribbean cooking relies on Allspice as the main ingredient in jerk seasoning. It is used in Caribbean, Mexican, Indian, English, and North American cooking and in seasoning blends such as jerk seasoning and curry. Allspice can be used in just about any food you can think of adding nutrients, flavor and taste. 

Substitute one teaspoon ground allspice for the equivalent of approximately 5 whole berries. 

Enjoy this strange fruit,
Lena

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