Honest Nutrition

Ira Edwards

Description

Honest Nutrition is an attempt to do what textbooks and hundreds of diet books do not. Nutrition textbooks do not tell you that this science is in its infancy, nor how many "scientific" claims are open to question, based on faulty research or simple hunches. If they include some of the biochemical and physiological context of nutrition, they still omit financial, social and political aspects.

After attempting to understand the prejudice against vitamins and supplements among the industrial-medical-political Big Brother (IMP-BB) and the lack of evidence for most alternatives, there is still some useful information.

Opposing philosophies are denoted as SUPR (SUrgery-PRescription orientation) and UTHR (Unconventional Therapies, Herbal Remedies.)

Honest Nutrition uses a large alphabetical section to give easy access to useful information about many diseases and nutritional therapies.

Honest Nutrition includes information about hormone resistance diseases, cryptic infections as a cause of "unknown etiology" diseases, and the effect of nutrition on behavior and criminality.

Some claims:

1. Obesity always involves hormones, sometimes with positive-feedback loops, which is why "Just eat less and exercise" seldom works.

2. A major factor in arterial disease is viscous blood, resulting in part from a lack of omega-3 fat. Cholesterol lowering does not help.

3. Some heart attacks may be due to hormonal effects, involving the hormone ouabain, and preventable with an extract of the herb strophanthus.

4. Many, or most North Americans suffer serious lack of nutrients: vitamin D, magnesium, and plant nutrients.

The author challenges the medical establishment to examine their doctrines and learn how to help people suffering from nutritional diseases.
Many technical terms are included. The non-scientific reader is asked to skip over these, to gain a useful knowledge of nutrition.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Fitness
• Health
• Trafford Publishing

Informations

• Publié par: Trafford Publishing
• Date de parution: 09 juillet 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781425197322
• Langue: English

Extrait

HONEST NUTRITION
 
 
 
Ira Edwards
 
 
© Copyright 2007, 2012 Ira Edwards . All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.
ISBN: 978-1-4251-0109-1 (sc) ISBN: 978-1-4251-9732-2 (e)
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HONEST NUTRITION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AS WE BEGIN —
Intent; Caution; Apologies; Disclaimers; Nutritionism
HONEST NUTRITION PART ONE
CONTEXT, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
CHAPTER ONE: HONESTY
Honesty SUPRs and UTHRs Public relations The author Seeing dishonesty Definitions False claims
CHAPTER TWO: BAD ADVICE
“Take charge” Bad advice “Ask your doctor” Mixed messages We are different Doctrines fads and legends
CHAPTER THREE: SOURCES
Information and products Disinformation Group-think Honest sources
CHAPTER FOUR: THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT
Big Pharma Research Government and FDA Chelation and herbs IMP-BB (industrial-medical-political big brother and war against supplements) Harmonizing and EU Good and bad mix Acedia Truth Doctors Defensive medicine
CHAPTER FIVE: ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
High cost—13 reasons Lawyers Regulation Insurance Technology Profits Ineffective treatment Reform
CHAPTER SIX: HUNCH-BASED NUTRITION
Graham, Kellogg and Post Research Alternatives (UTHR)
HONEST NUTRITION PART TWO
NUTRITIONAL PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER SEVEN: FIRST PRINCIPLES
What is health? Whole body Symbiosis Interactions Placebo Causes Logic Molecules Stomping symptoms Nutrients Modern diseases
CHAPTER EIGHT: DEFICIENCIES AND SUPPLEMENTATION
Old paradigm Supplement need Food-Supplement-Spice-Herb-Drug Primitive vs. Modern Drugs vs. Herbs
HONEST NUTRITION PART THREE
PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE PROCESSES (The way things work, and when they don’t)
CHAPTER NINE: BASIC PROCESSES
Metabolism Blood Viscosity Adaptation Toxins Calcification Mineral balance
CHAPTER TEN: INFLAMMATION, INFECTION AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Diseases Immune system Boosters Inflammation Chronic diseases Stealth infections New germ theory Treatments Dental
CHAPTER ELEVEN: BREATHING and ALLERGY
Respiratory system Allergy Poison oak Sensitization Autoimmune disease Asthma Mold
CHAPTER TWELVE: DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Stomach acid Drug treadmill Helicobacter Food intolerance Colon and endobiome Gut nerves
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DIABETES
Diabetes types Syndrome X Insulin Sugar Neuropathy Treatments Low blood sugar Glu—words Low-carb
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WEIGHT
Frustration The problem Culture Causes Hormones Appetite Wrong ways Surgery Acting and eating Our story BMI Underweight
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE FATS OF LIFE
Good and bad fats re-defined Kinds of fat Labels Essential fat Diseases Education Babies Omega-6 Cholesterol
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: HEART AND ARTERIES
Heart and artery disease, causes Plaque Viscosity Prevention Heart attacks CHF Tests Blood pressure Clotting Prevention (again) and treatment Calcium Chelation Nanobes
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: HORMONES
Leptin Resistance Pituitary Endorphins Estrogen Fibroids PCOS Androgens Sex Hormone replacement Growth hormone Thyroid Parathyroid Adrenal Pancreas (See ch. 13) Relaxin Feedback and homeostasis
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: MENTAL FUNCTION
Statin drugs Behavior Excuses Alcohol HMNS Lithium Anxiety Depression Schizophrenia ADHD Bipolar Food for Thought Illegal drugs Antidepressants
CHAPTER NINETEEN: BONES, JOINTS, MUSCLE PAIN
Collagen Arthritis Pain drugs Nutrients Bones Calcium (Also ch. 15)
CHAPTER TWENTY: STRANGE PAINS
Causes Low back Lyme Treatments Headache Migraine Fibromyalgia and fatigue Stress
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: CANCER
Finding cancer Causing cancer Prevention and Treatment Nutrients IPT Angiogenesis Chemotherapy and radiation Markers
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: AGING
Sociology Symptoms Causes Physiology Glycation Inflammation Dementia and Memory Treatment Acute illness Economics
HONEST NUTRITION PART FOUR
ALPHABETICAL SECTION
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: ABBREVIATIONS CONDITIONS, TREATMENTS DEFINITIONS
HONEST NUTRITION PART FIVE
APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: INTEGRATION of body systems
Leptin Hormone resistance Diets Vegetarian fare The China Study
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Eating to avoid disease Attitudes My way Spectrum fare
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: CHALLENGE TO HEALTH PROVIDERS
TREE OF HEALTH
AS WE BEGIN—
IF NOTHING ELSE, READ THIS.
Many people in my community and along my street are sick, some are demented, some are dying. The medical system is not helping them, and some are put in greater pain.
The high cost of our medical care is an outrage. Medical service is corrupt and ineffective. Regardless of some high-tech miracles that are great in a crunch, the best inexpensive and most effective prevention and treatments are scorned.
Seeking answers in more expensive technology and more intrusive government is wrong. We need to use what we know, and some of what our great-grandparents knew.
 
Answers exist. This is urgent. Help can be found.
 
THE AUTHOR
It doesn’t matter much who wrote this. Who DIDN’T write it are experienced, open-minded, inquisitive medical doctors and researchers. Why not? Are they too busy with golf, yachts, travel, or the sale of their own narrow, misleading, over-hyped books? It is only because they did not write it, that I did. It had to be done. They could have done better.
Long ago, following a childhood of herding goats, cutting weeds and hating school, I had most of a medical education (six months short of an M.D. at the University of Washington.) I have a master’s degree from the University of Oregon. I taught geology, astronomy, physics, and various biology and pre-med courses at Northwest Nazarene College. Then I taught all the science courses in junior and high school at Unity, Oregon, but being a terrible teacher, I did that only one year. I worked a few months in a public health lab, and 28 years (non-teaching) at Southern Oregon State College.
If I had become an MD, I could not have written this book. Perhaps, because I could not finish medical school, I am able to do a greater good, though for the nest 32 years, I knew little and cared little about nutrition. Strangely, I thought I knew.
In later years, I realized that everything I had learned and taught about nutrition was misleading or false. That led to an obsession with finding the truth. After years of day-and-night searching from many sources, HONEST NUTRITION is here.
 
INTENT
The un-informed need information; the mis-informed need challenge. In this book I intend to bring to light principles, nutrients and therapies that will help the reader find good health, and to provide guidance to judge what is true or false in the varied health claims that many information peddlers want us to believe. Unlike other nutrition books, I include some physiological, pathological, therapeutical, social and political settings in which nutrition works.
 
BOOKS
I began organizing what I learned about nutrition into a document for my own use, and over the years it morphed into an orthomolecular nutrition textbook. For those who don’t need HONEST NUTRITION, I am writing PRE-PAIN, a more practical book for those who want to prevent the pain and degeneration of aging. Until that is available, read WELLNESS PIECE BY PIECE by Pat Sullivan.
My passion now is to finish writing NUTRITION BABEL, in which I intend to tell how lavishly the experts blather, prattle, chatter and babble bout what we should eat, and how much we miss because research and publicity are misdirected.
 
CAUTION: Self-treatment can be dangerous. Consult with your medical doctor about the use of nutritional information from any source. This you can count on: there are errors in this book. Information here needs to be confirmed, correlated, augmented and applied by a medical doctor. Where I have reported an herbal treatment, I have seldom included information on how much to take or how to take it. A medical doctor should be able to advise different individuals about unexpected conditions.
We can hope, can’t we? The fact is, many doctors will not know the answers. Many times, what could be effective treatment will fail for lack of professional guidance. Frustrated people will try self-treatment. Most of the time, no harm will be done, nor good. Sometimes self-treatment will result in harm.
 
APOLOGIES
I try to make this book easy to use, and I resist using standard forms just because “that’s the way it’s done.” I always hate to change, but do so when necessary. My use of English language is still more “farm boy” than “professor.” I learned to say “creek” instead of “crick” when I left the farm, but I still use “crick” when I want to. I don’t try to be politically correct. I use the generic “he” and “him” rather than use clumsy compound words, because everyone knows that means both genders, and I don’t care much if I offend some overly-critical p