Jack Challem
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 The graph below, compiled from data on a u.s. department of agriculture Web site, reflects the percentages of people who do not consume the minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals recommended by the government. Because the government's standards are cautious and conservative, however, there's good reason to believe that the percentages of people with deficiencies are even higher.
Still other factors take a toll on our neuronutrients. |
David R. Montgomery
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 In 1901 Whitney was appointed chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Soils. The new bureau launched a massive national soil and land survey, published detailed soil survey maps for use by farmers, and exuded confidence in the nation's dirt, believing that all soils contained enough inorganic elements to grow any crop. "The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the Nation possesses. It is the one resource that cannot be exhausted; that cannot be used up. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Scientists at Rutgers University and the u.s. department of agriculture conducted a joint study on animals, and found that the compound -- called pterostilbene -- lessened pre-cancerous lesions and inhibited genes involved in inflammation. Researchers presented the study at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in March.
"This study underscores the need to include more berries in the diet, especially blueberries," said study leader Bandaru Reddy, Ph.D., a professor in the chemical biology department at Rutgers. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Accessed June 2005.
14. u.s. department of agriculture (USDA). (1992). The Food Guide Pyramid. Home and Garden Bulletin No. 252. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
15. Kurtzweil, P. (1993). "Nutrition Facts" to help consumers eat smart. FDA Consumer 27(4), 22-27'.
16. Kurtzweil, P. (1998). An FDA guide to dietary supplements. FDA Consumer 32(5), 28-35.
17. Institute of Medicine (IOM). (1994). How should the Recommended Dietary Allowances be revised? National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
18. National Research Council (NRC), Food and Nutrition Board. (1986). |
Mark Schapiro
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 The Blowback
The effect of this rejection has been disastrous in American farm country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service reports that in 1996, prior to the widespread introduction of GMOs, the United States exported 3.15 million metric tons of corn to the then-fifteen member states of the European Union. That accounted for 82 percent of European corn imports. By 1997, that figure was starting to drop rapidly; by 2003, it had plunged to 37,000 metric tons and by 2005 had dropped to 33,000 metric tons—barely enough corn to fill a single shipload. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 A program sponsored by the u.s. department of agriculture, meant to reduce a domestic cotton surplus and to benefit rural farm families economically, initiated a cottage industry of mattress making.
Participating low-income families, working in small communal workshops, received fifty pounds of raw cotton and ten yards of cotton ticking (fabric) per mattress to be produced. Making the mattress itself involved opening the bales, fluffing or crudely carding the cotton, closing the mattress, and beating the finished product. |
Mark Schapiro
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| In their nomination papers, Anaya cited numerous studies, including those by the EPA, the Extension Service of the u.s. department of agriculture, the International Agency for Research into Cancer, the World Health Organization, and Mexico's own National Institute of Ecology, suggesting lindane's toxicity as a disrupter of the liver and the nervous system in animals and as a possible contributor to breast and other cancers in human beings. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| The foods were consumed by subjects in the 1994 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes of Individuals conducted by the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA) [77]; similar functions have been reported by others [76, 78].
The most straightforward explanation for the effect of fat and energy density on human food intake is that humans tend to eat a constant volume of food [49, 79]. Implicit in this explanation is a notion that humans do not possess (or use) physiological-behavioral mechanisms that would be necessary for the precise regulation of energy balance [80]. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Belts-ville Human Nutrition Research Center found that cinnamon contains certain water-soluble compounds—known collectively as polyphenols—that can increase glucose metabolism, which helps lower blood sugar levels and fight free-radical damage. Cinnamon can also help reduce lipid levels while improving glucose metabolism, which is an ideal combination for fighting metabolic problems and cardiovascular disease. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| S155-S157.
53. u.s. department of agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. (1995). The Healthy Eating Index. CNPP-1. USDA/CNPP, Washington, DC.
54. American Dietetic Association, American Diabetes Association. (2007). Choose Your Foods: Weight Management. American Dietetic Association,. Chicago, IL.
55. Kurtzweil, P. (1993). "Daily Values" encourage healthy diet. FDA Consumer 27(4), 28-32.
56. Cook, A. J., and Friday, J. E. (2007). Pyramid servings intakes in the United States 1999-2002, 1 Day. |
| Acknowledgments
This work was supported by NIH grants HL54776 and DK75030 and contract 58-1950-9-001 from the u.s. department of agriculture Research Service.
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2. Cleeman, J. I., and Lenfant, C. (1987). New guidelines for the treatment of high blood cholesterol in adults from the National Cholesterol Education Program. From controversy to consensus. Circulation 76, 960-962.
3. (1994). National Cholesterol Education Program. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Significantly, patients also experienced an increase in both supraventricular and supraventricular plus ventricular ectopic heartbeats. The u.s. department of agriculture concluded from this study that recommended dietary allowance of 320 mg per day seems correct, but that 130 mg per day was too low. They also suggested that people who live in soft water areas, those taking diuretics, and/or those predisposed to magnesium loss or ectopic beats may require additional magnesium in their diets.
The incidence of magnesium deficiency has been on the rise in recent years. |
| In a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study conducted by the u.s. department of agriculture, twenty-two postmenopausal women were admitted to a hospital metabolic ward, where they ate a diet of conventional food that contained either less than one half, or more than the recommended dietary allowance for magnesium (320 mg per day). Patients' heartbeats were continually monitored for twenty-one hours, and magnesium levels were analyzed in red blood cells, blood plasma, and urine. |
David Steinman
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 Having found ginger to be a COX-2 inhibitor, Schulick, a master herbalist with twenty-five years of experience, scoured all the available medical databases, including the National Library of Medicine and the u.s. department of agriculture, for premiere herbal candidates to combat inflammation generated by cancer. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| It also serves as a coenzyme for several different enzymes.
The u.s. department of agriculture reports that most Americans fail to consume enough chromium in their diets. In fact, most diets contain less than 60 percent of the minimum suggested amount (50 micrograms [ug or meg]) of chromium daily. |
Mark Sircus
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 The evidence is ironclad and according to the u.s. department of agriculture J994 Continuing Survey of Food, intakes by individuals, the mean magnesium intake by males age 9 and older was 323 mg/day ?far below today's RDA of 420 mg/ day. Similarly, for women older than 9, the mean intake was 228 mg/day ?again, significantly below the RDA of 320 mg/day. The proportion of individuals consuming their RDA of magnesium is very low thus it is essential that magnesium be used supplementally to bring levels up to proper balance, and as a primary medical intervention. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Richard Anderson, in a study with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, found that cinnamon can improve glucose metabolism in fat cells by twenty-fold.181 Of the forty-nine herbs, spices, and medicinal plant extracts they studied on glucose utilization, they found that cinnamon was the most bioactive.182 Cinnamon has a key substance called methyl hydroxy chalcon polymer (MHCP) that stimulates glucose uptake. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Department of Health and Human Services and u.s. department of agriculture. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 6th ed. (2005, January). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
48. Lichtenstein, A. H., Appel, L. J., Brands, M., Carnetho, M., Daniels, S., Franch, H. A., Franklin, B., Kris-Etherton, P., Harris, W. S., Howard, B., Karanja, N., Lefevre, M., Rudel, L., Sacks, F., Van Horn, L., Winston, M., and Wylie-Rosett, J. (2006). Diet and lifestyle recommendations revision 2006: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee. Circulation. 114, 82-96.
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| USDA Food Guide
To complement the Dietary Guidelines, two examples of eating patterns have been developed, which include the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA) Food Guide and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Eating Plan (see below). These two similar eating patterns are designed to integrate dietary recommendations into a healthy way to eat and are presented in the Dietary Guidelines to provide examples of how nutrient-focused recommendations can be expressed in terms of food choices. (The Food Guide is available at http://www.health. |
David Steinman
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| Initially, they met opposition from the u.s. department of agriculture, which argued that there was no definition for natural beef. It took two years to hammer out a memo of understanding with the USDA on a definition for the natural label and to put together an audit trail that would ensure the integrity of their product.
In a very real way, family ranchers are helping to maintain wildlife habitat, Mel Coleman said in an interview. "Some 70 percent of all wildlife lives on ranch and farm lands. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The u.s. department of agriculture has completely ignored these complaints for four years. However, now this controversy has reached such a state with the mass media covering it and retail stores across the country starting to drop Horizon and Aurora Organic, that the USDA is finally making noises that they will clear up this situation and promulgate federal regulations that actually require the animals to be pastured. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 S. Department of Agriculture, food pyramid... for adults and kids, provides dietary guidelines and advice about making smart choices from every food group.
About Pediatrics — Nutrition for Children www.pediatrics.about.com/od/nutrition/Nutrition_for_Children.htm This site offers a wide variety of articles and resources based on health and nutrition for kids.
Nutrition.gov www.nutrition.gov
Access to government info on food and nutrition for consumers.
FDA — Revealing Transfats www.fda.gov/ fdac/features/ 2003/503_fats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Questions about these policies should be directed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid website, which has the same answer for everyone: "Drink more milk."
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Authored by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. Permission to distribute or repost is granted, provided credit is given to Mike Adams at http://www.NewsTarget.com/013054. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 According to the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA), 63 percent of U.S. soybean acreage, 24 percent of corn acreage, and 64 percent of cotton acreage are planted with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).6
Medicinal plants constitute a group of crops presently gaining increasing popularity. To meet the demands of the growing markets for fresh and dried herbs and natural alternative medicine, better varieties of medicinal crops are constantly being produced. Until very recently the utilization of bio-technological tools has been very limited in medicinal plant as compared to other crops. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 S. Department of Agriculture, as presently configured, the responsibility for issuing such guidelines is much like inviting Al Capone to prepare your income tax returns.
But our medical organizations have also waffled when it comes to this subject. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And that problem, put bluntly, stems from the fact that we have known toxins in the food supply, we have a legalized prescription drug industry that kills 100,000 Americans each year (even according to the defenders of organized medicine), and our government regulators (the Food and Drug Administration and the u.s. department of agriculture) appear to be so deeply dedicated to promoting the very industries they're supposed to regulate that public safety has been all but abandoned. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Mad cow disease was recently confirmed in a cow in Alabama, according to two tests conducted by the u.s. department of agriculture. Even so, the USDA seems just as reluctant as usual to admit that U.S. herds continue to be infected with mad cow disease. Even though the results of this second test have been announced, there is a whole lot of spin from the USDA on trying to suppress the severity of this news -- so let me translate it into plain English for you.
First, this positive result is from the second test conducted on this particular cow in Alabama. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 According to the u.s. department of agriculture, added sugar in processed pseudofoods has increased by 30% since 1983. Similar numbers apply when it comes to the addition of sodium. As for poor-quality fats and oils, fast-food and chain restaurants are notorious for serving extraordinary amounts of these unhealthy, albeit tasty substances to their often unsuspecting customers. |
Mike Adams
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 Download the Honest Food Guide, free!
The u.s. department of agriculture currently pretends to offer objective, consumer-oriented nutritional advice through its well-known food guide pyramid. However, a bit of research into this subject shows that the food pyramid was actually constructed with the help of food industry giants. Not surprisingly, the food guide pyramid has more to do with pleasing the influential food lobbyists than providing useful nutritional advice to the U.S. public.
Since there is such a gap in this knowledge, I decided to create my own chart called The Honest Food Guide. |
Jack Challem
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 U.S. Department of Agriculture have shown that infection with the coxsackie virus, a common cause of sore throats and coldlike symptoms, combined with selenium deficiency, can lead to a viral infection of the heart and heart failure.
Heart failure can also be induced by cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs, including atorvastatin, lovastatin, prevastatin, and simvastatin. Statins inhibit a key enzyme involved in the body's production of cholesterol. |
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