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Wow! If you have or know of a child with learning, cognitive behavioral and movement disorders, please check this out! In the Oxford-Durham Study in 2005, researchers at Oxford University supplemented kids with learning, cognitive, behavioral and movement disorders. The kids were 5-12 years old. They gave the kids high potency EPA/DHA (omega fatty acids) in the form of capsules for 3-6 months. All children improved. In 3-6 months, kids made 13.5 months of reading progress/gained skill set, gained 6.5 months of progression in spelling ability. The researchers at Oxford found that in kids with ADHD, the omegas fatty acids improved symptom BETTER than Ritalin....with no side effects. Wow! What Omegas do you use for your family? We chose these plant-based Omegas because there are no fish--so no yucky taste or smell and no contaminants. Fish oil come from the fish fat, which is where all their toxins are stored. I'm happy to chat with anyone who would like more information about these plant-based omega blend capsules. They are way smaller than fish oil capsules. These plant based omegas have been shown to reach optimal omega levels in human subjects TWICE AS FAST as fish oil capsules. You won't be disappointed, whether you are struggling with arthritic joint pain, anxiety, depression, heart disease, brain fog, learning and cognitive issues or want to focus on prevention and cardiovascular health, the Omegas are a KEY part of your routine! 
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I can't remember the last time I went to most of these places, but we do occasionally stop at a Subway when on a road trip. Most often we get a veggie sandwich. I've been to Buffalo Wild Wings maybe twice (never again!) But Starbucks??? Olive Garden??? Check out the D's and F's on the chart below!    What does "clinical" mean when partnered with "research" or "study"? Clinical means that the research is done using human beings. Not rats. Not monkeys. Not in a test tube. Actual humans to see what actually happens when a human takes the product!
That means no guessing that if something happens in a test tube or to an animal with a non human metabolism that it will also happen exactly the same in humans. Period. I have been recommending a product called JuicePlus+ for the past 28 years. In the beginning it was because I personally experienced several noticeable health improvements in myself after taking it. When I took my children off multivitamins and had them start eating JuicePlus+ they stopped going to the doctor because they stopped catching whatever bug was going through the school system. It was amazing! And then the company decided to commit to allowing JuicePlus+ to be used in clinical research studies at major university research centers around the world. Since 1994, when it was first proven that JuicePlus+ gets absorbed into the bloodstream, there have been over 40 studies published in peer reviewed medical journals. Having said that, I want to acknowledge that over the last 29 years there have been several "copycat" products that try to compare themselves to JuicePlus+. Whenever one of these wannabes show up, I always see if someone finally came out with something that could come close to the efficacy of JuicePlus+. To date, no one has. One of them, Balance of Nature, claims they are "based in science" and has three "studies" posted on their website. They apparently were done in Russia, not on humans, but on rats. None of them were peer reviewed and they certainly are not published in medical journals. Another one, Fruit Festiv, is sold at Costco uses GMO produce. Neither one of these two products has a food label as JuicePlus+ does. They have a supplement label, meaning the regulators do not consider it whole food. They also do not allow third party testing of their powders (for contaminants, fillers, etc.) as JuicePlus+ does. So I have stuck to eating and recommending JuicePlus+ as the only plant powders with actual peer reviewed clinical research. You can check out the studies and the university research centers where they were conducted by clicking the button below.. Most importantly, you can see the actual journals where the studies were published. In April,1994, Newsweek broke the news that fruits and vegetables were chock full of way more than vitamins and minerals. Researchers had discovered there were literally thousands of compounds in fruits and vegetables called phytochemicals. Phyto from the Greek, meaning "plant".
"Having shown that Mom was right about chicken soup curing colds, and cranberry juice helping bladder infections, scientists are catching up on an even more important front: It is whole foods--especially fruits and vegetables that pack the disease preventing wallop. That's because they harbor a whole ratatouille of compounds that have never seen the inside of a vitamin bottle for the simple reason that scientists have not, until very recently, even known they existed, let alone brewed them into pills," wrote Sharon Begley in 1994. Ironically, I had already been eating fruits and vegetable in capsules for just over a year at that time and had experienced amazing health improvements that never happened when I took vitamin pills. Did you know that only 13 vitamins are in a multivitamin pill? And what exactly is a vitamin? They are all associated with a disease of deficiency. For example, scurvy happens when there is a lack of vitamin C. Beriberi is caused by lack of vitamin B1. Why only 13 vitamins when there are tens of thousands of phytochemicals in plants, also known as micronutrients? And since all of the vitamins and minerals in a multivitamin were originally found in fruits and veggies (except for B12 which comes mainly from animal foods like meat and dairy).k The "age of discovery" for vitamins ran from around 1912 until 1947. It ground to a halt then, after the discovery of "the wonder drug" penicillin. Thus began the rise of pharmaceuticals, which dominate the landscape today. Another trend of the first half of the 1900s was the industrial revolution. In the 1930s there were 3 million family farms. Everything came from plants: food, cleaning products & soaps. At that time "better living through chemistry" did not exist. Rates for heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disease and diabetes were minuscule. As people left farms to work in factories in cities, they no longer grew their own food and processed foods made their climb to prominence. Eating whole fruits and veggies declined as the stats for heart disease, cancer, diabetes and autoimmune conditions exploded. Fast forward to 1990s and technology had finally caught up to allow discovery of micronutrients. As researcher Mitra Ray, PhD Stanford University says, "science doesn't discover the most important molecules first, it discovers the easiest molecules first. Vitamin C is a large molecule that early 1900s technology could see." So let's compare multivitamins to whole food. The picture on the right shows a vitamin & mineral supplement label and an apple. The phytonutrients listed next to the apple are only the first 400 on page 1 of 17 pages listing the approximately 10,000 nutrients in the apple. Trying to compensate for not eating veggies with 13 vitamin and a handful of minerals is not even close to providing the combined nutrition from tens of thousands of micro nutrients that are provided by fruits and veggies. Micro is really the operative word here. There are over 60 trillion cells in the body! About 64,000 cells could fit on the head of a sewing needle. Cells are where all of the action is taking place in the body. Nutrients go in, waste comes out. Molecules that are too big cannot get inside of a cell and they are transported to our elimination stations so we can pee or poop them out. I have noticed this phenomenon first hand. I have never been a regular synthetic vitamin taker, but many years ago, when I felt a cold coming on, I would take chewable vitamin C pills. On days I ate the vitamin C, my pee would be neon bright yellow. It always perplexed me. Until I discovered and decided to try some powdered fruits and vegetables in capsules. The first day I took them I was careful to check out the color of my pee. It was clear. A little voice said to me, "if it's not here in the toilet, it must still be inside me!" A couple of years later, my observation was confirmed when a pilot study on the bioavailabilty of the nutrients in the powders proved that antioxidants like betacarotene (the precursor to Vitamin A in the body) and lycopene and lutein and Vitamin E became elevated in the bloodstream. An added bonus was that lipid peroxides (oxidized LDL cholesterol that leads to coronary heart disease) dropped by 75% in just one week! Since that pilot study in 1996, there have been many more studies published in medical journals using the plant powders or a placebo to do double blind research. There are now more than 40 studies and counting. So what about the bioavailability of multivitamin pills? I just did another check to see if I could find any research or proof that synthetic vitamins get into the bloodstream. Nothing. If you can find a study that proves that synthetic vitamins are readily absorbed into the bloodstream PLEASE send it my way! I HAVE seen research where people taking certain vitamins had worse health outcomes than the people taking a placebo and the studies had to be halted early. In another post, I will talk about the different "families" of micronutrients and how they help the body. Until then, here's to your great health! Interesting article about CDC's apparently contradictory information about natural immunity.
Link is below. https://brownstone.org/articles/why-does-the-cdc-recognize-natural-immunity-for-chicken-pox-but-not-covid/ A study published April 2021 in the Journal of Nutrition & Food Science explored the diets of countries around the world and found that those who ate the most fruits and veggies had lower cases and deaths from Covid. Chemo-Preventive Effect of Vegetables and Fruits Consumption on the COVID-19 Pandemic www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057745/  I recently came across a piece by New York Times writer Jane E. Brody with the headline “Muscle Loss due to aging can be reversed”. Brody, who is 80, says she has a condition known as sarcopenia, or age related muscle loss. That sent me to my bookshelf looking for a book I hadn’t thought about in over 20 years called Biomarkers: the 10 Keys to Prolonging Vitality, by William Evans, PH.D. and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D. professors of Nutrition and Medicine at Tufts University. Published in 1991, the authors coined the name “sarcopenia” from the Greek sarco, meaning “of the flesh”, and penia, meaning “reduction in amount or need.” While reading Brody’s story, it struck me that I hadn’t seen the word sarcopenia mentioned anywhere since I first read Biomarkers back in the early 90s. According to Brody, sarcopenia, or the gradual loss of skeletal muscle begins as early as age 40! Kept unchecked, this can lead to an astounding loss of 50% of lean mass by age 70. Why is this so catastrophic? Because there are people in nursing homes only because they need help getting off the toilet! Dr. Jeremy Watson, a geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine says, “Sarcopenia is one of the most important causes of functional decline and loss of independence in older adults.” So when was the last time your doctor talked to you about preventing sarcopenia? Ha ha, me too! Never! But good news! No matter how old you are (or young) you can start a weight lifting routine to prevent and reverse it! Check out this simple workout with Emily Skye! https://www.health.com/fitness/emily-skye-lower-body-workout-video  |
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