I’ve recently given up coffee to see if it makes any difference to a slightly irritable bowel. After a few days, I can say that I think I have derived some benefit from abstaining from coffee.
The reason I gave up coffee was because I thought caffeine might be exacerbating my problem. But I have compensated by drinking tea, in the belief that tea has much less caffeine than coffee. Is this correct? Or should I aim to cut out caffeine entirely?
Thanks in advance for thoughts on this matter.
I read the other day the ginseng actually gives you a lift, not unlike that derived from coffee. I always thought the putative benefits of ginseng were only gradually realised after longterm consumption. Am I wrong?
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Alcohol will generally extract all important ingredients from an herb.
To make a tincture, combine four ounces of powered or cut herb with one pinet
of alcohol such as vodka, brandy, gin, or rum. Shake daily, allowing the
herbs to extract for about two weeks. Let the herbs settle, then pour off
the tincture, straining out the powder through a fine cloth or filter.
If you do not want to digest the alcohol, stir the required amount of
tincture into a quarter cup of boiling water to evaporate the alcohol.
If you are specifically extracting herbs for their alkaloid content,
substitute apple-cider vinegar in place of the alcohol.
This procedure should work for any herbal root, leaves, etc.
Well Being Journal, Issaquah WA., May 1994
The Well Being Journal (March/April 1994) reported that 37 of 49 top
officials of the FDA who left the agency moved into high corporate
positions with the companies they had regulated, and 150 FDA officials
owned stock in the companies they were suppose to represent. Recently the
Seattle Post Intelligencer (April 21,1994) disclosed that top FDA
officials who have shepherded the bovine somatotropin drug (rbGH, or dairy
cow growth hormone) through the FDA approval process were previously on
the payroll of Monsanto, the drug manufacturer. "Three top-level FDA
officials who helped develop the FDA’s formal opinion that the drug was
safe was paid by Monsanto for legal or scientific work on the drug before
they joined the FDA."
Rep. Geroge Brown Jr., (D-CA) and two other Congressman have asked
for a General Accounting Office investigation of the matter.
"The appearance of collision with a private company and conflict of
interest are too blatant to ignore."
Readers are encouraged to phone or write and request support for the
investigation from their representatives.
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looking for mail order nutritional supplement suppliers in canada us
and abroad.
any help appreciated.
thank you
steve z
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Steven Zikopoulos <sziko…@ccs.carleton.ca>
-> From: lo…@crl.com (Louis Roberts)
-> Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative,sci.med
-> Subject: ?? Help with Garlic Supplements ??
-> Date: 20 Jun 1994 16:39:18 -0700
-> Message-ID: <2u59b6$…@crl.crl.com>
-> Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: gues
->
->
-> I recently received the ensuing information. It addresses the subjec
-> so well that I reproduced it in full except for the "order form" whic
-> will be E-Mailed to any one requesting it. —- Best of Health, loge
-> (Your tollerance is asked for any OCR errors not corrected)
-> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-> Dear Friend,
->
-> There’s a simple way you may be able to greatly improve
-> your health — but the chances are you will never do it.
->
-> It’s by eating 2-3 cloves of fresh garlic every day.
-> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-> Scientists’ mouths are gaping open in astonishment at what
-> garlic can do for your health. Hundreds of medical studies have
-> been published on garlic in the past ten years. They suggest it
-> may greatly improve your health, by significantly lowering your
-> risk for two deadly diseases:
->
-> * The U.S. Department of Aariculture co-sponsored a world-wide
-> conference on garlic. They concluded garlic may help prevent
-> two of the most serious diseases we face here in America.
->
-> I have a copy of the report on this conference. I wish yov
-> could see it. 38 studies were presented. I am pretty well-read
-> on nutrition — I’ve had letters published on nutrition in two
-> of the world’s four leading medical journals — but even I found
-> their conclusions astonishing.
->
-> Unfortunately, FDA rules forbid me from sending you this
-> report. I cannot even tell you the health conditions’ names.
-> But I think any person who reads this research would want to
-> immediately start taking garlic. You’d want your loved ones,
-> your friends, anyone you care about to take it as well.
->
-> * The National Cancer Institute published a fascinating
-> study on garlic. (Journal National Cancer Institute, Jan. 18,
-> 1989, Vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 162-164.) It was an epidemiological
-> study (i.e. a population study), so you can not draw causal
-> conclusions from it. But results were so strong that the NCI
-> is now spending some $20 million to study garlic and other
-> cruciferous vegetables.
->
-> * Nutrition Research reported that people who took large
-> amounts of garlic had 13 times less of one of the worst killing
-> diseases in the world. (Nutrition Research, 1990, Vol. 10, pp.
-> 937-948) No wonder: according to a top medical doctor from the
-> University of California, Berkeley, garlic contains "incredible
-> levels of one of the most powerful agents ever discovcrcd to
-> fight this disease.’
->
-> * And Cardiology in Practice says "garlic has an important
-> role to play" in the prevention of still another disease that
-> has killed millions of Americans. This article says, "garlic
-> appears uniquely competent," in preventing this disease.
-> (Cardiology in Practice, March 1989, pp. 30-35)
->
-> I have around 50 garlic studies and articles in my files,
-> They are published in leading medical journals, such as Journal
-> of the American Medical Asscciation … Preventive Medicine
-> Journal … Medical Hypotheses … Journal of the National
-> Medical Association.
->
-> They all come to the same basic conclusion: garlic is
-> certainly good for, you — and probably is great for you. It is
-> generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the government — and may
-> protect you against the worst, most common ailments of aging.
-> That is why leading scientists now make it part of their daily
-> health regime.
->
-> One famous garlic supplement was 10.8% alcohol
-> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-> When I started researching garlic supplements, I was
-> shocked. Most garlic supplements are not just garlic. They also
-> contain lactose, fat, whey, sugar, and other things that may
-> harm people.
->
-> One leading brand — Kyolic liquid garlic — was 10.8%
-> alcohol! (After this was made public, they changed their
-> formulation to only 2-3% alcohol.)
->
-> Nature’s Way garlic was 67.2% fat. Arizona Natural
-> Allirich garlic was 52.87% fat. Xwai — the biggest selling
-> garlic in the world — contains sugar, talc, shellac and glazing
-> white beeswax. You get nearly twice as much fillers and
-> additives as you do garlic!
->
-> That wasn’t the worst part though. You may know that
-> garlic contains certain key ingredients. These ingredients are
-> thought to give you garlic’s health benefits. But none of the
-> popular garlic supplements could certify that they contain these
-> key ingredients!
->
-> For example, some of these supplements had no allicin. Yet
-> many scientists believe allicin is the main ingredient
-> responsible for garlic’s amazing health benefits.
->
-> I wanted a garlic supplement that met three requirements:
-> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-> 1. It must not contain fillers that are commonly known to harm
-> you. No whey, sugar, fat, alcohol, lactose, yeast or sodium.
->
-> 2. It must guarantee you’re getting the key garlic ingredients,
-> and it must certify the amounts. Not just the amount of garlic,
-> but the precise ingredients in it. Vitamin supplements do that.
-> Your garlic supplement should do no less.
->
-> 3. You should not have to worry about any strong smell (which
-> keeps 95% of Americans from enjoying garlic’s health benefits).
->
-> The only scientifically proven garlic supplement I’ve found:
-> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-> Late last year one of the leading scientists in natural
-> health solved this problem for me. This scientist heads the
-> American Institute for Biosocial Research (AIBR) — a research
-> bureau in the State of Washington. They had completed a study
-> on garlic supplements — and found that one supplement stood
-> head and shoulders above the rest.
->
-> It is the only supplement that meets all three of my
-> requirements. It contains no fat, whey, sugar, lactose,
-> alcohol, yeast or sodium. No garlic supplement can totally get
-> rid of the odor for everyone, but this supplement comes closer
-> than any other I’ve seen: for 99% of all people, it leaves NO
-> after odor. And it is the only garlic supplement that certifies
-> the amounts of its five key elements.
->
-> This garlic is called High Seirra Garlic. The seeds for it
-> are grown near the high mountain areas of Lake Tahoe and Bend,
-> Oregon. No pesticides or chemicals are used: it’s hard to
-> imagine soil more rich and uncontaminated.
->
-> Most garlic supplements are processed with extreme heat for
-> hours or even days, but not High Seirra Garlic. Each batch
-> undergoes a 30-minute cool-drv process. It doesn’t destroy
-> nutrients like the other supplements, it helps preserve them, To
-> my knowledge it preserves more of garlic’s natural allicin
-> content than any other supplement.
->
-> *** Continued in following message ***
So does Onion – Same botany genus – Allium cepa L.
Nei Brito – Pharmacognosy Dept., F.Farm., UFRJ, Rio, Brazil
Sec.21!NBr…@ax.apc.org
I am seeking a mailorder pharmacy offshore such as Bermuda, Trinidad,
Mexico,etc. who ships prescription medication, with a prescription from your
doctor, through the mail…..anyone have any leads? I remember reading about
this in the past but it has been a while………
In article <1994Jun27.180504.6…@sq.sq.com>,
Nancy Fisher <na…@sq.sq.com> wrote:
>Does anybody know if reverse osmosis water leeches minerals from our bodies.
It doesn’t.
>I have been told that distilled water has this effect so I switched to
>reverse osmosis.
Whoever told you this is misinformed.
>I have now been told that because reverse osmosis water
>is de-mineralized it will also cause mineral deficiencies. I would
>appreciate any help.
Drink all you like, distilled or otherwise.
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Steve Dyer
d…@ursa-major.spdcc.com
This is a message I feel I have to write. For years I have read many
things about the "bad" stuff for you. I cut out many things from my
diet. I cut out so many I lost too much weight. I became fearfull of
many foods with additives. I have to say after all I have been through
that best advice I could ever give anyone is to EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT
and don’t worry about anything. Better to be relaxed and happy than
uptight and fearfull all the time. I think that good health is good but
when you start scaring people then it should be stopped. Alot of what I
read I now relize is not propperly researched material. I was 150 lbs
and went to 115 lbs. I now am eating all the "bad stuff " again just to
try to gain weight and my health back. Any thoughts?