Posts Tagged ‘vitamin c’
Dietary Iron
June 1st, 2010
FACTS ABOUT IRON
Iron is important for the production of red blood cells which prevent anaemia.
Women need more Iron than men, mainly because of blood loss during menstruation.
The recommended daily allowance for women is 12 mg, whereas men's is 10 mg daily.
Iron is best gained from the foods you eat. A good diet should supply all the necessary vitamins and minerals which
your body requires.
Unless you have a serious condition which would benefit from supplements, then supplements of Iron
should generally be avoided. Iron supplements can be problematic: With some people they can have a constipating effect.
There is a danger too, with iron ...
Lupus
May 27th, 2010
Lupus.
People with this condition need to be treated by a doctor or an alternative medical therapist. The suggestions
given here could be discussed with your health professional.
Lupus is a condition which affects the immune system. Many people have a genetic weakness which predisposes them to
getting the disease, but there is usually an outside trigger of an environmental or emotional nature which causes the
immune system to become weakened dramatically, which, in turn, leads to the onset of the disease. With lupus,
the immune system literally goes hay-wire: instead of doing its job of attacking outside invaders, the immune system
begins to also attack the ...
Preventing Macular Degeneration
May 27th, 2010
Preventing Macular Degeneration
Keep your intake of Vitamin C to 1000 mg if you are near-sighted. A maintenance dose of 500 mg a day is probably best, unless you are treating a specific life-threatening disease like cancer, or multiple sclerosis, or Parkinson's disease.
High doses of Vitamin C might be linked to some cases of retinal detachment in near-sighted people, although this is
not conclusive.A high dose is considered to be more than 3000 milligrams of Vitamin C.
Vitamin A is necessary - up to 25,000 international units daily. 8,700 international units daily is a safe
maintenance dose. Carrots, pumpkin, broccoli, apricots, rockmelon, swede, kumara ...
Calcium and Colon Cancer
April 21st, 2010
Calcium Helps Prevent Cancer:
The relationship between Calcium and Colon Cancer has been proven.
People who have an abundant intake of calcium-rich foods in their diets tend to have less colon cancer than those whose intake is less than 800 milligrams per day.
The RDA, or recommended daily allowance of calcium is 800 mg daily, but this amount seems conservative in the light of studies which show that a higher intake of calcium than this does protect against many diseases. It is recommended that you try to have more than 1000 mg daily, half of which should come from your high fiber greens, ...
Baking Soda and Maple Syrup Cure for Cancer
April 8th, 2010
What is the baking soda and maple syrup cure for cancer? It would seem to be an alternative method for treating cancer and other disease which is gaining in popularity.
This is not a recipe which I have tried myself, although I must say that it sounds very appealing because of the maple syrup component of the 'treatment': It brings to mind the old-fashioned sweet we used to call 'hokey-pokey'. This was a delicious caramel-toffee-like sweet made of treacle, or golden syrup, butter, sugar and baking soda. The baking soda, which was added to the other ingredients once they were ...
