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| How about vitamin E and cancer? High vitamin E intake
has been shown to reduce colon cancer by 68% in women. Low vitamin E
intake increases your risk of all kinds of cancer by 50%. [99]
In addition, low vitamin E intake has been linked to weak immune systems, Alzheimer's disease [100] and even PMS. [101], [102]. Smart people take vitamin E every day. And if you live in a polluted big city environment, taking vitamin E is Essential. The Power Triad of Vitamin E alone is not enough The best results come from using several antioxidants at once. Harvard researchers discovered that women getting lots of vitamin E had a drop in cardiovascular disease of 34%. Those who got a lot of beta carotene cut heart disease by 22%. And those who took a lot of vitamin C cut it by 20%. But when all three antioxidants were combined, heart disease was slashed by nearly 50%! The same was true for strokes. High intake of all three antioxidants reduced thc risk of strokes by a startling 54% [103] The same was true for cataracts.[104] You might not be worried about cataracts now. But if you're planning on living to age 75, you should know that almost half of North Americans over age 75 have cataracts. [67], [105]. What causes cataracts? Free radicals. [106] Studies show that people who took vitamin E supplements had 56% fewer cataracts. People who took vitamin C supplements showed a 70% reduction. But people taking at least 400 IU of vitamin E and 300 mg of vitamin C supplements daily were largely free of cataracts. [107] Even arthritis has been shown to improve with large daily doses of vitamins A, C and E and the mineral selenium. [108] Selenium If you're a woman, selenium can help protect you against breast cancer. According to Dr. Richard Passwater in his powerful book, The New Super Nutrition: "This year 115,000 women will learn they have breast cancer. Yet the evidence indicates that breast cancer can be reduced more dramatically than any other cancer thanks to antioxidant" [109]
Finally the first really impressive, double-blind, placebo-controlled, gold-standard research project on selenium was just released, giving us the first real proof of the power of selenium to help prevent cancer. According to a study by Dr. Larry Clark of the University of Arizona, 200 micrograms (mcg.) daily of selenium cut the rate of:
Are you taking at least 200 mcg. of selenium daily? Not if you're taking the U.S. brand One-A-Day vitamins. To get 200 mcg. of selenium, you'd need to take TWENTY One-A-Day tablets daily! Chromium Chromium? Until a few months ago, I had no idea I even needed chromium. I also didn't know that because of over-processed foods, 90% of us don't get enough chromium in our diets. [111] If you don't get at least 200 micrograms of chromium daily, your insulin levels soar and can cause a whole series of problems, including diabetes, [112] weight gain, heart disease, and even cancer. One-A-Day vitamins contain only 10 micrograms of chromium. Are you getting enough chromium in your diet? Zinc 90% of older Americans do not even consume the RDA for zinc. Yet zinc
is an important nutrient that can strengthen and fortify your immune
system. Dr. Ananda S. Prasad, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Wayne State
University School of Medicine and an authority on And men, don't forget the power of zinc to help you maintain a healthy normal prostate gland. [114] Studies show that 85% of men with enlarged prostates can find relief with adequate intakes of zinc. Deficiencies of zinc can also cause infertility and decreased sex drive. Folic Acid Recent newspaper headlines have been touting the power of folic acid to help prevent heart attacks and birth defects. Folic acid is also essential in maintaining proper cell repair. Each of your cells is under bombardment from "free radicals" every second of every day. If the cell DNA is not repaired properly cancer can result. A deficiency of folic acid increases the likelihood that cancer will spread. [115] Did you get your folic acid today? Vitamin B12 Even a little deficiency can be deadly According to Dr. Michael Colgan: "You require only a few micrograms (millionths of a gram) of Bl2 each
day. The RDA is only 2 micrograms. Your blood contains only about 5
nanograms (billionths of a gram) per liter less than a speck of
dust. You couldn't see that amount even under a microscope ... Yet
if you lack that infinitesimal speck, your whole body declines into the
serious disease of pernicious anemia, which gradually destroys the myelin
sheaths protecting your nerves; leading to blindness; insanity and death
.... The same applies to other micro-nutrients. It is still a mystery to
science why such a minute amount of these substances can hold the keys to
health, to sanity even to life itself. But But our ability to get enough B12 from our food decreases as we get older. Up to 50% of all Americans after age 60 lose the ability to absorb vitamin B12 from food. This makes supplementation necessary. How necessary? Remember our discussion about Alzheimer's disease? I said that 20-30% of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia actually had a deficiency of one specific vitamin. That vitamin is B12. When given simple B12 supplements, the symptoms of Alzheimer's and dementia disappeared. What's the message? Take your nutritional supplements every day! Your fellow baby boomers who refuse to heed this advice may very well spend their future and their life savings on endless visits to doctors and hospitals for quadruple bypass surgeries, radical mastectomies, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for malignant prostates. Many of them might end up drooling and babbling in some nursing home - being bathed and fed and diapered like babies. You have a different future to look forward to. If you follow the S.A.F.E. formula, you could make it through the danger zone to live healthy, strong, and pain-free for years beyond the average person. Great people in ages past, when life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today, were able to beat the odds and live long, productive lives. Plato lived to 80, Leo Tolstoy to 82, Thomas Jefferson to 83, Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin to 84, Isaac Newton to 85, Michelangelo to 89, and Frank Lloyd Wright lived to 93. Just think what you could accomplish with one hundred years or more! Well, I hope that something I've said in these few pages can sink deep into that place where you make important decisions and cause you to resolve to live a longer, more healthy life. If you found this information valuable, please call whomever shared this with you and thank them for caring enough to think about you. This is your friend, Robert Allen, thanking you for sharing this time with me. May God bless you to live a happy healthy and abundant life. | |
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