Did you know 80% of people suffer from Zinc Deficiency? Zinc is deficient in most soils due to modern farming methods.Zinc is essential for the health of EVERY CELL in the body.
Signs of zinc deficiency include:
slow healing
acne
fertility problems
miscarriage
toxemia during pregnancy
birth defects
nerve damage
white spots on your nails
prostate problems
loss of taste/smell/appetite
delayed cellular maturity etc.
Zinc is a major component of sweat, and when sweating increases, so does zinc loss … therefore anyone involved in regular strenuous physical exercise needs extra zinc.Since zinc deficiency greatly increases the risk of prostate cancer, it is imperative for men to provide adequate amounts in their diet daily, and especially men who perspire heavily as a result of their work or athletic involvement.
The usual recommended range for optimal health is 15 to 60 mg per day.Each Shaklee Vita-Lea contains 7.5 mg of Zinc, and Shaklee’s Zinc tablets contain 15 mg of zinc and 35 mg of spirulina.
That due to excessive mineral loss in perspiration, they can lose from 50 to 4000 mg of calcium in just one basketball, football, soccer, or hockey game … so it is imperative for anyone who perspires heavily to supplement with extra Calcium/Magnesium.
Anyone who is already taking a “Brand X” calcium product needs to know about the superior quality of Shaklee’s Super Cal/Mag PLUS, which contains Calcium Citrate, Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Magnesium, Vitamin D, Phosphorus, Manganese, Copper and Zinc.The recommended adult dosage is 4 tablets daily … which contains calcium equivalent to 4 ¼ - 8oz glasses of milk.
Officials could do more to protect passengers from airborne disease, researchers contend. By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter
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-- As the global outbreak of SARS showed, dangerous infections can now spread from continent to continent in hours, thanks to modern jet travel. That speed of transmission may be made even easier because of poor air filtration in many planes, new research suggests. In fact, experts say 1 in every 7 large commercial jets still doesn't have HEPA filters in place that can help prevent passengers from breathing in airborne pathogens.
"It's not mandated and it probably should be required," said David Ozonoff, a professor of environmental health at Boston University School of Public Health. He is also the co-author of a commentary on a new study on airplane air quality, published in the March 12 issue of The Lancet.
For any given flight, risks of airborne infection are probably restricted to a pasenger's ability to pick up that nasty cold from the guy sitting in 24G, said Dr. Mark Gendreau, co-author of the study and a senior staff physician at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass.
He and Ozonoff agree that the threat of bioterrorism or a fast-moving pandemic, aided by air travel, remains a distinct possibility. People are traveling more than ever before, they note, and to more disparate locations. Approximately 1.8 billion people traveled on aircraft in 2004, and the number is expected to increase 6 percent each year until 2008. "There are a lot of people who travel, and more people traveling to developing countries where emergent infections seem to come out of," Gendreau said.
Back in the 1300s, it took three years for bubonic plague to get from southern Italy to Britain, Ozonoff noted. Today, it would take only hours. Furthermore, the interior of the average plane represents a closed environment that in many ways is ideal for disease transmission. For one thing, air is re-circulating and travelers are mixing with people from a wide geographic area.
The result? Passengers are vulnerable for the duration of the flight. "You can't move, so when the person next to you has an explosive cough or sneeze, you're out of luck," Ozonoff said. That much was confirmed by Gendreau's analysis of one planeload of passengers who were tragically impacted by SARS, the respiratory disease that killed more than 700 people and sickened more than 8,000 in a global epidemic in 2003.
Of 40 flights investigated for carrying SARS-infected passengers during the 2003 outbreak, five showed evidence of on-board transmission. One in particular -- a March 15, 2003 Air China flight from Hong Kong to Beijing -- accounted for 22 of the 37 people known to have contracted the disease following air travel, in a phenomenon the researchers called "superspreading."
That particular incidence was unusual, in that the flight was only three hours long and individuals sitting a full seven rows away from the "index" passenger became infected.
That's surprising, the researchers said, because airborne disease is most likely to be transmitted within two rows of a contagious passengers, on flights more than eight hours long.
In their review of the available literature, the authors unearthed documented cases of other airborne disease transmissions, including tuberculosis (the risk is about one in 1,000 when a symptomatic source is present), flu, and outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, which remain the most common. No common cold outbreaks have been reported, probably because the illness is so widespread it would be difficult to trace, they said.
But according to Ozonoff, the literature is "surprisingly sparse," so airborne outbreaks are probably more frequent than reported. The relative safety of high-flying air quality seems to be largely a matter of luck, he added.
That's because only 85 percent of commercial airlines carrying more than 100 passengers have High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters, which are currently not required by U.S. government regulations, he said. HEPA filters capture anything 0.3 microns or larger, Gendreau said. That means all bacteria as well as fungus, spores and pollutants. Viruses are smaller than 0.3 microns but they usually travel in clumps or on dust particles that are captured by the filters.
It remains unclear if the SARS-linked Air China flight had a HEPA filter on board, Gendreau's team note.Part of the problem, Ozonoff explained, is the balkanization of infectious disease regulation on airplanes. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates water supply on domestic flights, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates ice, he pointed out. The U.S. Department of Agriculture gets involved in vector-borne diseases that might affect animals or crops, but not humans.
"You've got this patchwork quilt of regulations, and lots of stuff goes through cracks," he said. Things may be looking up for worried plane passengers, however: Gendreau believes the U.S. government will soon begin requiring HEPA filters on all planes and issuing regulations related to ventilation. Also, he said, the World Health Organization is now modifying its international health regulations to require more stringent reporting of disease outbreaks.
Disinfection of aircraft before disembarking would also help reduce the risk of disease transmission.While international health regulations recommend disinfecting all planes flying out of areas endemic for malaria and other vector-borne disease, only five countries actually do so, Gendreau said.
Travelers can minimize their own risk by frequent hand washing, too. And in the end, the Massachusetts researcher stressed, on any given day, air travel remains safe for the vast majority of passengers.
"When you think about how many people are traveling, the risk is present, but it's manageable and it's low," Gendreau said. "It's not anything to get hysterical about."
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SOURCES: Mark Gendreau, M.D., senior staff physician, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Mass; David Ozonoff, M.D., professor, environmental health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston; March 12, 2005, The Lancet.
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Want to promote long-term health and prevent debilitating chronic disease? Try adding four nutritional supplements to your daily diet. A report from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) indicates that daily use of vitamin E, vitamin C, calcium, and a multivitamin with folic acid could cut the risk of having a heart attack by 40 percent, protect vision during aging, prevent 50,000 hip fractures annually, and reduce by more than half the number of babies born every year with neural tube birth defects like spina bifida.
"We now have a substantial body of data showing that if everyone took a few supplements every day, they could significantly lower their risk of a multitude of serious diseases," said David Heber, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Studies show supplements could be helpful in protecting against a host of ailments including:
Heart disease. Recent epidemiological studies involving more than 100,000 people found those taking at least 100 international units (IU) of vitamin E every day reduced the risk of heart disease by 40 percent.
* In a clinical trial involving people with a history of heart disease, 400-800 IU of vitamin E per day reduced the risk of new heart attacks by 75 percent. Studies indicate that more than $10 billion in health care costs could be saved annually if people took at least 100 IU of vitamin E on a regular long-term basis.
* A survey of cardiologists published in The American Journal of Cardiology revealed that 44 percent were routinely taking antioxidant vitamins. Among these supplement users, 90% were taking vitamin E.
* A study in the Feb 1998 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicated that using multivitamins with folic acid lowered homocysteine levels and reduced the risk of heart disease in women by 45 percent. Another study estimated that folic acid could help avoid as many as 56,000 deaths per year due to heart disease.
Osteoporosis. Increased calcium has been shown to be protective against bone loss and could potentially prevent 50,000 hip fractures a year. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Institute of Medicine recently increased daily calcium requirements for older adults by 50% to 1200 milligrams and increased vitamin D intakes by 100% to 10 micrograms (400 IU), following a reevaluation of evidence linking both nutrients to bone health.
Birth defects. Multivitamin supplements with folic acid can reduce the risk of neural tube birth defects like spina bifida. The protective effect is seen when a supplement of 0.4 milligrams is consumed in addition to the usual diet.
Vision loss. Several antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin E, and the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin may help significantly prevent or delay development of cataracts and macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
* Recent studies have shown that men and women who take supplements, including vitamins C and E, have a 50-70 percent lower risk of developing cataracts compared to people who take no supplements. Studies demonstrate that these supplements could delay the onset of cataracts by 10 years.
The question was asked on a members only health forum, I thought you might like to see the answers...
Question: Why do I crave Ice Chips?
Answer 1. Re the ice chips question... Years ago I also craved ice and ate it daily till I found out I was deficient in iron. I had taken synthetic iron all my life and it never helped. It was the Shaklee Iron that worked finally once I found it. That was 20 yrs. ago and I am not anemic anymore nor do I crave ice. Judy
Answer 2. ICE CHIPS......
my daddy was an MD and when we were kids he gave us ice chips whenever we were feeling poorly, it kept us hydrated and felt good to the tongue and throat. patients are given ice chips after surgery, as are people in the last stages of hospice. perhaps the gal is needing hydrating and a bit of cold comfort......... ciao!!!!annie
Answer 3. to craving ice -iron def.
My daughter had the same craving--she's grown and married so not taking supplements good. They checked her blood and she was anemic--she was having a lot of female problems and losing blood also. The doctor told her an iron deficiency could cause the craving for ice. Vivian
In November 2004, Dr. Nasr spoke in Milwaukee Wisconsin on the benefits of soy. If you want please feel free to pass this along to your acquaintances.
Contact Dr. Nasr for the actual research studies. He uses Shaklee Soy exclusively because it has the very best and most complete soy protein and isoflavone content. You can feel so very good about Shaklee’s soy protein, and how we can help so many people who are looking for ways to improve their health.
Dr. Nasr has a B.S. in Agronomy; M.S. in Biochemistry of anti-oxidants and a PH.D. in Pharmacognosy (science of bio-active products). He received his M.D. from Rush Medical College in Chicago, followed by Internal Medicine and Cardiology fellowships from Chicago Medical School. He is a member of the American College of Nutraceuticals and the American College of Preventive Medicine and is Director of the Medical Care & Diagnostic Center, Lake Villa, Il 847-356-9009.
1. Optiflora and Soy Protein increase the absorption of protein, decrease gas and discomfort and decrease cholesterol by 23%
2. Sixty (60) studies have been conducted showing soy protein increases bone density more than just Calcium Magnesium does.
3. Two studies show that soy and vitamin E, together, decrease LDL (bad cholesterol) by 40% and that is 17% greater decrease than Zocor and Lipitor
4. Four studies show that soy protein inhibits oxidation of LDL (bad cholesterol) by 40%. When cholesterol oxidizes, it becomes “sticky” and builds up on the arterial walls, which leads to clogged arteries.
5. Soy prevents gall stones. It doesn’t dissolve them but it prevents them.
6. Soy prevents kidneys from damage. Lots of animal protein may be hard on the kidneys, but soy protein protects the kidneys
7. French fries at major fast food establishments are crispy. That is a value for the store. Some french fries are coated with a protein substance that when combined with the sugar in the potato and then heated, gives them added crispness. Unfortunately that combination of sugar, protein and high heated fat produces a carcinogen. Probably a good idea to avoid all French fries.
8. Shaklee’s protein includes valuable protein and isoflavones that are not present in other soy proteins produced with heat or chemicals. Shaklee’s low heat - water wash process keeps the isoflavones in the protein. Isoflavones are natural cancer fighting ingredients that occur naturally in soy.
9. Soy’s protein and Isoflavones inhibit the mutated cell’s ability to make an enzyme that would cause the cell to continue reproducing and form a tumor.
10. Soy inhibits the cancer cell from making blood vessels that invade arteries and zap nutrients (this process is called angiogenesis).
11. Soy increases the killing effect of the white blood cells (phagocytosis).
12. Soy’s amino acid Lysine when combined with Vitamin C decreases Colon Cancer by 90%.
13. The flavanoids (like those in Shaklee’s Flavomax) when combined with Soy Protein are synergistic (they work even better together) and decrease breast cancer 10 fold.
14. Beta carotene (like those in Shaklee’s CarotoMax) when combined with Soy Protein and Calcium with Vitamin D are 10 times as effective at preventing cancer cells from getting an addition blood supply.
15. Women in the Orient get about 80mg of Isoflavones a day….women in US and Europe get about 1.0 mg. That’s an 80% negative difference for US and Europe.
16. Soy protein helps the differentiated cell (bad cell) convert back to a normal cell.
Dr. Nasr also listed the several forms of protein and the length of their chain of Amino Acids. The shorter the chain, the more quickly the Amino Acids can be absorbed and utilized.
1. Soy has the shortest chain and takes less than an hour.
