B-COMPLEX DEFICIENCY NEGATIVELY IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MILLIONS!
Do you suffer B-Complex Vitamin deficiency? The answer is likely YES! That’s because vitamin B-Complex may be THE ONE vitamin complex most commonly affected by modern lifestyle and refined food consumption.

• Stress – tension – anxieties, chemicals in our environment and refined “junk foods” leech our body of healthful nutrients – All leading to B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. B-Complex is truly a nutritional essential.

• B-Complex Deficiency has widespread negative effects on human health and well-being. Let’s take a look at a few of the main categories of conditions related to B- Complex Deficiency and consider how the lack of B-Complex may be impacting your daily life.

FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to be involved in serious psychological disorders such as depression, fears, confusion, anxiety, paranoia and anger.

WHY? The refining of grains removes the B-Complex that is necessary for many metabolic processes. Metabolism of the sugars and starches in refined foods consumes thiamine and our bodies rapidly become deficient, leading to memory loss. Niacin deficiency leads to mood disorders. B-12 and folic acid deficiencies are associated with a decline in thinking ability. The American diet of highly refined foods can lead to deficiency-induced memory loss, depression, anxiety, delusions, frustrations and a feeling of being out of control.
FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to create symptoms of numbness, tingling, heart beat irregularities, restless legs, insomnia, sleep disturbances and awaking unrefreshed.
WHY? Folic acid and B-12 deficiencies have long been known to contribute to disturbances of sensation and coordination of the legs and feet. Thiamine deficiency contributes to irregular heartbeat, peripheral neuropathy and heart failure. B-6 deficiencies cause burning sensations of the feet and contribute to nerve disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
FACT: B-Complex Deficiency is known to be linked with heart diseases, vascular diseases and strokes.1,2
WHY? For many years doctors have recommended a low fat diet to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease. If lower cholesterol could improve heart disease, then why does the rate of heart disease remain high? Recent research has given us a much better way to predict and prevent heart disease – that is called Homocysteine. Homocysteine levels are a much better predictor of heart disease than cholesterol, and their levels are improved with adequate B-Complex, especially the pyridoxine (B-6), cobalamin (B-12) and folic acid within it. One example of why cholesterol is not the major factor in heart disease is seen in vegans who have low blood fats but have vascular disease due to B-12 deficiency. Any one of the missing parts of the B-complex can contribute to disease processes taking hold in your body.

What is the B-Complex?
B-Complex is more than just a list of vitamins on a bottle. Whole food sources of B-Complex contain the known and the unknown HealthBuilding factors. B-Complex is a true synergy of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, coenzymes and trace minerals. True B- Complex can only be found in whole foods.
What is NOT B-Complex?
Synthetic sources of B as found in “High potency vitamin B” products are NOT B-Complex. In fact, these synthetic “vitamins” are known to cause, in some cases, the EXACT symptoms and conditions as a deficiency of the B-Complex!
Cataplex B – Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
B-Complex Deficiency Disorder.
What causes it?
Refined foods leech wholesome nutrients from your body: This is the beginning of
B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. Refined foods remove the full compliment of B-Complex synergists. Refined foods do have vitamins added but they are synthetic vitamins and not the naturally-found complete complex, thus they actually cause a drain on the B-Complex needs of the body.
Sugar and refined carbohydrate consumption depletes the body of B-Complex health factors.
Stomach lining must be healthy to absorb some parts of the B-Complex. For example, B-12 requires a particular “intrinsic factor” to be present in the stomach for absorption.
Digestive enzymes must be present in appropriate proportions to absorb B-Complex. If your body does not break down food to its essential elements, your body cannot assimilate it.
Liver function challenged by a toxic environment contributes to B-Complex Deficiency Disorders. Household cleaning chemicals, air and water pollution, personal hygiene supplies (perfumes, deodorants, etc.) and medications can produce a toxic load on the body known to challenge B-Complex needs of the body.


What Can I do to help B-Complex Deficiency?

What we eat and what we don’t eat is the reason why so many people suffer from B-Complex Deficiency Disorders.

• Reduce or eliminate refined, sugar-laden “junk foods.”

• Eat meals high in unrefined grains (brown rice, oats, 
barley, wheat, bran, rice bran), liver, nutritional yeast, green veggies, carrots, beets, meat, fish, poultry, nuts, and eggs.

• Reduce Stresses:

• Get regular exercise, relax your mind, meditate, thereby reducing your stress.

• Reduce toxic stresses on your body. Check your household cleaning products to see if they might be replaced with more environmentally safe products.

• Eliminate all synthetic forms of B “vitamins.”

One cannot obtain all the essential health factors in synthetic “vitamin” products, they are only available in whole foods and whole food concentrates! And Standard Process concentrates that whole food goodness for your benefit!

• Cataplex B – Introduced in 1934 this whole food source of the B-Complex of vitamins and their synergists contains the HealthBuilding goodness of: Liver, nutritional yeast, duodenum, beet (root), carrot (root), dried beet (root) juice, choline bitartrate, rice (bran) extract, defatted wheat (germ), adrenal, oat flour, soy bean lecithin, mixed tocopherols, ascorbic acid, manganese lactate, inositol, and riboflavin. These whole foods contain the known and the as yet unknown B-Complex synergists which can only be found in whole foods. Cataplex B increases nerve motor conductivity, vasoconstriction, carbohydrate metabolism, oxidation of lactic and pyruvic acids.

• Cataplex G -Introduced in 1934. This product maintains nerve health and provides a calmative effect on the nervous system.
  • Encourages healthy parasympathetic nerve functioning
  • Supports healthy liver functioning
  • Supports brain and nervous system function
  • Supports the body’s metabolism
  • Provides co-enzymes and co-factors needed for cellular function

 
† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

Take The Sugar Challenge
Refined sugars are not a nutritional essential. In fact refined sugar, and its “cousin” white flour, are primary causes of the leaching of healthful nutrients from our bodies – while at the same time leading to many unfavorable conditions such as those mentioned above by Dr. Royal Lee over 50 years ago.
Sugar’s empty calories create changes in body chemistry and accompanying nutritional deficiency, bringing on discomfort, degeneration, disease and death at a greater rate than any of the wars this country has ever seen.
Yet every man, woman and child in America consumes an estimated 180 pounds of sweeteners per year. This incredible amount of sugar does not take into account the nutritionally empty carbohydrates from cookies, crackers, breads and so called “fruit drinks.” Some studies estimate that Americans eat an additional 150-250 pounds of refined carbohydrates, bringing the total to nearly 400 pounds consumed per year. What does the consumption of empty carbs and low quality foods lead to?

The Center for Disease Control reports:
65% of Americans are considered overweight and 30% obese
7% have diabetes
11% have heart disease
31% have hypertension
21% have arthritis

40 million office visits are made to 
doctors for mental health per year (2002)

Additionally, the leading causes of death in America (2001) are linked to states of overweight and obesity and each of these killers could be turned around with a simple change in diet to the Nutritional Essentials.

They are:
Heart Disease: 696,947
Stroke: 162,672
Diabetes: 73,249

Take the Sugar Challenge! and Build Your Health

The Sugar Challenge is a 7 day to three week “test run” to see how much better you might feel after getting off all forms of refined carbohydrates and sugars. Breaking the sugar habit may not be easy, but it is worthwhile. Sugar and refined carbs leach vitamins and minerals out of your body. You need to get off the sugar then build back your stores of those lost nutritional essentials.
Step One – What condition are you in now?
Before we embark on The Sugar Challenge you will fill out a Symptom Survey Form and we will perform a nutritional deficiency screening evaluation. This will become our baseline. We could also run blood work as you can see as much as a 100-200 point swing in triglycerides, a wonderful reduction of cholesterol, blood pressure regulate itself and energy you haven’t had in ages.
Step Two – Eat whole foods and whole food supplements for 7-21 days.
 A simple lifestyle of whole foods is not impossible. We highly recommend you include some important HealthBuilding nutrients to help you “come down” off of sugar and carbohydrates. Remember if sugar was introduced into our society today it would be a controlled substance.
Step Three – Reevaluate
After The Sugar Challenge we will repeat Step One to determine any short-term response. Some people feel better and better each day and would never go back to their old refined food lifestyle. Some people whose health deficiencies have grown deeper may have a more difficult time during the Sugar Challenge and will need additional support. This is an obvious sign of addiction and dependency. Just like a drug we have to build you up so you can overcome this addiction.

Q:     What foods should I eat during The SugarChallenge?
A:     Eat whole foods. No processed foods. Eat salads, lightly steamed vegetables, freshly made soups such as lentil or bean soup, small amounts of high quality protein in smaller meals throughout the day. Enjoy butter or high quality oil on your veggies to help you assimilate your nutrients.
Q:    Which whole food concentrates would help me with The Sugar Challenge?
A:     Catalyn, Diaplex, Cataplex B, Drenamin and possibly other whole food concentrates, depending on your particular condition.
Catalyn –Since 1929 this whole food concentrate has been helping people suffering nutritional deficiency. Catalyn has many whole food concentrates in one product, providing you a more complete nutritional Multi-vitamin
Diaplex – Since 1959 Diaplex has combined the benefits of digestive enzymes along with stomach, liver, pancreas PMG and kidney Health Building factors. This combination product is excellent in addressing blood sugar handling imbalances.
Cataplex B – Since 1934 this whole food source of the B complex of vitamins and their synergists has provided essentials to everyone but has been found especially important for blood sugar handling heath concerns. Cataplex B increases nerve motor conductivity, vasoconstriction, carbohydrate metabolism, oxidation of lactic and pyruvic acids.
Drenamin – Since 1935 Drenamin’s special combination of Cataplex C, Cataplex G and adrenal PMGs has been formulated to help support nutritional conditions leading to fatigue, chronic fatigue, hypoglycemia, lowered resistance, allergies, and stress.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health

Results of the Study
The study made a few concerning revelations. This concerns were reported before the heart association at the annual scientific meeting that it held on Wednesday. The heart association is conducting a health initiative aimed at getting 20% of all American adults within ideal characteristics of all seven of the AMA’s criterion.
Diet was the biggest factor that could increase the likelihood of heart disease among teenagers. Not a single child in the study met the standards set by the American Health Association. Even without taking diet into consideration, very few children perfectly met the standards of the other six criteria. In fact, only 16.4% of males and 11.3% of females satisfied these requirements.
Opinions of the Study
Donald Lloyd-Jones is the head of the preventive medicine unit at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and holds a masters degree in epidemiology. As the primary author of the study, Lloyd-Jones stated that almost everyone is born with perfect cardiovascular health. Unfortunately, that health deteriorates quickly, particularly when people make life decisions that involve eating incorrectly, smoking or failing to exercise enough.
Veronique Roger is the head of the health sciences research center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Roger found the results of the study to be particularly worrisome.
Although heart attacks usually strike later in life, they are the result of a progression of cardiovascular diseases that begin in childhood. Identifying these conditions early will help deter heart attacks later in life.
Lloyd-Jones and the other researchers conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on the cardiovascular health of teenagers. Previous studies have generally focused on a single factor. However, the study results of the study were somewhat subjective, as it was centered around the guidelines of the American Heart Association and the findings may have been different if the standards of another organization were used. Also, there are a few phenomenon that are not clearly understood. For example, blood sugar levels and cholesterol can increase significantly during puberty and it is difficult to say how those results would influence the study.

Coping with these physical, mental and emotional stresses tests the limits of our health.
Each and every one of these challenging factors calls upon one or more of the dozens of healthful functions provided by the adrenal glands.

The adrenals are endocrine glands the size of walnuts which are located on top of the kidneys. The outer layers are known to create more than 30 hormones or hormone-like substances which are integrated into virtually every function of the body. The inner part of the adrenal gland is an extension of nerve tissue providing quick jolts of energy to help us handle “emergencies.”

The adrenal glands support us through thick and thin. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle seems like one emergency after another to our adrenal glands, so they end up getting exhausted, “jumpy” and overworked. And without healthy adrenal glands we suffer. Many of the syndromes, symptoms and diseases of the 21st century are directly related to a lack of adrenal health.

To name a few:
• Chronic fatigue •    Immune deficiency •    Insomnia •    Craving of sweets and caffeine •    Weight gain •    Depression

Stress Challenges to the Adrenals
Constant stressful stimulation of the adrenals ultimately leads to adrenal exhaustion. Think of the adrenals as if they were muscles. Muscles contract when a need arises and relax when the need passes. Try holding even a small hand weight straight out from your body – it won’t take long for your arm to fatigue and go weak. Similarly, the adrenals respond to stresses but ultimately fatigue if not given an opportunity to “relax” and restore their strength and function. In this way constant stress leads to the loss of healthful adrenal function.

Sources of Stress That Challenge the Adrenals:
Refined carbohydrates – Junk foods – Physical and mental strain – Sleep deprivation – Chemical & heavy metal toxins – Trauma / Injury – Anger – Fear – Worry – Anxiety – Overwork – Noise pollution – Inflammation – Pain – Infections – Malabsorption – Maldigestion – Nutritional deficiency – Food allergies – Low blood sugar.

Meeting the Challenge
As one can see from this list of challenges, in our world the adrenals are constantly stressed. No wonder adrenal fatigue affects virtually everyone from time to time.
Do you suffer dizziness? Headaches? Weakness? Are you tired but wired?
Do you suffer prolonged weakness after colds or flu? Are you suffering nervous or muscular exhaustion?
Do you suffer insomnia? Do you have weight gain around your waist or face only? Decreased libido? Do you experience lightheadedness when standing up quickly?
You are very likely suffering from stressed, and unhealthy adrenals!!

Don’t Let Children Suffer Nutritional Deficiencies

Children are our greatest asset and the source of our future success, yet the health and well-being of this “greatest asset” is failing.
“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.”
George Washington

Research indicates that lack of proper nutrition has spawned dramatic increases in nutritionally related diseases, misbehavior and reliance on medication to control behavior of our children*. Parents must nurture their children and provide the environment, food and education that will build a strong and healthy society. The best way to provide proper health education to our youth is to be a good example of health ourselves and to feed our children healthy foods whenever possible. Our children will learn from our example and do the same for their children. Feeding our children the nutritional essentials.
 Even though the research is clear, we find parents allowing their children’s health to degenerate from the lack of these same nutritional essentials while claiming to “do their best.” Parental authority has been unwittingly surrendered to the “food industry.” The fast “food” giants have done their best to rule the minds of the consumer* and for that our children suffer. Competition from unworthy authorities.
The training of our children in the value of wholesome food has been taken over by unworthy “authorities” whose priority is profit from the sale of “foods” which are refined, artificial and unhealthful. Thanks to the unholy alliance of school districts with the fast food industry, our schools are filled with junk foods.* Advertisements and role models for children demonstrate drinking soft drinks and eating foods known to have little or no nutritional value and many health detriments. Thankfully, determined groups of parents and teachers are beginning to take back control of our schools’ food programs from commercial interests determined to fill them with Brand Names and LOGOs.*

But is this enough?

We Must Love That Child
Parents must take control of this dismal situation themselves. With obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, learning disabilities, behavior problems and absenteeism on the rise, where are the “virtuous and happy people” George Washington described? Is it too late? The answer is simple – IT IS NEVER TOO LATE! We (parents) must go to battle against unwholesome foods! Saving our children by training them in the habits of wholesome foods and whole food concentrate supplements may be the most important thing we can do as parents to protect and direct our children’s future health, career and family.

First – Remember you are not alone – Living Well Clinical Nutrition Center is here to help. You do your best to support your child’s important need for the nutritional essentials. Together let’s take a step to better your child’s future health.
Steps to Love That Child – Feed them:
√ A nutritious breakfast
√ Fruits and vegetables everyday – 5 to 9 servings per day!
√ Foods high in natural fats – Butter, Nuts, Seeds, Fish
√ Pure Water
√ Smoothies – Fruit, plain yogurt, Cyrofood
Protect them from junk / snack foods:
√ Reduce or eliminate cookies, cakes, candy, crackers and chips.
√ Avoid soft drinks, food coloring and preservatives.
√ Reduce fast food – Fries, fried foods, burgers, “milk shakes”

Love That Child . . . with Nutritional Essentials
An improved society begins with our children increasing the consumption of whole foods and whole food concentrates.
HOW DO I GET MY CHILDREN TO EAT RIGHT?
Parents know how difficult it is it to get their children to sit down to a meal, let alone take the time to chew their food and eat enough fruits and vegetables. That is why whole food concentrates could be the answer parents are looking for. Whole food concentrates are just that – wholesome food that is prepared in such a way as the essential HeathBuilding qualities are protected and in fact enhanced. These whole food concentrates can easily be carried and consumed by our children at school.
Catalyn – is a whole food concentrate containing the HealthBuilding qualities of green peas, mushrooms, oats, wheat, alfalfa, carrots, wheat germ, nutritional yeast, rice bran, liver and beef lipids. Each of these foods are organically grown in rich soil and prepared in such a way that just a few tablets per day can provide a big boost to the health of our children.
Linum-B6 – Essential fatty acids are just that, essential to health. One great way of making certain our children enjoy the benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids is to include a few Linum-B6 perles with their food each day. Essential fatty acids are important for proper brain function*, cardiovascular health, hormone development and many other essential functions.
SP Green Food – It is recommended that we consume 5 – 9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily in order to meet the nutritional demands of our bodies – especially during the years of growth and development. SP Green Food is made from whole food complexes with their synergistic cofactors to support growth and development, immune system response, antioxidant protection and detoxification activities. SP Green Food has the benefits of brussels sprouts, kale and alfalfa sprouts (all organically grown).
Min-Tran – Containing the minerals found in sea kelp, alfalfa, magnesium citrate and calcium lactate – Min-Tran helps the brain function better (see Patients Speak). Consider Min-Tran and SP Green Food as a way to make up for all the salads and vegetables your child has not eaten.
Enzycore – Improved digestion and assimilation of the foods we eat is an essential to health. Enzycore is a digestive enzyme product that contains many of the important factors children need to promote proper digestion and assimilation.
Whole food health bars a convenient means to providing high protein carbohydrate controlled supplement to your child’s foods.

† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

Patients Speak
Background on this testimonial: This child was classified as a behavioral risk for public schools. He was violent and would not learn anything taught to him. He was removed from two or three schools before being put in a private school for disturbed children.

“My child is hyperactive and suffers from attention deficit syndrome. The doctor examined him and determined he needed (to try) Min-Tran. He was started on it that very day at dinner. His handwriting, math and behavior has greatly improved. In the past it took three weeks to learn the 2’s, 3’s and 4’s time tables. After the nutrition he learned the 6’s, 7’s and 8’s IN ONE DAY! Over a six week period his behavior improved to the point HE GOT A STUDENT OF THE MONTH AWARD.” J.B.

Autoimmune Disease – PMGs to the Rescue!

As these chronic serious conditions are on the rise, are we looking for solutions in all the wrong places?
Today’s scientists might look back to a genius of the 20th century, Dr. Royal Lee, for simple answers to a complicated subject. What is autoimmune disease, can it be stopped, and more importantly, can it be prevented?
What is Autoimmune Disease?
Autoimmune disease is best described as an allergy to oneself. The body actually becomes allergic to its own tissue. When human tissue enters the blood stream, the immune system believes that the tissue is a “foreign protein” and creates an antibody to destroy and eliminate it. (Read Immune system and  Allergies for more details.)
This tissue enters one’s blood stream from some traumatic event. The “trauma” not only includes injuries such as slips and falls, but also trauma caused by overwork, infection, injurious chemicals in our environment and foods, heart attacks, ulcers, smoking, trauma to your mouth and other organ and glandular systems.
When your body attacks its own tissue, you are the “victim.” As your immune system is directed to protect you from this “foreign protein,” your own body is broken down. The result of this autoimmune reaction can be any number of conditions depending on which tissue is being attacked.
Autoimmune reactions can be the cause of many common conditions. (See sidebar for a partial list of possible conditions.) Low energy, impaired health and lack of vitality may be the result of your immune system spending its energy protecting YOU from YOU when it fact it does need to.

YOU MAY HAVE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT!
Let’s summarize and consider the process:

1. Your own injured tissue, due to some type of trauma, infection, or stress from 
overwork, enters your blood stream.
2. Your immune system believes this is “foreign protein” and creates an immune 
reaction to protect you.
3. Your own tissue is broken down from the attack.
4. The function of that tissue to your whole body is then impaired.
5. Your health suffers resulting fatigue, pain and disability.

Autoimmune disease examples:
•     When firefighters, smokers or anyone in a polluted environment breathes smoke or chemicals, lung tissue may be damaged and enter the blood stream – the result is reduced health of the lungs and lung diseases can begin – chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic allergies.
•     Injured people whose muscles and ligament tissue enters the blood stream – the result can be conditions such as fibromyalgia, muscle pains and joint problems.
Any gland or organ which suffers injury, overwork or infection may release damaged tissue into the blood stream which will similarly cause the development of an autoimmune reaction to that tissue. Diseases relating to that organ or gland can set in.

Protomorphogen TM – A Health Care Breakthrough
What if:
We could interrupt this autoimmune reaction between the damaged tissue entering the blood stream and the antibody reaction to it?
 We could provide the body with something that helped to turn off the autoimmune attack all the while helping it to heal the injured tissue?

Those are the questions Dr. Royal Lee answered early in the 20th century. That’s right! In the 1940s Dr. Lee developed a unique method of deriving extracts from specific organs and glands for clinical use in this healing process.

To the end of his life, Dr. Lee fought the battle to bring to the health care profession the awareness that properly prepared whole food concentrates could be the answer to neutralizing this autoimmune response. He used the term ProtomorphogenTM (PMG) to describe this immune modulating factor.

Protomorphogen TM (PMG)
ProtomorphogenTM preparations neutralize the autoimmune response!

Listen to Dr. Royal Lee tell the stories of a few actual patients in his experience;
“One interesting patient had found that his heart (disease) was relieved as long as he ate a pound or so of beef or lamb heart per day. He was much gratified to get far better results with one or two small tablets of the protomorphogen heart extract and to be able to drop his special diet (of heart.)”
“Most cases of chronic bronchitis are due to failure of the lung to repair itself at the normal rate.”
“In another case, we find a patient who has had a skull fracture at one time in his life, say 25 years ago may still have antibodies to brain and may still have a slower than normal mentality; (we found) that the brain protomorphogen extract restored their mental processes to normal.”
One of our first experiences with these (PMG) extracts was with bone – raw veal bone – extract. We found that patients with a history of pyorrhea (gum disease) had apparently developed antibodies, which inhibited the recovery and repair of the supporting tissues of the teeth. You can actually see in x-ray pictures regeneration of the bone.”

• Cardiotrophin PMG TM – Developed in 1952 this PMG helps to maintain healthy heart and muscle tissue.
• Pneumotrophin PMG TM – Developed in 1952 this PMG helps to maintain healthy lung tissue.
• Hepatrophin PMG TM – Developed in 1952 this PMG helps to maintain healthy liver tissue.

• Paraplex – Developed in 1965 this PMG TM combination product includes support for pancreas, adrenal, pituitary and thyroid. Paraplex is known to support blood sugar problems. 
• Symplex F or Symplex M – Developed in 1965 this PMGTM combination product includes support for gonadal (sex glands), adrenal, pituitary and thyroid. The Symplex combination PMGs are known as essential support for endocrine related health concerns for Females and Males respectively.

The great news about taking PMG TM daily is that you get support for autoimmune issues if you need them but if you do not have an autoimmune condition they are assimilated into your body as protein. PMGs are a win–win product for your health and health maintenance.

† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. They are to support your health.

Signs & Symptoms of low adrenal function

• Low energy
• Chronic Fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• Allergies
• Tired all the time
• Environmental sensitivities
• Symptoms begin after a stressful event
• Headache when standing up
• Dizziness or loss of vision when standing quickly
• Low blood pressure or systolic blood pressure that drops when standing (Ragland Test)
• Weak and shaky
• Sensitive to bright light
• Easily startled or frightened
• Perfectionism
• Loud noises cause the heart to pound
• Difficult time breathing
• “Lump in throat” that hurts when upset
• Pupillary light reflex test
• Chronically bad knees (satorius and gracilus connection)
• Weak ankles or aching calves
• (gastrocnemius, soleus and posterior tibialis connection)
• Salt craving
• Muscle twitches and arrhythmias from sodium/potassium imbalance

]]> http://www.justlivewell.com/articles/chronic-fatigue-low-energy-allergies-exhaustion-and-fibromyalgia/feed/ 0 http://www.justlivewell.com/articles/house-protects-pizza-as-a-vegetable/ http://www.justlivewell.com/articles/house-protects-pizza-as-a-vegetable/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:32:41 +0000 Dr Chapa http://www.justlivewell.com/?p=987 By Lisa Baertlein and Charles Abbott

(Reuters) – The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children.

The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after the deep-pocketed food, beverage and restaurant industries successfully weakened government proposals for voluntary food marketing guidelines to children.

“It’s an important victory,” said Corey Henry, spokesman for the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI). That trade association lobbied Congress on behalf of frozen pizza sellers like ConAgra Foods Inc and Schwan Food Co and French fry makers McCain Foods Ltd and J.R. Simplot Co, the latter best known as a supplier to fast-food company McDonald’s Corp.

“Our concern is that the standards would force companies in many respects to change their products in a way that would make them unpalatable to students,” Henry said.

Other AFFI members include H.J. Heinz Co, General Mills Inc and Kraft Foods Inc.

The school lunch provisions were a small part of a mammoth bill that provides money for all parts of the federal government. The House sent the bill to the Senate for final Congressional approval.

“They started out with French fries and now they have moved on to pizza,” said Jared Polis, Colorado Democrat, who lamented the government’s subsidy of unhealthy diets through school meals. “Pizza alone (without side dishes) … common sense, it’s not a vegetable.”

Calls to Minnesota-based Schwan and its external public relations firm and ConAgra were not returned.

Mark Dunn, AFFI’s chairman and J.R. Simplot’s main lobbyist, referred requests for comment to a company spokesman, who declined to respond.

PIZZA AS A VEGETABLE

Polis mentioned French fries in reference to a provision in the bill that would have blocked the government from limiting servings of white potatoes to one cup per week in meals served through the roughly $18 billion U.S. school meals program overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In addition to potatoes, USDA also proposed limits on starchy vegetables including corn, green peas and lima beans, while requiring lunches to serve a wider variety of fruit and vegetables.

Another provision bars the USDA from changing the way it credits tomato paste, used in pizza. The change would have required pizza to have at least a half-cup of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable serving. Current rules, which likely will remain in place, require just two tablespoons of tomato paste.

According to a USDA report from November 2007, pizza and French fries were among the most commonly consumed lunch foods by participants in the national school lunch program.

Sam Farr of California, the Democratic leader on the appropriations subcommittee in charge of the USDA, said the interference with USDA rule-writing was “wrong” and “shouldn’t be done”. Still, Farr supported passage of the overall bill.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Wednesday that U.S. school children would still see more fruit and vegetables, more grains, more low-fat milk and less salt and fat in meals despite the language in the spending bill.

“First of all, we can assure parents of school-age children (that) USDA will do everything it can” to improve the nutritional quality of school meals, as required by the 2010 child nutrition law.

Vilsack was speaking via teleconference from Hanoi during a U.S. trade trip.

Healthier school lunches are a cornerstone of First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood obesity. Nearly one in three children in America is overweight or obese and the numbers are growing.

“Clearly more pizza and French fries in schools is not good for kids, but it’s good for companies that make pizza and French fries,” said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates better food and nutrition policies.

Wootan said U.S. food makers trumpet products they say are healthy while at the same time lobbying against regulations aimed at improving the nutritional quality of their products.

“A year ago, I was walking the halls of Congress arm-in-arm with the food industry, fighting for healthier school lunches,” Wootan said. “Today, we are on opposite sides, and I’m battling to keep them from weakening school nutrition standards and school marketing guidelines and other provisions.”

(Editing by Martinne Geller)