Health Topics
A-Z
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A
Adipose Tissue: (also see Body Fat)
Aging: (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
Agriculture
Allergies: (also see Enzymes)
Alpha-amylase: (see Enzymes)
Amino Acids: (also see Protein)
Anachidonic Acid: (see Essential Fatty Acids)
Antioxidants
Aspartame: (see Food Additives)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD):
 
B
Behavior and Nutrition
Blood
Blood Pressure
Blood Vessel
Body Fat: (also see Toxins or Fat )
Bones : (see Osteoporosis )
Brain: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Butter
 
C
Caffeine: (also see Diabetes)
Calcium: (also see Vitamins or Osteoporosis)
Calorie: (also see Sugar, Carbohydrates or Fat)
Cancer
Carbohydrates: (also see Glucogenesis, Pancreas or Sugar)
Celiac Disease
Cells: (also see Disease or Essential Fatty Acids)
Cellulite: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Child & Infant Health:
Cholesterol
Colloidal Minerals: (also see Minerals)
 
D
Deficiency: (also see Nerves or Essential Fatty Acids)
Diabetes: (also see Pancreas)
Diets
Digestion
Disease: (also see Heart Disease)
Drugs
 
E
Eisonanoids: (see Prostaglandins)
EFAs:(see Essential Fatty Acids)
Endocrine system:(see Pancreas)
Energy: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Enzymes: (also see Milk or Lactose)
Essential Fatty Acids: (also also see Energy or EFAs)
Essiac®
Exercise: (also see Metabolism)
 
F
Fat (Dietary): (also see Body Fat and Adipose Tissue)
Fiber
Fish Oil: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Folic Acid:(also see Vitamins)
Food Additives
Free-radicals:(see Antioxidants)
Fructose (fruit sugar): (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
 
G
Genetic Modification
Glucogenesis: (also see Carbohydrates)
Glucose
Gluten
Glycemic Index
Gout
Grains: (also see Food Additives)
Growing Methods
 
H
Heart Disease
Herbs
Homogenization:(see Milk)
Hydrogenation:(also see Trans fats)
 
I
Innuit
Insulin: (see Pancreas)
Irradiated Food
 
J      
 
K
Ketones
Kidneys
 
L
Lactose: (also see Milk or Enzymes)
 
M
Margarine
Metabolism
Milk: (also see Lactose or Enzymes)
Minerals
Monosaccharides
Muscle
 
N
Nerves: (see Deficiency or Essential Fatty Acids)
Nitric Oxide
 
O
Obesity
Okinawans: (see Innuit)
Osteoporosis
 
P
Pancreas: (also see Diabetes)
Prions:(see Disease)
Polycystic Ovary Disorder
Pregnancy/Infant Development
Protein
Prostaglandins: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
 
Q

R

S
Salt
Serotonin
Silver Supplements
Skin
Soy
Soy and Infants
Soy and Sex
Sugar: (also see Carbohydrates)
Sweeteners
Syndrome X
 
T
Toxins: (also see Body Fat)
Trans fats: (also see Hydrogenation)
 
U

V
Vaccinations
Vegetarian/Vegan Diets: (also see Soy & Protein)
Vitamins: (also see Minerals and Soy)

W
Water
Weight Loss

X
Xanthine Oxidase: (also see Milk)

Y

Z
Zinc: (also see Vitamins and Minerals)

Discovery	Reaction	Years Before Acceptance
Pine needle tea cures scurvy	Called Witchcraft	50+
1923 Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, discovers the cause of cancer.	His discoveries are ignored. Researchers today are still looking in the wrong place for a cure.	?
1928 Dr. Fleming discovers penicillin	Ridiculed for 12 years	12
In 1848 Dr. Semmelweis discovers washing hands prevents infection	He was fired	25
1863 William Banting demonstrates that Dr. Harvey's program minimizing carbohydrates achieves weight loss (and great health)	Ignored	41+
Dr. Budwig documents risks from trans-fats	Margarine industry starts vicious attacks in 1930's	70+
1956 Lancet warns of hydrogenated oils (like margarine) causing massive heart disease.	Nutritional recommendations don't change	47
1982 EFAs shown to help prevent heart disease	Still not known: low consumer awareness, growing support from the medical community.	?
1984 Lancet reported "No saturated fat found in arterial clog."	Results kept hidden	?
1993 Medical journal Circulation urges food-processing industry to replace unnatural man-made trans fats with naturally occurring fats.	Nutritional recommendations do not change.	11
1994 Journal of Cardiovascular Risk reports that replacing fat with carbohydrates does not significantly reduce cholesterol levels.	Nutritional recommendations do not change.	?
1997 Harvard recognizes trans-fats link to Heart Disease.	Widespread media coverage - official dietary recommendations just beginning to change.	?
1997 Major Harvard University study concludes: Heart Disease NOT caused by natural fats.	Nutritional recommendations do not change.	?
1998 Protein shown to help broken bones head faster - not slower.	Nutritional recommendations do not change.	?

 

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