Sunday

Whole grain: hulled millet

Hulled millet, nutrition facts

1 cup serving, raw grain:
GramsCalories%-Cals
Calories
756


Fat
8.4
71
9
%
Saturated
1.4
12
2
%
Polyunsaturated
4.3
36
5
%
Monounsaturated
1.5
13
2
%
Carbohydrate
145.7
600
79
%
Dietary Fiber
17.0



Protein
22.0
85
11
%
Alcohol
0.0
0
0
%

Vitamins and minerals, % RDA

Vitamin A
0
%
Calcium
2
%
Vitamin D
0
%
Thiamin
56
%
Niacin
47
%
Vitamin B6
38
%
Phosphorus
57
%
Selenium
8
%
Vitamin C
0
%
Iron
33
%
Vitamin E
0
%
Riboflavin
34
%
Vitamin B12
0
%
Manganese
163
%
Copper
75
%
Magnesium
57
%
Zinc
22
%

Because the hull is very hard, millet is usually hulled (or pearled) before it is used for cooking. After hours of boiling it will still be hard and the hulls remain entirely indigestible.

However, the hulled millet is still a whole grain because the most valuable part of the grain, germ, stays intact through this process so hulled millet keeps its nutritional properties. In hulled millet, the amount of fibers per serving is still high (17 g per a cap)

Millet is gluten-free, has a very low Gglycemic index, does not support the growth of candida responsible for the yeast infection but feed the friendly bacteria in the intestine, which makes this grain a prebiotic.

Thursday

PROTEIN SPARING MODIFIED FAST DIET



This approach has to be reserved to patients with an severe obesity (overweight above 70 %) without metabolic disorders and for whom a fast and significant weight loss is advisable.

The aim is to achieve a fast weight loss in the shortest period of time. Protein sparing modified fast diet requires a close clinical and metabolic monitoring, in particular for the risk of cardiac arrhythmia and severe ketosis.

Protein sparing modified fast diet allows only meat, fish and vegetables. It provides a caloric intake equal to or less than 800 kcal/die; protein intake ranges from 1.5 to 2.5 g/kg/die (the percentage is from 50 to 65 %), remaining calories come from lipids (40%) and carbohydrates from vegetable sources (10%).

During the treatment, daily supplementations must be given: calcium (800 mg), KCl (25 mEq/l), vitamins and micronutrients, non-caloric drinks (2 litres).

Protein sparing modified fast diet produces considerable weight loss up to 1 kg per week and this can induce adolescent to associate weight loss to drastic diet and to continue an unbalanced diet for a long period of time.

There is not demonstration that in long-term management this diet gives better results than hypocaloric balanced diet.


ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

A comparison of two very-low-calorie diets: protein sparing modified fast versus protein-formula-liquid diet

TA Wadden, AJ Stunkard, KD Brownell and SC Day

This study investigated the acceptability of two very-low-calorie diets in 16 moderately overweight persons participating in a weight reduction program. Subjects were prescribed a 1000-1200 kcal balanced diet the first month and asked to complete appetite and mood scales on a weekly basis. They were then randomly assigned to either a protein sparing modified fast or a protein-formula-liquid diet, each of which provided about 400 kcal daily. Analysis of the appetite data showed that protein sparing modified fast subjects reported significantly less hunger and preoccupation with eating than did liquid diet subjects during 2 of the 4 weeks on a very-low-calorie diet. Subjects in both conditions reported significant reductions in anxiety. Results are discussed in terms of possible advantages of protein sparing modified fast

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 41, 533-539, Copyright � 1985

Protein-sparing modified fast in the treatment of severe obesity: weight loss and nitrogen balance data.

Contaldo F, Di Biase G, Scalfi L, Presta E, Mancini M.

Compared: total fasting with protein-sparing modified fast
  • Group 1 - total fasting;
  • Group 2 - protein-sparing modified fast (80 kcal, 17 g protein, traces of fat and carbohydrate);
  • Group 3 - protein-sparing modified fast (180 kcal, 40 g protein, 2 g fat, traces carbohydrate)
  • Group IV - protein-sparing modified fast (80 kcal during the 1st and 2nd week and 180 kcal during the 3rd and 4th week).

RESULTS

In in groups 1, 2 and 4 average weight loss was 11 kg. It was lower,average 8 kg, in group 3.

These observations suggest a new approach to the treatment of severe obesity by protein-sparing modified fast and show that is is possible to further reduce the early catabolic phase which commonly arises during this type of therapy.

International Journal of Obesity. 1980;4(3):189-96.

Antioxidants, vitamins, minerals: what's missing?

by Lee Euler

Dear Friend,

If you take antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals you're only getting it half-right. A new class of nutrients is just as important – maybe MORE important.

In five or ten years most people will be taking these nutrients right along with vitamins and minerals. Yet few are taking them now.

These nutrients do not exist in most of the foods sold in health food stores, whether organic or not. Almost any cooking or processing destroys these highly complex molecules.

What's more, all the antioxidants and other supplements you take are half as effective – or worse – if you don't get THIS nutrient either in your food or in supplement form.
And I can almost guarantee you're not getting it

So you can look at this letter as a privileged glimpse into the future. By reading this you're putting yourself at the cutting edge of a nutritional revolution. There's a huge potential for healing many mystery health problems that have stumped doctors for decades.

Heads up for cancer patients!
"The missing nutrient" beats chemotherapy 100-to-one

A man with kidney cancer, given 50 days to live, was alive and well 15 years later, thanks to this supplement.A woman with metastatic breast cancer – a "death sentence" – was alive and well 16 years later – thanks to the missing ingredient.

These incredible results are a matter of record, published in medical journals by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez, an M.D. in New York City.

And how about pancreatic cancer patients who were told they had "no hope"? This natural nutrient outdid chemotherapy by better than a hundred to one!

When Dr. Gonzalez began his study of 11 "hopeless" patients, an NIH "expert" told him he'd be lucky if three of them lived more than a year. Cancer of the pancreas is usually fatal – and fast.

So what happened? NINE of the patients in the study lived more than a year and four of them lived more than three years! Meanwhile, out of 126 patients on chemotherapy, NOT EVEN ONE survived for two years.

A hidden nutritional deficiency
is linked to a dozen or more diseases

No one else will tell you this, but the soaring cancer rate in our society may be due in part to a specific nutritional deficiency – the lack of this "missing ingredient" in our diets. A hundred years ago, most people were getting enough of this nutrient, but not any more.

The lack of this vital nutrient leaves us wide open not only to cancer, but to heart disease, arthritis, allergies, and all kinds of digestive problems. It's even linked to autism, lupus and multiple sclerosis.

You can experience a huge improvement in your health – often overnight – when you add this nutrient to your diet, either in supplement form OR by eating the right foods.

You'll discover WHAT this nutrient is, WHY it's not in our food anymore (although it was a hundred years ago), HOW the deficiency devastates your health, and exactly WHAT you can do about it. It's all in a new Special Report I've written called The Missing Ingredient for Good Health. Take heed and you might experience…

Dramatic improvement in heart health and circulation:
This "Roto-Rooter" supplement
cleans out the gunk in your arteries

Meet "the plaque-eater!"

This supplement does in weeks what other treatments take months to achieve, according to Dr. J. Valls-Serra of the University of Barcelona. More than nine out of ten patients with blood clot disorders got totally well.

Blood clots are the prime cause of heart attacks and strokes – and doctors put millions of people on medications like coumadin and warfarin to thin their blood. Most of these people would get better, faster, if they just added "the Missing Ingredient" to their diet or supplements.

In my report, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health I'll show you study after study that confirms the heart and circulation benefits you can experience by taking this supplement. Very few American doctors know about these studies because they were published in German and have never been translated.

That means your doctor – and you – are missing an important new discovery about the so-called diseases of aging.

Your danger of cancer, heart disease, stroke
and arthritis go up as you age –
But it's not because you're getting older

You can help reverse the so-called "diseases of aging" by correcting a nutritional deficiency. More than nine out of ten patients with inflamed blood vessels improve when they take this nutrient, and most of them get totally well.

And what's the most common complaint as we get older? It's probably pain. Many "experts" call the most common kind of arthritis – osteoarthritis – a "wear and tear" disease. According to them, our joints wear out and we just have to live with it.

But maybe not! Just consider…

Pain goes away without drugs —
Study after study shows the "Missing Ingredient"
is more powerful than NSAIDs

In study after study, patients find the missing nutrient is more powerful than prescription pain relievers. Not only do osteoarthritis patients get better, but in a group of 1,004 rheumatoid arthritis patients, nine out of ten got better when they took the "Missing Ingredient." As you may know, rheumatoid arthritis is far more serious than osteoarthritis – and all but incurable. Or that's what they tell you.

Don't believe it. There IS hope.

Young people with pain can benefit, too. Controlled scientific studies show that injured athletes heal and get back on the field in less than half the time of those on a placebo. The reason is that the missing nutrient doesn't just mask pain, it heals the injury – the real, underlying cause.

Most of these pain studies were done in Germany. In fact, this nutrient is the second most popular pain reliever in Germany after aspirin. German doctors are well aware of the benefits of this nutrient. Yet most American doctors – even alternative doctors – don't know about it. And most Americans have never heard of it.

Eventually the word will get out. But why should you wait?

The almost-unknown power of this nutrient might take your health to a whole new level. Within days or weeks – sometimes the first day – you can see miraculous relief from medical problems that have troubled you for years.

One woman reports she now has four extra hours a day – hours she used to spend sleeping or too fatigued and mind-fogged to do anything.

MORE BENEFITS:
Say good-bye to indigestion, bloating, IBS, gas,
diarrhea, constipation and cramps

Digest your food right for the first time in your life. The missing nutrient treats the real, underlying problem. It often cures suffering victims once and for all.

Many patients report instant, miraculous relief. Food allergies go away for good and you can eat anything! A delighted heartburn victim was able to cancel surgery, and a baby's colic vanished in one day.

I can tell you it's true from personal experience. I totally cured a spastic colon that troubled me for more than twenty years.

Proven:
Nine out of ten autism cases get better!
Helps other behavioral and learning disorders, too

In my Special Report, The Missing Ingredient, you'll see how 91 percent of a group of 260 autistic kids got better. For more than a third of the children the improvement was "very great or impressive."

"We enjoyed a regular meal at a family restaurant," emailed one parent. "No stress, no reactions. We are so happy."

A natural wonder we've stripped out of our food

Our own bodies make these "missing nutrients." What's more, they exist in every type of food – BUT ONLY IF THE FOOD HASN'T BEEN COOKED.

And that's the catch. Almost everything we eat is cooked. Even most health foods are cooked. All milk products and store-bought juices are pasteurized. That means they're heated until these nutrients are destroyed. Food companies process even frozen foods until this nutrient is mostly gone.

We've almost totally eliminated these essential-to-life nutrients from our diets. As a result, the health of millions of Americans is going downhill faster than an Olympic skier.

Wait till you see what happens to animals deprived of this type of nutrient! It's not pretty. They quickly develop what we call – wrongly – the diseases of aging. Their offspring are even sicker, and the third generation is sterile and half-dead. The Special Report provides the details – the frightening consequences you risk when this nutrient is missing from your diet.

You'll get complete details on every single fact and claim in this letter when you purchase my new Special Report, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.

As you'll discover, you can take all the vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies and supplements you want and you still won't get as well as you should. It's all because you're missing this nutrient.

In the report, you'll see case after case where patients took all the supplements from A to zinc and still suffered pain, heart disease, digestive problems and even cancer. When they added the "Missing Ingredient" their symptoms got dramatically better and even completely disappeared.

Lifelong migraines, stomach upsets, pain and fatigue often go away almost instantly for people who discover they lack this vital nutrient — and then do something about it.

How could alternative doctors overlook this vital nutrient?

Alternative doctors do recommend "the Missing Ingredient" sometimes, for some health problems. But few alternative doctors put these nutrients on a par with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other phytochemicals (nutrients found in plants).



Most alternative doctors would tell you "the Missing Ingredient" is a second or third level supplement, something you take "in addition to" the "important" nutrients.

That's dead wrong.

And within a few years, they'll change their minds. You'll see – but you'll be there before them. In a few years everyone will supplement with the Missing Ingredient. It's far more powerful than most doctors know, as you can see from the studies and patients I've cited. Those examples are just the tip of iceberg.

By the time you finish my Special Report, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health, you'll be convinced beyond doubt of the overwhelming importance of these nutrients.

THINK OF IT: cancer, heart disease, pain…even autism, for crying out loud…are all linked to our poor diets.

Certain select doctors DO know about the Missing Ingredient

I stumbled across the Missing Ingredient only because I've spent the last several years researching and writing about alternative cancer treatments.

My name is Lee Euler. I'm the publisher of a number of Special Reports on alternative cancer treatments, including Natural Cancer Remedies that Work, Cancer Defeated: How Rich and Poor Alike Get Well in Foreign Clinics, and The Oxygen Miracle.

I've been writing and publishing alternative health information for more than 15 years, and I thought I'd seen it all. I was wrong. I was shocked to find out that something this important was overlooked by almost everybody.

It just goes to show how much we have to learn about all the nutrients we need for good health. As I found out, only a select few doctors know about this important discovery…

The only people on earth who know this information

Alternative cancer doctors are just about the one group of people on earth who know the true power of the Missing Ingredient. They've achieved remarkable results, but most alternative doctors stay miles away from cancer. They don't know the latest strides being made in cancer treatment.

In America, an alternative doctor can lose his license for treating cancer patients. Few doctors take the risk. It's too bad, because that means they've missed this incredible breakthrough.

Their tragic oversight could cost you your good health and your life, because the Missing Ingredient is effective not only against cancer but also heart disease, pain, arthritis, digestive problems, allergies, MS, lupus and more!

In other words, intimidation by America's cancer police has caused most alternative doctors – of all people – to miss a nutritional revolution!

Raw, fresh foods pack a punch you won't believe

Cancer doctors have discovered that the food the patient eats is critical to successful cancer treatment. What's more, the diets that cancer doctors recommend have one big ingredient in common. It's a nutrient that's NOT found in cooked food – ONLY in raw food.

But it's not my intention to nag you about getting four servings of vegetables or five servings of fruit or whatever. That's wonderful to do, but you can get this nutrient in a pill or capsule.

You probably don't, because doctors who DON'T treat cancer know very little about it and say even less. That's a shame because…

The benefits of this type of nutrient go way beyond cancer

Actually, you can find the most amazing benefits in autistic children when they start to take the Missing Ingredient. The results – detailed in my Special Report The Missing Ingredient for Good Health – will make your eyes pop right out of your head.

The proof is clear and undeniable. You'll see. And if you know a family with an autistic child, you'll give them this Special Report and beg them to read it. As far as that goes, if you know someone with cancer, heart disease, fatigue or pain you'll do the same thing!

You'll want to tell everyone you know the good news!

Cancer doctors use the Missing Ingredient as one of many therapies, but with the autistic children, the incredible improvement was the result of this nutrient and ONLY this nutrient. And the healing that took place was so dramatic no one can deny it.

What's more, the group of children involved was large – 260 kids. And the mother who collected the data was a trained scientist who was unusually careful and rigorous.

In other words, the jury is in and the verdict has been rendered: the Missing Ingredient can change your life and save your life.

Information available nowhere else

Let me say this again: I don't sell these supplements. I don't make a dime off the pills if the Special Report inspires you to change your life and start taking them. My only business is spreading this important information.

Only two or three books have been published about this nutrient. They went almost unnoticed. And as I said, most alternative doctors have missed this critical news.

That means my Special Report, The Missing Ingredient for Good Health, is the first publication to pull all facts and proof together into one place in a way that will leave you in no doubt that your current diet and supplements aren't enough.

You could search in vain through hundreds of back issues of America's most popular health newsletters to find the breakthroughs I report in The Missing Ingredient for Good Health. You'll be so excited…

You'll rush to the nearest supplement store to get started…

…because you're missing a vital nutrient that no one can do without if they want to enjoy full health and prevent diseases like cancer, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, fatigue, and more.

The success achieved with this supplement in beating cancer will be enough to make you put down the report after Chapter Two and rush to a health food store to buy this type of nutrient. You'll open the bottle in the car and take your first dose before you get home. What's more…

This is a perfectly safe food

Even in alternative medicine, it's rare for experts to be able to say a remedy is perfectly safe. But I can say it now: the "Missing Ingredient" is safe – totally. These natural nutrients are found in almost every type of food PLUS your own body makes them itself (but our bodies make less and less as we get older). Even the FDA classifies them as a food.

It's almost inconceivable you could harm yourself by taking these nutrients in pills or capsules. In animal experiments the little critters have been fed the equivalent (for a human) of 30 pounds of this stuff with no problems at all.

The revolution has just begun,
and we're learning more every day

How is it possible experts have overlooked the value of The Missing Ingredient for so long? As you just saw, one reason is that most alternative doctors stay away from cancer.

What's more, the whole subject of nutrition is still in its infancy.

Life Extension, the breakthrough book about antioxidants, was published only 25 years ago. This is new stuff. Almost every year, researchers find a new chemical in fruits, vegetables, nuts or seeds that can improve health and save lives. If 1492 was the year Columbus stumbled on America, then this is roughly the year 1530 where nutrition is concerned. Who knows where we'll be in another ten years?

Let me tell you a story…

Three hundred years ago no one knew what a vitamin was. If you'd said the word "antioxidant" people would have looked at you as if you had two heads.

That was back in the age of sail, and thousands of sailors got very sick from a mystery disease if they spent long months at sea. One of the symptoms was that all their teeth would fall out! Bad news!

The disease was called scurvy. An English doctor was alert enough to notice that scurvy disappeared totally – and fast! – when the sailors ate fresh citrus fruit. Eventually the Royal Navy required every ship to carry a supply of oranges, lemons or limes to keep the sailors healthy.

That's why the English are called "Limeys" to this day.

Now we know that vitamin C was the ingredient in citrus fruit that cured scurvy. Scurvy is what's called a deficiency disease. It's caused by the lack of a nutrient our bodies MUST have. If you provide the missing nutrient, you cure the disease.

It was a long, long time before scientists discovered vitamins and antioxidants. They just knew there was something in citrus fruit that prevents scurvy and cures the disease if you already have it.

Nutrition CAN cure a whole bunch of diseases

We've come a long way since vitamin C saved the first Limeys. Yet we still haven't connected all the dots. With antioxidants and definitely with the Missing Ingredient that you'll discover in the Special Report, there's still a lot to learn.

Alternative doctors have to do most of the work while the medical establishment persecutes them. The health authorities even send out police with handcuffs to stop alternative doctors from practicing.

Conventional medicine is NOT interested in finding nutritional reasons behind the epidemic of cancer, heart disease, allergies, learning disorders, and autoimmune diseases like MS and arthritis. Far from it. These prescription drug-peddlers try to prove nutrition does NOT cure these diseases. Boy, are they wrong…

When you order your personal copy of the Special Report, you're going to see that the Missing Ingredient often achieves results just as dramatic as those achieved by feeding limes to scurvy victims. I'm talking about overnight cures.

The class of nutrients you'll discover in the Special Report can achieve miracle "magic bullet" results. But you shouldn't look at them that way. You should look at these nutrients as one of the essentials you need in a lifetime of eating right, along with antioxidants, minerals. . .and things we haven't discovered yet.

Raw, unprocessed food achieves miracle cures –
And you can reap the same benefits through supplements

In the Special Report The Missing Ingredient for Good Health, you'll see how this new, overlooked nutrient works hand in hand with antioxidants, minerals and other plant chemicals to fight the degenerative "diseases of old age." These diseases are seldom found in people who eat right.

I'm telling you, alternative cancer doctors have cured many people just by feeding them a diet of raw, uncooked, organic fruits, grains and vegetables. Other cancer doctors achieve the same results with the supplements. My colleagues and I have toured the clinics, talked to the patients, and witnessed the results.

And when I say cured, I mean "cured," not just "delayed death." My associates and I have met some of these lucky patients or received their emails thanking us for the cancer information we publish in Special Reports like Cancer Defeated and Natural Cancer Remedies that Work.

Now, let's be clear: alternative cancer doctors can't cure everyone. When it comes to cancer, there's no 100% sure thing. For one thing, many of the people who come to alternative cancer doctors are too far gone. They've waited too long.

But alternative cancer doctors do CURE a great many of these people and prolong the lives of others far more effectively than conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.

And this remarkable success is partly due to the Missing Ingredient, which you can start taking today as either uncooked food or in the form of supplements available in any health food store.

And that's a fact.

You'll experience a "Eureka!" moment
that can change your life

After reading the report, you'll understand for the first time how good nutrition works. You'll see WHY more of us are coming down with chronic diseases every year and how EASY it is to turn your health around with good sense – and the new information in The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.

You're protected by a 100% guarantee

You can order The Missing Ingredient for Good Health as a digital download. And, you have a full 60 days to read it, use it, and think it over. If you're not completely satisfied with the Special Report, just let us know and one of our friendly customer service people will give you a FULL REFUND. No questions asked, no quibbling. Every penny of your money back.

AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO RETURN THE REPORT. KEEP IT.

Well, as a practical matter you can't return a digital download. No matter. You can still get every penny back.

I'm not worried, because very few of our readers ask for a refund. Instead, we get letters thanking us for the life-changing information we've provided.

You risk nothing whatsoever

There's no reason to pass by an offer like this. The information is vitally important. Each and every one of us needs this nutrient. We're not getting it. And frankly, this deficiency is making a lot of people very sick.

You owe it to yourself to find out what's what. The Special Report The Missing Ingredient for Good Health will set you on your way.

With kindest regards

Lee Euler
Writer and Publisher

P.S. I take "the missing ingredient" myself in supplement form, and the changes in my life have been remarkable.

Tuesday

Nutrients for Better Learning

by Tanya Zilberter, PhD


Out of all nutrients known for their effects on brain functions, two groups are assumed being of particular importance for the process of learning therefore being of even more importance for children with learning disabilities. This is what they are and why.

The process of learning is believed to rely on mechanisms providing contacts between brain cells called, as you know, neurons. These contacts take place in highly specialised tiny places where two neurons physically contact each other called synapses. One of the neurons initiates the contact by releasing a chemical substance, called neurotransmitter, into the narrow cleft separating pre-synapse from post-synapse.

As soon as the neuron-recipient feels this substance, it gets all excited and became electrically active. The more often the contact the easier the recipient gets excited. Under one important condition: if there's enough of the substance-neurotransmitter. More synapses involved mean a higher probability of newly formed communication pathways - "learned" ones. There are enzymes and their helpers co-enzymes that work facilitating the production of neurotransmitters. Many vitamins are involved in enzymes' work. The good example of co-enzymes is the well-known supplement co-enzyme Q10.

Another way to help the process of learning is to supply the brain with neuronal metabolites that promote neuronal growth and activity and enrich the brain architecture.

This is the list of nutrients, which were under investigation whether they work for children with learning disabilities (Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 2000, 6(3): 85-91):

1. Magnesium Chelate 100 mg (at bedtime since it causes drowsiness)
2. Pure Vitamin C 100 mg (bioflavanoids were excluded due to their adverse effects on learning disabilities)
3. Vitamin B1 Thiamine 50 mg
4. Vitamin B3 Niacinamide 50 mg
5. Vitamin B6 Pyridoxine 100 mg
6. Vitamin B12 500 mcg
7. Folic Acid 400 mcg
8. Manganese Chelate 20 mg
9. Zinc Chelate22.5 mg
10. L-tyrosine 500 mg
11. L-glutamine 500 mg
12. Linoleic Acid as evening primrose oil 500 mg
13. Co-enzyme Q10 10 mg

These nutrients were tested on a group of 19 children with learning disabilities for 4 years resulting in dramatic improvement in behavior and academic grades. All the participating children were able to join the mainstream school classes. Those who discontinued the program remained in normal range of school performance for almost one year, however their grades were gradually decreasing. Those who stayed on the program, continued improving their grades during this year so that in the end of the year 4, the difference in overage grades became very significant: 94.6 in those remaining versus 79 in those who discontinued.

Out of the nutrients on the list, the most prominent effect had magesium, vitamins B1 and B6, Zn, and folic acid, followed by vitamin C, L-glutamine, and primrose oil. Manganese was found to have mild adverse effects.