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The Nature’s Choice Super-Food Phenomenon

At Nature’s Choice we generally classify foods into the following categories: Bio-friendly Foods, Organic Foods, Functional Foods, Junk Foods, Modified Foods, & Natures Choice Foods.

Why Oranges Are Good For You

Everyone knows about the high vitamin C content and the natural fiber. But oranges (and other citrus fruits) also contain folic acid, beta-carotene, potassium, selenium, antioxidants, and plenty of phytochemicals, the bioactive compounds in plant foods that help nutrients boost the immune system. Citrus fruits also have a low glycemic index, which make them excellent nutrition for diabetics.

Could Your Symptoms be Related to a Deficiency an Overdose or an Excess?

This is a simple, logical, step-by-step utility aimed at helping you and your nutritional counselor to identify, to overcome, and to avoid the more prominent of the many nutritional imbalances. This information is supplied as a guideline only. It is not a complete listing, and it is not intended to replace the advice of a suitably trained health professional.

Sugar As A Cause Of Diabetes & Cancer

It is mind boggling today to read through medical histories and other tomes and find again and again that the basic cause of diabetes mellitus is still unknown, that it is chronic and incurable, or that it is due to the failure of the pancreas to secrete an adequate amount of insulin.

Colon Cleanse (Psyllium Husk Fiber)

Nature’s Choice Colon Cleanse is first and foremost a wonderfully effective, all-natural fiber product that will promote regular bowel function – without the harmful side effects of laxatives (which generally work by irritating the bowel). As an excellent source of dietary fiber, Colon Cleanse will also prove helpful in lowering cholesterol levels, cleansing the colon, and preventing bowel cancer – and much more.

Walnuts A Real Spoil From Nature’s Pantry

Composition:Walnuts are a good source of both Omega-3 (Linolenic Acid) and Omega-6 (Linoleic Acid) essential fatty acids. The fatty acids in walnuts and the 15-20 percent protein will nourish the nervous system. (See Dietary Fat Sources Chart)
Walnuts provide a balanced all-round nutritional package, with all the main nutritional components being present in useful amounts. They [...]

Why You Need Soya Beans To Stop Aging

If you don’t eat soybeans, you deprive yourself of a readily available youth potion. One of the best things you can do to enliven your cells’ defenses against aging and age-related diseases is to infuse them with substances found in the soybean.

Red Clover The Cancer Fighter

Thirty-three different cultures around the world use red clover to treat cancer and cancer-like degenerative diseases

The Candy Shop Syndrome

Candies and soft drinks are practically a symbol of our culture. They come in innumerable shapes, colors and flavors, and are available everywhere, in dazzling wrappers, waiting to be picked up by eager children.

Aluminium? Beware!

At the University of Toronto, Dr D.B. Crapper and colleagues, showed that aluminium given to cats turned them into idiots. Examination of the cats’ brains after death found destroyed areas filled with what are called neurofibrillary tangles. These areas showed high concentrations of aluminium (12 mcg/gram), the same level of aluminium found in destroyed areas of the brains of some victims of Alzheimers disease.

Talcum Powder In Question

TALC is used as a powder for baby powder, face masks, make-up foundation, eye shadow and after bath powders

Cool Stools

The following are a few summary thoughts from a lecture given by Dr. Dennis P. Burkitt, at the second annual Bristol-Myers Symposium on Nutrition Research, December 9 and 10, 1982, in Washington, D.C. Dr. Burkitt, of Gloucester, England, is an honorary senior researcher, especially known for his research indicating the importance of dietary fibre.

Hexachlorophene Beware

The following is an extreme example of the differences between the precautionary and risk assessment approaches to public health. The chemical involved is hexachlorophene.

Fowl Treatment

`How many people ever ask themselves what lies behind those eggs they so easily lift off the supermarket shelf and place in their shopping trolley? Contrary to what advertisements would have us believe, the truth reads like a horror story.

The Great Chemical Trade Off

It’s as though we have struck the ultimate Faustian bargain. In return for all the benefits of our modern society, and all the amazing products of modern life, we have more breast cancer, more testicular cancer and reduced fertility.

The True Causes And Cures Of Disease

`When we look at the world in which we live, we can no longer accept that there are single chemicals, foods or pollutants, each causing single diseases.

Aids and the Immune System

At this writing, there is no cure or vaccine against HIV and AIDS. That means that there are only two ways of protecting oneself from this dreaded disease: the first is prevention, which means abstaining from behaviors that put you at risk. The second is to maintain and, where possible, to boost your body’s immune system.

Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning:Be Wary of Eating Fish

A special issue of the international science journal Ambio contains “The Madison Declaration on Mercury Pollution.”

Understanding & Treating Allergies

Regarding allergy and its causes, there are two theories that deserve special mention.

Sunlight Improves Sleep

Institutionalized elderly often have sleep problems, which are often treated with sleep medications, which often lose their effectiveness after a few weeks, and expose the patient to increased risk of falls, mental disturbances, and rebound insomnia.

How To Overcome The Common Cold – For Life

With SARS and Bird Flu and other viral and bacterial infections sweeping the planet, and with the continued overuse of antibiotics giving promise of worse to come, the reader is urged to consider this article in a most serious light.

Beating The Virus Hands Down

Before we can consider the action that we can take to prevent germ infection or a viral infection such as SARS – we have to first of all take into account a few of the major factors that have led to a situation where all too many people in our world have weakened immune systems.

Sunlight Could Save Your Life

Sunlight is the battery-charger of life. A daily dose of sunlight will do wonders to your feeling of well-being and to your health in general.

Is Your Cell Phone Undermining Your Life

If you experience regular headaches, if you are well acquainted with brain fog or with what some might call a “fuzzy brain,” if you sometimes have confused thoughts, if you often lie down at night and you find your head spinning, it might be time to seriously consider your use of the cell phone. Can you dispense with it and, if not, what can can you do to reduce the amount of radiation that you are being exposed to.

How To Quit Smoking

This information should be read along with the feature, How to Quit Alcohol, from the same source. The information in each of these two sections is helpful for both those who want to quit smoking and those who want to quit drinking alcoholic beverages. The principles are similar.

How To Quit Alcohol

Before reading this feature, first read over the section on How to Quit Tobacco. Many of the same principles apply.

Turbo-Charge Your Life With Fresh Air

Many lessons can be learnt from this article, but the two most important lessons are these: (1) Live and sleep with windows open in your home and your office – even if you use an air conditioner, and even if you have to install fly-screens, and (2) learn to breath deeply.

What Whole Grains Will Do For You

Throughout history, whole grains have been referred to as “the staff of life.” Whole grains – brown rice, millet, wheat, barley, oats, corn, buckwheat, and rye – are highly nutritious, containing many of the protective nutrients such as the B complex vitamins, vitamin E, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron, and selenium. Buckwheat and millet have been specifically documented as helping to counteract radiation.

The Very Real Dangers Of Refined Foods

It is a well‑known and tragic fact that in the formulation of the great majority of today’s processed foods, the primary considerations of the manufacturer are taste, mouth‑feel, appearance, shelf life and profit. Sadly, the all-important considerations, these being the nutritional value of the product, and the effect that the product will have upon the health of the consumer, are not always given the attention that they deserve.

Kilojoule Bomb In Your Beverages

There are four-and-a-half slices of bread in your glass of wine and three-and-a-half slices of bread in your Grapetiser – in terms of kilojoules, that is. Shocked? Read on.