- Pop culture gives me plenty of ammo to say "I told
you so." This is illustrated by recent events in LA-LA Land:
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- 1.. Actor Jeremy Piven (Entourage) claims Soy Milk caused
him to grow "Man-Boobs." I suspect it did.
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- 2.. Again with Piven... he claims he got mercury poisoning
from eating Sushi. Yeah, it's very likely.
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- 3.. Finally, the tragic death of Brittany Murphy. Her
unfortunate passing was due to sudden heart failure, likely a result of
trying to be too skinny... in my opinion.
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- Now just one example -utilizing Piven or Murphy- of each
of the 3 subjects that I have written about in the past is not much of
a sampling to "prove" my position on Phyto-Estrogen, Mercury,
and sudden death due to mineral deficiency; however, because these are
"celebrities," the sample might be extended like "dog years,"
eh?
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- One celebrity is worth at least 7 regular people, so
being "celebrities," Piven and Murphy must count more and so
increase the sample. Besides, even God looks at celebrities more favorably...
by a factor of at least 7 to 1. It's a fact... look it up... umm, I'm
thinking Deuteronomy?
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- Anyway, before we discuss Piven's boobs -oh, and I can't
wait- lets review what I wrote several years ago regarding a women's proper
poundage and sudden heart failure -experienced by many- in a Newsletter
article I produced on the subject of Osteoporosis:
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- --from http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#phossy--
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- .. Weight loss over 40 - In 1969 and on my way to Viet
Nam, I recall being lectured by my brand new Minny-Pearl-look-alike Mother
in Law from Lizella, Georgia with a 3rd grade education...remember Deliverance?
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- Anyway, she said, "Ta be healthy, da Lord 'spects
us to gain 10 or 15 pounds... after the Change" (menopause)...
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- Well, I thought that was the stupidest thing I had ever
heard! What a phony and self-serving rational not to keep fit, I thought!
- Though, guess what Folks? She was right, I suspect...
well, maybe not that the Lord "'spects" it, but in an efficacious
physiological sense.
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- The point? The constant dieting typified by yo-yoing
10 or 15 pounds up and down means you periodically deprive yourself of
life-critical minerals.
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- Yes Virginia, there are 70 to 80 life-critical minerals
& Trace minerals, and they are used by the dozens, like a convoluted
series of falling dominoes, to accomplish the most "insignificant"
task!
- Blinking your eye, for example! You couldn't do it, otherwise.
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- Understandably, many of these trace minerals have been
leached from the soil we grow our food in and are not replaced. Consequently,
we don't see many of them in a "normal" diet, where they are
absolutely critical, still.
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- Additionally, as you age, the extra 10 pounds of fat
cells around your middle produces more natural estrogen stimulating a healthful
"OsteoBlast activity." OsteoBlasts are Bone-Building Cells, remember.
Lastly, crazy as it may sound, you, hauling that extra 10 pounds around,
makes your bones stronger rather like lifting weights.
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- Sure! I'm all for being thin... but not if you have
to starve & practically kill yourself to be TOO thin! Not if you have
to starve -read "injure yourself"- to keep that last 10 or 15
lbs off ... especially if you're eating the right natural raw food in moderate
amounts and combining it with moderate weight-bearing and low-impact exercise!
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- Then, my friend, if you level off 10 pounds heavier than
you were in High School? Well, that's right were you should be, eh? Consider
yourself lucky & tell your husband to shut his self-serving pie hole
because your dainty, nicely distributed 10 pounds is in line with a woman's
good health... and quite unlike his 30 pound "beer-gut"!
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- Regarding dieting to remain too thin... trust me, Nicole
Richie, Lindsay Lohan, or the name-escapes-me-main-babe on "Grey's
Anatomy,"... plus any other self-destructive women using starvation
diets and/or "nose-candy" (when they are) to stay ungodly thin...
These women will all develop Osteoporosis at a young age and likely have
heart failure before 50. What price "celebrity," eh?
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- ITEM - Don't confuse "starvation diets" (Bad)
with "fasting" (Good)! A one to three day fast every month
or so, if done in accordance with proper protocol (www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#fast),
is one of the most positive things you can do for your toxically compromised
body.
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- http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#phossy
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- --end of excerpt--
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- Additionally, there's this snippet from another old paper
of mine about mineral deficiency caused by sweating out a soup of trace
minerals, plus the effects of dangerous Phytates and Oxalates consumed
via Soy & grains. These bind to, remember, and ultimately remove minerals
and trace minerals which are not replaced. Apply the preceding to a condition
of being unnaturally thin through extreme measures, like Brittany, and
you have a recipe for sudden death!
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- ---------------from http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#champ------------------------
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- Visualize this scenario. Take a 50 year old marathon
runner & vegetarian who, like many vegetarians, eat a lot of grains
containing Phytates & Oxalates binding to and eliminating many critical
minerals & trace minerals. Finally, he is jogging through his neighborhood
and otherwise being as devout a disciple of the famous marathoner Jim Fixx
as he can.
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- Like Fixx, this middle-aged obsessive thinks supplementation
is a foolish waste of money only producing "expensive urine."
In his uninformed mind, longevity is all about physical fitness and caloric
intake, only.
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- Well, like Jim Fixx at 52, he has a heart attack and
drops dead in his cul-de-sac, WHILE RUNNING.
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- Yes, reader, our intrepid marathoner drops dead while
his overweight, 65 year old neighbor, lounging on his porch smoking cheap
cigarettes and chain-pounding Ding-Dongs casually remarks to his wife...
"See Honey, I told you that running crap would kill you."
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- Ironically, in this situation the surviving neighbor
is right.
- Here's how.
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- Like Jim Fixx...
- ...who set the stage by not supplementing with the Essential
Big Minerals or the 70 or so, equally critical, trace minerals...
- ...who likely ate a high wheat & cereal diet with
the grain protein, "Lectin" that is PRO-inflammatory & adversely
effects digestion.
- ...who likely ate a Hi-Gluten diet of Bread & Cereal
that reduce Calcium & Iron absorption.
- ...who likely ate a high oxalate and phytate diet of
bread & cereal, binding critical minerals and trace minerals...
- ...who drank distilled or reverse osmosis (RO) water
with all the trace minerals removed, resulting in even more minerals and
trace minerals being leached from your bones & organs...
- ...who consumed lots of unfermented soy binding with
even more essential minerals...
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- Who... for years, reader, sweated out a "soup"
of difficult to be replaced electrolytes and essential minerals during
his self-abusive long-distance running activities! In particular, consider,
he excreted potassium, one of the most critical heart nutrients extant,
readily, when he copiously perspired!
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- FYI-A decrease of potassium (Hypokalemia) can profoundly
effect the nervous system and increases the chance of irregular heartbeats
(arrhythmias), which, when extreme, can be decidedly fatal.
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- ...Folks! ...Just like our De-mineralized Jim Fixx!
An obsessive jogger is dead in his cul-de-sac after only a few years of
chronic mineral deficiency blithely provoked in just the manner described!
- It's easy, even expected given the preceding, to drop
dead from a heart attack!
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- Consider: true to form, after Jim Fixx died, his number
one disciple Brian Maxwell increased his effort through physical fitness
without supplemental minerals... and he fell dead in his early 50's, too!
...Seems uninformed celebrities can drop like flies.
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- In parallel, high-toned athletes, so many it does not
require citation, have dropped dead mysteriously in a similar fashion!
But Gee... lets go find an innocent and beneficial herb, like Ephedra,
to blame.
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- Ephedra killed a few hundred people who abused it! Corporate
vetted and FDA sanctioned Vioxx, on the other hand, killed at least 28,000
when taken as directed. There's irony so thick it can suck off your panty-hose!
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- --end of excerpt--
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- So, to stay skinny, I suspect Brittany, a latter day
Fixx, would starve herself of trace minerals for long periods while sweating
out potassium & more trace minerals exercising. This is what resulted
in her sudden death... I'm guessing... and I am just guessing... ...but
I think it's a relatively informed guess.
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- Maybe its just me but I think Brittany looked fine in
1995 at her more natural weight, back when she was in Clueless... in fact
many of these "forced-skinny" girls only look kind of creepy,
singularly un-alluring, and certainly not very healthy. I don't get it...
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- Now don't misunderstand! I don't recommend it, but for
any of you misguided young ladies who feel the need to stay on a perpetual
diet to maintain a weight 10 pounds below the minimum weight for your height...
PLEASE do the following or risk death, little pilgrims!
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- 1.. Take a "Plant-Derived Colloidal Trace Mineral
Complex" with a minimum of 70 trace minerals.
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- 2.. Take a Multi with "Organic-Chelated" minerals
like Citrate or AAC (Amino-Acid Chelated)...NOT INorganic salts like carbonate
& oxide. It must include, or you must add, a MINIMUM of 400mg of Calcium
Citrate or AAC & 400mg of Magnesium Citrate or AAC.
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- 3.. Take some highly digestible protein daily like a
Whey Protein Isolate Smoothie and 3 or 4 lightly poached or very soft-cooked
eggs. When you starve to lose weight & don't get enough protein, you
lose muscle, SO, you lose heart muscle too.
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- 4.. For some absolutely critical fiber & even more
critical "Simple-Plant" Omega-3, (ALA) take 2 or 3 tbls of fresh
ground Ghia Seed if money is not a problem... or a couple of tbls of fresh
ground Flaxseed if money is a big deal.
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- FYI : I think every man, women & child should also
take some form of the MUCH more powerful "Complex-Animal" Omega-3's,
(EPA & DHA) from medicinal oils like fish oil, krill oil or cod-liver
oil <<HOWEVER>> after taking Ghia Seed for Omega-3, adding
more FAT from Fish Oil to get even more Omega-3 would be a hard sell to
your average Paris Hilton wannabe.
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- Anyway, Ghia seed is about 3 times the price of Flax
Seed with essentially the same % of Omega-3 & it is also excellent
fiber!
- The advantage of Ghia Seed is you can eat it without
grinding it first (although I grind it) but the "biggie" is there
is no Phyto-Estrogen in Ghia as opposed to the extremely high amount of
same in Flaxseed.
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- Phyto-Estrogen in Soy, by the way, is supposedly the
reason Jeremy Piven has grown Man-Boobs.
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- Anyway, grind both ghia or flax in a coffee-grinder yourself...the
Omega-3 (ALA) in commercial PRE-ground flax seed will have too much oxidation...
again, in my opinion.
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- Pre-ground Flaxseed is OK if it is "De-Oiled"
(so, no Omega-3 fatty acids to go rancid)... you only find this in the
top quality, expensive Fiber Formulas & "Super-Food Complexes"
where you want the ground flaxseed for its excellent fiber contribution
- not for its Omega-3.
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- 5.. Take additional potassium if you are extreme-dieting,
sweating & exercising or losing a lot of body fluid other ways... that
means everything to include bleeding, spitting, tears & vomit (Hey!
Somebody hold my hair...)!
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- "WARNING" - because of an antiquated, semi-silly
law most supplements can't have over 99mg of potassium (symbol K) in each
dose. This is because potassium (K) can be toxic if you take too much.
Also it was felt that supplemental K was not necessary because it is one
of the 3 numbers on the label of all artificial fertilizers... along with
nitrogen & phosphorous. See? Every form of food gets potassium directly
or indirectly from fertilizer.
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- The problem is a person currently needs about 4700mg
(recently up from 2000) of potassium daily, so 99mg of K in your Multi
is silly & pointless; HOWEVER, you shouldn't just go out and take 4700mg
of K in supplement form without running the risk of taking too much if
you already eat a high K diet of raw fruits & veggies (one med. Banana
has 450mg of K).
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- So, if you are on a diet (especially some crazy starvation
diet) & sweating a lot, then a good compromise is to take about 900mg
to 1500mg in 3 divided doses of 300mg to 500mg at meals.
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- Remember this "K" dosing is not an exact science
because you readily lose potassium when you sweat, bleed, or spit, and
you need more K if you consume a lot of sodium (salt) - so there are variables
that need to be considered.
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- Bottom line, a bulimic long distance runner in south
Florida who eats salty pop corn while crying at sad movies and then throws-up...
should take more potassium.
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- Supplemental Potassium is likely not needed if you lead
a relatively normal life, with moderate exercise and a diet with lots of
veggies, nuts & a small amount of WHOLE fruit (never juice).
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- Now, on to Piven's eagerly anticipated "Man-Boobs."
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- I don't think anyone has the definitive "dead-lock-nut"
when it comes to explaining the effects of large amounts of Phyto-estrogen
(plant-derived estrogen) in one's diet, especially a Male's.
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- The problem is we are already CONSTANTLY bombarded by
Xeno-estrogens in plastics, car exhausts, cleaning products... it is even
"out-gassing" from your computer... oh heck, fill in 2 or 3 hundred
blanks and you just scratch the surface!
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- Now the Phyto-estrogen (PE) proponents will tell you
that there is a substance in PE that, in fact, helps scavenge up harmful
forms of estrogen, but that doesn't mean just go consume all the plant-form
of estrogen you want without the possibility of some negative side effects...
like being a guy with fun-bags, eh?
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- Additionally, high PE intake has been associated with
an increase in cancer while the PE in moderate tofu consumption has been
shown to reduce prostate cancer...gee, what to do?
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- Granted PE in Black Cohosh & tofu can be helpful
for women going through menopause, but I think the data is there suggesting
that everyone, especially babies, and children should avoid a crazy soy
diet, morning, noon & night, comprised of the dangerous, "Fractionated"
Soy Protein ISOLATE.
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- FYI : Fractionated - "Pieces-Parts" not found
in nature...not a "Whole-Food".
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- These Soy "Franken-Foods" are found in Soy-milk,
Soy baby formula, Soy powdered Protein, Soy (burgers, hot-dogs, bacon,
turkey) & virtually ALL processed foods. Piven was drinking 3 quarts
of Soy milk daily.
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- As I've been writing for years... the PE in 2 or 3 tablespoons
of fresh ground flaxseed or a small amount of tofu (which is a Whole-food,
not fractionated) likely won't hurt you. Though, on the other hand, if
you go crazy with phony-baloney Soy ISOLATE I think you can have another
"Eric Cartman" on your hands or sport Man-Boobs like Jeremy Piven.
"I'm too sexy for my shirt..."
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- On Piven's Mercury Poisoning from fish:
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- Dr. House's name-escapes-me-main-babe -not "13,"
the other one- says there is no way to be poisoned from the trace amounts
of mercury in sushi... OK, but all the top holistic Doc's, to include the
#1 holistic practitioner on the web, Dr. Mercola, says that virtually all
fish has mercury and that many of the bigger fish can easily poison you.
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- Mercola, to show how wide spread and serious the problem
is, has also published the latest verification data on his website ...
but hey, if the "House babe's union script-writer" said it, then
it must be true, eh? They wouldn't lie on TV!
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- Anyway, there are brands of wild salmon, etc., specifically
tested and found to be mercury free... but you have to investigate carefully.
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- BTW, don't let these mercury worries extend to Krill
or Fish oils...the mercury is repelled by the oil so it is generally found
only in the flesh of the fish. No, you only have to worry about toxins
like PCB's, etc. in fish oils. So, your brand of medicinal oil must be
Toxin-Free, and say so on the label!
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- So anyway, that's it for now... but yes, "small
samples" notwithstanding, we can learn from the "Stars."
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- Uh... by the way, you know I was just kidding about that
Deuteronomy thing, right? You'd only think God must look on celebrities
more favorably.
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- Questions?
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- Alan Graham
- alan068@centurytel.net
- http://www.alienview.net/ALLTCON.html
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- That's enough. Well be.
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