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 To make them hydrogenated, oils are heated in the presence of hydrogen and metal catalysts. This process helps prolong shelf life but simultaneously creates trans fats, which only have to be disclosed on the label if the food contains more than 0.5 grams per serving. To avoid listing trans fats, or to claim "trans fat free" on their label, food manufacturers simply adjust the serving size until the trans fat content falls under 0.5 grams per serving. This is how you get modern food labels with serving sizes that essentially equate to a single bite of food. |
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 Antioxidation
Supplementation of vitamin E intake of smokers decreased susceptibility of their erythrocytes to hydrogen peroxide-induced lipid peroxidation. Fifty male smokers were given daily supplements of 70, 140, 560, or 1050 mg of d-alpha-tocopheryl acetate for 20 weeks. Erythrocyte vitamin E levels rose in a dose-dependent manner, and peroxidizability of erythrocytes decreased significantly with each dose (p<0.001). |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL
Source of oil or fat Margarine, many processed foods
Vegetable oil, usually a liquid, can be made into a semi-solid by treating with hydrogen. Hydrogenation reduces the levels of polyunsaturated oils. We eat too much oil and fat of all kinds, whether natural or hydrogenated. High-fat diets promote heart disease, obesity, and probably cancer. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 One carbon linked to four atoms of chlorine instead of four atoms of hydrogen constitutes carbon tetrachloride. Carbon tetrachloride never existed on earth until it was first artificially synthesized in the laboratory. It is a highly toxic organic chemical, profoundly damaging to the liver, among other body organs. Unlike methane it is nonflammable, which made carbon tetrachloride attractive early on as a filler for fire extinguishers. Among its many other commercial applications, it was also one of the first dry cleaning agents. |
| Up until his discovery, every other organic molecule that had been either synthesized or found in nature (and pulled apart to discover what it was made of) showed carbon linked to hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen, solely or in combination. Other elements, including sulfur, might also be present, but at least one of the big three, it seemed, was invariably present as a part of carbon-based substances.
Chemists were always on the lookout for novel compounds, and Herr Lampadius's weird sulfur hybrid did not go unnoticed. |
| Two groups of opposing French chemists each claimed to have solved this minor chemical mystery, and both were wrong, mistakenly inserting various combinations of oxygen, hydrogen, or nitrogen into a structure that actually contained none of them.5 An absence of any apparent use for sulfur-alcohol did not seem to reduce its scientific cachet.
The French controversy caught the attention of the one investigator most likely to set the record straight, the British scientist Humphry Davy. He first experimented only briefly with carbon disulfide. |
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| Aloe vera gel was prepared from the fresh leaves and was applied locally (via an Aloe soaked gauze) to leg ulcers 3 to 5 times daily as a dressing after the wound had been cleansed with boric acid, hydrogen peroxide, and citrimide 1 % solution (El Zawahry et al, 1973). There were no control ulcers, nor means of addressing the effect of Aloe separate from that of the wound cleansings.
Ulcers, Pressure
A review of wound cleansing options for care of pressure ulcers overall identified very little rigorous research (randomized and controlled trials). |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Haber, after all, had made his reputation in the years prior to his institute appointment by developing the Haber-Bosch process for the industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.51 This key discovery later freed Germany from dependence on the importation of ammonia feedstock, which was the lifeblood of both domestic fertilizer and munitions manufacture.
Fritz Haber came to chlorine as an applied chemist, not as a technician narrowly focused on the problem of bleaching. |
| Alrhough Davy published his initial results, the work was equivocal and preliminary: sulfur was indeed present, but it was not clear whether either oxygen or hydrogen was in the molecule.6 There certainly was no nitrogen. When he was unable to give the question the attention he felt it deserved, Davy enlisted a protege, Alexander Marcet, in solving the structural riddle of the unusual new chemical that did not seem to be following the rules.
Marcet's assignment fortuitously coincided with an extended working visit to England of the great Swedish chemist Jons Jacob Berzelius. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 On the other hand, several types of commonly used fat are relatively dangerous to your system and should be avoided:
Hydrogenated fats, such as margarine and shortening These are fats created through the process of hydrogenation, which converts a liquid (unsaturated) fat to a solid (saturated) fat by exposing the fat molecules to hydrogen. Hydrogenated fats interfere with the body's production of prostaglandin, a substance that helps create a resistance to pain and helps produce healthy cells and tissues. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| A novel agricultural chemical growth regulator, hydrogen cyanamide, is responsible for outbreaks of illness, in part because it acts just like the old alcohol abstinence drug disulfiram (Antabuse), blocking the body's breakdown of ethanol and leading to the buildup of a toxin causing nausea, vomiting, and, in severe cases, heart rhythm irregularities. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
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 Hydrogenation of fats simply means adding hydrogen to the molecules. It is a process used solely to prolong the shelf life of oils, but it causes them to become rigid molecules.
Take peanut butter, an otherwise excellent nutritional fat, as an example of what happens as a result of this process. The hydrogenation changes its fats from thin, flexible, high-quality structures to thickened, rigid structures that have very poor characteristics for use by the body, both structurally and metaboli-cally. Fortunately, there are peanut butters available that are not subjected to hydrogenation. |
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| Hypericin was not confirmed as an antioxidant since it did not affect hydrogen peroxide-induced NF-kB activation (Bork et al, 1999).
Antimicrobial Effects: Hyperforin, an extract isolated from St. John's Wort, has demonstrated significant antimicrobial activity against strains of Staphylococcus aureus. A butanol fraction of St. John's Wort inhibited the growth of Helicobacter pylori. Antibacterial effects of St. John's Wort may be related to the simultaneous effects of radiation from the sun (Reichling et al, 2001). |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Green tea polyphenols are also effective in quenching hydrogen peroxide and superoxide free radicals.15
Green tea extract can help the body help itself, so to speak. When green tea extract is added to the drinking water of animals, their intrinsic antioxidant defense system becomes more effective. This is evidenced by an increase in antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase, catalase, quinone reductase, and glutathinone S-transferase. |
Elaine Magee
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 POLYUNSATURATED FATS
At the molecular level, fatty acids contain two or more carbon-carbon double bonds, which means the fatty acid is missing at least two pairs of hydrogen on the chain. There are two main families of polyunsaturated fats—omega-3s and omega-6s—and each includes a fatty acid essential to health.
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS
Omega-3s are a group of fatty acids that all have their first carbon-carbon double bond (unsaturated) starting in the same place, the third carbon atom. ALA is the major omega-3 fatty acid found in plants, while DHA and EPA are in fish. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 Wherever a pair of hydrogen atoms is missing, the adjoining carbon atoms must form a double bond (see examples on the following page). This is important because this double bond produces a weak link in the carbon chain which, as we will see in the next chapter, can have a dramatic influence on health.
The concept of saturation can be described by using an analogy with a school bus full of kids. The bus could represent the carbon chain and the students the hydrogen atoms. Each seat on the bus can hold two students just as each carbon can hold two hydrogen atoms. |
Bill Sardi
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 While oxygen (02) and naturally produced hydrogen peroxide (H202) are sources of rusting in the human body, they are not very reactive until they are brought into contact with unbound metals such as iron and copper which then generate the most powerful of all rusting agents, the dreaded hydroxyl radical which attacks and damages almost everything found in the human body. [Nutrition Reviews 55: 44-52S, 1997] The hydroxyl radical is believed to be the toxicant that triggers genetic mutations that lead to cancer. |
Mary G. Enig
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 Each C in the carbon chain diagram represents a carbon with 3 hydrogens at the end of the chain and with 2 hydrogens in the middle of the chain if there are no double bonds, or one hydrogen for each carbon that has a double bond. In the diagrams without the C shown, the point is understood to represent the C and its appropriate number of hydrogens. (See next page)
What Are Fatty Acids?
A fatty acid is an organic molecule made of a chain of carbon atoms. These chains come in varying lengths (1 to 24 carbon atoms) with a carboxyl (acid) group (COOH) at the end. |
Bill Sardi
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| Archives Biochemistry Biophysics 440: 181-90, 2005]
Now researchers clearly show high-dose vitamin C, when administered intravenously, can increase hydrogen peroxide (H202) levels within cancer cells and selectively kill them. I.V. vitamin C has also been demonstrated to kill germs and may be an effective therapy for infectious disease. [Proceedings National Academy Sciences 102: 13604-09, 2005]
Unlike cancer drugs, I.V. vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells, but not healthy cells, and shows no toxicity. |
| Nutrition & Cancer 38:98-105, 2000]
Vitamin C given intravenously (but not orally) transiently creates hydrogen peroxide which kills cancer cells without harm to normal cells. [Proceedings National Academy Science 102:13604-9, 20051
Rice bran extract (IP6) kills cancer cells by depriving them of iron and copper, their primary growth factors. [Anticancer Research 25:2891-903, 2005]
Resveratrol selectively silences thousands of gene-controlled growth mechanisms in cancer cells. |
| Both Adriamycin and intravenous vitamin C destroy tumors by generating hydrogen peroxide inside cancer cells. The difference is that Adriamycin is a very toxic drug. Even one dose can cause blindness. And, it harms healthy cells as well as cancer cells. On the other hand, intravenous vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells without toxicity. |
| The antioxidant defense force
How the human body defends against oxygen free radicals that damage DNA and are believed to promote cancer
Destructive species of oxygen known as free radicals et oxygen
Hydroxyl radical
Does most damage to DNA
Superoxide radical
Generates hydrogen peroxide Releases iron and copper
Vitamin A
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Dr. Steve Blake
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 Acidity is measured on a pH (potential of hydrogen) scale. Normal values for blood are between 7.35 and 7.45 on the pH scale. Water is used as a reference as pH 7, which is considered neutral. Values higher than pH 7 are considered alkaline (also known as base). Baking soda has an alkaline pH of 9. Values lower than pH 7 are considered acid. Vinegar has an acidic pH of 3. If the blood deviates from its narrow range of normal acidity, delicate proteins can be damaged. Enzymes need normal acidity to perform their functions and are vital to life. |
| Proteins in blood also can act as blood buffers by donating or accepting positive hydrogen ions.
A healthy body does an excellent job of adjusting fluids, acidity, and the balance of minerals.
Quiz
Refer to the text in this chapter if necessary. A good score is at least 8 correct answers out of these 10 questions. The answers are listed in the back of this book.
1. Which statement is NOT true?
(a) 60 percent of the body weight of adults is comprised of water.
(b) Fat contains about 90 percent water.
(c) Lean tissue contains three-quarters water.
(d) Fat contains about one-quarter water. |
| Forms in the body: bound to sodium as salt or to hydrogen as hydrochloric acid.
Main functions: maintains the cell membrane potential, is needed for energy production, and is used as an acid buffer. Adequate Intake: 4.7 grams daily for adults.
Toxicity: not found with potassium in food. Toxicity from supplement overdose is possible.
Maximum potassium potency per tablet has been set at 99 mg for supplements. Deficiency is from excessive losses rather than dietary lack. Healthy sources: unprocessed fruit and vegetables. |
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| Jiang B, Liu JH, Bao YM, et al. hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis in pcl2 cells and the protective effect of puerarin. Cell Biol Int 2003;27(12):1025-1031.
Jiang XL, Xu LN. [Beneficial effect of puerarin on experimental microcirculatory disturbance in mice]. Yao Xue Xue Bao 1989;24(4):251-254.
Jin LH, Liu CF, Zeng Y. [Protective effects of puerarin on radiation injury of experimental rats]. Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao2005;3(l):43-45.
Jin M, Qin J, Wu W. [Clinical study on Tianbaokang injection against oxidative injury of vascular endothelial function in ischemic apoplexy]. |
Ron Garner
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 They are so named because they lack two or more hydrogen atoms in their molecular structure. Raw vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, and seeds contain naturally-occurring unsaturated fats.
Saturated fats have no openings in their chemical structure. They are usually solid at room temperature. Naturally-occurring saturated fats are found mainly in animal fats, meats, dairy products, eggs, and tropical oils.
They are also synthesized in the body from carbohydrates. Contrary to popular belief, not all saturated fats are responsible for the many diseases they are accused of contributing to. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Peter singles out the breaking of hydrogen bonds as a special case in biology and bioenergetics. He believes that "the source of magnetic confetti in the body is associated in a major way with gas exchange in the lungs, in particular in relation to Energetic Integrator 2, and oxygen exchange in the cells, in the circulatory process, which is described in NES in Energetic Integrator 10. My research shows an enormous increase in magnetic confetti wherever you get oxygen exchange, especially when carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen in the lungs. |
| A lot more research needs to be done, but magnetic confetti, especially as it relates to the hydrogen bonding process, is necessary to make and sustain a human body-field."
During a meeting with biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp, at Popp's aboratory in Germany, Peter explained these conditions for the human body-field, and Popp asked Peter if he was sure he was talking about a quantum field in terms of the human body-field. Peter said, "It was a fair question. |
| There are twelve Energetic Integrators, each with a common structure that covers information telating to a range of physical aspects of the body, from elements (such as hydrogen, calcium, and potassium) through cells and tissues and on up through things as abstract as emotions.
Each Energetic Integrator covers a certain range of electromagnetic energy (frequency), and the twelve of them are in specific phase relationship to each other. |
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