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JUST HOW BAD IS WHEAT?

ken — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:19:40 +0000

Up until recently, my belief on the value of wheat in the modern diet was based mostly on the principles of the blood type diet. My blood type (AB) seems to digest wheat alright, and I have no digestive problems from it, unless I eat more than a couple of pieces in a day, and...

A DIET TO PREVENT COLDS AND FLUS

ken — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:57:04 +0000

The following material is based on the Oriental medicine perspective. We here in the West have lost sight of how to eat with the seasons, since we can have tropical foods year ‘round and because with indoor heating we can counteract the needs that the seasons impose on us. For example, those living in cold...

IS PROSTATE CANCER LINKED TO VITAMIN E?

ken — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:21:03 +0000

REFUTING THE PROSTATE CANCER AND VITAMIN E STUDY I would like to briefly address the two recent news articles critical of vitamin usage printed in most newspapers with no follow up or opposing opinions. As someone who has worked in the vitamin industry for over 20 years as a consultant, product designer and published author,...

THE TRUTH ABOUT SALT

ken — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:28:06 +0000

WHAT IS SALT? How important is salt? According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, as stated in his “Natural History,” ”in Rome. . .the soldier’s pay was originally salt and the word salary derives from it. . .” That the word salary still stands today indicates the historical understanding of the importance of salt...

Green Fascism

ken — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:16:11 +0000

Green Fascism (A rose by any other name…) Just so we are clear, I love the planet and believe we are fast destroying it. I believe that debating global warming is a brilliant piece of sleight-of-hand by business. We used to just call it pollution and it was clearly bad; now they’ve got us debating...

Vitamin K2, Prostate Cancer and Vitamin D3

ken — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:52:25 +0000

Study indicates that vitamin K2 protects against prostate cancer. A new study has linked vitamin K2 levels with reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer. In this study, the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, over 11,000 men were studied by means of a dietary questionnaire. Vitamin K had already shown that it had anti-carcinogenic...

Do We Need Vitamin D in the Summer?

ken — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:03:12 +0000

Vitamin D Year Round Personally, I still take vitamin D during the summer months. My reason is that I work indoors 5 days a week, and don’t always get time to sunbath on my days off. Frankly I’m not much of a sunbather anyways, seldom wearing shorts, and the reality is if I want to...

Gluten and Nutristart Products

ken — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:19:14 +0000

Can celiacs use Nutristart products? When NutriStart is asked by those with celiac disease if they can safely consume our products, we have to answer that our products are not processed in a “dedicated” plant. A dedicated plant is one that never processes any gluten containing substances and, in Canada at least, it is only...

News Updates

ken — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:03:29 +0000

This blog is going to be a collection of some news stories related to subjects covered in my book, Health Secrets for the 21st Century. Vitamin A may prevent fetal alcohol syndrome. As my faithful readers are aware, I am one of the few in the nutritional field who believe that vitamin A is commonly...

Cholesterol Myths

ken — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:32:17 +0000

Cholesterol Myths Oh, myth, myth, could I have some eggs over here please? Or should I? According to my doctor my cholesterol reading is high and he wants me to cut down on my cholesterol intake, and take a statin drug to force that cholesterol down. The first myth here is that a high cholesterol...

Supplements That Protect Against Radiation

ken — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:20:39 +0000

Supplements That Protect Against Radiation Radiation and Iodine 4 I will wrap up the radiation material with this final blog so that we can move onto new subject material in the future. I strongly suggest that my readers continue to follow the information on the Japanese nuclear crisis because we are being horribly let down...

Astragalus: Part 2

ken — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:10:27 +0000

Astragalus and Longevity Having been side tracked by the importance of the Radiation blogs I overlooked uploading part 2 of the Astragalus blog. Since the final radiation blog opens with herbs that protect us against radiation damage, and Astragalus is near the top of that list, now would be a good time to pass on the more detailed...

Radiation and Iodine Part 3

ken — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:55:27 +0000

Foods To Fight Radiation, continued Foods that I overlooked last blog include members of the onion and garlic family (including chives, leeks,shallots and scallions) which are high in sulfur, necessary for detoxification and production of glutathione in the body. Beans are also sulfur containing and, in moderation, can be an alkalizing source of protein in the...

Radiation and Iodine: Part 2

ken — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:51:52 +0000

Foods to fight radiation exposure. We are currently receiving conflicting information about the amounts and dangers of the radiation exposure that we are receiving here in North America from the situation in Japan. It is not our place here to add to the amount of fear going around, nor do we wish to minimize the...

Radiation and Iodine

ken — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:14:04 +0000

Radiation and Iodine The subject of radiation and iodine is obviously a hot topic right now, but also a loaded one. It has been observed that more long lasting damage to individuals caught up in the Chernobyl meltdown was caused by fear and stress than by actual radiation damage (not counting children). Paul Pitchford commented, in...

Astragalus

ken — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:01:33 +0000

Astragalus Following on the heels of NutriStart releasing our new immune supportive product, ImmuneStart, I will use this and the next blog to inform our readers of the many advantages of the herb Astragalus. In part, this is to explain why we chose to add it to the medicinal mushrooms that make up the bulk...

CELL PHONE RADIATION

ken — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:18:32 +0000

CELL PHONE RADIATION In late March ’09 the peer-reviewed journal Pathophysiology published an overview of 15 studies (done in six different countries) on the effects of electro-magnetic fields (EMF’s) and radio frequency radiation on human health.The editorial summed up with: “Overall, the scientific evidence shows that the risk to health is significant and that to...

DEFENDING VITAMIN A: PART 3

ken — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:47:32 +0000

Dietary Vitamin A and Vitamin D and Genetics Continuing my arguement that vitamin A deficiency is widespread. At this point I will address a specific argument put forth by Dr. Cannell (director of The Vitamin D Council) that strikes me as particularly dumb. He states: “By the time humans could hunt large mammals, the genome had...

DEFENDING VITAMIN A: PART 2

ken — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:14:57 +0000

To continue with my disagreement with the negative information on vitamin A put out by the Vitamin D Council and repeated by Dr. Mercola on his site. Fortunately for us the Vitamin D Council already has a natural enemy that immediately responded to these attacks, first in December 2008 and recently in March 2010. Because...

DEFENDING VITAMIN A: PAUL PITCHFORD’S POSITION

ken — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:12:51 +0000

DEFENDING VITAMIN A: PAUL PITCHFORD’S POSITION Greetings and welcome to our new launch of Ken’s NutriStart Blog. As we have just recently released my new book, “Health Secrets for The 21st Century,” this blog will now serve as a way to dialogue with my readers. Questions that you may have about the data in the...

Protecting Against the Flu

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:29:57 +0000

Greetings, again. Having finished the basic material for our book (as of yet, not quite titled) I return now to attempt to breath life into our blog. Just be glad we don’t twitter yet. Given the current worries about the latest pandemic I thought I’d address how those of us in the supplement industry protect...