johnaltieri 's List: Integrative Nutrition

• Kombu, a seaweed, was first used in Japan as a   flavor enhancer.  A Japanese doctor isolated the main   ingredient -- MSG, or monosodium glutamate -- and started what has   become a million-dollar industry.
• Additives that always contain MSG
• Terms that frequently indicate hidden MSG additives
• Additives that may contain MSG or excitotoxins
• Blaylock, Russell L., M.D.     Excitotoxins:  The Taste that Kills, Health Press, Santa   Fe, NM  87504, 1994.
• Schwartz, George R., M.D. and Schwartz,   Kathleen A.  In Bad Taste: The MSG Symptom Complex,   Health Press, Santa Fe, NM  87504.

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• As I began to notice how many people around me were coming down with diseases at earlier and earlier ages, I started asking questions and looking for meaningful patterns.
• how our lifestyle choices generation after generation have resulted in the highest health care costs in the world.
• I began learning how chemically toxic we each have become, and how, as a result of the body burden of chemicals we are constantly absorbing, the reproductive future of our entire species is now imperiled.
• our food and medicine manufacturers, even medical science itself cannot reliably tell us anymore what is safe.

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• Form Factor Nutrition borrows from the literature and protocols surrounding nutrient timing and intermittent fasting.
• High-intensity activity, especially high-intensity resistance training, puts your body into an optimal nutrient partitioning state.
• making the fasting period (gasp) enjoyable.
• It may be that many blog readers know what to do in theory, but can’t always pull the practice together consistently.

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• The F.D.A. sent the program a letter in August voicing concern that the label could lead consumers to choose highly processed foods over healthier foods, like fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains.

• Calcium is more poorly absorbed by folks eating a high protein diet, or high phosphorus foods (such as soda pop and milk).