Guest guest Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Hi Carol, In your list of essential nutrients, you missed the 8 essential carbohydrates that are needed every day by the body (see Harper's Biochemistry book). There are 200 carbohydrates in nature and 8 of them are essential for human body cells to be able to communicate with each other. They combine on the outside of the cells so that they can tell each other who they are and what they need. These 8 ESSENTIAL CARBOHYDRATES are: Glucose Galactose Mannose Fucose Xylose N-Acetylglucosamine N-Acetylneuraminic Acid N-Acetylgalactosamine If your body is missing just one of these you will exhibit symptoms of disease. Or it will attack it's own cells when they can't identify themselves, as in autoimmune disorders. The body needs all of them in order to communicate. Even " healthy " diets do not supply enough of these nutrients. With our increasing limited diets, poor quality of food, and toxic environments if these are not supplemented we cannot achieve total health. These 8 essential carbohydrates have been patented by a company called under the name ...deleted.... Adding these carbohydrates to my diet has saved my life and made astounding differences in the health of all the people in my family and my friends. It's surprising to me how many people are into health and make sure they get their vitamins every day, but don't know or concern themselves with getting these essential nutrients. It's only getting around by word of mouth, like most good things, so maybe that is why so many people still don't know about it. There is a lot of research in the area of glyconutrients and you can check out the website at.... Warm Regards, Terri - Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:11 PM RE: Importance of Minerals. David, There are 45 essential nutrients (essential means that the body cannot make them - they have to come from a food source) - they are categorized as 20 minerals, 15 vitamins, 8 essential amino acids, and 2 essential fatty acids. You need them on a daily basis - not monthly, not weekly.but daily. If your diet is lacking any one of those 45 nutrients, then something somewhere in your body will start de-generating. Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 , Terri Zink <terri@c...> wrote: > Hi Carol, > > In your list of essential nutrients, you missed the 8 essential > carbohydrates that are needed every day by the body (see Harper's > Biochemistry book). There are 200 carbohydrates in nature and 8 of > them are essential for human body cells to be able to communicate > with each other. They combine on the outside of the cells so that > they can tell each other who they are and what they need. To add to that, not only the cell receptors, the communication organs if you will, but also the cell walls themselves have a lot of the glyconutrients in them. Their own cell walls is the first source of sugar that the cancer cells consume. This compromises the wall integrity and results in reduced membrane voltage potential. In cancer and injury cell wall voltage potential is only about 15 mv; healthy cells are 60-100 mv. This is why the cancer cells ultimately have more negative charge and can repel white blood cells through ionic repulsion even if the WBCs are perfectly aware there is a cancer present. regards, Duncan Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Terri, Essential carbs? calls them essential because it’s essential to the sale of the product, perhaps?) Essential means that your body can’t make them and you have to get them from food. Just look at glucose ... the idea that we have to get glucose in our diet because we can't make it or can't make enough of it is .... well, not correct. It's the basic fuel for our cells -- blood glucose levels are normally maintained within the relatively narrow range of 70-110 mg per 100 mL. That happens whether or not we get glucose in our diet, whether or not we eat at all. All sorts of things can be converted to glucose by our liver, including amino acids. Those nutrients you listed may be essential to life, but not as single ingredients in the diet. In the promo piece there are some striking contradictions. For one thing, they acknowledge we have the ability to synthesize these substances and then two sentences later they go and label them " essential " . Plus, they are not from a real, food source. Get yourself some real whole food nutrition that wasn’t put together in a lab by some scientist mixing stuff up in a cauldron. Sure, those 8 carbs can be helpful in particular situations, e.g. N-Acetylglucosamine in inflammatory bowel syndromes and other mucosal diseases. Mannose in bladder problems, etc. Many of these are probably assimilated by probiotics in a healthy body, from essential building blocks, such as found in nutrient-dense whole foods. I feel that with the foundational micronutrients available in nutrient-dense whole foods we are able to make the sugars for optimal health. Start at the bottom of the nutritional support chain, instead of what you are doing which is targeting specific sugars in the middle and end points. Some people have trouble making nonessential amino acids, too – so should we also call them essential? And what do you do for the “real” 45 essential nutrients? And are you also getting these: Alanine Arginine Asparagine Aspartic Acid Betacarotene Bioflavinoids Biotin Boron Calcium Chlorophyll Chromium Cobalt Copper Cysteine Essential Fatty Acids Electrolytes Fiber Fluorine Folic Acid Germanium Gamma-Linolenic Acid Glutamic Acid Glutamine Glutathione Glycine Glycogen Histidine Iodine Iron Isoleucine Lecithin Leucine Linoleic Acid Lysine Magnesuim Manganese Methionine Molybdenum Niacin (Vitamin B3) Nickel Nucleic Acids Omega-6 Fatty Acids Omega-3 Fatty Acids Pantothenic Acid/ B5 Phenylalanine Phosphorous Potassium Proline Pyridoxine (vit B6) Riboflavin (vit B2) RNA Selenium Serine Silicon Sodium Superoxide Dismutase Substance P Thiamine (Vit B1) Threonine Tyrosine Valine Vanadium Vitamin B12 Vitamin C Vitamin E Zinc Carol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Organic, wholefood, supplements provide nutrients essential for the health of people, pets and plants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- Terri Zink [terri] Hi Carol, In your list of essential nutrients, you missed the 8 essential carbohydrates that are needed every day by the body (see Harper's Biochemistry book). There are 200 carbohydrates in nature and 8 of them are essential for human body cells to be able to communicate with each other. They combine on the outside of the cells so that they can tell each other who they are and what they need. These 8 ESSENTIAL CARBOHYDRATES are: Glucose Galactose Mannose Fucose Xylose N-Acetylglucosamine N-Acetylneuraminic Acid N-Acetylgalactosamine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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