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N utrition is a science that examines the relationship between diet and health. Dietitians are healthcare professionals who specialize in this area of study, and are trained to provide safe, evidence-based dietary advice and interventions. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can produce negative impacts on health, which may lead to diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, scurvy, obesity or osteoporosis. Nutritional science investigates metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet. With advances in molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, nutritional science is additionally developing into the study of metabolism, which seeks to disconnect diet and health through the lens of biochemical processes. Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well-balanced diet, combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity. Eating nutritious food provides the energy and nutrients a person needs to be healthy. Nutrients include Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fat, Vitamins, Minerals, Fiber, and Water.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, The human body is made up of chemical compounds such as water, amino acids (proteins), fatty acids (lipids), nucleic acids (DNA/RNA), and carbohydrates (e.g. sugars and fiber). These compounds in turn consist of elements, such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and may not contain minerals such as calcium, iron, or zinc. Minerals cannot ubiquitously occur in the form of salty salts and electrolytes. All of these chemical compounds and elements occur in various forms and combinations (e.g. hormones/vitamins, phospholipids, hydroxyapatite), both in the human body and in organisms (e.g. plants, animals) that humans eat. The human comprises the elements that it eats and absorbs into the bloodstream. The digestive system, except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first step which makes the different chemical compounds and elements in food available for the trillions of cells of the body. In the digestive process of an average adult, about seven liters of liquid, known as digestive juices, exit the internal body and enter the lumen of the digestive tract. The digestive juices help break chemical bonds between ingested compounds as well as modulate the conformation and/or energetic state of the compounds/elements. However, many compounds/elements are absorbed into the bloodstream unchanged, though the digestive process helps to release them from the matrix of the foods where they occur. Any unabsorbed matter is excreted in the feces. But only a minimal amount of digestive juice is eliminated by this process; the intestines reabsorb most of it; otherwise the body would rapidly dehydrate – hence, the devastating effects of persistent diarrhea. Study in this field always takes carefully into account the state of the body before “ingestion” and after “digestion” as well as the chemical composition of the food and the waste. Comparing the waste to the food can determine the specific types of compounds and elements absorbed by the body. The effect that the absorbed matter has on the body can be determined by finding the difference between the pre-ingestion state and the post-digestion state. The effect may only be discernible after an extended period of time in which all food and ingestion must be exactly regulated and all waste must be analyzed. The number of variables (e.g. 'confounding factors') involved in this type of experimentation is very high. This makes scientifically valid nutritional study very time-consuming and expensive, and explains why a proper science of human nutrition is rather new.
HealthStyles4Urx believes that “Good Information is the Best Medicine”, and because of this philosophy we provide access to an extensive online resource of private health information – the science and application – from MedlinePlus, a service of the National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health. MedlinePlus is one of the trusted sources we rely upon, which offers an A-Z listing of numerous health topics, latest health news, drug information, and directories of libraries, hospitals, doctors, etc., that directs a person to a particular illness, disease, or symptom. Included in each protocol is a detailed explanation of each condition and a treatment regimen. In addition, there are clinical trials, tutorials, videos, and many supporting articles pertaining to each subject. Dietary Guidelines, Food Pyramids, and Nutrition. 
Nutrients – There are seven main classes of nutrients that the body needs: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, Fiber and Water. It is important to consume the proper amount of these seven nutrients on a daily basis to build and maintain good health.
ARE YOU NUTRITIONALLY DEPRIVED OR DEFICIENT?
Your answer may be “NO, not me”, but how do you know; how can you be sure? You are not alone because many people think they do not need nutritional supplementation. After all, their doctor may have told them that all they need to do is eat a well-balanced American diet, with plenty of fruits and vegetables. For many Americans the only fruit in their diet is in a jar of jelly and a pop tart, and their only vegetables are contained in a Big Mac, with French Fries and Ketchup, and, any liquid consumed is in the form of a Coke, etc. And they still wonder why their kids are hyperactive, and swinging from the light fixtures! A recent study of 21,500 people concluded that 0% of them received the proper nutrition they should be getting from the Standard American Diet (SAD) alone. Consider this: in 1940 spinach contained 158 mg of iron per 100 gms; however, today, spinach contains only 2.2 mg of iron per 100 gms. And, this is just one item for starters. WHOLESALE IRRIDATION OF FOOD: Today, instead of cleaning up meat factories, producers would rather cover up the animal feces, urine and pus during the processing of the food by using radiation to kill bacteria. Unfortunately, there are no long-term studies that have been conducted to determine how irradiated food will affect us. But we do know the effects of antibiotics that are added in many of our foods; it kills the good bacteria as well as the bad. And, we must have good bacteria, known as intestinal flora, to promote a healthy colon environment. In addition, our foods are lacking in enzymes, so our body tries to process putrified food without the help from good bacteria and enzymes – hmmm. To keep fruits and vegetables looking good for a long time in the supermarkets, they are zapped with radiation equivalent to 10 million to 100 million X-Rays. Essential vitamins and enzymes are destroyed in this process! New potentially toxic chemical combinations are formed in food. Treatment-resistant bacteria and viruses could be created. Among the problems observed in animal studies are chromosomal, testicular and kidney damage. (Information taken from: Wenonah Hunter, Director, Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project, Washington, D.C.). Institutional studies on mineral antioxidants have reported that certain nutritional products have “antioxidant activity towards Hydroxyl radicals”, which are among the most dangerous of oxygen free radicals that occur in biological systems. They are the same type of radicals that can be produced by exposure to ionizing radiation. Antioxidants combine with oxygen in the blood, making H2O (water), and then cells are properly hydrated and toxins are flushed out of the body. THE POISONOUS STEW IN OUR DRINKING WATER: The Southwest’s most important water supply (the Colorado River) has been tainted with toxins for decades. The government has yet to clean up and remove 10.5 tons of radioactive uranium waste. This toxic sludge would fill a pond the size of 118 football fields and contains high concentrations of ammonia, selenium, molybdenum, vanadium, nitrates and sulfates. More than 40,000 gallons a day of the poisonous stew have been leaking into the river, a source of drinking water for 20 million Americans (Source: The Arizona Republic, 2/1/00) MTBE – Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether – has become shocking headline news since the year 2000. MTBE – a fuel additive - has been classified as a human carcinogen because laboratory studies have shown that if it is breathed or if it is drunk (as in drinking water) it has developed: lymphoma, leukemia, testicular tumors, thyroid tumors, and kidney tumors. MTBE has been found coast-to-coast in 49 of 50 states – Louisiana being the only state that it has not shown up so far. It has been found in hundreds of thousands of private wells across the nation. AIR and WATER POLLUTION: The newspapers have reported that, besides the gasoline exhaust, particulates, and the Valley Fever spores that are stirred up in dirt, a new study finds that cancer links to diesel exhausts. “According to a study by a coalition of state and local air pollution control agencies, toxic chemicals in diesel exhausts from trucks and buses are responsible for at least 125,000 cancers each year. We have products that help the body attain better pH (slightly alkaline), which is an unfavorable environment for proliferation of acid cells resulting from stress and pollution. It is important to increase the alkaline terrain, because when all of our cells turn acid, we are dead. Diseases cannot grow in an oxygen-rich, pH balanced, environment. It is extremely important to maintain an alkaline internal terrain. Here are some astonishing facts:
One out of every six children in America suffers from problems, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Autism; Aggression, Dyslexia. For Example: In California, reported cases of Autism rose 210% between 1987 and 1998 – in New York, the number of children with learning Disabilities jumped 55% between 1983 and 1996. If your TV and newspapers, etc., do not scare you half to death with reports of these things, it is only because you haven’t been reading, watching, or paying attention. People do not realize all the things that are happening to their bodies from all the stress and pollution that we are being bombarded with. You don’t just wake up one day with cancer, etc. Cancer (too much acidity, not enough oxygen) cells proliferate over decades. It is very important to put whole food nutrients into our bodies that do not simply wash out, yet absorb up to 100% of their nutrient value. REFERENCE: 
Good Nutrition Begins With the Basics of Health
HealthStyles4URx has a passion and vision for promoting good health and nutrition to as many people as can be reached around the world. Underlying this vision is a family of products services that allows anyone to harness the remarkable power of nature and be able to live longer, happier, healthier, more balanced lives ~ in harmony with the world around us. Until recently, technology diminished much of our contact with nature and our dependence on the natural elements to sustain quality life. Today, science has proven that good health, vitality, and wellness are closely linked to the natural ingredients in our daily diet. Within the various components of this website, are many products that combine synergistically to create a roadmap for healthier living. We call it “Nutrition For A Healthy LifeStyle”, or simply “LifeStyle”. LifeStyle creates an easily identifiable path for achieving a balanced, healthy lifestyle and sense of well-being ~ this means attaining optimum physical and mental performance for oneself and their family ~ in complete harmony with nature from a person’s birth throughout their life. So, where do you begin? You begin with the “Cornerstones of Health”. You must have clean, fresh air and sparkling pure water. Then, you continue by using special care and knowledge in choosing what you place “on” your body (external cleansing and body care), and everything that you place “in” your body (internal body terrain). Everyone who is seeking optimum health and wellness must start with the “Basics of Foundational Health” (Cornerstones of Health) in order to design a personal nutritional regimen. The “Basics” make up the “Cornerstones of Good Health” – the foundation of life itself. When we refer to the “Basics”, we mean that it is basic to your healthy, long-term survival. The “Basics” focus on the formula for nutritional success ~ “Nutrients In” (give the body what it needs), and “Waste/Toxins Out” (eliminate what the body does not need, and what can harm it). “Nutrients In / Toxins Out” ~ this is the key to a Healthy LifeStyle. The “Basics” should always be a part of your optimum nutritional program. No matter what your health concerns and issues are, follow the “Basics of Health” principles for at least 6 months; this becomes your period of rejuvenation and revitalization. In addition, HealthStyles4URx supports the nutritional regimen with access to very sophisticated and scientific nutritional testing procedures. One such procedure is called ElectroDermal Screening, or Meridian Stress Assessment (MSAS), that measures biological energies utilized in homeopathy and acupuncture. Oftentimes referred to as 21st Century Energy Medicine - because the underlying concept is to achieve a healthy energetic balance of the body’s systems - this form of testing is used by clinics around the world to help accurately evaluate a person’s health and well-being. It is used to help recognize a person’s organ dysfunctions, even before physiological symptoms manifest themselves. It can identify pathogens and toxins that are making a person sick, and ascertain which medicine, supplements and other remedies may be helpful – or harmful – to the person. It can also determine the dosages that should be administered for maximum effect. Begin with the “Basics of Health”
1. Awareness, Education, and Knowledge through Nutritional Testing HealthStyles4URx offers a health evaluation to help identify your current potential for health. One such evaluation involves a unique Hair Mineral Analysis system that is designed to help determine nutrient deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, and other potential toxic elements in your body.
Request for Nutritional Support: This is a personal health questionnaire that can be downloaded from the “Forms” section in our RESOURCES & REFERENCES area. Once the form is completed, it can be faxed, or mailed, to the number and address provided for processing and evaluation. Each person will receive a phone call to arrange a convenient time for consultation. Prior to the consultation a hard copy of the evaluation will be sent to the individual.
Home Test Kit: This very unique kit includes 14 Non-Invasive Self-Tests, and is designed to empower yourself and your family to achieve greater health and vitality. All these tests are performed in the privacy of your home, and will identify imbalances in your body. You will be given a phone number to call and speak with a doctor to discuss any findings or other questions that may arise. There is NO CHARGE for the consultation.
2. Cleanse and Detoxify Are you properly cleansing and promoting the normal elimination of toxins and waste matter from your body on a regular basis? You should be. Toxins in the body often result from unclean air, water, food and stress. According to scientists, soluble and insoluble fibers help promote the body’s normal elimination of such toxins.
Total Body Cleanse
When we are dealing with long-standing health problems we cannot expect to totally cleanse or heal the body with one or so three-day cleansing routines. Therefore, to rid the body of chronic conditions, or to prevent their occurrences, a total herbal body cleanse is an excellent path to follow. This should be used in conjunction with the aforementioned mucousless diet. We believe that maintaining a healthy body includes regular detoxification and body cleansing processes. The Total Body Cleanse system is designed to promote a balanced lifestyle – free or unnecessary toxins or poor and uncomfortable elimination. That is why HealthStyles4URx offers a unique line of organic, foundational health products to complement our comprehensive 14-Day Total Body Cleanse supplements. The Total Body Cleanse system was developed using only the highest quality, organic herbal ingredients – all naturally derived and specifically formulated to achieve the most thorough and healthy total body clanse. The herbs (no vitamins included) that make up our cleansing supplements are specific to the organs and functions they target. You can feel free to chose an organic herbal supplement that is designed only for cleansing the Liver or Bowels, for example. However, it is recommended to select the 14-Day Total Body Cleanse, because it is formulated to cleanse all five eliminatory organs (Blood, Bowel, Liver, Lymph, Urinary Tract), as well as Parasites, for total body purification and healthy elimination. During the extended cleansing routine, we address the Upper and Lower Bowel, Colon, Blood, Liver, Gall Bladder, Kidneys, Lymph, and Parasites. The basic cleansing routine is followed for a period of 14 days – then, some of the steps can be extended, if necessary, for an additional 14 days. We believe that good health begins with healthy and proper elimination of waste materials, and this means normal bowel movements 2-3 times each day. In order to promote these functions, the 14-Day Total Body Cleanse actively assists the body in elimination and tonifies the organs so they can function more effectively on their own. Most people have several pounds of old dried fecal matter that is stored in the colon, which is toxifying the system and keeping the food they consume from being assimilated. Because of this putrefied condition, most people engorge themselves with many times more food than the body actually requires. In the process they wear out their bodies in trying to get sufficient nutrition and are still always hungry. After the bowel is cleaned, the food is readily assimilated, and a person can sustain himself on about one-third the quality of the current food consumption, and have four or five times more energy, vitality and zest. A clean body is able to normally assimilate the simple food values through the cell structures in the colon, instead of it being trapped in a maze of waste and inhibited by the hard fecal casing on the intestinal walls – that only causes the majority of the nutrition to be pushed on and eliminated without the body having a chance to utilize it. The proprietary, custom formulations in our Total Body Cleanse system promote better elimination of unwanted toxins, pathogens, parasites, detrimental fungi, or other contaminants that prevent you from being as healthy as you could be. Once your body has been completely cleansed, these aids will not be necessary on a daily basis – and your food will be your medicine, and your medicine will be your food. However, the Bowel-3 intestinal cleanser can be used daily to assist in healthy elimination – if that is your desire. After following this recommended program properly and the bowel is completely cleansed, the total herbal formula should only be used when needed. Remember: “Nutrients In – “Waste / Toxins Out”.
3. Build and Balance with Nutritional Support The “Cornerstones of Health” involves a basic foundational health program for living well, feeling fit, and functioning fully throughout life. This includes providing the body with the necessary building blocks it needs to accomplish this feat, such as: Super Antioxidants, Amino Acids, Enzymes, Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Probiotics, pure Air and Water. All this can be accomplished with proper nutritional supplementation. Antioxidants: Free radicals in the body are formed naturally – a result of metabolism as it converts food to chemical molecules, or as a result of tissue damage. Our bodies have built-in defenses against free radicals, but they are sometimes overwhelmed from the by-products of stress or aging. Antioxidants have been reported to capture these free radicals before they attach to vital tissues; thereby, working as an antioxidant. Each antioxidant makes a unique contribution as a “trapper” of free radicals, and as a team, the antioxidants help maximize cell defense. We offer the ultimate protection with our essential antioxidant products. Vitamins and Minerals: Do the foods you eat provide you with all the essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients? Although you may be eating an assortment of food types, you still may not be getting the proper nutrients you need for maintaining optimum nutrition. Today’s food supply is no longer grown the old-fashioned way – but through modern agricultural techniques. Much of our food supply contains additives, hormones, antibiotics, etc., and is genetically modified and chemically processed. Recent research has shown that our soils are deplete in the necessary minerals to promote good health; therefore, we are seriously lacking in the proper balance of vital nutrients to enjoy good health. We desperately need the nutrition that only natural, whole foods provide. The Vice-President for Education at the American Institute for Cancer Research has said, “The thousands of vitamins, minerals and phyto-chemicals (beneficial plant compounds) in whole folds act synergistically together to create a more powerful effect than the sum of their individual parts. This produces a result which cannot be recreated by common supplements. In light of all this, there has never been a greater need for a Whole Food Basic Foundational Health Program combined with an active lifestyle.
HealthStyles4URx has a product that is NOT a man-made, laboratory-produced synthetic supplement. It is exactly what Nature intended for humans to consume – a balanced, whole food nutritional supplement with a proprietary formula of plant-based ingredients with nutrients in a natural liquid form the human body recognizes. Proprietary processing techniques are used that reduce the surface tension of the liquid nutrition to enhance nutrient absorption. Remember: We are NOT what we eat – we are what we ABSORB! Experience Nature’s Power and Improve Your Health!
Enzymes: It is a proven fact that diseases are the result of an imbalance of enzymes. Supplementing with the proper enzymes can help the body correct imbalances. It has also been proven that the majority of energy we consume is used for digestion (about 80%). Therefore, if we can free up some of the energy being used by the body to digest and assimilate the food we consume, the body will be able to exert more energy in overcoming the health issues we may be experiencing. The “enzyme potential” concept suggests that the fewer digestive enzymes the body is required to make, the more metabolic enzymes it will make. Metabolic enzymes are the “energy of life”. These enzymes drive every biochemical reaction and system of the body. This includes the immune, circulatory, nervous, endocrine, and respiratory systems. Though it may seem to be oversimplifying a very complex problem, there is little doubt that enzymes play a vital role in maintaining and restoring optimal health. Digestion: Over-processed, over-cooked foods do not contain the necessary digestive enzymes; thus, over time our own digestive enzymes are depleted and diminish as we age. We must be able to break down and absorb our nutrients. Enzymes are one of the cornerstones of good health and living well, and they are crucial to maximizing our potential for a long youthful life. How do you know if your enzyme levels are low? The most obvious is digestion. If you have the “burp, belch, and bloat syndrome”, you need to be taking our essential enzymes. We make available an Enzyme Deficiency Self-Test that a person can complete that will provide a profile of past and present nutritional habits. This is not intended to diagnosis, treat, cure, or prevent disease; rather, it simply shows a person a snapshot of their current situation, which can be very beneficial in planning a personal nutritional regimen.
Phyto-Nutrients / Green Foods: Are you eating enough green foods, i.e., green vegetables on a regular basis? Probably not, since most people aren’t. Remember: Canned vegetables, and over-cooked vegetables do not count! Only fresh, raw, green vegetables provide any real nutrient value; and, we already know that even the fresh vegetables we get today have little nutrients in them. That is why we offer the best Phyto-Nutrients / Organic Green Foods available for daily supplementation with your meals. We have specially formulated phyto-nutrients for children that they all love! Imagine that – children loving their “greens”??? The reason they love ours, is because the special formulation is in the format of “gummy bears” – they taste great, and are loaded with phyto-nutrients, but they are not candy. Children will ask for these nutrients every day!
Probiotics: While Antibiotics means “against life”, Probiotics means “promoting life”, or “for life”. Probiotics refers to organisms that are incorporated into foods or supplements with the aim of re-establishing a healthy intestinal flora. Probiotics are living organisms ~ also known as friendly bacteria or good flora ~ that colonize and flourish in a healthy intestine. These friendly bacteria are vital to health and to the proper functioning of the intestinal tract. In fact, a healthy intestine contains approximately three pounds of friendly flora. Over 1200 types of bacteria inhabit our digestive tract; some of these organisms are permanent residents, while others are transient in nature. These organisms could either be anaerobic or aerobic, or both. Our general health status depends, to a large extent, upon the presence, number and relationship of the normal, friendly bacteria of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Common dietary and lifestyle factors destroy friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract. Stress is to blame for much of the probiotic depletion. Probiotics are also diminished by strong antibacterial herbs, cortisone, carbonated drinks, laxatives, birth control pills and lack of sleep. Poor diet, toxins and poisons in the blood stream and natural aging further rob the body of the flora it needs. Antibiotic treatments not only kill the bad bacteria, they also wipe out the good strains, i.e., good flora. Females may be all too familiar with this vicious cycle. Many women have gone to their doctor because they had a cold, sore throat, ear infection, kidney infection, etc., and were given an antibiotic. Within a few weeks they had to go back because this time they have a yeast infection. The antibiotic may have done its job of killing the bacteria that caused the cold or ear infection, but at the same time, it depleted the stores of friendly flora that keep yeast overgrowth in check.
Anti-Aging: Two of the hottest topics in health care today are: Anti-Aging and Longevity. As we grow older, the process of aging exacts a startling toll – decreased energy and hormonal levels, increased wrinkles, sagging skin, reduced muscle and bone mass, declining mental alertness and acuity, thinning and loss of hair, decreased visual power and perception – all these are ways our body devolves from the pristine state of its youth, to the ramshackle state of its elderly years. Hormones are the foot soldiers that carry the brain’s commands to other parts of the body. These hormones travel via the bloodstream and initiate or terminate activity within the cells, organs, and body systems. Of the many hormones produced by the endocrine (glandular) system, somatotropin (commonly known as Human Growth Hormone – hGH) is one of the most abundant. However, starting around the age of 20, the body’s somatotropin levels begin to decline, and continue to drop at a rate of 14% per decade. By age 70, most people barely produce enough somatotropin to grow healthy fingernails. Even worse, declining levels of somatotropin seem to cause a domino-type collapse throughout the entire hormonal system. The result is the phenomenon we call “aging”. Some of the beneficial effects of hGH Therapy are:
4. Environmental Support Systems Air Purification: Today, the air we breathe is filled with pollutions of all types, and there is not much we can do about the air outside our homes and offices. We have to breathe to live, and it is not very convenient to walk around with a gas mask over our heads. But we can do something about indoor air pollution, which consists of dust, dust mites, smoke, odors, molds, fungi, and other airborne toxins, as well as an overload of positive ions.
Water Purification: Our bodies are comprised largely of water – about 70% - and every part of our body is dependent upon water for proper functioning. Aside from helping digestion and absorption of food, water regulates body temperature, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, removes toxins and other wastes, and plays a major part in weight loss. Water helps keep our muscles and skin toned, eliminates toxins and wastes from the body. Drinking PURE, CLEAN WATER is a major role in reducing the risk of certain diseases.
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In general, eating a variety of fresh, whole (unprocessed) plant foods has proven hormonally and metabolically favorable compared to eating a monotonous diet based on processed foods. In particular, consumption of whole plant foods slows digestion and provides higher amounts, and a more favorable balance, of essential and vital nutrients per unit of energy; resulting in better management of cell growth, maintenance, and 
