Nutrition and Wound Healing

Critical Information on Vitamin E

Diets rich in vitamin E reduce heart disease and cancer risk. In the 1950s a Canadian cardiologist showed that vitamin E extracted from food could reverse heart disease. However, two recent scientific studies, both published in JAMA, say vitamin E doesn’t work and may even be unsafe. So what’s the right answer?

Who needs to supplement with Vitamin D?

A student asked, Teacher, can I get in trouble for something I didn’t do?

The teacher responds, Of course not.

The student breathes a sigh of relief, Good, because I didn’t do my homework.

After I spent an entire summer becoming certified in travel medicine, someone came along and summarized the information painfully succinctly:

Don’t get bit. (Mosquitos and ticks are the primary offenders.)

Don’t breathe it. (Tuberculosis, viruses, air pollution and high altitude)

Don’t do ‘it’. (Many sexually transmissible diseases are regional.)

Considerations on Artificial Sweeteners

The food industry not only promised us a rainbow of “sweet nothings” – sweets without calories or dental cavities – they delivered! Consumers may even pick their color of the rainbow: pink packets which contain saccharin, blue packets which contain aspartame and yellow packets which contain sucralose. Despite the rainbow of calorie-free sweets, Americans are eating more calories and carry more weight than ever before. A closer look at artificial sweeteners might suggest, “There is no such thing as a [calorie-] free lunch.”

Spices are vitamins from A to Zedoary (similar to curcumin). Spices are cheaper. Better yet, you can eat them - no tablets or capsules. Spices are concentrated nutrients, which travel through the body. My favorite is curry.

DINING ONSHORE

Omega-3 fats rather than saturated or processed fats

Protein is a body priority. Proteins are like strings of lights. Each bulb is an amino acid. Some bulbs can be made from recycled materials. Other bulbs are exclusively from diet. These essential amino acids are vitamins. However, vitamins ‘A through Zinc’ do not include P for proteins.

Sometimes a cold virus feels inevitable. That’s why we resign to call it the common cold. While colds can spread in winter. However, in tropical countries, colds spread during the monsoon season, as rain also keeps people indoors. In Antarctica where it is always uncommonly cold, colds happen when a new work crew comes. In other words, cold viruses are like forest fires. The initial spark can spread when conditions favor it. If Smokey Bear were preventing colds, he might say, “Avoid the initial spark. Wash your hands.” But he’d also say, “Don’t be a dry forest with lots of underbrush. Help your body stomp the embers. Take care of yourself.”

Give your body the ‘right stuff’ so it can heal from the inside out. The following are suggestions.

STOP

gingko, ma huang, ephedra or even supervised weight loss medications. These products can dangerously stress your heart and they can also promote muscle loss rather than fat loss.