The word synthetic means two things: – manmade – occurs nowhere in nature From the outset, it is crucial to understand the difference between vitamins and vitamin activity. The vitamin is the biochemical complex. Vitamin activity means the actual biological and cellular changes that take place when the stage is set for the vitamin complex to act. Think of it like gas and a car. Pumping the gas into the tank doesn’t necessarily mean the car is going anywhere. Other conditions and factors must be also present, in order for Activity to occur.
The gas line to the carburetor must be clear, the carburetor jets must be set, there must be an exact mixture of air flow, the ignition must be turned on, the spark plugs must be clean, the exact amount of gas must reach each spark plug right before it fires, no gas must be left over in the cylinder after the plug fires Getting the idea? If any of this stuff is missing, there’s no Activity: the car doesn’t run, or at least not very well.
Why did they recommend not to take fish oil supplements more than once per week, does it have a high vitamin A content? If so, how much? Depends on the fish and what it eats. My salmon oils that I have here at work only list how much fat and which kind of fat. They make no claims for any kind of vitamin at all. But one reason some fish oils aren’t good for you is that they’re high on the food chain if they’re big enough to go after commercially (sardines to the contrary) and that means they’ve eaten a lot of other fish or vegetation. Which means accumulations of heavy metals and other toxic crud That’s nice to know, but not everything that is true in animals is true in humans.
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Dr. Tonniessen said the idea for golden rice came from the field in developing nations. He once asked plant breeders at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines what they would choose if they could have genetic engineers insert any gene in rice. The answer was a gene to make rice seeds produce the yellow pigment beta carotene, a trait they had not found in any rice variety and therefore could not propagate by traditional cross breeding.
Dr. Ingo Potrykus, the German inventor of golden rice, was cited as saying he would like to send his seeds to poor people around the world at no charge, adding, “I would like to send a year ago. There are 3,500 children dying every day. I think we should not delay one day.” But golden rice has remained under lock and key since it was created more than a year ago. Meanwhile, the story says, Dr. Potrykus has struggled to free it from a complicated web of more than 70 patents and legal agreements covering items as diverse as DNA sequences and the techniques he and his colleagues used to insert new genes in the rice. He is also racing against an effort to pass legislation that could prohibit the export of genetically modified organisms from Switzerland.
Soybeans come to us from the Orient. During the Chou Dynasty (1134-246 BC) the soybean was designated one of the five sacred grains, along with barley, wheat, millet and rice. However, the pictograph for the soybean, which dates from earlier times, indicates that it was not first used as a food; for whereas the pictographs for the other four grains show the seed and stem structure of the plant, the pictograph for the soybean emphasizes the root structure. Agricultural literature of the period speaks frequently of the soybean and its use in crop rotation. Apparently the soy plant was initially used as a method of fixing nitrogen.
CERVICAL DYSPLASIA Folic acid supplementation may protect abnormal cells from becoming cancerous and may reverse cervical dysplasia in some cases. Supplements may be useful in preventing the initial changes but do not appear to affect the progress of established disease.
