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Diabetics need a certain fat-soluble vitamin in large amounts since it helps to protect against complications such as retinopathy
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This vitamin is also needed for efficient mineral uptake for the bones and teeth. In addition, water-soluble vitamins can only be utilized when sufficient quantities of this vitamin is present
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Diabetics, those with thyroid function, children and infants cannot convert the vegetable form of this vitamin into its useful form. You must obtain this vitamin from specific animal foods. Learn which PRIMAL food sources have large amounts this pre-formed vitamin
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Learn which PRIMAL foods a recent NYT article says confers resistance to infectious diseases in children and prevents cancer in adults
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Which oil, shunned by modern medicine is essential to your brain and nervous system
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The lack of one fat-soluble vitamin may be associated with the onset of diabetes. This vitamin also regulates calcium-binding proteins, which transport calcium to the "right location" thereby protecting cells from damage by free calcium. An abundance of this vitamin protects you from calcification of the arteries, joints, kidney and the brain
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Discover which natural fat, consumed in the proper form bolsters the immune system. It also cleanses, lubricates and protects the body. It binds with toxins, detoxifies and strengthens the liver and carries these poisons to your bowels and flushes them right out of your system
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Another natural fat soothes nerves and muscle, including the heart, gently cleanses and lubricates the liver, restores moisture to the thyroid and heals intestinal lesions from dryness
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One natural fat eaten with cucumber gradually dissolves hardening of the nerves (in early Alzheimer's) and eaten with banana gradually dissolves glandular, organ and dermal hardening (e.g. sclerosis and cirrhosis of the liver)
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Studies show that a certain fat can actually prevent diabetes and appears to work as well as a class of diabetic drugs - the thiazolidinedines (TZDs)
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This fat is also highly protective against cancer and promotes the deposition of muscle rather than body fat
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Learn which natural oil puts less of a demand on the enzyme production of the pancreas. It also improves insulin secretion, utilization of blood glucose, enhances insulin action and improves insulin binding affinity
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This same oil boosts the metabolic rate causing the body to burn up calories, thus increasing weight loss. That's because the medium chain fatty acids in this oil are sent directly to the liver for conversion into energy and not the body tissues as fat
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Learn to avoid a processed fat that contains partially hydrogenated oils that actually block utilization of essential fatty acids causing sexual dysfunction, increased blood cholesterol and paralysis of the immune system. It is also associated with cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, low-birth-weight babies, birth defects, bad eyesight, sterility, difficulty in lactation and problems with bones and tendons
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Another toxic fat, common in American diets alters the enzymes that neutralize carcinogens and actually increase those enzymes that potentiate carcinogens. It also decreases insulin binding to the cell membrane, which increases the likelihood of diabetes
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Learn which tasty spice may control your blood sugar for about 50 cents a month! This spice stimulates insulin activity, increases the metabolism of glucose in your body cells by 20 times, and makes fat cells more responsive to insulin
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In fact, a USDA laboratory investigated 60 plant extracts for their ability to prompt body cells to uptake glucose and this spice had by far the most active compound!