Peter Dingle - A Supplement a Day Keeps The Doctor Away: The Science of Why We Need to Supplement Our Diet

A Supplement a Day Keeps The Doctor Away:
The Science of Why We Need to Supplement Our Diet
By Peter Dingle (PhD)
www.drdingle.com

Published by Barker Deane Publishing
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First published by Barker Deane Publishing in 2012
Text copyright Peter Dingle, 2012
Editor: Conna Craig, connacraig@gmail.com

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Contact: peter@drdingle.com
P.O. Box 66 South Fremantle, WA Australia 6162

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication Data:
A Supplement a Day Keeps The Doctor Away:
The Science of Why We Need to Supplement Our Diet
1st ed.
ISBN: 978-0-9872552-2-8

This book has taken many years to research and write and a lot of help from many people over thoseyears. Firstly thanks to the thousands of people who have supported me over the years. Even when thetimes got tough I had hundreds of emails, cards and calls from the public to keep going despite thepersistent attacks on my integrity.

Thank you to all my university students of the past 20 years who helped me gather information on thistopic. Thanks especially to: Miranda Britza (food processing), Michael Moltoni (RDI, soft drinks),Miranda Brown (athletes, eating disorders), Lauren Kitscha (breakfast), Simon Blackwell (stress),Michelle Hamilton and so many others.

Thanks to Martine, my lovely and supportive wife, my kids Melissa, Matthew and Ellie and our newgranddaughter, Sienna, who all supplement and who are all so supportive of my passion in and forlife. Finally, I would like to thank my mother, Irene, who passed away last year at 88 for the valuesshe passed onto me.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1 - WHY WE NEED TO SUPPLEMENTCHAPTER 2 - OUR NEED FOR SUPPLEMENTATION

CHAPTER 3 - IF ITS NOT IN THE SOIL, ITS NOT IN THE FOODCHAPTER 4 - DEPLETING THE SOILS EVEN MORE
CHAPTER 5 - BLOCKING THE NUTRIENTS
CHAPTER 6 - FERTILISERS AND PESTICIDES MAKE IT WORSECHAPTER 7 - POLLUTION BLOCKS NUTRIENT UPTAKE
CHAPTER 8 - NUTRIENT LOSS THROUGH PLANT BREEDING
CHAPTER 9 - PICKING EARLY DEPLETES NUTRIENTS
CHAPTER 10 - NUTRITION LOST THROUGH FOOD PROCESSINGCHAPTER 11 - STORAGE
CHAPTER 12 - NUTRIENT LOSSES IN COOKING

CHAPTER 13 - A BALANCED DIET
CHAPTER 14 - THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
CHAPTER 15 - MISLEADING AND CONFUSING DIETARY INFORMATIONCHAPTER 16 - FOOD GUIDELINES ARE CONFUSING AND INEFFECTIVECHAPTER 17 - VESTED FOOD INTERESTS MISLEAD US
CHAPTER 18 - OLD AND DEADLY INFORMATION
CHAPTER 19 - TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FOODS

CHAPTER 20 - POOR ABSORPTION, GUT DYSBIOSIS AND OTHER DISORDERSCHAPTER 21 - ANTI-NUTRIENTS
CHAPTER 22 - ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
CHAPTER 23 - SMOKING AND NUTRITION
CHAPTER 24 - TOXINS IN OUR FOOD AND WATER
CHAPTER 25 - STRESS AND NUTRITION
CHAPTER 26 - POPULATIONS AT RISK
CHAPTER 27 - NUTRIENT INTAKE AND SUPPLEMENT USE

CHAPTER 28 - OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF BENEFITSCHAPTER 29 - YOUTH SPAN
CHAPTER 30 - PATIENT RECOVERY
CHAPTER 31 - AGGRESSION, BEHAVIOUR AND DEPRESSIONCHAPTER 32 - SUPPLEMENTATION AND STRESSCHAPTER 33 - IMMUNE FUNCTION
CHAPTER 34 - ASTHMA
CHAPTER 35 - SUPPLEMENTATION AND CANCERCHAPTER 36 - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASECHAPTER 37 - DIABETES
CHAPTER 38 - ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
CHAPTER 39 - REPRODUCTION AND WEIGHT

CHAPTER 40 - MEDICAL CONTRADICTIONS
CHAPTER 41 - THE DEADLY MEDICAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 42 - FORTIFICATION: A GOVERNMENT CONTRADICTIONCHAPTER 43 - MISLEADING MEDIA
CHAPTER 44 - THE EVIDENCE AGAINST SUPPLEMENTATIONCHAPTER 45 - WITH WHAT TO SUPPLEMENT?
CHAPTER 46 - CONCLUSION

BOOK REFERENCES
WHO IS DR PETER DINGLE?
TESTIMONIALS
OTHER BOOKS BY DR PETER DINGLE

In the beginning there were healthy, whole foods and healthy lifestyles; people took responsibility fortheir own health. Now most of the world is dying from food-related illness. Half the world is dyingfrom not enough food and the other half from too much nutrient-depleted, calorie-dense food. Timeshave changed and so has the way we need to look at food, nutrition and our health. Chronic illnessessuch as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are now the biggest killers in developedcountries. The current medical model that focuses on treating, rather than preventing, illness is simplynot working. As individuals we need to take responsibility for improving our health.

For years, a so-called debate has raged over the relative importance of dietary supplements as ameans of maintaining good health and safeguarding against disease. The debate has, unfortunately, notrelied on good science but rather has been fuelled by a very small number of quasi-scientific studiesthat have been fraught with controversy. Even the unbiased research findings have often beenmisrepresented by the medical industry and by popular media in attempts to create the nextcontroversy. Such an excess of misinformation has led to a strongly divided public and professionalopinion on the place of supplements in our diet.

Most people should be taking supplements because eating a balanced diet all of the time andabsorbing the required nutrients all of the time are almost impossible for people throughout the world.The argument for supplementation is easily summed up into several main areas, which I cover indepth throughout this book. The first is that it is no longer possible to get all the nutrients that shouldbe in our food. Through modern cropping, growing and harvesting techniques, transport, storage andmarketing, not to mention processing and cooking, it is possible to lose 100% of the nutrient value ofthe food and, in its place, add toxins. This means that if it is not in the food we eat, we have to get itfrom supplementation. The modern day processed white foods such as sugar, bread, white rice andprocessed breakfast foods are full of empty calories and, often, extra sugar and are low in nutritionalvalue. Unfortunately these foods now make up a large portion of many peoples food intake.Meanwhile, most people rarely consume their full share of fruit, vegetables, nuts and beans and othernutritious foodsor when they do consume vegetables it is usually in the form of over-processedpotatoes without the nutrient-dense peel.

In addition to low-nutrient foods that make up our diets, we are now inundated with many newstressors, including environmental toxins and modern day stress that increase the bodys need fornutrients. From food additives and contaminants to fluoride and aluminium added to water, increasingenvironmental toxins in our homes, and the effects of pollutants like environmental tobacco smokedecrease our nutrient reserves and place increased stress and nutritional demands on our bodies.