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My research is mainly focused on the effects of cholesterol, saturated fat and statin drugs on health. If you know anyone who is worried about their cholesterol levels and heart disease, or has been told to take statin drugs you could send them a link to this website, and to my statin or cholesterol or heart disease books.

David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Saturday 24 April 2010

Eating bread leads to a deficiency in Zinc

This post includes a synopsis of a paper published in the British Medical Journal 2003;326:409-410 22 February and a recipe for golden garlic shrimp.

Study title and author:
Zinc deficiency has been known of for 40 years but ignored by global health organisations
Ananda S Prasad, distinguished professor of medicine.
Natural Health & Weight Loss
Books:
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Internal Medicine, University Health Center 5-C, 4201 St Antoine, Detroit, MI 48201 USA

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7386/409

Eleven patients suffered from dwarfism, hypogonadism, hepatosplenomegaly, rough and dry skin, mental lethargy, geophagia, and iron deficiency anaemia. It was discovered they consumed a diet of NO animal protein, and they ate only unleavened bread.

It is known that phytate in cereals markedly impairs the absorption of zinc and also iron. With a well balanced animal protein diet and administration of iron, all the clinical features in the patients were corrected.

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Recipe of the day

Golden garlic shrimp

serves 4

Ingredients:
Charleston Seafood Frozen Peeled & Deveined Shrimp, 32-Ounce Box
Food Mall: Deveined
2 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/3 cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic, peeled
1 shallot, peeled and roughly chopped
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
pinch of salt
freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup shrimp or chicken stock

How to make it:
Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Place peeled shrimp in a baking dish.

Add oil and garlic to a food processor and pulse until garlic is in tiny bits, infused into the oil, scraping down the sides as necessary. Add the shallot and red pepper flakes and pulse a few more times.

Coat the shrimp with the mixture, add stock and combine. Sprinkle with salt & pepper.

Bake for 10-15 minutes til all shrimp are pink throughout.

Serve along with sauce from the dish.

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