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The mission of the NMA is to disseminate timely and useful information on the subject of nutritional magnesium so as to improve the lives of all people affected by the widespread deficiency of this mineral in our diets and the related health issues associated with this deficiency.

We believe that Magnesium is the one safe, inexpensive and simple nutrient that can prevent, treat, and reverse some of the most prevalent and serious health disorders that affect Americans today.

High blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many other chronic conditions can be attributed to deficiencies in magnesium. Our informational website at http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org will answer how magnesium deficiencies develop, why they are so widespread, and how they disrupt metabolic functions that ultimately threaten the health of virtually every bodily system.

Our goal is to help you understand the causes of these disorders as they relate to magnesium deficiencies, learn how to prevent these disorders and/or reverse them and thereby transform your health and avoid the need for prescription drugs.

While the mainstream medical community manages diseases and treats symptoms with expensive, synthetic and often harmful and addictive drugs which are pervasively marketed by the drug companies, we hope to help you avoid this prescription trap and live a more healthy life.


Green Living and Prenatal Care: 10 Things You Need to Know To Ensure Your Baby Arrives Healthy Despite the Toxic World Around Us

Nutritional expert Dr. Carolyn Dean talks about how you can apply green living to protect your unborn child and have a smooth delivery and a healthy child.

Having a baby in this toxic world of ours is especially challenging. There is a way to ensure your baby's health and your own health without having to hug trees or live on a remote farm.

Green living means living an eco friendly way of life. Green living is the decision and action to live a responsible lifestyle that minimizes one’s negative impact on the environment. It includes making safe, healthy, and beneficial choices to protect our planet from destruction. Through wiser every day choices, we can live green and ensure our baby's health and improve the quality of life for all of us.

Here are 10 things you need to know to help you and your baby live green and live healthy.

1. Today’s diet of highly processed foods due to ungreen living does not give you the nutrients and minerals you and your baby need to defend against the physical and emotional stress of pregnancy.

2. The anti-stress mineral that is key to prenatal care is magnesium. Yet due to the depletion of this mineral in our soils and in our processed foods – most pregnant mothers do not get their RDA of magnesium and are deficient in this mineral.

3. Avoid processed foods and cut cravings and impulsive eating associated with pregnancy – by increasing your consumption of magnesium rich foods that are organically grown. These would be green vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and unprocessed grains. This not only supports eco friendly farming but gives you the nutrients you need that are missing from most prenatal care programs.

4. Pesticides, chlorine and fluoride in our water not only pose a general a health threat, but also leech magnesium out of our bodies causing a further deficiency.

5. Drink filtered water or bottled water that has been proven to be free of fluoride and chlorine.

6. Magnesium is a necessary assist in labor and delivery. Old time midwives used to advise all their patients to take "the salts"; they were magnesium salts.

7. Magnesium is the treatment of choice for eclampsia of pregnancy with symptoms of hypertension, edema, and seizures. Magnesium can prevent these symptoms if used during the pregnancy.

8. Many researchers suggest that pregnant mothers routinely take magnesium throughout pregnancy to prevent complications during delivery and postpartum, and to help prevent premature births.1

9. Clinical trials have demonstrated that mothers supplementing with magnesium oxide have larger, healthier babies and lower rates of preeclampsia, premature labor, sudden infant death, and birth defects, including cerebral palsy.2

10. Magnesium oxide is only 4% absorbed but it's laxative effect can be helpful for the constipating effects of pregnancy. A more absorbable form is a magnesium citrate chloride powder formulation that is taken with hot or cold water.  Use only supplements that are manufactured by eco-friendly processes and that are food based and organic.

References:

1. Almonte RA et al., “Gestational magnesium de?ciency is deleterious to fetal outcome.” Biol Neonate, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 26–32, 1999.
2. Seelig MS, “Toxemias of pregnancy, postpartum cardiomyopathy and SIDS in consequences of magnesium de?ciency on the enhance- ment of stress reactions; preventive and therapeutic implications: a review.” J Am Coll Nutr, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 429–446, 1994.

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Nutrition expert, Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D., is the Medical Director of the Nutritional Magnesium Association and the author of “The Magnesium Miracle”. Dr. Dean invites you to get more information that will help you avoid the health risk factors of pregnancy and delivery. Go to http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org

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