Volume 3, 2003

Dear friends:

Wishing health, happiness and peace to you and your families for 2003!

Good News! For a limited time, you can take advantage of a super price on a new ”COMBO PROMO” – combining two enreco® herbal flax packS -- neck wrap pack (Style 2) and flat pack (Style 1) in one package. An exceptional way to send down-home comfort and love to your “special someone” this Valentine’s Day! Go ahead, indulge – why not at this price!

With the cost of prescription drugs and health care becoming prohibitive for most people and insurance companies, now is definitely the right time to reconsider “food” as our main medicine. Good science is the perfect guide to help determine the most “user friendly” ways to incorporate health-providing food into our daily diet for the rest of our lives. Read this first part of a two-part series entitled -- “FLAX FACTS FOR HEALTH” – to find out what a tremendous health/prevention contribution stabilized, fortified flax can be in your health-food plan. We want the whole world to know what flax can do to help you and your family return to a healthier, happier way of life. 

Right now, 62 million people are heading straight toward cardiac failure – the nation’s number one killer! For most of them the danger can be averted - not with drugs, not with surgery – with KNOWLEDGE. Recent scientific research holds the key to discovering a whole new approach to heart health, an approach that the conventional medical community ignores: nutritional therapy. Paul A. Stitt M.S. C.N.S., biochemist and founder of Natural Ovens Bakery™ and ENRECO®, INC., has completed reams of research concerning heart disease and has written a cutting-edge, exciting, new book - The Real cause of HEART DISEASE Is NOT Cholesterol! Watch for more in-depth information and a special-purchase offer on The Real cause of HEART DISEASE Is NOT Cholesterol! … coming to you very soon via your email.

Along that same line, we are in the process of creating ENRECO’s ONLINE BOOK STORE, offering outstanding books that are interesting, informational, inspirational and educational. Coming soon!

Champions of Industry is a program that showcases video of the best and brightest companies in today’s global marketplace. The program features companies and organizations that stand apart in their respective fields due to their goals, commitments, and achievements. We are so very pleased and proud that Natural Ovens Bakery and ENRECO, INC. have recently been featured on Champions of Industry. Host, Pat Summerall, presents a closer look at Natural Ovens Bakery and ENRECO. Very interesting! Please click here to download the video.

Dr. Barbara Weber shares valuable information on equine nutritional balance in “A BALANCING ACT WITH MINERALS”. Dr. Weber belongs to our ENRECO family of Omega Horse Product Dealers and owns and breeds beautiful Russian Riding Horses.

Please share your thoughts and ideas on how we can better improve our newsletter. Also, let us know specific topics you would like to see addressed in this newsletter. Your opinions and comments really matter to us. Please send thoughts and ideas to editor@enreco.com.

And finally, our QUOTABLE QUOTES section imparts a timely reminder from Woodrow Wilson on why we’re here. Very true!

Take care,

Your friends at ENRECO®, Inc.

INSIDE THIS VOLUME OF ENRECO’S HEALTH E-LETTER:

1. HERBAL FLAX PACKS “COMBO PROMO”
2. “FLAX FACTS FOR HEALTH – Part 1”
   1. Flaxseed Can Replace Hormone Replacement Therapy AND Reduce Cancer and Heart Disease Risk
   2. Flax Can Soften Arteries and Improve Blood Flow
   3. Flax Reduces Oxidative Stress
3. CHAMPIONS OF INDUSTRY 2002 – by Pat Summerall (view real video)
4. “A BALANCING ACT WITH MINERALS”
5. QUOTABLE QUOTES from Woodrow Wilson
    

ENRECO^â HERBAL FLAX PACK “COMBO PROMO”

Shoveling snow? Starting a new exercise program? Skiing? Snowboarding? Feeling a little stiff or stressed out? enreco® herbal flax packS provide soothing comfort, warm or cold. Whole flax seeds retain heat/cold to reduce inflammation; and organic hand-picked herbs impart comforting scents to help you relax, recharge, and recover.

Editor’s Note: Ravi, ENRECO’s Export Manager, shares a personal testimony on how The Herbal Flax Pack gave his sore muscles a great deal of relief after his first, day-long skiing experience in Northern Wisconsin. “I’m afraid I spent more time falling than I thought I would – it looks much easier than it is! My back, my arms and my legs were aching so badly I could hardly walk or sit. The Herbal Flax Pack really helped relieve my stiff, aching muscles so I could get through the day.”

·        “COMBO PROMO” includes two enreco® herbal flax packs (one of each Style) for a super value!

• (Style 2) neck wrap shaped wraps gently around back of neck and shoulders;
• (Style 1) smaller, rectangle shape fits on any body part needing soothing warmth, or cold.
• Or you can order each Style individually

Please click here for more information on ENRECO Herbal Flax Packs or to order on-line.

FLAX FACTS FOR HEALTH – Part 1

“Flax Does So Much More Than Any Drug Ever Could Without Any Negative Side Effects”

The use of high-powered drugs to treat disease is a phenomenon of the 20th century.  Although it has brought about some miracles, it has also wrought a quantity of horrible side effects and a number of terrible long-term effects that are of no small consequence. We are also very well aware that the cost of prescription drugs is becoming prohibitive for most people and insurance companies.

Now is the time to explore “food as our main medicine” and use good science as a guide to effectively incorporate health-providing foods into our daily diet food plan.  Flax is one super food worthy of consideration for the top of that plan. Health benefits are supported by tons of good, solid scientific research. Keep reading to see

Flaxseed has been around for centuries.  All major cultures of the last 9000 years have used it in one form or another. Even in the Bible, flax is mentioned as a food.  Some used the seed to grow the stalks to be utilized in the manufacture of linen to make tents, sails, and very durable clothing. For thousands of years it was used as an ingredient in making breads and cereals, but no one really knew why.

Then in 1985, Paul Stitt, biochemist and founder of Natural Ovens Bakery™ and ENRECO®, INC., gathered information from many different sources and carried out research to show that flax was a very nutritional additive to breads and could replace conventional fats.  The positive results of Paul’s initial scientific research were the reason scientists at several universities around the world started very serious work to determine all the possible health benefits of flax. Presently, because of Paul Stitt’s pioneering vision, there have been thousands of articles published on the health benefits of flax.

Amazingly, flax has been shown to help benefit almost every chronic inflammatory disease that afflicts mankind today:

Flaxseed Can Replace Hormone Replacement Therapy AND Reduce Cancer and Heart Disease Risk
The latest reports show that flax can replace hormone replacement therapy.  The pharmaceutical approach to menopause problem has recently been discarded because it was shown to be not very effective and to cause significant increase in the risk of heart disease and various types of cancer. The latest results published by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Francois Hospital in Quebec, Canada, found that:

1. Forty grams a day of flaxseed was as effective as Premarin (horse estrogens and progesterone) in relieving the distressing systems of early menopause.

2. Flaxseed lowered glucose and insulin levels, which reduced the risk of diabetes.

3. Cost of the flaxseed would be a fraction of the cost of processed horse estrogens.

4. Side effects of taking horse estrogens would be eliminated.

(Female horses appreciate this discovery. They no longer have to wear urine-collecting bags.)
 
Flax Can Soften Arteries and Improve Blood Flow
Having arteries that are stiff is a sure sign of heart disease and one of the real causes of high blood pressure and fatal heart attacks. The problem is how do you soften up the arteries after they are already hard? Dr. V. T. van der Schouw at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands, found that eating foods containing phytoestrogens (like lignans from flax and isoflavones from soy) worked especially well to soften the arteries in women in menopause. This is extremely timely, since heart disease kills more women than men. The naturally occurring lignans in flax and the isoflavones from soy protein work together to prevent deterioration of the arteries better in women than in men. This is very exciting news for women with hardening of the arteries.

Dr. Clare Hasler, head of the Functional Foods for Health Program, University of Illinois at Urbana, reported that because flax is a very rich source of Omega-3 and antioxidants, it reduces heart disease by "several potential mechanisms:

1.      Lowering blood lipid levels,

2.      Improving arterial compliance,

3.      Reducing low-density lipoprotein oxidation,

4.      Decreasing plaque formation,

5.      Scavenging free radicals,

6.      Inhibiting platelet aggregation."

Flax Reduces Oxidative Stress

Dr. Veronica Mocanu reported at the Experimental Biology Meeting 2002, that stabilized, fortified flax significantly reduced the oxidative stress in four different key enzyme systems in the liver even though it contains high levels of highly unsaturated fatty acids, which would normally increase oxidative stress. She also reported that such flax reduced the risk of diabetes and improved brain performance in several different ways.

To be continued …

ENRECO®, Inc./Natural Ovens Bakery™ products are made with premium, stabilized, ground, fortified flax. The unique stabilization method is based on patented technology developed by ENRECO®. Please click here to learn more about ENRECO’s special-variety, stabilized, ground, fortified flax seed products, or order on-line.

“A BALANCING ACT WITH MINERALS”

Vitamins and minerals are essential for bone growth, muscle flexing, brain activity, and thousands of other functions in the body. The horse’s digestive system is able to manufacture some vitamins, but it is unable to make any minerals.

To have a healthy horse, certain vitamins and all minerals must be in the horse’s diet in balanced proportions. Since minerals interact with each other, their ratios are also important. Overfeeding minerals or improper ratios can be detrimental and costly.  Studies of most minerals in the equine diet are ongoing. (For more detailed information on minerals see “A Balancing Act With Minerals” in Thoroughbred Times News, 8/5/2000, page 50.)

ENRECO offers a complete, cost-effective supplement, OMEGA GRANDE, with added benefits of flax (see first HEALTH E-LETTER for article, “Flaxseed – Friend or Foe”). OMEGA GRANDE’s vitamin and mineral content follows current guidelines as recommended by Kentucky Equine Research.

In an upcoming newsletter, we will discuss the effects of nutrition on sick horses or finicky eaters. Please click here for more information on OMEGA GRANDE or any Omega Horse Products, or to order on-line.