| How many men, women, and children consume the recommended five or more servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, along with whole grains, raw nuts, and high-quality protein sources or consume an optimal ratio of less than 4 to 1 of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids daily? The unfortunate truth is that most people tend to eat too many foods that are nutritionally deficient (for example, foods that are refined, commercially processed, or overloaded with saturated fat and omega-6 fats). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Food: Nutrition, Allergies, and Sensitivities
Not only are the foods we eat overprocessed and robbed of all nutritional value, but the usual American diet still consists of few fresh fruits and vegetables and inordinate amounts of sugar and caffeine. When I was growing up, we got eggs or hot cereal like oatmeal, whole grain toast, and juice for breakfast. Today most children start the day with a sugared snack, a cola beverage, and high levels of caffeine. And we're supposed to believe that there is no connection between that and a child bouncing off the walls an hour later in school? |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Even "healthy" foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables are not always as safe and nutritious as you might believe. Thanks to irresponsible commercial farming techniques that depend on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and hormones to grow crops on already overworked land, a large percentage of today's produce supply has become saturated with toxins and has very little nutritional value.
Everything was fine until large corporations began creating their own "improved" foods, forcing them to mature unnaturally and boosting their size for increased profits. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 It's found in a wide variety of foods, including seafood, meat, dairy, cooking oils, and fresh fruits and vegetables. It is often low in diabetics; in those cases, it should be supplemented.
Dose: Take 10 mg of vanadyl sulfate (most common form) daily, yielding 2 mg of vanadium.
Magnesium
The American Diabetes Association reports that 25 percent of diabetics are magnesium deficient (although other figures place this much higher), and that supplementing with this mineral can improve blood sugar control. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 This is why focusing on fresh fruits and vegetables, preferably organic ones, is recommended when making the transition from processed to whole foods. Agricultural use of pesticides and herbicides has escalated wildly during a relatively brief span of time.
Wash organic produce in either hydrogen peroxide or a special "veggie wash" solution. This will help destroy any parasites. If fresh organic produce is unavailable, select frozen over canned. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 The largest fresh fruits are candied with sugar syrup to use as a restorative treat.
The fresh fruit is thinly sliced and dried. These fruit chips are seasoned with caraway seed, salt, and yogurt as a nutritive snack for people who have fasted or for people with poor digestion.
A traditional form of processing amla known as svaras bbavana (cooking the herb in its own juice) significantly increases its antioxidant effects. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| If you cannot find fresh fruits, substitute with organic frozen fruit. I recommend using watermelon if it is available due to its high glutathione content. Start preparing your Liver/Gallbladder Soup for lunch (see the recipe below).
1 2 PM: Lunch
Choose from one of the following 2 options for your lunch meal. Lunch Option 1: (Recommended)
To maximize the livers ability to detoxify and cleanse, I chose a combination of foods which are high in naturally occurring sulphur and glutathione. Sulphur helps the liver detoxify harmful chemicals. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The appropriate diet is well balanced and varied and includes fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, beans, and fish, with a limit on refined sugars, processed foods, and saturated fats. Organically grown produce, meats, and poultry are preferable, or inorganic produce that has been carefully washed to remove agricultural chemicals.4
In an observational study involving 76 healthy pregnant women, 78 percent had "one or more glaring nutritional deficiencies. |
| Be aware that coffee and cigarettes increase heartburn by irritating the stomach, and remember that whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables combined with nonstressful exercise are the best solutions to constipation.
Varicose Veins
Varicose veins can occur in the legs or in the anal or vulvar areas in pregnancy, due to hormonal softening of the muscular walls of the veins combined with the extra weight of pregnancy. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Consumption of fresh fruits rich in vitamin C has been shown to be beneficial in protecting against respiratory symptoms associated with asthma and to help with wheezing symptoms in children. Kiwi has one of the highest vitamin C contents of any fruit. worth knowing
The Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put kiwifruit on its 2003 list of twelve foods least contaminated with pesticides. Nice to know!
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Lemons/Limes
"When life gives you a lemon ... squeeze it, mix with 6 ounces of water, and drink twice daily. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Then, in 1997, Barbara and Paul Stitt, owners of Natural Ovens Bakery in nearby Manitowoc, Wisconsin, brought in fresh fruits, vegetables, lean protein, healthy fats, water, and whole-grain breads and cereals. They got rid of sugar-laden, chemically processed, artificially flavored beverages and junk foods.
Soon thereafter, the teens became more rational, better behaved, and less moody. "Classrooms became calmer, more learning began taking place, and students started getting better grades," reports the former dean. |
Hyla Cass
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| It's found in a wide variety of foods, including seafood, meat, dairy, cooking oils, and fresh fruits and vegetables. It is often low in diabetics; in those cases, it should be supplemented.
Dose: Take 10 mg of vanadyl sulfate (most common form) daily, yielding 2 mg of vanadium.
Magnesium
The American Diabetes Association reports that 25 percent of diabetics are magnesium deficient (although other figures place this much higher), and that supplementing with this mineral can improve blood sugar control. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Foods that can reduce inflammation include fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, grass-fed beef, nuts, seeds, curry powder, garlic, and onions.
Limiting the dietary intake of salt can be helpful to some women. Table salt enhances the response to the ingestion of glucose, consequently increasing the insulin response. As mentioned earlier, an increase in insulin causes swelling through water retention.
Many women with breast symptoms in their premenstrual phase benefit from avoiding caffeine. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 It is a naturally occurring carotenoid pigment found in fresh fruits and green and yellow vegetables. Beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A in vivo. The best dietary sources of beta-carotene include carrots, dark green leafy vegetables such as spinach, green leafy lettuce, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cantaloupe, and winter squash. Ordinary cooking does not destroy beta-carotene (USP DI 2004).
Beta-carotene is often used in complementary clinical settings. It is useful in diminishing the photosensitivity reactions that occur in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Nutrition researchers recommend a 5:1 potassium-to-sodium ratio that is easily accomplished by a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables, which are rich in potassium.
Dietary recommendations in the treatment of hypertension were evaluated by the federal government in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) studies. The DASH diet is high in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods and low in saturated and total fats. It is also low in cholesterol but high in fiber, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 There is good evidence that the daily consumption of fresh fruits reduces the risk of diseases, including cancer. However, fruits have a high water content and a relatively low food value (low calories, typically 30 to 70 kcal per 100 g), so that they should always be combined with other foods in order to create a balanced diet. Some exceptions are banana (about 90 kcal), granadilla (95 kcal), avocado (160 kcal) and olives (420 kcal). |
| Nutritional value The fruit flesh contains about 5% carbohydrates and has an energy value of 23 kcal per 100 g. fresh fruits are rich in niacin (1.8 mg) and vitamin C (19-30 mg).
Acer saccharum sugar maple
Sugar maple fruits
Description The sugar maple is a large tree of up to 40 m high. It has hand-shaped, lobed leaves that are bright green above and silvery below. Inconspicuous flowers develop into winged fruits (double samaras). The foliage makes a spectacular display in autumn, when the leaves turn yellow and bright red. |
| Nutritional value fresh fruits contain about 15% sugar (energy yield 60 kcal per 100 g) and some vitamin C (up to 20 mg per 100 g). Notes Several other species of "custard apples" are described on the next page.
Annona muricata sour sop • guanabana
Sour sop fruits Bullock heart flowers and young fruit
Description A small, rounded tree of up to 8 m in height, with glossy, leathery leaves and greenish, bell-shaped flowers that are borne directly on older branches. The fruits, with their distinctive "thorny" surfaces, are very large (up to 3 kg) and usually remain bright green when ripe. |
| Nutritional value Okra has a relatively high nutritional value as it is rich in minerals (calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and iron) and vitamin C (20 mg per 100 g in fresh fruits). The energy yield is about 40 kcal per 100 g.
Acacia Senegal gum acacia • gum arabic tree • gum Senegal tree
Gum acacia leaves and fruits Gum arabic
Description A deciduous, thorny tree of up to 6 m in height, with a rounded or spreading crown, compound leaves and dense, elongated spikes of minute, pale yellow to cream-coloured flowers. |
Mike Adams
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 Staying Healthy with Nutrition explains,
There has been a shift in this century away from the healthful consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and complex carbohydrates - the starches and fiber foods - toward a diet of more refined carbohydrates and simple sugars that are implicated in a variety of diseases, among them obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and tooth decay. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Add those and the problem disappears: "There is no such thing as too much protein as long as you are eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables," Cordain says. And he is pretty flexible about the possible balance among them, pointing out that some hunter-gatherer societies that survived into the twentieth century lived healthy lives free of chronic disease while getting 97 percent of their calories from animal foods (the Inuit of Alaska), while others got the majority of their calories (65 percent) from plant foods (the !Kung of Africa). |
Mike Adams
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| My own diet consists of ingredients and foods like coconut oil, unsweetened soy milk, oat bran, stevia, rice protein, eggs, fresh or frozen vegetables, shrimp and seafood, avocados, healthy oils like flax oil and guacamole, hummus, bean sprouts, tofu and a limited amount of fresh fruits. Some people may consider these to be expensive food items, but they are a fraction of the price of many manufactured products, and they are certainly far cheaper than the medical costs associated with diseases like diabetes and heart disease (which are caused by processed foods). |
| Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
Phytochemicals have been shown to be especially effective at preventing and reversing various cancers:
In 1989, a study investigating occurrence of second primary cancers came up with an interesting finding: that the risk of second primary cancers was 40 to 60 percent lower among patients whose diet had emphasized dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, cruciferous and yellow vegetables, and fresh fruits. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Longan may be confused with the similar-looking langsat or duku (Lansium domesticum, family Meliaceae) that is occasionally seen on Malaysian markets as clusters of fresh fruits. Origin & history Indigenous to India and Sri Lanka (perhaps also southern China). It is grown as a fruit tree in China and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia). Parts used Ripe fruits (actually the fleshy aril that surrounds the seed). Cultivation & harvesting Trees propagated from seeds are used as rootstock or are grown as windbreaks. |
Mike Adams
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| Afar better choice? fresh fruits.
Any food bar that says "energy" or "sports" (refined sugars)
Many of the same manufacturers who profited handsomely by selling granola bars to the low-fat crowd have been retooling their product lines to produce "energy bars" and "sports bars," which are now far more popular than granola bars. But this is largely smoke and mirrors: any food bar that says "energy" on the label is actually just another candy bar loaded with refined sugars. That's the key word to look for: energy. In the food bar manufacturing industry, sugars = energy. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Eat between seven and ten servings of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables every day. You may want to use a Vita-Mix blender for better results. Drink twelve ounces twice a day.
Other Mercury-chelating Compounds
Mercury combines with malate and citrate to produce harmless compounds that can be removed from the body. An additional advantage is that it should remove the mercury from the nervous system as well, since the organic compounds and magnesium all enter the brain fairly easily. Citrate and malate are both normal byproducts of metabolism. |
| Dietary Recommendations
Your diet should consist of seven to ten servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day, with as many as possible in raw form. I have found that most people who say they eat a lot of fruits and vegetables actually eat only one or two types of vegetables—and then at most only one or two servings a day. Everyone should eat close to ten servings of fruits and vegetables every day: for densely packed fruits and vegetables, such as apples and broccoli, a serving is equal to one-half cup. One cup is considered a serving size for looser vegetables, such as lettuce and spinach. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 I felt inside that eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and greens was right for me, exactly what I needed. But I didn't know how — or if I could do it.
I had so little stomach acid that I was part of the green study. Thank you! 30 days on green smoothies and my body wants only raw foods. I feel energy! My vision began to improve and my joy came back!
My blood sugars stabilized. My moods stabilized. I want to live! I have energy! I have regular bowel movements. My vision is clearer. My skin is healthier. I feel so grateful! Thank you. |
Mike Adams
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 This means cutting down on refined carbohydrates, like white sugar and white flour, and filling up your plate with fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains instead. Cut down on sugar, but instead of using artificial sweeteners like aspartame as a substitute, use an all-natural, zero-calorie sweetener like stevia.
Along this line, replace white flour with whole grains and, better yet, grains like chia or Salba. Dr. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 The antioxidant vitamins A, C, and E will combat damage from free radicals. fresh fruits and vegetables are among the best sources of antioxidants, so have a couple of servings at every meal. For vitamin E, add wheat germ to salads, cereals, or juices. Nuts and seeds are other good sources of this vital nutrient.
The consumption of fish is very important. Salmon, halibut, cod sole, and others are healthful sources of DHA, an essential fatty acid involved in brain function and GPA, which reduces inflammation. |
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