| Foods that are high in carbohydrates, like flours, grains, tubers, and fruits, should be very limited.
Good diet and exercise alone can often work wonders in bringing down blood sugar levels. Many people say they have tried "dieting" after going to dietitians, but many diets prescribed by dietitians are often too lenient to help adequately. A very strict diet, such as the Syndrome X diet by Gerald Reaven, which excludes anything with a glycemic index greater than 50 and balances good carbohydrates with essential fats and adequate protein, is best. |
| Food sources, including
pigmented fruits and
vegetables, should
be encouraged.
A mineral ascorbate form
is best, taken in divided
doses 2-3 times q.d.
Higher doses may cause
loose stool. Dosage should
not be reduced suddenly as
this can cause a temporary
deficiency.
Pantothenic Acid
Critical for the conversion of glucose into energy Present in high quantities in the adrenal glands and necessary for adrenal hormone
1500 mg q.d.
Vitamin B-Complex
B-complex of vitamins work together to produce adrenal gland hormones
50-100 mg, 2-3 times q.d. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Pectin
PECTIN FIGHTS THE SPREAD OF CANCER
Modified citrus pectin (MCP), also known as fractionated citrus pectin, is a complex sugar (polysaccharide) obtained from the peel and pulp of citrus fruits. Modified citrus pectin is rich in short, nonbranched, galactose-rich carbohydrate chains. These shorter chains dissolve more readily in water and are better absorbed and utilized by the body than ordinary long-chain pectin.
MCP appears to reduce the risk of metastasis, the spread of cancerous cells from one tumor to other sites in the body. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 If you want to make the terrine with fruits other than those specified, ensure that they are not too acidic or the dish won't set properly. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Frozen fruits may be used as long as they contain no preservatives.
FROZEN STRAWBERRY AND PINEAPPLE COOLER
2 cups frozen strawberries (or other berries) 1 large pineapple Raw honey, to taste
Strawberries have an anti-viral effect and help prevent heart disease and cancer due to their powerful antioxidant properties. Strawberries appear to block one of the most powerful cancer-forming substances, nitrosamines. They are also high in pectin, a water-soluble fiber that helps reduce cholesterol significantly.
They are also high in polyphenols, powerful antioxidants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 First off, you need to keep fresh vegetables and low-sugar fruits around. Then it could be helpful to eat fish and lean meats, legumes, seeds, as well as healthy fats like olive oil, nuts and avocados. Also try to avoid all those processed, white-flour carbs -- cookies, crackers, breads, and, of course, soft drinks."
Bennett then offered Santa two nutritional tips to jump-start his progress:
"1) Delay. This is the first of my 'Six D's' that I developed back in 1998 when I kicked sugar on doctor's orders. If those cookies tempt you, just put off having them for five minutes. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Non-starchy vegetables should be eaten 6-8 servings per day. fruits and grains should probably be avoided at breakfast because these foods can lead to pre-lunch hypoglycemia. In fact, bouts of hypoglycemia should be avoided as much as possible. Eating smaller meals more frequently, while being aware of the glycemic indices of food, is necessary if hypoglycemia needs to be managed. Salt need not be restricted especially if hypotension is a sign. Taking 1/2 teaspoon of salt twice a day is recommended. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 The red fruits or berries of cha de bugre (resembling a coffee bean) contain caffeine. The allantoin and allantoic acid may explain the traditional use of the plant for wound healing.1 Main plant chemicals include allantoin, allantoic acid, caffeine, and potassium.
Since cha de bugre is a commonly sold and popular natural product already, very little clinical research or interest has been shown to study the plant in Brazil. A Japanese university, however, has discovered some new uses for cha de bugre. |
| Of the estimated 3,000 edible fruits found in the rainforest, only 200 are cultivated for use today, despite the fact that the Indians have used more than 1,500. Many secrets and untold treasures about the medicinal plants used by shamans, healers, and the indigenous people of the rainforest tribes await discovery. Long regarded as hocus-pocus by science, the empirical plant knowledge of the indigenous peoples is now thought by many to be the Amazon's new gold. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| A great way to start the party is to set out bowls of fruit salad or trays arranged with a variety of colorful fruits cut into squares. Include some toothpicks for the fun of it. Kids also love melon balls, especially if you do all three colors (pink, green, and orange).
Have the trays ready as the children arrive, and once they have eaten the fruit, let them play for a while before you bring out the other goodies. (This will allow the fruit to digest before they tuck into the rest of the food.)
Whole rye or whole wheat breads and biscuits, as well as pita bread, are more substantial snacks. |
| These are often treated with a sulfur-based preservative and once cut, nutrients are lost rapidly
• Wash your fruits and vegetables carefully with an environment-friendly soap to remove any residual fertilizers or insecticides
• Store vegetables that don't have skins (such as lettuce and cabbage) in air-tight containers or plastic bags
• Steaming is the best way to cook—this method destroys the least amount of nutrients
• Waterless cooking is second-best
• Stir-frying is a good method if water, instead of oil, is used. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 I ODIN E SOU RCES: Sea vegetables, kelp Macrocy stis pyrifera, Chinese Laminaria religiosum, fish and cod liver oil (5000 ppb), fish, shellfish, seasalt, nuts (200 ppb/parts perbillion), wheat germ, fruits (6-120 ppb), bananas, vegetable oils (30-95 ppb), grains and beans (8-64 ppb), asparagus, radish, mushrooms, garlic, onions, eggplant, lettuce, potatoes, Bladderwrack, Dulse, Irish Moss, Iceland Moss, Kelp, Mullein leaf, Parsley, Passionflower, Black Walnut hulls, Spirulina, and Sarsaparilla. Edgar Cayce's Atomidine/atomic Iodine; take with no other medications or alcohol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Fresh, organic produce is now being delivered to the North Pole, where Santa is using a Vita-Mix blender to make his own nutrient-rich smoothies from fruits, vegetables, nuts and superfoods.
NewsTarget and SugarShockBlog will continue to follow this story and bring you reports on Santa's progress.
Click here to read the previous story in the Santa Clause health series.
Click here to see the latest Santa Claus comic about his health challenges. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| DINNER
Occasionally this is also fruit, especially in summer when there aren't enough hours in the day to eat all the delicious fruits available. Most often, though, we'll start with a large salad consisting of lettuce, tomato, carrots, red pepper, celery, avocado, and occasionally some olives (in brine). Some evenings we make a complete meal of this and others we might have whole baked butternut squash, steamed broccoli, baked or steamed potatoes, bowls of steaming brown rice, steamed corn on the cob, a mixed vegetable casserole, or soup. (See recipe section and our Web site. |
Byron J. Richards
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 The colorful pigments of all fruits contain health-promoting nutrients.
Skewed Taste Buds Are a Major Part of the Problem
The taste of simple sugar is a major source of pleasure-based addiction. The tongue has leptin receptors on it that are tuned to sweet taste. When leptin is out of balance, the desire for sweet-tasting foods can be overwhelming. This includes cravings for junk sweets and chocolate, or it may involve cravings for complex carbohydrates such as bread products (especially if they have some kind of sugar on top). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has 33 different fruits and vegetables. It starts with our greens. My grandfather has been growing and dehydrating the most potent greens -- organic wheat grass, barley grass and alfalfa. It starts with that.
We have all 33 of them in there. We also use an organic soymilk base in it. It's a good, high-quality soymilk, and it's organic. We also use a decaffeinated redwood cocoa. It's a lighter-colored cocoa. We tried several different ones, and we found that children really took to the redwood cocoa, which is light in color. Those three things make up the top three ingredients. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Plain fruits and vegetables became much more desirable for me and my cravings for fatty foods declined dramatically. I stopped consuming any kind of salt altogether, even seaweed.
Two weeks later, my husband and I were walking in California along a grassy trail when I suddenly began to salivate from looking at the dark green crispy branches of malva weeds growing in abundance along our path. I kept catching myself wanting to grab and eat them. I shared my observations with Igor and he listened attentively but didn't get excited. He had already noticed that I was eating differently lately. |
Byron J. Richards
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| The flavonoids in deep-colored pigments in fruits, and the carotenes in vegetables, are examples of isoprenoids. Inside cells they perform a rather interesting function, they can deactivate oncogenes (common mutant genes in human cancers), thus reducing the risk for cancer. There is a reason cultures with diets containing fresh fruit, vegetables, and whole grains have lower cancer rates. If you don't eat these foods then you will run low on isoprenoids. This increases the likelihood that mutant cells which cause cancer can get out of control. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Carotenoids
Close to five hundred types of carotenoids exist in the plant world, thirty-four of which occur in fruits and vegetables found in the human diet. The best known of these is beta-carotene, which recently received a bad name due to a poorly conducted experiment. Rest assured that no well-conducted scientific study has ever demonstrated that beta-carotene causes lung cancer in nonsmokers! |
| While young people do well at ten servings a day of fruits and vegetables, the elderly need twelve servings to gain health benefits. (Interestingly, younger people gain no further advantage after ten servings.)
It has been shown that people suffering from Alzheimer's disease have impaired DNA repair. Whether this is inborn or develops as a result of the disease itself, we do not know for sure, but the evidence seems to indicate that it plays a significant role in development of the disease. |
| A recent review found that of all the factors associated with reducing osteoporosis, the most effective was maintaining a diet high in fruits and vegetables,426 which contain large amounts of magnesium and potassium, both of which are strong buffers. When such buffers are present, calcium in the blood actually moves back into bone. In addition, flavonoids in plants also prevent bone loss.427 Edible plants also contain numerous other vitamins and minerals— including boron, zinc, magnesium, vitamin K, and some omega-3 fatty acids—that play a role in strengthening bones. |
| You should eat at least seven to ten servings of high-nutrient dense fruits and vegetables every day. As we have seen, the potassium and magnesium in plants protects the bones, and many high-density vegetables also contain a fair amount of calcium, which balances their high magnesium content.
Minimize meat intake. If you are not a vegetarian, eat no more than six ounces of meat twice a day. To gauge the amount of meat more conveniently, it should fit in the palm of your hand—not a gorilla's hand, your hand. Avoid pork and red meat altogether.
Avoid soft drinks. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Vitamin C is naturally found in peppers, citrus fruits, tomatoes, melons, broccoli, and green leafy vegetables such as spinach, and turnip and mustard greens. However, don't rely on eating an orange a day to give you enough of this nutrient as one study showed that "fresh" oranges bought from some vendors contained no vitamin C at all due to to the excessive amount of time they had been stored. So to ensure you get all the vitamin C you need, it's best to supplement your diet. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| The fluoride not only clings tenaciously to the skin of the fruits and vegetables, but also can soak into the pulp of the plant as well. Once the "fresh vegetables" arrive at your supermarket, they are placed in display bins and intermittently sprayed with a fine mist of tap water that often is fluoridated, adding further to the fluoride burden of the plant.
My children loved the taste of one brand of orange juice from Florida, but because of my research in this area, I decided to call the headquarters of the orange juice company and ask if they used local drinking water. |
| This means that mom must maintain a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, high-quality proteins, complex carbohydrates, and special fats to assure that the newborn baby's brain and body will continue to grow and develop to its maximum potential: this, of course, includes a highly functioning antioxidant network.
Now let us take a hypothetical case, one that is repeated millions of times in this country. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Eating the skins or outside leaves of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables (nonorganic, particularly strawberries, apples, pears, carrots, lettuce). _ Regularly drinking one or more soft drinks from aluminum cans a day.
_ A diet that consists mostly of processed foods (due to the use of artificial preservatives, colorings, flavorings, and additives).
_ The regular intake of sugar-free or low-sugar foods and drinks, which use artificial sweeteners (such as aspartame and saccharine). |
Mike Adams
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 He discovered that these populations, when they followed their native diets that were high in fiber, high in the consumption of fruits and vegetables, and based on foods from nature in their natural state, demonstrated virtually no modern diseases like obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. They had healthy teeth with virtually no cavities, and they suffered almost no mental disorders such as depression and aggression. |
| An exciting branch of recent research has identified biologically active substances in foods - plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains - that have health-enhancing or possibly curative abilities. Often these are the very substances that also give the food its color, flavor, or smell. These substances are being called phytochemicals (phyto-being from the Greek word for "plant"), or phytonutrients, or sometimes nutraceuticals or foodaceuticals. The idea behind these terms is that food can be medicinal as well as nutritious. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 He never said you couldn't eat vegetables and fruits. He did say you couldn't eat junk carbohydrates.
Another problem with the public's (and medical establishment's) perception of Atkins' program is that it was based solely on the first (1972) edition of his book. In that edition, where Atkins first put forth the radical proposition that cutting carbohydrates was the key to controlling insulin, he didn't pay as much attention to what you were allowed to eat, concentrating instead on the foods you were not allowed. |
| This is how the experiment went: For the first three weeks, Ste-fansson and Anderson were fed the standard diet of the time: fruits, cereals, bacon and eggs, and vegetables. (Notice that there were no fast foods, no snacks, and no vending machine fare available then, so by today's standards, the "ordinary" diet was already light-years better than what we eat now.) During those first three weeks, the two guys were given preliminary checkups and were basically free to come and go as they pleased. After the first three weeks, they went on the all-meat diet and were more or less under house arrest. |
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