Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Beta-carotene is abundant in dark green, yellow, and orange vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, pumpkin, and sweet potatoes, as well as some fruits. It also is found in some foods, including eggs, fish, fortified milk, and organ meats such as liver. It is best to get beta-carotene from food sources that are easily assimilated by the body. Recent studies indicate that taking excessive doses of beta-carotene supplements may actually work against the body's natural cell division and increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers. | | Both the child and the nursing mother should not eat citrus fruits, tomatoes, or anything containing sugar. Calendula cream, applied locally, heals and soothes rashes. Also, homemade plain yogurt promotes healing if applied directly to the area where the problem persists. Be sure to change the diaper often and apply the cream or yogurt with each change. Adding Vi cup of pure apple cider vinegar to the rinse water when washing cloth diapers may help to resolve the problem as well.
• For diarrhea, warm nettle tea is helpful. | | Try to get magnesium from the foods you eat—good dietary sources include vegetables (especially leafy green), fruits, tofu, whole grains, almonds, and cashews—but if that is not possible, it is wise to take a supplement.
To check the absorbability of the calcium in a given supplement, put the tablet in 4 ounces of white vinegar. If it does not dissolve within thirty minutes, it probably will not dissolve in your stomach, either, so you should choose a different product. | | The following is an extensive list of the best sources of dietary calcium:
• Vegetables: Dark-green and leafy vegetables (including broccoli, collard greens, dandelion greens, kale, parsley, raw spinach, turnip greens, and watercress); aparagus; kelp, dulse, and other sea vegetables; globe artichokes; okra; green snap beans; and tomatoes.
• Fruits: Dried figs and prunes, raisins, dates, ripe olives, and oranges.
• Legumes: Soybeans and soy foods, such as tofu, and cooked dried peas and beans. | | Micronutrients from fruits and vegetables are antioxidants that protect cells from damage. Amino acids from proteins create neurotransmitters for cell networking and communication.
People with Alzheimer's disease tend to have low levels of vitamin B12, zinc, and the antioxidant vitamins A and E. Vitamin B12 deficiency alone can cause symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's disease.
Breasts/mammary glands
The human breast is a gland that contains milk ducts, lobes, fatty tissue, and a network of lymphatic vessels. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  Micronutrients: The Keys to Super Health
Do you know what a "healthy diet" consists of? fruits? Vegetables? Low fat? Lean protein? This advice is okay as far as it goes, but given what we now know about the relative nutritional values of foods, these vague guidelines are only a part of a larger picture. Many people who believe they are eating a "good" diet would be shocked at how poor their nutritional status actually is. It's a paradox that nutritional deficiencies are common in the overfed. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts |  Best Sources: Kelp, fruits, and vegetables.
Selenium (Se): The RDA is 70/55 mg, while the recommended intake is 100-200 meg daily; the therapeutic dose is up to 500 meg taken in organic form. Selenium acts as an antioxidant together with vitamin E. It is lost in cooking and very toxic when taken at 2000 meg or more. A deficiency causes viruses to become very virulent.
Deficiency Symptoms: These include fatigue, cancer, liver damage, pancreatic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, weak immune system, reproductive disorders, cataracts, hemorrhaging, hemolytic anemia, and underactive thyroid. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  Pectins are found in the cell walls of many fruits but are most concentrated in citrus and apples. As fruit ripens, an insoluble precursor is converted to soluble pectin and becomes gelatinous.
Pectin is widely employed in the food industry as a gelling agent. It is also combined with the clay kaolin for use in the management of diarrhea. Research suggests that pectin has cholesterol-lowering and antithrombotic properties and may help protect against colorectal cancer. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The diet includes wholesome foods such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and teas. It can also be expanded to include dressings, dips and sauces as well as drinks to help those who would like to follow the diet longer. The Smoothie Cleanse will provide added nutritional drinks for those who need more calories and/or protein for energy, weight maintenance, and muscle support. Even adding smoothies to the Detox Diet makes the overall program more caloric and nutritional, and thus prevents weight loss. However, it also may be less detoxifying. | | A therapeutic regimen often includes dietary changes such as avoiding certain foods or food groups and adding more fresh, high-fiber and low-fat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. I also address abusive habits and try to motivate my patients to give this therapy approach a fair chance. Most modern-day abuses—Sugar, Nicotine, Alcohol, Caffeine, and Chemicals—are psychoactive substances that have mental and emotional effects. I believe that giving up at least the habitual use of these SNACCs (as I call them) is extremely important. | | Wait to reintroduce these items into your diet until you have first added back in vegetables, fruits, fish, legumes (except soy and peanuts), whole grains, and some nuts and seeds, such as almonds, filberts, and sunflower seeds. At a later time, you can add the Sensitive Seven foods back into the diet, one at a time, and watch for any reaction. This way you'll be able to identify any food reactions. This is true even for other common foods like almonds or potatoes. | | Arnold Ehret, a European fasting expert and proponent of the "mucusless" diet, suggests that fruits and fruit juices should not be used right after a meat eater's first fast because they may coagulate intestinal mucus and cause problems. A meat eater's colon bacteria are probably different from a vegetarian's. Consequently, fruit sugars like those in the juices may not be tolerated well; instead, the active gram-positive anaerobic bacteria in the meat eater will produce more toxins. | | Important Elements of Healthy Eating
• Eat whole foods, particularly fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and vegetable proteins (beans, peas, lentils, nuts, and seeds).
• We are what we eat. Put only quality food into your body. Reduce refined foods, sugar, excess fatty and rich foods, and foods with additives or synthetic coloring. Avoid genetically engineered foods and those with chemical herbicides and pesticides by buying foods labeled "organic."
• Drink no more than 4 oz of liquids with meals, as it can dilute the digestive juices. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts |  The nuts and fruits, packaged together, are still popular in eastern Europe.
Another beautiful legend cornes from Portugal. A Moorish prince from the deep south of Portugal (Algarve) married a Scandinavian princess, who pined away in that snowless land for lack of winter and the sight of snow. Her prince relieved her homesickness by planting almond trees so thickly along the entire coast that when they bloomed, their white blossoms covered the land each spring with a snowy-white blanket. grown: sweet and bitter. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts | | Sugar and chemically neutral and normally alkalizing fruits become acid-forming in sensitive individuals, while a high intake of meat and fat can lead to a lack of acids required for energy production. No matter how alkalizing a food is supposed to be, if you are sensitive or allergic to it, then it is acid-forming for you. Even the same food may change from alkalizing to acid-forming if it is incorrectly combined with other foods or if consumed when you are emotionally upset.
All of this is contrary to what you would expect by using acid-alkaline food tables. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts | | Native to tropical Asia and Africa, this climbing plant produces fruits up to eight inches in length with lumpy, ridged skin the color of pale jade that turns yellow or orange when the fruit is ripe. Its flesh is the same tone, only lighter, and contains brown seeds. Generally it is eaten in its unripe state. This classic Chinese and East Indian vegetable is rarely seen in grocery stores but can be grown easily in most home gardens and yards.
Buying Tips
Choose small melons that are firm, not shriveled, and free from blemishes or damage. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts | | If we had too much heavy or spicy food, then fruits will taste attractive, but if we had too much fruit, then a spicy protein-fat meal suddenly tastes good.
If we eat food that the body has difficulty in handling, then it causes a stress reaction with the release of adrenal-stimulating hormones. For individuals with weak adrenal glands, this acts as a stimulation of their body functions, and they become addicted to this food as well as other stimulants. Now the taste buds are no longer a reliable guide, as other body needs are sacrificed to satisfy this need for adrenal stimulation. | | Cooking Foods: Food ideally suited for human nutrition does not require cooking, such as sprouted seeds and fresh shoots, ripening seeds (sweet corn, green peas), oily seeds and nuts, sweet root vegetables, and fruits. Cooking damages many proteins; they coagulate and harden and their complement of digestive enzymes is destroyed, and this makes them more difficult to digest.
However, cooking also makes some foods more easily digestible by breaking down the cellulose in plant food and connective tissue in meat. | | Cardiovascular Disease: Recommended is the Basic Cleanse followed by periods on fruits only, or the grape cure or juice diet. Avoid or minimize sweeteners and especially sucrose, salt, chlorinated water, smoking, peanut products, red meat, caffeine, and all commercial fats and oils except extra-virgin olive oil. Do not heat any flesh food or eggs above boiling temperature. Separate fruit and other fructose-containing foods from starches or foods releasing glucose. Use only cow's milk products that have not been pasteurized or otherwise heated. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts | | Culinary Uses
The fruits are best for eating when the plants are dying and falling to the ground. Then they are fully ripe, almost a golden-yellow, and have the flavor of a strawberry. Many who know the fruit prefer to eat it raw, scooping the flesh from the skin with a spoon. The raw May apple may also be squeezed for juice or spread on bread as a raw jam. Do not eat the fruit when green, or any other part of the plant, because the roots, leaves, and stems contain a bitter resinous substance that is poisonous. | | Young chayote need not be peeled, while older ones are best peeled. The fruits, young shoots, leaves, and large fleshy roots are all used as culinary vegetables. Baked or fried, creamed for desserts or soups, chayore may be substituted in any recipe calling for summer squash. However, their bland flavor begs for big, gutsy flavorings—chilies, spices, garlic, tomatoes, or cheese. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These chemicals can permeate the inside of fruits and vegetables. Washing and peeling fruit helps but certainly does not completely eliminate the potential problem of numerous chemical exposures. Much of our produce also contains bleach, fumigant residues, artificial colors and flavorings, sulfur, artificial sweeteners, ethylene gas, phenols, wax, desiccating agents such as glycol and innumerable additives. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Proteins such as soy products, sprouted beans, some nuts or seeds, eggs, fish, or poultry can also be added, and small amounts of fruits and fruit juices may be tolerated. Since the primary aim is to maintain an alkaline diet, we should initially focus on vegetables and fruit. Of course, the Detox Diet can be used during the first two weeks of alcohol detoxification.
Water or herbal teas should be consumed throughout the day. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
See book keywords and concepts | | In the past vegetables and fruits were found to improve health for reasons that weren't understood. Only later were the nutrients, vitamins, and other complex compounds discovered to be behind the effect. There's no reason to think that all the "important ingredients" in fruits and vegetables have been discovered just yet. That means that the supplement you take instead of a vitamin may be missing a key ingredient your body needs to fight cancer or other diseases.
The best bet for health, then, is to eat wisely and take supplements where necessary. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | For other fruits, vegetables and nuts it will be stopped or allowed with registration permits until December 31, 2005. If it is safe, why is its use not allowed; if it is unsafe why a delay of years before it is stopped entirely without exceptions? 84
Loopholes starting with the 1976 Toxins Substance Control Act appear to obviously allow the EPA to give greater consideration to the chemical industry's economic status than to the health and welfare of the American public. |
Andrew Pengelly
See book keywords and concepts |  Anthocyanins in fruits, Vegetables and Grains, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Middleton, E. and Drzewiecki, G. 1984, 'Flavonoid inhibition of human basophil histamine release stimulated by various agents', Biochemical Pharmacology 33: 3333-3338.
Middleton Jr, E. 1988, 'Plant flavonoid effects on mammalian cell systems', in L. E. Cracker and J. E. Simon (eds), Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants, Vol. 3, Oryx Press, Arizona.
Miller, L. P. (ed.) 1973, Phy to chemistry, Vol. 2, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York.
Mills, S. and Bone, K. | | Antifungal (jatrorrhizine) (Grayer and Harborne 1994)
• Anti-inflammatory, cholagogue and hepatoprotective, antiviral, amoebicidal (De Silva 1983), antioxidant (oxyacanthine) (Muller and Ziereis 1994)
• Enzyme inhibitors (Robinson 1986)
Opium is the dried latex obtained from incisions made in unripe fruits of the opium poppy—Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae). The official opium drug is standardised to contain 10% morphine. Opium contains over 40 alkaloids, usually combined with meconic acid—a signature compound for identifying opium. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods:
Prunes, prune juice
Decreased effect of and other fruits or attapulgite. foods that may cause diarrhea.
Marijuana:
None expected.
Tobacco:
None expected.
BRAND NAMES
Azasan
Imuran
BASIC INFORMATION
Habit forming? No Prescription needed? Yes Available as generic? Yes Drug class: Immunosuppressant, antirheumatic
• Protects against rejection of transplanted organs (e.g., kidney, heart).
• Treats severe active rheumatoid arthritis and other immunologic diseases if simpler treatment plans have been ineffective. | | DOSAGE & USAGE INFORMATION
How to take:
Oral suspension—Mix well with 6 ounces or more or water or liquid, or in soups, pulpy fruits, with milk or in cereals. Will not dissolve.
When to take:
• Before meals.
• If taking other medicine, take it 1 hour before or 4 to 6 hours after taking colestipol.
If you forget a dose:
Take as soon as you remember up to 2 hours late. If more than 2 hours, wait for next scheduled dose (don't double this dose).
What drug does:
Binds with bile acids in intestines, preventing reabsorption.
Time lapse before drug works:
3 to 12 months. | | Best sources are green, leafy vegetables; fruits; liver and kidney.
POSSIBLE INTERACTION WITH OTHER DRUGS
GENERIC NAME
OR DRUG CLASS
COMBINED EFFECT
Analgesics*
Decreased effect of folic acid.
Anticonvulsants,
Decreased effect of hydantoin* folic acid. Possible increased seizure frequency.
Chloramphenicol
Possible decreased folic acid effect.
Contraceptives,
Decreased effect of oral* folic acid.
Cortisone drugs*
Decreased effect of folic acid.
Methotrexate
Decreased effect of folic acid.
Para-aminosalicylic
Decreased effect of acid (PAS) folic acid. |
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