Jeffrey M. Smith
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 In contrast to the sections on food safety, which properly imply that biotechnology is a fundamentally innocuous tool of food production and that the fruits of biotechnology will be substantially equivalent to those with which we are already familiar, the [environmental] section gives an incorrect impression that biotechnology raises significant new agricultural and environmental concerns."15
These memos reveal that as the evaluators have less and less background in science and more political accountability, the foods, and their environmental impact, are regarded as safer and safer. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 By themselves, the dried berry-like fruits (haws) have a sweet mealy or mucilaginous taste.
The revised 1994 Commission E monograph on the hawthorn recognizes two water-and-alcohol extracts of dried hawthorn leaves with flowers (herb-to-extract ratio 4-7:1) and the fixed combination mentioned above as having therapeutic efficacy (Blumenthal et al., 1998). Efficacy is presumed likely for other preparations, especially the liquid extract described in DAB 1996 and alcoholic extracts made from leaves or flowers alone, but this has not yet been firmly established by double-blind clinical studies. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 CONCLUSION: Four Simple Steps to Vibrant Health
The four most vital steps to better health are balancing the water and salt content of the body; exercising the muscle mass of the body to enhance the efficiency of brain function; avoiding beverages that dehydrate and make the body more toxic; and eating a balanced daily diet of proteins and vegetables in a ratio of 20 percent protein and 80 percent vegetables, legumes, and fruits, with as little starch and sugar as possible. It is the high starch and sugar content of the diet that makes a person fat. |
Jack Challem
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 Antioxidants Are Anti-Inflammatory
The natural antidotes for free radicals are antioxidants, which include vitamins E and C and many other nutrients, particularly the many flavonoids found in vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Many antioxidants directly counteract the pro-inflammatory effects of free radicals. For example, vitamin E helps turn off genes involved in inflammation, as well as some types of adhesion molecules. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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| Vitamin and mineral supplements are thus recommended for insurance in case your daily diet is not high quality and contains insufficient fruits and vegetables.
The toxic mineral elements are mercury, lead, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, and, in large quantities, iron. These minerals should be avoided—they are absorbed better by the body if the stomach is less acidic than normal.
As we grow older, some of us manufacture less and less acid in our stomachs. The condition is called achlorhydria. People with achlorhydria can become deficient of vital minerals in their bodies. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 What was left was a lot of healthy things: organic vegetables, fruits, legumes, seeds, nuts, etc. After years of asthma, within a month I could breath almost normally for the first time in my life. Fasting is a miracle and I thank Paul Bragg!
— Paul Wenner, Creator Cardenburger, author of Garden Cuisine
Food Supply Poisoned by Man
Thousands of synthetic food additives, chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides dumped into the nation's food and water supply are responsible for a great deal of sickness. |
David Wolfe
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 SATURDAY ALL-RAW
Breakfast
30-40 berries (strawberry, blueberry, etc.) mixed with lettuce or mixed with 1 avocado.
1 Papaya mixed with lettuce or mixed with one half an avocado. Or
Drink the water of 2 coconuts with Nature's First Food or some other green superfood blend in order to increase mineralization.
Lunch
1 cantaloupe.
1 cup (0.25 liters) of wheatgrass juice blended or juiced with 3-4 apples or
1 quart (1 liter) of freshly-made vegetable juice containing at least 50% celery, 50% apples or pears.
Snacks
2 apples.
15 water-soaked almonds. 1 handful of pumpkin seeds. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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| The backbone of The Water Cure program is, simply, sufficient water and salt intake; regular exercise; a balanced, mineral-rich diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables and the essential fats needed to create cell membranes, hormones, and nerve insulation; exclusion of caffeine and alcohol; and meditation to solve and detoxify stressful thoughts. Exclusion of artificial sweeteners from the diet is an absolute must for better health.
It should also be remembered that the sort of dehydration that manifests itself as asthma leaves other scars within the interior parts of the human body. |
Jack Challem
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| Smokers typically eat few fruits and vegetables, a rich and diverse source of antioxidant nutrients.
Coronary Artery (Heart) Disease
What Is Coronary Artery (Heart) Disease?
Coronary artery disease is characterized by a narrowing of the major arteries in the heart, a situation that leads to reduced blood flow and, in effect, slow starvation of cells forming the heart. The narrowing is caused by several factors, including lesions made up of cholesterol, abnormal growth of smooth muscle cells, and accumulated platelet cells. |
| Beta-Carotene
In addition to flavonoids, fruits and vegetables contain large quantities of carotenoids, a family of fat-soluble antioxidants. Several studies suggest that these nutrients—chiefly beta-carotene, lutein, and lycopene—are associated with relatively low levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). This association does not necessarily mean that carotenoids lower CRP levels, though this effect would be consistent with other research on antioxidants. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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| Some of you will say, "raw fruits and vegetables give me gas, etc." That is because you are on the acid side and, when you eat the alkaline foods, they start to houseclean and move the toxins out of your bloodstream and body. So you avoid eating them and use the weak excuse that they don't agree with you. They do agree with you and your toxic body definitely needs them to help get you clean, healthy and alkaline!
Stop your life from an out-of-control spiral! Become the Health Captain of your life by following The Bragg Healthy lifestyle - start today! |
| My diet is composed of organic raw fruits and vegetables, cooked vegetables, beans, legumes, brown rice, etc. with raw nuts and seeds and their butters, raw wheat germ and Brewer's yeast.
This is what my body seems to thrive on. But occasionally there were times when my body told me to eat a piece of meat or a piece of fish, or to have some natural cheese or a few fertile eggs. In other words, my body developed an instinct for the selection of foods. Sometimes I go 4 or 5 years without tasting eggs, etc., then my body will telegraph that I need some. |
Jack Challem
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| Trader Joe's grocery stores also have many high-quality meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables, though they are not always organically produced.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is a chain of offbeat but high-quality "specialty retail" grocery stores, with many organic, gluten-free, and wholesome products.
You won't find the selection of a large supermarket, but the meats, vegetables, and seafood (frozen) are of exceptional quality and at comparatively reasonable prices. For more information and the locations of Trader Joe's stores go to www.traderjoes.com. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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| Thou shall increase thy knowledge of Nature's Laws, follow them and enjoy the fruits of thy life's labor.
Thou shall lift up thyself, friends and family by obedience to God's Healthy, Pure Laws of Living.
And jesus full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan and was lead by the Spirit into the wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and when the fast was ended He afterward hungered. - Luke 4:1-2
-^^tep Bragg Healthy Ufestyle Plan
• Read, plan, plot, and follow through for supreme health and longevity.
• Underline, highlight or dog-ear pages as you read important passages. |
Donald M. Epstein
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 The flow of life through our bodymind is a powerful aspect of healing, bringing not only profound awareness, but healing our emotional and physical wounds. The fruits of this kind of healing grow larger, sweeter, and juicier, requiring no picking from the Tree of Life. They simply fall off the tree into our awareness with no effort at all.
Jerrys Story
Jerry had pain in his arm for over sixteen years, and nothing seemed to alleviate it. Finally, after a series of bodywork sessions, he gained greater movement in his neck, his respiration became easier, and he spontaneously began to cry. |
John R. Smythies
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| The epidemiological evidence that a diet high in fruits and vegetables appears to be protective against the development of cervical cancer was quoted earlier [i7. 43l-
ORAL CANCER. A review by Garewal and Diplock states that "all available evidence supports a significant role for antioxidant nutrients in preventing oral cancer" [62]. They recognize that alcohol and tobacco use account for some 75 percent of oral cancer in the West. In epidemiological studies of the role of carotenoids in laryngeal cancer, four out of four were positive; in oropharyngeal cancer nine out of nine were positive. |
| Some other factor or factors other than antioxidants, such as fiber in a diet high in fruits and vegetables, may account for the reduction of incidence of colorectal cancers.
UTERINE CANCER. Again, the data relating to the value of individual supplements is conflicting. Moreover, lowering serum estrogens, achieved through a vegetarian diet, may be more relevant than antioxidant action on estrogen-related cancers (e.g., breast and uterus). |
Susun S. Weed
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 The part usually thrown away-the rind-is the most medicinal, but only from organic fruits. Bitter orange peel has a long and powerful reputation as a cancer preventive and a cancer cure. See Materia Medica.
ORGANIC FOOD
Several studies done in the past five years have found organically grown foods to be both richer in minerals (up to 400 percent more selenium) and lower in heavy metals and carcinogenic compounds than non-organic foods.20A For a free copy of one of these studies, write to Doctor's Data. (See "Resources," page 54. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| It's interesting to realize that if you were consuming sugarcane, instead of the sugar extracted from it, you'd be supplied with Vitamin B6; and if you were using fruits as a modest source of sugar, you'd automatically be supplied with Vitamin C. Nature proposes, man disposes.
Reducing your sugar intake calls for nothing more than a sense of discretion. Why buy canned fruit in heavy syrup if light-syrup pack is available? And what's the matter with water-packed fruit, even if it's labeled for diabetics? You don't have to wait for diabetes, you know. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Seconds after the buzzer sounds at 11:05 a.m., hundreds of pairs of Doc Martens, Skechers, and Air jordans beat a path to the Nicolet High School cafeteria, where low-cost hot lunches are being snubbed for Taco Bell and Pizza Hut fast foods. 'Designer-label food' was added this school semester to the chow line to make Nicolet a 'warmer, friendlier place,' said Elliott Moeser, the School District's top administrator.'"2 (Milwaukee, Wl)
Food Woven Through the Curriculum
Children intersect with food in many ways in a typical school, some more obvious than others. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 I do not customarily purchase frozen vegetables and fruits; I enjoy preparing fresh,
The diet should also supply adequate amounts of high-quality protein. (If you have chosen a vegetarian lifestyle, please consult with a nutritionist or nutritionally trained physician for counsel on balancing your essential amino acids and making up for other possible deficiencies.)
The average woman requires from forty-five to eighty-five grams of protein per day. She may require slightly more if she is physically very active or if she has been under a considerable amount of stress. |
Susun S. Weed
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| The fiber in fruits and vegetables— which improves uptake by slowing transit time—is thrown away, allowing the juice to move through the gut too quickly to be absorbed. For optimal health, I eat some foods raw (more in hot weather) but most food cooked. And have a glass of carrot juice only every now and then, as a treat.
KALE [Brassica oleracea)
Kale is an excellent source of chlorophyll, indoles, and carotenes, especially the ultra anti-cancer carotene, lutein. Kale is a top-of-the-list cancer preventive vegetable. See cabbage family; see greens.
LAMB'S QUARTER (Chenopodium album, C. |
Donald M. Epstein
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| This frustration is part of the indigestion we suffer when we eat the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge. Understanding our feelings may come spontaneously, but we can heal without understanding them, because feelings are not always meant to be understood.
Donalds Story
My elbow and arm had been very painful for several weeks. They hurt so much that I felt intense pain even when using a light force to touch a patient. Using my arms and hands was part of my identity as a successful chiropractor serving several hundred patients weekly. |
Susun S. Weed
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| She advocated a diet of at least 50 percent fresh raw vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
• It's vitally important to nourish your immune system when you have a diagnosis of cancer. A strong immune system is better able to stop recurrence and metastases, and help you heal from surgery and adjuvant treatments. See Chapter 4.
• Immune strengthening therapies measure their results differently than orthodox treatments. In successful immunotherapies the immune system may wall off the cancerous mass, preventing growth and metastasis, but leaving the size of the tumor undiminished. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 Fresh fruits and vegetables provide a veritable feast of thousands of substances that you simply cannot get from eating processed food or by taking pills. Natural plant agents, or phytochem-icals, have been meticulously crafted by plants for millions of years in response to stresses like drought, extreme temperatures, plant-eating insects, and intense sunlight. This exclusive group of plant compounds holds the secret of good health and forms the basis of the Super Eight Food Groups, which will be discussed in chapter 5. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
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 Bananas can be used to quiet down diverticulitis, and athletes will be interested to learn that these wonder fruits, eaten alone or added to a smoothie, help to prevent muscle cramps.
Nutrient Value: Bananas are a solid source of potassium and vitamins A and Bj.
Selection and Care: Select golden yellow bananas flecked with brown spots. Green tips indicate that the fruit is not yet ripe. Store at room temperature until they ripen. |
| In an effort to increase their sex drive, they've experimented with all kinds of foods. Some fruits and vegetables were considered to be sexual because their shape resembled that of the reproductive organs: bananas, for example, or asparagus. Others, like the succulent peach, were lauded for their erotic texture. Still others—pumpkin seeds or almonds—earned a reputation for enhancing fertility.
Served in a sexually charged atmosphere—before a roaring fireplace, accompanied by the sultry strains of slow jazz—a flavorful, satisfying meal can entice all the senses. |
| ORANGE, GRAPEFRUIT, AND PINEAPPLE (CITRUS fruits)
7. POTATOES
8. ROMAINE LETTUCE AND DARK LEAFY GREEN VEGETABLES
9. SESAME SEEDS
10. TOFU AND SOYBEAN PRODUCTS
Other foods high in magnesium include: apricots, barley, corn, lima beans, mushrooms, peanut butter, and tomatoes. A fresh green salad with guacamole is an excellent source of the mineral.
THINK ZINC
Zinc is another miracle nutrient capable of calming ragged nerves. Along with magnesium, it helps to maintain the nervous system. Without the two minerals, anxiety is inevitable. |
| In addition to the strict exclusion of sweets, fruits, refined sugars and carbohydrates, the plan also prohibits dairy products and fermented foods such as vinegar. Any items high in yeast or mold—many breads and cheeses, mushrooms, peanuts, and alcohol, for example—must be avoided at all costs. To kill off excess yeast, it's often necessary to use capryllin or nystatin. Capryllin, or capryllic acid, is a naturally occuring fatty acid that can be taken as an enteric-coated time-released supplement in tablet form, 1000 to 2000 mg with each meal. Nystatin is by prescription only. |
Susun S. Weed
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| Olive oil (Olea europea)
The oil pressed from the fruits (olives) and seeds (pits) of these magnificent, long-lived trees is neither an infused oil nor an essential oil. It is my favorite oil for eating, cooking, and using as a base for infusing herbs. Virgin or extra virgin oils are great for eating, but have a rich smell which is overpowering in an infused oil or ointment. As a base for infused oils, I use the less expensive (and less aromatic) pomace oil-made by pressing the ground pits after the olives have been squeezed dry. |
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