Michael Tierra
See book keywords and concepts |  It is important to appreciate the fact that fruits in general are Yin and therefore cooling and eliminative in nature. We should become more sensitive to recognize when a Yin cooling energy is not appropriate.
Fruit juice is a refined food that has a strong eliminative and weakening energy. It can be useful for special short-term therapeutic diets or fasts, but long-term overconsumption of fruit juice overloads the system with sugar, causing metabolic imbalance that further contributes to abnormal cravings that can lead to disease. |
Michael Tierra, L.Ac, O.M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It seems that any stewed or baked fruits are more balanced even when out of season. Melons are another fruit of which only the sweet, watery inner parts are eaten, so they should be limited for those with spleen dampness.
Important Whole'Food Supplements
Seaweed: The Japanese eat a wider variety of sea vegetables regularly than any other people. Certain seaweeds are also regarded as a delicacy by coastal northwest Native Americans, who once dried them and traded them to inland tribes. | | A life of denial and reaction can breed only the fruits of narrowness and rigidity, which in terms of food, becomes like a poison of imbalance.
In the West, the Chinese qing dan diet is also known as the Japanese macrobiotic diet. Personally, I have always admired the macrobiotic diet—not necessarily the way that it is expounded or practiced by many, but for its fundamental principles of balance and wholeness. I still think that carefully prepared macrobiotic food is the most deeply satisfying. Macrobiotics, devoid of its "shoulds and shouldn'ts," has its origins in all traditional cultures. | | The diet integrates wholesome, simple foods, including whole grains; beans and legumes; lightly cooked vegetables; seasonal fruits; small amounts of organic, lean meat; and eggs with a complement of special therapeutic foods and herbs, such as sea vegetables, nuts, various fungi, and special herbs.
Traditional Chinese herbalists have always emphasized the importance of diet. Despite this fact, too many in the West visit even very experienced Chinese doctors and receive little or no dietary guidance.
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Why is this so? | | Following the principle that what is strongly yin on the inside is strongly Yang on the outside, we can observe that the peel of many citrus fruits contains a lot of yang-warming volatile oils useful for drying mucus and stimulating digestion. Fermented foods also have a sour flavor. Because they embody a denser nutritional package of virtually predigested proteins, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, fermented foods can generate a deeper yang effect through improved digestion, assimilation, and elimination. | | In general, flowers or leaves are light while roots, seeds, and fruits are heavy. For this reason, light herbs are commonly used for treating acute, feverish diseases, while heavy herbs are used for deeper, more chronic conditions.
The Twelve Internal Organs
In more recent Chinese medical history, herbs have been classified as entering or affecting one or more of the twelve internal organs. | | Internally, excessive consumption of cold, damp foods and drinks such as iced drinks, ice cream, popsicles, raw vegetables, and certain fruits causes coldness in the large intestine, while prolonged eating of greasy, fatty, and spicy foods produces dampness and heat. Just as sadness, grief, and worry affect the lungs, they also can affect the large intestine and cause qi stagnation.
GALLBLADDER
Of all the yang organs, the gallbladder alone stores a pure fluid, which is bile. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Mail Order Produce: To make sure that your fruits and vegetables are free of harmful or even illegal pesticides you can have organically grown produce delivered to your front door by using the book Green Groceries-. A Mail Order Guide to Organic Foods by Jeanne Heifetz.
Further, growth and female hormones are given to cattle to promote their growth and to increase their milk production. These hormones are ultimately transferred to us through milk, meat, cheese, and other dairy products. Just imagine what it does to our bodies. | | Safe Foods—There's no doubt about it: eating meat is a riskier proposition than sitting down to a meal of healthful fruits and vegetables, in fact, some of the deadliest diseases on earth make their way into the human body via our consumption of animals. Ground beef, perhaps the most commonly eaten form of meat in the United states, is the most likely sources of £ coll bacteria, in addition, improperly prepared poultry is a breeding ground for salmonella and Campylobacter. | | Eat more low-fat foods including fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and nonfat dairy products.
• Get plenty of exercise, at least four hours a week. This can be easily accomplished by making a morning or an evening walk part of your daily routine.
• Reduce stress by practicing meditation.
• Don't automatically salt your food, and keep your daily consumption of salt down to 2.4 grams (about one teaspoon) per day. use potassium "salt" substitute. Try "sea salt" or kelp. | | Eat more raw fruits and vegetables. Drink their juices for immediate vitamin, mineral, and enzyme uptake. Avoid processed foods, dairy products, alcohol, caffeine, and junk food.
Finally, another must in combating stress is as your kids might say, to just chill out. No matter which method you choose, you need to unwind often and get your mind uncluttered. You can do this through exercise, deep breathing, hobbies, and just plain laughing! Personally, I meditate on God's Word when the going gets rough and I feel overwhelmed by it all. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
See book keywords and concepts | | Step 1—Feed Your Head
Eat a diet of fresh, unprocessed foods, with an emphasis on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. Go easy on starchy carbohydrates, such as breads, potatoes, rice, and most cereals. Include some lean protein with each meal, and make sure you eat fish several times a week (salmon and other cold-water fish are best). Avoid saturated fats from animal sources and processed fats and oils. Do include small amounts of healthy fats such as flaxseed oil. Drink a lot of water, and avoid excess caffeine. Strictly avoid aspartame (NutraSweet) and MSG. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Diet must be improved to include more whole foods, fruits, and vegetables, especially uncooked, and less processed food and animal products. Supplementation should include high-potency multivitamins and minerals, especially the B complex. Injections of the B complex and vitamin B12, in my experience, have at times brought about dramatic improvement. The minerals selenium and zinc especially are important as potent antioxidants. Zinc apparently helps stop amyloid plaque formation, which is related to zinc deficiency. |
Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
See book keywords and concepts |  The best snacks are carbohydrate foods, such as fruits and starchy foods, and grains such as cereals, breads, potatoes, and pasta. Dairy is a good third choice; good low-fat snacks are low-fat or fat-free yogurts and smoothie shakes with fruit and low-fat cheese.
Check the calorie level chart with your new calorie level. Use the portions of food associated with this calorie level to determine your daily food intake.
Vitamin Supplementation: Excessive vitamin supplementation does not improve performance and can be dangerous. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
See book keywords and concepts |  Both simple and complex carbohydrates will cause this rearrangement of amino acids in the bloodstream with the exception of fructose, the sugar found in fruits. Fructose has to be converted into glucose by the liver before insulin can be secreted and as a result so little insulin is released that it does not remove enough of the competing amino acids from the bloodstream. | | While fruits are a wonderful-tasting source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber and should be part of everyone's diet, they don't provide the serotonin boost of other carbohydrates (see page 21). If you have ever noticed that you still feel psychologically hungry after eating fruit, this is the reason.
Not by Bread Alone
It may seem that I'm telling you protein is now to be considered "bad," while carbohydrates are "good." Nothing could be further from the truth. Protein—poultry, fish, red meat, dairy products, eggs, and soy products—is essential to life. |
Andrew L. Stoll
See book keywords and concepts |  Deeply pigmented fruits such as blueberries, cantaloupe, and kiwi contain other antioxidants. Grapes and grape leaves contain reservatol, and grape seeds contain the antioxidant proanthocyanidin. Coenzyme Q10, a potent antioxidant in every cell, is found in spinach, peanuts, and sardines. Green tea and even black tea contain important antioxidants called tannins, which are polymers of phenolic compounds.
Antioxidants capture free radicals (highly reactive compounds
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The Omega-3 Connection with "free" electrons), which are dangerous to the omega-3 essential fatty acids. |
Michael Castleman
See book keywords and concepts |  Wash all fruits and vegetables in a solution of dishwashing liquid and water. Use a vegetable brush.
þ Peel apples, cucumbers, eggplants, and any other produce that has a wax coating. Pesticides can be sealed in with the wax.
þ Discard the outer leaves of cabbage and lettuce.
þ Chop spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, and celery before washing.
þ Buy produce in season.
þ Petition your supermarket to stock locally grown produce, which is less likely to be waxed and treated with post-harvest pesticides during transport and storage. plementation. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  You've brought cookies, a candy bar, and a doughnut to satisfy your sweet tooth, while fresh and dried fruits drizzled with a little honey are the only sweet treats for your Paleolithic friends.
For 99.9 percent of the time humans have lived on earth our diets comprised only wild game and plants. As a result, all of our pre-agriculture ancestors consumed fewer calories per mouthful, yet much more fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other health-enhancing compounds in foods called phytochemicals. | | The Tlokwa in Botswana eat 126 species of plants, including 22 leaves and stalks, 31 roots, 47 fruits, 23 barks and resins, and 3 types of mushrooms. The Ache select from more than 90 edible plants and animals. In industrialized societies today, eating a variety of foods is misconstrued to mean eating a wide range of refined and processed foods, when it really should mean eating a wide selection of unprocessed foods. | | QUALITY CARBS
Starchy vegetables, such as roots and tubers, fruits, and legumes, provided the main source of calories—carbohydrates—in our evolutionary diets. Carbohydrates in primitive tribal diets even today average about 50 percent of total calories, which is similar to current Western recommendations. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts |  To stop even cause the pesticides used on most citrus severe nausea temporarily, chew or squeeze fruits are detrimental to your health. a piece of lemon peel and inhale the spray. '-
It works only for a few minutes, but this can be important if you suffer from hepatitis or morning sickness. Lemon is one of several citrus products than can inhibit tumor formation. When administered with a chemical carcinogenic agent, oils of orange, tangerine, lemon, and grapefruit inhibited tumor formation in both the stomach and lungs of mice. | | In fact, because each of the individual tonic fruits in triphala work a bit more on Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, this is an excellent example of a well-constructed formula.
The areas of antagonism, additivity, synergy, and dosage are exciting ones for the future of herbal medicine. Because this research leads to a different direction than looking for single active ingredients, it is more in harmony with the philosophy of herbal medicine.
Not only can herbs and nutrients work together or in opposition, but all of us can react differently to just about everything. | | Basically, we need to eat lots of colorful fruits and vegetables, and we want to know more about which ones are best for our health. Therefore, the study of color in herbal medicine focuses primarily on the plant pigments—the colorful chemicals generated by plant metabolism—and how they affect the basic life processes. We discussed them in the previous section, where we learned that they are generally anti-inflammatory and helpful in detoxification. | | The best thing about them is that, like raspberries and blackberries, they contain less sugar than most other fruits.
Research Highlights
• The antioxidant action of bilberry extracts can help prevent the problems caused by elevated LDL (bad) cholesterol levels (Laplaud et al., 1997).
• Other reported benefits based upon pharmacological studies include wound healing, antiulcer action (Martin A et al., 1998), and protection against damage to tendons, ligaments, and cartilage (Monboisse et al., 1984). | | Nutritional analysis revealed that the patient was taking none of the basic vitamins necessary for proper immune function, and her diet was deficient in fruits. To counter this we gave her a high-anthocyanadin syrup (made from berries) twice per day, a high-potency multivitamin, vitamin C 500 mg per day, alpha-lipoic acid 250 mg twice per day, and an omega-3 fish oil supplement. |
James F. Balch, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Cancer—\f you absolutely can't stop playing Russian roulette with cigarettes, at least hedge your bets by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. |
Stanley W. Jacob, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We don't eat enough whole grains, fruits, and vegetables— excellent sources of vitamin B6 and folic acid. Instead, we eat enormous amounts of refined, denuded grains, and consume considerable quantities of sugar-laden foods and animal protein, which deplete the body of B complex vitamins, particularly B6.
Other reasons for problems with methionine include the aging process. Nutrient levels tend to decline with age as the body becomes less efficient. We know that many vitamins and minerals—including B6 and folic acid—are present in lower quantities in the elderly than in younger people. |
Dr. Vern Cherewatenko and Paul Perry
See book keywords and concepts |  Iron also is involved in making amino acids, hormones, and neurotransmitters and is found in meat, poultry, fish, fortified cereals, and some fruits and vegetables.
RDAs: Men, nineteen and over—10 milligrams. Women, nineteen to fifty—15 milligrams. Women, fifty-one and over—10 milligrams.
Possible negative effects of higher than recommended intake: Can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, rapid heartbeat, weak pulse, dizziness, shock, confusion, and even death.
Magnesium—metabolizer. | | Complex carbohydrates are found in some vegetables, grains, cereals, and breads, while simple sugars are found in fruits, some vegetables, and milk. Simple sugars also show up in candy, soda, and other sweet treats. To maximize good nutrition, go for complex carbohydrates. They contain fiber and provide more vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber per calorie than simple sugar. Be wary of such processed foods as white bread. Refining removes much of the nutritive value. Opt, instead, for whole grains. In general, get 50 to 60 percent of your total calories from carbohydrates. |
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