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Del Monte, Heinz and Nestle—strongly opposed accepting and selling sludge-grown fruits and vegetables. In the wake of the PR blitz from WEF and EPA, that opposition is waning. In 1992 the tomato and ketchup conglomerate Heinz responded to a consumer inquiry about sludge by writing, "Heinz Company feels the risk of utilizing municipal sludge, which is known to be high in heavy metals such as cadmium and lead, is not a health risk which we need to take. Root crops such as potatoes, carrots and other vegetables which are grown under the ground can take up unacceptable high levels of heavy metals.

Grace, Upjohn and Calgene also had major investments in biotech development and were poised to follow Monsanto's lead by introducing their own genetically-altered fruits, vegetables and farm animals?frankenfoods" such as genetically-engineered cows from Bristol-Myers Squibb that produce human mother's milk protein; potatoes that kill pests by producing their own insecticide; slow-ripening tomatoes; virus-resistant squash; herbicide-tolerant cotton and soybean plants; growth hormone for pigs; and meat from cloned cattle.

The Natural Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs Frantisek Stary See book keywords and concepts

The drug is obtained from the rhizome and roots and occasionally from the fruits or young stems. The large consumption of the drug from as far back as medieval times resulted in its current cultivation on a commercial scale with several varieties being developed for this purpose. The principal constituents are an essential oil with antiseptic properties, bitter principles, coumarins and furocoumarins.

Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

The fruits, which follow the blossoms, are two-seeded red berries. American ginseng is found from Maine to Georgia and from Oklahoma to Minnesota. Unfortunately, it is now an endangered species in much of this area. Asians highly value the ginseng grown in Wisconsin. (See Ginseng Among the Native Americans on page 20.) The root, coarsely chopped, is the part used in herbal medicine. A good-quality root has first a sweet and then a bitter flavor as it is chewed. For most applications, wild-crafted American ginseng is more effective than field-grown ginseng.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

Because fruits are too high in quickly digested sugars, she recommends eliminating all fruit at the beginning of this program. Most people can usually add some whole fruit to their diets later, she says. Third, remember protein, which also provides a slow and steady supply of fuel. "To clear up hypoglycemia, the diet must also consist of adequate protein," says Dr. Weintraub. Aim to make protein foods like fish, lamb, turkey, chicken, brewer's yeast, tofu, nuts, and seeds about 20 to 30 percent of your diet, she advises. Finally, eat early and often.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn See book keywords and concepts

During those periods, however, the scientific community could view the fruits of its work in no other way. With respect to normal science, then, part of the answer to the problem of progress lies simply in the eye of the beholder. Scientific progress is not different in kind from progress in other fields, but the absence at most times of competing schools that question each other's aims and standards makes the progress of a normal-scientific community far easier to see. That, however, is only part of the answer and by no means the most important part.

The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Carbohydrates include all sugars and honey, all fruits, and all starchy foods such as bread, cereals, pasta, grains, rice, potatoes, and corn. These may be many of the foods you love. All carbohydrates are broken down during digestion into sugars. Glucose is the simplest sugar and the only one that your body can use for energy. Every one of your body's cells needs glucose to function. In fact, the brain relies mainly on glucose. In order to protect the brain, you must maintain a fairly constant level of blood glucose. A blood test would show this normal level to be 80 to 100 mg/dl.

Make it a habit to include some fruits or vegetables at each meal and perhaps a salad with lunch and dinner. ?If preparation time prevents you from meeting the five-a-day goal, keep ready-to-eat veggies on hand as well as canned and frozen ones. These only take moments to prepare. ?Keep individual cans of vegetable juice on hand in your car or desk drawer to use as a snack or as part of a spur-of-the moment meal. Every once in a while, review what you have eaten throughout the day.

If you haven't counted five servings of fruits, vegetables, and legumes, plan ways to work more into your diet in the future. The benefits are worth the effort. Vegetarian Link and Balance Eating vegetarian meals is a good way to keep fat and cholesterol low. Remember that eating vegetarian does not mean simply leaving the meat out of your spaghetti sauce or leaving the main course item off of your plate and eating only the rice, potatoes, or vegetables. This defeats your purpose, because you will likely eat even more of the high-carbohydrate foods to satisfy your hunger.

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications David Deutsch See book keywords and concepts

But if there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself.' (The First Three Minutes, p. 154.) But anyone not involved in fundamental physics must wonder why. As for computation, the computer scientist Tomasso Toffoli has remarked that 'We never perform a computation ourselves, we just hitch a ride on the great Computation that is going on already.' To him, this is no cry of despair - quite the contrary.

The Enzyme Cure: How Plant Enzymes Can Help You Relieve 36 Health Problems Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg See book keywords and concepts

It's always healthier to eat whole grains containing the bran and the fiber, along with whole fruits and vegetables, instead of their processed counterparts. ?Miso: a paste made from fermented soybeans, sometimes with grains such as rice or barley. A superior source of usable whole protein, miso aids digestion and assimilation, is low in fat, and may help to neutralize environmental pollution, including radiation. It is believed that miso's anticancer substances are a result of the fermentation process. Thus, raw or unferlf you are confused about what kind of cancer therapies are best for you.

The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Later, during the agricultural age, humans had easier access to high-carbohydrate foods, such as grains and fruits. Sugary foods are a more recent addition to modern diets. Nowadays, in the Western world you are bombarded with an overabundance of refined carbohydrates that have been marketed to help make your hurried life more convenient. Your body, however, is not equipped to handle the abundance of these types of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates not used as an immediate energy source are turned into stored fat.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

This indigestible portion of vegetables, fruits, grains, The Gallbladder Flush People with small gallstones may be able to get them out with a gallbladder flush, says Teresa Rispoli, Ph.D., a licensed nutritionist and acupuncturist in Agoura Hills, California. Here's how to do it. • About an hour before bedtime, blend lA cup of olive oil and [A cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice and drink the mixture. Then take cascara sagrada, an herbal laxative, according to the label directions. • Lie on your right side for 30 minutes, then go to bed.

The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D. See book keywords and concepts

These fruits are exceptions because they are primarily made up of fructose rather than glucose, so they do not raise your blood glucose and insulin levels. They can be considered rectangle foods when eaten in their raw, unprocessed state. Processing changes their structure, however, so apple or grapefruit juice and applesauce are still listed here and must be linked with protein. We will discuss this further in the section on glycemic response on page 72.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

Potassium: Take three 100-milligram capsules a day (with your doctor's supervision), and eat fruits that are high in potassium, such as bananas. • Protein: Eat more fish, milk, and soy, and consider a daily drink made with protein powder, following the directions on the label. • Calcium and magnesium: Take 500 milligrams of calcium citrate and 500 milligrams of magnesium citrate or magnesium aspartate a day. You should also be sure to take some of the other supplements recommended in this chapter, particularly fish or flaxseed oil, vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene.

DIGESTIVE ENZYMES: A Package of Protection A lifetime of poor diet, such as eating too many processed foods and not enough fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, may damage the body's ability to manufacture normal levels of digestive enzymes. This can lead to excessive belching, says Teresa Rispoli, Ph.D., a licensed nutritionist and acupuncturist in Agoura Hills, California. You can make up for this deficiency by taking a combination supplement that includes the full complement of digestive enzymes.

If eliminating dairy doesn't make a difference or doesn't completely solve the problem, use the same elimination test for the following foods, one by one: wheat, sugar, citrus fruits, corn, soy, peanut butter, chocolate, coffee, and alcohol. In this way, work through all the offenders, month by month, food by food, until you find those that are triggering the problem. Another way to do this is to eliminate all of the potential offenders from your diet at once for 30 days, then reintroduce them one by one to find the culprit.

That includes fruit juices and dried fruits, both of which deliver high levels of concentrated sugar. Worried that your craving for sweets will overwhelm you? Hang in there. "Going sugar-free for I to 2 weeks is usually enough to knock out sugar cravings," says Dr. Weintraub. Second, reach for complex carbohydrates. These foods, which include vegetables, whole grains, and beans, are digested slowly by the body, keeping blood sugar levels on an even keel. "In order to avoid hypoglycemia, the majority of food in your diet should be in the form of complex carbohydrates," Dr. Weintraub says.

The Enzyme Cure: How Plant Enzymes Can Help You Relieve 36 Health Problems Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg See book keywords and concepts

Her known allergies included all fruits, especially citrus, salicylates (in aspirin, dyes, and skin cleansers), cream of tartar (in baking powder and hard candy), malic acid (in apples, grapes, and rhubarb), food colorings, most preservatives, almonds, peanuts, celery, cucumbers, beans, salad dressings, olive oil, and tomatoes. An extensive health evaluation revealed that Debbie had a history of consuming highly processed foods. In addition, her symptoms had become extreme after she received her second set of vaccinations when she was five years old.

Increase your intake of vegetables, fruits, and high-fiber foods, especially those containing soluble fiber. Avoid consumption of fatty foods, all fried foods, all commercial oils, margarine and other hydrogenated oils, unsaturated oils with the exception of extra virgin olive oil, all refined sugars, and refined white flour. A high-fiber diet protects from gallbladder disease by binding cholesterol and bile salts, and decreasing intestinal transit time. A high-fiber diet can only be achieved with unprocessed, unrefined foods.

Water-soluble fiber—found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes—binds intestinal cholesterol and inhibits its intestinal reab-sorption. It is far better to get your fiber from whole foods than from supplements. ?Get sufficient food enzymes. Enzyme-deficient diets lead to increased cholesterol and triglycerides. The need for lipase, the fat-digesting enzyme, is obvious. ?Eat whole foods rich in vitamins and minerals.

Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Calorie Omnivore Diet List 1: Vegetables 5 servings List 2: fruits 2.5 servings List 3: Breads, Cereals, and Starchy Vegetables 1 3 servings List 4: Legumes 2 servings List 5: Fats 7 servings List 6: Milk 1 serving List 7: Meats, Fish, Cheese, and Eggs 2 servings Carbohydrate calories: 66% Fat calories: 19% Protein calories: 15% Protein content: 78 g (72% from plant sources) Dietary fiber content: 32.5-88.5 g Carbohydrate calories: 66% Fat calories: 18% Protein calories: 16% Protein content: 102 g (80% from plant sources) Dietary fiber content: 40.5-1 16.

Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts

From this point of view, all hopes are permissible and the human mind will undoubtedly gather the fruits of its ceaseless secular efforts to discover new facets of the truth. The beauty and the moral grandeur of pure science, the progress that it achieves, the joy of knowing that it is deserving of the enthusiasm that it inspires in its adepts! Alas! Why is it necessary that there should be shadows cast over this bright picture? Why must it unfortunately be that the applications of science should not necessarily be beneficial?

The Natural Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs Frantisek Stary See book keywords and concepts

The flowers are used by themselves, but more often the flowers together with the young leaves, and very occasionally the fruits. The drug from the flowers and leaves combined has a bitter taste; the haws are mealy, sour and bitter. The constituents were thoroughly investigated recently and it was proved that they consist mainly of flavonoids and so-called procyanidines, which are responsible for the drug's pronounced action. Also not to be overlooked are the basic triterpenic acids. Detailed research as to its effectiveness ranks this drug as one of the top phytotherapeu-tic substances.

1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products Grace Ross Lewis See book keywords and concepts

STICK LAC SILICA__ Products and Uses: Multiple applications include in bacon (cured), baking powder, beer, coffee whiteners, egg yolk (dried), flour, fruits, gelatin desserts, pudding mixes, salt, soups (powdered), tortilla chips, vanilla powder, and vegetables. In cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food. It is an anticaking agent, antifoaming agent, carrier, malt beverage chillproofing agent, color fixative, conditioning agent, defoaming agent, ink (food marking), and wax to prevent slipping. Precautions: Moderately toxic by swallowing. Much less toxic than crystalline forms.

WATER GLASS SORBIC ACID_ Products and Uses: Frequently used in baked goods, beverages (carbonated), beverages (still), bread, cake batters, cake fillings, cake topping, cheese, cottage cheese (creamed), fish (smoked or salted), fruit juices (fresh), fruits (dried), margarine, pickled goods, pie crusts, pie fillings, salad dressings, salads (fresh), sausage (dry), seafood cocktail, syrups (chocolate dairy), and wine. Not permitted in cooked sausage and meat salads. It is a preservative and food additive. It prevents mold growth. Precautions: Mildly toxic by swallowing.

Synonyms: PRUNUS SEROTINA WINE__ Products and Uses: A product derived from the fermented juice of grapes or other fruits or plants. Precautions: Some studies have indicated that small quantities (four ounces per day) have been found to be beneficial in lowering cholesterol. Large quantities over extended periods can lead to alcoholism, liver damage, numbness of the extremities, brain damage, gastritis, and heart muscle damage. Pregnant women should avoid alcohol entirely because of the disastrous effects on the unborn.

N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE POLYMER POTASSIUM__ Products and Uses: A heart healthy nutrient found naturally in milk, bananas, oranges, potatoes, tomatoes, and other vegetables and fruits. Recent studies indicate that people who took at least 2.5 g potassium supplement reduced their blood pressure, thus reducing the heart's effort in working. Precautions: Adhere to recommended allowances as listed on container.

The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Foods with a high glycemic response, such as white and brown sugar, honey, some fruits, and starchy carbohydrates (breads, pastas, cereals, rice, potatoes, and corn) all turn into glucose very quickly and therefore cause a rapid rise in insulin levels. Remember that high insulin spiking induces the body to store fat. Foods that cause a slower glycemic response will not spike insulin levels and are better for people with insulin resistance.

Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

That is why vegetables are favored over fruits in weight-loss plans and overall healthy diets. Each of the following equals one exchange: Apple 1 large Applesauce (unsweetened) 1 cup Apricots, fresh 4 medium Apricots, dried 8 halves Banana 1 medium Berries Blackberries 1 cup Blueberries 1 cup Cranberries 1 cup Raspberries 1 cup Strawberries 1 '/2 cups Cherries 20 large Dates 4 Figs, fresh 2 Figs, dried 2 Grapefruit 1 Grapes 20 Juice Fresh 1 cup (8 oz.

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