Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 A role for hormones is also supported by the syndrome's rather recent emergence, which parallels that of other hormone-related conditions, all of which have been aggravated by the aggressive spread of high-fat, meat-laden diets and the declining popularity of vegetables, grains, beans, and fruits we have seen during the past 150 years in the Western Hemisphere, and since World War II in Asia.
What are these hormones doing that could cause carpal tunnel syndrome? First, estrogens can cause fluid retention and swelling, which can crowd the median nerve. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 It saps our freedoms and the fruits of our labor
1. Letters from E.T. Krebs, Jr., to J.A. Richardson, dated March 9 and August 3, 1971; Griffin, Private Papers, op. cit. through the sucking tentacles of government. It must be stopped before it destroys its host.
What force could be strong enough to break the fatal grip? Is there anything that can rip away this parasite before it is too late?
There is. It is the force of public opinion. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 A strict diet emphasizing fruits and vegetables is recommended in tandem with the tonic. According to Mildred, it evolved mainly from empirical observation that certain foods appear to negate the tonic's activity. Compared with many natural foods dietary programs for cancer, it is a relatively simple program.
The clinic also offers a multitude of supportive treatments, including vitamins, yeast, garlic, and a host of other natural medicines. The list changes as Mildred learns about new developments, and she is perpetually experimenting with new treatments that she hopes may help. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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 Traditional healers diagnose conditions and prescribe often-complex mixtures of dried roots, barks, leaves, flowers, and fruits, which are taken in a variety of ways. Technologically advanced nations attempt to control and regulate herbal medicines like other drugs, sometimes improving the reliability of these time-honored treatments, but sometimes creating unforeseen problems. |
G. Edward Griffin
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| Probably the reason that this population is not totally free from cancer—as are the Hunzakuts, the aboriginal Eskimos, and other such populations—is that (1) many members of this sect have joined it after almost a lifetime on a general or standard dietary pattern; (2) the fruits and vegetables ingested are not consciously chosen for vitamin B17 content nor are fruit seeds generally eaten by them; and (3) not all Seventh Day Adventists adhere to the vegetarian diet.
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David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 You will also have increased your intake of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory protective substances from the diverse colored fruits and vegetables you are now eating. In the next few chapters you will learn that these common threads of inflammation and oxidation, which cause diseases in the absence of a healthy diet, are only the beginning. In many ways, your body has been designed for the type of plant-rich diet based on the Color Code. |
G. Edward Griffin
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| For instance, there normally is a very small amount of beta-glucosidase (the "unlocking" enzyme) found within the seeds of most nitriloside fruits. This enzyme, when activated by the secretions of the mouth and stomach, causes a minute amount of cyanide and benzaldehyde to be released in these locations. As mentioned previously, the presence of limited amounts of these chemicals in the mouth, stomach, and intestines, is not dangerous and, in fact, appears to be part of an intended delicate chemical balance of nature, the absence of which can contribute to tooth decay, bad breath, and
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Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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| The roots are harvested in the fall after the fruits have ripened. Black cohosh should not be confused with blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), an unrelated plant that may present more safety concerns.
A Word About Sustainability
Because of the root's growing popularity, wild populations of black cohosh are now considered at risk of commercial over harvesting in some locales. In 1998, one midsize broker was reportedly purchasing 10,000 dry pounds of black cohosh weekly, an amount equal to approximately 140,000 plants per week. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 Kennedy said, 'The fruits of victory will be ashes in our mouth.' If we don't stop research, care will become more and more sophisticated."
Technology assessment is one part of his answer. As he pointed out, it takes ten to twelve years to bring a drug to market because of FDA regulations. (He didn't mention the $231 million cost.) He would like to set up similar hurdles for devices and procedures.
The second part of the academician's answer is that since we can't afford technology, "we need fewer sick people. |
| For example: Water doesn't run uphill; leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, not by a devil's curse; and human beings who are allowed to keep the fruits of their labor work harder than those who aren't. (Another scientific digression: I am speaking of principles and constants. Variables are, well, variable, and have different values at different times: for example, the age of puberty, the average height of a human being, and the percentage of the population engaged in agriculture. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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| Identity can be verified in whole herbs by botanical features (leaf shape, types of flowers, fruits, etc.), by microscopic inspection, and by chemical profiling or "fingerprinting." However, the more processed the product, the fewer ways there are to test it. For example, a powdered herb can be tested microscopically or chemically, but an extract can only be examined chemically. Purity: Even if it is the right plant, is it all the right plant? |
Sandra Steingraber
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 Over the past three decades in Illinois, harvests of fruits, vegetables, hay, wheat, and oats have all fallen off. Orchards, pastures, vegetable plots, and woodlots have been plowed into ever-larger fields of corn and soybeans, which are now running neck and neck in number of acres planted.
All of these changes conspire to make farming an increasingly remote activity. With meat, milk, eggs, and produce trucked to our supermarkets from distant and unknown locations, we know less and less about how and where our food is grown and by whom. |
G. Edward Griffin
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| It is particularly prevalent in the seeds of those fruits in the Prunus Rosacea family (bitter almond, apricot, blackthorn, cherry, nectarine, peach, and plum), but also contained in grasses, maize, sorghum, millet, cassava, linseed, apple seeds, and many other foods that, generally, have been deleted from the menus of modern civilization.
It is difficult to establish a clear-cut classification for a nitriloside. Since it does not occur entirely by itself but rather is found in foods, it probably should not be classified as a food. Like sugar, it is a food component or a food factor. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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 But he says that eating a little extra each day certainly won't hurt. fruits and vegetables are high in beta-carotene, with sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, red peppers, winter squash, apricots and spinach among the best sources.
Pack away some potassium. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have found that adding a single daily serving of potassium-rich food to your diet could cut your risk of fatal stroke by as much as 40 percent. The reason for the benefit isn't completely clear. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 These succulent fruits tasted incomparably better than the processed version I was familiar with, but as I neared the end of my feast I felt my tongue tingle. I was soon spitting blood, my tongue tender and bleeding. In my ignorance and gluttony I had eaten the core of the pineapple, which was packed with papain, the active ingredient of commercial meat tenderizers. Anyone who has eaten a green papaya, the namesake of this enzyme, probably has had a similar experience.
Plants have not always come out ahead of the hungry herbivores. |
| Even in the strongest winds the forest floor remains calm, and often the only indications we have of the winds that accompany rain storms are the sounds of falling fruits and branches. Trees also live much longer than most human observers. If a region goes ten or twenty years between strong winds, we are likely to dismiss such occasional events as unimportant. But for a tree that may live two hundred years, strong storms at ten-, twenty-, or even fifty-year intervals are significant events. |
| Probably all of the 900 or so species of Ficus have palatable fruits; matapalos are no exception. Although the half-dozen wild species of Ficus we have eaten have been gastronomically inferior to the commercially grown Ficus carica, they have all had a sweet and substantial pulp. Some tropical bats thrive on a diet composed almost entirely of wild figs, which suggests that they are quite nutritious. Tropical frugivores relish figs because they are available, in various stages of ripeness, throughout the year. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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| So eat a balanced daily diet that includes at least five servings of fruits and vegetables, six servings of breads and grains and no more than one three-ounce serving (about the size of your wallet) of lean red meat, poultry or fish.
Exercise. Walk, run, swim or do any other aerobic exercise for 20 minutes a day, three times a week, Dr. House suggests. It will stimulate blood circulation, lower your blood pressure and help keep your ears in peak condition.
Making the Best of It
The average person waits five to seven years to seek help for a hearing problem. |
| Still, eating a few more servings of fruits and vegetables won't hurt.
Pop an aspirin. A study of 22,000 American male doctors found that taking one 325-milligram aspirin tablet every other day may help ward off headaches. The doctors in the study who took aspirin reported 20 percent fewer migraines than those who took placebos.
Experts say you should see your own doctor before starting an aspirin routine, since aspirin can cause upset stomach, internal bleeding and other complications that may put you at risk for other health problems.
Sleep on a schedule. |
| Men who eat lots of fibrous fruits, vegetables and whole grains, such as broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, apples, bananas, mangoes and whole-wheat cereals and breads, have fewer colon and rectal cancers than men who don't eat these foods, Dr. Simone says. Fiber helps speed stool through your body and reduce exposure of your digestive tract to carcinogens.
The National Cancer Institute recommends that men eat at least 20 to 30 grams of fiber a day. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| Virtually every disease of aging—including heart disease, diabetes, and many common forms of cancer such as breast cancer and prostate cancer—results from damage to DNA, which can be prevented by the substances found in fruits and vegetables.
ž> 80 to 90 percent of all cancers are not inherited, but result from the defects in DNA occurring during your lifetime from accumulated damage that could be prevented by increasing fruit and vegetable intake. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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| It may mean eating more fruits and veggies, breaking a sweat a few times a week and being vigilant about your blood pressure. But when you weigh the options, it's not a bad trade-off.
A Man's Risk
Stroke is a sudden severe illness that attacks the brain. There are two basic types. Ischemic strokes, which account for about 80 percent of total strokes, happen when blood flow to a part of the brain is cut off, causing brain cells to die from lack of oxygen. This frequently occurs due to hardening and
295 blockages in your carotid arteries, which feed blood from your neck to your head. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| The Color Code of fruits and vegetables you are incorporating into your diet, in combination with the few essential vitamins and minerals, will give you what you need to protect your DNA; additional herbal dietary supplements should be regarded only as the fine-tuning. So first practice getting the diet down. Then add your core supplements. Finally, choose those additional supplements and herbs you would like to take.
Notice, I ask you to choose, given the information you have. |
Carl Jensen
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 While imports of fresh and frozen fruits from Mexico grew by more than one-third since NAFTA was enacted, some shipments of strawberries, lettuce and carrots have had illegally high levels of pesticide residue of 18.4 percent, 15.6 percent, and 12.3 percent, respectively (San Francisco Examiner, 6/29/97).
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| UPDATE: According to Total Health (February 1995) Americans are consuming more fruits and vegetables, which is good for us, but in the process are ingesting more insecticidal toxic substances. Equally disturbing, according to Business and Society Review (January 1995), the U.S. depends on Latin American produce for about 20 percent of its annual produce sales. In turn, Latin America depends on U.S.-banned pesticides. Roughly ten percent of the annual $22 billion in global pesticide sales is of such pesticides. |
| We have been taught to believe that growing organically means growing small, pest-infested fruits and vegetables with brown spots. Or, as Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, said, growing organically is "a primitive method of farming scarcely befitting the needs of a modern nation."
From the Corn Belt to the valleys of California to fertile farmlands in Europe, there is proof which refutes the agribusiness myth. The secret of organic farming is that it works.
In Delano, California, there is a profitable $3 million ranch that has not used a poison on its vineyards in five years. |
| Craven Laboratories of Austin, Texas, was accused of understating the residues of pesticides widely used on fruits and vegetables (Washington Post, 3/13/91). In February 1994, Dr. Don Allen Craven was sentenced to five years in prison for faking dozens of tests meant to detect pesticides in food, and he and his company were ordered to pay $3.7 million in restitution. Fourteen ex-employees also pleaded guilty. The Craven Labs case triggered a $15 million nationwide review of pesticides used on food crops. |
| Among them: A diet that draws heavily on fatty foods and only lightly on fruits and vegetables isn't just bad for your heart and linked to certain cancers—it may also be a major cause of depression and aggression in North America. Such a diet is particularly common among men." The article explains the roles played by carbohydrates, sugar, serotonin, vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and much more.
Garlic aficionados will be particularly pleased to learn about garlic's special healing powers. |
Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien
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| During June or July, the plant is covered with small white flowers that turn into red fruits, and later into two-seeded cones. As the perennial plants age, their color changes from green to yellowish-brown and the alkaloid level declines. Ephedra is traditionally harvested before the first frost because the alkaloid content is highest in the summer and fall. In general, Ephedra sinica tends to contain the highest amount of ephedrine, whereas Mormon tea (E. neva-densis) contains little or none. |
Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine
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| Do you eat a lot of high-fat foods but try to balance these with plenty of fruits and vegetables?_(+1)
Cholesterol
13. Has your total cholesterol always been 200 or less?_(+4)
14. Is your total cholesterol now 200 or less but once was between 240 and 299?_ (+3)
15. Is your total cholesterol now 200 or less but once was 300 or more? _(+2)
16. Is your total cholesterol now between 240 and 299?_(-1)
17. Is your total cholesterol now above 300? |
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