Thomas J. Moore
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 Even the National Cancer Institute jumped on the beta-carotene bandwagon, declaring, "A large body of epidemiological evidence indicates that cancer incidence is reduced as consumption of dietary vitamin A or its precursor, beta-carotene, found in dark green and yellow vegetables and fruits, increases."26The National Cancer Institute limited its recommendations to urging greater consumption of fruit and vegetables. |
Sandra Steingraber
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 And pears, as we have seen, are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits on the market. Children also differ sharply in their ability to activate, detoxify, and excrete contaminants. Finally, childhood exposures to pesticides may lead to greater risks of cancer and immune dysfunction than exposures later in life. |
Rowan Robinson
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| Also, fruits which follow hemp bring larger crops, as do grasses, delicate and tender when they lie down in hemp's bed. In short, anything sown in hemp's fields will bring rich harvest and much money."
The USDA Farmers' Bulletin No. 1935 affirmed that "old pastures plowed up [in the fall] are well suited for hemp culture. Fields previously cropped to soybeans, alfalfa, and clover are excellent for hemp. A good rotation is to follow corn with hemp, and in Kentucky a fall cereal may follow the hemp. |
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| Since the early 1950s, the standard Vitex extract used for clinical research and treatment in Europe has been an alcohol-based tincture of the fruits of the plant known as Agnolyt®. A 100 ml amount of the solution is standardized to contain 9 g of the fruit. The recommended dosage is 40 drops with some liquid in the morning over several months without interruption. It is recommended that treatment with this extract be continued over several weeks after relief of symptoms is determined. |
Earl Mindell
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 Phytochemicals
These are natural chemical substances found in plants; health-promoting nutrients (sometimes referred to as phy-tonutrients) that give fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes their color, flavor, and protection against disease. They form the plant's immune system. Potent antioxidants, they have been shown to have a protective effect against many ailments including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, lung ailments, and cancer.
103. Carotenoids
Carotenoids are powerful phytochemicals that act as antioxidants and have strong anticancer properties. |
| Best Natural Sources:
Drinking water, juices, fruits, and vegetables.
Supplements:
All drinkable liquids can substitute for our daily water requirements.
Toxicity and Warning Signs of Excess:
No known toxicity, but an intake of one and a half gallons (that's 16-24 glasses) in about an hour could be dangerous to an adult. It could kill an infant.
Personal Advice:
I advise 6-8 glasses of filtered water daily, to be drunk a half hour before meals, for anyone who's dieting.
If you're ranning a fever, be sure to drink lots of water to prevent dehydration and to flush the system of wastes. |
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| Dietary
—increased saturated fats
—reduced intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains
—reduced intake of dietary fiber
—increased exposure to synthetic estrogens few decades. In 1940, the average sperm count was 113 million/ml; by 1990 that value had dropped to 66 million.3 Adding to this problem, the amount of semen fell almost 20% from 3.4 to 2.75 ml. Altogether, these changes mean that men are now supplying about 40% of the number of sperm per ejaculate compared with 1940 levels (Table 169.2 presents possible causes for this fall). |
| E- and vitamin C-rich foods (fresh fruits and vegetables).
Supplements
• Vitamin C: 1 g three times / day
• Vitamin E: 600 to 800 IU/day
• Selenium: 400 meg/ day
• Beta-carotene (mixed carotenoids recommended): 50,000 IU/day
• Lutein: 5 mg/day.
Botanical medicines (choose one)
• Ginkgo biloba extract (24% ginkgo heterosides): 40-80 mg three times/day
• Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry) extract (25% anthocyanidin content): 40-80 mg three times/day
• Grape seed extract (95% procyanidolic content): 150-300 mg/day.
REFERENCES
1. Young RW. |
| The diet should emphasize whole, unprocessed foods (whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds). Recommend the patient drink at least 48 ounces of water daily. |
John Heinerman
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 But it's the dye from the pulp that surrounds the fifty-plus seeds inside the heart-shaped prickly scarlet fruits that makes the tree commercially important. The Carib Indians, a warlike race, employed the dye to paint their bodies with fearsome designs before going into battie.
Since color makes annatto more important than its flavor, the ancient Maya often employed it as one of their principal coloring materials. Nowhere is this yellowish red dyestuff more evident than in the unique polychrome paintings on the walls and vaulting of a small, three-room building in Guatemala. |
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| Pizzorno Jr, ND
INTRODUCTION
The flavonoids are a group of plant pigments that are largely responsible for the colors of many fruits and flowers. Recent research suggests that flavonoids may be useful in the treatment and prevention of many health conditions. In fact, many of the medicinal actions of foods, juices, herbs, and bee pollen are now known to be directly related to their flavonoid content. Over 4,000 flavonoid compounds have been characterized and classified according to chemical structure. |
Earl Mindell
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| Phytochemicals are chemicals found in plants; health-promoting nutrients that give fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes their color, flavor, and natural protection against disease. They are, essentially, the plants' immune system. They are potent antioxidants and can provide protection against free radical damage, helping the body ward off a variety of ailments, including heart disease and cancer.
I've been hearing a lot about nutraceuticals. Are they supplements?
They certainly are—and probably the most exciting breakthrough in preventive medicine! |
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| Total antioxidant capacity of fruits. J Agr Food Chem 1996; 44: 701-705
162. Wang H, Cao G, Prior RL. Oxygen radical absorbing capacity of anthocyanidins. J Agr Food Chem 1997; 45: 304-309
163. May JM, Qu Z-C, Whitesell RR et al. Ascorbate recycling in human erythrocytes. Role glutathione in reducing dehydroascrobate. Free Radic Biol Med 1996; 20: 543-551
164. Chen H, Tappel AL. |
| Waxes
In addition to pesticides, waxes are applied to many fruits and vegetables to seal in the water contained in the produce, thereby keeping the produce looking fresh. According to FDA law, grocery stores must display a sign noting that waxes or post-harvest pesticides have been applied. Unfortunately, most stores do not comply with the law and the FDA lacks the manpower to enforce it. Currently, the FDA has approved six different waxes for use on produce. Approved compounds include shellac, paraffin, palm oil derivatives, and synthetic resins. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Encouraging more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds, and some low-fat dairy foods will provide an adequate fiber, lower-fat diet with adequate calcium and calories. Some fish and poultry and occasional meat will support the protein needs very well, yet there are now many more vegetarian-oriented teenagers and young adults in our society who do very well.
With children who eat a lot of fast foods, ice cream, pizza, cookies, sodas, and other exciting modern day treats, the challenge is to get them to eat more wholesomely. |
| Mainly, it is the fruits and vegetables that should bring out our seasonal awareness, and our recipes will give the suggestion that we are shopping for fresh, local produce as we hope you will. Many of our recipes will cross over seasonally, depending on the climate in which we live, and some of the additional recipes taken from other books, since they often provide a combination of foods, may likewise be used in other seasons if you wish.
In Staying Healthy With the Seasons, based on the Oriental Five Element Theory, five seasons are discussed. Yet here we have only four seasonal menu plans. |
| In spring,
I do a ten-day Master Cleanser fast and then, in autumn, I usually take a few days or a week for a fast or cleansing diet of fruits and vegetables. Most people, unless they are too nutrient deficient, weak, or ill, can follow this type of program. It is outlined in Chapter 18 in some of the later programs, specifically Fasting and General Detoxification.
Prior to the menu plans, recipes, and seasonal food lists, "some basics" will be provided by Ms. Manzolini and myself to help in creating our healthy diet. |
Gary Null
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 First, eat the foods most quickly digested, such as simple sugars found in fruits, juices, and honey. Then the complex carbohydrates, such as bread, whole grains, cereals, pastas, beans, legumes, and soups. (Vegetables— raw or steamed—can combine easily with these complex carbohydrates.) Last, the longer-digesting proteins and fatty foods, including nuts, cheese, and animal proteins. If you follow this order, you can save yourself a lot of unnecessary indigestion. |
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| The synthetic form of beta-carotene represents the all trans isomer, while fruits, vegetables and algae provide varying amounts of the 9-cfs isomer together with minor carotenoids. The 9-cis isomer appears to be a somewhat more efficient antioxidant.87 Natural mixed carotenoids containing alpha and beta-carotenes, as well as xanthophylls, were better absorbed, and functioned as more effective antioxidants in vivo than synthetic (all trans) beta-carotene.88 (For additional discussion of the broad impact of carotenoids on health, see Ch. 67. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 Begin to slowly add this fiber supplement to your daily intake of fruits and vegetables. Take care not to increase your dose rapidly, because you may develop unpleasant side effects, such as bloating, cramping, and gas. Begin with just 'A teaspoon in juice or a sugar-free citrus beverage at bedtime. Increase after a week to 'A teaspoon morning and night. Then increase to 'A teaspoon doses morning and night, then 1 teaspoon, 1 'A teaspoons, and finally 2 teaspoons morning and night. At that level, you will be adding 12 to 24 extra grams of fiber a day to your food intake. |
National Women's Health Network
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 Lignan precursors are found in whole grains, seeds, fruits, and vegetables—especially flaxseed, rye, millet, and legumes. Isoflavone precursors are found in soybeans, chickpeas, and other legumes.2'3 Bacteria in our intestines convert plant lignans to mammalian lignans (enterolactone and enterodiol) and convert isoflavone precursors to active isoflavones (genistein, daidzein, and equol). |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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| Just as we need to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, we need to get optimal amounts of the major antioxidant nutrients, especially the curcuminoids.
Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D., Berlin, Maryland June, 1995
Introduction
1. History and traditional uses
Curcuma longa L. (fam. Zingiberaceae), also known as turmeric, was highly esteemed by the ancient Indo-European people for its golden-yellow dye resembling sunlight. This culture, known as Arya, worshiped the solar system and attributed special protective properties to those plants, which, like turmeric, contained sun-colored yellow dyes. |
| Most cultivated varieties are sterile triploids, but fruits are stray and inconspicuous.
The underground rhizome, which is processed into the turmeric of commerce, consists of two distinct parts.46
1. The egg-shaped primary or mother rhizome, which is an extension of the stem and forms the bulbs, C. rotunda of Western commerce.
2. Several ovate, oblong or pyriform or cylindrical multi-branched rhizomes growing downward from the primary rhizome which form the C longa of commerce.
Both the bulbs and secondary rhizomes have transverse rings of leaf scars and dents of root scars. |
Jack Challem
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 C levels dropped to one-third less than normal. Another study, conducted at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, found that people with H. pylori infections had only one-fifteenth the vitamin C in their gastric acid, compared with healthy subjects. Similar research has found that H. pylori compromises levels of vitamin E and the carotenoids, a situation that increases the risk of nearly every disease.
Standard Treatment
Antacids and drugs that alter the osmotic flow are commonly prescribed for gastritis and ulcers. |
| Diets high in olive oil appear to reduce the likel rheumatoid arthritis. Christos S. Mantzoros, M.D. Medical School, and researchers from the Athens Medical School, found that consumption of olive oil was associated with a 61 percent lower risk of having rheumatoid arthritis. In another study, Parvsen Yaqoob, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Southampton, England, asked healthy middle-age men to eat either a conventional diet or i for two months. The men eating extra olive oil had a; hesion molecule" that was 20 percent less active. |
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| Many physicians have recommended that individuals with diabetes or hypoglycemia avoid fruits and fructose. However, recent research challenges this. Fructose does not cause a rapid rise in blood sugar levels. Since fructose must be changed to glucose in the liver in order to be utilized by the body, blood glucose levels do not rise as rapidly after fructose consumption as they do with other simple sugars. For example, the ingestion of sucrose results in an immediate elevation in the blood sugar level. |
Earl Mindell
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| Enemies:
Long storage, canning, roasting or stewing of meat, freezing fruits and vegetables, water, food-processing techniques, alcohol, estrogen. (See section 293.)
Personal Advice:
If you are on the pill, you are more than likely to need increased amounts of B6.
Heavy protein consumers need extra amounts of this vitamin.
To reduce your risk of heart attack, increase your B6 and folic acid.
Vitamin B6 might decrease a diabetic's requirement for insulin, and if the dosage is not adjusted, a low-blood-sugar reaction could result. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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| Other lesser sources are milk and dairy products, neat, eggs, cereals, fruits, and other vegetables.
Functions in the Body—The vitamin is actually a group of ubstances—phylloquinone for the K derivatives from plant sources nd menaquinone from animal and bacterial sources, and mena-ione, a vitamin forerunner that your body converts to men-juinone—all of which share a similar action in the body. |
Earl Mindell
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| Since only 9 percent of Americans eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, these supplements are playing an increasingly important role in our nation's health. There are phytochemical-enriched foods, for example snack bars fortified with soy phytochemicals (phytoestrogens) to alleviate symptoms such as hot flashes in menopausal women and to prevent prostate problems in men, nutraceutical-enriched margarine to lower blood serum cholesterol, as well as phytochemical-enriched candy for children who don't care for vegetables. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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| Food Sources—Chocolate, nuts, dried beans, peas, grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Functions in the Body—Although research has yet to conclusively document the precise role for nickel in the human body, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests it may function, as so many ultratrace minerals do, as a critical cofactor, or helper molecule, to certain enzymes that speed up the billions of chemical reactions occurring continually in your body.
Interactions—Nickel needs vary with iron intake. High amounts of iron in your diet increase your need for nickel; low amounts of iron decrease it. |
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