| They are often called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. fruits ye shall know them, By their A teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount; it suggests that we are able to distinguish between false and genuine prophets by the things they do and say. In the same passage, Jesus calls false prophets wolves in sheep's clothing.
Genesis The first book of the Old Testament; its first words are "In the beginning" {genesis is a Greek word for "beginning"). |
Mark Bricklin
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 Extensive handling of food, particularly fruits and fruit juices, can also aggravate matters.
Interestingly, Dr. Levine downplays the importance of soap in causing dermatitis. But he cautions that "Repeated washing and drying of hands is a key factor, since this dries the skin, causes chapping and Assuring, and thus allows potential contact irritants to gain entrance. A combination of cold weather and low humidity has a similar drying effect on the hands" (Modern Medicine, March 15-30, 1980). Dr. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 Apples, peaches, tomatoes, and many other familiar foods are fruits. fungi (FUN-jeye, FUNG-geye) sing, fungus A kind of plant lacking chlorophyll, such as mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and mildews. Modern biologists tend to place fungi in their own kingdom, not in the plant kingdom, because they get their nutrients from other living things (or from the remains of living things that have died) rather than from photosynthesis. {See also fungus under "Medicine and Health.") gene A portion of a DNA molecule that serves as the basic unit of heredity. |
Sandra Ingerman
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 Celebrate and reward yourself as you watch the fruits of your labor burst forth in a natural way.
Nature is simply spectacular; the beauty and complexity of life stops the mind. Take a walk, simply admiring and appreciating the natural world. Get out and simply enjoy and soak in the beauty of nature around you. As you move into a state of deep appreciation for the beauty you are seeing, shine your own light back to the life around you, stepping into your role as caretaker of the earth. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| Eden, Garden of The beautiful garden containing the tree of life, where God intended Adam and Eve to live in peaceful and contented innocence, effortlessly reaping the fruits of the earth. The garden also contained the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat. When they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit, God drove them from the garden. Their sin and consequent loss of God's grace and of their paradise is known as the Fall of Man. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 Some researchers believe that five servings of fruits and vegetables a day—about 200-300 mg of vitamin C daily—is enough to bring about these cancer-attacking affects. But since the majority of Americans don't even consume the meager 60 mg RDA amount of vitamin C in their diets alone, extra supplementation is definitely recommended.
Vitamin C and Anti-Aging
Vitamin C virtually reverses the biological clock by rejuvenating white blood cells in the elderly. |
| Overall, the best advice is to eat a well-balanced diet containing five servings of fruits and vegetables, take a multivitamin/multimin-eral supplement containing beta-carotene and mixed bioflavonoids, vitamins C and E, and avoid obvious cancer initiators like cigarette smoking. levels of beta-carotene; the beta-carotene actually seemed to block the proliferation of the cancer cells.
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Bill Gottlieb
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 Juicing provides these nutrients in much higher concentrations than you can get by just eating the fruits," says Calbom. She suggests drinking eight ounces of fresh berry or pineapple juice, alone or diluted with another fruit juice, once or twice a day for maximum benefit.
For information on juicing techniques, see page 93.
Massage
Never massage directly on varicose veins, warns Elaine Stillerman, L.M.T., a massage therapist in New York City. Still, a general leg massage can help reduce swelling in the veins, she says. |
| Also, try to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, since they're high in vitamin C, which stimulates white blood cells, so you get over the infection quicker." (For other food sources of vitamin C, see "Getting What You Need" on page 142.)
HUH
Herbal Therapy
Thyme, the popular kitchen herb, can help relieve bronchial spasms, says Varro E.Tyler, Ph.D., professor of pharmacognosy at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. |
Jean Carper
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 Also oat bran and high fiber fruits and vegetables of all types help. Shown also to push down blood pressure: olive oil, garlic, seaweed (kelp), yogurt, green tea, legumes, and milk. Surprisingly, coffee drinking does not cause or aggravate high blood pressure except, apparently, among smokers.
INFECTIONS (GENERAL)
Yogurt and garlic are recognized antibiotic superstars. Also potent in thwarting viruses and bacteria are orange juice, apples, tea, grape juice, apple juice, honey, wine, blueberries, cranberries, grapes, plums, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, and figs. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| Some other sugars are fructose, which is found in fruits; lactose, which is found in milk; and glucose, which is the most common sugar in the bodies of animals and plants. system A group of bodily organs that have similar structures or work together to perform some function, such as the digestive system, nervous system, and respiratory system. taproot The single deep root of many deciduous trees that forms the basis for their root systems. fa Figuratively, a "taproot" is the source of an idea or work: "His childhood in Wales is the taproot of his poetry. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 It was further estimated that if then-current exposure levels were to continue, 6,000 preschool children would develop cancer from exposure to residues of carcinogenic pesticides in fruits and vegetables.101 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies now allow residues of a single carcinogenic pesticide on a single food item at levels posing a "negligible cancer risk" of 1/ 100,000 excess cancers, equivalent to some 35 excess annual cancer deaths. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| She says that good sources of fiber include fruits, vegetables and whole grains in breads and cereals. Soluble fiber, which acts to lower cholesterol, is found in barley, oats and legumes such as dried beans, she says. iilif
Imagery
In his book Healing Visualizations, New York City psychiatrist Gerald Epstein, M.D., suggests the following weight loss imagery. Picture yourself in a mirror, seeing a vision of a thinner you. Now envision yourself entering the mirror and merging with the image. Notice the sensations you feel. Now come out of the mirror and stand in front of it again. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Juices, most fruits, breads, muffins (even the whole-grain, high-fiber kind), and even milk and yogurt (which contain milk sugar) have relatively high glycemic GIs. Surprising to some is the fact that dried fruit, despite its "naturalness," has a glycemic index virtually identical with that of commercial candy.
The message is that not all that emanates from the health food store is beneficial for patients with sugar disease. |
| There was once a profound survival mechanism in our sweet tooth, for in the plant kingdom many of the foods with a sugary taste are also the most beneficial and nutritious — from fruits to squash and carrots. In contrast, many poisonous foods contain toxic alkaloids that have a bitter taste, and it was a general rule of thumb that sweet was nutritious and bitter was toxic. We had a tremendous drive to seek out the sweet foods, but they were seasonal and, in spite of their sweet taste, not nearly as abundant in sugar as a typical modern dessert, like apple pie a la mode. |
| Some people can't digest milk products (which contain lactose); others can't eat fructose-laden fruits or juices; still others can't handle grains.
• Nervous tension. Some people really do have an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system. They report that their GI system seems to act in concert with their moods and anxieties; if nervous, they "go all the time, like a baby! |
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
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 Increase the consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain cereals. This automatically increases one's intake of the following five nutrients known to have a protective effect against cancer: beta carotene (a vegetable precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and dietary fiber.
3. Consume salt-cured and charcoal-broiled foods only in moderation (or not at all).
4. Drink alcoholic beverages only in moderation (or not at all).
In addition, the Pritikin-type regimen eliminates from the diet:
1. Nearly all salt except that found in food itself.
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James S. Gordon, M.D.
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 In recent years a number of studies have confirmed the health-promoting utility of regimens based on large amounts of grains, fruits, and vegetables and very small quantities of fat and/or animal products.
Some of the early studies on Seventh-Day Adventists, a religious group that is vegetarian but consumes milk products and eggs (they are called lacto-ovo-vegetarians), demonstrated significantly lower blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as lower rates of breast, bowel, and prostate cancer than both a comparable group of non-Adventist meat-eaters, and Adventists who ate some meat. |
Sandra Ingerman
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| In summer, we enjoy the fruits of all our labors. Life is at its fullest. It is the time to collect the nourishment the earth offers us and the power of the light of the sun to get us through the dark times ahead.
Wildlife also changes its behavior with the movement of the sun and seasons. The wind changes with each season, as does the temperature, the humidity, the scent in the air. The colors of the sky as well as the positions of the sun and moon change, too. As our environment and the light of the sun changes, so do our moods and energy levels. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| A mother of young children, Streep explained to a packed House chamber the report's findings, namely, that children were most at risk from cancer-causing pesticides on our food because they consume a disproportionate amount of fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables relative to their size, and because their bodies are still forming.
Shortly before Koughan's program was due to air, a draft of the script was mysteriously leaked to Porter-Novelli, a powerful public relations firm for produce growers and the agrichemical industry. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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| Now our fruits, vegetables, and grains are grown in soil pumped up with fertilizer and doused with herbicides and insecticides. Fish come from polluted waters. Domesticated animals are raised in factory-like environments, dosed with antibiotics and growth hormones. In fact, European medical scientists are so concerned about the presence of hormones and antibiotics in American meat products that this has become an issue in foreign trade. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| These studies suggest that a general increase in consumption of fiber-rich cereals, vegetables, and fruits and decrease in consumption of fat-rich products and excessive alcohol would be prudent. There is still a lack of definitive evidence about the dietary components that are critical for humans and about their mechanisms of action. Laboratory studies of natural foodstuffs and cooked food are beginning to uncover an extraordinary variety of mutagens and possible carcinogens and anticarcinogens. |
| Ames has also objected to the regulation of EDB, saying that the "trace of the carcinogen EDB now allowed in food is insignificant;"21 this in spite of the fact that available noncarcinogenic alternatives include aluminum phosphide for grains and cold storage for fruits and vegetables. |
| All of these are the fruits of cancer research.
Our "qualified failure" has been in the fight against the tobacco industry which has successfully targeted young children, particularly girls. This has led to a sorry state of affairs in Scotland and the North of England, where more women now die of lung cancer than breast cancer.
Lord Baldwin wishes complementary medicine to be given a hearing. So it should, but it requires the same strict evaluation as conventional medicine. |
Mark Bricklin
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| They included whole grains or grain cereals and breads, starchy vegetables like corn, beans and peas, and other vegetables and fruits.
Researchers divided the patients into three groups. The first group had been taking IS to 20 units of insulin daily. Nine of these ten patients were able to discontinue their insulin therapy on the high-fiber diet. Most of them also developed lower fasting and after-meal glucose levels.
The second group had been taking between 22 and 34 units of insulin daily. |
| Milk itself may be somewhat constipating, but when it replaces bulky, fibrous foods in the diet, like fruits, vegetables and grains, constipation is only a "natural" result. When the doctors put the children on a diet excluding all milk products, very few had any recurrences.
As to why constipation should lead to UTI, the doctors explain that when the rectum is full, particularly in the small pelvic space of a child, there can be great pressure on the neck of the bladder. This in turn causes a backup or retention of urine, which creates the right conditions for the multiplication of bacteria. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Flavones differ from flavonols in that they lack a 3-hydroxyl substitution, which changes their spectroscopic properties. Apigenin and luteolin are the only common flavones.
Several hundred flavone and flavonol aglycones are known, but only three are common: kaempferol, quercetin, and myricetin. Quercetin has the widest distribution in nature of all phenolic compounds, and 135 different glycosides of quercetin have been described. The most common is quercetin-3-rutinoside, commonly known as rutin, which is used in the treatment of capillary fragility. |
James S. Gordon, M.D.
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| As a general rule, I suggest that people who want to eat a healthier diet include large quantities of fiber-rich raw fruits and vegetables, as well as a morning helping of wheat and oat bran. I recommend that they use fish, particularly fatty fish, and soy products as primary sources of protein and decrease their intake of beef, pork, and lamb, which are high in saturated fats, as well as of milk and milk products. Onions, garlic, and ginger by themselves and as ingredients in cooking other dishes are high on my list of recommended foods. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| The diet consists of:
1. All fruits: raw or frozen, including papaya, mangos, etc.
2. Vegetables: raw as much as possible, when cooked, only lightly steamed. Bake all starch vegetables. Suggestion for tossed salads: leaf lettuce (no head lettuce), raw yams (sliced or grated), romaine lettuce, spinach, chard, raw corn, green peppers, cabbage (purple and green), grated carrots, raw beets grated, raw asparagus, zuccini, sprouted lentils, other sprouts (especially alfalfa sprouts), tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, avocado, raw or frozen peas. Also vegetable soups.
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Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 Practically every school child learns basic nutrition, and anyone with media access—magazines, newspapers, radio, or television—has heard the dietary drumbeat to eat more fruits and vegetables, and cut down on saturated fat. This information surrounds us!
Two studies revealed the extent of dietary knowledge possessed by the average person. In 1958, researchers asked 300 British women about the nutritional makeup of foods. Twenty years later, another group of researchers asked a similar group of 300 women the same questions. Look at the difference 20 years can make! |
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