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Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Women also consume most of their total day's iron intakes from vegetables, fruits, and grains, where only 2 to 7 percent of the iron is absorbed, while the well-absorbed iron in red meat (with 20 to 30 percent absorption) is limited. If a woman also drinks tea or coffee with her meals, iron absorption could fall even further. Jan Johnson-Shane, Ph.D., R.D., an associare professor of nutririon at Illinois State University, has studied the beneficial effect of red meat on iron status. Her research found that small amounts (3 ounces a day) of red meat was all it took to improve iron status. Dr.

Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork Lendon H. Smith, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

There is calcium in many vegetables, some nuts and a few fruits, isn't there? I also assumed that there was enough calcium in the topsoil from which the plants were growing. He was, however, always a little smaller and a little thinner than his siblings. That should have alerted me that something was amiss. (continued on page 208) (continuedfrom page 207) He broke his right femur skiing at age eleven. The orthopedist, reading the film, said, "Well, there's the break, but see how dense the bone is. Shows he's drinking his milk.

The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex John Lauritsen See book keywords and concepts

When the condition improves, other foods are gradually added: cheese, nuts, whole grains, and small helpings of some fruits. Sucrose (regular sugar) is strictly avoided at all times. A "PWA" has nothing to lose by going on the anti-candida diet; if the yeast syndrome has been making him ill, he will notice a dramatic improvement within a couple of weeks. The anti-candida diet is virtually identical to diets used to treat the condition of hypoglycemia (chronic low blood-sugar), and is very similar to the popular and effective Atkins diet for treating obesity.

Glucose is found in many fruits and vegetables, usually along with other sugars. It is manufactured in our bodies from other nutrients, and is necessary for life. • Fructose, or fruit sugar. • Lactose, or milk sugar. • Maltose, or malt sugar. Whereas all other sugars are found in nature together with other nutrients, refined sucrose is pure. Sucrose has no nutritional properties whatever; it is correctly described as an anti-nutrient, because it greatly increases the body's need for B-vitamins, and because it interferes with the body's ability to utilize protein.

While it is true that the sugars are classified as carbohydrates, there is a world of difference between the carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables, on the one hand, and the pure, white powder known as sugar, on the other. Even potatoes and white flour, which are commonly thought of as "starch", contain many nutrients, whereas the nutritional value of sucrose is nil. Sugar industry propagandists tout sugar as a source of quick energy and calories, which is deliberately misleading.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Fat: Fact and Fallacy While adding more fibrous vegerables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes to your diet, cut back on saturated fat. The fats in meat and fatty dairy products raise blood levels of estrogen, which might aggravare PMS symptoms. Substituting more fillet of sole (or, better yet, legumes and tofu) for less filet mignon would help cut back on your saturated fat intake. The added benefit of switching to a low-fat diet is that it also lowers your risk for hormone-related cancers, such as breast cancer.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

Another benefit of rural living is the ability to live organically, growing fruits and vegetables on your land, feasting off uncontaminated meats, and eating unpolluted fish from a nearby farm pond. But these are benefits only if the air and the water are clean. Do you see chemical trucks in your neighborhood? These are warning signs of a freshly sprayed lawn or house. When an area is chemically sprayed, insects and other pests usually migrate to the nearest "safe" area, and the spray itself may travel from your neighbor's yard to the area surrounding your home.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

A fat-free chocolate glaze for desserts and fruits can be made by combining 2 tablespoons cold nonfat milk, I cup sifted confectioners' sugar, and I teaspoon unsweetened cocoa. 3. An extra-rich chocolate angel food cake can be made with one package of angel food cake mix prepared according to directions, combined with 'A cup unsweetened cocoa; the cake will have only 7 percent fat calories and less than 160 calories per serving. 4.

The How to Herb Book: Let's Remedy the Situation Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon See book keywords and concepts

Try to add fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains and cereals instead of "instant" foods. In other words go back to eating "Real Food." REAL FOOD DIET Beverages Foods Allowed Foods to Avoid 1. All herb teas (comfrey, peppermint, alfalfa, etc.) 2. Fresh or frozen juices without sugar, (apple, pear-grape, grape, pineapple, etc.) 3. Fresh vegetable juices (carrot, green drinks, etc.) 4. Carol) drinks 5. Chlorophyll drink 1. Alcohol 2. Cocoa 3. Coffee 4. Carbonated beverages 5. Canned and pasteurized juices 6. Artificial drinks 7. Sugared juices or drinks 6.

Natural Source-fresh fruits, (apples) fresh vegetables (potatoes, broccoli, cabbage), acerola cherries, tomatoes, rose hips, green or red peppers. Herb Sources-Alfalfa, Barberry, Bayberry, Bee Pollen, Burdock, Capsicum, Catnip, Chickweed, Comfrey, Dandelion, Echinacea, Eyebright, Fennel, Garlic, Ginger, Goldenseal, Hawthorne,Juniper, Kelp,Papaya, Parsley, Peppermint, Pole Root, Red Clover, Thyme, Yarrow, Yellow Dock.

Natural Sources-Fish, butter, carrots, yellow vegetables, very green vegetables, liver, eggs, whole milk, fish liver oil, yellow fruits. Herb Sources-Alfalfa, Black Cohosh, Bee Pollen, Burdock, Capsicum, Catnip, Camomile, Comfrey, Dandelion, Dong Quai, Echinacea, Eyebright, Fennel, Fenugreek, Garlic, Ginger, Ginseng, Goldenseal, Kelp, Marshmallow, Mullein, Papaya, Peppermint. Poke Root, Red Clover, Red Raspberry, Rose Hips, Rosemary, Sage, Sarsaparilla, Saw Palmetto, Yarrow, Yellow Dock. VITAMIN Bi (THIAMINE) Water soluble. Also called morale or pep vitamins.

It aids in the utilization of sugar in fruits and also utilization of oils. It contains natural hydrochloric acid. — soothes and coats the entire digestive tract. — helps heal the walls of the intestines in diverticulitis. — stimulates glandular secretions in intestines. — relieves gas. — has mild laxative action in bowels — acts as diuretic — has ability to remove sticky phlegm from body. — helps heal lesions — helps cholesterol levels in body. — neutralizes uric acid and lactic acid.Uric acid holds hardened deposits injoints that lead to gout and arthritis.

It is a delicious fruit to eat and is one of the few fruits that can be eaten with meals. — relieves gas and sour stomach. — used in cancer management and prevention because good enzyme actions are essential. — has been used as a meat tenderizer. Helps break down protein. — good for babies. Has been put in formulas to make it closer to mother's milk. Has been used in the following: Allergies Digestion Flatulence-gas Babies formulas Diverticulitis Hemorrhage Meat tenderizer Stomach, sour Worms-Parasites. Stomach ache expels PARSLEY Aromatic, Diuretic, Nutritive, Tonic.

The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.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.

The People's Guide to Deadly Drug Interactions Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon See book keywords and concepts

Are there any liquids, foods, fruits, vegetables, or vitamins that may interfere with the Lanoxin being effective in controlling the heartbeat? (I eat a very large dish of Mother's oats and bran every morning.)" Bran, oatmeal, and other high-fiber foods may interfere with absorption of the crucial heart medicine Lanoxin (digoxin). Because it can be tricky to get the dose of Lanoxin adjusted properly, anything that affects its absorption may reduce this drug's effectiveness. According to clinical pharmacologist Brian F. Johnson, M.D., and his colleagues, "...

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

If you store fruits or vegetables in the basement for the winter, check them frequently for mold. Potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables begin to mold soon after they are taken from the ground. Protect filled canning jars from mold by wiping the outsides with white vinegar. Clean One Room at a Time Thoroughly clean one room at a time, settling it as you go. The following steps compose a good ritual to follow each time you clean. LAUNDER CURTAINS When cleaning a room, first remove the curtains. Launder, fold, and store them before actual cleaning begins.

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook James Green See book keywords and concepts

Plants are conveniently divided, for the purposes of the herbalist, into the roots (and/or rhizomes), stem, inner and outer bark, leaves, buds, flowers, saps and pitches, fruits, and seeds. These different parts require different procedures for collection, drying, and preservation. Roots Roots of biennial plants should be dug in the fall of the first year or in the very early spring of the second year (they die in the fall of the second year as the plant goes to seed).

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

This is true, in fact, of most fruits and vegetables, as well as sea vegetables (dulse, kelp, hiziki, nori), all of which are high in buffering minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron). Coffee, when it is not decaffeinated, can also be alkalizing, for caffeine is an alkaloid; the rest of the coffee is highly acidic. Salt, because of its sodium content, is an alkalizing element as well.

Whole: As nature provides them, with all their edible parts (grains with their bran and germ, apples with their skin—but not if it's waxed); cooked or raw vegetables and fruits rather than juices or vitamin pills. Whole foods supply all of nature's nutrients in a team, as well as providing us with the life energy of the food. 2. Fresh, Natural, Real, Organically Grown: Not canned, not frozen, certainly not irradiated or genetically engineered; free of chemical additives, colorings, preservatives.

The carbohydrates (both sugars and starches) are found in natural foods such as grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits. Sugars are called simple carbohydrates, and starches complex carbohydrates. In natural foods they come with a team of co-worker nutrients that help the body metabolize them; they are then called natural carbohydrates. White sugar, white rice, and white flour—separated from the minerals, vitamins, protein, and fiber that originally assistedjthem—are known as refined carbohydrates.

Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Fructose (the form of sugar predominant in fruits and honey) has been much praised recently as being superior to sucrose (cane sugar) or glucose (corn sugar). Beware: It may be sweeter, so you may use less of it—but a simple sugar is sugar to your body. Watch out for any simple or concentrated sugar! How Many Carbohydrates Do You Need?_ Half the calories Americans consume come from carbohydrates. Unfortunately, most of these are refined carbohydrates. The breads most people eat are 55 percent carbohydrate, since the refined flour from which they are made is 75 percent refined carbohydrate.

Vegetarians can dispense with animal products because a varied diet of whole grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and fruits will automatically provide all nine essential amino acids (the eight essential amino acids plus one, histamine, which is essential for children) in a quality and quantity equal to or sometimes surpassing the "incredible edible egg," nature's most complete protein food.

Eggs, meat, fowl, fish, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits and dairy products contain complete proteins. For protein to be absorbed and used by the body, all eight essential amino acids must be present in a certain proportion, actually in about the same proportion in which they occur in eggs, nature's complete food package for chicken embryos. Partially complete proteins may contain all eight, but not in the correct proportions.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Include two servings of fruits (or vegetables) from the following list: • 6 ounces 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice (avoid all juices made with "pure grape" or "pure apple juice concentrate," since these "all-natural" fruit beverages are actually primarily sugar water Instead, choose 100 percent orange juice, grapefruit juice, orange-pineapple juice, tomato juice, or fresh squeeze your own juices if you have time.

Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Gerson, chemical pesticides and fertilizers essentially poison and denature fruits and vegetables by altering their chemical composition. For instance, he found that chemical fertilizers often cause the sodium content to rise in certain foods while decreasing their potassium levels. As chronically ill patients are very often chemically imbalanced, with excesses of sodium and deficiencies of potassium, the effects of the fertilizers were exactly opposite to what was required by these patients to begin to recuperate and served to exacerbate their metabolic imbalances.

The People's Guide to Deadly Drug Interactions Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon See book keywords and concepts

A high-fiber diet that incorporates bran, fruits, and vegetables and includes lots of liquids can often eliminate the need for laxatives. If a laxative is needed, bulk-forming products are believed to be the safest. INTERACTION Regular use of laxatives can lead to loss of potassium from the body. Since diuretics can also deplete the body of potassium, such a combination can create serious potassium disturbances. This could be life threatening, especially if a person were also taking a digitalis-type heart medicine (see page 321).

Safe Food: Eating Wisely In A Risky World Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland See book keywords and concepts

When we think of pesticide residues in food, we usually think of fruits and vegetables. Since produce is monitored by the FDA, and meat by the USDA, it's difficult to directly compare contamination levels in these different foods. But a 1988 Canadian study indicates that meat may be more contaminated than we would think. When researchers there looked at organochlorine contaminants (which include PCBs, lindane, and various chloroben-zenes), they found the highest contamination in the "meat and eggs" category.19 Organochlorine contaminants accumulate in fat.

However, the FDA doesn't regularly test fruits, vegetables, and grains for half the pesticides that could be present.8 The USDA is even worse: the tests it uses on meat and poultry detect fewer than 20 percent of the pesticides that the USDA itself considers of potential concern.9 Even the foods found to contain illegal residues usually reach the market anyway.10 Not only that, the allowable levels for many pesticides, veterinary drugs, and other contaminants are probably too high, because they were established before research uncovered the potential health risks of these substances.

Avoiding pesticides and additives in food won't protect you from heart disease and cancer if you still consume too much fat and cholesterol, sodium, and alcohol; eat too few fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; or if you smoke cigarettes—all of which pose greater risks to your health. The first step to reducing food-related risks is to take a good, hard look at your diet, and start making any necessary changes today. (For practical suggestions on eating a more nutritious diet, see "Nutrition: Safe Food/Healthy Food," page 23.) 2. Choose safe food.

Handle and prepare food safely. Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly. This can help remove some (though not all) of the pesticide residues, as well as harmful bacteria that might be present on the food. Remove outer leaves from leafy vegetables, and peel produce when appropriate. (For tips on when to peel and not to peel, see page 69.) Cook eggs, meat, fish, and poultry thoroughly to kill harmful bacteria that may be present. Use care with these foods to avoid "cross-contamination"—spreading bacteria to other foods.

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