| This is sort of like eating a lot of fruits and vegetables every day, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
New protein shake from Nature's Way
There's now a protein shake mix offered by Nature's Way that has the exact same name -- the Alive Whole Food Energizer Protein Drink, or something similar. It might be called a meal replacement drink. I've checked this out, as I was quite excited to see this on the shelf, so I immediately went to read the ingredients label, and found that, unfortunately, it is sweetened with fructose. |
| I find that absolutely amazing, and I think that households in the future will all be engaged in growing these health-enhancing fruits and vegetables using aeroponic systems in order to enhance their health.
I think every family that can afford one will have a growing unit right in their house, and they will be pulling berries right off the vine and eating those, and they will be grabbing zucchini or okra or tomatoes right off the vine -- right in this growing unit -- and eating those raw. That's how people are going to stay healthy in the future, not by downing a dozen meds every day. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Fructose is less common but occurs in honey and in many fruits and vegetables. Galactose is relatively rare but is a component of some legume polysaccharides (and lactose or milk sugar). A healthy person has to maintain a blood glucose level of around 1 g per litre of blood.
CH2OH CH2OH
-D-Glucose
P-D-Fructose (furanose form) a-D-Galactose a-D-Xylose
Chemical structures of common monosaccharides
Disaccharides
These are sugars with two monosaccharides joined together. |
| Sucrose (one glucose linked to one fructose molecule) is by far the most common example - it occurs in many fruits and vegetables and often accumulates to high levels, as in sugar cane and sugar beet. Another common disaccharide is maltose or malt sugar (two glucose molecules joined together). It is formed when starch is broken down during the process of malting. Malting is the controlled germination of grains such as barley or wheat, during which the stored starch reserve is enzymatically converted to maltose to serve as an energy source for the young seedling. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When it is really cold out, we should eat foods that require more heat and fuel, and in the summer we should eat more cooling foods like fresh fruits and vegetables. I think it is a healthy and wise philosophy for us to adapt, rather than get fixed on one perfect diet. There is no perfect diet. Each of us is a little bit different, and you can find a good diet that represents what you need around the whole year. I think, ideally, you should not eat the exact same way in hot weather as in cold weather. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I always tell a person if you are making a choice between some processed food versus fruits and vegetables, and you can't afford the organic, go with the non-organic. You are still better off than buying the processed foods.
Ben: Right, so all the health detriments that a traditionally grown vegetable might have, it's still not as bad as red meat.
Mike: Absolutely. I'd take non-organic produce over packaged foods any day of the week, if I didn't have the funds or the choice of organic foods. Now, of course, I support organic foods very strongly. That's your best choice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As we like to say, we've taken the "yuck" out of eating fruits and vegetables.
Mike: Good slogan. I like it.
Burt: Thanks a lot, Mike. |
| We tested the antioxidant level on it, and we found out that one serving, or one scoop, is equivalent to approximately three servings of fruits and vegetables. In one glass, you're getting the antioxidant power of approximately three servings of fruits and veggies.
Mike: Now what about a website where people can either purchase the product or find more information, Brandon?
Burt: You can go to www.AmazingGrass.com. We're on the internet. You can order products online. We also sell wholesale to many retail stores. |
| It has 33 different fruits and vegetables. It starts with our greens. My grandfather has been growing and dehydrating the most potent greens -- organic wheat grass, barley grass and alfalfa. It starts with that.
We have all 33 of them in there. We also use an organic soymilk base in it. It's a good, high-quality soymilk, and it's organic. We also use a decaffeinated redwood cocoa. It's a lighter-colored cocoa. We tried several different ones, and we found that children really took to the redwood cocoa, which is light in color. Those three things make up the top three ingredients. |
| They're whole-leaf fruits and vegetables. You're actually getting a dehydrated version of fresh fruit.
Mike: That's wonderful. What is the sweetener that's used in the product?
Burt: We use a little stevia in it. We also have a little of organic soymilk in there. That, of course, adds a little sweetness to it. It has some organic cane juice in it. Per serving, it only has one gram of sugar.
Mike: That's fantastic. Really for children you have to have that great taste even if you have to have a little bit of evaporated cane juice in there to make it go down.
Burt: It does. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They need to eat more fresh foods, more raw fruits and vegetables. They need to eat less meat or eliminate saturated animal fats from their diet altogether, including dairy products. (Dairy products, in my view, are not healthy for long-term consumption by human beings.)
At the same time, those people need to get nutritional supplements into their bodies. They need things like sea vegetables, spirulina, chlorella (www.IntegratedHealth.com), goji berries and whole food concentrates like blueberry powder or multi-fruit superfood powders. They need things like raw chocolate (www.NavitasNaturals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You could buy raw fruits and vegetables that don't require fancy packaging. For soaps, you could be buying Dr. Bronner's soaps, which come in economy-sized bottles. Those are the types of products you buy when you genuinely care about the planet.
Urine trouble!
Of course, if you care about the planet, you also shouldn't be taking prescription drugs and urinating them back into the water supply. How is that for polluting the planet? Don't you realize that everything you put in your mouth ends up getting flushed down the toilet? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Antioxidant Defense System - RED is just like the purple product, above, except it's made with red fruits and vegetables: tomatoes, raspberries, astaxanthin, cherries, etc. As with the purple product, this tastes fantastic! If you've had trouble stomaching superfoods in the past, try this for a pleasant surprise. It's so good, you can just stir it into water and drink it straight. From looking at the ingredients, I can also tell this is an outstanding product for prostate health, joint pain, eye health, skin protection and cardiovascular support (among other benefits). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The next time you go shopping for produce, don't trust the mineral claims on fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. If you want to boost the mineral content of the foods you buy, buy organic. Organic foods almost always have higher mineral concentrations than conventionally grown foods.
If you really want to do it right, grow your own food and apply diluted seawater (or trace minerals water) to your soil. That will give you the healthiest, highest mineral density plants available anywhere in the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If I'm consuming a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and nuts, without any food toxins whatsoever, and if I'm getting regular exercise, sunshine, and lots of water and fresh air, and I'm living in a low-stress environment without any toxic chemicals in my house, then I don't need to think about the health goals. They will unfold naturally and automatically. I don't need to think about how quickly my blood pressure will drop, or how quickly I can lower my LDL cholesterol, or whether I can lose 10 pounds of excess body fat in a month. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you are eating the diet that nature intended, you are eating the diet that your body was designed to consume: A diet of raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and leaves, right from nature to your body. That's the only diet that you were designed to consume and that is normal. Now, anything that diverts you from that diet is abnormal and, in fact, anything that takes you away from that diet is going to promote chronic disease.
So, one soft drink a day is less healthy than no soft drinks a day. One soft drink a day makes a difference; it makes you less healthy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've observed these animals eating just about everything I put out there -- beans, pasta, crackers, nuts, seeds, crumbs, lots of fruits and vegetables -- but there's one thing they absolutely refuse to eat. I recently put out a bag of dried, textured vegetable protein (TVP) chunks made from soy. It turns out that none of the animals will touch this stuff. It's almost like they'd rather die of starvation than eat TVP.
This is very interesting, because animals will eat just about any kind of food you can imagine, and if the birds or rabbits don't eat it, the ants usually carry it away. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What we're saying here is, again, we want to make sure that we have the nutrients behind us, supporting us, the organic fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, seaweed, sprouts and wheatgrass, and that kind of thing. We want to make sure we have superfoods in our diet like bee products and spirullina and blue-green algae, and things like the cacao bean, which is the raw chocolate nut, and the goji berry and maca and these kinds of foods. We can have other foods, too, but we just want to make sure that we're not missing anything. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But if you're on a tight budget and you need to make a choice, go with the non-organic fruits and vegetables.
Ben: Even if it were true that the healthy foods were more expensive, the amount that you save avoiding the medical bills that come from eating on the diseased side of the pyramid more than makes up for it.
Mike: When people consume unhealthy foods, there is a hidden cost. It's doesn't show up on your receipt at the grocery story. It's just like you said, the hidden cost is the long-term health cost associated with the consumption of these foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So be sure to drink a lot of water, try to shift to fresh fruits and vegetables or a plant-based diet while you're taking this product, and just recognize that any negative emotions or sick feelings that you might get are the result of the fecal matter you've been storing up in your body for a long time.
This also helps explain why another Amazon Herb Company product -- Digestazon -- is so helpful for people. It helps reduce the buildup of undigested fecal matter in your large intestine by encouraging proper and complete digestion of the foods you consume. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ben: I notice that the colors of this rainbow are all colors of fruits and vegetables that we've always know about -- like carrots are orange and tomatoes are red or green -- instead of things like meat, which I know a lot of times is red simply because that is more attractive to someone walking through a grocery store.
Mike: Very true. The color in meat is added with an ingredient called sodium nitrate, which is a cancer-causing chemical. That's how they make these meats look red on the shelf. If they didn't add these chemicals, they would look kind of a putrid gray color.
Ben: Orange gray. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA would like to imagine that it is the ultimate authority over all things health related and that only it can approve what words we might use to describe the fruits and vegetables we share with our neighbors. And as such, the FDA is an entity of ignorance and evil that actually seeks to de-educate the American people, and the day of outing the criminals who currently operate the FDA is long overdue. This is an agency whose decision makers need to be immediately arrested and tried for their crimes against humanity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you really want to lose weight, one of the first things you've got to do is start eating organic fruits and vegetables. You must get away from processed foods. Ideally, you need to start taking supplements with minerals and trace minerals. That's a great combination to calm your cravings.
Avoid excitotoxins in foods
The other thing that I guarantee most people haven't tried in terms of losing weight is avoiding all of the chemicals added to foods to make you hungry. These chemicals are called excitotoxins. The most common one is monosodium glutamate, or MSG. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We've got to have everything present and that's going to include all those foods that we mentioned: fruits and vegetables, organic nuts, seeds and seaweed. I also recommend sprouts if you're into grasses.
We're really into distributing superfoods, which are things like spirulina and blue-green algae, and chlorella and bee products, like pollen and honey, maca from the highlands of the Andes Mountains and goji berries, the cacao bean -- which is the chocolate -- which is what all chocolate is made out of. These foods are extraordinarily nutritious and very fun to eat. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 As an example, the observation that in the Mediterranean area there is a lower incidence of CHD and certain types of cancers indicates that the Mediterranean diet, rich in grains, legumes, fresh fruits and vegetables, wine in moderate amounts, and olive oil, has beneficial effects on human health, notwithstanding the presence of traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease (e.g., blood pressure and plasma cholesterol concentrations do not differ much between the Mediterranean basin and other areas of the Western world). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| What I recommend adding in are, of course, organic fruits and vegetables. Those things are very important, and when we're dealing with fruits, let's try to eat more of the lower sugar fruits. Things like tomatoes and cucumbers and even tart apples. Things of that nature are generally more supportive of our immune system than things like bananas or oranges, which can be very sugary and too sweet.
Of course, we want to add in raw nuts and seeds. That's very easy to do, since any health food store has these things. That is really a great source of fat and protein. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| It is noteworthy that fruits and vegetables require a variety of antioxidant compounds of different origin that may protect plants from environmental stress, including ultraviolet (UV) light radiation and relatively high temperatures. Accordingly, phenolics-rich crops such as grapes, olives, and heavily pigmented vegetables are particularly abundant in the Mediterranean area, where the combination of heat and light radiation stimulates plant antioxidant defenses. |
Jack Challem
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 Several studies have found that organically raised fruits and vegetables have higher levels of vitamin C and antioxidant flavonoids compared with conventionally grown produce. In other words, the nutritional value of organic foods is greater than that of most commercial produce, which is grown with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The reason for the higher nutritional value is fascinating: plants increase their production of antioxidant flavonoids when stressed by bad weather or insects, and some flavonoids function as natural insecticides (though they are not harmful to people). |
| Many people will say that organic fruits and vegetables taste better than conventional produce. It could be that they do in fact taste better, or it could be that they are simply delivered to markets faster and fresher. Most commercial, nonorganic tomatoes are picked green (so they are less likely to bruise during shipping) and sprayed with ethylene gas to turn them red. Unfortunately, they still taste like green tomatoes. In contrast, organically raised tomatoes are often vine-ripened and taste the way commercial tomatoes did forty years ago. |
| Your best bet for finding meat from range- or grass-fed animals and organic fruits and vegetables is a natural foods grocery store.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is a chain of high-quality specialty retail grocery stores, with many organic, gluten-free, and wholesome products. For more information and the locations of Trader Joe's stores, go to www.traderjoes.com
Wild Oats
Wild Oats, a national chain, emphasizes natural and gourmet foods. Their meat departments offer free-range meats. For more information call (800) 494-WILD or go to www.wildoats.com. |
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