David Wolfe
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 The delicate fibrous structures inside all fruits and vegetables are damaged as water expands during the freezing process.
Some raw plant foods are more tolerant of freezing than others. Durians, for example, tolerate freezing well. Berries are tolerant of the freezing process. Nuts and seeds are also tolerant of freezing temperatures as they possess a rich content of fats and oils and a low content of water. Overeating
Every Sunfoodist grows through periods of eating large quantities of raw plant foods, especially during the transition and beyond. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Ascorbic acid is found in fresh fruits and vegetables. In the past, deficiencies were quite common as fresh fruits were unavailable during long winters (and long voyages on ships). A shortage in the diet leads to scurvy, poor wound healing and various other symptoms - in severe cases, the condition may be fatal. The discovery that citrus fruits can reverse the symptoms of scurvy saved the lives of many sailors - the nickname "limey" comes from the daily ration of lime juice introduced by the British navy. Deficiencies are still fairly common, especially in alcoholics, smokers and the elderly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But even if you went to the grocery store for fruits and vegetables and ate them three times a day, you still wouldn't be getting adequate nutrition. To figure this out for yourself, just do the math. Add up the U.S. RDA numbers on the labels of all the foods you consume, and you'll find out that if you're going to meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. government for preventing chronic disease, you're going to have to eat, on average, 10,000 calories a day of grocery store foods. That's 500% more food than an individual needs if they're a healthy adult of average weight. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 I began to eat raw fruits and vegetables and stopped eating meat and dairy products. After three months, I was again tested. The test again came out with a level of 40. Doctors told me that my cancer was not progressing, but it was also not diminishing. Then I read Victoria's book and learned about green smoothies. I began drinking 16 ounces of the green smoothies daily, and they became a regular part of my daily diet. I usually used orange juice as liquid, added a banana, and pineapple or mango. The green was parsley, sunflower sprouts, romaine lettuce and young pea sprouts. |
| I felt inside that eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and greens was right for me, exactly what I needed. But I didn't know how — or if I could do it.
I had so little stomach acid that I was part of the green study. Thank you! 30 days on green smoothies and my body wants only raw foods. I feel energy! My vision began to improve and my joy came back!
My blood sugars stabilized. My moods stabilized. I want to live! I have energy! I have regular bowel movements. My vision is clearer. My skin is healthier. I feel so grateful! Thank you. |
| In order for nutrients to be absorbed, the food has to be broken in the stomach, both mechanically and with acids, into very small pieces of 1-2 mm. Raw fruits and vegetables have the most valuable nutrients in them, but they are especially hard to digest because their tough cellulose structure has to be ruptured in order to get all the nutrients out. If there is not enough stomach acid, the body is unable to receive all needed nutrients, especially proteins, and deficiencies start to develop. I have encountered several people with such a problem who felt as if they were trapped. |
| Very often I would juice my fruits and vegetables rather than "waste" my time and effort on chewing them. About thirty years ago, in the first books about juicing I read, I learned that fiber was not digestible, contained no nutrients, and served merely as a strain on the human intestinal tract. Since then juicing became one of my regular habits. I was proudly juicing for days, even weeks, trying to "cleanse" myself of toxins, and 1 considered myself to be maintaining a very healthy diet! I became astounded by the comparison of 300 grams with three. |
| They had heard that "fruits and vegetables did not mix well." Yes, to combine starchy vegetables with fruits would not be a good idea. Such a combination can cause gas in the intestines. However, greens are not vegetables and greens are not starchy. In fact, greens are the only food group that helps digest other foods through stimulating the secretion of digestive enzymes. Thus, greens can be combined with any other foods. In addition, it has been recorded that chimpanzees often consume fruits and leaves off of the same tree at the same feeding time. |
| Plain fruits and vegetables became much more desirable for me and my cravings for fatty foods declined dramatically. I stopped consuming any kind of salt altogether, even seaweed.
Two weeks later, my husband and I were walking in California along a grassy trail when I suddenly began to salivate from looking at the dark green crispy branches of malva weeds growing in abundance along our path. I kept catching myself wanting to grab and eat them. I shared my observations with Igor and he listened attentively but didn't get excited. He had already noticed that I was eating differently lately. |
Mike Adams
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 The fact that the phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables are potent anticancer agents helps explain why cancer studies involving vitamin supplements have had such lackluster results: The pills contain only a fraction of what the plants have to offer. Until researchers can identify and encapsulate all the myriad healing substances found in plants, it is far wiser to eat the whole foods themselves. This way, you will be getting all their known cancer-fighting nutrients - plus all those yet to be identified.
-Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The studies show that high consumption of fruits and vegetables wards off a variety of cancers. (They also show that consuming red meat multiplies the risk of colon cancer.) Another study in the same issue shows that consuming olive oil reduces the risk of breast cancer.
So here we're talking about a wide variety of cancers: prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, even leukemia and multiple myeloma. And across the board, we're seeing that consuming a plant-based diet is what prevents cancer and enhances health at many different levels, including cardiovascular health. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Once they start eating an abundance of high-water content foods such as fruits and vegetables, drinking juices and herbal teas, their water needs are satisfied to a degree, and they drink much less water as a result.
The best way to ensure you are getting enough water is to fill a container at the beginning of the day (a liter bottle, for example) and sip it throughout the day so that it is gone by the end of the day. Sipping water throughout the day is preferred, as it is much easier for the kidneys to process than gulping large amounts at once. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As a result, if you observed a group of people in a study and you made sure they ate raw fruits and vegetables and avoided all of the refined, manufactured food products, you would see phenomenal results. If you had people eating raw blueberries, nuts, green leafy vegetables, salads, and consuming whole drinks made from vegetable concentrates, then the results would be vastly different from what you're seeing in these published studies. You'd see diseases like cancer literally vanishing in the group. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| McDonald's spends more every 12 hours to promote unhealthful burgers and fries than the National Cancer Institute spends in a year on "5 A Day" to get people to eat more fruits and vegetables. Consider these annual advertising budgets:
• McDonald's -$1 billion
• Coca-Cola -$770 million
• General Mills -$598 mil.
• 5 A Day -
$1 million
C.S.P.I. widespread availability
Widespread availability of their products is another strategy the food industry has employed to capture the attention of the public. |
Mike Adams
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| Antioxidant vitamins provide some of the cancer-fighting prowess of fruits and vegetables, but phytochemicals play just as big a role. We are now learning that the same chemicals that protect plants from viruses, bacteria, and fungi protect us from cancer. For example, people who drink green tea, which contains a phytochemical called "epigallocatechin gallate," have a lower risk of liver, lung, skin, esophageal, and urinary cancer. |
| Staying Healthy with Nutrition explains,
There has been a shift in this century away from the healthful consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and complex carbohydrates - the starches and fiber foods - toward a diet of more refined carbohydrates and simple sugars that are implicated in a variety of diseases, among them obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and tooth decay. |
| He discovered that these populations, when they followed their native diets that were high in fiber, high in the consumption of fruits and vegetables, and based on foods from nature in their natural state, demonstrated virtually no modern diseases like obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. They had healthy teeth with virtually no cavities, and they suffered almost no mental disorders such as depression and aggression. |
| It's made from freeze-dried organic fruits and vegetables. I have an entire report on Berry Green available at http://www.truthpublishing.com
Sea vegetables
Sea vegetables are outstanding sources for phytonutrients and trace minerals. I take sea vegetable supplements every day, since I don't at all enjoy the actual taste of sea vegetables.
My favorite sea vegetable supplement? Kelp (bladderwrack), and brown seaweed extract, which is known to be a powerful anticancer supplement:
Sea vegetables are exceptionally concentrated packages of nutrients and phytochemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It goes to show you that even people who have poor dietary habits can dramatically reduce their risk of cancer by consuming a few fruits and vegetables along with their unhealthy foods.
There's an important side note in all of this too: the common fault of all clinical trials. The population at large is so unbelievably unhealthy that clinical trials using everyday people lose relevance to the nature of healthy human physiology. |
Mike Adams
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| While the benefits are clear, research shows that Americans on the average eat only 25 to 35 percent of the five to six recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables. Realistically, consuming five to six servings is hard to do. Furthermore, what we do eat is usually cooked, canned, or frozen (neutralizing up to 90 percent of the vital nutrients).
- Underground Cures
Researchers are learning that nature is by far the most powerful healer in the universe. No drug can compete with the healing powers of phytochemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You see, raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables will fill you up before you get very many calories in your meal. For example, it's very difficult to eat 1,000 calories worth of apples at one sitting. Your stomach will simply fill up before you reach 1,000 calories and you won't feel like eating any more. But if you choose processed foods with ingredients such as white flour, hydrogenated oils or saturated fats, you can pack in a couple of thousand calories in one sitting without topping off your stomach. This is hugely important for achieving your weight gain goals. |
Alex Steffen
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 Where It Matters Most: Schools and Hospitals mmmm Farm-to-school: In most school cafeterias, if the fruits and vegetables don't come from cans, they come from the freezer. Whole grains are as hard to find as a second helping of tater tots. Juice comes from concentrate, and sugary sodas are widely available. What does this mean for our kids? Poor nutrition, yes, but also poor concentration, low grades, and plummeting energy levels. |
| Sustainable Farming 101
When we push our carts through the aisles of the supermarket, the piles of organic and conventional fruits and vegetables look nearly identical, but the organic cost more. So what are you buying into when you buy organic?
Well, first and foremost, you're buying a product that has not been grown using synthetic fertilizers or drenched in chemical pesticides. Organic farmers use compost and "green" manure (crops that are tilled into the soil before they mature and help replace soil nutrients) to fertilize crops. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| American Cancer Society
The National Cancer Institute recommends 5 servings per day of fruits and vegetables, but only 9% of the population, and only 20% of "gatekeeper" family physicians say they consume the daily 5 servings.
Nutrition Action Healthletter
84% of cancer patients do not eat cruciferous vegetables, the most recommended food for preventing and fighting cancer. 82% do not get adequate amounts of fiber for disease prevention.
Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition may soon overtake tobacco use as the leading cause of death. |
| Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables" is timeless advice that science is only now catching up to.
It is a simple, easy-to-remem-ber, and tasty morsel of excellent dietary advice that ranks high on the list of smart and healthy nutritional habits.
Dr. Walter Willett Eat, Drink & Be Healthy
5 ~ account for ailments
.. .when making wise food choices.
As you read through the following detailed descriptions you will discover that these guidelines interweave, intertwine, overlap and acquiesce, while still providing a structure, much like nature itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Personally, I eat them both: fruits and vegetables for enjoyment and calories, combined with whole food concentrates for nutrition.
Avoid isolated vitamins and minerals
I also recommend that you move away from isolated vitamins and minerals. So forget about those cheap, low-cost bottles of vitamin C, vitamin E or those B vitamins you might find at the wholesale clubs, pharmacies or grocery stores. These are typically not going to do you very much good, because your body doesn't need just vitamin C; your body needs a whole complement of vitamins from a lot of different sources. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Because, let's face it, even in the published studies when people talk about eating fruits and vegetables, a lot of the data come from self-reported surveys. And the things that people consider to be fruits are not necessarily healthy fruits. For example, eating apple pie is counted as a fruit in clinical trials. Personally, I wouldn't count that as a fruit. It's a cooked, sugary apple pie made with hydrogenated oils, refined white flour and refined sugar in the crust. To me, that's not fruit. That's junk food. But medical studies call that "fruit. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Because several thousand phytochemicals are currently known to exist, and because new ones are being discovered all the time, no supplement can possibly contain all of the cancer-fighters found in a shopping basket full of fruits and vegetables.
Fortunately, it is easy to get a healthy dose of phytochemicals at every meal. Almost every grain, legume, fruit, and vegetable tested has been found to contain these substances. Moreover, unlike many vitamins, these substances do not appear to be destroyed by cooking or other processing. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 We have been told by just about every nutrition expert on the planet that we need to eat many more servings of fruits and vegetables each day to prevent a variety of chronic conditions. So how do we eat heart-healthy foods without being consumed by flatulence?
Beano
Despite all the products on the market that claim to provide relief from gas, there is
**** Beano
The enzyme in Beano (alpha-galactosidase) breaks down the sugars in beans, vegetables, and grains that contribute to flatulence. Some people swear by Beano and wouldn't eat gassy foods without it. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
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 Numerous studies have shown that diets high in fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants (vitamins A, C, E, and beta-carotene) reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. If antioxidants are readily available in the bloodstream they can protect the arteries from free-radical injury and reduce risk of heart disease.
We can get antioxidants in fresh fruits and vegetables, but most people don't eat enough of these to provide significant protection. Antioxidant supplements can help. Another way to fight free radicals is with coconut oil. |
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