The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Many antimutagenic agents have been identified in fruits and vegetables, the most potent being the indole-3-carbinols, the chlorophylls, and chlorophyllin (Negishi et al. 1997). The traditional dietary antioxidants should be considered only as a secondary line of defense against cancer because it is more important to inactivate or neutralize carcinogens in the first place than to try to protect the cells and proteins downstream from their effects.
Chlorophyllin is the modified, watet-soluble form of chlorophyll that has been tested as an antimutagenic agent for more than 20 years. |
| If your diet is rich in fruits and vegetables, you can reduce risk," according to Morris. In a study begun in 1973, researchers kept track of 1883 men ages 35-59 who had high cholesterol levels. Ovet the next 20 years, the men who had the highest levels of carotenoids in their blood had 60% fewer heart attacks and deaths (Morris 2001).
Dr. J.E. Manson of the Women's Hospital in Boston reported that those taking 25,000 IU of beta-carotene daily had 22% fewer heart problems and strokes than those taking less than 10,000 IU daily (Friend 1991; Passwater undated). Dr. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 It is manufactured by the body but also naturally occurs in several fruits and vegetables. This powerful protector has an amazing range of activities. Glutathione plays a key role in immune function, DNA repair, and the removal of toxic chemicals from the body. It also recycles vitamins C and E back to their active forms.
In people with diabetes (and anyone of advanced age), glutathione levels in the lens of the eye decrease, and this is believed to contribute to the development of cataracts. |
| Organic Delivery Services Many communities offer incredible organic delivery services that provide healthful, high-quality, organically grown fruits and vegetables in a fun and convenient way. These services deliver a box of fresh, often locally grown, produce to your front door. Many such services allow custom orders (you select the items you want each week), and some offer additional items such as organic breads, fresh-pressed oils, salad dressings, and apple cider. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 Our daily food contains ample potassium from its natural sources of fruits and vegetables, but not salt from its natural source. That is why we need to add salt to our daily diet. Note: Do not take too much potassium as a dietary supplement. It could cause trouble.
Salt forces some water to keep it company outside the cells (osmotic retention of water by salt). It balances the amount of water that is held outside the cells.
Basically, there are two oceans of water in the body: One is held inside the cells of the body, and the other is held outside. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 However, few people know that diets high in fresh fruits and vegetables also protect against the cancer-prone condition of estrogen dominance. One of the ways they do this is by providing our bodies with what are called "phytoestrogens."
Phytoestrogens, or plant estrogens, are natural compounds found in plants that have weak estrogen-like activity in humans. They are part of the larger family of compounds known as "phytochemicals," and are a natural and important part of any healthy diet. There are presently 18 different phytochemicals known to be estrogenic in humans. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 All these strategies should be underpinned by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables and by meeting your fluid needs with low-CD choices, especially healthy teas, water, and broth-based soups.
Why Dieting Fails: Breaking the Caloric Density Principles
To many people, dieting means eating things like meat and mashed potatoes, beef lasagna, or macaroni and cheese in small microwaved portions, and attempting to limit each meal to a few hundred calories or less. But when you look at the average caloric density of these kinds of meals, they usually have a CD of 2.0 or higher. |
| Almost all fresh fruits and vegetables can be eaten in unlimited quantities. Find kinds you really enjoy and buy them in bulk so you have plenty around the house when you have a snack attack. Also use them liberally to lower the CD of common dishes. Pasta salads, for instance, can be jazzed up with zucchini, red peppers, carrots, green beans, and other veggies. Their high water content allows you to have a double portion for the same calories you'd get in one portion of the salad made without the veggies. |
David Brownstein
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 Pesticides on fruits and vegetables (also found in many juices) are extremely toxic to the liver and the fat cells of the body. Organic fruits and vegetables should not contain any pesticide residue.
Hormones contained in most conventional meat products have disastrous effects on the body. Not only are they an added substance the liver has to detoxify, but also many of these hormones, I believe, add to the incidence of cancer, particularly breast and prostate cancer. These hormones also wreak havoc with our own hormonal systems. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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| WATER-RICH VEGGIES AND FRUITS
Most fruits and vegetables are water-rich, and most of them are featherweights. Lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, winter squash, bitter melon, zucchini, cucumbers, celery, bamboo shoots, eggplant, strawberries, grapefruit, honeydew melon, apples, oranges, and many, many more have a CD of 0.7 or less—low even on the featherweight scale. The water-rich concept becomes clearer than ever when you consider dried fruit versus plump ripe fruit. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| She also drank one glass of fresh juice each day (apple, carrot, and spinach) and ate a lot of organic fruits and vegetables. She kept a healthy mix of organic almonds, sunflower seeds, and raisins around at all times for snacking and made vegetable soup with cabbage, potatoes, celery, and V-8 juice. Kathy did not restrict her intake of meat, and freely ate chicken, fish, and beef.
On January 25, 1993, five months after starting on Cancell, Kathy got another scan of her lungs. This time, she only had two nodules left, one in each lung. |
Patrick Holford
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 Make sure that at least half your diet consists of raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.
Avoid processed food with additives, and cook food as little as possible. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| We ingest xenoestrogens from pesticides used on crops whenever we eat nonorganic supermarket fruits and vegetables.
?We absorb xenoestrogens into our bodies through our skin whenever we come in contact with common lawn and garden sprays, as well as indoor insect sprays.
?We breathe in xenoestrogens from car exhaust and smog.
?We drink in xenoestrogens in areas where industrial waste dumps have contaminated the ground water supply.
?We eat xenoestrogens sometimes when ingest eat meat or dairy products from livestock fed estrogenic drugs to fatten them up.
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Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Look for fruits and vegetables containing antioxidants such as carotenes, luteins, lycopenes, xanthines, xeanthins, and proantho-cyanidins, found in carrots, blueberries, yams, tomatoes, and peppers.
Reduce or eliminate sugar from your diet
Sugar is one of the best examples of a low-NCR food: pure calories providing no other nutrition. This leads to the production of excess free radicals. Sugar also taxes our antioxidant system because it does not provide any antioxidants—it only uses them up. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| Even organically grown fruits and vegetables are likely to come from soil that has been overused. Artificial fertilization techniques are helpful, but may not be able to produce crops that are as abundant in nutrients as virgin soils can. Also, people are more toxic these days than they used to be, in general. So the approaches that place a large focus on detoxification may have further to go in today's world than they did earlier in the 20th century.
However, we can learn from all of the successful non-toxic approaches and can often use parts of each. |
| The amount of toxic fluoride in fruits and vegetables may then be compounded by the fact that artificial fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture often also contain sodium fluoride to keep the level of insect activity down. This fluoride then gets washed into the soil and absorbed by the roots of our food plants as well.
Moreover, even though you may not live in a fluoridated drinking water area, you may drink common commercial beverages such as sodas, juices, beer, and wine. These beverages may have been made with fluoridated water. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 THERESEPFRIMMER. Deep Muscle Massage: Bayfield, Quebec, Canada(500 miles from Montreal). Musclescompose70%of body weight, and are implicated if body movement stops, in crippling accidents and paralysis. The goal is to massage the 2nd and 3rd layer of muscles lying against the bones with light massage oil, working across the muscle origins, middle, ends, sheath coatings, and muscle fibers, restoringthemuscles' circulation and lymph lubricatingfluid; soften hardened muscle fibers, and releasingthose stuck together. |
Patrick Holford
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| Lutein: This is a powerful antioxidant found in many fruits and vegetables. It is remarkably heat stable and can survive cooking. A recent study by the Florida International University found that people whose eyes contained higher amounts of lutein were up to 80 percent less likely to be suffering from age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), a condition that includes cataracts. Lutein protects the eye by forming pigments in the macula—the part of the eye right behind the lens in the center of the retina. |
| Coumarins and chlorogenic acid: These substances prevent the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines and are found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including tomatoes, green peppers, pineapple, strawberries, and carrots.
Curcumin: A powerful antioxidant found in mustard, turmeric, corn, and yellow peppers.
Ellagic acid: Present in strawberries, grapes, and raspberries, ellagic acid neutralizes carcinogens before they can damage DNA. A common cancer-producing chemical found in some meat, called nitrosamine, is put out of action by strawberries. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 A look at what kids are eating these days is evidence of these inroads: A 1997 survey of high school students found that three-fourths of them are eating less than the advised five daily servings of fruits and vegetables,26 with one-fourth of their servings of vegetables coming in the form of french fries.27 Kids' health is showing it, too. Here in California last year, one in three children between the ages of nine and twelve is overweight or at risk of becoming so.28
But adults—and kids, too—have been rising up. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| Thus, the digestion of fruits and vegetables tends to have an overall alkalizing effect on the body, even though some of them may be quite acidic before we ingest them.
Basically, what a food breaks down into when digested is the key factor when it comes to influencing body pH. Therefore, it is best to forget about whether a food is acidic or alkaline itself, and instead, look at which foods are "acid forming" or "alkaline forming" in the body. Unfortunately, typical dietary habits in the modern industrialized world generally include high quantities of refined and processed foods. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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| It's not hard to tell which fruits and vegetables have the highest nutrient quantity; they're usually the most colorful. The color occurs because they are full of antioxidants like carotene, lycopene, lutein, xanthine, proanthocyandins, and xeanthins.)
In order to process the food we eat, we need all of the specific nutrients that are normally found in high-NCR foods; these prevent oxidative stress. That's why it's better to eat whole wheat or whole grain bread instead of white bread made from refined flour. |
Marion Nestle
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 Wash fresh fruits and vegetables thoroughly.
Wash hands thoroughly after handling animals, especially cattle, deer, goats, dogs.
Wash hands thoroughly after changing children's diapers or providing care to children or adults with diarrheal diseases.
Do not fertilize fruits or vegetables with manure from ruminant animals.
Avoid swimming in lakes or ponds used by cattle.
Do not drink surface water that has not been chlorinated, boiled, or otherwise treated to eliminate pathogens. source: Buchanan RL, Doyle MP. Food Technology ij97;5i(io):69-76. |
| The agency also must deal with food imports, which comprised 40% of the country's supply of fresh fruits and vegetables and 68% of the seafood in 2000. The FDA's budget allocation for inspection purposes was just $283 million in 2000, minuscule by any standard of federal expenditure. It is not surprising that the FDA conducted only 5,000 inspections annually, visited less than 2% of the places under its jurisdiction, and inspected less than 1% of imported foods prior to 2001 when threats of bioterrorism forced improvements. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Every branch of the food industry has burgeoned in the last few decades. The soft drink industry alone has grown nearly ten-fold in just over 50 years. With the exception of the natural foods segment of the food industry, they are all guilty of dishing out questionable fake-food products that are unquestionably the primary cause of the deteriorating health of the public. And with the exception of some segments of society (we self-avowed health food nuts for one), this trend of poor eating and the resultant epidemic of chronic dzs-ease shows no sign of abating. |
Marion Nestle
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| The New York Times called the court's decision "misguided" and its logic "seriously flawed," saying, "It ignores both the government's broad discretion under the law to police unsanitary conditions in meat plants and the serious danger, unresolved by proper cooking, that arises when contaminated raw meat and poultry come in contact with cutting boards, utensils and other foods, such as fruits and vegetables."55
The USDA's response to the decision was to announce that it planned to continue to conduct microbial testing to ensure food safety. |
| Rice bran and highly pigmented fruits and vegetables (such as melons or carrots) make beta-carotene in a series of steps in which precursor molecules are converted to beta-carotene by specific enzymes (which are proteins), one for each step. Rice endosperm lacks three of the required enzymes. To insert beta-carotene, researchers Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer and their colleagues in Switzerland and Germany obtained genes for the missing enzymes from daffodils and bacteria. |
| Instead, a combination of supplementation, fortification, and dietary approaches is likely to be needed—approaches such as promoting the production and consumption of fruits and vegetables rich in beta-carotene, educating people about how to use such foods, and improving the quantity and variety of foods in the diet (so beta-carotene can be better absorbed). Perhaps most helpful would be basic public health measures such as providing adequate supplies of clean water (to prevent transmission of diarrheal and parasitic diseases). |
David Brownstein
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 The average American eats less than two servings of both fruits and vegetables per day. Fresh fruits and vegetables provide many vitamins and minerals that help the thyroid and other hormonal glands function normally.5
Recommendations
Eliminate refined sugar and processed food that contains refined sugar such as table sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup and dextrose. Use natural sweeteners such as maple syrup, raw honey, black strap molasses, date sugar and others.
2. Eliminate Trans-Fatty Acids
Fat is a much-maligned macronutrient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In contrast, the study revealed that out of 29,000 women between the ages of 55 to 69 whose lifestyle habits were tracked, those who followed healthy recommendations such as eating fruits and vegetables and avoiding tobacco use were remarkably healthier 12 years later.
The study revealed that 22% of the cancers that did occur could have been avoided if all the women in the study group had followed all of the health recommendations. |
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