Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 In the garden, a product called Safer Insecticidal Soap can be used on fruits and vegetables. This nontoxic product is made from natural fatty acids and will kill most garden pests without harming beneficial bugs.
Cleansers made naturally are as effective as commercial brands and far less toxic. Glass cleaner can be made by adding three tablespoons of vinegar to one quart of water. Baking powder can be used in place of scouring powder as an abrasive cleaner in the bathroom and kitchen. And Borax mixed with water serves as an excellent all-purpose cleaner. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 Its presence in soil will increase the natural flavor of fruits and vegetables because of the increased mineral content. The higher the mineral content in the plant, the more resistant it is to insects and drought. The higher mineral content also causes a higher levulose (natural fruit sugar) content.
The higher the levulose content, the lower the freezing point of the plant. Because water freezes first, the higher mineral and levulose content retards freezing due to lower water weight in the plant. |
| It underlines the fact that artificial fertilizers change the potential nutritional value of fruits and vegetables that most American's eat.
The conclusions of the NTL study come as no surprise to organic growers long familiar with the "nutrient quality" issue in produce. The United States government was warned of this over fifty years ago in sworn testimony by their own people. Here is one graphic example of such testimony before a select Senate Committee by Morris L. Cook, an engineer of the United States National Resource Board, in 1936.
Our country is afflicted with earth disease ... |
| I knew that this was because, once home, he would resume eating fruits and vegetables with chemical spray residues from his local supermarket instead of the clean, organically grown produce he ate while at the Ranch. When I persuaded the gentleman to plant his own organic garden at home, his eye ulcers never returned.
My experiences running the Ranch the organic way taught me that Mother Earth will reward us bountifully if we only treat her gently. |
Susun S. Weed
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 High dietary levels of vitamin C complex
• Sources: Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables.
• Reduced by: Oxidation from washing, heating, aging.
High dietary levels of vitamin E
• Sources: Sunflower seeds, freshly ground wheat, freshly pressed oils, olive oil, flax oil.
• Reduced by: Heat, light, time.
High dietary levels of selenium
• Sources: Organically grown garlic, onions, mushrooms.
Sufficient production and absorption of vitamin D
• Sources: Sunlight, 10 minutes daily; sardines, tuna.
Adequate levels of melatonin production
• Sources: Darkness, low-calorie diet. |
| How do fruits and vegetables prevent cancer? With concentrated amounts of antioxidants, carotenes, folates, selenium, indole-3-carbinol, and other anti-cancer phytochemicals and nutrients in synergistic combinations impossible to duplicate in a pill. I eat some from every category every day:
Raw ones for antioxidant vitamin C. Oily ones, such as avocado or purslane, for antioxidant vitamin E.
Green, yellow, and orange ones for antioxidant carotenes (which become vitamin A in the liver).
Leafy green ones for anti-cancer folates. |
| JUICING
There is an immense literature on the supposed benefits of juicing raw fruits and vegetables. Although not detrimental to health, raw juice is no more nourishing than a milk shake from organic ingredients. Few of the claims made for juices are factual. Juices are not as easily digested as cooked foods. The mechanical action of the juicer does not break open a significant number of cell walls.
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(Max Gerson, M.D., who advocated using fresh juices as part of cancer treatment, complained that no juicer did a good job and used a shredder and a press instead. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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 But for those among us who do not take in five to nine servings of dark green, leafy vegetables and yellow fruits and vegetables a day, it might be wise to supplement the diet with a moderate dose of beta-carotene—maybe 5, 10 or 15 milligrams (between 8,000 and 25,000 international units) a day." With respect to the question about whether or not to supplement, there is no easy answer, he says.
Too much beta-carotene in the body can turn the skin orange. The discoloration fades as levels of the nutrient return to normal. |
Susun S. Weed
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| Raw fruits and vegetables, especially when juiced, are high sugar, low protein.)
• Sunshine, moonshine, hugs, hope, a safe place to cry and rage-there are so many ways to be healed. Friendship, firelight, flowers, fantasies-there are so many ways to be loved. Clean water, organic food, massage, prayers, fresh air, satisfying work, and engaging recreation-there are so many ways to be nourished.
• Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German healer with extensive experience helping those with cancer, used flax oil and fermented milk protein as the basis of her approach to eliminating cancer. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| People who have normal kidney function and healthy hearts usually have adequate blood levels of potassium, even if they eat only a serving or two of fruits and vegetables a day.
People run into severe potassium deficiency that causes heart arrhythmia only when something interferes with the kidneys' potassium-hoarding tendency. "People who take thiazide diuretics or digitalis, who have poorly functioning kidneys or who are alcoholics often become low in potassium unless they take supplements," Dr. Brodsky says. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and vegetables contain little or none. The content in meat rises with aging: freshly slaughtered beef contains less than beef which has been aged. Freezing holds the content down, with ordinary refrigeration less effective. Food wrap makes a difference: food exposed to air will develop more malonaldehyde than food in air-tight wrap. Cooking makes an unpredictable difference, usually in the direction of increasing malonaldehyde content. A sirloin tip roast which contained about 9 milligrams of the carcinogen per gram of raw meat, had 27 milligrams when roasted. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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| Nutrition
Low-fat diets are recommended, with special emphasis on complex carbohydrates, chiefly organic fruits and vegetables, raw juices, and some whole grains for their alkaline effect. A modest amount of nuts and seeds may be added. (See section on alkaline diet in Cancer article.) Foods specifically related to decreased prostate cancer risk include beans, especially soybeans, lentils, peas, tomatoes, raisins, dates, and other dried fruits. In some cases, small amounts of organic chicken and fish may be eaten. The following supplements are also recommended:
•Zinc... |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| It seems comforting that the legal residue of pesticides on your fruits and vegetables is a minuscule 5 parts per million, but that ceiling applies to each distinct chemical type of insect-killer used, so that you may wind up with an apple on which there are not 5 parts per million pesticide residue, but over 250 parts per million, if the grower exercises all his legal options. Not only is the total intake of these additives and pesticides disturbing, but there is also the fact that many of them have not been tested for safety at any dose. |
the Editors of PREVENTION
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 Intensely colored fruits and vegetables confer protection to your heart. Blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and certain winter squashes all have these rich pigments that make them exceptionally good heart foods."
Dr. Rountree also points out that it's a short step from heart-healthy foods to heart-healthy herbs. "The idea that what you eat will have a beneficial effect segues neatly into using herbs," he says. "They're right on the cusp between the nutritional and the medicinal. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| Extra bran and fiber from fruits and vegetables will be necessary to offset the loss of fiber from sugar processing—which is significant. (We make wallboard and acoustic paneling from this fiber—and develop lethal disease for lack of it.) Bran cereals (if not high in sugar) or bran tablets will repair the deficit.
From long experience, I know that the preceding admonition will raise a host of questions about bread. For example, what about rye bread? |
the Editors of PREVENTION
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| It's also important to eat lots of fruits and vegetables and drink plenty of water every day.
Cause: There are as many causes of excess flatulence as there are unwanted outbursts over the course of a day. Some medications may cause it, and so may food allergies or lactose intolerance. Perhaps you swallow too much air when you eat, and it passes out the other end. Some gastrointestinal disorders—things like irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, or gallbladder problems—can also be responsible. |
| While our ancient ancestors may have dined on fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and an occasional kill of wild game, we're more partial to double cheeseburgers with a side of fries. Wash that down with a large soda, and you have the recipe for diabetes. Our civilized appetite for foods that are high in sugar and fat can cause metabolic changes that result in chronically high blood sugar, or diabetes. Like the complex civilization in which we live, this pervasive disease is not easily understood or easily treated.
To start with the basics, the cells in our bodies need energy to function. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 It is a diet with an abundance of different sprouts of legumes, grains, seeds, baby greens, and grasses; fresh fruits and vegetables; soaked nuts and seeds; grains, legumes, and honey.
Rajasic foods are more stimulating to the nervous system. They include coffee, green or black teas, tobacco, fresh meats, and large amounts of stimulating spices, such as garlic and peppers. These foods are sought as stimulants by people who consciously or unconsciously use them to help carry out worldly activities. |
Susun S. Weed
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| Vitamin C: All fresh fruits and vegetables, pine needles, dandelion greens, red clover, parsley, plantain leaf, paprika. Vitamin D: Sunlight, butter, egg yolks, fatty fish, liver. Vitamin E: Cold-pressed food oils, freshly ground whole grains, nettles, seaweed, dandelion, nuts, greens, sunflower seeds. Vitamin K: Nettles, alfalfa, kelp, green tea.
Seaweed
These seaweed harvesters are conscientious, ecologically aware, and willing to be listed. There are many other sources of seaweed. I encourage you to support local harvesters or to spend one weekend a year at the ocean harvesting your own. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 I am free of that chain now, and eating fresh, organic fruits and vegetables and green juices daily. This has taken away my craving for sugar and has replenished my body. I look forward to each new day with joy and happiness instead of anger, pain, and fear.
Elaine R.
—Joe O.
I have learned that I should really watch the things I eat because why would I want to put something harmful into my body? Everything around us has an effect, and it is up to us whether we choose to accept it. |
Ben Davis
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| Between fasts, there is rest in bed, light exercise requiring skill rather than strength, and a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, with only moderate amounts of fat, sugar, starch or protein. This doctor prefers vegetable proteins—nuts and sunflower seeds are especially good, he says. (See page 167.)
EPILEPSY
Medical doctors state that epilepsy can be controlled but not cured. |
| The drugless treatment of skin ailments consists of a short fast on water or fruit juices, cleansing the bowels, frequent bathing with plain warm water, no soap, fresh fruits and vegetables in a balanced diet, correct food combinations, avoiding starches and sugars, short sun-baths (or ultra-violet lamp treatment) and exercise to induce sweating and elimination through the skin.
Although medical doctors frequently advise against bathing, drugless doctors insist on bathing with plain warm water. |
| Fasting, for example, internal cleansing (enemas, see below), fresh fruits and vegetables, cod liver oil. It took Dr. Campbell to put it all together, for the first time, in his proven new home cure for arthritis. During all seven
1. Drink only when thirsty, and then only raw fresh fruit or raw fresh vegetable juice, or raw certified milk or water.
2. Take an enema daily until charcoal or corn test show no further need. (Purchase charcoal tablets at health food store. Take six at the end of an evening meal. They color your stool black. |
| I eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and avoid sugar, coffee, overly processed and chemical-laden foods and white flour. Every day I thank God that my life has turned around from a bed-ridden cripple to a useful citizen."
Apple cider vinegar has relieved crippling knee pain. Mrs. A.T. said: "My father had a bad knee from kneeling on cement welding for 20 years. A couple of years ago, it started getting so bad he would miss work and have to stay home with a heating pad on it. The knee would swell to twice its normal size. |
Gary Null
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| VegiWash. This will remove pesticide surface residues.
5. Buy your foods in glass containers; avoid cans and plastic.
6. Take supplements, especially vitamins C and E, and minerals such as magnesium. Check out the literature and take charge of your health. If you need hormones, consider primarily natural ones and/or transdermally administered varieties in the smallest possible doses—they bypass the liver.
7. Join a health or cancer activist group.
8. |
James Green
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 Its pace is similar to that of quilting and whittling, walking with little children, basket weaving, and chopping the fruits and vegetables at a potluck dinner.
STORING HERBS
Light, heat, moisture, and exposure to air deteriorate dried botanicals. Store your dried herbs in airtight, light-shielding, dry containers that will keep out insects and rodents. I prefer to use canning jars or clean recycled jars (especially the amber brown jars) that have wide mouths and tight-fitting hds. |
John Heinerman
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 Pectin is a water-soluble substance in many fruits and vegetables that yields a gel from which jellies are made. It is a natural cell scrubber derived chiefly from plant cell walls and fruit such as apples and different kinds of citrus. One apple yields about two grams of pectin. When it combines with certain mineral salts in an apple, they form an insoluble salt that has strong laxative properties.
If you think apple juice works fine for a plugged bowel, then you haven't seen anything until you combine it with one particular vegetable juice. |
| Because of all the fruits and vegetables I know of, string bean juice alone resuscitates the pancreas, spleen and liver better than anything else I've prescribed. No diabetic or hypoglycemic should ever be without it!"
Paavo sincerely believed and knew from tests which he had conducted as a biologist on some of his patients, that string bean juice stimulated the islets of Langerhans which are scattered across the interstitial tissue of the pancreas. |
| On the avocado-enriched diet, which consisted of eating as well as drinking avocado meals, participants increased their overall fat intake to 37 percent by consuming about one avocado per day and by decreasing amounts of breads, cereals, fruits and vegetables.
Compared to the participants' original cholesterol levels, the avocado-enriched diet reduced total cholesterol by 8 percent, while the carbohydrate diet decreased it by 5 percent. The avocado diet maintained the HDL level, however, while the carbohydrate diet decreased HDL by 14 percent. |
| Further risk is enhanced by inadequate chewing of food and excessive consumption of fibrous fruits and vegetables.
The reduced contractility of the gastric remnant limits the amount of fiber that can freely pass into the intestine. Cellulose fibers that fail to pass then become entangled in a ball, which causes low-grade gastritis and the outpouring of a thick, tenacious mucus capable of binding additional fiber. In this manner a phytobezoar is formed. |
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