Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 For this reason, butter, nuts, vegetable oils, and other foods that contain unstable fats should be protected from exposure to air and kept refrigerated as much as possible.
In contrast to the "bad fats" described above, so-called "essential fatty acids" (EFAs) have a number of beneficial effects. EFAs are usually classified as either omega-6 or omega-3 fatty acids, depending on their chemical structure.
Sunflower oil, safflower oil, and soybean oil are good sources of omega-6 EFAs. The best sources of omega-3 fatty acids are flaxseed oil and fish oil. |
Sue Palmer
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 Many foods these days contain manufactured 'trans-fats' (often listed on the label as 'hydrogenated vegetable oils'). These are processed fats, which are popular with the food industry because they're cheap to produce and prolong shelf life. However, trans-fats pose the same health threats as saturated fats such as butter and lard. They now turn up in many foods, including factory-produced bread and microwaveable 'ready meals', and particularly in snack foods such as potato crisps, cakes and biscuits. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was quoted as saying, "We have so many Americans, 500,000, that are suffering each year from heart disease and heart defects and a lot of that can be con-tributable and attributable to trans fatty acids."
The FDA now requires the disclosure of levels of trans fat on food labels, but there is still a major loophole that actually requires manufacturers to label any food containing 0.5 grams or less of trans fats with zero trans fats. This system actually forces manufacturers to lie to consumers. |
Robert Whitaker
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 Dissidents, the paper explained, had been forcibly injected with Thorazine, "which makes a normal person feel sleepy and groggy, practically turning him into a human vegetable." Neuroleptics were a form of torture that could "break your will."16
None of this word choice—torture, Mengele, gas chambers, spiritual murder, human vegetables—could possibly have brought any cheer to Smith, Kline & French, or to other manufacturers of neuroleptics. And with the dissidents' words as a foil, U.S. |
KC Craichy
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 The Ugly—Trans Fats
While they exist in nature, trans fatty acids are also produced by heating liquid vegetable oils in the presence of hydrogen, in a process known as hydrogenation. This process increases the oils' firmness and resistance to oxidative spoilage. These are fats that the body cannot easily break down and often lead to blocked arteries and heart disease. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Buy peanut butter without added sugar and undiluted with vegetable oils.
Peanuts were not part of the legume study mentioned above. For the purpose of longevity they should not be relied on as the only source of legumes.
Hunting for Red Meat
The New Hunter-Gatherer must learn that all red meat is not the same. Steers raised on grass are eating their traditional diet, and the fat in their meat is quite different from the corn-fed (oftentimes GMO corn) fast-food variety. Steers have special stomachs that convert grass into useful proteins and can modify fats contained naturally in the grass. |
Paula Begoun
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 Mayonnaise and vegetable oils must be thoroughly washed out of the hair, and that isn't easy to do because they are so greasy (not to mention the smell). Using food-type oils means that you'd have to repeatedly lather up to be sure you got all the oil off your hair, and that excessive washing would damage your hair. laminates, serums, hair polishers, and Spray-On Shine products
Laminates, hair serums, hair polishers, hair smoothers, defrizzers, and spray-on shine products are all designed to smooth away frizzies and add shine to the hair. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And yet people are out there buying vegetable shortening by the bucket loads and baking cookies with it -- something I find absolutely appalling.
By far, the most powerful thing you can do to restore healthy cholesterol levels is to stop eating hydrogenated oils. The next thing that you can do is stop eating trans fat (trans fatty acids) -- that means avoid all fried foods. Fried foods just do not belong in the human diet. And if you're already avoiding red meat and dairy products, then avoiding fried foods is probably a fairly easy step for you. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Chinese restaurant contain 1.7 g...five chicken nuggets and a large order of french fries from a fast-food restaurant contain nearly 4 g and 7 g, respectively.. .a piece of baked apple pie can contain 4.5 g.
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In 2002, the American Heart Association's Scientific Conference on Dietary Fats said, "The optimal diet for reducing the risk for chronic disease is one in which trans fatty acids from manufactured fats are virtually eliminated."
Translation: There is no safe level of trans fats. |
Paula Begoun
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| Henna is by far the most popular temporary vegetable dye available; others are available, but their use is statistically insignificant and they offer minimal or even unpleasant color. By contrast, henna, produced from a shrub indigenous to North Africa and the Near East, has the requisite exotic background that is so intriguing to cosmetics consumers. On the hair, over several uses, henna deposits a stain, although it can create only a reddish orange shade (and not a very attractive shade, either).
Depending on your own hair color, henna can eventually turn more orange than red. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Learn how to live on healthy, living foods like fresh vegetable juices (get yourself a Juiceman machine, Vitamix or a Champ HP3 blender). Buy some antiviral herbs or tinctures and store them in your refrigerator (they'll last longer that way). And don't be the last person in line to buy a bird flu mask. Supplies will be wiped out within days after the announcement of a human-transmittable bird flu discovery on U.S. soil.
Surviving the bird flu virus is straightforward and relatively simple. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Right now there are diesel engines that run on vegetable oil. With a little modification, you could run them on flax oil, too. In this way, a Flax Tax could slash the cost of fuels for vehicles, drastically reduce air pollution from combustion engines, and end our dependence on foreign oil. You could just grow your own fuel in fields across the country instead of having to assault foreign nations who are obviously coveting OUR oil under THEIR sand. (The bastards...)
You see, there are many uses for the Flax Tax. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why eating vegetable shortening or popular margarine products is the same as committing slow suicide.
Hydrogenated oils and the diabetes link: just a 2% increase in trans fats calories boosts your risk of diabetes by 39%.
... plus, we include dozens of citations from respected doctors and authors who speak on hydrogenated oils. You'll read some of the most eye-opening quotes ever printed about this deadly ingredient.
Just how bad is this ingredient for your health? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Taking omega-3 fats, mono-saturated fats and vegetable fats in their healthy state will actually lower LDL cholesterol. They lower total cholesterol and raise your good HDL. For proteins, it's the same thing. There is good protein out there, and there is bad protein. So my book pretty much focuses on eating a healthy diet that does not spike your blood sugar, and it talks about exercise. It is just modest exercise that gets your body moving. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And let's be sure to have the race for heart disease sponsored by makers of margarine and vegetable shortening. Yum! It's like having a race for obesity sponsored by a candy bar company.
Forget about the cure for cancer, the mystical cure for diabetes, or the cure for heart disease. There are no such cures from organized medicine, folks. The system is a sham. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There’s not one fruit, vegetable, nut or seed.
Your grocery receipt tells your health future
I wish I had some way to show these people a flashcard and they would instantly just get it. They would get the idea that all of that disease they're experiencing is directly a result of these foods in their grocery cart. It is cause and effect. "A" causes "B." If you buy and eat those groceries, you're going to have these diseases. I'm talking about all the big ones: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, depression, bowel disorders, and Alzheimer's disease. |
Paula Begoun
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| Phytospecific Revitalizing Treatment, with vegetable Oils ($24 for 3.35 ounces) is nothing more than nut, plant, and mineral oil with thickeners and conditioning agents. It is effective for dry to very dry hair, but is absurdly overpriced for a treatment you can likely find in your kitchen pantry for pennies.
© $$$ Phytolaque Soie Hair Spray with Silk Proteins, for Sensitive Hair ($18 for 3.3 ounces) is almost identical to the Phytolaque Hair Spray above, except this adds a conditioning agent to improve hair's softness and comb-ability. Otherwise, the same review applies. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When the brain developed, the human diet had equal amounts of both. Today, the average American diet has at least 10 times as much omega-6s as omega-3s. This imbalance plays a role in heart disease, arthritis, even Alzheimer's disease. It also raises the risk of depression.
A study in The Lancet found that people who ate fish more than twice a week were less likely to be depressed than those who ate fish less frequently. Other research has shown that supplements rich in omega-3s reduce depression, moodiness and other emotional ills. To get more omega-3s in your diet... |
Paula Begoun
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| Is there actually a blend of plant extracts or vegetable oils that can "de-corkscrew" ultra-tight curls like no other products have before?
The answer was and still is an incontrovertible No, it isn't possible; there aren't any natural ingredients that can produce results like those shown on television. Not only did Rio products contain almost exclusively a concoction of very unnatural ingredients, the pH of the relaxer was between 1 and 2, acidic enough to eat through hair and scalp, which is exactly what it did (Source: Archives ofDermatology, September 2000, pages 1104-1108). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gary Null, The Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing: A comprehensive A-Z listing of common and chronic illnesses and their proven natural treatments
Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2001
Page 204
Most processed foods contain excitotoxins, especially any type of commercial taste or flavor enhancer, such as hydrolyzed vegetable protein; soy protein extract; yeast extract; beef stock; commercial soups, sauces, and gravies; caseinate; and aspartame. These excitotoxins may simply be labeled as "natural" flavorings. All processed foods should be avoided by persons with Parkinson's disease. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 It smells divine, but the fragrant oils are very irritating to skin and won't teduce the appearance of skin imperfections as claimed. If anything, they can make matters worse.
© Chamomile Aromatic Care ($75 for 0.5 ounce) contains several irritating fragrant oils and fragrance components (such as eugenol) that make this a poor choice for all skin types, especially the product's targeted audience of consumers with blotchy, irritated skin.
© Energic Cream ($110 for 1. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We love flash frying it and using it like a vegetable or a crouton or a side dish. I also love taking a whole sheet, wetting it and using it as a wrap. You can wrap a piece of fish in it and bake it or steam it. You can fan it over a gas grill and get it a little crunchy and then just eat it like a snack. I also take it and stick it in the oven for a few minutes, put it through my spice grinder, and then you can use it on the top of rice. It's really a delicious food. It's also one of Mother Nature's most nutritious foods. Again, it's not as briny, not as salty as nori. |
Michele Simon
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 And our favorite "vegetable"? French fries.6
Another huge change is our obsession with sugary beverages. Sounds crazy, but humans used to just drink water. The nation's steep increase of sugar consumption directly follows the rise in soft drinks. Soft drinks are the biggest source of calories and provide more than one-third of all refined sugars in the American diet. Over the past sixty years, soft drink production has increased tenfold; consumption has doubled since 1971. Soda provides the average teenage boy with about fifteen teaspoons of refined sugar per day and girls about ten teaspoons. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's listed right on the label -- you can see it as "hydrogenated oil" or "partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil".
This artificial fat directly causes cardiovascular heart disease, it destroys normal cardiovascular health, it destroys the healthy functioning of the nervous system, it causes brain disorders, it causes heart attacks -- it is one of the most prominent and yet toxic ingredients put into the food supply. It also causes birth defects and essential fatty acid deficiencies in both the mother and her fetus. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 They can be eaten raw or are boiled and eaten as a vegetable, staple food or as an ingredient of soups and stews. Nutritional value Livingstone potato is considered to be superior to other tuber crops in terms of its food value and especially the high content of essential amino acids. In a 100 g portion, the crude protein level is about 13 g, the total lipids 0.6 g and the total carbohydrates 80 g. In addition, significant levels of calcium (140 mg), iron (50 mg) and vitamin A (0.17 mg) have been reported. |
| In Japan, Korea,
Thailand, the Philippines and also Canada and the northeastern parts of North America, young fronds are blanched and eaten as a salad or cooked as a vegetable. They are available on local fresh produce markets and also in canned form (known as sawarabi in Japan; warabi-ko is the edible starch obtained from the rhizomes). The main attractions of sawarabi are the mild taste (reminiscent of asparagus and artichoke) and especially the crisp texture. Nutritional value Bracken is said to be a high fibre and low calorie food that contains minerals such as iron and zinc. |
| Sechium ednle chayote • vegetable pear
Chayote plant
Chayote fruits
Description A vigorous climber with long stems arising from a tuberous root and bearing large, soft leaves, small yellow flowers and distinctive pear-shaped fruits that vary from smooth to spiny or warty and green to white. The plant resembles pumpkin and cucumber but the one-seeded fruit is unique. Many vernacular names exist in various parts of the world, including custard marrow, Madeira marrow, choko, mirliton, choco, cho-cho, chow chow, shu-shu, huisquil andguisqil. |
| They may also be chopped, boiled, sauteed or pureed and are especially popular as an ingredient of acras (spicy fritters), souffles, pork curries, vegetable stews (ragouts) and gratins. Chayote is considered an essential ingredient of a dish known as mange-triele (ratatouille with bacon and coconut milk). Nutritional value Fruits have a low energy value (12-15 kcal per 100 g). They add modest quantities of proteins (0.1%), minerals (0.3%), fat (6%) and vitamin C (6-17 mg) to the diet. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Make an experiment: take a piece of any vegetable or green leaf, sit down and chew it as long as you can. Just before you are ready to swallow it, spit it out onto your palm and take a look at it. You will see that it will still be far from a creamy consistency. Keep in mind that your body would only be able to assimilate nutrients from the tiniest particles. Large particles won't get digested and will turn into acidic waste. |
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