Mike Adams
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 Rather, what plant biologists are discovering is that any one vegetable or fruit may have thousands of biologically active phytochemicals. Every bite of a PowerFood is a cocktail containing thousands of these phytochemicals, all of them acting together in mysterious ways to . offer a multitude of effects, fighting against the likes of cancer and heart disease while bestowing good health and vitality. |
| The Ajinomoto company, the primary manufacturer of MSG and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, in conjunction with a dozen American food manufacturers, decided to protect their interest by forming a powerful public relations firm known as the Glutamate Association. The number one contributor to this "attack group" was the Ajinomoto Company of Japan.
The purpose of this group was not only to defend and promote the use of MSG and other "taste enhancers", but to attack anyone who dared to point out the adverse health effects of MSG. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The fiber in the fruits and vegetables is still needed for other bodily functions such as the elimination through the colon, so you still need to eat the whole fruit and vegetable. But you can get the nutritional value through the juice. It is much better than taking vitamin and mineral tablets if you're going to juice.
So to summarize: If it's made by man, don't put it in your body.
How toxins get in your body through your skin
The skin is the largest organ in the body. Anything put on the skin is absorbed and gets into the body. Even science admits this to be true. |
Paula Begoun
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 If a product lists lanolin, vegetable or plant oils, cocoa butter, mineral oil, castor oil, or petrolatum among the first four to five ingredients on the ingredient list, it is considered fairly greasy. These ingredients are also difficult to wash out of the hair and tend to sit on the scalp, trapping dead skin cells. Shampoos and conditioners must be rinsed off well. Massage your scalp gently and thoroughly when shampooing and conditioning, but don't overmanipulate the hair.
Do not use leave-in conditioners; they are rarely emollient or moisturizing enough for this kind of dryness. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 The polyunsaturated fatty acids that are present in most vegetable oils are relatively unstable, and when they are heated in the presence of oxygen (from the air), some of these fatty acids are converted to toxic compounds called lipid peroxides. Consuming excessive amounts of lipid peroxides can lead to a chain reaction of chemical events known as free-radical damage. Free-radical damage is believed to accelerate the aging process and possibly contribute to heart disease, cancer, and other problems. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Any produce, such as apples, broccoli or potatoes, whole grains such as brown rice, millet, or quinoa, vegetable proteins such as beans and legumes, animal proteins such as eggs, a piece of fish or meat. That's pretty much it, any food that is in its whole form containing all of its parts and nutrients. Any food that has been ground, separated, processed, refined, and stripped of its parts and many,
Generally speaking, time is an opponent of flavor and nutrition.
The closer you get to a tree-ripened fruit, the more satisfying it will be. |
| Similarly, a trip to the health food store for choosing and
Kids who would never look at a vegetable or a sprout eat them with as much relish as if they were Big Macs - when they grow them themselves.
Sara Sloan
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein taste testing new foods to find ones that they like is a sure winner. Give them a personal understanding of how taste is acquired by putting the theory that it takes 8 weeks to acquire a new palate to the test in the form of a game. |
| Water, tea, fruit and vegetable juices are your best choice for beverages. Cold, dry, sugary sweet cereal with cow's milk or even milk substitute is one of the worst choices for starting the day anyway. Use these alternatives as transition foods or once-in-awhile treats, and gradually move onto even healthier choices. When you do buy these milk substitutes, be sure to check the label and always buy the brand with the best overall ingredients and the least amount of added sweeteners. The original or plain variety is usually your best bet where sugar content is concerned. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 On the basis of this alphabetical version, a more reduced version was further constituted, which contained only some of the chapters devoted to vegetable substances: 390 out of the more than 630 of the original text. This is the so-called Alphabetical Herbal. Its creation supposedly evidences progressive scientific entropy, that is, a gradual loss in the information bequeathed by antiquity to the later ages due to the gradual rise of medieval obscurantism. |
| All chapters contain three major kinds of data:24
• the description or the preparation of the product dealt with, unless it is well known. For vegetable materia medica, this part contains a description of the plants from which drugs were taken;
• its major therapeutic property (or properties); and
• the full list of its therapeutic indications. |
| While Hippocrates laid down the principles to be followed in any treatment (Primum non nocere, for example), Dioscorides inventoried in his work De Materia Medica (On therapeutic substances) all of the natural products of vegetable, mineral, and animal nature used at his time for therapeutic purposes that were known to him.2 He not only described them (particularly the plants) but also mentioned their therapeutic properties and listed the diseases for the treatment of which they were prescribed. |
| While Dioscorides' botany and plant representations became rapidly obsolete, the pharmaceutical knowledge contained in his work, instead, constituted the basis of therapeutics until Andre-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) formulated the theory of chemistry, making it possible to extract the active principles from vegetable therapeutic substances.19
However historically founded it might seem, such a reconstruction is misleading. |
| This suggests that the range of vegetable substances used as pharmaceuticals by Hippocratic physicians was not as extended as the raw numbers might seem to indicate. Furthermore, the 44 plant species form two groups of plants and substances according to their origin: exotic and native. Interestingly, exotic substances—that is, substances coming from regions at the edge of the world, themselves characterized by their proximity to the sun according to ancient cosmology and geography—have the highest number of occurrences: myrrh appears 87 times, cumin 72, incense 45, and silphium 45. |
| THE RANGE OF MATERIA MEDICA
Case stories and therapeutic prescriptions in the Corpus Hippocraticum contain 3,100-plus mentions of vegetable products used for medical purposes and coming from 380 different plants.27 At first glance, these numbers could suggest (as has been often the case) that Hippocratic physicians mastered a wide range of therapeutic substances and that ancient medicine reached a high degree of development.28 However, 44 plants (about 12 percent of the 380 species mentioned in the Corpus) produce more than 1,500 of the 3,100-plus previous mentions (nearly 50 percent). |
Jack Challem
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 The relative percentages of animal foods versus vegetable foods varied from culture to culture, but, interestingly, no society was entirely vegetarian. Many ancient diets were extraordinarily diverse, including up to a hundred different types of plant foods, as well as scores of land animals, many species of fish, and wild bird eggs.
As varied as these ancient diets were, they all shared the common characteristic of nutrient density. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| TIPS FOR PREPARING
Wash bell peppers thoroughly under cold running water with a soft vegetable brush before coring and/or cutting. If the pepper has been waxed or is not organically grown, you will need to spray it with or soak it in a mild solution of additive-free soap or use a produce wash before washing. To remove the stem, use a paring knife to cut around it and then pull it out. Bell peppers can be cut into various shapes and sizes or left whole to be stuffed after carefully removing the seeds from the inner cavity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It provides fatty acids, which in no way can you get from a vegetable. We went out of our way to shop the Manhattan fishmeal to get that lowest level of mercury.
Mike: Interestingly enough, there is another ingredient I like to see here -- kelp.
Newman: Oh, kelp is wonderful. I love kelp. Kelp is such a healing food.
Mike: How does it help in ways some people may not be familiar with?
Newman: The mineral base of kelp helps maintain good coloring in the skin and coat. It is important for pigment. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 A moderate-size salad or broth-based soup can help you feel full faster without contributing many calories.
Here are a few more ideas on how you can reduce the energy density of your food and feel full and satisfied.
Choose whole fruit over fruit juice—not only do you want the soluble fiber in the fruit, but commercially made fruit juices are pasteurized at high temperatures to kill bacteria. Cooking foods high in fructose (like fruit juice) is a great way to generate health-damaging dietary glycotoxins. |
Mike Adams
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| In fact, any time someone challenges the safety of MSG or hydrolyzed vegetable protein, the Glutamate Association is invited to give its defending testimony If the FDA really wants an unbiased view it should seek the advice of scientists who have no connection at all to the manufacture and industrial use of MSG. But they rarely do.
Anotherwaythe FDA works with the Glutamate Association is by yielding to their lobbying efforts to change the labeling laws so that the words "monosodium glutamate" are not required on food labels unless it contains 100 percent pure MSG. |
Sue Palmer
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 Avoid trans-fats (e.g. hydrogenated vegetable oil).
• Help children recognise the difference between yourinterest in their health and fitness, and the marketeers' interest in your money.
• Don't use food - especially unhealthy snack foods - as a reward or treat. Try to persuade grandparents and others to follow this rule too.
• Parental example is very important. If you have a sensible, balanced attitude to food and eating, your child will pick up on it - but if you gorge on unhealthy snacks, they'll want to as well. |
John D. Lantos, M.D.
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 Bird wonders about the moral status of such a baby, using imagery that evokes a hungry nestling:
The death of a vegetable baby with only vegetable functions was not accompanied by suffering. Fine, but what did death mean to a baby like that? Or, for that matter, life? . . . What if there was a last judgment! Under what category of the Dead could you subpoena, prosecute, and sentence a baby with only vegetable functions who died no sooner than he was born? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For liquids like smoothies, fruit drinks, vegetable drinks and soups, I always choose the Vita-Mix. The Vita-Mix is also easier to use, a lot less noisy, and seems to have better quality control.
Remember, I have both of these on my kitchen counter. I almost always use the Vita-Mix because I don't have to wear the ear protection. I don't have to worry about the o-ring, and I have a lot more control over the speed.
Editor's choice: Vita-Mix
Overall, I recommend the Vita-Mix for a number of reasons. The unit has larger gears and actually seems more durable than the K-Tec blender. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here's the ingredients list for Yves "Savory Veggie" veggie burgers:
Water, oats, brown rice, onions, cheddar cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, calcium chloride, enzymes), mushrooms, flax meal, canola oil, red peppers, flaxseeds, dextrose, salt, textured soy protein (with caramel color), modified vegetable gum, natural cheese flavor, corn starch, torula yeast, hydrolyzed wheat protein, autolyzed yeast extract, spices, carrageenan, garlic powder, tomato powder. [Emphasis added.]
I get a headache just thinking about eating any of those foods. |
| Autolyzed or hydrolyzed vegetable proteins are also hidden sources of MSG, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of "Excitotoxins," and perhaps the world's top expert on neurotoxic substances found in the food supply.
I believe that food companies who continue to manufacture foods containing these ingredients are misleading consumers, and you should not purchase any products from these companies, which include many of the top veggie burger and "healthy" snack food producers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 MSG is routinely hidden in foods in these ingredients: yeast extract, torula yeast, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed yeast. Thousands of common grocery products contain one or more of these chemical taste enhancers, including nearly all "vegetarian" foods such as veggie burgers (read labels to check). See Food manufacturers hide dangerous ingredients in everyday foods by using confusing terms on the label.
4. ADHD in children is caused almost entirely by the consumption of processed food ingredients such as artificial colors and refined carbohydrates. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Hollender: Wherever possible, we're using vegetable as opposed to petroleum ingredients. We will only use ingredients that are known to be safe, so we need thorough affirmative proof that the chemical is not even suspected of having any health or environmental problems. Specific products like our auto dish detergent don't have phosphates or chlorine. Generally, none of the products we make have any chlorine in them. Chlorine is probably the greatest concern to us and we know from an industrial perspective how dangerous it is. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're thinking maybe in the vegetable section.
Mike: Are you working on maybe Wild Oats or Whole Foods?
Lovejoy: Absolutely. We are definitely working on Wild Oats and Whole Foods. They're huge.
Mike: Hopefully, it'll be available in those stores at some point.
Lovejoy: We are hoping it will be soon.
Mike: What other points do you want to make to be sure that the readers understand this product?
Lovejoy: It's actually very, very good for your immune system. It's an immune-boosting product. It's wonderful for that. It's also detoxifying and cleansing, but more on a gentle basis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most processed foods contain excitotoxins, notably any kind of commercial taste or flavor enhancers, such as caseinate, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy protein extract, yeast extract, or beef stock. These may be labeled as natural flavoring and are especially prevalent in soups, sauces, and gravies.
Walter Last, The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health
Hampton Roads Publishing Company , 2004
Page 193
Even though MSG is usually found in packaged (and therefore, labeled) foods, its presence isn't always obvious. |
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