Ray Strand, M.D.
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 Vegetable proteins are the very best ones we can eat, their greatest advantage being that they contain fewer environmental toxins and chemicals than animal protein.Vegetable proteins also contain the good fat and provide the highly needed antioxidants we all need. Some good sources of plant protein are soy, legumes, beans, and nuts. By consuming a wide variety of plant foods, you are able to provide your body with all the essential proteins while also providing much-needed good fat.
Cold-water fish offers the next best source of protein. |
Jack Challem
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 Wild Rice (Serves 6)
1 cup wild rice
1 cup high-quality chicken or vegetable broth
2 stalks celery, diced
4 ounces water chestnuts, diced
2-3 tablespoons organic raisins
2 cups water
Rinse the rice in a strainer and transfer it to a 2-quart saucepan. Add the broth and the water. Bring to a boil over high heat (about 5 minutes) and then reduce the heat to a simmer. After 20 minutes add the celery, water chestnuts, and raisins to the rice and stir. The rice should cook fully in about 40 to 50 minutes. Fluff with a fork and drain off any excess water. |
David Wolfe
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 If you have weak digestion, you can strengthen your digestive capacity by slowly increasing the raw green vegetable juices in your diet over time. If no juicer is available, one may help their digestion along by soaking green-leaves in olive oil for two to three hours before eating them. Chew your food well. One will automatically increase their digestive strength by introducing more and more fresh juices and raw foods at an appropriate pace, allowing the body to adjust. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But what's reaching the top right now is our gelatinized organic vegetable capsules. When I say gelatinized, I mean the maca inside is what they call gelatinized maca.
Mike: Gelatinized?
Rumery: Right. So when we're talking about maca, what "gelatinized" means is that some of the complex sugars have been converted to glucose or more simple sugars so that it's more readily available for the body. There's a lot of talk about it right now. People are saying that it's stronger, but I think it's just more readily available biologically. It doesn't really differentiate it so much. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 This chapter is about the potato, a useful tuber, a humble root, unknown in Europe before the Renaissance. This vegetable became far more than a source of food. It became the cause of population explosion and changed the future of two European countries and the composition of the largest, richest, most important ex-colony to arise out of the loins of the Atlantic nations.
The potato comes from the high Andes, 8000 feet above the maize or Indian corn line. Like corn, the potato was the staple starchy food of the Incas. |
| The young leaves and buds of the tea plant may be pickled and made into "Leppet tea," as in the Shan States in the mountains between Burma and China, and eaten as a vegetable. Green or black tea may be made into cakes, which in Tibet are turned into a thickish soup and, mixed with rancid yak butter, slurped or eaten with a spoon—an acquired taste. Tea may be chewed, either green or black, as in some parts of Indo-China. It may even be ground and sniffed like snuff, as in Yunnan. |
| We do not have these hypothetical killers, but they would both form suitable population control devices, which is the apparent purpose of a great many diseases in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms. (Diseases control population growth and ensure survival of the fittest. This is "cruel," but if malaria is cured, and the food supply does not increase, then the control will be famine, which is often caused by drought. Drought also kills mosquitoes, and as a result may increase human survivors, who will die of starvation.) Nor is die idea of no malaria a silly one. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Many restaurants use GM vegetable oils. But they may also have olive oil available for salads, etc. But make sure that their olive oil is not blended with canola oil. This is done often and sometimes even the waiters and waitresses don't know. The kitchen does.
Depending on the dish, some restaurants can switch cooking oils just for your meal—using olive oil instead of their normal vegetable oil. It's not likely, however, that they will do this for deep fried dishes. Italian, Greek, and Middle Eastern restaurants and many fine dining establishments tend to use olive oil anyway. |
Carlo Petrini
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 He is chiefly remembered, however, for his enlightened contribution to the science that studies the vegetable kingdom, and in particular for introducing to Italy that branch of botany, pomology (the science of fruit-growing), which was already widespread in other parts of Europe.
Pomona Italiana was an ambitious and unprecedented publishing project: for twenty-five years, Gallesio traveled the length of the Italian peninsula from north to south, recording, describing, and classifying the principal existing varieties of fruit. |
| Family practice would teach without formal lessons; children saw their fathers cut up the animals for meat and collect the products from the vegetable garden, and watched their mothers make preserves and cook every day, according to the season. How many people today know the names of the various cuts of meat by heart? How many know how to make a good preserve?
There was a sort of umbilical cord that was guaranteed by the proximity between agricultural practice, processing, and consumption. |
| But this is not the only direct, joyous, and practical method available to children now; the experience of Slow Food (in Australia, the United States, and Italy) has also given rise to the idea of the school garden, a vegetable patch in the school, where children learn to grow their own food, to interpret the signs of the changing seasons, and to gather the fruits of the earth so that they can taste, cook, judge, and compare them with those of the supermarket. Sensoriality here broadens out; it embraces work and the relationship with the earth and with the ecosystem. |
| The strong impulse toward high productivity in agriculture on a largely industrial basis has led to a rapid selection—not only by natural means, but also through hybridization and even through "creation" using genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—of new vegetable and animal varieties that suit the new production processes of our era. The square peppers of Asti and many varieties of Latin American corn, for example, have had to give way to hybrids, or at any rate to more productive varieties. |
| The spread of the intensive cultivation of corn has threatened other vegetable species, too, such as amaranth. This food, together with beans and corn, was the basis of the Aztec diet, but was banned by the first colonizers because it was felt to be in some way associated with the ritual human sacrifices that these civilizations practiced. |
Jack Challem
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| Then use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin along the lower part of the stem. Lay the asparagus spears on a baking sheet. Arrange the onion rings on top of the asparagus. Drizzle with the olive oil and sprinkle with the oregano. Bake for 3 minutes. Use a spatula to flip the asparagus over and bake for another 3 minutes. Serve immediately.
Rosemary Carrots (Serves 3)
8 ounces baby carrots or large 2 teaspoons fresh or dried rosemary carrots cut into Vi-inch pieces leaves extra-virgin olive oil
Clean and peel the carrots and place them in a microwave-safe bowl. |
Henry Hobhouse
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| Man uses all sorts of vegetable fibers—flax, hemp, jute, manila, and sisal are the common ones that have always been important. More unusually, the pineapple plant yields a very find thread after an infinity of labor, and a coarse cloth may be made from nettles. The mulberry leaf, after preprocessing by the silkworm, can be converted to a fiber of unic ue luxury.
Cotton fiber is flat and hollow, but already twisted; under the microscope it looks like a canvas hose, empty, flattened, but with a natural twist. |
David Wolfe
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| Lunch
1 quart (1 liter) of freshly-made vegetable juice containing apples and celery. One sandwich made with toasted sprouted grain bread, avocado, clover sprouts, sliced tomato, diced zucchini and cayenne or garlic powder.
Snacks
One shot (1 ounce) of fresh wheatgrass juice. 2-3 apples or pears. 10-20 almonds or walnuts . 1 handful of Brazil nuts.
1 item of cooked starch (tortillas or baked, no-salt corn chips). |
Henry Hobhouse
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| In the great innocent space between the two smart states, New York and California, spinach would have qualities never before given to any other edible vegetable.37
Two generations of small boys would be forced to eat the stuff "to grow up big and strong like Popeye." The Popeye cartoon-artists meanwhile enjoyed the joke, which was exalted by the commercial benefits enjoyed by growers and sellers of spinach. Spinach sales multiplied in the United States by three times between the wars, and doubled again when deep-frozen spinach became available. |
David Wolfe
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| Always err on the side of eating more variety and drinking more vegetable juices.
Transitional Strategy
Eat as high a percentage of raw-plant foods in your diet as possible. Feel free to eat large quantities of raw plant foods if you feel so inclined. Discover sources for raw organic foods either locally or through mail order. Items that may be unfamiliar, such as hempseed oil, spirulina, maca or goji berries may be found at a natural-food store, or through www.rawfood.com.
Any cooked foods should preferentially be eaten in the evening, and then only one type at a time. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Sample spices, seasoning mixes, herbal salt substitutes, sea vegetable or seaweed powders, or even tangy lemon juice.
• Don't add salt to food when you cook it.
• Avoid fast foods.
• Check processed foods by reading the sodium content on labels.
• Keep one or more shakers of your favorite spices or season mixes on the table, so you'll have tasty and convenient alternatives to salt.
Now that you see how mineral math works, add it to your lifestyle. It may just help you subtract cataracts for good.
Tasty ways to head off cataracts
Can you use two more ideas for preventing cataracts? |
| They saw positive evidence that those who ate more animal and vegetable fat were more likely to get AMD. They also found that eating lots of fish may cut back on your chances of developing this disease.
The value of fish fat may come from an omega-3 fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) found in the retina of your eye. The study showed that the more DHA you have, the lower your risk of AMD. However, researchers found the same inverse relationship with fish in general so it's possible a combination of nutrients may be responsible for the protective effect. |
| Most people eat a diet overloaded with omega-6, which is found in vegetable oils like soybean or corn oil.
A more balanced ratio of omega-6 and omega-3 will help lessen inflammation, which contributes not only to heart disease but also arthritis, headaches, and asthma. Try to cut down on deep-fried foods and other sources of omega-6 while boosting your intake of omega-3.
Fish, especially fatty fish, is the best source of this amazing nutrient. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends eating two fatty fish meals a week. |
| Food sources of vitamin E include wheat germ, vegetable oils, dark leafy greens, nuts, and seeds.
B vitamins. In a new Swiss study, people who recendy underwent an angioplasty to clear their blocked arteries were given either a combination of B vitamins or a placebo. Those who took the B vitamins - folate, B12, and B6 - fared much better. This group needed significantly fewer repeat angioplasties and also suffered fewer heart attacks and deaths.
The homocysteine-lowering effect of folate probably helped. |
| Although the study used supplements, you can benefit from eating food sources of vitamin E, like wheat germ, vegetable oils, and sunflower seeds.
When a muscle cramp hits, lower the affected limb below the rest of your body, put some heat on the muscle, or sit, stretch, and flex it.
Wash them out with water.
Dehydration is one of the most common causes of muscle cramps. Thankfully, it's also one of the easiest to fix. Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day, especially when you're active or it's hot outside.
Pounce on pain with potassium. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 A Vita-Mix, being a very powerful blender, simply liquefies the entire fruit or vegetable. This is not juice; this is a liquefied fruit or vegetable. It's not bad, but it is not juice. That's why I recommend a juice extractor. For those of you who want more convenience, as I mentioned in last month's newsletter, you can enjoy mangosteen juice, goji juice, or noni juice. |
John Heinerman
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 V-8 or carrot-and-mixed greens. Over an extended period of time, a definite improvement of some kind should become noticeable.
Best Tonic for Irregularity
There's no two ways about it—bran is the best tonic you could ever use for correcting the problem of irregular bowel movements. In one fascinating medical study, "before and after" results were given of stool weights in those who ate refined food, then added about 1 tbsp. of bran twice a day to their diets a week later. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 A significant portion of the lipid content in milk chocolate comes from milk fats, as well as some vegetable fats used in candy as filler. Despite its high sugar content, dark chocolate has a relatively low glycemic index, half that of white bread and similar to that of orange juice. All in all, the high fat and sugar content of both types of chocolate makes for a calorie-rich food that should be eaten in moderation.
The interest in the potential health benefits of chocolate did not come about as a result of its fat and sugar content! |
| Increasing the intake of omega-3s while decreasing that of
THE FATS IN FOOD
Fats and Fatty Acids-
Saturated fats
Animal fats, butter, lard, tropical oils t
Omega-6 fatty acids vegetable oils (corn, sunflower . . . |
| Praised by Pythagoras, baptised "the vegetable of a thousand virtues" by Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), who recommended it in the treatment of diarrhea and dysentery, cabbage was seen in this period as a food essential to good health. Not without good reason: Diogenes the Cynic (413-327 B.C.) managed to survive to the venerable age of eighty-three while living in a miserable shack and eating little else but cabbage.
Marcus Porcius Cato, known as Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C. |
| The flour used in preparing breads and pasta is bleached, refined, and far too finely ground: eating these products leads to the release of phenomenal amounts of sugar in the bloodstream. vegetable oils are extracted at high temperatures, which changes their chemical makeup and leads to the formation of potentially toxic fats, such as trans fats. Many products such as cured and smoked foods contain preservatives that may be converted into carcinogenic substances in the body. |
David Wolfe
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| For those raw-foodists practicing yoga: drink more green vegetable juice for better flexibility.
Consider that the number one cause of death in the western world is heart disease. The heart concentrates magnesium at a level 18 times greater than what is found in the blood. Magnesium is the primary alkaline mineral in chlorophyll. An abundance of green n the diet strengthens the heart. The heart chakra is green (chakras are bodily energetic centers studied in yoga that correspond to the glands/organs [i.e. heart/thymus]). |
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