Alex Steffen
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 Opposite, right: Organic vegetable farmer and son, Washington.
Right: Farmers' market, Brooklyn, New York.
We all value the modern convenience of one-stop-shopping. But when did it become normal to buy food at office-supply or home-decor stores? No matter what we go into a store for, we can almost always walk out the door with a snack in hand. And that's a problem because we are losing our connection to the source of our food; when we can buy it anywhere, it seems to come from nowhere. |
Mike Adams
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 However, frequently the chefs did not know which sauces contained MSG or hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). Huge amounts of MSG are still used. I have discovered that in the "finer" restaurants, the "soup bases," clam broths, and breadings are all places to find MSG.
- George R. Schwartz, M.D., In Bad Taste: The MSG Symptom Complex
Indian restaurants are hazardous when it comes to avoiding MSG. Curries frequently contain outrageous doses of MSG. The worst MSG headache of my life occurred after eating a curry dish at an upscale Indian restaurant. |
| By ingesting diets high in MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, aspartame and other excitotoxins, these people would be exposing their brains to damaging levels of this class of toxin. Eventually other neurons would be damaged, possibly leading to symptoms of Alzheimer's type dementia andALS.
- Russell Blaylock, M.D. |
| Nearly 80 percent of all the vegetable oil used in the United States today comes from soybeans. Three-fourths of that oil is hydrogenated (containing up to 50 percent trans fatty acids). This amounts to an awful lot of nasty trans fatty acids that are in our foods now that weren't there before. For example, a single restaurant meal, which in 1982 contained only 2.4 grams of trans fatty acids, contains a whopping 19.2 grams today. The food is the same; only the oil is different. |
Michele Simon
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 In one case, several vegetarian and Hindu groups charged the company with falsely claiming that its french fries were cooked in 100 percent vegetable oil, when they were in fact flavored with beef tallow.5 The suit was eventually settled for $10 million and an apology. As of this writing, McDonald's is facing at least three more lawsuits accusing it of failing to disclose that its french fries contain potential allergens such as wheat and dairy. (The company maintains these ingredients are used simply as flavor enhancers.6 |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Earth's Promise is a green food or superfood supplement made of nutrient-rich food concentrates, including various vegetable powders, fruit powders, green tea and seaweed. Plus, there's fiber as well. This is one of the best tasting green foods products I've tried. Earth's Promise tastes so good that I can just drink it straight with water, without grimacing. You can put it in water, or as I sometimes like to do, put some oats in a bowl, add a little bit of stevia for sweetener, and then put in a couple of tablespoons Earth's Promise to make what I call purple oatmeal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The closer you can get to the garden (the shorter the time between picking a fruit or a vegetable and consuming it), the better it is for your health. I think there's some currently undetectable, unquantifiable element in live foods that is so beneficial for human health, and yet is completely underestimated and not even acknowledged by modern science.
And I think it's also fascinating to remember that plants are pharmaceutical factories built by nature. They are living miracles. |
| Well, it turns out that it also contains free glutamine because the minute I drank this vegetable stock product, I immediately got a severe MSG headache.
Because I have very high body awareness, I know what an MSG headache feels like, and I never get headaches unless it's something that I've eaten. So this product, Kitchen Basics, apparently contains MSG in an ingredient that they call "natural flavor," and yet right on the box it says "No MSG, No Fat, and No Glutens." I think that's a very misleading product, and it's something that people should not purchase. |
Michael Pollan
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 But back to the critical review, which in its second paragraph drops this bombshell:
It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences.
Say what?
The article then goes on blandly to survey the crumbling foundations of the lipid hypothesis, circa 2001: Only two studies have ever found "a significant positive association between saturated fat intake and risk of CHD [coronary heart disease] "; many more have failed to find an association. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And if it has yeast extract, or autolyzed yeast extract, or hydrolyzed vegetable protein or any of these other ingredients that actually harbor MSG, then it is, in my opinion, a deceptively positioned product, because it claims to be natural but in fact uses highly potent refined extracts that don't occur anywhere near that concentration in nature.
You'll see a much more detailed discussion of all this in my upcoming book, "Grocery Warning," due out shortly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Those ingredients are MSG, yeast extract, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable proteins, and other similar ingredients. Warning: watch out for broth products made by Kitchen Basics. They claim their products don't contain MSG or yeast extract, but when I tried their product, I experienced a massive "MSG headache" that tells me it contains free glutamic acid that isn't listed on the label. (I'm very sensitive to MSG.) The brand of broth I buy is Trade Joe's house brand, which does not contain free glutamic acid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You must start reading ingredient labels, and what you're looking for here is either hydrogenated vegetable oil or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. It can also be called partially hydrogenated soybean oil or safflower oil. The name of the oil doesn't matter. What you're looking for is the word “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated.” If it has either one of those words, that food is poison. It will give you cardiovascular disease. It will harm your nervous system. It will shorten your lifespan, quite frankly. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 All living vegetable materials are covered with organisms which permit the recycling of the material as soon as "death" occurs, so when tea leaves are picked the enzymes start at once to recycle the green material. In order to control this process, the green leaves are allowed to wither naturally by being spread out on special racks. Here they lose, by evaporation, 50 percent of their moisture. If the ambient humidity is naturally high, as during the rains, the process takes longer, but the aim is to wither within a maximum of 12—16 hours. |
Alex Steffen
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| Step 2 — Brewing:
Measure out t liter of filtered-waste vegetable oil into your 1,500-milliliter beaker. Measure out 200 milliliters of methanol into your 500-milli-liter beaker. Measure out into your petri dish the number of grams of lye that you determined during titration.
Pour the methanol into your blender. Add the lye. Blend at low speed until fully dissolved. This reaction creates sodium methoxide. Because of rapid evaporation, the rest of the process must be done immediately. Use extreme caution! Do not inhale or ingest this stuff! |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 The chains contain bends and kinks that create points of rigidity, so the molecules cannot pack together as tightly; a feature responsible for the liquid character of vegetable oils, for example.
Monounsaturated fatty acids fall somewhere between these two extremes: they contain a single point of rigidity. This is why olive oil, a rich source of these lipids, is liquid at room temperature but solid in the refrigerator. |
Alex Steffen
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| The program teaches kids about nutritious food, beginning with the organic vegetable patch at their school. Children take carrots and tomatoes from seedling to salad, learning to cultivate, harvest, and cook all sorts of things. This seminal program has inspired numerous others.
Children everywhere benefit tremendously from having gardens on school grounds. The plots serve as experimental learning labs, and fill open spaces with living, growing greenery and plants instead of asphalt and concrete. |
| You can use either store-bought vegetable oil or waste cooking oil from a restaurant. Generally, restaurant owners will be delighted to have you haul away a few gallons of their grease, because otherwise they pay a removal service to get rid of it. Note that if you are gathering waste oil from various sources, each source will have a different pH, so you'll have to make sure to get a mean pH reading, representative of the whole batch.
Ingredients and Supplies:
5 grams lye (KOH) petri dish
1 liter distilled water
3 beakers (one 20 mL, one 1,500 mL, and one 500 mL)
3. |
| H indicator, available at pool/hot-tub suppliers) graduated syringe or eyedropper 1 bottle methanol (you can also use ethanol) 1 kitchen blender (which you can never use again for smoothies!)
Step 1 — Titration:
Titration helps you determine how much catalyst you must add, by indicating the acidity of your oil.
Measure out 1 gram of lye into your petri dish. Dissolve into 1 liter distilled water. In the 20-milliliter beaker, dissolve 1 milliliter vegetable oil into 10 milliliters isopropyl alcohol. Swirl or warm very gently to dissolve the oil into the alcohol until the solution is clear. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 In general, you should avoid foods with the following additives listed as ingredients on the label:
>• Caffeine
>• Bromate
>• Olestra
>• Hydrogenated vegetable oil
> Coloring known as blue 1, blue 2, green 3, red 3, or yellow 6 >• Preservatives such as nitrate or sodium nitrate
>¦ Flavoring known as monosodium glutamate
> All artificial sweeteners, particularly saccharine, aspartame, ace-sulfame K, and cyclamate potassium.
Did You Know?
More than one hundred pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations. |
Alex Steffen
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| Pour filtered-waste vegetable oil into the sodium methoxide solution in your blender and blend for 15 to 20 minutes continuously. After blending, leave the mixture alone to settle for at least 8 hours, at which point you will have two layers: glycerin on the bottom and biodiesel on top. Both of these substances are nontoxic. The biodiesel goes in your tank, and the glycerin goes in your soap dispenser. You've reincarnated grease into two phenomenally useful substances. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 If you are having any problem around your property, even with rodents such as gophers, mice, rats, moles, squirrels, possums, skunks, raccoons, rabbits, snakes, bird problems, insect problems, even solving problems in your vegetable or fruit garden, this book has the answer. It gives gardening tips and shows how to repel insects and bugs without chemical pesticides. The information in this book can save you a tremendous amount of money because you will be using inexpensive, all-natural ingredients that you find around your house to solve your insect and pest problems. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Cut down your intake of animal fats, and substitute with vegetable oils.
The Benefits of Organic Foods
Organic foods are simply foods that are grown without most of the synthetic chemicals used in conventional farming, with a minimum level, if any, of synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, growth hormones, or fertilizers. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Mashed potatoes can also be piped over any vegetable casserole and baked in the oven, like cottage pie.
PERFECT BAKED POTATOES
Choose potatoes of equal size and wash well. Prick the skins with a fork to prevent the potatoes from bursting in the oven. Place on the oven rack and bake in a hot oven at 392°F for 50—60 minutes. When ready, remove from the oven and cut a deep cross in the center of each potato. Press the sides together gently to open the cross. Dot with butter or olive oil, add a dash of sour cream or cold-pressed olive oil, and sprinkle with chopped parsley. |
| If you feel you need more than that, then fresh vegetable and fruit juices would make far more sense.
I used to suffer from severe low blood sugar levels, or hypoglycemia, with dizzy spells and mood swings ranging to severe depression. When I included plenty of fresh fruit in my diet, this became a thing of the past. I have since seen that this is the case in many other people with whom I have consulted. Imagine no therapy or drugs; just a diet that includes plenty of fresh fruit. |
| Omega 6 is found in almost every fruit and vegetable, including avocados, nuts, and seeds. It is very difficult to develop a deficiency of Omega 6 on a natural diet; however, if you eat very little or no natural fats and only consume low-fat commercial foods, it could easily develop. |
| Fish oil lacks vitamin E whereas flaxseed oil and other cold-pressed vegetable oils have an abundance of vitamin E. Eating fats from plants allows your body to make all the EPA and DHA it needs, whereas you could be seriously overdosing when taking fish oil. It seems somewhat insane to be killing fish to extract the oils when you can get everything you need from plant foods in a far better, more natural and usable state. Some people claim that we do not have the ability to convert Omega 3 to EPA and DHA. |
| We have been led to believe by the oil and margarine advertising companies that all vegetable fats are better than any animal fats. But is this true? Let us compare the relative merits of butter and margarine. Butter is not heated during processing. You can make your own butter: simply beat cream past the thick stage to when it separates. Then rinse the fatty part that is formed and pour off the watery part. You then have unsalted butter. If you prefer salted butter, just add a little salt. According to the dairy industry, the amount of salt in butter is about 2 percent. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Primary carbohydrates: Any whole grain wheat product, pasta, oats, yogurt, milk, tomato soup, chicken noodle soup, sweet potato, butternut or acorn squash, beans, carrots, tomato-based vegetable juice (not carrot juice).
Occasional carbohydrates; eat a small or moderate portion only: Rice, low sugar cereals, lentils, peas, corn, and potatoes.
Condiment sweeteners: Chocolate, honey, maple syrup, white sugar. A person serious about weight loss will avoid all of these sweeteners completely for optimal progress. An occasional thumb size portion is acceptable. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 It is still grown as a food crop by the Ketchi indigenous people in Guatemala; the bean is cooked as a vegetable. In Brazil the seed has been used internally for Parkinson's disease, edema, impotence, intestinal gas, and worms. It is considered a diuretic, nerve tonic, and aphrodisiac. Externally it is applied to ulcers. Velvet bean has a long history of use in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, where it is used for worms, dysentery, diarrhea, snakebite, sexual debility, cough, tuberculosis, impotence, rheumatic disorders, muscular pain, sterility, gout, menstrual disorders, diabetes, and cancer. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 The fruit is eaten as a vegetable; the leaf may be made into a tea called 'cerassic'. Both the fruit and the leaf have hypoglycacmic effects. The extract causes hypogly-caemia in animals and human diabetic patients and several clinical studies have confirmed benefits. It has also been used to treat asthma, skin infections and hypertension (see Murakami et al 2001, Raza et al 2000).
Toxicology
Contraceptive and teratogenic effects have been described in animals, so care should be taken in pregnant women, although cooking the vegetable may well destroy many of the toxins. |
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