| Wheat germ, almonds and vegetable oils are rich in vitamin E, and carrots, broccoli and sweet potatoes are beta-carotene boosters.
Putting the Stops on PMS
Women's menstrual cycles have been called a lot of unflattering names—the nuisance, the plague, the curse. But any woman who's ever endured the bloating, cramping and mood swings that assail her during the week to ten days before menstruation knows what the real curse is.
The physical and emotional upheaval that precedes your periodknown as premenstrual syndrome—can be the most trying of times, says Somer. |
Dianne Onstad
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 They absorb other flavors well but are enhanced by a sprinkling of sweet spice such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, or allspice. Unlike potatoes, the skin is not edible so should be removed. Wash under running water and then peel thickly to remove both the skin and the layer beneath. All yams contain dioscorine, which is poisonous (although cooking completely destroys it); this lies near the peel. Cut the yam into whatever size pieces you want. If not cooking at once, keep in salted water, because yam discolors easily. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 Six to 8 ounces of organic tomato or vegetable juice. This is the base of the drink.
PROFESSIONAL CARE
Flu usually goes away without complications, but sometimes the infection moves into the lungs, causing viral or bacterial pneumonia. That's why it's important to stop flu as quickly as you can, says Peter Holyk, M.D., director of the Contemporary Health Clinic in Sebastian, Florida. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 However, when properly prepared, beans can be as gas-free as any other vegetable.
The secret to gasless beans is to soak them for a long time before cooking. Put dry beans in enough water to cover and let them sit overnight. In the morning, you'll have soft beans — ready to cook and free of undesirable flatulence-producing side effects.
Essential Extras: Vitamins & Minerals
As foods become more processed, they often become stripped of many of the naturally occurring nutrients our ancestors were able to get from their food. |
Grace Ross Lewis
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 Useful for beet sugar, cooking oil, salad oil, vegetable oils, and yeast. It prevents crystal formation also.
Precautions: FDA approves use when used within limitations
Synonyms: NONE KNOWN
OZOCERITE
Products and Uses: A general purpose wax, sometimes used in place of carnauba and beeswax. Also used in paints, leather polishes, inks, carbon papers, floor polishes, crayons, waxed paper, cosmetics, lipstick, rouges, ointments, and waxed cloth.
Precautions: Harmless when used for intended purposes.
Synonyms: MINERAL WAX ? FOSSIL WAX ? OZOKERITE ? |
| VEGETABLE GUM dhea_
Products and Uses: Currently a very popular supplement being sold in drugstores, and health food stores. It is called the "mother hormone," and is touted as a cancer preventative, fountain of youth, heart disease and AIDS cure. These are all unproven.
Precautions: The long-term effects on the body are unknown. The many claims are unproven. The over-the-counter product is sometimes an extract of wild yams, which is supposed to convert to DHEA in the body. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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LDL molecule, which then damages the arteries. |
| Do not eat foods that contain trans-fatty acids, such as milk, milk products, margarine, shortening, or other synthetically hydrogenated vegetable oils, as well as fried foods.
• Avoid milk and foods high in iodized salt.
Nutritional Supplements
• Multiple-vitamin-and-mineral formula providing B-complex vitamins according to recommendations given in the chapter Supplementary Measures. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| There could be soy in the vegetable broth of your favorite canned soup. If you have a true milk allergy, you may react to casein or lacto-al-bumin-milk derivatives that are often found in baked goods.
Avoiding hidden allergens in foods takes some knowledge and practice, notes Patricia Kendall, R.D., Ph.D., professor of nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. And if you must avoid major food groups, replacing lost nutrients requires savvy, too. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 The technique involves self-massage: With clean hands and warm vitamin E or vegetable oil, the mother places thumbs or index fingers an inch to an inch and a half inside the vagina. Firm, gentle pressure is applied downward and outward until the stretch results in a burning sensation. This is held for a few minutes. The exercise is repeated once or twice a day.
During labor, applying pressure to certain acupressure points can reduce pain and anxiety, and even speed up labor. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| LOW-FAT DIET: Cutting Off the Bile Pipeline
The saturated fat in dairy foods, meats, vegetable shortening, coconut oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated oils makes bile more concentrated, says Elizabeth Lipski, a certified clinical nutritionist in Kauai, Hawaii.
People who reduce the amount of fat and sugar in their diets while at the same time increasing fiber intake may be able to stop gallstone attacks because the bile will be less concentrated, making stones less likely to form. |
Grace Ross Lewis
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| What improvement is there in a gene-altered vegetable?
A tomato would look better and have a longer shelf life.
41. I have read about BST and BGH, the hormones that are given to cows. Would the hormones and antibiotics that are given to cows and other cattle get into our body when we drink the milk and eat the meat?
This is a major concern right now that is still being studied. There are conflicting scientific studies on the issue.
42. What difference does it make if we get the antibiotics in our food via cattle? |
Bill Gottlieb
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| Some of the richest vegetable sources of potassium are Swiss chard, celery, spinach, parsley, watercress, endive, kohlrabi, broccoli, tomato juice, cucumbers, cauliflower, asparagus, artichokes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and winter squash.
If you have kidney disease, high levels of potassium can be harmful. You should talk to your doctor before increasing your intake of potassium-rich foods.
FISH: For Oils Your Arteries Need
Lowering your intake of artery-hurting saturated fat—the kind found in red meats and dairy foods—should be part of any plan to lower high blood pressure. |
| Donovan recommends a liquid diet of herbal tea, high-protein broth (such as fish, chicken, or meat broth), and fresh vegetable juices. This allows the body to absorb essential nutrients without having to do the extra work of digesting solid foods, he says. You should use a liquid diet only under the supervision of your doctor, he adds.
FATTY ACIDS: Reduce Inflammation and the Risk of Cancer
People with inflammatory bowel disease may have a higher risk of colon cancer than those without the disease. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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| In fact, mineral supplementation can be effectively achieved by adding a meager two tablespoons of a dried sea vegetable to a soup.
During the early phases of a supplementation program, many eating disorder patients have an intense phobia of gaining weight and are thus reluctant to eat large quantities of food. Consequently, small concentrated sources are often initially prescribed to quell their fears. |
| Eat lightly, and go on a short vegetable or fruit juice fast, if possible. It is also helpful to drink a glass of warm water in the morning and take a tablespoon of olive oil before retiring at night. The rest of the diet should focus on whole grains and legumes, with small amounts of nuts and seeds. Note that, despite its name, whole wheat bread contains a lot of white flour. Consider, as better sources of fiber, brown rice, barley, millet, and buckwheat. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Low Levels of Essential Fatty Acids
Population studies have demonstrated that people who consume a diet rich in omega-3 oils from either fish or vegetable sources have a significantly reduced risk of developing heart disease.33,34 Furthermore, results from autopsy studies have shown that the highest degree of coronary artery disease is found in individuals with the lowest concentration of omega-3 oils in their fat tissues. Conversely, individuals with the lowest degree of coronary artery disease had the highest concentration of omega-3 oils. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 In addition to findings such as these, the ADA report notes that well-designed clinical trials indicate the beneficial effects associated with high fruit and vegetable diets cannot be duplicated by nutritional supplementation alone. Clearly, there is more benefits to be had in the healthy foods we eat than is obtained from the most common nutrients often associated with them such as vitamins C, E, A, Beta-Carotene, etc.
The material on phytochemicals that follows has been obtained from the extensive electronic database assembled by Stephen M. Beckstrom and James A. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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| This highlights the advantages of using vegetable juices, foods, or food-based potassium supplements to meet the human body's potassium requirements.
While most people can handle an excess of potassium, those with diabetes and kidney disease do not handle potassium in the normal way, and are more likely to experience heart disturbances and other consequences of potassium toxicity. Individuals with kidney disorders usually need to restrict their potassium intake. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 As well as being used as a vegetable dye and natural food colouring, madder has traditionally been employed for the prevention and treatment of kidney stones. The anthraquinones in madder can function as chelating agents with some metal ions such as calcium and magnesium. With oral doses of glycosides and aglycones, a pronounced calcium complexing effect and a significant reduction in the growth rate of kidney stones was observed in an animal model. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 Free Radicals and Antioxidant Mechanisms
One of the more significant and least publicized dangers of our excessive fat consumption, one that parallels the hazards of trans-fatty acids and hydrogenated vegetable oils, is rancidity, an oxidized state of fat or oil that causes direct injury to our tissues through free radicals.25
FREE RADICALS. A free radical is an electrically neutral molecule with an unpaired electron. Hydrogen peroxide, superoxide, hydroxyl radical, and singlet oxygen are the most studied free radicals. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 The aerial (aboveground) parts of the non-fruiting stems are used in herbal medicine and can be eaten as a vegetable.
EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
Horsetail was originally recommended by Galen, one of the first renowned physicians of ancient times. Since then, several cultures have used this herb for kidney and bladder problems, arthritis, bleeding ulcers, and tuberculosis. The topical use of horsetail is said to stop the bleeding of wounds and promote rapid healing.
Horsetail is very rich in silica, which strengthens connective tissue and combats arthritis. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 Herbal teas, chicken soup, and vegetable soups help to support the body during recovery.
¦ Avoid concentrated animal fats and greasy or fried foods.
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
The nutritional supplements listed below are intended to support recovery from tuberculosis. They should not be considered a substitute for appropriate antibiotic therapy.
¦ Take a good multivitamin and mineral complex daily.
¦ Beta-carotene helps to heal mucous membranes. Take 10,000 international units daily while the disease is active.
¦ Coenzyme Q10 increases tissue oxygenation. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| People who eat cholesterol-rich diets should not eat horsetail as a vegetable, but not because the combination will raise cholesterol. Rather, high intake of cholesterol in a diet including multiple servings of horsetail has caused dermatitis in laboratory animals.
You should not use horsetail if you are pregnant or nursing. The herb's high selenium content can cause birth defects. Adults over sixty-five and children between two and twelve years old should use low-dose formulas. |
| If diarrhea occurs, use food sources of lecithin, which include Brazil nuts, cowpeas (black-eyed peas), dandelion flowers, fava beans, lentils, mung beans, sesame seeds, and the Indian vegetable alu methi (fenugreek leaves).
Q Practitioners of ayurvedic medicine recommend a diet rich in cumin, coriander, fennel, ginger, and turmeric for people with Alzheimer's disease. These spices contain natural antioxidants that may slow the progression of the disease.
_} Avoid cigarette smoke, alcohol, and environmental toxins. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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| In a double boiler (preferably ceramic or glass), heat 2 ounces of vegetable lanolin or beeswax until it becomes liquid. Once this base is melted, add 80 to 120 drops of each herbal tincture you want in your salve. Mix them together and pour into a glass container. Refrigerate the mixture and allow it to harden. If you prefer, you can use a very strong herbal tea made with your own fresh or dried herbs instead of a store-bought tincture. Keep a record of your recipes for later use.
HERBAL POULTICES OR COMPRESSES (PULPED)
Only fresh herbs are suitable for making a pulped poultice. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| Cleon Skousen an ex-Salt Lake City Police Chief made a tape in the late sixties entitled "Instant Insanity Drugs" and reports "medical authorities tell us that the LSD user degenerates gradually into a mental vegetable, without ambition, without goals and without the will to struggle. Gradually the user withdraws more and more from social contact as the inner core of his entire personality seems to wither away."
White, the agent in charge of Midnight Climax for the CIA said, "Clear thinking was non-existent while under the influence of any of these drugs. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| The root can be eaten as a vegetable.3 Evening primrose oil was developed as a source of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) in response to an increased understanding of the role of eicosanoids in human disease processes.
EFFECTS
Antiinflammatory; corrects omega-6 essential fatty acid deficiency; improves vasodilator eicosanoid synthesis; corrects nerve blood flow and nerve conduction velocity deficits in diabetes.
TRADITIONAL VIEW
Evening primrose oil was not used traditionally.
SUMMARY ACTIONS
Antiinflammatory, antiallergic, corrects omega-6 essential fatty acid deficiency, hypotensive. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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| Many fats and oils, both of animal or vegetable origin, contain mixtures of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Still another type of fat found in some foods does not occur in nature, but as a result of food-processing technology (see The Hydrogenation Process, page 56). These are known as trans-fatty acids.
Saturated and trans-fats (hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats and oils) have been linked to a number of serious health problems, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. These are the so-called "bad fats. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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| TANNINS AND OLIGOMERIC PROCYANIDINS
Tannins are defined as vegetable substances capable of tanning animal hides to produce leather. This is used as a method to preserve the hide and at a molecular level is effected via the crosslinking by the tannins of hide proteins. This definition is prescriptive and powdered hide is still used as a phytochemical test for tannins. Like flavonoids, tannins are polyphenolic compounds which have an affinity for proteins. |
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