| By 1974 the FDA knew that VC levels as high as 9 ppm had been found in vegetable oils sold in rigid PVC containers.28 High levels were also found in other PVC-packaged products, including beverages and cosmetics. While the FDA proposed a ban on the use of rigid PVC containers for food products and beverages, the use of PVC film for wrapping foods is still sanctioned.
Extensive research is now being done by industry with the object of reducing VC levels in PVC products, especially those intended for food packaging and medical applications. |
| A Monsanto pamphlet called "The Chemical Facts of Life" explains that the purpose of the campaign is "to explore the benefits and risks of chemicals — to find a clear path through the labyrinth of information and misinformation about chemicals which may help or harm health and the
* Vegadex, or sulfallate, is a chlorinated dithio-carbamate derivative used as a selective pre-emergence herbicide on vegetable crops. It is structurally similar to a number of other pesticides which were shown to be carcinogenic more than nine years ago. |
Mark Bricklin
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 And oil of rosemary, made by soaking the plant's tops and leaves in a good vegetable oil for a week, can be rubbed directly on sore or sprained areas.
Rosemary is tangy enough to flavor beef, veal and other meat dishes. If you grow your own, you can put fresh cuttings directly on roasts and poultry.
Growing Rosemary • Rosemary is a perennial evergreen shrub that grows as high as four feet. Its woody stems with boughs of dark green needles and blue flowers make it a very pleasing ornamental bush. The herb requires a well-drained, alkaline soil. |
William Duffy
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 Salting preserved the cabbage in season and out, and it was the only vegetable they had to supplement their complete, unrefined rice. When the Mongols overran China, knowing a good thing when they tried it, they adopted salted cabbage as a very practical traveling ration. The Mongol armies got as far as Hungary in the thirteenth century, where they introduced salted cabbage to Europe. As sauerkraut, it became one of the principal foods of Germany and Eastern Europe.
Julius Caesar's legions, the most efficient fighting machine the world had ever known, ranged far from Rome. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 In addition to using Reiki, she uses herbal teas for detoxification, drinks vegetable juices, fasts, and gets colonics.
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DHEA, a precursor to the hormones estrogen and testosterone, may be one factor that determines natural life span, since its production decreases with advancing age, reaching a low at maximum recorded age; a natural DHEA supplement is found in the wild yam. Also shown to decrease in the body with age are melatonin, a free radical scavenger, and the antioxidant coenzyme glutathione, both of which can be supplemented to good effect in the elderly. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| Bok choy and broccoli are among the best vegetable sources of calcium.
Sources of Calcium
MILLIGRAMS
FOOD OF CALCIUM
Whole milk, 8 oz. 291
1% milk, protein fortified, 8 oz. 349
Nonfat dry milk, 1A cup dry 377
Yogurt, plain, low-fat, 8 oz. 414
Yogurt, plain, nonfat, 8 oz. 452
Cheese, cheddar, 1 oz. 204
Cheese, cottage, creamed, 4 oz. 68
Cheese, goat, hard, 1 oz. 254
Cheese, goat, semi-soft, 1 oz. 84
Cheese, feta, 1 oz. 140
Cheese, mozzarella, part skim, 1 oz. 183
Cheese, muenster, 1 oz. |
Thomas J. Moore
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 Millions of people increased their vegetable consumption to get the beta-carotene.
In April of 1994, the first randomized clinical trial of beta-carotene was completed in Finland. Long after millions of people were taking beta-carotene, medical science was finally getting around to putting this interesting theory to the only valid scientific test—a randomized clinical trial. However, testing beta-carotene raised even more practical problems than testing Pravachol. |
William Duffy
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| Sakurazawa had introduced the cultivation of whole natural carbohydrates like rice, Hokkaido pumpkin, and azuki beans in Belgium and France where they had never been grown before, just as the soya bean (the cow of the Orient) had been first introduced in America as a source of cheap vegetable protein in the 1920s. The soya bean caught on like wildfire in the U.S. because it could be fed to cattle, which could in turn be eaten. The pumpkin, the azuki bean, the whole rice, and the other traditional soya bean products like miso, tofu, and tamari didn't catch on as readily. |
| Removal of natural vegetable fiber produces tooth decay, diseases of the gums, stomach trouble, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and diverticular disease. 3. Removal of proteins causes peptic ulcers.
It would be extraordinary if sugar and white flour, known to wreak havoc on the teeth, did not also have profound repercussions elsewhere in the body.
Coronary disease has heretofore been regarded as a "complication" of diabetes. Both coronary disease and diabetes have a common cause: White sugar and white flour. |
| The toasted sea vegetable wrapper stops the rice from drying out. Whenever you feel hungry as you drive, take a rice ball and munch it, chewing every mouthful for a good minute or so. This is important for your digestion. The seaweed absorbs the moisture from the rice, and makes it soft and chewy. The plum flavors the rice sharply. Your driving will be excellent—and even. One seems to develop eyes in the back of the head. You drive without the ups and downs of discomfort or hunger pangs. Most important of all, you're capable of handling the vagaries of those careless drivers on the highway. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| I suggest that you eliminate as many fats as possible (with the exception of fish oil) including animal and vegetable fats. See Blueprint for Health, page xvii, for more information on fats in the diet.
Some of my patients have found relief with an occasional fast of no more than four days. No one knows exactly why fasting helps. Obviously fasting eliminates the source of any food allergies, but also there seems to be some connection with fasting and the suppression of the immune system that fights rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. |
William Duffy
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| Occasionally one hears about a qualitative difference between vegetable and animal fats, polysaturated and polyunsaturated. However, carbohydrates are still lumped together and protein is protein. The whole subject of mixing foods together in unholy indigestible combinations is left to Fannie Farmer and the people who dream up cookbooks and television dinners. We learn nothing from our hangovers and our heartburn, except to reach for that Alka-Seltzer.
Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?
The biggest sugar customer in this country is the food processing industry. That figures. |
Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common AilmentsRobert M. Giller, M.D.
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| Tomato juice or mixed vegetable juices like V-8 can be beneficial because they're rich in sodium and minerals lost through diarrhea.
• Avoid solid foods, even if you feel hungry, for the first day.
• Take clear soups, broths, and bouillon.
• Avoid caffeine; it can irritate the bowel.
• Avoid carbonated drinks because they can affect bowel contractions and worsen diarrhea. Instead, stick with herb teas such as chamomile or mint to help settle your stomach.
• Avoid "diet" foods—candy and gum—that are sweetened with sorbitol or mannitol; these artificial sweeteners can act as laxatives. |
Rowan Robinson
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| Without this modification, hemp oil, like any vegetable oil, would cause excessive injector deposits. Once processed, however, this hybridized fuel source produces full engine power with reduced carbon monoxide and 75 percent less soot and particulates.
The critical issue here is not whether or not it is possible to produce energy this way, but whether other uses for the crop might be more profitable. For now at least the nutritional, lubricant, and fabrication value of the seed and its oil are more lucrative than the production of 50 gallons of fuel per acre. |
| Hemp seed contains all the essential amino acids and fatty acids, and is the most complete protein to be found in the vegetable kingdom. The seed contains 26 to 31 percent crude protein. The meal also contains about 6 percent carbohydrates, 5 to 10 percent fat, 12 percent crude fiber, 10 percent moisture, and 7 percent ash. |
| McKenna, a cultivator of shamanic plants and today's leading proponent of the psychedelic experience, theorizes that hallucinogenic plants are the medium of a massive transfer of information from the vegetable kingdom to the human species. He writes, "All of the mental functions which we associate with humanness, including recall, projective imagination, language, naming, magical speech, dance, and a sense of religio may have emerged out of interaction with hallucinogenic plants. |
| Usually, it is mixed with other vegetable, mineral, and animal substances that neutralize the narcotic effects and enhance the therapeutic powers. The tenth century treatise Anandakanda describes fifty preparations of bhang for cures, rejuvenation, and as an aphrodisiac. |
| Fuels derived from vegetable matter are known as biofuels. A University of Hawaii study reported in 1990 that biomass gasification could provide up to 90 percent of that state's energy needs.9 Biofuels have several critical advantages over fossil fuels:10
Plants contain almost no sulfur or a number of the other contaminants which are commonly found in petroleum and cause air pollution when burned as fuel. Sulfur is a major component in acid rain.
Local agricultural crops can be converted into fuel. |
Dr. Gary Null
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| Lombardi recommends rejuvenating the system from the inside out by fasting on fresh raw vegetable juices once a week, along with these other simple yet effective detoxification therapies:
JUICE FASTING. Juice fasting gives the digestive system a rest and speeds up the growth of new cells, which promotes healing. (If you have any medical problems, do not fast without medical approval and supervision.)
On a juice fast, a person abstains from solid foods and drinks juice, water, and herbal teas throughout the day. "We should be drinking every half hour to an hour," advises Lombardi. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| The final product of vegetable metabolism in the body is vinegar. This removes sodium from their bodies. They tend to have lower blood pressure and smaller bones. Not everyone, therefore, should follow the recommendation of the American Heart Association and reduce their intake of salt. Everyone needs to have some salt in their diet, especially those with low blood pressure. When salt is restricted or eliminated from the diet, people tend to have more infections and bone disorders. |
William Duffy
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| Then hold sheets of the Japanese sea vegetable, nori, known in the West as laver, over low heat until they are crinkly crisp. Pit some umeboshi salted plums. Then, dipping your hands in cool sea-salted water so the rice doesn't stick to them, shape a handful of rice into a ball. Push half a plum into the center, wrap the rice ball in the toasted seaweed, tearing it and fitting the seaweed into place. Put each rice ball in a waxed paper sandwich bag and keep them in your lunch box or a brown paper bag. Don't wrap them too tightly, the air should circulate around them a little. |
Sandra Steingraber
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 Orchards, pastures, vegetable plots, and woodlots have been plowed into ever-larger fields of corn and soybeans, which are now running neck and neck in number of acres planted.
All of these changes conspire to make farming an increasingly remote activity. With meat, milk, eggs, and produce trucked to our supermarkets from distant and unknown locations, we know less and less about how and where our food is grown and by whom. And the number of folks around who can explain such things to us is diminishing. |
Ralph W. Moss PhD
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 The myth recognized its uniqueness from all the other plants in the vegetable kingdom. In giving the benificent god Balder protection from harm, the gods overlooked the insignificant mistletoe. The dart with which the evil god Hoder killed Balder was made of "Mstelteinn."
In mythology, mistletoe was frequently identified with the sun (and with the oak). There was a cult of Apollo Ixius, at Ixiae in Rhodes, that was allegedly named for the mistletoe (90). Even Culpeper knew of this association in the 17th century, for he wrote "This is under the dominion of the Sun, I do not question. |
| Herbal remedies, built up over decades of careful observation, were mockingly derided as "veritable vegetable soups" (132).
Fishbein considered anything traditional in medicine to be abhorrent. He saw the botanical drugs of the late 19th century as "almost a replica of the herbals of the 17th and 18th century Europe." Warming to his subject, he continued:
"The woods and fields were combed for all varieties of roots and vines and grasses, and they were transformed into infusions, decoctions, syrups, tinctures, extracts and tablets. |
| Jethro Kloss, Back to Eden
'The great deluge of modern chemotherapy is about to wash away the plant and vegetable debris." —Morris Fishbein, MD (1927)
The world is changing. medical treatments that were considered sheer quackery a few years ago are now being given serious consideration by government researchers. In the developing world, herbal medicine has attained new prestige, thanks mainly to the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO). |
| Injecting an unpurified vegetable substance into the body is courting disaster. We have already alluded to one such instance. In that case, Sandor Olah, DO, of Hamilton, Michigan was treating a 54-year-old woman named Petra Hall for chronic leukemia.
According to newspaper accounts, on January 1, 1996, Dr. Olah administered Essiac intravenously to Ms. Hall. She began to experience shortness of breath as well as other symptoms following this treatment. Nevertheless, he sent her home. |
D. Lindsey Berkson
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 As we enter the twenty-first century, an additional 5 to 6 billion pounds of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and other biocides are added to the world's environment every year—with almost one-quarter of this amount released or sold in the United States
We also need to be aware of the fact that fruit and vegetable growers in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, and elsewhere commonly use illegal pesticides on crops that we eat every day. We even need to be cautious about foods we assume to be healthy. |
| Because human physiology doesn't include the enzymes that would convert the hormone precursors in the vegetable to hormones in our bodies.
So why are these hormones made from a wild yam considered more "natural" than the "synthetic" estrogen which is made from another "natural" source—horse urine? When analyzed biochemically, the hormone molecules produced from the wild yam are identical in every way to the hormones manufactured in the human body. Therefore, a "natural" hormone is not based on its origin but on its chemical structure. |
Jean Carper
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 Substitute olive oil for other vegetable oils or saturated fats. Alcoholic drinks, such as wine, beer, spirits in moderation—one or two drinks a day—also boost HDLs.
Added advice: cut back on total fat (especially saturated fats like animal-type fat, and coconut and palm oils). This enhances the effects of the above natural cholesterol-fighters.
CONSTIPATION
Top choice: wheat bran, nature's most potent bulk laxative. If that doesn't work, add prune juice. Dried beans work wonders on some people. |
Sandra Steingraber
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| The fish, vegetable, and flower markets of New York City always bring me to this question. Tazewell County is another kind of place. Spend some time on the Pekin docks. Watch the barges of coal, grain, steel, chemicals, and petroleum products. "Where is all this going?"
There are partial answers. The grain elevators and the mills ship corn and pelletized animal feed south to New Orleans and from there to Asia and Europe. The coal-fired power plant called Powerton sends electricity 165 miles north to Chicago via high-power lines. |
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