Kenny Ausubel
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 He ridiculed mild vegetable medicines while celebrating the new mineral poisons of mercury and antimony. Known as the "founder of chemical pharmacology," Paracelsus is characterized by
Barbara Griggs as "the patron saint of the drug companies."13 Allopathic medicine would mine his legacy in one form or another for five hundred years to come.
Before long, however, the hideous aftermath of mercury poisoning surfaced. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 CD of 8.8 (almost 9 calories per gram). Foods that are low in fat and high in water or fiber tend to have a low caloric density. This is the secret that could save you from a lifetime of excess weight and possibly even an early grave. Burn this caloric density measurement into your consciousness: calories per gram. Understand this concept, and you will have mastered one of the most important concepts for weight control.
Here's another label calculation example: In the breakfast cereal label in figure 3.1 you can see that the serving size is % cup, which weighs 32 grams. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 These ants cut leaves and other vegetable matter to cultivate underground fungal gardens. The fungi produce specialized fruiting bodies, which the ants then use for food. In effect, the ants use the fungi as part of their digestive system, and the fungi use the ants as arms, jaws, and dispersal agents. The ants must selectively harvest the forest, masticate the leaves to remove surface waxes, and generally make them palatable for the fungi.
It is surprisingly difficult to grow just about any fungus other than bread mold or mildew. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 The source of this increase has been vegetable oils processed from corn, sunflower seeds, safflower seeds, cottonseed, and soybeans. These oils are common ingredients in processed foods such as chips, breads, cookies, and soft ice creams, and are often used for cooking. Today, in typical Western diets, the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids ranges from twenty to one to thirty to one.
Because the human genome evolved to suit a very different ratio of fatty acids than the Western diet offers, high omega-6 intake causes a physiologic shift that can adversely affect health in many ways. |
| A high intake of these fats as vegetable oils and animal foods promotes the formation of these prostaglandins, which precipitate heart attacks and out-of-control inflammation. (Allergies, asthma, eczema, and rheumatoid arthritis are also examples of inflammation run amok.) One type of omega-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid, has been found, in laboratory studies, to stimulate the growth of prostate cancer cells and to promote the growth and spread of breast cancer in mice and rats. |
| The Benefits of Plant Foods
There are many different benefits of increasing fruit and vegetable intake to prevent heart disease. First, you reduce the number of calories you are eating overall by displacing high-fat/high-sweet snacks with foods that have fewer calories per bite. Second, you reduce the overload of omega-6 fatty acids and balance them with more omega-3 fatty acids. Third, you obtain the benefits of the many antioxidant chemicals that give these foods their individual bright colors. |
| Fats can work to enhance the formation and spread of cancer in many ways: Unsaturated fats from vegetable and seed oils can become oxidized, introducing an overload of free radicals into the body. Eating a diet high in fats can contribute to over-nutrition and obesity, because fats contain more than twice as many calories per gram as proteins or carbohydrates.
Recent advances in cancer research have revealed that it may not only be the total amount of fat but the type of fat that makes the difference. Changing the type of dietary fat in lab animals' feed has distinct effects on tumor growth. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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 Use it to store something else, like nails in the workshop or vegetable oil in the pantry. Unusable clothing can be made into rags—that way you won't need paper towels.
Don't buy things with built-in obsolescence. Doing so only fosters the use-it-up, throw-it-away philosophy that is gradually destroying Earth.
RECYCLE Think about how you can put to use what you're tempted to throw away. Can someone else still get use out of it? Used clothing and furniture can be donated to Goodwill, Disabled Veterans, or similar organizations. Or they can be sold at a local flea market. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| It cannot be seen in isolation, but must be considered in the context of underactivity, a narrowed and monotonous diet, reduced fiber intake, reduced intake of health-giving substances from plant foods, and increased intakes of refined sugar and added, processed vegetable oils. The imbalance of this diet and our genes cannot be solved by simply taking a multivitamin. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Fresh vegetable juices, such as carrot, celery, spinach, and beet, taken toward the end of the fast, reportedly will begin nourishing the cells in preparation for your return to solid foods.
Side effects to expect:
People often experience headaches, dizziness, sluggishness, nausea, body odors, or other effects, especially in the first three days. This usually is a sign that the organs are overloaded by toxins being drawn out of the tissues. Some choices of action:
1. Step up the use of eliminative aids.
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Kenny Ausubel
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| All the signs and portents indicate that the great deluge of modern scientific chemotherapy is about to wash away the plant and vegetable debris."21
This same conflict of medical opinion is playing out again today in the recurring cancer wars. As in the nineteenth century, however, the allopaths are experiencing waning public confidence in their practices. Their heroic cancer therapeutics do not sufficiently cure and often bring the same fearsome effects. |
| Fishbein himself mocked herbs as "veritable vegetable soups."2 It was in the unhappy wake of one of Hoxsey's court victories affirming the efficacy of his tonic that the AMA Journal echoed the FDAs frustration in its acerbically titled editorial "Cough Medicine for Cancer."3 "It is fair to observe that the American Medical Association or any other association or individual has no need to go beyond the
Hoxsey label to be convinced. |
| Where the empirics favored gentle vegetable remedies, Dr. Rush and the doctors considered plant remedies to be "inert" and viewed the botanical knowledge of the Indians as contemptible. Dr. Rush's allopaths opted for toxic minerals including lead, arsenic, antimony, and, above all, mercury. They celebrated mercury and its derivative calomel as "the Sampson of the materia medica" and pronounced it "a safe and nearly universal medicine."5 Doctors enlisted it for almost all maladies, even the most trifling of ailments. |
| It is an unusual disease because it afflicts vegetable, animal, and human life. It is a very ancient killer, first recorded more than four thousand years ago in Egypt and India. Hippocrates first characterized tumors as karkinos or karninoma, giving rise to the word carcinoma. The physician Galen (a.d. 131-200) first gave it the term cancer, likening it to a crab's feet.3
There are hundreds of kinds of cancer, and its etiology remains mysterious. Causal theories abound ranging from chronic irritation to environmental factors, genetic inheritance, and viruses or microbial hosts. |
| By the mid-1980s, the "plant and vegetable debris" was beginning to wash back on the shores of medicine in a rising tide of popular favor and scientific validation. The allopaths had good reason to be anxious about once again losing their patients to the new generation of empirics, including the heirs of Hoxsey.
PART THREE
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Money, Power, and Cancer
Healing the Politics of Medicine
"We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought him because he came into our community and got the business."
Dr. J. N. |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 Who would want to be a "vegetable"? Nobody would; the trick is to define the term. And who would want to be in intractable pain?
Is an Advance Directive the Only Option?
Why do we need a new, elaborate, legalistic procedure? Why can't people simply exercise their right to reject medical care, once they decide that it isn't worth it? The fact is that they can—I think we're just afraid that not enough of them will, unless we encourage that choice.
Usually, it is easy to reject medical care. You just don't go to the hospital, and above all, you don't dial 911. |
Michael Lerner
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 The Gerson raw foods diet, with frequent ingestion of fresh vegetable juices, provides a very high intake of beta-carotene. I have personally known several melanoma patients who did well for periods of years on the Gerson program. On the other hand, the course melanoma takes is highly variable, and there may be, as I reported in chapter 10, an important psychological component in improved outcomes with this disease. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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| The garbanzo bean balls are deep-fried in vegetable oil and carry lots of extra calories. Many desserts frequently served in all of these cultures use phyllo dough, which is layered with fat and also carries lots of extra calories.
I have been at Saudi Arabian lunch buffets with huge amounts of high-fat foods. A lot of olive oil and other added fats are used, together with some very interesting fruit dishes including some with figs and almonds. Persian cuisine tends to use a lot of lamb and fish, but also rice with added oil. |
Nicola Reavley
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 The more intense the green, yellow or orange color the more beta carotene the vegetable or fruit contains. These foods are also good sources of alpha carotene. Beta carotene is not destroyed by cooking which, in fact, may make it easier to absorb.
Good sources of lycopene include tomatoes, carrots, green peppers and apricots. Spinach, paprika, corn and fruits are high in zeaxanthin; and green plants, corn, potatoes, spinach, carrots and tomatoes are high in lutein. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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| Mix olive or vegetable oil with lemon juice. Apply the mixture to furniture with a soft cloth, and wipe it dry.
Furniture Polish 2
Use a soft cloth and wipe with a little bit of mayonnaise.
Or rub furniture with a cloth dipped in cool tea.
CLEANING HOUSE
A hundred years ago, our great-great-grandparents reserved one week twice a year—in the spring and in the fall—to thoroughly clean the house. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| Fruit Juices: fresh, frozen or canned.
4. vegetable Juices: all raw (carrot, spinach, etc.)
5. Cold pressed oils and apple cider vinegar, aged in wood, with herb seasonings for dressing for salads.
The "no no's" of the Mild Food Diet are:
No refined foods Butter Meal
Grain Eggs Peanuts
Sugar Dried legumes Chips
Think of what you can eat and not what you can't. You'll probably be hungry at first. Eat all the food you want as long as it is on the diet. Everything is low calorie and high nutrition.
After about 4-12 weeks your body should start a healing crisis. |
| Fresh fruits and fruit juices tend to speed up a cleanse—so when one is already very ill it is better to use mostly vegetable juices.
(See also Foods for Acute Illness, Ailments Chapter)
THE MILD FOOD DIET
The Mild Food Diet is used in chronic illnesses when the body needs maximum nutrition with easy-to-digest foods; to help bring on or initiate a healing cleanse, or to help slow down a disease crisis, so you won't become too ill or cleanse too fast.
The diet consists of:
1. All fruits: raw or frozen, including papaya, mangos, etc.
2. |
| Natural Sources-Cold pressed vegetable oils- safflower, sunflower, soybean, whole wheat, whole grain cereals, nuts, grain, molasses, organ meats, eggs, sweet potatoes, broccoli, brussel sprouts, leafy greens, spinach.
Herb Sources-Alfalfa, Bee Pollen, Blue Cohosh, Burdock, Comfrey, Dandelion, Dong Quai, Echinecea, Eyebright, Ginseng, Goldenseal, Kelp, Licorice, Papaya, Red Raspberry, Rose Hips, Skullcap, Slippery Elm, Yarrow.
VITAMIN F (LINOLEIC ACID, LINOLENIC ACID, ARACHADONIC ACID)
Consists of unsaturated fatty acids. |
Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon
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 How about those old standbys liver and spinach, together with today's vegetable superstars—broccoli, cabbage, and brussels sprouts? These healthy foods are all quite rich in vitamin K, and while they are indeed nutritious, they could have a dangerous impact on a person taking a blood-thinning drug such as Coumadin (warfarin).
Coumadin works partly by counteracting the vitamin K essential to the blood's clotting action. But when it is overwhelmed by too much vitamin K from a huge helping of kale or kohlrabi, the usual dose might be inadequate. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 The Rhone Valley south of Lyon is known for its vineyards and its fruit and vegetable gardens.
Rio de Janeiro (ree-oh day, dee zhuh-NAiR-oh) City in southeastern Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean. Second-largest city in Brazil, after Sao Paulo; its former capital; and its financial, commercial, transportation, and cultural center. fa Famous as a tourist attraction. Especially popular are its beaches, particularly the Copacabana. fa Rio's annual carnival is world-famous.
Riviera Narrow strip of land in southeastern France and northwestern Italy on the Mediterranean Sea, also including Monaco. |
Nicola Reavley
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| Many vegetarian and vegan products are fortified with vitamin B12, including yeast extract, vegetable stock and soya milk. In developing countries, food may contain bacteria and other micro-organisms which are a source of vitamin B12. In Western countries better hygiene and food processing removes these sources of vitamin B12.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is present in vegetarian diets in dairy products. Vegans tend to have low vitamin D intakes, fortified margarine being the major dietary source. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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| All these foods are either high in fat and sugar or low in water content or fiber. Many of them are processed foods like doughnuts (4.3) and corn chips (5.4)—both processed grains— and French fries (3.2), which are processed potatoes. Processing removes the fiber (nondigestible carbohydrate), often removes water, and frequently adds sugar or fat, making these foods the most calorically dense of all and the most detrimental to your waistline. In small amounts, some can be quite beneficial, such as nuts and omega-3-rich cooking oils, but remember—good things come in small packages. |
Nicola Reavley
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| Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
While the root is eaten as a vegetable, it is the seeds which are used medicinally.
Fennel has anti-inflammatory and diuretic effects. It also acts as a digestive aid and increases milk flow in breastfeeding women.
Uses
Fennel can be used to treat respiratory infections and digestive problems such as gas and bloating. It can be used externally as a gargle and as an eyewash to treat eye infections.
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum)
Fenugreek has been used as a culinary herb and as a medicine since ancient times. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Here are some suggested foods: steamed greens; raw salads; vegetable broth; fruits and juices. Lastly, add small amounts of proteins and grains. odds and ends about the house. About mid-afternoon I pick up on a gravitational pull toward the kitchen. I find myself at my desk starting for the peanut butter, and check myself. I find myself with hand on the refrigerator door, and stop. I begin to record each time I have one of these urges; by dinner time I record 23 habitual starts for food in four hours. How much, I wonder with alarm, do I actually eat without any awareness? |
Nicola Reavley
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| Many vegetarian and vegan products are fortified with vitamin B12, including yeast extract, vegetable stock and soya milk. Cooking has little effect on vitamin B12 although some may be lost when food is cooked to temperatures above 212 °F.
Food
Amount
Vitamin B12 (meg)
Beef liver, cooked
85g
95.0
Beef kidney, cooked
85g
43.6
Trout, cooked
1 fillet
4.64
Tuna, canned,
1 cup
4.38
Pink salmon, cooked
Vsfillet
4.29
Beef steak, grilled
100g
2.11
Haddock,cooked
1 fillet
2.08
Tempeh
1 cup
1.58
Cottage cheese
1 cup
1.36
Clams
3Acup
1.05
Oysters
6 oysters
1. |
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