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Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology

Michael Friedman, ND
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Limit Hydrogenated vegetable Oils: Hydrogenated vegetable fat appears to be just as bad as animal fats in epidemiological studies. Consume Good Fats: Omega 3, 6, 9 versus saturated animal fats. Avoid Oxidation of Fats: Heating of fats, such as in frying, has shown to increase the degeneration of smooth muscle cells in arterial tissue. Select Protein: Protein should be obtained from fish, skinless chicken, and nuts and seeds. Protein powder shakes are also acceptable.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs

John Heinerman
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Parsnip isn't a common vegetable anymore, even though most of us have heard of it. Americans usually serve parsnips glazed with brown sugar and fruit juice only on special holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas. Refrigerated in a plastic bag, parsnips keep for nearly a month. Fatigue Fighter and Cleanser Imagine a food so highly concentrated with energy-giving properties that it is a remarkable internal cleansing agent as well.
Locust at 17th Des Moines, IA 50336 Better Homes & Gardens Eating Healthy Cookbook Better Homes & Gardens Fresh Fruit & vegetable Recipes Better Homes & Gardens Cooking with Whole Grains Paradise Farms POB 436 Summerland, CA 93067 Guide to Cooking with Edible Flowers Reader s Digest Assoc., Inc. Pleasantville, NY 10570 Eat Better, Live Better Rodale Press Book Division Emmaus, PA 18049 Rodale Cookbook M. Bricklin, S. Claessens, Natural Healing Cookbook Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 M. Tierra, The Way of Herbs St.
ASPARAGUS {Asparagus officinalis) Brief Description Asparagus was cultivated in ancient times by the Romans. The vegetable is a member of the lily family, and grows like weeds on the seacoasts of England and in the southern parts of the USSR and Poland, where the tundra steppes are literally covered like a carpet with this garden delicacy. Cattle and horses graze on it with delight. Blemish Remover For those bothered with blackheads, pimples and general facial and lip sores, this simple preparation might do the trick in getting rid of these problems.
This distinct-tasting vegetable goes well with braised beef or roast pork. Reduces Cholesterol and Constipation Both rutabaga and turnip are ideal for lowering serum cholesterol levels in the body, not to mention encouraging more frequent bowel movements. Half a cup of each, either cubed or sliced, or 1 cup of each mashed should be consumed at least once a week where the cholesterol count may be dangerously high or infrequent bowel movements persist. A simple way to prepare either of them is to cut them into slices or cubes and boil in a small amount of water containing 1 tbsp.
Get a good cutting board and either a Chinese vegetable cleaver or a sharp French knife and start chopping and slicing everything up into tidbit portions (the size depends on your own preference). Needed: 1/2 cup honey; 1/8 cup pure maple syrup; 1/8 cup blackstrap molasses; 1 tbsp. pure vanilla; 1 tsp. cinnamon; 2 tsp. cardamom. Mix well together by hand with a wooden ladle in a large bowl. Combine the dry ingredients together with the liquid. Stir until uniformly mixed. Rub a shallow pan with some lecithin (from health food store), then spoon out mixture in an even layer.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness

Tori Hudson, N.D.
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Most of our saturated fats come from animal products, although a few are from vegetable sources such as palm oil or coconut oil. Animal foods to reduce or avoid that contain saturated fat include beef, pork, lamb, and even chicken and turkey. Even though chicken and turkey are lower in saturated fat, they are actually higher in arachidonic acid than red meats. Salt can be another aggravating factor for women with menstrual cramps. Too much dietary salt can increase fluid retention and worsen bloating that contributes to the congestive symptoms of menstrual cramps.

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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Thp 1 co MpalfhipQf FnnHc nn Farth The vegetable got a much-deserved boost in popularity when, thanks to Dr. Arthur Agatston, it became known that a fabulous "fake" mashed potatoes could be made using cauliflower in place of the potatoes. With a little butter, lemon, and sea salt, it is beyond delicious. (Of course, my friend and fellow author Dana Carpender was making "fauxtatoes" way before The South Beach Diet was ever published, but don't get me started.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis

Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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Diets high in red meat intake and low in fruit and vegetable intake—a consumption pattern common to most of us in the West—have been linked to vascular disease, inflammation, the production of free radicals that may contribute to neurodegeneration, and a diminution of blood supply to the brain.1 These trends are not relegated to the West alone.

Q&A: How to reduce high blood pressure and restore healthy cholesterol levels with natural health

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Unless they say, "no hydrogenated oils" right on the label, they contain it. vegetable shortening, by the way, is pure hydrogenated oil. It is probably one of the single most toxic grocery products you can put in your body. And yet people are out there buying vegetable shortening by the bucket loads and baking cookies with it -- something I find absolutely appalling. By far, the most powerful thing you can do to restore healthy cholesterol levels is to stop eating hydrogenated oils. The next thing that you can do is stop eating trans fat (trans fatty acids) -- that means avoid all fried foods.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide

Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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The stems can be cooked as a vegetable. Other Uses The roots can be distilled to make a cosmetic floral water.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track

Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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As if that wasn't bad enough, they put potatoes in the vegetable group so that, altogether, they were recommending 13 servings [of quick-acting carbs] a day. "It wasn't just the federal government saying this. This was the conventional wisdom in the medical community," Dr. Willett marvels, noting that the American Heart Association encouraged nonfat foods, even giving the dubious dietary recommendation to switch from nutrient-poor devil's food cake to equally bad-for-you angel food cake.

An overview of new health products, plant technology, superfoods and natural health research breakthroughs

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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This was supposed to be a vegetable stock liquid that you would use to make soups, and the ingredients say "natural flavor", with an asterisk. The box says that it's made from corn. 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.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track

Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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The program is such a hit that some 3,000 school vegetable gardens have sprouted up at California schools and similar projects have been launched in "just about every state in the nation," says Edible Schoolyard coordinator Marsha Guerrero. Meanwhile, at Berkeley's 15 other public schools, 10,000 students now learn about nutrition, food, health, sustainable agriculture, and cooking through another project, the School Lunch Initiative, headed by Waters and "renegade chef" Ann Cooper, known for her success at the Ross School in East Hampton, New York.
And in the winter, you can drink vegetable and chicken broth," says Dr. Lieberman, author of Dare to Lose. "But don't drink extremely sweet beverages such as diet sodas. They will promote sugar and carb cravings," adds Dr. Lieberman, who also considers no-sugar-added protein shakes and unsweetened fiber supplements effective cravings busters. Others who've helped people kick sweets believe that it's also vital to cut out salt and stop eating corn until you've given up sugar for two months.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide

Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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In this way water, and its cousins alcohol and vegetable oils, are able to be infused with the properties of healing herbs. It's simple to imagine how those properties can be transferred to the human body when we ingest the liquid formulation, such as with a tea or tincture. But those infused liquids are no less powerful when applied topically. The human skin not only is a barrier encasing and protecting the bones, organs, and tissues but also is a large organ of elimination and absorption.

Five appetite control foods that suppress cravings without adding calories

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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The key is to get organic vegetable broth that does not contain excitotoxins. These are ingredients that cause neurological disorders because they overexcite and harm nerve cells. 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.

The Vitamin D Cure

James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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You get monounsaturated fat from olive oil and omega-3 fatty acids from dark-meat fish; you increase your vegetable and fruit intake, and you eat fewer refined carbs. Metabolic syndrome sufferers who stayed on this diet for two years had greater reductions than control-diet participants in these areas: ?Weight ?Triglycerides ?Waist circumference ?Fasting glucose ?Blood pressure ?Insulin ?Total cholesterol They had greater increases in their HDL levels as well. Study directors Dr.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis

Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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Governments are beginning to take action on trans fats, which are mainly produced through a process of hydrogenation (an industrial process whereby oil is heated to a high temperature and treated with hydrogen to improve shelf life of foods) and are present in margarine, vegetable shortening, ice cream, puddings, cakes, biscuits, pizzas, pies, potato chips, doughnuts, and other processed foods.
Statistical correlations have been found between dietary intake of trans fats and occurrence of dementia, while polyunsaturated fats and monosaturated fats of vegetable origin appear to be associated with a reduced risk.

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

Lynne McTaggart
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Even though the string beans had been severed, the individual sections carried on their communication to the rest of the vegetable.20 This may be the mechanism accounting for the feeling described by amputees with phantom limb sensations. The light of the body still communicates with the energetic "footprint" of the amputated limb. Like Backster, Popp discovered that living things are exquisitely in tune with their environment through these light emissions.

Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief

David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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Shatavari The tender young shatavari shoots can be boiled or steamed as a vegetable, or they can be eaten raw in salads. A preserve prepared from the blanched shoots is said to be very agreeable, and the tuber can be candied as a sweetmeat. Shatavari commonly is boiled with milk, ghee, and ginger, cinnamon, or cardamom to increase its tonic properties. The roasted seeds have been used as a coffee substitute.
As an alternative, Beach and his followers embraced and studied the American vegetable materia medica. Eclectic physicians during the 1890s constituted 10 percent of the total number of doctors in the United States. Their clinical experience of treating millions of patients over one hundred years was carefully chronicled in their voluminous literature. Today, this is an extremely valuable body of experiential knowledge that describes the successful clinical use of herbal medicines in a time without antibiotics or the advances of modern medical technology.
Schisandra Young schisandra leaves can be cooked and used as a vegetable. The fresh fruit can be eaten raw or cooked and made into a jelly or jam. For use as a general tonic in China, patients are advised to chew dried schisandra berries daily for one hundred days. Dried schisandra berries were used as a staple food for Siberian hunters and gatherers and taken on journeys to relieve fatigue. A restaurant in Amherst, Massachusetts, sells a product called Sandra Berry Juice. This wonderful energizing juice combines fresh schisandra berry juice with water and sugar.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention

Dawson Church
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While Tim was not willing to follow Kim's advice to curb his substantial alcohol consumption, or modify his meat-and-potatoes diet, he did introduce fresh vegetable juices into his regimen, plus an herbal tea (Flor Essence) that is believed to have medicinal properties. "Kim also taught Tim and his wife a twenty-minute, twice-daily energy medicine protocol, which they followed diligently, both dur ing the week she was there, and for the subsequent two weeks.

Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief

David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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The leaves and young stems also can be cooked as a green vegetable and are used in casseroles and soups. Jiaogulan Tea Pour 8 ounces hot water over 1 teaspoon dried jiaogulan leaf. Infuse (covered) for 3 or more minutes. Licorice A tea made from licorice roots is an excellent thirst quencher. The leaves are used as a tea substitute in Mongolia. Licorice roots have an extremely sweet taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste. They are used to sweeten herb teas or as a flavoring in candies, baked goods, soft drinks, and chewing tobacco.

From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life

C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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Belly Blaster 1 : Cruciferous vegetable les Belly Blaster Z! Citrus Fruits Benefit to your body: d-Limonene / EAT 1 SERVING PER DAY. A substance called d-Limonene, which is found in the oils of citrus fruits, has been shown to promote the detoxification of estrogen. Common citrus fruits are oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, lemons, limes, and tangelos. Research has also found that when male and female lab mice were administered an extract of d-Limonene, they lost weight. Belly Blaster 3: Insoluble Fiber Benefit to your body: estrogen binder / EAT 2 SERVINGS PER DAY.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide

Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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The stem, or, more accurately, the petiole, is the ever popular vegetable celery; when consumed, it can lower blood pressure and lower uric acid levels in the body, which is of benefit in cases of gout or arthritis. The root (known as celeriac) is also edible and also can help lower blood pressure. Celery leaf is usually trimmed from the stalks, but it is edible; in fact, there is a popular celery-leaf soda known as Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray. Other Uses Celery seeds are sometimes used in sleep pillows. The essential oil of the seeds is used in perfumery.

Beating cancer -- how to take charge of your cancer cure and outlive the lies of the cancer industry

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Eliminate all food additives, preservatives and artificial colors; eliminate MSG, which is known as monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and autolyzed vegetable protein. Eliminate aspartame and sucralose and all the artificial chemical sweeteners. Eliminate white flour; stop barbecuing your meat, because barbecuing meat creates chemicals that cause colon cancer and stomach cancer. Stop cooking your food at extremely high temperatures. Or, better yet, become a live foods vegan. I'm just naming off a few things. You can be cancer-free if you follow the recipe.

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