Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  Magnesium deficiency is more likely in those who eat a processed-food diet; in people who cook or boil all foods, especially vegetables, and in people who eat food grown in magnesium-deficient soil, where synthetic fertilizers containing no magnesium are often used.
Deficiency is also more common when magnesium absorption is decreased, such as after burns, serious injuries, or surgery and in patients with diabetes, liver disease, or intestinal mal-ab-sorption problems. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  How did we get to a point in medicine where interventions such as radioactive stents, coronary angioplasty, and bypass surgery are considered conventional, whereas eating vegetables, walking, meditating, and participating in support groups are considered radical?"22
Yet I predict that our definition of what is—and is not—conventional in medicine will shift, and shift quickly. Scholar Jean Houston, in her book Jump Time, points out that social evolution does not happen in a gradual upward curve.23 It is marked by long plateaus, followed by rapid jumps. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Second, follow the dietary guidelines described in chapter 5, emphasizing healthful proteins and a variety of vegetables. Reduce or eliminate refined sugars and carbohydrates because the blood sugar swings they engender can affect your mood.
Psychological Tips
Many therapies can help to reduce feelings of depression, and combining them with dietary changes and nutritional supplements will improve your chances of recovery.
Redirect your negative self-talk. Depressed people are often very self-critical. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  You know you are getting these when there is a full rainbow of colors in your vegetables, fruits, and grains, as colors are actually the pigments containing phytonutrients, which turn on the anti-aging, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory genes. Most important, these phytonutrients turn off the diabetes-causing genes and turn on the anti-diabetic genes. In Genetic Nutritioneering, Jeffrey Bland, PhD, explains how the hormone insulin indirectly speaks to the genes and alters gene expression. Insulin also influences the other hormones in the body. | | One can also use a little coconut water and the sweeter vegetables like cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, and beets. Sweet white miso is very good for a sweet and a salt.
Each culture has characteristic flavors that are achieved through the usage of specific herbs and spices. For example, in Italian and Sicilian cuisine, the key flavors are garlic, basil, oregano, and olive oil. For Thai and Balinese, the more fundamental flavors are basil, lemon grass, tamarind, galangal root, curry, cumin, and coriander. | | It is a carbohydrate that is obtained from vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. Fiber is either water soluble or water insoluble. Water-soluble fiber is especially good for people with diabetes, because it delays the pace at which food passes through the stomach. This allows a slower rate of absorption of glucose into the bloodstream, which reduces the glycemic roller-coaster. It also improves insulin sensitivity, combating insulin resistance and helping insulin do its job of ushering glucose into the cells.
According to Dr. | | One diet was characterized as prudent, with medium to higher concentrations of vegetables, fruit, fish, poultry, and whole grains. The other, characterized as Western, had a high consumption of red meat, processed foods, fat, dairy products, refined grains, sweets, and desserts. The researchers found that the Western dietary pattern was associated with substantially increased risk of Type-2 diabetes. They found that high blood sugar levels led to complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. | | Saturated fats make the insulin resistance worse. vegetables decrease fasting insulin. Vitamin A-rich foods decrease insulin resistance.
Stress also plays a role at the insulin resistance level. Acute stress seems to be clearly associated with severe, although reversible, insulin resistance.126 We should pay attention to stress, and the treatment of stress.127 A study by Nelson showed that psychosocial stress played a role in the chronic elevation of Cortisol, which results in increased plasma insulin levels. A hormone called leptin is secreted by the fatty tissues. | | Vogel has answered: It was not the olive oil that was key in the Lyon Diet Heart Study of the Mediterranean cuisine, but rather, it may have been the fruits, vegetables, nuts, bread, and fish that were key, in conjunction with less meat in the diet. Actually, Vogel points out, the Lyon Diet did not use olive oil.
The research suggests that olive oil is not heart-healthy, although olive oil is clearly healthier than foods saturated with trans fats. But being better than those foods is not saying much. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Edible Uses
Dandelion is considered one of the five most nutritious vegetables on Earth. The young leaves, gathered before the flower stalk achieves full height and the flowers have not yet formed, may be eaten raw, used as a potherb, or juiced. The young flowers, with the green sepals removed, have a sweet, honeylike flavor and can be eaten raw. The root can be cleaned and prepared like carrots or pickled. The roots are sometimes roasted and used as a coffee substitute. Dandelion wine and beer are most enjoyable.
Other Uses
Dandelion is one of the bitter herbs of the Passover tradition. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | The research is important because dietary surveys show that a large portion of adults do not meet the RDA for magnesium found naturally in green, leafy vegetables, meats, starches, grains and nuts, and milk.
"It's the first epidemiological study which shows synergistic effects on mortality of low serum zinc and high serum copper, as well as the effects of low serum zinc and low serum magnesium and these interactions may be physiopathologically plausible as these minerals are involved in the immune system, the inflammatory response and the oxidative damage," lead author Dr. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | Serotonin production depends on protein and vitamin intake, so eating more protein and vegetables (and fewer sugars and refined carbohydrates) is essential for improving moods.
Sometimes the psychosocial aspects of a person's life can create a feeling of utter hopelessness, leading to profound depression. That was the case with Ruth, a devout Catholic who married young and was in an abusive marriage for more than twenty years. With two small boys to care for, she saw no way out of the marriage short of hell, excommunication, or suicide. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | Even a simple change like eating more whole grain products and boosting your intake of vegetables, nuts and seeds can make an impact. But that is not enough, not for an athlete who loses magnesium much faster than the average person. It is not even enough today for a regular person. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | The doctor recommended a protein-rich diet, containing a lot of chicken and fish, along with high-fiber vegetables to stabilize Janet's blood sugar. He also gave her injections of B vitamins (to speed up their benefits) and vitamin and mineral supplements to be taken with food.
The dietary changes and the extra vitamins and minerals quenched Janet's desire for alcohol; however, she continued to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to reinforce her alcohol-free lifestyle.
GABA
What it does. GABA, short for gamma aminobutyric acid, helps people to maintain mental focus and be relaxed and calm. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | Magnesium, on the other hand, was abundant and readily available, in the form of nuts, seeds, grains, and vegetables, and did not need to be stored internally. Our bodies still retain calcium and not magnesium although we tend to eat much more calcium (in the form of dairy products) than our ancestors.
"In addition, our sugar and alcohol consumption is higher than theirs, and both sugar and alcohol increase magnesium excretion through the urine. Our grains, originally high in magnesium, have been refined, which means that magnesium is lost in the refining process. | | Magnesium is a fairly soluble mineral, which is why boiling vegetables can result in significant losses; in cereals and grains, it tends to be concentrated in the germ and bran, which explains why white refined grains contain relatively little magnesium by comparison with their unrefined counterparts.
Whole-wheat bread, for example, has twice as much magnesium as white bread because the magnesium-rich germ and bran are removed when white flour is processed. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts | | The young white shoots and leaves can be consumed as vegetables.
Other Uses
The old, dry plant is used for kindling. Hence the Chinese prefix cbai, meaning firewood. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  High-fiber whole foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are easier to handle than more refined starches and sugars."
Anita Flegg, 43, of Ottawa, Canada, also found that reducing her sugar intake helped her through perimenopause. "I was able to go off the estrogen treatment I had been on for five years, and my symptoms never returned," marvels the electrical engineer, who became so intrigued by the subject that she self-published Hypoglycemia: The Other Sugar Disease.
Moreover, Ruth M. | | Courtney Van de Weyer, a researcher for Sustain's Food and Mental Health Project, said to me via phone from Great Britain that she and colleagues had reviewed around 500 research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals to illustrate how changes in the food system—people eating few whole grains, mostly refined carbs, few vegetables and fruits, more sugar and salt, and so on—"may be partly responsible for the rise in mental health and behavioural problems at the same time. | | They helped teach me that the best diet of all is one that includes a little protein at every meal, along with some healthy fats and low-glycemic-load carbohydrates such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. I became a broccoli addict overnight. It's also best to really restrict foods made with white flours such as bread, bagels, crackers, and pasta.
When my patients ate this way, their triglyceride levels fell, their HDL (the "good" cholesterol) increased, their blood pressure went down, and they began losing weight. | | Mounting evidence shows that organically grown fruits, vegetables, and grains contain more vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus than their nonorganic counterparts.
Since sugar-loaded junk foods strip our bodies of such nutrients, we benefit from these extra vitamins and minerals.
* Organic foods are safer. The soil organic foods are grown in is richer, containing no herbicides or pesticides to destroy or dissolve the natural nutrients in the plants and the fruits. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  Speedy Chili*
Raw vegetables (carrot sticks, cucumber slices, red pepper strips, jicama sticks) with Hummus* Tea
?DAY 1 Dinner ?
Green salad (mixed greens [arugula, romaine, spinach]) with cucumber, shredded carrot, onion, and Mediterranean Dressing*
Pasta with Mushrooms and Lentils*
Berry Mousse*
Iced or hot coffee
Day 1 Recipes
BREAKFAST OATMEAL
Serves 1
1 cup cold water
Vi cup old-fashioned oats
Vi teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
Combine water and oats in saucepan and bring to a boil. Allow to boil on low for 3 to 5 minutes or until desired consistency. | | Another factor that robs you of the nutrients you should get from your food is that many fresh fruits, vegetables, and other unrefined foods are lower in important nutrients than they should be because of adverse growing conditions, poor food handling techniques, poor cooking methods, and poor soil quality low in trace minerals.
"The alarming fact is that foods . . . now being raised on a million acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us, no matter how much of them we eat." You may think this statement, voiced in the U.S. | | If a broth-based soup seems too thin for you, add some pureed vegetables to the broth to make it thicker.
WHAT ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS?
A question many people ask is, "Why should I take supplements when I can get all the nutrients I need from my food?" The problem with this question is that the premise is wrong: the vast majority of people do not get all the nutrients they need. How many people eat a perfect diet? | | We also feel compelled to share with you that fructose (a simple sugar that is found in, and added to, many foods) has a low GI rating—lower than foods that are widely known for their health benefits, including many vegetables, whole grains, and legumes/beans. Compared with glucose, which has a GI value of 100, the GI of fructose is very low at 20, while sucrose (simple table sugar) has a moderately low GI value of about 55. But what most people don't know is that fructose is easily glycated. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | MSM is a naturally occurring sulfur containing molecule found in fruits, vegetables, seafood and meat. It is present in the body and humans excrete from 4-11 mg. daily in urine. Research suggests that it is required for the body to preserve normal function and structure. Food processing destroys the MSM normally present in food.
21 Cysteine and cystine are closely related. One cystine molecule is composed of two bonded cysteine molecules and each can convert to the other as required. Both amino acids contain sulfur (via free sulfhydryl groups) which makes them powerful antioxidants. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  Eat organic, fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. Go back to my book. Eat a raw organic apple a day. Eat a fresh salad with lunch and dinner consisting of raw organic vegetables. This will add living enzymes. This is a good start.
Now let me give you some additional suggestions to help with acid reflux.
1. Raw apple cider vinegar. Take one tablespoon right before you eat each meal. This should eliminate any acid reflux. If you are feeling any heartburn, indigestion, or "acid reflux," take a spoonful of raw apple cider vinegar. Make sure it's raw and organic.
2. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  Adaptogen Notes
• Lycium is extremely rich in two carotenoids (antioxidant compounds that produce the orange or yellow color in vegetables and fruits): lutein and zeaxanthin. They are pigments used by the retina of the eye and are critical for eye health. Lycium stabilizes the small capillaries in the eyes and is used for poor night vision; dry, red, or painful eyes; macular degeneration; excessive tearing; and to help prevent cataracts and glaucoma.
• Schisandra increases visual acuity and decreases eye fatigue in tasks requiring extended visual concentration. | | For variety, you can use other meats and other vegetables (rutabagas, leeks, shallots, corn, celeriac, celery, fennel bulb) as are seasonably available and depending on your preferences. Serves 4-5.
Ginseng Congee
This Chinese recipe is for individuals with general debility. It is highly effective for strengthening the body and it helps prevent premature aging and senility.
1 cup uncooked white rice 6 cups water
3-6 grams (Vio-Vs ounce) Asian ginseng 9-14 grams ^A-Vi ounce) dang shen honey or barley malt
Add the rice, water, and herbs. Slow cook until the rice is done. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods that are particularly high in potassium are bananas, apricots, avocados, pumpkin seeds, beans, potatoes, winter squash, and many other vegetables. However, if potassium levels in the body drop below normal, sodium (even in natural salt) can become a source of imbalance.
Celtic ocean salt (grayish in color) is a particularly good product to ingest because it is naturally extracted through sun drying. Other great salts are sold at whole food stores or co-ops. Some are multicolored; others have a pink color. Himalayan salt is considered the best and most nutritious of all. |
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