| Eat More Whole Foods
You can't go wrong with a whole foods diet based on whole grains, vegetables and fruits, good protein sources, and healthy fats. This type of diet will provide you with the vitamins and minerals you need to reestablish regular, restorative sleep, as well as overall health and well-being. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I realized I needed fresh fruit and vegetables -- really wholesome foods. I needed fresh juice and smoothies, and I started eating a more vegetarian diet. I have not had red meat since that time, although I do eat some fish and even a little bit of poultry.
Many people would eat a diet primarily made up of treats: Fast foods, cakes, cookies, sodas and chips. Those are not foods we should be eating. Most of us should be focusing on vegetables, fruits, some appropriate proteins and grains, beans and seeds. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables with a high nutrient content. Increase your intake of legumes (especially soy), dark leafy greens (for their protective antioxidant content), essential fatty acids (flaxseed, evening primrose, and borage oils), and nuts and seeds (a good source of zinc).
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| Eat more raw vegetables and salad greens.
¦ Eat whole grains and high-fiber foods and avoid simple carbohydrates such as pastries, products made white flour, processed cereals, and foods high in sugar. Whole grains contain many B vitamins, which act as natural sedatives for calming irritability and tension that may hinder deep sleep.
¦ Eat more protein in the form of moderate amounts of lean meat, seafood, eggs, nuts, brown rice, beans, and avocados. Protein is digested more slowly and doesn't cause an insulin spike, which may interfere with sleep. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the way, when people think they are buying organic food, buying really great food that's really expensive, consider the fact that if you were to put organic meat and vegetables in your food, it would cost a lot more because they cost a lot more at the market. You're not going to get inexpensive organic ingredients, but if you're using by-products, like the trim of the meat instead of the whole muscle meat, then you can afford organic meat.
You are also using organic vegetables that weren't acceptable for human consumption. Think of a head of spinach. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Again, remember—no bread.) vegetables with your dinner should consist of mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, or green beans. No broad beans of any sort (lima, navy, Boston, or the like), which are starchy, and again no potatoes, corn, or rice. For those of you who don't want to have to think about just what to prepare, a good book that you can use to fill in the blanks about what to serve when is The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
One supplement I do recommend when you are on the diet is a good once-a-day vitamin tablet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This new aeroponic growing system will be sold to consumers, allowing them to grow garden vegetables with almost no hassle. With an aeroponic system, there's obviously no soil needed whatsoever. Thanks to the simplicity of this high tech system, it's going to be a hands-off product, where you just put in the seeds of whatever garden vegetables you want, press a button to tell it to go, and then the system takes over from there. A few weeks later, you have large plants, and a few months later, you have produce growing right out of this new aeroponic technology system. |
| There’s the green foods blend, with spirulina; there are also amino acids and concentrated powders from garden vegetables, many of which are known to be anti-cancer vegetables; there are also concentrated fruit powders, including fruits that are known to reverse macular degeneration, to lower cholesterol, ward off heart disease and cardiovascular disorders, and even boost immune system function. The Alive supplement also contains concentrated mushroom extracts, digestive enzyme blends, and even healthy fat in the form of omega-3 fatty acids.
This is just a fantastic product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Everybody knows that getting more greens and vegetables is a good idea. The question is how to do it fast, keep it palatable and still keep the same feeling. Now people don't have to choke down vegetables and gag on them. They can enjoy it, which they should be able to.
Mike: Yes, you don't have to mix this with three bananas and two apples to make it drinkable.
Dr. Weiss: Right.
Mike: So, people can find this in most health food stores?
Dr. Weiss: Yes, it's readily available. It's got black packaging that says "Earth's Promise" on it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I had been a raw foodist for about two years at that time, and I began to go through more like a detox, you can say, because I was eating much more nutrient-dense cuisine – a lot more dark, leafy vegetables like kale – and working with more of the salubrious vegetables – lots of seaweed and some supplements – and so I wanted to work on myself much more and I wanted to learn more about this lifestyle and really be a product of that, and not just be another person out in the world with a restaurant promoting raw food but not necessarily having all the experience. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Food sources: Cold-pressed polyunsaturated vegetable oils (such as sunflower and safflower), leafy green vegetables, avocados, nuts, seeds, and whole grains.
Supplements: Vitamin E is actually a group of compounds called tocopherols. When purchasing supplements of vitamin E, avoid products that contain vitamin E in the DL-alpha-tocopherol acetate form. This means that it is a petroleum-based synthetic form of the vitamin. The natural form of vitamin E will be designated with the letter "D."
Typical therapeutic dose: 30 IU daily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It makes it easier to eat some wild food that's around, like wild salad vegetables that are growing up by your front door, when you have some kind of a fat or oil present.
Mike: It's also nice if you haven't put pesticides on your lawn. I want to mention that you're the founder of Nature's First Law. You are one of the pioneers in raw foods, and many of these foods that people can benefit from are available through your distribution center, correct?
Wolfe: Our niche is raw foods, superfoods and sea vegetables. Rawfoods.com isn't just me. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 Some Good Sources of Folic Acid
Folic acid is found in spinach and green leafy vegetables; dried peas and beans; some vegetables and fruits; and fortified grains and cereals. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Similarly, fruits and vegetables that have been juiced or pureed are higher on the index than those eaten whole.
Finding out whether a food product contains sugar requires more sleuthing today than it once did. Only a few manufacturers currently include the word sugar in the list of ingredients of their sugar-containing products. Instead, wanting to avoid the sugar stigma that could negatively impact sales, many food producers hide the sugars in their products behind a host of chemical synonyms. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 An effective approach should include a diet that emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and fish; a comprehensive nutritional-supplement program; and regular exercise. Higher doses of individual nutrients (such as vitamin or folic acid) may be necessary for particular individuals; this can be discussed with a nutrition-oriented physician.
Atherosclerosis is one of the most common and serious illnesses in industrialized countries. Although all the research is not yet in, a growing body of evidence suggests that this disease is preventable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Human beings evolved in a natural environment in which they had access to fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grasses and animals. These were all available free of charge as long as a person was willing to expend the effort and time necessary to gather such items. Nature offered them freely. Nature didn't charge you for creating vitamins and minerals. The plants and soils provided these on their own, naturally.
Plants create seeds naturally, and these seeds are freely available to humans, birds, insects and any other creature that wants to use those seeds. This is the natural order of things. |
KC Craichy
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 Living on a diet of nothing but fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and vegetables, they often lose so much weight that they look as though they are starving.
Let's face it: eating is one of our principal pleasures. My goal is a far more moderate approach that retains the enjoyment of eating. To eat well, while restricting caloric intake, is something anyone can do. You merely need a new mindset. There's never a reason to starve yourself in the pursuit of super health. |
| These vegetables deliver the most nutrition when they are raw, juiced, or slightly steamed, as cooking decreases the nutrient quality. You can't get too many of these!
EAT EGGS
Eat eggs from organically raised free-range or free-roaming hens that are not grain-fed. Look for high DHA on the label. Buying organic eggs is important, because processed or "tricked-chicken" eggs, where farmers trick the chickens into laying more eggs by using lights 24/7, are not as nutritious. |
Jack Challem
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 Children and teenagers can also help, even if it's just setting the table. Cooking should be considered family time—and a good time to turn off the television and put away cell phones and MP3 players. Relish both the serenity and the activity that make a kitchen a fun place.
Decide What You're Going to Cook
Cooking requires some advance planning. It's not like a fast-food drive-thru where your meal materializes in sixty seconds.
The first step is deciding what you will prepare. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fresh, organic produce is now being delivered to the North Pole, where Santa is using a Vita-Mix blender to make his own nutrient-rich smoothies from fruits, vegetables, nuts and superfoods.
NewsTarget and SugarShockBlog will continue to follow this story and bring you reports on Santa's progress.
Click here to read the previous story in the Santa Clause health series.
Click here to see the latest Santa Claus comic about his health challenges. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You might have big chunks of vegetables or fruits in the blender, and so you want to go fairly slow to get those chunks broken up. After you have those chunks broken up, you want to increase the speed to a finer blend. The K-Tec blender doesn't really give you much control over the speed. You sort of have to wait through a full preprogrammed cycle and hope it eventually reaches the speed you want.
On the upside, the K-Tec blender is more powerful than the Vita-Mix. It sports 3 horsepower versus Vita-Mix's 2.2, and that difference in power definitely shows itself in the kitchen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This number has tripled since 1960, and the trend seems to be linked to a high sugar, high fat diet that is low in natural fiber, vegetables, and exercise."
Type-2 diabetes is reversible, though, and Dr. Cousens invited Santa to consider the possibility that conventional medicine is wrong about diabetes. "The most important piece of information to know is that this whole condition can be reversed naturally by a joyful application of a healthy diet and lifestyle," Dr. Cousens explained. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Every seed is imbued with qualities of life, and when you eat raw fruits, vegetables or nuts, you ingest more than just their chemical constituents. You also ingest the homeopathy of plants, or what I also call vibrational nutrition.
I very much doubt that food fabrication is going to be able to duplicate this energetic component of foods. |
Jack Challem
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| You 11 find that salads actually taste better if you prepare them in a large bowl and toss them with the dressing (instead of adding the dressing at the table). By tossing the salad with the dressing, you can use less dressing because it lightly coats all of the ingredients. That saves a lot of calories, particularly if you use bottled dressing. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| Foods high in salicylates include tea; certain fruits, vegetables, and nuts; honey; and some spices. Planning a low-salicylate diet is rather complicated, and requires the help of a dietitian.
In my office, I teach parents how to put their child on an elimination diet. After about 3 weeks, if there has been a noticeable improvement, the foods and additives are reintroduced one at a time, while observing for reactions. Foods that provoke symptoms or behavioral changes are removed from the diet. |
KC Craichy
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| White bread, potatoes, rice, sugary drinks, fruits, such as ripe bananas and citrus, and below-ground vegetables, such as carrots and beets, are high glycemic foods that are known to raise insulin levels into the danger zone. Indeed, many of us have already experienced the severe "low energy letdown" that typically happens when we consume large doses of sugar or other high glycemic foods.
Low Glycemic Foods
¦ Berries (blueberries, strawberries, cranberries, and raspberries)
¦ Broccoli
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