Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Our soils no longer contain trace minerals or even the macro minerals that the human body was designed to consume, so our fresh produce (fruits, vegetables, etc.) lacks these minerals. And when it comes to factory foods, nearly all of the food products on grocery store shelves is completely devoid of all but a few minerals.
Did you know that white flour has 90 percent less mineral content than whole grain wheat? You lose almost 100 percent of minerals like magnesium, zinc and calcium when you process these grains. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You are not going to get as good food as you can get when you're preparing fresh meat and vegetables, because it's sitting in a bag. We use a barrier packaging, which I'm going to take a moment to explain.
Most foods are in a paper bag with a plastic lining to keep the oils from leaking through. We actually use a food-graded PVC plastic bag. It doesn't allow any oxygen through the bag, in or out. We have a freshness valve on it, just like a coffee bag -- the same material as a coffee bag. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you want to create a batch of apples, vegetables or chicken, you're going to have to pay a fee to the company that owns the rights to that food.
"Now wait a minute," you might say. "How can a company own the rights to foods that occur in nature? How can they make me pay for that food when I can go out and get it for free?"
This is where the future gets rather messy, because we're now talking about intellectual property. Rewind to the present day, and take a look at the actions of our favorite corporate company, Monsanto. |
KC Craichy
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 For instance, there are flavonoids, part of a larger group of molecules called polyphenol compounds, that are found in abundance in plants, fruits, vegetables, plant-based beverages, and notably in the pigments of leaves, barks, rinds, seeds, and flowers. The best sources include tea leaves, oranges, citrus fruit, apples, onions, red grapes, berries, and pine bark.19 Flavonoids:
¦ Improve memory and concentration and are used to treat attention-deficit disorder.
¦ Are powerful free-radical scavengers that can boost the effectiveness of Vitamin C in the antioxidant network. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 A diet containing a variety of cereals, vegetables, fruit, and animal products is much more apt, even if only because of chance, to provide an adequate amount of these essential nutrients. Second, a monotonous diet increases the probability of developing allergic reactions to foods.
Nutrient Shortage
For over 99% of man's existence on earth, there was no need to apply intelligence toward food selection. The only important fact was whether the food was poisonous or not. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Foods provided by nature -- raw, uncooked and unprocessed berries, nuts, seeds, vegetables, roots, fruits and so on. This is what was available to the body, so it only makes sense that raw foods offer perfect compatibility with the human body. That's one reason people might choose to eat raw foods, but it's not the only reason.
You might also decide to pursue a raw foods diet because of the taste experience. Even if you don't care about health benefits, the taste experience is incredible. A raw foods diet is not about eating salads, carrots and celery sticks all day long. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the reasons that we're so focused on cleaning products made with vegetables instead of petroleum is that people don't think that when they clean their homes with natural cleaners like Seventh Generation, they're actually helping to reduce our dependence upon petroleum.
Mike: It's a very good point. We really have to think about all the factors that come into play with these products. One of the main questions I'm often asked about the Seventh Generation product line is, "How do they make them so effective if the ingredients aren't these harsh chemicals? |
Byron J. Richards
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 It is a shame that French fries, potato chips, and corn chips are the mainstay vegetables of the American junk-food diet. Eat these foods in their real forms as part of a real meal. Minimize or avoid them in their junk-food forms.
Carbohydrates from grains should be eaten in as wholesome a form as possible. Highly refined grains are stripped of important nutritional substances that give grains their health value.
The best isoprenoid-containing fruits are signified by their deep color. |
| Fiber is found in whole grains, fruit, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and legumes. Eating a real-food diet provides the fiber you need. You can always supplement fiber to assist in bowel function and proper clearance of waste products from the digestive tract. Don't Be Afraid of Fat
Almonds, walnuts, and sesame seeds can offer good nutritional support. These foods, higher in fat along with the protein they provide, need to be considered as part of the total calorie intake of a meal.
Eggs take a lot of abuse. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That’s why I believe it is time for growers of cherries, fruits, vegetables and other healing foods to take a stand against the FDA. Stand firm against oppression and censorship, and stand up for your right to tell the truth about the healing benefits of your natural products. The FDA’s reclassification of cherry growers as criminals is a violation of every system of law and ethics that we’ve known on this planet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can pig out on just about everything I list over here -- berries, vegetables and even nuts, although that's something I wouldn't consume pounds of a day. You can eat large, large quantities of these foods, and my guess is, if you're overweight, you'll probably lose weight, even consuming as much as you can handle.
The challenge is not trying to individualize it; the challenge is speaking the truth about foods. I think that we need a guide that is simple enough that people can hand it to their friends, and say, "Here's the food guide I'm using. You can check it out, too. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Burdock root contains approximately 50% inulin,10 a fiber widely distributed in fruits, vegetables and plants. Inulin is classified as a food ingredient (not as an additive) and is considered to be safe to eat.11 In fact, inulin is a significant part of the daily diet of most of the world's population.12 However, there is a report of a 39-year-old man having a life-threatening allergic reaction after consuming high amounts of inulin from multiple sources.13 Allergy to inulin in this individual was confirmed by laboratory tests. Such sensitivities are exceedingly rare. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The flower pouches that form before the flower opens, as well as the flowers themselves, are also edible.
The fresh root can be used to polish brass, thanks to its acid content. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, those vegetables will be nutritionally deficient, which means they won't be as healthy as they could be. They won't be as resistant to disease and pests, and they won't taste nearly as good either. So if you are eating tomatoes or produce grown in nutritionally depleted soils, then you are consuming inferior produce, and that's what's available in stores today.
Here's a common question about minerals and produce: How do tomatoes or other plants know which minerals to absorb? The answer is that each plant has a different mineral absorption profile. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 He also recommends coconut oil because of its high content of lauric acid, a natural antimicrobial. The only dairy products he recommends are the highest-quality cultured dairy products from sheep or goats (yogurt).
"I wish I could tell you that I see people get completely off medications 100 percent of the time using this kind of dietary approach," Brasco says, "but I see it at least 10 percent of the time. And that tells me there's a significant subset of the population who responds unbelievably well to this intervention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ben: I know a lot of people come up with the excuse that healthier foods and vegetables tend to be more expensive than a lot of snack foods. You can go get a soda for 25 cents in some stores and then turn around and carrots are $1.50 a pound. Why do you think this is? Is it some sort of tax the food industry is trying to levy?
Mike: No. First of all, I disagree with that assessment. I understand that people say that, and they say it to me all the time, too. Here's my answer to that. If you think that health foods are more expensive than unhealthy foods, then you need to learn how to shop. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Cold climate animals and vegetables contain a higher proportion of unsaturated fatty acids relative to the saturated fatty acid. The essential fatty acids make living organisms more cold tolerant.
Artificially Flavored
High-tech processed food is artificially flavored. Chemical flavor additives have no value in nutrition, except for cosmetic purposes, and over the long haul will be found to be toxic. More and more additives are being removed from the market, usually after many complaints, after some testing, by government decree. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you can eat your five servings of vegetables and fruit, you're doing well. That's not happening for most people.
Mike: That's right.
Goodman: That's why I believe that supplementation is so important; because when you don't eat properly, and even when you do, it's hard to get all the appropriate levels of the antioxidants that we need in our body.
Mike: Now, your web site again was HDLBooster.com.
Goodman: HDLBooster.com. That's very, very easy to remember. On the website you can contact us if you've got questions. It was very exciting, I must say. |
Mike Adams
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| If you look at what I eat, it is massive quantities of raw vegetables, combined with very high doses of superfood supplements that I take several times a day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Society has been distorted by the food industry, which is why artificial foods are "normal" and vegetables are "extreme"
We have a very strange culture in America today. People think that processed, manufactured, artificial foods -- the foods with cancer-causing chemicals -- are completely normal. Yet, at the same time, they think that foods from nature, for which your body has a built-in blueprint of compatibility, are completely abnormal. That's how distorted our culture has become. |
Jack Challem
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*From Point Reyes Preserves—see the appendix for details, f These can be ordered at www.bluediamond.com.
Cold Plate Lunch (continued)
Simply assemble the ingredients on a dinner plate.
Optional: You can dip the crackers in hummus, a chickpea dip that's sold in most supermarkets.
Avocado and Roasted Bell Peppers (Serves u
This is a quick, healthy snack that keeps me going when I can't take a break for a full lunch at the normal hour. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can put in soy sauce, other flavorings and vegetables of all sorts. You can put meat in it and chicken and things like that. It really has a lot of various uses. We use it like rice and cook it like rice. In fact, I cook it in a rice cooker. It's very easy to cook: One and a half to two parts water to one part quinoa. In 15 minutes, it's ready to go.
Mike: I'm glad you mentioned all of that. I've often recommended people just boil some quinoa and have a quinoa base around. Then you can use it for so many different things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We just have to trust in nature and trust in the fact that we are supposed to eat berries, roots, vegetables, nuts and seeds. All we have to do is trust in the process of being a human being that developed in harmony with nature.
We evolved in this natural environment and these are the foods that have been available to our ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years. They didn't have to be standardized; no one went up to an orange tree and found the nutrition facts labeled and said, "How much vitamin C, calories, sugars, carbohydrates and fiber does this orange have? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most of us should be focusing on vegetables, fruits, some appropriate proteins and grains, beans and seeds.
The dairy connection
Mike: I noticed dairy is not one of the items in SNACC, but for many people, dairy is associated with a lot of stagnation.
Dr. Haas: A lot of people are reactive to dairy. When you look at the purification process, the first level is dealing with the substances, the SNACC. The second level is dealing with foods that we may we overdo, and the top three that can cause great problems -- the "big three" I call them -- are wheat, dairy products and sugar. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It might be hard to follow, but the avoidance of refined sugar, dairy, salt, tobac- it's sure to work.
Dr. Starbuck's Fruit Peel Candy, etc. for Seasonal Allergies
"THERE'S POLLEN in the air." That's hardly music to the ears of anyone suffering from seasonal allergies. The symptoms are all too familiar: itchy and watery eyes, runny noses, sneezing, headache, and swollen sinuses. And while none of those are exactly life threatening, they can certainly ruin your day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| During the second week, I have them do something more challenging, perhaps a diet that gets them off certain foods, and then we go into the detox diet, which includes more fruits in the morning and steamed vegetables at lunch and dinner.
Mike: Do they stay with you for 21 days?
Dr. Haas: No. I believe that people need to be able to continue living their own lives -- going to work, exercising and being around their families -- so they can continue living healthy lives after I am gone.
Mike: Absolutely.
Dr. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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| In preliminary research, dietary glutathione intake from fruit and raw vegetables has been associated with protection against some forms of cancer (page 87).''2 Glutathione has also inhibited cancer in test tube3 and animal studies.4 In preliminary research, higher glutathione levels have also been associated with good health in older adults.5
Glutathione supplements appear to be efficiently absorbed in rats.6, 7 However, the same may not be true for glutathione supplements in humans. |
| The best way to obtain extra potassium is to eat several pieces of fruit per day, as well as liberal amounts of vegetables. The amount of potassium found in the diet ranges from about 2.5 grams to about 5.8 grams per day. The amount allowed in supplements—99 mg per tablet or capsule—is very low, considering that one banana can contain 500 mg. One should not attempt to achieve higher potassium levels by taking large numbers of potassium pills. This concentrated form of potassium can irritate the stomach—a problem not encountered with the potassium in food. |
| People who limit their consumption of liver, dairy foods, and beta-carotene (page 469)-containing vegetables can develop a vitamin A deficiency. Extremely low birth weight babies (2.2 pounds or less) are at high
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3 > risk of being born with a deficiency, and vitamin A shots given to these infants have been reported in double-blind research to reduce the risk of lung disease.1 The earliest deficiency sign is poor night vision (page 326). Deficiency symptoms can also include dry skin, increased risk of infections (page 265), and metaplasia (a precancerous condition). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This is especially true in fruits, vegetables, and other produce, but very few people understand the truth about this information, which is that most of the published values about this nutritional content are not correct. This is especially true among minerals, and that's the point of this story.
Most of the produce you buy in a grocery store does not have anything close to the mineral profile it is supposed to have according to nutritional textbooks. This is because minerals are not manufactured by plants, whereas vitamins and phytonutrients are. |
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