Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have all the superfoods, like the great vegetables and fruits. Your immune system is going to be able to knock it off. You're not going to get hit with it. It won't be able to hold onto you. Being prepared like that will literally save your life. Now, how much is it going to cost to have that tucked away in your herb cabinet? I'd say a maximum of $200.
Mike: Even if the bird flu doesn't hit this year, you can save those herbs for next year.
Wolfe: Exactly, even five years or 10 years.
Mike: That's right. It's easy insurance. You talk about insurance in some of your public presentations. |
Alex Steffen
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 Forty-one percent of Havana's urban area is used for agriculture, and the city generates 51 percent of Cuba's vegetables.
Today Cubans have regained that lost meal. Best of all, most of what Cuba produces is de facto organic, because the lack of available pesticides and fertilizers meant that scientists and farmers had to devise ways of protecting and controlling crops using only what nature provided. |
| Seed Savers Exchange is a network of people committed to collecting, conserving, and sharing the seeds of genetically unique heirloom varieties of vegetables, herbs, and other plants. These plants possess qualities specific to the ecological niches in which they've been grown—qualities that have been passed down through generations. Seed Savers publishes Seed to Seed, a well-regarded guide to growing and saving heirloom seeds. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Campbell, who headed the project, sufficient calcium is obtained from the vegetables and grains that make up the bulk of their diet. Osteoporosis is uncommon in China and so is dental decay. However, when the Chinese live in America they succumb to dental decay and brittle bones.
Does this mean never eating a slice of cheese or cheesecake again? Absolutely not! |
| Supper would consist of vegetables with un-
5 polished rice (naturally), and fish, chicken, or red meat limited to two or three times a week—a very balanced diet according to most dieticians.
So what was wrong? I should have been happy and healthy; after all, I was at my thinnest ever, having been on countless diets over the years to rid myself of my pear-shaped body, and I thought 1 had finally found the way to live. The problem was that despite my rigorous "health" regime, I was far from well. |
| Atkins of high-protein and high-fat diets dies of heart disease and we are back to high protein, no fat, with some vegetables?!
Margarine is better than butter; then margarine is worse than butter because it is high in trans-fatty acids that cause heart disease (which they do). "Drink milk" campaigns are poured down our throats in schools and from billboards, and then milk is found to be the main cause of many diseases, including Type 1 Diabetes. To add insult to injury everyone we meet is trying to sell us the latest miracle supplement from coral to seaweed, fish oil to "natural" caffeine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we want to make the roads safer for everyone, we have to focus on preventing disease and promoting brain-healthy foods like fish oils, spirulina, vegetables, fruits, nuts and of course cardiovascular exercise. That's how you create a nation of alert drivers who can avoid accidents. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The Nilgiri Hills, which had been chosen from four possible areas as being suitable for cinchona cultivation, were covered with native vegetation including rhododendrons, berberis, gaultheria, lilies, lycopodia, ilex, cinnamon, viburnum, acanthus, and jasmine, into which abundance of plant life the English had already introduced vegetables and fruit from northern Europe, together with oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, nutmegs, loquats, and plantains, as well as tobacco, sugar cane, and the European nettle, which grew with fierce abandon and stung with subtropical savagery. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers counted not a single commercial for fruits, vegetables, bread, or fish…. for the most frequently aired commercials such as those for sugared cereals, candy bars, and soft drinks."
"Soft drink companies are especially comprehensive in their approach to young consumers…. Coca-Cola puts its logo on so many items that it runs a chain of stores to sell them; it even has stores at international airports. |
Henry Hobhouse
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| Examples are the Swiss textile industry, French wine, Italian electrical goods, Scotch malt whisky, German cars, Dutch vegetables, and Israeli citrus fruits.
All of these industries prosper because brains are more important than brawn. All illustrate the power of challenge and response, all of them break economic rules, all of rhem prove the perverse human ability to triumph over adversity. It was this sort of activity —requiring nonpurchasable human attributes—that declined in England after 1850. |
| They needed animal protein, refused vegetables, and probably came from the very middle of Brazil, migrating to the Caribbean in continual search of meat, which they preferred to be hunted, not domesticated. Like the Arawaks, they objected to their harsh treatment as slaves, and many of them either pined or contracted white man's diseases and subsequently died. It was after probably more than half the natives had died that in 1517 Las Casas suggested the African Negro as an alternative. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Although the CaMV is found in cauliflower and other vegetables, according to Mae-Wan Ho, a geneticist and biophysicist at the UK's Open University, the viruses found naturally in vegetables are protected by a protein coat that is wrapped around the DNA. This prevents the CaMV from entering the cells of mammals. The CaMV promoter in GM foods, however, is naked viral DNA, with no such restrictions.21
Other Unknowns
Genetic engineering is built on a long list of assumptions. The main assumption is that foreign genes will always operate the same way in the new host organism. |
Carlo Petrini
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 Oil and wine producers were offering samples in marquees, while hundreds of open-air stalls were selling excellent products: fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, sausages, and even flowers—fresh, healthy-looking food, all carefully marked organic.
One could have easily spent a fortune there. The prices were astronomical, twice or even three times as high as those of "conventional" products. But how hard it is to produce things so well, and what costs are involved in obtaining certification! |
| It is astonishing for the delicacy and care with which her chefs cook, but even more so for the clarity of the flavors: they manage to bring out the taste of the vegetables in a way that I have rarely encountered anywhere else in the world. The mix between a refined culinary technique and a choice of produce that is positively manic in its respect for correctness in the production process and for the geographical proximity of suppliers guarantees wonderful results. |
| After the initial response, perhaps of slight amusement, there was a vigorous discussion on the subject, notable for a speech by Vandana Shiva, who spoke about the importance of gastronomy for the defense of traditional kinds of vegetables (it was on this occasion that I struck up a close friendship and collaboration with Shiva, who is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in India and an important activist for biodiversity). |
| In our own time, too, the problem of cataloguing the varieties of fruit and vegetables is a very topical, indeed rather urgent, one. The strong impulse toward high productivity in agriculture on a largely industrial basis has led to a rapid selection—not only by natural means, but also through hybridization and even through "creation" using genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—of new vegetable and animal varieties that suit the new production processes of our era. |
| Pierangelini tells me that in his kitchen no man, not even he, is allowed to clean and wash the salad and vegetables: this task is reserved for women, because he says they move in a different way from men. We may call it grace or skill, but the fact is that Pierangelini treats his older female assistants with utter devotion, and he told me this anecdote in a slightly despairing tone because one of them was soon to retire. |
| He feared that nobody else would be able to prepare the vegetables for his kitchen as she did, her actions "mechanical and decisive, but with a grace and precision only possible for a person of great sensitivity."
The heritage of these movements, these manual skills, this unwritten and unwritable know-how, must be preserved, and some of the resources available for research should be dedicated to them, so that we can at the very least record them before they completely disappear. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Drink two quarts of liquid daily—water is best.
Also, exercise for at least 20 minutes most days of the week. Exercise stimulates intestinal contractions that promote bowel movements.
Warning: Sudden constipation or alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation may be a sign of colon cancer. Call your doctor—you may need a colonoscopy to determine if cancer is present.
FATIGUE
It's normal to be exhausted after a hard day, but persistent fatigue is not normal, especially when it suddenly worsens. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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Fact 4: Those who grew up eating broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower are less likely to commit violent crimes than those who did not eat those vegetables when they were young.
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Do not be insulted even if you are wrong on every item. These are tricky. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Some research has shown that men who consume these vegetables have close to a 50% reduction in prostate cancer risk. Future research is needed to investigate the adverse effects of estrogen ratios on male reproductive cancers.55 researchers surmised that melatonin might induce objective tumor regressions in metastatic breast cancer patients refractory to tamoxifen alone. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| For example, certain vegetables such as spinach contain oxalic acid, which prevents the absorption of iron. Harmful substances such as mustard oil, an irritant to the digestive track, and allicin, a natural antibiotic, are usually found together in garlic or onions. Simply because allicin is a natural antibiotic does not make it any better than a pharma-ceutically prepared one. An antibiotic is a destructive substance ("anti" means "against" and "biotic" means "life"). It destroys both harmful and friendly bacteria and can disturb the natural intestinal flora or bacteria. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 In a "major" 5-A-Day dietary program, it was spending $500,000 to $1 million to educate the public to consume five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day.18 This is only three hundredths of one percent (0.0256%) of its budget. That's $2.56 for every $10,000! If it calls this a major campaign, I pity its minor campaigns. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Because so little else grows in the region, maca is often traded with communities at lower elevations for such other staples as rice, corn, green vegetables, and beans. The dried roots can be stored for up to seven years. Native Peruvians traditionally have utilized maca since pre-Incan times for both nutritional and medicinal purposes. It is an important staple in the diets of these people, as it
Maca is a high mountain root vegetable that is a staple crop; it is eaten daily by the Andean people, much like beans, rice, and potatoes. |
John A. McDougall
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 Consumption of vegetables, on the other hand, was associated with lower incidence of ulcers. Louise was not doing herself any favors by skipping the veggie platter and indulging in the ham roll-ups.
Alcohol and Acid
Before sharing with Louise about alcohol and acid production, knowing her tendency to celebrate any and all occasions (even returning a library book or getting the mail) with a glass of wine, I reminded her of the old adage, "Don't shoot the messenger." Alcoholic beverages do cause an increase in stomach acid. However, pure alcohol is not the problem here. |
John Croft
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 Note: Shark cartilage products should not be taken together with fruits or vegetables (including juices) because they contain bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids will bind (attach) to proteins and, because the angiogenesis-inhibiting active component in shark cartilage is protein, there is the potential that its inhibiting activity will be lost. Taking the product at least two hours before a meal involving fruits or vegetables and using water or milk as an aid to swallowing the capsules or tablets will avoid this. |
Michael T. Murray
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 It focuses on an abundance of plant food (fruit, vegetables, breads, pasta, potatoes, beans, nuts, and seeds). þFoods are minimally processed and there is a focus on seasonally fresh and locally grown foods. þFresh fruit is the typical daily dessert, with sweets containing concentrated sugars or honey consumed a few times per week at the most. þDairy products (principally cheese and yogurt) are consumed daily in low to moderate amounts. þFish is consumed on a regular basis. þPoultry and eggs are consumed in moderate amounts (one to four times weekly) or not at all. |
| Greater TV use has been associated with higher intakes of total calories, fat, sweet and salty snacks, and soft drinks, and lower intakes of fruit and vegetables. Is it any wonder that several large studies have documented a clear association between number of hours of TV watched and the rate of obesity?2
To lose weight, we recommend turning off the TV and tuning into your own life. If you are a parent, limiting the time your child watches TV can significantly reduce the risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The book cites a study showing "that 78% of all malnourished children under five in the developing world live in countries with food surpluses."24
The organization Stop Hunger Now says, "Abundance, not scarcity, best describes the world's food supply," and a UN report confirms that we won't be running short anytime soon.25 The primary cause of hunger is poverty. Producing more food will not solve the problem if those who need it the most cannot afford it.
Miguel A. |
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