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Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care Jane M. Orient, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

My cousin Louis comes there with a truck full of vegetables. He goes home with money and an empty truck. It is very complicated—there are lots of different kinds and qualities of vegetables. But somehow Louis is able to figure how much to charge for the tomatoes and the squash without using a computer. His customers come with empty shopping bags and go home with something good for dinner. As if by magic, everything comes out even, although every individual at the market has a different relative value scale. Well, that is a microcosm.

Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work Tanya Harter Pierce See book keywords and concepts

Thirteen fresh juices a day from organically grown vegetables and fruits. This is to flood the body with healing nutrients and live enzymes, which help balance, detoxify, and heal all bodily systems. ?About five coffee enemas each day. This is primarily to heal the liver. ?Very strict diet. This includes, among other restrictions: no salt, no sugar, and little fat or meat. ?Nutritional supplementation.

Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide Ben-Erik van Wyk See book keywords and concepts

India while the roots of Japanese and Mongolian snake gourds are used as starch sources in China and Japan. Nutritional value Snake gourd has a relatively low food value but is a good source of minerals and some vitamins. Older fruits are used in traditional medicine as bitter tonic to stimulate appetite and improve digestion. Trigonella foenum-graecum fenugreek Fenugreek plant Fenugreek seeds Description A sparse annual herb of up to 0.8 m in height bearing compound leaves with three markedly toothed leaflets. The small white flowers have no stalks and are clustered in the leaf axils.

Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work Tanya Harter Pierce See book keywords and concepts

The best recommendation to anyone trying to improve their health using Protocel is to simply eat a sensible, healthy diet including: fresh organic vegetables and fruits, good sources of dietary protein (eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, meat, fish, soy products, legumes), and plenty of water. Because cancer is a chronic, metabolic disease that usually gets started when a person's body is out of balance or weakened in some way, it is wise to pick the most nutritious foods you can to support your body's healing. "Whole" foods will support your body better than refined foods.

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson See book keywords and concepts

Dietary campaigns by government bodies, the American Cancer Society and others recommend that 5-7 servings of vegetables be consumed daily to function as a source of cancer chemopreventive agents. However, it is not reasonable to assume that chemopreventive agents will safeguard humans from known carcinogenic risks such as smoking. As knowledge of these agents increases they will play an increasing role in cancer prevention. Chemoprevention will not be covered further, apart from tea, as it is a vast subject in its own right.

Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty! F. Batmanghelidj See book keywords and concepts

It was a plate of crayfish and some vegetables. I was too busy to feel any discomfort after eating the food. I went to bed in the early hours of the morning and all but died in bed. Not long into my sleep, I started to dream that I was in a boat on rough seas. The boat was being thrown about, up and down and side to side, motions dictated by the choppy sea. I started feeling more and more nauseated until I could no longer hold down what I had eaten, and only just managed to reach the sink in my room to throw up the food that had obviously gone bad.

Low-carb vs. low-fat diet debate distracts from the real weight loss solution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

All fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, herbs, and fresh meat products are unprocessed foods. These foods are all high in fiber, high in antioxidants, and yet exhibit low caloric density which promotes healthy body weight and reduces the risk of obesity. These foods offer much higher vitamin and mineral content than processed foods, all while avoiding the unhealthy additives, oils and sweeteners found in processed foods. So, as usual, the so-called health authorities in this country are arguing about the wrong thing.

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Arthur Agatston, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

You can dress salads or vegetables in both and enjoy the benefit. Even sourdough bread, while not high in fiber, is acidic, and will slow stomach emptying and thereby slow digestion. This is an important lesson in eating properly and losing weight on the South Beach Diet. This is why we call carbs containing fiber good, and why we also think of certain fats as good, too: Anything that slows the process by which you process the sugars in carbs is by definition, good.

You're limited to a fairly small palette of foods—grilled or broiled lean meats and fish, vegetables, low-fat cheeses and salads, all either steamed or prepared using good fats such as olive oil and canola oil. For snacks, nuts and part-skim mozzarella sticks, and that's about it. From a culinary point of view, it's a perfectly acceptable diet—for 2 or 3 weeks. After that, it gets a little dull. That is where the trouble starts. That's when dieters begin to improvise, only they do so improperly. They mix in their bad old habits—-just once in a while, mind you.

The first 2 weeks on the South Beach Diet were the toughest—just low-fat meats and vegetables and water. Around the second week, I was going crazy. It was psychologically stressful. But I did it. Going to visit the nutritionist was helpful. Within those first weeks I think I cheated once, on cheesecake. A couple times I was tempted to have rice, but I had stopped buying it, so there was none in the house. It kind of killed me, not having it around. After the 2 strict weeks were up, it got a lot easier. I was able to have more variety.

Order a double serving of the vegetables instead. And never order anything that's fried. Roasted, broiled, braised, baked, steamed, even sauteed—all right. If there's a sauce, ask for it on the side. That doesn't mean you won't have any, but I guarantee that you'll be satisfied using half of what they would have ladled on. As for drinks, start with water as soon as you're seated, but feel free to have a glass or two of red wine (which is actually good for your health and not terribly fattening). Avoid white wine, spirits, or, worst of all, beer. For dessert, don't be too hard on yourself.

The various Asian national diets tend to be heavy on fish and vegetables, light on heavy meats or sweets. But that's not always the case in Asian restaurants in America. One major difference is portion size—we are accustomed to a lot more food on our plates. And because everybody hates waste, we tend to finish what's there. Another significant difference is in the rice. Asians have always used the whole grain, including the fiber, and your digestive system has to work to get at the starch. In this country, and increasingly in many Asian cities, a more processed variety of white rice is used.

You can pick out your own fresh meat and vegetables and things and they'll stir-fry them for you. So I go there maybe twice a week. I'm a big seafood person. I'll eat mussels, crab legs, shrimp. They have green beans cooked with oil and garlic. I'll eat a whole plate of them. Iced tea with Sweet'N Low or diet soda. I go home full. That's my treat, twice a week. And I don't go to any fast-food places at all any more, because there's really nothing I can have. My only big treat, once a month—I go to McDonald's and get a low-fat fruit yogurt. It has carbs in it, but I have it anyway.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

Yellow fruits and green and yellow vegetables will also help meet vitamin A requirements. Enhancers to vitamin A absorption are vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, vitamin E, B complex, choline, and essential fatty acids. Vitamin A antagonists are laxatives and some cholesterol-lowering drugs (Questran). Coffee, alcohol, excess iron supplementation, sugar, tobacco, and mineral oil can also interfere with vitamin A absorption. Food sources of lutein are kale, Brussels sprouts, corn, collards, spinach, and egg yolks. Egg yolks have tiny amounts of lutein—about 0.

Opinion: Ensure is primarily sugar water, marketed with misleading statements that deceive consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It has no live food enzymes, there are no whole foods in here, there are no high-density superfood sources, there are no vegetables from the sea, there are no health-supporting herbs, and even the vitamins and minerals that it does offer are not in their optimum form for maximum bioavailability. Interestingly, Ensure is a product that typifies what's for sale at places like Walgreen's and Wal-Mart.

Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide Ben-Erik van Wyk See book keywords and concepts

Africa, Asia and China. Origin & history Melokhia is thought to be indigenous to India but it is widely distributed in all tropical regions of the world, where it served as a vegetable and pot-herb for centuries. Its use for fibres is a recent development (substitute for hemp). Parts used Young leaves (stems are a source of fibre). Cultivation & harvesting In rural areas, the leafy branches are gathered from wild or semi-domesticated plants but the plant is grown as a vegetable crop in Egypt, Syria and Israel.

Atkins diet works better than low-fat diets, especially in men Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The only carbohydrates people should be eating are those carbs found in nature such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables with relatively high sugar sugar content such as peas and carrots. These are all allowed under the Atkins diet, contrary to popular belief. Dr. Atkins deserves tremendous credit for making people aware of the long-term health dangers of consuming high carbohydrate foods and beverages. If people are experiencing kidney damage and cardiovascular disease from following what they think is the advice of Dr.

Elderly women benefit strongly from nutrition and lifestyle changes, new research reveals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Interestingly, only a third of the women in the study met the guidelines to eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits daily. This is a fascinating study, but what if they had reversed it and took a look at whether people who are healthy in their 50's and 60's can change their lifestyle and become couch potatoes in 12 years or less? May be that study would be titled, "It's never too late to throw away your health by eating junk foods and adopting a sedentary lifestyle." Wait a minute.

Death By Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation Ray Strand, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

An increased amount of fiber is very important in our overall diet and can be found in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.4 I recommend between thirty-five and fifty grams of fiber each day. Most Americans consume only eight to ten grams of fiber per day and have come to believe that a bowel movement every other day is more than sufficient. Our paradigm is limited. Perhaps a broader worldview would prove enlightening. The late Dr. Denis Burkitt, a Christian surgeon famous for discovering the disease Burkitt's lymphoma, practiced medicine in Africa for more than twenty years.

Foods that interfere with Coumadin include foods rich in vitamin K, such as asparagus, bacon, beef liver, cabbage, fish, cauliflower, and green, leafy vegetables. Herbal medicines to avoid while taking Coumadin are angelica root, anise, borage-seed oil, devil's claw, papain, ginseng, ginger, ginkgo, horse chestnut, alfalfa, red clover, clove oil, feverfew, passionflower herb, salvia root (danshen), willow bark, cinchona bark, turmeric, garlic, coquinone, and dong quai. Occasionally patients on Coumadin suffer a serious adverse drug reaction, possibly even a life-threatening bleed.

Eat small, fine cuts of steak along with tasty low-glycemic vegetables. You do need to avoid such meats as bacon, hot dogs, salami, and lunch meats.You should also skip organ meats (liver, brain, and kidney) due to high toxin concentrations. Dairy products are the least desirable protein source because they have the highest concentration of saturated fats. Milk, eggs, cheese, butter, and buttermilk rank among some of the unhealthiest foods.

They include fruits, vegetables, grains, and sugars.The medical community believes that the more simple the sugar (for example, table sugar, candy, or soda pop) one consumes, the faster the sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream and the quicker one's blood sugar rises. A new concept is now being studied, which is called the glycemic index. The glycemic index—or how fast our bodies absorb a particular carbohydrate—is determined by studying each individual carbohydrate.

Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Supplements: (to be taken under medical supervision) > Magnesium, 400 to 600 mg per day, in divided doses. Reduce dose if diarrhea occurs. Intramuscular or intravenous injections of mag nesium may be advisable in individuals with more advanced cases. >- Coenzyme Q10, 30 to 200 mg per day. >- Taurine, 500 to 1,500 mg rwice a day. >¦ High-potency multiple vitamin/mineral (adjust doses of other nutrients as needed). >• Hawthorn (leaf with flower); dosage varies according to the preparation used. Other Recommendations: • L-arginine, 1 to 2 grams twice a day.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Certain proteins, such as those found in animal proteins, tend to raise the level of homocysteine, whereas the proteins in vegetables, containing different amino acids with different amino acid structures, do not raise homocysteine. Thus an excess of animal protein in the diet may cause harm, whereas consuming many plant proteins won't. Furthermore, an animal protein such as steak contains certain amino acids that are more acidic than amino acids that come from plant proteins.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Afor40 minutes. Middle Eastern Falafel Blend green and yellow peas, wheat germ, spices, herbs, onion, powdered soy sauce, pinch of salt, and prepared baking yeast; add 1IA c. whole wheat flour to each cup of the above mix; add blended 1 c. cooked garbanzo beans to 1 cup of water; let rise 15 minutes; shape into patties and saute in vegetable oil, juice orapplesauce; serve as patties, or balls in pocket bread with tahini sauce of 1/2 c. sesame butter, 2/3 c. lemonjuice, and 1/3 c. water.

Breaking Out of Environmental Illness: Essential Reading for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Allergies, and Chemical Sensitivities Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N. See book keywords and concepts

Now that we had a kitchen again, we went ahead with the macrobiotic diet, which was based on eating whole grains, vegetables, beans, and sea vegetables. It focused on the energies of food and how the food was prepared. Since we wanted to heal major illness, we began with the more restrictive macrobiotic healing diet. Sherry Rogers recommended consulting with a macrobiotics counselor who specialized in working with chemically sensitive people. We explored that possibility; but when we were told a consultation would cost hundreds of dollars, we decided to start based on our own research in books.

The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases Philip Yam See book keywords and concepts

Moreover, Horn's panel found that Britain was alone among European countries in feeding meat-and-bone meal to dairy calves as part of their starter rations, switching over from reconstituted milk, feed, hay, vegetables, and fish. Australian farmers also incorporated MBM into dairy calf feeds, but notably, Australia is scrapie-free, having managed to eradicate the disease after its first outbreak in 1952. (U.S. farmers relied on cheap and abundant soybeans for the calves' protein.) Most scientists now subscribe to the theory that BSE originated from a strain of scrapie endemic to the U.K.

Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods The Editors of FC&A See book keywords and concepts

For example, you can make both chicken soup and chicken casserole with the same ingredients.But since chicken soup has more water, it is less energy dense. Therefore, you'll take in fewer calories to feel full. The high-density casserole, on the other hand, packs in a lot of calories in a relatively small serving. So you'll be getting more calories in order to feel full. Fill up on fiber. Low-density foods are often high in fiber as well as water. This combination swells in your stomach, turning off your body's internal hunger switch. As an added food.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Also triggering inflammation are free radicals and oxidative stress, which can be caused by overeating, obesity, chronic infections, exposure to toxins, a diet poor in vegetables, or lack of fiber or essential fats—anything that depletes the body of antioxidants. Other common sources of inflammation are toxins such as air or water pollution, pesticides, food additives, drugs, cosmetics, and household or workplace chemicals. Bacteria such as E. coli and anthrax cause illness by releasing toxins after they infect their host.

These substances include isoflavones; genistein and daidzein, found in foods such as soy, whole grains, or beans; carotenoids, including beta-carotenes; and lutein and lycopene, found in tomatoes, yellow and orange fruits, and vegetables, and which have powerful anticancer properties. Then these items are broken down into their component parts through a series of digestive steps that begin with chewing, followed by the enzymatic action of saliva, and then the mechanical churning in the stomach.

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