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(but not necessarily to smoothly puree). Return the processed batch to the rest of the soup, and stir it in. This treatment gives the soup a delightful, varied texture.
Serve hot, with a very light sprinkling of grated fresh horseradish on top if desired.
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The most important thing is dignity. We got back our dignity. | | Borrowers also pledge to grow vegetables all year round, to educate their children, and even to build and use pit-latrines (what we would call "out-houses").
Some critics look at the Sixteen Decisions and see paternalism at best, brainwashing at worst. But, we remind ourselves, this effort to create new norms emerged from the borrowers themselves. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Consider a fiber supplement (even sugar-free Metamucil, though I prefer Meta-Fibre by Metagenics; see Resources). Exercise almost always helps. And drinking hot water with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice first thing in the morning can help get things going as well.
A terrific "cure" for constipation is magnesium. Get the magnesium citrate form, start with 400 milligrams a day for a few days, and then, if needed, increase to 800. That almost always does it.
Cravings
Why Do / Get Cravings?
Cravings have many causes. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Even though I try to eat fresh, organic produce, I am aware that modern farming practices have depleted the soil of nutrients, which in turn, can strip fruits and vegetables of their valuable vitamins and minerals. The storage and shipping of food can also sap it of its nutrients. I take supplements to ensure that I am getting all of the micronutrients I need to maintain optimal health, and I advise others to do the same. | | Carotenoids are substances in fruits and vegetables that are natural coloring agents. Recently, researchers have discovered that carotenoids are much more than mere decoration—they have powerful antioxidant and anticancer properties. Although plants need sunlight to thrive and grow, constant exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays emitted by the sun can trigger the formation of dangerous free radicals, which can cause genetic damage. In order to survive, plants need a mechanism to protect themselves from these potentially troublesome UVrays. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  See appendix 1 (page 177) for extracts from this significant document that highlight its essential points, which are summarized below:
Virgin and cultivated lands alike are seriously deficient in minerals and the grains, fruits, vegetables, and beans harvested from these depleted soils in turn exhibit a mineral deficiency—and finally, those who eat them will incur serious mineral deficiencies, with all the well-known adverse consequences for their health. The sole means of preventing and curing these pathological states is by taking mineral and nutritional supplements. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | About 25 percent of the population has an inherited aversion to the bitter taste of cruciferous vegetables. Researchers have dubbed these people "supertasters" because they are highly sensitive to certain flavors. Because of self-imposed dietary limitations, most supertasters do not get all the beneficial phytochemicals from their food that they need to maintain optimum health. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Another substance that also has this ability is the amino acid pyroglutamate, which is found in meat, vegetables, and dairy products. Piracetam is very similar to pyroglutamate in its chemical structure.
Because the primary function of piracetam is to stimulate the cholinergic system, it works best when it is taken along with other substances that also stimulate the cholingeric system. These substances include phosphatidyl choline (derived from lecithin), and DMAE, both of which I described in detail in chapter 13. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
See book keywords and concepts |  Since all the cut vegetables had to be kept separate prior to cooking, we bought twenty small dishes.
We also needed new kinds of equipment, including pickle presses and hand grinders. Macrobiotics stressed that how food was handled during preparation influenced its effect when eaten. According to macrobiotics, electricity had a disruptive effect on the energy of food and any food grinding had to be done by hand. From that perspective, cooking with an electric stove was deviating from macrobiotic teaching, but we knew we could not tolerate a gas stove. In any case, we did not have one. | | However, I had unintentionally fallen into a pattern limited to eating certain items including rice, vegetables, fish, chicken, fruit juices, soy drinks, cookies, and crackers. Given my sensitivity to many foods, I had the choice either to avoid them altogether or to eat them as part of a rotation diet. A rotation diet involves eating foods from a particular food family every four days. Having both followed one for years and taught clients to do so, Patty was well-versed in the rotation diet. She felt the diet had helped lessen her symptoms but complained about how time-consuming it was. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Plant foods, cereals, vegetables, and fruits do not contain a significant amount of essential amino acids and are therefore referred to as being of "low biological value" and their proteins of "low quality." That is not to say they are not good for you, but as far as protein balance is concerned, none of them alone fills the need. However, you can combine a variety of nonessential amino acids, as, for example, those present in legumes, with other amino acids in grains or cereals to obtain a complete protein. | | You could, for example, have a 3-ounce serving of meat or fish, 1 or 2 cups of skim milk or nonfat milk, and two or three servings of vegetables per day. To compensate for this decrease in your dietary protein, your physician will decide whether you need a daily supplement of 15 to 30 milligrams of a special protein in the form of branched-chain amino acids, commercially available as Travasorb Hepatic and Hepatic-Aid. | | On such a very-low-salt diet, you will have to depend largely on fruits and vegetables (except for celery), most of which have only negligible amounts of salt.
Cirrhosis also causes the veins in the gullet to become engorged, very much like varicose veins in the legs. When these rupture, as they sometimes do, the individual may hemorrhage to death. Persons with these "esophageal varices" should therefore be restricted to a soft diet—custards, purees, and liquids—and avoid hard, crusty foods that can tear open the distended veins. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
See book keywords and concepts | | All whole grains and beans were washed meticulously. vegetables were cut in a precise manner according to the recipe. Patricia could now prepare a number of individual dishes well, but found it challenging and frustrating to combine them into a meal that tasted good to her. The recipes in her macrobiotic cookbooks did not focus on the healing diet; they used fermented products for flavoring. As a compromise, Patricia served mildly seasoned miso soup.
When Patricia needed a break from cooking, we went to a macrobiotic restaurant. Dining out was always problematic. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The absorption of nonheme iron, which is found in fruits, vegetables, and grains, is enhanced by consuming it together with vitamin C. If you drink a glass of fruit juice or take a 100-milligram tablet of vitamin C with each meal, you will increase the absorption of iron from nonheme foods by as much as four times. Adding even small amounts of animal protein, as little as 1 or 2 ounces, to your vegetable salad, can also enhance iron absorption. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
See book keywords and concepts | | Of particular importance was the addition of sea vegetables, more commonly called seaweed. Patricia and I were surprised to find that we liked the taste of many of them and were eager to experience their reported effect of removing chemicals from the body.
By early April, we could cope with persistent fumes in the Red House's first-floor bathroom by keeping all the windows wide open while we were there. We then were able to use its large kitchen and sleep there a couple nights a week. The Red House's bigger kitchen gave more room for food preparation. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Indeed, not so many years ago, heart specialists were recommending that we eat large amounts of polyunsaturated fat, derived from vegetables, to prevent heart disease. We now know that such a diet appears to be linked with an increased incidence of cancer. Excessive intake of any fat raises the risk of colon and prostate cancer. The exception to that statement may be omega-3, the kind of fat found in fish, which has recently been found to have antitumor properties. (See page 221 for food sources of omega-3. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Typically, chemical phosphates (rather than the much needed organic phosphorus mineral) are added to soil for growing fruits and vegetables. Now these chemical products destroy the tiny microorganisms in the soil that are necessary to convert inorganic minerals into a usable form for the plant to absorb. Not only is the soil already lacking naturally occurring minerals, but it is difficult for the plants to assimilate what minerals are left. Plants will grow in soil that is low in minerals and trace elements such as magnesium, manganese, iron, iodine, chromium, and selenium. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Whenever possible, the fruits and vegetables should be fresh. It's also wise to find produce that was organically grown. Herbicides and pesticides can have a gravely deleterious effect upon cerebral function.
To meet your brain's demand for protein, soy products are especially valuable because they're low in fat and high in the amino acids that make up neurotransmitters. Soy protein is also an effective free-radical scavenger, because of its high content of genisten, a potent antioxidant. Soy tends to boost "good" high-density lipoprotdn cholesterol, and it reduces triglycerides. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, and steering clear of processed foods, can also help reduce homocysteine levels. On the other hand, smoking, eating high amounts of saturated fat, and taking birth control pills will increase them.
As we age, methylation in the body declines, which means that homocysteine levels are allowed to rise. Not so coincidentally, there is also an increased risk of developing heart disease, cancer, and other health problems associated with elevated homocysteine levels. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The alarming fact is that foods—fruits and vegetables and grains— now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us, no matter how much of them we eat!
You'd think, wouldn't you, that a carrot is a carrot—that one is about as good as another as far as nourishment is concerned. But it isn't; one carrot may look and taste like another and yet be lacking in the particular mineral element which our system requires and which carrots are supposed to contain. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
See book keywords and concepts | | I also rotated nuts, fruits, and vegetables. Being locked into this regimen was difficult at times, but I did my best. On the rotation diet I was pleased to notice the disappearance of sleepiness after lunch which I had been having for months. Patty told me drowsiness after meals is an indication of food allergy.
I asked myself what other symptoms of sensitivity to foods and chemicals had occurred previously without my recognizing them. I remembered the summer of 1989. Then during times of high humidity and high air pollution, I experienced pain in the joints of my hands. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Eat cooling, sweet, bitter, and astringent foods, with an emphasis on fruits and vegetables.
7. Eat a bland, 80% raw-food diet. Natural Cycles and the Dosha Energies
"V Tot only can individuals be described as being a particular dosha,
X N but times of the day, the seasons, and periods in the life cycle (teenage, middle age, old age, etc.) also possess the dosha qualities. These natural cycles have an intimate effect on the energy and manifested qualities of the doshas. | | Lunch: Primary colors are green, yellow, and blue—green salads, grains, nuts, seeds, and sea vegetables.
Dinner: primary colors are gold, blue, indigo, and purple—includes grains, golden fruits (papayas and mangos), reddish-purple beets, red and purple sea vegtables, and all white foods.
"At the end of the rainbow, you 11 find a pot of plenty."
Preview of Chapter 7 his chapter introduces you to the powerful effects our food choices
J. can have not only on the body, but on the emotional moods, mind, and spirit. | | The cold tastes, which are bitter and astringent, such as the leafy green vegetables, are balancing. Foods that are sweet-tasting are also balancing, except honey and molasses, which are heating. High-protein foods increase the metabolic heat by 30% and should be kept to a moderate intake. Foods that stress the liver are usually aggravating, such as coffee and alcohol. Such foods as carrots and beets, which purify and cleanse the liver, are balancing or neutral to pitta, even though they are considered slightly heating. | | A high-complex-carbohydrate diet of soaked nuts and seeds, fruits, vegetables, and grains will supply an adequate and gradual release of glucose into the blood, unlike the ups and downs created by white sugar ingestion. I have had the experience of treating many monks and other spiritual aspirants involved in intense spiritual practices who developed hypoglycemia because they did not understand this basic idea. My clinical research has shown that when meditators with hypoglycemia go on a diet to prevent hypoglycemia, their ability to concentrate and become steady in their meditation improves. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | If the foods were deficient in magnesium, it was determined that, even at that early date, it was due to the low levels of this element (and of all the other nutrients) in the vegetables and fruits grown by means of intensive farming methods on depleted soils. As most people are well aware, the world's soils have not improved since the time of these first studies. Today it is all too obvious that the same situation is a reality: Our food is wanting magnesium and all the other minerals that our daily diet should be supplying us. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Instead of eating the typical American "meat and potatoes" fare, for three months these women ate soy foods and leafy green vegetables, and they took fish oil supplements daily. At the end of the study, researchers detected a change in the composition of the breast tissue of the women on the diet. They had higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids and lower levels of omega-6 fatty acids than before they began the special diet. Researchers hope that these changes will protect these women from having a recurrence, and larger studies are currently under way. | | The Right Amount
I take a combination supplement of 52 vegetables and fruits that is a wonderful pick-me-up between meals and ensures that I get enough of these valuable phytochemicals. Look for a supplement that contains broccoli isolates or extracts.
Personal Advice
Usually I advise people to steer clear of the salt shaker; however, I'll make this one exception. If you find the taste of broccoli to be too bitter for your liking, try flavoring it with some salt. Some people find that the salty flavor neutralizes the bitter cruciferous flavor. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Although less is destroyed in the fridge, it's best to eat vegetables fresh. Remember too, that antacids may decrease the efficiency of folate absorption from your diet.
Chronic alcoholics are prime candidates for folic acid anemia because alcohol damages both the intestine and the liver, so that folic acid is less well absorbed and processed. Poorly nourished older persons may also be folic acid deficient, as are one-third of all pregnant women. |
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