| Many prominent Roman family names were derived from vegetables their ancestors excelled at growing. Calling a man a good farmer was high praise in the republic. Cincinnatus was plowing his fields when summoned to become dictator in 458 bc.
Early Roman farms were intensively worked operations where diversified fields were hoed and weeded manually and carefully manured. The earliest Roman farmers planted a multistory canopy of olives, grapes, cereals, and fodder crops referred to as cultura promiscua. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Most antioxidants we get from vegetables and fruits. The most common antioxidants are vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A, and beta-carotene. We can obtain numerous other antioxidants from our food; these include coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, and the colorful bioflavanoid antioxidants. It is important to realize that antioxidants work in synergy with one another to disarm free radicals in different areas of the body. Like the varied positions of military defense, these antioxidants each have specific roles. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, raw nuts, and other unprocessed, unrefined foods have low levels of glycotoxins.
Be on the lookout for foods that are broiled, barbecued, grilled, fried, or oven roasted—these cooking methods employ high temperatures and dry cooking conditions, which generate high levels of dietary glycotoxins. High-temperature cooking methods should be used sparingly—certainly not every day and only a few times a week if possible. Instead, prepare your foods at temperatures less than 250°F to avoid the formation of dietary glycotoxins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even the best pharmaceuticals in the world don't come close to the disease prevention and reversing capabilities of the natural medicines found in vegetables, berries, fruits and herbs. You're witnessing a whole new movement in complementary medicine. Even conventional doctors are starting to take notice. They are increasingly getting behind plant-based medicines and even suggesting their patients start changing their dietary habits to eat these miraculous healing foods. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Hold the soymilk, as the vegetables provide liquid.
Yogurt with Nutty Granola
PHASE 1, SERVES 1
Do without the berries or cherries for the first two weeks of Phase 1. Although you may want to use sweetener at first, use progressively less as your diet and taste buds evolve. Be sure to grind the flaxseeds in a spice mill or coffee grinder so you can digest them. |
| Not only will you actually obtain plenty of protein from vegetables, but by consuming large amounts of plant micronutrients, you'll also turn on genes that protect you in the long term, laying the groundwork for longevity, health, and vitality. Once you've achieved your goal weight and your health has improved, you'll learn how you can offset the occasional brief departure from the program without resetting the destructive genetic programs. This phase lasts the rest of your life. |
Mark Lynas
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 Across the Atlantic, the UK won't yet be growing lemons, but will see increasingly successful crops of sweetcorn, soft fruits like strawberries, and popular vegetables like onions and courgettes. As winters get milder and wetter, winter wheat will thrive along with warm-loving legumes like navy beans (the traditional baked bean), which could become a major crop in southern England. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Tomato or vegetable juice provides a serving of vegetables in every glass. reality: Tomato-vegetable juice is drowning in sugar. myth: Low-cal or no-calorie sweeteners help you lose weight. reality: All studies show that artificial or no-calorie sweeteners stimulate the release of insulin, which makes you store more fat!
Before you embark on what may be the most exciting project of your life, let me provide you with a brief summary of the framework upon which you will build. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Residues of those banned chemicals ultimately came back to us in the fruits and vegetables the United States imported from those very same countries, which inspired the title of our book, Circle of Poison.16
But that was then. Mexico's move on lindane revealed how dramatically the global politics around chemicals have changed. When Weir and I wrote our book, we described Mexico as one of the primary markets for pesticides like chlordane, aldrin, dieldrin, and indeed, lindane. Today, it is the United States that is the market for a chemical that is banned in Mexico. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's no surprise, since the raw spinach and other vegetables I'm juicing are very high in protein in their raw, uncooked state. (I'm also adding spirulina and other green superfoods to my juice, so I'm getting additional high-density nutrients that way.)
I've dropped body fat and become more fit and lean. I've also boosted my cognitive function and memory. It has helped my Spanish lessons tremendously, and I've never been more productive in terms of content creation, reading and research projects.
People often ask me, "Mike, how do you get so much done? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we passed this law, freaked-out consumers would flock to the fresh produce section and begin buying up fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and other non-processed foods. And that, of course, might accidentally make them healthier.
#11 Outlaw cancer-causing chemicals and fragrances in personal care products
Here's an obvious one: Let's make it illegal for personal care product manufacturers to poison their customers. This can be easily accomplished by outlawing the use of toxic liver-damaging or cancer-causing chemicals now used throughout the cosmetics and personal care industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| All with 100% natural vegetables and fruits.)
You don't need to go to a juicing center or clinic to do this. You can do it from your own kitchen, safely, affordably and successfully.
I've personally found Juice Feasting to be nothing less than life changing. Once I tried this for three days, I was hooked. I've now been on a modified Juice Feast ever since I met David Rain. It has become my new, healthy lifestyle.
I'm drinking five quarts of juice a day, which means I'm drinking thousands of phytonutrients from about five pounds of fresh produce every single day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Look at the foods growing out of the ground: The nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits. These are your nourishment. Mother Nature provides all the medicine we need to slash cancer rates by 90%, and she doesn't charge a dime in royalties or patent fees. She keeps on giving, generation after generation, hoping that one day a race of human beings will walk this planet with the humility to listen to her.
Until that day comes, our fellow human beings will continue to suffer under the arrogance, greed and myopia so eloquently demonstrated by this Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The FDA believes that the dissemination of scientific information about the health benefits of fruits, vegetables and plants simply cannot be tolerated.
The Food and Drug Administration has a long history of engaging in armed raids against nutritional supplement and herbal companies. Read these articles to learn more:
The true history of FDA armed raids: http://www.newstarget.com/021791.html
The FDA shuts down red yeast rice distributors: http://www.newstarget.com/022046.html
See NewsTarget's 222 articles on the FDA: http://www.newstarget.com/list_features_the_FDA. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One study showed that microwaving vegetables destroys up to 97% of the nutritional content (vitamins and other plant-based nutrients that prevent disease, boost immune function and enhance health).
In other words, eating raw broccoli provides you with natural anti-cancer medicine that's extremely effective at halting the growth of cancer tumors. But microwaving that broccoli destroys the anti-cancer nutrients, rendering the food "dead" and nutritionally depleted. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Stick with their freeze-dried fruits, vegetables and meats in #10 cans. And remember, none of it is organic. (That's too bad. I still cannot locate an organic freeze dried storable food manufacturer that doesn' use hidden MSG.)
LIGHT: You'd be amazed how difficult life gets when you're fumbling around in the dark trying to find something to eat or drink. Don't be caught in such a situation: Get some reliable light!
But what works best in emergencies? Candles are a terrible choice because people fall asleep and burn down their homes with candles. (No kidding. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Evening meals consist of what Robb calls "grounding foods" that include certain vegetables and proteins. Jay told me this fruit flush diet gives him incredible energy!
One good thing about the Fruit Flush Diet is that it tastes great! Nearly everyone enjoys eating fresh fruit, so it's a far more enjoyable diet than, say, the Atkins or low-carb diets. It's also a diet rich in raw foods, and nutritional research over the last few years increasingly tells us that raw foods contain powerful medicinal compounds that have wide-ranging healing effects on the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It requires a wholesale shift to a healthy lifestyle that includes raw foods, superfoods, extreme juicing of vegetables, sunlight therapy, and a complete lifetime avoidance of cancer-causing foods, medicines and personal care products.
I'll say it as bluntly as I can: If you are not willing to radically change your diet, take up exercise and eliminate all the poisons from your home, then your outcome is already determined. I've had people literally tell me, "I'd rather die than give up eating my steak." And sure enough, they're already dead. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People get more nitrites from vegetables than they do from meat, according to research by the University of Minnesota. During the digestion process, however, sodium nitrite is converted to nitrosamine, and that's where the cancer problems begin. Nitrosamine is a carcinogen, but since it is not technically an ingredient, its presence can be easily overlooked on the packaging. Nitrosamines are also found in food items that are pickled, fried, or smoked; in things such as beer, cheese, fish byproducts, and tobacco smoke. |
David R. Montgomery
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 In the mid-nineteenth century, one sixth of Paris was used to produce more than enough salad greens, fruits, and vegetables to meet the city's demand—fertilized by the million tons of horse manure produced by the city's transportation system. More producrive than modern indusrrial farms, rhe labor-intensive system became so well known that intensive compost-based horticultute is still called French gardening.
Urban farming has been growing rapidly—worldwide more than 800 million people are engaged in urban agricuhure to some degree. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Instead, you'll be eating a host of nutrient- and fiber-rich micronutrients in the form of "Friendly vegetables." The foods you'll be eating and those you'll be giving the boot in Phase 1 take you back to the diet that prevailed roughly a century ago, before commercially milled grains and other processed foods began to change the way humans ate. As you move through the phases of Diet Evolution, you'll continue to evolve your diet backward in time until it emulates the way our early ancestors ate and thrived. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
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 All of the fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds in this encyclopedia have been arranged in alphabetical order so they can be more easily located. To have arranged them in categories would have created confusion. The tomato, for example, is technically the fruit of a plant, but it is commonly known as a vegetable. To learn about the tomato, one need only to find it's place in the alphabetical listing, without concern as to its technical category.
Quantities expressed in one hundred grams. Throughout the encyclopedia section, there are references to quantities of grams (gm) and milligrams (mg). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 This causes grains, fruits, and vegetables to lose most of their vitamins, minerals, and fiber, as well as other nutrients. Preservatives are then added in order to prevent germs from proliferating in the food while it sits in the jar or package on the supermarket shelf. That way, your food won't spoil or be covered with mold when you tear open the plastic packaging a week or a month or even a year down the road. |
| Studies show that almost 40 percent of newly arrived immigrants quickly change their diet to add in more prepackaged highly processed foods and snacks, eating fewer vegetables and fruit and less fish, rice, and beans. Not surprisingly, autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases are more common in Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia—where rates of Crohn's disease have been rising—and less common in southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| We've gone from a whole-foods diet—one in which we digested whole grains, fruits, vegetables, poultry, and livestock produced locally or on our own land—to a processed-food diet. This processed-food diet often consists of highly preserved bread products, doughnuts, prepackaged coffee cakes, and cereals laden with sugar for breakfast. (Think of it: one bowl of Cocoa Puffs has the same amount of sugar as a 50-gram bag of Hershey's Kisses, and a bowl of Corn Pops is the sugar equivalent of eating a Kit Kat bar. |
| However, these continue to leach out from goods manufactured prior to that time, as well as circulate into the air, soil, and sediment, which is why they continue to be commonly detected in our fruits, vegetables, meats, and dairy products. Deca-BDEs, the most commonly used subgroup of PBDEs, remain in wide use because they were thought to be less easily absorbed into the body. Recently, however, investigators have found that even deca-BDEs turn into the more easily absorbed and toxic penta-BDEs as they degrade in the environment around us. |
| Mullin recommends beginning such an elimination diet by consuming only hypoallergenic protein powders such as whey protein or rice protein—which will give you all of the essential nutrients—for a period of three days and then slowly adding in limited foods such as rice, chicken, turkey, and vegetables (see below) for a period of up to eight weeks. Patients keep a journal and take note of any type of reaction (bloating, abdominal discomfort, rashes, headaches, and any worsening of their autoimmune-disease symptoms). |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 I encouraged them to eat grains, legumes, lentils, vegetables, and fruit. I asked them to keep daily food diaries" listing everything they consumed, recommended that they take a daily multivitamin, and suggested that they moderate their consumption of alcohol and caffeine. And each participant received a prescription for a cholesterol-lowering drug. In the beginning, the drug was usually cholestyramine. In 1987, when the first of the statins, lovastatin, became available, that became our drug of choice. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The subjects were instructed to consume three shakes, one prepacked entree, and five servings of fruit and vegetables daily to achieve an energy intake of 4.5 to 5.0 MJ/d. Weight, body fat, lipid, and glucose measurements were obtained at baseline and at eight and 16 weeks. For both groups combined, subjects lost 8.1% of initial body weight (7.7 kg) at eight weeks and 13.4% (12.7 kg) at 16 weeks. Differences in weight loss and body composition changes between casein and soy treatments were not significant (Anderson et al, 2007). |
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