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Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet Thomas J. Moore See book keywords and concepts

With pesticide testing, animals may not be able to tolerate an enormous dose, but humans would be exposed to minute trace amounts on fruits, vegetables, or othet produce. However, humans typically ingest a drug continuously for many years. Thus, when prescription drugs flunk their animal cancer tests, it is often at exposures in the neighborhood of a typical human dose over time. For example, salmon calcitonin, now being promoted as a long-term treatment for osteoporosis in older women, caused cancer in both rats and mice at lower doses than the manufacturer tecom-mended for humans.

Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Leftover breakfast: Have a little something from the night before, such as a slice of pizza, a reheated baked potato filled with vegetables and cheese, a piece of chicken with toast and some fruit, or a bowl of tomato soup with crackers. 17. Breakfast crepes. Heat a store-bought crepe and fill with fat-free ricotta cheese and fresh fruit. Serve with fruit juice. 18. Peanut butter candy: Mix equal parts peanut butter toasted wheat germ, and honey. Spread it on a slice of whole wheat bread. Serve with nonfat milk and fruit. 19.

Miracle Medicine Foods Rex Adams See book keywords and concepts

Their staple foods are grains, fruits, raw vegetables, very little milk, eggs or meat, and no refined or processed foods. 212 The Man Who Lived Two and A Half Centuries! Professor Li Chung Yun is famous for having lived longer than any other man on record—an incredible 256 years! His death, the cause of which remains unknown, was reported by The New York Times in 1933. A professor at Minkuo University claimed to have found records showing Li was born in 1677, and that on his 150th and 200th birthday he was officially congratulated by the Chinese government.

Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common Ailments Robert M. Giller, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In addition, eat foods rich in vitamin A, including carrots, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, egg yolk, chicken, fish, and dark vegetables like broccoli. Floaters and Flashers Floaters and flashers are tiny dark specks or spots that appear before your eyes. Like presbyopia, they usually occur when you're at least forty. Also like presbyopia, they signify the aging of the eye: The spots are caused when the fluid that fills the inside of the eyeball begins to thin out.

Eat a high-fiber diet unless your symptoms are acute, in which case you should avoid roughage and raw vegetables. • Eat regular meals at regular times: Avoid large meals and remember that small, frequent meals are best. • Eliminate the sugar in your diet. • Do not rely on milk to soothe your ulcer. • Adopt an exercise program. • Practice relaxation techniques. See Stress Control, page 314. IN ADDITION TO YOUR DAILY SUPPLEMENTS, PACE xxiv, TAKE • DGL: 1,000 to 1,500 mg. twenty minutes before meals. You should continue to take it for two to four months depending on the results you get.

To stimulate the gums, eat fresh fruit and vegetables rich in vitamin C, such as oranges, grapefruit, tomatoes, pineapple, broccoli, cantaloupe, cauliflower, asparagus, and strawberries. Coenzyme Q10, which is essential to healthy tissues, is a significant breakthrough in the fight against periodontal disease. Tests both here and in Japan have shown the remarkable effectiveness of CoQIO supplements in reversing periodontal disease in both its early and later stages and in growing new tissue.

For balanced nutrition and to give your gums and teeth the "exercise" and stimulation they need, you should eat a variety of fresh fruit, leafy vegetables, fish, meat and grain breads, and take supplements. A number of years ago, one of my patients complained that his gums bled when he brushed his teeth, though he flossed every day and went for semiannual professional dental cleanings. I recommended vitamin and mineral supplements, and within two weeks the bleeding stopped. But when he went away on vacation, he didn't take his supplements along; bleeding began within ten days.

Since both undernutrition and constipation are a problem with Parkinson's, it is important to follow a diet high in vegetables, fruit, fiber, and sufficient calcium. Miller's bran and psyllium fiber can help fight constipation. Both vitamins C and E seem to be helpful in delaying the progress of the disease. In an interesting study, Dr. Stanley Fahn of the Department of Neurology at Columbia University put a number of his patients on megadoses of these vitamins.

A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Ruth Winter, M.S. See book keywords and concepts

ANTHOCYAN1NS • One of the most important and widely distributed groups of water-soluble natural colors, anthocyanins are responsible for the attractive red, purple, and blue colors of many flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Over 200 individual anthocyanins have been identified, of which 20 have been shown to be naturally present in black grapes, the major source of anthocyanin pigment for food coloration. ANTHRANILIC ACID • o-Aminobenzoic Acid. Yellowish crystals with a sweet taste used in dyes and perfumes. See Benzoic Acid.

Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet Thomas J. Moore See book keywords and concepts

However, many in the world of health advocacy concluded that if getting a little beta-carotene in vegetables seemed to be beneficial, then taking a vitamin supplement containing more of the chemical ought to be even bettet. The lack of clinical-trial evidence that taking this chemical was beneficial did not prevent many health advocates from recommending it. It was featured in best-selling health books such as Life Extension and Spontaneous Healing.17 Such advice was featured in more mainstream medical publications, such as the Wellness Letterof the University of California at Berkeley.

Miracle Medicine Foods Rex Adams See book keywords and concepts

Concentrate on green, leafy vegetables, cabbage, green beans, spinach, kale, brussels sprouts, broccoli spears—garlic foods (foods that go well with garlic). You may even use margarine or diet margarine on them for flavor if your diet permits. Steer clear of baked beans, lima beans, peas, corn, potatoes of any kind, and—in the fruit category—bananas, as these are high in starch and calories. However, once or twice a week it is permissible to sneak these things in at lunch or supper—no harm is done. For salads, use lots of tomatoes, green peppers, lettuce, celery, and carrots.

Sugar Blues William Duffy See book keywords and concepts

Natural law decrees that man should eat whole food, the entire fish, the root of the leek, the top of the carrot, vegetables that grow wild in the sea as well as those man cultivates on land. The emperors of Japan tried to teach this by example—always eating whole rice. The good doctor then surveyed the modern, hygienic Dutch prisons where natives were interned for transgressions against the army of occupation. The prisoners were being fed white rice just like the patients in the colonial hospital. Out of 3,900, beriberi was contracted by 270.

I began, eating nothing but whole grains and vegetables. In about forty-eight hours, I was in total agony, overcome with nausea, with a crashing migraine. If pain was a message, this was a long one, very involved, intense but in code. It took hours to break the code. I knew enough about junkies to recognize reluctantly my kinship with them. I was kicking cold turkey, the thing they talked about with such terror. After all, heroin is nothing but a chemical. They take the juice of the poppy and they refine it into opium and then they refine it to morphine and finally to heroin.

Grains and vegetables tasted like a gift from the gods. The next few days brought a succession of wonders. My rear stopped bleeding, so did my gums. My skin began to clear up and had a totally different texture when I washed. I discovered bones in my hands and feet that had been buried under bloat I bounced out of bed at strange hours in the early morning, raring to go. My head seemed to be working again. I had no problems anymore. My shirts were too big. So were my shoes. One morning while shaving I discovered I had a jaw.

Although living on whole grains and vegetables as the Japanese prophet suggested was great, George wasn't a good cook and didn't want to learn. He wanted Mama to cook for him; she had got him into this, now let her cook his way out. He stayed off meat but grass forced him to gorge on sticky, sweet food. Even with occasional bingeing, he cut his insulin down to 25 units. He managed to avoid severe shocks to his system but suffered little ones. He remembers the ultimate last tango in Sacramento. He attempted a seduction and found the female ready and willing . . . and himself disabled.

He couldn't find the patience to continue weaning himself slowly and gradually off insulin onto a steady regime of whole grains and vegetables. "Maybe because I was never weaned from my mother's breast?" he asks. "I don't know." In the summer of 1969, he took about 40 LSD trips. "Trying to kill myself," he admits. His old self, that is. He wandered through the student riots in Berkeley smoking grass and more grass until one day he walked into a bathroom. "I saw a tall rather pretty girl standing there. I thought I'd seen her somewhere before.

Bread, rolls, and pastries, crackers and cookies, donuts and waffles, pancakes and toast, jellies and jam, relish and ketchup, vegetables and fruit, meat and potatoes, soup to nuts, eveirything is frozen, prepared, pepped up with sugar. In the morning, you may pass over the sugar-laden packaged breakfast foods in favor of a bowl of plain old oatmeal. If you're persistent, they may find you some honey to put on it, but even the honey may be filtered and stretched with sugar. The oatmeal is usually salted during cooking and the salt may have sugar in it, too. If you're daring, you may inquire.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

The German Humorous Hemp Primer says that "hemp does well following almost any crop: It grows well after fruits, corn, vegetables, grasses and grains." Shady hemp is also an excellent preceding crop, according to the primer, because "its tall, wide, dense growth strangles weeds. After hemp, all grains grow well and without problems. Also, fruits which follow hemp bring larger crops, as do grasses, delicate and tender when they lie down in hemp's bed. In short, anything sown in hemp's fields will bring rich harvest and much money." The USDA Farmers' Bulletin No.

The seeds are said to make all vegetables more palatable and complete foods. Sometimes it is an ingredient in chutney. Bhang and ripe hemp seed also is used to flavor or strengthen the formulations of alcoholic beverages. And mothers of the Sotho tribe in South Africa are known to feed their babies with ground hemp seed in pap.55 Hemp seed contains all the essential amino acids and fatty acids, and is the most complete protein to be found in the vegetable kingdom. The seed contains 26 to 31 percent crude protein.

Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common Ailments Robert M. Giller, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Gradually increase the amounts of fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, beans, and other high-fiber foods. Gradually eliminate highly refined foods. • Use a stool softener or psyllium powder—1 teaspoon in water once or twice daily—when you first notice symptoms or if hard stool is not relieved by diet. • Improve your bowel habits: Don't strain; move your bowels only when you feel the urge. Limit the time you spend on the toilet—don't use the bathroom as a library! • Don't use harsh toilet paper. Use premoistened towelettes and wipe gently.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

Soybeans, mung beans, clover, whole grains, and many fruits, nuts, and vegetables contain some of these phytoestrogens, which can occupy receptor sites that otherwise would have been available to bind with more potent estrogens, thus acting as a protection for the body. This may be one reason that lifelong vegetarians have a lower risk for estrogen-dependent health disorders such as breast cancer. Some foods are turned into phytoestrogens during the process of metabolism in the intestines. A round of therapeutic antibiotics can knock out this intestinal ability for several months.

Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine See book keywords and concepts

This will break down the fiber in the vegetables and make them easier to digest. Return to pot and simmer. Add 1 to 2 teaspoons of granulated seaweed. Add to 1 cup cooked barley or basmati rice. Drink throughout the day. This broth nourishes the very sick and it is easy to assimilate. If these remedies and recipes don't work, ask your doctor to prescribe tincture of opium. Start with a very low dose and slowly increase until the desired effects are reached.

Herbs Against Cancer: History and Controversy Ralph W. Moss PhD See book keywords and concepts

This is a free-swimming larva that emerges from its snail host and encysts on vegetables. The second stage is the metacercaria. This is the encysted stage in the fluke's life history, prior to its transfer to the definitive host, man. They enter humans who eat the raw pods, roots, stems, or bulbs of certain aquatic plants. Finally, there is the mature worm that attaches itself by suckers to an organ and begins to lay eggs. These pass out of the human body, hatch, and begin the cycle all over again. What happens inside humans is a real medical melodrama.

Do not mix the juices, but take different ones at different times." vegetables juices are also very helpful, he said, especially carrot juice, again recalling recent work on beta-carotene. Arctium lapi (burdock) Kloss's Primary Anticancer Herbs: Scientific name Common name Part AHPA Trifolium pratense Red clover Blossoms 2b Arctium lappa Burdock Root 1 Rumex crispus Yellow dock Root 2d Viola spp.

Rather, one must be in the habit of "peeling the metacercaria-infested hull of these vegetables with the teeth before consumption," to quote a standard textbook on the subject (112). Ingesting raw water chestnuts in the wild might give the victim one or a few parasites to deal with, but never more than the number of cysts that were eaten. To get a raging infection, the patient must be re-infected over and over again. They've got to keep coming back to the rice patty for additional water chestnuts and peeling the hulls with their teeth to become seriously imperiled by F. buski. F.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

He says that vegetables that are readily attacked by insects make more natural carcinogens in their attempt to fight off these insects and these natural carcinogens (such as gly-coalkaloids) are more of a risk to us than pesticides. "Our body is well equipped to adapt to carcinogens and all the natural carcinogens we are exposed to," says Dr. Gribble. "If we didn't have these natural defense mechanisms, why, we'd all get cancer before the age of four.

They had tested eight foods (applesauce, garden vegetables or pea and carrot blend, green beans, peaches, pears, plums, squash, and sweet potatoes) made by the three major babyfood producers—Gerber®, Heinz®, and Beech-Nut®—which account for 96 percent of all baby food sales. All samples were purchased at retail from grocery stores in Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco and tested for pesticides using the fda's approved standard analytical methods.

Fruits, vegetables, and juices are not necessarily safer than foods higher on the food chain since they are vehicles for pesticides, food additives, and colorings. In a report released in November 1997, the Natural Resources Defense Council identified the five top environmental threats to children as lead, air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke, unsafe drinking water, and pesticides, all of which contain endocrine disruptors.

Miracle Medicine Foods Rex Adams See book keywords and concepts

Garlic foods—the foods with which garlic is normally eaten— such as meats and green, leafy vegetables, are rich in calcium. In September 1953, Dr. L.W. Cromwell of San Diego, California, reported that he had found calcium deficiency to be a cause of arthritic crippling. Calcium is stored in the bones. In emotional or physical stress, or if you lack calcium, your body draws it from the bones. This may cause osteoporosis, which means brittle bones; or osteomalacia, which is deformed bones. Dr.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

I found that consuming more soy and whole-grain products, eating more vegetables and less red meat, taking certain vitamins, and avoiding coffee, tea, and alcohol reduced my pain. I would heal myself for periods of time. For eleven years I was in a team practice with a cardiologist and internist specializing in nutrition. Many women would come to me with problems similar to those I had experienced. After using the protocols I prescribed, based on scientific research and programs I had tried on myself, many of these women became healthier.

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