Ben Davis
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| C deficiency)...
"Mr. W. was put on practically a fruit and vegetable diet, amplified by a daily quart of milk. He was forbidden to eat meats, breadstuffs and pastry with the exception of three slices of whole wheat bread a day. His leg was sunned for half an hour a day, gradually increased to two hours. He was given a general body massage three times a week and was ordered to allow cold running water to course over both legs for 15 minutes in the morning and for 15 minutes at night.
"Within six weeks, Mr. W.'s leg was healed. His teeth were firm and the gums, although receded, were healed, . |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Interestingly, diets rich in legumes with high concentrations of water-soluble fibers are associated with an increased risk for gallstones.6 Chileans, Pima Indians, and other North American Indians have the highest prevalence rates for cholesterol gallstones. All consume a diet rich in legumes. Evidently legume intake increases biliary cholesterol saturation as a result of their saponin content.6 It is therefore recommended that legume intake be restricted in individuals with gallstones.
Vegetarian diet
A vegetarian diet has been shown to be protective against gallstone formation. |
| While meat consumption is contraindicated, fish appears to be particularly indicated due to its excellent protein content and, perhaps more importantly, its oil content. Cold-water fish such as mackerel, salmon, and herring are rich in the beneficial oils eicosapentaenoic and docosahexanoic acid (omega-3 oils). These oils are important in maintaining normal neural function and myelin production.11 They are incorporated into the myelin sheath where they may increase fluidity and improve neural transmission. |
Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., Ph.D.
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 United States Department of Agriculture's list in the 1940s have disappeared.
• 80 percent of factory farm animals are in poor health.
• 5 plant species are permanently lost every day.
* From Soignez-vous, April 6, 2002, and Lucy and Soly Fabiana de Oliveira, Tous vegetariens demain (fbis Rouge Editions, 2002). of atomk bombs, from ~2.si)i) .uoiiik bombs of rhe rvpe dropped on Hiroshima, lor this reason in die I'mted Sr.ites in the last ten \e.irs disease ol all kinds and birdie ot mentally reiarded babies, have increased tremendously. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 Swiss chard, etc. fruits: apples, bananas, oranges, pears, strawberries, etc.
2. Avoid all animal products. Meats, poultry, fish, eggs, and dairy products all contain cholesterol and nearly all are high in fat. It is important to avoid them completely. Including even small amounts can have a surprising effect on your cholesterol, not to mention their tendency to seduce your taste buds toward fattier tastes.
3. Keep vegetable oils to a minimum. Cooking oils, shortening, and salad oils sneak into foods and can contribute fats that raise your cholesterol level. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Western society
• a diet providing a low intake of plant cell walls is a causative factor in the etiology of these diseases and provides conditions under which other etiological factors are more active.
The term "Western diet" is used throughout this chapter, as well as in many other parts of the textbook. It refers to the typical diet of Western peoples, also referred to as "foods of commerce". It consists of a high intake of refined carbohydrates, saturated fats, processed foods, salt and cholesterol, and an extremely low intake of dietary fiber. |
Ben Davis
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| Raw celery.
There was no further bloated appearance from gas pressure. Toning up exercises were used, until the abdomen was again of a normal contour. Constipation, which had existed for many years, was entirely overcome, and a partial obstruction of the lower bowels was removed, which was responsible for a good deal of gas accumulation. She is still in perfect health after many years.
ULCERS
An ulcer is a crater-like sore in the wall of the stomach or intestine. The gastric juice of the ulcer patient is always too acid, and helps produce the sore. |
Prevention Magazine
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Keep it clothed. Most of a pear's fiber is in the peel. By eating pears with the skin on, you'll get the full complement of fiber, along with the cholesterol-lowering benefits, Dr. Camire says.
Fresh is better. While canned pears are convenient, they don't provide anywhere near the benefits of fresh, says Donald V. Schlimme, Ph.D., professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Maryland in College Park. For one thing, canned pears have been peeled, so they have lost most of their healing fiber. |
Rebecca Wood
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 Add to soup or casseroles or parboil. Nettles may also be made into a tea to drink hot or cold. Do not, as some old texts indicate, use nettles raw in salads. Heat and drying destroy nettles' sting.
Buying/Foraging Dried nettles and nettle extracts are available in natural food stores. Bottled nettle-flavored teas and beverages are appearing in specialty food markets. If you want to enjoy nettles as a vegetable, however, head for a sunlight-dappled stream bank or a wooded rural area. Collect young shoots before they flower or harvest the tender stem tops. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 V2 cups celery Vi cup parsley
Vi cup barley, sprouted (optional) lA cup virgin olive oil 2 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano Vi tsp rosemary
2 bay leaves
1 clove garlic, minced
Celtic salt and pepper to taste
Blend the above ingredients with the broth for 15-30 seconds in a way that maintains the chunky quality. Serves 10. |
Ben Davis
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| After a few days of this diet the patient was instructed to take calisthenic exercises (see pages 180-182), especially those to be practiced while lying on the back. Her diet was gradually increased, and she was instructed to take short walks several times during the day.
"After six months, I again examined the patient, with x-rays, and found that the stomach and intestines had nearly resumed their normal position, but the uterus still protruded slightly from the vagina. The patient seemed discouraged. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Fortunately, our bodies are only concerned with getting the right amount of nutrients. The source is unimportant. Chicken breast is as good a source of low-fat protein as gazelle, salmon is as good a source of omega-3 fatty acids as eland, and you can get your vitamin C just as well from oranges as from wild greens.
The secret to regaining our evolutionary balance is to glean the best of our ancient ancestors' eating habits and combine those with the safe, abundant, nutritious foods available today. |
Gary Null
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 It is spiced with a little bit of apple cider vinegar and mixed with a few herbs and a little water so that it is not too strong.
In the very last year of his practice Dr. Gerson found that cold-pressed, good-grade linseed oil was very helpful to his patients, and that it was the only oil or fat they were able to handle and digest. This was important because during all the years he had been treating cancer he had looked for an oil that would help the body transport vitamin A, which is an oil-soluble vitamin. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| The statistics showed a "striking relationship between stone incidence and the consumption of animal protein, particularly that derived from meat, fish, and poultry."9
Salt. As we saw earlier, sodium increases the passage of calcium through the kidneys and increases the risk of stones. This is true of sodium that is naturally in foods, as well as salt that is added during cooking. It helps to keep total sodium intake to between one and two grams per day.
Sugar. Sugar's tarnished image comes mainly from its contribution to dental cavities and moodiness. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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 A in vivo) and a few foods such as whole milk and liver containing preformed retinol (vitamin A). Thus, to a large extent, these studies have measured indirect indices of 3-carotene intake. In this discussion the term vitamin A will also be used to include 6-carotene, since the two components are not distinguished in most of the reports.
Lung. Bjelke (1975) was one of the first investigators to report epidemiological data suggesting that vitamin A plays a protective role against cancer. |
| Chapters 8 and 9).
Despite (or perhaps because of) the paucity of information pertaining to the composition of our contemporary food supply, foods have been most often used in epidemiological studies as indicators of the presence of particular nutrients or they have been grouped for analysis according to certain nutrients they have in common. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Immune system inhibitors such as coffee, sugar, alcohol, and fat are omitted.
At the end of three months, it is very important to follow up again with a health practitioner, and to obtain another Pap smear. Sometimes a biopsy is also needed.
IMMUNOAUGMENTIVE THERAPY (IAT)
Treating cervical cancer by restoring the patient's own immune system has also proven successful at John Clement's Immunology Research Center in Freeport in the Bahamas. Dr. Clement specifies that success can occur if the treatment is begun early, even after surgery. (See chapter 4, Breast Cancer. |
Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council
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| A" and lung cancer in a case-control study among Chinese females in Singapore.
In a case-control study conducted by Gregor et al. (1980), hospital outpatients, mostly from a rheumatology clinic, were used as controls. These investigators found that significantly less vitamin A had been consumed by male lung cancer cases than by controls, mainly because cases had consumed fewer vitamin A supplements and less liver. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 The abundance of fiber in vegetarian diets helps the colon dispose of unnecessary estrogen, while the low fiber and high iron content of beef and processed foods can damage cells and encourage the spread of cancer. In addition, some foods, such as lima beans, soy beans, and other soy products, seem to have medicinal capabilities because of the presence of isoflavones and phytoestrogens, or plant estrogens. These substances actually curb the activity of the excess estrogen in the body's tissues. |
John Heinerman
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 CLUB MOSS
(Lycopodium clavatum)
Brief Description
Rare in America, this species is found throughout Europe and much of Asia. The spores of club moss are collected principally in Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and some of the former republics of the old Soviet Union; this is generally done in the mid-summer months. The tops of the plants are cut as the spikes approach maturity and the powder shaken out and separated by a sieve. |
J. Robert Hatherill
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 A, C, E green tea
The Japanese drink green tea daily and have the lowest rates of lung cancer in the world. Green tea can block cancer-causing substances in tobacco and prevent lung cancers in mice.
Large Intestine Cancer
The large intestine is a 4- to 5-foot length of tubing that maintains intimate contact with ingested food. So diet has a crucial influence on cancer within the intestines. Cancer of the large intestine is second only to lung cancer in terms of its death rate. |
Bill Gottlieb
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 But is milk a must for meat eaters who want to beat osteoporosis? No, says Dr. Lee.
"It's important to remember that most of the people on Earth live where cow's milk is not used," he says. "And those people have better bones than we in the more northern industrialized areas have."
Brenda Beeley, a licensed acupuncturist and director of the Menopause and PMS Options for Women health center on Bainbridge Island, Washington, often tells her patients with osteoporosis not to rely on dairy products for calcium because many adult women are unable to digest lactose. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
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 Our advice to readers of this chapter is to take it one step at a time. Once you've understood the basic principles on which our anti-aging diet recommendations are based, you can evolve your own system for making the changes that will be most helpful to you. Some people find it easiest simply to overhaul their eating habits once and for all. Other people are more comfortable making one change at a time. Likewise, some people find that once they give up a "forbidden" food, they never miss it. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 Treatment consisted of:
Echinacea angustifolia 1:2 30 ml
Picrorrhiza kurroa 1:2 10 ml
Silybum marianum 1:2 20 ml
Matricaria chamomilla 1:2 20 ml
Filipendula ulmaria 1:2 20 ml
Total 100 ml
Dose 5 ml with water three times a day before meals. Golden seal tablets 500 mg, one tablet with each meal. After 4 weeks of treatment, symptoms had improved and she could often be more adventurous with her diet without causing problems. However, symptoms were still occurring on many days.
During the next 4 weeks her condition continued to improve with herbal treatment. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 PROTEIN GROUP: At least two servings a day from any of the following four groups:
• Fish, fowl, eggs, meat: up to seven servings a week, depending on vegetarian or carnivorous preferences.
• Legumes (split peas, lentils, black beans, adzuki beans, etc): three to nine servings a week, depending on vegetarian or carnivorous preferences.
• Milk products: one to two servings a day, depending on the use of other protein sources and any potential allergies/intolerance to milk products.
• Seeds, nuts, and nut butters, although protein rich, are even more fat rich. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| Swiss chard and kale.
VITAMIN C: To Enhance Absorption
Vitamin C is acidic, which helps the body absorb the non-heme iron in plant foods, says Beverly Yates, N.D., a naturopathic doctor in Seattle. She recommends squeezing the juice of half a lemon into a glass of water and drinking it before meals.
Alternatively, you can take a supplement of 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams of vitamin C with each meal, says Dr. Hanley.
CALCIUM-RICH FOODS: When You Limit Dairy
Just as some foods put more iron into your body, others make it harder to get enough. |
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.
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| Essential fatty acids were added to the mother's diet (flax, evening primrose oil, wheat germ oil, and salmon oil). The baby also received color, sound, and aromatherapy.
When Ayla was about four pounds, she was moved out of the ICU and placed in the regular nursery, and was soon released from the hospital—with monitoring wires attached! Analysis of her blood showed alkalinity, low hemoglobin, low nitrogen elements, lack of ionized calcium—in general, low mineral density. A mixture of liver, organic meats, and pulverized bone was put down the tube. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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| Chapter Five).
• primary or true brewer's yeast (if not allergic): 1 or 2 tablespoons mixed in vegetable juice, water, or diluted fruit juice. Start with Va to Vi teaspoon and gradually over one week work up to one or two tablespoons.
• vegetable juices; if you use carrot juice, dilute it with other vegetable or green juice because it is very sweet.
• Jerusalem artichoke and avocados are of specific benefit.
9. |
| One to two ounces of wheat grass juice can also substitute. Liquid chlorophyll (available in health food stores) or undiluted green juice is very potent. Begin with small amounts, since too much too soon in your cleansing program may cause nausea, headache, intestinal upset, and a general toxic feeling.
Aloe Vera Juice See suggestions on page 164.
Acidophilus See suggestions on page 163.
Dry Brush Skin Massage Before bathing or exercising, do a dry brush skin massage with a natural-bristle skin brush, as described in Chapter Eighteen. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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| Our bodies evolved expecting high levels of these nutrients. Without optimal intakes, we develop osteoporosis, anemia, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, cataracts, arthritis, and other disorders; and
4. are low in calories. They average as little as one calorie per gram, compared to up to nine calories per gram in highly refined foods.
Most of the foods on our ancient ancestors' plates were plants. So it's no wonder that no other food is so closely linked to lifelong health and longevity. |
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