| Cholesterol-free vegetable oils and margarines are readily available and are palatable alternatives for cooking.
On the other hand, essential fatty acids (EFAs) are vital components of the walls of every cell in our body. They also play parts in the biochemical processes which sustain our health and our life. An essential fatty acid deficiency can cause an imbalance of prostaglandins, substances that regulate immune cell activity and thus control inflammation and allergic reactions, both of which play a part in asthma. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Many common ingredients, including malt flavoring, caramel color, dextrin, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and modified food starch, may be derived from gluten-containing grains, so it is best to avoid all of them.
Because oats are typically processed in the same containers that the factories use to make wheat products, oats should also be avoided. Fortunately, some supermarkets offer specialty gluten-free foods.
Eating promises to get easier for celiac patients in the near future. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Strombeck, DVM Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets
Chinese Style Dinner
2 cups of cooked brown rice
1 cup cooked ground chicken
1 cup grated carrots, zucchini, or celery
Mix together, add 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and top with alfalfa sprouts. |
Elaine Magee
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 Lab studies suggest that many important phytochemicals in broccoli fight tumor growth at different stages of the cancer process, making it a true powerhouse vegetable. Broccoli is rich in sulforaphane (a member of the isothiocyanate family of phytochemicals), which stimulates enzymes in the body that detoxify carcinogens before they have a chance to damage cells in the first place. Through different mechanisms, indole-3-carbinol and crambene activate enzymes that help the body eliminate carcinogens before they can harm our genes.
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Dr Ron Roberts
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 EVENING PRIMROSE OIL
The secret behind the oil of this unassuming flower is its gammalinoleic acid (GLA) content, a substance that is extremely valuable to the body. Most vegetable oils contain linoleic acid, which the body has to convert into GLA before use,- some people who are atopic may be unable to convert linoleic acid into GLA. They are thought to be deficient in a particular enzyme that is needed for the conversion process.
GLA is used by the body to produce a hormone-like antiinflammatory substance—a prostaglandin—which is capable of stimulating particular cells in the immune system. |
Michael Pollan
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 Wherever he found an isolated primitive race that had not yet encountered the "displacing foods of modern commerce"—by which he meant refined flour, sugar, canned and chemically preserved foods, and vegetable oils—he found little or no evidence of "modern degeneration"—by which he meant chronic disease, tooth decay, and malformed dental arches. Either there was something present in the Western diet that led to these problems or there was something absent from it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, they are both "Juice Feasters," meaning they drink around five quarts of raw, freshly-made vegetable and fruit juices on a daily basis. "I'm astonished and excited about the health benefits I'm personally experiencing from Juice Feasting," said Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. "This is a nutritional protocol that I'm recommending to everyone. I believe it is the cure for degenerative disease that we've all been looking for. |
Marshall Editions
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 If the skin becomes irritated, dilute the oil with vegetable oil to reduce its strength. w
Calendula: Calendula is valued for its anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties. Steep calendula flowers in hot water, let them cool, and then soak a clean cloth or piece of gauze in the liquid and apply it to the affected area as a compress. Calendula cream, available from health food stores, pharmacies, or naturopathic doctors, can also be used.
Comfrey: Also known as knitbone, comfrey contains allantoin, which helps to dissolve pus. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This suggests that small, consistent changes in vegetable consumption can make important changes in health outcomes (Gaziano et al. Annals of Epidemiology 1995;5:255 and Colditz et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1985;41:32).
Consumption of tomato products has been linked to decreased risk of prostate cancer. Men in the highest quintile for consumption of tomato products (10 or more servings a week) had about a 35% decrease in risk of prostate cancer compared to counterparts whose consumption put them in the lowest quintile (1. |
Michael Pollan
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| Amplifying the "latest science," they managed to sell her daughter on the virtues of hydrogenated vegetable oils, the ones that we're now learning may be, well, deadly substances.
Sooner or later, everything solid we've been told about the links between our diet and our health seems to get blown away in the gust of the most recent study. Consider the latest findings. |
| But Scrinis had bigger game in his sights than spread-able vegetable oil. He suggested that we look past the various nutritional claims swirling around margarine and butter and consider the underlying message of the debate itself: "namely, that we should understand and engage with food and our bodies in terms of their nutritional and chemical constituents and requirements—the assumption being that this is all we need to two « NUTRITIONISM DEFINED understand. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Mix beef or chicken stock with vegetable oil. Blend into dry mix. Roll ro lA" thickness and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350°F. until golden brown. Break into pieces. Store in air-tight container in refrigerator.
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^ JirV, Jay animal companions, like children, encounter dangers and it is up to us to do our best to protect them. Some of those daily dangers include plants—indoor and outdoor—that can be harmful to dogs and cats. Lawn sprays used to keep the grass weed-free can also be highly toxic for animal companions, as well as humans. |
Michele Simon
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 Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent.6
Because consumers are often left in the dark, resulting in potential untoward consequences, the court system provides a way to shine a light on hidden corporate practices while compensating victims. |
Michael Pollan
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| In place of those fats, they consumed substantially more vegetable oils, especially in the form of margarine, sales of which outpaced butter for the first time in 1957. Between the end ofWorld War II and 1976 (the year of McGovern's hearings) , per capita consumption of animal fats from all sources dropped from eighty-four pounds to seventy-one, while fats from seed oils approximately doubled. Americans appeared to be moving in the direction of a "prudent diet" and yet, paradoxically, having more heart attacks on it, not fewer. |
Elaine Magee
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| ENJOY SOY AT ITS BEST
In my supermarket, you can buy edamame in the frozen vegetable section in two ways: as a 16-ounce bag of shelled edamame (boiled green soybeans without their pods) or as a bag of edamame in pods. Both are already cooked and ready to be thawed and eaten! I have both in my freezer because I like to snack on edamame in pods-you have to work harder to get to each soybean-and I like the shelled edamame for use in cooking casseroles, soups, stews, noodle and rice dishes, and so on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Juice Fasting (not to be confused with Feasting), which involves a nutritional detox (cleansing) experience based on drinking low-glycemic vegetable juices on a limited basis. A fantastic new documentary is coming out soon, by the way, called Raw For 30 Days which features amazing health success stories of people literally reversing serious chronic disease at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona by following a Juice Fasting protocol.
You can view the trailer for Raw For 30 Days on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
| About 10% of the population consumes less than one serving of vegetable per day.
About Fruit Intake
On any given day about 29% of the population consumes at least the minimum number of servings of fruit recommended (2 servings per day); 24% consume the number of servings recommended based on caloric intake (2 servings per day for those consuming less than 2200 calories, 3 for those consuming 2800 calories, 4 for those consuming 2800 calories or more). About 48% consume less than one serving of fruit a day.
6. What is the Present Status of the Art of Phytonutrients Research? |
Ann N. Martin
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| Lay second crust on top of vegetable mixture. Bake 30 minutes or until crust is golden. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Source:
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Convalescing Diet
If your dog has undergone surgery or is recovering from an illness this is easy on the stomach.
2 cups of cooked cream of wheat 1 soft boiled egg
1 Vi cups cottage cheese % cup grated parsnips 1 tbsp. melted butter
Mix together and serve warm.
Cat Menu
Cats require more protein than a dog. |
Marshall Editions
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| Avoid solid foods, and drink chicken and vegetable broths instead. You can add ginger to the broth for faster relief. Drink freshly squeezed juices and tea throughout the day. Avoid alcohol and coffee, which can cause irritation.
Herbs: Take 1,000 mg of licorice root between meals two to three times a day. If you have a heart condition or suffer from high blood pressure take de-glycyrrhizinated licorice. This herb helps with the regeneration of the gastric tissue and has antibacterial and antiinflammatory activity. |
| Eliminating dairy products means eliminating a good source of calcium, so compensate by increasing the quantity of vegetable sources of calcium in your diet, such as broccoli and leafy greens.
Supplements: Take acidophilus and S. boullardii, two important intestinal flora components that provide nourishment for the intestines. These are available from health food stores. Include foods with fructo-oligiopolyacharides in your diet, or take a supplement containing this, such as Metagenics Endefen™. Try taking 1,500 mg daily of glutamine to encourage a healthy intestinal lining. |
Elaine Magee
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| They occur naturally at low levels in meat and dairy products, but most of the trans fats in the American diet are formed during a hydrogenation process that renders vegetable oils solid.
Trans fatty acids inflict damage akin to the effects of saturated fats, except trans fats hit you with a double whammy—in addition to raising LDL levels, trans fats decrease your HDL levels at the same time. This is one reason many researchers consider trans fats to be a bigger bad boy than saturated fats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 His parents or caretakers should have stopped the junk food, ended the medication and put him on raw, living foods and daily superfood smoothies, fresh vegetable juices, raw nuts and seeds and other wholesome, non-processed foods. Nutrition is the single most powerful factor determining healthy moods and behavior, and virtually all young men who commit violent acts (including the vast majority of those imprisoned in the U.S. today) suffer from wild nutritional deficiencies. |
Michael Pollan
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| The food scientists' ingenious method for making healthy vegetable oil solid at room temperature—by blasting it with hydrogen— turned out to produce unhealthy trans fats, fats that we now know are more dangerous than the saturated fats they were designed to replace. Yet the beauty of a processed food like margarine is that it can be endlessly reengineered to overcome even the most embarrassing about-face in nutritional thinking—including the real wincer that its main ingredient might cause heart attacks and cancer. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 AGED CHEESES þAsiago þBleu cheese þCheddar þGoat cheese (any kind) þGruyere þPecorino Romano þParmigiano-Reggiano þSwiss
OTHER DAIRY þAlmond milk (plain or flavored, unsweetened only) þEggs (preferably omega-3, free-range preferred) þKefir þSoymilk (plain or flavored, unsweetened only) þYogurt (plain, unsweetened only)
BIG FLAVOR, MINIMAL CALORIES
The best way to approach aged cheeses such as Cheddar or Swiss is with a vegetable peeler. Have you ever noticed how expensive restaurants shave Parmegiano-Reggiano cheese onto your salad? |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 I was turning into a vegetable at what should have been the peak of my life."
Like Harry, Peter searched outside of his known world and his comfort zone for help. Eventually, he emulated Edward Bach, creator of the Bach Flower Remedies, which are herbal medicinals said to capture the healing essence of plants. Peter was a nature lover and herbalist, so he decided to see if there were plants from the Australian environment that might help treat his symptoms. |
David R. Montgomery
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 By 2004 Havana's formerly vacant lots produced nearly the city's entire vegetable supply.
Cuba's conversion from conventional agriculture to latge-scale semi-organic farming demonstrates that such a transformation is possible—in a dictatorship isolated from global market forces. But the results are not entirely enviable; after almost two decades of this inadvertent experiment, meat and milk remain in short supply.
Cuba's labor-intensive agriculture may not produce basic crops as cheaply as American industrial farming, but the average Cuban diet did recover that lost third meal. |
Jack Challem
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 Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are manufactured by adding hydrogen atoms to vegetable oils, such as soybean oil, and they are rich in trans-fatty acids. Hydrogenation increases the manufacturability and shelf life of oils, but it has serious health consequences.
Trans-fatty acids are rare in nature, and numerous studies have found that they increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases far more than do saturated fats. Is there a safe amount of trans-fatty acids? Many experts say there is not. |
John D. Lantos, M.D.
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 Nobody can guarantee that the child won't be "a vegetable." Bird wonders about the moral status of such a baby, using imagery that evokes a hungry nestling:
The death of a vegetable baby with only vegetable functions was not accompanied by suffering. Fine, but what did death mean to a baby like that? Or, for that matter, life? . . . What if there was a last judgment! Under what category of the Dead could you subpoena, prosecute, and sentence a baby with only vegetable functions who died no sooner than he was born? |
David R. Montgomery
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| A forest] maintains a multitude of animals which die and are returned to the soil; secondly, it sheds an annual crop of leaves, which contribute in some measure to the fertility of the soil; and lastly, the soil thus enriched with animal and vegetable bodies feeds the worms . . . which penetrate the soil, and introduce fertility as they multiply."12 Anticipating Darwin in recognizing the role of worms in maintaining soil fertility, Hutton also understood the role of vegetation in establishing soil characteristics. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Green vegetable fiber increases the speed with which food moves through your intestines. You've been told that fiber is good for you because it prevents constipation. What you probably don't know is that the faster food moves through your lower bowel, the more antihunger hormones in your intestinal cells beam up to your brain, telling you not to eat. I bet you think a gastric bypass (stomach stapling) works by making a person's stomach smaller, right? Wrong. |
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