Mike Adams
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 Fresh fruits in moderation
Remember to eat fresh fruits on a regular basis. You need fruits in your diet for nutritional reasons: fruits are very high in certain antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. Avoid high sugar fruits such as watermelons and grapes, and stick with fruits that are nutrient dense without all the fructose. Excellent choices include all of the berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries), avocados (which are technically a fruit, but will be discussed in more detail later), kiwi, oranges, papaya and mangos. |
Bill Sardi
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 Instead of saying that tobacco use overcomes some of the health benefits derived from eating fresh fruits and vegetables and advising men to stop smoking, the study advised men to stop taking dietary supplements. There was no major criticism of the study from public or private health authorities. Physicians all bought into the story. Only health reporter Jack Challem reported that beta carotene supplements create no appreciable risk of lung cancer when people smoke less than 20 cigarettes daily and drink little or no hard alcohol. |
Michael Pollan
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 But when children subsist on fast food rather than fresh fruits and vegetables and drink more soda than milk, the old deficiency diseases return—now even in the obese.
Bruce Ames, the renowned Berkeley biochemist, works with kids like this at Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. He's convinced that our high-calorie, low-nutrient diet is responsible for many chronic diseases, including cancer. Ames has found that even subtle micronutrient deficiencies—far below the levels needed to produce acute deficiency diseases—can cause damage to DNA that may lead to cancer. |
| The contrast between this hunter-gatherer fare and their previous diet was stark: O'Dea reports that prior to the experiment "the main dietary components in the urban setting were flour, sugar, rice, carbonated drinks, alcoholic beverages (beer and port), powdered milk, cheap fatty meat, potatoes, onions, and variable contributions of other fresh fruits and vegetables"— the local version of the Western diet.
After seven weeks in the bush, O'Dea drew blood from the Aborigines and found striking improvements in virtually every measure of their health. All had lost weight (an average of 1 7. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The benefits of healthy intestines
When a large intestine is healthy -- when it is not carrying putrefied, undigested food matter and instead contains healing, cleansing phytonutrients like chlorophyll from fresh fruits and vegetables -- it is going to perform its function well. A person who has a healthy large intestine will reflect that in their complexion. Their skin will look young. This helps explain why people who routinely engage in a lot of juicing -- drinking the juice from raw fruits and vegetables -- have such healthy looking skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here's some quick advice:
Top choice: 100% pure superfruit juice, made from fresh fruits (not from concentrate), packaged in glass. These are by far the most expensive juice drinks on the market.
Good choice: 100% pure superfruit juice, made from concentrate, packaged in plastic.
Poor choice: Juice blends containing some amount of superfruit juice (but mostly apple juice and grape juice or water), made from concentrate, packaged in plastic.
Stupid choice: Juice drinks made with high fructose corn syrup and water, containing a small amount of actual juice, packaged in plastic. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Another factor that robs you of the nutrients you should get from your food is that many fresh fruits, vegetables, and other unrefined foods are lower in important nutrients than they should be because of adverse growing conditions, poor food handling techniques, poor cooking methods, and poor soil quality low in trace minerals.
"The alarming fact is that foods . . . now being raised on a million acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed minerals, are starving us, no matter how much of them we eat." You may think this statement, voiced in the U.S. |
Michael Pollan
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| But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans) dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent. It is the cheaper and less healthful of these two kinds of calories on which Americans have been gorging. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Acid amides (pungent substances): chief components- piper-ine, additionally including among others piperylin, piperolein A and B, cumaperine
3,4-dihydroxy phenyl ethanol glycosides (substratum for the enzymatic black colouring of the fresh fruits)
Polysaccharides (45%)
Fatty oil (10%)
EFFECTS
The drug stimulates the thermal receptors and increases secretion of saliva and gastric mucus. It has an antimicrobial effect. It influences liver and metabolic functions, and has an insecticidal effect. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Use fruits canned in their own juice or packed in water. fresh fruits require little or no preparation. Dried fruits are a good choice to carry with you or to have ready in the car.
?Try these snack ideas: unsalted rice cakes or nuts mixed with raisins; graham crackers; fat-free and low-fat yogurt and frozen yogurt; popcorn with no salt or butter added; raw vegetables.
References
1. Burt, V. L., et al. (1995). Prevalence of hypertension in the U.S. adult population. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991. Hypertension 25, 305-313.
2. Stamler, J. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Five servings of fresh fruits and vegetables provide approximately 200 mg of vitamin C. Many Americans do not eat enough fresh produce to meet these RDAs. Scurvy will not normally develop unless vitamin C intake falls below 10 mg per day for a month or more. The minimum vitamin C intake to maintain normal metabolism is 30 mg daily. Even though clinical scurvy may not develop, many other important body functions may be limited if vitamin C intake is low.
Optimal amounts for disease prevention of the ascorbated form of vitamin C range from 200 mg to 2 grams daily. |
Erich Grotewold
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 It has been reported that fresh apples have potent antioxidant activity; and whole apple extracts inhibit the growth of colon and liver cancer cells in vitro in a dose-dependent manner (Eberhardt et al, 2000), suggesting that natural phytochemicals in fresh fruits could be more effective than a dietary supplement. Apples are commonly consumed and are the major contributors of phytochemicals in human diets. Apple extracts exhibit strong antioxidant and antiproliferative activities and the major part of total antioxidant activity is from the combination of phytochemicals. |
Bottom Line Health
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| SAFE FOODS
All fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, poultry and fish. eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt are free of trans fats. Canned fish also is free of trans fats.
But watch out for processed cheeses, for example, the kind in many "snack packs"—they may contain trans fats.
Important: Trans fats are not formed when you cook—or even fry—at home with vegetable oil. They are created in frying oil only when the oil is reused after cooking a food that contains trans fats—a common practice in fast-food restaurants. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Fill it with fresh fruits like oranges, lemons, and apples that don't need refrigeration. It will be a pleasing visual reminder of your goals and an encouragement to enjoy fruit daily.
If you work in an office it will be well worth the effort to SlimDown your workplace. The good news is that more and more people are eager to upgrade the food options and temptations at school and work. I recently spoke with a teacher who told me that her elementary school was making a concerted effort to improve the children's food choices at lunch and at snacktime. |
Melody Petersen
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 He worked as a self-employed trucker, hauling loads of meat to California and returning with cargoes full of fresh fruits and vegetables. Yet soon after he was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2006, he was forced to sell his semitruck to pay for his medical care. The tab for the drugs alone came to $ 180,000. Then there were the doctors and hospital to pay. The bills piled up even though he and Janice had paid for their own health insurance, a plan that cost them $8,000 a year. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Blackcurrants, cranberries, parsley, horseradish, turnip, cabbage, strawberries, grapefruit, pineapple, tomatoes and watercress are also rich in Vitamin C, although it is found to some extent in all fresh fruits and vegetables.
Vitamin E (tocopherol)
Essential for healing, muscle, nerve and blood maintenance, Vitamin E also stabilises cell membranes. It has been recognised as an antioxidant, protecting vulnerable chemicals in the body from being destroyed by free radicals. It protects cells of the body from damage by environmental pollution. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Kids should be eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, regardless of whether they are organically grown, because the benefits greatly outweigh the risk, Graber says. "Parents should not feed their children less nutritious foods out of fear of pesticides."
Foods that are especially vulnerable to pesticide residue include strawberries, nectarines, peaches, apples, pears and cherries, Lu says. Bananas and oranges are not as vulnerable because you do not eat the part of the fruit that has been exposed to pesticides, he adds. |
Marshall Editions
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 Eat a balanced diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and quality protein (such as fish, lean chicken, and beans) every day. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables for their high nutrient
>content to provide a base of nutrients required for a healthy immune system. Do not eat acidic foods or sweets. Lemons, tomatoes, and other foods with a high acid content can eat away at your tooth enamel and hinder your teeth's natural healing process. For some people, eating sweets causes a flare-up of pain. |
Devra Davis
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 As open sewers stopped flowing into local rivers, refrigeration provided more fresh fruits and vegetables, and workplaces stopped burning wastes in cities, deaths from once fatal infections like tuberculosis and typhoid dropped in industrialized nations. Chronic illnesses also can have broad social roots in both developed and developing countries. Just having the bad luck to grow up in a place downstream from heavy industry can add to this cancer burden. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Increase availability of fresh fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk and low-fat choices in cafeterias.
?Reduce the availability of vending machines with soft drinks and high-fat, high-sugar snack foods.
?Involve families and communities in supporting and reinforcing healthy eating patterns.
Physical Activity
?Require and fund daily physical education and sports programs in primary and secondary schools.
?Provide adequate training for physical education teachers to promote higher levels of physical activity during classes.
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Andreas Moritz
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 Unprocessed, unrefined foods, including plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, help a child to build up natural immunity and help the adult to maintain it.
The most powerful and all-protective immunization reinforcements a newborn baby can receive are having the doctor wait to cut or clamp the umbilical cord until it stops throbbing44, and having the mother breastfeed the child. This way, the infant gets all the necessary antibodies to build up a sound system of immunity to effectively deal with any type of infectious agent in the future. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Blackcurrants, parsley, horseradish, turnip, cabbage, strawberries, grapefruit, pineapple, tomatoes and watercress, along with most fresh fruits and vegetables, are also rich in it.
A simple and inexpensive test is now available on the market to measure the level of Vitamin C in your body, using a urinary ascorbate stick, and there are other uncomplicated tests that can be carried out to measure your Vitamin C. If your reading is low, it is in your interest to increase your intake. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Patients with IBS commonly can't tolerate a number of foods, including milk, wheat, eggs, and fresh fruits and vegetables. IBS patients do not, however, have a greater lactase deficiency (the enzyme that digests dairy products) or inability to absorb sugars (like fructose) when measured in the laboratory, although they may have more symptoms when exposed to these compounds outside the lab. A variety of herbs, food products, and other supplements have been promoted for the treatment of bowel symptoms, constipation and dyspepsia. |
| For IBS, food-elimination diets—with elimination of wheat, eggs, dairy products, and fresh fruits and vegetables, depending on the sensitivity of the individual patient—have been attempted with varying success.
FOOD ALLERGENS
The role of food allergens in IBS and dyspepsia is unclear. In certain people some foods may mediate an immune response, characterized by the release of immune mediators like IgE and IgG4. In a subgroup of IBS patients these types of reactions may contribute to their symptoms. |
| Cook your own meals and eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh fish, and not too much other meat or fatty foods. When you do eat out, go to a high-quality (which does not mean expensive) place that cares about the food it serves and cooks it to order. Eating well will help your physical as well as your mental and emotional health; a good meal is a pleasure, especially when enjoyed with family and friends. |
Marshall Editions
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| Eat a well-balanced diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables, wholegrains, legumes, and quality protein such as fish, lean chicken, or beans everyday. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables for their high nutrient content, which will provide the nutrients required for a healthy immune system.
Supplements: Vitamin C with bioflavonoids can help check bleeding gums by contributing to the build up of collagen, a protein in the formation of gum tissue. |
| NATUROPATHY
Diet: Eat a wholesome diet based on whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. Consume as many orange, yellow, and green leafy vegetables as possible. These contain pigments called carotenoids that are essential for optimum eye health. Fruits such as blueberries and dark cherries contain anthocyanidin, a chemical that is also important for good eye health. Vitamin C is also found in these foods, which is helpful for building up the structures around the eye. Avoid any foods that can cause or contain free radicals. |
| Eat a well-balanced diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and quality protein (such as fish, lean chicken, and beans) every day. Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables for their high nutrient content, which provides the foundation required for a healthy immune system. Blueberries, hawthorn berries, and grapes are all rich sources of flavonoids and help in repairing gum tissue. Eat these as frequently as possible. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Healthy food sources: found in fresh fruits and vegetables. Degradation: leached by cooking water, reduced by heat, light, oxygen, and food processing.
Summary for Vitamin A
Main functions: vision, skin, mucous membranes, preventing infection, and antioxidant.
RDA: adult women, 2333 IU; adult men, 3000 IU.
Toxicity is possible with supplemental forms of vitamin A. Toxicity is possible with high intakes from food. No toxicity is reported for beta-carotene in food.
Tolerable upper intake level for preformed vitamin A is set at 10,000 IU daily. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Chromium can be found in dairy products, seafood, whole grain products, beef, chicken, and fresh fruits.
Cobalt Cobalt is also a trace mineral that promotes normal red blood cell formulation. This mineral is necessary for the production of vitamin B-l 2. Cobalt deficiencies may result in anemia, weight loss, fatigue, and weakness. Natural sources of cobalt are in liver, milk, spinach, kidney, eggs, and warercress.
Copper Copper promotes red blood cell formation. It is also a catalyst for the storage and release of iron for the formation of hemoglobin for red blood cells. |
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