Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 To avoid food contamination, use common sense: wash produce including leafy greens well (one autoimmune disease specialist suggests washing all leafy greens three times); be sure to refrigerate all cut, peeled, or cooked fresh fruits and vegetables within two hours; wash cutting boards and peelers well; use separate cutting boards for produce versus meats; throw away fruits or vegetables that have touched raw meat, poultry, seafood, or their juices; and cut away bruised or damaged portions of fruits and vegetables before eating them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cruciferous vegetables are a family of vegetables that include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts and they're somewhat noteworthy because they have a natural hormone detoxifier in them.
They have tremendous heath benefits in addition to helping to protect against and fight breast cancer. In fact, women who eat the most cruciferous vegetables have a 40 percent lower incidence of breast cancer. We have two different elements in there from the cruciferous vegetables like indoplex and indole-3-carbinol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The things that promote health, such as raw vegetables and raw fruits. Blanched or cooked vegetables are fine too. I'm just talking about things from nature -- the root vegetables, nuts, seeds, healthy oils, sea vegetables. If you're going to eat meat, it should be organic, free range meat, and only in strictly limited quantities. Free range eggs are good. They’re much better than eggs from the standard imprisoned chickens that we get in the common grocery stores.
We should eat more blueberries and all of these incredibly potent berries. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 In a comparison of the antioxidant activity of various vegetables (including garlic, spinach, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, onions, and many others) with the antioxidant activity of green and black tea, the teas were found to have a greater ability to quench free radicals than the vegetables. Clearly, green tea is a powerful agent for fighting free radicals,2 and it can be added to your daily antioxident arsenal in beverage or dietary supplement form. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We've got superfoods, we've got vegetables, fresh vegetable juices, raw fruits and vegetables in every description imaginable and we've got organic food of every description imaginable. The answer is there.
Mike: At this time in human history, we have access to the most exotic and the most amazing foods of any civilization that we know of in the history of this planet. It's due to people like you who are getting this out there, but we are blessed right now with access to this food that kings would have killed for, you know? |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Recently, a six-year study on nearly two thousand Chicago-area men and women showed that on measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables. All participants filled out questionnaires about their eating habits and underwent mental function tests that measured both short- and long-term memory over the course of the study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They went to common organic stores and asked customers what their children were eating for vegetables and fruits. Unfortunately, most of them weren't getting enough. We ended up doing a semester's long worth of research. We found out that not only were children not getting enough fruits and vegetables, which I think everyone knows, but they weren't getting the right kinds of fruits and vegetables. They weren't the right colors. We set out to create something that tasted awesome and something that they would eat. You have to get it past their noses first. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's one of the reasons I got into taking it -- I don't like vegetables and I didn't eat vegetables. And knowing that you obviously have to get the vitamins and minerals and nutrition that you get in vegetables, I got turned onto this product and haven't stopped drinking it since.
Mike: So what are the top four or five ingredients in this product?
Wright: The most prominent would be, let's see, let's run down the actual list. There's the barley, first and foremost, then the spirulina, the chlorella cracked cell and the spinach powder.
Mike: Excellent. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Blanched or cooked vegetables are fine too. I'm just talking about things from nature -- the root vegetables, nuts, seeds, healthy oils, sea vegetables. If you're going to eat meat, it should be organic, free range meat, and only in strictly limited quantities. Free range eggs are good. They’re much better than eggs from the standard imprisoned chickens that we get in the common grocery stores.
We should eat more blueberries and all of these incredibly potent berries. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Eat a Variety of vegetables and Fruits Daily
Fruits and green, leafy vegetables are a veritable treasure-trove of important vitamins, minerals, and, particularly, antioxidants. They are high in fiber, low in fat, and supply vitamin-like compounds called phytonutri-ents. Green tea falls into this category of recommendations.
þ Avoid Obesity
Research shows that a person 40 percent or more above his or her ideal weight has a 33 percent greater risk of developing cancer than a person who is not overweight. Conversely, weight reduction can reduce the risk of cancer in obese people. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Recently, a six-year study on nearly two thousand Chicago-area men and women showed that on measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables. All participants filled out questionnaires about their eating habits and underwent mental function tests that measured both short- and long-term memory over the course of the study. |
Devra Davis
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 This may be one important reason why women and men in Asian nations tend to have four to five times less prostate and breast cancer than those in industrial countries, where fewer vegetables are regularly eaten.
Researchers are already putting these findings to use. In Scotland, trials are under way using diindolylmethane—a compound derived from cabbage dike vegetables called cruciferae—to make precancerous conditions of the cervix go away. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You could grow garden vegetables in a windowsill, for example. With all of the new research showing the health benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables, eating these fruits and vegetables straight out of garden in their raw, live, state is going to be an essential part of maintaining optimum health.
In fact, this could open up a whole new wave of interest in people growing their own dietary supplements. If you're growing your own okra, and eating it raw right off the plant, as I do, for example, you're going to experience a lot of health benefits from those live okra pods. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Defenders of the promoter contend that humans are exposed to the cauliflower mosaic virus promoter all the time when eating vegetables infected with the virus. Thus, if there were a risk of transfer, we would find it commonplace. This position has three flaws.
1. By eating GM crops, humans are exposed to far greater quantities of the CaMV promoter than normal. The promoter is found in every cell of GM crops whereas the actual virus is limited to a small percentage of a few vegetables. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The diet used is called the living food diet: all food is served uncooked and consists of fruit, berries, vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, legumes, and cereals.
With such a diet, vitamin supplements are a must. Diets such as these are usually less than 2,000 calories per day and so lead to weight loss—a side benefit. On the other hand, your body can't get all of the vital nutrients it needs from fruits and vegetables alone, so this diet can be dangerous; that's the reason vitamin supplements are critical. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's one of the reasons I got into taking it -- I don't like vegetables and I didn't eat vegetables. And knowing that you obviously have to get the vitamins and minerals and nutrition that you get in vegetables, I got turned onto this product and haven't stopped drinking it since.
Mike: So what are the top four or five ingredients in this product?
Wright: The most prominent would be, let's see, let's run down the actual list. There's the barley, first and foremost, then the spirulina, the chlorella cracked cell and the spinach powder.
Mike: Excellent. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's based on brown rice, exotic grains and a long list of medicinal herbs, vegetables and superfoods (including microalgae and sea vegetables). The Juvo company has the ratio of ingredients down to an art, making sure you get a little of each nutrient while still keeping the taste very smooth and enticing.
There are a hundred ways to use the Juvo powder. I often blend it into a smoothie (it goes great with a chocolate avocado smoothie) or stir it into almond milk when I'm eating granola. This is truly medicinal food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Emergency appetite control food #2
The next best strategy is to turn to green vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, bokchoy, and other leafy vegetables. They have so few calories that in my own diet, I don't even count them. That's right: I allow myself to eat an unlimited quantity of any green leafy vegetables without even recording the number of calories I have consumed. In my book, they are "free" foods.
It takes just as many calories for your body to digest them as you get out of the foods themselves. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Eat your vegetables. Your vegetables can kill you.
Mother Nature is sending mixed messages again. The truth—as you've no doubt gathered—is complicated. Many plant toxins can be good for us. The trick is understanding how they work, how we work, and how it all works together.
Those phytoestrogens that can cause sterility? It looks like ge-nistein, the phtyoestrogen in soy, might help to stop or slow the growth of prostate cancer cells. Some researchers think the same compound may ease the effects of menopause, which could explain why Asian women report far fewer problems with mid-life changes. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The raw foods people said that because we evolved from apes we should be eating only raw vegetables and fruits. The blood-type people said that your diet should be designed to work with and support the characteristics of your blood group. Dr. Max Gerson claimed you have to load your body with vitamins from organic fruits and vegetables and detoxify your body with enemas. Acupuncturists declared that your governor meridian had excess yin. Psychologists thought you are refusing to let go of your past. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Eat your vegetables. Your vegetables can kill you.
Mother Nature is sending mixed messages again. The truth—as you've no doubt gathered—is complicated. Many plant toxins can be good for us. The trick is understanding how they work, how we work, and how it all works together.
Those phytoestrogens that can cause sterility? It looks like ge-nistein, the phtyoestrogen in soy, might help to stop or slow the growth of prostate cancer cells. Some researchers think the same compound may ease the effects of menopause, which could explain why Asian women report far fewer problems with mid-life changes. |
Ray D. Strand
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 The best protein and fats come from vegetables and vegetable oils. Avocados, olive oil, nuts, beans, soy, and so on are great sources of protein and contain fats that will actually lower your cholesterol.
The best carbohydrates come from fresh whole fruits and vegetables. Avoid all processed foods. An apple is better than apple juice. Whole grains are essential, and avoiding processed grains is critical in developing a healthy diet for everyone, especially the diabetic.
The next best protein and fats come from fish. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a delicious dish. vegetables are not expensive either. Fruits are not that expensive. If you get into organic fruits and vegetables, yes, they can be more expensive. I always tell a person if you are making a choice between some processed food versus fruits and vegetables, and you can't afford the organic, go with the non-organic. You are still better off than buying the processed foods.
Ben: Right, so all the health detriments that a traditionally grown vegetable might have, it's still not as bad as red meat.
Mike: Absolutely. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Eat a Variety of vegetables and Fruits Daily
Fruits and green, leafy vegetables are a veritable treasure-trove of important vitamins, minerals, and, particularly, antioxidants. They are high in fiber, low in fat, and supply vitamin-like compounds called phytonutri-ents. Green tea falls into this category of recommendations.
þ Avoid Obesity
Research shows that a person 40 percent or more above his or her ideal weight has a 33 percent greater risk of developing cancer than a person who is not overweight. Conversely, weight reduction can reduce the risk of cancer in obese people. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 This diet is high in vegetables (550 g/day, or 20 oz/day), legumes (9 g/day or 1/3 oz/day), fruits and nuts (360 g/d or 10 oz/day), cereals (180 g/d or 6 oz/day), and fish (24 g/d, or 1 oz/day), and low in other meat, including poultry (120 g/d or 40 oz/day) and dairy products (200 g/d or 70 oz/day). Alcohol consumption was 10 to 50 g (one to four glasses of wine) per day for men and 5 to 25 g (one to two glasses of wine) for women. The diet also involves a high amount of olive oil consumption, and reduces heart disease and cancer risk and prolongs life. |
| Foods with high fiber include fruits, vegetables, legumes, and brown bread and rice.
In general fatty-food diets can exacerbate all gastrointestinal disorders, including ulcers, GERD, dyspepsia, and IBS. Chocolate, citrus fruits, tomatoes, peppermint, and caffeine can also worsen gastrointestinal problems, although they don't actually cause ulcers. Smoking, excessive alcohol intake, and NSAIDs, aspirin, and COX-2 inhibitors are also to be avoided for ulcer and GERD prevention. |
| I will tell you later why you don't need extra vitamins and that if you stick with fresh fruit and vegetables and other whole foods, you will stay healthy. I will tell you why those making big money on vitamins and supplements are doing so at the expense of your pocketbook—and sometimes your life.
All this is not to say that many medications have not changed life for the better, particularly those that treat infections. However, ironically, most recent health gains have come through increased knowledge of health risks and better health practices (i.e. prevention). |
Ron Garner
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 They are so named because they lack two or more hydrogen atoms in their molecular structure. Raw vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, and seeds contain naturally-occurring unsaturated fats.
Saturated fats have no openings in their chemical structure. They are usually solid at room temperature. Naturally-occurring saturated fats are found mainly in animal fats, meats, dairy products, eggs, and tropical oils.
They are also synthesized in the body from carbohydrates. Contrary to popular belief, not all saturated fats are responsible for the many diseases they are accused of contributing to. |
| Between 1900 and 1980, the consumption of: fresh fruit and vegetables decreased from 40% to 20% fresh citrus fruit decreased 50% processed citrus fruit increased 2500% butter decreased 75% lard decreased 66% unprocessed potato and sweet potato decreased 40%. whole grains decreased 50% beef consumption increased 75% poultry increased 350% dairy, not including butter, increased 25% cheese increased 400% fat and oil increased 150% margarine increased 800% corn syrup increased 400% sugar increased 50%. The average person consumes 150 pounds of sugar per year. |
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| Alarge LIS government study has found that a (diet low in fat and high in vegetables, grains and fruits does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer or colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women. The results, from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), are not likely to be the last word on the subject, however.
It's about a balance—how we exercise and how we eat—and balancing the stress as well. Nobody wants to hear it. We all want the quick fix. |
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