Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Because their water has been removed, however, it is easy to take in far more calories with dried fruit than with fresh fruit, so it pays to favor the fresh varieties.
Instant soups are great to keep in your desk drawer; just add hot water when you are ready to eat. Minestrone, split pea, lentil, and other varieties are typically vegan and low in fat.
A simple sandwich of lettuce and sliced cucumber and tomato with mustard on rye bread will fill you up, with nothing to regret.
Three-bean salad will hold you until dinner.
Air-popped popcorn skips the fat of the usual kind. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 He says the scientific evidence suggests the health system should spend less time prescribing statins to healthy people, and more time getting strict anti-smoking policies enacted, making sure people have more opportunities for regular exercise, and better access to shops selling fresh fruit and vegetables. And those sorts of broader changes, according to Ebrahim, will produce a lot more health benefits than simply reducing heart disease.
While there is no doubt statins can produce health benefits for many people, their side effects, in some very rare cases, can be deadly. |
Jack Challem
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Breakfast
Breakfast Scramble,* fresh fruit, and a wheat-free waffle with almond butter.
In a restaurant, order a grilled chicken breast, minus the bun, and a side of vegetables instead of fries. Sparkling water to drink.
Baked Salmon,* Spinach and Leek Saute,* and rice.
Breakfast Mini Chicken Patties,* fresh fruit, and sliced gluten-free bread toasted with almond butter.
Wonderful Whatever Salad,* with leftover pieces of salmon from last evening's dinner. |
Michele Simon
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 Instead of asking how schools can still make money by selling children slightly healthier food and beverages provided by corporations, how about we figure out how to serve healthy school meals and provide locally grown fresh fruit as snacks?
Many advocates are also working hard to improve school meals, for example, through innovative "farm-to-school" programs. We need to tie these efforts into larger conversations about corporate marketing in schools. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Sample instruction: "Your meals should include a protein, a salad with dressing, a potato or other starch, vegetables, fresh fruit, and milk." The plan does, however, emphasize protein-based snacks like cheese, nuts, and seeds. The idea is to use the prep period to gradually transition into the weight loss diet that's coming up for the next twenty-eight days. During the prep days, you can also have "craving-based foods" like pizza, and you're encouraged to use this period to satisfy any nagging cravings you may have before jumping in to the diet proper. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 In a hospital where I once worked, the administration did all they could to please the doctors, from providing a refrigerator full of fruit juices and colas to keeping a big basket full of fresh fruit sitting on the coffee table. Day after day, unsuspecting medicos would sit around the table eating apples and oranges and swilling down solutions of diet cola and aluminum, never even considering how rapidly aluminum was being absorbed into their bodies, and poured into their brains, setting the stage for serious neurological damage later in life. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 It is also recommended to eliminate sugars except in fresh fruit. All non-organic meat and meat products are contraindicated since xenoestrogens can disrupt thyroid function just as intrinsic estrogens generated by the patient's body can. I usually suggest elimination of all dairy products, except unsalted organic butter, to further reduce exposure to growth hormones and iodine and unwanted tetracycline residues. I usually recommend eating avocados, organic eggs, and sardines to provide quality fats to keep bile flowing and wasted thyroid hormones moving out of the liver. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Absorbs intestinal liver bile acids and excretes them, reducing cholesterol formoreliverBile acid production with fresh fruit, oats (3.5 oz/day reduced cholesterol 13%), psyllium, beans, corn, barley, rice, fruits, and vegetables with plenty of fluids. Fibers keep Fats moving out of the system unaccumulated, and slow down hardening of the arteries, reducing the risk of heart attack, and colorectal cancer. Our ancestors ate at least 12 grams per day, Danes get 17 gr., Finns get 31 gr., in Uganda 50-250 grams daily (and little colon cancer); todayjunk food gives us . |
| Avocados, greens, sprouted sesame cream, fresh fruit, and oranges.
•Mix 112 c. each grated carrots, red peppers, celery, and onions; serve with Protein sauce on salad greens with sliced avocado and tomato.
•Blend 1/2 c. soaked barley, 1/2 c. sliced sprouted sunflower seeds, 1 banana, and juice or water; pour over lettuce or other greens.
•Blend or dice 1 c. pineapple, 1/2 c. orange, 1 apple, and 1/2 c. pitted dates.
•Blend two tomatoes, 1/2 c. water, 3/4 c. fresh com kernels, 1 c. soaked sunflower seeds and alfalfa sprouts. |
| Use Castor oil packs on breasts to draw toxins out, and on the liver to spur Immunity; and eat an alkalizing/Oxygenating fresh fruit and vegetable diet.
Dr. Richard Schulze appl ies a poultice of a blended handful of Garlic, SI ippery Elm, fresh Poke root, raw Apple Cider Vinegar, and watertopically to smother the tumor; and using lymph cleansing; finding 50% reduction in 5 days, and remission in 10 days.
The Chinese use massage, lifting the entire breast in a circle toward the armpits, up to 300 times per day, in the direction of the lymph channels (may remove bumps and lumps in 2-3 months). |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 I have found that fresh fruit has a stabilizing effect on blood sugar because it contains water-soluble fibers, which slow down the rate at which fruit sugar (known as fructose, which has a more stable effect on blood sugar than refined sucrose) is absorbed. On top of this, fruit contains such a wide variety of nutrients that work together in the body to balance blood sugar. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 The same trend exists for fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods. This decline of nutritional content, even of whole, fresh foods, is accompanied by additional losses from cooking and processing. There appears to be a strong correlation between the onset and trend of this decline in nutritional content of foods and the introduction and increasingly heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, deep tillage, gene manipulation, and other practices of conventional agriculture. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Fresh fruit is the typical daily dessert, with sweets containing concentrated sugars or honey consumed a few times per week at the most.
• Dairy products, principally cheese and yogurt, are consumed daily in low to moderate amounts and in low-fat varieties.
• Fish is consumed on a regular basis.
• Poultry and eggs are consumed in moderate amounts, about one to four times weekly or not at all.
• Red meat is consumed infrequently and in small amounts.
• Wine is consumed in low to moderate amounts, normally with meals. |
| Pure water or fresh fruit and vegetable juices are the preferred ways to meet your body's water requirements.
Once the weight is stabilized, bile acid output returns to normal levels, while the cholesterol output remains low. The net effect of weight loss is a significant reduction in cholesterol saturation.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease: See
Nonulcer Dyspepsia.
Gingivitis: See Periodontal Disease.
Glaucoma
Glaucoma refers to increased pressure within the eye (intraocular), which results from greater production than outflow of the fluid of the eye (the aqueous humor). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I realized I needed fresh fruit and vegetables -- really wholesome foods. I needed fresh juice and smoothies, and I started eating a more vegetarian diet. I have not had red meat since that time, although I do eat some fish and even a little bit of poultry.
Many people would eat a diet primarily made up of treats: Fast foods, cakes, cookies, sodas and chips. Those are not foods we should be eating. Most of us should be focusing on vegetables, fruits, some appropriate proteins and grains, beans and seeds. |
Jack Challem
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 Forbidden Rice brandt) 1 cup premium (not light) coconut
2-3 tablespoons honey, or to taste fresh fruit, such as banana slices or raspberries, and whipped cream for garnish
Greek Yogurt with Honey (Serves 2)
8 ounces Greek yogurt^ 1-
1-2 tablespoons honey
Fresh Banana and Nut Butter (Serves 2)
1 ripe banana almond or peanut butter
Slice the banana into circles, each about xh inch thick. Spread some of the nut butter onto each slice and serve.
Sample Two-Week Meal Plan
This meal plan is intended more as an idea generator rather than as a rigid diet plan for you to follow for two weeks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You're actually getting a dehydrated version of fresh fruit.
Mike: That's wonderful. What is the sweetener that's used in the product?
Burt: We use a little stevia in it. We also have a little of organic soymilk in there. That, of course, adds a little sweetness to it. It has some organic cane juice in it. Per serving, it only has one gram of sugar.
Mike: That's fantastic. Really for children you have to have that great taste even if you have to have a little bit of evaporated cane juice in there to make it go down.
Burt: It does. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Santa, eat fresh fruit or other natural snacks, not processed foods made with sugar!"
Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is the author of Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine and founder of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. Having witnessed first-hand the miraculous health transformations of people who switched to a living foods diet, Dr. Cousens offered Santa optimistic advice on reversing his diabetic condition. "I am sorry to hear that you have developed type-2 diabetes," Dr. Cousens said. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Santa is now asking the children of the world to leave him fresh fruit instead of the traditional milk and cookies. "I want to live my life free of diabetes," Santa said, "so I won't be eating anything made with sugar or white flour anymore. That includes Christmas cookies."
“Santa is doing great,” said Adams. “He’s tapped into the healing potential that exists within all of us, and he’s conquered a health condition that’s challenging, but curable. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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| Desserts
Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
This treat gives you the taste of rich chocolate with the healthful goodness of fresh fruit. Wax Orchards fat-free, fruit-sweetened organic fudge toppings are available in most health food stores. They come in six varieties.
14 cup Wax Orchards fudge topping 12 large fresh whole strawberries, cleaned, with stems
Heat the topping in a small saucepan just until softened. Divide equally into 2 small bowls. Hold the strawberries by the stem ends, dip in the topping, and enjoy! |
Jack Challem
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| Add fresh fruit as a side dish.
Omelette with Tomato-Free Ratatouille Filling (Serves 1) pat of butter or olive oil 2 to 3 eggs
2 tablespoons Tomato-Free Ratatouille (page 92)
Heat a pat of butter or a little olive oil in a frypan. Beat and pour the eggs into the pan and begin cooking as a plain omelette. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons of Tomato-Free Ratatouille on a small plate in a microwave. After you flip the omelette, spoon the ratatouille on one side, then fold over the omelette. Serve with fresh fruit, such as berries or apple slices. |
Jack Challem
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| Serve with your choice of nonstarchy fresh fruit (for example, berries, kiwifruit, cantaloupe) on the side.
To vary the dish, try these substitutions: precooked baby shrimp or precooked diced pork instead of turkey; hearts of palm instead of artichoke hearts; Terrapin Ridge Wasabi Squeeze Garnishing Sauce instead of Deliciously Dill Spice Mix.
* Available at most natural food stores milk
3-4 teaspoons vanilla extract, or to taste
Bring the water to a boil over high heat in a 2-quart saucepan. |
Michele Simon
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| Similarly, while Wendy's garnered great press in February 2005 for its "bold" decision to add fresh fruit to its menu, that resolution was rescinded as soon as corporate headquarters reviewed the disappointing sales figures a few months later.38 As the Washington Post explained in 2005, "Fast-food and casual dining chains are slowly going back to what they do best: indulging Americans' taste for high-calorie, high-fat fare."39
However warm and fuzzy the marketing may sound, the reality is that corporate sellers of fast food can only offer healthy options at the risk of going out of business. |
| Instead, vending machines will be expected to provide fresh fruit, milk, bottled water, and fruit juice. She declared that "the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end."33 Oliver is apparently setting his sights next on overhauling school food in the United States. We could use him.
Can We Get Out of This Mess?
No matter how hard the soda and junk food companies try to position themselves as being part of the solution, the truth is they care more about the health of their own bottom lines than that of children. |
Jack Challem
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| Meanwhile, defrost a total of 2 to 3 tablespoons of raspberries and blueberries overnight, or be sure to have some fresh fruit on hand for the morning, such as berries, an apple, or a banana. In the morning add the fruit (dice the apple or banana) and mix into the muesli. Add a little cinnamon or a very small amount of nutmeg for flavoring. Eat as a side dish with a few reheated Breakfast Mini Chicken Patties (above). |
Dianne Onstad
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 It requires six pounds of fresh fruit to result in one pound of dried, but the fruit loses nothing but water, and the nutrients are concentrated. Try to find apricots that have been dried naturally, without sulfur dioxide, which is harmful to the body and imparts a bitter taste.
Buying Tips
Most apricots come from the West Coast, are available during the summer season, and cannot be shipped when fully ripe. A truly ripe apricot is golden-orange all over with no traces of green. They are best when deep orange with a red blush, plump, and slightly soft to the touch. |
Walter Last
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 In particular, do not eat fructose-containing foods with starches and eat fresh fruit on its own.
• Avoid all grain products; this is especially helpful for people with blood group O.
• Avoid all fats and oils except fresh, unheated linseed oil, which will not put weight on you; experiment with coconut oil in your diet.
• Preferably skip the evening meal or have only a small salad or apple.
• Get some light daily exercise, such as a brisk 15-minute walk or jogging; use a rebounder or do some other aerobic exercise. The metabolic rate is speeded up for a long time after exercise. |
Jack Challem
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| Breakfast Mini Chicken Patties,* fresh fruit, and sliced gluten-free bread toasted with almond butter.
Wonderful Whatever Salad,* with leftover pieces of salmon from last evening's dinner.
Baked Turkey Breast Provencal,* Mushroom and Spinach Saute,* and rice or baked squash.
Leftover Breakfast Mini Chicken Patties,* and Breakfast Musili* with fruit.
Lunch Reheated turkey with au jus, Spinach and Leek Saute,* and rice.
Dinner Pumpkin Seed Crusted Halibut,* Green Bean and Mushroom Stir-Fry,* and Forbidden Rice spinach salad on the side. |
Walter Last
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| Sweet Food: The term "sweet food," as used in this book, includes sugars, sweetened food, dried fruit, sweet fresh fruit, and the juices of sweet vegetables. It does not include the sweet vegetables themselves such as carrot, onion, sweet pepper, turnip, or red beet, as their sweetness comes mainly from dextrines and they release sugars slowly. Most commonly used sugars quickly enter the bloodstream and cause a serious strain on blood sugar regulation. It is important for our well-being to keep the daily fluctuations in our blood sugar level as small as possible. |
| Examples of this combination are: muesli or honey, dried fruit, or fresh fruit to sweeten cereals or starches; dessert or sweetened coffee or tea after meals. Most harmful are the sweetened starches, such as cakes, sweet cookies, or crackers, and sweetened breakfast cereals. Beware especially of mixing fructose with starches if you want to lose weight.
Problems with Natural Sweet Foods:
Unfortunately, natural sweet foods such as honey, dried fruits, or fruit juices are no better for diabetics or hypoglycemics than food sweetened with white sugar. |
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