Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 Breakfast: One glass of cranberry juice
Lunch: One glass of carrot juice with either frozen wheat grass, green barley, or chlorella added; one cup of ginger tea
Dinner: One glass of grapefruit juice and two bowls of miso broth (recipe on page 217)
Bedtime: One cup of either chamomile, ginger, or echinacea tea
In addition to the above, drink eight glasses of water per day. You will find the majority of the products listed above at your local health food store. |
Kathi Keville
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 One teaspoon of psyllium seeds (an herbal laxative sold in any drugstore) soaked in a cup of water, three bran muffins a day (be sure to buy the low-fat kind—most commercial muffins are unhealthy because they're loaded with fat) or a few servings a day of carrots, cabbage, apples, grapefruit, pinto or navy beans or agar will do the trick. You will probably find that herbalists will recommend all of these, since they generally find that the line between medicinal herbs and foods is a thin one. Even the natural fungicide in grape skins increases good cholesterol and lowers the bad. |
Stephanie Beling
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 PowerFoods that may work specifically to lower blood pressure are typically high in potassium and magnesium and include:
O Fruits—apricots, bananas, berries, grapefruit, grapes, mangoes, melons, nectarines, oranges, and peaches
O Legumes—chick-peas, kidney beans, pinto beans, lentils, peas, and soybeans in all forms
O Vegetables—artichokes, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, spinach.
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is that condition of "porous bones" that particularly—but not exclusively—affects older women. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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 Although oranges and grapefruit are excellent sources of both vitamin C and bioflavonoids, too much citrus can backfire and ttigget canket sore outbreaks in people prone to these pesky lesions. So oral health experts say that supplementation is your best bet if you are prone to them.
Prescriptions for Healing
Only time is guaranteed to make canker sores go away. But if you want to speed healing and avoid new outbreaks, some experts say these nutrients might help. |
| Don't take more than 15 milligrams of zinc daily without medical supervision. and grapefruit, also seem to offer antioxidant ptotection and, Dr. Lane adds, may even be more important.
14-Carrot Eye Protection
We know. It's an old, old line, but the point is well-taken: The teason (well, maybe one teason) you've never seen a rabbit with glasses may indeed stem from this long-eated critter's penchant for carrots and perhaps spinach.
When it comes to catatacts, beta-catotene and plain old vitamin A may offer protection. |
Kathi Keville
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| Children who are depressed usually prefer either grapefruit or tangerine.
Dr. Paolo Rovesti, already mentioned here for his work with anxiety, has helped pull many people out of serious depression using the citrus scents of orange, bergamot, lemon and lemon verbena. He also found that jasmine, sandalwood and ylang-ylang alleviated depression. Here is how Dr. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| If you're trying to quit via a nicotine replacement product such as nicotine gum or a nicotine patch, then steer clear of orange juice, grapefruit juice and other acidic beverages, says Thomas M. Cooper, D.D.S., professor of oral health sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and co-author of The Cooper/Clayton Method to Stop Smoking. "By making your urine more acidic, you clear your body of nicotine faster, which is what you don't want if you're trying to minimize withdrawal with a nicotine replacement product," he explains. |
Kathi Keville
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| For children, replace petitgrain with grapefruit or tangerine.
Bath Oil
To make a bath oil using this recipe, follow the same formula but use 2 ounces of almond oil instead of 4.
Antidepressant Smelling Salts
6 drops Antidepressant Fragrance, without almond oil (see page 290) , 1 heaping teaspoon rock salt TO Drop the essential oil onto the salt. The salt will quickly absorb the oil. Carry smelling salts in a small container with a tight lid. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| Besides tomatoes, ruby red grapefruit and sweet red peppers are good sources of lycopene.
Be a tea tippler. It turns out that tea contains substances called polyphenols that, in laboratory animals at least, have been proven to have cancer-preventing properties. "These substances act as antioxidants and neutralize cell-damaging free radicals just as vitamins do," explains Zhi Y. Wang, Ph.D., associate research professor in the Department of Dermatology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.
Both green and black tea are rich in polyphenols. |
The Editors of PREVENTION
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 That gives food odors more of a chance to get up to the olfactory receptors, the structures that tell your brain, "Ummm! grapefruit!" explains Dr. Levin-Pelchat.
Make a habit of tuning in to odors and flavors whenever you're in the vicinity of good ones. Doing yardwork this weekend? Focus on and try to describe the green, wet, yeasty smell of cut grass. Use your own words. At the Petersons' dinner party tomorrow night, pay attention to the subtle flavors in Mrs. Peterson's special "mystery casserole." Try to figure out what's inside.
Practice, practice, practice. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 Antispasmodic substances are found in fennel, red bell pepper, cabbage, carrot, currant, cranberry, eggplant, grapefruit, orange, tomato, and acerola berry, which are all high in vitamin C complex.
About 50 percent of human patients with acute asthma attacks have low serum magnesium. High dietary magnesium intake has been associated with better lung function in humans.3 Magnesium relaxes the constricted muscles of the lung bronchioles, alleviating the wheezing and severity of asthma attacks. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 Citrus parodist). Interestingly, the closely related compound naringin dihydrochal-cone (Fig. 6.24), which lacks the pyranone ring of naringin, is exceptionally sweet, being some 1000 times sweeter than table sugar (sucrose).
It is likely that the flavonoids have important dietary significance because, being phenolic compounds, they are strongly antioxidant. Many disease states are known to be exacerbated by the presence of free radicals such as superoxide and hydroxyl, and flavonoids have the ability to scavenge and effectively 'mop up' these damaging oxidizing species. |
Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
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 Furanocoumarins are phytochemicals abundant in grapefruit but not found in other citrus fruits. When a person drinks the juice, these furanocoumarins bind to a set of enzymes in the lining of the intestines called CYP 3A4 en-
Table 3.3. Foods Containing Fructooligosaccharides (FOS)
Food
Amount of FOS
Apple, red delicious Artichoke, globe Artichoke, Jerusalem Banana, ripe Blackberries
Watermelon
Onion, yellow Onion powder Orange, navel Peach
Garlic
Carrot
Leek
Shallot
Pear, d'Anjou Peas, snap
Potato, sweet
0.1 mg/g
2.4 mg/g 58.4 mg/g
2.0 mg/g 0.2 mg/g 0.3 mg/g 3.9 mg/g 0.9 mg/g 2. |
| Drugs affected by grapefruit juice are Halcion, Versed, Plendil, Procardia, Seldane, Sandimmune, Adalat, Invirase, Tegretol, and Mevacor.
Genistein (JEN-i-steen). Genistein is an isoflavone found in legumes. It is very well absorbed by the human digestive tract. Among the isoflavones, genistein has the highest binding affinity for estrogen receptors, as well as some estrogenic activity, and thus it is considered a phytoestrogen. Genistein is the ingredient thought to give soy foods their ability to minimize the irritating symptoms of menopause. |
The Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books
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| If you're prone to canker sores, go easy on things such as grapefruit and lemonade.
Eat more yogurt. Eating yogurt each day keeps canker sores away, says Julian Whitaker, M.D., founder and president of the Whitaker Wellness Center in Newport Beach, California. If you're prone to canker sores, he recommends eating at least four tablespoons of yogurt daily to prevent outbreaks. To heal an outbreak, he recommends eating at least one eight-ounce container a day. To work, Dr. Whitaker says, the yogurt must contain active Lactobacillus acidophilus cultures. |
Jean Carper
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 Cerda's first breakthrough experiment in 1988 showed that grapefruit pectin dramatically lowered cholesterol in miniature pigs put on a high-fat diet. The pig's cardiovascular system is almost identical to that of a human. Cerda fed the pigs a diet with 15 percent lard (equal to about 40 percent of calories in fat). Predictably their cholesterol soared and their arteries closed. But when the pigs also ate pectin, their blood cholesterol fell 20 to 25 percent. Still, that was not the biggest surprise. When Dr. Cerda examined their arteries under the microscope, he was incredulous. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 In Japanese studies, grapefruit extract has been shown to stop tumor growth. And Dutch and Swedish research indicates that people who eat citrus fruit have less risk of getting cancer of the pancreas and stomach.
FENUGREEK Dr. Max Gerson, author of A Cancer Therapy, reports that he witnessed the disappearance of two breast cancers after the use of large
Preventing Colon Cancer
Colon cancer is the second most common lethal cancer in the United States, killing about 60,000 people every year — which is the reason so much research is focused on eradicating this form of the disease. |
Prevention Magazine
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 A cup of grapefruit sections contains 88 milligrams of vitamin C, 146 percent of the DV.
While vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant vitamin, it also is part of the recipe for collagen, the "glue" that binds skin cells together. If you don't get enough vitamin C, cuts will be slow to heal and your gums may bleed. Vitamin C has also been shown to help relieve cold symptoms by reducing levels of histamine, a naturally occurring chemical that makes your nose run. |
| The quickest way to get vitamin C, for example, is to have a glass of grapefruit juice, an orange, or a half-cup of sweet ted peppets, each of which provides more than 100 percent of the Daily Value (DV). For beta-carotene, deep green or bright orange fruits and vegetables are your best picks. One sweet potato or large carrot delivers between 12 and 15 milligrams, slightly more than the 6 to 10 milligrams that experts recommend we get. |
| Another carotenoid that seems to be a crusader against cancer is lycopene—the pigment that gives tomatoes their rosy glow and that is also found in watermelons, guavas, and pink grapefruit. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who ate 10 or more servings per week of tomato-based foods had a 45 percent decrease in their risk for prostate cancer. Those who only ate four to seven servings a week—less than one a day—still came out ahead, with a 20 percent reduction in risk. It wasn't only whole tomatoes that provided the benefits either. |
| Oranges and grapefruit are excellent sources of vitamin C, but they're not the only ones. One cup of chopped, cooked broccoli, for example, contains more than 116 milligrams, almost twice the DV. Half a cantaloupe has about 113 milligrams of vitamin C, and one sweet red pepper has 140 milligrams.
Vitamin E, which is good for the heart, may be particularly important for people with diabetes, who are two to three times more likely to develop heart disease than people who do not have the disease. And research suggests that, like vitamin C, it may help insulin work better. |
Kathi Keville
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| No matter how many times I correct them, children almost always think that this formula contains Oregon "grapefruit." I also use licorice, the antiviral value of which was reported in two journals in 1980, and echinacea, which was shown in a 1978 German study to fight against and protect from infection. These herbs deter or halt viral infections by making the virus inactive, slowing its reproduction and preventing it from breaking down cell walls. |
Jean Carper
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| Consumer Concerns
ProFibe grapefruit powder is available in some health food stores, drugstores, and supermarkets. For mail orders, call 800-756-3999. It costs about $60 a month for the maximum dose, or $2 a day. A small scoop to measure doses is included with each container.
Should You Try It?
If you are worried about the state of your cholesterol and arteries, it is surely worth a try. It seems to be almost an instant supercure for high cholesterol in many people, forcing cholesterol down 50 points or more after a month or two. |
Gale Maleskey
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 These include foods such as garlic or grapefruit seed extract, which can help kill bacteria or yeast.
Some people try introducing "friendly" bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum to restore a healthy balance of beneficial bacteria in the intestines and help crowd out the bad bugs. Others with CFS can benefit from enzymes that help the body break down food into digestible particles, she says. You may also want to take fiber formulas derived from plants, such as those made from psyllium seed, kelp, agar, pectin, and oat bran, to help elimination. |
Jean Carper
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| Note: You cannot get the same benefit from eating lots of grapefruit.
Natures Mighty Aspirin
(FEVERFEW)
Why continue to suffer with migraines when a common herb can make them disappear? s any sufferer of migraine knows, aspirin is a wimp xjLagainst this ferocious headache. But nature has another secret potion that stops such headaches. Its users call it a "miracle aspirin"—a 10-cent pill with the awesome power to shut out those indescribably painful and incapacitating thunderstorms of the brain that afflict 23 million Americans. The cure is in the leaves of a plant called feverfew. |
| He knew of experiments with grapefruit pectin, a fiber, conducted by Dr. James Cerda at the University of Florida, showing that pectin might clear out arteries. In fact, Cerda had been his professor in medical school. Dr. Garrett also knew the fiber dramatically lowered cholesterol. "Just to show Dad it was okay, I decided to try the pectin myself for a month—and I had a life insurance exam coming up, so I figured, how can it hurt?" said Dr. Garrett. He also liked the fact that unlike other cholesterol-reducing or cardiac drugs, the fiber has no dangerous side effects.
So he took Dr. |
| Another sister's cholesterol plunged after she took the grapefruit fiber detailed in this book. I have handed out more than one kava pill to friends when they are anxious. My niece is taking feverfew to prevent migraine headaches. My brother-in-law is taking St. John's wort instead of Prozac. My ninety-two-year-old mother has been taking ginkgo biloba for two years, since her memory began to falter. I think it has helped her greatly. |
Stephanie Beling
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| Tomatoes and red grapefruit contain lycopene, a prominent promoter of cell differentiation. Cancer cells are undifferentiated; that is, they grow uninhibited by the body's natural controls to become destructive tumors. In northern Italy, where people consume seven or more servings of tomatoes per week, researchers have found as much as a 60 percent lower risk of cancers of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum. They attribute this astonishing result to lycopene—really, to those luscious plum tomatoes that are almost a staple of northern Italian cuisine. |
Kathi Keville
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| Add eight drops grapefruit seed extract or 400 International Units vitamin E per ounce. Be sure that your tools—blender, bowls, measuring cups and containers— are very clean. Even dipping a finger into a cosmetic invites bacteria, so use a small cosmetic spatula or a clean chopstick to scoop cream from the jar.
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Facial Steam for Dry Complexion
3 cups water
Method #/; Using Herbs
1 heaping teaspoon each rose petals, rosemary leaves and fennel seeds Vi teaspoon peppermint leaves TO Simmer water, add herbs, remove from heat and steep for 5 minutes. |
| Cleanser for Dry Complexion
2 ounces aloe vera gel
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon glycerin
Vi teaspoon grapefruit seed extract
8 drops sandalwood essential oil
4 drops rosemary essential oil
TO Blend ingredients. Shake well before each use. Apply with cotton balls, then rinse off. I like to substitute grape seed oil or Saint-John's-wort oil for the vegetable oil. You can also use jojoba oil (really a liquid wax); it is more expensive than vegetable oil but is good for the complexion, and unlike true vegetable oils, it will not spoil. |
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