| It is very possible that grapefruit affects some of the enzymes that help to regulate blood sugar and weight.
Peanuts Help to Control Blood Sugar
Small amounts of peanuts have virtually no impact on blood-sugar levels—and they may reduce postmeal increases in blood sugar.
In another experiment, Carol S. Johnston, Ph.D., fed eleven healthy people meals that were high in either sugar and carbs or protein. For some of the meals, 25 grams of peanut butter or roasted peanuts (about 1 ounce) were substituted for butter. |
| Include some vinegar, grapefruit, and cinnamon each day.
5. Eat smaller portions for lunch and dinner than you have in the past.
Sample Meal Plan for Week 1
An asterisk (*) means the recipe is in this book. You can find many other recipes in Jack's other books (including Feed Your Genes Right and The Inflammation Syndrome), in cookbooks, and on the Internet. To get you into the habit of eating a protein-rich breakfast, we recommend that you prepare the first breakfast on a Sunday morning, refrigerating and reheating the leftovers for breakfast on Monday and Tuesday. |
| Eat High-Fiber, Nonstarchy Fruits
Raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, kiwis, apples, melons, and grapefruit have a lot of vitamins, minerals, and fiber and relatively small amounts of sugars and starches. Include these nutrient-dense foods in your eating plan.
Bananas, dates, figs, grapes, nectarines, oranges, peaches, pears, and plums have far more sugar, and you should not eat these fruits, at least until your weight and blood sugar normalize. Even then, you should limit the quantities of these fruits. |
Elaine Magee
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 The red and pink pigments in watermelon, guava, and red and pink grapefruit signal the presence of lycopene, too. You should try to regularly include lycopene-rich foods in your diet because this natural antioxidant can neutralize unstable molecules that might otherwise damage cells. Several studies link a greater consumption of foods high in lycopene with a lower risk for prostate cancer and possibly other cancers. More research is needed before firm conclusions can be made. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 C content is paltry. This average toner is more akin to spraying perfume on the face than anything really helpful.
© Vitamin C Eye Reviver ($18 for 0.5 ounce) isn't much for vitamin C but is still a decent water- and silicone-based moisturizer for slightly dry skin anywhere on the face. The orange flower water just provides fragrance and can be a problem for use around the eyes, though there's only a tiny amount present.
© Vitamin C Intensive Night Treatment ($22 for 1 ounce) contains a significant amount of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in a nonaqueous base with a silky finish. |
| Skip the irritation and the potential for phototoxic reactions and use plain sunflower or jojoba oil if your skin is very dry.
© $$$ Skin Mat Matifying Fluid ($85 for 1.7 ounces) is a fairly standard, lightweight moisturizer that helps create a matte finish due to the silicone it contains. The slip agents and thickeners won't keep skin matte for long, but will hydtate slightly dry skin. Although there are some good skin-idenrical ingredients in this product, it's an overall unimpressive formula for the money and absolutely will not reduce excess oil.
© $$$ Vitaserum Eye Contour 40 ($70 for 0. |
| This is a dangerous product to apply to skin if it will be exposed to sunlight.
© $$$ Multivitamin Power Firm, for Eye and Lip Area ($47 for 0.5 ounce) contains mostly silicones, thickeners, vitamin E, vitamin A, antioxidants, anti-irritant, plant oils, plant extracts, and vitamin C. It's a good antioxidant serum for all skin types, but has no special benefit (and is not emollient enough) for the lips. Although this is a very good formulary, it's not as impressive as the top serum options from Lauder-owned lines.
© Night Bright ($48.50for 0. |
| There is no reason to choose this over a standard topical scrub, or just using a washcloth with your water-soluble cleanser.
© $$$ Skin Prep Scrub ($28 for 2.5 ounces) is a detergent-based, water-soluble cleanser that contains cornmeal as the scrub agent. It would probably be better to just use cornmeal from the grocery store if you want a cornmeal scrub, because then at least you wouldn't be applying some of the irritating plant extracts that are present in this product, including arnica and ivy. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 In the course of a study intended to determine the impact of alcohol on the effectiveness of a commonly prescribed cardiac arrhythmia medication, researchers accidentally discovered that the grapefruit juice used to mask the taste of the alcohol was responsible for doubling the amount of medication in the bloodstream, and increasing the number and severity of side effects. A similar effect was observed for statins, a class of medication used to lower blood cholesterol. These observations show to what extent citrus fruit can regulate the systems involved in the metabolism of foreign substances. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Notes The red pigment in grapefruit is not anthocyanins (as in blood oranges) but lycopene, the red carotenoid and antioxidant found in tomatoes.
Citrus reticulata mandarin • tangerine • naartjie
Mandarin fruiting branches
Minneola (minneola tangelo) fruits
Description This is a small tree with dark green leaves, white fragrant flowers and small, broad fruit. All mandarins are easily recognised by the loose segments and fruit wall that is easily peeled away by hand. The numerous types include the common mandarin or tangerine (C. reticulata), the satsuma mandarin or unshiu mikan (C. |
| The leathery membrane of the fruit segment is easily peeled away and the flesh removed and eaten. grapefruit is typically eaten with a spoon because the juice sacs are fused. Origin & history The pomelo is believed to have originated in southern China from where it spread throughout Southeast Asia. The numerous and variable cultivars are usually grouped according to origin: Chinese, Thai and Indonesian. Pomelo has always been popular in Asia but only recently in western countries. Shaddock is said to be named after Capt. Philip Chaddock who introduced the fruit to the West Indies. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| Pablo Neruda, "Ode to the Lemon," in Elemental Odes (1954)
CHAPTER 14
Citrus Fruit: Anti-cancer Molecules with Zest
Citrus fruit such as lemons, oranges, grapefruit, and mandarins (see inset) belong to the sour-tasting, acidic Citrus genus in the orange family, Rutaceae. They are also known as hesperidia in reference to Hercules's eleventh labour, which had the Greek hero plucking three golden apples from a tree in a garden guarded by the Hesperides, the nymphs of the evening. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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 Five grams of grapefruit pectin three times daily (from grapefruits and grapefruit peels) have been reported to lower cholesterol by 7.6 percent and LDL by 10.8 percent. Psyllium, derived from the husks of psyllium seeds, is a soluble mucilloid fiber; 3-4 grams of psyllium taken three times daily lowers cholesterol by 14.8 percent and LDL by 20.2 percent after eight weeks. Guar gum also lowers cholesterol.
How do these soluble fibers work in lowering cholesterol? They are converted (through bacterial action) in the large intestine to short-chain fatty acids. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Hybrids include tangors (tangerine x sweet orange) and tangelos (tangerine x grapefruit). One of the best-known tangelos is 'Minneola' or minneola tangelo, while the large-fruited Jamaican 'Ugli' has become popular in Canada and Europe. Amongst the common mandarins, the 'Clementine' type (Clementine mandarin) is particularly popular. |
David Wolfe
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1/2 quart (1/2 liter) of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice. Lunch
1 quart (1 liter) of freshly-made vegetable juice containing apples and celery. One sandwich made with toasted sprouted grain bread, avocado, clover sprouts, sliced tomato, diced zucchini and cayenne or garlic powder.
Snacks
One shot (1 ounce) of fresh wheatgrass juice. 2-3 apples or pears. 10-20 almonds or walnuts . 1 handful of Brazil nuts.
1 item of cooked starch (tortillas or baked, no-salt corn chips). |
| Beauty Enzymes), more dietary greens, green juices, seeds, seaweeds, superfoods, grapefruit seed extract, olive leaf extract, vitamin C(from powdered berries), MSM powder (1-2 tablespoons per liter of water) and garlic.
If one repeatedly experiences gas and fermentation from eating sweet fruit as a mono-diet, this could be a sign of a Candida overgrowth. If this is your situ-
The fabled queen of fruits — The Mangosteen ation, please review Lesson 13: How To Use The Sunfood Triangle under the section Eating To Overcome Candida. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| It is the parent of several modern Citrus types, such as grapefruit (C. xparadisi) and tangelo (C. reticulata). Parts used Ripe fruits. Cultivation & harvesting Since the pomelo is the most tropical of all Citrus species, it is mainly grown in tropical and subtropical areas. Some modern cultivars however, are suitable for warm temperate regions as well. The fruits are picked when ripe and they store remarkably well.
Uses & properties The fruits are eaten raw as a delicious snack or added to fruit salads. |
David Wolfe
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| Supplements that can be helpful with Candida include: olive leaf extract, grapefruit seed extract, supplemental enzymes (Beauty Enzymes), MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane) powder, small amounts of fully-mineralized sea salt or rock salt, edible clays and powdered vitamin C-rich berries such as camu camu berry powder. MSM detoxifies mercury. Mercury poisoning seems to be a common underlying factor in Candida.
Herbs that are great allies against Candida include: oregano, garlic, pau d'arco tea, and cat's claw tea. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Even taking in honey or grapefruit juice does not make it a true fast.
During a fast, the body redirects the energy it would otherwise use for digesting meals and other daily activities to any problem area in the body. In other words, the body is given an opportunity to focus on cleansing and healing. Weight loss is also achieved more quickly on a fast as the body burns any excess fat deposits for fueling its normal functions. (The average weight loss is from 1-2 pounds per day.)
A word of caution is needed here. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Among the citrus fruits, grapefruits are an especially good weight-loss food.
One grapefruit contains about 75 mg. of vitamin C. Amounts of vitamin A and the Bs are fairly low, though there is some biotin. Potassium content is very good, and there is some calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus as well. grapefruit juice straight or mixed with orange juice is a high-vitamin C meal.
Lemons. Lemons have been a very useful food in my life. |
David Wolfe
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| If colon hydrotherapy is not available, daily warm-water enemas while fasting on grapefruit juice will be helpful.
A raw herbal cleanse, such as the EJUVA 30-day program, can work wonders for those with eczema as I have seen first hand several times.
Eyesight
From years of observation and study, I am convinced that the primary cause of poor eyesight is the habit of reading in the dark or with dim lighting. To maintain excellent eyesight for a lifetime, please be sure to read under bright full-spectrum lighting or outdoors whenever possible. |
| Orange, grapefruit, lime and lemon juices dissolve toxicity, mucus and excess calcite deposits so they may be washed out and eliminated. I recommend including the pith (the white inside of the rind) with your citrus juices, especially when fasting. The pith contains bioflavonoids, fiber and calcium.
Case studies conducted by fasting doctors over this last century prove that the longer you fast, the more centered you become, the better you heal, the higher your intellectual activity and the younger you appear. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| It is a grapefruit bioflavonoid concentrate that works well to help knock out a cold. You can take one 100-mg tablet every four to five hours or a few drops of the liquid. There are anecdotal reports from women that grapefruit seed extract will effectively cure urinary tract infections.
The herb echinacea, sometimes combined with goldenseal in formulas, is an effective immune stimulant, but works best when used early on in an infection. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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| Five grams of grapefruit pectin three times daily (from grapefruits and grapefruit peels) have been reported to lower cholesterol by 7.6 percent and LDL by 10.8 percent. Psyllium, derived from the husks of psyllium seeds, is a soluble mucilloid fiber; 3-4 grams of psyllium taken three times daily lowers cholesterol by 14.8 percent and LDL by 20.2 percent after eight weeks. Guar gum also lowers cholesterol.
How do these soluble fibers work in lowering cholesterol? They are converted (through bacterial action) in the large intestine to short-chain fatty acids. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Other rich food sources include apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, blackstrap molasses, brewer's yeast, brown rice, cantaloupe, dulse, figs, garlic, grapefruit, green leafy vegetables, kelp, lemons, lima beans, millet, nuts, peaches, black-eyed peas, salmon, sesame seeds, soybeans, tofu, torula yeast, watercress, wheat, and whole grains. |
Jack Challem
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 Select one, two, or three fruits from this group, as a side dish each day with breakfast or as dessert after lunch and/or dinner: apples blackberries blueberries cantaloupe grapefruit honeydew kiwifruit raspberries strawberries watermelon
Starchy Foods
Select one of these, but in a small amount: brown, red, purple, black, and green rice (not white! |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Pectin
Description: Pectin is a soluble fiber derived from apples, grapefruit, or other citrus fruits.
Indications: Diabetes
High cholesterol Precautions: Pectin supplements may cause digestive upset. Dosage: Dosages of up to 15 grams a day are used.
Perilla Oil
Description: Perilla oil is an extract of the Asian beefsteak plant. It is a rich source of alpha linolenic acid. As with other essential fatty acid supplements like flaxseed oil, perilla oil helps to reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and enhance brain function and has several other uses. |
Mike Adams
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 Typically this means at least 1 whole grapefruit, or 1 pint of blueberries for example. Remember, it is very difficult to overdose on a vitamin, nutrient or mineral when ingesting via whole food sources, so, while following the "take it slow" guideline, you may also want to slowly increase the food or herb until the effects begin to manifest.
For some, it is easier to ingest the necessary amounts of the various herbs in tincture forms, in which case, be sure that you purchase an organic tincture and carefully follow the recommended dosages. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 Grapefruit Theophrastus, a Greek historian, believed that grapefruit was a good breath freshener. The vitamin C and bioflavonoids in grapefruit help make gums healthy. Other fruits that are especially recommended to counteract garlic breath are strawberries, red dates and persimmons.
Mint Another well-known folk remedy for bad breath is to chew on fresh mint leaves and stems. Mint contains menthol, which has a pleasant aroma. parsley In ancient Rome, people used parsley to cover up the smell of alcohol on their breath. |
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