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The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America Francois Couplan, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

The achenes dotting the surface of strawberries are mildly laxative. These "grains" are the actual fruits of the plant, as the strawberry itself is a false fruit, the enlarged receptacle of the flower. Some sensitive individuals have allergic reactions after eating strawberries. Externally, they are beneficial to the skin, thanks to their astringent and revitalizing properties. The fruits of local species are eaten in Europe and Asia. Geum (D-H 3) Avens Latin name of the plant. Throughout. Both native and species introduced from Eurasia. The aromatic roots of G.

The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Prime examples are strawberries (CD 0.3); grapefruit (CD 0.3); cantaloupe (CD 0.4); papaya, apple sauce (CD 0.5); konnyaku (CD 0.1); lettuce (CD 0.1); tomato (CD 0.2); cooked broccoli (CD 0.3); gazpacho soup (CD 0.2); miso soup (CD 0.1); veggie soup (CD 0.3); chicken, rice, and veggie soup (CD 0.5); salsa (CD 0.3); carrot sticks (CD 0.4) . . . and lots more. Please refer to the list on pages 59 to 60 for a more extensive offering of featherweight and lightweight foods. heavyweight foods like cheese, bread, beef, and chicken.

Lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, winter squash, bitter melon, zucchini, cucumbers, celery, bamboo shoots, eggplant, strawberries, grapefruit, honeydew melon, apples, oranges, and many, many more have a CD of 0.7 or less—low even on the featherweight scale. The water-rich concept becomes clearer than ever when you consider dried fruit versus plump ripe fruit. Two cups of fresh apricots, for example, has about the same amount of calories as only x/i cup of the dried version you find in trail mix. You can eat four times as much fresh as dried.

Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest Peter Pringle See book keywords and concepts

The altered bacterium could then be sprayed on, say, strawberries, produce a rough instead of a smooth surface, and delay frost damage. In short order a product appeared named Frostban, marketed as the "ice minus" antifreeze bacterial spray.17 The Environmental Protection Agency allowed a field test in 1987 that attracted a lot of media attention. Antibiotech activists protesting the genetic engineering of the bacterium pulled up most of the strawberry plants the night before the test.

The New Optimum Nutrition Bible Patrick Holford See book keywords and concepts

Multiple residues on other foods, including apples, pears, carrots, oranges, celery, and strawberries, are common, and of course several different foods are usually eaten at any given meal. It all adds up to a cocktail of pesticide residues, the combined toxicity of which is almost completely unknown. Studies have shown that pesticides in combination may be hundreds of times more toxic than the same compounds alone.

Natural Health Secrets From Around the World Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S. See book keywords and concepts

Strawberries strawberries — and grapes — are especially good sources of two phytochemicals (ellagic acid and phenethyle isothiocyanate) which have been found effective in preventing and treating cancer of the esophagus by prohibiting cells from becoming cancerous when exposed to a cancer-causing chemical. tomato Nitrosamines are by-products of our digestive process that have been proven to cause cancer. But two phytochemicals found in tomatoes (p-coumaric and chlorogenic acid) can prevent the formation of nitrosamines.

The New Optimum Nutrition Bible Patrick Holford See book keywords and concepts

Other top-scoring foods include kale, spinach, strawberries, raspberries, plums, broccoli, and alfalfa spouts. These and other fresh fruits and vegetables are the kinds of foods you need to eat every day to keep young and energetic. (See the chart below for the ORAC ratings for several foods. You can find a more comprehensive listing of ORAC ratings in part 9) We should all obtain 3,500 ORAC units a day, although 5,000 to 6,000 will give you even more protection against aging. You'll also be better protected against many diseases, including cancer and heart disease.

The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America Francois Couplan, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

The flowers can be eaten as well, but if they remain on the plant, chances are that they will produce luscious strawberries, juicy, sweet and aromatic. It is well worth waiting for them. The fruits of all wild strawberries are edible raw, but their quality differs widely between the various species; some arc among the most flavorful of all fruits while others are rather insipid. The following species have been used as food in North America: F. California — Calif., Baja -, chiloensis (m.a.), mexicana - Mex. —, platypetala (= virgini-ana var. illinoensis) - Calif, to B.C. -, vesca var.

The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health Walter Last See book keywords and concepts

It occurs naturally in fruits such as plums and strawberries and tastes like normal sugar; it also helps to prevent tooth decay and possibly ear infections and is acceptable for diabetics. However, it may cause diarrhea in larger quantities, so you need to experiment to see how much is acceptable for you. The Glycemic Index (G.I.): The G.I. lists foods according to the increase in blood glucose levels caused by their carbohydrate content two to three hours after eating. A high G.I. means a rapid increase in blood glucose levels and vice versa. It is preferable to eat mainly low G.I.

The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Tobin's Strawberry Almond Shake Serves 1 V2 cup almond milk V2 cup strawberries, frozen and preferably organic 2 tablespoons maple syrup Blend all the ingredients in a blender and serve immediately. Smoothie Ingredient Options Adapted from Smoothies for Life by Daniella Chace and Maureen Keane (Prima Publishing, 1998) Beneficial Microflora Acidophilus and Bifidus are two well-known organisms that are an important part of a healthy gut flora.

Glutathione is a sulfur-containing compound that is found in watermelon, strawberries, avocados, and carrots. Green Tea Caffeine-free green tea, green tea extract, and leaf tea are all available. Green tea is rich in antioxidants and cancer-fighting, naturally occurring plant chemicals. Hijiki Pronounced hee-JEE-kee, it is a sea vegetable. It is a flavorful addition to soups and stews, dressings, and dips. Hijiki has a high mineral content, ten times more calcium by volume than milk, cheese, or other dairy products. It is also high in iron, protein, beta-carotene, Bi, and Bu.

The New Optimum Nutrition Bible Patrick Holford See book keywords and concepts

Because strawberries, as well as other berries, are especially high in a quirky bioflavonoid called quercetin. Quercetin, along with other bioflavonoids in berries, can also improve the health of capillaries and connective tissues. Because of this, the many benefits of quercetin include alleviating bruising, edema, varicose veins, and fragile capillaries. A major benefit of quercetin is its ability to inhibit the release of histamine.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Again, you're looking for the level of carbohydrate consumption that will let you keep losing, albeit at a much slower rate. If you overshoot that level and stop losing completely or even start gaining, you drop back down a level. Simple. Atkins stresses the importance of the premaintenance stage, but I imagine it's the one most people resist the most. Here's why: when you're within spitting distance of your goal, you are naturally tempted to keep doing what you're doing until you get there.

Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA See book keywords and concepts

Good foods for vitamin C: most fresh fruits and vegetables, such as apricots, asparagus, cantaloupe, cauliflower, citrus fruits, guava, mango, strawberries, broccoli, mustard greens, and tomato juice. Vitamin E: The Heart and Blood Vessel Helper The Shute brothers, both M.D.s, recommended vitamin E in the 1940s as a prevention against heart disease and were nearly thrown into jail for their trouble. Today, wonder of wonders, we are scientifically proving that vitamin E prevents heart disease.

Most of the immediate allergic reactions to foods happen in children and are outgrown. strawberries, seafood, beans, and milk products are the most common culprits. Delayed allergies are much more difficult to pinpoint. Because symptoms may not occur until days after the food is eaten, the exact cause is not always obvious. Symptoms can include headache, other allergies such as hay fever, stiff achy joints, indigestion, and fatigue.

Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Drop in the remaining strawberries. Chill for 1 hour. (Serves 2 to 4.) Tropical Pudding 6 oz. pineapple 6 oz. apple juice 3 tbsp. honey 2 tbsp. Ener-G-Egg Replacer 2 tbsp. coconut pinch nutmeg 4Vi oz. papaya \¥i oz. pecans 4 oz. mango 4 oz. strawberries 12 oz. apple juice 2 heaping tbsp. agar-agar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 oz. dates, chopped Papaya Brown Rice Pudding 3 oz. brown rice 6 oz. papaya Wi oz. coconut \Vi oz. figs 10 oz. pineapple coconut juice 2 heaping tsp. Ener-G-Egg Replacer 2 oz. blueberries In a medium saucepan, cook brown rice in about 10 oz. of water for 25 minutes.

The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Have fresh fruit. Add strawberries, peaches, or apples to cereal; they're all very low CD. Eating half a pink grapefruit (CD 0.3) provides a big dose of prostate/breast cancer—fighting lycopene. • Frozen berries are fine. They're convenient, relatively inexpensive, and amazingly good for you, as freezing doesn't destroy the acanthocyanid antioxidants. Frozen blueberries (CD 0.5) are our favorite. They can add a big antioxidant bang to your breakfast. Blueberries were even shown to help reverse some signs of memory decline in recent studies. • Go Okinawan.

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Arthur Agatston, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

So first we've got to replace it with strawberries or blueberries or raspberries, all of which go just as nicely with ice cream. Along with the fruit, add some nuts—not the kind drenched in sugary syrup, but raw walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, or peanuts. They're fine for you and add some bulk and good fat. As for the ice cream itself, there's not much you can do. True, it's loaded with sugar, which is no diet's friend. But it's also loaded with fat, meaning that once you eat it your hunger will be satiated.

The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara See book keywords and concepts

Most any type of fruit will work strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, bananas, peaches, apricots, etc. It's best to buy fresh fruit, cut it up, and freeze it until you're ready to make the smoothie. Using frozen fruit will give your smoothie the consistency of a milkshake. You may add a little honey to sweeten it to your satisfaction. This recipe makes 2 cups (16 ounces) which supplies 372 tablespoons of oil. This drink makes a pleasant way to get your daily dose. HOT CEREAL When you make hot cereal like oatmeal, creamed wheat, cracked wheat, and such you can mix into it coconut od.

You may try it on a variety of different fresh fruits such as strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc. A little honey may be added if the fruit isn't sweet enough for your taste. ALLERGIES AND FOOD SENSITIVITIES Coconut products make excellent choices for people with food allergies. While some people can be allergic to most any type of food, relatively few people have allergic reactions to coconut. One of the most common allergy-causing foods is cow's milk. This includes all dairy products—cheese, yogurt, cream, buttermilk, ice cream, butter, etc.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

Demands for strawberries and tomatoes in winter require fruits and vegetables to be imported from warmer countries in Asia, Latin America, and North Africa, where water quality and sanitation facilities do not necessarily meet U.S. standards. An unchlorinated water supply in a developing country is a good reason to avoid eating its vegetables raw, or its fruit unpeeled. Nevertheless, the United States imported nearly $1.4 billion worth of fresh vegetables (asparagus, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and others) from one such country, Mexico, in zooo.

Imported foods have caused notable outbreaks: Hepatitis A from Mexican strawberries, Vibrio from Thai coconut pudding, E. coli 0157^7 from French semisoft cheeses, Staphylococcus from Chinese canned mushrooms. That we do not experience more episodes of illness is nothing less than miraculous, a tribute more to our healthy immune systems, the benefits of cooking and food preservation, and plain good luck than to federal oversight.1 Any system for grappling with the safety of imported food must deal with the usual two agencies, neither with anywhere near the resources required for this task.

The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg See book keywords and concepts

Apples, grapes, cranberries, strawberries, cherries and raspberries will also keep your urine at normal acidity. Distilled water is one of the world's best and purest waters! It is excellent for detoxification and fasting programs and for helping clean out all the cells, organs, and fluids of the body because it can help carry away so many harmful substances! Water from chemically treated public water systems and even from wells and springs is likely to be loaded with poisonous chemicals and toxic trace elements.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

Strawberries for Clean Teeth and Beautiful Skin Nothing else quite cleans the skin so well as strawberries do. A California herbalist I know, Kathi Keville, shared with me her strawberry facial cream: Kathi's Strawberry Facial Cream Needed: 1/2 cup fresh strawberry juice; 1 cup almond oil; 1/2 oz. beeswax; 1 tbsp. lanolin. Melt the beeswax and lanolin into the oil. Cool to body temperature or just a little warmer. Warm the juice to the same temperature and whip the two together until cool. Pour into a jar and let set.

Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work Tanya Harter Pierce See book keywords and concepts

For two-and-one-half years he put about half a cup of cottage cheese and some fruit, such as crushed pineapple or frozen strawberries, mixed with just 2 tablespoons of flaxseed oil and a little honey, in the refrigerator. He ate that throughout the day. When he was first diagnosed, Cliff's PSA count was 75. After just six months of eating the flaxseed oil and cottage cheese on a daily basis, Cliff had another PSA test done. He got a call from his doctor's office the following Monday and the office girl exclaimed, "Mr. Beckwith! Your count is completely normal!" Cliff s PSA was down to 0.1.

Defeating Diabetes Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard See book keywords and concepts

IV2 cups (375 mL) soymilk or skim milk 1 cup (250 mL) strawberries þThursday -1,500 calorie diet IV2 pieces French Toast, p. 204 2 slices veggie "ham" Vz cup (125 mL) Fresh Fruit Sauce, p. 207 3 grains, 3A nut and seed, Va fruit 1 legume Va fruit 4 grains, 1 nut and seed, 1 fruit 11/2 legumes 1 fruit Food Groups IV2 grains, % nut and seed 5 legumes Vz fruit changes for 1,800/2,100 calorie diets 1,800 calories 2 pieces French Toast, p. 204 2 grains, 1 nut and seed 2,100 calories 2 pieces French Toast, p. 204 2 grains, 1 nut and seed 1 cup (250 mL) Fresh Fruit Sauce, p.

The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki See book keywords and concepts

Make fruit salad with cantaloupe, strawberries, kiwis, and bananas. Sprinkle on lemon juice. • Have crepes with fruit (such as strawberries, blueberries, and apples). Add low-fat sour cream or low-fat yogurt. LUNCH • Add some vegetables to your Caesar salad (e.g., tomato, onion, broccoli, celery). • Steam or boil several kinds of vegetables even if you make salad. (You can eat more kinds of vegetables that way.) • Use hummus (garbanzo bean spread, available at groceries in the bread-spread section) as your bread spread instead of trans-fat margarine or saturated-fat butter.

Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C) See book keywords and concepts

Food: almonds, apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, grapes and raisins, nectarines, oranges, peaches, plums and prunes, raspberries, strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes. 2. Flavorings: all artificially flavored foods and drinks. 3. Drinks: all drinks containing alcohol, sugar, additives and caffeine. 4. Drugs: all drugs containing aspirin as well as all perfumes and toothpastes.

Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care Michael T. Murray See book keywords and concepts

Lunch SlimStyles Meal Replacement Formula with 12 to 16 ounces of water, followed by another 8 to 10 ounces of water. Snack 2 medium carrots; 2 celery stalks; or 1 cup of mixed salad greens with 2 teaspoons of olive or flaxseed oil. Before dinner (5 to 15 minutes) 2 to 4 grams of PGX with a large glass of water.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

It also extends shelf life; irradiated strawberries, for example, can last 22 days on the shelf instead of the usual 3 to 5 days.19 Despite such advantages, the process is highly controversial and has been slow to gain acceptance. The very idea of irradiation induces dread and outrage, not least because it involves radiation, a foreign and personally uncontrollable technology. It also cannot guarantee sterility, and it treats rather than prevents safety problems. At best, irradiation is an end-stage technological fix. The controversy is best understood in historical context.

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