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The Super Anti-Oxidants: Why They Will Change the Face of Healthcare in the 21st Century James F. Balch, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The best sources of vitamin c are tropical fruits, such as papaya and kiwi, but the more readily available citrus fruits, like grapefruits and oranges, are good sources of vitamin C as well. Perhaps because of vitamin E's reputation of increasing sexual stamina, some people literally go "nuts" for it. All kinds of nuts, but especially almonds, are an excellent source of vitamin E, as are sunflower seeds. Cooking oils contain even more of this essential vitamin than nuts, but they are high in calories, and too much too often can lead to or add to a weight problem.

Prevention's New Foods for Healing: Capture the Powerful Cures of More Than 100 Common Foods Prevention Magazine See book keywords and concepts

While dozens of tropical fruits are grown worldwide, the ones you're most likely to find in this country are mangoes, papayas, and guavas. Mango Magic You don't really chew a mango—you slurp it up. But even though this exceedingly juicy fruit, which tastes like peach and pineapple mixed together, only sweeter, is messy to eat, it's well worth the effort. Mangoes, like many fruits, contain large amounts of vitamin C. What makes them really special is that they also contain a lot of beta-carotene.

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Most summer and tropical fruits are cooling and refreshing. When eaten in winter, they may cause coldness and weakness, unless eaten by people with excess heat signs. Fall fruits that store, such as apples and dried fruit, are more suited to the winter. • When fruits are juiced, their cooling and cleansing properties are concentrated. The juice is the cleansing/eliminating part of fruit; the relatively more building and warming parts are the rinds, skins, peels, pulpy sections, as well as seeds of fruit like papaya, watermelon, and other melons. Eat some of all parts for greater stamina.

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A lot of tropical fruits are very tasty and full of electrolytes and water," she says. They include mangoes, papayas, guavas, bananas, and pineapple. HOMEOPATHY: Cool Your Symptoms with Glonoinum This cooling remedy is for people with heat exhaustion who have a "throbbing, bursting headache" and a "glowing red face," says Dr. Yates. She recommends dissolving two pellets of 12C potency Glonoinum under your tongue every 15 minutes. If you don't feel better after two doses, see a doctor. If you do improve, take two pellets every 3 to 4 hours for the rest of the day.

Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding Phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Papayas Papayas are tropical fruits that are the sole source of the protein-digesting enzyme papain. They also contain some beta-carotene and ascorbic acid. Papain is useful for improving digestion. Parsley Parsley is a member of the umbelliferous group of plants, whose leaves are graceful and umbrellalike. There are over thirty varieties of parsley. The word "parsley" is from the ancient Greek, meaning celery growing among the rocks. It is hardy and easy to grow and about as useful and as versatile as one can expect a plant to be.

Pineapples Pineapples are tropical fruits that are fair sources of ascorbic acid and beta-carotene; however, they are very rich in the protein-digesting enzyme bromelain. Bromelain taken from the fruit of the pineapple has the ability to increase the action of antibiotics when taken simultaneously with them.

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Although vitamin C supplements can easily boost your intake, eating vitamin C-rich foods such as citrus fruits and other tropical fruits, broccoli and brussels sprouts provides additional cancer protection with nutrients such as folate (the naturally occurring form of folic acid), beta-carotene, bioflavonoids and fiber. In fact, evidence of anti-cancer activity is considerably stronger for vitamin C-rich fruits and vegetables than for vitamin C itself.

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Keep them cool, not cold. When tropical fruits need a little time to ripen, it's best to store them in a cool, dry place. But don't put them in the refrigerator, since cold literally kills the flavor. Find the right combination. Fruit salads, yes, gelatin salads, no. It's not a good idea to combine raw papaya or pineapple with gelatin. The enzymes in the raw fruit will break down the protein in the gelatin and keep it from setting. fects of harmful oxygen molecules called free radicals. This is important because free radicals can damage healthy tissues throughout the body.

The Complete Book of Alternative Nutrition Selene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books See book keywords and concepts

Foods to Avoid The following foods are considered too yin, or stimulating, and should be avoided. • tropical fruits such as bananas, coconuts, figs, kiwifruits, mangoes and papayas. • Tropical-origin and "nightshade" vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, asparagus, spinach and avocado. • Dairy foods such as butter, cheese, cream, ice cream, milk and yogurt. • Sweeteners such as corn syrup, honey, molasses, saccharin, refined sugar, chocolate, molasses and foods containing these ingredients. • Alcohol. • Spices such as mustard, pepper and curry.

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Other excellent sources include citrus and tropical fruits, broccoli, and sweet peppers. Dental Health A Tooth-Protection Plan f Lven though teeth are hard and bonelike, they re very much alive. Like your skin, muscles, or any other part of your body, they must be well-nourished to stay healthy. "In fact, selecting nutritious foods is probably as important as staying away from cavity-causing foods," says Dominick DePaola, D.D.S., Ph.D., president of Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas.

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Here are two exotic tropical fruits that you might want to try as you're expanding your fresh-food diet. Carambola. Also known as star-fruit, carambola has an oval shape and four to six prominent ribs. Slice it crosswise and you'll have a handful of star-shaped pieces to spice up your next fruit or vegetable salad. Carambola has a sweet, complex flavor that some describe as a blend of grape, apple and grapefruit. Carambola is delicious added to a stir-fry or whipped into a mousse or sorbet for dessert, but it's also tasty all by itself. You don't even have to peel it!

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Waxed produce should be peeled before juicing, as should tropical fruits, which often are grown in countries where the use of pesticides isn't well-regulated. Remove the pits and seeds. Apple seeds, which contain trace amounts of cyanide, should be removed before juicing. Seeds in melons, lemons, and limes and pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruits should also be removed. Grape seeds are safe, however, and can be placed in the juicer along with the fruit. Use the whole vegetable. Most vegetables can be juiced in their entirety—leaves, stems, and all.

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

Papayas, Mangos, Bananas Exotic and super-sweet, tropical fruits have many anti-aging benefits. Bananas are full of magnesium, a compound shown to protect circulatory function. Eating a banana a day is also a great way to get pectin, a water-soluble fiber which can help prevent hypoglycemia and blood-sugar swings. Papayas are loaded with enzymes which can help increase the rate of metabolic action in the body. These enzymes help the body fight off infections, while strengthening the immune system and reducing the effects of allergies.

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EXPANSIVE/CONTRACTIVE FOODS EXPANSIVE Drugs Alcohol Fruit juices Aromatic herb teas Vegetable juices Tea/coffee Sugar Spices Fats and oils tropical fruits Temperate fruits Sprouts/lettuce Fast-growing vegetables Tubers Bitter greens Sea vegetables Winter squashes Roots Nuts Beans Grains Fish Fowl Beef Eggs Tamari Miso Salt CONTRACTIVE Adapted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., from Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin. Copyright © 1986 by Annemarie Colbin.

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Bananas and other tropical fruits should be eaten in moderation by those sensitive to sugar, since their sugar content is higher. Similarly, dried fruits, including figs, prunes, raisins, dates, apricots, pears, and apples contain three times the sugar dose of fresh fruit; like refined sugar, they are highly concentrated carbohydrates, which should only be eaten occasionally Hypoglycemics and diabetics should take special note of this precaution. Eating too much fruit can add extra calories, but as long as you don't eat fatty foods as well, fruit will not make you fat.

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In the tropics, for instance, people on a macrobiotic diet can eat more tropical fruits as well as spices, herbs and herbal teas, which cool the body, says Kushi. In polar regions, people who follow macrobiotics may eat warming, yang foods, like fish and other seafood. Even if you live in a temperate zone like the United States, you should make minor adjustments to eat with the seasons, says Kushi. He recommends eating lighter, cooler foods in the spring and summer months and heavier, warmer foods in fall and winter.

I'm certainly skeptical about some of the things macrobiotics are opposed to, like eating tropical fruits," he says. "But the low-fat recommendations are right on the money. And my symptoms are gone, so I'm not going to start experimenting with the other aspects of the diet just to see whether or not they're correct." Combating Cancer Although major medical organizations like the National Cancer Institute concede that dietary measures may be helpful in the prevention of cancer, treating cancer with diet is not accepted in modern medical circles.

For fall and winter eating, replace the cooling tropical fruits and green salads with hearty soups and cooked autumn vegetables like yams and black beans. You can find foods like seaweed and soy milk in natural food stores.The following dietary recommendations are from The Tao of Nutrition by Maoshing l\li, Ph.D., and Cathy McNease.

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Store them carefully. tropical fruits that are exposed to air and sunlight will quickly give up their vitamin C. Keeping the fruits in a cool, dark place will help keep them fresh while preserving this vital nutrient. rriANGO-Papaya Salad 2 ripe medium mangoes Slice through the mangoes on all sides of 1 ripe medium papaya the pit to remove the flesh. Cut the flesh 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice into strips, then run a knife between the ... flesh and the peel to remove the peel. 1 teaspoon vanilla _. . , , , Discard the peel and cut the mango into Va teaspoon ground allspice V2" pieces.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Juices John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

When juicing any of the tropical fruits, such as papaya, passion fruit, pineapple, and mango, be sure to add a tiny piece the size of your small fingernail of habanero or jalapeno during the juicing process and not afterwards! Mixing a little crushed ice in with these fruit and chile juices in order to make a more smooth, milkshake-like drink is very helpful in reducing the fieriness of the peppers. With respect to the chiles, a word ought to be said about their strong hypoglycemic properties.

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Sugar, honey, and other sweeteners as well as soft drinks and other foods and beverages treated with sugar are also to be avoided. tropical fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables such as potato, yam, sweet potato, asparagus, tomato and eggplant should not be consumed. Because they are excessively mucus-producing, all flour products are to be avoided except for occasional consumption of nonyeasted unleavened whole-wheat or rye bread. Chemicalized and artificially produced and treated foods and beverages are to be completely eliminated.

Sugar Blues William Duffy See book keywords and concepts

Many fruits, especially sugar rich tropical fruits, make me sleepy. Honey can do the same thing. I know a Japanese lady who, when she came to the U.S. for the first time, had never tasted sugar in her life. When a kind soul gave her a loaf of whole wheat bread as a gift, she ate some and promptly went to sleep and missed her plane. The bread had been made with honey—that was enough to do it For highway safety, Dr. Roberts suggests that drivers avoid glucose and sucrose. In other words, if you want to get there and back, travel sugarfree.

Tomatoes and avocados are tropical fruits. I do not use them in salads at all. If you are in the tropics and want an avocado, I found the best to do is eat it all by itself, with a little soy sauce or tamari. Tomatoes and potatoes I skip altogether. You can make a potato salad with pressed vegetables, using them in the same way you use whole wheat or buckwheat pasta. Buckwheat pasta, by the way, is a Japanese delicacy called soba, not much appreciated in America. Buckwheat is full of rutin—the stuff one pays an arm and a leg for when buying vitamin pills.

Of course, one can buy dried bananas and pineapples but I have learned to leave tropical fruits to the tropics and concentrate on native fruits. What's natural for the Eskimo is different from what's natural for the Fiji Islander, right? Try the marvelous dried and salted Japanese plum, the umebosbi. It's virtually unknown in this country outside Japanese stores. Used traditionally in Japanese herbal medicine, umebosbi is also a great ally in the kitchen, especially with other dried fruit. Drying fruit in season to keep it for the long winter months is an old custom.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

Examples of such foods are seaweed, garlic, radishes, watercress, seafood, egg yolks, raw milk products (kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese), wheat germ, brewer's yeast, mushrooms, organic beef or poultry, amaranth, quinoa, seeds, sprouted beans, watermelon, tropical fruits and fruit juices, and coconut oil.

Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts and Seeds for Healthful Living Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

It is esteemed as one of the most delicious tropical fruits. Nutritive values: Vitamin A: 6,350 I.U. per 100 gm. Fat: .2 gm. Vitamin B: Thiamine .06 mg.; Calcium: 9 mg. Riboflavin .06 mg.; Niacin .9 mg. Iron: .2 mg. Vitamin C: 41 mg. Phosphorus: 13 mg. Protein: .7 gm. Calories: 66 Reported health benefits: This fruit is reported to be beneficial for inflammation of the kidneys (nephritis) as well as for other kidney ailments. This fruit is also valuable to combat acidity and poor digestion. It has also been found to be helpful in reducing fevers and for respiratory ailments.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

DRY EXPANSIVE umgs Alcohol Fruit juices Aromatic herb teas Vegetable juices Tea/Coffee Sugar Spices Fats and oils tropical fruits Temperate fruits Sprouts/lettuce Fast-growing vegetables Tubers Bitter greens Sea vegetables Winter squashes Roots Nuts Beans Grains Fish Fowl Beef Eggs Tamari Miso CONTRACTIVE Salt Each category also has its graduations, and sometimes more expansive foods of one category are on the same level as more contractive ones of another. For example, although plant foods are more expansive than animal foods generally, some fish can be more expansive than cooked grains.

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

MANGO (See tropical fruits.) MARIGOLD (See ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS.) MARJORAM AND OREGANO (Origanum majorana, 0. vulgare) Brief Description Sweet marjoram is a tender, bushy perennial herb with woolly-hairy leaves, which gets up to 1 1/2 feet in height. The herb is native to the Mediterranean countries, but is cultivated as an annual in colder climates. The dried flowering herb yields a faint sage-like odor and leaves a slightly minty aftertaste in the mouth.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

He suggested people completely avoid meat, sugar, dairy, white flour, canned foods, artificial additives, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, coffee, and tropical fruits, and adopt instead a diet based on whole grains, beans, soy products, and fresh vegetables. Yet many who followed his recommendations healed themselves of all manner of illnesses, including hemorrhoids, skin rashes, acne, dandruff, asthma, and even (in a case well known to me, where radiation treatment had already failed) Hodgkin's disease.

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

Guavas are small, thin-skinned tropical fruits. They are often processed into jellies, jams and preserves, but they can also be consumed fresh. The fruits are round to pear-shaped, usually less than 3 inches in diameter, with green or bright-yellow skins; some have a reddish blush. Ripe guavas have a musky, pungent odor. They contain small, hard seeds that may irritate the throat, but some of the newer varieties are relatively free from seeds. Guavas are sensitive to frost, which explains why the majority of them grown in this country are found only in California and Florida. MANGO.

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