Dr. Mary Dan Eades
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 Eating the same amount of calories as fat, but keeping approximately equal portions of polyunsaturated fats (com oil, safflower oil, some vegetable oils) to monounsaturated fats (olive oil, fish oil, evening primrose oil) to saturated fat (butter, milk fat, animal fat) is less damaging. The problem arises because the polyunsaturated oils are chemically unstable, making them easy targets for damage by oxidation. (Refer to the discussion of oxidation in Section I, pages 18-19. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Most of us consume far too many omega-6 fatty acids (from red meat and vegetable oils) and not enough omega-3 fatty acids (from fish, flaxseed, some vegetables). Many experts feel the optimal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids is 4 to 1, while most people are getting these oils in a ratio that's about 20 to 1!
Many diseases are related to essential fatty-acid deficiency. The commercial processing of fats and oils has created an "essential fatty-acid crisis" for industrialized nations. |
Rebecca Wood
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 Unrefined vegetable oils are so fragile that to remain healthful, they demand special processing, handling, and storage.
The same holds true for freshly cooked foods. They impart more energy the day they're prepared rather than the next day—or in the case of packaged foods, the next month or the next year.
Cooked Foods
Historically, people have mainly eaten cooked foods because they are easier to assimilate and therefore more nourishing and energizing. In addition, cooking offers a greater range of sensory pleasures. |
| Favor the more cooling vegetable oils: coconut, corn, and sunflower. Minimize the more warming oils: sesame, peanut, almond, olive, and safflower.
Fruits tend to cool, calm, and harmonize pitta as well as relieve thirst. The fruits to favor are sweet flavored ones. Fruits to minimize are those with a sour flavor: grapefruits, lemons, limes, sour cherries, sour plums, peaches, papayas, and apricots.
Grains are well tolerated by pitta, as they strengthen but do not overheat. This includes quality bread and pasta. |
| Coconut oil, olive oil, and sesame oil are the three best Omega-9 vegetable oils for culinary use because they contain no fragile Omega-3s. While coconut oil withstands higher temperatures, use olive oil and sesame oil only for light sauteing and stir-frying over low to medium heat (325 degrees).
Buying Because EFAs have a limited shelf life and are destroyed by light and heat, take the following precautions. Purchase any oil that contains EFAs in small quantities. Purchase only Omega-3 oils that list their date of manufacture and a "best if used by" date stamped on the container. |
| Vanadium Seaweed, whole grains, vegetable oils, dill, radishes, green beans, and unrefined sea salt.
Zinc Seaweed, whole grains, legumes and beans, nuts, seeds (especially alfalfa and pumpkin), mushrooms, nettles, soybeans, and unrefined sea salt.
Nutraceuticals
Biologically active substances in plants that have pharmaceutically recognized healing properties. Beta carotine is one example of a nutraceutical. There are potentially millions of nutrients with pharmaceutical properties. |
Michael Castleman
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 Like all vegetable oils, olive oil is 100 percent fat, and fat is a prime contributor to heart disease and cancer. So how could olive oil be good for the heart? The reason appears to be that it's neither saturated, like the fats in meats, butter and dairy products, nor polyunsaturated, like the fat in many other oils. It's monounsaturated. Greeks and Italians consume almost as much total fat as Americans do—most of it in the form of olive oil—but have heart disease rates considerably lower than ours.
Dr. Willett believes that Americans should eat like people in those Mediterranean countries. |
| They do not mix with water but mix well with vegetable oils.
Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, from the Latin word for flying. Open a vial of essential oil and some of the molecules fly off as a gas, which is how they get into your nose and smell aromatic.
Plant oils are incredibly concentrated. For a chamomile bath, it might take several handfuls of fresh or dried flowers but only a few drops of chamomile oil. |
Earl Mindell
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 They can:
• help retard atherosclerosis
• lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides
• reduce blood viscosity and help prevent heart attacks and strokes
• keep skin, hair, and nails healthy
• lower blood pressure
• enhance the immune system
• possibly prevent depression
• alleviate rheumatoid arthritis
• help protect the body from lupus erythematosus
• offer protection against migraines and kidney disease
If you're a vegetarian, omega-3 fatty acids can also be found in vegetable oils such as soybean, canola, flaxseed, and hemp—but the conversion to EPA and DHA is much slower. |
Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| It's not hard to get omega-6 fatty acids from other food sources, because it's in red meat and most vegetable oils such as safflower and sunflower. But evening primrose oil does have one other very special constituent, which is the main reason why so many people can benefit from it. This constituent is known as gamma linolenic acid (GLA). In fact, evening primrose seeds yield between 7 and 10 percent GLA. (Other plant sources of GLA include borage and black currant seed.)
GLA is an essential fatty acid that is required for proper brain development and function. |
Earl Mindell
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| Calcium stearate is derived from natural vegetable oils. Silica is a natural white powder. Magnesium stearate can also be used.
Disintegrators Substances such as gum arabic, algin, and alginate are added to the tablet to facilitate its breakup or disintegration after ingestion.
Colors They make the tablet more aesthetic or elegant in appearance. Colors derived from natural sources, like chlorophyll, are best.
Flavors and sweeteners Used only in chewable tablets, the sweeteners are usually fructose (fruit sugar), malt dex-trins, sorbitol, or maltose. |
| Best Natural Sources:
Wheat germ, soybeans, vegetable oils, nuts, brussels sprouts, leafy greens, spinach, enriched flour, whole wheat, whole-grain cereals, and eggs.
Available in oil-base capsules as well as water-dispersible dry tablets.
Usually supplied in strengths from 100-1,500 IU. The dry form is recommended for anyone who cannot tolerate oil or whose skin condition is aggravated by oil. It's also best for people over 40.
Daily doses most often used are 200-1,200 IU.
Toxicity and Warning Signs of Excess:
Essentially nontoxic. (See section 334, "Cautions." |
| This seems to happen when vegetable oils are "hydrogenated" to make them into solid shortenings—a process that, in effect, turns unsaturated fats into saturated ones. I'd suggest you supplement your diet with vitamin E (200-400 IU daily) to help prevent lipid peroxidation (fats rusting in the body); avoid products containing hydrogenated oils; increase your intake of cruciferous vegetables; and switch your polyunsaturated oils for monounsaturated ones, such as olive and canola. |
Thomas Bartram
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 Excess salt leads to retention of fluid in body tissues and adds to work the heart will perform.
DIET - MACROBIOTIC. A plant-based diet with small amounts of poultry, fish or meat for non-vegetarians. A return to the traditional diet of local natural foods as found in some primitive communities and which is believed to increase immunity against degenerative diseases of the civilised world. |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 Men with very low levels of cholesterol (below 160 milliliters per deciliter of blood) have 32 percent higher rates of violent death like suicide and trauma, as well as death of cancer, respiratory and other diseases, and stroke.
6. The original research on cholesterol and coronary heart disease, which caused the outcry against cholesterol in the first place, was found to be flawed, marred by statistical misinterpretation.
Oil Change
That's right —get yourself an oil change. Some fats are healthy; others are not. |
Leo Galland
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 The small amounts of sodium or of trans-fatty acids that occur naturally in food pose no health hazard. It is the addition of sodium chloride to food that raises the sodium concentration to levels that are unsafe for many people. High-sodium foods are those that taste salty or that contain sodium chloride as an ingredient, listed on the food's label. Most trans-fatty acids enter our diets from the addition of partially hydrogenated oils, which are usually listed on the label. |
the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
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 Water-soluble vitamins whole grains, nuts, legumes, pork
2-1/2 cups of cooked black beans or green peas or 5 slices of watermelon dairy, dark leafy greens, whole grains
2 cups of skim milk or 2 cups of raisin bran protein-rich foods, dairy foods, fish, nuts, whole grains
1 can (6 oz.) of light tuna or 4 oz. of chicken breast dark leafy greens, legumes, seeds, enriched breads and cereals
2 cups of cooked black beans or cooked frozen spinach or
A cups of toasted wheat germ meats, fish, dairy foods, eggs
2 cups of low-fat cottage cheese or 1-1/2 oz. of salmon
B6
(Pyridoxine)
1.5 mg
1. |
Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D.
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 Ginkgo biloba extract (24% ginkgo heterosides) 40 mg thrice daily and Blueberry extract (25% anthocyanidins) 100?50 mg thrice daily; Beta carotene, vits C, E, and selenium, and lutein; antioxidant enzymes (SOD, glutathione, etc); Hmp: Syphilinum.
Manic Depressive Disorder (see Bipolar Disorder).
Mastitis: Continue nursing, or pump breast; Hmp: Phytolac 30C or 200C, sometimes Belladonna 30C; Hrbl: also Phytolac (Poke Root) as poultice or internally in small doses (e.g., MT 10?0 drops 3? |
David Brownstein
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 Trans-fatty acids (e.g., margarine, candy, bakery products, french fries, peanut butter, etc)
Over 30 years ago, Dr. Barnes (recalled from Chapter 2) recognized the importance of adequate amounts of fat in the diet. Dr. Barnes knew that fat was a vitally important nutrient for a properly functioning thyroid gland. Dr. Barnes described how a diet low in fat would often produce symptoms of hypothyroidism.6
It has been my experience that inadequate intake of the good fats will result in thyroid abnormalities, including hypothyroidism. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
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 Mineral oil or vegetable oil right from the pantry will do the same job and lessen the chances of allergic contact dermatitis. If you suspect the product is causing a rash, check the ingredients on the label and see if they may be allergens for your child. Take the information to your physician, who can make a definitive diagnosis. BABY POWDER • Soothes, dries, and protects baby skin from irritation. Usually contains talc, kaolin, zinc oxide, starch, magnesium carbonate (see all), perfume oil, and—although there have been repeated warnings against it—boric acid (see). |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 Protein
Dried beans and peas (also poultry considered complex lean red meats carbohydrates) low-fat dairy products fish eggs
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This is all well and good, but many of you may not be that familiar with which foods are high in carbohydrate, protein, and fat—or the essential vitamins and minerals you need in your diet. We devised the following Food Group lists and Daily Calorie Goal charts with several purposes in mind. First, they give you a game plan for deciding what you should eat every day in a way that apportions calories properly among the three major classes of nutrients. |
David Brownstein
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 Fats, like all substances, can have good and bad properties. "Good" fats provide the body with healing nutrients and help the cells of the body maintain their integrity. They are found in whole foods and are necessary for healing and the promotion of optimal health. "Bad" fats poison the cells of the body and cause nutrient deficiencies, particularly deficiencies of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. "Bad" fats are found in hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids.
Fat is found in both animal and vegetables sources. Fat has a higher energy content than either proteins or carbohydrates. |
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