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 Tomorrow, the FDA could announce that "pasteurization" will suddenly mean jumping up and down barefoot on fresh produce with your tongue stuck frozen to a chilled flagpole, in which case all the food companies in the United States would suddenly have to comply. But for today, pasteurization has been announced by the FDA to mean the bombarding of food matter with high energy radiation. If this all seems rather extraneous, that's because it is. Pasteurization could just as easily be declared next week to be the soaking of fresh produce in moose drool. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid all processed foods, period (no factory-made products)
Eat fresh produce: Veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds
Eat superfoods and juice your produce on a regular basis
That's the recipe for lasting weight loss. You certainly don't lose weight by eating pizza, ice cream and burgers. You do it by eating fresh produce and avoiding processed foods and animal products.
The title of this article is completely nonsensical to begin with: "Bad foods that are actually great for your waist." How can foods that are bad somehow magically be great for your waist? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I soak up the sun's rays for many hours each week, and I never get a sun burn because I eat lots of antioxidant-rich superfoods, berries and fresh produce.
I drink a raw superfood smoothie each morning, made of fresh produce and superfoods. My two favorite recipes are chocolate (with raw cacao, coconut oil or macadamia nut oil, raw avocado, spirulina, quinoa, banana and almond milk) and super berry (fresh berries, freeze-dried berries, egg white protein, stevia, aloe vera gel, fresh cucumber or watermelon, celery). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But if you're in the right city and you're at the right store, you have a fantastic selection of fresh produce in this country.
Stores like Wild Oats and Whole Foods deserve praise for providing healthy, fresh produce on a daily basis at reasonable prices. It's really one of the modern miracles of civilization that we can walk into a store and purchase bananas or lychee fruit or any of the other exotic fruits that wouldn't be available if we were limited to buying fruits found locally. (At the same time, I always support buying locally when possible, through food coops and farmers' markets. |
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 Hopefully, YOU own shares in Whole Foods, and you're earning some dividends off my repeat purchase of fresh produce priced like gold. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People are figuring out that pharmaceuticals are dangerous and that eating fresh produce is actually good for you. Even mainstream cereal companies are going whole-grain, and more and more food and beverage companies are releasing nutritious products that lack the dangerous chemicals we've covered here on NewsTarget. (Heck, even Coca-Cola is coming out with a new product called Diet Coke Plus, which is made with -- get this -- aspartame and supplemental vitamins and minerals. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 If it's difficult to get fresh produce, or if certain choices are out of season in your area, in many instances you'll be able to substitute frozen and canned foods. And of course you'll be buying foods you like! One of the great appeals of the SuperFoods concept is that each SuperFood has sidekicks that give you a range of choices. Unlike many diets, you aren't locked in to particular foods; you'll have a delicious range of choices. |
| Tip: Mango purchased in a jar in the fresh produce section is a quick and easy way to keep mango on hand. grain, vegetarian. |
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| I drink a raw superfood smoothie each morning, made of fresh produce and superfoods. My two favorite recipes are chocolate (with raw cacao, coconut oil or macadamia nut oil, raw avocado, spirulina, quinoa, banana and almond milk) and super berry (fresh berries, freeze-dried berries, egg white protein, stevia, aloe vera gel, fresh cucumber or watermelon, celery).
I put no personal care products on my skin whatsoever: No deodorants, no fragrance, no skin creams, no cosmetics and no sunscreen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we passed this law, freaked-out consumers would flock to the fresh produce section and begin buying up fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and other non-processed foods. And that, of course, might accidentally make them healthier.
#11 Outlaw cancer-causing chemicals and fragrances in personal care products
Here's an obvious one: Let's make it illegal for personal care product manufacturers to poison their customers. This can be easily accomplished by outlawing the use of toxic liver-damaging or cancer-causing chemicals now used throughout the cosmetics and personal care industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The unit actually comes with a plate upon which you can place a cup of water, fresh produce, or even an entire meal, and then tune that food to the vibrational frequencies emitted by the machine. We know that food has a vibration, and we also know there is a big difference in the healing qualities of low-vibration food and high-vibration food. |
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| Pasteurization could just as easily be declared next week to be the soaking of fresh produce in moose drool.
Again, please disregard the definitions of all words in the English language. Words are meaningless now in the food and drug industries. They only mean what their promoters want them to mean. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Many Americans do not eat enough fresh produce to meet these RDAs. Scurvy will not normally develop unless vitamin C intake falls below 10 mg per day for a month or more. The minimum vitamin C intake to maintain normal metabolism is 30 mg daily. Even though clinical scurvy may not develop, many other important body functions may be limited if vitamin C intake is low.
Optimal amounts for disease prevention of the ascorbated form of vitamin C range from 200 mg to 2 grams daily. |
| There are many other excellent nutrients in fresh produce that may contribute to fewer colds. Vitamin C taken as a supplement in doses totaling one gram or more daily has been correlated with lessened severity and slightly shorter duration of colds in some studies.
To fight infections, immune system phagocytes release oxidizing agents to kill viruses and bacteria. These oxidizing agents can also be harmful to our own cells.
Vitamin C, in its role as an antioxidant, protects our cells against the free radicals released by phagocytes. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The action of the acid kills many of the harmful microbes and parasites that are naturally present in fresh produce, meat, fish, dairy products and other foods. The hydrochloric acid also breaks down some of the harmful substances that may accompany the food, such as certain food additives or chemicals. Special enzymes begin to act upon proteins that may be present in the food. Once saturated with enough acid, the food is forced in small jets into the duodenum. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Unlike the meat, egg, milk, and processed-food industries, the fresh produce industry is not regulated or monitored for safety by government agencies.
Food-borne illnesses have been linked to developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, the worsening of Crohn's disease, and sparking autoimmune disease flares. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| You should always thoroughly wash fresh produce before eating it, but doing so doesn't guarantee you will be able to completely eliminate all the toxic pesticides. The same applies for peeling—it can help reduce the amount of toxins to which your body is exposed, but even this doesn't make food 100% safe. Also, the skin stores a large percentage of the nutrients in many fruits, so peeling them to eat just the interior portion greatly reduces their nutritional value.
How Do Meat and Dairy Cause a Toxic Colon?
If left alone in their natural state, meat and milk are not necessarily bad. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to them, sunlight is useless for human health, nutritional supplements have no impact on health, stress reduction through relaxation exercises is some sort of senseless voodoo and eating 100 calories of fresh produce has exactly the same effect on your health as drinking 100 calories of a sugared-up soda (to them, a calorie is a calorie, regardless of its source). Oh yeah, and they also say aspartame and fluoride are completely safe to swallow in unlimited lifetime quantities, with zero negative health effects. |
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| You do it by eating fresh produce and avoiding processed foods and animal products.
The title of this article is completely nonsensical to begin with: "Bad foods that are actually great for your waist." How can foods that are bad somehow magically be great for your waist? This article implies that these junk foods will result in a reduction of your waist size. And yet any person with even an inkling of nutritional knowledge knows that the foods recommended in the article actually increase your waist size. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 She began avoiding salt, cheese, and grains and ate more fresh produce and lean protein.
Three months later, with a new vitamin D level of 48, Katie had lowered her MHAQ scores to 0-0-35-25-7. She now had only a couple of minutes of stiffness in the morning; her weight was 196 pounds. She was functioning normally, and most of her pain had disappeared. She slept better, and the stiffness had resolved. Overall, she felt 50 percent better.
Six months into the program, with a D level of 70, Katie scored 0-0-20-0-6. She weighed 189 pounds; her function was normal; and she had no pain. |
| With lean meat and fresh produce, we can do this in smaller caloric packages than with grains and dairy.
When you starve yourself to a lower weight, you lose fat, bone, and muscle in the process. Increasing lean fat-burning muscle mass is essential to fitness. When you exercise to lose fat and lose weight, you also gain muscle and bone.
Osteoarthritis is a disease of age and wear-and-tear.
Osteoarthritis is a disease of bone remodeling caused by vitamin D deficiency and dietary acid excess. |
| Eat fresh produce and lean protein in a 3:1 ratio.
She improved her diet, took supplements, and when we saw her three months later, she posted great results. Her scores were 0.25-35-25-25-9, and her stiffness had gone from an all-day event to two hours per day. At her six-month follow-up visit, she scored 0.25-25-25-15-8 and reported only one hour of morning stiffness.
Her relief from pain had improved by more than 60 percent, her fatigue by more than 60 percent, and her sleep quality by 70 percent. |
| Consume three times as much fresh produce as lean meat by weight (3:1 produce to protein).
By lean protein we mean lean animal protein. This includes grass-fed beef, pork tenderloin; seafood (all kinds, but especially those high in omega-3 fat); boneless, skinless poultry; game meat; and, to a lesser extent, omega eggs (these are eggs labeled "higher in omega-3" because the hens get better feed).
The word "lean" means meat with little or no saturated fat, and the animals the meat comes from should be on a vegetarian diet (grass and clover)—not grain! |
| But from winter into early spring, vitamin D levels fall at the same time that you eat less fresh produce, and that makes your serotonin metabolism less efficient. All of these things depress mood.
In fact, study participants who had traditional broad-spectrum light therapy raised their vitamin D levels only by half as much and didn't reduce their depression at all. So vitamin D replacement is more effective than light therapy for the treatment of seasonal affective disorder. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm drinking five quarts of juice a day, which means I'm drinking thousands of phytonutrients from about five pounds of fresh produce every single day. That means I'm bathing my body's cells in the most powerful disease reversing medicine in the universe. While the USDA recommends that Americans get 3 servings a day of vegetables (and that can include dead, cooked or pasteurized vegetables), I'm getting an incredible TEN servings a day (at least!) of RAW, fresh vegetables. And on top of that, I'm getting at least FIVE servings a day of raw, fresh berries and disease-reversing fruits. |
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 Added to this is the fact that most consumers simply don't eat sufficient quantities of fresh produce in their diets, so experiencing a fruit flush diet for a few days is an excellent way to boost your fruit intake and help nourish your body using nature's best options.
In fact, some people eat only fruit. They're known as fruitarians (click here for the Wikipedia entry) and while every fruitarian follows a slightly different diet pattern (some eat nuts and seeds, too), they all based their diets on fruit. And the fruitarians I've known look and feel fantastic! |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Try shopping the perimeter of a grocery store, as this is where the fresh produce, meats, and dairy will be. You will be avoiding most of the processed and refined products that are generally located in interior aisles of grocery stores. Watch out for prepackaged food products tucked in the perimeter and screaming "simple and easy." Most packaged food items, especially those targeted toward our children, are filled with preservatives, chemical additives, and coloring agents which research has shown contribute to attention deficit problems. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Urban farms not only deliver fresh produce to urban consumers the same day it is harvested, with lower transportation costs and the use of far less water and fertilizer, they can absorb a significant amount of solid and liquid waste, reducing urban waste disposal problems and costs. Eventually it may well be worth reconfiguring the downstteam end of modern sewage systems to close the loop on nutrient cycling by teturning the waste from livestock and people back to the soil. As archaic as it may sound, someday our collective well-being is likely to depend on it. |
David Steinman
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 Buckles handed me several more containers, including packaging perishables for the natural supermarket giant Wild Oats is using for fresh produce and perishables. These "corntainers" are also being used now by the leading French hypermarket chain Auchan, which recently introduced fresh salads packaged in the containers at all of its 116 stores throughout the country. The company has positioned itself as more than just a retailer, adopting a "quality-driven philosophy geared toward improving its customers' quality of life. |
| As most of us ought to know, Mom was right when she told us to eat our vegetables, for a varied diet of fresh produce makes for good health. Eating well would do wonders for lowering health care costs, too.
The fact is that organic foods are a whole lot easier and less expensive than you might think. To prove this point, we sent one of our top reporters at The Doctors' Prescription for Healthy Living out to do a shopping survey in which she bought conventional and certified organic foods, orange for orange, apple for apple. |
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