Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And yet we live in a nation that's focused on drugs, and not focused on healing foods. If we would just turn to the healing foods, we could solve this health problem and return to a national state of outstanding health, with a shocking drop in health care costs to boot. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have since built exactly such a series of websites, and they're going to be launching in a few days.
HealingFoodReference.com lists all the top healing foods along with the diseases or disorders they may help. It also lists the nutrients found in each food and which body systems may be helped (like the immune system or circulatory system). You can search for healing foods by food name or by disease name (like "osteoporosis").
HerbReference.com lists medicinal herbs and their uses, covering Amazon herbs, Western herbs, Chinese herbs and even medicinal mushrooms from Japan. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All of this also goes to show why people who pursue healthy diets tend to have such a positive outlook and outstanding mental health -- it's the foods, stupid, because the food greatly affects your mental state, and if you eat healing foods, and foods rich in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, then you're going to have healthy mental function and will probably never experience depression, especially if you combine these foods with natural sunlight. |
| So it's time, I suggest, that doctors stop prescribing drugs when there are healing foods that do a better job. They should tell patients to start changing their diets, tell patients to eat some molasses and avoid processed foods. They should teach people to eat some raw nuts, including cashews, peanuts, and macadamia nuts. This will turn around the health of our country. But of course, that would require that we actually educate doctors about nutrition, and so far that hasn't happened in this country. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The following chapters explain the recommendations of the Optimal Health Food Pyramid in depth and more clearly define the benefits, features, and importance of consuming healing foods.
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Designing a Healthy Diet
Diet is fundamental to good health, yet few Americans really spend much thought or time on designing a diet that will promote health. Far too many people have fallen prey to the comforts of modern life, with its physical inactivity and reliance on foods that provide temporary sensory gratification at the expense of true nourishment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So let's get some healing foods into the mouths of people around this country. Let's try to reach for a 75% sanity rate, and then maybe we can make some good, democratic decisions about the future direction of this country. Let's get people off of these antidepressant drugs, let's end the massacres in the public schools, let's end the violence and the suicides associated with these drugs, let's get people onto healthy foods, and bring back the kind of friendly neighbor attitude we had in this country 50 years ago. |
| They don't need these drugs -- what they really need are just healing foods. They need to go to the grocery store, shop for some healthy foods like wheat germ, molasses, avocados, and so on, and eat those foods in order to have healthy brain balance and avoid depression. It's really not that difficult.
What else is exciting here is that we're seeing yet more benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. These omega-3 oils are almost miracle-class healing nutrients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It also lists the nutrients found in each food and which body systems may be helped (like the immune system or circulatory system). You can search for healing foods by food name or by disease name (like "osteoporosis").
HerbReference.com lists medicinal herbs and their uses, covering Amazon herbs, Western herbs, Chinese herbs and even medicinal mushrooms from Japan.
NutrientReference.com is a reference database of healing nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and phytonutrients like anthocyanins or saponins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Frankly, it would be a much more effective public service message to run some ads and tell people about the wonderful cholesterol-lowering effects of blueberries, almonds, or any of the other healing foods. But that's not what you hear in this country, because that's a message that really doesn’t serve the financial interests of any company. It only helps individuals, and it's frankly not in the financial interests of large companies to make individuals healthier.
Public health isn't the goal of the pharmaceutical industry - the goal is to sell more drugs. |
| Using nothing but healing foods and nutritional supplements combined with regular exercise and frequent doses of natural sunlight, I've been able to achieve a total cholesterol level of 129, with an LDL level of 67 and an HDL level of 62. If you ask any cardiologist, he or she will tell you that these are phenomenal numbers - that a person who shows this ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol has a near-zero chance of having a heart attack or suffering from cardiovascular disease. |
| If we would just turn to the healing foods, we could solve this health problem and return to a national state of outstanding health, with a shocking drop in health care costs to boot. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But what healing foods in particular are we talking about in this study? In addition to the omega-3 fatty acids, these health enhancing substances are found in walnuts, molasses, and fish, according to researchers. They're also found in many other foods.
It's especially interesting to note that molasses is included in this list, because molasses is produced as a waste product from the sugar refining industry. |
| It's really no big mystery -- what we need to do as a nation is simply get back to our healing foods as they come out of the ground, as they are provided by mother nature. We need to recognize the disease-promoting problems with processed and manufactured foods, everything from carbonated soft drinks to packaged instant rice products. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| With that goal in mind, we offer you The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods: A Comprehensive Guide to the Healing Power of Nature's Best Medicine.
May you live in good health, with passion and joy!
Michael T. Murray, N.D. Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. Lara Pizzorno, M.A., L.M.T.
PART
Basic Principles of a Good Diet
Human Nutrition:
An Evolutionary Perspective
In order to answer the question "What is a healthy diet?" it is important to first take a look at what our body is designed for. Is the human body designed to eat plant foods, animal foods, or both? |
| The Encyclopedia of healing foods provides a compendium of foods and dietary strategies for the prevention of cancer. Our goal for the entry here is to stress the importance of high-quality nutrition and offer some suggestions for dealing with some of the nutritional challenges seen in cancer patients. The bottom line is that cancer patients who have higher nutritional status are not only more likely to fight off infections and tolerate therapy and its side effects, they also have better odds of actually winning the battle. |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
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 As you will discover in The healing foods, lots of other foods also show health-boosting potential. If this carries a ring of "boring diet," allay your fears-immediately! We, too, have had our fill of rigid diets. This book is designed to give you choices. The key is flexibility.
A Prime Example
How can healing foods benefit you? Well, perhaps your blood cholesterol level is too high. Lowering it would do much for your health. But the standard cholesterol-lowering diet, with strict limits on meat and milk fats, may not appeal to your palate at all. If so, rest assured that you are not alone. |
Andreas Moritz
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 I have discussed a number of such healing foods and herbs in Chapter 7. When choosing the right healing foods for you, please refer to the food lists shown in Chapter 6. Foods that harmonize with one's body type have the most healing properties, whereas foods that aren't in harmony may actually interfere with the body's own effort to restore health and vitality.
Overcoming Heart Disease—Two Encouraging Stories
Over the years I have seen hundreds of patients with "heart" conditions that, in fact, were not heart conditions at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm always humbled by nature, and it will be a great honor to be part of bringing you this next round of macro photos of healing foods and plants. I can't wait to fill my kitchen with the smell of citrus and broadcast healing images of Mother Nature's healing foods! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Through the power of healing foods and botanical medicine, both have revolutionized their own personal health and become living examples of the power of foods, superfoods and medicinal herbs to literally reverse chronic disease and restore maximum health. Now, they are both "Juice Feasters," meaning they drink around five quarts of raw, freshly-made vegetable and fruit juices on a daily basis. "I'm astonished and excited about the health benefits I'm personally experiencing from Juice Feasting," said Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why the FDA censors the truth about healing foods and supplements
Current FDA regulations do not allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to make any true statements about the health benefits of their products. Companies that sell vitamin C, for example, cannot claim vitamin C cures scurvy without being threatened, raided at gunpoint and having their inventory confiscated by the Food and Drug Administration. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are increasingly getting behind plant-based medicines and even suggesting their patients start changing their dietary habits to eat these miraculous healing foods.
The USDA is starting to catch up on nutritional science, too
Still skeptical that plant medicines are the future of safe, effective medicine? Even the USDA has some intelligent things to say about nutrition these days (I know, don't be so shocked!). |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
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| A Prime Example
How can healing foods benefit you? Well, perhaps your blood cholesterol level is too high. Lowering it would do much for your health. But the standard cholesterol-lowering diet, with strict limits on meat and milk fats, may not appeal to your palate at all. If so, rest assured that you are not alone. For as much as we realize that cutting back on meat and milk fats does lower cholesterol, we also know that this method is often an unoooular one. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 New investigative photography projects will be published soon on healing foods, grocery products to avoid and other educational topics.
The new "Guess This Meat" video can be viewed on YouTube at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OI77zi-AKhg
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I can't wait to fill my kitchen with the smell of citrus and broadcast healing images of Mother Nature's healing foods! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After reviewing hundreds of health product companies over the last few years, it is truly delightful to discover Empowered Foods and their unique approaches to joyful, healing foods. All citizens on planet Earth should be lucky enough to taste this chocolate someday, but alas, there isn't enough to go around. Not yet, anyway. Help Empowered Foods grow and maybe someday they can actually make enough of this super healing chocolate food to give everybody a taste.
Get your own supply by ordering at www.EmpoweredFoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How much can healing foods and a healing lifestyle change you in terms of blood chemistry? As you may know, I posted my own blood chemistry results at www.HealthRanger.org to prove a point on this. By consuming a healthful diet based on an organic, partially raw / vegan diet with nutritional supplementation, a fair amount of physical exercise, and minimal animal products, I've achieved LDL cholesterol of 67, HDL cholesterol of 62 and a resting pulse of 48.
These numbers are not unattainable, even though they are astonishing to many doctors. |
| This medicine can create astounding healing effects in patients if they would actually start consuming healing foods and avoiding dangerous foods. When a patient genuinely pursues courageous behavioral changes in their food choice and eating habits, they will, without question, show remarkable healing benefits that can be readily verified.
Another important factor to consider here is the nutritional illiteracy of most physicians. The vast majority of conventional doctors are no more nutritionally literate than the average person who has not sought out nutritional information on their own. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The best way to protect children from infectious disease is not to inject them with chemicals, but to boost their immune system function with healing foods that are rich in phytonutrients. Changing the diets of children will save an enormous number of lives and protect those children from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, asthma and numerous other diseases. Children don't need MORE chemicals in their bodies, they need honest, wholesome food and healing, plant-based medicines that protect them from chemicals and other environmental threats! |
Ben Davis
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| This doctor said rapid healing foods offer not only relief, but an end to the condition. Age is no barrier. Legs, hips, back, fingers and knees are healed and cured, he said. With this method, you can expect a miracle of freedom from pain, new freedom of motion and an absolutely pain-free, arthritis-free tomorrow. Complete and permanent cures are possible, pain is relieved right from the start, and aspirins and drugs can be eliminated in a week to 10 days, he stated. |
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