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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

Instead get K naturally through a wide range of vegetables, especially greens, broccoli, radishes, cabbages, beans, canola and soybean oils, and green tea. Anyone taking the drug Coumadin (warfarin) should strictly avoid supplementing with vitamin K because of micronutrient-drug interactions. • Avoid extra enzymes, time-release preparations, or chelated preparations, since they add little value. They are unproven and generally ineffective. • If you are on blood thinners (e.g., Coumadin), use caution with vitamin E and check with your physician before use.

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating Rebecca Wood See book keywords and concepts

Cooked with care, though, cabbage is a delicious vegetable. Wild cabbages still grow in England and the Mediterranean area. Health Benefits Valued for at least two millennia, cabbage is sweet and slightly cooling to the stomach. It therefore counters overheated conditions, such as inflammation and dry throat. It nourishes the spleen-pancreas, regulates the stomach, and relieves abdominal spasms, pain, and ulcers. It treats constipation, the common cold, mental depression, and irritability. Cabbage purifies the blood, acts as a vermifuge, and was used by the Romans as a hangover cure.

Conscious Eating Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

If one is eating in a Rainbow Diet pattern, the purple cabbages make a nice addition to dinners in the evening, when purple foods are best eaten. Materials needed: 1. a large crock or stainless steel container 2. a plate that will just fit inside the crock 3. a jar filled with water to use as a weight inside the crock to press down on the plate 4. a towel or cloth to fit over the crock 5. the Champion Juicer, a food processor, or appropriate equipment to break down the veggie fibers Directions: 1. For sauerkraut, use three large heads of red or green cabbage or a combination of both.

Expect to see it, when you fast, This table spread with other food, better than the broth of cabbages. These words of wisdom by Paul Bragg, Athenaeus, and Rumi are clear articulations of my experiences personally and leading spiritual fasting retreats and medically supervised fasts since 1988 in various locations around the world and now at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center.

Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition Paul Pitchford See book keywords and concepts

Vitamin E and Omega-3 Oil: in beneficial amounts in the green leafy vegetables; in cabbage, vitamin E is richest in the outer leaves, which are often removed from commercial cabbages; asparagus and cucumbers are also rich in E, and chlorella contains a significant quantity of omega-3 oil. Vitamin C: those vegetables and fruits marked with superscript "c" are good sources. Vitamin E: in all nuts and seeds, but especially in almonds and hazelnuts. Omega-3 Oil: concentrated in flax, chia, and pumpkin seeds as well as walnuts.

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

They rented a house in a small town in Ontario, and raised potatoes and cabbages; Oyakawasan supplemented their income with woodcutting. A few years later they had enough money scraped together to build a new house. And life went on. Over the years Oyakawasan's only real medical problem was the removal of his appendix at the age of ninety-two, and even then he left the hospital the next day because he considered the food inedible. (He had always eaten as close to a traditional Okinawan diet as possible even though living in Canada.

A New Science of Life Rupert Sheldrake See book keywords and concepts

Although we can describe in exquisite detail parts of the hereditary blueprints which determine characteristics of cabbages and kings, tortoises and tapeworms, vastly more remains to be learned. But given the conceptual and practical returns already won via a mechanistic approach, we have every justification for confidence that even the most perplexing problems of brain and behaviour will succumb to the same investigational strategy. Alternative analyses are irrelevant. Perhaps, though, some hefty difficulties remain. A particular challenge is posed by the phenomenon of differentiation.

In addition to well-understood forces, Dr Sheldrake's fields help determine the structures not only of cabbages and kings, but also of nonliving objects such as chemical crystals - and indeed patterns of behaviour too. Via what he calls 'morphic resonance', these influences carry across both space and time. Being a serious scientist, Sheldrake must expect most of his colleagues to dismiss vague suggestions of this sort as gratuitous metaphysics. But Occam's Razor is not a particularly appropriate weapon to use against him, in an area which could well benefit from new perspectives.

Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being Barnet Meltzer, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Fighter phytonutrients such as indoles and isothiocyanites block cancerous cell formation. cabbages have been specifically linked to a lower incidence of colon cancer: The vegetable triggers the detoxification and elimination of harmful chemicals and hormones found in food, water, and air pollutants. Red cabbage regenerates the bowels, and green cabbage has been shown to successfully treat peptic ulcer disease. The vegetable's waste-removing abilities also benefit the liver.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

In Europe, the traditional family diet for centuries consisted of cabbages, turnips, onions, radishes, willow and birch shoots, young nettles, ferns, mushrooms, and small game. Vegetable foods, such as beans, lentils, and chick-peas, were staples in the Near East, Central America, and parts of Europe as well and were supplemented by game and small animals, such as snails, shellfish, and river crabs. Similar dietary practices can be found today among isolated groups that still live on native foods and remain in excellent health. Dr.

The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a biochemist, isolated a substance from citrus fruits and cabbages that looked like ordinary granulated sugar. "Hexuronic acid," as he first called it, demonstrated remarkable therapeutic and curative properties. Not until several years later did "hexuronic acid" become "ascorbic acid" and subsequently, "vitamin C." In 1937, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi, who devoted his life to vitamin research, prophesied that "vitamins, if properly understood and applied, will help us to reduce human suffering to an extent which the most fantastic mind would fail to imagine.

The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine Jean Carper See book keywords and concepts

The ancient Romans even more drastically followed their beliefs; on one occasion they ran their doctors out of town and for years reportedly maintained their good health by eating cabbages. Science once again is catching up with folklore. THE ANTICANCER CRUCIFEROUS TWELVE They all have flowers with four petals that to botanical historians resembled a crucifix or cross; thus cruciferous. They also share common chemicals that can counteract some of the destruction from carcinogens.

One drug called gefarnate is found in white-headed cabbages. In animal tests gefarnate does stimulate the cells of the stomach lining to lay down a shield of mucus against noxious agents such as acid. Thus, this may be a natural constituent, that helps account for cabbage's reputed ulcer healing powers. A problem: cabbage's ulcer-fighting capabilities apparently vary greatly, depending on the season and soil conditions, but the studies generally agree that the cabbage's healing factors are present only when taken raw and usually as juice. For those interested, here is Dr. Cheney's advice: DR.

To quote a sixteenth-century historian: "The old Romans having expelled physicians out of their commonwealth, did for many years maintain their health by the use of cabbages, taking them for every disease." In the twentieth century, according to A. M. Liebstein, M.D. 150 (American Medicine, January 1927), "cabbage is therapeutically effective in conditions of scurvy, diseases of the eyes, gout, rheumatism, pyorrhea, asthma, tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene. . . . Cabbage is excellent as a vitalizing agent, blood purifier, anti-scorbutic.

Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being Barnet Meltzer, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Selection and Care: Select fresh, firm, crisp cabbages with compact heads, heavy for their size, and tightly wrapped leaves free of discoloration at the edges. Optimal Use and Combining: Raw green and red cabbage can be tossed in salads or grated for a vegan coleslaw. Cabbage soup is particularly fortifying in cold winter months. Cabbage, cauliflower, and the rest of the cruciferous family mix well with beets, carrots, and other root vegetables. Cabbage also adds a pungent flavor to vegetable soups, brown rice, and whole grain pasta.

Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care Jane M. Orient, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

There were some nice bonuses: homemade dill pickles and jelly; wonderful Christmas cookies; homegrown cabbages, beets, and radishes; some delicious trout; and excellent tamales. (I have never gotten a chicken, only part of a cow, and that's a long story in itself.) The secret was to keep the overhead down. My practice is possible because it is a family enterprise. Except for a part-time nurse, who was well past retirement age when we started and who worked for me until her vision and health failed, I have never had an employee. I have volunteers.

The Green Pharmacy Anti-Aging Prescriptions: Herbs, Foods, and Natural Formulas to Keep You Young James A. Duke, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

These include bananas, cabbages, chamomile, gentian, garlic, meadowsweet, milk thistle, onions, pineapple, and pumpkin. Inflammatory Bowel Disease: First, Identify the Offenders Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for two similar but distinct conditions: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Both cause abdominal pain (sometimes severe) and bloody diarrhea. Both involve open sores along your lower digestive tract. The difference is that in colitis, the sores develop in your colon, while in Crohn's, they develop in your colon and small intestine. Michael Murray, N.D.

Cancer Therapy: The Independent Consumer's Guide To Non-Toxic Treatment & Prevention Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Vegetables include various local and organically grown cabbages (see indoles), kale, broccoli, cauliflower, collards, pumpkin, watercress, bok choy, dandelion, mustard greens, daikon, scallion, onions, turnips, acorn squash, butternut squash, burdock and carrots. Some vegetables are avoided, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, asparagus, spinach, beets, zucchini and avocado. Mayonnaise is also forbidden. Tiny azuki beans, chickpeas and lentils are also eaten, but other kinds of beans are only used occasionally.

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

BROCCOLI (See under CABBAGE AND ITS KIND) BRUSSEL SPROUTS (See under cabbages AND ITS KIND) BUCKWHEAT (See under GRAINS) BULGHUR (See under GRAINS) BURDOCK {Arctium lappa) Brief Description There are basically two kinds of burdock. Common burdock (A. minus) is the kind more commonly found intercropped with corn and wheat in the midwest. On the other hand, greater burdock is the one primarily harvested for its root as an important source of food for the Japanese. They use it there as we use carrots here.

Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell See book keywords and concepts

The foods they produce include amaranth, maize, beans, chili peppers, and tomatoes as well as introduced European vegetables such as cabbages, carrots, lettuce, radishes, onions, and beets. Chinampa gardeners also grow flowers such as cempoaxochitl, a species of marigold still reverently placed on graves on el Di'a de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, known in English as All Souls Day. The nutrient-rich canals surrounding the chinampas also support carp and axolotl, a large edible salamander that Mexicans consider a delicacy.

The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch See book keywords and concepts

Even though dogs or cabbages could be bred to many different shapes, for example, neither could be bred to the point that members of the species could not interbreed. In other words, one cannot develop a breed of dog that is of the cat species. Ancient writers who had a less clear concept of species believed that wheat seed could sometimes sprout as millet. Most scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries also believed in a doctrine called preformation.

The Herbal Drugstore Linda B. White, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Just aim for color: greens (leafy and cruciferous veggies), oranges (the fruit named for the color as well as sweet potatoes); yellows (squashes and bananas); reds (apples, cabbages, and beets); and purples (eggplants, peppers, asparagus, and beans). Some of the herbs in the lists below can also be eaten as leafy greens. Herbs High in Vitamin A þ Dandelion leaves þ Purslane leaves þ Turmeric Herbs High in Vitamin C þ Parsley þ Rose hips þ Turmeric Herbs and Foods High in Vitamin E þ Nuts and seeds þ Turmeric þ Whole grains to replace the damaged lens is the only treatment available.

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

MUSTARD (Slnapsis alba, Brass ic: a nigra) Brief Description Mustard is a collective name for several cruciferous (cross-shaped) plants, some of which are related to the cabbages. (See my other book, Heinerman's New Encyclopedia of Fruits and Vegetables (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995) under CABBAGE and MUSTARD for more information on both.) Most important are the two species mentioned in the parenthetical heading. The terms "white" (or yellow) and "black" (or brown) mustard are often applied to these two, respectively.

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating Rebecca Wood See book keywords and concepts

In cold weather, my grandmother's fresh vegetable options were a few cold-loving greens like broccoli and kale from the garden; parsley from the pot on her windowsill; and potatoes, onions, cabbages, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, carrots, and squash from the root cellar. In addition to dried or preserved fruits, she had stored apples and pears. Eating seasonally doesn't mean that we must limit ourselves. But at the supermarket, favor hardier produce in cold weather. The best way of attuning to seasonal vegetables is to garden. Until very recently, people consumed only regional foods.

Favor those that have their outer leaves in place; this indicates freshness. cabbages may be either green or red, with round or pointy heads, and with smooth or crinkly leaves. The later, savoy cabbage, has a looser head, a sweeter, milder flavor, and a buttery smooth texture. See Cabbage Family. CABBAGE FAMILY Brassica, Crucifer, Mustard Historically and nutritionally, the cabbage, or brassica, family is one of the most important—if not the most important—vegetable family, and it is certainly one of the most diverse.

From 20 to 40 auxiliary buds (or baby cabbages) grow close together along a tall, single stalk that's topped with small cabbagelike leaves. Brussels sprouts originated in Brussels, Belgium— ergo its name. The Germans more aptly called it Rosenkohl, or "rose cabbage." Use In a traditional British Christmas dinner, Brussels sprouts are a given. Considering that these beauties are then at their peak and, when cooked properly, appropriate fare for the grandest of feasts, it's a custom I readily embrace.

Enjoy touching carrots and cabbages as you wash and chop. And enjoy the incomparable aromas as you simmer and serve. Then, as we sit to break bread together, may we all be renewed by earth's bounty. RW. Crestone, Colorado, March 1999 ealth CAJenefits oods have multiple energetic properties, and discerning and using these properties to enhance well-being are an age-old activity. Hunter-gatherer peoples had extensive knowledge of local plant species and knew each one's edibility and medical value. This knowledge helped form Western herbology and traditional Asian medical systems.

The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine Jean Carper See book keywords and concepts

It takes about four to five pounds of summer and spring cabbage to make a quart of juice—twice that amount for winter cabbages, which give less juice. • To make it more palatable, you can use seventy-five percent cabbage juice and twenty-five percent celery juice (from both stocks and greens). Celery, too, contains the antiulcer factor. ¦ For extra flavor, add to each glass of cabbage juice a couple of tablespoons of tomato, pineapple, or citrus juice. ¦ Chill. Drink a quart a day. ¦ You should feel results within three weeks if not sooner. Adapted from Dr.

Breast Cancer? Breath Health! The Wise Woman Way Susun S. Weed See book keywords and concepts

These miniature cabbages are an exceptionally good source of protease inhibitors, glucosinolates, and lutein. See cabbage family. BURDOCK ROOT {Arctium lappa) Whether used as an anti-cancer food or an anti-cancer herb, burdock excels. Rich in benzaldehyde, phytosterols, glycosides, mokko lactone, and arctic acid, burdock root prevents cancers initiated by chemicals and radiation (whether environmental or as chosen treatments), thwarts in situ cancers of the breast and cervix, and helps block recurrences.

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