Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Avoid commercially produced or processed food.
• Avoid fast foods or junk food.
• Read labels carefully—choose low-sodium varieties whenever possible.
• Try using herbal substitutes or salt substitutes with potassium chloride (in moderation).
• Use herbs, spices, lemon, or lime rather than salt.
Throw Out Processed Foods
Commercially prepared, packaged, and processed foods are often loaded with preservatives, artificial colorings, flavor enhancers, and sweeteners, not to mention hydrogenated fats and sodium. Do your best to follow our favorite motto: Buy fresh, eat fresh! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Those that didn't ate processed food from publicly traded corporations at least three times or more per week! People disagree with my conclusions, but it seems to be pretty obvious to me.
Eating fast food and eating processed food sold by publicly traded corporations causes disease.
How bad is fast food? How could they say their processing methods are sanitary? It's impossible. Did you know that even the government in reviewing the safety and sanitary regulations at fast food restaurants find violations EVERY SINGLE TIME AN INSPECTION IS DONE! |
Bottom Line Health
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| Because of all the processed food now consumed in the US, getting the necessary nutrients from our diet has become increasingly difficult. Of course, we can turn to nutritional supplements, but research has consistently shown that fresh food—which has an abundance of healthful compounds that are believed to work synergistically—is usually our best source of valuable nutrients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you look at where the money is coming from that supports most of the "disease" groups, it's all from the companies that expose consumers to synthetic chemicals: drug companies, processed food manufacturers, personal care product companies, and so on.
It is no coincidence that the mainstream disease groups keep the chemical causes of cancer and neurological disorders a big secret. They're primarily focused on treatment, not prevention. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you live on the processed food diet, you're hungry all the time because your body says, "Keep on eating until I get the right minerals." So, you just keep eating and eating until you become obese. No matter what diet you try, you can't get any thinner because your body still isn't getting the minerals it needs.
If you really want to lose weight, one of the first things you've got to do is start eating organic fruits and vegetables. You must get away from processed foods. Ideally, you need to start taking supplements with minerals and trace minerals. |
Ron Garner
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 Disease conditions result, over time, from eating a diet of mostly cooked and processed food.
Disease conditions and genetic weaknesses occur earlier in each succeeding generation.
Physical, emotional, skeletal, sexual, and behavioral changes become more pronounced and prevalent with each generation. The only solution for vibrant, disease-free health is to revert to a diet of raw, or mostly raw, food.
Difference between Cats and Humans
Later studies have found that heating destroys taurine, an essential amino acid for cats which they must have to remain healthy. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 The scientists behind the development of the industry for fast and processed food, which took off after World War II, knew less about nutrition than they did about making products taste better, last longer, and be safe from contamination by microorganisms. The industry made calories affordable and available, at the expense of our health. And at the expense of natural food's nutritive components. |
| Both are man-made additives that give processed food most of its taste. A natural flavor isn't necessarily healthier or purer than an artificial one. Natural and artificial flavors are manufactured at the same chemical plants, and sometimes they contain the exact same chemicals, produced through different methods. For example, amyl acetate gives the dominant note of banana flavor. When you distill it from bananas with a solvent, amyl acetate is a natural flavor. |
| Approximately 10,000 new processed food products are introduced every year in the United States. Almost all of them require flavor additives. is not required by the FDA to be explicitly named in all ingredient lists, and may sometimes be represented under "natural coloring" or "added coloring." It has been known to cause severe allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock in some people.)
The notion that food could have an effect on children's behavior became popularized in the 1970s by allergist Benjamin Feingold, M.D., who published the Feingold diet. |
| Too much processed food and sugar.
Scientists are beginning to see more cases of NASH as obesity numbers climb; in the past ten years, the rate of obesity has doubled in adults and tripled in children. This has also led some doctors to point fingers at refined sugar as if it were as bad as alcohol in its destructive behavior on the liver (not to mention other body parts and systems). The progression of NASH can take years, even decades. The process can stop and, in some cases, reverse on its own without specific therapy (but likely with some diet and lifestyle changes). |
| Do you eat processed food or fast food?
? Have you ever smoked or been exposed to second-hand smoke?
? Do you eat in restaurants more than twice weekly?
? Do you use bug spray in your home or have a pest control service?
? Do you use weed killer on your lawn?
? Do you dye or bleach your hair?
? Do you use cologne or perfume?
? Are you overweight, underweight, or do you have cellulite deposits?
? Does your occupation expose you to toxins?
? Do you drink alcoholic beverages regularly?
? Do you eat fish more than twice a week?
? Do you regularly swim in a pool or lake?
? |
Hyla Cass
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 A "Paleolithic diet" that contains no processed food has also been found to be helpful for RA, as have lacto-vegetarian diets (containing no meat or eggs). Anyone interested in learning more about this diet should read The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain, Ph.D. (Wiley, 2002). capsaicin cream onto painful joints creates heat, which can help soothe pain and muscle tension. Brand names include Capsin, Capzasin-HP Arthritis Formula, Capzasin-P, Dolorac, Menthac Arthritis Cream with Capsaicin, RT Capsin, Salonpas Pain Patch with Capsaicin, Trix-aicin, and Zostrix. |
| The most fundamental changes are those described in Chapter 2: they involve getting the junk food, processed food, flour, and sugars out of your life, and making vegetables, lean protein, nuts, and fruit the mainstays of your diet.
Identifying foods or ingredients that you're sensitive to—most commonly, wheat, dairy, soy, peanuts, chocolate, fish, shellfish, corn, yeast, and eggs—may be key for fixing your digestive symptoms at their source. Keeping a food journal and tracking your symptoms will help you to identify food sensitivities and act accordingly. |
David Steinman
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 But, in the United States, we have wood chips, prairie switch-grass, corn stubble, and processed food waste; all of this can be turned into fuel that could compete extremely well with peak oil.
Green fuels are different than petrochemical fuels. Some green fuels are created by biomass with use of fermentation and the novel enzymes that the bacteria produce, instead of with use of chlorine and other chemical catalysts. Yet, so powerful are these naturally produced enzymes that they break down the tough carbohydrates in these plants' cell walls. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Then look for fresh, whole food—organic when possible—not processed food filled with additives and chemicals. Eat lots of wild-caught fish. Once or twice a week replace beef with beans. Take a walk in the sunshine (vitamin D) every day for at least thirty minutes. Don't drink beverages with added sugar.
Specific diets may promote weight loss as well as good health. The Mediterranean diet is healthy and nutritious, lowers cholesterol, reduces heart attacks, lengthens your life, and tastes good. |
Ron Garner
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| Nevertheless, on a continual diet of processed food, or one that is mostly vegetarian, a deficiency in one or more of the B vitamins can develop. In earlier times, vitamin B was amply obtained from diets that included organ meats and whole grains, but few diets still include such foods. By
1970, Adelle Davis had already stated that, "the 15 or more B vitamins are so meagerly supplied in our American diet that almost every person lacks them."2
Vitamins in the B complex are required for metabolism in every cell in the body; they are central to the cellular production and release of energy. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Our diets and health are unfortunately largely controlled by three giant sectors and driving forces of the economy: food and agricultural corporations, including processed food giants; pharmaceutical companies; and the chemical and manufacturing industry, which aims to create unnaturally occurring products that may be superior in some ways to naturally occurring ones, yet incredibly harmful to humans in other ways. |
Ron Garner
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| There is a clear relationship between changes in the consumption of processed food and the increase in degenerative diseases. The contradictory statistics of more disease in the presence of apparently "better" healthcare are baffling. What are we doing wrong? What are we missing? Are there any answers to this dilemma? Or, are we just meant to get sick and suffer more as we grow older, as well as watch our children suffer with diseases? Why is there this contradiction? |
Hyla Cass
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| It is processed sodium chloride and is as bad for you as any other processed food. On the other hand, sea salt in its natural form is essential for good cellular function. It contains trace minerals, including iodine—the mineral usually added to table salt, important for the health of the thyroid gland—in a concentration that is more usable by the body.
If you crave salt, this may be a sign of low thyroid and adrenal function. Salt is particularly important for balanced function of many of the body's glands and organs. |
Ron Garner
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| In summary, first generation cats fed processed food began to develop diseases and illnesses near the end of their lives. Second generation cats developed diseases and illnesses in the middle of their lives. Third generation cats developed diseases and illnesses at the beginning of their lives, and many died before six months of age. No fourth generation was produced! Either third generation female parents were sterile, or they aborted their offspring before birth. This was clear and indisputable evidence of genetic deterioration from one generation to the next. |
| Eating processed food repeatedly causes dis-ease in our bodies. Processing past thoughts and events repeatedly perpetuates dis-ease in our mental and emotional bodies.
Even though our conscious mind is preoccupied with thoughts that we think we are in control of, it is our super-powerful subconscious mind that is actually directing the show from our embedded beliefs. If it is your conscious mind that enables you to think, and yet the beliefs in your subconscious mind direct how you think, who do you think you are? |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 However, it can become overtaxed because of the enormous load of chemicals from the highly processed food we tend to ingest, pesticides and other toxins to which we are constantly exposed, and the many other assaults of modern living. The consequences of a bioenergetically compromised liver may be enormous, for your liver is involved in filtration processes that directly impact your immune system. What's more, it plays a primary role in blood clotting, regulating your body's acid-alkaline balance (pH level), and blood sugar regulation, among other critical physiological and metabolic functions. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Modern processed food and animal products are "bad" for you because they're "good" for your genes. þModern foods, particularly ground-up grain products, rapidly enter your blood stream as sugar and activate the "Store Fat for Winter" computer program. þModern fats are primarily composed of omega-6s, which stimulate inflammation and depression.
Part Two
DIET EVOLUTION
Chapter 4
THE DIET AT A GLANCE
Welcome to the Diet Evolution program. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All the food, candy and sodas that are going to be consumed over the next several holidays have already been made in a factory, stored in a warehouse, shipped on a truck and loaded onto store shelves, just waiting for hungry, gullible consumers to come along and shovel down their own share of processed food additives and refined sugar derivatives.
There's a kind of sick beauty in the whole thing. I'm always struck by the idea that we must actually be the wealthiest people in the world, because we have so much "food" around here that people are actually just giving it away for free. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 With urbanization, access to processed food increases, and fresh foods that were previously readily available become less affordable. In addition to other lifestyle changes, increases in body weight, sodium intake, dietary fat, and the ratio of urinary sodium to potassium have been observed during the process of acculturation [12-18]. Taken all together, these observations support an important role of diet and lifestyle in BP and inspired much of the later research in this area. |
Tom Bohager
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 Edward Howell of Chicago was questioning the use of cooked and processed food for human consumption. He found that heating food to 118?F for more than fifteen minutes destroyed all of the enzymes that naturally occur in raw food. In 1940, Dr. Howell began to investigate whether or not chronic degenerative disease was a matter of a severe enzyme deficiency.
Dr. Howell wrote two books reporting his life's work: Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity and Enzyme Nutrition. |
Elaine Magee
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 Have beans more often; they're a great source of plant protein, fiber, phytochemicals, and other nutrients.
Eat processed food less additives. often; it's often loaded with added fats, sugar, salt, and
Choose beverages wisely and have plenty of nonsugary options available, like water, mineral water, green tea (iced or hot), and fat-free or soy milk.
Make your own frozen eijitrees (instead of buying them) by freezing homemade leftovers. Consider making double batches of family favorites like meat loaf, spaghetti sauce, and soJjps.
Look for recipes that call! |
Ann N. Martin
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 Shawn Messonnier, author of numerous books on pet health, including The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats, writes, "When it comes to feeding pets, dog and cat owners have two choices: prepare a fresh diet at home, or feed a processed food. When you can, feeding a homemade diet allows your per ro eat the freshest ingredients in their most tasty form."10
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Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements
S ome experts say that it is not necessary to add supplements if you are providing your pet with a healthy, balanced diet of protein, grains, fiber, and fats. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Inconclusive
Many studies show no association; three show strong associations for highly browned or processed food.
Model 3: Insulin resistance
Energy and
RR: 0.8-1.8
Case-control studies report increased risk,
Possible recall bias in case-control studies; cohort energy balance with associations that are generally not observed in cohort studies. studies have narrower range of exposures. Some studies suggest that risk associated with energy intake is related to level of energy expenditure.
Sucrose
1.0-2. |
Ron Garner
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| Even though these diseases are clearly due to excess sugar intake, sugar continues to be added to almost every processed food on market shelves. Many soft drinks contain eight tablespoons of sugar plus phosphoric acid! Researcher Nancy Appleton reported that 69 illnesses and diseases are caused by the consumption of refined sugar. She concluded that sugar excesses ruin our health.5
As if sugar isn't bad enough, artificial sweeteners, which have been introduced into over 5000 food and drink products, are absolute poisons. During his 30 years of research on Alzheimer's disease, Dr. H. J. |
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