Ron Garner
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 On the other hand, a poor diet, processed foods, cured meats, tobacco smoke, infections, alcohol, stress, air pollution, pesticides, and radiation all promote oxidation in the human body. Even if we are minimizing the effects of the aforementioned free radical developers, given our modern urban, industrialized, and technological lifestyles, we cannot completely avoid them. We therefore need to take active antioxidant steps against them.
HORMONES OF YOUTH
Human Growth Hormone
When we reach middle age, our bodies start to exhibit the telltale signs of aging. |
| Red Dye #3, for example, which is used in hot dogs and other processed foods, contains synthetic estrogen. The plastic coating in many food cans contains a powerful estrogen mimic. In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring. They are developing shrunken male sex organs, and many are developing both testes and ovaries. These sexual organ changes are leading to behavioral changes, reproductive loss, and early mortality in offspring. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 These guidelines advise people to lower their fat intake, increase fiber intake, choose plentiful amounts of fruits and vegetables, maintain an ideal body weight, use alcohol in moderation, and avoid certain processed foods.
þ Limit Fat Intake to 30 Percent of Calories or Less
Research studies of animals and humans show that a high-fat diet increases the risk of many cancers, including colon and prostate cancer. Conversely, a low-fat diet has been shown to reduce the risk of many cancers. An additional benefit of a low-fat diet is the fact that it helps most people maintain a healthy weight. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 But eating in a way that produces excessive amounts of hormones that do the same thing may "turn on" those genes; eating a natural, traditional diet lower in sugar and processed foods does not.
Selling Health to Your Teens
Acne is also promoted by a diet low in the antioxidants found in abundance in vegetables and fruits. "Acne may be the best angle you will ever use to sell a healthy diet to your teenage children," says McDougall. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Our mass dependence on chemically manufactured home and lifestyle products and our diet of chemically processed foods, in many ways, constitute a great societal health experiment, as we continue to surround ourselves with thousands of chemicals whose properties we do not yet fully understand.
With our eyes open to that knowledge we can begin to make critical and profound choices, embarking on a journey of small steps that will slowly start to make all the difference between health and disease. |
| Most processed foods would quickly spoil if kept on a shelf for very long. In order to make sure that won't happen, raw food ingredients are processed at very high heats. This causes grains, fruits, and vegetables to lose most of their vitamins, minerals, and fiber, as well as other nutrients. Preservatives are then added in order to prevent germs from proliferating in the food while it sits in the jar or package on the supermarket shelf. That way, your food won't spoil or be covered with mold when you tear open the plastic packaging a week or a month or even a year down the road. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It is the same with processed foods, only more dangerous because ADHD behavior is often mistreated. The child is stigmatized and left with a lifetime of drugs to take to keep him or her in line. The health care industry's solution to ADHD is to prescribe antidepressant drugs that have a history of causing "suicidal attempts and other self-injurious destructive behaviors." It is shameful.
Studies and real-world examples in schools show that eliminating these harmful additives from children's diets results in clearer focus, higher test scores and fewer classroom disruptions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rich" families used processed, packaged and heavily marketed chemical detergent products in much the same way that they now increasingly eat processed foods.
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Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Even with common vitamins where positive empirical evidence exists, proper dosage is impossible to gauge because of the food industry fortification program where vitamins and minerals are added to processed foods like cereals, milk products and thousands of other non-organic foodstuffs. You never really know how much of a vitamin or supplement you are getting. Even if you could figure it out, there are many chemicals within our food supply, coupled with toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis, that can prevent the absorption of the essential nutrients we need. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Work to safely get off all prescription drugs, eat a diet of natural, wholesome foods (and avoid processed foods), exercise regularly, avoid toxic chemicals in your home (throw out those toxic laundry detergents and switch to soap nuts), and toss those toxic personal care products (skin creams, cosmetics, shampoo, etc.). Stay natural, healthy and alert. Be well, and you'll be the exception! And please, never be so gullible as to think that your government is going to "save you" with a new health care reform plan. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 During food processing, this balance gets reversed. processed foods contain less potassium and excess sodium. An apple starts with only one milligram of sodium. The same weight of apple pie has 266 mg of sodium, as seen in Figure 8-3.
One teaspoon of salt weighs about five grams, and contains 2000 mg sodium (40 percent sodium). The maximum safe amount of sodium per day is set at 2400 mg sodium, just over a teaspoon of salt. Few people stay below the safe level.
Sodium (a cation, Na+) and chloride (an anion, CI") are the most abundant ions in the fluids outside of cells (extracellular fluid). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Since highly processed foods loaded with bad fats and sugar can contribute to digestive problems (and to bad breath), the more whole foods you can incorporate into your diet the
Natural Prescription for Bad Breath and accomplish some of the same things. These drinks frequently contain nice doses of chlorophyll-containing grasses.
Digestive enzymes: 1 or 2 with every meal
Probiotics: 1 or 2, three times a day or as directed. You can also take the powdered form with water.
Charcoal tablets in between meals: Activated charcoal absorbs toxins and is a natural purifier. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Good sources of chromium include whole grain products, broccoli, green beans, grape juice, and spices. processed foods and foods high in sugar are poor sources of chromium. Foods high in sucrose and fructose increase chromium loss. Vitamin C in amounts of 100 mg or more increase the absorption of chromium. There is not enough information on chromium to establish RDAs. The adequate intake level (AI) has been set to reflect average intakes. Please refer to Table 13-5 for the adequate intake levels for chromium. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Because of this complex absorption process and the risk of many metabolic blocks—from nutrient deficiencies to exposure to toxins to factors in processed foods that cause reduced
• President John F. Kennedy has been quoted _^ as saying that he would have never have C become president without injections of B12. m
• Always take B12 with folic acid. They work C together, and any supplementation program [JJ should include both of these nutrients.
• Finally, if you're a vegan (or even a vegetarian), don't buy the vegan propaganda that you get all the B12 you need from plant food. You don't. |
| The take-away message is that the processed foods that are rampant in the Western diet create a hormonal situation that is likely to seriously aggravate acne or even, in some cases, actually cause it.
Pomegranate Juice for the Heart ... and More
THE POMEGRANATE HAS always been associated with love and erotica. Just look at it—it's beautiful, purple, luscious, and sensual. In Turkey, brides throw the fruit to the ground and believe that the number of seeds that pop out predicts how many children they're going to have. The ancients connected the fruit with procreation and abundance. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Sunbathing may be dangerous, however, for those who live on a diet rich in acid-forming, highly processed foods and refined fats or products made with them. Alcohol, cigarettes, and other mineral and vitamin depleting substances, such as allopathic and hallucinogenic drugs, can also make the skin highly vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation. |
| During the recovery phase, strictly refuse to consume cheap, refined oils or fats, such as those found in many restaurant foods and nearly all processed foods. You may use healthful fats and oils such as expeller-pressed (cold-pressed) coconut oil, olive oil, sesame oil and ghee butter (see also your body type food list). Don't eat food that has been cooked in the microwave oven. Avoid frozen foods, canned products and leftover foods. Take gymnema sylvestre to heal damaged pancreas cells, and evening primrose oil to improve nerve function. |
| Since most of the processed foods contain MSG, as do many personal care items, supplements and pharmaceuticals, it is almost impossible for an expectant mother to protect her baby from being affected.
Following birth, an infant is exposed to MSG and, possibly, aspartic acid through childhood vaccinations. All infant formulas contain some free glutamic acid and free aspartic acid. An infant on a hypoallergenic soy-based formula will ingest more excitotoxic amino acids (glutamic acid, aspartic acid, and L-cysteine) per day than is contained in any serving of food found on grocery store shelves. |
| A diet rich in natural, soft vegetable fiber produces larger feces that retain a lot more water than a diet consisting of refined and processed foods. The average British meal takes about 83 hours to pass through the intestinal tract with an average stool weight of only 104g. By contrast, British vegetarians take about 41 hours and produce 208g of stools—whereas the average meal of a Ugandan villager, consisting of low protein high-fiber diet, takes only 36 hours and generates 470g of stools a day. Ugandans rarely suffer from constipation, and they don't add bran to their foods. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Studies show that almost 40 percent of newly arrived immigrants quickly change their diet to add in more prepackaged highly processed foods and snacks, eating fewer vegetables and fruit and less fish, rice, and beans. Not surprisingly, autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases are more common in Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia—where rates of Crohn's disease have been rising—and less common in southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Thousands of chemicals are routinely added to canned and processed foods to improve taste and extend shelf life. Livestock are regularly injected with growth hormones to increase salable flesh yields and massive amounts of antibiotics to stave off diseases before slaughter and eventual serving on our dinner tables.
Sadly, shockingly, our toxic exposure doesn't end there. Common household products are laced with hundreds of deadly chemicals such as chlorine, ammonia, bleach, phosphates and a long list of others that can be fatal if swallowed or inhaled. According to the U.S. |
Marshall Editions
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 Stress reduction techniques can benefit the condition as can adhering to an anti-inflammatory diet that excludes processed foods, dairy, and sugar.
Topical treatments: Azelaic acid is based on a natural plant and can be very helpful when applied topically as a cream at a 20% strength. Topical metronidazole (known as MetroGel®) is a mild treatment that can be applied once daily at a strength of 1%. This is used by itself or after a course of antibiotics. Clindamycin (Cleocin) is another ointment that is often used. Oral tetracycline is often prescribed, as is oral metronidazole. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Yes, there are "bad" fats—the trans-fatty acids found in most baked goods and many processed foods, for example. Saturated or animal fats are widely considered to be "bad" as well, but they are acceptable in moderation when eaten along with protein in meat and dairy products.
About 30 percent of the calories in your diet should come from good fats. The most healthy fatty acids are found in fish oil, flaxseed oil (both have lots of omega-3 fatty acids), and borage oil (which has a type of omega-6 fatty acid, gamma-linolenic acid or GLA, that has many health benefits). |
| You can effortlessly maintain good health and proper weight, and control inflammation with this diet, which contains almost no processed foods. And you can lose weight on this diet, especially if you stay away from processed breads and sugars. However, if weight loss is your goal, or you have a lot of weight to lose or serious health problems to deal with, you can just cut out the whole grains for a while, or try the Zone diet (see next page). |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 It's worth noting that today many processed foods, including commercial baby formulas, use soy because it's an inexpensive source of nutrition. There's a growing concern among a small number of scientists that we don't have a handle on the potential long-term effects of what seems to be an ever-greater level of phytoestrogens and soy in our diet. plants are good at birth control—but they're great at poison. Most of the toxins they produce aren't directed at humans, of course; they don't really have to worry about us too much. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Do not confuse real, red palm oil with the "hydro-genated palm oil" that shows up as an ingredient in processed foods and should be completely avoided. Nonhydrogenated, in its natural, "virgin" state, palm oil contains absolutely no trans fats. Though palm oil is about half saturated fat—not necessarily a bad thing in this case—it is also about 40 percent monounsaturated fat. Palm oil comes from the flesh of the palm fruit of a tree native to the tropical areas of Africa, where it grows wild. The reason it's red is that it contains a high concentration of carotenes. |
| Processed sugar came much later. processed foods loaded with unspeakable amounts of sugar later still. And high-fructose corn syrup, arguably one of the worst inventions of the food science industry, is even more recent.
ARE THERE HEALTHY WAYS TO FEED A SWEETNESS CRAVING?
So let's recognize that we are sweet-loving folks. The question then becomes how to appease that taste so it doesn't destroy us. Or, put differently, how to feed and mollify the craving while doing damage control.
Now don't misunderstand me. |
Devra Davis
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 Although these are special cases of intense exposure, they naturally suggest speculation as to whether the average human being's relatively mild but long-continued exposure to new substances in a contaminated atmosphere, in processed foods, in cosmetics and in other elements of our environment may be a contributory cause of cancer. We have as yet no conclusive evidence for or against this possibility. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The weight will definitely come back for any person consuming primarily processed foods.
A favorite FTC target
But the real story is not whether Trudeau is wrong or right about weight loss, it's about the selective enforcement of weight loss claims by the FTC. Trudeau is a favorite target of the FTC, and he's been sued before over health claims for his coral calcium products. The FTC even forced him into a settlement where he could no longer sell nutritional products. |
Marshall Editions
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| Avoid dairy products, sugar, white flour, hydrogenated and saturated fats, fried foods, and processed foods, as they are common food allergens.
Supplements: Vitamin E taken at 400 IU a day relieves itchiness and dryness. Take vitamin A at 100,000 IU for one month, then bring the dosage down to 50,000 IU for two weeks, then to 25,000 IU for long-term maintenance. Pregnant women should not take more than 10,000 IU of vitamin A a day. Vitamin A is essential for smooth skin and aids in relieving dryness. |
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