Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  At the back of the store, they sell prescription drugs -- drugs that treat the symptoms of diseases that are ultimately caused by people's poor dietary choices and their consumption of junk food. Walgreens has really mastered this. They will sell you the problem and the treatment, all in the same store. One reason Walgreens is so incredibly successful as a business is because it has mastered the art of selling products to consumers as part of the disease economy. It is a flagship company of the disease economy, perhaps even more so than pharmaceutical companies. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Thomas Leonard the talk
Because those closest to you are the ones who have the biggest effect on you and are the most affected by you and your decision to make new dietary choices, it is wise to take the time and forethought to engage in a good old-fashioned heart-to-heart with them about what is going on for you. The most obvious people you would want to have this talk with would be immediate family members, significant others and anyone else who lives with you. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  The focus right now by various medical organizations such as the National Institutes of Health for dealing with the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in the Pima Indians is to educate children on the importance of exercise and dietary choices to reduce diabetes risk.
Other Genetic and Racial Factors
Other racial and ethnic groups besides the Pima Indians that have a higher tendency for type 2 diabetes include other Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Australian Aborigines, and Pacific Islanders. |
Jay Joseph
See book keywords and concepts |  Of course, unlike the largely middle-class twins in these dietary studies, impoverished Southern identical and fraternal twins had few dietary choices and often went hungry. Thus, we cannot be sure that the greater identical twin correlation for food preference and nutrient intake could have been generalized to this population, but to the extent that identical twins spend more time together, they will eat more similar foods than fraternal twins and will therefore be more concordant for pellagra. |
John A. McDougall
See book keywords and concepts |  Here are some examples of common diseases that are the direct results of dietary choices.
Appendicitis he contents of the small intestine empty into the large intestine. At about this junction a small pouch, or diverticulum, called the appendix, is attached to the large intestine. When the opening of the appendix becomes irritated and blocked by unhealthful remnants of partially digested foods, fluids accumulate. These stagnant fluids become infected, creating a disease condition common to Westerners called appendicitis. | | Though you may experience this temporary increase in gas production, the knowledge that your new dietary choices can relieve virtually all your digestive difficulties, as well as help you avoid cancer and heart disease, makes it worth a little extra gas.
Avoid Gassy Foods
Milk products are very troublesome, especially for most non-Caucasian people (Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Indians, Eskimos) who can't digest lactose, although about 20 percent of Caucasians also experience lactose intolerance. | | Food for Thought: The Bortons Weigh In
After only a week on a plant-based diet, Larry and Louise reported positive outcomes from their new dietary choices. Larry said, "I didn't list bad breath as a medical complaint because I thought it was a normal thing I just had to live with. If I'd known the perks it could bring in the romance department, I'd have started this diet a long time ago."
Fresh breath was definitely an unexpected bonus for Larry and Louise, but even more positive changes would be forthcoming.
SUMMARY SHEET from Dr. | | You will become a well-informed consumer, equipped and motivated to make healthful dietary choices rather than taking at face value the medical claims that can keep you curled up on the couch or standing in line at the drugstore to buy potions and pills.
Given this newfound knowledge about nutrition and health from my sugar plantation experience, it was impossible for me to practice medicine the way I'd been taught. Despite scathing criticism and obvious efforts by colleagues to divert my enthusiasm, my resolve was steadfast. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | It takes human beings years or decades to show the full effects from these poor dietary choices. The other reason it's not so apparent in human beings is because poor dietary practices are so widespread that both the public and members of the medical community think that unhealthy, obese, chronically diseased human beings are now the norm. There are so few examples of people demonstrating outstanding health that we are walking around in a society where we actually believe that human beings are supposed to be fat and depressed and have plaque in their arteries and so on. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | It is clear that most people would rather take the easy way out and rely on a pill—either natural or synthetic—than commit to the lifestyle and dietary choices that promote health. Don't be one of these people; choose health and make a commitment to leading a lifestyle and following a diet that will reduce your risk not only for diabetes, but also heart disease, strokes, cancer, cataracts, and other chronic degenerative diseases. |
Eric R. Braverman
See book keywords and concepts |  Learning to make better dietary choices based on your nature can help you maintain better, balanced health, but you won't see changes in a matter of minutes, as you do with medication, or in a matter of days, as is the case with hormones. Altering your nature through diet requires weeks. But diet is far gentler on your body, supports your body's natural mechanisms for neurotransmitter production, and results in a stable, long-term balance.
Does a nature-based diet mean you can't have any fun? Do you have to give up chocolate, empty carbohydrates, sweets, or alcohol depending on your type? | | Making healthy dietary choices is the foundation for a stable nature—one that will support you for your entire lifetime. The easiest and most natural way for you to keep your dopamine nature balanced involves the choices you make when you eat. solving chronic obesity
Rapid and significant weight gain is one of the hallmarks of a dopamine deficiency. Obesity, a burgeoning condition that is defined as 20 percent above ideal body weight, is one of the great health problems Americans are facing today. | | Instead, the following are lists of dietary choices you can make to boost your levels of dopamine and eventually help your brain create more dopamine on its own.
The goal of a dopamine diet is to ensure that the body has enough raw materials for a steady supply of tyrosine and phenylalanine, two amino acids that are precursors to dopamine. These amino acids are found in many protein-rich foods.
Be sure to round out a high-protein meal with lots of additional fruits and vegetables, even if they don't appear on the lists in this chapter. |
Carol Simontacchi
See book keywords and concepts |  The list goes on and on because the body is very creative in expressing unhappiness with dietary choices.
I am personally reactive to garlic, chicken, eggs, corn, and all grains except rice. My list of problem foods covers many that are generally regarded as being healthy. As it has been said, "One man's food is another man's poison." Although I do not notice the flicker of inflammatory pain after eating just a little garlie, if I eat a larger amount two or three days in a row, a raging inferno cripples me. I literally cannot walk. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | For us, making the healthier lifestyle and dietary choices is a small price to pay to be able to enjoy the richness of life each day.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Change
If you have diabetes or a prediabetic condition, you will need to accept the need for change. Type 1 diabetics must accept the need for such things as intensive blood glucose monitoring and intensive insulin therapy. Type 2 diabetics or those with prediabetes or insulin resistance must be willing to look at a variety of factors that play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of their future. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  CLA can be obtained from dietary choices such as turkey, lamb, beef, and some fatty dairy products, but the current trend away from meats and fats has caused levels of CLA to drop meaningfully (Ip et al, 1994).
CLA appeats reliable in reducing body fat, while preserving lean body tissue. CLA accomplishes this by increasing the basal metabolic rate and impacting the distribution of fat, especially abdominal obesity. (Recall that apple-shaped bodies are considered vulnerable in regard to heart disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It is amazing -- so often, people go to their doctor and they get drugs, just to mask the symptoms caused by simple dietary choices.
Robert Cohen: And they teach the doctors none of this in medical school, although many of them are learning on their own. They're learning because they go with their patients and they say, "Stay off the milk for a while." And they do, and they get dramatic results, especially with attention deficit disorder, autism -- we're seeing such dramatic changes in children who go completely dairy-free.
Mike Adams: What about the long-term prevention of chronic disease? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So I stick with healthy dietary choices while I'm on hoodia.
Results of using hoodia
You might wonder how well this strategy worked. And here's my bottom line answer on hoodia: it helps, but personally, I still felt hungry. I have to be honest about this. Hoodia did NOT turn off my appetite like a light switch. It reduced it, yes. It helped me lose weight when I combined it with discipline and healthy food choices. But it didn't suppress my appetite like I had hoped. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It takes human beings years or decades to show the full effects from these poor dietary choices. The other reason it's not so apparent in human beings is because poor dietary practices are so widespread that both the public and members of the medical community think that unhealthy, obese, chronically diseased human beings are now the norm. There are so few examples of people demonstrating outstanding health that we are walking around in a society where we actually believe that human beings are supposed to be fat and depressed and have plaque in their arteries and so on. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | Fruits (nonascor-bic acid varieties) and vegetables are excellent dietary choices for individuals with an iron overload. Simply withdrawing iron-fortified foods from the diet can prompt dramatic changes in iron levels.
Dispersed throughout the Therapeutic section are supplemental suggestions to reduce iron overload, such as calcium, fiber, garlic, magnesium, vitamin E, and green tea, but individuals wishing to protect themselves from iron buildup may also want to consider a blood donation. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts | | Again, this chapter is not meant to be alarmist, but if you're going to embark upon a program of power aging, you have to understand your dietary choices. And, unfortunately, a lot of the choices available today are laced with pesticides.
The Problems with Pesticides
All pesticides have the potential to be health threatening; they can be extremely reactive with our central nervous system, and they can be carcinogenic. You may think that when you wash a vegetable or fruit you are getting rid of pesticide residues, but you can't wash off the substances that have entered the plant itself. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These dietary choices were so successful that all of our ancestors from that time on would be hunter-gatherers.
Somewhere between 500,000 and 180,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens appeared on earth and gradually replaced H. erectus. Called archaic Homo sapiens, they lived side by side with another humanlike neighbor— Homo neanderthalensis (alias the Neanderthals, named for the Neander Valley in Germany where their remains were first found). By this time, our ancestors were quite adept at getting along. |
Patricia Hausman & Judith Benn Hurley
See book keywords and concepts |  Well, there are still other dietary choices that you may find more pleasing to the palate: oat bran and beans.
Nutritionists at one time believed that no one food could significantly reduce blood cholesterol. Then along came James W. Anderson, M.D., and his co-workers at the University of Kentucky, who showed otherwise. In a series of studies, the Anderson team found:
• Oat bran muffins (about two large ones per day) lowered blood cholesterol among healthy college students by almost 10 percent. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  These symptoms are related to hormonal changes, dietary choices, and intestinal health.
The condition often progresses through three stages. In the first stage, which occurs when a woman is in her late teens and early twenties, there may be a few lumps in the breasts. Typically, the breasts are tender during the week before the onset of menstruation. In the second stage, between the ages of thirty and forty, tenderness intensifies and pain may occur. The breasts become more nodular and the lumps are more noticeable during the week or so before the menstrual period begins. | | Exposure to electromagnetic radiation (especially through nearby power lines and transformers), radiation, certain medications (particularly diethystilbestrol, or DES), pesticides, food additives, and cigarette smoke have all been linked with cancer. dietary choices, such as the consumption of saturated fats, are another important focus of research, though it may be that the diet-cancer puzzle has more to do with individual responses to dietary factors, which in turn may be linked to a complex mixture of genetics, physiology, and lifestyle. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts |  Digestive problems are often directly linked to improper dietary choices, already discussed in the previous chapter on nutrition. Beyond that, a comprehensive understanding of the GI system is your best bet for continued digestive health, so in this chapter we are going to walk through it step by step and learn how to use herbs to repair digestive problems. | | This personal approach will allow you to make dietary choices that are complementary to your herbal remedies, enabling you to enjoy a harmonious herbal regimen.
In 1997, I was one of the speakers at a conference for the Delaware Department of Aging. The keynote speaker, a physician from Hawaii, had everyone stand up. She then challenged us with the following statements, telling those who had to answer no to any of them to sit down.
• Everyone who eats fewer than 5 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, please sit down. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In other words, the speed with which they oxidized different nutrient categories such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates was key to the dietary choices that were appropriate for the individual. He discovered that to produce optimal energy for the brain, a person has to eat the right mix of these nutrient categories. Using his approach, he had significant healing success with people who had a variety of mental-emotional problems ranging from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia.
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Paul Pitchford
See book keywords and concepts |  To find a balance, the wisest dietary choices avoid overheating the stomach and thereby avoid the need for large quantities of water and cold drinks.
"Stomach Fire" and Heat-Induced Ulcers
Symptoms: "Stomach fire"t is a painful condition involving a burning sensation in the stomach, bleeding gums, excessive appetite, bad breath, and constipation. The tongue is unusually red and its coating thick and yellow. Stomach fire often causes inflammations such as ulcers of the stomach, duodenum, and mouth (canker sores), although inflammations also can occur from a cold stomach and other causes. | | When one is guided by idealistic motives, such as choosing a diet because it is more humane—because it does not promote the killing of animals (vegetarian) or does not oppress Third World peoples (avoiding multinational-corporation products)—then there seem to be not only fewer problems with transition but a healthier attitude, which in turn enables better judgment regarding future dietary choices.
When a new diet is adopted, one can expect some reactions as the biochemical processes within each cell change. |
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