Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  USDA economists tell us that rising incomes, time constraints, and low food prices outweigh nutrition education as factors influencing dietary choices and that as incomes rise, people eat more, become less active, and gain weight. As incomes rise further, however, health goals become more important. This last observation suggests that a burgeoning economy creates a stronger base of advocacy for dierary change.15
One place to begin is with children. If the roots of obesity are in childhood, then marketing of foods to children deserves substantial public opposition. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Thus, it is hoped that the information given in this chapter will promote a keener understanding and motivation toward making dietary choices that will be sound and lasting.
DIET AND DISEASE
The known associations between the current standard American diet and disease are summarized in the following table. |
Prevention Magazine
See book keywords and concepts |  People with celiac disease can choose to be well by making the right dietary choices," says Leon Rottmann, Ph.D., executive director of the Celiac Sprue Association.
There are many whole grains and flours, for example, that don't contain gluten. Gluten-free flours include corn flour, potato flour, rice flour, soy flour, tapioca, arrowroot, and milo. You can even find pea, bean, and lentil flours, none of which contain gluten, at health food stores. Baking with gluten-free flours is tricky because they don't "handle" like regular flours. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
See book keywords and concepts |  By the same token, poor dietary choices can contribute to the deterioration of general health and lead to many diseases. People who take supplements and herbal medicines are healthier than the general population, as are people who follow healthy diets. However, when forced to choose just one practice, those who eat a balanced diet enjoy better health than do those who simply take supplements. Adoption of both practices is ideal for a long and healthy life.
Examining a patient's dietary habits is an integral step in herbal diagnosis and treatment. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
See book keywords and concepts |  If there are imbalances of the essential macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fats), micronutrients (vitamins, minerals), and other phytochemicals in our dietary choices, the accurate transcription of genetic messages may not take place, disrupting the cells' adaptation capabilities. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, physicians do frequently recommend that patients know their cholesterol levels and take a more active role in healing themselves, particularly through dietary choices.
I have found that patients nowadays have become so aware and so knowledgeable about cholesterol that they not only want to know their total numbers, but also ask questions regarding HDL and LDL, lipoproteins that carry cholesterol in the blood. Blood is mostly water, and cholesterol is a fat. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A substantial percentage of daily stress can be traced to negative dietary choices. Refined foods laden with chemicals, or the acid toxins in red meat and poultry, to name two broad categories, have a damaging effect on your metabolism.
Emotional distress and nutritional distress are as interrelated as kissing cousins, because EMT—emotional tension—fuels nutritional tension. When you're emotionally stressed out, you're much more likely to indulge in abusive eating habits. EMT baits you. |
J. Robert Hatherill
See book keywords and concepts |  A male's dietary choices are critical in preventing prostate and testicular cancer. þHigh-fat animal products are a consistent risk factor for prostate and testicular cancer. þThe most practical, sensible changes a man can make concern the intake of cancer-stifling foods such as soy, green tea, and lycopene.
PREVENTION GENERAL MEAL PLAN low saturated-fat diet? | | Yet regrettably people will continue to smoke. Your dietary choices, however, can be important factors in reducing the possibility of lung cancer.
The ill health effects of smoking are endless: atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, lung cancer, emphysema, and chronic obstructive lung disease, among others.
Since the number of males who smoke in Japan is twice the number in the United States, studies are puzzling that show deaths from lung cancer in Japanese males to be significantly lower than for American men. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Food. Your dietary choices and habits are clearly important. Some diets may reduce your cancer risk, while others may increase it. This is, however, an area where caution and common sense must be exercised, especially as the facts are incomplete, and the consumer is caught between opposing viewpoints. Industry, on the one hand, dismisses as hysterical any questions on the safety or carcinogenicity of food,8 while on the other hand public interest groups emphasize the carcinogenic hazards of many food additives and contaminants. |
Mark Bricklin
See book keywords and concepts |  The National Academy of Sciences has gone so far as to suggest that wiser dietary choices might be very important in helping to prevent cancer. In England, the Royal College of General Practitioners has asserted that "The promotion of health is the part of preventive work furthest from most doctors' habits of thought and action. It entails helping people to learn and to accept responsibility for their own well-being. |
Annemarie Colbin
See book keywords and concepts |  As an example of the way you can use the foregoing models, here is a quick overview of some telling discomforts and the general change in dietary choices that would help to set them straight:
1. Do you feel spacy, unable to concentrate, scattered, "can't get it together"? Are you dropping things, bumping into things, starting lots of projects but not finishing them? you may be too "expanded": Increase contractive foods and diminish the expansive ones.
2. Do you feel tight, tense, on a narrow path? Do you get feedback from your environment that you are unyielding and rigid? | | Neither defend nor apologize for your dietary choices, whatever they are; if you do, you will only be expressing unnecessary guilt feelings. You have a right to eat whatever you please, be it vegetarian, standard American, "nouvelle cuisine," macrobiotic, junk food, or last night's leftovers. Whatever choices you make will have an effect, and if the effect is what you want, fine; if it is not, you have the freedom to change your choices. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, they afford a panoramic view of your dietary choices in all their variety and splendor.
FOOD GROUPS
To give you maximum flexibility in designing a healthful daily menu, we've put together the following lists of foods grouped in nine categories: (1) starches; (2) meat and meat alternatives; (3) dairy products; (4) vegetables; (5) fruit; (6) fats; (7) free food; (8) combination foods; and (9) foods to eat only occasionally. This table is to be used in conjunction with our five Daily Calorie Goal charts covering 1,200, 1,500, 2,000, 2,500, and 3,000 calories a day. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  This assignment led him to examine the relationship between the external environment—molded by a person's emotional and physical stress exposure, dietary choices, and other lifestyle habits—and the internal environment of the body. Dr. Vincent concluded that the components of the blood, urine, and saliva afford insight into the way the body functions. By monitoring biochemical changes in these fluids and by making appropriate changes in diet, lifestyle, and medical treatment, health can be reestablished and disease processes retarded or possibly reversed. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts | | They should, not only because of the health consequences of dietary choices, but also because of the ethical issues raised by industry marketing practices. Food marketing raises ethical dilemmas, but so does attempting to regulate or change people's food choices, deciding how government should protect health within the context of a free market economy, determining what kinds of policy changes might support more healthful food choices, and identifying the role of individual responsibility in making such choices. This concluding chapter explores such dilemmas. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
See book keywords and concepts | | Other grains that are not so well known, such as millet and quinoa, are also good dietary choices. They just haven't had center stage yet in mainstream marketing. Buy them at your health food store.
Shiitake Mushrooms and Pasta
4 cloves garlic, chopped Salt and pepper, to taste
1 onion, chopped 1 cup pasta water
3 tablespoons olive oil Vi cup soy milk (optional)
Vi pound shiitake mushrooms, sliced 1 pound spiral pasta, cooked
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
Saute garlic and onion in oil until golden.
Add mushrooms, parsley, salt, and pepper. Saute until tender, about 10 minutes. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  How Cancer Grows and Spreads
Here's the short course on how cancer goes from a single cell to a systemic disease. dietary choices and genes contribute differently at each of these stages of cancer development:
1. Initiation/abnormal cell growth: A mutation in one or more normal cells initiates the cancer, and each division of the cell replicates mutated genes and accumulates additional genetic mutations. At this point, either the body's defenses target and eliminate that cell or group of cells, or they reproduce to form a primary tumor.
2. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
See book keywords and concepts | | Genesis 1:29
YOUR dietary choices DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Heredity is often considered a major cause of cancer. This is partially true if you make the same unhealthy dietary and lifestyle choices that your parents did. For example, a diet rich in hydrogenated fats like margarine can influence the initiation step in carcinogenesis, especially in relation to free radicals, and a diet high in animal fats can influence the promotion stage of tumors by acting on initiated cells to elicit cancer growth. However, a healthy lifestyle and diet may protect you. | | The good news is that our dietary choices can and do effectively modulate genetic susceptibility to cancer.
Oncoviruses
One cause of mutational change, insertional mutagenesis, occurs when cells are infected by viral genes. This brings the cellular oncogenes under the influence of viral promoters or regulators that cause mutations by adding new DNA rather than altering existing DNA.
Some animal studies have indicated that viruses may be involved in carcinogenesis. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  If it weren't for our meat-eating ancestors, the vegetarians wouldn't even be around today to complain about dietary choices with which they disagree____
The move away from a purely vegetarian diet triggered the growth of the human intellect."
—National Cattlemen's Beef Association15
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
—Albert Einstein
The meat industry comes up with some amazing material. Dan Murphy is the editor of Meat Marketing and Technology, a magazine dedicated to the U.S. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts | | That actions typical of antismoking campaigns are only rarely applied to nutrition issues is a tribute to how well the food industry has sown confusion about the research linking diet to health, about advice based on that research, and about dietary choices based on that advice. The result is the widely held idea that "eat less" need not apply to categories of foods, to specific food products, or to food in general.
In this regard also, we have much to learn from the tobacco wars. | | In the early 1990s, Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust (a Boston-based group devoted to incorporating traditional foodways into current dietary choices) recognized the political implications of food choice when it urged chefs and restaurateurs to forge alliances with local food producers and "vote with your fork!" (see Figure 34).
The value of such alliances is vividly illustrated by the purchasing practices of a small (65-seat) vegan restaurant, Angelica's Kitchen, in New York City's East Village neighborhood. | | That "virtuous" dietary choices can result in economic harm to food producers is evident from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies. USDA economists estimate that eating more fruit and vegetables and fewer foods of animal origin would upset the existing "volume, mix, production, and marketing of agricultural commodities" and would require large "adjustments" in international food trade, nonfood uses of basic commodities, and food prices.11 Some agricultural sectors (fruits, vegetables) would benefit if people followed dietary guidelines, but others (beef, corn, sugar) would suffer. | | More realistic are shorter-term actions that community and state governments could take to help people make more healthful dietary choices. The current epidemic of obesity is reason enough to demand action, and the associated health care costs are sufficient grounds for believing that at least some of the actions listed in Table 37 might be politically feasible. Today, numerous government policies support the present food system; these policies could be revised to promote more healthful diets rather than the economic interests of the food industry. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  More specifically, each of these potentially negative dietary choices contributes to specific pathogenic processes. First, the standard American diet provides less nutrition per calorie consumed than does our true cultural diet of natural foods. Our body needs a certain amount of nourishment to function. The high amounts of white sugar and refined flour foods in the current American diet provide useless calories with few nutrients. Therefore we require more food on this diet to obtain all our needed nutrients. This is a crucial aspect underlying one of America's biggest problems, obesity. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts |  Support is out there as more people increasingly make positive dietary choices.
Don't try to change your family and friends. Tossing out their favorite junk food or lecturing them doesn't work. Claim ownership for what you're doing and grant others the dignity of making their own choices. With young children, however, having only healthful options available at home is ideal.
Being Good to Yourself
Be loving and compassionate with yourself. Effectively implementing dietary upgrades takes time. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, fabricated and genetically engineered foods introduced in recent years have also afforded consumers with new dietary choices.
Finally, food consumption data and survey methods need to be standardized to make them more useful in estimating exposures and determining risk. Currently, there is no simple, uniform method for conversion of a food, as consumed, to its components in terms of raw agricultural constituents. In addition, surveys should be coordinated among concerned organizations and carried out in a timely manner in order to identify trends in food and water consumption. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | But when it leads to overeating, significant weight gain, and poor dietary choices, emotional eating can seriously affect your health. Food can also become a substitute for or an escape from addressing the under-
DIET AND SELF IMAGE
As you explore your emotional issues, it is important to keep in mind that your inner desires and feelings regarding body weight are shaped by what you see and hear every day. You need to distinguish between feelings and desires that are your own and those that come from social pressure. |
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