Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |
 As anyone who likes to browse in bookstores knows, consuming a healthy diet is a topic that fills whole bookshop aisles and magazine stands. But oddly enough— despite the fact that nearly 24 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases and that number is steadily on the rise—there is not yet a recognized diet focused on combating autoimmunity through nutrition.
Before discussing what an anti-autoimmune diet should consist of, it might be helpful to consider why our current diet is so harmful to our immune system in the first place. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Think of it this way: if you adopt a healthy diet overall, but allow yourself to have fats just two or three times a week, that means you are abusing and injuring yourself on one hundred fifty or so days of the year. This "moderation" rationale will deprive you of the ultimate health benefits of plant-based nutrition. Just "this little bit" is enough to prevent you from remaining free of heart disease.
If you understand and accept that premise, you are 95 percent of the way toward success in arresting your disease. Occasional exceptions, however modest, undermine results. |
| While growing up, he ate a relatively healthy diet that contained very little meat and oil. But when he came to the United States to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, everything changed. It was not long before he was positively bingeing on the artery-clogging American diet: "lots of hamburgers and lots of cheeseburgers, a lot of spaghetti and meatballs." For breakfast, he routinely ate bacon and eggs. And he came to love fried food—especially French fries. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
 The ancient Asian practice of fermenting soybeans and eating soy in the form of curds called tofu makes a healthy diet from a plant that eaten almost any other way would make people ill. The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients"—compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins in the soy itself. It took the food cultures of Asia to figure out how to turn this unpromising plant into a highly nutritious food. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts |
| Keeping up with a healthy diet and exercise routine and avoiding as many colon toxins as possible is an excellent way to reduce your chances of developing polyps. I also recommend regular cleansing of the colon to help keep the intestinal lining free of toxic compaction that could lead to polyps.
How Does Regular Colon Cleansing Help Prevent Colon Polyps? |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 The vaginal pH and microflora, the hormonal cycles, and the vaginal immune tissue are all influenced by our general health and dietary habits, and this in turn determines our susceptibility to vaginitis. A healthy diet assures our body's defense system. A diet low in sugars and refined carbohydrates is particularly important in preventing Candida vaginitis. In fact, a recent study confirmed that women with impaired glucose tolerance were at higher risk for recurrent vaginal candidiasis. |
| If you already eat a very healthy diet, then it is important to ensure that you are eating adequate amounts of food. If you are on a restricted diet or follow a specific dietary system, I advise you to seek the advice of a health-care practitioner knowledgeable in the area of nutrition. Generally this would be a licensed naturopathic physician or a nutritionist/dietitian. The following general guidelines for daily food servings have been proposed as the "daily dozen" in the book What to Eat When You're Expecting. |
| Nutrition
A healthy diet is fundamental to an effective menstrual cramps treatment program. In fact, something as simple as eating breakfast regularly was found to be inversely related to the incidence and severity of dysmenorrhea.8 Many women experience relief from cramps just by switching to good nutritional habits. There are two basic aspects to making changes in the diet. |
| Support fertility with a healthy diet.
• Natural methods for infertility are most effective in anovulatory dysfunction.
• Acupuncture can increase pregnancy rates in women undergoing fertility treatment.
• The decision to pursue conventional fertility treatments depends on age, the duration and cause of the infertility, the results of ovarian-reserve testing, finances, other health issues, emotional well-being, and thoughts and emotions about adoption or surrogate options.
• Seek a fertility specialist if considering conventional fertility treatments. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |
 Fats and Cholesterol - The Good, the Bad, and the Healthy Diet"
Article from the Harvard School of Public Health
"Hidden Sources of Free Glutamic Acid (MSG)"
An article about MSG in and MSG-labeling on food. Web site also provides other information about food labels and how to decipher the various food-labeling loopholes employed by food manufacturers. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |
 Cancer 104:653-60, 2005] Pop pills to prevent cancer
Oddly enough, a survey conducted by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) indicates older Americans would rather pop vitamin pills to prevent cancer than eat a healthy diet. Researchers said they found this "worrying." How so? I would ask. What's wrong with taking vitamins, which are safe, and have been shown to reduce the risk of certain cancer?
"The fact that so many Americans, especially older Americans, are seeking cancer protection in pills and powders is alarming, "said one spokesperson for the AICR. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |
 We eat reflexively—it's lunchtime, it's dinnertime—but appreciating hunger and satiety is the bedrock of a healthy diet. Learning to eat until satisfied but not stuffed is a critical tool in long-term weight management. By noting in your food diary your actual feelings of hunger, you'll get in touch with how much food you need to be satisfied. This will help you get back in touch with real feelings of hunger. Here's a simple way to gauge your hunger level. Simply assign a number to the level of hunger you feel. Note this number in your food diary. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |
 One month on a straight juice diet can produce the same results as six months on a healthy diet of solid food, with emphasis on raw fruits and vegetables.
Disadvantages of Fresh Raw Fruit and Vegetable Juices
Fiber is separated from the juice and discarded, thereby depriving the colon of its benefits. This situation can be mitigated somewhat by adding fresh-ground flax seeds to the juice.
Root, such as carrots and beets, are less nutritious than their green tops.
Guidelines for Making and Consuming Fresh juices þ Use only good quality produce. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |
| If you follow the overall SuperFoodsRx Diet recommendations you'll be eating an extraordinarily healthy diet and you'll be losing weight, too—without spending all your spare time shopping and cooking.
Still hungry? Have a handful of vegetables—baby carrots or cherry tomatoes or celery sticks. You can bring these to the office or cut them and keep them in baggies in a cooler in the car or in a container in the fridge. Wait 10 minutes. Reassess.
Reevaluate the time in relation to your next meal or snack. By now 30 minutes have passed. |
| Is it possible, we asked, that someone could experience such a change in such a short time or were these folks simply enjoying the added psychological benefits of seeing some real results while on a healthy diet?
Dr. Greenway explained that what these folks were reporting was real. He reminded us that the skin—the body's largest organ—responds remarkably quickly to any change in nutrition. You know how your face will sometimes break out if a certain food doesn't agree with you? Or how you'll get hives as an allergic reaction? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 I get a good, healthy serving of antioxidants each and every day in my healthy diet, so this is not a product that I particularly need to take every single day.
But most people don't really have a super healthy diet, so they need a product like this on a daily basis. This is especially true for those currently battling vision or degenerative eye problems, or heart disease, high cholesterol, high triglycerides or other cardiovascular disorders. You can go online and order Salmon Essentials at AstaFactor.com, or you may be able to find it in health food stores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 What the USDA says, and what many companies say -- especially junk food manufacturers, soft drink manufacturers and so on -- is that any food can be part of a healthy diet. That's their statement. That's their common defense. If you became overweight drinking soft drinks and eating Big Macs at McDonald's, and you try to sue McDonald's, the restaurant's defense will be, in part, based on the idea that McDonald's food can be part of a healthy diet. Now, I disagree with this because if you look around, every company is saying this. |
| Every one of them has said, "It can be part of a healthy diet."
Ben: Very few of them talk about how it can ever be part of a healthy diet.
Mike: Well, the only way it can be is if you have a perfect diet, you're perfectly healthy, you exercise and you get outstanding nutrition. You avoid all the dangerous ingredients, but once a week you drink a soft drink or once a week you have a Big Mac or something like that. Yes, that's not going to kill you, you see what I mean? But nobody does that.
Ben: Right. That's not what people consider a diet
Mike: No, not at all. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |
 These findings recently triggered a "scare-mongering" row as other experts insisted salmon was safe to eat regularly—and important for a healthy diet. A study released in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology, found much higher levels of some chemicals in farmed salmon compared with wild salmon. The study, which is being considered the most thorough analysis of farmed and wild salmon to-date, found in most cases that consuming more than one serving of farmed salmon per month could pose unacceptable cancer risks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 The food industry claims that all foods can be part of a healthy diet. You usually hear this from companies that are selling you the most disease-causing food and beverage products in the entire food supply. Soft drink companies, for example, say that soft drinks can be part of a healthy diet. They are implying that you can eat a little bit of everything, no matter how bad it is for your health, and still somehow be healthy. This goes along with the idea that processed foods and junk foods are normal.
What's really compatible with your body? |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |
 Certain lifestyle changes, such as stopping smoking and maintaining a healthy diet to lose weight (if appropriate), lower cholesterol, and prevent diabetes are essential. It is also important to exercise on a daily basis. If these conservative measures do not relieve symptoms, a medication called Trental® is prescribed. Failing this, surgical intervention may be necessary.
To treat pain due to spinal nerve compression: Leg pain can be due to problems with the back and the compression of spinal nerves as they leave the spinal cord. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |
| Dieticians often mislead prostate cancer patients into thinking a healthy diet will provide all the beneficial nutrients needed to keep prostate cancer at bay. But there simply is no way to obtain enough vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin E, folic acid, zinc, or omega-3 oils from the diet to counter prostate cancer growth or prevent the disease altogether.
Men who are most concerned about their diet are those whose cancer has begun to spread and cause symptoms. At this advanced stage, therapeutic levels of nutrients are needed, not just a few more Brussels' sprouts. |
| Lancet 366: 1558-60, 2005]
But there is much more that can be done to prevent lung cancer beyond a healthy diet, as outlined below.
Vitamin D and lung cancer
Why are lung cancer researchers missing the obvious?
An article in the Washington Post reveals the blinders that cancer researchers wear. In the report, entitled "Race may be factor in lung cancer," it says Black smokers and native Hawaiians who smoked less than a pack of cigarettes a day are much more likely than Caucasians who smoke the same amount to get lung cancer. |
| British Journal Nutrition 94: 125-32, 2005] Smokers, diabetics, and others with poor health habits were the most likely to have low antioxidant blood concentrations and the least likely to be taking supplements or eating a healthy diet.
High antioxidant foods
To help sort out which foods have the most antioxidant power, the U.S. Department of Agriculture developed a measure of the combined antioxidant power of foods and supplements. It's called the Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity (ORAC). Throw all the plant foods you eat into a pile and how much " anti-rusting" or ORAC power do you get? |
| This is very puzzling, given the fact that the American Heart Association says the inclusion of soy protein foods as part of an otherwise healthy diet is well justified. Good for the heart but unclear for breast health. [Endocrinology 1:293-311, 2002]
Another report says: "Of current concern is the effect of phytoestrogen compounds on the growth of pre-existing breast tumors. |
| Cancer researchers continue to maintain that a healthy diet is all that can be done to counter the adverse effects of smoking. Yes, plant food diets are helpful. But smokers generally consume fewer fruits and vegetables than do non-smokers. [Journal American Dietetic Assn 94: 287-92, 1994]
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables is known to reduce lung cancer incidence by 25% and the reduction is the same magnitude among smokers, ex-smokers and never smokers. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |
 Rather they promote "therapeutic lifestyle changes including a healthy diet" as the best form of primary prevention.10
How do we explain these disappointing and unexpected results? We might think that supplementary pills cannot substitute for nutrients in natural foods. Common sense would support the notion that taking a pill is not the same as eating. Yet, in general, nutritional supplements are highly "bioavailable," meaning that they can be readily used by the body. Nonetheless, nutrient-food interactions are complex. |
Dr. Steve Blake
See book keywords and concepts |
 In many cases, a healthy diet can provide enough vitamin C to be protective against cancer. This is the basis for the dietary guidelines endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which recommend at least five servings of fruit and vegetables daily. Study results vary widely for breast cancer with some studies showing no protective effect and other studies showing a strong protective effect with intakes over 200 mg per day. |
Email this page to a friend
