David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  Today's average diet contains a preponderance of overly processed foods and has a high content of chemical additives. The gastrointestinal tract is subject to direct chemical irritation from alcohol, carbonated drinks, and tobacco. In this context, it is easy to see why herbal remedies can be so helpful in treating the various inflammations and reactions that plague abusers. The direct soothing action of demulcents, healing properties of astringents, and general toning of bitters have much to offer in reversing such damage. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  The bottom line is anything you eat or drink that has been genetically modified, processed by a large publicly traded food manufacturer, produced with herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers, or has chemical additives in it, "stresses" our body. When our body is "stressed" two things occur:
1. It suppresses your immune system, making you more susceptible to disease.
2. It can turn your body from the natural alkaline pll state, in which disease and illness and sickness cannot survive, to an acidic state in which diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes can thrive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In a similar way, every processed food product a person consumes that's made with ingredients like white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils, or chemical additives takes them one step further away from human health. There is no processed food made with these dangerous ingredients (called "metabolic disruptors") that is compatible with healthy nutritional habits and that can support optimum human health. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts | | You can actually eat french fries and cheeseburgers and lose weight, provided that the ingredients that you use are all organic and contain no chemical additives. It is virtually impossible to eat food in a chain or franchise restaurant where the food has not been processed to last for years without spoiling. The food has to be produced as cheaply as possible for the companies to make money. They must add chemicals to make the food taste great and get you physically addicted. This food also has been produced to increase your appetite and make you fatter. | | The other major problem with chemical additives in the food is a single chemical may not have major immediate negative effects. But when you combine two or three chemicals together, just like in chemistry class, new chemicals are formed. Scientists at the food companies know this. What these new chemicals do is incredibly dangerous and incredibly powerful—so stay away.
8. Spices
This is the other great fraud that the food industry is perpetrating on the American public. Spices sound wonderful and healthy, but they are not. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  Do programs that improve nutrition and remove chemical additives in children's diets actually have value on a large scale? I have found that the scientific literature supporting such programs, though not widely known to the general public, is impressive.
A series of studies in the 1980s removed chemical additives and reduced sugar in the diets of juvenile delinquents. Overall, 8,076 young people in 12 juvenile correctional facilities were involved. The result? Deviant behavior fell 47 percent.4 |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That's not all: processed foods also contain chemical flavor enhancers such as monosodium glutamate as well as preservatives, artificial colors, and other chemical additives. Packaged meats, for example, are made with sodium nitrite, a highly carcinogenic chemical that promotes aggressive cancer in the human body.
Put it all together and you get a food product that's dangerous to the health of any human being, regardless of whether it's low-fat or low-carb. In reality, virtually all processed foods are unhealthy for human consumption, even if they are low-fat or low-carb. |
Patrick Holford
See book keywords and concepts |  Mexican: watered down
Mexican salsa (versions are available in supermarkets, but check chemical additives). Mediterranean: tomato sauce with peppers, mushrooms, and herbs. Serve with brown rice, quinoa, or buckwheat noodles. Alternatively, use other combinations of raw or lightly cooked vegetables with rice, beans, lentils, quinoa, tofu, buckwheat noodles, or fish.
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Achieving Peak Physical Performance
No first-class athlete can afford to ignore optimum nutrition. | | Avoid any form of sugar and refined or processed food with chemical additives, and minimize your intake of alcohol, coffee, and tea. Limit your alcohol intake to one alcoholic drink a day.
Your Optimum Supplement Program
Your personal nutritional needs can be calculated by looking at your lifestyle and identifying signs and symptoms associated with various deficiencies. In the sections that follow, answer the questions as best you can, then for each nutrient work out your score out of ten. | | We also know that deficiencies in nutrients, and excesses in "antinutrients" such as lead or chemical additives, can cause mental health symptoms.
There's more to it than that, however. Having worked with thousands of people with mental health problems, I'm convinced that most have one, or
329 more, of a combination of thirteen common biochemical imbalances that if left untreated can lead to mental illness.
So, if you do have mental health problems, it is well worth checking out these imbalances, each of which has a clear set of symptoms. | | To prevent these problems and keep your skin healthy, here are some key diet and supplement guidelines:
Diet
• Limit alcohol, caffeine, chemical additives, salt, saturated fat, sugar, and smoking.
• Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, preferably organic.
• Eat some seeds, nuts, or their cold-pressed oil every day. Take either a heaping tablespoon of ground seeds or a tablespoon of a blended seed oil containing cold-pressed flax, pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower oil.
• Drink at least a quart of water a day, either straight or in herb teas or added to juice. | | Check the ingredients list and stay away from drinks containing caffeine and chemical additives or colorings.
Changing any food habit can be stressful in itself, so it is best not to quit everything in one go. A good strategy is to avoid something for a month and then see how you feel. One way to greatly reduce the cravings for foods you've got hooked on is by having an excellent diet. | | Food colorings such as tartrazine and other chemical additives can also cause problems. Some people develop intolerances to tea and coffee, while alcohol, which irritates the gut wall and makes it more leaky, often increases allergic sensitivity to anything eaten. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We strongly recommend using herbs and spices for flavoring instead of salt and artificial chemical additives. Fresh herbs and spices usually contain higher antioxidant levels than their dried and/or processed counterparts. Fresh garlic cloves, for example, provide 1.5 times more antioxidant activity than garlic powder. We'll introduce you to some of the more impressive Okinawan herbs and spices in the next chapter; meanwhile, here are some you may already know. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That is, avoid smoking; get plenty of sunlight; get outstanding nutrition and avoid all food ingredients that are known to promote cancer such as sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils, refined carbohydrates and chemical additives. Also avoid chemotherapy since it is the most powerful way we know of to destroy the human immune system, thereby leaving you more vulnerable to cancer. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts | | Fast food is purposely produced with chemical additives that are designed specifically to increase your appetite, get you physically and chemically addicted to their food, and make you fat. The fast-food industry is in effect causing illness and disease, and knowingly doing so. Lawyers for McDonald's state that the dangers of its food are universally known! McDonald's itself stated in legal papers that it's a matter of common knowledge that any processing that its foods undergo serve to make them more harmful than unprocessed foods! An example is McNuggets. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
See book keywords and concepts |  Mothers feed their children hot dogs, luncheon meats, refined, bleached breads that are all loaded with chemical additives! Children of today all drink sugared cola drinks. They are filled with "empty calories" which may give a short surge of quick energy, but they contain no basic health nutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
They eat commercial ice cream which is high in sugar and filled with toxic additives and commercial fillers. They eat candy bars, cookies, donuts, cakes and pastries. These foods could be called "deprived" foods. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  And speaking of diet, let's talk about the physical stress caused by eating foods processed with chemical additives. Did you know that both processing foods and adding chemicals to them—and the two often go hand in hand—destroy vitamin A? You may not be getting the vitamin A in foods that you think you are. Two examples of chemical additives that zap the vitamin A content of food are benzoate of soda and citral (a lemon flavor substitute). |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts | | If you need to remind yourself why you are giving up these dangerous, artificial foods, reread Chapter 2 where I talk about the harmful effects of chemical additives, food irradiation, and genetically engineered food.
Substitutes for Animal Protein
We avoid animal protein including beef, poultry, and shellfish because they are loaded with artificial hormones, antibiotics, and toxic pollution at the bottom of coastal waters. Replace these toxic protein sources with cold-water fish, such as salmon, trout, mackerel, sardines, cod, and sea bass, four to six times a week. |
Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara
See book keywords and concepts |  We are exposed to free radicals from the pollutants in the air we breath and from the chemical additives and toxins in the foods we eat and drink. Some free-radical reactions occur as part of the natural process of cellular metabolism. We can't avoid all the free radicals in our environment, but we can limit them. Cigarette smoke, for example, causes free-radical reactions in the lungs. Certain foods and food additives also cause destructive free-radical reactions that affect the entire body. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  At the time, less than 1% of food samples contained chemical additives and pesticides at "unacceptable" levels. Even if such levels were still too high—and any level of pesticides in food continues to raise safety questions—harm from food chemicals paled in comparison to that caused by pathogens. In the late 1980s, health officials found Salmonella in one-third of all poultry and estimated that 33 million Americans experienced at least one episode of foodborne microbial illness each year. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The Bread and Circus Whole Food Bible: How to Select and Prepare Safe and Healthful Foods Without Pesticides or chemical additives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1991.
Lappe, Frances Moore. Diet for a Small Planet, 10th ed. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Madison, Deborah, and Brown, Edward Espe. The Greens Cookbook. New York: Bantam, 1987.
Ornish, Dean, M.D. Eat More, Weigh Less. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Richards-Griffen, Hazel S. Ninety-two Years: Perfect Health in an Unpolluted Body. | | Why Your Child Is Hyperactive*) and others have shown that a good percentage of hyperactive, attention-deficit, and learning-disabled children are hypersensitive to the preservatives, colorings, and other chemical additives in common foods on supermarket shelves. Removing these chemicals from the children's diets produces enormous improvements in their brain functioning and behavior.
Many chemicals added to foods still have not been adequately tested to determine with certainty whether or not they're safe. | | The Bread and Circus Whole Food Bible: How to Select and Prepare Safe and
Healthful Foods Without Pesticides or chemical additives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1991. Lappe, Frances Moore, and Collins, Joseph. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity. New York: Ballantine, 1978.
Manahan, William, M.D. Eat for Health: A Do-It-Yourself Nutrition Guide for Solving Common Medical Problems. Tiburon, CA: H.J. Kramer, 1988.
McDougall, John A., M.D. The McDougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health. New York: Plume, 1990.
McDougall, John A., M.D., and Mary A. The McDougall Plan. |
Francois Couplan, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In making the commercial product, sugar is added to the fermenting mash to increase the alcohol content and various chemical additives find their way into this "fire water."
Among other ways of using corn as food we find the following:
Piki. This is the traditional "bread" of the Hopi Indians. It consists of papet-thin, crisp sheets of blue corn that have been cooked on a hot stone. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  The burgeoning popularity of the fast-food industry and processed "junk foods," which contain unhealthy chemical additives, saturated fats and trans-fatty oils, and white flour and refined starches.
• Environmental pollutants, which continue to poison our air, land, and sea, to the point where even certain, once healthy kinds of seafood are now unsafe to eat due to the levels of mercury and other harmful substances they contain.
Making matters worse, this pervasive contamination of our food supply is in many ways abetted by the U.S. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Avoid processed foods and food products that contain chemical additives, refined sugar and/or flour, red meat, and all fried foods. These substances put additional stress on the body. Do not allow yourself to use stress or a busy schedule as an excuse for unhealthy eating habits.
¦ Avoid caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine affects the central nervous system and adds to stress. Alcohol may seem to relax you and temporarily relieve stress, but this effect is an illusion. In reality, it depresses the nervous system and may actually increase stress.
¦ Avoid eating under stressful conditions. | | Today's food products often contain more chemical additives than basic food ingredients. Always read the labels! Trying to find additive-free products can be an exercise in frustration. Preparing fresh, whole foods is a good beginning and a way to avoid the frustration.
Another problem with the American food supply today stems from the fact that farmers often use pesticides and chemicals in their fields that contaminate even what look like healthy fresh foods. These toxic chemicals do not disperse and decay harmlessly. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts | | Over the years, medical research has shown that saturated fats, white flour, refined starches, feedlot-fat-tened beef and pork, and chemical additives and pesticides—all common elements of the American diet—are major contributors to poor health and disease.
The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health acknowledged, "What we eat may affect our risk for several of the leading causes of death for Americans, notably, degenerative diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some types of cancer. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The brands with chemical additives and preservatives, which should be avoided, are usually the ones with enriched flour. Oil is not really a necessary ingredient, and if it is partially hydrogenated, it is a hazard.
In your overall diet, try to avoid ingesting wheat so frequently. Instead, incorporate a variety of whole grains (millet, buckwheat, brown rice, barley, rye, corn, oats, quinoa, amaranth, spelt, kamut, and teff) as side dishes, cereals, noodles, in casseroles or soups, or as rice cakes and tortillas. Health food stores and co-ops have abundant choices. |
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