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| Both the juice and the whole fruit block liver enzymes that break down and clear drugs from the body. Eating grapefruit when you're on certain medications is like taking a higher dose, which can result in excessive levels of the drug in the blood.
Don't combine grapefruit with the statin drugs lovastatin (Mevacor) or simvastatin (Zocor)... calcium channel blockers, such as amlodipine (Norvasc) and diltiazem (Cardizem).. .benzodiazepine tranquilizers (such as Valium).. .or the antihistamine loratadine (Claritin). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, eating apple pie is counted as a fruit in clinical trials. Personally, I wouldn't count that as a fruit. It's a cooked, sugary apple pie made with hydrogenated oils, refined white flour and refined sugar in the crust. To me, that's not fruit. That's junk food. But medical studies call that "fruit."
The same is true with vegetables: a lot of people might think spinach lasagna counts as a vegetable serving. And, again, I consider that to be junk food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 About fruit Intake
On any given day about 29% of the population consumes at least the minimum number of servings of fruit recommended (2 servings per day); 24% consume the number of servings recommended based on caloric intake (2 servings per day for those consuming less than 2200 calories, 3 for those consuming 2800 calories, 4 for those consuming 2800 calories or more). About 48% consume less than one serving of fruit a day.
6. What is the Present Status of the Art of Phytonutrients Research? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One is that the fruit content, the fruit concentrates in this product, are higher than in many other products, which is great.
Dr. Weiss: Without fruit sugars, it's just the fruit content and its flavor.
Mike: Right. And it doesn't have wheat grass in it, correct?
Dr. Weiss: Right.
Mike: So, you don't get that grassy taste. Plus there's a little bit of stevia in it.
Dr. Weiss: Yes, there's enough stevia to freshen the flavor up. The wheatgrass and spirulina were both things that we considered putting in for a long time. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Comer como fruta fresca y tomar el Jugo - 2 tbsp in 11 of boiling water. Eat fruit and drink Juice
Usos / Uses: Rifiones, Inflamaciones, Comida - Kidneys, Inflammation, Food
Salapa
Macleania salapa Benth.
Familia / Family: ERICACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta o Frutas, frescas
- Whole plant o fruit, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Comida como vegetal, Fruta, Jugo
- Eaten as vegetable, fruit, Juice.
Usos / Uses: Suplemento Nutritivo - Nutritional supplement
Sangre del Drago, Mosquera
Croton lechleri Miill.Arg. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The price of that fruit, notably, was enough to pay an entire crew of Southern California agricultural workers a week's wages. As far as I can tell, it's the most expensive fruit in the world. British royalty don't even pay this much for fruit.
Here's the best part: I actually found organic avocados at Whole Foods priced at (this is not a typo): 2 for $5 each
Now let's think about this for a minute. Two avocados for five dollars each. Isn't that the same as two avocados for ten dollars!?
Geesh! Why all the funny math?
Why doesn't Whole Foods just say 2 for $10? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just pure, freeze-fried mangosteen fruit, which is extremely high in xanthones (natural plant-based medicines).
Trade Joe's is also now offering freeze-dried rambutan (yum!) and dried lychee fruit (also yum, but not as much yum as the fresh lychee fruit). They also have a new cashew nut mix called Capitola Cashew which is tasty and not too sweet or salty. It's not organic or raw, but if you're looking for a new taste sensation while eating a relatively healthy snack, this is a great way to go! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| One is that the fruit content, the fruit concentrates in this product, are higher than in many other products, which is great.
Dr. Weiss: Without fruit sugars, it's just the fruit content and its flavor.
Mike: Right. And it doesn't have wheat grass in it, correct?
Dr. Weiss: Right.
Mike: So, you don't get that grassy taste. Plus there's a little bit of stevia in it.
Dr. Weiss: Yes, there's enough stevia to freshen the flavor up. The wheatgrass and spirulina were both things that we considered putting in for a long time. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Bananas and oranges are not as vulnerable because you do not eat the part of the fruit that has been exposed to pesticides, he adds.
Beware of Contaminated Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables contaminated with bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli now cause more illness than raw chicken or eggs. The contamination comes from the use of manure as a fertilizer or from cross-contamination in home and restaurant kitchens. |
John A. McDougall
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 In addition, whole fruit rarely causes digestive distress, so it is thought that the heartburn effects of fruit juice must somehow result from the disruption of the whole-fruit fibers and other protective substances in the process of turning fruit into juice.
Stomach acid is caustic to the tissues of the teeth, throat, sinuses, and lungs?causing dental erosions, hoarseness, coughing, drainage, and asthma. Keep the acid in your stomach with simple changes, especially a better diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I eat fresh fruit daily, and I also take fruit concentrates every day. It's one of the reasons I stay so fit and healthy while having no need whatsoever for pharmaceuticals.
The FruitFlex product is highly concentrated, with each softgel capsule delivering over 100mg of anthocyanins, 20mg of flavones and 30mg of tannins (those are all names of some of the natural medicines found in cherries). You'd have to chew your way through a whole lot of cherries to get the same nutrition.
Plus, softgels are easy to take to work or carry on a plane. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Plants that produce edible fruit evolved that way for their own benefit. Animals pick fruit and eat it. The fruit contains seeds. Animals walk or lope or swing or fly away and eventually they deposit those seeds somewhere else, giving the plant a chance to spread and reproduce. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree— unless an animal eats it and takes it for a ride. It's a gastronomic hitchhike, and it works well for everybody. |
Jay Joseph
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 Due to their unshaken faith in this research and its underlying assumptions, they refuse to consider the possibility that there is no fruit at the top of the tree. It is ironic that, whereas Gregor Mendel did not need twins to make his landmark discoveries, psychiatric geneticists' misguided faith in twin research has led them into a blind alley. Fortunately, the continuing failures in psychiatric molecular genetic research have value in that they provide further evidence against the twin method's validity as an instrument for the detection of genetic influences on psychiatric disorders. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When the fruits ripen and fall from the tree, local families harvest the windfall, then remove the inner fruit from the outer shell. The shell is then dried in the sun, using absolutely no chemical processing or manufacturing processes. In fact, the whole process uses no fossil fuels either, except in the transportation of the product to the western world (which is efficiently accomplished by ship).
It is this outer shell -- rich in natural saponins which act as water surfactants -- that the native families in India have used for centuries to wash their own clothes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A "fruit" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don't be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. These names are designed to sell products, not to accurately describe the ingredients contained in the package.
Ingredients lists don't include contaminants
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or other toxic substances found in the food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As far as I can tell, it's the most expensive fruit in the world. British royalty don't even pay this much for fruit.
Here's the best part: I actually found organic avocados at Whole Foods priced at (this is not a typo): 2 for $5 each
Now let's think about this for a minute. Two avocados for five dollars each. Isn't that the same as two avocados for ten dollars!?
Geesh! Why all the funny math?
Why doesn't Whole Foods just say 2 for $10? Because nobody in their right mind would pay five bucks for an avocado. Would you? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We do know from epidemiologic studies that vegetable and fruit consumption is protective against cancer and, from our work, we would suggest that berries be one of those helpings, at least two or three times a week," said Stoner.
Clinical trials are underway to examine the potential of black raspberries to prevent esophageal and colon cancer in humans. Stoner and his team have begun analyzing the effects of the fruit in people with Barrett's esophagus (a condition of the esophagus that increases risk of esophageal cancer) and precancerous colon polyps. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| About 48% consume less than one serving of fruit a day.
6. What is the Present Status of the Art of Phytonutrients Research?
Population studies have linked fruit and vegetable consumption with lowering the risk for chronic diseases including specific cancers and heart disease. However, media and consumer interest in phytonutrients and functional foods is far ahead of established proof that documents the health benefits of these foods or food components for humans. Phytonutrients research is experiencing remarkable growth. |
Luca Turin
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 It smelled of fruit, but not of any particular fruit, perhaps some compromise between peach and apricot, though more vivid and less subtle than either. It only lasted a few seconds, but left an impression of indefinable oddness. It was only much later that I managed to put a ringer on why it was odd, and it came to me suddenly as a picture, not words. What was strange about the fruity whiff was what was missing: colour. The grey of the concrete, the pleasant wind in the blue sky, the green of the English countryside - all were accounted for, pictures and smells present and correct. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Children eat more fruit and drink by far more fruit juice than adults. From this source alone, they could very easily ingest toxic levels of pesticide residues."
The third aspect of treatment is nutritional supplementation. "For practically all children, we recommend a high-quality hypoallergenic multiple vitamin," Dr. Buttram says. "We use one by Klaire Labs, which makes vitamins separate from minerals. We don't recommend giving large doses. We offer other nutritional supplements in special situations. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Commercial, sugared fruit juices, juice drinks, and soft drinks (both diet and regular).
Fresh juices, preferably raw and organic, and natural spritzers containing only fruit juice and carbonated water. carbohydrates, yet they are a healthful food. Why? Because in their whole form, they come packaged with complex carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, and more—a veritable cornucopia of healthy nutrients. Plus, the fiber that they contain helps moderate the release of sugars into the bloodstream. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 AMAZON fruit ANTI-AGING MIRACLE
Acai is a fruit from the Amazon. It boosts energy, has disease-fighting and age-fighting properties, and is one of the most powerful antioxidants on the earth. Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Denise Richards sing its praises. It is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world, says a leading anti-aging doctor. This fruit can lower cholesterol and protects against heart disease and stroke. It is also loaded with calcium, which prevents osteoporosis, cancer, and makes you sleep incredibly well. It also repairs damaged tissue to the skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Liers: We have people who just start by adding a little Rejuvenate! To fruit or berry smoothies, because they like the smell and the color. But once they start feeling good, we feel in the long run they will transition to more of the green stuff. That's what we are seeing. Even with me -- I wanted more fruit in the beginning -- and now it's greens, greens, greens.
Getting rid of synthetic chemicals in your body
Mike: More and more consumers are now acutely aware of the chemical burden that is being placed on our bodies. Even mainstream journalists are aware. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's far superior to many cherry products on the market because it isn't an extract and it's not simply powdered cherry fruit: It's a unique concentrate based on a new fruit processing technology that packs an enormous amount of natural cherry medicines into a tiny (and delicious) softgel. (Vegans, please note this is not a 100% vegan product because the softgel is made with a small amount of gelatin mixed with beeswax. But you can do what I do and bite open the softgel, then eat all the delicious cherry concentrate inside! |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: ERICACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta o Frutas, frescas
- Whole plant o fruit, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Comida como vegetal, Fruta, Jugo
- Eaten as vegetable, fruit, Juice.
Usos / Uses: Suplemento Nutritivo - Nutritional supplement
Sangre del Drago, Mosquera
Croton lechleri Miill.Arg. Croton draconoides Miill.Arg. Croton wagneri Miill.Arg. |
| Familia / Family: RUTACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Fruta, Cascara, fresca - fruit, Peel, fresh
Administration /Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Jugo de dos Frutas con Guayusa como suplemento de vitaminas durante el desayuno. Corteza quemada como incienso durante rituales - Juice of two Fruits with Guayusa as vitamin supplement for breakfast. Peel burned as incense in ceremonies
Usos / Uses: Escorbuto, Dolor de estomago, Presion alta, Fra-gancia, Mal Aire - Scurvy, Stomachache, High blood pressure, Deodorant, Bad Air / Mal Aire
Ruda
Ruta graveolens L. |
| Familia / Family: ERICACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta o Frutas, frescas
- Whole plant o fruit, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Comida como vegetal, Fruta, Jugo
- Eaten as vegetable, fruit, Juice.
Usos / Uses: Suplemento Nutritivo - Nutritional supplement
Sangre del Drago, Mosquera
Croton lechleri Miill.Arg. Croton draconoides Miill.Arg. Croton wagneri Miill.Arg. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Certainly putting it in fruit smoothies is wonderful. We put a little banana in it or you can put some frozen berries. Eat it with your toast. You can even put it on toast with coconut oil and sliced bananas, and you do not really taste it.
Mike: Wow that is interesting. I am going to try that.
Dr. Liers: Rejuvenate! is now available on our website. We all take it and all our friends are on it. For those who don't like the taste or color of greens, we've developed Rejuvenate! PRO. It contains a coenzyme B complex, more protein, and fruit flavors. When you take Rejuvenate! |
David R. Montgomery
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 Contrary to United Fruit's claims, Arbenz did not seek to abolish private property. However, he did want to redistribute more than 100,000 hectares of company-leased land to small farmers and promote microcapitalism. Unfortunately for Arbenz, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had personally drafted the banana company's generous ninety-nine-year lease in 1936. With Dulles on United Fruit's side, even the pretense of Communist influence was enough to motivate a CIA-engineered coup in the opening years of the cold war. |
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