C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Even more important, you'll come to understand why estrogen dominance is very likely the primary hidden culprit adding pounds to your belly and inches to your waist. Already wondering if you might be estrogen dominant? In Chapter 2, you'll learn how to self-diagnose the problem.
THE HIDDEN WEIGHT-GAIN EPIDEMIC
1 hen people hear the term hormonal imbalance, most immediately think about the change of life, menopause. |
| Using a potato masher, coarsely mash the rutabagas in the saucepan, adding the cooking liquid as needed for moisture. Add olive oil, more salt if necessary, and pepper to taste. Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with a dash of nutmeg. Makes 6 servings. |
| Whisk, gradually adding the olive oil, until well blended.
Grill, bake, or poach the salmon filets. Make a bed of spinach on each of four plates. Place salmon in the center of each one. Garnish each with mandarin orange slices, scallions, and eggs. Drizzle the orange-soy sauce dressing over the entire plate and sprinkle with almond-flaxseed mixture. Makes 4 servings. |
| You can get your daily lignan benefit by adding the above mentioned foods to smoothies, yogurt, or salads. Sesame seed oil (tahini) also makes a delicious salad dressing when mixed with lemon juice, garlic, and water in a blender.
Table 3-1 gives a list of the four belly-blasting food groups and recommended daily amounts.
Table 3-1. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This way, even though your stomach is full, you are not adding calories to your intake. But your body is temporarily fooled into thinking you've just woofed down a triple-plate buffet.
In other words, if you eat two cups of cashews versus two cups of cabbage, your body can't really tell the difference for the first few minutes. Your stomach will turn off the hunger signals thinking you have eaten a large quantity of food regardless of whether you are eating cabbage or cashews, but in fact the cabbage may only contain 20 calories while the cashews contain as much as 900 or even 1000 calories. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Ordinarily caused by the presence of calcium in the liquid, the clotting capacity of plasma can be precisely controlled by first chemically removing all existing calcium in the plasma, then adding back particular amounts of the mineral. Also adding heparin, an anticoagulant drug, prevents the plasma from clotting, even in the presence of calcium. |
Dan Buettner
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 We'll tease out the lifestyle components and let science explain why they seem be adding good years to people's lives.
The final chapter boils it all down into nine lessons, a cross-cultural distillation of the world's best practices in longevity. This, we believe, amounts to a de facto formula for longevity—the best, most credible information available for adding years to your life and life to your years.
Of course this information will do you no good unless you put it into practice. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 For this reason, the early years of industrial PVC polymerization involved little more than pumping vinyl chloride into sealed "reaction vessels," adding a little pressure or heat, and letting the chemistry take off by itself. Semon's contribution was to devise a technique of adding secondary chemicals, known generally as plasticizers, to make a finished polymer that was more malleable.30 The amount and type of plasticizer help to determine the ultimate use of the product, without changing its basic polymer formula. |
Stacy Malkan
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 We'll be updating it every year," Jane said, "always pulling the latest toxicity databases, always adding more products." The staff at EWG — now including a chemist and medical doctor — continue to plug in new information, guided by a simple vision that is not so simple to carry out in the real world: "I want to walk into any store, anywhere, and buy any product without having to worry if it's safe for my wife and kids," said staffer Sean Gray.
Getting there will take more than a database. Skin Deep is "the beginnings of something empowering," said EWG staffer Hema Subramanian. |
| Over the next 25 years, global chemical production is expected to double in size, and the EPA predicts 600 new hazardous waste sites to appear each month in the US — adding to the 77,000 hazardous waste sites currently in the country."
We may be living longer, but we're living sicker. Chronic diseases and disabilities now affect more than one third of the US population, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| Lauryl is converted to laureth by adding the petrochemical ethylene oxide. But this process — called ethoxylation — creates the petroleum-derived contaminant 1,4-dioxane, a known animal and probable human carcinogen according to the EPA.
In 2002, David Steinman started buying personal care products that contain ethoxylated ingredients and sending them to a lab to test for 1,4-dioxane. The lab found the cancer-causing chemical in 18 of two dozen products tested, including 15 popular baby shampoos and bath products.8 The contaminant was not listed on any of the labels. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Hunger results not only from the inability of the poor to access food, it is also the result of global policies that further marginalize the poverty-stricken, cumulatively adding on to the problem of hunger ...
"In 2000, India had a record food surplus of 44 million tons. By 2002, the surplus had grown to 65 million tons, not due to excess production, but because more and more people are unable to buy the grain that lies stockpiled."27
Experts and organizations worldwide have condemned biotech companies for claiming that GM crops will solve world hunger. |
| The way the PAT protein detoxifies Liberty is by adding an acetyl group to the compound. The Public Health Association of Australia raises another risk: "No information is given as to the enzyme's specificity to just this substance. ... If this enzyme is not specific to this substrate, it may acetylate or deacetylate other proteins in humans and farm animals." The Australian authorities claim "that processing to produce processed corn products would inactivate the enzyme. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Another problem: chemistry programs are already packed full of requirements; adding a green chemistry or toxicology course would mean eliminating something else. (Warner suggests axing the requirement to translate scientific papers into French, since computer programs can do that nowadays.) Chemistry accreditation requirements are set by the American Chemical Society, which is largely funded by major chemical, pharmaceutical and product manufacturers — companies that would, presumably, find ways to profit from safer, less-polluting green chemistry technologies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Perhaps adding alcohol to the menu could even save McDonald's from its steady decline in popularity among customers. It seems that the age of Americans worshipping burgers and fries is long gone… but getting drunk remains forever popular (especially in Arizona).
In any case, I'm willing to bet these beer signs aren't actually the fault of the McDonald's company. I'd guess that the Express Stop owner placed these neon signs in the windows in violation of their franchise agreement with McDonald's. This photo is posted primarily for entertainment purposes because it deserves a good laugh. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Similar to the biomimicry lesson about self-cleaning strategies, green chemistry seeks to build the desired functionality into molecules at the beginning of the design process rather than adding molecules later — the fewer expensive additions, the better. Amy Cannon's light-reactive polymer, for example, is inherently flexible so it doesn't require extra plasticizers that could shed off or leach out into people's bodies. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 When mice were subjected to stressful conditions, such as overcrowding, their blood pressure rose, but adding decaffeinated green tea to their water kept rising blood pressures in check, despite the mounting stress levels. Dr. Satoshi Umemura from the Yokohama City University School of Medicine in Japan, reported that green tea lowered blood pressure in rats with hypertension, but he found even better blood pressure-lowering effects with a green tea processed to make it especially rich in GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter involved with blood pressure regulation. |
Ray D. Strand
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 For fatigued patients I usually recommend adding at least 100-200 mg of grape-seed extract, depending on the severity of their problem. It usually will only take four to six weeks before my patients are able to notice a significant improvement and feel normal again. They can actually back off their optimizers at this point, as long as they continue to do well.
Patients who are already suffering from a chronic degenerative disease such as MS, heart disease, lupus, Crohn's, cancer, or Parkinson's, are already in serious trouble. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once you make a batch, you'll need to drink it within a day or two, since it tends to sour very quickly (it's alive, raw and nutritious, obviously), but I've found that you can preserve it in the refrigerator for several days longer by adding a couple of drops of food-grade hydrogen peroxide.
Many raw food proponents are now drinking a combination of raw almond milk and raw goat's milk kefir. That's a combination I'm enjoying, too. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Patients with cardiomyopathy should continue taking their medication, but by adding a complete and balanced antioxidant and mineral tablet along with higher doses of CoQlO (300 to 500 mg per day), we support the natural function of the failing heart, and the patient improves significantly.
EIGHT
Chemoprevention and Cancer
Nothing is more difficult for me than having to tell a patient he or she has cancer. Yet cancer is a diagnosis I must anticipate reporting as a routine part of my job. Doctors all over our nation have to share the same grim news with their patients: more than 1. |
| Langsjoen had been able to significandy improve the health of his cardiomyopathy patients by simply adding supplements of the nutrient called CoQlO to their daily medications.1
As soon as I returned home, I thoroughly researched the medical literature about the use of CoQlO and decided that it was safe to try with my friend. What did Wayne have to lose? I asked him into my office the next day and started him on a dosage of CoQlO similar to what Dr. Langsjoen had been recommending. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 If desired, lightly mash the tomatoes before adding them.) After bringing it to a boil, add the beans. Bring to a boil again, lower the heat, and simmer for 'A hour. In the meantime, boil water for the pasta. Cook the pasta and drain, reserving 2 cups of the pasta water. Add the pasta to the soup along with the pasta water. Serve with freshly grated Romano cheese along with crusty Italian bread. break it down . . .
Calories: 2 73; Total fat: 5g; Saturated fat: Og; Cholesterol: Omg; Sodium: 64 7mg; Total curbs: 45g; Fiber: 9g; Sugar: 7g; Protein: 12g.
Blackberries (Rubus sp.)
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| This section starts off with the nutritional value, just one of many important reasons for adding the powerhouse foods into your diet. Then I'll cover the prominent vitamins and minerals unique to the featured food and explain how this food can improve your health.
HOME REMEDIES
Did mom really know best? She was giving cranberry juice to her kids to help fight urinary tract infections long before there was science to support its effectiveness. All she knew was that it worked! |
| A customer who befriended me suggested that I try adding some veggies, fruit, and whole grains to my diet—not all at once but a little at a time. I figured I had nothing to lose, so I made some of the suggested changes and quickly discovered what good health really felt like.
Over the years, as I became healthier and more intrigued about nutrition, I did a lot of reading on the subject. More and more customers started asking me for my advice on overcoming health hurdles that they were treating medically without success. |
| As you have discovered from my story, eating a bowl of oats every day can be an effective method for lowering cholesterol. But adding nuts like almonds, walnuts, and pistachios, along with some cranberries and cherries, all submerged in some soy milk, takes that bowl to a whole new level. When it's coupled with a diet that includes lean proteins, low-fat dairy products, and vegetables, with an eye on limiting saturated-fat foods like bacon, sausage, and butter, along with moderate physical activity, the cholesterol-reducing power is awesome! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And recently there was the headline that they're adding another dozen things to the list of carcinogens, including several kinds of viruses as being directly linked to cancer. And that's a huge milestone, because we've seen that in the past, and yet there was no one that I could find from the traditional medical establishment who would actually go along with the idea that a virus could have anything to do with cancer. It's a wholly different mechanism. And now they see the direct link to the point where the United States government is adding those elements. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| HEART HEALTH: A small, randomized study examined the effects of adding rice bran oil to the diet. While the control diet did not lower cholesterol, the one containing rice bran oil lowered LDL cholesterol by seven percent. In studies of Finnish men, intake of brown rice is inversely related to not just cardiovascular-related death, but to all causes of death.
CANCER: Brown rice contains plant lignins, especially enterolactone, that help establish healthy flora in the human intestines credited with protecting against breast and other hormone-dependent cancers as well as heart disease. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Many scaled back operations, and some shut their doors completely, adding to the expanding ranks of unemployed homeowners.
A broad range of other industries also felt the ripple effect. Cash-strapped consumers cut back on discretionary purchases like Starbucks's lattes, meals at casual dining restaurants, theme park outings, and movie tickets. The tourism industry, already whacked by high fuel prices and renewed worries over terrorism, saw a drop-off in demand, especially from those at the lower end of the economic spectrum. |
Ray D. Strand
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| He could not participate in normal rambunctious activities with the other children, and as he grew older, the doctors kept adding more and more medication because his lungs were just not performing well.
Then when Christian was age fifteen, it happened again. He experienced another severe asthmatic attack. Passing out at home, he quit breathing. Again, with flashbacks from the past, his parents called the paramedics as
TWELVE they attempted to resuscitate their son. His heart and lungs finally responded only after the family reached the ER. |
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