Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Chronic constipation can also be a result of a constant intake of toxic elements as well as food choices that are processed and full of preservatives. A diet of processed foods can leave a person lacking essential nutrients needed by the liver for detoxification. Bad food choices can also leave you lacking a good amount of fiber. Fiber is needed to absorb the waste and toxins that the liver is sending to the intestines to hopefully get them out of the body. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 At the same time, you also need good food choices to get the most out of your brain. Diet and D are great partners. They have a strong alliance because a healthy diet enhances vitamin D's ability to take care of its jobs. By the same token, though, a bad diet can hinder vitamin D in its efforts. And many people who are eating a bad diet don't realize that their food choices are counterproductive to good health.
Here's how your diet fosters brain growth:
?Your brain needs protein and polyunsaturated fats (especially DHA) to grow correctly. These are critical building blocks.
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Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 We begin to understand that what we eat affects the quality of the functioning of our mind, whether our mind is noisy, quiet, at peace, or irritated. Our food choices and the way we lead our lives (including the Six Foundations) are both the cause and effect of our diet and lifestyle. Our food choices reflect our state of harmony with ourselves, the world, all of creation, and the Divine. This view of nutrition is part of a core understanding of what it means to live an integrative, harmonious, and peaceful life on this planet. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 All of these actions require specific nutrients, and are supported or handicapped by the food choices you make.
Without the proper enzymes and a well-functioning intestinal wall, you may be eating a diet fit for a king, but you'll be malnourished. Your body will become fertile ground for the development of disease.
Poor digestion, in other words, can be at the root of many nutrient depletions, which can cause chronic health conditions. Ironically, the drugs used to treat those chronic health conditions can, in turn, make
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| When you start out with long-term nutrient depletions caused by years of food choices that just don't serve your body's needs, you may already be experiencing subtle symptoms of subclinical nutrient deficiency or general, long-term nutritional imbalances. This can happen long before you swallow your first dose of nutrient-depleting medication.
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Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Another highly popular self-inflicted disease is acid reflux, which is thought to be caused by stress and poor food choices. Instead of curbing our appetites or changing our diets, TV ads encourage us to pop a pill prior to a night of overindulgence. Ten years ago, no one had heard of acid reflux and it wasn't common for undigested food to be rem imitated back into our esonhamis.
Now it has its own disease — and drug line. We have to be responsible for our own health. |
| Conversely, we are constantly introducing external chemicals, often through our food choices, into our bodies that trick our nervous systems and brains, creating imbalance. According to Dr. Cass:
Our brains operate optimally when they are fueled properly and often. We need to feed our bodies with high-quality complex carbohydrates for a consistent supply of blood sugar — its fuel. We need "good" fats (as in fish or flax oils) to make brain cells, and provide a healthy milieu in which to produce neurotransmitters, which are made from good quality protein (fish, fowl, meat or soy). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Nestle, author of What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy food choices and Good Eating; Food Politics; and Safe Food. "If people eat less, it's bad for business," succinctly notes Dr. Nestle, no relation to the food company.
Food and beverage companies find beefing up marketing efforts an effective way to snag new customers, who, they hope, are loyal for life, ensuring continued sales. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Diet for a New America: How Your food choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth
John Robbins ISBN: 0915811812
Review: Vegetarian Times Magazine — "One of the most profound studies ever written of how our eating habits affect our lives, and indeed all of life on our planet."
Fad Diets: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
Icon Health Publications ISBN: 0597839034
Book Description: This is a 3-in-l reference book. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If you are hungry, eat a light breakfast. food choices may consist of nutritious wholesome foods, such as oatmeal (porridge) or any other hot cereal, (but check for a wheat or gluten allergy) Eat your cereal with expeller-pressed coconut oil or unsalted butter; unrefined sea salt; rice, hemp, oat or almond milk; and perhaps a little maple syrup, stevia, agave syrup, raw honey or xylitol sugar for sweetening. This makes a nourishing breakfast. Wetabix or toasted whole-wheat bread (finely ground) with butter, is a good choice, too. |
Jack Challem
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 The Food Label Paradox
The government-mandated Nutrition Facts box and Ingredients list are supposed to help people make smart food choices, but there's a catch. The freshest and healthiest foods—such as vegetables, fruits, fish, and chicken—don't have food labels or ingredient lists. In other words, you're more likely to eat healthier foods if you avoid those that have a Nutrition Facts box and an Ingredients list.
The irony is that a Nutrition Facts box and an Ingredients list amount to red flags, usually indicating that the food has been processed. |
| Ten practical guidelines that will steer you toward your specific eating habits and food choices.
Are you starting to wonder how much work this will take? You have a choice: to keep doing what has made you sick and will shorten your life, or to do what will make you healthier and will lengthen your life.
Five Essential Daily Habits
We recommend that you follow our five essential daily habits every single day. They'll get you off to a good start each morning and keep you going through the day.
Essential Daily Habit #1. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Dietary Recommendations for Better Sleep
Making better food choices can have a major influence on the quality of your sleep. By eliminating stimulants, treating food allergies, switching to a whole foods diet, and taking appropriate supplements, you can help alleviate your sleep disturbances and improve your overall health as well.
Eliminate Stimulants from Your Diet
Begin by examining your diet and eliminating any foods that contain stimulating ingredients, such as caffeine, sugar, or spices, that can ruin your sleep. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| Our food choices and the way we lead our lives (including the Six Foundations) are both the cause and effect of our diet and lifestyle. Our food choices reflect our state of harmony with ourselves, the world, all of creation, and the Divine. This view of nutrition is part of a core understanding of what it means to live an integrative, harmonious, and peaceful life on this planet.
In this section, we see how our spirit, our mind, our emotions, our body, and even our genetic expression are affected by the food we eat. Spiritual Nutrition expresses a new paradigm in nutrition and assimilation. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Years of incorrect food choices and simply being overweight turned my life into a vicious cycle of feeling bad and making more bad food choices. My life was ruled by the diet world, any diet I could get my hands on. The very same people who try to guide us put huge restrictions on our lives: no carbohydrates, no protein, and no starch. They give us strict formulas and diets, so instead of getting to the root of our problem we are left thinking about food all day, planning breakfast, planning lunch, and planning supper and not listening to our bodies like we should. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Poor Nutrition
Indirectly linked to a better diet, since green tea drinkers tend to make healthier food choices.
Unhealthy Lifestyle
Indirectly associated with healthier lifestyles, since green tea drinkers are less likely to smoke and more likely to be physically active.
Weak Immune System
Bolsters immunity and has anti-microbial properties.
Environmental Toxins
Aids in the proper function of the liver, which helps detoxify the body.
Poor Mental Function
Promotes healthy cognitive functions; may help prevent senility. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 I'm going to ask you to initially make specific food choices that will "destroy" the old messages you've been sending your genes. During this phase, you'll be deactivating the destructive "Winter Is Coming" message that triggers the "Store Sugar as Fat" genetic program. Instead, you'll inform your genes that "Winter Is Now," (WIN), which activates the burning of stored fat. This second message initiates the demolition process and allows you to slim down. As you'll soon see, whenever you activate the WIN program, you'll win your battle with excess weight. |
| If you're fine with the food choices in this phase and want to hang there longer, be my guest. If you're one of the few people with a weight issue but no health issues (yet), your decision to move on to Phase 2, the Restoration phase, is yours and yours alone to make.
However, if you also have health issues, I advise you see your physician and have your blood lipids and insulin levels rechecked. Specifically: þIs your insulin resistance gone or nearly gone? If not, stay in Teardown until you have lost at least 20 pounds. þHas your LDL cholesterol level increased? |
| Once you've completed the first two weeks of the Teardown phase, you can make some adjustments in your food choices, which we'll discuss in the next chapter. You've probably lost at least 3 pounds and some of you will have lost more. (The largest weight loss I have seen in two weeks is 12 pounds. The least was a 2-pound gain! Okay, the food diary showed complete lack of compliance.) If you are not losing weight, it's time to start a food diary and write down everything that goes into your mouth. Everything! |
| Make no other changes in your food choices and your weight will stabilize. This is
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When I met Catherine, she was a young mother working in a doctor's office. She casually mentioned that she had been told that she was "pre-diabetic" and had elevated blood pressure, which is like saying you are "a little bit pregnant." A full-figured woman, she sported the classic tummy-overhang associated with individuals who suffer from the metabolic syndrome. Catherine began Diet Evolution, and after losing about 30 pounds, hit her first plateau. |
Tom Bohager
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 Though the digestive process requires an incredible amount of energy under normal circumstances, the demand increases when poor food choices are made due to the type or quantity of food consumed. Improving digestion by taking a digestive enzyme supplement ensures that your body will benefit from the nutrients in the food you consume and it has the energy it needs to maintain the other systems, particularly when you're ill and the other systems aren't functioning as efficiently as they could be. |
| Therapeutic enzymes are much less effective if an individual is not taking digestive enzymes or in some other way resting the digestive system by fasting, improving food choices, or reducing calories. The reason for this is that the enzymes intended to provide a therapeutic effect by being absorbed into the blood actually begin digesting the food in the gut and as a result become less potent. This is especially true if a person is in the middle of a health crisis. For therapeutic enzymes to have a healing effect, it is imperative that there is not a heavy demand for digestive energy. |
| CLEANSE AND FORTIFY PROGRAM
Individuals who have very toxic bodies from years of poor food choices, heavy antibiotic use, or exposure to heavy environmental pollution, or who suspect heavy metal toxicity need to cleanse their entire digestive systems and recolo-nize them with healthy bacteria. Toxins, certain drugs, fungus, and chemicals in the body can interfere with the body's abilities to properly digest, absorb, and assimilate nutrients that are essential to sustaining life and health. |
Elaine Magee
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 Many studies have looked at whole grains in combination with other healthful food choices and the reduction of stroke. A Mediterranean diet, which is high in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and beneficial oils (see Chapter 6), has been shown to reduce stroke and heart attack by 60 percent, notes J. D. Spence, MD, with the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre in London, Ontario. And a recent review of 121 scientific publications all researching
Four Ways Oat Fiber Helps Your Body
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| And if you drink alcohol, make sure you are meeting your folic acid requirements through food choices.
Load up on vegetables. Aim for 9 to 10 servings (about V2 cup each) of a variety of fruits and vegetables a day. Try to include a cup of dark green vegetables and a cup of an orange fruit or vegetable (for carotenoids, folic acid, fiber, and phytochemicals).
Savor seafood. Eat fish two to three times a week as a sub for red meat (or foods high in saturated fat) and as a source of omega-3 fatty acids.
Favor beans over meat. |
Jack Challem
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| They tend to blame the alarming rate of obesity and diabetes on individual food choices and inadequate exercise. The truth is that these companies are not passive participants in this modern health debacle. They aggressively promote unhealthy foods that are designed around sugars, sugarlike carbs, and trans fats and then shrug off any responsibility for contributing to obesity and prediabetes.
For many years, companies have had lucrative deals with public schools to stock vending machines with sugary soft drinks and high-sugar snacks. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 While the SuperFoods themselves can go a long way to promoting health and preventing chronic ailments like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and osteoporosis among others, they can't obliterate the effects of other, poor food choices. Which means that you can't eat steak, french fries, and a giant cinnamon roll and expect that a cup of green tea is going to bail you out. It just doesn't work that way. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Pricing Effect on food choices." American Society for Nutritional Sciences: Sugar and
Fat—from Genes to Culture Symposium 133 (2003): 829S-830S. Gogoi, Pallavi. "News Analysis: The Skinny on Food in 2005—Expect a New Food Pyramid, Labeling
Changes to Reveal Artery-Clogging Ingredients, and More Fights over What Constitutes a
Healthy Diet." Business Week Online, December 29, 2004. http://www.businessweek.com/ bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf20041229_0061_db016 .htm.
Greene, Bob. Get with the Program: Getting Real about Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Weil-Being. |
Jack Challem
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 Nutrisocial Pressure Points
When we feel stressed, we invariably sacrifice our eating habits, sometimes by making less healthful food choices and other times by skipping or delaying meals. When we're faced with too many tasks at home and at work, we usually reduce the time needed to plan and prepare meals and instead opt for convenience and fast foods. When we spend less time cooking, we're also less likely to teach our children how to cook or appreciate fresh foods. In this way, the impact of today's pressures will affect subsequent generations. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Furthermore, both Ruskin and Michele Simon, founder of the Center for Informed food choices, worry that the plan has no enforcement mechanism, no oversight, and no accountability. "Is Bill Clinton going to run around to every school to make sure the policy gets implemented? Industry isn't interested in having government pass laws telling them what to do, so now they're saying that they're taking care of things voluntarily," contends Simon, a public health attorney. "They want to make it seem like we don't need these laws. |
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