David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Evergreen blackberries are the main type sold. blackberries are often used in hybrids such as boysenberry and loganberry.
A Serving of Food Lore...
The Evergreen blackberry was known to have grown throughout northern Europe and was especially prominent in England centuries before settlers brought them to the eastern United States in 1850. Migratory birds helped spread the seeds westward, where they took prominence along the Pacific Coast. The Himalaya blackberry came from Germany to the United States, but its true origins can be found in Asia. | | Home Remedies
A combination of distilled water and blackberries made into a drink and taken regularly in the morning is known to promote laxation. Either chewing on blackberry leaves or drinking the aforementioned beverage may help provide relief from bleeding gums and sore throats. To relieve and soothe burns, gently rub blackberry leaves on the burned area.
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COLON AND LIVER CANCER: Human cell studies have shown that components in blackberries capture free radicals and prevent damage to liver and colon cells. | | They are also rich in vitamin C, fiber, and in the phytochemicals tannin, flavonoid, and cyani-din, which have anticarcinogenic properties. blackberries also contain catechins, such as quercetin, which is an antioxidant that can reduce the risk of heart disease and stop the action of histamine for people with allergies.
Home Remedies
A combination of distilled water and blackberries made into a drink and taken regularly in the morning is known to promote laxation. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Blueberries and blackberries: Blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity, making them highly protective for the cardiovascular system. They contain pterostilbene, which lowers cholesterol, and anthocyanins, which improve vision and brain function and guard against macular degeneration. The ellagic acid in them has anticancer activity. blackberries are similar.
6. Strawberries: Contains phenols such as anthocyanins and ellagitannins, which are potent antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents; they're natural COX-2 inhibitors. |
Elaine Magee
See book keywords and concepts |  Top fruit sources: blackberries, cranberries, raspberries, grapes, and elderberries
Top vegetable sources: Eggplant and red cabbage
Other top sources: Wine and black and green teas
BERRIES
Who doesn't absolutely love when those beautiful berries start hitting the supermarkets in spring! Berries are brimming with nutrients and phytochemicals. blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries, for example, contain several types of bioflavonoids and-along with blueberries-some phenolic acids. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts |  Although blackberries grow wild in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, they're Asian in origin.
Health Benefits blackberries are a mild diuretic and astringent and are therefore useful for diarrhea, dysentery, and hemorrhoids. The Romans used them as a gout treatment.
Blackberries are tridoshic, although they are best if eaten in moderation by vata. blackberries are rich in vitamin C and pectin. See Fruit; Raspberry.
Black Chanterelle See Trumpet Mushroom.
Black Cumin See Cumin. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods rich in red pigments, such as beets, red peppers, and blackberries, can turn the urine a rosy hue. Beet-red urine—medically called beeturia—is also often seen when people who are iron-deficient or have a malabsorption syndrome, eat beets (or sometimes other red foods). (See Greasy, Smelly Stools, above.)
Rhubarb and senna may turn your pee pink, too. They contain an-thraquinone, which is often used as a dye and is a potent laxative. Pink or reddish urine can also be a reaction to several psychiatric drugs, as well as anthraquinone-containing anticancer agents. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | A cup + I tablespoon all-purpose
'A cup + 1 tablespoon whole wheat 'A cup old-fashioned rolled oats directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine blackberries, honey, lemon juice, and one tablespoon each of the all-purpose and whole wheat flours in a large bowl. Spray 9" pie plate with nonstick cooking spray and pour in mixture. In separate bowl, combine remaining flours, brown sugar, oats, and margarine. Mix with fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over berry mixture. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Other research is emerging nearly every week on the anti-cancer effects of blackberries, sprouts, citrus fruits, salad greens and many other living foods.
The Secret of Juice Feasting course is available now and teaches:
What is "Juice Feasting," how it works and how to participate
Why Juice Feasting causes rapid -- but healthy -- weight loss, returning your body to a healthy weight in about 90 days
Tips for transitioning to Juice Feasting from any diet, no matter how bad it is right now (even if you eat pizza, milk and donuts! |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Blackberries. blackberries are almost exclusively wild and local, even to city folk. Come midsummer, we can stain our hands and get a few stickers pickin' and eatin' them blackberries. They need to be black and ripe to be sweet; otherwise they can make us pucker. They have pretty good amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron, and other minerals. Both vitamins A and C are found in blackberries.
Blueberries. Blueberries are sweeter and meatier and a little lower in vitamins A and C and minerals than the other berries, though they still have lots of nutrients.
Boysenberries. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods high in bioflavonoids (and vitamin C) include grape skins, cherries, blackberries, blueberries, and the pulp and white rind of citrus fruits.
Bioflavonoids
1,000-2,000 mg per day
Botanicals
Chaste Tree (Vitex Agnus Castus). Chaste tree is probably the best-known herb in all of Europe for hormonal imbalances in women. Since at least the time of the Greeks, chaste tree has been used for the full scope of menstrual disorders: heavy menses, lack of ovulation, frequent and infrequent menses, irregular menses, and a complete lack of menses. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | The (
Dxygen Colon Cleanse
Fruits
Apples Avocado Bananas blackberries Blueberries
Grapefruit Oranges Papaya Pineapples Raspberries
Strawberries Tomatoes Watermelon White grapes
NOTE: I'm sure you've heard this since childhood, but it really is essential to chew each bite of food 25 times before swallowing (or, in the case of fruit, until it has turned into a liquid). Proper digestion begins in the mouth with proper chewing! Chewing your food will help your body absorb vital nutrients better and faster and will help with the cleansing process. | | Choose one of the following: blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, or blueberries. If berries are not in season, replace them with apples or bananas.
3. After your Mid-Morning Snack and before your Lunch, consume another 20 ounces of the Intestinal Cleanser drink.
4. Repeat the following Affirmation 9 times: / Am Clean and Healthy.
LUNCH
1. Eat as much fruit as you can until you are full. Only eat 1 type of fruit!
2. Choose one of the following: apples, papaya, or bananas.
3. After Lunch and before your Mid-Afternoon Snack, consume another 20 ounces of the Intestinal Cleanser drink. | | ACID FRUITS (These fruits have the greatest detoxification power): Lemons, oranges, pineapples, strawberries, grapefruit, kumquats, tomatoes, tangerines, lime, sour grapes, and sour apples
SUBACID FRUITS: Apricots, apples, pears, nectarines, sweet plums, cherries, mangos*, raspberries, kiwi, blackberries, blueberries, and cranberries
SWEET FRUITS: Bananas, papaya, dates, prunes, sweet grapes, cantaloupe, coconuts, mangos*, peaches, pears, watermelon, dates, figs, pomegranates, honeydew melon, and persimmons
*Mangos are both sweet and subacidic. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Cranberries, blueberries, cherries, and blackberries are jam-packed with antioxidants called anthocyanins and polyphenols, which also have anti-inflammatory qualities. Leafy greens such as kale and spinach contain lutein, another superantioxidant. Cocoa carries flavonoids, particularly potent antioxidants that can zap free radicals and protect against inflammation. (The best way to consume cocoa is to add plain cocoa powder—preferably non-Dutched cocoa; Dutched cocoa is treated with an alkali during processing—into chili or other Southwestern recipes, thus avoiding the sugar in chocolate bars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Eat chlorella, spirulina, goji berries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, astaxanthin, carrots and nutrient-rich superfoods to boost your skin's natural UV protection (takes about 30 days of nutrition to boost skin levels). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Foods richest in these substances include berries (blueberries and blackberries) as well as cherries, grapes, and tea. Add these foods to your diet and take a supplement of grape seed extract, which is rich in these compounds.
4. Vitamin C. Vitamin C in combination with a bioflavonoid called hesperidin has been used in research (often with butcher's broom) with good effect. It helps promote better circulation and strengthens the walls of the veins. Lack of these nutrients has also been shown in research to increase pain in the limbs and fragility in the capillaries. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | Raspberries and blackberries are collectively known as "bramble" fruits, which are fruits formed by the aggregation of several smaller fruits called drupelets.
Raspberries (Rubus)
HOW SWEET IT IS!
A Serving of Food Lore...
Raspberries are native to Asia Minor and North America. Earliest recordings show that raspberries were popular around the time of Jesus Christ. Romans are thought to have begun the domestication of raspberries around the fourth century and spread raspberry cultivation throughout Europe. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  They can be differentiated by the fact that blackberries bear larger, black or purplish berries and have longer, thornier canes that appear greenish white in their first year. Most herbalists agree that blackberry plants share common uses, as detailed here, and red raspberry plants share their own common uses, as detailed in the profile of raspberry (see page 246).
Blackberry leaf was recommended for therapeutic use as early as the first century, by Dioscorides. The leaf helps clear heat, reduces inflammation, cools fever, and dries dampness. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Later, you can introduce fruits (preferably lower-glycemic ones like honeydew, cantaloupe, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries) in small portions, but if your cravings increase or your weight loss slows, you may be sensitive to them. (Symptoms of food sensitivities or allergies include fatigue, bloating, gas, skin disturbances such as rashes and acne, water retention, memory troubles, cravings, stalled weight loss, shortness of breath, and stuffy/runny nose. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Ellagic acid is a naturally occurring phenolic compound in many plants, especially strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Ellagic acid has been shown in animal research and in laboratory models to inhibit the growth of tumors caused by certain carcinogens. A publication by the American Cancer Society called "The American Cancer Society's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods" says that ellagic acid is a very promising natural supplement because it causes apoptosis (cell death) of cancer cells in the lab, with no change to healthy, normal cells. | | The ellagic acid in them has anticancer activity. blackberries are similar.
6. Strawberries: Contains phenols such as anthocyanins and ellagitannins, which are potent antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents; they're natural COX-2 inhibitors. Strawberries help improve brain function, reduce macular degeneration, and improve rheumatoid arthritis. The ellagi-tannin helps prevent colon cancer.
7. Raspberries: Contain ellagic acid, quercetin, kaempferol, and other flavonoids that are great antioxidants with anticancer properties; plus, they support eye and cardiovascular health.
8. | | Of the berries, blackberries won with 5500. Of the dried fruits, dates were highest at 6600 followed by good old raisins, weighing in at a whopping 6400! That's a pretty darn high rating for antioxidant activity.
Boron Improves Bone Health in Postmenopausal Women
Raisins are also relatively high in boron, and are in fact among the top fifty contributors to total dietary boron in the U.S. diet. Boron is a mineral we don't hear about a lot, but we should. It's increasingly coming under scrutiny as an important mineral for the promotion of bone and joint health, particularly in women. | | But they're about equal in antioxidants to blackberries or strawberries. And it's not just the obscure, newly discovered compounds like p-coumaric acid that make peanuts a good food. Researchers at Purdue University investigated the impact of peanut consumption on total diet quality. "We found that including peanuts in the diet significantly increased magnesium, folate, fiber, copper, vitamin E, and arginine consumption, all of which play a role in the prevention of heart disease," said Dr. Richard Mattes, one of the principal investigators. | | Of the berries, blackberries won handily with 5500. And of the dried fruits, the winner was ... dates! On the TE score, dates beat the nearest competitor (raisins) with a score of 6600!
Dates come in various states of "dryness": The most common of the "semidry" dates is the Deglet Noor. Six Deglet Noor dates provide a reasonable 140 calories plus a very respectable 4 g of fiber, a bit of calcium, magnesium, and a really nice 327 mg of potassium.
Who Should Avoid Eating Dates? |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Top antioxidant foods include prunes, raisins, blueberries, and blackberries, followed by kale, spinach, strawberries, raspberries, plums, broccoli, and alfalfa sprouts. You can amp up your antioxidant power even more by adding antioxidant supplements to your diet. You'll learn more about this throughout the coming chapters.
How to Eat Your Antioxidants
You can easily increase your daily intake of antioxidants and reap their rewards by following these suggestions:
• Eat at least five servings a day of fruits and vegetables. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Nonstarchy fruits include raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, apples, kiwifruit, and pomegranate seeds. Potatoes, bananas, oranges, and pears are especially high in sugars and other rapidly digested starches, so avoid them until your blood sugar and weight improve.
Why Grains Aren't That Great
Whole-wheat and multigrain breads are often promoted as a good source of fiber and other nutrients, but all grains are heavily processed, resulting in smaller, more rapidly absorbed particles of starch. | | High-fiber nonstarchy fruits include blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and kiwifruit. It's best that you avoid or limit your consumption of high-carb potatoes, bananas, and pears.
LAURIE'S STORY
Personal Boundaries Protect against Stress and Prediabetes
Stress is often overlooked as a contributing factor to prediabetes and overweight. It disrupts eating habits and boosts levels of insulin and Cortisol, two hormones that promote belly fat. In Laurie's case, stress sabotaged her lifestyle, and it improved only when she enforced her personal boundaries to buffer stress. | | Eat High-Fiber, Nonstarchy Fruits
Raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, kiwis, apples, melons, and grapefruit have a lot of vitamins, minerals, and fiber and relatively small amounts of sugars and starches. Include these nutrient-dense foods in your eating plan.
Bananas, dates, figs, grapes, nectarines, oranges, peaches, pears, and plums have far more sugar, and you should not eat these fruits, at least until your weight and blood sugar normalize. Even then, you should limit the quantities of these fruits. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  Other antiparasitic foods include onions, kelp, blackberries, raw cabbage, and ground almonds.31
Herbal remedies have been used effectively for centuries for the treatment of parasitic infections. These remedies can also help prevent a parasitic infection when water or food conditions are questionable. Some practitioners advise continuing any treatment regimen until at least two parasite tests, performed one month apart on purged stool specimens, are negative. Here are a few of the most effective antiparasitic herbs:
• Citrus seed extract. |
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