Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Four hundred years ago, a German vintner was hoping to squeak just a few more growing days out of the late autumn when his fields were hit by a sudden frost, or so the story goes. The grapes were curiously shrunken, but, not wanting to let his entire harvest go to waste, he decided to pick the frozen grapes anyway and see what would come of it, hoping for the best. He let the grapes defrost and then pressed the crop as he usually did but was disappointed when it yielded just one-eighth of the juice he was expecting. |
| The shrunken nature of the grapes is due to water loss. Chemically speaking, it's not difficult to guess why grapes might have evolved to offload water at the onset of a freeze—the less water in the grape, the fewer ice crystals there are to damage the delicate membranes of the fruit.
How about the sharp increase in sugar concentration? That makes sense too. Ice crystals are only made of pure water—but the temperature at which they start to form depends on what else is suspended in the fluid where the water is found. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| 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. |
Carlo Petrini
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 It is certainly more natural than a concentrator, which alters the biochemical values of the grapes produced that year.
The barrique is a cellar technique that does not alter the wine's "naturalness." The same is true of thinning out in the vineyard (the technique of eliminating some bunches of grapes to concentrate the sugars in the remaining ones and thereby improve the quality of the grapes at the expense of quantity): this could be seen as an attempt to alter the productive season by external intervention. |
Susun S. Weed
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 GRAPES/RAISINS {Vinisvinifera)
The grape cure has always fascinated me, as I crave grapes with an overwhelming passion whenever I'm ill. Consuming nothing but grapes for several weeks is said to put primary tumors into remission and prevent recurrences. grapes supply an abundance of anti-cancer trace minerals, selenium, antioxidants, and acids such as ellagic acid. Dried grapes (raisins) are rich in tannins and caffeic acid. They're antimutagenic and particularly good at preventing breast cancers that arise with age.
GREENS
Dark leafy greens (e.g. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Knotweed (a Japanese plant) has forty times more resveratrol per pound than grapes do, and it grows everywhere (and makes a great apple pie). Paradoxically, muscadine grapes from the southeast United States also have a ton of resveratrol (several times more than wine).
Since fat combustion is several times as efficient at producing ATP than burning glucose, the same amount of energy can be created with much lower levels of free radicals. Fewer free radicals mean lower levels of free-radical damage, particularly to the mitochondria. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 The seeds and skins are the beneficial parts of grapes, so stay away from seedless grapes. The same goes for dried fruits, whether apricots, prunes, raisins, or even cranberries. All pack the sugar and calories they had before being dehydrated. Despite the fact that they're marketed as healthy, a handful of dried fruit is the caloric equivalent of three to eight servings of fresh fruit! Just look at the calorie count on a small package of trail mix. |
Dan Buettner
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 The region's Cannonau grapes endured the harsh Sardinian sun by producing more red pigment to protect from the ultraviolet rays. These grapes traditionally were allowed to macerate longer than in any other part of the island during winemaking. The result was a red wine with two to three times the level of artery-scrubbing flavo-noids than other wines.
Goat's milk and mastic oil may be Sardinia's other two longevity elixirs. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Interestingly, the higher the altitude at which grapes are grown, the more resveratrol they produce to protect against sun damage. In Sardinia, where grapes grow at 4,000 feet above sea level, there are more centenarians per 100,000 people than almost any other culture. As I like to say, if you drink red wine, you'll be fine!
COFFEE,TEA-OR CHOCOLATE?
Whether or not you enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, I suspect you do like chocolate. If so, here's some really good news. |
David Steinman
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 Table grapes grow all around them. The grapes are sprayed. I hear rumbling from a distance. "The 99," she said. "The 99 has more semi traffic on it than any road in the United States." We drive by a huge sulfur pile. Sulfur is one of the commonest airborne pollutants.
I take my digital camera out, but she stops me. "No pictures," she says. "They don't like it when you take pictures." Then we're passing some guy on a tractor towing a spray tank and dousing the almond trees. Again, I want to take a picture. "No," she says. "They don't like it."
"Isn't this America?" I said. |
Jack Challem
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 Anthocyanidins
Anthocyanidins are a family of dark-colored flavonoids concentrated in blueberries, raspberries, certain herbs, purple grapes, and red wines. Two flavonoid supplements, Pycnogenol and grapeseed extract, are rich in anthocyanidins. Pycnogenol is obtained from the bark of French maritime pine trees, whereas grapeseed extract is derived from waste material in the wine industry. Both supplements contain complexes of many individual antioxidant flavonoids, with some similarities and differences. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Example: I recommend eating grapefruit, white grapes, pineapple, or oranges for the breakfast and mid-afternoon meals. Although you could eat grapefruit for both different selection of fruits at each meal.
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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). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Seedless grapes are not natural, and they remove the very part of the grape that contains powerful cardiovascular medicine. Have you ever heard of the nutritional supplement called grape seed extract? Guess where it comes from? ... Grape seeds, of course. It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For the experiment, they dipped table grapes into an aloe vera gel, then stored them at refrigerator temperatures. Untreated table graped went bad in 7 days, but the grapes dipped in aloe vera stayed fresh and tast for as astonishing 35 days! Click here to read the ScienceDaily article on this.
Because of this remarkable ability, aloe vera gel could revolutionize food safety around the world. Dipping fruits and vegetables in aloe vera gel would eliminate e.coli, preserve freshness, and greatly extend shelf life. So why isn't anybody doing this with aloe? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you buy seedless watermelons, or seedless grapes, or GM soy products, you're already supporting the corporations that are altering the food supply. Seedless grapes are not natural, and they remove the very part of the grape that contains powerful cardiovascular medicine. Have you ever heard of the nutritional supplement called grape seed extract? Guess where it comes from? ... Grape seeds, of course. It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| He let the grapes defrost and then pressed the crop as he usually did but was disappointed when it yielded just one-eighth of the juice he was expecting. Since he had nothing to lose, he put his meager yield through the fermentation process.
And discovered that he had a hit on his hands. The finished wine was insanely sweet. Since its first, semilegendary, certainly accidental harvest, some winemakers have specialized in ice wine, waiting every year for the first frost so they can harvest crops of frozen grapes. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Choose one of the following: grapefruit, white grapes, pineapple, or oranges
3. After your Mid-Afternoon Snack and before your Dinner, consume another 20 ounces of the Intestinal Cleanser drink.
4. Repeat the following Affirmation 9 times: I Am Clean and Healthy.
DINNER
1. Eat as much fruit as you can until you are full. Only eat 1 type of fruit!
2. Choose one of the following: avocados or tomatoes (tomatoes need to be vine ripened for best results). You may use fresh lime juice, natural sea salt (preferably Himalayan), cayenne or black pepper to season the avocado, or tomato if necessary. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Tuna salad sandwich (tomato, lettuce, 2 slices of bread, mayo and mustard)
Red grapes drowsy/
Cookie (Choc, chip from conference room)
4 anxious
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DINNER (TIME, WHAT, HOW MUCH)
7:30 p.m. Out to dinner: 2 pieces bread
Cocktail shrimp
Grilled salmon, asparagus neutral, but
Baked potato
1 starving
2 bites of Mike's mousse
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SNACK (TIME, WHAT, HOW MUCH)
Missed afternoon snack—forgot to bring something.
SNACK (TIME, WHAT, HOW MUCH)
9:00 p.m. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Nonalcoholic ingredients in the red wine may in fact be responsible for this benefit, including antioxidants and flavo-noids, namely the antioxidants in red grapes that prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol.
Alcohol ingestion, however, harbors potential dangers that may outweigh its alleged benefits. In my opinion, daily ingestion of alcohol cannot be responsibly recommended to women. Well-documented evidence indicates that alcohol may increase serum estradiol by 300 percent in postmenopausal women who take hormone replacement. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| V2 cup blueberries (or sidekicks)
• V2 orange (sectioned) or V4 cup mandarin oranges
• V2 apple sliced
• V3 cup grapes or cherries (10) V8 avocado (2 tablespoons)
Entree SuperFoodsRx Salad:
To Large salad, add 1 of the following:
• Deck of cards (3 ounces) turkey, chicken, salmon, tuna
• Deck of cards (5 ounces) firm tofu, cubed s Tennis ball (V3-V2 cup) beans (garbanzo, black, kidney, etc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Again, you can eat, for example, 200 calories worth of grapes -- that's probably I'm guessing about a cup and a half of grapes, maybe two cups -- and physically, that's a pretty large mass but it's only 200 calories. You might say the same amount of mass could be found in one slice of pizza, but that one slice of pizza might have 800 calories. The person feels the same level of fullness but they've consumed four times as many calories because it's processed food, manufactured food. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 For a snack, choose an apple or pear instead of potato chips or pretzels, or grapes instead of raisins. Fresh fruit is much lower in calories than potato chips and also contains many fewer food-derived glycotoxins than potato chips, which are fried or baked in oil at high temperatures. When making egg or chicken salad, reduce the amount of the main ingredient by half, and substitute chopped celery and green pepper, shredded carrot, or radish and minced onion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Food sources rich in polyphenols include onion, apple, tea, red wine, red grapes, grape juice, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and certain nuts. The average polyphenol / flavonoid intake in the U.S. has not been determined with precision, in large part, because there is presently no U.S. national food database for these compounds. (USDA scientists and their colleagues are in the process of developing a database for foods rich in polyphenols.) It has been estimated that in the Dutch diet a subset of flavonoids (flavonols and flavones) provide 23 mg per day. |
Carlo Petrini
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| The same is true of thinning out in the vineyard (the technique of eliminating some bunches of grapes to concentrate the sugars in the remaining ones and thereby improve the quality of the grapes at the expense of quantity): this could be seen as an attempt to alter the productive season by external intervention. |
Michael Pollan
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 A century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans. This simplification of the agricultural landscape leads directly to the simplification of the diet, which is now to a remarkable extent dominated by—big surprise—corn and soybeans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! (Of course, grape skins also contain powerful medicine called resveratrol, but grape seeds contain different medicines called proanthocyanidins and PCOs, which you can read about at the Physician's Desk Reference). |
Michael Pollan
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| Rockefeller and Theodore Roosevelt) paid a small fortune to be subjected to such "scientific" practices as hourly yogurt enemas (to undo the damage that protein supposedly wreaked on the colon); electrical stimulation and "massive vibration" of the abdomen; diets consisting of nothing but grapes (ten to fourteen pounds of them a day); and at every meal, "Fletcherizing," the practice of chewing each bite of food approximately one hundred times. (Often to the rousing accompaniment of special chewing songs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Untreated table graped went bad in 7 days, but the grapes dipped in aloe vera stayed fresh and tast for as astonishing 35 days! Click here to read the ScienceDaily article on this.
Because of this remarkable ability, aloe vera gel could revolutionize food safety around the world. Dipping fruits and vegetables in aloe vera gel would eliminate e.coli, preserve freshness, and greatly extend shelf life. So why isn't anybody doing this with aloe? Probably because, once again, aloe vera gel can't be patented. |
| Apples, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, peaches, potatoes, grapes and many other food items can be preserved in this way. And when you're done dipping produce in the gel, you can either drink the gel in a smoothie or put it on your skin as a skin rejuvenation treatment. None of the aloe goes to waste, and your fruits and vegetables will last far longer! (This is especially useful for organic produce, which tends to ripen more quickly.)
Aloe vera extends lifespan
A study on rats showed aloe vera extends lifespan by 10 percent. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So large berries like cherries, strawberries and grapes are not nearly as medicinally potent as tiny berries like cranberries, black raspberries, red raspberries, acai and red currants. The more vibrant the color of the berry, the more medicine it contains. Strong or bright colors indicate higher density of natural medicine.
To get the most benefits, eat a large diversity of berries on a regular basis. Don't just stick to eating or drinking one type of berry. Instead, seek out a wide variety of berries and other superfruits.
#9: Can juice products cure my cancer?
Probably not by themselves. |
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