Jack Challem
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 Organic and Other Natural Foods
Many people believe that organic, natural, and health foods are all about eating only vegetarian foods, such as tofu and bean sprouts. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Natural foods are usually simpler, less-complicated foods and meals. health foods are any food that's healthy, in contrast to blatantly unhealthy foods. None of this means that natural foods have to taste bad. To the contrary, any good cook relies more on herbs and spices and less on salt and pepper to make a delicious meal. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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The point here is this: Wonderful, amazing health foods like eggs (with their yolks) and coconut have been absent from the American diet, for no other reason than that people—including doctors—simply don't really understand the full story when it comes to fat.
The human body needs fat. We can't exist without it. It's incorporated into our cell membranes. It's used as an energy source. It cushions and protects our organs. It makes certain critical vitamins—like vitamins A and D—available to us. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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Leung AY, Foster S (eds): Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, NY, 1996.
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Maughan JR, Evans SP: Effects of pollen extracts upon adolescent swimmers. Br J Sports Med; 16(3): 142-145. |
Jack Challem
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| Natural foods are usually simpler, less-complicated foods and meals. health foods are any food that's healthy, in contrast to blatantly unhealthy foods. None of this means that natural foods have to taste bad. To the contrary, any good cook relies more on herbs and spices and less on salt and pepper to make a delicious meal. People's taste buds have been numbed by the tastes and textures of processed foods. Natural foods—which are really high-quality foods—have wonderful flavors.
Organic foods are grown without pesticides and with soil-preserving agricultural methods. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Even if real whole grains were added to these super foods feeding our nation at breakfast time, this certainly wouldn't turn them into health foods. Consider what's in a cup of Trix, for example. The nearly iridescent colors of the popular cereal show that it is saturated with artificial coloring agents. To keep it fresh, it has to have preservatives which "preserve" (prevent) it from being digested properly. Trix also contains plenty of trans fatty acids (as found in canola and rice bran oil) that clog up the cell membranes and damage blood vessels. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Growing up, she had owned a health-food store in the small town of Pomp-ton Lakes, New Jersey, which had offered an array of health foods and supplements decades before health-food stores became part of mainstream America. She had been well known in their community for her vast knowledge about how a healthy diet and dietary supplements can affect overall wellness. Over the years she had often chastised her son for focusing only on pharmaceutical drugs when treating patients. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Should we fear "health foods?" Arch Intern Med; 159(13):1502. 1999
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Gray AM & Flatt PR. Pancreatic and extra-pancreatic effects of the traditional anti-diabetic plant, Medicago sativa (lucerne). Br J Nutr; 78(2):325-334. 1997
Herbert V & Kasdan TS. Alfalfa, vitamin E, and autoimmune disorders. Am J Clin Nutr; 60:639-640. 1994
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Light TD & Light JA. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| So what is it about oatmeal that makes it go to the head of the list for everyone's favorite health foods? Let's start with fiber. Oats are simply a great source of fiber and contain a nice mix of both essential kinds (55 percent soluble and 45 percent insoluble). But the soluble fiber in oats, known as beta-glucan, is really responsible for giving oatmeal its high nutritional accolades.
Oatmeal Turbocharges Your Immune System
Beta-glucan is actually a type of polysaccharide (a long string of glucose molecules). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 You will find high fructose corn syrup even in health foods so read the ingredients.
Avoid processed foods loaded with chemicals to "preserve freshness." Do your best to eat organic, unprocessed foods.
Eat salads at dinner before your main course or as your main course. If you take the time to make a good salad with ingredients that really add flavor, you can enjoy it while reducing your hunger level before you get to your main course, which results in eating less. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| By the way, it's interesting that of the fifteen experts I surveyed for their "top ten favorite health foods" (sixteen if you include me!), not a single one chose soy.
Edamame (green soybeans)
As you might have guessed by a cursory glance through this book, I'm not a huge fan of soy (to read why so few soy foods are included in this book, see page 166). One soy food I do like well enough to ^^^^^ include it in the top 150 foods is edamame.
Edamame is the Japanese word for green vegetable soybeans. |
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Raw, certified organic milk—unpasteurized and unhomogenized—is one of the true health foods on the planet. It's a wonderful source of protein and calcium, the fat in it is perfectly acceptable, and it tastes absolutely delicious.
Raw milk is loaded with nutrients, including beneficial bacteria such as ~» Lactobacillus acidophilus. Because it isn't subjected to the high heat of pasteurization, those good bacteria—along with wonderful beneficial enzymes— aren't destroyed. And according to Dr. Joe Mercola, raw milk is the finest source of calcium available. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The following chart shows how pervasive soy is in our so-called health foods. The 40-gram level of IGF-1-creating soy protein from the study, as you will see in the chart, is easy to achieve.
EATING PROCESSED SOY EASILY ADDS 40 GRAMS OF HARMFUL PROTEIN CONCENTRATE TO YOUR DIET
ITEM SERVING GRAMS OF PROTEIN
Desserts and Snacks:
Cliff?Builder's Bar 1 bar 20
Cliff?Bar (Oatmeal, Raisin Walnut) 1 bar 10
Revival Soy Bars?1 bar 17
Atkins Nutrition Bars?1 bar 21
ZonePerfect Nutrition Bars?1 bar 15
Revival Soy Shakes?Splenda?1 shake 20 Meats:
Morningstar Farms?Sausage Patties 1 patty 10
Boca? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The typical junk vitamins and junk health foods that other, more popular, health magazines and websites might happily promote for a fee will never get promoted on NewsTarget.com. We actually tell the truth about products, and we tell the truth rather bluntly about what's in your product.
If you send us a "natural" vegetarian food product made with yeast extract, for example, you can expect to get blasted on NewsTarget for using a hidden form of MSG. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 I'm really very angry with the health food industry for putting 'organic cane juice' in so many products and calling them 'health foods,' " Dr. Fuchs says. "It causes the same stimulating effect on insulin as refined sugars even if it does contain tiny amounts of trace minerals."
Hnw Can I Squash My Sugar Cravings? and Other Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
It seems that everyone who embarks upon a program to kick sweeteners asks many of the same questions. |
| Even in the United States, after the FDA sent out a warning letter in 2000, a number of health foods companies nervously stopped adding agave nectar to their products."
Experts such as Bianchi also question how agave nectar could be derived from the Mexican plant since, "for some dozen years, there's been a worldwide shortage of blue agave and hardly enough to meet the demand for mescal or tequila alcohol beverages, which also come from agave.
"The bottom line is this: I advise against using agave. I'm really suspicious and concerned about its safety and constitution," Bianchi charges. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Over-the-Counter Progesterone Creams
You can purchase bio-identical progesterone creams in most health foods stores. The good news is that these creams are available; the bad news is that some products are better than others. The reason for this discrepancy: there is no regulatory body that oversees the production or standardization of product manufacturing for so-called "natural" products. What this means to the average consumer is that there is great variation among the many OTC progesterone creams on the market today. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 I detest the term 'health foods' because it's so misleading. I think 'plain foods' is a better term. I ask parents, who are now in their 30s and 40s, to think back about how their grandparents ate two generations ago. In many instances it wasn't ideal, but it was vastly superior to the way people eat today. They ate mostly plain, unadulterated food.
"So the prime emphasis on diet is the avoidance of chemicals. I attended a meeting in Dallas one time where Dr. Wlliam Rea was the speaker. He is certainly one of the most highly respected men today in the field of environmental medicine. Dr. |
David Steinman
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 Now there's a town for you," said El-Talabani, of Sunrise health foods. "But I like where we are in Illinois."
We were climbing higher. It was hotter and hotter in the van. The rain was falling, and we were all crowded together. And I was chasing some supposedly miracle herbal formula. Lewis was talking about his latest soul-to-soul sales experience.
"You know, recently, a very high-level executive from a large natural supermarket chain took me into one of their markets," Lewis said. |
| Dan Chapman and Ken El-Talabani of Sunrise health foods in Lansing, Illinois, were my old friends. Chad Beyer of Healthy Horizons in Green Bay, Wisconsin, became a new friend, as did Scott Pace of Whole Health Natural Foods in Springfield, Missouri. I could tell that it was going to be a fun, eclectic group of travelers. Costa Rica seemed to offer a sense of so much possibility. I'd heard of its vibrant democracy and its nonmilitary ways. I'd heard so much about its rainforest. I wondered if it, too, was the real thing. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Sales of soy products have achieved double-digit growth rates since the FDA allowed the industry to claim that soy products are not only safe to eat but also "health foods."68
The FDA bills itself as "The Nation's Foremost Consumer Protection Agency,"69 and its mission statement ends with the phrase "helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health." Yet the agency's handling of this dubious claim suggests nothing so much as an unholy alliance with big business. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 At this time we were eating all the health foods around; I was off coke (the soda version) and white bread, and into bran in a big way (I used to take tablespoons of the stuff and stir it into a glass of milk and force myself to drink this tasteless, coarse gunge), and despite all these radical precautions, we still managed to catch every flu, whether of the local or imported variety, and my youngest daughter had the proverbial glazed donut face constantly. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 Sales of dietary supplements marketed to support joint health were $1,025 billion in 2001, and joint health is one of the fastest growing condition categories in the health foods industry. Over $566 million were spent on over-the-counter pharmaceutical joint health products in
Which Disorders Have Been Linked to Inflammation?
When most of us think of inflammation, we think of arthritis and, perhaps, the aches and pains that come with injury. But a number of serious disorders have been causally linked to inflammation—meaning that inflammation is believed to be at the heart of the disease. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| More health foods, more vitamins? No! By changing our lifestyle, by spending less time in the kitchen and more time with one another.
I must add here that I definitely do not know everything there is to know about the human body and nutrition (even after close to thirty years of researching natural health and nutrition), and I've yet to encounter anyone else who does. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 And I'll continue to frequent a local health foods store called Body and Soul, which carries delicious freshly squeezed organic juices as well as other stapes and specialty items.
More and more stores are responding to consumer demands, especially at the local level. There's a lot to be said for community-based stores where the employees treat you like a friend and the manager is willing to try a new product just because a customer's asked for it. Without our patronage, these stores will disappear. |
Jack Challem
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 Theanine supplements are available in health foods stores. Follow label directions, because products vary. Another and more preferable option is to simply drink one or two cups of green tea daily. Gamma-Amino Butyric Acid (GABA). This amino acid also functions as a neurotransmitter, and nutritionally oriented physicians often use GABA to treat anxiety. A study by researchers at the University of
Utah School of Medicine identified part of the mechanism. GABA helps the brain filter out distracting signals—background noise, so to speak—that impair thinking. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Unfortunately, there are a few brands that have made there way into the health foods stores that contain autolyzed yeast extract, which is a source of MSG.
Make up a fresh salad or side of fresh steamed vegetables, and you've got a quick and delicious meal that isn't half bad. Thai Kitchen also makes a great rice noodle soup that comes in little packets. Throw in some chopped carrots and zucchini to the boiling water and a tablespoon of virgin coconut oil and you have a satisfying gluten-free meal. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Rolled triticale (triticale "flakes") and triticale wholemeal flour, wholemeal specialty breads, and other health foods are also available in limited amounts.
In the United States, triticale cultivation is steadily increasing, with 500,000 acres now grown annually. Triticale is still primarily used as a feed grain, pasture, and silage crop for animals, but considerable research is ongoing to improve its milling and baking qualities. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Gymnesyl, VitaNet health foods www.vitanetonline.com (800) 877-8702
Huereque Cactus, Herbs of Mexico www.herbsofmexico.com (323) 261-2521
Chromium, The Vitamin Shoppe www.vitaminshoppe.com (800) 223-1216
Oral Chelation & Longevity Plus Formula www.extendedhealth.com (800) 300-6712
Protein Powder, RiSoTriene www.risotriene.org (866) 361-5758
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Digestive enzymes, Univase wvw.rockyfork.net (800) 630-4534
Probiotic, Saccharomyces boulardi www.allergyrearchgroup. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| The difference is that second generation soy foods are billed as "health foods" whereas other processed foods are widely acknowledged to be what they are—junk foods that do not support health. The soy industry typically puts a positive spin on their products by claiming all the health benefits found in soy while insisting that levels of toxins are too low to pose any hazard to the consumer.
But risk is always a product of dose and duration of exposure. |
| Average Americans shun them, and health-conscious consumers find that they don't fit the low-fat profile they expect from "health foods." Indeed, soybeans—with 17 to 27 percent oil—are higher in fats than most other plant foods.15 Accordingly, the soy industry has taken advantage of the public's fat phobia to come up with low-fat versions of tofu and soymilk. As is usually the case when food processors decide to improve upon nature, nutritional value goes down as the profits—from the sale of both the protein and the oil—go up. |
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