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Interview with Jon Barron of Baseline Nutritionals on herbal healing, the bird flu and alternative health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Anyone who has smelled or tasted hospital food knows it's not nutritional. It doesn't support healing, which is why many people smuggle food to friends and family in the hospital. Mike: Yes. hospital food can kill you. It's not an exaggeration. Barron: It provides basic calories, protein and synthetic vitamins. It's nothing. Mike: Again, what kinds of formulas are at baselinenutritionals.com? Barron: The doctors I worked with -- the ones getting the best results -- had something in common. They tended not to worry about what a particular disease was.

Beating cancer -- how to take charge of your cancer cure and outlive the lies of the cancer industry Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If that's the case, then go ahead and eat their hospital food. That will keep you in the hospital a few extra days, probably. But if you want to be healthy and free of disease, or if you want to recover from an injury or some kind of surgical procedure, bring your own food. Real medicine is taking place at the personal level. It's taking place with education across the internet. It's taking place in the homes of people who are taking charge of their health. That's real medicine and real healing. Be part of it.

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And all those jokes about the repulsive-ness of hospital food? They don't exaggerate. But we don't have to stomach it, and many hospitals are getting on board with healthier and tastier fare. The Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California have even set up farmers' markets in their parking lots. An organization called Hospitals for a Healthy Environment has also begun to turn attention toward the role of food in achieving a sustainable health-care facility.

Interview with Jon Barron of Baseline Nutritionals on herbal healing, the bird flu and alternative health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: Yes. hospital food can kill you. It's not an exaggeration. Barron: It provides basic calories, protein and synthetic vitamins. It's nothing. Mike: Again, what kinds of formulas are at baselinenutritionals.com? Barron: The doctors I worked with -- the ones getting the best results -- had something in common. They tended not to worry about what a particular disease was. Basically, someone came in with MS, cancer or whatever, and they put these people on the same program. The idea was to take care of the whole body.

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My reply is that no experience is without its usefulness, and that even my contact with hospital food taught me a gastronomic lesson. I began to attempt critical assessments of these collective kitchens; I wrote rigorous reviews of them (and was by no means too hard on them), using the same criteria as I used for restaurants, and I found further confirmation of the fact that our relationship with food must be moderate, certainly, but should never be mortifying.

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One study, by Russian researchers, found that people who had gallbladder surgery who received 200 to 250 milligrams of supplemental vitamin C a Finding Healthy Hospital Fare Is hospital food really so bad? The answer you get depends on whom you ask. "It's not as bad as it used to be, but at most hospitals, there's still room for improvement," says Don Miller, R.D., a San Diego dietitian and chef who helps hospital kitchen staffs make their foods tasty and attractive.

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He distinctly remembers the hospital food as "unappetizing." That started him thinking, for the first time, about his diet. As a confessed junk-food junkie, Dr. Pannu instinctively knew he would probably have a hard time giving up his favorite fast foods. But he also knew that if he wanted to beat the odds, he'd have to make a few adjustments in his diet. "After my surgery, my doctor's job was done. But what I needed was to make sure it didn't happen again. And most doctors know next to nothing about nutrition.

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today John D. Lantos, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

They told me that she just had trouble eating when she was sick, that she didn't like hospital food. At home, she loved food. She did all the shopping and liked to cook meals for the whole family. I said that teenagers with eating disorders sometimes did that. "She is very thin," I said. After much urging, they agreed to go for an outpatient visit at an eating-disorder clinic if I could get their HMO to approve. I bravely offered to try. Jane was feeling better. Her IV was out, and she was dressed in the latest Gap jeans and had put on a little nail polish. She was watching TV. "How are you?

How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg See book keywords and concepts

Never eat undercooked eggs or any hospital food that smells or looks "funny," is not on your specific diet list, or contains (or may contain) anything to which you have allergic reactions. If you are inadvertently given a food tray before you are due to undergo surgery, don't eat it. 11. To serve as a reminder for nurses, aides, and physicians, make a sign from poster board listing your name, room number, serious allergies, and chronic medical conditions and tape it over the head of your bed.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies James S. Gordon, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

There is even an effort to make the customarily abominable hospital food tasty and healthy. Instead of permitting or even contributing to the isolation that terrifies so many patients, Planetree encourages a sense of continuity with their life outside. Family members are regarded not as impediments to medical efficiency but as "care partners," guardians of the patient's rights, representatives of his needs and interests to the staff, and participants in his care.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

One Japanese doctor explained, with refreshing candor: "We certainly cannot expect a sick person to eat the hospital food, which is not edible even for a healthy person."23 Although Japanese physicians still often make all the decisions for patients, who are not expected to ask too many questions, they have a great respect for traditional forms of health care, including herbs and acupuncture, and also deep regard for the spiritual significance of the disease process.

Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor's Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing Cynthia A. Foster, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And the hospital food, as usual, looked horrible, full of chemicals, and likely to make anyone ill who kept eating it. To see sick people who keep getting worse despite your best efforts is very depressing. In their sleep-deprived, brainwashed state, they believed the dream of medicine — that, one day, researchers would find a chemical cure for everything. They were going to wait for that day. I wasn't. Once again, I went to the interviews. It brought up memories of the infamous first interview process to get into medical school.

There were huge numbers of people with weakened immune systems in the hospital - the elderly, infants, AIDS patients, cancer patients, patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, people eating the hospital food, people on steroids and immune suppressant drugs - the people with organ transplants, lupus, autoimmune disorders, people on kidney dialysis, etc. (Seems like almost every drug or procedure in the hospital weakened the immune systems) This is one of the reasons why it was so easy to get an infection in the hospital.

I tried to stay at least five feet away from any hospital food. Maybe the cafeteria staff should have read some of the books in the health food store in order to prepare some foods that actually had some life in them instead of overcooking them, and if they started off with pure, unrefined ingredients, then the patients would recover much sooner. If the patients had followed that sort of diet in the first place, they may never had ended up there! I know of many people who have reduced dangerously high cholesterol readings just by eliminating animal foods from their diet.

Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Current dietetic policies and applications are responsible for school and hospital food, which is notoriously poor, even though it attempts to apply the established concepts of good nutrition and a balanced diet. These diets fall far short of supporting the optimal learning abilities of children or the healing process of ill people. All of us need good, vital nutrition to grow, heal, and be alive. The schools and hospitals are where we need the health-conscious master chefs.

Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? Francisco, M.D. Contreras See book keywords and concepts

This is the real reason why some 50,000 deaths occur annually around the United States due to hospital food. Such deaths are directly related to the "diet" prescribed by doctors and dietitians. The ones who do well, do so in spite of the doctor. The Secret of balanced Nutrition In the complex process of keeping our body functioning properly, nutrition supplies the elements necessary to keep 100 trillion cells carrying out their diverse activities. One of the most important activities in the body is the production of replacement cells.

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I got him on the powder [True Health], off of all hospital food, and he got up and left the hospital in one week. After two weeks he filled out. He was taking other drugs, but this change was just absolutely incredible. When his doctor asked him what he was taking, the doctor told him to quit taking it and he died—he rapidly deteriorated after going off the powder and capsules [essential fatty acid]. Now I'm not saying he wouldn't have died with the powder, but it's a fact that as soon as he stopped taking it he died. I'm really convinced True Health does a lot of good.

Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? Francisco, M.D. Contreras See book keywords and concepts

The deficient nutritional value of hospital food prolongs illness and therefore the length of the hospital stay. It would seem that doctors, nutritionists and dietitians along with administrators, have not been able to understand this simple but vital natural law of nutrition since the diet offered to patients while hospitalized is deprived of nutrients. Or, do you suppose that besides saving money in cheap food they hope to increase revenues by prolonging the hospital stay? This is what we call killing two birds with one stone. Lamentably, it is not birds that get killed.

Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being Barnet Meltzer, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The majority of advertised food products are inferior at best, and institutionalized nutrition—school lunch programs, hospital food, and the like—fail the American public. Save yourself with high performance nutrition. Consistent proper, positive food selections start the journey to self-health. Depending on your individual schedule, some days you will have to plan out or prepare your meals in advance. Anticipate your needs and take appropriate action. Again, consistency is crucial. Make smart eating a habit, like putting on your seat belt each time you get in your car.

Beating Cancer with Nutrition Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS See book keywords and concepts

Typical hospital food continues or even worsens malnutrition. While many Americans are overfed, the majority are also poorly nourished. If proper nutrition could prevent from 30 to 90% of all cancer, then doesn't it seem foolish to continue feeding the cancer patient the same diet that helped to induce cancer in the first place? MALNUTRITION AMONG CANCER PATIENTS From 25-50% of Functions of Nutrition Therapy hospital patients suffer from protein Repletion: bring malnourished up to "normal" calorie Pharmacology/Nutraceutical: therapeutic malnutrition.

Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer Michael Lerner See book keywords and concepts

Family members help with the patient's care and frequently cook the meals: "One doctor stated emphatically: 'We certainly cannot expect a sick person to eat the hospital food, which is not edible even for a healthy ">25 person. Thus the hospitalized patient keeps his identity in many important ways, and is surrounded by a network of caring family members and friends. Says Ohnuki-Tierney, In the United States, where the sovereignty of the individual is sacred, the patient role ironically denies individualism, at least symbolically. ...

Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor's Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing Cynthia A. Foster, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

With the empty, nutridonless hospital food they were given, it was no wonder. It didn't take me long to discover that a surgeon's training allows him to see the human body as made up solely of separate, unrelated parts. Due to this Leggo theory, as I called it, a surgeon can mix and match those pieces in many different ways. However, in natural healing, I learned that every organ affects the other, and that none of the parts should be taken out.

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