Marshall Editions See book keywords and concepts | Reduce your intake of simple, processed carbohydrates such as 3 /?A bread, cereals, potatoes, and rice, as the digestive system converts most *jypl^r processed carbohydrates into sugar. Cut out the obvious trigger foods: sugar, honey, cakes, sweets, cookies, ice cream, carbonated drinks, canned fruit, frozen desserts, and any other sweetened foods. Start to read labels carefully. Common sugar additives in food include corn syrup, glucose, molasses, sucrose, lactose, maple syrup, fructose, maltose, and sorghum, all of which should be avoided. | | Avoid sugar and processed carbohydrates, which fuel yeast and help athlete's foot to reproduce. Avoid or reduce fruits and avoid fruit juice altogether. Most fruits and all fruits juices are too high in sugar and fuel yeast. Drink 10 glasses of water a day to assist in flushing out yeast toxins. Drink two glasses a day of a green drink made from spirulina, wheat grass, and barley grass powder. These substances will help raise your immunity levels and feed healthy bacteria.
Topical: Tea tree oil has antifungal properties and can be applied directly to the infected area. | | Avoid sugar and processed carbohydrates as they fuel yeast, helping it to reproduce. Avoid or reduce fruits and avoid fruit juice altogether. Most fruits and all fruits juices are too high in sugar and fuel yeast. Avoid all alcoholic beverages, as the yeast in these drinks feeds the yeast in your system.
Detoxification: Complete a seven-day vegetable juice detoxification fast, supervised by a qualified health practitioner. Drink two juices a day and soup, such as miso and vegetable soup, with plenty of garlic and ginger. After the seven-day detoxification, follow the diet outlined above. | | These foods include hydrogenated fats, sugar, processed carbohydrates, wheat, and dairy products. Also eat oily fish such as salmon, sardines, and mackerel, and flaxseed to obtain omega-3 fatty acids, which can help reduce inflammation. Drink at least eight glasses of water a day, and cut down on the amount of alcohol and caffeine you consume to protect against dehydration, which contributes to period pain.
Supplements: Take 50 mg of vitamin B6 a day, as it has been shown to help with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and painful periods. | | Cut out simple, processed carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, and saturated fats, which increase fatigue and sluggishness, and contribute to depression. Also avoid alcohol, which is a known depressant.
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Exercise can be the most powerful antidepressant available. Its beneficial effects may be because exercise increases the levels of endorphins in the body, which are directly correlated with mood.
Supplements: Take a good multivitamin/multimineral, following the directions on the label, to obtain a good base of nutrients for brain chemistry function. | Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts | Processed carbohydrates like breads and cereal are like "Miracle-Gro" for yeasty bugs.
Next, there are antibiotics, also known as Candida's best friend. Why? Because, like a powerful weed killer that also kills your roses, antibiotics kill everything, making it even easier for Candida to pop back up and overtake the farm. (Just like in your garden, it's easier for the weeds to come back than the roses.) Anyone on antibiotics for more than two weeks is at increased risk for an overgrowth of Candida. | Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Increased intake of highly processed carbohydrates has a complex and mostly unfavorable effect on blood lipids, reducing HDL and raising triglycerides, report researchers from the University of Massachusetts in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Sugars, particularly sucrose and fructose, elevate serum triglyceride levels by 60 percent more than do starches, reported Rutgers University researchers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. | | Eating sugar and processed carbohydrates causes a burst of inflammation in cells throughout your body," explains Dr. Perricone, who presents a pretty scary scenario.
"If we took some skin cells, put them into a culture, and let them grow, and then added a couple of drops of sugar, we could measure inflammatory chemicals going up by 1,000 percent over the baseline within a matter of an hour. | Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts | And eat fewer foods that convert quickly to sugar in the body (read: almost all processed carbohydrates). If you're interested in learning more about this—something I recommend highly that you do—there are many clear, well-written articles on the subject. An excellent article for beginners can be found at http://www.fatfreekitchen.com/glycemic-index.html. Hormel Foods also has a good introductory article at http://www.hormel.com/ templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=108 &id=767. | Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | These are their definitions for our purposes:
Quickie Carbs (Also Much-Like-Sugar Carbs, Inferior Carbs, Wrong Carbs, Fast-Acting Carbs, Refined Carbs, Low-Caliber Carbs, Simple Carbs, Processed Carbs or Starches, or Sugar Act-Alikes): Inferior, processed carbohydrates such as refined, nutrient-deprived, fiber-stripped breads, cereals, crackers, potato chips, bagels, pretzels, rice cakes, white rice, and alcoholic beverages. | | It's not that all carbohydrates are bad; it's the overabundance of the simple, processed carbohydrates and sugars—that's where we're going wrong," explains renowned obesity expert and pediatrics professor James O. Hill, Ph.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "Americans need to eat the right kind of carbohydrates."
The best kinds of carbs to eat, experts say, are nutritious, flavorful, rainbow-colored, "Mother Nature's Carb Gifts. | | Trying to stay sugarfree and steering clear of processed carbohydrates brings you closer to the fountain of youth.
YD U R STDRIES: FRDM SUGAR IGNDRANCE TD SUGAR EDUCATION
Frdm Enticement td Entrapment: Here's the Shocking Sugar News! | | That's because almost immediately after my astute physician "prescribed" that I kick sweeteners and fast-acting carbs to rid me of my 44 baffling, frustrating, excruciating ailments, I plunged into investigative-journalist mode and began to seek out any and all information I could find that would teach me about the far-reaching perils of sweeteners and processed carbohydrates.
My research for this book involved four different components. | Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts | William Duffy, Sugar Blues
It isn't just that milling grains strips their naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and oils, by the way: once these refined, processed carbohydrates are consumed, they also deplete the existing supplies of those very same vitamins and minerals in the human body.
All refined food has the characteristic of reducing certain types of nutrients in the body while adding others and creating imbalance as a result of incomplete digestion. | | Give up both processed carbohydrates and MSG and you're likely to experience a balanced, well-controlled level of blood sugar without the insulin spikes.
MSG, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease
When MSG is consumed in large doses or injected into the brain of experimental animals, we see that not all of the neurons are killed or damaged. The toxic effect is very specific. The most frequently killed cells are pyramid shaped neurons, cells in the nucleus basalis, certain neurons of the hypothalamus, and pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus of the temporal lobes. | Michael Friedman, ND See book keywords and concepts | Well, I noticed even as a child that I had hypoglycemia, and I would end up overeating processed carbohydrates and dairy, and I think that really affected everything. By the time I was 20 or 21 my body couldn't take those things anymore. When I came out of the hospital, they put me on this huge diet to build my weight up again. It was all animal protein and milk. My body could take it for a few months, but after that I got sick again because I was developing allergies to wheat and dairy. | Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts | | The more common variety is type II diabetes, which is a metabolic disorder caused by a lifetime of consumption of refined grains and processed carbohydrates (coupled with a lack of physical exercise).
Raising healthy plants requires outstanding nutrition
So a gardener knows that if she wants to have a healthy garden all she has to do is make sure, first of all, that her plants have outstanding nutrition that comes from the soils. And those soils need to have organic matter rich in nutrients such as minerals and trace minerals. | | Diabetes is caused by the consumption of soft drinks, high fructose corn syrup, refined white sugars, refined white flour, processed grains, processed carbohydrates, and other processed foods. Subsequently, if you teach people to stop eating these foods, you in essence destroy the diabetes industry. And yes, it is a hugely profitable industry, just like the cancer industry. | Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts | After 2 hours blood sugar crashes
Refined sugars and carbohydrates
One of the worst ingredients is refined sugars or processed carbohydrates, both of which cause overeating due to the blood sugar backlash experienced several hours after eating them. Let me give you a specific example. If you eat a breakfast of pancakes made with white flour, you're eating a very high-glycemic-index breakfast. If you combine it with syrup, which is nothing but liquid sugar, you make it even worse. | Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts | All in all, the acrylamide story may be another reminder that people were not meant to eat highly processed carbohydrates, and that we should eat more wholesome foods.
Guideline 11: Minimize Your Consumption of Highly Refined Cooking Oils
Highly refined cooking oils, including corn, safflower, soybean, and cottonseed oils, are commonly used in processed foods. People did not consume these oils until relatively recently, and they have many undesirable health effects. You should do your best to avoid them, and following this guideline requires that you carefully read food labels. | | Guideline 10: Restrict or avoid refined carbohydrates and sugars, and limit your intake of all processed carbohydrates.
Guideline 11: Minimize your consumption of highly refined cooking oils.
Guideline 12: Avoid all foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fats.
Guideline 1: Eat a Nutrient-Dense Diet to Make Every Bite Count
Eating a nutrient-dense diet is the single most important dietary guideline for feeding your genes right. This recommendation is the umbrella guideline for most of the others that follow.
What exactly does eating for nutrient density mean? | Walter Last See book keywords and concepts | Obesity and Overweight: The main cause of excessive weight is a diet low in fat and high in processed carbohydrates, particular sweeteners, and cereal or grain products. Avoid these and experiment with the following approaches.
• Have an appetite-reducing protein drink, cold or warm, 30 minutes before meals, with any combination of the following ingredients and in any amount that suits you: spirulina or chlorella powder, green barley or wheat grass powder, food yeast, ground linseed, linseed oil or olive oil. You can also drink this repeatedly during the day to keep hunger away for hours. | Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | This means cutting out sugar, as well as anything the body converts to sugar quickly, such as refined grains, processed carbohydrates, and starches. It's also important to change your pattern of eating from two or three large meals a day to smaller, more frequent meals. Exercise and certain targeted supplements are also very important.
This approach to diabetes will lead to the elimination, rather than the escalation, of medications. | Walter Last See book keywords and concepts | I. are processed carbohydrates that I do not advise you to eat anyway. If you select your carbohydrates according to the following rules, then you do not need to be concerned with the G.I.:
• Eat mainly legumes and vegetables
• Eat (fresh) fruits on their own and not with or after meals
• Minimize sweetened food, grains, and cereals
Proteins: Proteins from animal sources are oversupplied in traditional Western diets. | Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Cutting back on highly processed carbohydrates and increasing plant protein over the short term lowers levels of blood triglycerides (bad fat) and raises HDL (healthy cholesterol), and so reduces your risk of heart attack, stroke, and other forms of cardiovascular disease.15 The protein will also make you feel full longer and stave off hunger pangs.
• Eat soy. Soybeans, tofu, tempeh, miso, and other soy-based foods are an excellent alternative to red meat. Larger amounts of soy may also soothe hot flashes and other menopause-associated problems.
• Eat nuts. | | In studies in which polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats were eaten in place of saturated fats or processed carbohydrates, these good fats decreased LDL levels and increased HDL levels.34 The table on page 81 will help you separate the good from the bad in your pantry. | Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | A re-creation of Joe's health story might go something like this: Joe's diet had been far too high in refined grains, starches, and processed carbohydrates. In order to keep a steady level of glucose in his bloodstreamjoe's pancreas had to make more and more insulin as time went on. Because of an inherited tendency to become resistant to the effects of insulin, which was magnified by his improper diet, over the years Joe's insulin levels rose even higher. This rise in insulin triggered inflammation (heat) and oxidative stress (rust). | | We asked him to reduce or eliminate any sources of sugar, or anything his body would convert to sugar, such as refined grains, processed carbohydrates, and starches. By doing this (and with the help of a nutritional supplement program), we were able to get his cholesterol level in check. We also started him on an exercise program; he found he was able to get a great workout with water aerobics, and he really began to enjoy it when he found it didn't bother his back at all—in fact, he felt better. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | I'm not a huge supporter of the low carb lifestyle as practiced by most Americans, although I do support the avoidance of all processed carbohydrates as recommended by the Atkins program and other low carb dieting systems such as the Hamptons Diet.
Consuming refined carbs and added sugars will put weight on your body faster than any other nutritional strategy. The way to take it off is to avoid these foods for the rest of your life. By the way, if you're going to eat low carb foods, be sure to check out my book called Low-Carb Diet Warning, at TruthPublishing. |
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