Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 One study [46] found a weak inverse association with raw tomatoes but not cooked tomatoes (which is surprising, because the lycopene should be more bioavailable in the cooked tomatoes because of enhanced absorption as a result of heat processing and the presence of lipids [282]). Of the studies that estimated intake of lycopene per se, most failed to show a clear inverse relationship to prostate cancer risk [47, 56, 208, 213], though two studies found an inverse association [81, 283]. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's because tomatoes have a lot of water, and they fill you up quickly. So you wouldn't be able to get much nutrition from those tomatoes if you ate them raw. Certainly, they're good for you in their raw form, and that's the best way to eat them, but that's not going to meet your nutritional needs.
In contrast, if you were to take these 10 tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It's all about the density of nutrients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, I've seen tomatoes sold, attached to a part of the vine, that say "vine-ripened tomatoes." Well, this sounds healthy, but, in reality, they are not ripened on the vine. They are picked green. Exposing them to ethylene gas ripens them and turns them red when they are ready to be put out on the store shelves. Ethylene gas is used to ripen tomatoes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables, so grocery stores can be quite deceptive, and often fruits and vegetables aren't really fresh. If you buy a peach, for example, it is usually as hard as a rock. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It really only takes three minerals to grow tomatoes or other vegetables. Of course, those vegetables will be nutritionally deficient, which means they won't be as healthy as they could be. They won't be as resistant to disease and pests, and they won't taste nearly as good either. So if you are eating tomatoes or produce grown in nutritionally depleted soils, then you are consuming inferior produce, and that's what's available in stores today.
Here's a common question about minerals and produce: How do tomatoes or other plants know which minerals to absorb? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In contrast, if you were to take these 10 tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It's all about the density of nutrients. But let me be clear: I'm not at all saying that you shouldn't eat raw tomatoes or other whole foods; what I'm saying is that raw foods are good for calories, but getting outstanding nutrition requires consuming whole food concentrates. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Good sources of carotenes include dark-colored vegetables such as carrots, squash, spinach, kale, tomatoes, yams, and sweet potatoes; and fruits such as tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, apricots, and citrus.
THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
The traditional Mediterranean diet provides significant protection against silent inflammation. However, it does not mean you should eat more Italian restaurant food. The Mediterranean diet reflects food patterns in the early 1960s typical of Crete, parts of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Summer squashes, winter squashes, tomatoes (although strictly speaking, tomatoes are fruit), cucumbers. Almost any vegetable you can imagine is legal on this plan, with a single exception, for cardiac patients: avocados, which carry a high fat content unusual for vegetables. Those without heart disease can eat avocados as long as their blood lipid levels are not elevated.
2. Legumes. Beans, peas, and lentils of all kinds. This is a wide-ranging family of plants, and you are almost certain to discover delicious varieties you may never have encountered before embarking on this nutrition plan. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So you wouldn't be able to get much nutrition from those tomatoes if you ate them raw. Certainly, they're good for you in their raw form, and that's the best way to eat them, but that's not going to meet your nutritional needs.
In contrast, if you were to take these 10 tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It's all about the density of nutrients. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Serves 1
Arugula-Orange-Pepper Salad_
1 cup sliced red, yellow, and orange bell peppers 1 cup sunflower sprouts 1 cup torn arugula
3/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
1 cup shredded beets, steamed 15 minutes
2/3 cup shredded carrots
3^5
Salads
2 seedless oranges sliced
1 cup chopped fresh yellow tomatoes
Combine all ingredients in a large salad bowl, adding tomatoes last as a garnish. Serve with a vinaigrette or light lemon dressing. |
Mike Adams
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 If they want to show that tomatoes don't prevent prostate cancer, for example, they will commission a study on lycopene, one phytochemical found in tomatoes. But they will use lycopene in isolation, and the study results will of course show the lycopene wasn't very strong in reducing the risk of prostate cancer. From this, the pharmaceutical companies will declare, "Tomatoes offer no protection against prostate cancer" as part of an effort to discredit the health benefits of natural plants. And newspaper headlines around the world will parrot the same flawed conclusion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| For example, I've seen tomatoes sold, attached to a part of the vine, that say "vine-ripened tomatoes." Well, this sounds healthy, but, in reality, they are not ripened on the vine. They are picked green. Exposing them to ethylene gas ripens them and turns them red when they are ready to be put out on the store shelves. Ethylene gas is used to ripen tomatoes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables, so grocery stores can be quite deceptive, and often fruits and vegetables aren't really fresh. If you buy a peach, for example, it is usually as hard as a rock. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Those big nerve cells get compressed by the tight myelin sheath that surrounds them (kind of like trying to put more tomatoes in that little bitty can—the tomatoes break apart), eventually damaging those nerves. That's the long-nerve dysfunction that diabetics often get, when they aren't able to sense their feet normally. This is called stocking-glove nerve dysfunction; you lose sensation in all areas covered by a stocking or glove. Peripheral neuropathy is a major cause of foot ulcers that can lead to amputation in some people with poorly controlled diabetes. |
Jack Challem
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 Turkey Taco Salad (Serves 2-4)
1-1 Vi pounds ground turkey (or beef) 1 packet McCormick Taco Seasoning refried beans, shredded cheese, diced scallions, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream (optional)
Prepare the ground turkey as you did for the Turkey Tacos (above), or use leftover cooked and seasoned meat. On a plate, spread about 1 cup of cooked Turkey Taco meat in a small circle. Layer whichever toppings you would like: refried beans, shredded cheese, diced scallions, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, guacamole, or sour cream. |
Paula Begoun
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 In other words, you could take a patent out establishing that you use tomatoes in your hair-regrowth products. The patent would then establish that you are the only one who can use tomatoes for that purpose—but it wouldn't in any way prove that tomatoes grow hair.
I would love to discuss the impact of these ingredients on the scalp in great detail, but the focus of this book isn't on balding, and it would take pages and pages. Proctor's Web site at www.drproctor.com is worth a visit. His information is based on some very interesting hypotheses that are worth looking at with an objective eye. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Interestingly, tomatoes can be grown to look very good cosmetically, even though they lack selenium and all the minerals that should be present. It really only takes three minerals to grow tomatoes or other vegetables. Of course, those vegetables will be nutritionally deficient, which means they won't be as healthy as they could be. They won't be as resistant to disease and pests, and they won't taste nearly as good either. So if you are eating tomatoes or produce grown in nutritionally depleted soils, then you are consuming inferior produce, and that's what's available in stores today. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Broccoli and tomatoes: Broccoli contains sulforaphane; tomatoes contain lycopene. Eaten together, they maximize each other's ability to fight cancer.
Soy and tea (black or green): A diet high in soy and tea can lower the risk of prostate and breast cancers.
Selenium and sulforaphane: When combined, these can have a significant effect on the genes that control cancer development. Selenium can be found in poultry, tuna, eggs and sunflower seeds. Sulforaphane can be found in broccoli, cabbage and watercress.
Andrew L. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Good sources of carotenes include dark-colored vegetables such as carrots, squash, spinach, kale, tomatoes, yams, and sweet potatoes; and fruits such as tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, apricots, and citrus.
THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
The traditional Mediterranean diet provides significant protection against silent inflammation. However, it does not mean you should eat more Italian restaurant food. The Mediterranean diet reflects food patterns in the early 1960s typical of Crete, parts of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, for example, lycopene is one phytonutrient found in tomatoes that is well known to help prevent prostate cancer. But, in fact, if you take lycopene by itself, it's not going to have nearly the positive effect of eating whole tomatoes or taking whole-food concentrates made from dried organic tomatoes. So getting these minerals in their full-spectrum natural ratios (ratios which they're found in nature) is very important.
It's also important to consider the density of these nutrients. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| 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. However, it is best to eat these vegetables raw.
3. After your dinner meal and before bedtime consume another 20 ounces of the Intestinal Cleanser drink.
4. Repeat the following Affirmation 9 times: / Am Clean and Healthy.
BEFORE BED
1. Repeat the following Affirmation 9 times: / Am Clean and Healthy.
2. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 For many years tomatoes were considered toxic in the U.S.A. but not in Europe. Americans began to eat tomatoes after a public demonstration in front of a courthouse, where one person ate tomatoes. Natural food excludes all the plant and animal material that is inherently toxic or indigestible. The toxic properties of the edible foods arises from the addition of chemicals, which have not been proven to be non-toxic in chronic toxicity trials in animals in combination with other additives, or which have not been used by people long enough to have demonstrated its safety. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In contrast, if you were to take these 10 tomatoes and dry them, and then grind them up into a powder, and then shape that powder into capsules or tablets and consume those, you could easily eat those 10 tomatoes and enjoy all their nutritional benefits. It's all about the density of nutrients. But let me be clear: I'm not at all saying that you shouldn't eat raw tomatoes or other whole foods; what I'm saying is that raw foods are good for calories, but getting outstanding nutrition requires consuming whole food concentrates. |
Michael Pollan
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 The cook does not need to know, as the scientists have recently informed us, that cooking the tomatoes with olive oil makes the lycopene in them more available to our bodies. No, the cook already knew that olive oil with tomatoes is a really good idea.
As cook in your kitchen you enjoy an omniscience about your food that no amount of supermarket study or label reading could hope to match. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| A carotenoid of particular interest with regard to prostate cancer is lycopene, found primarily in tomatoes and tomato products (other food sources include watermelon, grapefruit, and guava). Although a few case-control studies showed an inverse association between tomato consumption, particularly cooked tomatoes, and prostate cancer [46, 58, 208, 277], most such studies found no association [56, 57, 61, 209, 210, 212, 213]. |
Devra Davis
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 One woman told me all she wanted was to get to the seaside and have some fresh tomatoes. They didn't allow tomatoes then and they were hard to find. She never got a chance."
Some forty years later, this lady asked me not to use her name or mention the place where she worked because it was considered the best in the world for cancer treatment. It probably was.
The ACS launched an effort to promote the Pap smear in 1957, fifteen years after the test had been shown to save lives and nearly three decades after it was first developed. |
KC Craichy
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 Researchers found that celery, green peppers, and tomatoes lost the most protein; cantaloupe, lettuce, and tomatoes have less phosphorus than they did in the era of the space race, and eggplant and tomatoes contain less Vitamin C.
"When you irrigate and fertilize and control weeds to intensively increase the yield of a crop, it dilutes amounts of some nutrients. By encouraging a plant to grow faster and bigger, it does grow faster and bigger, but it doesn't have the ability to uptake or synthesize the nutrients at the same faster rate," Davis said. |
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