Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Individual vegetarian foods are technically incomplete because they are missing at least one essential amino acid. As a rule, though meats contain complete protein, they are not necessarily better for you than the protein found in vegetarian foods. Many types of meat are high in saturated fat, and all are completely devoid of fiber. Foods from plants are usually rich in fiber and contain vitamins and antioxidant nutrients that meat lacks. In the past, nutrition experts have recommended that vegetarians carefully combine different types of foods to ensure that they eat complete proteins. |
Andreas Moritz
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 If in doubt, I suggest that you use Kinesiology muscle testing to determine whether fish is or is not conducive to your health and well-being. vegetarian foods such as nuts, seeds, chia, avocado, beans, vegetables, have superior health benefits to fish, which is still a cadaver food. Cadavers, especially when their proteins are destroyed (coagulated) through heat, do very little to provide nourishment for the body.
Mercury gets into water primarily through solid-waste incinerators, mines and power plants. Algae typically absorb the mercury and tiny zooplankton animals eat the algae. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In comparison, these health problems occur only rarely among ethnic groups that consume mostly vegetarian foods. In fact, a report issued by the American Medical Association stated that a vegetarian diet could prevent 97 percent of all cases of thrombosis leading to heart attacks.
Although a balanced vegetarian diet may contain larger amounts of fats, the fats do not seem to have any detrimental effects on the circulatory system (unless, of course, they are contaminated by harmful trans fatty acids). |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| As a rule, though meats contain complete protein, they are not necessarily better for you than the protein found in vegetarian foods. Many types of meat are high in saturated fat, and all are completely devoid of fiber. Foods from plants are usually rich in fiber and contain vitamins and antioxidant nutrients that meat lacks. In the past, nutrition experts have recommended that vegetarians carefully combine different types of foods to ensure that they eat complete proteins. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Others in the all-year-round tropical places of the Earth continued with vegetarian foods until quite recently. The proposed theory is highly inconclusive about all of these facts.
When I went on the high protein diet (very similar to the type O diet plan) at age five, I felt great for about 18 months, as do so many others who go on the popular Atkins diet. Then I started developing stones in my liver, a dangerous arrhythmia and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, among other diseases. I had no idea that these ailments were due to protein poisoning. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Vitamin B12 is also found in many fortified vegetarian foods, such as soy milk. Vitamin B12 is made by bacteria in the colon. More research is needed to determine if enough vitamin B]2 can be absorbed from the colon to be of significant value.
Vitamin B|2 is easily lost through leaching into water while cooking. One unusual thing about vitamin Bp is that microwave cooking inactivates it, as shown in Figure 1-23. Cooking in the oven or in soups and stews preserves the most vitamin B]2.
Vitamin B12 is destroyed by microwave cooking and leached out by cooking water. |
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. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The popularity of plant-based diets has been increasing, and both the variety and availability of convenient vegetarian foods have been skyrocketing.14 Restaurants around the country now regularly offer meat-free and dairy-free options." Scientists are publishing more articles about vegetarianism and writing more about the health potential of a plant-based diet.16 Now, over 150 years after my great-great uncle George Macilwain wrote books about diet and disease, I am writing a book about diet and disease with the help of my youngest son Tom. |
Mike Adams
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 Yeast extract is a highly concentrated form of free glutamic acid used solely as a chemical taste enhancer in vegetarian foods. It has no other purpose whatsoever. It's like "MSG cocaine." Yet even the veggie burger manufacturers insist it's a "100 percent natural" ingredient. It sort of makes you wonder what else they stuff into their veggie burgers and consider to be "100 percent natural" as well. I suppose by their definition, you could add heavy metals like mercury and lead to the recipe, because those occur "naturally" on the planet as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: I find a lot of the vegetarian foods, or so-called health foods, use yeast extracts.
Dr. Blaylock: The worst of the things they're doing are the soy extracts. Soybeans, naturally, have one of the highest glutamate levels of any of the plant products. When you hydrolyze it, you release the glutamate, and the soy protein isolates. The glutamate levels are higher than a lot of what you'll find in MSG products, yet the vegetarians are just eating it like it's the healthiest thing in the world. |
Mike Adams
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| Food products almost always containing MSG
• Flavored potato chips
• Flavored nacho chips
• Canned soups and dry soup mixes
• Gravy mixes
• Bullion cubes
• Salad dressings
• Jerkies
• Frozen fish with breading
• Canned meats
• Box dinners
• Breakfast sausage
• Any dinner "mix" with a flavor packet
• Frozen dinners
• International foods
• Poultry injected with broth
• vegetarian foods (typically contain yeast extract) like veggie burgers
• Meat broths (chicken broth, beef broth)
As a general rule, no healthy diet should include these items in the first place. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Their entire diet consisted only of carefully measured amounts of natural, vegetarian foods, and their only beverage was pure water. They were said to have practiced extreme moderation in sexual activity.23 These instances in the Torah Anthology also point out that longevity decreased after the time of Noah because there was a change in atmospheric vitality and because meat was added to our diet.241 do not know the original sources of this information; some seems to have come from ancient texts and some from oral tradition or revelation. |
Mike Adams
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| Shortly before writing this book, I wrote an essay discussing how many so-called "natural" or vegetarian foods actually contain MSG hidden in other ingredients. In this essay, I named a certain company (I won't repeat the name here) and explained that their veggie burger product contained yeast extract even though the front of the box proudly proclaimed "100 percent natural!"
In response, their public relations person demanded a retraction of the essay, insisting that their product contained no MSG and was completely natural. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| It is this sunlight energy stored as activated electron energy in the carbon-hydrogen bonding that we find in organic, whole, live vegetarian foods. These foods make the most powerful current with the oxygen pole. This last statement implies the superiority of plant food over animal food. |
| To digest vegetarian foods requires more inner spiritual Light and digestive power. Over generations of heavy meat eating, some individuals have lost some of this power and may have difficulty assimilating the living plant forces of a vegetarian diet.
Harmony of the Vegetarian Diet
With a vegetarian diet, we avoid the disharmony of killing animals. The vegetables we eat are taken from the ground in their seasonal cycles, in harmony with when they are going to die naturally. Fruits are simply the sunshine gift of the living plant to us. There is a natural harmony between plants and humans. |
Jack Challem
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 Animal foods are the most reliable sources of all of them. vegetarian foods, like beans and nuts, provide "incomplete" proteins, in that they lack one or more of the essential amino acids. For this reason vegetarians must eat complementary proteins, such as those in legumes and brown rice, so they obtain all nine essential amino acids and some (or all) of the so-called nonessential ones. Vegetarians must be particularly conscientious about complementing their proteins, because incomplete proteins may be metabolized as carbohydrates rather than as true proteins. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| High-phosphorous, high-lecithin, vegetarian foods include soybeans and bee pollen, which has 15-20 percent lecithin. According to the scientific literature, the actual process of thinking burns up phosphorous, so those who are doing a lot of thinking or meditating need a much higher phosphorous input. Phosphorous seems to be used in study, memorizing, reading, intellectual functioning, visualizing, and comprehension. With each thought we think, we use up phosphorous. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid all foods -- even natural or vegetarian foods -- made with yeast extract or torula yeast. And don't spend another dime with a "natural" food company that misleads consumers by hiding chemical taste enhancers on the label with words that disguise their true purpose. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on July 23, 2003, showed that consuming a "dietary portfolio" of vegetarian foods lowered cholesterol nearly as well as the prescription drug lovastatin (Mevacor). The diet was rich in soluble fiber from oats, barley, psyllium, eggplant, and okra. It used soy substitutes instead of meat and milk and included almonds and cholesterol-lowering margarine (such as Take Control) every day.
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Where psyllium shines is when it is included with a heart-healthy "portfolio" diet. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Overall, vegetarian foods are less expensive than meaty or cheesy products. Beans, fresh and frozen vegetables, pasta, rice—these humble ingredients cost very little. However, health food stores sometimes put premium prices on prepared products, which is true for nonveg-etarian as well as healthy vegan items. You will soon sort out your best choices.
While you are at the store, pick up a daily multivitamin. As you have seen, it's important to get adequate vitamin B12, and a multivitamin is a great way to do that. The best ones are iron free and vegetarian. |
| For the duration of the study, we asked them to set aside animal products completely and stick to vegetarian foods.
Needless to say, if there are no animal products in the diet, there is not a single drop of animal fat. We kept the use of vegetable oils as minimal as possible, too. And, in order to isolate the effects of the diet, we asked the participants not to alter their normal activity patterns; no one was to add exercise to the regimen. Now, exercise is an important part of any healthy lifestyle, and ordinarily we would strongly encourage it. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 The more alkaline vegetarian foods enhance cleansing. The right balance of acid and alkaline foods for each of us is, of course, the key. *
Acid-Alkaline—A Key to Health and Longevity
The concepts of congestion/toxicity and deficiency/depletion relate to the duality of balance that also includes the acid-alkaline poles. The general ideas about illness and health that are expressed in this book relate to the relative states of acidity, and the congestion, irritation, and inflammation that come from this acid imbalance. |
| Raw and vegetarian foods help with both. The diet includes several salads of leafy greens daily, and some fruit, vegetable, nut, or seed snacks. Some of the high-protein algaes such as spirulina, blue-green algae, or chlorella also help during withdrawal and detox.
Supplements
To support body alkalinization during smoking cessation, take sodium or potassium bicarbonate tablets; take one to two during each period of craving up to a total of five or six tablets daily. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 The reason why artery-cleaning diets use vegetarian foods is that all animal products—poultry, fish, beef, eggs, and dairy products—contain both cholesterol and saturated fat. Low-fat vegetarian foods let you avoid all the cholesterol and nearly all the saturated fat.
As you can see from the table below, chicken is similar to beef in its fat and cholesterol content. Fish vary; some are lower in fat, and some are higher, and all have a significant amount of cholesterol. But plant foods are in a league of their own. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's just like calling MSG "yeast extract," which is a labeling deception widely used by makers of "natural" or vegetarian foods.
As with most food-labeling issues, awareness is the ultimate answer. If enough people become aware of the carmine issue, and sufficient pressure is put on the food manufacturers and the FDA, something will probably change.
At the same time, I would much rather eat carmine than artificial food colorings. With the beetles, at least the color comes from nature, not a chemical plant. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Iron
Many vegetarian foods are rich in iron, but it is not as easily absorbed as the iron in meat. Vitamin C increases the absorption of iron from plant foods, so consume vitamin C-rich foods with meals. Dark-green leafy vegetables, strawberries, potatoes, and watermelon are good sources of both vitamin C and iron. Iron is also found in lentils, garbanzo beans, sesame seeds, almonds, and blackstrap molasses. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 First, follow a menu that makes portions less important. vegetarian foods without added fat help you to slim down naturally so you can eat normal quantities without feeling guilty. Do not underestimate the power or importance of this step. It is absolutely decisive.
Second, let other people support you psychologically as you break the food compulsion. Overeaters Anonymous is enormously helpful and highly recommended. Meetings are free and can be found in your local phone directory. |
Paul Pitchford
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 His mother decided to feed him primarily unrefined vegetarian foods, and after three weeks, his behavior changed dramatically. He became courteous, happy, and a pleasure to be around.
The child who eats an excess of poor-quality red meats is usually aggressive and/or emotionally stressed because of at least one factor—most common meats are high in the fatty acid arachidonate, which forms hormone-like prostaglandins of the E2 series in the body (discussed in the Oils and Fats chapter). An excess of these promotes mental and physical inflammation, and thus aggression. |
| Secondly, children—infants in particular—seldom chew the essential vegetarian foods such as grains, legumes, and vegetables well enough for optimal assimilation.
Finally, most children in the highly developed nations of the West have an ancestral background rich in animal products, and therefore may find it biologically difficult to adapt to a completely vegetarian diet at a time when tremendous nutritional assets are needed to fuel their rapid growth and development. |
| Raw Fruit, Vegetable, or Liquid Fast
For those making a transition to primarily whole vegetarian foods from a background of abundant animal products, and who do not have signs of coldness or deficiency, try a salad fast of either raw vegetables or raw fruit such as carrots, cabbage, apples, etc. Herbal teas, water, or juices can be drunk according to thirst. The individual with Candida overgrowth must avoid fruit and fruit juice. |
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