| Similarly, the endocrine system in our body absolutely needs all nutrients, including vitamins, amino acids, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, minerals and all trace elements. Supplying all of these nutrients to our body is critical for good health.
Greens match all of these purposes better than any other food! Once again, when blended, the nutrients from greens are absorbed more efficiently and provide many times more nutrients than other foods and even traditionally made salads. In other words, by drinking green smoothies we support our homeostatic balance in the most optimal way. |
| Firstly all ingredients in a raw diet are uncooked, and full of enzymes and vitamins; thus the raw food diet is like a revolution in comparison with the standard American diet. That explains why so many people reported that they instantly felt better on a raw diet. We can see that raw fooders eat a lot of fruit, especially if we keep in mind that bell-peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes are also fruits. However, even though raw-foodists typically consume noticeably more greens than people on an average mainstream diet, greens almost never constitute 45 percent of their food. |
| In addition, in order to digest the released minerals and vitamins, hydrochloric acid in the stomach has to be very strong, with a pH between 1 and 2.
These two conditions are absolutely, vitally, necessary for the assimilation of nutrients from greens. Obviously, when I tried to eat plain greens I did not chew my greens well enough and possibly did not have a high enough level of hydrochloric acid in my stomach. As a result, I experienced unpleasant signs of indigestion and formed a general dislike for greens altogether. |
| Spots like pimples or rash (not hives)
Flu symptoms, some nausea when I would think about taking vitamins, diarrhea almost every morning for 10 days or so, a few aches and pains in joints.
I I. Did you have any negative experiences? Nothing negative at all.
12. Would you like to continue drinking Green Smoothies? Yes! And I want to be 100% raw too! Thank you so much! |
| In the following chart please see a list of all essential minerals and vitamins that are recommended by USDA and a list of these nutrients available in Kale and Lambsquarters (an edible weed). Based on this data, we can conclude that greens are the most essential food for humans.
Essential Mineral and Vitamin Content
LAMBSQUARTERS (a weed) and KALE
Lambsquarters
Nutrients
Kale
(weed)
Adequate Intake or RDA16
One pound raw
One pound raw
Folic Acid - 400 meg/day
132 meg
136.0 meg
Niacin - 16 mg/day
4.8 mg
5.4 mg
Pantothenic Acid - 5 mg/day
0.68 mg
0.45 mg
Riboflavin (B2) - 1. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 These vegetables usually have a low calorific value (radish: 15 kcal per 100 g, carrots 18 kcal, beetroot 40 kcal and parsnip 59 kcal) but they add important minerals and vitamins to the diet. The pigments are of special dietary significance, especially the carotenoids in the case of carrots, which serve as vitamin A precursors.
The familiar potato is an example of a tuber - rounded, swollen, underground storage structures that are of stem origin (they are not roots). Tubers typically store large amounts of starch that are a valuable food source with a high energy value. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After only three weeks of taking these vitamins, I was doing so much better that they gave me a full medical discharge while scratching their heads wondering which of their drugs were helping me. Of course, it was none of them.
Mike: John, this is a fascinating story and a little bit horrifying, because it is still true today that the truth about nutritional supplements is censored and that nutritional supplements are being confiscated. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| They also contain fair amounts of minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin B6.
Elettaria cardamomum cardamom
Cardamom plant with flowers
Cardamom fruits and seeds
Description A perennial herb with broad, pointed, hairless leaves arising from underground rhizomes. It closely resembles ginger but the unique white and pink flowers are borne at ground level on spreading, much-branched flowering clusters bearing scale leaves. The small, three-valved fruit capsules are brown, green or white, depending on the cultivar. Each contains numerous small, angular, highly aromatic, dark brown seeds. |
Mike Adams
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 There are differences in the manufacturing process, and so-called evaporated cane juice does contain more vitamins and minerals than white sugar, but its impact on your blood sugar is virtually the same.
Frozen potatoes (hydrogenated oils + carbs)
Frozen potato packages are yet another food to avoid. Although they may appear to be a relatively healthy food manufactured with minimal processing, the vast majority of frozen potato packages contain hydrogenated oils. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Nutritional value Malabar spinach is often regarded as a functional food because it is rich in minerals (calcium, iron) and vitamins A and C. It also has medicinal properties as a very mild laxative.
Benincasa hispida wax gourd
Wax gourd leaves and flower Hairy melon fruits
Description A robust annual creeper with long trailing stems bearing shallowly lobed leaves. The yellow flowers resemble those of pumpkins but the lobes are free almost to their bases. Distinctly different fruit types (cultivar groups) are known. |
| It is rich in proteins (up to 16%), carbohydrates (55%), minerals and vitamins, and in energy (330 kcal per 100 g). Oats is often used as a dietary aid for children and invalids and is claimed to have cholesterol-lowering activity.
Averrhoa bilimbi bilimbi
Bilimbi tree
Description Bilimbi is a small tree, usually about 4 m in height, with attractive pink flowers and small, pale green, smooth fruit. These are borne directly on the older stems in clusters and are often said to look like miniature cucumbers. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 It is too drying for any skin type, but especially so for someone with dry skin. It is not recommended.
© Toner for Dry Skin with Cucumber ($8.79for 5.1 ounces) is a fairly basic, do-nothing toner that doesn't deserve consideration for two reasons: The amount of witch hazel is potentially drying, and the salicylic acid is wasted due to the product's pH level, which prevents it from working as an effective exfoliant. Does anyone teally think cucumber is a great ingredient? What a dated gimmick.
© Daily Moisturizer for Dry Skin with Cucumber SPF 15 ($11. |
| What a shame they are present in such tiny amounts, leaving this to be an ordinary, lightweight lotion for normal to slightly oily skin.
^ © Hydra-Radiance Moisturizing Day Lotion SPF 15 ($12 for 4 ounces) may have gotten your attention because it claims that it "Moisturizes better than the #1 department store moisturizer—how brilliant!" However, Avon doesn't tell us which department-store moisturizer they are comparing this one with, so it's essentially an empty claim because the comparison could have been with a really bad product. |
| The fragrance can be a problem for all skin types; you're better off moisturizing with plain olive or jojoba oil than this chancy product.
© Balancing Infusion For Sensitive Skin ($18 for 0.34 ounce) contains some plant oils and extracts with established soothing properties, but fragrance is the second ingredient, and the fragrant components in this serum (including linolool and limonene) are an unnecessary pitfall for anyone with sensitive skin.
© Balancing Infusion Salicylic Acid Acne Treatment ($18 for 0. |
| This is otherwise a standard but good water-soluble cleanser suitable for all skin types except very oily. The tiny amount of corn and soybean oil should not pose a problem for those with blemish-prone skin.
© Toner Astringent for Normal to Oily Skin ($5-99 for 8 ounces) lists alcohol as the second ingredient and that is followed by witch hazel and, shortly thereafter, menthol. This toner is not recommended (and, if you're curious, the pH is too high for the glycolic acid to function as an exfoliant).
© AHA Souffle ($15.99 for 1. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 The most important thing you need to remember here is that herbs, unlike vitamins, are natural drugs ... but they are still drugs.
The most important thing you need to remember here is that herbs, unlike vitamins, are natural drugs... but they are still drugs.
All About Herbs
The Synthetic/Herbal Split
The Kefauver-Harris legislation of 1962 required pharmaceutical companies to prove their products to be safe and effective before they could market them. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| The leaves have significant quantities of vitamins A and C (respectively 742 mg and 333 mg per 100 g). Notes Nettle roots are rich in phytosterols and are an important traditional medicine, used to treat arthritis.
Vaccinium corymbosum highbush blueberry
Highbush blueberry plant
Highbush blueberries
Description A perennial shrub of up to 1.5 m in height bearing simple leaves and clusters of attractive, white, tubular flowers. The fruits are bluish-black and up to 12 mm in diameter. It is similar to bilberry (V. myrtillus) but both the plant and the fruits are larger. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 In brief:
• Fruit contains all the nutrients we need
• Fruit allows the body to cleanse and repair itself
• Fruit in its natural state is appealing to all our senses
• All fruit leaves an alkaline residue or end product in the body
• Fruit regulates your blood sugar
If you follow Step 1 of Perfect Health you will find yourself satisfying the body's need for glucose and supplying yourself with ample vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants so that you will save yourself the cost of expensive, useless supplements, while at the same time benefiting your health. |
David Wolfe
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 They are a counterpoint to the vital Sun energy in the body - they are transformers directed by hormones amongst a terrain of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats and tissue proteins.
There are three classes of enzymes:
• metabolic
• digestive
• food
Metabolic enzymes operate in all the cells, tissues, and organs and are an essential part of every biological activity.
Digestive enzymes are produced by, and appear in, the alimentary organs. They help digest carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Amylases are enzymes that digest carbohydrates. Lipases are enzymes that digest fats. |
| High in vitamins A (carotene) and E.
10. In possession of many antioxidant properties. Antioxidants deactivate free radicals allowing us to live longer, overcome illness and maintain more acute mental and muscular faculties.
11. Available in different varieties, which fruit all year around.
12. Pressable into a powerful oil, usable in a limitless number of ways all year around.
13. Able to soothe the mucous membranes with its oil. |
| Over a lifetime of eating processed, microwaved, pasteurized and/or cooked foods lacking in fiber, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, various nutrients and enzymes, the digestive "muscle" becomes weakened. A weak "muscle" may not be able to handle a large quantity of nutrient-rich, fiber-rich fresh fruits and green leaves immediately. Therefore, it is best to ease a more mature digestive system on to raw plant foods in a manner which allows strengthening and progress without shocking the system. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 It is the schools that post signs saying they are "drug free zones," the health care professionals who make livings by tarring kids with bogus labels, the insurance companies who view drug treatments as more cost-effective, the pharmaceutical companies who make billions by making poisons appear as safe, and lots more beneficial, than Flintstone vitamins. The most effective drug pushers are the legal ones.
Chapter Two
MAKING MONKEYS illions of people in New Delhi, India, and the surrounding area were swept up in a panic during the spring of 2001. What were they afraid of? |
Carlo Petrini
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 Nutritional costs and benefits form a fundamental part of the balance—preferred foods generally pack more energy, proteins, vitamins, or minerals per serving than avoided foods. But there are other costs and benefits that may override the nutritive value of foods and make them good or bad to eat. Some foods are highly nutritious, but people spurn them because too much time and effort are needed to produce them, or because of the adverse effects they have on soils, animal and plant life, and other aspects of the environment. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 In addition to finding these vitamins in supplements, they are sometimes used to fortify foods. Organic foods, even if fortified with vitamins, are not allowed to use ingredients derived from GMOs.
Flavorings can also come from corn or other GM sources. For example, "hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), a commonly used flavor enhancer derived from corn and soy could be GMO,"11 says the Non-GMO Source. Vanillin can also be GM.
"Genetically engineered bacteria and fungi are routinely used as sources of enzymes for the manufacture of a wide variety of processed foods,"10 says GEO-PIE. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 They are rich in vitamins, particularly thiamine, riboflavin and vitamin C, enough to make the Amerindian Inca ingestion of about two ounces of chewed leaves significant in terms of daily requirements. Chewing the leaves, say the Indians, promotes longevity and maintains teeth and gums in attractive health. This may be because the alkaloids in coca contain a substance congenial to dental health, or the act of chewing releases some matter unknown to dental experts but productive of good oral hygiene. |
Mike Adams
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| They contain vitamins, are high in fiber, and have small amounts of protein. Mostly, sea vegetables are a rich source of such minerals as potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and iodine.... Thanks to theirphytochemicalpower, sea vegetables are anti-inflammatory and tumor-suppressing. Their phytochemical content also includes the carotenoids and flavonoids, the most powerful of the antioxidants.
Researchers have suggested that the ubiquitous presence of sea vegetables in the Japanese diet may be why the incidence of breast cancer in Japanese women is one-sixth that in American women. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| Fruit is very high in vitamins and antioxidants and is a valuable source of carbohydrates in a broken-down and very usable form, and vegetables are a wonderful source of many minerals and antioxidants. Vegetables are also alkaline in our bloodstream and what we know from most independent research is that we need to be following a 75-80 percent alkaline-forming diet. Research from Britain shows that the higher the alkaline environment in the brain, the higher the IQ. And the way to create a higher alkaline environment in the body is to eat more alkaline-forming foods. |
Mike Adams
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| You need fruits in your diet for nutritional reasons: fruits are very high in certain antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. Avoid high sugar fruits such as watermelons and grapes, and stick with fruits that are nutrient dense without all the fructose. Excellent choices include all of the berries (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries), avocados (which are technically a fruit, but will be discussed in more detail later), kiwi, oranges, papaya and mangos. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| The natural antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals help the body do repair work very efficiently and this is what helps slow down the aging process as well as keep you healthy.
It is important to remember that fruit does not do anything to your body; rather your body uses the fruit that you have eaten. Fruit causes very little strain on the body as it contains no toxic or poisonous elements such as those found in virtually every other food.
For example, certain vegetables such as spinach contain oxalic acid, which prevents the absorption of iron. |
| Fruit is truly a complete food. vitamins and minerals (and that includes calcium and iron in every single fruit) are in a form that is ready to be absorbed and assimilated. The fats in fruit (oh yes, there is fat in every single fruit [see charts on composition of fruit at the back of the book]) are in the form of fatty acids that are ready to be absorbed and assimilated. The protein in fruit (and surprise, surprise, there is protein in every fruit [see tables]) is already in its simplest form—that of amino acids—and is ready to be absorbed and assimilated. |
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