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"Avoid the overconsumption of meat, alcohol, soft drinks, caffeine, coffee, most nuts, eggs, vinegar, sauerkraut, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), pasteurized milk, cheese, white sugar, and medical drugs. Add additional servings of ripe fruit, vegetables, soybeans, bean sprouts, water, raw milk, onions, figs, carrots, beets, miso, and mineral supplements. It also helps to reduce anxiety when possible and include moderate exercise in your daily regimen. Strenuous exercise can actually contribute to an acidic environment in the body because of the increased production of lactic acid." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Opt to enjoy sweets, soft drinks, and white bread only occasionally, and try to choose carbs that are lower on the glycemic index, or GI. (Choosing foods at least 12 points lower on the index reduced triglycerides by approximately 9 percent in 10 out of 11 studies.) Instead of processed ce rbohydrates, choose whole grain foods such as brown rice, whole grain cereals, and whole grain pasta. Seek omega-3 fatty acids from fish. Start by eating fish a couple times a week. This may help lower triglycerides, especially if fish replaces other foods containing saturated a ad trans fats." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"An acid based diet consisting of overcooked foods, junk foods, sugar, dairy products, excessive meats, soft drinks, alcohol, nicotine, and drugs places an ever-increasing stress on the body. In order to maintain healthy blood alkalinity, the body is forced to rob nutrients from its own tissues. As an example of how acidifying some foods are, Dr. Robbins cites the example of one meal of well-done steak with all the trimmings as requiring nine meals of fresh raw fruits and vegetables to balance out the acid introduced into the body from the meat.1 Most liquids we drink are very acidic." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "When emotional stress becomes too great, we turn to escapes such as food, sugar, soft drinks, alcohol, nicotine, sex, destructive anger, manipulating and controlling others, gambling, or legal and illegal drugs. When the stress is not alleviated by sedation, which is always temporary, and when it is not addressed by a resolution of the underlying emotional conflict, disease symptoms begin to appear. The addiction problem and the emotional pain continue." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Factors that contribute to digestive disorders are: the lack of digestive enzymes; insufficient stomach acid; poor food combinations; overeating; drinking liquids with meals; consuming substances like soft drinks, coffee, and strong alcoholic drinks, which are irritating to the digestive linings; consuming drugs and antibiotics that are irritating to stomach and intestine linings and which destroy friendly intestinal bacteria; eating while under stress; and consuming foods and drinks that are too hot or too cold, indigestible, overcooked, fried, micro-waved, refined, and chemically treated." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, Stacey's dietician "may be able to recommend certain foods Stacey should eat before going out, and snack foods or soft drinks that she could have while clubbing." Finally, "Stacey or her mother could leave a favorite snack conveniently by her bed for when she returns home late." And these words of wisdom end the section: "Parents should not relinquish responsibility for their teenage children's diabetes too soon." Indeed." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"It turns up everywhere—in syrups, toppings, sauces, soft drinks, cordials, frozen sweets, confectionery, packet snacks, jellies, biscuits, puddings and is also used to colour medicines yellow, green or orange! Identifying Additives Food companies sometimes seem to the outsider to be playing God with our health and our lives because of their use of additives, preservatives and artificial colourings. However, consumers have some help, as there are now government guidelines controlling food labelling." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Her diet was also closely controlled—no sweets, chocolate or soft drinks. Although Rebecca is a chronic asthmatic she deliberately played down her condition and resorted to medication only when necessary. Her coach Michael Piper said, Asthma is the reason for her introduction to swimming at the age of four and it has never interfered with her training. She is addicted to success.' Another world record holder, Samantha Riley, who held the shortcourse 100 and 200 metres breaststroke records, is also an asthmatic." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The biggest offenders are animal foods, soft drinks, alcohol, medical drugs, and stress. To remedy the inability of the body to maintain proper acid-alkaline balance, and thus support the resolution of many diseases, it is important to increase in the diet the amount of plant-source foods that provide alkaline minerals such as organic sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Many fruits, vegetables, and dairy products are high in sugars such as fructose and lactose, but these foods are also important sources of many vitamins and minerals. In contrast, foods such as nondiet carbonated beverages or fruit-flavored punches usually supply few nutrients other than energy. Thus, the guideline urges Americans to avoid foods that are high in added sugars (and a table lists examples of these foods: soft drinks, sugars and candy, cakes, cookies, pies, fruit-flavored drinks and fruit punch, and dairy desserts)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Our most prominent source of this damaging sugar is high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks, which, according to the USDA Economic Research Service, comprised more than 25 percent of the beverages consumed by Americans in 1997. A 2005 study found that the low AGE content of a low-fat vegan diet could benefit diabetics.35 The Culture of Life anti-diabetogenic diet I employ is unprocessed, unheated, plant-source-only foods, and low-glycemic, meaning that the AGEs issue is rendered moot. It is thus optimal for reducing and eliminating diabetes and its complications." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Small amounts of calcium may also be lost as a result of the phosphoric acid in some soft drinks and the diuretic action of coffee. Calcium and Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a disease that involves loss of bone strength leading to an increased risk of fracture. It is well known to occur in postmenopausal women, but can also be present in other populations. Osteoporosis afflicts 25 million people in the United States, but there are no symptoms unless a bone is broken. Hip fracture in an older person is something to be avoided as it makes movement difficult and can be slow to heal." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"They took breaks for pastries, yogurt, and soft drinks in a large hall, half the size of a football field, which was filled with sales booths erected by pharmaceutical companies. To pay for the event, the academy had charged the drug companies a thousand dollars for each eight-by-ten-foot booth. Tables in the booths were piled high with gifts for any physician wandering by. There were Zoloft wall clocks, bottles of Paxil hand cream, and enough pens, staplers, notepads, clipboards—all emblazoned with pharmaceutical brand names—to supply a nearby office building." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Yet if you looked at drinking nonwater fluids, consuming a lot of soft drinks, coffee, cocoa, seemed to be hazardous and increased the risk of attack. Imagine if you could really make a sizable dent in heart attack rates just by increasing the number of glasses of water you drink! That would be a major public health finding." Fraser stared into his lap for a moment and pursed his lips. "For whatever reason, people just aren't looking into this," he said simply. "But we are looking at it again with AHS-2, and with 97,000 people, we should find it much more strongly if it is real." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Flavor companies are huge plants comprised of a small and elite group of skilled scientists ("food technologists" or "flavorists") who work in labs to find the right chemical balance in test tubes to give you the flavor of those french fries, and even the flavor in toothpastes, ice cream, breakfast cereals, chips, pet food, cookies, mouthwashes, antacids, soft drinks, sports drinks, bottled teas, wine coolers, all-natural juice drinks, organic soy drinks, beers, and malt liquors. These same plants manufacture the smells found in fine perfumes, as well as household products (e.g." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "At the major fast food chains, color additives are added to soft drinks, salad dressings, cookies, condiments, chicken dishes, and sandwich buns. But the fast food industry isn't solely to blame, as food additives are found in just about everything these days. Many strawberry yogurts, for example, get their color from carmine, which is also found in many frozen fruit bars, candies, fruit fillings, and juice drinks, as well as cosmetics like lipstick and eye shadow. Carmine is a food dye derived from ground-up insects that produce the pigment-containing carminic acid." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Phosphorus is found in the form of phosphoric acid in many soft drinks. Phosphorus levels in the diet have increased because of food additives. The phosphorus in the seeds of plants is found in the form of phytates (also called phytic acid). Phytates lessen the availability of calcium, magnesium, and iron. In phytate or phytic acid form, only about half of the phosphorus is available for absorption. This presents little difficulty as phosphorus is present in virtually all diets in adequate amounts. TOXICITY OF PHOSPHORUS Excess phosphorus in the blood is called hyperphosphatemia." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Avoid types of fluid during the day that cause a tendency to urinate, like caffeine, which is not only in coffee, but most soft drinks. If you do go to the bathroom and have difficulty falling back to sleep, use some of the relaxation techniques." Dr. James Pearl, who is a member of the Sleep Panel at the Presbyterian St. Luke Medical Center in Denver and in private practice as a psychologist, adds that many different organ system disorders can affect sleep. Foremost among them is sleep apnea. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Patients with Candida should avoid all processed foods, and especially those with sugar, such as soft drinks. Get back to the basics. Grow your own garden if you can. If not, maybe go to a health food store, where you can buy organic, unprocessed foods. While most Americans eat too much fat, people with Candida need to be more concerned with sugar than with fat. If you eliminate nutritionally poor foods, you will often be surprised at how your taste for things changes as your diet changes." Dr. Ray Wunderlich emphasizes the link between depression and candidiasis. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "If a person stays on junk all the time—eats 12 candy bars a day, three soft drinks or more (with seven teaspoons of sugar in each soft drink), and smokes and drinks and gets stimulants in other bad foods—taking a multivitamin just isn't going to do the trick. I try to get people off caffeine. I give them vitamins and supplements which, hopefully, their bodies will absorb. If their absorption is not good, they may require digestive enzymes, additional acidophilus, or hydrochloric acid supplements." Finally, Dr. Spreen uses two naturally occurring substances: B12 and B complex." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"There are many causes of PVCs—stimulants like caffeine (in coffee, chocolate, and some soft drinks), low potassium states, alcohol, an aging conduction system, antiarrhythmic and street drugs, lack of oxygen (even being at high altitudes), mitral valve prolapse, and so on. The list is long. Initial interventions include eliminating the cause if possible, or normalizing electrolytes like potassium." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Fruits are often located near a store's entrance as a way of luring shoppers in to buy other more expensive processed foods, snacks and soft drinks manufactured by large corporations willing to pay stocking fees. (The ingredient lists on these foods can be unsettling: Kraft's guacamole contains less than 2 percent avocado. Quaker's "Peaches & Cream" oatmeal contains dyed, desiccated apple flakes instead of peaches. Some blueberry waffles are actually blue apple waffles. Watermelon Fruit Roll-Ups contain pears, but no watermelon. Some mass-produced fruitcakes are made with turnip." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Reduce the availability of vending machines with soft drinks and high-fat, high-sugar snack foods. ?Involve families and communities in supporting and reinforcing healthy eating patterns. Physical Activity ?Require and fund daily physical education and sports programs in primary and secondary schools. ?Provide adequate training for physical education teachers to promote higher levels of physical activity during classes. ?Ensure the provision of adequate space and necessary athletic/ sports equipment. ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Processed and artificial food products, foods high in protein (such as meat, seeds, nuts, eggs), drugs (prescription and recreational), soft drinks, tobacco, all refined sugar and flour products, air pollution and coffee are some of the main exogenous factors in swinging us toward acidity. Excess emotional stresses from positive or negative experiences create endogenous factors that likewise promote acidity. Alkaline residue elements include potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"But there are some surprising items on the list of "Foods to Avoid," including dairy products, citrus fruits, tomatoes, onions, breath fresheners, soft drinks and mint herbal teas. Be aware of whether any of these items worsen the discomfort. • Semisweet Tea Soothes Discomfort er the big meal, after the dessert and after the guilt sets in, but before the heartburn does, try a cup of meadowsweet tea. The name is sweeter than the actual petals of the flower, but its healing powers are well known in herbalism circles." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Remember: Coffee and caffeine-and-sugar-laden soft drinks can have dehydrating effects on the body. • Breathe Again—Thanks to Homeopathic Pulsatilla hether from seasonal allergies or congestion from the common cold, a homeopathic remedy may relieve sinus stuffiness. The powerful prescription? Pulsatilla, a circulatory aid, gets the body's fluids moving to break up congestion in the sinuses. Take a 30C dose three times a day. You should feel your sinuses becoming clearer after just a few doses." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Soft drinks at 3.0 are strongly acidic; and stomach acid at 1.5 is highly acidic. • Alkaline substances include everything that rates above 7.0 on the pH scale. Again, as with acids, the further away from 7.0 the number, the more alkaline the substance. Blood at 7.45 is slightly alkaline; pancreatic juice in your intestines is strongly alkaline at 8.8, and baking soda at 12.0 is highly alkaline. Your body has a whole bunch of different pHs that it has to maintain. Your saliva is slightly alkaline. Your stomach is strongly acidic. Your intestines are strongly alkaline. Your urine is acid." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"It's in sodas and other soft drinks, tea, even some herbal teas, chocolate, and some medications (Anacin and Excedrin, for example). There's a little caffeine even in decaffeinated coffee. Alcohol is equally disruptive to our body's sleep rhythms. It is important to note that while alcohol initially has a sleep-inducing effect, when it is broken down by the body, it can lighten sleep and causes frequent and early awakening. Alcohol interacts with gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, blocking the brain's oxygen sensors." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The second group of rats was fed from birth a diet consisting of cooked food: bread, milk, salt, junk food, soft drinks, candies, vitamins and medications ?in other words, the SAD. They grew fat. They developed the same degenera- tive conditions that humans do on such a diet: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, obesity, colds, bouts of the flu and so on. Their behavior was also affected. They became nervous, mean, self-destructive and violent toward each other. They even had to be kept apart to prevent them from killing each other. Their offspring were the same. Many died prematurely." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Recent studies suggest that the 'cocktail' of additives consumed in a diet of processed food and soft drinks could be a contributory factor in behavioural problems. British toxicologist Vyvyan Howard points out that additives are tested by food companies one at a time, and little is known about how they react in combination: 'A number of these substances are related very closely to transmitter substances in the brain, which is the way nerve cells talk to each other. If you interfere with that, you interfere with brain function." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

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