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"Most packaged food items, especially those targeted toward our children, are filled with preservatives, chemical additives, and coloring agents which research has shown contribute to attention deficit problems. The recipes starting on page 241 will show you how to saute your vegetables with water instead of resorting to high-fat, low-quality oils. When you do use an oil, try to use extra virgin olive oil or canola oil. Nuts, seeds, and avocados are all excellent sources of healthy oils, but you'll want to consume them in moderation due to their high fat content." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"This allows the body to focus on healing rather than forcing it to engage its already battered immune system in battles with chemical additives and pesticides. Changing your diet greatly reduces your risk of developing cancer. Diet also plays a critical role in bringing about a permanent remission if cancer has already occurred. In an estimated 60% or more of all malignant cancers, diet plays a leading role in its onset. An anti-cancer diet can effectively cut your cancer risk by two-thirds. The most successful cancer-preventing diet is still the vegetarian model." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Chemical Additives Besides the nutritional disadvantages of cooking and refining foods, the modern high-tech diet is less nutritional because of chemical additives. Of the deleterious factors in overly processed foods, the use of additives is among the worst. Additives are small quantities of chemicals used to impart special properties to the final food preparation. They are designed to impart taste, to preserve, to color, or to emulsify. The number of chemicals used for these purposes runs into the thousands." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Soil depletion, food processing, chemical additives, pesticide residues, toxic emissions, stress, emotional trauma and the overuse of drugs all increase our need for additional micro-nutrients to ensure a healthy life. This need for added nutrients is much greater today than it was in past generations. Today's crops tend to be grown on mineral-depleted soils using artificial fertilisers, then manufactured with an eye towards appearance and processed to have a long shelf-life. During manufacture, many foods are refined to such a degree that most of their nutritional value is lost." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Other important causes of intestinal hyperpermeability are: excessive intake of alcohol; taking too much aspirin or ibuprofen; presence of lingering viruses; bowel dysbiosis; drinking too much coffee with meals; and eating foods that are high in chemical additives. A deficiency of stomach acid is also a common cause of food reactions. Many people are low in stomach acid, known as hydrochloric acid, and this deficiency tends to worsen with age. Stomach acid is essential for breaking down foods." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Do not purchase foods that contain flour or sweeteners in the first four ingredients or that contain any hydrogenated (trans) fat, or chemical additives. • Avoid foods that have more then 300 mg sodium per serving. Navigating the Food Categories 1) Vegetables Since vegetables and fruit contain the most nutrients, the first part of your health makeover is to include more of them in your menus. Let's go over how you can do this. The first thing to include in your daily menu is a salad, either at lunch or dinner. Eating raw vegetables every day is an important part of a healthy diet." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "As a general rule of thumb, if the list of ingredients is long and you cannot pronounce most of them, there are probably a lot of chemical additives in the product, and you're risking your health by eating it. Be sure to read the ingredients even when purchasing foods from a health food store or when the rest of the packaging is trying to convince you the food is healthy." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Rapp says, "your child should eat only organically grown food because it is less contaminated with pesticides, food coloring or other chemical additives that may be causing adverse reactions. However, in some places, it remains difficult—and expensive—to buy foods uncontaminated by chemicals. I encourage people to grow their own vegetables so that they will have their own source in the winter and one which they know does not contain any chemicals." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Yet, relatively few people realize that holding on to resentment, anger, and fear, avoiding exposure to the sun, not getting enough sleep, or eating junk foods, chemical additives, and artificial sweeteners is no less dangerous than drinking polluted water; these habits of life may just take a little longer to kill a person than tiny amoeba do. Mistaken Judgment We all know that if the foundation of a house is strong, the house can easily withstand external challenges, such as a violent storm." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Agricultural toxins like pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, as well as synthetic chemical additives (including hormones and antibiotics) that change our foods at the source—on the farm in soils and animals—continue to be a major concern, so much so that organic foods are quickly becoming mainstream across America in most regular grocery stores now that we are demanding higher-quality products. I just hope that federal regulators continue to keep the standards high when it comes to the term organic." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The carcinogenic grease of refined and overheated fats and oils, coloring agents, chemical additives, preservatives, pesticides, and all such unnatural substances, ends up plastering the cells' membranes with impenetrable layers of gunk. This does not even include the billions of poison-filled nutritional supplements Americans consume each day, as if they were real food. Just think of how many vitamin pills the average American swallows day after day, year after year—pills that are loaded with binders, fillers, artificial colors, aspartame, or other deadly sweeteners, to name just a few." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Detoxify Your Kitchen I recommend cleaning out your kitchen and throwing away foods containing suspicious ingredients—coloring agents, chemical additives, and preservatives (you'll know them when you can't pronounce them). Get rid of the Hamburger Helper. Besides being full of unnecessary and unhealthy ingredients, these types of foods add no nutritional value. Usually the fewer ingredients the better. It is better to get real butter than margarine, better to get real sugar than artificial sweeteners, and so on. Just use them in moderation." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"These are less refined than common table salt and contain no toxic chemical additives. Much better is to use sea vegetables or make or buy your own organic "salt" from dehydrated, ground up celery. Victoria also offers Tomato Bolt! Ginger Jolt! and Veggie Volt! as salt substitutes. These raw seasonings are so full of flavor that table salt is never missed. Be advised that the use of salt as a condiment reinforces cooked food addiction. Victoria adds, "Salt is an addiction within an addiction. Quit the salt addiction, and half the battle to quitting the cooked food addiction is won." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"All raw foods contain enzymes; it is what we do to food that destroys them. chemical additives, radiation, and exposure to oxygen kills enzymes. Fluorides and nicotine are two of the strongest killers of enzymes. However, the main enzyme killer is heat from cooking. Enzymes are destroyed when food is heated above H2-120°f (44-49°fc). When we eat cooked food, the body needs to draw nutrients from its own tissue reserves to manufacture digestive enzymes." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "This means getting all the right nutrients and enzymes, having the right environment, and avoiding those things that tend to depress immunity such as: household cleaners, the overuse of antibiotics and drugs, pesticides, chemical additives present in the foods we eat, exposure to environmental pollutants, and stress. Lowered immunity results in impaired healing ability and lowered defense against infection." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Caffeine, nicotine, sugar, table salt, red meats (to a large extent), strong spices, chocolate (made with sugar), trans fats and hydrogenated oils, fried foods, dairy products (except unsalted butter in moderation), refined grains and flours and their products, nonorganic-source or high potency or synthetic vitamin and mineral supplements, 'enriched' foods and foods with chemical additives. Genetically altered foods. ?Cereals, grains, and seeds that are processed, boxed, puffed, flaked. Roasted commercial cereals. Cereals with sugar. White rice. Roasted and/or salted or rancid seeds." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Soups: Canned, creamed, dehydrated with chemical additives, instant, or powdered. Fruit: Canned, frozen, sprayed, sugared, preserved. Sliced and left exposed to the air. Picked and shipped green or unripe. Sulfured or artificially colored, or treated with preservatives. Juices (fruit and vegetable): Canned or frozen concentrates. Sugared or artificially sweetened. No synthetic, instant, powdered juices. NUTRITIONAL HOME RUNS TO HEALTH In a baseball game, there is nothing that wins the game faster than home-runs. It's the same in winning the health game." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Be careful, though, as many mains water supplies are contaminated and contain inorganic substances such as lead, cadmium and chemical additives that impair our immune system. Invest in a water filter system—there are many inexpensive ones now available—and taste the difference. Try to drink at least half the recommended 6-7 glasses of liquid daily as pure water. Limit alcohol and caffeine consumption. Keep up the recommended level of liquid, too, especially as you grow older, when the thirst drive diminishes: your body's need for water does not." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"What is far more important today is the avoidance of chemicals?both chemical additives and residual chemicals. "For children I think it is imperative to get organic fruits and fruit juices even if you can't do anything more than this. From the figures I've seen, fruit and fruit juice tend to be more highly contaminated with pesticide residues than other classes of foods. Children eat more fruit and drink by far more fruit juice than adults. From this source alone, they could very easily ingest toxic levels of pesticide residues." The third aspect of treatment is nutritional supplementation. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Cultivate the same attitude with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and all the more than 10,000 chemical additives in our foods. If Codex Alimentarius takes effect (in 2010), I would recommend that children and teens especially eat absolutely no food with pesticides. The toxic levels will become much higher than they currently are. Please see the Internet video clip "Nutricide" with Dr. Rima Laibow, MD. And a Final Warning... The organic food industry is growing by 20% a year in the United States. Anything with that much economic potential attracts a lot of attention." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Outbreaks of bacterial contamination have already forced sliced-apple recalls. New chemical additives such as PQSL 2.0 are being developed to neutralize all traces of life on the apple slices. Grapples have also been available presliced in baggies, but Snyder says they may not be for long. C&O Nursery recently stopped working with their initial marketing partner, Get Fit Foods (who own proprietary slicing technology). Before handing me a press release, Snyder blacks their name out, first with a pen, then with a Sharpie, saying, "That's how much I like them." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"There are many reasons to avoid eating such complicated food products beyond the various chemical additives and corn and soy derivatives they contain. One of the problems with the products of food science is that, as Joan Gussow has pointed out, they lie to your body; their artificial colors and flavors and synthetic sweeteners and novel fats confound the senses we rely on to assess new foods and prepare our bodies to deal with them. Foods that lie leave us with little choice but to eat by the numbers, consulting labels rather than our senses." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"I've already mentioned the fact that we eat foods depleted of essential nutrients, which are replaced by GMOs and chemical additives in processed foods.These act synergistically with the synthetic chemicals that we absorb through our skin or inhale from the air, which compounds our body burden, throwing us even further out of rhythm. Most of us believe that environmental toxins are evident to the senses. This is completely false. There are thousands of extremely hazardous toxins that you cannot see, smell, taste, or necessarily feel." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Usually upon a judge's order, she began putting the prisoners on a diet that banned sugar, white-flour products, chemical additives, caffeine, and alcohol, and stressed fresh vegetables, fruits, water, healthy fats, lean meats, and fish. "The results were astounding," she says. "Their behavior completely changed." A whopping 80 percent of probationers went on to become "productive members of society"—a complete reversal of the typical 70 to 85 percent recidivism rates. It seems then that for certain people, aggression and blood sugar abnormalities go hand in hand." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"As additional new polymer plastics followed in the tracks of artificial rubber and PVC, each required its own set of chemical additives. Plasticizers guaranteed the desired flexibility, stabilizers defended the polymer against degradation, and colorants provided aesthetic appeal and even practical advantages (especially in color-coded wiring insulation). For certain applications, especially when a polymer served as the basis of a synthetic coating, sealant, or bonding agent, the key additive would take the form of a solvent in an exact amount and of a specific kind." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) "Additional chemical additives may or may not detet tecteational use of the acetone-free products, but childhood ingestions of nail polish remover have led to more than one case of coma from GHB.67 old hazards remain Amid all these new threats, old hazards remain as well. As a solvent for rubber cement, benzene has not been entirely removed from commerce either in the United States ot in Europe. Not surprisingly, in developing economies benzene is often minimally regulated, if at all." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) "This scrutiny is consistent with the FDA's primary jurisdictional responsibility for medications, but its recent track record hasn't indicated any better control of other substances in our environment that we are liable to ingest, such as herbal supplements and chemical additives. The story of ephedra serves as one example of another such substance. Widely marketed in consumer goods, especially in herbal teas marketed as asthma self-treatments (as the Chinese remedy "ma-huang") and in over-the-counter stimulant aids, ephedra is a product over which the FDA claimed it had no jurisdiction." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"These are often a rich source of chemical additives in the form of preservatives and flavorings. HERBALISM W Osteoarthritis treatments that include eliminating food allergies, supplementing deficient vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, stretching and strengthening joints, and herbal approaches tend to be the most successful. 602 Counter-irritants: One interesting approach to decreasing inflammation and pain in a joint is to use a herbal "counter-irritant," which is thought to increase circulation and move toxins from the joint space." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.) "Simple helpful steps include avoiding alcohol, tea and coffee, and convenience foods that are packed with chemical additives. Eat immunity-boosting foods that are a rich source of antioxidant nutrients, such as tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, citrus fruit, blueberries, and broccoli. CO Natrum mur: If warts have a tendency to develop on the palms of the hands, this remedy may be a possible choice. Additional symptoms include a tendency to develop very dry, sensitive skin that cracks easily in cold weather." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"With their immune systems impaired by large amounts of these man-made, acid-forming foods and the chemical additives they contain, children barely stand a chance of fighting off the normally harmless germs that are part of our natural environment. The situation is worsened if children haven't been breastfed long enough to build up their natural immunity. Many infants are still being fed commercial formulas, and these contain rancid (oxidized) cholesterol which results from the milk-drying process." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

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