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 "It is these same food cravings that often serve to worsen PMS symptoms, leading to a vicious cycle of poor dietary choices and mood disturbance. It has been suggested, however, that ingesting high amounts of carbohydrates may be a form of "self-medication" in that it leads to a transient increase in tryptophan, a precursor to serotonin, and a resultant improvement in mood and energy.17 Choosing high-quality carbohydrates (including whole grains such as oatmeal, brown rice, barley, rye, and whole wheat) throughout the luteal phase may help decrease PMS mood symptoms."- Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
 "Fortunately, genetic tendencies can be helped with the right dietary choices and supplements. Diet, properly used supplements, and changes in your environment can help ensure that hormones will act safely inside your body.
9. Taper off support (or not). With proper nutritional, supplemental, and lifestyle supports, your body will be brought back into balance. Your body may produce more of its own hormones. If you have excess hormones, you will develop symptoms such as breast tenderness, feeling too energetic or anxious, or a return of insomnia. This is not a bad thing, but it can be confusing."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "She calculated that if she lived to be seventy-nine years old—the average life expectancy for an American woman—she would have to make the right dietary choices approximately 80,000 times! In other words, she faced
80,000 future struggles—a horrifying prospect, and yet a prospect that most overweight people face. Helene had already tried several major diets without success. She had no idea how to comfort herself without resorting to food. I'm assuming that like Helene, you want to avoid 80,000 future struggles. So come into my office and have a seat."- Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) |
 "Amino acids are often low in children with 4-A disorders, particularly because of restricted dietary choices, poor digestion, and poor assimilation.
Especially low are the branched-chain amino acids: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These amino acids are known as branched-chain amino acids because one of their essential components, the carbon chain, is branched, which offers increased biochemical flexibility. These three amino acids are low in approximately one-third of all autistic children.
I often give the branched-chain amino acids in conjunction with NAC."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "Advice to increase physical activity now frequently accompanies dietary guidance because health professionals recognize that maintenance of a healthy body size and sustained cardiopulmonary fitness can only be achieved through an active lifestyle coupled with healthy dietary choices.
II. GUIDELINES FOR NUTRIENT ADEQUACY AND SAFETY
A. Dietary Reference Intakes for Nutrient Adequacy
The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) offer guidance on the level of nutrient intake that will promote health and reduce the risk of chronic disease."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
| "A recent study showed that an increase in C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, was positively correlated with the severity of both physical and psychological symptoms of PMS,21 providing more support for the use of antiinflammatory dietary choices for PMS sufferers. Foods that can stimulate inflammatory pathways include, among others, sugar, poultry, eggs, cheese, milk, white flour, white rice, and partially hydrogenated oils. Foods that can reduce inflammation include fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, grass-fed beef, nuts, seeds, curry powder, garlic, and onions." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
 "There are also those who are suffering the results of years of damaging lifestyle and dietary choices, and visit out of their need to address a serious, life-threatening degenerative illness. They may also feel a lack of joy and peace, a separation from love and Self, and a disconnection from the experience of the soul. Still others are experiencing environmental stress and degradation firsthand in the form of chemical imbalances and toxicity, and while they may not be diagnosed, they have very little energy and enthusiasm for life."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Eating in the Culture of Life is about more than feeling good because of the food itself, but involves the impact of your dietary choices on the economic, agricultural, ecological, political, social, and cultural realities of your community, your nation, even the world. This external shift creates a change internally, as we are reorienting ourselves to who we really are, and not what we have been told we are. The following quotes come from an agenda of economics, not conscious health concerns." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "Holt, dietary choices and likelihood of abstinence among alcoholic patients in an outpatient clinic. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1983. 12:355-62.
17. Israel, K. D., et al., Serum uric acid, inorganic phosphorus, and glutamic -oxalacetic transaminase and blood pressure in carbohydrate-sensitive adults consuming three different levels of sucrose. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 1983. 27: 425-35.
18. Ipp, E., R. Dobbs and R. H. Unger, Morphine and beta-endorphin influence the secretion of the endocrine pancreas. Nature, 1978. 276:190-91.
19. Bartoshuk, L. M."- Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) |
| "Individual consumers will be more likely to make better dietary choices if they ensure that a variety of fruits, vegetables, and other low-energy-density foods are readily available at home. A recent systematic review of studies examining associations between fruit and vegetable availability and consumption suggests that small changes in availability may yield changes in consumption patterns that could provide important health benefits [85]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Few other dietary choices, if any, can offer the incredible benefits of looking good, growing tall and avoiding the vast majority or premature diseases in our culture.
The China Study was an important milestone in my thinking. Standing alone, it does not prove that diet causes disease. Absolute proof in science is nearly unattainable. Instead, a theory is proposed and debated until the weight of the evidence is so overwhelming that everyone commonly accepts that the theory is most likely true. In the case of diet and disease, the China Study adds a lot of weight to the evidence."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
 "The focus right now by various medical organizations such as the National Institutes of Health for dealing with the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in the Pima Indians is to educate children on the importance of exercise and dietary choices to reduce diabetes risk.
Other Genetic and Racial Factors
Other racial and ethnic groups besides the Pima Indians that have a higher tendency for type 2 diabetes include other Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Australian Aborigines, and Pacific Islanders."- Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) |
 "Food for Thought: The Bortons Weigh In
After only a week on a plant-based diet, Larry and Louise reported positive outcomes from their new dietary choices. Larry said, "I didn't list bad breath as a medical complaint because I thought it was a normal thing I just had to live with. If I'd known the perks it could bring in the romance department, I'd have started this diet a long time ago."
Fresh breath was definitely an unexpected bonus for Larry and Louise, but even more positive changes would be forthcoming.
SUMMARY SHEET from Dr."- John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.) |
 "The food industry, through lobbying, coercion, greed, and advertising, has influenced us to make dietary choices that fatten us up and harm our health."- Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) |
| "You will become a well-informed consumer, equipped and motivated to make healthful dietary choices rather than taking at face value the medical claims that can keep you curled up on the couch or standing in line at the drugstore to buy potions and pills.
Given this newfound knowledge about nutrition and health from my sugar plantation experience, it was impossible for me to practice medicine the way I'd been taught. Despite scathing criticism and obvious efforts by colleagues to divert my enthusiasm, my resolve was steadfast." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.) "Here are some examples of common diseases that are the direct results of dietary choices. Appendicitis he contents of the small intestine empty into the large intestine. At about this junction a small pouch, or diverticulum, called the appendix, is attached to the large intestine. When the opening of the appendix becomes irritated and blocked by unhealthful remnants of partially digested foods, fluids accumulate. These stagnant fluids become infected, creating a disease condition common to Westerners called appendicitis." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.) |
| "It is clear that most people would rather take the easy way out and rely on a pill—either natural or synthetic—than commit to the lifestyle and dietary choices that promote health. Don't be one of these people; choose health and make a commitment to leading a lifestyle and following a diet that will reduce your risk not only for diabetes, but also heart disease, strokes, cancer, cataracts, and other chronic degenerative diseases." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) |
| "The focus right now by various medical organizations such as the National Institutes of Health to combat the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in the Pima Indians is to educate children on the importance of exercise and dietary choices to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
The reason why diet and lifestyle are so much more important than genetic factors in influencing body weight, insulin sensitivity, and type 2 diabetes is the difference between the genotype and its actual expression, phenotype. Genotype refers to a particular genetic code." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) |
 "The Asian secret to a longer, healthier life appears to lie in dietary choices. Asian diets are well-known for what they don't contain: they are low in fat, meat, refined grains, and sugar. But what is served on the dinner tables in Japan and China, such as plenty of vegetables, complex carbohydrates, and soy foods, may be just as important as what's missing from them. More specifically, what's brewing in Asian teapots accounts for at least part of the secret to Asian longevity."- Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.) |
 "That's more than 200 million diagnoses for conditions that can largely be eliminated by improving dietary choices and increasing physical activity! This strains the health care system and diverts much needed resources and research. It goes far beyond the destruction of individual health and well-being and extends to the undoing of society itself.
Consider what an incredible impact could be made if we actually practiced preventive medicine rather than focused on (and paid for) drugs and surgery once the patient is already ill."- Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
| "It takes human beings years or decades to show the full effects from these poor dietary choices. The other reason it's not so apparent in human beings is because poor dietary practices are so widespread that both the public and members of the medical community think that unhealthy, obese, chronically diseased human beings are now the norm. There are so few examples of people demonstrating outstanding health that we are walking around in a society where we actually believe that human beings are supposed to be fat and depressed and have plaque in their arteries and so on." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) |
| "People also tend to make unhealthy dietary choices when they're sleep-deprived. Filling the body with unhealthy food leads to a lack of nutrients to fuel it plus an accumulation of toxins in the colon. Studies indicate sleep deprivation also causes the body to produce more stress hormones, which can cause constipation or aggravate an existing disorder such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Stress Due to Trauma Can Cause Colon Malfunction
Negative emotions can interfere with healthy colon function, but physical stress probably comes to mind first when people think about what wears them down." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) |
 "Indeed, as mentioned earlier, beginning in the late 1970s, many Americans, assuming they were making the correct dietary choices, began to follow the U.S.-government-sanctioned recommendation that we eat less fat and more carbs.
¦ This meant that health-conscious Americans were possibly eating or trying to eat 6 to 11 servings a day of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta.
¦ But, rather than eat whole grains, folks usually reached for refined, fiber-stripped, processed carbs or sweets."- 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.) |
 "Counterarguments to the National Restaurant Association's Talking Points
Argument: Frivolous lawsuits blaming the restaurant industry for obesity in America deny the role that personal responsibility plays in the dietary choices that individuals make on a daily basis.
Response: Keeping litigation available doesn't deny the role of individual dietary choice; it merely represents one potential tool to address the problem.
Argument: Healthy eating should be promoted by knowledge, not lawsuits.
Response: Then the restaurant industry should provide nutrition labeling."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Rather, it is to illustrate that various economic, political, and social processes are operating beyond the control of most individuals, restricting their access to healthy foods and constraining their ability to make informed dietary choices. While there may be no proverbial smoking gun, for many people, society is essentially arranged such that there might as well be. Exercise and Energy Balance: The Excuses that Keep on Giving A variation on the personal responsibility theme is this: it's time Americans got off their lazy duffs." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "However, we also cannot ignore the fact that food corporations spend roughly $12 billion a year on marketing designed to get children to pester their parents for junk food—doing an end run around parents' authority over their kids' dietary choices in the process. (For more on this tactic and ways to respond to it, see Chapter 11.) They're Not Holding a Gun to Your Head (but Almost) An overarching theme of industry's personal responsibility argument goes something like this: "Food companies aren't holding a gun to anyone's head." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "Hormone levels generally decline as a result of aging, but they can also be affected by dietary choices, mineral deficiencies, environmental toxins and synthetic chemicals, medications, smoking, and stress.
Causes of Hormone Imbalances in Women
Estrogen dominance (excessive estrogen in relation to progesterone) can be created by numerous factors. Eating a diet high in estrogenic foods can be a major cause, because many foods are high in estrogen or compounds similar to estrogen."- Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.) "A number of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, which may result from poor dietary choices, digestive dysfunction, or food allergies, can also affect sleep: • L-tryptophan is a precursor to melatonin, the hormone needed for sleep. Supplementing with L-tryptophan can ameliorate the symptoms of insomnia and other sleep disorders.15 • The B vitamins (particularly B6) are also important for sleep, as they regulate the body's use of L-tryptophan. In the absence of adequate vitamin B6, the body cannot convert L-tryptophan into melatonin." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.) "Many dietary factors can disrupt sleep: consumption of stimulants like caffeine and sugar, food allergies, the intake of drugs and alcohol, and poor dietary choices are the primary culprits. Fortunately, these are factors you have a great deal of control over—even though it can sometimes be hard to do. But by making some basic changes in your diet, you may be able to avoid medical treatment and other costly interventions. And your overall health will benefit, too." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.) |
| "For us, making the healthier lifestyle and dietary choices is a small price to pay to be able to enjoy the richness of life each day.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Change
If you have diabetes or a prediabetic condition, you will need to accept the need for change. Type 1 diabetics must accept the need for such things as intensive blood glucose monitoring and intensive insulin therapy. Type 2 diabetics or those with prediabetes or insulin resistance must be willing to look at a variety of factors that play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of their future." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) |
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