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"But, why Prebiotics Prebiotics are nondigestible food ingredients that stimulate the growth and health of good bacteria in the colon and thus improve host health. Prebiotics include inulin, which is in onions, chichory root and dandelions; oligosaccharides, which is in artichokes, leeks and asparagus; beta-glucan, which is in seaweed, oats and barley; pectin, which is in apples and apricots and resistant starch, which is in raw bananas, potatoes and beans. Prebiotics are present in our daily diets; however, in very low amounts in the Western diet. See Chapter 5 for more on prebiotics." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"True supplements are composed of whole food ingredients; they feed the body with balanced nutrients it can use to heal itself. It is my belief that when the body has been starved of vital nutrients or has been abused from an intake of improper nutrition and toxic substances, supplements are needed to correct deficiencies. Many people take supplements of one form or another to ensure they are getting what may be deficient in the food they eat." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"I've learned over the years that there is a line that manufacturers can cross, when taking the fat out of food ingredients, where they have gone too far. The fat-free food has very little in common chemically and aesthetically with the original ingredient. Fat-free margarine, anyone? the same amount of regular cheese gives you just as much calcium and protein, but the calorie and fat price tag is noticeably steeper." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Because of the wide array of nutrients that have been implicated in promoting optimal birth outcomes, it would seem of utmost importance that clinicians and public health professionals urge women of childbearing age to eat a well-balanced diet rather than relying primarily on vitamin and mineral supplements or population-based fortification of foods or food ingredients as has been suggested by some [38]. C." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Aids digestion/absorption of food ingredients & minerals ?Stimulation of immune functions ?Vitamin synthesis Approx. Iog10 number bacteria/g feces FIGURE 4 Dominant intestinal microflora as categorized into potentially harmful or health-promoting groups (reprinted with permission [224]). once weaning is completed and the child is introduced to an adult diet. In phase I, Enterobacter and Streptococcus appear to colonize the infant GI tract within 48 hours of birth. Escherichia coli follows soon after." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In order to make sure that won't happen, raw food ingredients are processed at very high heats. This causes grains, fruits, and vegetables to lose most of their vitamins, minerals, and fiber, as well as other nutrients. Preservatives are then added in order to prevent germs from proliferating in the food while it sits in the jar or package on the supermarket shelf. That way, your food won't spoil or be covered with mold when you tear open the plastic packaging a week or a month or even a year down the road." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Nondigestible food ingredients that may beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and or metabolic activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon and thus improve health. probiotic Live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host, omeprazole A proton pump-inhibitor drug commonly used to treat gastric reflux. rumen The first of four stomachs in ruminant animals, such as cattle or deer." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Body fat loss achieved by stimulation of thermogen-esis by a combination of bioactive food ingredients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind 8-week intervention in obese subjects. Int J Obes (Lond). 2006 Apr 25. Diepvens K, Westerterp KR, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Obesity and thermogenesis related to the consumption of caffeine, ephedrine, capsaicin and green tea. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(l):R77-85. Macho A et al. Non-pungent capsaicinoids from sweet pepper synthesis and evaluation of the chemopreventive and anticancer potential. Eur J Nutr. 2003 Jan;42( 1 ):2-9." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Always Have These Ingredients On Hand Certain food ingredients are important to so many different recipes that it makes sense to have them in your kitchen all the time. They include the following: Have the Right Tools to Work With You can't fix a car without a wrench, and you can't sew without a needle and thread. The same rule applies to your kitchen: you need the right tools to get the job done." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) "The Restaurant Landscape from Fast to Slow As a general rule, fast-food restaurants, national chain restaurants, and neighborhood "greasy spoons" serve meals that contain large amounts of sugar, sugarlike carbs, and unhealthy trans fats, food ingredients that contribute to prediabetes and overweight. Chain restaurant menus are practically identical across the country, although minor accommodations may be made for regional tastes." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) "Season Your Foods with Herbs and Spices Culinary herbs—garlic, basil, oregano, rosemary, parsley, dill, saffron, and others—are among the most nutrient dense of all food ingredients. They are rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, and many herbs have been shown to improve blood sugar. Because culinary herbs are used in relatively small amounts, these health-promoting nutrients will provide only modest benefits, but they will contribute to the broader nutritional advantages of eating healthy foods. Practical tip: Processed and packaged foods tend to have large amounts of added salt." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Other researchers have pointed out that lycopene supplements may or may not give the desired effect—there's good reason to think these incredible plant compounds work best when found in their natural surroundings along with other food ingredients (like other carotenoids). That's another reason I like watermelon—it contains a nice supporting cast of other carotenoids and sources of vitamin A like beta-carotene and the less well-known beta-cryptoxanthin." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"By pursuing a strategy of optimum nutrition and avoiding all foods and food ingredients that promote disease, you can live a life that is free of the chronic diseases currently plaguing western culture. These include but are not limited to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, mental depression, irritable bowel syndrome, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and many other diseases. You may wonder "How can diet actually prevent and even help reverse these diseases?" It's very simple." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The waiter or waitress doesn't always have accurate information about food ingredients and preparation. Ask to speak to the chef or manager instead and tell him/her what you're allergic to. Explain that any contact with the offending food can be life-threatening. If you're allergic to shellfish, for example, tell the chef or manager that you can't eat a hamburger that was cooked on the same grill that was used to cook shrimp. Other hidden sources of food allergens: Cooking oils that are used to cook different foods.. .knives and cutting boards that aren't washed between uses." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"To improve your health, it's essential that you learn about healthier cooking methods and food ingredients. In this chapter, we'll help you do just that. We know we're going against the tide. Cooking at home is often considered a chore, and it's certainly no fun if you feel tired after work or have family members who don't appreciate your efforts. Nor is it very inspiring to cook the same old boring foods. Even among people who do enjoy cooking, a lack of time often leads to simply microwaving prepared foods." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"The first reform was food," and involved cleaning up food ingredients and shifting the way people think about meat. The second reform asked "Why does agriculture have to use so many toxic, synthetic, persistent, dangerous chemicals? Do we really need all that?" This led to the organic food standards. "In the third reform, we asked the same questions about skin care, cosmetics and body care products. Why do these products have to have so many objectionable ingredients? And that takes us to Consciousness in Cosmetics." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"We will wonder why we were poisoning ourselves and our families and each other with food ingredients that outright promote chronic disease and obesity. The fact is good nutrition is well within your reach. And it's not as expensive as you might think. In fact, it'll save you a ton of money compared to the medical costs you would endure from avoiding good nutrition. They say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with ] prescription drugs." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "As a result, consumers are right now eating massive quantities of foods and food ingredients that directly promote disease. And as a result, we're a nation with the highest rates of chronic disease ever witnessed in the entire known history of humanity. No population has been more diseased, more obese, and more financially enslaved by a domineering system of synthetic chemicals (drugs) and surgery." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "In other words, if you start feeding your dog foods and food ingredients that promote disease and cause nutritional deficiencies (i.e. most human food), your dog will start to show symptoms of those deficiencies seven times more quickly than a human being would. So one of the reasons that human beings don't catch on to the links between nutrition and disease is because it happens so slowly. It can sometimes take years or even decades for a disease to show up that has been caused by a dietary habit. Yet, in animals, you can quickly see this appearing far more quickly." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The victims in all of this are, of course, the children themselves, who end up going through the public school system with increased risk for obesity, diabetes and other diseases promoted by the consumption of food ingredients like white flour or refined white sugar. And people wonder why we have such high rates of obesity, diabetes, and drug dependency in our adult population. It's not mystery - just look at the children we're raising in this country." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Fewer waste by-products add up to stronger plastics, purer medical drugs, and safer food ingredients. "This represents a great step forward for 'green chemistry,' reducing potentially hazardous waste through smarter production," the Nobel committee said.14'15 "Metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society, and the environment." After the safety movie, we drove to the NatureWorlcs building in one corner, passing corn silos that looked like giant scarecrows." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"And, while it is true that all food ingredients must currently be listed on the food label, there are a couple of exceptions. First, the collective labeling of "spices," "flavorings," and "colorings" is permitted, and second, insignificant levels of additives that do not have a technical or functional effect on the final product are not necessarily included. It is possible that allergenic ingredients may be hidden under the umbrella of either of these two exceptions." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Similarly, if common GM food ingredients are creating adverse reactions, the problems and their source may go undetected. CC ' I ^he products of genetic engineering today JL are still at the level of a dinosaur technology. We use genes, which are foreign to a species, not knowing where they are inserted or what else will change in the whole chain from gene to protein.nl —Cesare Gessler, The ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology it' I ^he default prediction for the impacts of JL expression ofa new gene (and its products) within a transgenic organism would . . ." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"The American Heart Association, for example, has actually defended the consumption of hydrogenated oils - one of the most heart-deadly food ingredients of all. As described in Know Your Fats by Mary Enig: In 1965 the American Heart Association (AHA) changed its Diet/Heart statement by (i) deleting the recommendation to decrease the intake of hydrogenated fats and by (ii) removing a negative reference to the trans fatty acids. The revised statement encouraged the consumption of partially hydrogenated fats (Committee Print, Dietary Goals for the United States, 2nd Edition, U.S." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "Cancer must be addressed systemically, by enhancing the immune system of the patient and engaging in radical lifestyle changes that avoid the poisoning of the body, and that avoid the continued suppression of the immune system through poor environment, chemicals, dangerous food ingredients, cancer-causing foods and so on. Yet, the mammogram primarily serves to reinforce the illusion that cancer is a tumor that can be physically removed. Thus, countless thousands of patients are maimed each year by surgeons who remove their breasts in a useless effort to cure them of cancer." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "Hopefully, learn from people like myself as well about the toxic effects of food ingredients and the healing potential of natural foods. Investigate homeopathy, because I think that's one of the most promising areas of future healing. There is energy in water, and the nature of that energy greatly affects your mind and body. Learn about phototherapy, the healing power of light and why you need sunshine. Speaking of sunshine, get the book The UVAdvantage, by Dr. Michael Hollick, the world's foremost authority on vitamin D." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"One of the most important food ingredients to avoid is sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrite is present in almost all packaged meat products (you can read it right there on the label of your hot dogs, bacon, deli meats, etc). Multiple studies have been performed that show if you eat 5 or more servings of red meat a week, your risk of prostate cancer jumps by 250% compared to men who eat red meat once a week or less. So watch for the sodium nitrite in all of the foods that you eat and try to avoid it wherever possible." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "I believed that food corporations only used safe food ingredients, that personal care products were safe to use on your skin, and that diseases like cancer and diabetes were mysterious, complex diseases with no known cure. I also believed that organizations like the American Cancer Society were searching hard for a cure, and when they found it one day, they would give it away for free and rid the world of a terrible disease. All they needed was a little more money. Perhaps these are some of the things you now believe, too. They are certainly what the industry wants us to believe." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"With this in mind, researchers have been seeking to identify and isolate dietary fibers with the highest viscosity and water-holding capacity in order to make them available as food ingredients or nutritional supplements. What they have found is that certain fibers, when combined, actually synergize and multiply each others effects. Thus, specific fiber combinations, gram for gram, may exert health effects equivalent to larger gram quantities of similar fibers when consumed alone." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"These enzymes dull the effects of medicines, herbs and food ingredients so they don't overwhelm the body. But if these enzymes are inhibited, as they are by chaparral, then any medicine, food or herbal product taken simultaneously may cause a heightened reaction to the second agent. Chaparral inhibits detoxification enzymes in the liver and can potentiate any other food, drug or herb. [Drug Metabolism Disposition 19: 620-24, 1991] Like grapefruit components, chaparral inhibits drug oxidation (breakdown), allowing more of a drug to be bioavailable." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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