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"She points out that cranberry juice is a rich source of phytonutrients such as anthocyanins, catechins, lutein (the new superstar of eye nutrition), and quercetin (one of the most powerful natural anti-inflammatories in the plant kingdom). These phytonutrients act as antioxidants and, according to Gittleman, provide nutritional support for the detoxification pathways in the body. The rich phytonutrient content of both cranberries and cranberry juice has been borne out by research and may have an awful lot of benefits that go beyond relief from urinary tract infection." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"I believe that everyone should be on a solid core program consisting of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, flavonoids, carot-enoids, B vitamin complex, and mixed tocopherols. In addition, we should take at least 1 gram of fish oil a day regardless of our health. A multivitamin/mineral complex with 1 gram of fish oil is a must for all of us. In anyone with a history of coronary calcification, coronary artery disease or in those with stents or bypass, I would also strongly recommend vitamin K2." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As a result, a population that enjoys the Mediterranean diet, which is low in saturated fats and rich in both omega-3 fats and a wealth of phytonutrients, has a markedly lower incidence of many forms of cancer and heart disease. THE STUDIES THAT PUT THE MEDITERRANEAN ON THE DIETARY MAP Decades after Dr. Keys first observed the health and habits of the people in Crete, researchers are still examining the Mediterranean diet, with some of the most recent studies finding that the magic seems to be in the combination of foods rather than one or two particular ingredients (like olive oil or wine)." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Over the past 10 years, scientists have identified hundreds of components in our food system called phytochemicals (also called phytonutrients). We still don't know all of them, but these health-promoting components are there in abundance in plant foods." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"In addition, parenteral nutrition does not contain the phytonutrients and wide range of lipids and microelements found in a normal diet. Additional study with other supportive additives such as specific amino acids, lipids, and selected micronutrients may provide more effective parenteral solutions. 2. Enteral Nutrition as Primary Therapy for IBD The effectiveness of various forms of enteral feedings as a primary treatment for IBD has been evaluated in several reviews, meta-analyses, and individual studies [94-101, 104]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Plant chemicals known as phytonutrients, which are rich in antioxidant power, come in a great variety of colors. Picture a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables: crunchy orange carrots; deep purple eggplants; bright red plump tomatoes; shiny green peppers; luscious purple grapes; abundant green leaves of lettuce, kale, and spinach; yellow and green squash; large juicy peaches. These are nature's gifts, filled with an incredible array of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that nourish and heal us. The deeper the color, the more antioxidants and other beneficial phytochemicals you 're getting." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Kale, chard, or any dark green leafy vegetable: contain phytonutrients known to stop the damage of free radicals ?Fresh-squeezed lemon juice: alkalizing to the body, stimulating bile production and cleansing the kidneys Why Raw Foods Trump Cooked Foods Since meats are generally prepared at a temperature of at least 350 degrees and grains at 325 degrees or more, wholesale enzyme destruction occurs when these foods are cooked. Any processed foods, even uncooked, are devoid of enzymes due to the heat applied in the refining process." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Let me give you an example. The phytonutrients in apples include chemicals called phenolic acids that defend the fruit against viruses, bacteria, and fungi. In this group of phenolics, a large family of chemicals that includes the flavonoids, is a natural antioxidant called quercetin that protects apples against disease. Research at Cornell University shows that consuming quercetin (which is mostly contained in apple skin and just below the peel) may lower the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease by defending nerve cells against free radical damage." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Take a high quality multivitamin • Take a green food supplement like Spirulina • Take a powerful antioxidant like Natural Astaxanthin By following this diet and supplement regimen, you'll get a great diversity of antioxidants from the produce with all its live enzymes and phytonutrients. You'll get good amounts of vitamin antioxidants such as natural Vitamin E and C as well as commonly missed antioxidants like selenium from a good multivitamin. You'll cover lots of potentially missed antioxidants, vitamins, enzymes and phytonutrients from a good green food supplement like Spirulina." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"Not that the fiber of fruits and vegetables isn't wonderful for you, but you can also get a concentrated amount of the phytonutrients plants have to offer by juicing. The benefit juicing has to offer to detoxification comes with the plants you choose to juice. Vegetables are preferable over fruits, as juicing many fruits concentrates the sugars found in fruit. Start with a dark green leafy base of kale or chard, and add vegetables such as beets, celery, and some lemon for taste or half an apple to sweeten it up a bit." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"These colorful fruits are full of phytonutrients that can help turn on your longevity genes and turn off killer genes. The antioxidants in these fruits are unique in that they are both water and fat soluble, meaning they can travel from the bloodstream to brain cells, with dramatic implications for brain vitality. Give aging rats the equivalent of 1 cup of blueberries a day, and within one month they can navigate through a maze as rapidly as a young rat does.1 Who says an old dog, ahem, rat, can't learn new tricks? I give my dogs blueberries!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Organic live food provides the highest-quality nutrient concentrates, the highest-quality phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and bioelectrical energy, which is quite important for healing and building the vital life force. It is not only activating and energizing the system and repairing it on that level, but repeating the activity in a very simple way." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, nutrient-dense foods are those foods that provide the highest amounts of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients per calorie.4 For example, superfood algaes and vegetables are considered most nutrient-dense. Products containing added sugars, saturated fats, and alcohol are considered nutrient-poor. Therefore, when you eat nutrient-poor foods, you eat more food to get an equivalent amount of nutrition. Second, nutrient density is defined as a ratio of food energy from carbohydrate, protein, or fat to the total food energy." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Most important, these phytonutrients turn off the diabetes-causing genes and turn on the anti-diabetic genes. In Genetic Nutritioneering, Jeffrey Bland, PhD, explains how the hormone insulin indirectly speaks to the genes and alters gene expression. Insulin also influences the other hormones in the body. A healthy flow of insulin in the body not only helps us control blood sugar, but is linked to a healthy balance of many other hormones, including insulinlike growth factor, human growth hormone, Cortisol, somatostatin, serotonin, noradrenalin, and leptin." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "One of the phytonutrients, for example, called resveratrol, plays a very important role in activating the anti-aging genes. It is gaining growing recognition in fighting age-related diseases ranging from dementia to diabetes. On a live-food diet properly eaten, we actually eat 50 percent fewer calories as compared to a Standard American Diet (SAD), but maintain a very high level of nutrition. The reason for this is that we are consuming nutrient-dense foods, not just calorie-dense foods such as those offered in restaurants and fast-food dispensaries all over the Westernized world." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The coffee berry is rich in antioxidants and other phytonutrients known as polyphenols. These polyphenols (or phenolic acids) have been shown to be helpful in supporting optimal blood glucose levels as well as in fighting damaging free radicals and protecting cardiovascular health. But before you plug in your twelve-cup coffeemaker and get out your 20-ounce coffee mug, you need to look at the best way for you to get the benefits from coffee berries." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"The most important nutrients (fiber, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants) are low or nonexistent in animal products. Animal products are perfect examples of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods, and because they pack such a huge number of calories into a small portion of food, it is very easy to overeat them. By contrast, when you get your calories from high-nutrient plant foods, you get a huge number of nutrients, phytonutrients, antioxidants, and plenty of protein, plus you can eat as much as you want without worrying about overeating." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.) "Each time you eat processed foods, you miss out not only on important known nutrients and phytonutrients, but also on all of the yet undiscovered phytonutrients. For instance, when the outer portion of the wheat kernel is removed to make flour "white," trace minerals, phytoestrogens, lignins, phytic acid, indoles, phenolic compounds, and other phytochemicals (as well as 90% of the fiber and vitamin E) are removed with it. A full complement of micronu-trients, both known and unknown, is needed to ward off disease." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"Expectant mothers who take a folate vitamin and disregard other aspects of their diet usually end up deficient in "all sorts of phytonutrients and antioxidants." So remember, pregnancy vitamins should be a supplement to a healthy diet, not a substitute. The ABCs of Organic Eating Switching to organic food and beverages is an important step in detoxifying your body "Eating organic food will reduce your exposure" to man-made chemicals, Dr. Kenneth Bock says. "And I know it's more expensive." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In their own survival efforts, plants use phytonutrients to protect themselves from disease and to boost their own immunity. That's one reason researchers believe organic fruits and vegetables are healthier—they are raised without pesticides, forcing them to produce more of their own protective chemicals. TIP Switch from processed peanut butter to raw almond butter or organic peanut butter. Most commercially manufactured nut butters add sugar, oils, preservatives, and other additives to the mix. Read the ingredients and make sure you don't see anything but 100 percent nuts." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In spinach, just as one example, the somewhat amazing array of phytonutrients includes the carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin, and beta-carotene among many others. We mentioned the concept of synergy earlier. Spinach is an excellent example of synergy in a particular SuperFood. It's the power of all the nutrients working in concert that makes spinach and the other SuperFoods such standouts in the world of nutrition." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Obtaining Phytonutrients: Diet Versus Supplementation Phytochemical supplements are taking their place on the shelves of drug and natural food stores next to vitamins and minerals. However, supplements may not be as useful in maintaining optimal health as is a phytochemical-rich diet. Studies designed to measure the effects of supplementation with the antioxidant beta-carotene on the prevention of both lung and colorectal cancer have been disappointing for supplement advocates and have demonstrated the superiority of fruits and vegetables as a method of disease prevention." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.) "Cherries are also rich in an-thocyanins and quercetin and are good sources of the phytonutrients ascorbic acid and fiber. Cherries are available fresh most abundantly in the summer but also are sold in cans and jars on supermarket shelves all year long. Chick Peas. See Beans. Citrus fruits The oil of citrus fruits, which includes grapefruits, oranges, lemons, limes, and tangerines, is a good source of the monoterpene phytochemical limonene. It is also an excellent source of the plant form of vitamin C—ascorbic acid—and the fiber pectin." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.) "It is also a good source of lutein, zeaxanthin, and quercetin and a significant source of the phytonutrients calcium, beta-carotene, and ascorbic acid. Fresh kale is most plentiful and least expensive in the winter months. It can be a lifesaver in meager times because even in the deepest winter, you can still harvest kale from the garden. It also is available frozen and canned in the supermarket. Kudzu Kudzu (or kuzu) is an arrowroot starch made from the plant of the same name. The kudzu plant is one of the richest documented sources of the isoflavones genistein and daidzein." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.) "If you seek out whole-grain foods such as those made with whole wheat, brown rice, whole oats, barley, bulghur wheat, and cornmeal, these foods will be rich in bran and will deliver the maximum amount of phytochemicals and phytonutrients. The fiber found in whole grains is mostly insoluble, which means that it does not break down in water or in your intestines. Insoluble fiber maintains its integrity in the intestines, and its bulky presence speeds up the movement of food through the digestive tract." - Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D., Foods That Fight Disease: A Simple Guide to Using and Understanding phytonutrients to Protect and Enhance Your Health (Get the book.)

"Plant chemicals known as phytonutrients, which are rich in antioxidant power, come in a great variety of colors. Picture a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables: crunchy orange carrots; deep purple eggplants; bright red plump tomatoes; shiny green peppers; luscious purple grapes; abundant green leaves of lettuce, kale, and spinach; yellow and green squash; large juicy peaches. These are nature's gifts, filled with an incredible array of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that nourish and heal us. The deeper the color, the more antioxidants and other beneficial phytochemicals you're getting." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

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"Cranberries are rich in fiber and are an excellent source of vitamin C and phytonutrients, such as flavonoids and proanthocyanidins (PAC). They contain more phenolic antioxidants than nineteen of the most popular consumed fruits according to a study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. Home Remedies A lot of the initial work with cranberries, especially with its role in fighting urinary tract infections (UTIs), was anecdotal. It was mom's advice and she knew it worked. Now research is finding that mothers were right all along!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"According to Upton, vegetarian diets are lower in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, plus they include more of the beneficial nutrients found in plant foods, like vitamins A and C, potassium, fiber, and phytonutrients like beta-carotene and lycopene. So what exactly does it take to call oneself a vegetarian? In reality, there are many forms of vegetarianism, each based on varying degrees of dependence on animal products. For the purposes of our discussion, "semi-vegetarian" refers to someone who eats some fish and poultry sometimes, but also eats meals that are meat-free." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Coriander's volatile oil is rich in a variety of phytonutrients including carvone, geraniol, limonene, borneol, camphor, elemol, and linalool. Coriander contains flavonoids including quercetin, kaempferol, rham-netin, and epigenin and also contains active phenolic acid compounds, including caffeic and chlorogenic acid, which have been found helpful in fighting cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Coriander is a source of iron, magnesium, and manganese. Home Remedies Coriander is promoted as an aphrodisiac in The Tales of the Arabian Nights." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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