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"LESSON THREE: PLANT SLANT Avoid meat and processed foods Most centenarians in Nicoya, Sardinia, and Okinawa never had the chance to develop the habit of eating processed foods, soda pop, or salty snacks. For much of their lives, they ate small portions of unprocessed foods. They avoided meat?or more accurately, didn't have access to it—except on rare occasions. Traditional Sardinians, Nicoyans, and Okinawans ate what they produced in their gardens, supplemented by staples: durum wheat (Sardinia), sweet potato (Okinawa), or maize (Nicoya). Strict Adventists avoid meat entirely." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (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.)

"Immigrants to America also fall under the spell of our processed foods. Studies show that almost 40 percent of newly arrived immigrants quickly change their diet to add in more prepackaged highly processed foods and snacks, eating fewer vegetables and fruit and less fish, rice, and beans. Not surprisingly, autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases are more common in Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia—where rates of Crohn's disease have been rising—and less common in southern Europe, Asia, and Africa." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"This means cutting down your intake of fast foods, fried foods, red meat, and highly processed foods, and opting for a diet richer in fruits and vegetables, unprocessed foods, and fish. All that goes to say that there could be some wisdom in "thinking like a hunter-gatherer" when choosing items to eat, as this would instantly eliminate a wide range of highly processed, inorganic foods with low nutrition profiles and high fat content." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Emphasize the fact that processed foods, sugars, and soft drinks add zero nutrition to their diet, and that their use may even lead to health problems. processed foods also make it less likely that they will eat the foods that contain essential nutrients they need for proper growth and development. How can I feed my child healthier foods? Replacing processed foods and implementing more whole foods can seem like a daunting task, especially in today's society." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Governments are beginning to take action on trans fats, which are mainly produced through a process of hydrogenation (an industrial process whereby oil is heated to a high temperature and treated with hydrogen to improve shelf life of foods) and are present in margarine, vegetable shortening, ice cream, puddings, cakes, biscuits, pizzas, pies, potato chips, doughnuts, and other processed foods." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"A lot of sodium is "hidden" in processed foods from spaghetti sauce to canned soup to frozen dinners. Obviously, if you see the word "salt" on a food label, you know salt is in the product. But baking soda and Monosodium glutamate (MSG) contain sodium, too. To avoid excess sodium, try to avoid products with: brine, disodium phosphate, garlic salt, onion salt, sodium alginate, sodium benzoate, sodium caseinate, sodium citrate, sodium hydroxide, sodium nitrate, sodium pectinate, sodium proprionate, and sodium sulfite." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "The center aisles of most stores contain the most heavily processed foods, so consider them non-existent. What you don't see can't tempt you! Reading Food Labels The most important point about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. Unless it is a frozen fruit or vegetable, if it comes in a box, bag, or jar, it is likely processed and contains an insignificant amount of nutrients per calorie. The goal is to rarely look at a food label and rarely buy a food that has a label. When you do look at a label, be selective and use good judgment." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "The range of nutrients added back to these and other processed foods is too narrow and the level of phytochemicals is too low. Natural foods not only contain larger amounts of these basic nutrients, but also contain thousands of phytochemicals that have never even been named. Since this short list of nutrients that manufacturers provide is not helpful, it makes sense to ignore it. Quick Guide to Reading Labels: • Food labels list ingredients in descending order. What's first on the ingredient list is present in the highest quantity." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"The dramatic increase in processed foods in recent years and the fact that fast food has become a staple of the American diet mean that most people are consuming unprecedented amounts of food-derived glycotoxins. A high-fat diet clearly enhances glycation. Cutting-edge research shows that restricting dietary glycotoxins in people with diabetes results in a significant reduction in substances that indicate inflammation; namely, C-reactive protein (CRP) and peripheral mononuclear cells, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)." - 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.) "These factors, along with the popularity of fast-food restaurants and processed foods that contain vegetable oils, combined to drastically alter the balance between omega-6 and omega-3 in the Western diet. Generally, no more than 10 percent of your calories should come from saturated and trans fat (and your goal should be to minimize the amount of trans fat in your diet as much as possible), and since people with diabetes are at high risk for or BENEFITS OF DIETARY FATS Essential fatty acids ?help promote healthy nerve function ?" - 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.) "You can dramatically reduce your intake of food-derived glycotoxins if you follow the recommended cooking methods, especially when preparing foods that contain fructose and/or 111 saturated fats and protein (such as meat, poultry, dairy, baked goods), and you reduce the amount of refined or processed foods you eat. Do not chastise yourself if you eat French fries on occasion or indulge in barbecued chicken once in a while." - 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 bottom line is this: think olive oil, fish, and green leafy vegetables, and go light on meats and processed foods. You will see many food suggestions and recipes that incorporate a balance of healthy fats in chapter 6. PREPARING AND ORDERING ANTIGLYCATION FOODS When it comes to eating to prevent diabetes, please remember that it's not only what you eat that's important, it is how it is prepared." - 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.)

"You are now aware that we have eliminated processed sugar, white flour, cooked carbohydrates, processed foods, excitotoxins such as artificial flavorings and colorings, animal fats, trans fats, cooked fats, smoking, and television. Before we discuss the nutritional and lifestyle elements that we do include in the program, it is important to mention that there are some plant-source foods that are typically eaten, and even recommended by medical professionals as part of diabetes-amelioration programs, that we do not use." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "They were compared with a matched group of eighteen controls who ate a standard American diet containing animal fat and processed foods. The average vitamin D levels were higher in the raw vegan group than in the control group, despite an extremely low dietary intake of vitamin D, indicative of the increased personal sun exposure. If you live above 38 degrees north latitude (above Baltimore, St. Louis, Denver, and San Francisco), the sun is too weak from mid-fall through the following spring to stimulate significant vitamin D production." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "As pointed out in Chapter 2, buying cheap, calorie-rich, nutrient-poor processed foods in the center of the grocery store can add to the diabetogenic process. As you recall, Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips, but only 250 calories of carrots; that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In general, you can lower your risk of gastrointestinal cancers if you eat fewer processed foods that are high in salt and saturated fat and low in fiber and if you increase your intake of fresh vegetables (particularly green, leafy vegetables) and fruits. But when you try to examine an isolated component of this diet, such as fiber or fat, no relationship is apparent. The message is that you need to eat the actual foods because it's the exposure to "the whole package"—all the other elements in those foods over long periods of time—that produces health benefits." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Since we're often too busy to cook at home, we grab processed foods out of the freezer and pop them into the microwave. We've been conditioned to want our food cheap, quick, and filling—no matter if that food also happens to be packed with triglycerides and trans fatty acids and artificial chemicals. For the sake of our children, we need to start rethinking this damaging relationship with food, if possible at the very beginning of their lives." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A plan for prevention Diet •Eat fewer saturated and trans fats and fast and processed foods. •Eat more fish and healthy fats (omega-3). •Eat more fruits and vegetables (vitamins and minerals, antioxidants). •Lower sodium intake. •Restrict your daily calories. •Enjoy alcohol in moderation. Protecting Young Minds ?Promote breast-feeding in your family. ?Support the right of women to breast-feed in public. ?Ensure that all children are able to eat nutritious diets in their formative years. Exercise ?Elevate your heart rate fifteen to thirty minutes a day, three times a week." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"When you eat highly processed foods that have been stripped of most nutrients and natural fiber, the colon has difficulty moving the food mass, or "chyme," along. processed foods tend to make for a dry, hard, or sticky chyme that passes only with difficulty through the intestinal tract. Normally, the muscles wrapped around the colon can easily squeeze and push fibrous, bulky chyme along, but they struggle greatly dealing with gooey, sticky chyme that is devoid of fiber. When chyme sits too long in the colon, it becomes harder and drier." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Memory usually fails today because of nutrient deficiency—high levels of salt, sugar, or processed foods are a big problem for the brain, because it needs enzymes. It's one gigantic laboratory of chemical reactions and various substances. We're not even exactly certain how many amino acids, we think it could be as many as 5,000 various amino acids in the brain, and these amino acid reactions are going on all the time. The brain is like a wheel, it never stops turning until you die." Another major cause of memory loss is alcohol and drug abuse, including prescription drugs." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "We ask people to eat foods in their natural state, not processed foods. 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." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Mid-morning, the kid goes out to a vending machine and gets more sugared, processed foods. By lunch time, there is almost always a toxic reaction—excito-toxins in the food are in the brain. In the afternoon, the kid is bouncing off the walls again. The kid rarely has a family meal that is also a wholesome meal. It's processed, it's pasteurized, it's salted, it's sugared, it's artificial. No one is going to stop and say, "You know, maybe the child is just having a reaction to the stimulant in the food." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Despite the choices you have every day over what you eat and what you do, the mere convenience and reliability of fast food—and even processed foods found at local markets—has programmed many Americans in a way that makes eating this food a mindless act. That is, people eat these foods without thinking about what they are doing or how it will affect them in the long run. The last time you ordered from a fast food giant or bought a grab-and-go lunchbox from a corner store, did you think about where the food came from or how it was made? Probably not. You unwrapped your food and dug right in." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The other, characterized as Western, had a high consumption of red meat, processed foods, fat, dairy products, refined grains, sweets, and desserts. The researchers found that the Western dietary pattern was associated with substantially increased risk of Type-2 diabetes. They found that high blood sugar levels led to complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. The key factors were being overweight and physically inactive, as well as having a diet that was not prudent." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"B-6 and folic acid have been typically deficient in the standard American diet filled with nutrient-poor processed foods. On any given day, more than 50 percent of adults fail to eat the recommended three servings of vegetables, and only 24 percent eat the recommended two servings of fruit. Fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of vitamins B-6 and folic acid. In 1998, the U.S." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Die-hard fruitarians frown on the inclusion of cooked or processed foods. Some factions eat only fallen fruit. Others refuse to eat any seeds because they contain future plants. One fruitarian Kiawe and Jameson mentioned eats nothing but nonoily fruits and raw pollen. Johnny Lovewisdom, citing Nubian desert hermits eating fifteen figs a day said only modest amounts should be eaten daily. Others disagree. Dogma abounds. According to the Raw Food Pearamid, fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach. Forget about fruit salads; different kinds of fruit should never be combined." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Most consumers reject GM foods when alerted to their presence, but modified crops have creeped into many of the processed foods we eat. With its higher yields, GM has been embraced by industrialized agriculture. Opponents argue that GM crops contaminate nearby fields and warn that not enough testing has been done to establish the safety of molecular engineering. The technology, they say, is to be another step away from diversified and sustainable farming methods." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (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.)

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