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"Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 to 35 minutes 2 cups rolled oats lA cup raw unrefined sugar lA cup raisins lA cup toasted almonds lA cup sliced dehydrated banana (optional) 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon Vs teaspoon ground ginger lA cup safflower oil 1 to 2 tablespoons honey Vi teaspoon vanilla extract Preheat the oven to 300°F. Combine the oats, sugar, raisins, almonds, banana, cinnamon, and ginger in a large mixing bowl; stir until blended. In a separate bowl, stir together the oil, honey, and vanilla." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Add the following to taste, as preferred—sea salt, paprika, nutmeg, coconut, crushed nuts, raisins, date pieces, vegetable gelatin. You can also substitute fruit juices for water, and add raisins, pineapple bits, nuts, et cetera. VEGETABLE CHOP SUEY i cup carrots, chopped 1 cup celery, chopped Vi cup green pepper, chopped V4—Vi cup red sweet pepper, chopped Vi cup onion, chopped (optional) 1 cup broccoli pieces Vi lb." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Evelyn's Best Meal of the Day i banana 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats raisins apple juice Slice banana into the bottom of a microwave-safe bowl. Add i cup oats to bowl. Sprinkle raisins over top and add apple juice to cover. Zap it in the microwave for i minute 30 seconds. Anthony's Oatmeal and Vegetables Anthony Yen includes vegetables in his daily breakfast. 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats 2 cups water 3 handfuls fresh spinach, or 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables low-sodium tamari (optional) Put oats, water, and spinach in a big microwave-safe bowl." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Strawberries, Blueberries, and Raisins Strawberries at 1,540, blueberries at 2,400, and raisins at 2,830, all rate high. • Prunes Whoa! The lowly prune is top rated at 5,770. Eat prunes daily! • Soy Products Although not antioxidants, genistein and the other isoflavones in soy nevertheless reduce the risk of many kinds of cancer, stimulate bone formation, protect the kidneys, and inhibit deterioration of the cardiovascular system." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Cut down on the sweet items and replace them with raisins, dates, prunes, sultanas, almonds and lots of fruit. Honey is an ideal substitute for sugar—have a spoonful of honey if you need to sweeten something. You can chew honeycomb instead of eating chocolate. Honey isn't just a sweetener, though, as international research suggests it can effectively inhibit the growth of bacteria. How this works is as yet unclear, but it would seem that everyone who has researched honey agrees that it has health benefits." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Very sweet fruits (melons and raisins). 14. Potatoes, boiled. 15. Refined breakfast cereals. 16. Honey. 17. Rice cereals. 18. Rice pasta, rice cakes, and instant rice. 19. Table sugar, or pure-sugar candies, with no nuts or fat added. The information was extrapolated from various sources. To feel good on the anti-hypoglycemia diet, your child will simply need to focus on protein-rich, high-fiber foods that are slowly digested, relatively low in carbohydrate calories, and full of nutrients." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Foods that stimulate the growth of yeast, or contain other forms of mold or fungus: • Sugar and other sweets, including honey, syrup, or corn syrup. • raisins. • Fruit juices (except those highly diluted by water). • Cheese. • Vinegar. • Ketchup. Sauerkraut. • Vinegar-based salad dressing. • Some barbecue sauces. Sour cream. • Olives. Mustard. • Capers. • Tempeh. • Cider. • Tea (which is made from fermented leaves). Mushrooms. • Pickles. This list may look daunting, but like every form of dietary change, it becomes easier as new habits are formed." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Grapes and raisins. 20. Coconut. 21. Onions. 22. Berries, particularly strawberries. 23. Peas. 24. Celery. 25. Spices, including turmeric, cloves, and curry. 26. Kidney beans. 27. Melon. 28. Pineapple. 29. Mushrooms. 30. Peppers 31. Plums. 32. Barley. 33. Beef: 34. Chicken. In contrast, some foods are seldom reactive. These foods are a good source of nutrition for people who are trying to restrict commonly reactive foods." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"For at-home snacks, mix plain soy yogurt with raisins, cashews, ground flaxseeds, or any of the other ingredients you use in your favorite granolas. You can also mix in some rolled dry oats for added texture and fiber. • Smoothies: We love smoothies at my house, and not just for breakfast. We combine organic frozen berries with soymilk, agave, ground flaxseed, and a banana. The results are always delicious. • Tofu "cheese" salad: Cut up organic tofu mozzarella-style, in chunks, and combine with fresh tomatoes and Greek olives." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"For a snack, choose an apple or pear instead of potato chips or pretzels, or grapes instead of raisins. Fresh fruit is much lower in calories than potato chips and also contains many fewer food-derived glycotoxins than potato chips, which are fried or baked in oil at high temperatures. When making egg or chicken salad, reduce the amount of the main ingredient by half, and substitute chopped celery and green pepper, shredded carrot, or radish and minced onion." - 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.)

"Some possible ingredients: • Organic walnuts or pistachios and dried cherries • Organic almonds (raw plain almonds mixed with tamari almonds) • Organic pumpkin seeds • Organic goji berries with raw pistachios (I call this one "Christmas granola") • Organic dried pineapple chunks • Organic banana chips • Organic dry rolled oats mixed with walnuts, almonds, raisins, dried pineapples, blueberries, or cherries • Organic dried mango and filberts Rio Grande Granola For a more elaborate granola, try the one we make at the ranch." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Other troublesome additives are sodium metabisulphite and potassium metabisulphite, nos 223 and 224 respectively, which are preservatives used in making sausages, dried fruit such as raisins and currants, some fruit yoghurts, jams and essences. If you suspect an additive is responsible for the asthma, you will have to become adept at reading labels before you buy. Allergy testing may help you pin down exactly what the child is reacting to. (See also 'Food Allergies and Additives' in Chapter 8." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Replace with prunes (no kidding, an extremely powerful antioxidant), raisins, and all of the berries. Eliminate all hydrogenated oils and trans-fatty acids. Replace with olive oil and fresh butter. Cut back on the quantity of meat, pork,2 chicken, and dairy in your diet. 'For those with arthritis, it might be useful to forego vegetables from the nightshade family, including tomatoes, spinach, and eggplant. "And no, pork is not "the other white meat.'1 In fact, pork is probably one of the more indigestible meats you can eat." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The same goes for dried fruits, whether apricots, prunes, raisins, or even cranberries. All pack the sugar and calories they had before being dehydrated. Despite the fact that they're marketed as healthy, a handful of dried fruit is the caloric equivalent of three to eight servings of fresh fruit! Just look at the calorie count on a small package of trail mix. DEMOLISHING THE WHOLE GRAINS MYTH I touched upon whole grains early in this book, when I introduced the Evolution of the Human Diet chart (page 27)." - 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.)

"To do a chocolate challenge test, eliminate the following foods for three weeks: chocolate candies, cookies and cakes, chocolate milk and hot chocolate, chocolate flavoring, chocolate liquors, coated nuts and raisins, cocoa products, cola drinks (check labels). Additionally, some dark rye breads contain cocoa (check labels). ALLERGY SENSITIVITY SURVEY Rate your symptoms before and after you have done the elimination diet. After the three week elimination period, assess your symptoms again before re-introducing the eliminated food. Rating Scale from 0 to 4 0. Never have this symptom 1." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"For example, if you throw some rolled oats in a covered container with raisins and water, it will be soft and ready to eat the next morning, either cold or quickly warmed. Some recommended hot whole grain cereals are non-instant oatmeal, Roman Meal, Steel Cut Oats, Wheatena, Ralston High Fiber and Quaker Multigrain. 6) Animal Products As you move through this program the goal is to limit animal products to ten percent of caloric intake or less. On the days when you do include animal products in your menu, try to keep the serving size less than five ounces." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Combine the oats, sugar, raisins, almonds, banana, cinnamon, and ginger in a large mixing bowl; stir until blended. In a separate bowl, stir together the oil, honey, and vanilla. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until well blended. Then spread the mixture in a thin even layer on a large baking sheet and bake 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned, stirring it twice and then patting down with a spatula. Scrape the granola onto a clean baking sheet and set aside to cool. Makes six V^-cup servings." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"What types of foods can you include in your daily diet that provide calcium? Try raisins on your cereal in the morning, eat low-fat yogurt or cheese in your lunch or as mid-day snacks, include green leafy vegetables or fish in your dinner. Appendix 12-1 lists food items that contain calcium. How Much Calcium Do You Need? According to the United States Dietary Association, children (one to eight years old) need 500-800 mg per day, teenagers (nine to 18 years old) need 1,300 mg per day, adult men and women need 1,000 mg per day and people over the age of 50 need 1,200 mg per day." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"In food, the following fruits and vegetables pack the highest concentrations of antioxidants: • Fruits: prunes (the most by far), raisins, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, plums, oranges, red grapes, and cherries • Vegetables: kale, spinach, brussels sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, broccoli florets, beets, red bell peppers, onions, corn, and eggplant Antioxidant compounds found in fruits and vegetables include flavonoids. They have impressive benefits for the whole body, particularly the cardiovascular system." - 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.)

"Golden-colored seedless raisins are nothing more than regular raisins that have been bleached with sulphur dioxide. Cluster raisins that have seeds and are attached to the stems are made from muscatel grapes. They used to be fairly popular in our grandparents' time, but have all but disappeared from the marketplace. Those tiny Zante currants that are frequently used by bakers for muffins aren't really currants at all. They are tiny raisins made from the petite seedless black Corinth grapes." - John Heinerman, Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Juices (Get the book.)

"Vi pound roasted shelled macadamia nuts (unsalted) lA pound roasted shelled cashews (lightly salted) Vi pound organic Thomson raisins You can change the types of nuts and raisins to suit your personal tastes. We recommend that no more than one of the nut varieties be salted; the salt will transfer to the other ingredients when you mix them. All of the nuts should be out of the shell. Place the ingredients in a large bowl and mix them with your fingers. Transfer the trail mix to several resealable plastic bags. Keep a bag in your car and where you work and refrigerate the rest." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Try these snack ideas: unsalted rice cakes or nuts mixed with raisins; graham crackers; fat-free and low-fat yogurt and frozen yogurt; popcorn with no salt or butter added; raw vegetables. References 1. Burt, V. L., et al. (1995). Prevalence of hypertension in the U.S. adult population. Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991. Hypertension 25, 305-313. 2. Stamler, J. (1991). Blood pressure and high blood pressure. Aspects of risk. Hypertension 18(Suppl I), 1-95?-107. 3. U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. (2006). " - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"V2 cup organic raisins l/i cup raw almond slices 1 teaspoon curry powder '/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon apple-cider vinegar 1 cup canola mayonnaise (e.g., Spectrum Naturals) salt and freshly ground black pepper Combine the chicken, celery, raisins, and almond slices in a large bowl and mix them with a fork or a spoon. Sprinkle on the curry powder and ground cayenne pepper and thoroughly mix them in. Now add the vinegar and mix everything to coat the other ingredients." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"German linguist Christoph Luxenberg claims that today's version of the Koran has been mistranslated from the original text, and that the seventy-two virgins (houris) promised to martyrs are in fact "white raisins" and "juicy fruits." Luxenberg's chief hypothesis is that the original language of the Koran was not Arabic but something closer to Aramaic. Through an analysis of the paradise passage in Aramaic, he confirms that the mysterious houris become fruit—much more common components of the heaven myth. The term paradise itself derives from the Persian language of Avestan." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits." Hitchcock ate gooseberries, seeds and all, every morning. Coleridge liked to bite fruits straight off trees, without using his hands. Agatha Christie wrote in the bathtub, surrounded by green apples. Friedrich Schiller kept rotten apples inside his desk and would breathe in their decaying perfume for inspiration. D. H. Lawrence climbed nude into mulberry trees to write. Henri Michaux claims that he spent twenty years learning how to project himself into fruits: "I put an apple on my table." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Add lA cup raisins. 4. Add Vi cup chopped apples. PART I I The Details 4 No One Knows Your Child Better Than You Do Living with a child who has ADD/ADHD or something like it can be hard, as you know. The media keep bringing this disorder to our attention. Parents now know that their children might not be intentionally difficult or oppositional; they need help in dealing with attention deficit disorder. Sometimes the ADD/ADHD label is applied in preschool, when a parent or a teacher notices that a child is harder to manage than the other children." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Mix the orange juice, apple juice, honey, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a saucepan. Simmer uncovered over low heat until the honey is melted about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside. Peel the oranges and slice them into quarters. Place the orange slices in a small baking dish and pour the sauce over them. Broil the orange slices for 6 to 8 minutes, watching closely to prevent burning. The sauce should thicken slightly. Serve hot." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Vi cup pulverized millet 1 cup water 1 teaspoon raisins or blueberries Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower the heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add a little soy milk before serving. SMOOTHIES As you read these recipes, you'll see that you can really do whatever you like. Buy fresh fruit that is currently in season. Wash, chop up, and package the fruit in small snack bags and freeze. In the frozen foods section of your market, there are many frozen fruits available if you want the added convenience." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "A cup steel-cut oats Vi cup water 1 tablespoon raisins l/z teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoon ground flaxseeds Combine all of the ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower the heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add a little soy milk before serving. Millet Cereal Prepare the millet ahead of time by pulverizing several cups of millet grain in a blender or a food processor. If you use a blender, pulverize small portions at a time. Store extra ground millet in a tightly covered container for later use." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"You might also add raisins, a banana, or other fruit. A bit of apple juice, cider, or fresh orange or grapefruit juice (include the fruit sections) is delicious in place of milk. But you can also eat your cereal with milk, oat milk, almond milk, or nonfat soy milk. And cereals are far from the only breakfast option. Pancakes made from whole-wheat flour (containing no eggs and no oil) are really good! Toasted whole-grain bread topped with summer-ripe, fresh peaches heads my own list of outrageously delicious breakfasts." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

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