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"We needed to use a scale of 0-1000 to give a true picture of the amazing nutrient density of vegetables compared to the foods that typically make up the standard american diet (SAD). Most SAD foods score less than 25. MANDI stands for Menu Aggregate Nutrient Density Index and is much like the ANDI system, except if focuses on serving sizes instead of calories. The MANDI point system uses ANDI nutrient scores to assign point values to specific serving sizes of individual foods and recipes, allowing you to rate your daily menus." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"The food pyramid reflects the standard american diet. In the last 20 years, fat consumption has decreased 11% in this country. What has been the result of 20 years of following a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates? It has made Americans the most obese people on this planet. In fact, during the last 20 years, while fat intake has decreased, obesity has increased 32%!' The standard american diet is a major cause of the tremendous growth of degenerative disorders seen in this country including autoimmune disorders, cancer, arthritis, coronary artery disease, and many others." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"A Toxic Colon Is a Colon at Risk for Cancer The standard american diet is almost devoid of adequate amounts of detoxifying fibers, phytochemicals, and important vitamins and minerals (like folic acid, vitamin Bg, and calcium), which reduce colon cancer risk. Persons with some blood types (especially blood type A) produce less acid than other blood types and often do not digest their food fully, especially eating meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs. This contributes to colon toxicity. The largest category of over-the-counter drugs purchased in America is antacids and related products." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (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.)

"Vegetables and fruits also help balance the system by providing a nice alkaline balance to our highly acidic, overly processed standard american diet. Alternately, some of the "green drinks" now found in health food supermarkets are a great choice Natural Breath Mints In addition to the above recommendations, herbs and spices can sweeten your breath. Try the following. Parsley and mint. Chewing parsley or mint leaves has been a natural remedy for thousands of years. These herbs are especially good if garlic and onions are the source of your bad breath. Parsley is very high in chlorophyll." - 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.) "The first study, known as DASH-1, investigated three dietary regimens: the standard american diet (with the apt acronym SAD), SAD plus some extra fruits and vegetables, and finally, the DASH-1 diet, which is high in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products, but low in cholesterol, saturated fat, and total fat. The results? Adding fruits and vegetables to the crummy SAD reduced blood pressure, demonstrating that simply eating more fruits and vegetables is helpful. But those on the DASH-1 diet enjoyed the greatest reduction in their blood pressure." - 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.)

"Food Group A (Standard American Diet) The typical standard american diet (SAD). They could eat and drink all foods and beverages, even refined, processed, packaged, fast foods, and pasteurized dairy. The list included breads, cereals, toast, jelly, sugar, doughnuts, Danishes, muffins, Pop-Tarts, cakes, pies, ice cream, cookies, crackers, pasta, pancakes, and tortillas." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Nutrition Women who have PMS typically have dietary habits that are worse than the standard american diet. In a nutritional analysis published in 1983, Guy Abraham reported that PMS patients consumed 62 percent more refined carbohydrates than women who did not have PMS, 275 percent more refined sugar, 79 percent more dairy products, 78 percent more sodium, 53 percent less iron, 77 percent less manganese, and 52 percent less zinc.12 A diet higher in dairy products can also contribute to PMS symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, and nervous tension." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"An estimated 75 percent of foods eaten in the standard american diet contain these fats: most packaged baked goods, fried snacks, frozen products such as fish sticks and french fries, some brands of peanut butter, microwave popcorn, commercial salad dressings, and pancake mixes. The list goes on and on. The hydrogenation process creates trans-fatty acids—trans fats for short—unnatural chemicals associated with increased free radical damage to cell membranes. Cellular damage of this sort kindles inflammation, disease, and age-related changes." - 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.)

"Inflammation results from the standard american diet composed of meat, dairy products, white flour, sugar, and few vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains and fish, as well as the chronically high levels of stress many people endure. The herbs in Zyflamend appear to balance and harmonize competing enzyme systems in the body such as COX-1 and COX-2 (cyclooxygenases 1 and 2) and the various lipoxygenase enzymes. Drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex were once thought to be miracles because they super-selectively inhibited COX-2, thought to be responsible for inflammation." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Eating from any of the phases is far healthier than eating the standard american diet and you will be rewarded accordingly. Feel free to exchange any of the designated recipes for something else in the same phase or in a later phase. For example, it is fine to use a recipe from Phase Four while you are still in Phases One, Two or Three. There are recipes here for every meal, but in the real world, nobody needs to prepare all this food. Instead you can prepare enough of one dish so you can have leftovers for one, two, or even three subsequent days." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Both medication and the quasi-food substances typical of the refined, chemicalized, processed standard american diet are included in this poisoning category. They are not only health threatening, but life threatening. • Natural Hygiene recommends the following as the Ideal Diet and therefore as the only foods fit for the highest level of human health and well-being: whole, raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, prepared in proper combination and eaten in moderation and when one is in a state of emotional balance. • Natural Hygiene advocates fasting for some health seekers." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Additional practices to enhance detoxification - colon hydrotherapy - getting at least 35 grams of fiber a day - saunas and steambaths - soaks and baths - dry skin brushing - pure air and water CHAPTER 6 STEP THREE: NOURISH YOUR CELLS AND SYSTEMS One of the biggest myths—and arguably most health-damaging—we believe is that we get all the nourishment we need from the standard american diet. But the typical American diet is vastly unbalanced and contains insufficient amounts of nutrients required for optimal health." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"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. We are becoming nations of overfed, undernourished individuals. Our bodies are rebelling through the metabolic degeneration process called diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In this context, the current so-called "normal" standard american diet is immoderate and detrimental, as it directly contributes to the manifestation of diabetes. Previous "moderate" diets have been shown to ameliorate and control diabetes to a limited degree. None of these diets have been particularly successful beyond marginally ameliorating diabetes. For example, Dr. Barnard's research team compared the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine vegan approach to the control diet using ADA guidelines. With the ADA approach, they found a 0.4 percent drop in Ale levels. This is very mild." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "By its very nature it also helps those who are overweight to naturally and easily lose weight, because eating a live-food diet enables us to eat half as much as we do on a nutrient-poor standard american diet. This live-food diet is not one of deprivation but one that is satisfying, pleasurable, and nutritionally nurturing to our senses, as well as to our body and mind. It brings in a tremendous amount of live enzymes and electrical energy that improves the functioning of all cellular activities in the system." - 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.)

"Since all foods/drinks on the standard american diet are toxic, ingestion of their exogenous poisons sets up a dangerous chain of events that leads first to exhaustion and finally to disease and untimely death. Certain foods and chemicals can be singled out as especially hazardous to your health ?such as meat and dairy, refined sugar and flour, all excitotoxins, salt, all hot spices and caffeine. The fact is that all cooked and/or SAD food is stimulating, toxic, energy draining, and disease promoting. They all lead to an early grave." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Douglas Graham, "The standard american diet requires one hundred times the land of a raw food diet to produce the same amount of food. A [typical] vegan diet requires two and a half times as much land as does a raw food diet." "We could feed forty people a pound of grain each, or one person a pound of beef," Graham asserts, "but nutritionists figured out long ago that we can feed 2/2 times as many people from an acre of fruit than we can from an acre of grains" (Grain Damage, p. 35)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The medical mentality at its very worst overrides the Law of Selective Elimination with propaganda to program the people into thinking that the flesh and blood, nerve and brawn of the human body have a virtually unlimited ability to detoxify a virtually unlimited number of mild and even virulent toxins commonly served in the foods from the standard american diet, found in our polluted environment and omnipresent in prescription drugs." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Decreasing sodium and increasing potassium intake helps prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, and strokes. The standard american diet has a poor potassium/sodium ratio; the ideal potassium-to-sodium ratio is greater than 5:1. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables can produce a more beneficial ratio because most of these foods have significantly greater potassium than sodium. Amongst the highest are bananas, apples, carrots, oranges, lima beans, and potatoes. Potassium 99 mg-2.5 g per day L-Arginine." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"At that point in my career, I had not formed any particularly strong views for or against the standard american diet. More than anything, I was interested in promoting honest, open debate—something that would immediately put me at odds with this new organization. THE FIRST MEETING From the first moment of the first meeting in April 1980, I knew I was the chicken who had wandered into a fox's den, although I went in with high hopes and an open, though naive, mind." - 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.) "And if you have the Atkins Diet plus some "carbs," how different is this diet from the standard american diet, the toxic diet that has been shown to make us fat, give us heart disease, destroy our kidneys, make us blind and lead us to Alzheimer's, cancer and a host of other medical problems? These are merely examples of the current state of nutrition awareness in the United States. Every day I am reminded that Americans are drowning in a flood of horrible nutrition information. I remember the adage told several decades ago: Americans love hogwash." - 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.)

"If you are eating the standard american diet, shifting to the Zone diet, consisting of a 40-30-30 ratio of carbohydrates, protein, and fat—will shed pounds. The program is safe and works like a charm to jump-start a lifetime of healthy eating. To learn more, see What to Eat in the Zone (Harper, 2003), and several others Zone books by Barry Sears, M.D. People who badly need to lose weight, reduce cholesterol counts, stop the downward spiral of diabetes, or improve cardiovascular health can take a more intense approach." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Avoiding the SAD Diet The rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and many other chronic diseases continue to skyrocket, due in large part to the standard american diet (SAD). The obvious solution is not to eat what most Americans are consuming, if you want to be healthy. The standard american diet is high in refined carbohydrates (a technical term for, basically, sugar), saturated and trans-fatty acids (the types of fats that are linked to disease), and animal protein. Most commercial foods are loaded with artificial sweeteners, dyes, and preservatives." - James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D., Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More (Get the book.)

"In order to function at peak efficiency, your body needs the best raw material possible. Our standard american diet (SAD for short!), which emphasizes high-fat, high-calorie, low-nutrient eating, is anything but nourishing. We live in a time when food is more plentiful than it has ever been in history, yet we are woefully undernourished because we fill up on all the wrong foods. 19 Many of us eat too many processed foods that have almost no nutritional value. These foods are high in chemicals, salt, and, above all, sugar." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "Aside from GLA from borage oil, which is used as a supplement (oatmeal is another good source), the omega-6 fatty acids found in meat, milk, vegetable oils, seeds, and nuts are rarely scarce in the standard american diet. In fact, although we need them for good health, most of us are consuming too many. Most of us eat about twenty times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3s in products like cereals, whole-grain bread, baked goods, fried foods, margarine, and others." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "In order to function at peak efficiency, your body needs the best raw material possible. Our standard american diet (SAD for short!), which emphasizes high-fat, high-calorie, low-nutrient eating, is anything but nourishing. We live in a time when food is more plentiful than it has ever been in history, yet we are woefully undernourished because we fill up on all the wrong foods. Many of us eat too many processed foods that have almost no nutritional value. These foods are high in chemicals, salt, and, above all, sugar." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Because the standard american diet (appropriately called "SAD") is so poor, you will need to cleanse on a continuous basis to help keep your entire intestinal lining clean. Therefore, I recommend a continued maintenance dose using a oxygen based cleanser 2 to 3 times weekly (especially after the consumption of red meat meals). Use your bowel activity as a guide. You will know how "clean" you are by the color, consistency, and frequency of your bowel movements." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Diet and Inflammation The standard american diet is a pro-inflammatory diet. I'm not referring only to diets high in fat—although the usual high trans-fat, fast-food, and processed-food diet consumed in the United States is, in fact, pro-inflammatory. I'm also referring to the low-fat, high-carbohydrate, high-vegetable-oil diet that has been pushed on people at risk for heart disease—like Mark—for so many decades now. The traditional high-fat diets consumed by Eskimos—almost entirely seal meat and fish—is heart healthy and anti-inflammatory." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

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