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"Toxic Foods There are two toxic foods that everyone should eliminate from their diet today, immediately. In fact, go right now to your cupboard and throw out everything with these two ingredients because they damage your brain (and the rest of your body as well). But be prepared. There may be nothing left in your cupboard. High-Fructose Corn Syrup (and Any Form of Sugar or Refined Carbohydrate) High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is an insidious chemical that has crept into our food supply in recent years. Though it was completely unknown until 1980, we now make 17." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The body does not become dependent on them when a person has stopped eating the toxic foods that caused the constipation problem in the first place and has begun to eat foods that rebuild the body and restore health. In time, the colon will heal itself, remove impacted fecal matter (the assistance of gentle herbs helps), slough off the mucus coat, and return to normal bowel function on its own. Taking enemas in the meantime helps the body rid itself of toxins so it can heal faster. It also exercises and tones the colon muscles so they can begin working on their own again." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "On a healthy diet, which avoids stimulating and toxic foods and includes ample quantities of fresh raw fruit and vegetables, there is very little natural thirst or need for large amounts of water. Water is of critical importance to life. We should keep the following guidelines in mind when drinking water: 1 Drink enough of it every day to satisfy the body's hydration needs. 2 Any kind of water is better than no water. 3 Water should be filtered to remove pollutants and chemicals, then remineralized with ionic minerals or sea salt for optimum results. 4 Energized water is better." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"But toxic foods, environmental toxins, digestive problems, and even infections can also trigger the same biological stress response. That is why each of us must find a way to push our pause button on a daily basis. Most of us don't even know where it is. But we must learn how to identify the ways in which we are stressed, try to minimize them, and then actively learn to engage the relaxation response or the pause button. This is key to long-term brain health. We have to make it part of our daily lives." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"I now understand the negative impact of toxic foods and people. I stopped fighting life and allowed life to support me. I receive ozone therapy at Metropolitan Wellness. My twitching stopped. My hair is long and healthy. I left a toxic job and actualized a new career enabling people to self-empower their lives. MARY I was infertile, I did not ovulate. The orthodox treatment was ineffective and had bad side effects. My husband and I joined a health support group together in 2000. Four months into the program I ovulated and conceived during my third ovulation." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The consumption of toxic foods and substances produces immediate cleansing reaction: vomiting, diarrhea, fever, cold symptoms, sluggishness, et cetera. Regular bowel movements (1 to 3 per day). þFruity odor or no odor of stools. Well formed, floating stools. Urine that is not too strong in odor or too dark in color. Saliva and urine pH of 6.8 to 7.0 (initial morning samples). No tiredness, only drowsiness at bedtime. Rests and sleeps well. þWakes up refreshed and energetic. Enthusiastic about life. Ability to handle stress. Sense of fulfillment and accomplishment." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"If enough of us band together and refuse to buy toxic foods and clothes and cleaning products, I can guarantee that the industry standards will change. The more that we demand safe green products, the more widely available—and more affordable—these products will become. It really is that simple. Everything starts with what you buy and bring into your home. "The more consumer demand for green products that you have," Frances Beinecke told me, "the more the market will develop products that are better for people's health. And parents are an incredibly strong source for that movement." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Consuming dead foods that have no enzymes, wrong combinations of foods, toxic foods, stimulants, drugs, alcohol, overeating, and drinking with meals adds to the load the digestive system has to cope with. This produces stress, and depletes the body's energy and stored reserves. Following are some practices that cause stress to our systems. Ignoring the Acid-Alkaline Balance This subject is explored in detail in chapter 10, but a few comments are made here as an introduction. Fundamental to digestion and health is acid-alkaline balance. In health, the cells of the body are slightly alkaline." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"An anaerobic cell is like a sick, homeless person who, alienated from the rest of society, lives off the decomposed and toxic foods that the affluent, healthy members of society have left behind as garbage. The nutritional value of the typical modern diet is nothing short of useless trash. Take for example, French fries or potato chips. Although they are well known to contain carcinogenic fats and harmful additives/preservatives, millions of American children and adults consume them day after day in large quantities." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"I am now an organic cook, aware of my reactions to toxic foods. I designed an efficient meal program and now juice two to three times a day. MONTY I was "semi-vegeterian" and slighdy overweight. I ate dairy, had digestive problems, angered easily, and was a student of Chinese medicine and herbology. I studied German electro-acupuncture. I lived in Italy for many years and am a trained psychologist but have a defensive anger. I joined a support group to learn the protocol for myself and my patients. My eating patterns have improved by being vegan and by juicing. I feel a stronger vitality." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"What about the toxins that are created while cooking the tomato and turning it into a salted, spicy paste used to flavor other toxic foods like cooked meat and french fries? The reduced lycopene concentration in raw tomatoes does not warrant cooking, especially since there are many ways to get sufficient lycopene, such as eating watermelon or strawberries. According to Dr. Atkins, blending the raw tomatoes releases the lycopene just as well as heating them anyhow." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"By deliberately and carefully working to find the cause or source of the irritation to his system (nutritional deficiencies, toxic foods, food allergies, gluten, environmental toxins, food additives, yeast overgrowth) and identifying the missing ingredients needed to restore normal physiological function (a multivitamin, omega-3 fats, vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium, vitamin D, healthy gut bacteria, and 5-hydroxytryptophan for sleep and anxiety), Clayton s health and brain function could finally start to normalize." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "You will also eliminate sugar, processed and toxic foods, and you will introduce whole, healing foods into your diet. The purpose of doing so is to show you just how great you can feel by simply changing what you eat. Part of the healing occurs because of all the junk you are eliminating, but most occurs because you introduce delicious, whole real foods. Doing so will help rebuild the very structure and function of your brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Because we crave what is in our bloodstream, cravings for toxic foods may surface during the cycle. These cravings appear just before or following a menstrual period - be aware and prepared for this. To get past cravings, eat cacao beans (raw chocolate nuts) and avocados. Cacao beans supply magnesium and other nutrients that ease PMS (this is the natural way to meet the PMS chocolate craving). Avocados are excellent foods to help regulate the female cycle. PMS is essentially a detoxification episode that always has physical, mental and emotional components." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"If you are in a position where you cannot avoid eating toxic foods or poor combinations, one helping will do. The body can, without too much cost, handle this occasionally if the digestive system is not overloaded. However, what we tend to do when the opportunity arises is eat far too much. It is actually harder on the body to overload in this manner than to eat incorrectly but moderately every day. We found that eating a good salad before we go out takes the edge off our appetite, so that when we arrive at the venue we do not eat everything in sight." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"As a result, these now toxic foods may, at best, stimulate the immune system in the small intestine and initially induce a strong eliminative response in the large intestine. The immune response makes you feel energized, and you may think it is because of eating the animal foods, but this is far from the truth." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Most notably it is the consumption of toxic foods and ingredients and the lack of healing foods and ingredients. I'm sure you're finding this theme repeated throughout the book, but that's because most degenerative diseases are just manifestations of metabolic disorders usually caused by nutritional imbalances. Cardiovascular disease has a very simple underlying cause. Let's first start by asking the question, "How do you cause cardiovascular disease?" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"We have toxic habits, toxic relationships, toxic foods, and toxic cosmetics. We're all toxic. We're just trying to minimize our toxicity, which I suspect is a good thing. But what about what we can do to initiate change? How can we become catalysts instead of junking up the gears? One of the best ways to start being less toxic is using less energy to do things, both in your personal actions and activities and around the home." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It is important to stick with your plan strictly during the first few months so you lose your addiction to toxic foods. Over time, your taste buds will change, you will begin to prefer the taste of healthful foods, and you will be less and less tempted by foods that undermine your health. Let the knowledge that you are protecting your health and future well-being be your guide. If possible, spend more time with friends and family who will support you in your efforts. Is exercise essential for success? Optimal results only can be achieved by those who exercise regularly." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"However, in today's sedentary society, I believe that flawed eating habits and toxic foods are creating more and more ICV problems, which, in turn, are causing more and more people to experience intermittent episodes of intense back pain. Whatever treatment they get (or even no treatment) seems to help, because their pain seems to go away (only because the valve restores itself again). Yet their back pain continues to return, without any rhyme or reason (until now). These are the kinds of cases that should look to the function of the ICV to see if it could be the cause." - John K. Pollard, The Digestive Awareness Diet: You Are HOW You Eat (Get the book.)

"The problem is that corn and soy are transformed in the laboratory into toxic foods, unknown to human biology, when they are turned into the supersugars and superfats known as high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil. Read the labels of the food on your shelves, and you will likely find these culprits among the list of ingredients. These two man-made chemicals are responsible for the dangers of almost all the fast and processed foods in this country." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) "How can they find good food when our government spends tens of billions of dollars to subsidize the production of toxic foods and the food industry spends more than $30 billion annually to develop and market them? To make matters worse, the Department of Health and Human Services spends only $300 million a year on public health education (trivial amounts of which are spent on nutritional education). We are up against "weapons of mass expansion," and we are losing the battle. The unfortunate truth is that government policy is closely tied to industry." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Charlotte adds, in a discussion of today's genetically engineered and pesticide-laden crops (Gerson Institute Healing Newsletter, March/April 2001) "Since people with degenerative diseases suffer nutrient deficiency and toxicity, it is obvious that they cannot be healed with deficient and toxic foods." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Maybe because Americans consume more processed, chemicalized, toxic foods than any other nation. Three Needed Health Habits There are 3 habits which, with but one condition added, will give you every thing in the world worth having, beyond which the imagination of man cannot conjure forth a single additional improvement! These habits are: • The Work Habit • The Health Habit • The Study Habit If you have these habits, and also have the love of someone who has these same habits, you are both in paradise now and here." - Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg, The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation (Get the book.)

"This just goes to demonstrate the unprecedented level of negligence of this government agency which is supposed to protect the public from unsafe foods and drugs, not promote toxic foods and sweep the evidence under the rug. I'll talk more about this in "MSG cover-up" later in this section. MSG risks are even higher for low-carb dieters One of the more startling facts about MSG has special relevance for those on low-carb diets: MSG has been shown to be more damaging in the absence of dietary glucose." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"He cleaned the toxins from his home and eliminated chemicals and toxic foods from his diet. Tobin explained, "I was surprised to find that as my body became cleaner, my mind became clear, and I no longer tolerated emotional frustrations. I felt like I had to rid myself of "toxic emotions." He went to the extent of facing up to his boss and expressing some long repressed feelings. Tobin also felt that the cleansing work he did and the fast acted as a catalyst that helped him clarify his relationship with food. "I was eating when I wasn't even hungry. I saw this clearly." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Detoxification Skin problems are usually a sign that the body is poisoned perhaps from allergenic substances, toxic foods, or emotional stress. The following suggestions will help you release those poisons. In cases of chronic eczema for adults, undertake a three-day juice fast once a month to sweep away toxic build-up. Green drinks with barley, spirulina, or blue-green algae detoxify the blood and are especially supportive of an eczema fast. Children over the age of five may use these green drinks under the guidance of a nutrition-oriented doctor." - 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.) "Detoxification Most people who have high cholesterol levels have been eating toxic foods. Detoxify your body (especially your liver) with a one- to three-day vegetable juice fast. As mentioned earlier, you may also find that a juice fast is an excellent way to break old eating habits. Super Prescription #1 Policosanol Take 10 to 20 mg each evening. Numerous studies show that policosanol reduces total and LDL cholesterol, lipoprotein(a), and increases the good HDL cholesterol. Super Prescription #2 Red yeast rice (Monascus purpureus) Take 1,200 mg twice daily." - 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.)

"Deep fried foods such as french fries, chicken nuggets, and donuts are the most toxic foods you can get at a restaurant. If you have to have fried foods, they should be fried in coconut oil because it does not degrade into free radicals or create toxic trans fatty acids when heated as other vegetable oils do. I know this dietary change will work for you. I've seen it happen in others. I would like to hear from you. Write and tell me how coconut oil has affected your life. You can write to me at HealthWise Publications, P.O. Box 25203, Colorado Springs, CO 80936." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

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