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The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith (See book keywords and concepts) These two commonly applied pesticides are used on cotton, grapes, tomatoes, lettuce, alfalfa, citrus, beans, and other fruit, nut, and vegetable crops. Dicofol, listed as a potential carcinogen, is similar to DDT in its structure, and both are suspected endocrine disruptors. Acutely toxic, endosulfan is up for inclusion in the Rotterdam Convention, an international treaty requiring special import notifications for a list of problematic chemicals, and was recently nominated for global phaseout under the international Stockholm Convention. Similar stories abound: ?

Food Swings: Make the Life-Changing Connection Between the Foods You Eat and Your Emotional Health and Well-Being Barnet Meltzer, M.D. (See book keywords and concepts) Native to South America, today the tomato is one of the world's leading vegetable crops. Tomatoes build the blood and boost brain power. Their invigorating chemistry sharpens discriminatory and analytical abilities. They clear the mind. They also clean the bowels. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, physicians prescribed tomatoes as a preventive measure against appendicitis. Their juicy texture and vividly colored flesh contributes to their reputation as an aphrodisiac. Therapeutic and Healing Powers: Tomatoes are chiefly blood builders and cleansers.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. (See book keywords and concepts) A Monsanto pamphlet called "The Chemical Facts of Life" explains that the purpose of the campaign is "to explore the benefits and risks of chemicals — to find a clear path through the labyrinth of information and misinformation about chemicals which may help or harm health and the * Vegadex, or sulfallate, is a chlorinated dithio-carbamate derivative used as a selective pre-emergence herbicide on vegetable crops. It is structurally similar to a number of other pesticides which were shown to be carcinogenic more than nine years ago.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Juices John Heinerman (See book keywords and concepts) It is very hardy and one of our more popular vegetable crops. It is an herbaceous plant that produces a fleshy root the first year and the seed stalk the second year. There are three types of beets, but just one is agreeable enough to the digestive tract for human consumption. Stock beets or mangels are too coarse for human food but produce a tremendous amount of feed for chickens in the subsistence garden. Sugar beets, large and rather coarse in texture, contain 15 to 22 percent sugar and are the source of a large part of the sugar which we use on our tables.

Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E Ruth Winter (See book keywords and concepts) The inability to control the residues of more than ninety antibiotics in meat, poultry, and vegetable crops that may be contributing to the increasingly alarming antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 1 Michael Friedman, deputy commissioner for operations, FDA, testifying before the Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations: Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, May 10, 1996, Washington, D.C. 2"Food Safety from Farm to Table: A National Food Safety Initiative," report to the President, May 1997. 'President Bill Clinton, speech, October 2, 1997, Washington, D.C. It is sold for use on cotton and vegetable crops. It is less toxic than organophosphates and is biodegradable. It is used in dried apple pomace, cottonseed hulls, and in dried prunes as a residue resulting from application to growing plums. In animal feed the tolerance is up to 25 ppm. In prunes it is 15 ppm. CHLORETHEPHON • Water-absorbing needles from benzene used as a plant-growth regulator used in animal feed, barley, raisin waste, sugarcane molasses, and wheat-milling fractions (except flour). The FDA permits a residue of 5.0 ppm in barley and wheat-milling fractions (except flour), 1. In 1996 suppliers agreed to eliminate the use of the mite killer, propargite on ten fruit and vegetable crops. Cancer concerns and high residue levels led to this action. Cancer risks are also prompting the industry to restrict and phase out the use of cyanazine by 1999. It takes a long time to get a pesticide off the market. For years, the EPA wanted to remove DWP (Dichlorvos), an organophos-phate insecticide, but was unable to do so. Finally, the manufacturers themselves asked that their permission to use it on food products be rescinded.

Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition Paul Pitchford (See book keywords and concepts) Of the three largest cash vegetable crops, potatoes rank first and tomatoes third. It seems these indigenous South American plants provide balance for a meat-based diet. Both the tomato and eggplant can alleviate meat-induced liver and blood stagnancy. Potatoes also play a unique nutritional role in the "meat and potatoes" diet to be described later. For those with sensitivity (including many vegetarians), solanine and other strong components of nightshades can be neutralized somewhat by baking, roasting, frying, or cooking these vegetables with salt or miso. Serve with parsley or seaweeds.

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