Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Most children today start life gorging on junk foods filled with excitotoxins. Unfortunately, many of their mothers also ate badly during pregnancy. And junk foods have replaced the pacifier: many mothers will give their children bags of MSG-laced chips and sit them on the couch to watch cartoons. Without fail, thirty minutes later they are screaming and throwing things all over the room. Why? Because the MSG in the unhealthy treat intensely stimulates the child's brain, which is four times more sensitive to the additive than an adult's brain. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Fast foods, junk foods, and sugary drinks are the worst kind of foods to eat if you want to achieve a sense of fullness or satiety while reducing your caloric intake. The same applies to many foods that are made with refined flour or added sugar, and to most high-fat foods. These sorts of foods taste sumptuous and are loaded with calories. Because of this, you tend to eat so quickly that you've overeaten before you even feel full. |
Jack Challem
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 People can be allergically addicted to healthy foods, not only to junk foods, with the problematic food usually being a person's favorite food.
Fourth, alcohol is a common food addiction, and alcoholics who crave specific types of alcoholic beverages may have an allergy-addiction to the grain or the vegetable that particular beverage is made from. In addition, excess consumption of alcohol may damage the gut wall. The consequence, known as "leaky gut syndrome," may allow undigested proteins to enter the bloodstream and trigger immune reactions. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Don't eat "junk foods," and pay attention to the glycemic index of food that you eat.
The GI in quite useful, but since it doesn't tell how much carbohydrates is in a typical serving of a particular food, another tool is needed. That is where glycemic load comes in. The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption. It takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a more complete picture of the effect that a particular food has on blood sugar levels based on how much carbohydrate you actually eat in serving. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The preventative measures include eating less protein, regular exercise, early bedtimes, regular mealtimes and balanced meals, drinking enough water, avoiding junk foods, giving up smoking, reducing alcohol consumption, removing stress sources, etc.
The old model of understanding heart disease is rapidly falling apart, much to the surprise of heart specialists. "There has been a culture in cardiology that the narrowings were the problem and that if you fix them the patient does better," said Dr. David Waters, a cardiologist at the University of California at San Francisco. |
Ron Garner
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 Eating a regular diet of junk food leads to vitamin, mineral, amino acid, and enzyme deficiencies. junk foods are dead because they lack their live enzyme components. Further, most of them have been refined, processed, and overheated. In addition, chemicals have been added as taste enhancers and preservatives. Junk food is toxic and stressful to the body.
Too Much Cooked and Processed Food
Cooked and processed food places hardships on the body. Enzymes, which are in raw food to assist in its breakdown, are destroyed when food is heated above ii2-i20°f (44-49°c). |
Andreas Moritz
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 Other startlingly wonderful benefits have been an increased sex drive and feelings of sexiness, decreased desire for junk foods, and overall youthful attitude—far more joyful and optimistic than I've felt in 10 years. My deep gratitude goes to Andreas Moritz for bringing this invaluable aid to our attention and, in this instance, saving my life!"
P. V., Minnesota
"Until cleanse #11,1 really didn't have much to say except I released over 2,000 stones. However, since the last cleanse, my face has been completely clear of acne for more than 13 days (and counting! |
Michael T. Murray
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 The four key principles of our diet program are to avoid high-calorie, low-nutrient foods such as junk foods, candy, and soft drinks; eat a "rainbow" of fruits and vegetables; reduce the intake of meat and animal products; and eat the right types of fats.
Avoid High-Calorie, Low-Nutrient Foods
It probably is not necessary for us to make the following statement, but we still need to say it: Don't eat "junk foods." High-sugar junk food diets definitely lead to poor blood sugar regulation, obesity, and ultimately type 2 diabetes. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 GROCERY MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA
Despite the myths we have been told and sold, we are not by genetic constitution Mars-Bar eaters, Super-Big-Gulp drinkers, or Big-Mac snackers, nor do we suffer from a deficiency of these junk foods. None of us is suffering from a deficiency of Red Dye #40, Blue Lake #5, dis-odium inosinate, MSG, aspartame, or any of the other excitotoxins that have been deliberately placed in our foods to seduce and addict us for profit. For millions of years we have been physiologically, biochemically, and genetically designed to eat a diet of organic living plant foods. |
| This economic reality of high-priced fresh foods is going to encourage you to frequent farmer's markets, co-ops, and locally grown foods where the costs are much lower for higher-quality foods because the prices are not controlled by agribusiness, which tends to push the high-calorie junk foods.
Buying local food straight from the farmer puts you in closer touch with the origin of the food, cuts a significant portion of the time and money spent transporting and "selling" the food, saves you money, and places more dollars in the pocket of those who produce your food. |
| Now, many years later, we are subjected to junk foods, foods that have been pesticided and herbicided, microwaved foods, and foods harvested from increasingly mineral-deficient soils. The situation has only gotten worse. This is why most everyone needs mineral supplementation, whether they are vegan or meat eater. Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel prizes, said, "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment, ultimately, to a mineral deficiency." Research by Dr. |
| Those people living in weaker economic conditions seemed to also be more susceptible, with the exception of China, Russia, and India, where those of greater affluence have more access to junk foods and are running higher rates of obesity, which is associated with diabetes.
In general, what we are saying is that it is a world diet and lifestyle that is a Crime Against Wisdom. The point is clear. The reader is given the option to choose the Culture of Life over the Culture of Death. |
| In 1970 the Pimas' ability to fish was compromised by some river dams and they turned more to Western culture junk foods. The rate skyrocketed when genetics and a diabetogenic Western diet collided. The rate of diabetes is dramatically affected by the genetics for diabetes in a particular culture, and many scientists believe genetics may explain the obesity problem among Native Americans. The first U.S. researcher to learn about the Mexican Pimas was Leslie O. |
Mark Sircus
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 The diets of many children consists largely of highly processed junk foods that do not provide real nutrition to the body.
Children on the autistic spectrum are not absorbing the minerals they need even when present in the gut. Magnesium absorption is dependent on intestinal health, which is compromised in leaky gut syndrome.
? The oral supplements doctors rely on are not easily absorbed.
Magnesium and copper are important modulators of NMDA-receptor activity. |
Dan Buettner
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 Mechanization and technology have replaced long hours and hard work; cars and trucks have eliminated much of the need to walk long distances; a culture disseminated by television is replacing the one that put the emphasis on family and community; and junk foods are replacing the whole-grain breads and fresh vegetables traditionally consumed here. Young people are fatter, less inclined to follow tradition, and more outwardly focused (which also could lead to a dilution of this amazing gene pool). In I960, almost no one in Sardinia's Blue Zone was overweight. Now 15 percent of adolescents are. |
Jack Challem
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| As a general rule, vegetarians have fewer health problems than meat eaters do, in large part because they avoid junk foods and are generally more health conscious. Some vegetarians, however, are pudgy, overweight, and prediabetic. Instead of eating a lot of vegetables, some vegetarians simply avoid animal products and overindulge in breads, pastas, sweets, and sugary drinks.
When vegetarians become overweight and prediabetic, it's usually a sign that their eating habits are a mismatch to their genetics or that they've adopted unhealthy eating habits. |
| Part of the problem is that the fast foods, the convenience foods, and the junk foods contain large amounts of "high-glycemic" carbohydrates— another way to describe sugar and sugarlike refined carbohydrates. High-glycemic foods trigger a quick spike in blood sugar, followed by a surge of insulin, which causes blood sugar to fall lower than where it was before you ate. This means you get hungrier a little while after eating. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can't alter the health of the population unless you address the underlying causes of disease: junk foods, toxic food additives and ingredients, overzealous drug promoters, lack of fresh air, sunlight and water, and nutritionally ignorant doctors who still don't teach patients how to be healthy.
If we limit our debate to who gets health benefits and who pays for them, we will only find ourselves funding an increasingly disastrous system of financial life support for chronic disease. |
| Things like banning all hydrogenated oils, banning the advertising of junk foods to children, banning direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, and making some long-deserved criminal arrests of key executives at drug companies for hiding what they've known for a long, long time: that their products outright kill people.
Health care reform is meaningless without health reform. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the news machine that's selling billions of dollars in prescription drugs, cosmetics, junk foods, protein bars, weight loss pills and useless consumer products that ultimately help no one. It's the machine of American disinformation and commerce, and it's everywhere. You can't turn on the TV, fly on an airplane, drive down the highway or even take a leak in the men's restroom without being bombarded with commercial content parading as news.
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Personally, I refuse to participate in the system described above. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It seems so much easier to sit back on the couch, avoid exercise, eat junk foods, and blame somebody else for your health problems. You then go to the doctor and blame them when you don't get healthy. I think it's so ridiculous.
People need to take responsibility for their health. That means being proactive about learning the true underlying causes of health, and then being willing to invest in yourself. Invest in your own health by buying the products and consuming the products that prevent disease. These products are right in front of us. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Post-Partum Pain More in second and subsequent pregnancies; take Camphor, Honey, and water; plan wholesome nutrition/avoid junk foods; take natural painkillers.
Puerperal Peritonitis/Child-Bed Fever On the 3rd or 4th day after birthing a uterus infection from puerperal septicemia causes tremors, head and abdomen pain; aggravated by pressure or motion. All secretions stop, hot skin, quick pulse, white tongue, flushed, anxious, stomach sickness, shallow breath; rapid pulse, moist skin; tongue, gums, and mouth covered with dark brown; mutteringdelirium; and death. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I can just continue with my unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle of junk foods and convenience foods, and still manage to lose weight with this Nastech product."
I'm sure the product won't be marketed that way. It will be marketed as an aid to help people who are making healthy lifestyle changes. But nevertheless, this is not the way most people will ultimately think about it, either consciously or unconsciously. People want the easiest pathway to solving their weight problem, and they're going to seek the path of least resistance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, if you're used to eating junk foods or processed foods, you can really only taste three things: salt, sugar and fat. And health foods don't have much of those, which is why junk food eaters think healthy foods taste like cardboard.)
But people are afraid that if they give up their candy bars, cookies and donuts, they'll have to live a life of food celibacy. So fear becomes a strong inhibitor to change, and it's fear that keeps a lot of people stuck in the old destructive eating patterns.
So how do you conquer that fear? It's easier than you might think. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Getting acupuncture to cure your back pain so that you can continue to sit on the couch, avoid physical exercise, and eat junk foods isn't "natural medicine." It's just allopathic medicine with acupuncture needles as the tool. Similarly, curing your depression with St. John's Wort isn't natural medicine, either. It's just another ingested chemical to cover up the symptoms of a much deeper problem. Healthy people don't need St. John's Wort for mental health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you look at most other junk foods or candy bars, you would get fat and sweetness in the form of hydrogenated oils and refined sugars, and of course that's a recipe for heart disease and diabetes right there. You don't want to get fat and sweetness from unhealthy ingredients. You want to get them from wholesome, natural ingredients, like you'll find in this Organic Food Bar.
The next ingredient is agave cactus nectar. This is, as I've mentioned, a low-glycemic-index sweetener. It's probably my second-favorite sweetener of choice right after stevia, an herbal sweetener. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You will not lose weight on Trim Spa if you continue to eat junk foods, fried foods, fast foods, and other garbage that packs on the pounds through high caloric density foods.
Also, you will not lose weight on Trim Spa if you don't engage in physical exercise. So, it can really only be effective if you combine it with these other strategies that are proven to work. If you choose to move to healthier food and engage in regular physical exercise, I have no doubt that Trim Spa will accelerate your weight loss efforts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's the level I'm living at with the raw foods diet, and, believe me, it is a whole different level that goes far beyond subsisting on junk foods, processed foods or restaurant foods.
I grew up in the Midwest, and the Midwest isn't exactly known for its cuisine. I used to think that ground beef and potatoes, with Velveeta melted on top, was a good meal. Years ago, that was the limit of my taste experience. Today, I know that that's just a tiny, little dot on the map of taste experience. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Every dollar spent on junk foods and prescription drugs to treat the diseases promoted by those foods is counted as "productivity" in terms of economics. Yet there's nothing productive about this at all! Technically, productivity is being destroyed by these foods and medicines because they interfere with the healthy productivity of the American population and reduce lifespan.
So even though there's a whole lot of money changing hands, no net good is actually being achieved from any of this. But it sure does generate a lot of money. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Medical schools will literally award medical degrees to obese, diabetic individuals who smoke cigarettes and eat junk foods! And they're legally allowed to give YOU medical advice while a healthy, unlicensed naturopath gets thrown in jail for advising you to eat healing foods and herbs! That's the state of organized medicine today: the most diseased people are still in charge and are the only ones allowed to practice medicine by law. |
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