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Body odor can be eliminated through a change in diet Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

After giving up red meat, junk foods, fast foods and other dietary atrocities, I no longer needed deodorants anyway. Foods that make you stink Let's take a closer look at the causes of body odor. What foods really cause body odor in the first place? Red meat is the number one cause of body odor. Red meat causes stagnation in the body; it putrefies in the digestive tract and releases all sorts of toxins into the bloodstream through the large intestine.

How to (not!) get fat in five easy steps Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Remove soft drinks from your diet, avoid all fried foods, snack foods, junk foods and any foods made by food-manufacturing corporations whose packaged foods line the shelves of America's grocery stores. Once you do all that, your liver function will begin to improve quite rapidly; the hardening of your arteries that was taking place as your pursued your weight gain diet will begin to reverse; your cardiovascular health will improve dramatically; your brain function will even improve. Your pulse will slow, and your body fat will slowly begin to melt off.

Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

As in, "I have the right to use illegal drugs, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, get obese, avoid exercise, eat junk foods... and then to demand that you pay for my health care costs." Seriously. Some people actually believe that. Without question, this debate about smoking will continue to rage in our society. There will be those who say we should outlaw nicotine and tobacco now. Others will say we should allow consumers to have free choice, and there will be a few who might come up with creative suggestions like the one I've offered here.

What is a "normal" diet? Consumers and food industry pundits have it all backwards Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This goes along with the idea that processed foods and junk foods are normal. What's really compatible with your body? When you are eating the diet that nature intended, you are eating the diet that your body was designed to consume: A diet of raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and leaves, right from nature to your body. That's the only diet that you were designed to consume and that is normal. Now, anything that diverts you from that diet is abnormal and, in fact, anything that takes you away from that diet is going to promote chronic disease.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Potentially harmful food additives, on the other hand, are typically added to artificially preserve freshness in some foods or to nutritionally poor foods, such as cured meats and junk foods. Take nitrates as an example. Many common vegetables, such as celery, radishes, and beets, are rich sources of nitrates. The concern about nitrates is that they can be converted to nitrites and then to cancer-causing compounds known as ni-trosamines in the gut. However, there are compounds in these vegetables, such as vitamin C and flavonoids, that prevent the conversions from taking place.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts

Have you ever known anyone who regularly consumes fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods—and rarely, if ever, consumes meats or junk foods like chips, French fries and candy bars? What is his or her weight like? If you know many people like this, you have probably noticed that they tend to have a healthy weight. Now think of traditional cultures around the world. Think of traditional Asian cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Indian), where a couple of billion people have been eating a mostly plant-based diet for thousands of years.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

The ability to maintain normal blood sugar levels is jeopardized by the lack of chromium in our soil and water supply and by a diet high in refined white sugar, flour, and junk foods. A number of human and animal studies have found that chromium supplements can improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control in the face of insulin resistance, elevated blood glucose levels, impaired glucose tolerance, and diabetes.

Eliminate from your diet colas, foods with additives and colorings, junk foods, peanuts, processed refined foods, saturated fats, salt, sugar and sugar products, white flour, all animal protein, and anything containing caffeine. Q Take supplemental fiber daily. Alternate between psyllium husks and freshly ground flaxseeds. Take psyllium with a glass of water and drink it quickly before it thickens. Note: Always take supplemental fiber separately from other supplements and medications. Q Exercise caution in your choice of foods so as to avoid exposure to foodborne illness.

Avoid processed and junk foods. The additives these foods contain tend to add to the aversion to eating. Q Seek out a practitioner or practitioners who specialize in the treatment of eating disorders and who can address the complex of physical and psychological elements involved. Some type of specialized counseling, in addition to nutritional counseling, is usually necessary for recovery. Q Women with low self-esteem tend to engage in self-destructive behaviors such as entering into abusive relationships, compulsive sexual behavior, and eating disorders.

Do not eat any candies, chips, fried foods, gravies, high-cholesterol foods, junk foods, pies, processed foods, red meat, or saturated fats. Avoid egg yolks, ice cream, salt, and all foods containing white flour and /or sugar. Do not use stimulants such as coffee, colas, and tobacco. Also, eliminate alcohol and highly spiced foods. Q Maintain a healthy weight for your height. Obesity causes unfavorable changes in serum lipoprotein levels. Q Reduce stress and learn techniques to help you handle stress that cannot be avoided. (See stress in Part Two.) Q Get regular moderate exercise.

Five must-see videos for health-aware consumers, parents and thought leaders Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

YVuwU1Qa_fI Vending Machine by Faerie Films This film is still in its early editing stages, but it promises to be an eye-opening look at how junk foods and soft drinks are destroying the health of our nation's youth. Featuring interviews with schoolchildren as well as health experts, this documentary exposes the corporate invasion of public schools with hard-hitting information that dares to tell the truth. (Disclaimer: I'm on the advisory panel for this film. It's a non-paid position.) Watch the trailer at: http://www.faeriefilms.com/vending_machine_preview.

Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings and other violence, yet more drugs are touted as the solution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They have a lot of beneficial effects in the body, yet children today are growing up on mostly processed foods and junk foods. You probably remember what you ate as a teenager. It's an atrocious diet. I know mine was a terrible diet. I can't believe I made it to the age of 25 based on what I was eating then. But some kids aren't making it, and they're not making it because they lack the basic nutrition they need to have healthy functioning nervous systems. So what does this organized medicine and psychiatry do to combat this problem?

The raw foods diet: The taste alone is worth it! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I always find it funny when people who are addicted to restaurant foods and junk foods say, "You eat such a clean diet, Mike, but I can't live without my Big Mac!" From my perspective, I'm thinking, a Big Mac tastes awful compared to the foods I'm eating on a daily basis. And many of the foods I consume are raw foods. Raw foods: the most exciting foods in the world People think that when I eat healthy, I'm somehow living on really boring, drab foods all the time. But they're completely wrong about that. I'm living on the most exciting foods in the world.

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We continue to allow the drug companies and junk food companies to exploit consumers and brainwash people into thinking they need chemicals or junk foods in order to be healthy, feel good or be popular. We have a system that is dominated by evil industries that really have no purpose other than to generate profits. These are the food, drug, cosmetics and chemical industries, primarily. Doctors are often trapped in the system, too We also have a medical industry that is, in some ways, helpless to do anything in response to all these problems.

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Keep on eating those processed foods, those junk foods, those restaurant foods, all those unhealthy, toxic, disease-causing ingredients. Keep on buying those personal care products, coating your hair in cancer-causing ingredients, coloring your hair with cancer-causing solvents. That's right. Keep on drinking all that alcohol, smoking all those cigarettes, watching that prime-time television sitcom to distract yourself from the crumbling of our nation that's happening all around you this very minute. We've got to keep people distracted. Maybe they won't notice. Keep them drugged up.

Movie Review: The Island starring Ewan McGregor explores timely theme of corporate exploitation of human beings Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The movie is based on the idea that, sometime in the near future, the wealthy citizens of the world might pay a private corporation to grow replacement body parts so that the clients might achieve immortality even as they destroy their own organs through unhealthy lifestyle choices such as reckless drinking, partying, drug use, smoking and consuming junk foods. In "The Island," a private corporation is selling this organ-replacement service to wealthy clients, and telling them the organs are grown in a laboratory.

How to slash national health care costs by 90% through education, nutrition, and a ban on junk food marketing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We should also ban vending machines, especially from public schools and work places when those vending machines offer junk foods that contain ingredients known to promote disease. We can also tax foods by levying things such as the junk food tax. Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods.

The raw foods diet: The taste alone is worth it! Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I'm living on foods that make all the processed, junk foods taste like dirt. I'm not giving up anything by living a super-healthy lifestyle. In fact, I'm gaining in every area. The taste experience is more interesting and more expansive. The health benefits are phenomenal. The expanded awareness happens automatically. I'm not giving up anything at all! You might say, "Well, you're giving up a Big Mac, French fries, ice cream and pizza." So what? Once you've tried raw foods cuisine, everything else seems irrelevant.

How to (not!) get fat in five easy steps Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The high price of weight gain success Of course by the time you actually win this $10,000,000 you will have suffered the devastating health effects of consuming these processed foods, junk foods, fast foods and disease-promoting food ingredients. Yes, you will be $10,000,000 richer, but if you don't reverse everything you've done over the last 90 days you will soon learn that you can't take it with you. In other words, your life will be shortened if you don't put an end to this weight gain effort and get back to a normal body weight.

Health news roundup: Kraft shrinks, drugs in the drinking water, and obese chickens (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's good news for the health of Americans, because it means fewer factories are churning out disease-promoting junk foods. Overeducated, misguided economists would argue with that, screaming about the loss of jobs. But what good is a job if the resulting product worsens the quality of life of consumers? We could boost the national economy, I suppose, by hiring people to throw dirt in the air, but it doesn't make anyone richer or more abundant. It's not the jobs that matter, but what the jobs are producing. And Kraft Foods, apparently, missed the boat on rolling out healthy foods.

Health Ranger hails CPSI effort to stop Kellogg Co. from marketing junk food to children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Junk foods cause nutritional deficiencies which lead to chronic diseases and behavioral disorders, explains Adams. "That our federal regulators, both the FDA and FTC, continue to allow these harmful foods to be aggressively marketed to children is both unconscionable and unacceptable," Adams adds. "No nation should allow its children to be harmed simply to appease the private sector." Adams is also on the record accusing the FDA and even many media organizations of "selling out" to the financial and political influence of food companies.

The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

So we will make this simple recommendation: Don't eat "junk foods," and pay attention to the glycemic load of the foods you eat. In chapter 1, we introduced the term "glycemic index" (GI). The GI refers to how quickly your blood sugar level rises after you eat a certain amount of food based on a referenced amount of carbohydrate. However, since it doesn't tell you how much carbohydrate there is in a typical serving of a particular food, another tool is needed. That is where glycemic load comes in.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

Eliminate animal fats, fried foods, junk foods, processed foods, and sugar from the diet. Q Use ground flaxseeds, oat bran, psyllium husks, or Aerobic Bulk Cleanse (ABC) from Aerobic Life Industries to provide fiber. Fiber absorbs dangerous toxins and helps prevent constipation. Note: Always take supplemental fiber separately from other supplements and medications. Q Make sure that the bowels move every day. On days when the bowels do not move, use an enema. (See enemas in Part Three.) Q Give immediate attention to lowering the body's pH level to 5.

Poor food choices include processed foods, junk foods, refined white flour products, white sugar products, and imitation foods that are designed to appear and taste like an original product but that have been robbed of natural vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. 3. Overeating. Overeating is probably the most common cause of liver malfunction. Overeating creates excess work for the liver, resulting in liver fatigue. In addition, the liver must detoxify all of the various chemicals present in our food supply today. When the liver is overworked, it may not detoxify harmful substances properly. 4.

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

What if healing foods such as fresh produce and raw nuts were offered virtually free of charge, but junk foods were very, very expensive? How might that change people's purchasing habits? If you turn the whole system upside down, and you create rewards for keeping people healthy, then entrepreneurs all throughout the country will find new and interesting ways to keep people healthy. Business people will always find ways to make money, and if disease is financially rewarded, then disease is what they'll create.

Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The majority of these shifts seemed to be away from junk foods and other foods of the bioacidic category, toward healthier foods within their established diet pattern. Eight percent of the group described a major shift toward eating less food and 7 percent became vegetarians. Before they started on the Recognitions Experience, 47 percent were using alcohol, coffee, or tobacco. In this survey, 35 percent had decreased their use of these toxins. In the Recognitions Experience, there was no formal teaching about diet. These people were not told in advance that a study would be done.

Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Food to Avoid Eliminate foods that encourage mucus production: dairy products, chocolate, and bananas, as well as processed, refined, fried, and junk foods. Avoid simple sugars, as they suppress immune function. Detoxification Fast on water, soup, juice, and herbal tea for a few days to let your body turn its full attention to fighting the infection. Fasting will also speed the elimination of mucus, especially when expectorant herbal teas are part of the regimen. (See the herbal recommendations further on.

If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C. See book keywords and concepts

Aspartame is addictive and causes people who consume it to crave junk foods, snack foods and more artificially sweetened foods and beverages. There are many other adverse symptoms and conditions associated with aspartame as well, much like MSG. Once again, educate yourself about this substance. It is not a food, it is a chemical and it is wise to completely avoid it. For more information on both artificial sweeteners and MSG, there is a fabulous book I highly recommend you read: Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, by Russell Blaylock.

Also consider that if you are truly Eating for Health you will not be spending money, or will be spending considerably less money, on expensive junk foods such as soda, alcohol, salty and sugary snack foods, coffee, and the like. You will also, no doubt be eating out less and dropping fewer dollars in vending machines. All of which add up to a smaller overall food bill. I could make a whole meal for two with leftovers on what some people spend every morning on their gourmet coffee and pastry to go.

Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Because of the dietary restrictions, many people diagnosed with celiac disease become resentful or depressed when they cannot continue to consume processed foods, fast foods, or junk foods with abandon—and suffer the same risk of obesity and diabetes as the rest of the population. Some gluten-free substitutes, such as rice-based breads or pastas, are available at health food stores, but these provide mostly empty carbohydrate calories. In fact, people with celiac disease often come to believe that any gluten-free food is good to eat.

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