Protect Yourself With Food
PROTECT YOURSELF WITH FOOD
In defense of the doctors, I often criticize, you should know that they are limited to a “standard protocol.” That is why we now see more doctors entering the field of “Integrative Medicine.” Recent research reveals the fact that your doctor knows that these “Food Cures” really work~ but he may be afraid to tell you. Why? Because there are standard protocols for treating every disease, and they don’t include eating apples, oranges, cherries and nuts. The insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and the government put enormous pressure on your doctor to do everything “by the book.”
Suppose, for example, that you come in with a migraine headache. Every first-year medical student knows that magnesium is effective against migraines. In fact, if you come into the ER with a migraine, they’ll give you an injection of magnesium. It’s also widely known that caffeine is one of the most powerful headache remedies around. So why doesn’t your doctor just give you a bag of pumpkin seeds and a cup of coffee?
But he can’t do that~because if your headache doesn’t go away, or it turns out to be more serious, people will come around asking questions: Why didn’t you give the standard drugs? Why didn’t you do all the standard tests? But there’s nothing preventing you from curing yourself with food.
For fever from flu, you may do what they do in India: Add coriander, ginger and cinnamon to your food. They promote sweating and help break a fever. My first meal of the day is old fashioned oatmeal with diced apple, cinnamon, raisins and a scoop of wild blueberries with a splash of skim milk. Pumpkin seeds are loaded with magnesium, which is vital for converting food into energy.
For Asthma, you might try eating onions~often. Why? Because onions contain several compounds, especially quercetin, that combat inflammation.
For Cataracts: Avoid mayonnaise and creamy salad dressings. According to a Harvard Study, the fatty acids used in many creamy dressings boost your risk of cataracts.
For Memory: Eat oatmeal for breakfast. A recent study showed that when schoolchildren ate oatmeal for breakfast instead of cold cereal~their memory skills improved 5 to 12%.
For High Blood Pressure: It’s not the salt you add at the dinner table that causes the problem. It’s the salt cooked into processed Forfoods that does you in.
For Arthritis: Try eating sour cherries to slow down the deterioration of cartilage in osteoarthritis.
MYTH: Raw fruits and vegetables are better than cooked. REALITY: Wrong! There are some fruits and vegetables that don’t fully release their healing vitamins and nutrients until you cook them.
Ulcers? For many years doctors advised their patients with ulcers to drink lots of milk. Milk was thought to provide a protective shield to the stomach lining, thereby soothing ulcers and helping them heal. It made perfect sense, except that it was wrong! Doctors now believe milk increases, rather than neutralizes, stomach acids, irritating ulcers and making them even more painful. It’s like rubbing salt in the wound!
So what should you eat for ulcers? Broccoli! It’s been proven in the clinical trials to kill the bacteria that causes ulcers in 78% of the patients tested.
MYTH: NUTS ARE FATTENING, SO AVOID THEM. REALITY: Nuts are the “embryo” of a tree. As such, they are loaded with all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients the young tree needs to survive, grow, and thrive. It’s like “embryonic stem cell therapy” in a nutshell.
After more than 6,000 years of using food for medicine, the human race has accumulated a lot of information…And a lot of misinformation, too! Many of the legends that have been passed down from generation to generation about miraculous food cures have turned out to work - at least those that came from grandma.
In moderation, I find that even a cup or two of coffee is an important part of my food regimen. It helps me with my lungs and one large study even found that women who drank up to six cups of coffee a day cut their diabetes risk by nearly a third.
Sometimes curing yourself with food is not a matter of eating more, but eating less. Take gout, for example. It’s caused by the build-up of uric acid in your joints and even kidney stones. So if you simply eliminate foods that trigger production of uric acid in your bloodstream — organ meats and alcohol are the worst — you’ll start to feel better fast. You’d be amazed at how many diseases have just such a simple solution.
Eat Well, Love Much and Laugh Often.
In defense of the doctors, I often criticize, you should know that they are limited to a “standard protocol.” That is why we now see more doctors entering the field of “Integrative Medicine.” Recent research reveals the fact that your doctor knows that these “Food Cures” really work~ but he may be afraid to tell you. Why? Because there are standard protocols for treating every disease, and they don’t include eating apples, oranges, cherries and nuts. The insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and the government put enormous pressure on your doctor to do everything “by the book.”
Suppose, for example, that you come in with a migraine headache. Every first-year medical student knows that magnesium is effective against migraines. In fact, if you come into the ER with a migraine, they’ll give you an injection of magnesium. It’s also widely known that caffeine is one of the most powerful headache remedies around. So why doesn’t your doctor just give you a bag of pumpkin seeds and a cup of coffee?
But he can’t do that~because if your headache doesn’t go away, or it turns out to be more serious, people will come around asking questions: Why didn’t you give the standard drugs? Why didn’t you do all the standard tests? But there’s nothing preventing you from curing yourself with food.
For fever from flu, you may do what they do in India: Add coriander, ginger and cinnamon to your food. They promote sweating and help break a fever. My first meal of the day is old fashioned oatmeal with diced apple, cinnamon, raisins and a scoop of wild blueberries with a splash of skim milk. Pumpkin seeds are loaded with magnesium, which is vital for converting food into energy.
For Asthma, you might try eating onions~often. Why? Because onions contain several compounds, especially quercetin, that combat inflammation.
For Cataracts: Avoid mayonnaise and creamy salad dressings. According to a Harvard Study, the fatty acids used in many creamy dressings boost your risk of cataracts.
For Memory: Eat oatmeal for breakfast. A recent study showed that when schoolchildren ate oatmeal for breakfast instead of cold cereal~their memory skills improved 5 to 12%.
For High Blood Pressure: It’s not the salt you add at the dinner table that causes the problem. It’s the salt cooked into processed Forfoods that does you in.
For Arthritis: Try eating sour cherries to slow down the deterioration of cartilage in osteoarthritis.
MYTH: Raw fruits and vegetables are better than cooked. REALITY: Wrong! There are some fruits and vegetables that don’t fully release their healing vitamins and nutrients until you cook them.
Ulcers? For many years doctors advised their patients with ulcers to drink lots of milk. Milk was thought to provide a protective shield to the stomach lining, thereby soothing ulcers and helping them heal. It made perfect sense, except that it was wrong! Doctors now believe milk increases, rather than neutralizes, stomach acids, irritating ulcers and making them even more painful. It’s like rubbing salt in the wound!
So what should you eat for ulcers? Broccoli! It’s been proven in the clinical trials to kill the bacteria that causes ulcers in 78% of the patients tested.
MYTH: NUTS ARE FATTENING, SO AVOID THEM. REALITY: Nuts are the “embryo” of a tree. As such, they are loaded with all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients the young tree needs to survive, grow, and thrive. It’s like “embryonic stem cell therapy” in a nutshell.
After more than 6,000 years of using food for medicine, the human race has accumulated a lot of information…And a lot of misinformation, too! Many of the legends that have been passed down from generation to generation about miraculous food cures have turned out to work - at least those that came from grandma.
In moderation, I find that even a cup or two of coffee is an important part of my food regimen. It helps me with my lungs and one large study even found that women who drank up to six cups of coffee a day cut their diabetes risk by nearly a third.
Sometimes curing yourself with food is not a matter of eating more, but eating less. Take gout, for example. It’s caused by the build-up of uric acid in your joints and even kidney stones. So if you simply eliminate foods that trigger production of uric acid in your bloodstream — organ meats and alcohol are the worst — you’ll start to feel better fast. You’d be amazed at how many diseases have just such a simple solution.
Eat Well, Love Much and Laugh Often.
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