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Documents page has many other links you will find value!
I will let you come to your own understanding and make your own choices in Life.
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Online tools for daily use food, diet, labeling, calculators and dozen must read articles
Nutritional loss in Freezing, Drying, Cooking, and Reheating in foods you purchase and further process.
Spices are known to regulate our body ~ build Immunity ~ and protect from pathogens and paracites ~ Each a gift of Nature!
How to Rate Your Junk Food Diet ~ High GI = BAD
| Low GI | 55 or less | most fruits and vegetables (except potatoes and watermelon), whole-grain breads, pasta, legumes/pulses, milk, yogurt, products extremely low in carbohydrates (some cheeses, nuts), fructose |
| Medium GI | 56–69 | whole wheat products, basmati rice, sweet potato, table sugar |
| High GI | 70 and above | corn flakes, rice krispies, baked potatoes, watermelon, croissants, white bread, extruded breakfast cereals, most white rices (e.g. jasmine), straight glucose (100) |
American Association for Cancer Research
Our over-stressing diet more & more linked to cancer and not just what we eat but how!
For over 40 years the first alternative medicine for cancer was Diet ~ Now we see why!
Foods as Preventative Medicine
Notice tie-in below to Essential oils - Anti-Oxident and Plant Medicine.
| Family | Sources | Possible Benefits |
|---|
| flavonoids | berries, herbs, vegetables, wine, grapes, tea | general antioxidant, oxidation of LDLs, prevention of arteriosclerosis and heart disease |
| isoflavones (phytoestrogens) | soy, red clover, kudzu root | general antioxidant, prevention of arteriosclerosis and heart disease, easing symptoms of menopause, cancer prevention[19] |
| isothiocyanates | cruciferous vegetables | cancer prevention |
| monoterpenes | citrus peels, essential oils, herbs, spices, green plants, atmosphere[20] | cancer prevention, treating gallstones |
| organosulfur compounds | chives, garlic, onions | cancer prevention, lowered LDLs, assistance to the immune system |
| saponins | beans, cereals, herbs | Hypercholesterolemia, Hyperglycemia, Antioxidant, cancer prevention, Anti-inflammatory |
| capsaicinoids | all capiscum (chile) peppers | topical pain relief, cancer prevention, cancer cell apoptosis |
Quick Links to Food Groups
Seed-Nuts-Grain-Beans-Etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_seeds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(fruit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal
Fruit
Ancient sweet tooth and Medicine
There is archaeological evidence of date cultivation in eastern Arabia in 6000 BCE. Sometimes confused with Honey in Bible as meant sticky - sweet
Vegetable
The Artichoke Medical uses (more of the Mediterranean health story)
The majority of the cynarin found in artichoke is located in the pulp of the leaves, though dried leaves and/or stems of artichoke also contain Cynara which are used to increase bile production. Cynarin, an active constituent in Cynara, causes an increased bile flow.[10] This diuretic vegetable is of nutritional value because of its exhibiting aid to digestion, strengthening of the liver function, gall bladder function, and raising of HDL/LDL ratio. This reduces cholesterol levels, which diminishes the risk for arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Aqueous extracts from artichoke leaves have shown to reduce levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and have a hypolipidemic influence, lowering blood cholesterol.
Vegetable Oils List and Discriptions
(At left) Hemp oil Amphora from China over 7000yrs
By the time you finish this you will understand how much industrial oil you consume. Every product in fridge including healthy Mayo ~ Margarine ~ sauces ~ shortening and cooking oils.....if it does not say "Virgin" or pressed (extracted at low temperatures) It has been ~ solvent Extraction ~ filtered ~ refined ~ heated ~ Hydrogenated ~ added preservatives and metal contamination. Most has to be refined as from spoiled crops or decay and mold of storage and shippling. It is then refined - bleached - deodorized along with any other formulation blending.
Many of these oils made from industrial waste as cottonseed, mutated corn & soy, Rape seed (marketed as Canada oil Canola) and hydro-tropical’s.
Coconut was widely used till WWII and the war shortage created the corn and other oil business. These businesses marketed and played politics to keep these new industrial oils our choices after coconut was easy available again. Hemp suffered a similar fall when Petroleum and DuPont saw it as to competitive to the emerging plastic business. How easy we are fooled ~ even the answer guys for the industrial oils much like tobacco as we removed trans-fat and more like Low-Tar cigarettes ~ they still are lifeless!
Each of this steps:
Removes Nutrition (Oils contain and deliver most essential vitamins)
Imbalances natural ratios of fatty acids (Creating long term health problems)
Creates un-natural oil products that become major health hazard.
We let industry decide what we will consume ~ soaked in every French fry
Please read more ~ open fridge ~ pantry and watch in shopping. See how all you buy infected down to cake mix , cookies, salad 
dressing, anything with any oil in it.
SEE Video on Diet with Oils & healthy foods Nutiva playlist
See Carrier Oils
The Best Virgin Oils ~All great as salad or drizzle over meal~ (non - nut oils)
Pumpkin Seed Oil Many healing and nutritional qualitys ~ Very nutty taste !
The only Oil that matches out Fatty acids needs in balance.
A well aborbed light oil for any skin type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_oil
Sunflower Oil and kernels Wonder Oil & Food for any budget.
Avocado Oil ~Virgin for nutrition & skin / refined for cooking at high heat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado_oil
Eating Avocado daily, one of the best ways to get Oil food Nutrition without fear of allergy and with Lime juice a good side to any meal.
Use like butter and to flavor without heavy feel.
The saturated fat oil of wonder! This fresh Virgin smells so good!
Taste light and sweet...makes dry skin happy.
Olive Oil is highly marketed in hundreds of pedigrees, but most from same supply chain. EXTRA VIRGIN is all much the same in full taste and used more in salad use or low temp cooking. Most avoid the stronger flavor for lighter refined and use as cooking oils. Main advantage is Mono-saturates Vs common cooking oil and choice of taste.
The Extra Virgin Olive Oil is $7.00 liter in my local market area , a Three liter jug $15-16.
The rest you see is marketing and fancy bottles. ~ If your spending more get one of the real nutrition oils above.
These Virgin Oil Super Foods are kept from light and refrigerated to keep the peak nutritional value
Animal Sources
Meats ~ Fish ~ Protein and use in Diet
| Source | calories | protein | carbs | fat |
|---|
| fish | 110–140 | 20–25 g | 0 g | 1–5 g |
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| chicken breast | 160 | 28 g | 0 g | 7 g |
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| lamb | 250 | 30 g | 0 g | 14 g |
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| steak (beef top round) | 210 | 36 g | 0 g | 7 g |
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| steak (beef T-bone) | 450 | 25 g | 0 g | 35 g |
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Dairy ~ Cheeze ~ Etc
This a huge colection from around the world.
Some special reading see Vinegars Gourmet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegars
Honey A Reference Guide to Nature’s Sweetener