Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All the food, candy and sodas that are going to be consumed over the next several holidays have already been made in a factory, stored in a warehouse, shipped on a truck and loaded onto store shelves, just waiting for hungry, gullible consumers to come along and shovel down their own share of processed food additives and refined sugar derivatives.
There's a kind of sick beauty in the whole thing. I'm always struck by the idea that we must actually be the wealthiest people in the world, because we have so much "food" around here that people are actually just giving it away for free. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Men who eat salad greens, sprouts and tofu are commonly thought of as having somehow lost their masculinity (by the ignorant masses, anyway), whereas those men who gobble down prime rib, milk, pizza, hamburgers, onion rings and sugary sodas are thought of as rugged American men. Real men!
Of course, the truth of the matter is quite different. As nutritional studies clearly show, those men who eat the salad greens, sprouts, superfoods and nutrient-dense ingredients have much higher sperm counts and mobility measurements as well as stronger libido and performance. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 It's particularly important to avoid diuretic beverages, such as coffee, alcohol, sodas, and tea (even some herbal teas) in the evening hours. If you do have to get up during the night, use the dimmest light possible to move around safely, to avoid disrupting your sleep-wake cycle.
Eat Lower on the Food Chain
Because toxins become more concentrated higher up in the food chain (a concept known as bioaccumulation), animal products generally are more burdened with toxins. If you choose to eat meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, protect your health—and your sleep—by eating organic products. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most of them "reward" their children with junk food, sugary sodas, candy laced with petrochemical coloring additives and refined sugars that promote obesity and diabetes. Most parents don't even make any real effort to follow nutritional discipline at home -- they simply buy whatever their children saw advertised on television, caving in to the all-powerful "nag factor" that junk food companies fully exploit when marketing to children.
As a result, human children are the least healthy youngsters of any species on the planet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid anything with high-fructose corn syrup (like sodas), and don't feed them sweets made with refined sugar. The first few months of a baby's life are crucial for imprinting taste expectations, so use that time to expose them to fruits, vegetables and other natural food sources rather than refined, processed ingredients.
About the Health Ranger: Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger" is an independent consumer advocate focused on helping people improve their health through information about nutrition, diet, supplements, disease prevention and natural therapies. |
Ron Garner
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 In the meantime, highly acidic foods such as red meat, coffee, alcohol, sodas, fatty and fried foods, oils, and dairy products should be avoided. A flush using virgin olive oil and lemon juice can also be helpful and may even prevent unnecessary removal of the gallbladder.
Heart Problems
A narrowing of the arteries as a result of deposits of minerals or fat, respectively called arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, causes most of the heart problems that lead to heart attacks. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Simple Carbohydrates and Nutritive Sweeteners
Limiting foods high in total carbohydrates such as regular sodas, other sweetened beverages, candies, and desserts may help in attaining glucose levels [8]. Although it has been demonstrated that the consumption of sucrose does not compromise blood glucose when total carbohydrate content remains the same [49]. However because of its low nutrient density, the consumption of foods containing high amounts of sucrose is not recommended. Other carbohydrate containing foods, such as whole grains, are more nutrient dense. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Globally, fast food, junk food, and sugary sodas and other drinks are increasingly accessible. These affordable, convenient sources of calories are being gobbled down in place of nutritious, traditional ethnic fare, and the result is weight gain . . . and ever-rising rates of type 2 diabetes.
Junk food accounts for 90 percent of diabetes diagnoses, affecting some 177 million people worldwide. Obesity, where body weight is 30 percent or more beyond ideal, is a major risk factor for diabetes. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 By now, you should know the answer: sweet foods and syrupy sodas provide mucho calories for minimal effort. They'll help a girl mature faster so she can reproduce sooner. Her autopilot doesn't care what it might be doing to her arteries. Studies of infants who were nursed long term (four years) show fatty cholesterol deposits in their arteries at an early age-breast milk is loaded with the milk sugar lactose.12 I've seen these plaques in many youngsters on whom I've operated.
Do You Have InAulin ReAiAtance?
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J. Douglas Bremner
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 Replacing sodas and juices with water will help you lose more than five pounds per year, solving the weight problems of most people. I don't advocate drinking any minimal amount of water above what you would drink normally based on your sense of thirst because I don't think there is evidence to support doing so. What I think is most important is replacing calorie-laden drinks with calorie-free water.
You should limit your time at restaurants to once a week. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Both companies, by the way, continue to engage in routine marketing of junk foods and sodas to children.
Pepsico is a corporation that won't even list the acrylamide content in their fried foods. Nor will it publicly admit that high-fructose corn syrup has any link whatsoever to obesity. PepsiCo, in my opinion, is a corporation living in a deviant reality, unwilling to take responsibility for its role in poisoning the population through its toxic food and beverage products.
That's my personal opinion of PepsiCo, its brands and its products. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything made by PepsiCo. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By working with a team of top nutritionists, he has already improved his diet by eliminating foods and beverages that promote diabetes (like sodas, sugary cookies and white bread) while focusing on eating the foods that prevent diabetes and regulate healthy blood sugar metabolism: fresh produce, raw nuts, whole grains, healthy plant-based fats and targeted nutritional supplements that boost insulin sensitivity. (See part one of this story.)
This week, Santa is focusing on boosting his exercise to accelerate his progress. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Uses & properties Oranges are mostly eaten fresh or are processed into orange juice (used in a wide range of drinks, syrups, sodas, orangeade, punches, fruit wines and liqueurs). Navel oranges are not suitable for juice due to delayed bitterness. Oranges or candied peel have countless applications in desserts, fruit salads, creams, mousses, sorbets, confectionery, marmalades, jams, filled sponges (including the famous orangine), cakes and biscuits. Many famous fish and meat dishes call for oranges as an essential ingredient. Nutrttional value Exceptional. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 She had revealed earlier that she drank a cup of coffee every morning "to get her going" and drank 1-2 caffeinated sodas to "get her through the day." When I suggested that letting go of these beverages would restore her energy and also help her to lose the weight she had desperately been trying to lose, she vehemently opposed the idea.
"Are you crazy?" she blurted out. "There is no way I am giving up my coffee or soda. They are my only source of energy. If I don't have them every day I can barely function I'm so tired. And since when does cutting out coffee or soda help with losing weight? |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Just like their artichoke cousin, these plants can get sodas and sweet treats, vour digestive juices flowing. too. All their sugar can
0 o__xi___*______L____siihelps wash away dyspepsia. For two weeks, participants drank about 1.5 quarts of either tap water or carbonated water each day. Those who drank the sparkling water found their indigestion had improved, and they suffered less constipation. Alhough the study was small, it can't hurt to switch to carbonated water for your six glasses a day and see if it helps.
Relax with chamomile tea. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: That's a great way to put it – alcohol, caffeine, sodas, lots and lots of sugar. This is sort of leading to another area that I wanted to ask you about. On one side, there's the dissociation that people experience between the food in the earth; then on the other side, through raw food or through spiritual recognition of this, there's the connection with the earth. What are your thoughts on this issue and what practical benefits can exist from having that connection? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Many people would eat a diet primarily made up of treats: Fast foods, cakes, cookies, sodas and chips. Those are not foods we should be eating. Most of us should be focusing on vegetables, fruits, some appropriate proteins and grains, beans and seeds.
The dairy connection
Mike: I noticed dairy is not one of the items in SNACC, but for many people, dairy is associated with a lot of stagnation.
Dr. Haas: A lot of people are reactive to dairy. When you look at the purification process, the first level is dealing with the substances, the SNACC. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Our articles and reports have already helped literally millions of people quit drinking sodas, boost their immune system function, eliminate harmful prescription drugs, lose excess body fat, reverse diabetes, reduce their risk of cancer, enhance cognitive function and live happier, more well-informed lives. (See our reader survey results for details.)
Our motivations are, simply:
To help educate, empower and uplift our fellow human beings through an online education campaign that reveals the astonishing healing power of foods, herbs, natural medicines and simple therapies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Richards advised Santa that while he was recovering he would need to avoid all refined sugar and refined carbohydrates, including the high-fructose corn syrup found in sodas. Santa was at first dismayed, as his favorite foods were sugar-coated pastries and cookies. Santa brightened up considerably when Richards told him to focus on having a "Berry Merry Christmas." Santa was told to have a cup of fresh blueberries every other day. On his off days he was to eat blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries. To increase variety Santa was advised to also include cherries and pomegranate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Neal Barnard MD
Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: : The Negative Calorie Effect
"Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys."
Dr. Earl Mindell
Earl Mindell's New Vitamin Bible
"Recent research has linked soft drinks with childhood obesity— and an estimated 200 school districts nationwide have contracts with soft drink companies that give them exclusive rights to sell their products in schools. |
| From 1985 to 1997, school districts decreased the amounts of milk they bought by nearly 30% and increased their purchases of carbonated sodas."
"The relationship between soft drink consumption and body weight is so strong that researchers calculate that for each additional soda consumed, the risk of obesity increases 1.6 times."
"Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not."
"Sugar and acid in soft drinks so easily dissolve tooth enamel."
"Americans drink 13.15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks every year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Neal Barnard MD
Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: : The Negative Calorie Effect
"Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys."
Dr. Earl Mindell
Earl Mindell's New Vitamin Bible
"Recent research has linked soft drinks with childhood obesity— and an estimated 200 school districts nationwide have contracts with soft drink companies that give them exclusive rights to sell their products in schools. |
| From 1985 to 1997, school districts decreased the amounts of milk they bought by nearly 30% and increased their purchases of carbonated sodas."
"The relationship between soft drink consumption and body weight is so strong that researchers calculate that for each additional soda consumed, the risk of obesity increases 1.6 times."
"Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not."
"Sugar and acid in soft drinks so easily dissolve tooth enamel."
"Americans drink 13.15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks every year. |
Alex Steffen
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 Juice comes from concentrate, and sugary sodas are widely available. What does this mean for our kids? Poor nutrition, yes, but also poor concentration, low grades, and plummeting energy levels. It's no secret that a healthy diet fuels an attentive mind, but when officials cite declining test scores and low attendance rates, how often do they bring up the lunchroom?
Organic produce in a school-lunch line, Olympia, Washington.
Fortunately, a few hot spots around the country have been raising awareness of the severity of this problem and demonstrating innovative solutions. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Drink it in place of sugary sodas, and spice it up with a twist of lemon or lime. You can also carry small bottles of water with you wherever you go, and sip them throughout the day.
Not everyone needs eight glasses of water a day, but according to the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, you should drink at least enough to produce two liters of urine a day.
Ask your doctor how much is best for you, then go after gout just by drinking the right amount.
Mooove over, arthritis. Ditching gout could be as easy as eating more dairy products. |
| Choose the complex sugars in fruits and vegetables rather than the refined sugars in candy, chips, and sodas.
• Eat more fish. The men in this study ate at least four servings of fish each week including salmon, haddock, mackerel, and trout - terrific sources of protein and healthy polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Discuss this eating plan with your doctor if you think it could work for you. While diet can make a difference, many medications can also help ease your gout pain and prevent future flare-ups. Go over your choices before trying to treat yourself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Although it's important to note that bone mineral density is not merely caused by calcium deficiency; it's also caused by drinking coffee and sugary sodas, eating refined sugars or lacking sufficient vitamin D. A lack of physical exercise will also harm bone density.
The Wellness Support Network also has a multi vitamin / mineral supplement and a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee on their products. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
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 This is a horrendous mixture for an ADD child, who, seeking another boost from caffeine, may well drink sodas nonstop.
The non-ADD child who frequently drinks sodas may behave like an ADD child. The stimulant effects from the caffeine, sugar, etc., can destabilize the behavior of any child. How many children, pumped up on the various substances in sodas, run wildly through the halls at the doctor's office while their genuinely concerned pediatricians are writing out prescriptions for Ritalin? |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| I have been having 1-2 diet sodas a day for a little over a year now. I wondered at one point if this might be the problem, but when I asked my doctor he said it couldn't be. So, I discounted my suspicions." She now decided her suspicions were worth investigating and decided to experiment by eliminating her daily dose of diet soda.
A week later Marisa returned and announced that she felt like a new person. The sense of gloom that had dominated her life
...your mood (often created by the foods you choose) determines what you eat at your next meal. |
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