Healing Foods

A team of doctors found that in a test tube chicken soup suppressed inflammation, which causes many cold symptoms. But chicken soup isn’t the only food that might help heal you from the inside out.Orange juice or half a grapefruit. Both are great sources of vitamin C, which could shorten the duration of colds.
Whole-grain cereal or bread. Whole grains are rich in vitamins and minerals, including zinc and vitamin E, which can help keep your immune system healthy. Black tea. Real tea leaves (not herbal) have substances that speed the action of cilia, the tiny hairlike cells lining your nasal passages, helping them expel germs. Anise-seed cookie. Anise seeds, with their licorice-like flavor, have been found to help break up congestion.
Salad of bitter greens. Watercress and arugula can make a salad special—and research shows they may also have antiviral effects. Bitter greens are especially helpful in relieving chest congestion, sniffles, and coughs.
Pasta with tomato sauce and plenty of garlic. Because the pungent bulb is one of the most potent disease-fighting foods around, it’s worth having at least two servings a day. Raw garlic has the most benefits, but cooked garlic also packs a punch.
Ginger tea. It’s different and refreshing—and, Duke says, “ginger is loaded with virus-fighting substances, including several that act directly against cold viruses.” (One substance, gingerol, can suppress coughing.) Boil water; then steep a tablespoon of fresh shredded ginger for 2 or 3 minutes.

Source : http://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20410309,00.html

Asian nutrition & Whole food

As an organic integration of Chinese healing practice and western nutrition, this new perspective provides one of the most systematic and comprehensive discussions of the relationship between food and health.

Basically, there are three aspects I find most helpful about this method .

First, the large scope it covers: from raw food to cooked food, from herbs to animal product, from water to minerals, from food combination to the art of chewing...it explores these topics in an unhurried, sensible, and lucid manner. The analysis on each of the major foods near the end of it is useful for the reader to select meal ingredients that can best help improve his/her health.
Second, I like the "middle path" approach the author takes, without going to extremes with either his theory or practice. For instance,you can practise vegetarianism, but he also acknowleges the effectiveness of meat in treating certain deficiencies.
Third, I like its flexibility in tuning into each reader's different individual need and condition. For instance, raw vegetables and fruits may help the person who has "heat" signs, but may be too cooling for the person who feels cold constantly, especially in the colder season. So each person can use this method to fit his/her individual needs.

My interest in food, health, and nutrition, led me to read widely in these fields. Mostly Chinese food healing art, and discusses it from the perspective of western nutrition.

How to read Food Labels ?

Do you read the Nutrition Facts food labels when you shop? Since 1994, the FDA has required these labels to be placed on most food packaging. The Nutrition Facts food labels are easy to find on the back, side or bottom of the packaging.

The black and white Nutrition Facts labels may be formatted vertically or horizontally (the vertical version is more common). Small packages may have an abbreviated version of the label.

For example, this is a food label like one that you would see on a can of condensed chicken noodle soup. It looks like a lot of information to understand all at once, so let's look at the Nutrition Facts food label one section at a time.

Genetics food allergy

Allergic reactions to foods are an important medical problem throughout the industrialized world. The occurrence of food allergy appears to be strongly influenced by genetics, but the basis of the genetic predisposition to food allergy has not been differentiated from that for atopy in general.

In addition, genetic susceptibility alone does not explain the prevalence of food allergy satisfactorily, leaving ample room to consider the importance of environmental influences (external, maternal, and gastrointestinal environment) and interactions between the host and the environment.

Several features of food allergy are highlighted in this review:
1) patients with severe food allergies are overwhelmingly atopic, but food allergy occurs only in approximately 10% of patients with other atopic diseases;
2) most patients are clinically reactive to a single food, and although a substantial minority have multiple food allergies, the variety of bonefide food allergies in a given individual is limited;
3) foods contain multiple proteins whereas only a small subset are allergenic;
4) there is likely an important contribution of the environment, becoming manifest in genetically susceptible individuals.

source : http://www.springerlink.com.

Food poisoning

food poisoning is caused by consuming food contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions or parasites.

Such contamination usually arises from improper handling, preparation or storage of food.

Food borne illness can also be caused by adding pesticides or medicines to food, or consuming or by accidentally consuming naturally poisonous substances like poisonous mushrooms or reef fish.

Contact between food and pests, especially flies, rodents and cockroaches, is a further cause of contamination of food.

Vitamin B complex

Vitamin B Deficiency requires Whole Foods, NOT Vitamin Pills.

This video explains how B Food Complex by NutriPlex Formulas contains nutrients essential to the body for optimal health.

Garlic for cholesterol reduction

According to some studies, garlic might decrease blood levels of total cholesterol by a few percentage points.

Other studies, however, suggest that it might not be as beneficial as once thought. It might also have significant side effects and/or interactions with certain medicines.

Garlic might prolong bleeding and blood clotting time, so garlic and garlic supplements should not be consumed prior to surgery and should not be taken with blood-thinning medicines such as warfarin.

Can Yogurt cure cancer ???

Dr. Robert Willner reccomends a mix of ingrediants for Cancer cure...:

Put this ingrediants in your blender:

1 cup Organic cottage cheese (low fat, not too hard one, best make your own)(or yogurt)

2-5 Tbsp. of flaxseeed oil-

1-3 Tbsp. of freshly ground up flaxseed (coffee grinder works fine)

Enough water to make it softlittle cayenne...

optional:

little garlic

little red pepper

little champagne

Make it very soft.

Eat some of it every day.

Kids’ Snack - Tips

Kids are always looking for snacks.

Instead of sugary sweets or chips, make it easier for them to have a healthy snack time.

The keys are to make healthful snacks in your house visible, convenient and effortless.

Keep fresh fruit on the counter where kids can see it.
Wash and cut up vegetables ahead of time, so they’re ready to eat.
Store them in see-through containers or clear plastic bags so kids can see what’s inside.

Put nutrient-rich foods where they can be easily reached, like on lower shelves in the refrigerator, pantry or cabinet.

Keep cookies and chips in cabinets on higher shelves where they will be less convenient to reach and out of sight.

A little kitchen “arranging” will encourage kids to eat a nutritious snack and they’ll think it was their idea

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