by Chester Ku-Lea (DailyIndia.com)

Most raw food, like our bodies, is very perishable. When raw foods are exposed to temperatures above 116 degrees, they start to rapidly break down, just as our bodies would if we had a fever that high. One of the constituents of foods which can break down are enzymes. Enzymes help us digest our food. Enzymes are proteins though, and they have a very specific 3-dimensional structure in space. Once they are heated much above 118 degrees, this structure can change.

Once enzymes are exposed to heat, they are no longer able to provide the function for which they were designed. Cooked foods contribute to chronic illness, because their enzyme content is damaged…

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A randomised controlled trial suggests that the use of wheatgrass cream is no more effective than a placebo in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
tmpl=NoSidebarfile&db=PubMed&cmd=
Retrieve&list_uids=16473748&dopt=Abstract

The pilot study mentioned on this website didn’t compare wheatgrass to a placebo, so doesn’t actually support the argument that wheatgrass helps plantar fasciitis.

I would suggest that the positive effect found in the pilot study is due to the massaging action of applying the cream and/or the placebo effect.

(Helen Steele)

In what can boost the case for vegetarianism, a study has found that high intake of fruits, veggies, and plant-derived foods, coupled with reduced intake of red meats can cut the risk of high blood pressure.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, took into account the blood pressure of 4,300 subjects belonging to the age group of 18 to 30 years and to different ethnicities. Spanning a period of 15 years, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis study analyzed the dietary patterns of the subjects and found that those who increased the consumption of plant foods, like whole grains, refined grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables and legumes, faced lowered risk of high blood pressure…

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New applications and formulations are making it easier for manufacturers to help consumers get their daily greens.

Within the nutraceutical and functional food arena the term green foods generally refers to certain microalgae and cereal grasses.These ingredients are also known as “super foods” due to their high content of phytonutrients, often including a full array of vitamins, minerals, flavonoids and protein.

Consumer interest in this category is on the rise—something many suppliers attribute to the increased profile of the importance of consuming nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables. “Government agencies and the mainstream media are emphasizing, on a weekly basis, the importance of whole food nutrition,” said Mitchell May, chief executive officer of Synergy Production Laboratories. “Consumers are also realizing they could get a major portion of their ‘5-to-9’ servings through green foods. It’s really infiltrating the public consciousness.”

Cereal grasses are the young, green plants that will produce certain grains, including barley, rye, oat, alfalfa, wheat and kamut. For nutritional purposes, most cereal grass is planted in the fall, grown through the winter and harvested in the spring just prior to “jointing”, the peak of vegetative development when the plant begins to sprout the grain. At this point, chlorophyll, protein and vitamin contents are at their highest.

The research history on cereal grasses extends back into the 1940s. As reported in Cereal Grasses: What’s In It for You by Ronald Seibold, the co-founder of Pines, a team of researchers presented information about cereal grasses at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.1 They reported on the nutrient concentration in grasses prior to the jointing stage, including what they termed the “grass juice factor” that provided nutritional enrichment to animals beyond similar stock supplements of the identified vitamins. They also suggested cereal grass could be used as a human food supplement for Americans who were consuming a nutritionally deficient diet…

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Fun-loving and fur-free animal rights outfit PETA is looking for Europe’s hottest veggies or vegans because, as the campaigning organisation puts it: “Vegetarianism has become synonymous with sexy.”

Well, you might go and explain that to Paris Hilton, responsible earlier this year for millions of adolescent tumescences worldwide when she cavorted, bikini-clad, with a steaming Carl’s Jr. Spicy BBQ Burger…

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(July 2005)

Dear Friends,

I have often stated that we are pioneers creating a worldwide movement spreading the good news of Himalayan Goji Juice throughout the world. And each day, the movement continues to grow and grow and grow. Not only are we experiencing record growth every single month, but we are receiving extremely positive media exposure around the world. I want to stress that this media exposure is unsolicited, meaning that we are not contacting these media outlets. They are simply seeing what is happening around the world with the goji berry and understanding that this is becoming the next big thing in the nutritional/functional beverage world. We are on to something really, really big and I am more convinced than ever before that Himalayan Goji Juice will become a worldwide, billion-dollar brand name in the next 4-6 years!

Just a few weeks ago, the television program Law and Order touted the goji berry as a health promoting immune enhancer. Today, July 18 2005, one of the United States’ largest circulation newspapers, the Los Angeles Times, wrote an extremely positive article on the goji berry. A copy of the article in full appears below.

Once again, I want to thank you for being part of the most exciting breakthrough in nutrition that has come around in more than 40 years and for your part in making the world a healthier and happier place for so many millions around the world! The Himalayan Healers who first discovered the goji berry thousands of years ago, also thank you!

I’ll see many of you in a few weeks at our 10th Anniversary Convention Celebration!

Love,

Ray

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Uses: Traditional Chinese herbalists recommend lycium to promote liver and kidney health, improve vision and stamina, boost immunity and fertility,…

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Paul McCartney and wife Heather will be attending PETA’s 25th Anniversary Gala & Humanitarian Awards show on September 10th in Los Angeles at the Paramount Pictures Studios. This year’s event will be hosted by Pamela Anderson - the recipient of the first Linda McCartney Memorial award for her animal-rights activism. McCartney, along with his first wife, the late Linda McCartney, have been avid animal rights activists since the mid-’70s. People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 850,000 members.

McCartney, who’ll be releasing his new CD Chaos And Creation In The Backyard on September 13th, was interviewed on the PETA.org website and talked about the advantages of vegetarianism explaining that: “Heather and I are raising a baby, and obviously we aren’t going to give her bad food; we just make sure she gets the best food, and it is vegetarian. And we know what’s what because we look into it instead of just accepting McDonald’s and what it throws on your plate.” McCartney added that, “I think the thing is just to ask about (vegetarianism). You look at a film like Super Size Me, and those things come in very strongly on our side.”

Among the award recipients and celebrities appearing at the PETA gala include actors Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathy Najimy, and Eric Roberts, along with former NBA star Dennis Rodman, Indian music-virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Sharon Osbourne, and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

An after-party featuring live entertainment will be held on the “New York Street” housed within the studio’s backlot. No acts have been announced yet.

Back in 1999 McCartney performed at the PETA gala, premiering songs from his yet-to-be-released Run Devil Run album.

McCartney kicks off his upcoming US tour on September 16th in Miami at the American Airlines Arena.

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by Jess Halliday

Frontier Scientific claims to have become the first supplier of CoQ10 outside of Japan with multi-ton capacity, through a deal signed last week with Taiwan’s PharmaEssentia. The agreement could solve the problems of supplement and cosmetics makers who have not been able to get their hands on sufficient quantities to meet consumer demand.

Until now, four Japan-based CoQ10 suppliers have the capacity to supply multi-ton quantities of the ingredient but they have had their work cut out just keeping up with burgeoning domestic demand, meaning that relatively little has been left over for international markets.
Conservative estimates put worldwide sales of CoQ10 at around $350 million in 2004 – and they could have been considerably more if not stemmed by availability issues…

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Allan Rodd has spent 10 years developing the perfect vegetarian burger, writes Janine Perrett (Sydney Morning Herald).

What do you do when your hobby business is on the cusp of becoming a viable concern but until it does it is delaying your retirement plans?

That’s the dilemma facing 67-year-old Allan Rodd of Uncle Harry’s Natural Foods, who has spent years developing his vegetarian hamburger alternative, Natraburgers.

“With healthy diets, junk food, obesity and overeating take-away food in the news daily, we have been making the ideal product for the last 10 years which is now just gaining a bit of popularity in both the retail and food service sectors,” Rodd explains.

“At 67, I had hoped to grow the business faster but after a few years became resigned to running this nice neat little business until retirement. But alas, producing the right product at the right time has forced me to grow, move into a new factory and postpone retirement for a few years until I reach 70.

“Without family to carry on, how do I transition into retirement without losing more than 10 years of hard work?”

The Detroit native migrated to Australia in the 1970s and, after working in marketing for major companies, started his own importing firm.

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FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 12 /PRNewswire/ – Osteoporosis currently affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan. To protect the bones and prevent the onset of osteoporosis, calcium is a key element, yet studies have shown that 75% of Americans do not get enough of this vital nutrient…

Yahoo News (press release) - USA
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050712/nytufns1.html?.v=12

(CricketZone.com)

Former Australian captain and the new coach of the Indian cricket team Greg Chappell has been recommending vegetarianism for all, from athletes to businessmen, and credits his vegetarian diet for improving his own health.

In his book ‘Health and Fitness’, Chappell says that giving up meat and dairy products in favour of healthier foods like soya and vegetables made him feel stronger and healthier.

‘’We are the only species of animal on earth that still consumes milk products after being weaned. To make things worse, we do not even consume our own milk products but get them from another kind of animal,'’ Chappell wrote in his book.

‘’Dairy milk is a perfectly balanced food for calves but for nothing else. It does contain certain nutrients, but it also contains things which do us much more harm than the nutrients do us good,'’ he said.

When Chappell became vegetarian, he discovered that the illness that had plagued him all his life disappeared. ‘’I gave up red meat at the same time as I gave dairy foods, but while the benefits of avoiding red meat took awhile to become evident, the effect of giving up dairy food was immediate,'’ Chappell wrote.

‘’Clearly, I had been showing all the symptoms of lactose intolerance. Within days, literally, of giving up milk and cheese, these symptoms disappeared,'’ he added.

Chappell joins highest Indian wicket-taker Anil Kumble , who has also appeared in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) advertisements promoting healthful veggie foods.

http://www.cricketzone.com/news/off_the_field/20050525-0.html

…So what about wheatgrass, are there any benefits in swallowing a shot of green grass juice every day?

Wheatgrass, discovered in the US in the 1930s, is thought to be responsible for the improvement of various health conditions. Wheatgrass is said to boost the body’s ability to cleanse and rebuild the blood, improve the immune system, assist with anti-ageing, improve liver function and alleviate skin disorders.

Wheatgrass has been shown to contain antioxidants, to be high in minerals and vitamins, including vitamin K, which helps the absorption of calcium, to be high in chlorophyll, which is believed to increase the heart function and regenerate the liver, and to be high in protein.

Melbourne-based GP Dr Chris Reynolds, whose passion for practising medicine was reignited 10 years ago after witnessing the healing abilities of wheatgrass, has dedicated the past decade to learning more about its medicinal properties.

“I think it’s an immuno-modulator, and it boosts the immune system when it’s needed,” Dr Reynolds says.

He has found wheatgrass to be successful in the treatment of ailments including psoriasis, eczema, soft tissue problems, shingles, inflammatory problems and burns, and says that he finds it less necessary to prescribe antibiotics.

“I don’t use antibiotics unless I have to,” he says. “Of course, there is still a need for antibiotics, and often I use conventional medicine in combination with wheatgrass…”

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…Seeing a celebrity with a milk mustache touting the benefits of calcium in dairy products has become a common sight. Every day people see messages telling them to drink milk on television commercials and in magazines in order to be healthy and to build strong bones, but some research is suggesting that milk may actually be bad for your health.

New research suggests the common household drink could actually harm bones. Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Chairman Walter Willet wrote, “Interestingly, many long-term studies have now examined milk consumption in relation to risk of fractures.”

In the March 2005 issue of peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, nutritionist Dr. Amy Joy Lanou wrote, “A clear majority of the studies we examined for this review found no relationship between dairy or dietary calcium intake and measures of bone health…”

http://technicianonline.com/story.php?id=011735

By Dr. Meg Jordan, Global Medicine Hunter,

Consider the Medicine of Rudolf Steiner’s Fairy World

I have studied every form of alternative and complementary medicine, along with conventional medicine and health care, and they’re all beginning to sound alike. The push to be “respectable” and “evidence-based,” replete with double-blind studies and formulaic evaluations in peer-reviewed publications has created a disquieting, monoculture effect across what was once a lively array of medical pluralism.
However, in this sea of scrambling-to-look-alike health modalities, one path stands starkly apart: anthroposophic medicine. It refuses to be tamed, wild-crafted by a latter-day mystic who today would be run out of town for quackery. I declared my newly acquired admiration for this anthroposophic medicine at a conference last week, and there were audible gasps from an auditorium of medical doctors.
Now, just two days later, I hear actress Suzanne Sommers on CNN’s Larry King attribute her five-year cancer survival milestone to her daily injections of an anthroposophic medicine, Iscador, otherwise known as mistletoe extract….

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“…The link between an increased calcium intake from dairy products and building a stronger bone density in young adults is a weak one, said Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.”

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/6336/

Two weeks ago, this column reported the results of a recent Milk-Diabetes study published in the February, 2005 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. See:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1930

Today’s information adds additional bone-chilling news to ice cream manufacturers. It’s the whipped cream atop their hot fudge sundae with a Notmilk cherry on top.

The March, 2005 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2005 Mar;59(3):393-8) contains evidence to settle the milk/diabetes debate once and for all.

Hoppe, et. al (Department of Human Nutrition and Centre for Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark) determined that high intake of dairy products (but not meat) increased insulin resistance in 8-year-old boys.

THE STUDY OBJECTIVE

To determine whether high protein intake from meat or dairy increased insulin resistance in healthy, prepubertal children.

THE STUDY DESIGN

Eight-year-old boys were divided into three groups. Group number one was the control group and consumed neither milk nor meat for seven days. Group number two was fed 53 grams of meat protein each day for 7 days. Group number three was given 53 grams of milk protein each day for 7 days. Blood levels of insulin, glucose, and amino acids were measured daily. Insulin resistances were then calculated for each child.

THE STUDY RESULTS:

In the milk-group, insulin resistance doubled when compared to the control group. In the control and meat-group, there were no increases in insulin resistance.

CONCLUSION:

The study results indicated that a short term high meat intake did not affect insulin resistance in young males, while a short term high milk and dairy intake increased insulin resistance dramatically.

The key phrase is “Insulin Resistance.” What is that?

There is a very handy URL which I often use to define a medical word or phrase:

http://www.www.antigenics.com/glossary/words.phtml

http://tinyurl.com/4ks6h

Insulin Resistance

“n. State in which the body does not respond to the action of insulin hormone although enough insulin is produced. This occurs often in people with type 2 diabetes.”

After recognizing that dairy products increase rates of insulin resistance in 8-year-old boys, I am quite amazed that the authors of ths study wrote:

“Our results indicate that a short-term high milk, but not meat, intake increased insulin secretion and resistance. The long-term consequences of this are unknown.”

Faced with overwhelming evidence, it seems clear that these Danish researchers wimped out. At the very least, it would have been appropriate for them to issue an urgent warning in their conclusion section.

Scientists have a need to publish, much like craps players “and real men” have a need to make a pass and play the field. Much like heroin users and cigarette smokers need constant doses of the drugs which addict their own bodies. In this case, the researchers published their study while ignoring its obvious implication.

There was even enough evidence for the scientists to have ventured an educated guess regarding long-term consequences when short term results were so powerfully negative. Unknown long-term consequences? Real-life long term consequences would lead to the end of grant money for scientists who dare to tell the truth (and bite those hands which feed them). Selling out to dairy interests seems to be their survival mechanism.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

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New York | February 22, 2005 4:16:30 PM IST

Ex-Beatles member and rock singer Sir Paul McCartney has criticised a new American research report that says a vegetarian eating habit is detrimental to children in the long run.

According to the study, nutrients found in animal flesh and milk products help build muscle and enhance basic intelligence in the formative years of a child’s life.

McCartney, however, argues that such reports are issued by people in the meat trade.

“I really do think this is rubbish. I think the medical profession itself - apart from this person, see - come to the conclusion that a veggie diet is good for you and can help with colon cancer and stuff so I suspect these things are engineered by livestock people who have seen sales fall off. From my own point of view it has been a good thing for me and my children who are no shorter than other children,” ratethemusic.com quoted the singer as saying.

McCartney has been a vegetarian for the past 20 years. His late wife, Linda, had launched her own range of meat-free food during her lifetime.(ANI)

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