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Foods for health

According to Jean Carper, Author of the book  The Food Pharmacy    many foods have medicinal properties

Protection against stroke and heart attack

Blood thinning drugs like aspirin, or anticoagulant prescription drugs can help save us from heart attack or stroke. The black tree fungus, or mo-er mushroom, found in some Chinese dishes contains adenosine as well as other unidentified thinning drugs. Hence it reduces the risk of heart attack or stroke.

Onions too contain adenosine. On top of that, onions boost the levels of HDLs (good cholesterol). The lower the level of HDL, the higher the risk of a heart attack.

Scientists have found that barley lowers blood cholesterol in chickens and pigs. Oats too. Especially oat bran. Dr Anderson whose blood cholesterol could go as high as 285 ate 3 ounces of oat bran daily. In 5 weeks, his blood cholesterol was down to 175.

Lung congestion, metabolism

Then there are the hot,spicy foods like chilli peppers and curries. These foods "thin down the lung's secretions so they can be coughed up or normally expelled." On top of that, eating these foods speed up metabolism. One of the subjects in a test burned 10% more calories after adding spicy foods to his diet. Dr Ziment advises eating hot spicy foods when you have a cold, sinus problems, lung congestion, asthma or bronchitis.

From the sea

Fish is rich in omega-3 fat. Fish oils may protect against thrombosis (internal blood clots that block blood flow) 

Omega-3 curbs prostaglandin. Cancer, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, high blood pressure and multiple sclerosis are related to too much prostaglandins in the body.

Eat your vegetables.

Cabbage contains indoles. Indoles protected rats in a test, from developing cancer, but only if taken before exposure to the carcinogen (cancer causing agent).

Carrots help prevent lung cancer in former smokers. Unfortunately, carrots cannot help people who continue to smoke.

Grains

Nuts, seeds and grains contain protease inhibitors. These protease inhibitors stop the activity of proteases which could otherwise turn on cancer processes. Protease inhibitors also act as Antioxidants. Protease inhibitors also offer protection against viruses. They prevent protease enzymes from activating viruses. Protease inhibitors found in soybeans can turn off viruses.

Bacteria and viruses and fruit

Some foods contain natural antibiotics. 

Cranberry prevents bacteria from sticking to healthy cells.  Dr Sobota found that cranberry juice was 10 times more effective against bacteria than the antibiotic drugs he was testing.

2 virologists noted that a virus touched by strawberry extract became paralysed. They went on testing blueberries, grapes, pomegranates, more strawberries, peaches, plums, crab apples, wild cranberries and raspberries. 

Every fruit killed off most of the viruses in 24 hours. Peach was the least effective, yet it still neutralised 80% of the polioviruses tested.

Yogurt contains at least 7 natural antibiotics capable of killing the bacteria that cause intestinal diseases. Besides these antibiotics, yogurt contains lactic acid, acetic acid, benzoic acid and hydrogen peroxide, all of which can kill off harmful bacteria.

Finally milk and eggs contain antibodies to the viruses the cow or chicken had been exposed to. Cows milk contain antibodies that can protect us from rotaviruses. 

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