Newsletter Summer 2008

"Let Food Be Your Medicine" - Hippocrates

Fruits and vegetables top the list of healing foods.

Linda Page, MD, "Healthy Healing"

Fruits and vegetables are full of nutraceuticals, the natural chemicals in plants with pharma-cologic action. Scientists are enthusiastically embracing the healing possibilities of plant nutrients in fresh foods. Green leafy vegetables, for example, have almost 20 times more essential nutrients, ounce for ounce than any other food! What's more, the nutrients in greens make the nutrients in other foods work better for healing.

The preventative medicine possibilities are astounding, too. Studies show that people who eat plenty of vegetables have less than half the cancer risk of people who eat few vegetables. Even moderate amounts of vegetables make a big difference. For instance, eating vegetables twice a day, instead of twice a week, cuts the risk of lung cancer by 75%, even for smokers. One National Cancer Institute spokesman said it is almost mind-boggling that common foods can be so effective against a potent carcinogen like tobacco!

DID YOU KNOW? DEPARTMENT

Steak only has 5.4 grams of protein per 100 calories and broccoli has 11.2 grams, almost twice as much.

A tomato has over 10,000 nutrients.

Put honey immediately on a burn to stop the pain and the site will not blister.

Cholesterol levels can be decreased by reducing both saturated fat and animal protein while eating more plant protein.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NUTRITION QUIZ - True or False?

Joel Fuhrman, MD, "Eat to Live"

1. We need milk to get enough calcium to protect us against osteoporosis.
2. A diet high in protein is healthy.
3. The best source of protein is animal foods such as meat, chicken, eggs, fish, and dairy.
4. Plant foods do not have complete protein.
5. To get adequate protein from a plant-based diet, you should combine certain foods to make sure you receive a complete complement of the necessary amino acids at each meal.
6. We can protect ourselves against cancer by switching to low-fat animal foods such as chicken, fish, and skim milk and by omitting red meat.

At any given moment your body is either Processing Wellness..or..Moving Toward Disease.

Research shows that those who avoid meat and dairy have lower rates of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity. The data is conclusive: vegetarians live longer in America, probably a lot longer.

The answers to the above Quiz are all False. How did you do?

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

1. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
2. The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.
3. Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
4. The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.
5. Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.
6. The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.
7. Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.
8. The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
9. Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.
10. Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

For more details refer to the complete article at: http://www.herbalhealer.com/microwave.html

Buy organic, whenever possible, and don't destroy the enzymes in your food by using a microwave.

Drink sufficient water daily to eliminate toxins from the body more quickly.

Board Meeting

August 9, 2008, Noon to 2 PM, Panera Bread in Bardmoor Shopping Center, 10801 Starkey Road (at Bryan Dairy Road), Largo, FL.

ALL TBV MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND. We need people to help out with various tasks. If you are interested in being a member of the Board, you need to attend two Board meetings first. You don't need to be a Board member, however, to take on one of the tasks.

We encourage you to arrive early to eat some of Panera's great food. Please ask the register clerk to add your purchase amount to the TBV tally. If we spend at least $50 as a group, the meeting room will be free. This is a new Panera Bread Co. policy.

August 26th Dinner

Casa Tina (Mexican food), 369 Main Street, Dunedin, FL. Our speaker will be Virginia Dassler, and her topic will be "Emotional Freedom Technique.

About Tampa Bay Vegetarians

Our social group meets monthly, 4th Tuesday, at 7:00 PM at vegetarian or vegetarian-friendly restaurants. Click here for more information.