(24-08-08) Raw Broccoli, Cabbage Slash Bladder Cancer Risk by 40 Percent; Cooking Destroys Benefits

by Mike Adams

NaturalNews- Eating as little as three small servings of raw cruciferous
vegetables per month, such as broccoli and cabbage, has been found to decrease the risk of developing bladder cancer by an astonishing 40 percent. This was discovered by researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. The study is only one of several that have recently added to the evidence that raw fruits and vegetables dramatically lower cancer risk.

In this study, researchers conducted a survey on the dietary habits of 1,100 people, 275 of whom had bladder cancer. They found that among both smokers and non-smokers, those who ate three or more servings of raw cruciferous vegetables each month had a 40 percent lower risk of developing bladder cancer. Compared with smokers who did not eat that amount, non-smokers who ate three or more servings of raw cruciferous vegetables per month had a 73 percent lower chance
of developing bladder cancer.

Keep in mind that this research only involved three small servings a month! That's a ridiculously small amount of vegetable matter, and yet it had a profound anti-cancer effect.

Given that these cruciferous anti-cancer nutrients only stay in the body for about twelve hours, these study subjects only experienced a total of about 36 hours with these nutrients (out of a total of 720 hours in a typical month). In other words, they only had these anti-cancer nutrients in their bodies five percent of the time and yet, astonishingly, their bladder cancer rates plummeted by 40 percent!

Also remarkably, the researchers did not find a protective benefit from
eating the same quantity of cooked cruciferous vegetables. This indicates that the anti-cancer properties of cruciferous vegetables are destroyed by cooking.

This is exactly what the leaders of the raw foods movement have been saying for years: Dr. Gabriel Cousens (www.TreeofLife.nu), David Wolfe (www.SunFood.com), the Boutenko family (www.RawFamily.com), David Rain (www.JuiceFeasting.com), Nomi Shannon (www.RawGourmet.com), Angela Stoke(www.RawReform.com),
Brian Clement (www.hippocratesinst.com), Max Gerson (www.Gerson.org) and many others.

Keep in mind, too, that conventional medicine pill pushers have derided the raw foods movement for years, claiming raw foods have absolutely no health effects whatsoever on the human body. That outmoded view, of course, is considered hopelessly ancient by all but the most out-of-touch doctors and skeptics. What we're finding today is not only that raw foods are good medicine, but in fact raw foods are the BEST medicine for virtually all the big diseases now devastating Western civilization.

The findings of the Roswell Park study were presented at a meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research in Philadelphia.


Why raw vegetables not only prevent cancer, but REVERSE cancer
Cruciferous vegetables, also known as vegetables in the mustard or cabbage family, are some of the most widely consumed vegetables in the world, accounting for 10 of the most popular vegetable foods. The family includes not only cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, but also arugula, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, daikon, garden cress, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish, rape (canola), rapini, rutabaga, tatsoi, turnip, wasabi and watercress.

These vegetables are known to be high in important nutrients such as vitamin C and selenium, and they also contain hundreds of plant compounds that are known to fight cancer. One of these groups, isothiocyanates, has gained enormous attention over the last few years as an anti-cancer "medicine" provided by foods.

There have been 55 key epidemiological studies conducted on the relationship between cruciferous vegetable intake and cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund. Sixty-nine percent of those studies show a positive correlation between cruciferous vegetable intake and lower cancer risk. Interestingly, few of these studies tracked raw vegetable intake vs. cooked intake, and there is little doubt that the 31 percent of the studies showing no cancer risk decrease were likely tracking the intake of cooked vegetables. (Modern nutritional
researchers remain ignorant about living foods vs. cooked foods, and they group them all together, oblivious to the fact that cooked foods lack the natural medicine of raw foods...)

Isothiocyanates inhibit both cancer and tumor development by directly
blocking the carcinogenic action of free radicals. In other words, they prevent free radicals from attacking healthy cells and turning them cancerous. One specific variety, phenethyl isothiocyanate, has even been shown to induce cell death in certain cancer lines, including those that are resistant to chemotherapy drugs. (Oncologists remain indignant, however, insisting that cancer patients should never use food to treat cancer... that's why they also ran Max Gerson out of the country...)


Heat and irradiation destroys the medicine in foods - just what the FDA
wants!These plant-based medicines, however, are delicate molecules that are easily destroyed by heat. Cooking these foods obliterates the medicine they contain.
So does food irradiation, by the way: Microwaving broccoli destroys up to 98% of its phytonutrients, including its anti-cancer nutrients.

The FDA, curiously, wants to pass regulations that would secretly irradiate the national food supply without any requirement whatsoever that such treatment be mentioned on the label of irradiated foods. My recent article, "FDA Leaps from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate, Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety over Salmonella" explains how the FDA is exploiting food safety scares as a way to generate a fear-based public reaction that will ultimately result in a mass irradiation of the entire food supply. See http://www.naturalnews.com/023614.html

Why is that an important goal for the FDA? Because fresh produce is just about the only thing keeping many Americans off pharmaceuticals and out of the hospital. Take away the natural medicine found in fresh produce, and you create a windfall of sickness and disease that doubles or triples the profits of the drug companies. Food irradiation is the FDA's devious plan to sicken the U.S. population and accomplish this financial goal for influential drug companies. (Sound crazy? You don't know the real FDA. Read about it here: www.NaturalNews.com/the_FDA.html )

Listen to Health Ranger Show #52: The Food Irradiation Plot to hear the full story on this. It's available as a downloadable MP3 file here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html

Fortunately for Big Pharma's sick profits, many Americans cook their
vegetables right now, destroying their natural medicines and keeping those consumers in a state of chronic degenerative disease. "Cooking can reduce 60 to 90 percent of isothiocyanates," said Li Tang, a lead researcher of the study mentioned above.

Read more about the health benefits of raw foods in my interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens at: http://www.naturalnews.com/015187.html

Also, be sure to visit the NaturalNews raw foods page at: http://www.
naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html


Yet more science shows the anti-cancer benefits of raw vegetables
Another recent Roswell Park study also uncovered evidence of the protective effects of cruciferous vegetables. Researchers took two groups of rat that had been engineered to develop bladder cancer and supplemented the diet of one group with freeze-dried broccoli sprout extract. They found that rats who ate more broccoli sprouts extract had significantly lower rates of bladder cancer.

(For the record, NaturalNews does not condone the use of animals for
experiments, especially animals engineered to develop cancer. But at least in this study the rats were receiving nutrients rather than the usual
pharmaceutical chemicals injected into them during drug industry trials...)

The researchers found that the isothiocyanates from the broccoli sprouts were processed by the rat's bodies and excreted within 12 hours. According to lead researcher Yuesheng Zhang, this suggests that the chemicals protect the bladder while they are stored there, awaiting excretion.

"The bladder is like a storage bag, and cancers in the bladder occur almost entirely along the inner surface, the epithelium, that faces the urine, presumably because this tissue is assaulted all the time by noxious materials in the urine," Zhang said. Change the liquid being stored in your bladder, and you change your risk of bladder cancer.

In other words, healthy pee keeps you cancer-free!

Healthy poo, by the way, stops colorectal cancer, which is yet another reason to stop eating milk, cheese, beef and other animal products. Soak the inside of your bladder and large intestine with vegetable juices, and cancer just vanishes. Someday, silly oncologists will abandon their toxic chemotherapy drugs and learn to just prescribe broccoli sprouts.

(As a side note, dogs have been trained to smell bladder cancer in human urine. A person who has bladder cancer emits a nasty smell in their urine, and it's not very difficult for dogs to pick up on this.)

Ninety percent of bladder cancers occur along the inner lining. Bladder
cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the ninth most common cancer in women in the United States. More than 47,000 men and 16,000 women nationwide are diagnosed with the disease each year. Chemotherapy is utterly useless against bladder cancer. Five-year survival rates are ZERO percent better than doing nothing at all. In fact, chemotherapy is highly toxic to the bladder and kidneys, causing cellular damage that actually leads to more cancer later on.

Adding to the evidence that uncooked fruits and vegetables help protect
against cancer, researchers at Ohio State University found that the eastern black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, offers protection against cancer of the esophagus.

In this study, human patients with a condition known as Barrett's esophagus, which often leads to esophageal cancer, were fed freeze-dried black raspberries (1.1 ounces for women and 1.6 ounces for men) every day for six months. At the end of that time, researchers measured blood levels of two chemicals that indicate the risk of cancer.

Patients given the raspberries had 58 percent lower levels of 8-isoprostane, which is correlated with cancer risk, and 37 percent higher levels of GSTpi, which is known to protect against the cell damage that leads to cancer.

Black raspberries are particularly high in anthocyanins, a powerful
antioxidant found in many other foods, including red cabbage. See www.
NaturalNews.com/anthocyanins.html

Anthocyanins are among the pigments that give fruits and vegetables their bright colors. Every bright color found in fresh produce is, in fact, a powerful natural medicine. Studies have shown that anthocyanins protect against not only cancer, but also diabetes, bacterial infections, inflammation, neurological diseases and the symptoms of aging.


The conclusion: Raw foods halt disease and greatly enhance health
The conclusion to all this is that consuming raw fruits and vegetables is an astonishingly powerful way to halt degenerative disease, stop cancer, reverse diabetes, end heart disease and enhance your health. All the pharmaceuticals in the world can't compete with the protective power of the tens of thousands of natural medicines created by Mother Nature and found in the very plants sitting in your local grocery store right now.

This is why juicing fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis is possibly the single most important nutritional strategy you can pursue for protecting yourself against degenerative disease. I juice every single day. My own personal recipe is as follows:

(All produce is organic)
o 2 large bunches of celery
o 4 large carrots
o 1 large bunch of parsley
o 2 medium apples
o 1 medium lemon or grapefruit
o 1 large bunch of kale
o 1 large bunch of spinach or salad greens
o Small pieces of ginger, turmeric root and beet
o 1/2 container of fresh sprouts (alfalfa or clover) - This can be changed to broccoli sprouts for cancer patients.

I juice all this up, creating a beautiful green / orange liquid. Then I blend 2 cups of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, etc.) in my Vita-Mix, keeping the fruit pulp in the blend, then I pour that liquid into the vegetable juice. This creates a delicious fruit-and-vegetable blend that keeps the fruit fiber but juices away the rough vegetable fiber. I like the fruit fiber because many of the natural medicines in fruit are found in the skin, locked into the fiber. So I always blend fruit into my juice and drink this slightly-thickened juice blend. It's absolutely delicious!

For people preventing or battling cancer, simply boost up the anti-cancer ingredients: Turmeric, broccoli, cabbage, kale, sprouts, etc. Cancer simply melts away when bathed in these vegetable juices.

To make the whole thing sweeter, add a bit of stevia to the final blend. If it's still too bitter for you, try adding more lemon or citrus, which masks the bitter taste of vegetables. If it's still too bitter, you are probably a sugar junkie (like I used to be) and your taste buds are all skewed. Get off the sugar for 30 days and everything natural will suddenly taste better.

Adding watermelon to your juice makes it super tasty, but raw foods experts like Dr. Cousens would strongly recommend you avoid watermelon. The glycemicindex is too high. People suffering from chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease need to stick with low-glycemic juicing for a long, long time, until their metabolism gets healthy again. Only then, when you're fit, active and exercising at least ten hours a week (like me) can you start to take up high-glycemic fruit juices.

Remember, I used to be pre-diabetic. I went through the healing process, repaired my body, and now I have the joy of exercising as much as three hours a day. That affords me the metabolic privilege of drinking just about any fruit juice I want, without any negative blood sugar effects. But that's only because I'm burning calories day and night. If you're obese or overweight, you'll have to steer clear of fruit juices until you get body fat below about 15% for men or 20% for women. Even then, make sure you watch things very carefully.
Ideally, you'll do all this under the supervision of a naturopathic physician.
Or just go to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona and get Dr. Cousens to help in person! (www.TreeofLife.nu)

A great resource on how to do juicing is also found at www.JuiceFeasting.com

I created a 6-hour audio CD course with David Rain entitled, The Secret of Juice Feasting, available here: http://www.truthpublishing.com/product_...

You can also listen to my audio interview with David Rain, where we discuss Juice Feasting, here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html#45

I've also got a new interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens coming soon here on NaturalNews, so watch for that in a few weeks.


Juicing can save your life and get you off dangerous pharmaceuticals
The bottom line to all this, folks, is that juicing vegetables is the secret
to reversing disease now and preventing disease for a lifetime. But it has to be fresh, raw, living juice.

Remember, pasteurized vegetable juices purchased in bottles at the store are worthless! That includes all the Naked Juice, V8, Odwalla and other brands that claim to be good for you. While they're not bad for you, they're also DEAD JUICE. That means they have virtually none of the nutritional healing benefits of fresh, living juice. Don't be fooled by healthy-sounding bottled juice products. If it's in a bottle, it's dead. And dead juice doesn't support life.

There is only one way to get fresh, unprocessed, living juice: Make your own juice! This is the simple secret to staying healthy, vibrant and mentally sharp for the rest of your long, enjoyable life: Juice your way to health! (And then supplement with superfoods, herbs, and other targeted nutritional needs.)

Juicing is the future of medicine. It cures cancer. It reverses heart
disease. It stabilizes cholesterol and blood pressure. It ends kidney stones and gall stones. It reverses depression and psychosis. It builds strong bones and strong muscles. It absolutely reverses diabetes in a matter of days, and it obliterates obesity in a matter of weeks. And in doing all that, it makes virtually all pharmaceuticals obsolete.

Juicing and raw foods go hand in hand. They are the answers to disease and sickness. No wonder Big Pharma and the FDA don't want you to find out about the true healing power of plant-based nutrition, huh?


Recommended Resources
Raw foods and superfoods: www.SunFood.com
Best consumer juicer: Breville (www.Breville.com)
Best blender: Vita-Mix (www.Vita-Mix.com)

Spiritual Nutrition by Dr. Gabriel Cousens: Free download of book summary at www.HealthBookSummaries.com

NaturalNews page on raw foods: http://www.naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html

Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona (I'll be there!): www.RawSpirit.com

Really raw cashews (and Bliss Mix!): www.TransitionNutrition.com

Delicious Raw Chocolate Bars: www.EverythingRaw.com


Raw Broccoli, Cabbage Slash Bladder Cancer Risk by 40 Percent; Cooking Destroys
Benefits
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)

(NaturalNews) Eating as little as three small servings of raw cruciferous
vegetables per month, such as broccoli and cabbage, has been found to decrease
the risk of developing bladder cancer by an astonishing 40 percent. This was
discovered by researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.
The study is only one of several that have recently added to the evidence that
raw fruits and vegetables dramatically lower cancer risk.

In this study, researchers conducted a survey on the dietary habits of 1,100
people, 275 of whom had bladder cancer. They found that among both smokers and
non-smokers, those who ate three or more servings of raw cruciferous vegetables
each month had a 40 percent lower risk of developing bladder cancer. Compared
with smokers who did not eat that amount, non-smokers who ate three or more
servings of raw cruciferous vegetables per month had a 73 percent lower chance
of developing bladder cancer.

Keep in mind that this research only involved three small servings a month!
That's a ridiculously small amount of vegetable matter, and yet it had a
profound anti-cancer effect.

Given that these cruciferous anti-cancer nutrients only stay in the body for
about twelve hours, these study subjects only experienced a total of about 36
hours with these nutrients (out of a total of 720 hours in a typical month). In
other words, they only had these anti-cancer nutrients in their bodies five
percent of the time and yet, astonishingly, their bladder cancer rates
plummeted by 40 percent!

Also remarkably, the researchers did not find a protective benefit from
eating the same quantity of cooked cruciferous vegetables. This indicates that
the anti-cancer properties of cruciferous vegetables are destroyed by cooking.

This is exactly what the leaders of the raw foods movement have been saying
for years: Dr. Gabriel Cousens (www.TreeofLife.nu), David Wolfe (www.SunFood.
com), the Boutenko family (www.RawFamily.com), David Rain (www.JuiceFeasting.
com), Nomi Shannon (www.RawGourmet.com), Angela Stokes (www.RawReform.com),
Brian Clement (www.hippocratesinst.com), Max Gerson (www.Gerson.org) and many
others.

Keep in mind, too, that conventional medicine pill pushers have derided the
raw foods movement for years, claiming raw foods have absolutely no health
effects whatsoever on the human body. That outmoded view, of course, is
considered hopelessly ancient by all but the most out-of-touch doctors and
skeptics. What we're finding today is not only that raw foods are good
medicine, but in fact raw foods are the BEST medicine for virtually all the big
diseases now devastating Western civilization.

The findings of the Roswell Park study were presented at a meeting of the
American Association of Cancer Research in Philadelphia.


Why raw vegetables not only prevent cancer, but REVERSE cancer
Cruciferous vegetables, also known as vegetables in the mustard or cabbage
family, are some of the most widely consumed vegetables in the world,
accounting for 10 of the most popular vegetable foods. The family includes not
only cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, but also arugula, Brussels sprouts,
collard greens, daikon, garden cress, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard,
radish, rape (canola), rapini, rutabaga, tatsoi, turnip, wasabi and
watercress.

These vegetables are known to be high in important nutrients such as vitamin
C and selenium, and they also contain hundreds of plant compounds that are
known to fight cancer. One of these groups, isothiocyanates, has gained
enormous attention over the last few years as an anti-cancer "medicine"
provided by foods.

There have been 55 key epidemiological studies conducted on the relationship
between cruciferous vegetable intake and cancer, according to the World Cancer
Research Fund. Sixty-nine percent of those studies show a positive correlation
between cruciferous vegetable intake and lower cancer risk. Interestingly, few
of these studies tracked raw vegetable intake vs. cooked intake, and there is
little doubt that the 31 percent of the studies showing no cancer risk decrease
were likely tracking the intake of cooked vegetables. (Modern nutritional
researchers remain ignorant about living foods vs. cooked foods, and they group
them all together, oblivious to the fact that cooked foods lack the natural
medicine of raw foods...)

Isothiocyanates inhibit both cancer and tumor development by directly
blocking the carcinogenic action of free radicals. In other words, they prevent
free radicals from attacking healthy cells and turning them cancerous. One
specific variety, phenethyl isothiocyanate, has even been shown to induce cell
death in certain cancer lines, including those that are resistant to
chemotherapy drugs. (Oncologists remain indignant, however, insisting that
cancer patients should never use food to treat cancer... that's why they also
ran Max Gerson out of the country...)


Heat and irradiation destroys the medicine in foods - just what the FDA
wants!
These plant-based medicines, however, are delicate molecules that are easily
destroyed by heat. Cooking these foods obliterates the medicine they contain.
So does food irradiation, by the way: Microwaving broccoli destroys up to 98%
of its phytonutrients, including its anti-cancer nutrients.

The FDA, curiously, wants to pass regulations that would secretly irradiate
the national food supply without any requirement whatsoever that such treatment
be mentioned on the label of irradiated foods. My recent article, "FDA Leaps
from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate, Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety
over Salmonella" explains how the FDA is exploiting food safety scares as a way
to generate a fear-based public reaction that will ultimately result in a mass
irradiation of the entire food supply. See http://www.naturalnews.com/023614.
html

Why is that an important goal for the FDA? Because fresh produce is just
about the only thing keeping many Americans off pharmaceuticals and out of the
hospital. Take away the natural medicine found in fresh produce, and you create
a windfall of sickness and disease that doubles or triples the profits of the
drug companies. Food irradiation is the FDA's devious plan to sicken the U.S.
population and accomplish this financial goal for influential drug companies.
(Sound crazy? You don't know the real FDA. Read about it here: www.NaturalNews.
com/the_FDA.html )

Listen to Health Ranger Show #52: The Food Irradiation Plot to hear the full
story on this. It's available as a downloadable MP3 file here: http://www.
naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html

Fortunately for Big Pharma's sick profits, many Americans cook their
vegetables right now, destroying their natural medicines and keeping those
consumers in a state of chronic degenerative disease. "Cooking can reduce 60 to
90 percent of isothiocyanates," said Li Tang, a lead researcher of the study
mentioned above.

Read more about the health benefits of raw foods in my interview with Dr.
Gabriel Cousens at: http://www.naturalnews.com/015187.html

Also, be sure to visit the NaturalNews raw foods page at: http://www.
naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html


Yet more science shows the anti-cancer benefits of raw vegetables
Another recent Roswell Park study also uncovered evidence of the protective
effects of cruciferous vegetables. Researchers took two groups of rats that had
been engineered to develop bladder cancer and supplemented the diet of one
group with freeze-dried broccoli sprout extract. They found that rats who ate
more broccoli sprouts extract had significantly lower rates of bladder cancer.

(For the record, NaturalNews does not condone the use of animals for
experiments, especially animals engineered to develop cancer. But at least in
this study the rats were receiving nutrients rather than the usual
pharmaceutical chemicals injected into them during drug industry trials...)

The researchers found that the isothiocyanates from the broccoli sprouts were
processed by the rat's bodies and excreted within 12 hours. According to lead
researcher Yuesheng Zhang, this suggests that the chemicals protect the bladder
while they are stored there, awaiting excretion.

"The bladder is like a storage bag, and cancers in the bladder occur almost
entirely along the inner surface, the epithelium, that faces the urine,
presumably because this tissue is assaulted all the time by noxious materials
in the urine," Zhang said. Change the liquid being stored in your bladder, and
you change your risk of bladder cancer.

In other words, healthy pee keeps you cancer-free!

Healthy poo, by the way, stops colorectal cancer, which is yet another reason
to stop eating milk, cheese, beef and other animal products. Soak the inside of
your bladder and large intestine with vegetable juices, and cancer just
vanishes. Someday, silly oncologists will abandon their toxic chemotherapy
drugs and learn to just prescribe broccoli sprouts.

(As a side note, dogs have been trained to smell bladder cancer in human
urine. A person who has bladder cancer emits a nasty smell in their urine, and
it's not very difficult for dogs to pick up on this.)

Ninety percent of bladder cancers occur along the inner lining. Bladder
cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the ninth most common cancer
in women in the United States. More than 47,000 men and 16,000 women nationwide
are diagnosed with the disease each year. Chemotherapy is utterly useless
against bladder cancer. Five-year survival rates are ZERO percent better than
doing nothing at all. In fact, chemotherapy is highly toxic to the bladder and
kidneys, causing cellular damage that actually leads to more cancer later on.

Adding to the evidence that uncooked fruits and vegetables help protect
against cancer, researchers at Ohio State University found that the eastern
black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, offers protection against cancer of the
esophagus.

In this study, human patients with a condition known as Barrett's esophagus,
which often leads to esophageal cancer, were fed freeze-dried black raspberries
(1.1 ounces for women and 1.6 ounces for men) every day for six months. At the
end of that time, researchers measured blood levels of two chemicals that
indicate the risk of cancer.

Patients given the raspberries had 58 percent lower levels of 8-isoprostane,
which is correlated with cancer risk, and 37 percent higher levels of GSTpi,
which is known to protect against the cell damage that leads to cancer.

Black raspberries are particularly high in anthocyanins, a powerful
antioxidant found in many other foods, including red cabbage. See www.
NaturalNews.com/anthocyanins.html

Anthocyanins are among the pigments that give fruits and vegetables their
bright colors. Every bright color found in fresh produce is, in fact, a
powerful natural medicine. Studies have shown that anthocyanins protect against
not only cancer, but also diabetes, bacterial infections, inflammation,
neurological diseases and the symptoms of aging.


The conclusion: Raw foods halt disease and greatly enhance health
The conclusion to all this is that consuming raw fruits and vegetables is an
astonishingly powerful way to halt degenerative disease, stop cancer, reverse
diabetes, end heart disease and enhance your health. All the pharmaceuticals in
the world can't compete with the protective power of the tens of thousands of
natural medicines created by Mother Nature and found in the very plants sitting
in your local grocery store right now.

This is why juicing fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis is possibly
the single most important nutritional strategy you can pursue for protecting
yourself against degenerative disease. I juice every single day. My own
personal recipe is as follows:

(All produce is organic)
o 2 large bunches of celery
o 4 large carrots
o 1 large bunch of parsley
o 2 medium apples
o 1 medium lemon or grapefruit
o 1 large bunch of kale
o 1 large bunch of spinach or salad greens
o Small pieces of ginger, turmeric root and beet
o 1/2 container of fresh sprouts (alfalfa or clover) - This can be changed to
broccoli sprouts for cancer patients.

I juice all this up, creating a beautiful green / orange liquid. Then I blend
2 cups of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, etc.) in my Vita-Mix, keeping the
fruit pulp in the blend, then I pour that liquid into the vegetable juice. This
creates a delicious fruit-and-vegetable blend that keeps the fruit fiber but
juices away the rough vegetable fiber. I like the fruit fiber because many of
the natural medicines in fruit are found in the skin, locked into the fiber. So
I always blend fruit into my juice and drink this slightly-thickened juice
blend. It's absolutely delicious!

For people preventing or battling cancer, simply boost up the anti-cancer
ingredients: Turmeric, broccoli, cabbage, kale, sprouts, etc. Cancer simply
melts away when bathed in these vegetable juices.

To make the whole thing sweeter, add a bit of stevia to the final blend. If
it's still too bitter for you, try adding more lemon or citrus, which masks the
bitter taste of vegetables. If it's still too bitter, you are probably a sugar
junkie (like I used to be) and your taste buds are all skewed. Get off the
sugar for 30 days and everything natural will suddenly taste better.

Adding watermelon to your juice makes it super tasty, but raw foods experts
like Dr. Cousens would strongly recommend you avoid watermelon. The glycemic
index is too high. People suffering from chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes
and heart disease need to stick with low-glycemic juicing for a long, long
time, until their metabolism gets healthy again. Only then, when you're fit,
active and exercising at least ten hours a week (like me) can you start to take
up high-glycemic fruit juices.

Remember, I used to be pre-diabetic. I went through the healing process,
repaired my body, and now I have the joy of exercising as much as three hours a
day. That affords me the metabolic privilege of drinking just about any fruit
juice I want, without any negative blood sugar effects. But that's only because
I'm burning calories day and night. If you're obese or overweight, you'll have
to steer clear of fruit juices until you get body fat below about 15% for men
or 20% for women. Even then, make sure you watch things very carefully.
Ideally, you'll do all this under the supervision of a naturopathic physician.
Or just go to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona and get Dr.
Cousens to help in person! (www.TreeofLife.nu)

A great resource on how to do juicing is also found at www.JuiceFeasting.com

I created a 6-hour audio CD course with David Rain entitled, The Secret of
Juice Feasting, available here: http://www.truthpublishing.com/product_...

You can also listen to my audio interview with David Rain, where we discuss
Juice Feasting, here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html#45

I've also got a new interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens coming soon here on
NaturalNews, so watch for that in a few weeks.


Juicing can save your life and get you off dangerous pharmaceuticals
The bottom line to all this, folks, is that juicing vegetables is the secret
to reversing disease now and preventing disease for a lifetime. But it has to
be fresh, raw, living juice.

Remember, pasteurized vegetable juices purchased in bottles at the store are
worthless! That includes all the Naked Juice, V8, Odwalla and other brands that
claim to be good for you. While they're not bad for you, they're also DEAD
JUICE. That means they have virtually none of the nutritional healing benefits
of fresh, living juice. Don't be fooled by healthy-sounding bottled juice
products. If it's in a bottle, it's dead. And dead juice doesn't support life.

There is only one way to get fresh, unprocessed, living juice: Make your own
juice! This is the simple secret to staying healthy, vibrant and mentally sharp
for the rest of your long, enjoyable life: Juice your way to health! (And then
supplement with superfoods, herbs, and other targeted nutritional needs.)

Juicing is the future of medicine. It cures cancer. It reverses heart
disease. It stabilizes cholesterol and blood pressure. It ends kidney stones
and gall stones. It reverses depression and psychosis. It builds strong bones
and strong muscles. It absolutely reverses diabetes in a matter of days, and it
obliterates obesity in a matter of weeks. And in doing all that, it makes
virtually all pharmaceuticals obsolete.

Juicing and raw foods go hand in hand. They are the answers to disease and
sickness. No wonder Big Pharma and the FDA don't want you to find out about the
true healing power of plant-based nutrition, huh?


Recommended Resources
Raw foods and superfoods: www.SunFood.com

Best consumer juicer: Breville (www.Breville.com)

Best blender: Vita-Mix (www.Vita-Mix.com)

Spiritual Nutrition by Dr. Gabriel Cousens: Free download of book summary at
www.HealthBookSummaries.com

NaturalNews page on raw foods: http://www.naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html

Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona (I'll be there!): www.RawSpirit.com

Really raw cashews (and Bliss Mix!): www.TransitionNutrition.com

Delicious Raw Chocolate Bars: www.EverythingRaw.com

Source: Natural News

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Per coloro che hanno problemi di salute si consiglia di consultare sempre il proprio medico curante.