Food: Your Miracle Medicine电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Miracle of Food

Three Theories of Food’s Healing Powers

How Antioxidants in Food Can Save You from Virtually Everything

Things You Never Guessed Fat Could Do to and for You

You Could Be a Victim of Strange Food Tortures

Everybody’s Cardiovascular Food Cures

What to Eat to Avoid Heart Trouble

How Arteries Get Clogged and How Food Can Stop It

Fish: The Universal Heart Medicine

What to Eat to Survive a Heart Attack

Your Second-Chance Diet After Heart Surgery

Ten Ways Fish Oil Fights Heart Disease

Garlic Turns Back the Clock on Clogged Arteries

Discover the Nutty Heart Drugs

The Italian Experiment

Use Vegetable Power to Block Heart Attacks

Try the Japanese Heart-Saving Diet

Why Mediterranean Peoples Have Better Hearts

Eat Olive Oil: The Heart-Safe Fat

More Heart Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet

Sure Way to Poison Arteries

A Tot a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Stout-hearted Frenchmen—Is It the Wine?

Does Coffee Promote Heart Disease?

What to Eat If You Have Chest Pain (Angina)

Alcohol Promotes Angina

Irregular Heartbeats: Is Coffee a Cause?

Holiday Heart Syndrome

Diet Advice to Keep the Cardiologist Away

The Ultimate Anti-Cholesterol Diet

How You Can Use Food to Control Cholesterol

Magic Beans

Oat Power

Oat Bran Mysteries: What You Need to Know

A Garlic Clove a Day

Half an Onion a Day

High on Salmon

Olive Oil Does It All

Raves for Almonds and Walnuts

Avocados, Yes!

Cure Your Cholesterol with Strawberries

Take Two Apples and—

Carrots vs. Cholesterol

Super Sources of Cholesterol-Fighting Fiber

Grapefruit Remedy

Foods That Can Detoxify Bad Cholesterol

What to Eat to Lower Triglycerides

Grape Lore Vindicated

A Nip, If You Drink, Improves Cholesterol

Shellfish Surprise

Foods That Can Raise Good HDL Cholesterol

Filter Out Coffee Threat

New Danger in Decaf?

Chocolate, Not Guilty

Eggs and Cholesterol—The Real Story

The Most Dangerous Fat

Jack Sprat’s Salvation

Fish Oil vs. a Strange Type of Cholesterol

A Peril of Super-Low Fat

Can Cholesterol Ever Be Too Low?

Straight Talk About Diet Cures for Cholesterol

Ten Foods That Fight Blood Clots

Blood Clot Factors Can Save Your Life

How Food Can Control Blood Clotting

Garlic and Onions: Ancient Clot Fighters

Onions: A Potent Fat Blocker

Dr. Jain’s Blood-Thinning Garlic Tips

How About a Little Fish Pâté?

Fish Oil’s Remarkable “Blood Thinning” Secret

Red Wine’s Wondrous Anticoagulant

Why Grapes Make Anticlotting Medicine—and Where You Can Get It

Drink Tea for Healthy Arteries

Vegetables Are Clot Busters

The Hot Chili Pepper Effect

Spicy Clot Busters

Black Mushrooms: A Sure Blood Thinner

Olive Oil Fights Clots

High Fat—Blood Clot Villain

Try a Clot-Busting Breakfast

Diet Advice to Combat Blood Clots

Diet Remedies for High Blood Pressure

Try Celery, an Ancient Medicine

Garlic’s Legendary Powers

Oh, for a Tin of Mackerel

More Fruits and Vegetables

Vitamin C Up, Blood Pressure Down

Potassium Lowers Pressure

Go for Calcium-Rich Foods

Try Olive Oil

To Salt or Not to Salt?

Sodium Surprise

Watch the Alcohol

Few Worries About Coffee

Diet Prescription for High Blood Pressure

Nature’s Strong Medicines Against Strokes

Nature’s Brain Protectors

Stroke Survival Medicine: An Extra Carrot a Day

The Remarkable California Experiment

Fatty Fish—The Blood Fixers

What People Eat Who Don’t Die of Strokes

Saved by Tea

New Salt Danger

Alcohol: Good News, Bad News

An Antistroke Diet Prescription

Diet Remedies for Digestive Troubles

Anticonstipation Foods: Folk Wisdom Updated

How Food Can Relieve Constipation and What Is It Anyway?

Get on the Bran Wagon

How Much Bran Is Enough?

Rice Bran: A Super Superior Laxative

Go Slow and Drink Plenty of Liquids

When the Bran Cure Is Worse Than the Problem

Dr. Burkitt’s Best Bets to Fight Constipation—in Order

A Cup of Coffee—A Fast-Acting Laxative

Yes, Prunes—But Why Is a Mystery

Laxative Jam Recipe

Ancient Mixup: Rhubarb—The Unreal Thing

Foods to Watch Out For

Diet Advice for Regularity

Diarrhea and Diet: Modern Myths, Ancient Truths

Cautions About Infant Diarrhea

Let the Bowel Rest? Wrong!

Drink the Right Stuff—It’s Not Clear Liquids

A Case of Diarrhea and Diet Pop

Old Remedies Vindicated

A Diet to Cut Diarrhea Short

Dr. Greenough’s Cereal Soup

Spicy Diarrhea Fighter

Can Eating Pepper Promote Diarrhea?

In Sweden, It’s Blueberry Soup

Yogurt: The “Safe” Food

Traveler’s Diarrhea: A Special Event

Incident in Portugal: Saved by Carbonated Water

Milk Gone Sour

Quick Tips for Kids with Diarrhea

What to Do If You Suspect Milk Diarrhea

No Yogurt for Infants

Toddler’s Downfall: Fruit Juices

Common Culprits in Diarrhea

One Too Many Dietetic Candies

Coffee Troubles

Watch Out for Muffin Overload

Diet Prescription to Curb Diarrhea

What to Eat for Upset Stomach

The Banana Cure

Stomachaches and Pains: Likely Food Culprits

Acid Stomach: What to Eat and Avoid

Ginger: A Super Drug for Nausea

Dr. Koch’s Antinausea Food Remedies

Foolproof Remedies for Gas

How Food Causes Gas

Great Gas from the Cow

Infamous Gas Producers

How to Find Your Gas Nemesis

Your Gas Timetable

Block Gas with Ginger and Garlic

De-Gas Your Beans

Antigas Diet Prescription

The Milk Miseries: Lactose Intolerance

The Yogurt Salvation

The Intolerance Test: How to Tell if the Cow Is Unfriendly

Dr. Lee’s Chocolate Treatment

If You Are Lactose Intolerant—What to Eat

Eating Your Way Out of Heartburn

How Heartburn Happens

Four Ways Food Encourages Heartburn

A Doctor’s Chocolate-Chip Heartburn

Chocolate’s Quadruple Threat

Fat—Big Danger

The McBiscuit Episode

Spare the Spicy Stuff

Alcohol: The Silent Culprit

Diet Prescriptions to Escape Heartburn

Colic: A Dietary Cry of Protest

Crying Till the Cows Go Home

How to Tell Colic from Ordinary Crying

Trouble in Mother’s Milk

Cracking the Milk Mystery

The Colic Milk Test

A Sweet Cure for Crying

What About Strong Stuff in Mother’s Milk?

Colic-Curing Diet Prescription

New Food Suspects in Spastic Colon

First, Suspect Milk

Rule Out “Dietetic” Sugars

Go Easy on Coffee

Eat More Fiber

When IBS Is a Strange Food Reaction

Top Food Villains

Check for a Wheat Connection

Why Food-Triggered Gut Reactions Happen

Diet Strategies to Defeat Spastic Colon

Bran for Diverticular Disease

A Bran-New Idea

Recipe for Recovery

New Advice on Pips and Seeds

Ulcers: Goodbye. Milk—Hello, Hot Stuff

How Food Can Affect Ulcers

The Milk Myth

Farewell to Bland Diets

Bananas Build Strong Stomachs

The Amazing Cabbage Experiments

Dr. Cheney’s Antiulcer Cabbage Recipe

The Licorice Cure

Bean Bufferin?

How Japanese Mice Avoid Ulcers: They Drink Tea, of Course

Top Stomach Acid Makers

Tex Mex and Hot Spices May Help, Not Harm

Dr. Weil’s Hot Pepper Tea for Ulcers

Garlic—Good for Your Stomach

Coffee Spurs Acid

The Alcohol Puzzle

Beware Beer: The Acid Factory

Some Like It Too Hot

Diet Prescription to Prevent and Heal Ulcers

Defeating Gallstones With Diet

How Gallbladder Attacks Happen—and How Food Can Prevent Them

Vegetable Antidotes

Light Drinking May Help

Too Much Sugar—Too Little Fiber

Coffee Calamity

Avoid the Breakfast Gap

Ten Pounds to Go

Quick-Weight-Loss Danger

Fat Misunderstandings

What to Eat to Prevent Gallstones

Kidney Stones: Diet, The “Drug of Choice”

How Food Makes Kidney Stones

Try the Diet Cure First

Meat for the Stone Ages

The Vegetarian Defense

The Japanese Experiment

Cut Down on Salt

Beware Spinach and Rhubarb

Stone-Makers: Foods High in Oxalates

The Calcium Conundrum

The Ancient Water Cure

Up the Fiber

No Stones for the Philadelphia Banker

Stone-Fighting Diet Advice

A Diet to Save You from Cancer

Best Foods to Block, Intercept and Stifle Cancer

The Stakes Are High

How Food Can Help Save You from Cancer

Read My Lips: More Fruits and Vegetables

Top Fruit and Vegetable Cancer Fighters

The Anticancer Truth Is in Your Blood

Best Fruit and Vegetable Bets Against Various Cancers

Garlic and Onions: Pungent Preventives

Foods That May Block the Spread of Cancer

The Attack of the Anticancer Tomatoes

Strive for Five

Go for the Green

Amazing Citrus Power

Raw or Cooked for Anticancer Power?

Soybeans: Cancer Blockers

Tea: The Anticancer Drink

Anticancer Cooking: Off the Grill and into the Microwave

Cancer Fighter in Milk?

Beware: Some Fats Feed Cancer

Go Easy on Alcohol

New Frontier: Foods That May Slow Cancer Spread

Garlic Kills Cancer Cells

Carotene, A New Cancer Drug

Fish Oil Promises

Wheat and Cabbage Chemotherapy

Other Possibilities

What People Eat Who Don’t Get Cancer

Diet Antidotes to Breast Cancer

Food Uniquely Influence Breast Cancer

The Cabbage Factor

Wheat Bran Manipulator

Beans vs. Breast Cancer

Soybeans: Japan’s Wonder Food?

The Soybean-Estrogen Paradox

Eat Food from the Sea

Vitamin D Protection

Vitamin C Foods: You Can’t Eat Too Many

To Drink or Not to Drink?

Binge-Drinking: A Special Threat

High-Fat Danger?

Beware Fat If You Have Breast Cancer

Diet Prescription Against Breast Cancer

Colon Cancer: Fighting Off Fate and Bad Genes With Diet

How Food Can Block Colon Cancer

It’s Never Too Late

The Miracle Food to Save 50,000 Americans

The Amazing Power in All-Bran

Reach for the Cereal After Cancer Surgery

Only Wheat Bran Works

Eat Seafood, Stop Polyps

Bring on the Vegetables

Cabbage vs. Colon Cancer

The Calcium Connection

A Cup of Milk, a Bowl of Cereal and…

Anticancer Vitamin in Milk

Acidophilus Milk—Thrice a Cancer Fighter

How About Marmalade?

Animal Fat—Big Danger

How Fat Promotes Cancer

The Less Red Meat, the Better

Food-Aspirin Antidotes?

The Drinker’s Colon Cancer

Diet Advice to Curtail Colon Cancer

Beer Danger in Rectal Cancer

Is Lung Cancer A “Vegetable Deficiency”?

Attention Smokers and Ex-Smokers: Here’s What to Eat

All Hail the Carrot Chemical

A Time Bomb in Your Bloodstream

A Bite of Carotene a Day

Greens’and Beans’Secret Weapon

Eat Tomatoes and Cabbage, Too

Tea-Drinking Animals Don’t Get Lung Cancer

What Can Smokers Expect from Food Antidotes?

Vegetables Against Passive Smoking

What to Eat If You Have Lung Cancer

Vegetable Craze: The Best Diet Prescription

Pancreatic Cancer: An Orange a Day?

Fruit Power

Eat Tomatoes for Sure

The Bean Defense

The Case Against Meat and Fat

What About Coffee, Tea and Alcohol?

Stomach Cancer: The Salad Solution

Anticancer Salad Bar

A Couple of Tablespoons of Cabbage a Day

Scallion Surprise

Tea-Totaling Japanese

Make Yours Miso Soup

Sodium, Meat and Fat—Triple Threat

Other Cancers: Diet Antidotes

An Anti-Skin Cancer Diet

Veggies vs. Endometrial Cancer

Broccoli and Tomatoes Block Cervical Cancer

Carrots for the Larynx

Prostate Cancer and Dairy Danger

Foods That Make You Feel Better and Smarter

Stay-Awake, High-Alert, Brainpower Foods

Dr. Wurtman’s Brain-Food Theory

First Alert! Eat Protein

Coffee: An Extraordinary Energizer

High Alert on a Cup or Two

No After-Meal Slump

The Caffeine Fix

Coffee Sedates Some? Harvard Says Yes

More Brainpower from Fruits and Nuts

Potion for Aging Brains

How Could You Forget?—Seafood Is Brain Food

Lard and Fading Maze Memories

Curb Your Drinking—Save Your Brain

Eating Tips for Maximum Alertness and Brainpower

Higher IQ from Mother’s Milk

Foods to Lift Your Mood

Food Remedy for the Winter Blues

The Mighty Caffeine Lift

One-Cup-a-Day Kick

I-Miss-My-Caffeine Depression

Spinach for Depression?

Good-Mood Seafood Mineral

A Nut a Day Keeps the Blues Away

Good-Mood Selenium “Food Pills”

Garlic—A Mood Elevator?

The Chili Pepper High

Diet Extinguishers for Anxiety And Stress

Caffeine Catastrophe

The Skeptical Colonel’s Caffeinism

Caffeine Triggers Panic Attacks

The Instant No-Caffeine Anxiety Cure

Booze Is No Solution

The Sweetest Anxiety Cures

Dr. Wurtman’s Fast-Acting Anti-Stress, Anti-Anxiety Recipe

Take an Onion

Antianxiety Diet Prescription

Surprising Facts About Diet And Behavior

No Sugar Hyperactivity at NIMH

Surprise! Sugar Mellows Out Delinquents

Pow! Bang!—My Cholesterol’s Too Low

Straight Talk About Sugar

Headaches: Food Triggers and Cures

New Headache Theories

Major Ways Food Can Affect Headaches

How Common Is Food Headache?

Beware The Awful Amines

Red Wine Headache

Cheeses That Give The Most Pain

The Chocolate Headache

Hot-Dog Headache: The Nitrite Nemesis

Foods Most Likely To Trigger Headaches

The Aspartame Headache

MSG Headache

Caffeine: Good Guy, Bad Guy

Caffeine-Withdrawal Headache

One Man’s Caffeine-Binge Headaches Cured

If You Have Morning Headaches, Check Out Caffeine

How To Kick Caffeine Without The Headaches

Ice Cream Headache: Surprisingly Common

The Hangover Headache

Food Migraines In Children: The Famous Egger Study

No More “Headache Epilepsy”

Cure Migraine With Ginger

Fish Oil Vs. Migraines

Odd Food Painkillers

Diet Prescription To Combat Headaches

Foods to Zap Common Infections and Breathing Problems

Foods That Boost Immunity, Ward Off Infections

How Food Can Influence Immunity

The Powerful Yogurt Effect

Even Dead, Yogurt Fights On

Hail The Ancient Shiitake Mushroom

The Garlic Secret

Vegetarians’Immune Advantage

Immune Armadas: Fruits and Vegetables

Zinc Jazzes Up Aging Immune Systems

Fat Blunts Immunity

Why Wine Drinkers Are More Immune to Certain Infections

Immune-Boosting Diet Strategies

Foods For Colds, Flu, Bronchitis, Sinus Problems, Hay Fever

How Hot Foods Mimic Drugs

Why You Should Like It Hot

Chicken Soup, Always Chicken Soup

Dr. Ziment’s Hot Tips for Breathing Problems

Scare Off Colds with Garlic

Drown Your Cold in Liquids

Congested or Have Sinus Problems? Shun Milk

Teas and Toddies for Sore Throats and Coughs

Dr. Duke’s Laryngitis Remedy

A Super Food to Ward Off Hay Fever and Colds

Vitamin C Fights Bronchitis

Other Flu-Fighting Foods

Fighting Asthma With Onions, Peppers and Fish

Four Ways Food Can Affect Asthma

Onion Therapy

Fish Oil for Asthma

Abolish Wheezes with Fruits and Vegetables

Non-Meat Eaters Breathe Better

Try Fiery Peppers

Java—Good Medicine

Beware Delayed Food-Triggered Asthma Attacks

Asthma in the Pepsi Generation

Asthma from Cow’s Milk

Diet Strategies Against Asthma

Chinese Restaurant Asthma

Food Antidotes for Bladder Infections

Cranberries and Blueberries: A Sticky New Theory

The Cranberry Acid Myth

Diet Prescription to Prevent Bladder Infections

The Fluid Cure

Beware Caffeine and Chocolate

A Starvation Diet for the Herpes Virus

The Three Worst Foods to Eat if You Are Prone to Herpes

Feast or Famine Can Control Herpes Flare-Ups

The Arginine Experiments

Herpes-Promoting Foods

“But I Eat Nuts and Don’t Get Herpes”

How to Tell if Food Triggers Herpes Outbreaks

The Case of the Peanut Butter Sandwich

Seaweed vs. Herpes

Shingles and Chocolate

Tips to Combat Cold Sores, Canker Sores, Genital Herpes, Shingles and Epstein-Barr Disease

Food Remedies for Joint and Bone Problems

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Breakthrough Diets

It’s No Longer Food Folklore

“I Was Crippled by My Cheese Cravings”

How Food Can Affect Rheumatoid Arthritis

Suspect Corn: Another Crippler

Beware Cereal, Too

Go on a Fast for Quick Relief

Three Reasons to Give Up Meat if You Have Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Case for Vegetarianism

Proof That a Vegetable Cure Is Stronger Than Drugs

Twenty Foods Most Apt to Aggravate Arthritis

Is Arthritis a Milk Allergy?

The Mysterious Tomato Phobia

How Common Is Food-Inspired Arthritis?

Does a Herring a Day Keep Rheumatologists Away?

Beware Corn Oil and Cousins

The Ginger Remedy

Spices Beat Some Anti-Arthritis Drugs

Fish and Garlic vs. Osteoarthritis?

Four Food Ways to Beat Rheumatoid Arthritis

Plain Old Joint Pain and Food “Allergy”

Surprising New Anti-Osteoporosis Foods

Boron for Bones

Pineapple Protection

The Calcium Connection

Vitamin D Strengthens Bones

Salt—the Calcium Thief

Can Drinking Coffee Break Your Hip?

Diet Prescription to Prevent Osteoporosis

Bone-Breaking Booze?

The Right Diets for Reproductive Functions

Sex, Hormones, Fertility and Food

Should Rambo Eat Hamburgers or Pasta?

Fatty Foods and Estrogen

Rejuvenating Aged Sperm

A Youth Elixir for Old and Tired Sperm

A Sperm-Alert Diet

An Orange a Day Keeps Defective Sperm Away

Food Antidote for Serious Birth Defects

Anti-Birth Defect Diet

Diet Cures for Menstrual Problems

Calcium Subdues Mood Swings

The Tea and Toast Cure for Heavy Flow

Too Little Fat to Menstruate

PMS—Are Sweets a Cause or a Cure?

New Carbo Diet for PMS

Another Theory: Blame Caffeine

Can Foods Replace Estrogen After Menopause?

The Fruit-and-Nut Chemical Boosts Estrogen

Beer and Bourbon Boost Estrogen

Estrogen in American Yams? A Major Myth

Hot Flash Triggers: Hot Drinks and Alcohol

Diabetes and Other Food Connections

Diabetes: Food Antidotes and Remedies

What Diabetes Is and How Food Can Affect It

Diet Can Be the Kicker

Milk: A Cause of Juvenile Diabetes?

Avoiding Diabetes’Sneak Attack

Fish Forestalls Diabetes

Fat—No Friend of Insulin

The Allium Medicine

Broccoli—The Blood Sugar Wonder

The Power of Curry Spice

The Cinnamon Drug

Bring on the Beans

Which Is Worse—Carrots or Candy?

Foods Most Likely to Boost Blood Sugar

What Diabetics Should Eat and Do Eat

Call in Antioxidant Vitamins

Antidiabetes Diet Strategies

Other Food Connections You Should Know About

Acne: The Chocolate Myth

AIDS: Intriguing Possibilities

Benign Breast Disease: The Caffeine Connection

Breast-Feeding: Give Baby a Whiff of Garlic-Milk

Cataracts: The Popeye Solution

Chronic Fatigue: Food Triggers and Cures

Crohn’s Disease: Wrong Foods?

Ear Infections: Suspect Food Allergy

Glaucoma: Fish Oil Promises

Gum Disease: Fruit-Blockers

Incontinence: Caffeine Tricks

Lupus: Of Fish and Food Allergies

Macular Degeneration: Carrots Save Old Eyes

Metabolism: Calorie-Burning Foods

Multiple Sclerosis: A Fat Disorder?

Dr. Swank’s Low-Fat Multiple Sclerosis Diet

Neuralgia: Possible Diet Cures

Parasites? Bring on the Garlic

Parkinson’s Disease: A Nut and Seed Deficiency?

Prostate Problems: The Pumpkin Remedy

Psoriasis: Fish for the Skin

Rectal Itching and Burning: Hot Prospects

Sleep: Sugar and Milk Connections

Smoking: Foods That Stifle the Urge

If You’re Trying to Wean Yourself from Cigarettes

Vaginitis: A Cup a Day Keeps It Away

How to Use the Drugs in Foods to Stay Healthy

Antibiotics: How Foods Can Kill or Inhibit Bacteria

Anticancer Agents: How Foods May Fight Cancer

Anticoagulants: How Foods Can “Thin the Blood”

Antidepressants: How Foods Can Elevate Mood

Antidiarrheal Agents: How Foods Can Combat Diarrhea

Antihypertensives: How Foods May Lower Blood Pressure

Antioxidants: How Food Protects Cells

Anti-Inflammatory Agents: How Foods Can Relieve Inflammation

Antithrombotic Agents: How Food Can Thwart Blood Clots

Antiulcerants: How Foods Can Help Prevent or Heal Ulcers

Antiviral Agents: How Foods Can Fight Viruses

Carminatives: How Food Can Relieve Intestinal Gas

Cholesterol Modifiers: How Food Can Improve Blood Cholesterol

Diuretics: How Food Can Increase Urine Flow

Decongestants: How Food Clears the Lungs and Sinuses

Hormones: How Foods Regulate Estrogen

Immune Stimulants: How Food Can Boost Immune Functioning

Painkillers: How Foods Can Block Pain

Salicylates: How Foods May Work Like Aspirin

Surprise! There’s Valium in Your Food

Sedatives and Tranquilizers: How Foods Can Quiet the Brain

Disease-Fighting Powers in Sixty Common Foods

Appendix: Foods With the Most Pharmacological Vitamins, Minerals, and Oils

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