Quotes from Jonny Bowden

Mixed bean and seed sprouts: Packed with enzymes and other cofactors, they add crisp freshness to a salad and make the nutrients in the rest of the meal better absorbed.

Flaxseed Oil (flaxseeds)

Fresh Vegetable

A study that included 100,000 healthy participants in San Francisco over a fifteen-year period found that those with low cholesterol values were much more likely to be admitted to hospitals with infectious diseases.3

There are numerous terrific books on juicing, complete with recipes. One I like is The Complete Book of Juicing by Dr. Michael Murray, with a foreword by Jay Kordich, aka "The Juiceman." Noni

Noni Juice Traditionally Used as Medicine The official scientific name of the noni berry is the Morinda citrifolia fruit. Morinda is actually a genus of about eighty species, mostly

Pomegranate Juice

Tea (green, black, and white)

Blackstrap molasses has a long and storied tradition as a health food and a remedy for all sorts of ailments. One of the most popular legends

Arugula: Loaded with minerals and antioxidants. Delicious cruciferous vegetable that helps protect us against toxins, especially xenohormones (hormone disruptors in pesticides, plastics, pollution, etc.), and helps us detoxify. Protects us against cancer. Loaded with indole-3-carbinol. Tastes great raw or cooked. 10.

Dump It: Sugar As we've said throughout this book (see chapter 4), sugar is a far worse threat to your heart than fat ever was.

Dump It: Processed Carbohydrates Processed carbs include almost any carbohydrate food that comes in a package: cereals, pasta, bread, minute rice, you name it. These foods are almost always high-glycemic, meaning they quickly and dramatically raise your blood sugar

Sesame Seeds/Sesame

Real cardamom is expensive, second only to saffron in price, and there are lots of inferior substitutes from cardamom-related plants masquerading as the real thing. Only Elettaria cardamomum—its botanical name—is

Dump It: Excessive Omega-6 Fats Vegetable oils (corn, canola, and soybean) are mostly made up of pro-inflammatory omega-6 fats, and you should reduce (not necessarily eliminate) your consumption of them while increasing your consumption of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats.

When you sauté food, try substituting monounsaturated fats such as olive oil and macadamia nut oil for high omega-6 oils such as canola or soybean.

Whenever possible, use olive oil, sesame oil, or macadamia oil.

Fast Action Plan: Eat wild salmon twice a week.

Fast Action Plan: Eat berries three (or more) times a week.

Fast Action Plan: Eat cherries two (or more) times a week.

Coronary artery calcification has long been recognized as a big risk factor for heart disease, but for some reason we continue to obsessively focus on cholesterol, while few people have heard much about the calcium connection.

Because the preparation of garlic is critical for it to release its health-providing benefits. If you were, for example, to swallow a garlic clove whole—not that you'd want to—not much would happen. The garlic clove has to be crushed, or chopped, the more finely the better, for the compounds to interact. Allicin

Peaches are my idea of a nice, generic fruit. Maybe they're not the nutritional superstar of the fruit community, but they sure meet all the requirements of a healthy food. Low calorie, 1½ grams of fiber, small but measurable

Pineapple This delicious fruit not only looks healthy, but also it smells healthy. And most important, it is healthy. How can