| Also reduce the amount of hormone-laden dairy and meat products in your diet. Saw palmetto, a natural herb that blocks, to an extent, the action of androgen hormones, may also be helpful.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Herbs: Hirsutism is secondary condition that may be related to other, more serious disorders. As such there are no herbal formulas recommended for self-use in this situation. Consult a doctor of Chinese medicine for an individual diagnosis and treatment.
Acupuncture: Consult a practitioner for specific recommendations. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Helpful: When shopping for meat, look for dark meat products, such as liver, beef or dark-meat turkey. They are the best sources of iron. Tofu and seafood (especially clams and shrimp) are also rich in iron.
•Zinc. This mineral is essential for a healthy immune system. It is highly bioavailable in red meat, though some zinc is also found in nuts (almonds and walnuts). Poultry is another good source of zinc.
Helpful: Consider adding oysters to your diet. They are one of the richest sources of zinc.
Caution: Raw oysters are often contaminated with bacteria.
•Magnesium. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 DES, or diethylstilbestrol, which is used in food production—primarily in meat products. Eighty-five percent of all meat in the United States contains dangerous residual amounts of this poison. This is why many countries around the world refuse to import American meat. This particular food additive also speeds up sexual maturity in young women; d. artificial sweeteners, such as saccharine and aspartame; e. nitrites used in processed meat products; f. hexachlorophene, which is used in many cosmetics, soaps, and deodorants; g. food dyes; h. non-prescription and prescription drugs; i. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 If your supermarket carries tofu products (look in the coolers in the produce aisle, or even the department that sells sliced cheese and meat products), you can liven up scrambled Egg-Beaters by adding tofu pepperoni (use two to three slices per plate) and tofu cheese slices (I prefer the pepper jack or cheddar with jalapeno). So breakfast consists of a scrambled Egg-Beater omelet with phony pepperoni and phony cheese. No fat and plenty of protein. The easiest way to make this dish is via the microwave. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some companies are now offering nitrite-free and nitrate-free meat products, which are far healthier alternatives, but those products are difficult to find and are typically available only at health food stores or natural grocers. Consumers can look for "Nitrite-free" or "Nitrate-free" labels when shopping for meat products. They can also purchase fresh meats, which are almost never prepared with sodium nitrite.
The new research on processed meats points to a chemical toxin as the cause of the increased cancer risk. A heightened cancer risk of 67% is "gigantic," warns Adams. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thus, food manufacturers insist on using sodium nitrite for the simple reason that it sells more meat products. Consumers are strongly influenced by the color of grocery products (which is why Florida oranges are often dipped in red dye, by the way), and when meat products look fresh, people will buy them, even if the true color of the months-old meat is putrid gray.
There is a way to minimize the damage from sodium nitrite, by the way. You won't hear this from the USDA these days, since the department doesn't really want to discuss sodium nitrite at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think it's disgusting, and the dirty little secret of the meat processing industry is that if consumers were truly aware of how their meat products were processed, meat sales would collapse overnight. The industry goes to great lengths to shield the public from any awareness about meat raising, slaughtering, packing and processing. Not to mention all the environmental impacts of raising cattle, by the way, which are quite devastating and worthy of their own article.
Where do the cow parts really go? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 More importantly, however, I've also received many comments from people who say they are no longer going to eat processed meat products at all. They're either opting for fresh meats or thinking about going vegetarian. I have not yet heard from Kraft Foods or Jimmy Dean, although there's not much they can say since these are accurate, honest pictures of the products they're making and selling right now (the photos were not altered). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Meat consumption harms the planet
There are tremendous implications resulting from the mass consumption of meat products by the American population, such as the fact that it takes 10 times as much land to create meat protein as it does similar quantities of protein from vegetables. We're also seeing the clear-cutting of rain forests, in the Amazon especially, in order to create grazing land for cattle.
The decision to eat meat is not a solely personal decision. It doesn't just affect you. It actually affects the planet. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Meat (Organic Sources)
Always buy organic, range fed, hormone and antibiotic-free meat products.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sodium nitrite, for example, remains perfectly legal to add to processed meat products, even though it substantially increases the risk of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and even breast cancer. Hydrogenated oils, aspartame, petroleum-derived food coloring chemicals and cancer-causing preservative chemicals all remain legal as well.
Clearly, the goal of so-called "food safety" initiatives have nothing to do with actually protecting consumers, but a whole lot to do with meeting the interests of agricultural companies and junk food manufacturers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This research helps explain why high-fat diets that focus on dairy products, meat products, and processed foods are so strongly correlated with cancer and heart disease," said Mike Adams, author of Grocery Warning: How to Identify and Avoid Dangerous Food Ingredients. "Many superfoods perform best when consumed during a meal that has no fats," Adams said, "But don't forget to consume healthy, plant-based fats later. Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for a healthy heart. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That may sound great if you're eating a diet of fried foods, hydrogenated oils and processed meat products, but even if you block the absorption of those obesity-promoting fats, you're still left in a state of deficiency concerning the healthy oils like omega-3 fatty acids. And if you eat more flaxseed or take fish oil capsules, guess what? Alli will interfere with those, too, causing you to miss out on at least some of their benefits.
What an incredibly genius idea for a drug! Transform adults into diaper-wearing little children, then leave them in a state of nutritional deficiency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sodium nitrite, for example, has been irrefutably shown to cause pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, leukemia and brain tumors in children, and yet the FDA looks the other way while processed meat manufacturers continue to add sodium nitrite to meat products sold throughout the country.
What about all the children eating hot dogs and getting brain tumors from the highly carcinogenic nitrosamines created by eating such foods? No problem: Blame China! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As I've covered in previous articles here on NewsTarget, processed meats are linked to an increase in various cancers, including pancreatic cancers, brain tumors and colon cancers. Feeding hot dogs to children, in my opinion, is a form of child cruelty. Allowing these products to remain in the national food supply is, in my opinion, a form of mass chemical poisoning of the public.
I believe that most consumers who eat processed meat products do so blindly, without really thinking about what they're eating and where it came from. |
| LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Nothing in these photos is intended to imply that these processed meat products do not meet FDA or USDA regulations. I have no doubt these products meet all minimum government requirements for human consumption. Then again, the USDA openly approves the use of chicken poop as cattle feed, so you can't exactly say that USDA regulators are really interested in food regulations that most intelligent consumers would agree with. In any case, these photos do not show any evidence whatsoever that Jimmy Dean or Kraft Foods are violating food safety regulations. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So -- get this -- I put on a hat and sunglasses and actually stealthed my way through the Wal-Mart store, trying to buy these processed meat products without getting noticed! I know, it sounds ridiculous, but I've had people walk up to me in grocery stores before and start chatting about NewsTarget, and I didn't want to risk giving someone the wrong impression about my own lifestyle. This is actually a very important point with me because I live the lifestyle I recommend. I eat superfoods, exercise regularly and follow an incredibly clean diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Consumers who still want to eat meat products should look for nitrite-free meats, which are often available in the frozen foods or natural foods section of a grocery store." Adams eats no meats other than wild salmon and follows a largely raw foods / living foods diet. His own health statistics are posted online at www.HealthRanger.org
See the processed meat photos at: http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_yardobeef_1.html
View the processed meat video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The next part, however, was not so easy: I had to touch the meat products to prep them for the camera.
For someone who never eats processed meats (and, in fact, eats relatively little meat at all, and never meat from mammals), this was an especially challenging task. It didn't take long before the sickening smell of hot dogs, sodium lactate, sodium nitrite, beef hearts and pork parts filled my kitchen. And as I started taking the photos, there were several times I felt like gagging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| To summarize, the least healthy meat of all is commercially raised meat -- non-organic, non-free range, factory meat products. Healthier than that would be of course free-range meat, kosher-certified meat, and along the lines of similar health would be artificial meat. None of these meats, as I have stated, are in fact good for you if consumed in large quantities. I believe that meat is not necessary for the human diet, except perhaps in the case of pregnant women who need extra iron and protein. |
David Steinman
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 Organic Valley
As a producer of quality certified organic dairy and meat products, Organic Valley stands for quality and strongly supports sustainable and humane treatment of animals, particularly for its producers of not only beef but also hogs and dairy as well. The company stood up to retailing giant Wal-Mart and did not succumb to the giant's pressures to reduce pricing if it would have required them to dilute their product. Many people choose Organic Valley because of its outspoken commitment to small family farms—besides great taste. www.organicvalley. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Cellular destruction occurs in the cells of all types of dead animal flesh, as well as chicken and fish. All meat products have already been poisoned with decomposed and putrefied protein. A dead animal, bird or fish is no longer "fresh." Regardless of what you do with it, you cannot bring it back to life or turn it into living food for your body. Putrefaction and bacterial growth start immediately after death and are very advanced by the time the meat is several days or weeks old, as is the case by the time it is offered for sale in most grocery stores or meat markets.
Whether it is E. |
Ron Garner
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 Other food products such as those made from soy contain phytoestrogens, naturally occurring estrogens that are reported to be at much higher levels than those found in meat products. Several scientific studies have linked high levels of phytoestrogens to many hormonal problems, including early puberty in girls.31
When we understand how such foods are grown, processed, chemicalized, and promoted to the public, these hormonal side effects should not be too surprising. Excess estrogen, or xenoestrogens, in the body can produce a myriad of undesirable symptoms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Simply eating meat products is so destructive to the environment that you could actually do more to reduce global warming by going vegetarian than by ditching your car.
Magically, the purchasing of a handful of green products each week causes all that guilt to just melt away. The more green products we buy, many consumers believe, the greener the planet will be! Americans are the only people in the world who believe we can save the Earth by going shopping.
Be skeptical of manufacturers' claims
It's more important now than ever to be skeptical of "green" claims by product manufacturers. |
David Steinman
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| Coleman Purely Natural
Started in 1979, Coleman Purely Natural, based in Golden, Colorado, is the leading supplier today of natural and organic certified meat products. They've set the standards for what is natural and what is organic when it comes to beef, and Mel Coleman Jr. has traveled extensively across America to promote sustainable ranching, to build markets for America's family and small ranches, and to turn ranchers into America's grassland managers. Today, look for their growing brands, including Coleman Natural Meats, Petaluma Poultry, and Penn Valley Farms. www.colemannatural. |
| Some scientists have suggested that dairy and meat products were contaminated with anabolic estrogenic chemicals.24 (Also, say the EHP researchers, a genetic predisposition of Puerto Rican girls for developing premature thelarche is unlikely. Investigation among this ethnic group in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area did not reveal a similar pattern of early sexual development.)
The Premature Thelarche and Early Sexual Development (PTESD) Registry was established in 1988, collecting retrospective data to 1969 and prospective data to 1998. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Effect of cooking temperature on the formation of heterocyclic amines in fried meat products and pan residues. 116. Carcinogenesis 16, 861-867.
101. Corpet, D. E., Stamp, D., Medline, A., Minkin, S., Archer, M. C, and Bruce, W. R. (1990). Promotion of colonic microadenoma 117. growth in mice and rats fed cooked sugar or cooked casein and fat. Cancer Res. 50, 6955-6958.
Gerhardsson de Verdier, M., Hagman, U., Peters, R. K., Steineck, G., and Overvik, E. (1991). Meat, cooking methods and colorectal cancer: A case-referent study in Stockholm. Int. J. Cancer 49, 520-525. 118.
Schiffman, M. H. |
Bill Sardi
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 The greater the consumption of heme iron, from meat products, the greater the risk for cancer. [International Journal Cancer 117: 643-47, 2005]
* Iron and saturated fat appear to work in concert to promote colon cancer. In one study, researchers chemically induced colon tumors in rats. Then they fed rats lean beef with or without extra iron. No significant differences were found in the total number of colon tumors or the incidence of tumors between rats fed lean beef with iron and rats fed beef without added iron. When lean beef is consumed the risk for colon cancer is not increased. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Meat and meat products have 5 to 10 times the protein concentration of plant food proteins. Whereas you can easily overeat on animal protein, it is much less likely to overeat on proteins contained in vegetables, grains and nuts. The stomach would have to be at least five times larger to accommodate such large portions of food. It is common knowledge that the body is able to store unused sugar and other carbohydrates in the form of fat, but it is lesser known that the body also has a large "storage" capacity for protein. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Yet soy proponents have dismissed the very possibility that soy could be part of the problem, blaming "growth hormone factors" in meat products as the cause (though nothing in the study supports that conclusion) or by criticizing the methodology of the study, which depended upon interviews with subjects and accurate recall. The last is a common criticism of a retrospective study although the assumption that parents would accurately remember details as basic as the type of infant formula used and as alarming as the development of breasts in their toddlers is a reasonable one. |
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