Luca Turin
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 Most people don't realize, however, that the proper 'bitter' almonds were quite toxic, and that mutants have been selected which lack both the toxicity and the bitter flavour, since one was responsible for the other. Modern almonds taste great, but show no hint of marzipan. Why were they so toxic? Proponents of Intelligent Design in evolution* will appreciate the answer. The smell of bitter almonds is due to a compound called mandelonitrile. It belongs to a class of compounds called cyanohydrins, which have a CN and an OH group next to each other. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are oils in almonds that can prevent and even help reverse cardiovascular disease. They can reduce your risk of heart attacks and strokes. They even help enhance nervous system function. These oils will also help you regulate blood sugar levels, and there are phytochemicals in almonds that help fight cancer and regulate the growth of cancer tumors. In fact, almonds are one of the healing foods that I name in my upcoming book, Grocery Healing. They are a fantastic way to create a healing effect in your body. |
Jack Challem
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 Eat the almonds between bites of the figs. The fiber and the carbohydrates in the almonds will help to buffer the sugar in the figs.
Dates with Peanut Butter (Serves 2)
2 Medjool dates peanut butter
Slice the dates in half lengthwise and remove the pit. With a butter knife, smear peanut butter into the hollow left by the pit. You may also try this with almond butter or cream cheese. We recommend buying organic peanut and almond butter, or cream cheese, at health food stores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Following NewsTarget's original story about the Almond Board of California launching plans to falsely label pasteurized almonds as raw, the organization changed its story in emails being sent to consumers, and now claims the rules have nothing to do with the actual labeling of almonds. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 BITTER almonds fincke h, z Untersuch Lebensm 52:423. 1926. le quesne pw et al., JNP 48:496. 1985. opdyke dlj, (1976) Food Cosmet Toxicol: 14. salvo f et al., riv ital sostanze grasse 57:24. 1980. saura-calixto f et al., fette, seifen, anstrichm 87:4. 1985.
SWEET almonds fincke h, z Untersuch Lebensm 52:423. 1926. le quesne pw et al., JNP 48:496. 1985. opdyke dlj, (1976) Food Cosmet Toxicol: 14. rosenthaler l, Ber Pharm Ges 30:13. 1920. salvo f et al., riv ital sostanze grasse 57:24. 1980.
Saura-Calixto F et al., Fette, Seifen, Anstrichm 87:4. 1985. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Cholesterol 0 mg - Sodium 190 mg - Total Carbohydrate 12 g Dietary Fiber 4 g - Sugars 7 g - Protein 6 g - Calcium 6% DV
Yogurt and Fruit Parfait
]A cup ground almonds
2 tablespoons ground or milled flaxseed
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
% cup berries
Raw honey (optional)
In small bowl, mix almonds with flaxseed. In parfait glass, alternately layer yogurt, berries, and almond-flaxseed mixture. If desired, drizzle a small amount of honey on top. Makes 1 serving.
NUTRITION FACTS
Amount Per Serving: Calories 480 - Calories from Fat 240 - Total Fat 27 g Saturated Fat 4. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Almond Board of California is destroying the future of almonds grown in America, forcing companies like his to source their almonds from other countries where they still respect raw, living foods and don't try to pasteurize everything. To read the full story on the bizarre almond situation in California (and the willful destruction of the raw almond industry by the ABC), read my report: http://www.newstarget.com/021776.html
Eric Lancaster from EM American (www.emamerica. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Once the mandatory rule comes into effect, all almonds commercially grown in California must be pasteurized before being sold to consumers in the US, Canada and Mexico.
Sincerely,
The Almond Board of California
April 6th letter from the Almond Board
We appreciate your comments and suggestions about the pasteurization of raw almonds.
The almond industry strives to provide consumers with a product that they can enjoy, that is safe, and that can benefit health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are starting with the word, "raw," which the Almond Board insists should now mean heating almonds to a high temperature for a duration sufficient to kill virtually all microorganisms that might be hitching a ride on the almonds. This concept was formally known to rational people as "pasteurization," but will now be called "raw" according to USDA regulations.
If you connect the dots on all this, you come to the startling realization that irradiated, chemically treated nuts grown with pesticides will soon be labeled raw, organic nuts.
Why? |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Fifteen almonds is a portion. If you buy those big convenience bags, don't take the whole bag with you to "snack" on—portion out your serving, put it in a little bag, and put the rest away.
Craving Sugar? Try Sauteed Almonds
Here's a neat treat that'll satisfy a craving for dessert: saute some raw almonds in butter, or bake them and melt a little butter on top. Use a bit of sea salt if you like. Remember to watch the portion size (see previous tip). |
C. P. Khare
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 In Indian medicine, almonds are considered highly nutritions, demulcent and stimulant nervine tonic. They are also considered diuretic.
Bitter almonds (var. amara) are poisonous, contain cyanogenic glycosides—amygdalin 0.2-8.5 % (12-500 mg prussic acid per 100 g accordingly).
Use in Western herbal
John Gerard (1545-1612) wrote of almond oil: "The oil newly pressed out of sweet almonds is a mitiga-tor of pain and all manner of aches, therefore it is good in pleurisy and colic. The oil of almonds makes smooth hands and face of delicate."
Culpepper (1616-1654) wrote of almond butter: "... |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| OVERDOSAGE
AMYGDALES AMARES
10 bitter almonds are said to be fatal for a child, 60 for an adult (a fatal dosage would presumably be already reached at a lower level, given disadvantageous conditions - higher cyanide level in the almonds, intensive chewing). Recommended antidotes include injection of solutions of dicobalt-EDTA or thiosulfates or else application of methemoglobin-forming substances, as for example, amyl nitrite. At the same time, vomiting should be induced or the stomach emptied. Circulatory support measures and/or artificial respiration might be required. |
| Production: Sweet almonds are the fruits of Prunus amygdalus dulces. Bitter almonds are the fruit of Prunus amygdalus amares.
Other Names: Greek Nuts, Jordan Almond, Sweet Almond, Bitter Almond
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS: AMYGDALES DULCES
Non-dehydrating fatty oil
Chief fatty acids: oleic acid and linolenic acid
Mucilages
EFFECTS: AMYGDALES DULCES
As a demulcent.
COMPOUNDS: AMYGDALES AMARES
Cyanogenic glycosides: Amygdalin 0.2-8. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Serves 3
Vegetable Almondine Bake_
3 ounces wheat flakes
3 ounces onion, chopped
3 ounces tomato, chopped
3 ounces green pepper, chopped
1 1/2 ounces scallions, chopped
1 1/2 ounces almonds, blanched and slivered 1/4 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon sage 1/4 teaspoon curry 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sesame oil
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease 4x8 baking dish with sesame oil. Cook wheat flakes in 12 ounces water for 10 to 12 minutes. Saute vegetables, almonds, thyme, sage, curry and salt in a skillet with sesame oil for 5 minutes. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Food sources: almonds, hazelnuts, oats, lentils, beans, figs, currants, raisins, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kelp, and leafy green vegetables, especially kale, which is very high in an easily absorbed form of calcium.39
Supplements: Bone meal, dolomite, and oyster shell calcium supplements have been found to have the highest levels of lead and should not be used as a supplement.40 Calcium citrate and calcium gluconate have a much better absorption level.41 One of the best forms of absorbable calcium is microcrystalline hydroxyapatite. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Good food sources are almonds, honey, beets (including greens), and high-quality protein foods like egg yolks and organ meats (liver, kidney, heart), preferably organic. Herbs high in iron are nettles, dandelion, and alfalfa, as well as kelp. |
| Foods high in magnesium include kelp, wheat bran, wheat germ, almonds, cashews, molasses, brewer's yeast, buckwheat, Brazil nuts, dulse, filberts, peanuts, millet, whole wheat, pecans, walnuts, rye, tofu, beet greens, and coconut.
Magnesium
500-750 mg per day
Manganese. Manganese may be one of the most important trace nutrients related to osteoporosis. Manganese deficiency causes a reduction in the amount of calcium laid down in the bone and thereby an increased susceptibility to fracture. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Hershey's best-selling bar contained almonds imported from southern Europe, dropped by machines into the waiting molds. And by the late 1920s, some 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) of Hershey's Cocoa was being produced each day by the factory. But even more popular than these were "Hershey's Kisses," little, bite-sized, flat-bottomed drops of milk chocolate, individually wrapped by machine; these found immediate favor with the public, and by the 1980s no less than 25 million Kisses daily dropped off Hershey's conveyor belts into their waiting boxes. |
| One of the earliest notices of this drink is by the hand of a man known to scholars as the Anonymous Conqueror, described as "a gentleman of Hernan Cortes," whose description of Tenochtitlan was published in Venice in 1556:
These seeds which are called almonds or cacao are ground and made into powder, and other small seeds are ground, and this powder is put into certain basins with a point [whatever that may mean], and then they put water on it and mix it with a spoon. |
| The large sapote seed, which comes in a shiny, brown, hard shell within the creamy, orange-red flesh of the fruit, contributes a taste which is merely bitter to some, and like bittet almonds to others. This chocolatl could then be elaborated with any one of the thtee principal spices, or with honey. The last step in its preparation was to beat it until a foamy head was formed; given that the technique of pouring to produce the foam is not mentioned, the tecipe and its name may well not be pre-Conquest in origin (certainly the name was not, as we shall see). |
| Cookbooks of the 18th and 19th century are always warning us about the adulteration of chocolate, with everything from brick dust to red lead being added to replace the cacao solids, and the cacao butter being substituted by cheaper oil of sweet almonds, lard, or marrow. Let us hope that at any rate brick dust and red lead no longer lurk in our chocolate. |
| The guilds guarded against adulteration by unscrupulous grinders, who are said to have made their concoction with almonds, pine nuts, flout, acorns, coffee (!), bread and cake crumbs from confectionety shops and bakeries, pepper, and even orange peel that had been dried and ground.16
Travelers generally thought highly of Spanish chocolate. |
| Next, the guests were treated to cups of chocolate, confitures, biscuits, marzipans, dragees (sugared almonds), and pralines. "One regaled oneself heartily, one filled one's pockets, handkerchief, hat; your servant carried it home with you."20
Italy
Across a country as varied in government and history as 18th-century Italy there was considerable variation in the preparation and use of chocolate and other stimulating hot drinks. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 For example, almonds have 70% fat, and pork has only 58%. However, pork has one of the highest acid values, -38, while almonds are alkaline forming, +3.42 This is why it is so crucial to know, in addition to nutritional value, the pH index — to have it available and handy at every store, printed on each food label, showing its ability to alkalize the body. Knowing the pH indexes of various foods can help us balance our personal daily meal plans. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Characteristics: The seeds taste somewhat like almonds.
Habitat: Pumpkin is indigenous to America and widely cultivated, especially in temperate Climates.
Production: Pumpkin seed consists of the ripe, dried seed of Cucurbita pepo and cultivated varieties of Cucurbita pepo. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 It used soy substitutes instead of meat and milk and included almonds and cholesterol-lowering margarine (such as Take Control) every day.
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Where psyllium shines is when it is included with a heart-healthy "portfolio" diet. Canadian researchers have found that combining cholesterol-lowering foods with psyllium can produce
ELEMENTS OF THE "PORTFOl 10" VEGETARIAN DIET
• almonds (V2 ounce, or 13 nuts)
• Barley
• Eggplant
• Margarine (like Take Control)
• Oats
• Okra
• Psyllium
• Soy meat analogues (burgers, dogs, deli slices) impressive lipid changes after 1 month. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Reduce or avoid almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and peanuts. and increases high-lysine foods has become quite popular. This concept arose out of two findings. First, we know that the replication of the herpes simplex virus requires the manufacture of proteins rich in arginine, and arginine itself may be a stimulator of HSV replication. Second, laboratory research has shown that lysine has antiviral activity that blocks arginine7 and that an arginine-deficient environment suppresses HSV replication. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Other antiparasitic foods include onions, kelp, blackberries, raw cabbage, and ground almonds.31
Herbal remedies have been used effectively for centuries for the treatment of parasitic infections. These remedies can also help prevent a parasitic infection when water or food conditions are questionable. Some practitioners advise continuing any treatment regimen until at least two parasite tests, performed one month apart on purged stool specimens, are negative. Here are a few of the most effective antiparasitic herbs:
• Citrus seed extract. |
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