Apple:

• A good heart medicine.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Stabilizes blood sugar.
• Dampens appetite.
• Packed with chemicals that block cancer.
• Apple juice kills infectious viruses.

How much?
Eating two or three whole apples a day can lower blood cholesterol and slightly raise heart protective HDLs. The amount can also reduce blood pressure and help keep blood sugar levels steady. Generally, the higher your blood cholesterol, the greater the benefit.

Apricot:

• Best recognized as a possible cancer inhibitor, especially against smoking related cancers, like lung.

Note: For maximum benefit, eat dried apricots, they have much higher concentrations of beta carotene than the raw fruit.

Artichoke:

• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Stimulates bile and urine (diuretic)

Banana:

• Prevents and heals ulcers.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.

Barley:

• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• May inhibit cancer.
• Improves bowel function.
• Relieves constipation.

How much?
Eating foods made with barley products, such as flower, grits, flakes, or the grain itself, three times a day has lowered blood cholesterol by about 15%. Three muffins or scones made with barley flour eaten every day can completely clear up constipation.

Beans (Includes black beans, black eyed peas, chick peas, garbanzos, fava beans, kidney beans, lentils, lima beans, split peas, pinto beans, white Great Northern, navy and white beans:

• Reduces bad type blood cholesterol.
• Contains chemicals that inhibit cancer.
• Controls insulin and blood sugar.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Regulates functions of the colon.
• Prevents and cures constipation.
• Prevents hemorrhoids and other bowel problems.

How much?
A cup of cooked dried beans every day should send your bad LDL cholesterol down, control insulin and blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and keep you regular and your intestinal tract functioning in ways that may prevent gastrointestinal troubles like hemorrhoids and possibly bowel cancer.

Blackberry:

• Combats diarrhea.
• Kills infectious viruses.
• Blocks damage to blood vessels.
• Acts as a laxative in some people.

Broccoli:

• Lowers risk of cancer, especially colon and lung cancer.

How much?
Half a cup a day.

Brussel Sprouts:

• Lowers risk of cancer, especially colon and stomach cancer.

Cabbage:

• Lowers risk of cancer, especially colon.
• Prevents and heals ulcers.
• Stimulates immune system.
• Kills bacteria and viruses.
• Fosters growth.

How much?
Once a week can cut chances of colon cancer by 66%

Carrot:

• Blocks cancer, especially smoking related cancers.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Prevents constipation in some people.

How much?
1 carrot or half a cup a day cuts lung cancer risk by 50%.
2.5 carrots cuts blood cholesterol 11%

For best cancer protection, eat cooked carrots, but not over cooked or mushy carrots.

Cauliflower:

• Reduces risk of cancer, especially colon and stomach.

Cherry:

• Prevents cavities.

Chili Pepper:

• Excellent medicine for the lungs.
• Acts as an expectorant.
• Prevents and alleviates chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
• Acts as a decongestant.
• Helps dissolve blood clots.
• Kills pain.
• Induces Euphoria.

How much?
Ten to twenty drops of red hot chili sauce in a glass of water daily, or a hot spicy meal three times a week can help keep airways free of congestion, preventing or treating chronic bronchitis and colds. Two teaspoons of jalapeno pepper can rev up blood-clot-dissolving mechanism, protecting against heart disease and stroke.

Coffee:

• Improves mental performance.
• Relieves asthma (bronchodilator)
• Relives hay fever.
• Boosts physical energy.
• Prevents cavities.
• Contains chemicals that block cancer in animals.
• Elevates your mood.

How much?
Best dose seems to be a couple of cups of regular coffee a day—one in the morning, and one in the late afternoon.  5 cups a day could mean trouble, and nighttime coffee is verboten for people with insomnia.

Corn:

• Lowers risk of certain cancers.
• Lowers risk of heart disease.
• Helps prevent cavities.
• Oils lower blood cholesterol.

Note: Studies have soon that too much corn oil has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Too much also lowers immunity in mice.

Cranberry:

• Prevents urinary tract infections.
• Cleans bladder infections.
• Kills viruses and bacteria.
• Prevents kidney stones.
• Deodorizes urine.
• Prevents cancer.

How much?
Half a cup a day can ward off urinary tract and bladder infections.

Currant:

• Prevents and treats diarrhea.
• Protects blood vessels.
• Prolongs life.

Eggplant:

• Protects arteries from cholesterol damage.
• Contains chemicals that prevent cancer in animals.
• Contains chemicals that prevents convulsions.

Fig:

• Fights cancer.
• Juice kills bacteria.
• Juice kills roundworms.
• Aids digestion.

Fish:

• Thins the blood.
• Protects arteries from damage.
• Inhibits blood clots (antithrombotic)
• Reduces blood triglycerides.
• Lowers bad-type blood cholesterol.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Reduces risk of heart attack and stroke.
• Lessens symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Reduces the risk of lupus.
• Ameliorates migraine headaches.
• Acts as an anti-inflammatory agent.
• Regulates immune system.
• Prevents cancer.
• Relieves bronchial asthma.
• Combats early kidney disease.
• Increases mental energy.

How much?
An ounce of fish a day, or only one or two fish dishes a week may cut your risk of heart disease in half. Three ounces of canned mackerel a day lowers your blood pressure about seven percent. Four ounces of fish stimulates brain chemicals, making you more alert.

The most potent types of fish:

Mackerel
Salmon (Atlantic, Chinook, chum, coho, pink)
Bluefish
Tuna (albacore, bluefin)
Sturgeon, Atlantic
Sablefish
Herring
Anchovy
Sardines
Trout, lake

A special warning to diabetics!
Researches have discovered that omega-3 fish oil capsules can actually aggravate diabetes by producing a steep rise in blood sugar and a drop in insulin secretion.

Garlic:

• Fights infections.
• Contains cancer-preventive chemicals.
• Thinks the blood.
• Reduces blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides.
• Stimulates the immune system.
• Prevents and relieves chronic bronchitis.
• Acts as an expectorant and decongestant.

How much?
Half a raw garlic clove a day can rev up blood clot dissolving activity that helps prevent heart attacks and strokes. Only a couple of raw garlic cloves daily can keep blood cholesterol down in heart patients.

Ginger:

• Prevents motion sickness.
• Thins the blood.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Prevents cancer.

How much?
About half a teaspoon of powdered ginger root prevents motion sickness.

Grape:

• Inactivates viruses.
• Thwarts tooth decay.
• Rich in compounds that block cancer.

Note: Several tests showed grape juice to have mutagenic activity, tending to change genetic material in cells, foreshadowing cancer.

Grapefruit:

• Great for cardiovascular system.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Protects arteries from disease.
• Lowers risk of cancer.

How much? Eating the pectin in a couple of grapefruits a day may lower blood cholesterol by up to 19% and improve the critical HDL-cholesterol ratio.

Honey:

• Kills Bacteria.
• Disinfects wounds and sores (smearing it on wounds).
• Reduces perception of pain.
• Alleviates asthma.
• Soothes sore throats.
• Calms the nerves, induces sleep.
• Relieves diarrhea.

Kale:

• A good bet to block cancer of several types, especially lung.

How much?
Half a cup of day may help prevent cancer.

Lemon and Lime:

• Prevents and cures scurvy.
• Contains chemicals that block cancer.

Melon:

• Thins the blood.
• Rich in chemicals that may prevent cancer.

Milk:

• Prevents osteoporosis.
• Fights infections, especially diarrhea.
• Mollifies upset stomach from harsh foods and drugs.
• Prevents peptic ulcers.
• Prevents cavities.
• Prevents chronic bronchitis.
• Increases mental energy.
• Lowers high blood pressure.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Inhibits certain cancers.
• Boosts mental energy.

How much?
2 or 3 cups of vitamin D fortified skim milk a day may help ward off colon cancer; a couple of daily cups of whole milk may fend off ulcers. Only half a cup of skim milk or low fat milk can give your mental energy a boost.

Mushroom:

• Thins the blood.
• Prevents cancer.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Stimulates the immune system.
• Inactivates viruses.

Nuts:

• Contain chemicals that prevent cancer.
• Oil lowers blood cholesterol.
• Regulates blood sugar.

Oats:

• An excellent heart medicine.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Regulates blood sugur.
• Contains compound that prevent cancer.
• Combats inflammation of the skin.
• Acts as a laxative.

How much?
About one half cup of dry oat bran (a large bowlful cooked) or a cup of dry oatmeal a day can lower blood cholesterol.

Olive Oil:

• Good for the heart.
• Reduces bad LDL cholesterol.
• Raises good HDL cholesterol.
• Thins the blood.
• Contains chemicals that retard cancer and aging.
• Lowers risk of death from all causes!
• Lowers blood pressure.

How much?
Only one table spoon of olive oil wipes out the cholesterol raising effects of two eggs. 4 or 5 tables spoons of olive oil daily dramatically improve the blood profiles of heart attack patients. And 2/3 of a tablespoon daily lowered blood pressure in men.

Note: In rare cases, people eating high amounts of olive oil, especially at one time, have experienced temporary mild diarrhea.

Onion:

• Definitely a multi-faceted heart-blood medicine.
• Boosts beneficial HDL cholesterol.
• Thins the blood.
• Lowers total blood cholesterol.
• Regulates blood sugar.
• Kills bacteria.
• Relieves bronchial congestion.
• Blocks cancer

How much?
Only half a raw onion a day can boost your good HDL blood cholesterol by an average thirty percent. A mere tablespoon of cooked onions reverses the blood’s clotting tendency after eating a high fat meal. A half a cup of onions a day, raw or cooked, can keep your body in great shape in many ways.

Orange:

• Combats certain viruses.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Fights arterial plaque.
• Lowers the risk of certain cancers.

Tip: For maximum cholesterol-lowering and artery-protecting activity, be sure to eat the membranes and pulp of the oranges, which contains the pectin.

Note: In Canadian tests, orange juice bought at supermarkets did not display antiviral activity in test tubes.

Pea:

• High in contraceptive agents.
• Rich in compounds that prevent cancer.
• Prevents appendicitis.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.

Potato:

• Contains chemicals that may block cancer.

Note: Potatoes are high on the glycemic index, meaning they raise insulin and blood sugar levels quickly, which could be detrimental to diabetics.

Prune:

• Acts as a powerful laxative.

How much?
A mere half cup of prune juice a day produces a laxative effect in most people.
Rice:

• Lowers blood pressure.
• Fights diarrhea.
• Prevents kidney stones.
• Cleans psoriasis.
• Contains chemicals that prevent cancer.

Seaweed or Kelp

• Kills bacteria.
• Blocks cancer.
• Boosts immune system.
• Heals ulcers.
• Reduces blood cholesterol.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Prevents strokes.
• Thins the blood.

Shellfish:

• Good for the heart and brain.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Slashes triglycerides.
• Stimulates brain chemicals, boosting mental energy.

How much?
Three to four ounces of shellfish meat generally delivers enough mentally energizing chemicals to make you feel up and promote “brain power”. The same amount is good for your cardiovascular system.

Soybean:

• Excellent cardiovascular medicine.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Prevents and or dissolves gallstones.
• Reduces triglycerides.
• Regulates the bowels.
• Relieves constipation.
• Regulates blood sugar.
• Lowers cancer risk.
• Replaces estrogen.
• Promotes contraception.

How much?
One bowl of miso (soybean paste) soup a day slashes the risk of stomach cancer among Japanese by thirty percent. Eating soybean foods of any type six times a week can reduce abnormally high blood cholesterol by twenty percent.

Spanish:

• Lowers risk of cancer.
• Reduces blood cholesterol in animals.

How much?
Eating only half a cup of spinach a day, may cut the risk of cancer, especially of the lung, which it cuts nearly in half.

Squash and Pumpkin:

• Lowers the risk of cancer, especially of the lung.

How much?
An extra half cup of squash or pumpkin a day may lower the risk of cancer by half.

Strawberry:

• Destroys viruses.
• Linked to lower cancer deaths.

Sugar:

• Acts as a tranquilizer.
• Relieves anxiety and stress.
• Induces relaxation and sleep.
• Boosts concentration in some people.
• Acts as an antidepressant.
• Kills bacteria.
• Heals wounds (Smearing it on wounds).

How much?
About two and a half tablespoons of white sugar, a two ounce chocolate bar, or two ounces of gumdrops usually are enough to relieve mental anxiety and stress and induce relaxation and drowsiness.

Myths, Sugar does not:

• Induce hyperactivity in children.
• Lead to criminal behavior, haha, don't ask...
• Cause heart disease.
• Cause acne.
• Cause obesity. Although sugar contributes, fatty foods, often sweetened fatty foods are the main culprit.

Tea:

• Reduces cavities.
• Destroys bacteria and viruses.
• Fights infections.
• Contains chemicals that prevent cancer.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Strengthens capillaries.
• Retards atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
• Acts as a mild sedative (decaffeinated).

Tomato:

• Lowers cancer risk.
• Prevents appendicitis.

Turnip:

• Lowers risk of cancer.

Note: Eat at least some of your turnips raw. Cooking destroys some of the glucosinolates.

Wheat Bran:

• Relieves constipation.
• Prevents diverticular disease, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and haital hernia.
• Improves general bowel functioning.
• Linked to lower rates of colon cancer.

How much?
As a laxative, a mere three tablespoons of unprocessed bran or one ounce, a third of a cup of 100% bran cereal a day is enough to usually correct chronic constipation. Twice that much has produced diarrhea in some people, although research shows that individuals very enormously in their response to wheat bran.

Yam (Sweet Potato):

• Lowers risk of cancer.
• May lower blood cholesterol.

How much?
Eating an extra half a cup a day can slash chances of developing lung cancer by about half, even long after you have stopped smoking. Eating more than that probably gives the lungs more anticancer ammunition, researches believe, but they do not know how precisely what the optimum dose is.

Yogurt:

• Kills bacteria.
• Prevents and treats intestinal infections, including diarrhea.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Boosts immune system.
• Contains compounds that prevent ulcers.
• Has anticancer activity.

How much?
Three cups of yogurt a day have lowered blood cholesterol. A third to a half cup of skim milk yogurt daily has cured infants with severe diarrhea.

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