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Foods to Avoid vs. Foods to Embrace

Starting with 9 foods to avoid: 1) White Bread and refined flours: They have been stripped of virtually all vitamins, minerals, fiber and other living things. White flour products are toxic, therefore the body assumes it is a toxin, mobilizes the immune system to "kill" the Wonder Bread, thereby distracting it from killing more important bugs and toxins like cancer and the 67 million/trillion (more or less) chemicals we encounter every day, just by breathing.

2) Conventional frozen meals: Diseases in a box and loaded with preservatives, processed salt, trans fats and other artificial ingredients. To add insult to injury, we end up microwaving these meals thereby confusing the molecules of the foods turning them into some sort of indigestible Frankenfood. Maybe Amy's is OK in a pinch, but there is still the microwave thing. Stop supporting the fast food industry. Life isn't so chock full that you can't use your crock pot, or plan meals and shop ahead of time. If I can do it, so can you.

3) White Rice: Yes, even yummy basmati. It is stripped of its nutrients, separated from the bran and the germ and furthermore, it spikes your blood sugar often to unhealthy levels. Brown rice is absorbed more slowly and even though it is a carb and will increase blood sugars, it will do so in a healthier fashion. I wouldn't eat even brown rice on a daily basis. Use it as a special occasion food.

4) Microwave popcorn: Terribly unhealthy, especially the buttered kind. Workers in microwave popcorn factories were inhaling the "butter" stuff and dying on account of a chemical called diacetyl which can destroy your lungs. Again, stop supporting the fast food industry, get yourself a nice little air popper at Bed Bath and Beyond and use organic kernels. Then douse your home-made popcorn with organic butter, or coconut oil, maybe some nutritional yeast flakes and Himalayan pink sea salt. Keep those tempting little boxes out of your house.

5) Cured meat products with nitrates and nitrites which cause heart disease and cancer: This means most deli meats, bacon and sausage. If you buy Applegate Farms deli meats or Wellshire Farms bacon, it should be OK, but get in the habit of READING LABELS in all situations.

6) Most conventional protein, energy bars: Most contain soy (which is a GMO food), refined sugars, hydrogenated fats and other harmful ingredients which cause chronic illnesses. There are some good bars out there, like the one I carry from Designs for Health called CocoImmune Bars. Very healthy, low calorie, no sugar, tastes like a Mounds Bar. Again, just read the ingredient labels to be sure you know what you are buying.

7) Margerine: Yes, even that so-called good margarine they sell in the ugly yellow and tan tub at Whole foods. If you read the label, it says all the right things, but really, ask yourself this: Did God make this product? Can you find this product in nature? Did a margarine cow squirt it out into the plastic container? Why is it yellow? Why does is spread so easily? I tried it once, used the whole container spreading it on endless pieces of toast, noted how I felt and noticed that I didn't feel good about it. Now I am back to using organic butter.

8) Soy milk and soy based meat substitutes: Very importantly, there is the whole GMO thing to consider. First of all, if you are not GMO savvy, then google GMO's, get yourself scared witless then you will never touch another soy product again. If you must eat that white block of tasteless nothing, please get organic and non GMO. Fermented soy products, like tamari are OK in moderation, but there is still the GMO thing to consider so get organic, non-GMO. Keep in mind also, that non fermented soy is highly estrogenic which can throw your natural hormone balance out of whack.

9) Anything with the word "diet" attached to it: Most "diet" products contain aspartame which comes directly from Satan's assembly line. It is implicated in everything, especially nasties like blood disorders (leukemia, Hodgkin's) and many neurological disorders. This is not just heresy - I have seen this in my own practice. "Diet" also contains chemical flavoring agents which can cause, among other things, ADHD in children and adults.

OK, so I know what not to eat. What can and should I eat? Here are your top anti-aging foods which if we all threw these in our weekly shopping cart, we would be well ahead of our own personal Hunger Games of Ultimate Deanimation. As you can see, I will use any euphemism to avoid the word, death...

1) Leafy Greens and Cruciferous vegetables: Anti-cancer, anti-dementia, support bone and eye health and they contain folate and calcium.

2) Apricots: Granted, they will have to be those homely little dark brown, shriveled organic apricots (which look strangely like something I encountered in cadaver lab) until the short apricot season this summer, but go for it. They are filled with carotenoids, a wonderful anti-ager. If you must, the nonorganic Cost Co kind will do in a pinch.

3) Berries: These have the highest anti-oxidant levels (ORAC values) of any fruits. Contains anthocyanin and the flavenol, Quercitin that decreases the risks for cancer and dementia and nicely reduces inflammation which lately, seems to be the root of all evil and disease.

4) Olive Oil: Please. I have written so much about the Mediterranean Diet. Just eat lots of EVOO daily. I make a tomato sauce with lots of EVOO, garlic, onion, Roma tomatoes, and Italian spices, cook it down for a while until it's thick-ish and like a sauce, then heap it all over vegetables, like a mixture of cauliflower and zucchini, or carrots and broccoli. It's like pasta without the pasta.

5) Wild Alaskan Salmon: Don't use farmed as there is a new virus that is infecting most farmed salmon now. The virus is not transhuman, but dangerous nonetheless. It is feared that the fish farms (no better than CAFO's) will "leak" this virus into the ocean waters, then it's belly up for all fish. Eat it while you can.

6) Tomatoes: Lycopene is a wonderful antioxidant for the skin and also good for the prostate. Drizzle some of your ever present EVOO on your tomatoes to enhance absorption. I have found a good Spanish EVOO at Whole Foods, sold in bulk. Make the aforementioned sauce weekly.

7) Raw almonds: I know the salted, tamaried ones are good tasting, but raw is better, so get used to them. They contain vitamin E which neutralizes free radicals. They are also highly caloric (1/2 C, about 500 calories) so watch out if you are counting calories.

8) Avocado: Lots and lots of omega 3's and an excellent vegetarian source. Good for wrinkles. It is also alkalinizing.


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