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Health Food: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary on Health Foods

Health Foods - Foods purported to be produced without the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides sprays and sold without the addition of chemical additives (preservatives, filters, article flavoring or coloring agents). Many are claimed to be natural (ie, not containing added chemicals) and purported to be healthier than the usual foods.

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Health Food: Encyclopedia II - Soul food - Soul food and health Developed by rural people who lived in difficult, often impoverished conditions, many of whom had forced upon them lives of grinding physical labor, soul food is humble, hearty fare. Traditionally, soul food is cooked and seasoned with pork products, and fried dishes were usually cooked with either lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is high in trans fats. Frequent consumption of these ingredients without significant exercise or activity to counteract the high caloric intake often contributes to disproportionately high occurrenc ...

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Health Food: Encyclopedia - Appropriate technology

Appropriate technology in a most basic sense means suitable technology. In practice, it is often something that might be described as using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve an intended purpose. Definitions differ, however, among those theorists, writers, and practitioners who use the term. The term has often, though not always, been applied to the predicaments of developing nations or underdeveloped rural areas of industrialized ...

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Health Food: Encyclopedia - Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength shorter than that of the visible region, but longer than that of soft X-rays. It can be subdivided into near UV (380–200 nm wavelength), far or vacuum UV (200–10 nm; abbrev. FUV or VUV), and extreme UV (1–31 nm; abbrev. EUV or XUV). When considering the effect of UV radiation on human health and the environment, the range of UV wavelengths is often subdivided into UVA (380–315 nm), also called Long Wave or " ...

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Health Food: Encyclopedia II - Secretary for Health Welfare and Food - List of office holders

After POAS was introduced Dr York Chow (2003-) Dr Yeoh Eng Kiong (2002-2003) (retired) Before POAS was introducted (as Secretary for Health and Welfare) Dr Yeoh Eng Kiong (1999-2002) (retired) Katherine Fok Lo Shiu Ching (1994-1999) (retired) Elizabeth Wong Chien Chi Lien (1991-1994) (retired) Chow Tak Hay (1989-1991) John Walter Chambers (198x-1989) ...

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Health Food: Encyclopedia II - Food coloring - Health problems

Although regulatory authorities like the FDA in the United States have banned many products from use in food due to safety concerns, debate still rages over the safety of those artificial colorings that are still permitted. In the USA, for example, the following artificial colorings are permitted in food: FD&C Blue No.1 - Brilliant Blue FCF FD&C Blue No.2 - Indigotine FD&C Green No.3 - Fast Green FCF FD&C Red No.40 - Allura Red AC FD&C Red No.3 - Erythrosine FD&C Yellow No.5 - TartrazineSee also:

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Health Food: Alternative Health Dictionary on Living Foods Lifestyle

Living Foods Lifestyle (Hippocrates Diet): Dietetic variation of self-healing originated by Ann Wigmore (1904-1994). It is the centerpiece of the Hippocrates health program.

The Hippocrates Diet comprises seven categories of uncooked (living) foods:

(1) specific fruits;

(2) specific vegetables;

(3) fresh juices extracted from fruits, vegetables, and sprouts;

(4) specific sprouts;

(5) nuts and seeds;

(6) fermented foods such as sauerkraut and miso; and

(7) unfiltered honey.

In The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program (1984), Wigmore stated that life energy is the active agent of enzymes and claimed that the diet stops unnecessary wastage of enzyme energy.

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Health Food: Alternative Health Dictionary on Chinese traditional food therapy

Chinese traditional food therapy (Chinese food therapy): Form of food therapy of ancient Chinese origin. According to its theory, food can fortify the vital force and one can nourish any unsound internal organ just by eating the corresponding organ of an animal. (See Chinese dietotherapy and Chinese System of Food Cures.)

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Health Food: Alternative Health Dictionary on Chinese System of Food Cures

Chinese System of Food Cures: Anthology of dietary prescriptions set forth by Henry C. Lu, Ph.D. The appropriateness of specific foods for particular symptoms, conditions, and diseases is based on three classes of food attributes: flavor, energy, and movement.

The system associates flavors - pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty - with different internal organs. Energies - cold, hot, warm, cool, and neutral - determine the ultimate effect of ingesting specific foods. Movement refers to the tendency of different foods to move in different directions in the body: outward, inward, upward, or downward.

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Health Food: Holistic Health Dictionary I on ORGANIC FOOD

ORGANIC FOOD

Is cultivated and processed without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides (insecticides and herbicides), preservatives, colorings, artificial additives or radiation. Certified Organically grown food is such: that has been grown on land where synthetic fertilizers or pesticides have not been used for five years; that has been inspected by a licensed independent third party; and that the product is supported by documentation on soil tests, a statement of organic intent, and an affidavit of confirmation.

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Health Food: Encyclopedia II - Soul food - Cookbooks

It was illegal for African slaves to read or write, and as with most rural cuisine, soul food has a primarily oral history. However, since the mid-20th century, many cookbooks highlighting soul food and African American foodways compiled by African Americans have been published and well received. Vertamae Grosvenor's Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, originally published in 1970, focused on South Carolina "lowcountry", Geechee, or Gullah, cooking. Its focus on spontaneity in the kitchen—cooking by "vibration" ...

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