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Immune for life: super food success stories IMMUNE FOR LIFE: SUPER FOOD SUCCESS STORIES
I've used a Super Food diet as the basis of treatment for many of my patients. One woman, Sharon R., had a 20-year history of headaches. These were painful attacks on one side of her head; pounding pain accompanied by nausea and made worse by lights.
She showed me a long list of the drugs she had tried. There was aspirin, acetaminophen, codeine, Darvon and Ibuprofen. She had been put on a beta-blocker medication (Proprandol), an antidepressant and, most recently, a calcium-channel blocker (Verapamil). All these medications helped a bit but were hardly worth the side effects they caused.
After performing a thorough physical examination, ordering appropriate laboratory tests and taking a medical and personal history to rule out disease, I persuaded her to slowly reduce, then eliminate, her medications and change from her junk-food diet to a Super Food diet. Be sure to eat plenty of carrots, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, parsley, lentils and whole grains, I told her.
She did as I instructed—up to a point. She ate all the Super Foods I recommended and her favorite candy bars, which she insisted she could not do without. But as the days passed and she noticed that her headaches were fewer and milder, she realized that they were a reaction to the additives and sugar she was used to eating. Determined never to have another of those terrible headaches, she got rid of the candy and stuck to the Super Food diet. In the months since then, her headaches have disappeared and, as a bonus, she feels healthier and more energetic than she has in years. Oh yes, she doesn't crave candy bars anymore.
Bernice F. is another Super Food success story. She was a beautiful woman with clear, shiny skin that literally radiated health. Then she got a job as a representative for a major pharmaceutical company. Flying from city to city to put on trade conventions and meet with doctors, she ate nothing but bad hotel and restaurant food. Her diet was filled with processed foods, fatty foods, sugars and additives. Her skin became dry, and the beautiful complexion that had stopped men dead in their tracks was now pale and thick. She complained also of not being able to see well in dim light. "I must be aging," she sighed. Aging? She was only in her late 30's "What new drug will help my skin, Dr. Fox?" she asked.
I told her she didn't need drugs, she needed carrots. She had the classic signs and symptoms of a vitamin A deficiency. But you don't need vitamin A supplements, I said. Instead, eat lots of carrots, broccoli, spinach, cantaloupes and other Super Foods rich in beta carotene. Your body will convert into vitamin A exactly as much of the beta carotene as it needs.
Bernice still travels a lot, but now she stops at a market on her way from the airport to her hotel. She buys a small bag of fresh carrots and other Super Foods, which she has the hotel keep in their refrigerator for her. And she makes it a point to eat at least two carrots a day, plus as many other Super Foods as possible. Her skin has cleared up, her eyesight has returned to normal, and she's proud of the way she takes care of her "doctor within."
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