How to Avoid Excessive Residues in your Food: Hormone Disrupters

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How to avoid Excessive Residues in your Food: Hormone Disrupters

JoAnn Guest

Nov 22, 2004 13:03 PST

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How to avoid Excessive Residues in your Foods:

Hormone Disrupters

 

Here are several simple cooking suggestions, from our kitchen to yours,

that we hope will be helpful and useful when preparing meals. Choosing

the best quality ingredients, proper cleaning and storage of both

uncooked and cooked food items are practical tips that we feel are

essential in creating the most delicious and nutritious meals for you,

your family and friends.

 

Purchase organic food whenever available.

Know where your food came from and try to buy it from trusted sources.

Purchase locally grown produce (farmers markets) and food items whenever

sesonally available.

 

For non organic produce, soak in a mild water and lemon, water and

vinegar, or organic citrus based solution several minutes and then

scrub. Peel any waxed, oiled or heavy sprayed produce.

 

Gently but firmly scrub, under cold water with a vegetable brush, the

skin of vegetables such as carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips,

rutabaga, burdock, daikon radish, celery, winter and summer squash.

 

Soak leafy green vegetables and fresh mushrooms several minutes in

cold water then wash each leaf or cap individually under running cold

water prior to chopping and cooking.

 

Wash all fresh fruit in a bowl of cold water or with a vegetable

brush prior to eating or cooking. Peel all waxed or heavily sprayed

fruit.

 

Sort through all uncooked grains, beans and seeds and remove any

stones, stems or badly damaged beans prior to washing.

 

Wash all uncooked grains, beans and seeds in a bowl of cold water 1

to 3 times, rinse and drain before cooking.

 

It is not necessary to wash organic cracked or refined grains such as

cous cous, bulgur, white rice or polenta.

 

Wash the sea vegetables Hiziki, Arame, and Wakame, uncooked, 1 to 2

times in a bowl of cold water before soaking and cooking.

 

Eden Kombu only needs a quick rinse under cold water. Eden Nori, Sushi

Nori, Instant Wakame Flakes, Agar Agar Bars and Agar Flakes do not need

washing.

 

Dried foods such as Eden Dried Daikon, Eden Dried Lotus, Eden

Shiitake Mushrooms, dried lotus seeds, dried chestnuts and dried fruits

only need a quick rinse under cold water prior to soaking and cooking.

 

Soaking water from Eden Dried Daikon, Eden Dried Lotus, Eden

Shiitake, and Eden Kombu may all be reserved and used as part of the

water measurement for recipes.

 

Store all dry food items such as grains, beans, seeds, nuts and sea

vegetables in tightly sealed containers, in a cool, dark and dry storage

area. Exposure of these items to excessive heat, light and humidity may

cause spoilage.

 

Look for bright, crisp, firm produce to ensure better flavor and more

nutritious food. Try to shop for fresh produce on a weekly or bi-weekly

bases

 

Store all oils, vinegars, shoyu, tamari and miso in a cool, dark area or

refrigerate.

 

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Wash and peel all fruits or vegetables that are waxed, as the wax seals

in toxins that may have been

on the surface while grown. Also wash all fruits and vegetables before

you eat them or better yet, when you get them home from the store.

 

You can use a very diluted mixture of organic soap and water, then scrub

with a vegetable brush, just be sure to rinse well. Or buy an organic

product designed to dissolve pesticides and you can also use salt &

lemon water to dissolve the toxins from your produce, just always be

sure to scrub them.

 

Even organic produce should be washed before eating, simply because you

don't know who was handling it, but organic is your best bet if you are

trying to cut down on pesticide toxins.

Every measure you can take will help in the long run, even if you think

it isn't worth the effort

 

Pesticides are a known endocrine disrupter and they are simply chemicals

that alter or mimic your hormones.

 

Unfortunately, hormone disrupters are a much stronger form of estrogen,

unlike what you body naturally produces.

 

When exposed to these chemicals they 'alter'

the way our natural hormones act, and yes, that inculdes your thyroid

hormones.

 

Hormone disrupters are known to cause reproductive problems, especially

in women, although men are now being affected. These disrupters can be

inhaled, ingested or simply absorbed through the skin, so it's

imperative that you take the necessary precautions when deciding on what

foods to eat, water to drink---

and well, we don't always have a choice on the air we breath, so any

type of precautionary measures are beneficial.

 

Your natural hormones are designed to do their specific job and

generally are short lived in the body. Hormone disrupters are long lived

in the body and are stored in the fat cells and are very burdensome on

the liver because they can continue to re-circulate through your body.

 

For women, that means that most our fat cells are located in the fatty

tissues of the breast, ovaries, uterus as well as the brain and other

areas. This is one instance when detoxifying helps on a daily or weekly

basis.

 

Baths are a great way to detoxify and simply by drinking enough water,

eating the right foods and building up your immune system will lesson

the toxic burden on your body.

 

The more exposure you have to environmental toxins, the greater the

chance of you suffering ill health. It's these toxins that prevent our

bodies natural progesterone from doing it's job, allowing for estrogen

dominance!

 

It's not the amount of progesterone your body produces, but the balance

between progesterone and estrogen that's most important.

 

Progesterone levels should be one hundred to two hundred times greater

than estrogen if done by a saliva test in order for the progesterone to

protect you from excess estrogen.

 

Please, be aware of the difference in a natural progesterone and a

synthetic one. Also be aware that some sources also

will tell you that horses urine is natural, I disagree, because our

bodies are not designed to metabolize it, we lack those specific

enzymes.

 

Progestin is a term used to cover a large group of synthetic drugs that

have a progesterone effect on the uterus.

" Data suggest that progestin therapy may have adverse effects on lipid

and carbohydrate metabolism. The choice of progestin, its dose, and its

regimen may be important in minimizing these adverse effects, but these

issues will require further study before they are clarified.

Women with hyperlipidemias and/or diabetes should be monitored closely

during progestin therapy. "

 

Progestogen is any natural [such as from horses, for instance,

does not act the same in our bodies] or synthetic hormone substance that

produces effects similar to those of progesterone.

 

Progesterone refers to the natural steroid hormone obtained from the

corpus luteum and placenta.

It is responsible for changes in the Endometrium in the 2nd half of the

menstrual cycle prepetory to implantation of the blastocyst, development

of the maternal placenta after implantation and development of the

mammary glands.

A corpus luteum hormone that prepares the Endometrium for implantation

of the fertilized ovum. Progesterone and estrogen are main hormones.

Progesterone is the precursor to steroid hormones.

 

It's best to ask if the drug you intend to take is natural, or synthetic

and request a copy of the side effects.

Man made hormones are NOT

found in nature and cause toxic effects on the body and hormones from

animals are

even more potent than " phytoestrogens "

or those that our bodies produce from plant foods.

 

Something I feel is important to add is that it has been found when

women who have a progesterone deficiency had 5.4 times the risk of

premenopausal breast cancer and tenfold increase of death from this

cancer.

 

Hormone disrupters inhibit progesterone and so can high levels of

estrogen in the body because they can bind to the progesterone receptor.

 

 

You can actually

have a hormone test done and your progesterone levels will be normal,

BUT, what happens is the progesterone is not working within the body

because the receptors are blocked resulting in an imbalance between

estrogen and progesterone.

 

It's been found that HBC [hexochlorabenzene] suppresses progesterone

production during the luteal phase. Dixon also blocks the protective

effects of progesterone in endometriosis, this happened to me.

 

 

Keep in mind, it's the balance of estrogen and progesterone that's most

important, not so much as being dominate in one or the other. If you are

stressed, the hormone cortisol [produced during stress] will also bind

with progesterone receptors and block the positive effects of

progesterone by decreasing it's effects.

 

 

Robin

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