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THE WHOLE FOOD PLANT-BASED NUTRITION APPROACH TO PREVENTING AND REVERSING DISEASE

KRISTEN BELL IN LOVE WITH REAL FOOD

FOOD & BREAST CANCER

SURVIVAL COULD IT BE CELIAC DISEASE?

IS YOUR DIET ALKALINE OR ACID FORMING?

INTO THE NAKED SPIRIT WITH

HOLIDAY

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Pills or Plants? Nutrition & Sexual Health Dietary Addictions: Why Eating Healthy Is So Difficult Diseases Of Affluence 3500 Years Ago

CONTENTS FALL 2014

FEATURES

NAKED HEALING Food & Breast Cancer Survival By Neal Barnard, MD

NAKED WELLNESS

PILLS OR PLANTS?

The Hard Facts on Nutrition & Sexual Health By Joel Kahn, MD

Soy And Breast Cancer Mortality By Pamela Popper, PhD

NAKED COLUMN The Evolution Beyond The Revolution By John Robbins

NAKED WISDOM Diseases Of Affluence 3500 Years Ago By Pamela Popper, PhD

NAKED FOOD Is Your Diet Alkaline Or Acid Forming? By Michael Greger, MD

NAKED DIET Dietary Addictions By Alan Goldhamer, DC

NAKED Q&A With Doug Lisle, PhD

NAKED HEALING Could It Be Celiac Disease? By John McDougall, MD

NAKED INTERVIEW With Kristen Bell

NAKED LIFESTYLE Biodynamic Wine By Michele Lastella

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FOOD &

BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL

BY NEAL BARNARD, MD

Healthful diets not only help prevent cancer; they also improve survival when cancer has been diagnosed. The first clues that foods might affect the course of breast cancer came from studies of women in Japan in the early 1960s. Compared to Western women, Japanese women were much less likely to develop the disease and much more likely to survive it if it occurred.1

in its early stages, important information has already come to light.

Over the next several decades, researchers have followed up on these observations to try to clarify what is the best diet for cancer survival. Although this work is still

Although weight gain often occurs after diagnosis, studies suggest that women who avoid weight gain after diagnosis tend to have longer disease-free survival.2

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One of the known factors affecting breast cancer survival is body weight. Women with breast cancer who are near their ideal body weight at the time of diagnosis are more likely to survive than are women with higher body weights.2

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EGGPLANT POMODORO TOWER Yield: 3-4 Servings. Recipe developed by the Naked Food Chefs.

INGREDIENTS For the tower: • 1 organic eggplant • 2 large organic tomatoes • Fresh organic basil leaves For the marinate: • 4 organic basil leaves • 1 tsp. nutritional yeast • Pinch of turmeric • Pinch of cumin • ½ tsp. tamari • 2 cups vegetable broth • Pepper to taste For the base sauce: • 2 medium organic tomatoes • Pinch of paprika • Fresh organic thyme • Ground pepper METHOD To make the towers, slice eggplant and tomatoes. Place all the marinate ingredients to a food processor or blender, blend for 30 seconds. Pour into a shallow dish, add eggplant and tomato slices and marinate for 10 minutes. In the meantime, add the base sauce ingredients to the food processor or blender. Set aside. Remove slices from marinate liquid and place on a non-stick baking dish or on a non-stick silicone pad. Place the largest slice of eggplant followed by a tomato slice going upwards. Repeat the process a couple of times and bake towers for 12-15 minutes at 375 degrees. Pour a spoonful of base sauce on serving dish for each baked tower. Garnish with fresh thyme, ground pepper, and basil.

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NAKED COLUMN

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the

I realize people might disagree with me about this,

difference between revolution and evolution.

but here’s what I mean: let’s say someone had a

This conversation is part of The Food Revolution

magic wand and could wave it and instantly the

Summit, which is put on by The Food Revolution

entire earth would become pristine. All the excess

Network. We use the word ‘revolution’ in this sense

carbon and other greenhouse gases would be

because our food system has become so toxic, so

gone from the atmosphere and from the oceans.

dominated by corporate interests that it is not

All the pollution would be gone from the lakes,

enough now to tweak it here and tweak it there.

rivers, and oceans; our topsoil would be back; our

It is not enough to deal with symptoms while over-

air quality would be pure; it would be a beautiful

looking the causes. We use the word ‘revolution’

world. But, if we hadn’t evolved, if we hadn’t become

because we need fundamental changes, guided

more conscious people, more responsible people,

we hope by love, that leads to greater health for

then in a few decades or centuries we would almost

each of us, and the whole earth community.

certainly just screw it all up again. We’d create what we have in fact created now, a polluted world where

On the other hand, the concept of revolution that

the power resides less and less in the hands of the

is presented in The Hunger Games is a decidedly

people, and more and more in the hands of the very

violent one. Donald Sutherland, the veteran actor

rich. A world with shrinking civil liberties, expand-

who plays President Snow, the tyrannical president

ing corporate influence, and increasing domestic

in The Hunger Games, has said that he hopes The

surveillance; a world very much like that depicted in

Hunger Games will stir up a revolution.

The Hunger Games. This is why I think we need to evolve as people, and why I have misgivings about

I sympathize with Donald Sutherland’s feelings. We

the kind of violent revolution the Hunger Games

absolutely need fundamental change, but there’s

seem to be calling for.

something about the call for the kind of violent revolution that the Hunger Games seems to be

John Robbins is the author of nine bestsellers that

about that I find, honestly, quite frightening. Some-

have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and

times I think we bandy about the word revolution

been translated into 26 languages. His books include

a little too flippantly, without regard for the misery and suffering violence often causes. With all due respect to The Hunger Games, maybe we need not so much to revolt as to evolve. Not so much to take up arms as to become more powerful people. There is a difference between force and power. We need to fully own our power, but I don’t think we do that through violence.

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The Food Revolution, Diet For A New America, and No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution. As an advocate for a compassionate and healthy way of life, John is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award, Green America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other accolades.

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DISEASES OF AFFLUENCE

3500 years ago BY PAMELA POPPER, PHD

For many years, Dr. John McDougall has called conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, “diseases of affluence.” Only the affluent can afford to eat the rich Western diet with lots of animal food, dairy, and refined and processed foods. The peasants of the world who live on potatoes and rice, on the other hand, are lean and healthier in spite of their lower economic status. 18

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IS YOUR DIET

ALKALINE

or acid forming? test it at home!

BY MICHAEL GREGER MD

I have presented evidence in the past challenging the notion that our body is buffering the acid formed from our diet with calcium from our bones. How then is our body neutralizing the acid? Maybe with our muscles! Our blood gets more acidic and our kidney function declines. Naked Food Magazine

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Dietary Addictions Why eating healthfully is so difficult BY ALAN GOLDHAMER, D.C.

Today, most people acknowledge that drugs, including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and cocaine, are addictive. It is common knowledge that repeated exposure to these substances can result in physical addiction and that the consequences of addiction can be devastating. Escaping the pleasure trap of addiction can be extremely difficult. Even the most effective treatment programs fail miserably for the vast majority of addicts. For example, the most effective treatment programs for alcoholism involve a period of intensive in-patient care for 30 days, followed by outpatient support often involving 90 visits in 90 days to a 12-step program. Of the highly motivated addicts who complete the program, over 70 percent fail. 28

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COULD IT BE

CELIAC DISEASE? BY JOHN MCDOUGALL MD

Intestinal problems that linger despite adherence to a plant-based diet may be the result of celiac disease (CD). As many as one in every hundred people—1% of the population—is affected by CD, a condition caused by gluten—protein molecules most commonly found in wheat, barley, and rye.1 Celiac disease prevents the small intestine from effectively absorbing necessary nutrients. This malabsorption then leads to diarrhea, abdominal pain, flatulence, weakness, and weight loss. These symptoms are often confused with irritable bowel syndrome and 10% of people who receive this diagnosis actually have CD.2 In late stages nutritional deficiencies can result.biologic changes that occur that are "on top of" or "in addition to" those directed by our basic set of genes that we inherit from our parents.)

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NAKED INTERVIEW

KRISTEN BELL IN LOVE WITH REAL FOOD. You know her as Anna from the film Frozen, as Veronica Mars, as Sarah Marshall, and as one half of a lovable Hollywood couple, however, Kristen Bell isn't your typical Hollywood starlet: She gardens. She loves picking fruit from her trees. She munches on avocados, and she drizzles life, love, and health in everything she does. Kristen (a vegetarian since age 11) and her husband Dax (a carnivore), turned into plant-based eaters after watching the documentary, Forks Over Knives. "It's more about the health benefits than the ethics," she concedes. "But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them." Mother, wife, role model, and actress, Kristen speaks to Naked Food about her views on food, her health secrets, and her undeniable love for plants.

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BIODYNAMIC WINE The pleasure of sustainable balance BY MICHELE LASTELLA

Wine is art, not an artifice. Balance makes it an art, and excess makes it an artifice. Wine is biodynamic, when it is sustainable. It is sustainable, if it is naturally grown. The biodynamic method is a holistic approach to agriculture that requires the elimination of all chemicals and artificial input to encourage the most natural and healthy environment in and around the vineyards. It is in balance when the quality is more important than the size of the production. In the same manner, there is balance as well when wine is enjoyed in moderation.

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