REAL FOOD IS GROWN. NOT BORN. GIFT LIFE THIS HOLIDAY | NAKEDFOODMAGAZINE.COM CONTENTS FEATURES FALL 2015 6 NAKED HEALING Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival By Michael Greger, MD 14 NAKED WISDOM Just To Be Safe… Don't Take Vitamins By John McDougall, MD 22 NAKED FOOD Top Whole Food Substitutes For Unhealthy Recipe Ingredients By Chef Del Sroufe 26 NAKED LIFESTYLE The Warning Signs of Clogged Arteries By Neal Barnard, MD 34 NAKED PLANET Taking Global Warming Personally By Kathy Freston 40 38 NAKED SPOTLIGHT 7 Reasons To Drink Lemon Water NAKED LIFE By Margarita Restrepo, CPBN WHY ORGANIC? 46 NAKED ROCKSTAR By Brian Hetrich, CNC, ND, Top 8 Tips For Achieving Success The Hippocrates Health Institute As A Plant-Based Athlete By Robert Cheeke 50 NAKED TRUTH The Highly Over-Used And Over-Prescribed Antibiotics By Pamela Popper, PhD 56 NAKED WELLNESS The Importance Of A Kidney-Cleansing Diet By Edward F. Group III, DC, ND 60 NAKED COLUMN Can We Trust Sponsored Research Studies? THIS ISSUE FAVORITES! By Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH Page 44 FROM THE EDITOR DANCING IN THE RAIN 32 Fall is one Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the holiday spirit and the culmination of the NEW AUTHENTIC KIND & ENLIGHTENED DIET year. I love seeing sparkling lights everywhere, people singing, sharing, and enjoying one another. Editor-in-Chief MARGARITA RESTREPO Copy Editors DENISE DESERIO 24 Through the year, I struggle with JUDITH MAGER friends or family that get ill or lose DIANE TILLEY Public Relations LAUREN BUTTON someone themselves. It shocks me MARK BUTTON that, sometimes, only after a major Art Director MARGARITA RESTREPO scare or a major loss we decide to Graphic Design & Branding BIG BRAND MACHINE NAKED KITCHEN make a change in our lives. Advisory Board T. COLIN CAMPBELL PH.D. All Recipes by the Naked Food Chefs except as noted. CALDWELL ESSELSTYN JR. M.D. Therefore, during this time, mostly, I JOHN ROBBINS am truly thankful, and I remind my- John MCDougall M.D. 11 Rice, Bean, & Pistachio Croquettes MICHAEL GREGER M.D. self that I have given the opportunity DAVID KATZ M.D. 12 Maple Tofu Steak Towers to be in this planet with a purpose. MICHAEL KLAPER M.D. Roasted Chestnut, Carrot, & Turmeric Bisque I am grateful for what I've lived, Brian Clement PH.D. 20 ANNA MARIA CLEMENT PH.D. and for what is coming — without Holiday Stuffed Acorn Squash 24 it, I wouldn't be doing what I do. I Photography La Perla Foto 5-Minute Cranberry Relish by Chef AJ am thankful for my losses, and I am Ksenia Shachmester 31 grateful for my gains. As said by Food And More Holiday Feast Smoothies Charlotte Lake 32 a wise anonymous, life isn't about Alena Haurylik 37 Naked Creamed Kale waiting for the storm to pass, it's Arjuna Kodisinghe about learning to dance in the rain. Fernando Cortes De Pablo 45 Fabulous Mushroom Stuffing Elena Elisseeva Elena Veselova 48 Sweet Potato Lasagna by Forks Over Knives I am thankful for you, for your love, Brent Hofacker and for dancing along. Together we Mike Kiev 54 Caramelized Brussels Sprouts 64 Stock Photo 123RF are inspiring others to dance. It's not 64 Pumpkin Raisin Muffins by Chef AJ just our plates that we are changing. It's the human soul. REUSE REDUCE RECYCLE SOY INK Have a wonderful holiday! WHOLE IS FOR WHOLESALE! We want to make it really easy Questions and Feedback: [email protected] for everyone to have Naked Or visit: www.NakedFoodMagazine.com | Facebook/Naked-Food-Magazine | Twitter @NakedFoodMag Corrections Food Magazine at their store, Spring Issue: Naked Almond cafe, restaurant, juice bar, or OUR COVER Naked Food Magazine is published quarterly by Naked Republic, Inc. ISSN 2373-4035. The known office Milk (Page 43) Recipe wellness center. 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Founder and Editor-in-Chief regular professional health care. Naked Food Magazine 7 NAKED HEALING Previously they famously reported that simple changes, five or more servings of fruits and veg- QUADRUPLING gies a day and just walking 30 minutes a day six days a week, were associated with a significant survival advantage, cutting the risk of death nearly in half. Note: it was fruits and veggies and exercise. You can see the proportion of women BREAST with breast cancer surviving nine years in the study if they had low fruit and vegetable consumption and low physical activity, compared to those high in one and low in the other, com- pared to the survival curve of those high in both. CANCER It worked just as well in women with estrogen receptor negative tumors, which normally have twice the mortality, unless women eat those few SURVIVAL fruits and veggies and take a few strolls. BY MICHAEL GREGER, MD Imagine, for a second, you or a loved one has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Imag- Half a million Americans are expected to die ine sitting in that chair, in the doctor’s office, as this year from cancer, equal to five jumbo jets your doctor gives you the news. The doctor says, crashing every day. The number of Americans "There’s a new experimental treatment that can who die from cancer each year is more than cut your chances of dying in the next few years all those who have died in all U.S. wars com- from 16 percent down to just 4 percent." To qua- bined. And this happens every single year. After druple their survival rate, many women would a cancer diagnosis people tend to clean up their re-mortgage their homes to fly to some quack diets. About a third to a half of breast cancer clinic in Mexico and would lose all their hair to patients, for example, make healthy dietary chemo, but most, apparently, couldn’t stand changes following diagnosis, such as increasing the thought of eating broccoli. The Women’s fruit and vegetable consumption and decreasing Healthy Eating and Living Study found that meat, fat, and sugar intakes. Does it actually help while fruits and vegetables in general may that late in the game? Well, the Women’s Healthy be good, cruciferous vegetables may be better. Eating and Living Study was undertaken in a few For women on tamoxifen, for example, women thousand breast cancer survivors to determine who consumed one of their five daily servings if a plant-based, low-fat, high-fiber diet could of fruits and veggies as broccoli, cauliflower, influence breast cancer recurrence rates and collards, cabbage, or kale had their risk of cancer survival. recurrence cut in half. 8 Naked Food Magazine Naked Food Magazine 9 NAKED HEALING The Role of Cholesterol. There is not a lot of money to had more than double the risk women who consumed Cholesterol is a major compo- make on pumpkin seeds, so of both major types of breast one of their five daily nent of “lipid rafts.” Compared researchers looked to choles- cancer: invasive ductal carci- servings of fruits and to their normal counterparts, terol-lowering statin drugs. noma and invasive lobular car- cancer cells have higher levels Some short-term studies have cinoma. Recent studies in Fin- veggies as broccoli, of these cholesterol-rich lipid shown that women on statins land and the UK suggest statin cauliflower, collards, rafts in their plasma membrane, had decreased breast cancer use may improve survival once cabbage, or kale had which may be important for risk, some showed increased women do get breast cancer. their risk of cancer cancer cell survival and may risk, and most showed no asso- serve in human cancer devel- ciation. These were all relatively The number one killer of recurrence cut in half. opment in terms of tumor mi- short-term studies. “Long-term” women is heart disease, not There are also some gration and invasion. Elevated statin use was defined as most- breast cancer, so we still do foods particularly levels of cholesterol-rich lipid ly just three to five years, but need to bring down cholesterol adept at lowering rafts have been found in breast breast cancer can take decades levels. Might there be a way to cholesterol levels: cancer cells, and the hypothesis to grow. The one study that get the benefits of cholesterol is that reducing blood cholester- looked at ten or more years reduction without the risks? nuts, dried ol levels “may disrupt lipid raft of statin use only included 62 Plant-based diets have been apples, dates, figs, formation and thereby inhibit cases. shown to lower LDL-cholesterol and prunes. breast cancer development.” by over 30%, within just a cou- This suggests cholesterol tar- Given the increase in statin use ple weeks, equivalent to most geting may be used as a cancer over the past few decades, and of the standard cholesterol low- therapy.