Food as Medicine !!!!!

HEADACHE? EAT FISH!
Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches.
So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.

HAY FEVER? EAT YOGURT!
Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season.
Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily.

TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA!
Prevent build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading....Green tea is great for our immune system)!

INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) HONEY!
Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.

ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!!
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (when I was young, my mother would make onion packs to place on our chest, helped the respiratory ailments and actually made us breathe better).

ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!!
Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system)

UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS - GINGER!!!!!
Bananas will settle an upset stomach.
Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.

BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!!
High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.

BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!!
Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES!!!!
Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS!
Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.


COLDS? EAT GARLIC!
Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.)

COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!!
A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy.

BREAST CANCER? EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage
Helps to maintain estrogens at healthy levels.

LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!!
A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.

ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!!
Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.

DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES!
Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment)

CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO!
Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!!
Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too.

BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!!
The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.

Kiwifruit: but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E &fibre. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants &flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits &protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young.........blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field........they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies)

Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients
found in watermelon are Vitamin C &Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays)

Guava &Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation.

Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion)

Tomatoes are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies

Ugh!! I suffer from asthma but I'd rather suffocate than do that!! Or drink tea or coke for that matter, which supposedly also help Can't stand onions.

Some of those are quite well-known, though.

I have very frequent headaches but I hate ginger...I knew some of them but thanks for posting.

and what about chocolate?

True!! If I'm not mistaken it's also good for asthma (how could I forget?! ) and cancer prevention and depression. Great stuff!

I'll try this Allwyn ,thanks

Pretty much all that's only giving false hope to sick people.

No food has been proven to really help. They might help on the symptoms or make you feel better, but there is no cure for cance or the flu or many of the other diseases on the list.

Ask any doctor and they'll tell you that the best way to stay healthy is to eat well and the right stuff, but no one will tell you that eating ginger will cure your headache or that cabbage would cure breast cancer...

Ice

Well, that's a given, no one's thinking they are *the* cure, but only that they help. When I have asthma but not enough to take the medicine I usually drink tea or coca cola and then I feel better It could also be the famous placebo though :P

Then again, that saying goes "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". Most of the food in Allwyn's list is part of a very healthy diet which of course contributes to be healthy as a whole, so to speak.

Exactly.

"An apple a day"-saying originates from a time when people didin't eat healthy. Like I said, any doctor will tell you to eat nutritious food with the right ingridients is good for you. But no ingridient will cure anything.

Ice

[quote="Iceman"][quote="Keeper"]It caould also be the famous placebo though :PDuh!

And yet again I say that I don't think anyone reading this will believe that ginger is the absolute cure for headaches. It would be daft. Otherwise there would be no need for medicine.

I'm not disagreeing with what you say. I'm just pointing out that it needed no explanation that food is no cure in itself. A healthy diet and no genetic disposition to certain illnesses is all there is to it. Then, if things come to the worse - a healthy diet AND medicines AND treatment is all you can expect to work in your favour.