Cranberry Power Fruit E-Book

Marianne E. Meyer

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• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 190

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This revised translation of the first practical handbook from Windpferd publishers gives all-round information of the red rejuvenating fruit. The expert for natural remedies is showing how the cranberry is indispensable as natural health care helper. Since 1914, the fruit of the genus vaccinium is researched and mainly used for bladder infections, acute cystitis, and urinary tract infections. The health-promoting potential of cranberry associated with its antibacterial activity results from the presence of proanthocyanidins (PAC) type A, which has been shown to prevent the adhesion of bacteria. The best established medical applications of cranberries are prevention and treatment of bacterial infections of the urinary tract (UTI), infections of the gastric mucosa and infections of the oral cavity. This work demonstrates the potential of preventing and curing some 80% of all health problems including cardiovascular diseases (especially atherosclerosis), rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. We can turn back the clock reversing premature aging symptoms perhaps living to be as old as hills. Refined recipes from Marianne's health kitchen and trendy cocktails complete the book with the red round power fruit.

Leseprobe

The information introduced in this book was carefully researched and imparted in all conscience. However, author and publisher do not take any liability for damages of any nature that could emerge directly or indirectly from the usage or application of the data in this book which is for interested parties and education.

© 2017 by Marianne E. Meyer, Tavira, Portugal

All rights are with the author

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www.marianne-e-meyer.com

Some other books by M. E. Meyer:

How Water Connects our Worlds

Family Code – Death is Not the End

Migrant Birds on Wheels

Spirulina für ältere Menschen

Psyllium - So bekommen Sie Ihr Fett weg

Spirulina für Kinder

Spirulina, das blaugrüne Wunder

Marianne E. Meyer

Apartado 320, P-8801 Tavira

Marianne E. Meyer has already passed through many stages of life with the focus on self-help and learned: We are our own best teachers, healers, and spiritual leaders. Formerly a doctor's assistant, she later studied with a focus on family therapy and gerontology in Frankfurt. She then studied food science in the USA. The dissertation case study on immune defense and Spirulina she published in her bestseller Spirulina, das blaugrüne Wunder. The author lived 10 years in the US, intervening in Southern Hesse, Portugal, and Morocco. Until recently, she worked temporarily with maladjusted adolescents in Portugal. She is inspired by a pioneering spirit and a passionate dedication on the well-being of the people.

Layout: I would like to thank the Cranberry Marketing Committee (CMC) - Cranberries from the USA for the friendly providing of photos.

Other photo credits

Cover back and page 2: R. Taylor

Cover, typography & typesetting: M. Meyer

TABLE OF CONTENT

Preface

I. INTRODUCTION

Every second woman has a urinary tract infection

Candida or cystitis?

The anti-candida diet has many benefits

II. NORTH AMERICAN BERRY ON THE RISE

The French celebrate the fire-red fruit

Success measured at trade exhibitions

Product range: almost weekly new outputs

Fresh and frozen cranberries - keepability

Sirup, concentrate, and powder

Cranberry juices and juice mixtures

Cranberry dry fruits & snacks

Nutritional analysis of cranberry products

Acid fruits conquer the media

Superpower against bacteria.

III. FACTS AND FOLKLORE

The cranberry botanized

Habitat requirements

Growth process of the capricious roots

The Harvest of cranberry: a berry sports festival

Dry harvest: when berries are jumping

Wet harvest: swimming is cool

History and mystery

Use: a good fit with cranberries

Awaken cranberries the joie de vivre of the cow?

In comparison with the cowberry

IV. HEALTH ENHANCING CONTENTS

What's in the redskin?

Secondary metabolites: Can we reverse the clock?

How do the phytochemicals work?

Oligomeric procyanidins (OPC) or proanthocyanidins (PAC)

How many antioxidants do we consume?

Polyphenol comparison of conventional beverages

Polyphenol comparison of common beverages

Polyphenol comparison of common foods

Health effects of PAC/OPC

Lutein and zeaxanthin prevent macular degeneration

Vitamin C - ascorbic acid - E 300

Average analysis of cranberry juice

IV. DISEASE PREVENTION AND CURE FROM A - Z

Arteriosclerosis: stretching for the veins

Bladder infections: Cranberries dispel Coli bacteria

Cancer: Special nutrients delay cancer growth

Candida: Cranberry helps to prevent fungi

Caries: The cranberry can scare away germs

Cataract: The OPC of the power berry protects the lens

Cystitis: When the bladder is plaguing

Diabetes: 240 ml Cranberry juice ensures constant blood glucose levels

Food poisoning: Cranberries protect against salmonella

Gastritis: Cranberry juice prevents the docking of Helicobacter pylori

Gingivitis: cranberries for powerful biting

Heart disease: red card for heart diseases

Immune deficiency: bathing fun without bladder problems

Intestinal infections: Cranberry juice prevents ulcers

Irritable bladder: the bladder as a mirror of the psyche

Kidney stones: cranberry for prevention

Macular degeneration: lutein and zeaxanthin guard against

Pancreas: when parasitic fungi are plagueing

Periodontitis: Cranberries prevent bacteria from adhering to teeth

Plaque/bleeding gums: cranberry juice for prevention

Poor digestion: The bitter substances of the cranberry stimulate gastric juices

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Can crippling form back?

Salmonellosis: healthy despite rotten meat

Stomach ulcer: Cranberry juice dispels Helicobacter

Stroke: Cranberry's polyphenols prevent brain attacks

Thrombosis: prophylaxes instead of support stockings

Urinary tract infections: Belly shows can end painfully

The miraculous transformation of rods into spheres

Prevention with the redskin is a necessity

What else can we do for the bladder?

Can the cranberry turn the clock back?

V. PROGRESS REPORTS: EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION

Distress during coitus

Distress after coitus

General resistance: the barefoot woman from Beerfelden

Cranberry mobilizes memory capacity

Painful bladder as blown away

Short story for the coincidence album

After a few days a lot of energy and super coagulation test

How much juice does the bladder boost?

If we can tolerate little acidity

Cranberry tip for bright minds

VI. REFINED RECIPES OF THE HEALTH CUISINE

Spicy universal mash

Sweet universal mash

Salads

Asparagus salad with "ham" strips

Cranberry dressing

Cranberry vegetable salad

Millet and cranberry salad

Red, raw vegetable salad

Spinach salad with cranberries

Tabbouleh

Soups, snacks, and appetizers

Acranjoli

Avocado puree

Carrot soup with cranberries and pita

Flatbread (chapati)

Green spelt soup

Kichari with cranberries

Naan bread

Roasted and salted cranberries

Sweet-and-sour cranberry coconut soup

Main courts without beheading

Apple curd casserole with cranberries

Aubergine cranberry pizza

Cranberry fresh cheese balls on salad

Cranberry nut bread

Canneloni rolls

Cranberry pumpkin risotto

Fried pumpkin with dried

“Meat” loaf

Potato salad with cranberry, celery and walnuts

Pasta with dried cranberries

Pizza with dried cranberries

“Rehragout” with dried cranberries and mushrooms

Spaghetti “bolognese"

Spicy reddish muffins

“Turkey breast” with cranberry walnut chutney)

Zucchini boats, loaded with tofu

Zucchini pancake with apple sauce

Cakes, desserts & sweets

Ananas (pineapple) pie on the head

Cranberry almond bar

Cranberry apple strudel with walnuts

Cranberry chocolate delight

Cranberry jelly

Cranberry sauce

Cranberry sorbet

Cranberry walnut muffin

Fruit ice cream with nut

Fruity soft ice cream

Papaya - pep up

Chocolate cranberry walnut cake

Chocolate nut fruit bars

Vanilla and cranberry waffles

Happy Hour

: vital food dips & spreads

Chickpea cranberry dip

Herbal cranberry cream

Immuno power paste

Tofu deli dip

Tart lemon mouse

Cranberry mixtures

Anti-stress shake

Artery power drink

Cashew cranberry mix

Cranberry milk

Fruity cranberry fizz

Nerve cooler

Paradise punch

Pineapple cranberry juice

Pink dream

Souls comforter

Thanksgiving punch

Cocktails & Dreams

Cosmopolitan

Cran-Appler

Cranberry Collins

Sex on the Beach

Save Sex on the Beach

Cranberry Colada

Vocal cord delight

Free forum for free questions

Acknowledgments

References

Alphabetical index

Preface

It looks as if spiritual children also choose their parents. Sometimes they even wait for many years until their parents are ready. In the mid1990s I walked with my friends from the neighborhood in the Santa Monica mountains. I asked Bette Rohm if she had heard of speaking in tongues. Yes why? She asked. I just realized that my mother told me that she heard women suddenly talking in a foreign language. We belonged to a splinter group of the New Apostolic Church. Bette said:

That's known in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, too. So we have a similar upbringing. Passing a ruby blooming hibiscus bush, I said: Those are edible, good for the immune system. Bette stopped abruptly. Huh? What? Um! Gazing at me, she said: You'll have a message for us in 10 or 12 years. Wide-eyed with goosebumps all over, I asked: What kind of message? Had Bette a vision? Was s h e now speaking in tongues? Um ... something with crystal ... wait … What do you mean, Christ? Maybe. I don't know I … cranberries? No, wait, it's got to do with water. Huh? Dunno. (Meyer 2017, p. 159)

It was true that I had written down this incident, but had long since forgotten it, when the director of the Windpferd publishing house, Mrs. Jünemann, asked me to write a book about the cranberry.

Meanwhile, the acid berries had triggered

a real hype. That's why I'm all the

more surprised that there is still

no reference book in English.

So why me? Why was I selected to write a book about the North American Cranberry? I was born on Sunday after Thanksgiving. But that will not be the reason. Rather, that my father's grandfather had emigrated to Northern California in 1902 and I would like to find his descendants.

Since my biography consists of a collection of coincidences I might be led again. And if the cranberry book will be well received in the Anglo-American market it might be that a relative of my father will read the book about the bladder curative. For my grandmother Maria the child of love who may have driven her father into the wide world had bladder problems, so perhaps her relatives in the USA as well. To find my great-grandfather would be to prove the existence of the spiritual world and to confirm the cosmic laws. To understand this, you would need to read my book Family Code.

But perhaps you want to know how I came to write the cranberry book:

A Russian doctor living in Braunschweig provided the ignition spark. Alfira Weihe wrote a comment on my website on June 7, 2006. She had perceived me in the ARD Wunschbox with Ingo Dubinski as a committed Spirulina expert. Since then she has been consuming the blue-green algae and would like to translate my bestseller Spirulina, das blaugrüne Wunder into Russian.

On the same day, I called the head of the Windpferd publishing house. Monika Jünemann asked me if I wanted to write a book about the natural appetite suppressant hoodia or the cranberry. Destiny or guidance? Both topics are a big hit. Already as a 16-year-old, I'd been messing with appetite suppressants. I thought, hey, that's it. In the following week, however, I was bothered by my irritable bladder. I interpreted this in the way, as to go for the urinary tract healing berry. To follow in the steps of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, I'm also not a person beating around the bush and will make the taboo topic sociable again.

I. INTRODUCTION

In North America since 1621 every end of November a red carpet is laid out for a redskin that is worth its weight in gold. Whether in California, Texas or New England, Americans can barely imagine the prelude to the Christmas season without the cranberry.

When the Puritan pilgrims no longer liked in England reached the coast of Massachusset in 1620, the Indians made them acquainted with the cranberry. After the seven-week sea voyage on the Mayflower, they may have suffered from vitamin C deficiency.

The natives have valued the versatility of the

fruit hundreds of years before regarding it

as a symbol of peace and friendship.

Part I. shows you that you are not alone with bladder problems. And since it is hard to tell if the reason is a bacteria or a yeast, you can test it with cranberries or the anti-candida diet.

So far the cranberries in the North American cooking were only celebrated on Thanksgiving similar to the peanut. But this will probably change soon. In part II. you learn about the wide range of cranberry products and the nutritional value of the fruit.

Part III. tells you facts and folklore: how cranberries are grown and harvested and their value compare to the cowberry.

At the moment international research is running at full speed. They show: The Vaccinium macrocarpon is a real cornucopia of powerful antioxidants. It has caused a great stir in France: The French Ministry of Health has attributed the acidic fruit a very special healing potential: it prevents the adhesion of bacteria! So the consumption of cranberries prevents infections caused by bacteria. Therefore, I am quite confident about their glorious future: They will become a permanent ingredient of daily food preparation: at the latest when people have realized how easy they can naturally strengthen their immune system.

American researchers have found that we can even protect ourselves against the No. 1 killer: the regular consumption of cranberries slows the buildup of plaques in arteries, makes the vessels elastic again and prevents heart and circulatory diseases. You can find out which of the ailments you can get rid of by the healing powers of the allrounder, in part IV. DISEASES PREVENTION AND HEALING FROM A – Z.

Until recently the nutritious redskins were only colored blobs on the American feast days table. A turkey without cranberry sauce is unthinkable in the USA. But I would like to bet that

chefs of all countries will surpass

each other in the future with

cranberry creations.

Even the children do not have to do without their peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. The sweet bread spreads will get cranberries mixed into in the future: apple, apricot or orange gels will then shine in a reddish color. Also, in private kitchens, the trend berry will soon be indispensable: Fresh, frozen or dried it gives every vegetable, meat or fish dish a special touch. My readers can convince themselves of this in the extensive recipe section in Part V. REFINED RECIPES OF THE HEALTH CUISINE. It will be not possible to imagine muesli and salad without the round healthy berry anymore. We are facing a whole new era of nutrition. Health-conscious people around the world will soon learn to appreciate the healing power of the cranberry!

Every second woman has a urinary tract infection

The reason why women suffer much more frequently from urinary infections is the anatomy: the female urethra is 5-8 times shorter than the male with 2½ to 4 cm. In cases of urinary bladder or urethral infections, an increased urge to urinate may occur, often associated with burning during urination. Young women also suffer from inflammation of the urinary tract. One-third of all sufferers have recurring ailments of the lower urinary tract often associated with agitation and sexual pain. Women are also plagued by increased urge to urinate during menopause. Passing urine twice or more frequently at night is called nocturia pointing to an overactivity or dysfunction of the bladder muscle. There could also be serious physical problems, such as cardiac insufficiency or diabetes.

In conversations, it is always clear how little we know about our body. My interest in the causes of illness results from my experiences as a frequently ill child. My symptoms covered with drugs led to new suffering. It was not until much later that I learned disease is the organism's attempt to excrete toxic substances. It is essential to strengthen our body's defenses better paying for maintaining our health than for disease.

Candida or cystitis?

During my preparatory work for this book, I found the term "Candida cystitis" in the literature. I thought that must be it. Because of my antibiotics flood in childhood, I had suffered Candida infections ever since I can remember, especially in stressful situations. At school, the yeast fungi took over in class tests itching at the head, in the ears, on the body. My teacher said: Leave the little animals alone. If they had left me alone. Also later, when I was overtaxed and stressed, the parasites could always take over again. For example, I wrote three books in 1997/98 in a single year and gave my first lecture in front of alternative practitioners. At that time the parasitic yeasts increased because I ate less carefully. Normally with diet and daily immune activation with Spirulina and Colloidal Silver I always keep them in check. Why could they always take over again? I give you an example: Ten years ago, I interviewed a holistic beauty therapist specializing in anti-aging and cellulite for a book project. Since I gave her my Spirulina book, she gave me Jacky Gehring's "BodyReset" which she recommends to her overweight clientele. In this, the author offers a basic nutritional plan to reduce the acid level in the body. I also took off 2 kilos and weighed again 52: my ideal weight. I ate mainly potatoes, salad, vegetables, sweet apples and bananas and drank a glass of red wine in the evening all allowed in the book. The problem is just:

Every organism reacts differently.

That is why it often takes a long time

before we find the right food.

Mine reacted with itching on all warm spots. I feel best avoiding sugar, alcohol, white flour and other goodies the yeasts thrive on. So I stopped Jacky's diet and gave her publication to somebody with weight problems. In my book Spirulina, das blaugrüne Wunder I granted the Candida albicans ten pages.

By the way, unsweetened cranberry juice is also recommended by Dr. Allan Sachs, author of the book The Authoritative Guide to Grapefruit Seed Extract as an accompanying treatment for Candida infections. In vitro studies did not show any specific antifungal effects against Candida albicans. However, it proved effective against dermatophytes and other fungi. (Swartz and Medrek 1968, Cipollini and Stiles 1992). Since only a few people know which fungi they are haunted by, we better test cranberry juice and other natural remedies. Then we can be sure not to be taken in by any interest group. For the pharmaceutic and chemical industry, effective natural remedies are of no interest. Only we can benefit from it. And with our finances, it would go uphill. Prerequisite: The health insurance companies stop their money incineration plant and rely on sustainability in the health care system.

The anti-candida diet has many benefits

One is to test if you suffer from Cystitis or a yeast infection. The symptoms are similar. Frequent urination and burning sensation, just to name two. Most of us have Candida in our guts. In small colonies, they are usually harmless. But eating sweets, wheat, and starchy vegetables, drinking wine and beer, taking antibiotics and having permanent stress can lead to overgrowth.

Since Candida albicans thrives on sugar, I brought the sweet fruits to the neighbors. Eating sour apples, papaya, grapefruit, avocado and sour berries I keep the opportunistic fungus at bay. The Candida cells require sugar to build their cell walls, spread out and turn into their more virulent, fungal form (Han et al. 2011). We better avoid starchy vegetables, preferring kale, brown rice, millet, buckwheat, and quinoa.

White flour, sugar, and alcoholic beverages

are taboo during the expulsion phase.

There is a lot of green stuff: dandelion, plantain, comfrey and other wild herbs, chard, green cabbage, barley grass and Spirulina. The fungi don't like these oxygen carriers. This gas, which accounts for 21% of the air kills the yeast. Between the meals, a few drops of grapefruit seed extract or colloidal silver act like a club. Probiotics such as kefir, sauerkraut or organic yogurts consumed with meals colonize the intestine with beneficial bacteria. This applies for fructooligosaccharides too. These FOS mixtures are produced commercially, based on inulin degradation or transfructosylation processes. Studies have shown that up to 20 grams per day are well tolerated (Carabin and Flamm 1999).

FOS are also found in food such as asparagus, bananas, barley, blue agave, chicory, garlic, jícama leeks, and topinambour. With this diet, the intestinal flora will be rebuilt in a few weeks. And, if the microbiome is in order again our immune system's largest organ, the intestine will keep up our well-being.

II. NORTH AMERICAN BERRY ON THE RISE

The red rounds are overrunning us. Almost every week new research results are announced testifying that cranberries and cranberry products have a positive effect on health in various ways. Compared to other fruits, cranberries contain very many antioxidative components. Antioxidants protect our cells from free radical attack. These arise as a by-product of metabolic processes or by external stress, e. g., rays, artificial substances, nicotine, and alcohol.

Native Americans may not have known the

exact effects of their curative berry. However,

they have already used cranberries in the past

to alleviate a variety of conditions:

from simple abdominal pain to pain,

presumably from cancer.

Everything in America is known to be bigger, wider and higher than in the rest of the world: cars, houses, trees. Why should not the berries also have more impressive proportions? Accordingly, the Vaccinium macrocarpon grows to olive-to-cherry-sized. Their European relative less respected by research, the lingon- or cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), has only the size of a pea.

The large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) owes its name American, Canadian or arctic cranberry to the Pilgrim Fathers emigrated from England. They called the fruit craneberry because the delicate pinkish-white flowers with lateral inflorescences reminded them of the head and beak of a crane. Later the name was shortened to cranberry. Some also called them bear berries as bears were feeding on them.

Thanks to their fresh, sour taste, the red fruits gained a firm place in North American cuisine. The natives introduced the cranberry to starving English settlers in Massachusetts, who incorporated the fruit into Thanksgiving. So since the 17th century, berries are obligated with meals of the traditional feast. Certain ingredients, as well as a wax layer, are responsible for the fact that the cranberries of the later varieties are still edible in winter. Because of the particularly good storage capacity, sailors took them on their long journeys. They knew that their high vitamin C content could protect them from scurvy.

Originally cranberries were found in the raised mosses of New England. In the Northwest of the USA and in Canada, they are also cultivated and marketed extensively. In some German moors they were naturalized as neophytes, that is, brought into this region by people after the discovery of America in the late 15th century. They belong to the socalled homosporous plants, that is, they produce spores of one kind only that are not distinguished by sex. The spores of homosporous plants grow into bisexual gametophytes producing both male and female germ cells.