EAT YOUR ONIONS!(a forward)

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News to Use in this Dispatch:

* Onions: A Remedy for Almost Everything (Except Bad Breath)

* Ways to Eat More Onions Every Day

* Other Sources of Quercetin and Sulphur

 

Dear Yogis:

 

One of nature's best food sources for overall good health is also one of

its

smelliest (at least some people think so).

 

The common onion is one of the most versatile natural remedies of our

time,

helping to promote bone health, improve cardiovascular function,

maintain

blood cholesterol levels, and a variety of other benefits. As I

discussed in the

May 2000 issue of Alternatives, yellow and red onions are two of the

very

best sources of the bioflavonoid quercetin and the essential trace

element

sulphur. See "An Onion a Day Keeps Just About Everything Away,"

Alternatives vol. 8, no. 11. To order back issues, visit the Newsletter

 

Archives at my website

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Among a long list of things, quercetin's antioxidant properties make it

an

extremely effective protector of the heart and vascular system. Sulphur,

which

helps give the onion its unique smell, also has a number of beneficial

qualities,

particularly for your hair, skin, and bones (where sulphur content is

highest within

your body). Sulphur is also important for the functioning of the brain

and nervous

system. To learn more about sulphur's benefits, see "A Stinky Friend,"

Alternatives

vol. 5, no. 20,

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Ways to Eat More Onions Every Day

 

The best method of reaping all the benefits of the onion is simply to

include it

on a regular basis in your diet. I recommend the yellow onion, because

it's

inexpensive and also happens to be the most beneficial. Eating it fresh

is best,

and with summer cookouts you have ample opportunities for including more

 

onions in your daily diet, (although I don't recommend onion rings

because of

the deep fat frying process used to cook them).

 

The easiest way to get a daily dose of onions is to chop or slice an

onion and

add it to salads, sandwiches, and anything else you like them with.

 

You can also use onions in cooking. In past issues of the newsletter,

I've

described how cherries or vitamin E could be added to hamburger meat to

reduce

the oxidation of fats in the meat.

 

Mixing onions with meat before cooking also reduces fatty oxidation, as

does

adding onions to cooking oil before sautéing or frying. The sulphur

compounds

in the onions reduce the oxidation of the oil.

 

And finally, if you include onions with a fatty meal, you'll minimize

the platelet

stickiness that the fat would otherwise cause. (Taking 1 gram of vitamin

C and/or

400 I.U. of vitamin E will also help.)

 

Onion skins, though they contain the most quercetin, are not really

edible. However,

you can cook the skins in soups and fish them out before serving, as you

would bay

leaves. A reader from Fresno, CA sent me one creative way to make the

most of

onion skins in the following Onion Cough Syrup recipe:

 

"Place 3 large chopped onions in a double boiler along with 1/4 cup of

honey. Cook

slowly for a couple of hours, strain off the liquid and dispose of the

onions. The liquid

can be taken as often as needed."

 

An onion a day may be more appropriate than an apple a day to keep the

doctor away.

 

Other Sources of Quercetin and Sulphur

 

You may not be among those who, like me, can't get enough of onions.

Even if you do

enjoy the taste, you will have to eat a lot of onions in order to get

the full amount of

quercetin and sulphur your body needs. Other natural sources for

quercetin include

apples, grapefruit (particularly the white pulp portion), broccoli,

green tea, and summer

squash. You can increase the amount of sulphur in your body by eating

eggs (the richest

source of sulphur, with 65 mg each), cauliflower, garlic, dried beans,

peaches, carrots,

and shrimp.

 

Quercetin and sulphur-containing amino acids should also be included in

your daily

health routine. The daily supplement I've developed and take every day

provides

100 mg of quercetin and contains two sulphur-rich amino acids: 100 mg of

 

N-acetyl-cysteine (a modified form of L-cysteine) and 400 mg of

L-taurine. If you'd like to

learn more about Daily Advantage, visit

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In addition to supplements, though, be sure to add a regular supply of

onions to your

daily fare. It's truly one of nature's healthiest foods, despite its

smelly reputation. But,

as I've said before, I think you'll agree that it's better to smell bad

and feel good than

the other way around.

 

Until next time,

 

Dr. David Williams

 

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Dr. David Williams is a medical investigator, international traveler,

and

one of the world's leading authorities in natural healing. Often years

ahead

of the conventional medical establishment, he has located, evaluated,

and

announced effective treatments and cures for practically every major

health

concern today. He shares these breakthroughs with over 250,000 insiders

through his in-depth monthly newsletter Alternatives.

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