Re: The Best Onions for Cancer are In Season Now

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signpostmaker@... writes:

> best pungent variety of onions we have found to date are available now and the

season ends in early June

>

You don't mention the type of onion..would that be my very favorite, Vidalia?

[Guest guest]

Ummmmm ---- What is a pungent onion? Sorry for not knowing this already. Jan

Hope <signpostmaker@...> wrote: The medicinal

quality of most store bought onions has all but been

removed by current mass production farming techniques. The best

pungent variety of onions we have found to date are available now and

the season ends in early June. If you are interested in Onions that

fight cancer, now is the time to stock up. The benefits of pungent

onions for cancer have been confirmed by recent studies at Cornell

University and have been covered on Prevention Magazine, WebMD and CBS

News, to name a few sources. As a preventative cancer maintenance

program everyone over thirty should take onion juice for forty days.

Why wait until you actually have cancer? It is cheap and has many

other health benefits.

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http:www.brokenearth.org/cancer

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[Guest guest]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:27 PM, szukipoo@... wrote:

> You don't mention the type of onion..would that be my very favorite,

> Vidalia?

>

>

Sorry, here is a post from another forum about how the sweet

onions are missing the healthy sulfur compounds-

From: melissabuhmeyer@....

Date: February 11, 2008 2:22:50 PM PST

For those of you not subscribed to Ralph Moss's weekly report, this

came yesterday. Now, being a really good Southerner, I LOVE my Vidalia

onions and, in the absence of Vidalias, will go for whatever other

organic sweet onion is available, bypassing the whites, reds, etc. No

more! It is with great sorrow that I bury my beloved sweet onions!!!!

;)

Onions (Allium cepa L.) are a healthful food. Epidemiological (i.e.,

population-based)

studies have repeatedly shown that people who eat diets rich in fruits

and vegetables, and particularly in garlic and onions, have lower rates

of chronic diseases, including

cardiovascular disease and cancer. I try to incorporate garlic and

onion, as well as their

elegant cousin, the shallot (Allium ascalonicum), a small but subtly

flavored relative of the onion, into my diet whenever possible. For

instance, I make a mean omelet using an entire onion, lightly sautéed,

with some garlic cloves thrown in for good measure.

But, as you may have noticed, there have been changes in the onion

business that bear

watching. First of all, the price of onions has risen in recent years.

It is not uncommon

these days to pay $1.50 per pound for what not long ago cost 39¢. And

increasingly in

American supermarkets, the familiar yellow, white and red onions are

being crowded out by various " sweet " varieties. These sweet varieties

used to be sold at a premium but are now actually somewhat less

expensive. (On a recent shopping expedition I noticed that they were

the only bulk onions priced under $1.00 per pound).

Originally, the only variety of sweet onion available in most markets

was a form of yellow

granex known by the name Vidalia. Traditionally, these were harvested

in southeast

Georgia from late April till mid-June and were available only during

the summer months.

Now the Vidalia season has been extended for several months by use of

controlled

atmosphere (CA) storage. The principal characteristic of CA storage is

a modification of

the atmosphere in the storage facility. This involves decreasing the

oxygen content of the air to 3 percent and maintaining the onions at a

temperature of 34 degrees Fahrenheit. So there are now Vidalia and

other sweet onions available in many markets year-round.

The Vidalia sweet onion was discovered by a farmer named Mose

in Toombs

County, Georgia, in the spring of 1931. During the depths of the Great

Depression, Mose was able to get a whopping 7¢ per pound for his novel

onions, and word of this quickly spread. The state of Georgia

subsidized a farm stand in the Toombs County town of Vidalia, and

tourists who bought Mose's delicious onions as a novelty spread word of

them far and wide.

Soon these so-called " Vidalia onions " began appearing on the shelves of

the local Piggly Wiggly - and the Vidalia became synonymous with a fine

eating onion that wouldn't cause tears when you cut it up. Down along

the banks of the Ogeechee River, folks are

understandably proud of their unusual onion. In 1990, the Vidalia onion

was named

Georgia's official state vegetable. Like French wines, " Vidalia " is now

a controlled

appellation that can only come from a production area defined by law in

Georgia and by

the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). According to the

Vidalia Onion Act of 1986 true Vidalia onions can only come from

certain well-defined counties.

Vidalia onions have a very mild taste and do not make your eyes water

when you cut them up. In time Vidalia was joined on the shelves by

other varieties of sweet onions - Maui, Walla Walla, and Maya. These

are all delicious. Some are available all year long and at 50 percent

lower cost than standard yellow or red onions.

Chemical analysis has shown that the reason that these onions are so

sweet is because of a lack of sulfur in the soil in the particular

counties in which they are grown. Sulfur is

necessary to produce the characteristically sharp taste and odor of

typical onions. But

therein lies the problem. Do these sulfur-lacking sweet onions convey

the same health

benefit as typical sharp onions? After all, we also know that sulfur is

involved in the

production of some of the very phenolic and flavonoid compounds that

give the onion

family its health benefit. (I am thinking in particular of organic

allyl sulfur, the most

desirable compound in onions and garlic.)

This question has been answered by food chemists at Cornell University

and the results

will not come as welcome news down in Jeff County.

These Cornell scientists, led by Dr. R.H. Liu, compared the phenolic

and flavonoid content of 10 varieties of onion that are commonly

available in the United States, as well as shallots. The ten varieties

were as follows:

1. Empire Sweet

2. Imperial Valley Sweet; and

3. Mexico

4. New York Bold

5. Northern Red

6. Peruvian Sweet

7. Texas 1015

8. Vidalia

9. Western White

10. Western Yellow

These were evaluated for their total phenolic and flavonoid content as

well as their

antioxidant and antiproliferative (i.e., anticancer) activity. Shallots

had the highest total

phenolic content among all the varieties tested, with a 6-fold

difference observed when

compared to Vidalia onions. Western Yellows exhibited the highest total

flavonoid content

of all the onion varieties tested, with an 11-fold difference when

compared to the phenol-

poor Western Whites. Shallots exhibited the highest total antioxidant

activity.

Leaving aside the antioxidant-rich shallots, the onions were ranked as

follows for

antioxidant activity:

1. Western Yellow

2. New York Bold

3. Northern Red

4. Mexico

5. Empire Sweet

6. Western White

7. Peruvian Sweet

8. Texas 1015

9. Imperial Valley Sweet

10. Vidalia

The Cornell scientists also exposed various cancer cell lines to these

onion varieties to see what effect the onions had on cell

proliferation. The most effective of all in inhibiting

cancer cells were - again - shallots, followed by New York Bold,

Western Yellow and

Northern Reds. The rest of the varieties all demonstrated weak

anti-proliferative activity

against these cancer cell lines. " These results may influence consumers

toward purchasing onion varieties exhibiting greater potential health

benefits, " the authors wrote.

I know these results will influence my own shopping habits. The next

time I purchase

onions I will be looking for Western Yellow, New York Bold and/or

Northern Red (a

particularly good variety for salads). I will also get some shallots

when my budget can

afford them and they look nice and plump. Sweet onions, such as

Vidalias or Maya, are

indeed delicious and relatively inexpensive. But they simply do not

convey a fraction of the health benefits of yellow or red onions, or of

shallots.

Enjoy!

xxoo

[Guest guest]

Fantastic response, yes, the New York Bold is high on the list, but

finding growers who actually grow organic and with the medicinal

value in mind is impossible. They are still producing for the wider

market and have found a niche in offering the pungent bold now with

the health effects - but still not growing for medicinal purposes.

I see an entire new industry developing here. So much hoopla about a

stupid grape in producing wine - but we are talking about treating

cancer here. The little stuff becomes all the more important. Like

local honey, local produce has a much higher medicinal value, so a

pungent onion grown down the street is going to be better for you

than a pungent onion grown 1000 of miles away. That's number one.

Numer two, there is something called energy resonance first

discovered by Massuru Emoto in examining water crystals with the only

variable eing the words and phrase he placed on the bottles of water.

Spirituality is important - everything important does not come under

the umbrella of science. Thus the energy you put into planting and

growing medicinals is as importnat, if not more important thatn the

pungent variety of onion you may use. Planting by hand is a must.

Planting and growing your own medicinals is highly recommended as you

are involved in the entire energy process.

What we are attempting to do at Broken Earth is to be a clearinghouse

for local growers of medicinal varieties of all sorts of produce -

onions, garlic, herbs, etc. A place where people can come to find

medicinal produce. All of this is being done on a volunteer basis. We

call our products Trusts, as we do not profit from them. This effort

is soley intended to help people. We lost our son to cancer, so we

are pretty motivated.

You can look at our current medicinal onion offering or do your own

research. If you find something better, please inform us so we may

share it with others.

http://www.brokenearth.org/cancer/medicinalonions.htm

Thanks and God Bless.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 4/23/08 1:25:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

signpostmaker@... writes:

New York Bold is high on the list

Where is this list?

[Guest guest]

Sorry..I didn't see this before I opened your other email.

On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:27 PM, szukipoo@... wrote:

You don't mention the type of onion..would that be my very favorite,

Vidalia?

Sorry, here is a post from another forum about how the sweet

onions are missing the healthy sulfur compounds-

[Guest guest]

I read an article about onions being anti-cancer and

it was mentioned that shallot is good also.

[Guest guest]

where are the onions you are talking about grown? Also from my

understanding the sulfur content has to do with the soil.the site

you mentioned is not organic. What about the onions from Costco?

" Hope " wrote:

> The medicinal quality of most store bought onions has all but been

> removed by current mass production farming techniques. The best

> pungent variety of onions we have found to date are available now

and

> the season ends in early June. If you are interested in Onions

that

> fight cancer, now is the time to stock up. The benefits of pungent

> onions for cancer have been confirmed by recent studies at Cornell

> University and have been covered on Prevention Magazine, WebMD and

CBS

> News, to name a few sources. As a preventative cancer maintenance

> program everyone over thirty should take onion juice for forty

days.

> Why wait until you actually have cancer? It is cheap and has many

> other health benefits.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------

> Sig: M. McConnell

> http:www.brokenearth.org/cancer

>

[Guest guest]

Mu suggestion is you go to a farmer's market where

organic onions are sold. If you start now then you

get to complete 40 days onion juice intake to kill

unwanted harmful cells.

[Guest guest]

Hariatma

Costco onions are fine but usually organic onions are better.

GB

> > The medicinal quality of most store bought onions has all but been

> > removed by current mass production farming techniques. The best

> > pungent variety of onions we have found to date are available now

> and

> > the season ends in early June. If you are interested in Onions

> that

> > fight cancer, now is the time to stock up. The benefits of pungent

> > onions for cancer have been confirmed by recent studies at Cornell

> > University and have been covered on Prevention Magazine, WebMD and

> CBS

> > News, to name a few sources. As a preventative cancer maintenance

> > program everyone over thirty should take onion juice for forty

> days.

> > Why wait until you actually have cancer? It is cheap and has many

> > other health benefits.

> > ----------------------------------------------------------------

> > Sig: M. McConnell

> > http:www.brokenearth.org/cancer

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Let's face it, if you have cancer now, just starting with the best

onion you can find is the best advice. Farmers markets are great. Cut

the onion in half and take a big whiff. If you tear up right

away,chances are you have a good variety. The long day onions - the

one's good for storage are usually the best in the active cancer

fighting agents. Please, please, please, if you find a good source

let us know so we can share that information with others. Ideally, we

want to offer a choice of many growers of medicinal produce - not

only for onions but many other items, such as garlic, juniper

berries, etc. We are starting an entire section of medicinal " Trusts "

on our site. So yes, do your own searching, find growers in your area

and please share that information.

Later on, if funds permit, we will start doing our own lab studies on

the various varities found - keeping in mind that science only

scrratches the surface of the real knowledge and real benefits of

medicinal produce. There is such a thing as blessing, spirituality,

energy resonance, etc. that can not be measured. Medicinal products

need to be grown with a human touch and energy and an intention from

the very start that we are asking that this be used as a catalist to

heal people - very important.

There is a group for onion juice we started, perhaps if you are

serious you would join it.

onionjuice/?yguid=288805087

Thanks

http://www.brokenearth.org/cancer

[Guest guest]

,

WholeFoods has organic shallots and other onions too.

Of course more pricey than the farmers' market.

[Guest guest]

Organic is not medicinal! Once again, if you have cancer you go with

the best you can find, but what I hope to see and we are working to

achieve is more growers working to produce Medicinal - not just

Organic. Organic is a term that is being abused and controled in order

to effectuate pressures on the industry that ultimatly benefits big

money producers. Legislation is not written for the little farmer in

this country anymore - We the People is now We the Corporations. In

fact the biggest terrorist threat in this country comes from

Corporations who will do anything to increase their bottom line. At

least religious fanatics have some sense they will answer to God,

Corporations think they are God. Don't get me started . . . .

The meat industyry is a classic example of what is wrong. Local smal

Buthchers are now a thing of the past. Eatinglocal is very important to

good health, including meat, produce, dairy, etc. Corporations have

destroyed local markets and local merchants. Now beef is as you know a

big problem as a direct result of mass production techniques. Raised

local and slaughtered local is the most humane way and renderes the

best product.

This is what Broken Earth is all about, we have on our site information

about establishing local Beehive Tribal Coomunities - ecovillages. I

would strongly recommend people to start thinking in this direction.

The US economy is in meltdown mode - worse than any depression. The

answer as always is community cooperation and yes, belief in God.

That's my rant for today.

Peace