I heard this a few yrs ago at a homeschool conference in Idaho Falls (they don't do the conference anymore - isn't that sad?).  I thought it was facinating, but I didn't have all the foods written down.  There are more than this - maybe if you're interested you might look it up and see what else they've come up with.  :)  This was in an email from my friend Dawn - Thanks!!!
You are what you eat, so eat well. A stupendous insight of civilizations past has now been confirmed by today's investigative, nutritional sciences. They have shown that what was once called 'The Doctr ine of Signatures' was astoundingly correct. It now contends that every whole food has a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the benefit the food provides the eater. Here is just a short list of examples of Whole Food Signatures.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human ey e. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and science shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.


A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.


Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.


A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebru ms and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.


Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.


Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.


Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).


Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.


Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.


Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.


Grapefruits, Oranges, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.


Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste ma terials from all of the body cells They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

'The news isn't that fruits and vegetables are good for you, it's that they are so good for you, they can save your life .' David Bjerklie, TIME Magazine, Oct. 2007

I normally don't post two posts on the same day, but I have to share this.  My friend from back home had told me about this years ago and I had filed it away in the back of my mind.  Athena and Orion have been sick with a really bad cough for a week and a half now.  Athena hasn't felt like doing schoolwork, and poor Orion has been walking around with purple eyes from lack of sleep.  We tried cough medicines, vaporizers.. everything we could think of.  Still bad coughs. 

So I contacted my friend through my mom and she sent me her formula for this cough syrup, and IT WORKED!  I gave a tsp. to Orion, and he's hardly coughed at all.  Athena when she took a TBSP within min she said "That WORKS".  So, I pass on this wonderfully inexpensive, healthy, easy cough syrup to you.  Ready?

Take and onion.  Slice it up in thin strips and put in a pan or cookie sheet (make sure it has sides) - pour honey over it.  Let it sit overnight.  Remove the onion and give the "juice" as a cough syrup.  Good news is, you can't overdose - but as my friend says, it's not great on the breath freshner charts!  lol!  How this works is the honey pulls out the enzymes of the onion, and honey itself is antibacterial - which is why if you smear it on your face an leave it for a few min. it leaves your skin incredibly soft.  Trust me, I've done that too.

It works!

So Redbeard and I went to the store the other day, and on a whim I started looking at the different breads just to see if there WAS a bread I could have.  Now, I know there are some other names milk has in the ingredients that I didn't know, but anything "lactate" I watch out for.  Sure enough - I found some Sara Lee products that I could have - even English Muffins!  YAY! 

And yes, I enjoyed them VERY much.  Here is a website that talks about the "odd" ingredients - I found it to be quite helpful, and thought perhaps someone else might too. 

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper/experts.htm

and

http://babyandkidallergies.com/milkallergy.php

I found one other bread called "Baker's Inn" that has no milk or casein, but it DOES have "sodium stearoyl lactylate".  That's what brought on the hunt.  USUALLY fine, but MIGHT contain dairy?  Hello people? 

Sigh.  Homemade is better, I know.  None of those weird ingredients in homemade bread.  In fact, I should be avoiding yeast breads all together.  Well, I'll go there after the move.  Right now I need comfort food, and I'm all out of creamy stuff (lol)...  so I'll give myself bread - for now.  :)

Just thought maybe the information might benefit someone else.  Oh, and something worthy of note - I've had eczema all my life on my knees and elbows - when I was a teen it was REALLY bad.  Since I've tossed milk on it's ear, one elbow has NO eczema, one is ALMOST completely healed, one knee is well, and the other one is in the best shape it's ever been in.  And...  I've not had any problems with asthma.

Interesting, yes?

"Do you know that it is your privilege so to live that your minds may all the time be perfectly within our control?  Study to preserve your bodies in life and health, and you will be able to control your minds."  ~  Brigham Young

"My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do.  If so, go and excercise your bodies."  ~ Brigham Young