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Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

Department of Agriculture, the International Agency for Research into Cancer, the World Health Organization, and Mexico's own National Institute of ecology, suggesting lindane's toxicity as a disrupter of the liver and the nervous system in animals and as a possible contributor to breast and other cancers in human beings.8 He also cited the fifty-two other countries —including the twenty-five countries of the EU, Russia, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada—that had already banned lindane, and the thirty-three others that had placed it under severe restriction.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan See book keywords and concepts

Nutritionists pay far more attention to the chemistry of food than to the sociology or ecology of eating. All their studies of the benefits of red wine or foie gras overlook the fact that the French eat very differently than we do.They seldom snack, and they eat most of their food at meals shared with other people. They eat small portions and don't come back for seconds. And they spend considerably more time eating than we do. Taken together, these habits contribute to a food culture in which the French consume fewer calories than we do, yet manage to enjoy them far more.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The ecology of Eating: Smaller Portion Sizes in France than in the United States Helps Explain the French Paradox." Psychological Science 14, no. 5 (2003). Ruskin, Gary. "Commercial Alert Criticizes National PTA over Coke Sponsorship." Wednesday, June 4, 2003. http://www.commercialalert.Org/index.php/category_id/5/subcategory_id/72/article_id/187. -. "The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children." October 31, 2003. http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/education/junk-food/the-fast-food-trap-how-commercialismcreates-overweight-children. Ruskin, Gary, and Juliet Schor.

Atlanta: Body ecology Diet, 1997. Bouchez, Colette. "Dietitians Say Splenda Is Not the Same as Sugar." WebMD Medical News, February 16, 2005. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/100/105877.htm. Bowden, Jonny. Living the Low Carb Life: From Atkins to the Zone, Choosing the Diet That's Right for You. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2004. Bowen, James. "Splenda Is Not Splendid." http://www.pacifichealth.info/?m=200501. Braly, James, and Ron Hoggan. Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous to Your Health. New York: Avery, 2002. Bressler, Jerome.

Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon See book keywords and concepts

Until the late 1990s little work had been done on vegetation structure, ecology, and ethnobotany. A major lacuna in our knowledge of the Ecuadorian border region has to do with the rich shamanic lore found here, which has received little attention from anthropologists. Based upon 10 field trips to the southern side of the border in the late 1980s, Peruvian anthropologist Lupe Camino'71 has postulated a "health axis" of Andean ethnomedicine stretching from Loja, Ecuador in the highlands to the coastal desert of the Department of Piura in Northern Peru.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

What we take to be man-made artificial complexity (technology) is, paradoxically, a simplification process that increases flows by editing away inefficiencies. The ecology of a prairie will keep the soil active and healthy indefinitely, while the ecology of a fossil-fuel-subsidized cornfield will leach the soil of useful nutrients and physically erode it in less than a human lifetime.

They are gigantic evolved organisms that came into being for a specific purpose within a specific economic ecology. If some major element of that ecology were to change —e.g., the basic cost/profit equation— the organisms would become extinct, even while there may be substantial deposits of oil, gas, and tar left in the world. Going a bit further, the fundamental equations that support all gigantic global economic organisms, from oil companies to Wal-Mart to nation-states, may no longer obtain, and human life would have to reorganize its activities on a different basis.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

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Handbook of Medicinal Plants Amarjit S. Basra See book keywords and concepts

Pharmacological study Preferably using low-throughput screening assays which allow a detailed understanding of the local or indigenous uses Key problem Safety and efficacy of herbal preparations Drug discovery for international market Pure natural products as drugs Biology including very prominently ecology Pharmacology/molecular biology Phytochemistry As many as possible, preferably several thousand Limited information about many taxa Database on many taxa (including ecology) Inventory (-> expanded herbaria) economically sustainable alternative use to destructive exploitation (e.g.

Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes See book keywords and concepts

He mentions that he regularly tells patients that "the best way to adapt to the increasingly stressful environment is to clean up one's own environment and to get involved in nonviolent ecology." He suggests finding projects sponsored by the Arbor Society, the Sierra Club, and local community-supported agriculture farms . . . and tells patients to get involved, make a difference, and feel better! 11 Adaptogenic Herbs in Combination There is an empirical maxim that says if one superior herb is good, more than one is better.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

Evolving gradually and almost imperceptibly to individual observers, the ecology of economies helps define the life span of civilizations. Societies that deplete natural stocks of critical renewable resources—like soil—sow the seeds of theit own destruction by divorcing economics from a foundation in the supply of natural resources. Small societies are particularly vulnerable to disruption of key lifelines, such as trading relations, or to large perturbations like wars or natural disasters. Larger societies, with more diverse and extensive resources, can rush aid to disaster victims.

The challenge facing modern agriculture is how to merge traditional agricultural knowledge with modern undersranding of soil ecology ro promote and sustain the intensive agriculture needed to feed the world—how to maintain an industrial society without industrial agriculture. While the use of synthetic fertilizers is not likely to be abandoned any time soon, maintaining the increased crop yields achieved over the past half century will require widespread adoption of agricukural practices that do not further diminish soil organic matter and biological activity, as well as the soil itself.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Treatment strategies for Candida vaginitis with natural therapies will focus on maintaining a normal vaginal pH, restoring normal ecology of the vagina, reducing inflammation, relieving symptoms, and using natural antifungal agents. Trichomonas Vaginalis Trichomonas vaginalis is a motile, flagellate, anaerobic protozoan and is a far more prevalent sexually transmitted infection than either Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoeae. About 6 percent of all cases of a vaginal discharge are due to trichomoniasis, and about 5 million new cases appear annually.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan See book keywords and concepts

The specific ecology of your intestines helps determine how efficiently you digest what you eat, so that the same 100 calories of food may yield more or less food energy depending on the proportion of Firmicutes and Bacteroides resident in your gut. In turn, that balance of bacterial species could owe to your genes or to something in your environment. So there is nothing very machinelike about the human eater, and to think of food as simply fuel is to completely misconstrue it.

Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness Pam Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

Each of these perspectives is a little different and yet all live within the spiritual ecology of life. RELATIONSHIP TO AN ENVIRONMENT FILLED WITH SPIRIT In looking at an environment filled with spirit we turn to James Lovelock's Gaia theory that states: "the earth behaves as a living organism, and that life actively creates the environment it needs to survive by maintaining environmental factors like temperature, humidity, and composition of the atmosphere.

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Several consumer groups are constantly monitoring the situation, and some rate fish both for their contamination and for how harvesting them affects ecology and the environment. For more information, start by checking out Oceans Alive (www.oceansalive.org). > o cn m > -n O O o Wild Alaskan Salmon What's in a name? When it comes to salmon, a lot. If you and I have a discussion about the health benefits of salmon, and I'm thinking "wild salmon" and you're thinking "farmed salmon," we may think we're talking about the same food, but we're not.

Well, the good bacteria in your gut love to dine on fruc-tooligosaccharides—they're actually health food for those good bacteria, and thereby help you to maintain a healthy gut ecology. That's why they're sometimes referred to as "prebiotics." And inulin is a form of soluble fiber that, in one study published in the Journal of Nutrition, was found to lower blood glucose, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol as well as inhibit the growth of various kinds of cancer. Be aware that inulin may cause flatulence in some people.

Medium-chain triglycerides also kill Candida and other fungi in the intestinal tract, further supporting healthy gut ecology. Coconut Oil Is a Natural Remedy with Antioxidant Powers In his seminal book Medicinal Plants of the World, the dean of American herbalists, James Duke, wrote that coconut and coconut oil are used as folk remedies to treat more than thirty-five ailments, from abscesses to wounds. And it's well known that the absorption of calcium, magnesium, and also amino acids has been found to increase when infants are fed a diet using coconut oil.

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts

As we all learned in elementary school, almost the entire global ecology of our planet depends on sufficient sunlight—beginning with the production of oxygen by plants through photosynthesis, without which we wouldn't have food to eat or air to breathe. And as we all have learned more and more over the last couple of decades, too much sun can be a bad thing on a global level and an individual one, throwing our environment into chaos by causing drought or causing deadly skin cancer.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

The mild climate and rich ecology suggest grassy woodland of larch and birch - all 2,000 kilometres north of the present tree line. Indeed, continental glaciers were entirely absent from the northern hemisphere, contributing to a sea level 25 metres higher than today's. For many years an argument raged in academic circles about why the Pliocene poles were so much warmer than now.

Think, for example, of hydroponics: the replacing of natural soil with synthetic rooting material and a cocktail of chemicals. But ecology is such a complicated web that we cannot even understand many of the living interactions that go on within ecosystems, let alone imagine that we can somehow redesign and replace them. Scientists once tried to build a sealed living world - nicknamed Biosphere 2 - from scratch in a big greenhouse in the Arizona desert. They failed.

As Professor Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's global ecology department says: 'The current rate of carbon dioxide input is nearly 50 times higher than normal. In less than 100 years, the pH of the oceans could drop by as much as half a unit from its natural 8.2 to about 7.7.' This fast-moving area of scientific research was the subject of a major report by the Royal Society in June 2005, which identified some of the main concerns that are increasingly keeping marine biologists awake at night.

The Science of Flavonoids Erich Grotewold See book keywords and concepts

The remarkable diversity of form and function of flavonoids in present-day plants has provided a rich foundation for research in areas ranging from genetics and biochemistry to chemical ecology and evolution to human health and nutrition. To date, more than 6,400 different flavonoid compounds have been described in the literature (Harborne and Baxter, 1999) and the pathways responsible for their synthesis have been characterized in detail in numerous plant species (Dixon and Steele, 1999; Harborne and Williams, 2000, 2001; Winkel-Shirley, 2001a; Springob et al., 2003).

Tracing floral adaptations from ecology to molecules, Nat Rev Gen 4: 206-215. Coberly, L. S., 2003, The cost of white flosers: pleiotropy and the evolution of flower color, Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC. Coberly, L. C, and Rausher, M. D., 2003, Analysis of a chalcone synthase mutant in Ipomoea purpurea reveals a novel function for flavonoids: amelioration of heat stress, Mol Ecol 12: 1113-1124. Coe, E. H., McCormick, S., and Modena, S. A., 1981, White pollen in maize, J Heredity 72: 318-320. Cone, K. C, Cocciolone, S. M., Burr, F. A., and Burr, B.

The W locus in Ipomoea purpurea, ecology 78: 1646-1654. Force, A., Lynch, M., Pickett, F. B., Amores, A., Yan, Y., and Postlethwait, J., 1999, Preservation of duplicate genes by complementary, degenerative mutations, Genetics 151: 1531-1545. Fukada-Tanaka, S., Hoshino, A., Hisatomi, Y., Habu, Y., Hasebe, M., and Iida, S., 1997, Identification of new chalcone synthase genes for flower pigmentation in the Japanese and common morning glories, Plant Cell Physiol38: 88-96. Gensheimer, M., and Mushegian, A.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Oral lactobacillus: take 1 daily for 2 to 6 months to restore normal vaginal ecology. • If there is a recurrence, add boric acid suppositories; insert 1 daily for 2 weeks. Other Considerations • Use boric acid suppositories (600 mg) to acidify the vagina either as a primary treatment or after antibiotic regimens. • Paint the cervix and vagina with povidone-iodine twice each week. (A speculum exam would be the most desirable method of doing this.) tion is cleared.

PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts

Biochemical Systematics and ecology 31: 885-895. Van Wyk B-E, Gericke N (2000) People's Plants: a guide to useful plants of southern Africa. Briza Publications, Pretoria, pp. 100-101. Van Wyk B-E, Van Oudtshoorn B, Gericke N (1997) Medicinal plants of South Africa. Briza Publications, Pretoria, 48-49. Van Wyk B-E, Wink, C, Wink, M. (2004) Handbuch der Arzneipflanzen. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, p. 59. Van Wyk B-E, Wink, M. (2004) Medicinal Plants of the World. Briza Publications, Pretoria, p. 59.

Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton See book keywords and concepts

One study conducted by researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Gene ecology found that villagers living near a GM maize field in the Philippines have suffered a range of illnesses. Professor Terje Traavik, scientific director at Gen-0k-Norwegian Institute of Gene ecology, revealed details of a study showing that the villagers suffered fevers, breathing problems, and intestinal and skin ailments. He said blood tests indicated that the symptoms resulted from inhaling mutated maize pollen that had been carried in on the wind.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Later, these 20,000 acres are to be transferred to the state of New York as a deep ecology preserve. That will up the total to some 104,000 acres. I doubt all that many folks realize that Manhattan's pure drinking water is the result of having placed a value on nature—and that doing so required enlightened self-interest by government, property owners, and business. In the 1980s, New York City faced a dilemma.

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