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"Pygeum (Pygeum africanum, Prunus africana) Pygeum grows primarily in africa and is commonly called the African prune tree. Its bark has traditionally been used for the treatment of urinary and prostate problems. A meta-analysis looked at eighteen randomized, controlled trials using extracts of pygeum. These trials included a total of 1,562 men with BPH.14 The review concluded that the studies show pygeum improves the urinary symptoms of BPH with few side effects. In these studies, men using pygeum were more than twice as likely to report improvement in overall symptoms." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Denis Burkitt, saw this diet/cancer connection firsthand during his work in africa. Dr. Burkitt observed that African blacks consuming high-fiber, low-fat, low-animal-product foods had virtually no risk of death from colon cancer, whereas the African whites consuming a low-fiber, high-fat diet had the same high risk as Westerners. Animal fat, cholesterol, and meat protein have all been shown to have cancer-promoting properties in animal experiments and seem to increase the risk of colon polyps as well. Even chicken and fish have been found to be associated with high rates of colon cancer." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century: "While first developed to address Malaria in africa, it has now been shown to address any disease condition that is directly or indirectly related to pathogens. There is documentation of over 75,000 cases of Malaria being overcome in africa. Often in as little as 4 hours all symptoms are gone, and the patient is tested clear of Malaria. It is now known that MMS can be used to overcome the symptoms of AIDS, Hepatitis A, B & C, Typhoid, most cancers, herpes, pneumonia, food poisoning, tuberculosis, asthma, colds, flu and a host of other conditions." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Tea drinking also became a popular pastime in parts of africa. In Egypt, people have been drinking black tea since the fifteenth century, and in Morocco, green tea mixed with mint has been a popular drink since British traders introduced it about a hundred years ago. Some African countries have even begun to grow tea; they include Kenya, Cameroon, and South africa. The history of tea in the Americas is colorful. Some historians suggest that Dutch settlers may have brought tea to New Amsterdam (later to become New York) before it was introduced in England." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"According to the World Health Organization (WHO), out of the worlds six billion people, one billion are overweight, compared to 800 million who are undernourished. Even africa, a continent usually synonymous with hunger, is falling prey to obesity. More than 33.3 percent of African women and 25 percent of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the WHO predicts that these numbers will rise to 41 percent and 30 percent respectively in the next ten years. In the developed world, obesity is a true epidemic." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"An extreme example of what happens when a person shifts from not caring about his or her work to caring is when I told a financially successful former patient who was completely Spent (she practically crawled into my office) to quit her job and go to africa (sort of as a joke). Six months later, I got a call from her telling me she had followed my instruction, gone to africa, fallen in love with the people, and was now working for a nonprofit organization there—and she was feeling fantastic! And she is not the only one. I have seen this kind of transformation a number of times?" - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"In 1994, to create a break with its deadly past, South africa set up a stunning series of national public confessions. Nelson Mandela, the head of the African National Congress, and South African President F. W. de Klerk both understood that for the racist system of apartheid to die, it needed a proper burial. Without public acknowledgment of the brutality of the apartheid past, the country would never recover. De Klerk's white supremacist National Party wanted blanket amnesty for the violence they had committed in the name of the law." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"During his extensive travels throughout the world, he has consulted with heads of state and members of government in Europe, Asia, and africa, and has lectured widely on the subjects of health, mind/body medicine, and spirituality. His popular Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation workshops assist people in taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. Moritz has a free forum, "Ask Andreas Moritz," on the large health website curezone.com (five million readers and increasing)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "There is documentation of over 75,000 cases of Malaria being overcome in africa. Often in as little as 4 hours all symptoms are gone, and the patient is tested clear of Malaria. It is now known that MMS can be used to overcome the symptoms of AIDS, Hepatitis A, B & C, Typhoid, most cancers, herpes, pneumonia, food poisoning, tuberculosis, asthma, colds, flu and a host of other conditions." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Countries like Haiti would be devastated. africa, already suffering from AIDS and malaria, could receive a deathblow overshadowing famine and genocide. Western Europe, geographically close to africa and contiguous to Russia, which in turn borders Asia, could be hit very hard. Many European countries, however, are preparing for the worst by stockpiling supplies of antiviral and other drugs to treat flu and secondary infections. North America will not be spared. American bureaucracy will slow relief efforts, and politicians, unfamiliar with public health crisis, will be powerless." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"BITTER MELON Bitter melon, also known as Momordica charantia or balsam pear, is a tropical fruit known throughout Asia, africa, and South America. Its green fruit looks like an ugly cucumber. Bitter melon is made of several compounds that have anti-diabetic properties, including charantin, which has been shown to be more powerful than the hypoglycemic drug tolbutamide, and an insulin-like polypeptide called polypeptide-P, which lowers blood sugar when injected into Type-l diabetics.52 In one study, it decreased the glucose tolerance by 73 percent when people were given 2 ounces of the juice." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Diabetes is already a major public health problem in africa and its impact is bound to increase significantly if nothing is done to curb the rising rate of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), which now exceeds 16 percent in some countries.21 THE MIDDLE EAST In Israel, mostly among the large non-European immigrant population, the diabetes rate is already 7 percent of the population, with some 400,000 people diagnosed with diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It is estimated that approximately 75% of the world's population are LNP (see Table 1), with the exception of Northern Europeans and a few pastoral tribes in africa and the Middle East that maintain infantile levels of lactase throughout life [17]. Thus, LNP is not a "lactase deficiency" disease, but is the normal pattern in human physiology, similar to the physiology of other mammalian species. This permanent loss of lactase occurs sometime after 3-5 years of age [9, 18]. Lactase persistence is inherited as a highly penetrant, autosomal-dominant characteristic [17]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Because mercury can be airborne, you can inhale it unknowingly (airborne mercury originating in africa has been measured in the southern United States). Symptoms of mercury poisoning can happen at any time, as it continues to accumulate. Research shows that over time, mercury can quietly attack your heart, nervous and immune systems, including your brain and psyche, and disrupt reproduction and sexual performance. One product I'd like to point out is Dr. Bruce Dooley's MercOut (www .mercout." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"And if I were to get to africa, my lifelong dream, I'd have to get really creative." Opportunities: In the face of trauma, Zach found many new prospects. He could plow ahead with medical school, bringing new powers of compassion and insight to the people he would have as patients. He could share his experiences and inspire others. He could nurture and take advantage of the interest his injury stimulated in others and educate them about health and safety. As a clear benefit to his chosen career, he could use his disability to demonstrate that doctors can come in all sizes, shapes, and styles." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Previous Quests had taken me to Mexico, Russia, and throughout africa. I'd first learned about Okinawa's role in longevity studies a few years earlier, when population studies indicated it was among the places on our planet where people lived the longest, healthiest lives. Somehow Okinawans managed to reach the age of 100 at a rate up to three times higher than Americans did, suffered a fifth the rate of heart disease, and lived about seven good years longer. What were their secrets to good health and long life?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "I remember a story about a tribe in sub-Saharan africa that cooked over open fires inside their huts. The huts filled with smoke that the villagers breathed. When a Peace Corps worker saw this he reasoned that the people's lungs were blackening with smoke. He asked them why they cooked indoors. When no one had an answer for him, he convinced them to move their cooking fires outside. Soon the people started contracting malaria at an alarming rate. It turns out that the smoke kept malaria-carrying mosquitoes out of the huts. This outweighed the negative health effects of the smoke." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Biologist David Attenborough describes just such a relationship: "A pink gentian grows in southern africa, which is pollinated by handsome furry carpenter bees. The flowers of the gentian spread their petals wide, revealing to all a curving white style and three large stamens. Each stamen ends in a long thick anther that seems to be covered in yellow pollen, an obvious temptation to any passing pollen-feeding insect. But that is something of an illusion. The yellow anther is hollow and the pollen is held inside." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"But the resurrection drug made its own revival a few years later—not in africa, but in the United States, a land free of tsetse flies but with fourteen million women worried about unwanted facial hair. Another company began selling it in the form of a depilatory cream to minimize female mustaches. With its lavender-colored logo resembling a graceful swan and advertisements sporting young, beautiful models, eflornithine became another prescription drug marketing success. The company christened its product Vaniqa." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Opportunistic tsetse flies spread the disease through much of africa, devastating villages and killing tens of thousands of people a year. The jewel-eyed yellowish brown flies thrive in thickets along rivers where women and children go to collect water. With a bite, the bloodsuckers inject deadly parasites into their human victims. As the parasites multiply, their human hosts appear to go mad. The victims grow agitated and confused, slur their speech, and stumble. Finally come coma and death." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Controversy erupted when the public realized a drug being used to minimize the mustaches of American women was not available to people dying of sleeping sickness in africa. Eventually the French drug company Aventis, which held the rights to the drug, signed a deal to provide it for free for five years to the World Health Organization to treat poor patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Bristol-Myers contributed to this program. See "Aventis to Donate Sleeping-Sickness Drugs," The New York Times, May 4, 2001." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"From the Hindu cosmology that describes the universe as a dream of Vishnu to the people of the Kalahari of southern africa who say that we're dreaming our own existence, spiritual traditions portray our reality as being the shadow of another—a reality that's even more real than this one. What's interesting here is that the theme of the stories doesn't change. Regardless of when they began, the idea of this being an illusory world is a constant, even in the oldest accounts of creation." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The worst hit countries will be in africa, the Middle East, and south and central Asia. Here the available supplies may drop to less than 1,700 m3 per person. The trend concerning the availability of productive land is likewise critical. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that on the global level there are 7490 million acres of high quality cropland available, 71 percent of it in the developing world." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Certain cultures have almost 100 percent lactose intolerance, such as africa, Asia and South America. This disorder is so prevalent that it is not considered an abnormal occurrence. 2. Infections caused by certain microbes such as viruses, bacteria and parasites can cause lactose intolerance. Some common bugs that are culprits are giardia, the Norwalk virus and rotavims. 3. Those who suffer with celiac disease, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome or gastroenteritis may all have difficulty digesting milk products." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In our early days, we hunted to extinction some of the large animals in North America and in parts of africa and Asia. Later we eradicated many species simply because they were in our way. And more recently, we have destroyed many more through sheer lack of care. Current estimates suggest that species are disappearing at the rate of one per hour or perhaps faster! At this rate, more than half the earth's plant and animal species will have been eliminated within the next few hundred years." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Werner Bezwoda, South Africa's premier breast cancer specialist. Bezwoda's paper and Peters's boundless optimism gave transplanters reason to keep performing the procedure. But Bezwoda's paper would turn out to be a fraud. When a team of cancer specialists from Washington, DC, traveled to South africa to audit Bezwoda's data in 2000, they discovered a jumble of incomplete records, missing patients, and deviations from standard scientific practice. Out of 1 C4 patients reported in his paper, Bezwoda had charts for only sixty-two cases." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In Jewish lore, when you enter paradise, you get eight myrtle berries and a standing ovation. Africa's Brakna nomads believe that heaven is full of gourd-sized berries. The Wampanoags of New England follow the smell of strawberries to get to the Spirit World. Thomas Campion described paradise as a place wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. Paramahansa Yogananda notes that "a Hindu's heaven without mangos is inconceivable!" In Chinese mythology, peaches tended by Hsi Wang Mu, the Queen Mother of the West, are said to grant eternal life." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Anthropologists have documented fruit-fueled group sex among tribes all over the world, including the Oraon of India and Bangladesh, the Leti and Sarmata people in islands west of New Guinea, the Baganda in africa, the Fiji islanders and the Kana of Brazil. In Europe, harvest orgies lasted well into the Middle Ages, despite condemnations from the Council of Auxerre in 590. Among the most enigmatic masterpieces of Western art is Hierony-mus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, which features naked people frolicking with oversized berries." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Like other equatorial rain forests in South America and africa, Borneo is bursting with extraordinary life-forms: tiny owls, deer the size of mice, flying lizards, Oz-like flying apes, luminescent mushrooms and colorful fungi resembling coral reefs. Butterflies suckle on human sweat while expelling creamy secretions. Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter. Clouds of mosquitoes trail me wherever I go. Although I'm taking anti-malarials, the travel clinic warned me that there's no vaccination against insect-borne dengue fever." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "After India started drifting away from africa, the Seychelles broke off midway and were stranded in the ocean, where they've stayed till this day, full of life-forms that evolved in isolation. Dinosaurs became extinct around the same time the Seychelles got ditched in the Indian Ocean, leading to speculation that these fruits may have once been eaten by brontosauruses. "The coco-de-mer could have been a tasty dessert for a seventy-five-foot-high herbivore," says Volcere, doing a lumbering dino-dance. People are afraid of going into the forest after dark, especially when it's windy." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

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