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"So the pitch of a roof reflects the amount of rain or snowfall in a particular region, growing steeper the greater the precipitation, and something like the spiciness of a cuisine reflects the local climate in another way. Eating spicy foods help people keep cool; many spices also have antimicrobial properties, which is important in warm climates where food is apt to spoil rapidly. And indeed researchers have found that the hotter a climate is, the more spices will be found in the local cuisine." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Joe Alexander has some interesting comments about people who use climate to delay their journey to raw diets (Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! pp. 116-117): I have met many people who say that they would like to live on raw food if they lived in a warm climate, but it is too cold where they live. When I lived in Canada, I met such people. Then in Northern California, where there is hardly any winter at all, compared to Canada, I met people who said it was too cold there to be a raw fooder." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The Pacific Northwest's benefits of mild climate, abundant water, and good farmland may be overwhelmed by populations fleeing the problems of southern California, and compromised by exposure to desultory Asian aggression along the seacoast. The federal government may lose its ability to govern the nation as a whole effectively and the regions may resort by default to autarky. In any case, life in all these places will be intensely local and success or failure will depend on the quality of each community." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This aggravated the tendency, in a financial climate of extreme relativism, to create increasingly abstract vehicles of investment that were pegged to little more than wishes. These so-called derivatives ended up far removed from the actual purpose of investment, which is to pay for new or expanded enterprise in return for earnings and dividends, and instead simply became an end in themselves: bets within global finance casinos." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Anything about southern vernacular architecture that once had been graceful in adapting to the climate was cast aside for the pleasures of air conditioning and cheapness of construction. The new southern middle class suddenly had a lot of money to spend, but they spent it all on plastic junk and anything with a motor in it. They got most of their ideas about the world from movies and television. Suburbia was their dream habitat. It was the "country" with all the dust, heat, toil, and flies removed." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This learning process appears to have taken a few thousand years to complete, during which the climate warmed again and remained unusually benign. The glaciers resumed their retreat. The domestication of animals would have been associated with available grasses and grains. About one-third of the way into the Holocene, around 6000 B.C., this systematic practice of planting and harvesting made permanent settlements and denser populations possible and accelerated the increasing scale of 1. Elizabeth Kolbert, "Ice Memory," The New Yorker, January 7, 2002, p. 30. food production." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"A study of 4,578 recipes contained in 93 cookbooks from 36 countries found that the hotter the climate of a country, the greater the risk of food spoilage and the more spices used by cooks. In comparison, countries with colder climates, like Norway, often had bland food; and even when spices were used, they tended to be ones with low antibiotic properties. Of the spices tested, garlic, onion, allspice and oregano effectively killed all the bacteria they were stacked up against, including salmonella and staphylococcus, while other spices killed between 50% and 75% of the harmful bacteria." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"If you live in a climate with cold winters, get out and enjoy winter sports or just a walk in the cold. If you live in a warm climate, maybe you can learn to love the occasional cold shower. Both extremes of temperature signal your genes to take up a defensive posture. That's why hibernating animals tend to live longer-cold activates longevity. PUMP YOUR MUSCLES As you already know, exercise is hardly the best way to lose weight, but as you've also learned, muscle mass increases the calories you can burn." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"And indeed researchers have found that the hotter a climate is, the more spices will be found in the local cuisine. Of course cuisines are not only concerned with health or even biology; many culinary practices are arbitrary and possibly even maladaptive, like the polishing of rice. Cuisines can have purely cultural functions; they're one of the ways a society expresses its identity and underscores its differences with other societies. (Religious food rules like kashruth or halal perform this function for, respectively, Jews and Muslims." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The Timely Transformation Scenario The First Steps • The experience of terrorism and war together with rising poverty and the threats posed by a changing climate trigger positive changes in the way people think. The idea that individuals and small groups themselves can be effective agents of transformation toward a more peaceful and sustainable world captures the imagination of more and more people. People in different cultures and different walks of life pull together to confront the threats they face in common." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"It would take an environmentally enlightened political climate to restore research funding and cleanup efforts at levels equal to the challenge," says Gilbert. At the end of the 2005 conference Workshop on Lupus and the Environment: Disease Development, Progression and Flares, the National Institutes of Health asked scientists to provide suggestions for drafting what is known as a request for applications, or RFA." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"No one really thinks that drugs will really be decriminalized in the current political climate? Is our effort an elaborate sophistry? One might call my thought experiment an exercise in the social construction of unreality! Indeed. We are not calling for a less scientific sociology, nor one that is less humanistic. Our aim is a sociology that is not afraid of the imagination—indeed one that incorporates the imaginative into its theory and method with all possible rigor." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"With the current political climate, it's not clear where that money will come from. We know that the federal government will not help. Drug companies are reluctant to step in because of patent issues—and because each of these diseases, taken individually, does not afflict a large enough number of patients. We go month to month hoping that something will happen with funding that will allow us to keep going." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Although the fda houses many a committed and honorable staffer, it is clear that its approach to safeguarding the consumer is a blunt instrument in the current climate. Reeling from the coxib canard, the fda turned to the Institute of Medicine (iom) in 2005. The iom is the most politicized of the National Academies of Science in that members can be anointed based on academic power rather than scholarly accomplishment. The iom formed a committee whose work product led to a "New Initiative" announced by the fda in January 2007 (< http://www.fda .gov>)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"They exist in a dynamic equilibrium with each other, with external influences like climate, seasons, and celestial spheres, and with internal forces like the ageing process and emotions (it is not coincidental that human temperaments here bear humoural names: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic). Disturbances in health, whether of mind or body, simply reflect disturbances in humoural balance, and healers of every variety strive to diagnose such imbalances, and to redress them." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"It might be the fact that you live in a beautiful climate, you're surrounded by people you love, or you have the opportunity to be a parent. Watch what happens to your body and your sense of wellness. The Appreciative Brain Appreciation takes advantage of something we've mentioned before: the brain's attention deficit, a natural limitation that allows it to focus fully on only one thing at a time. When we appreciate, we're highlighting the positive, making our brain less able to focus on pain and negative experiences." - 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.)

"In this climate, the editors of the most respected medical journals have warned that they cannot protect their readers from the pro-industry bias seeping into many of the scientific articles they publish. Nonetheless, publication in respected medical journals still anoints research findings as the scientific evidence upon which good doctors confidently base their clinical decisions. It is not simply due to the "play of chance" that the odds are five times greater that new products will be supported by commercially sponsored studies than by studies with noncommercial sponsorship." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, if you migrate from an equatorial climate with low risk to America or England, where MS is more common, the risk for the next generation will rise to the level of where you've relocated. It's likely that your risk of developing MS is determined during fetal development and childhood, while your immune system is developing in the presence of vitamin D deficiency. Theories based on migration data suggest that an infectious agent may play a role in causing MS, but it's probably a combination of these factors." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"It's important to understand this climate so that you can fully appreciate what we're up against when trying to inform the public about treatments and interventions that don't have the "official" medical profession seal of approval. It's an uphill battle, but not an unfamiliar one. Those of us who argued against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid and against the officially sanctioned high-carbohydrate, high-sugar diet have experienced this kind of resistance before. It's pretty hard to get a fair hearing for a low-carbohydrate diet when a good portion of the U.S." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Cases could be found throughout the civilized world, but Americans in particular were prone to neurasthenia because of the fast pace of American life, the harsh American climate, and the advent of various modern novelties that had changed life generally in this country: The causes of American nervousness are complicated, but are not beyond analysis: First of all modern civilization. The phrase modern civilization is used with emphasis, for civilization alone does not cause nervousness." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In this climate, while local medical knowledge remained an important resource in practice, medicine as a representative aspect of culture (with technology and science) became, in Adas's memorable phrase, 'the measure of men'. Europeans suffered no doubts as to which 'men'—which civilization—came out at the top of the measuring scale: European models of natural knowledge and medicine were the standard by which all cultures would be measured. Under this new rubric, Europeans continued to observe non-western medical systems closely." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"According to Kathleen Gilbert, the current climate for funding federal research into how toxins affect the immune system has never been more dismal. The problem is twofold. First, the success rate for federal research grants for new investigators has decreased from 22.5 percent in 1998 to 16.8 percent in 2004. Second, as the result of recent restructuring, there are few toxicologists on the grant-review committees that evaluate these new grant applications. This makes it less likely that grants involving environmental toxicants will receive a high priority." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"This creates a plethora of "side effects," such as the degradation of water, air, and soil, the alteration of the climate, and the impairment of local and continental ecosystems. The myth that nature is like a mechanism, although not as old as the myth that it is inexhaustible, is becoming just as dangerous. 3. Life is a struggle where only the fittest survive. This myth dates from the nineteenth century, a consequence of the popular understanding of Darwin's theory of natural selection." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"An attempt at planting the first pear tree in the northeastern American colonies failed due to a poor growing climate in 1620. Pear trees did much better farther west in Oregon and Washington and have flourished there since the 1800s. Where Are Pears Grown? The leading pear-producing countries are China, the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and France. More than ninety-five percent of the pears sold in the United States are grown in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Why Should I Eat Pears?" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"With the climate change comes a change in food supply, temperature and sun exposure. People tend to get sick at this time, which is due to the stress the body goes through to adjust to its environment. Given that we are harmonious creatures with nature, it would seem wise to cleanse during these seasonal shifts. I would recommend a whole body cleanse because as one organ system is worked on, it can create a rebound stress for other systems. When the organ systems work in harmony, it releases toxins more effectively." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The timing of such a climate change is therefore extremely important. The best-known scientific method for establishing the age of objects without historic documentation is probably the measurement of a particular isotope of carbon, which, being radioactive, degrades to a more stable isotope at a very regular rate. Carbon-14 dating has its limits, including its inability to accurately date nonorganic marerial, but its precision is besr suited for really old objects, where an error factor of fifty to one hundred years is perfectly acceptable." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The climate is temperate. All in all, it was a most pleasant spot for a typical retirement home. There was, however, nothing at all typical about this particular home, beginning with its size. Built to stand comparison with the palaces of Egypt and Babylon, it was enormous, the main building alone nearly ten acres in extent, with walls seven hundred feet long and seventy feet high. The house's occupant was likewise atypical, a former soldier who had been, for twenty years, the most powerful man in the known world. Still more remarkable was the fact that the palace was occupied at all." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The probable cause for such temporary climate change was a dust-veil: something that blew a huge number of lighr-blocking particles into the upper atmosphere. Researchers have arrived at a general consensus for the existence of such a dust veil during the late 530s, though not for irs source. Baillie favors a cometary shower as the likely cause: "My view is that we had a cometary bombardment—not a full-blown comet, or we would not be here, but parts of a comet."7 He has contemporaneous history on his side." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The "barbarian" territories to the north possessed a different climate and developed a far less productive agriculture. The colder, wetter soil of northern and western Europe meant wheat was much more difficult to grow there than hardier crops like oats and barley. Viniculture was restricted to the same microclimatic regions in which Riesling and Bordeaux are still produced. Olives never grew at all; northerners depended for their dietary fat upon butter and lard." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The purity and therapeutic efficacy of the essential oil can also be greatly effected by the location the plants are grown in, the climate the plants are grown in, the growing procedures used, and the extraction procedures used. These plants must be organically grown in the right location, and at precisely the right climate. Harvesting often needs to be done by hand to avoid injuring the plant and it's delicate oil. The harvesting must be done at precisely the right time when the oils in the plant are at peak potency." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

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