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"And you'll notice that many brands these days make prominent mention on their packaging of the "live active cultures" that their product contains. This is important because many of the benefits of yogurt are associated with these live active cultures. Yogurt is, quite simply, milk that via the work of friendly bacteria has had its naturally occurring lactose, or milk sugar, turned into lactic acid. The work of this transformation is done by those friendly bacteria—the "live active cultures." The health benefits of nonfat or low-fat yogurt, our dairy SuperFood, are considerable." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Don't confuse that with "made from active cultures" because there may have been some living bacteria in the mix at one time, but heat and processing often kills them, so you want a product that actually contains active cultures, not just one that had them long ago. (And by the way, the only thing "frozen yogurt" has in common with real yogurt that contains probiotics is that they're both white.) I'm also a big fan of kefir (fermented milk), goat's milk yogurt, and Greek-style yogurt. And I'm not a big fan of the no-fat kind, which contains more sugar than the regular varieties." - 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.)

"It was reported that as a fledgling company, Genentech encouraged an employee —a researcher at a tax-supported university — to steal the original cultures used by the company. These cultures, and the employee's former position at the university, gave him knowledge and access to the cultures, setting the entire process in motion. Obfuscating this tale of theft and deception, Eli Lilly entered the picture, securing the rights to the process of rDNA insulin-production for themselves." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"It is an unexplained paradox that osteoporosis is much more prevalent in affluent cultures with high calcium intakes than it is in poorer cultures with low calcium intakes. High levels of calcium intake and high levels of vitamin D are helpful in slowing the progression of bone loss. Loss of calcium from the bones, as can occur on a day with lower calcium intake coupled with high sodium and protein intake, is hard to replace. Calcium can be removed quickly from bones, but it is a slower process to rebuild bones. As is true with many chronic diseases, prevention is the best approach." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"It's hard to argue with the great results that many people have had using formulations that contain these cultures. On the other hand, it's possible to get all of the same results using only the "safer" cultures that I've mentioned above. • Note: a good probiotic formulation will usually contain fructo-oligosac-charides (FOS) which help promote the growth of beneficial bacteria.1 One final note: start slowly. When you first start using a probiotic supplement, there is a good chance that you will precipitate a die-off of bad bacteria in your intestinal tract." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Don't confuse that with "made from active cultures" because there may have been some living bacteria in the mix at one time, but heat and processing often kills them, so you want a product that actually contains active cultures, not just one that had them long ago. (And by the way, the only thing "frozen yogurt" has in common with real yogurt that contains probiotics is that they're both white.) I'm also a big fan of kefir (fermented milk), goat's milk yogurt, and Greek-style yogurt. And I'm not a big fan of the no-fat kind, which contains more sugar than the regular varieties." - 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.)

"This is important because many of the benefits of yogurt are associated with these live active cultures. Yogurt is, quite simply, milk that via the work of friendly bacteria has had its naturally occurring lactose, or milk sugar, turned into lactic acid. The work of this transformation is done by those friendly bacteria—the "live active cultures." The health benefits of nonfat or low-fat yogurt, our dairy SuperFood, are considerable." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"At each stage of Astaxanthin production, Haematococcus cultures are closely monitored by microscopic examination to ensure the cultures are pure and free from contaminating organisms. After the reddening cycle, the Haematococcus cultures are harvested, washed and dried. The final step for the production of Astaxanthin is extraction of dried Haematococcus biomass using supercritical carbon dioxide to produce a purified oleoresin, absolutely free of any biological or environmental contamination." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"Partial purification and some properties of flavanone synthase from cell-suspension cultures of Petroselinum hortense, Eur J Biochem 56: 205-213. Kreuzaler, F., Ragg, H., Fautz, E., Kuhn, D. N., and Hahlbrock, K., 1983, UV-induction of chalcone synthase mRNA in cell suspension cultures of Petroselinum hortense, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80: 2591-2593. Kubo, A., Arai, Y., Nagashima, S., and Yoshikawa, T., 2004, Alteration of sugar donor specificities of plant glycosyltransferases by a single point mutation, Arch Biochem Biophys 429: 198-203. Kuras, M., Stefanowska-Wronka, M., Lynch, J. M." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Antibiotics prevent the growth of germs in vaccine cultures, but as I explain later in the chapter, overexposure to antibiotics might lead to widespread health issues. • Egg protein is used in a number of vaccines, even though some children are allergic to eggs. Because the children receive vaccines so early in their lives, their parents might not know of these allergies yet. • Formaldehyde, which is also used as an embalming fluid, kills unwanted bacteria and viruses in vaccine cultures, but it is also a known human carcinogen." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Through a long, incremental process of trial and error, cultures discover what works—how best to reconcile human needs with whatever nature has to offer us in a particular place. 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." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"He argued that the success of therapeutic burning could and should teach the western profession about the nature of gout, and chastised European doctors for their arrogance in disregarding the expertise of other cultures. He even hinted that religious bigotry might underpin dismissive European attitudes: [Q.] But pray tell me, Sir, what's the reason that this burning hath been so many years hid from us Europeans, whereas it hath been experienced for so vast a time in those Indian kingdoms, where it is so common... ? A." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The political leaders of great imperial cultures are educated to rule, and in sixth-centuty Constantinople, the career-making importance of education was very high indeed. The Soviet Union raised its children on Marxism-Leninism; Great Britain on some combination of Eton, Oxbridge, and Kipling. The sixth-century Roman version was a pedagogical tradition that would one day be called Neoplatonism." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "No great physical boundary separates western Mesopotamia from the most easterly of the pre-European cultures of Greece and Rome, but geography nonetheless gives some shape to the thousand-year-long conflict between them. Seen from the Greek or Roman perspective, the west-to-east topography that begins with the Mediterranean shore of modern Lebanon and Israel immediately climbs to a north-south chain of mountains including the Amanus, the Lebanon, and the Judaean hills." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "For two millennia, relations between the rulers of the fertile crescent and their Mediterranean neighbors cycled between disregard and wars of conquest, thus giving the cultures of the west their first opportunity to define themselves against a hostile enemy. Only during the century following Alexander's defeat of Darius at Gaugamela in 331 b.c.e. were the rulers of Mesoporamia culturally affiliated with the Greek speakers that dominated the Mediterranean, since the empire founded after Alexander's death by the Macedonian general Seleucus Nicator was, unsurprisingly, Hellenophilic." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"It is true that some alternative cultures are escapist, introverted, and narcissistic, but the more serious have a genuine core of values and priorities that is highly promising for a positive outcome of the Macroshift. Dismissing them would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater. An Emerging Culture in the United States In the United States, at the center of the industrialized world, a hopeful subculture is in rapid growth." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Ripley never did statistics, but we can't resist this story, which, if replicated with other cultures and other diseases, would stand contemporary medicine on its head. It goes like this: Chinese Americans with lymphatic cancer who were born in "earth years"—and consequently were deemed by Chinese medical theory to be especially susceptible to diseases involving lumps, nodules, or tumors—had an average age at death of 59.7 years. By contrast, age at death of Chinese Americans born in other years, and nonetheless diagnosed with lymphoma, was 63.6 years." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Therapeutic Touch In Anglo-Saxon societies we shake hands when we meet, in other societies people greet acquaintances with a kiss on the cheek. Some cultures rub noses. These are natural ways of 'breaking the ice' and getting to know someone. Cuddling a baby, holding hands on a date, nursing a sick person, hugging and kissing, are all examples of the need to touch. Touch is vital to relationships between human beings. We all feel better when we are loved, touched and comforted. Touching puts us at peace with one another and with ourselves." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Eating being one of the most important manifestations of that relationship, cultures have had a great deal to say about what and how and why and when and how much we should eat. Of course when it comes to food, culture is another word for mom, the figure who typically passes on the food ways of the group—food ways that endured, by the way, only because they tended to keep people healthy." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"In primitive cultures, salt intake is seven times lower than potassium levels. In America today, salt intake is three times higher than potassium intake, as shown in Figure 8-5. Potassium (mg of potassium in 100 g of each food) Sodium (mg of sodium in 100 g of each food) 459 Peanut Butter Ratio 1.4 to 1 491 Hamburger Ratio 0.4 to 1 592 White Bread Ratio 0.2 to 1 621 Cheddar Cheese Ratio 0.15 to 1 Figure 8-5 Potassium and sodium ratios in some common foods." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"For them this made sense: the Romans governed a global empire, with rebellious peoples and cultures within and barbarian tribes at the periphery. Maintaining it required a constant exercise of military power. Today the nature of power is different, but the belief about the use of war to achieve political—and now also economic—objectives is much the same. Like the ancient Romans, during the Bush administrations the U.S. believed that maintaining world supremacy called for "sending in the marines." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Across numerous hills and valleys, and occasional abrupt leaps, these Macroshifts drive toward the progressive integration of different peoples, enterprises, economies, societies, and cultures in systems of larger and larger dimensions. The evolution of human groups in intercommunicating kinship or social structure-based communities is described in the chronicles of history. This is a complex process, for human beings are not simply the passive subjects of evolution but are active (even if usually not voluntary and conscious) agents that influence its unfolding." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Sustaining diversity also does not mean preserving inequality, for equality does not reside in uniformity but in the recognition of the equal value and dignity of all peoples and cultures. Creating a diverse yet equitable and intercommunicating world calls for more than just paying lip service to equality and just tolerating each other's differences. Letting others be what they want as long as they stay in their corner of the world and letting them do what they want "as long as they don't do it in my backyard" are well meaning but inadequate attitudes." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Studies conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown that people labeled "schizophrenic" do much more poorly when treated in Western societies than when given little or no treatment in more "primitive" cultures.4 The drugs that are invariably forced on these disturbed people in modern societies make them more helpless and turn them into chronic patients. By contrast, the drug-free extended family relationships in the non-Western societies tend to bring people back toward effective functioning in a matter of months." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"So where do the medical systems of other cultures fit onto this spectrum? Until the late eighteenth century, all medicine was largely subjective—rooted in the patient's experience of his or her illness, and in the healer's experience recognizing and treating similar constellations of symptoms and circumstance. With the 'rise of science' and the professionalization of orthodox medicine came a rejection of purely experiential and empirical knowledge." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Numerous cultures sacrificed humans in order to ensure crops. Others scared trees into bearing fruits. In Malaysia, sorcerers would strike the trunks of durian trees with a hatchet, saying, "Will you now bear fruit or not? If you do not, I shall fell you." A man in a nearby mangosteen tree would shout back, pretending to be the voice of the durian fruit, "Yes, I will now bear fruit; I beg of you not to fell me." We didn't really understand fruits, but we knew we could mess with them. We also respected—and feared—their powers." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Daniel David Palmer, a Canadian who worked in the latter half of the last century, is recognised as the founder of modern chiropractic, but less scientific methods were being applied in various cultures long before Palmer's time. Witch doctors in Africa often performed cures, even 'miracles', by walking on someone's back, up and down the spine. The ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Brazilians and people in South East Asian countries also practised a type of chiropractic adjustment. Today we are more scientific." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Throughout history many different cultures have encouraged fasting in the belief that it is good for moral, spiritual and physical well-being. However, most people are reluctant to attempt a programme that requires a great deal of discipline, determination and willpower, unless they seriously want to correct their dietary habits. A mono-diet for only three days is short enough to be able to contemplate without fear of failure, and will establish a foundation on which you can build a new and improved eating regimen. Don't, however, just rush in and think 'I'll start today'." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

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