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"Serrano-Duenas - Servicio de Neurologia del Hospital Carlos Andrade Marin, Insti-tuto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social, Facultad de Medicina de la Pontificia, Universidad Catolica del ecuador, Quito, ecuador. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders Volume 8, Issue 5, June 2002, Pages 325-327 We report a cohort of 21 patients (12 females and nine males), with a mean age of 42.4 years, who developed tremor after receiving fluoxetine at a mean dose of 25.7 mg per day. The mean latency period for tremor appearance was 54.3 days. Severity was found to be mild." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"I didn't understand this dream until a couple of years later, when I was traveling with a group led by healer and teacher Rocio Alarcon in the rainforest of ecuador. That evening the Chachi village had planned for three shamans to come and do healings for us. My daughter was chosen for one of the major healings. The shaman took out a goat horn and sucked on the back of her head at the base of her skull. He pulled out of the horn black stringy stuff that he then burned." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Upon graduation, I sold my car and bought a ticket to ecuador. Although I did not find the lost cities of gold and Inca treasure, I did buy highland textiles and handicrafts to bring back to the 'States. I sold those pieces almost immediately upon my return, and had enough money to buy another ticket to ecuador. To support my avocation of searching for lost cities, I developed a trading business focusing primarily on woven alpaca wool and handicrafts from ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Under the command of Gonzalo Pizarro, two thousand soldiers ventured into the jungles of ecuador, searching for these fruit treasures. After over two years lost in the forest, only eighty naked, hysterical stragglers made it back to Quito—without any cinnamon fruits. Speciation, or the emergence of new life-forms, thrives in isolation. Over time, species separated geographically end up evolving into novel forms. Hundreds of millions of years ago, there were two superconti-nents, Laurasia (North America, Europe and Asia) and Gondwana (everything else)." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "A fuzzy golden orb with green flesh that grows on trees with enormous purple-veined leaves, is used to make a popular juice in Colombia, Peru and ecuador. The Campbell's soup company invested years and millions of dollars attempting to popularize naranjilla in North America in the mid-1960s. Test-marketing of the juice garnered rave reviews, but the project was abandoned in 1972 because the juice's high price deterred consumers accustomed to cheaper domestic fruit drinks. In this era of boutique juices, naranjilla juice could make a comeback. How do you make a hit fruit?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The Criollo variety is found in ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Sri Lanka. Forastero, which means "foreigner" in Spanish, is now the predominant variety cultivated in Africa. Trinitario is grown mainly in Trinidad. Why Should I Eat Cocoa? Cocoa beans contain minerals such as magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, potassium, and manganese. They also contain vitamins A, Bl, B2, B3, C, E, and pantothenic acid. Cocoa has more phenolic phytochemicals and a higher antioxidant capacity possibly than any other food, including green tea, black tea, red wine, and blueberries." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Besides Hawaii, pineapple is also grown in Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, ecuador, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Thailand, and China. Why Should I Eat Pineapples? Pineapples are a good source of vitamin C, vitamin B6, manganese, and copper. They also contain a group of digestive enzymes called bromelain that have anti-inflammatory properties. Home Remedies Pineapple peel may be effective in removing corns by softening and breaking down the dead skin. Possibly this may be due to the activity of bromelain, a protein-digesting enzyme." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Most quinoa is imported from South American countries such as Peru, Bolivia, and ecuador, although it is also being cultivated in the Colorado Rockies in the United States. Why Should I Eat Quinoa? Nutritionally, quinoa is an amazing grain! The nutritional quality has been compared to that of dried whole milk by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Quinoa contains more protein than any other grain. Some varieties of quinoa have more than twenty percent protein!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"I saw this phenomenon in 1998 when working with the Shuar, a tribe of headhunters in Amazonian ecuador. Most of the Shuar had never seen a white person or any form of modern technology. A close colleague of mine on that expedition had left the Shuar village years before to go to the "big city" to get an education. She described her experience the first time she encountered a door. Since the Shuar don't have doors on their grass huts, she stood for a long time in front of the door, pushing on it, growing increasingly frustrated." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Chile, the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, ecuador, and Romania are the world's top growers. Oregon, California, Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas top the list in the U.S. Why Should I Eat Blackberries? Blackberries are high in antioxidants: An in vitro study found that blackberries had the highest antioxidant capacity when compared with blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, and raspberries. They are also rich in vitamin C, fiber, and in the phytochemicals tannin, flavonoid, and cyani-din, which have anticarcinogenic properties." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"On the basis of information about the impending El Nino, ecuador borrowed $180 million from the World Bank to offset the effects of abnormal weather on the national econ- omy; Peru borrowed $250 million. Agricultural officials in Cuba ordered an early start to the sugar harvest to avoid potentially damaging storms. International relief agencies stockpiled relief supplies." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In Spiritual Nutrition, he cites three cases in which large groups of people went on a fruitarian diet devoid of B|2: Johnny Lovewisdom's vegan community in ecuador, a fruitarian community in Australia and a group of African Americans who migrated to Israel. Each group suffered severely, especially the children, whose nervous systems were still developing. B)2 deficiency is especially problematic for a growing fetus or even a growing child, as it can permanently arrest brain and peripheral nerve development." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They remembered all too well the longevity claims made decades ago about populations in Georgia in the Soviet Union, in Pakistan's Hunza Valley, and in Ecuador's Vilcabamba Valley, which had all turned out to be overstated and based on faulty data. "I had a hard time convincing them," he recalled. Among those in attendance was Dr. Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer who'd dedicated much of the past 15 years to studying pockets of long-lived peoples around the world." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "He was telling us the story of his childhood in ecuador and how he had fallen in love with a Costa Rican who'd brought him to San Jose, where he'd worked as a lecturer in demography and learned English. He made his way to the United States, earned a Ph.D. in demography, and then secured a position at Princeton University where he worked in the office of Office of Population Research. He established the Central American Population Center with grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 and has run it ever since. "It's really nothing," he concluded with a modest shrug." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"For example, ecuador had only 35,000 hectares of shrimp farms in 1982. In 1997 there were 180,000 hectares, many of them hacked out from coastal mangrove swamps that once formed a natural barrier against flooding. Now rising river waters easily knocked down the retaining walls around shrimp hatcheries. Predictably, the interior minister announced that "we will have to manage with what we have"-meaning, it was every family for itself. Local authorities tried, with only limited success, to dissuade people from blocking ravines and drainage ditches with garbage." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"I know a lot of people who retreat to Costa Rica, ecuador, or some of these other places. They try to live "Garden of Eden" -like lives in the jungle, just living on fruit. Most people I have seen didn't do well at all, and some actually died from trying. I know one person who was paralyzed for a while. They got very sick living mostly on a fruitarian diet. Johnny Lovewisdom thought he was going to succeed at living that way. He moved to ecuador and died in poor health at about 80 years old." - Matt Monarch, Raw Success (Get the book.)

"Kenneth Pelletier, in his research on longevity, found that cultures in which people lived the longest, healthiest lives—the natives of the Vilcabamba region of ecuador, the Hunza of West Pakistan, the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico, and the Abkhasians of the Georgia region of Russia?ate low-protein, high-natural-carbohydrate diets that contained approximately one-half the amount of protein Americans eat and only 50-60 percent of the total calories.13 Paavo Airola makes the point in How to Get Well that one never sees an obese centenarian." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Wetter-than-normal conditions should continue over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, along the coasts of ecuador and northern Peru, and over southeastern South America. Also, increased storminess and wetter-than-normal conditions are expected to continue over California and the southern third of the United States. Warmer-than-normal conditions will persist over much of central North America.3 ENSO droughts and floods mean famine. Early warning programs went into high gear, including the U.S." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Six hundred people, mainly city slum dwellers, died in the savage floods that hit coastal ecuador and northern Peru. Storms and floods devastated entire cities and the coastal infrastructure of roads, railroads, bridges, and irrigation schemes. Southern Africa had irregular rains and much drier weather than usual. The journalist Allister Sparks traveled from Johannesburg to Cape Town in South Africa's famed "Blue Train" and witnessed the severe drought caused by the El Nino at firsthand." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The Amazonian rain forest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Eastern Andean region of ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the world's ninth largest. In an article in 2000 in Nature, Peter M. Cox of the Hadley Centre and coresearchers tell us, "About half of the current [greenhouse] emissions are being absorbed by the ocean and by land ecosystems." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Venezuela Venezuela was Ecuador's great rival for the lucrative Mexican market, and the chief cacao exporter to 17th and 18th-century Europe.13 Venezuelan cacao was grown along a narrow coastal plain on the north, or Caribbean, coast; narrow because it is hemmed in on the south by cloud-wreathed mountains which in places seem almost to tumble into the sea. Large swells often pound its shores, driven by the Northeast Trade Winds which blow for much of the year, and there are precious few natural harbors." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Habitat: The plant grows on the western slopes of the Andes in ecuador, Peru, and Columbia. Production: Condurango bark consists of the dried bark of branches and trunk of Marsedenia condurango. Not To Be Confused With: Asclepias umbellata or Elcomar-rhiza amylacea Other Names: Eagle Vine ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY COMPOUNDS Pregnane- and pregn-5-ene glycosides (mixture known as condurangin): including condurango glycosides A, AO, Al, B0, C, CI, DO, E0, E2 Caffeic acid derivatives: including chlorogenic acid EFFECTS The drug stimulates the secretion of saliva and gastric juices." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"A group of Harvard doctors and research scientists examined 400 people in a remote mountain village in ecuador and were surprised to find that except for two men, none of the people above 75, including all the centenarians and a 121-year-old man, showed any signs of heart disease. All the villagers turned out to be complete vegetarians. Examinations of similar age groups in the United States would typically reveal a 95 percent incidence of heart disease. Cancer, the second most common killer disease, now closely rivaling heart disease, may largely be caused by meat-eating, too." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"SUMA Common name: Para todo Botanical names: Pfaffia paniculata, Hebanthe paniculata Parts used and where grown Suma is a large shrubby vine native to the rain forests of the Amazon and other tropical regions of Latin Amer-ica, including Brazil, ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.1 The root of the plant is used medicinally. Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies) Although suma is claimed as an ancient Brazilian folk remedy, no confirmation of that statement is found in the modern literature on medicinal plants." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Our Reveren-da Madre herself has gone into some quite hostile tribes in Colombia and ecuador and made friends with them. That is the work of the Orden de las Inmaculadas. She, too, claims it's safer for a woman." "The Inmaculadas ... in ecuador? She wasn't one of the three Inmaculadas who went in to the Salasaca Indians in ecuador, was she?" I asked eagerly. She was indeed. I remembered the story well. I had heard about it when I lived in Quito." - Nicole Maxwell, Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon (Get the book.)

"Guayaquil coast of ecuador, and the cacao planters of Venezuela. Guayaquil seems to have been the first.11 Lying only a few degrees south of the Equator, the lower reaches of the Guayas River and adjacent coast are thoroughly tropical, with heavy tainfall and lush vegetation, the result of being under the influence of the warm Mexican Current which bathes this coast before heading west into the reaches of the Pacific." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Habitat: The plant is found in western Bolivia, Peru, ecuador, central Columbia and Panama. Production: Pareira root is the root of Chondrodendron tomentosum. Other Names: Pereira Brava, Velvet Leaf, Ice Vine ACTION AND PHARMACOLOGY COMPOUNDS Bibenzyl isoquinoline alkaloids: including, among others, D-tubocurarine, chondrocurarine, (-)-curine, (+)-chondrofoline, chondrocurine, isochondrodendrine EFFECTS Uncertain emmenagogic and diuretic actions. INDICATIONS AND USAGE Only the tubocurarine extracted from the bark and twigs is in use." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Resultados Nomenclatura Tradicional Los nombres vernaculares de las 215 plantas registradas que se usan en ecuador Meridional son casi totalmente derivados de raices espaiiolas. Idiomas indigenas, quichua en particular, no tienen importancia en la nomenclatura tradicional de plantas. Las plantas son comparadas con introducciones europeas y nombradas de acuerdo a estos criterios. La mayoria de las especies fueron nombradas con solamente un nombre vernacular usado ampliamente por los curanderos involucrados en este estudio." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.)

"Habitat: The plant grows on the western slopes of the Andes in ecuador, Peru and Columbia. Production: Condurango bark consists of the dried bark of branches and trunk of Marsdenia condurango." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

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