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"Later that same year, Keiko Otake, a scientist from japan (trained in japan), arrived as well. Each independently decided to test our hypothesis in her own home country.22 Their results were strikingly similar to ours. Whether in the city of Pune, in the state of Maharashtra within India, the cities of Kobe or Nishinomiya in japan, or in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States, positivity made people see more overlap between themselves and their best friends. I'm particularly excited about these cross-cultural data because India and japan differ from the United States in deep ways." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"The Portuguese reached japan in 1549, and from then until 1636, when japan closed its doors to all except the Dutch, there was ample time for the trading galleon from Goa to bring japan its first capsicums. On the other hand, the Japanese may have come in contact with chili peppers through trading missions of their own, as Japanese vessels were already plying the waters of Southeast Asia by the time the Portuguese arrived in japan." - Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell, Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World (Get the book.)

"Syme's quest for answers to his unexpected research finding took him to japan, where he met with Japanese epidemiologists. "Japanese society," he explains, "is organized around social networks much tighter than what we have in the United States. Even with increasing Westernization, Japanese people still have very close ties to their families, neighborhoods and jobs. To Americans, that looks claustrophobic, like an invasion of privacy. But to the Japanese, our mobile, individualistic lifestyle looks terribly lonely, rootless and isolated." Dr." - Michael Castleman, Nature's Cures: From Acupressure and Aromatherapy to Walking and Yoga--The Ultimate Guide to the Best, Scientifically Proven, Drug-Free Healing Methods (Get the book.)

"I believe we consume even less EPA.) In japan, 80 percent of the fat eaten is EPA, and only 20 percent is arachi-donic acid (another unhealthy omega-6 fatty acid).That may be why the Japanese have less depression, dementia, and heart disease. Consuming these harmful seed and soy oils instead of omega-3 fats changes our tissue composition in dramatic ways and damages our health. Dr. Hibbeln explained that there has been a thousandfold increase in the consumption of soy oil over the last century." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"There have been four clinical trials at four different dental universities in Canada and japan, and they all found that the people who used Soladey had significantly less plaque on their teeth compared to the people who used the ordinary brush. The research also showed an improvement in gingivitis. So Soladey works to protect your gums?as well as reducing plaque. The scientific principals behind Soladey have been around since the 1970s and Soladey has now been sold in japan for a few years—where it sells two million brush units and five million replacement heads every year." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Holsworth has traveled to Germany and japan in his pursuit of understanding enzymes in their clinical application. In Germany, Dr. Holsworth met with the late Dr. Karl Ransberger, one of the original researchers who determined the benefits of animal enzymes. In japan, he met Dr. Hiroyuki Sumi, who discovered the nattokinase enzyme. Dr. Holsworth applies his knowledge and experience to support other doctors to understand the benefits of enzymes in a clinical setting. WILLIAM KELLEY, DDS, MS In 1963, William Kelley, a dentist, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Examples of this are shoyu (soy sauce) and miso, both of which are made from soybeans and originated in japan. During the fermentation process, miso develops a complex and distinct flavor. Additionally, natto, produced from the fermentation of soy beans by means of a bacterium called Bacillus subtillus, has been eaten by the Japanese for hundreds of years. It has been credited with many medicinal properties and only recently have scientists given the enzyme found in natto a name: nattokinase. (See Amano Enzyme, Inc." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"I went to japan several times, interviewed dozen and dozens of people, and I read many books to get some understanding of this but all I could get out of this work was that my Japanese informants thought that Americans were lonely. I challenged this observation many times but dozens of people said that anyone could easily see this loneliness when you saw so many Americans walking on the street, alone. "Alone on the street?" I said. "That's not evidence of loneliness," I said. People all shrugged at my naivete." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"I am also grateful to Kazuki Saito (Chiba University, Chiba, japan), Shigeru Iida and Atsushi Hoshino (National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, japan), and Erich Grotewold (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) for sharing unpublished results or data in preparation for publication. 9. REFERENCES Abrahams, S, Lee, E., Walker, A. R., Tanner, G. J., Larkin, P. J., and Ashton, A. R., 2003, The Arabidopsis TDS4 gene encodes leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX) and is essential for proanthocyanidin synthesis and vacuole development, Plant J 55: 624-636. Abrahams, S., Tanner, G. J." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"The Prisoner of War Diet Is Better Raw Prisoners of war in japan during WW II were fed a scanty diet of brown rice, vegetables and fruit, totaling only 729-826 calories per 154 pounds of body weight. In 1950, Dr. Masanore Kuratsune, head of the Medical Department of the University of Kyushu in japan, thought that this diet might be a remarkable way to validate previous studies comparing raw and cooked food. He and his wife decided to be the guinea pigs. Both followed the raw version of the same diet for three periods: 120 days in winter, 32 days in summer and 81 days in spring. Mrs." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"And we know what it is to feel something in our gut. In japan, the gut is viewed as the seat of the mind and soul. AJapanese business mogul was once asked how he knew whether to do a deal, and he replied, "I swallow it, and if it feels good in my belly, I do it." Your gut has a mind of its own . . . The "mind" of the gut talks to your brain every day. We are familiar with signals for hunger, or elimination. But a new conversation is being discovered between the gut and the brain, a bidirectional conversation in which the brain speaks to the gut and the gut speaks to the brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Japan suffers from a very high incidence of stroke. Their soils and drinking water are very low in both calcium and magnesium. The Japanese also tend to have lower cholesterol levels because their intake of animal products and sugar is much lower. The combination of low cholesterol and low magnesium may be the cause. As the Japanese have increased their intake of animal foods, their cholesterol levels have risen and the incidence of stroke has fallen 60% between 1964 and 1983. Thailand and Egypt have the lowest stroke mortality rate." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Richter scale had hit Kobe, japan. The details were sketchy. I turned off the television, hoping the earthquake was not too severe. That night, I became lucidly aware and found myself flying to japan to inspect things; I walked amongst broken concrete and twisted metal. Also, along the way, flying high over the Pacific Ocean by all appearances, I saw a ship far below. The ship appeared to be moving along a southeast to northwesterly line. I flew down to see it and read the ship's name—it was the USS Stark. Although the U.S." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"I'm particularly excited about these cross-cultural data because India and japan differ from the United States in deep ways. Scientists have identified these cultures as ones that, relative to the United States, foster more-connected and more-interdependent views of self. Compared with North Americans, most people in India and japan already see more overlap between themselves and closely connected others. Could positivity boost perceptions of self-other overlap even when self-other overlap is the cultural norm? Yes, it could." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Hayao Kawai, a clinical psychologist who became Japan's commissioner of cultural affairs, said, "Nature shows us that life is sadness, that everything dies or ends . . . Our mythology repeats that; we do not have stories where anyone lives happily ever after."8 Because depression was not considered a negative condition, SSRIs have been slow to take hold in japan. No SSRIs were sold there until 1999. In order to create a market, pharmaceutical companies had to actually invent a phrase for mild depression: kokoro no kaze, which, roughly translated, means one's soul catching cold." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Whether in the city of Pune, in the state of Maharashtra within India, the cities of Kobe or Nishinomiya in japan, or in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States, positivity made people see more overlap between themselves and their best friends. I'm particularly excited about these cross-cultural data because India and japan differ from the United States in deep ways. Scientists have identified these cultures as ones that, relative to the United States, foster more-connected and more-interdependent views of self." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"But currently people in North America, Western Europe, and japan use (and to a large extent waste) 140 percent of their daily caloric requirement, whereas populations in countries such as Madagascar, Guyana, and Laos obtain merely 70 percent. Current trends in energy consumption are likewise unsustainable. The average amount of commercial electrical energy consumed by Africans is half a kilowatt-hour (kWh) per person, the corresponding average for Asians and Latin Americans is 2 to 3 kWh, and for Americans, Europeans, Australians, and Japanese it is 8 kWh." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Gulbinat and coworkers, for example, studied the incidence of cancer among schizophrenics in Nagasaki, japan, Aarhus, Denmark, and Honolulu, Hawaii, and compared these rates with that of the local general public.44 Interestingly, although cancer incidence was generally much lower among Caucasian schizophrenics, it was elevated in Japanese schizophrenics in both Hawaii and japan. Of particular interest here were the very low relative risks of lung cancer in both Danish males (rr = 0.38) and females (rr = 0.33) during the period 1957 to 1980. D." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"And in the early 1950s, breast cancer was almost unknown in japan (later, the rates began to rise as the Japanese adopted lifestyles—and eating habits—more like those of affluent Westerners). A close look at the cultures with low rates of breast cancer showed an obvious common denominator: a low intake of dietary fat and correspondingly low cholesterol levels. The same was true for cancers of the colon, prostate, and ovary, and for diabetes and obesity.2 The more I read, the more convinced I became that the connection between nutrition and disease was critical." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Meerly Upon Their Own Experience': Incorporating Acupuncture On one of his few journeys away from the island trading-post inhabited by the handful of European traders allowed in japan, Wilhelm Ten Rhyne observed a Japanese sailor behaving in an extraordinary manner. Writhing in pain from what Ten Rhyne diagnosed as severe colic, the sailor seemed determined to add insult to injury by piercing his own abdomen with a set of rather fearsome needles. To Ten Rhyne's utter amazement, the sailor was completely relieved by his makeshift operation, and immediately resumed his duties." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Syme's quest for answers to his unexpected research finding took him to japan, where he met with Japanese epidemiologists. "Japanese society," he explains, "is organized around social networks much tighter than what we have in the United States. Even with increasing Westernization, Japanese people still have very close ties to their families, neighborhoods and jobs. To Americans, that looks claustrophobic, like an invasion of privacy. But to the Japanese, our mobile, individualistic lifestyle looks terribly lonely, rootless and isolated." Dr." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures (Get the book.)

"All the coral comes from japan as long as it says from Okinawa, japan. There are two grades available. One is marine grade, which comes from in the ocean, and the other one is non-marine grade, which comes from the sand on the beach. I believe the marine grade is better, since it has not been bleached by the sun. There is also coral calcium in sachets that you put in water that helps calcify the water. This is excellent, especially for people who do not like to take pills. Again, always look for marine grade coral calcium from Okinawa, japan." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Importing companies are now required to notify the ministry that they intend to sell a product in japan. The industry must also assure the safety of all product ingredients and keep files supporting safety data. While testing of cosmetics is no longer required, safety data must be made available on request. The majority of ingredients remain controlled by two "Negative Lists." One list prohibits thirty ingredients, including formaldehyde." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Similarly, words claiming superiority of products (such as "number one," "available only from our company," and "first in Japan") are no longer allowed. It's not just Asian countries that are changing their policies. Canada's Food and Drugs Act states that "no person shall sell a cosmetic product that has in it any substances that may injure the health of the user when the cosmetic is used according to its customary method." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "France, Canada, and japan. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the U.S., natural and organic products are becoming mainstreamed, appearing in mass-market outlets including Wal-Mart?and Target? Clearly what was once known as the "organic class divide" is rapidly disappearing. Many of the new organic personal care products are proving equal in effectiveness to more mainstream synthetic products. After several organic deodorants hit the U.S. market in 2005, Health magazine published an article noting how "natural sweat stoppers can leave much to be desired." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Not by the animal desire of an Actaeon, not by the fastidious revulsion of such as Fergus, can she be comprehended and rightly served, but only by gentleness: aware ("gentle sympathy") it was named in the romantic courtly poetry of tenth- to twelfth-century japan. Within the gentle heart Love shelters himself, As birds within the green shade of the grove. Before the gentle heart, in nature's scheme, Love was not, nor the gentle heart ere Love. For with the sun, at once, So sprang the light immediately; nor was Its birth before the sun's." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Reports from the few westerners with intimate knowledge of japan were consequently of great interest to general audiences. Anatomy too was something of a closed country, and certainly a controversial one to most readers (some dissections admitted a paying audience but even they were only open to a narrow elite); hence it was likewise worthy of discussion. It is the reviewer's emphasis on moxabustion, however, which is most revealing about the factors that either promote or stymie the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Traces remain in many lands; but only in japan do we find the once great 13 Kn-ii-hi. aftpr f"!tlinmrtprlain n>h rit nn ro.m mythology still effective in civilization; for the Mikado is a direct descendant of the grandson of Amaterasu, and as ancestress of the royal house she is honored as one of the supreme divinities of the national tradition of Shinto." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"It is much practiced in Siam, japan, and other Oriental nations, in all parts of the body, even on the bellies of women with child. Heister.11 Unfortunately, as a method of bleeding, acupuncture was found wanting." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "His account of his experiences in the Far East, originally titled Amoenitatum Exoticarum ('Exotic Pleasures') and largely republished in vernacular as a History of japan, was not a specifically medical text. Indeed, his descriptions of both moxabustion and acupuncture were offered only as appendices to the volume. They were certainly more attentive to the needs of a general audience than Ten Rhyne's accounts had been." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

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