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"Internationally renowned eco-activist Jane Goodall has had incredible success with her roots and Shoots (www.rootsandshoots.org) club, which has chapters in more than one hundred countries. roots and Shoots' motto, "The power of youth is global," says it all for me. If we can just get our kids motivated about environmental issues, we can make a huge difference in the future of our planet. roots and Shoots organizes hands-on educational activities for school-age children interested in environmental issues. The National Wildlife Federation has another fun program, Backyard Habitats (www.nwf." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"GOOD" roots AND "NOT SO GOOD" roots mm ? ??? . ...... niiM^MMMMMM»i—inn.....ii i Approach root vegetables with caution. Some, like carrots and beets, are fine when eaten raw, but concentrate sugars when cooked. Avoid eating celery root, even raw, in the first few weeks when you are kick-starting your weight loss, but feel free to nibble on radishes or daikon, a large white radish which you can cut into sticks or grate into salads. OILS For dressing salads and other vegetables, my preference is extra-virgin olive oil, but many other oils add distinctive flavors." - 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.)

"Ancestral origin has a striking influence; bones of those with African roots are more mineralized than those with either Asian or European roots. There is a positive influence of moderate weight-bearing exercises on the degree of mineralization and a negative influence of thinness (a low bmi) and of tobacco abuse. In our fifth decade, the balance turns negative; we slowly come to have less mineral-per-unit matrix and therefore less well-mineralized bone. In men, this negative balance is a gentle slope that continues until death. In women, the negative balance accelerates with menopause." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"To make tea: Cut fine 5 grams of Rhodiola rosea roots. Pour the roots into a cup of boiling water and leave for (brew) at least four hours. Then filter. Drink one-fifth cup three to five times per day. You can also dilute Rhodiola rosea tea with juice, tonic, or other herbal teas. To make vodka mix: Mill 30 grams of Rhodiola rosea roots in a coffee grinder, add 150 milliliters of vodka without aromatic additives, agitate, and steep three to five days at room temperature. Separate and filter the extract." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Bitters may contain herbs like aloe, myrrh, saffron, orange peel, gentian, quinine, angostura bark, cassia, senna leaves, camphor, angelica roots, manna, rhubarb roots, goldenseal, artichoke leaf, blessed thistle, wormwood and yarrow flowers. Historically, Bitters were taken as a dinnertime aperitif to stimulate the digestive juices. Swedish Bitters are useful to aid in digestion, to settle a stomach before eating and to ward off the ill effects of alcohol. They were used as a tonic and taken in a shot glass. The liquor variety of bitters has a high percentage of alcohol." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Roots and Shoots' motto, "The power of youth is global," says it all for me. If we can just get our kids motivated about environmental issues, we can make a huge difference in the future of our planet. roots and Shoots organizes hands-on educational activities for school-age children interested in environmental issues. The National Wildlife Federation has another fun program, Backyard Habitats (www.nwf.org/backyard/), which teaches kids (and their parents) how to tranform their backyard into a veritable wildlife refuge." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"This is very interesting because we typically eat the roots of carrots, turnips, and beets, and discard the tops. As Victoria continued her search for understanding, she discovered that green leaf vegetable tops provide superior health benefits compared to the roots. The advantages are mainly twofold: the first is nutrition and the second is fiber. The green leaf tops of root vegetables such as carrots, beets, parsnips, and turnips, contain a far greater abundance of chlorophyll, vitamins, alkaline minerals,10 and essential amino acids." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Bitters may contain herbs like aloe, myrrh, saffron, orange peel, gentian, quinine, angostura bark, cassia, senna leaves, camphor, angelica roots, manna, rhubarb roots, goldenseal, artichoke leaf, blessed thistle, wormwood and yarrow flowers. Historically, bitters were taken as a dinnertime aperitif to stimulate the digestive juices. Swedish bitters are useful to aid in digestion, settle a stomach before eating and good to ward off the ill effects of alcohol. The help the liver and gallbladder to stimulate bile flow. They were used as a tonic and taken in a shot glass." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"As Victoria continued her search for understanding, she discovered that green leaf vegetable tops provide superior health benefits compared to the roots. The advantages are mainly twofold: the first is nutrition and the second is fiber. The green leaf tops of root vegetables such as carrots, beets, parsnips, and turnips, contain a far greater abundance of chlorophyll, vitamins, alkaline minerals,10 and essential amino acids.11 The reason why humans prefer to eat the roots is because they contain "significantly more sugar and water." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Most of us have been pretty destructive in our lives and we're trying to come back to our environmental roots, or maybe we're just putting down eco-roots or roots of goodness for the first time. I do know this. I'm excited. I'm learning how to live and to be a litde, or maybe a whole lot, less toxic. NINE Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Nothing about the roads of Vancouver, British Columbia, had made sense since I slid into my fossil-fuel Enterprise rental. I was totally lost. But, at least, I was there. Even as a child I wanted to live in what I always thought of as the Great Northwest." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"We must tell them that a diet of roots, stems, seeds, flowers, fruit, and leaves is the healthiest diet and the only diet we can promote, endorse, and recommend."6 Following the conference, I prepared a summary that was ultimately approved by ten of the thirteen faculty participants. The following four paragraphs reveal the strong stand of these acknowledged experts—and might serve as a model for more useful nutritional advice for Americans than what the U.S." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Adults in our society certainly need them; workplace pressures and the demands of raising families can get stifling, and without healthy outlets to alleviate stress, many of us would be tearing our hair out at the roots. Pressure is an inescapable part of work and home life for adults. Homework, the classroom dynamic, and social pressures are things that typically introduce a lot of stress into the lives of school-age children. As a result, many yoga studios now offer classes for kids." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Produces a series of books and reports and related visual materials that describe the critical condition of the human community, trace the roots of the present unsustainability, and apply the latest insights of the sciences to offer practical guidelines for evolving a planetary civilization (the You Can Change the World book series). SEVENTEEN Objectives of the GlobalShift University The initiative to create the G\oba\Shift University (GSU) is grounded in the belief that a fundamental shift is required in order to create a culture of sustainability." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"This new uptake of water by the roots brings with it trace minerals from the soil that will darken the sap. This first run, Gr. A Light Amber, is light in both color and taste, owing to its lack of minerals. During the winter the sap in the roots loses some of its mineral content. The Gr. A Medium Amber is a combination of older, light sap mixed with newer and heavier sap laden with minerals. As the season progresses, the concentration of minerals continues to increase and Gr. A Dark Amber is the next run. The final run of sap, or Gr." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"IN CONCLUSION Societal evolution is a long-term process, with roots extending back to our species' prehistory. It is on the whole irreversible, and it is nonlinear, beset with periodic bifurcations. The current bifurcation takes human community-building from the nation-state to the planetary level. It is as profound as any evolutionary process in history, but it is incomparably faster than anything that went before. It poses enormous challenges of adaptation for individuals and societies." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"And though the tree and its leaves, roots, and bark all smell and taste of cinnamon, these husks are the true spice." 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." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "A Nu Ngan, or man of the roots, is a traditional doctor specializing in the forest pharmacopoeia. Urbanization has led to impostors capitalizing on the mystery and misinformation surrounding the area's myriad plants. A recent editorial in the Cameroon Tribune bemoaned the trend of "doctas" and "gambe men" setting up shop on street corners with herbal cures for any ailment. "What a hoax," it concludes. While modern-day mountebanks sell magic potions at Yaounde's intersections, many of the garden's potent medicinal plants remain underutilized." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"During the winter the sap in the roots loses some of its mineral content. The Gr. A Medium Amber is a combination of older, light sap mixed with newer and heavier sap laden with minerals. As the season progresses, the concentration of minerals continues to increase and Gr. A Dark Amber is the next run. The final run of sap, or Gr. B, is all new uptake from the roots and has the highest mineral content. Gr. B maple syrup is actually the highest quality syrup for the Master Cleanse, and the best possible choice. Stanley recommended Gr. B (or what was called Gr." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"More important, its roots and bark are used in initiation rituals by the Bwiti secret society in southern Cameroon and Gabon. Their entheogenic ceremonies, called "breaking open the head," are done to establish communication with ancestors. In addition to being a profound hallucinatory experience, iboga eliminates withdrawal symptoms associated with opiate dependency. Heroin addicts have posted online reports of their habit-kicking trips to Cameroon, where extortionate priests in zombie-white face paint orchestrate nauseating rites lasting up to six days." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Key features of the dominant culture of past civilizations and the challenge of shifting to a culture capable of ushering in a global civilization THREE The roots of Unsustainability In the first decade of the twenty-first century, humanity is still dominated by the materialistic, energy- and resource-intensive, and narrowly self-concerned technological civilization born in the West and extended to all continents. A linear continuation of the trends and processes engendered by this civilization is not sustainable; it would provoke major crises and ultimately breakdown." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Perhaps our difficulty with the issue relates to our prudish roots. Safe, effective birth control does exist, although failures, whether human or methodological, occur with each. The best we can do is choose wisely and minimize human error. In addition to natural family planning or fertility awareness methods (often described as the rhythm method), there are three general categories—hormonal contraception, barrier contraception and the intrauterine devices, and abortion—that complete the list of birth control methods." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Then to her hairdresser, to have her roots dyed auburn, as she does by rote every six weeks. On the way back to pick up Selena she stops to fill up the tank of her hybrid SUV, then on to McDonald's to pick up a Happy Meal with the newest Happy Meal toy for Selena's lunch. As she pulls into her driveway, the lawn company is pulling away, having just sprayed weed killer on the crabgrass and dandelions that threaten to ruin the lawn. Later, after lunch, both children take a midday nap, Zach in his bassinet, Selena on Becky's bed." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"There was plenty of time for other diagnostic tests if her symptoms did not respond to these simple measures. THE roots OF THE BIOMEDICAL MODEL In the second half of the nineteenth century, medical science took a giant leap forward. Microbiology, the study of infectious microorganisms, or germs, began shortly after Louis Pasteur accepted a position as chair of the department of chemistry at the University of Lille, in the north of France. The local industry relied upon the precise harnessing of fermentation in the production of beer and wine, and the making of alcohol from beet juice." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "By 2000, men in the United States were losing 21 percent more years of life before the age of 70 than men in the other OECD countries, and American women were losing 33 percent more. THE roots OF THE MYTH All this does not add up. The United States' emergence as the world leader in medical research, combined with seemingly bottomless pockets when it comes to health care, does not square with the comparatively poor health of Americans." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The dry-cleaned garments hang on the bedroom closet door a few feet away, the cosmetics have been bought, and Becky's roots are a sleek red-brown again. She has called the dentist because one of her mercury fillings has been aching whenever she drinks something cold or hot." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The formula combines an extract from the bark of the Amazonian tree, Pao pereira, and an extract from the bark of the roots of the tropical shrub Rauwolfia vomitoria, a medicinal plant traditionally used for many ailments including hormone regulation. The alkaloids found in these barks are the subject of numerous research studies linking alkaloids with the ability to fight cancer. Flavopereirine (also known as PB-100), an alkaloid from the Pao pereira tree, has been used to effectively treat brain tumors and several types of cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Becky Sandler might be especially disturbed to learn of data linking hair dye to a woman's likelihood of developing lupus, given that she has her roots dyed auburn to cover her premature gray every six weeks. Several studies have shown that women who use hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus—that is, if they also carry specific genes that make them susceptible to autoimmune disease in the first place. This might not, however, reassure Becky all that much." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "During the spinal tap, or lumbar puncture, a terrible medical mishap occurred: the lumbar puncture was made into what physicians refer to as the danger zone—the cauda equina—a group of nerve roots that send and receive messages to and from the lower abdominal organs and down into the legs. When these nerves are damaged, sensation to the legs can be seriously impaired. Not yet aware of what had happened, Mullin left the procedure experiencing excruciating pain. The puncture into his spine began bleeding. Something was terribly wrong." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"While his wartime experience had made him distinctly skeptical of Freud's view that the deep roots of hysteria lay in repressed sexual wishes and conflicts, Rivers insisted all the same that "there is hardly a case which this theory does not help us the better to understand—not a day of clinical experience in which Freud's theory may not be of direct practical use in diagnosis and treatment." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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