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"Maybe Japan airlines was on to something when it started using dried natto— which was developed about ten years ago— for in-flight meals and as a snack with beer. Natto is also highly antibacterial, in part because it has a high nutritive value and is easy for the body to absorb. In years past in Japan, food poisoning was very common, and people used natto to prevent cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Natto accomplishes this by suppressing the growth of harmful bacteria that are found in food, while at the same time supporting the growth of the beneficial bacteria like lactobacillus." - 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.)

"Battles between airports and their neighbors may create new safety concerns. airlines have already had to provide special training for pilots who fly into airports that require noise-reducing takeoff maneuvers. airlines currently refuse to reroute planes over the ocean, but if new runways and flight paths aren't created, congestion may result in more accidents. Scheduling problems will also increase as airlines struggle to comply with a patchwork quilt of local rules. Some airlines have called for national noise standards." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"One organization is finding a way to use airlines as an opportunity to effect positive change. Airline Ambassadors International, which was started by airline industry employees, organizes trips to hand-deliver food, clothing, and medical supplies to people in need. Using contributions from four thousand members, and in-kind donations from a variety of airlines, the group has brought $18 million worth of aid to forty-four countries and fifteen U.S. cities since 1996. Volunteers have also escorted a thousand children to new homes or to hospitals in foreign countries for medical treatment." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Airlines can be responsive to special requests for no-fat vegetarian meals, but they often need a reminder twenty-four hours before takeoff. Of course, you always have the option of packing a picnic of your own that meets your specifications exactly. As for restaurants in unfamiliar locales, use the same tactics while traveling that you use at home: try to call ahead and let the chef or maitre d' know what kind of meal you will need. You will doubtless come up with strategies of your own." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Peale helped his readers understand by telling them a little story: A friend of mine is a pilot for one of the great airlines. He flies a big DC-6 and, when I fly with him, I enjoy the privilege of spending some time with him in the cockpit. On one of these trips he was discussing the use of engine power. He stated: "If I use my full engine power for long periods, these engines will lose their efficiency. That is to say, stress isn't good for them." And he went on to describe how he uses every bit of his 2500 horsepower per engine to lift his mighty plane into the air at takeoff." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"If six jumbo jets a day were crashing, wouldn't there be an outcry and a boycott of airlines until the situation was fixed? The report by Null et al. points out that the equivalent is happening in modem medicine, yet the media will not give the issue any feature coverage because they depend upon drug company advertisements. The entire report can be found at various Internet sites, including here: www.mercola.com/2003/nov/26/death by_medicine.htm." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Travel Virgin Airlines With soaring gas prices, all of the airlines have to make adjustments wherever possible to improve fuel efficiency. So what makes Virgin stand out in this inherently emissions conscious category? Virgin is the first airline to get serious about alternative fuel sources. In November 2005, Virgin Chairman Richard Branson revealed, "We are going to start building cellulosic ethanol plants (to make) fuel that is derived from the waste product of the plant." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"They could no longer travel on airplanes, because the airlines often passed out bags of peanuts. They couldn't go to restaurants, because someone near them might be eating a dish with peanuts, or because they might inadvertently order a dish containing peanuts or peanut oil. Priya couldn't even go into grocery stores. Anytime she came near an aisle that contained a peanut product, she would begin to react, and would have to rush out. At one point the family checked into a hotel room, and Priya said, "Mommy, there's a peanut in here." Anju couldn't spot any. "Are you sure?" "I can feel it." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Citing "grossness," not safety, Virgin airlines manager Brett Godfrey canceled a 2003 flight in Australia because of a castaway durian. "It just is the most pungent, disgusting smell," he said, suggesting it belongs in an outdoor dunny. It's also advisable to abstain from alcohol while eating durians. Pairing them entails serious bloating. Jerry Hopkins, in Extreme Cuisine, mentions a newswire report of a "fat German tourist who devoured a ripe durian, followed by a bottle of Thai Mekong rice whisky, then took a hot bath and exploded." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A leveraged buyout deal for UAL Corporation, the parent company of United airlines, had fallen through. The crash, which resulted in a 6.91% drop in the Dow for the day, had begun just minutes after this announcement, and so it at first seemed highly likely that it was the cause of the crash. The first problem with this interpretation is that UAL is just one firm, accounting for but a fraction of 1% of the stock market's total value. Why should the collapse of the UAL buyout have such an impact on the entire market?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"On top of seeing more patients, the doctors in Peabody's practice began double booking appointments to make up for all the no-shows, the way airlines oversell seats. "Then one day everybody would show up," says Peabody, "and all your patients are mad at you. Then they would report that to the health plan." Horror stories Eventually the press caught wind of the frustration among doctors and patients, and by the late 1980s, the managed care horror stories began appearing, tales of patients being refused care by heartless insurers." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Fewer than 1 o percent of hospitals in the country have instituted electronic medical records, and the health care industry as a whole spends less than 3 percent of its revenue on information technology, far less than the 10 percent that other information-intensive industries, like the airlines, spend. Some hospitals have put in systems only to pull the plug when doctors rebelled. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, installed a thirty-four-million-dollar computerized physician ordering system to streamline drug prescriptions and reduce error rates." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Numerous airlines confirmed to the magazine that they regularly or occasionally spray their planes with pesticides, and this includes some of the world's most prominent airlines: American, Continental, Delta, TWA, US Airways, United airlines, and Northwest. What's more, these are domestic flights, not international. When questioned about the reason for spraying airplanes and passengers with toxic compounds, the explanation is "to kill mice." Certainly, some of this pesticide is absorbed into the traveler's body, either via inhalation or through the skin." - Dr. Cass Ingram, Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures (Get the book.)

"Then, in the way of students, he is off to India with Uzbekistan airlines. "Do not tell my parents. They think I fly British Airways." Carmen is at the hospital. If Dr. Littlewood expects a demoralised patient, he gets a dazzling lady who cross-examines him. And there is no aspect of cancer that he is not prepared to analyse. This is hugely different from my first consultants, and the demon French cancer Professor: do not ever use the word cancer again. Carmen probes Dr. Littlewood about treatments that stop short of toxic chemotherapy." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"There will be times when those you depend on—restaurants, airlines, co-workers, and even family members—have little understanding of or interest in healthy foods. This chapter is dedicated to these situations. I will cover dining out, travel, social situations, working with your doctor, and dealing with family members. When life throws you a curve-ball, I will show you how to step up to the plate and stay in the game. DINING OUT Dining out is part of life, and you ought to be able to enjoy a night on the town with friends or loved ones without missing a beat on your new healthy diet." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Using contributions from four thousand members, and in-kind donations from a variety of airlines, the group has brought $18 million worth of aid to forty-four countries and fifteen U.S. cities since 1996. Volunteers have also escorted a thousand children to new homes or to hospitals in foreign countries for medical treatment." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Virgin Records and Virgin airlines. Then go to the company's Web sites and get a free gift for signing up to be part of its "club," which will then give you automatic notices of new releases, discounts, upcoming concerts, special deals. Make these visits often enough, and soon the Virgin marketing people will be able to customize the promotions they send you, maximizing the potential for a sale and minimizing the hassle to you of unnecessary promos. Thus is created the Virgin tribe. That tribe then sustains personal identification with the product." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"When that happens, of course, the business-class fares airlines depend on will fall off as corporations tighten their belts. Since the Long Emergency will be open-ended timewise, the airlines will enter a fatal spiral from declining volumes of business. As the Long Emergency progresses, air travel will be increasingly the province of the wealthy, flying private aircraft, and if the social turmoil is bad enough, many of them will be winging out of the United States with no immediate plans to return. Ultimately, commercial aviation as we have enjoyed it may become altogether a thing of the past." - 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.) "Fuel represents about a quarter of their operating costs, but even at 2004 price levels, with fuel supplies still very dependable, the commercial airlines were struggling to stay in business. Like so many other enterprises that operate on a gigantic scale, they depend on a high-volume business to make their economies of scale work. But if the economics of scale change the way they are likely to, they are toast. For instance, how would the airlines cope when the broad middle class can no longer afford casual flights to Orlando and Las Vegas, or just to visit Grandma in Louisville?" - 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.)

"Developed in the early 1960s as a way of keeping track of one airline's sales of seats, SABRE was extended to travel agents' desks in 1976, presenting a choice of seats on many competing airlines. Eventually the system was augmented to include hotel, car, rail, and entertainment reservations; the system ultimately became more profitable for American airlines than its passenger flights. The Personal Computer During the 1970s and 1980s the mainframe computer was downsized, and the so-called personal computer (PC) was born." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Numerous airlines confirmed to the magazine that they regularly or occasionally spray their planes with pesticides, and this includes some of the world's most prominent airlines: American, Continental, Delta, TWA, US Airways, United airlines, and Northwest. What's more, these are domestic flights, not international. When questioned about the reason for spraying airplanes and passengers with toxic compounds, the explanation is "to kill mice." Certainly, some of this pesticide is absorbed into the traveler's body, either via inhalation or through the skin." - Dr. Cass Ingram, Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures (Get the book.)

"The fruits are banned by hotels and airlines because of the overpowering, sulphurous smell. Unripe fruits may be boiled and eaten, and the large seeds are edible when roasted or sliced and fried in oil. Durian can be processed by drying, fermenting, pickling, deep-freezing or salting. It may be eaten with sugar, fresh cream or coconut milk. Nutritional value Arils contain carbohydrates (28%) and have an energy value of 140 kcal per 100 g. They also contain proteins (2.7%), vitamin C (32-58 mg) and are rich in potassium, beta-carotene and vitamins Bl and B2." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Fewer than 1 o percent of hospitals in the country have instituted electronic medical records, and the health care industry as a whole spends less than 3 percent of its revenue on information technology, far less than the 10 percent that other information-intensive industries, like the airlines, spend. Some hospitals have put in systems only to pull the plug when doctors rebelled. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, installed a thirty-four-million-dollar computerized physician ordering system to streamline drug prescriptions and reduce error rates." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "On top of seeing more patients, the doctors in Peabody's practice began double booking appointments to make up for all the no-shows, the way airlines oversell seats. "Then one day everybody would show up," says Peabody, "and all your patients are mad at you. Then they would report that to the health plan." Horror stories Eventually the press caught wind of the frustration among doctors and patients, and by the late 1980s, the managed care horror stories began appearing, tales of patients being refused care by heartless insurers." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"And within 13 months of the 9/11 terrorist bombings, two airlines had filed for bankruptcy, while the rest of the industry racked up billions of dollars in losses. With that in mind, most Americans will have little choice but to keep one ear to the ground. The Internet isn't the only research source, of course. Public libraries are a free and relatively underutilized access point for all kinds of valuable reference materials, directories, and specialized databases, though over time they will almost certainly face the same budgetary squeeze as other public sector services." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Firms and industries that were already in precarious shape, especially airlines and the auto-related sector with their large legacy costs and unfunded pension exposures, will also be extremely risky places at which to work or with whom to do business. The fallout from complicated financial engineering and organizations that were not built to last will be a constant source of destructive energy. Virtually any business or industry might end up in dire straits, if not direcdy, then from a domino-like collapse following the failure of key suppliers, credit providers, and other counterparties." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Following several large corporate failures, including United airlines, which swamped the agency with liabilities, PBGC found itself $23 billion in the red at the end of 2005. By some estimates, that amount could exceed $100 billion over 20 years in the absence of dramatic changes. Even that figure may be optimistic. At the end of 2004, the PBGC calculated that America's single-company de-fined-benefit plans were underfunded by as much as $450 billion, with nearly $300 billion of that total not reflected on company balance sheets, compared to a deficit of $164 billion only three years earlier." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "So will private-sector pension plans, especially in industries such as steel, autos, utilities, and airlines, which once employed hundreds of thousands of workers. For many people, hardest to swallow will be the realization that American prosperity is no longer limitless. A number of safety-net commitments began when the United States and much of its industry were market leaders and world beaters. Back then, a majority of Americans accepted that the wealth of the nation should not only be shared with those who helped create it but also with those who were less fortunate." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Prior to 9/11 people generally believed that they were well looked after, and could depend on the government, the airlines, the police and firefighters to see to their safety, and then all at once they found that they couldn't rely on any of them—and the result was more inner rage, and the potential for more symptoms. Fear, loss of control, unmet dependency needs, a sense of helplessness, victimization—all such feelings were intensified by the new reality of terror, resulting in frightening and painful feelings in the unconscious and a major increase in psychosomatic symptoms." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

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