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"One of the main causes of death in airplanes is dehydration, which causes clots in the legs, which then can migrate to the lungs as pulmonary embolisms. It is estimated by some scientific sources that 75 percent of Americans are chronically dehydrated. In 37 percent of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak from the dehydration that it is mistaken for hunger. In fact, one of the best ways to lose weight is to drink water when you are hungry. One glass of water at bedtime can shut down midnight hunger pangs for close to 100 percent of dieters." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.—Jean Kerr When my patient Joanne told me that being fat keeps men away all of whom seem dangerous to her because of her background, I said to her, simply, "Aren't there better ways?" Somewhere in the inner recesses of your psyche, you believe that you cannot provide safety for yourself out there in the big open world of your adult life, so you must find a place to hide, and you've discovered that being fat is a good place to hide." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"The Mexican drug cartel headed by Amado Carrillo Fuentes brought in tons of drugs each month on fruit-carrying eighteen-wheelers and 727 airplanes (for which Fuentes became dubbed the "Lord of the Sky"). In November 2004, a shipment of Hit Fruit Drink cartons containing 1.7 million dollars' worth of liquefied heroin was seized in Miami. A disheartened health-food store employee told me that his rich bosses had been moving ayahuasca and cocaine out of the jungle in shipments of dried fruits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"And she was often sitting on airplanes commuting from New Mexico to Oakland. Perhaps both sedentary activities had led to exacerbated clotting. On top of that, anesthesiology is a pretty sedentary job, he explained to Jan. Still, it didn't add up. Not for someone like Jan Pankey who biked 150 miles a week. Regardless of the diagnosis, Osafo-Mensah knew what he had to do if he was going to save Jan's life, and he knew there wasn't much time." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Like all the other fellows, he'd put in his time at Chuck Yeager's flying circus in the Mojave Desert, getting airplanes to do things they'd never been designed to do. At one point, he'd even been their instructor. But he liked to think of himself as not so much a test pilot as an explorer: a kind of modern-day seeker after truths. His own attraction toward science constantly wrestled with the fierce Baptist fundamentalism of his youth. It seemed no accident that he'd grown up in Roswell, New Mexico, where the first alien sightings supposedly had occurred ?" - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"They are either "reality" shows in which gorgeous contestants eat live locusts while hanging provocatively from airplanes with their cleavage showing, or truly brutal crime dramas, featuring decapitations or the sexual molestation of children or the murder of bystanders. The reality shows, of course, are not reality at all, but the most curiously manufactured and contrived settings: let's bring ten unrelated and very attractive people out to a private island, create false scenarios of danger, and give the winner a million dollars." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"They are on the airplanes all the time with their computers, working and working and working to the exclusion of having a well-rounded life. People are addicted to sexual activity, alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, a new addiction on the horizon that is going to bring tremendous problems as [local and state] governments continue to finance themselves with the revenue from gambling establishments. Another one is addiction to exercise. I have some patients who, if they cannot run on any particular day, actually go into a form of withdrawal." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The promise was fulfilled. airplanes worked. Three decades after the birth of airplanes, they were over Churchill's wartime bunker in London, dropping explosives on the city. "We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us," Churchill explained. But it "was not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better, but it buzzed the more . . ,"17 Others expected advances in civilization had made war passe." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"It was the first war to make military use of airplanes and other flying machines; the first war to use tanks, submarines, and chemical gas in battle; and the first war to employ heavy artillery on the field. It was also the first war to send thousands of young solders for months at a time into trenches that stretched across hundreds of miles, and into which shells and other kinds of artillery could land at any time." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"A midair collision between two 120-foot-long airplanes traveling hundreds of miles an hour through uncounted millions of cubic miles of space is an unimaginably improbable event. Even so, every year, one or two occur. This is parrly because of rhe sheer number of planes flying, but mostly because the paths they take are not random, but restricted to the far more constrained paths of efficient ttavel between destinations." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"He shows me some old airplanes in a museum, and I look forward to virtually flying them, although I wonder what would happen to my physical body if I crash . . . (my lucid dream continues, but I leave [Harvey] behind). [Ed comments:] I finally talked with him on the phone, carefully avoiding questions that might "lead the witness." Harvey gave me a brief account of his dream.... At this point I confirmed that his dream seemed very similar to mine, and asked if he had participated in an archeological expedition (the only detail I shared from my dream), and he said he did not recall this." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"If you live in a city, traffic, car horns, sirens, jackhammers, airplanes, and a million variations of the human voice vibrate constantly. If you live in the supposedly quieter suburbs, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, kids at play, and barking dogs still assault your eardrums. You can counter sound's negative effects by using it positively and deliberately: relaxing music slows heart and breathing rates and creates a feel- ing of well-being. Upbeat music stimulates and energizes you. But not any old music will do." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The experience of mildly increased air pressure is usually not uncomfortable and is similar to the air pressure increases that occur while flying on airplanes. However, pressure-related trauma to the middle ear is the most common side effect of HBOT, but is minimal in the milder forms of the procedure. HBOT was first used when scuba divers needed extra oxygen to overcome decompression sickness, but now it has a wide range of applications." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (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.)

"Better Safe Than Sorry But even though I believe wholeheartedly that the navigation system of airplanes doesn't have a darn thing to fear from a cell phone (and that a pregnant woman has not a darn thing to fear from eating natural food containing vitamin A a few times a week), I still keep my cell phone off when I fly. I mean, just in case ..." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"There was no growl from cars driving by or airplanes burning trails overhead. Just quiet. There were the songbirds, of course, and the cows, and the roosters who would chime in once in a while, but these noises merely filled out the quiet, the peace. Standing on the second floor of our barn, with the immense brown doors gaping open, allowing the sun to soak through, I was a happy twelve-year-old. I had just finished a big country breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, fried potatoes and ham with a couple of glasses of whole milk. My mom had cooked a fantastic meal." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Thirty or so huts surrounded a huge field, used intermittently for soccer or as a landing strip for small airplanes. A celebration was under way even before we arrived. I was immediately taken aside and dressed in an off-white shroud. A bark hat with feathers was screwed to my head. My hosts ushered me over to a small gathering, where an archery competition had begun. The Ashaninkas versus the colonos. A young man put a wooden bow into my hands and pointed thirty yards away at a target. I looked at the bow and tested it. My dad was a bow hunter and I used to do archery as a kid." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"What do cheese, wine, bananas, beef, and airplanes have in common? They all have been pawns in sanctions and trade wars between countries. For example, in 1988 the EU refused to accept hormone-laden American beef and genetically modified grain due to the fact that hormones and GMOs are banned in the EU. The United States retaliated by slamming more than $300 million of tariffs on European imports such as Roquefort cheese from France, Belgian chicory (endive), pecorino cheese from Italy, cashmere from Scotland, and the list went on." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"It is worth remembering that just a century ago there were no airplanes, computers, and cell phones; today we take all of this and more for granted. Spiritual people throughout recorded history have dreamed that the time would come when the human species would evolve into an integritive species, a species that would practice integrity with love and love with integrity—what Linda calls "integrity love." As one of our undergraduate students recently suggested, if the universal living memory process is true, the path to integrity love may be "unstoppable." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"In the winter of 1 950, Harvey (the taller) and Ron Herberman played in Cropsey Avenue Park, in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, where they sometimes few and repaired model airplanes. They also spent part of their childhood in southern California, close to heavily sprayed fields. They both became physicians and did laboratory research using chemicals now known to cause cancer. As middle-aged adults, both developed the same form of leukemia, although they have no family history of this rare disease." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "When decisions involving products or airplanes created by multimillion-dollar, multinational industries are involved, science alone is rarely the driving force in determining what materials are to be controlled and what sorts of information are sufficient to justify such controls. In trying to study environmental hazards and new remedies to treat cancer, we face one simple fact: there is no control group. We never can find an unexposed group against which to compare the dangers of most common environmental contaminants." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"As for now, new genes have already been planted in potatoes, com, sugar beets, tomatoes, and cotton (used to make junk food oil found on roasted nuts given out on airplanes) to make the plants resistant to pesticides. Canola oil is also a genetically engineered product, poisonous for the body. In 1994, the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH, designed to increase milk production in cows, was approved for use in the U.S. About a third of U.S. farmers now use it to speed up milk production. The viruses used to make the growth hormone, of course, are in the milk." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Rockefeller's Standard Oil made World War II possible by providing the Nazis with special fuel technology so their airplanes could fly. Rockefeller's eugenics "science" developed and funded the human experiments that took place at concentration camps in Auschwitz, where the worst atrocities against human life occurred. This "psychiatric" use of science has never changed and is behind the widespread uses of ADHD medication today." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Chalmers had no problem concluding that smoke ought to be kept out of airplanes, because smoke left gooey, tar-laden marks that not only were unattractive but also mucked up the electronic equipment. They couldn't be good for our lungs either. But what about substances in the environment that affect our health and our chance of getting cancer that leave no telltale signs? What are we supposed to do about exposures to tiny amounts of tars or numerous other compounds that look risky when tested in animals?" - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"As the Harvard political scientist Harvey Mansfield has written, "Ritalin tempers the high spirits of boys, and Prozac raises the low spirits of women"—so both can be closer to the socially acceptable norm.23 By contrast, the drugs of the 1960s and 1970s were meant to deliver the opposite: they were not intended for functioning, but for doing as little as possible. One took the drugs to loaf, to exit, and to escape. (As the mantra of the day went, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.") The purpose of LSD and marijuana was to get as far away as possible from mundane draggy reality." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In the 1786 manuscript from Macerata there is mention of lasagna with a sauce of almonds, anchovies, walnuts, and chocolate32—a far cry from the tiresome, badly made stuff, drowned in tomato sauce, that is served in schools and airplanes today! A list of meals provided in the late 18th century for the city magistrates of Lucca33 includes papardelle [ribbon macaroni] di cioccolata; chocolate, chocolate-and-coffee, and iced cakes; and a kind of semifreddo with chocolate." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Choosing to fly, however, is a decision with serious environmental consequences. airplanes emit carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen oxides; emissions at high altitudes can contribute to climate change at three times the rate of emissions released closer to the ground. Efforts are under way to develop planes that can run on biofuels or solar power." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Brilliant predicts that, should avian flu start transmitting from person to person, people will not get on airplanes, and commerce as we know it will cease for a sustained period, breaking just-in-time supply chains. While he doesn't think avian flu will necessarily become a pandemic, he reports that 90 percent of epidemiologists believe a major pandemic will occur in the next two generations and will make a billion or more people sick. How do we stop pandemics? The way we stopped smallpox: early detection and early response." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The blimplike design has several advantages: it could operate in winds as low as two miles per hour (conventional tower turbines require winds of at least three miles per hour ); it would be safer in a crash, because it would fall slowly and be mostly made of flexible material; it would be safer for airplanes, because it sits below legal airspace; it would be safer for birds, because the moving parts are visible and travel with —not perpendicular to—the wind; and it would be a less risky investment than one of Sky WindPower's devices, because it is smaller, cheaper, and easier to build." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The units could be located away from population centers and flown only in restricted airspace so that they would pose no threat to airplanes. According to Sky WindPower, the entirety of the United States' power needs could be generated by units that would fit in one four-hundredths of the nation's airspace. Another company, Magenn, has created a more modest, more feasible design." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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