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"The stranger carried a military backpack, like so many of the unemployed people wandering the mountainsides, and he had left the backpack in his room when he went out. There was something green and round poking out of the backpack. It was the size of a Coke can and Jose couldn't resist checking it out. Nobody else was in the house, so Jose crept into the back room. He pulled the object from the backpack and examined it. He couldn't read the English on it, nor decipher the numbers." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. What's more, a 2003 study conducted by the University of Missouri published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, found that detectable levels of BPA leached into liquids at room temperature. This means just having your plastic water bottle sitting on your desk can be potentially harmful. The best thing to do is to avoid plastic altogether." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"She and David also want to backpack again, but she asks, "Will we be able to? What if I bleed and we're too far from help?" She also dreams of rejoining overseas medical missions to help children. But she's not willing to risk falling sick far from U.S. borders. "U.S. doctors don't know much about autoimmune diseases in general and APS in particular," she explains. "What about doctors in the remote parts of India or Belarus or Kenya or Brazil or the other places I have worked?" Despite all this, she pushes herself to ride her bike, swim, and even run as often as she can." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Armed with these insights and a backpack full of academic papers, David, Gianluca, Marisa, and I finally left the coast for Sardinia's Blue Zone. As we drove into the island's central highlands, we entered quite another world. The road snaked upward through increasingly rocky terrain that showed little evidence of human impact. Indeed, Sardinia consisted almost entirely of mountainous terrain as "My tongue still works perfectly, "says Raffaella Monne, 107. "I can talk a lot. " it rose toward the massive Gennargentu range to the east." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"For two days, they wear a backpack that measures things around them, which gives us a pretty good snapshot of what's to come. We find out whether they have medium, low, or high exposure to toxins in the air. We also collect urine and the baby's first bowel movement, and we analyze biomarkers in those. The mother is being exposed to things in the air and in her diet—we measure dose, damage, and genetic expression. Then, the babies are brought in at three months, six months, and at one year. Our oldest children in the study are now eight." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"There was something green and round poking out of the backpack. It was the size of a Coke can and Jose couldn't resist checking it out. Nobody else was in the house, so Jose crept into the back room. He pulled the object from the backpack and examined it. He couldn't read the English on it, nor decipher the numbers. Jose tossed it in the air a few times and caught it, then hit the metal casing where four small metal prongs extended outward. Jose was thrown back against the wall as the American M16A2 antipersonnel mine exploded. A few days later Jose regained consciousness." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"I would tell my parents I needed like four dollars for this special typing paper—and would go to the little grocery store and buy Twinkies, Wise potato chips, and as many other snacks as I could afford and hide them in my backpack. I would binge on cake or cookies my mother would bake and lie, saying I needed to bring them to school. I was missing some sort of attention and my old friends, I imagine, at the time it started. But I just got fat, without getting friends." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Remembering that the customs official had mentioned apples, I take the sack of French heirloom apples out of my backpack. With trembling hands, the first thing I do is hand them over to the agent sitting at a polished aluminum counter, hoping to distract him with my openness. "I was told you were going to confiscate my apples," I sayjauntily but with a hint of irritation (the better to confound him with my naturalness). Does he realize I'm hyperventilating? The agent takes the apples and, stifling a yawn, points at a doorway. What's this? The frisking chamber?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Feeling light-headed, I leave with a backpack full of mangoes, salaks, santols, rambutans, jambus and mangosteens. By now, the sun is about to rise and the market is slowing down. A motorcycle taxi offers me a lift home. We drive so fast the helmet levitates inches above my head, barely tethered by the cord around my chin. Traffic lights don't seem to matter or make any sense. Neon signs blur into LCD cuneiforms. Closing my eyes as we race through the darkness, weaving in and out of traffic at 120 miles an hour, I imagine my body splayed across the road like a dissected market frog." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "After all, I have some trail mix in my backpack, and that unholy coco-de-mer—why, it's just another nut, legitimately declared, so what seems to be the problem, Officer? The agent scribbles the word "nuts" at the bottom of the grocery list, adds some secret codes and waves me on. Pulling my suitcase from the carousel, I'm feeling poised, even though I haven't broken on through to the other side quite yet. I'm merely in a twilight zone of duty-freedom. I still have to hand my declaration form to the next level of agents who will instantly recognize the ciphers scrawled over it in red ink." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"When a kid came in with a sore back, he would tell her parents that a referral to an orthopedist wasn't necessary; she just needed to put fewer books in her backpack. But all that explaining took time, and time was the one thing he didn't have if he was going to see five patients an hour. Primary care doctors found themselves in a catch-22. On the one hand, with managed care squeezing their fees, they had to see more patients in order to make any money." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"With the backpack strapped on, he's too big. He has to take the pack off, wriggle through the opening, then reach through the window to pull the backpack in along with him. In our world, it's easy to add or subtract backpacks and other things that make us temporarily too large to fit through openings. But in the biochemical world it's not so simple. Magnesium that is bound to something else is like your son with a backpack: It doesn't fit through the opening anymore. Unable to get through that opening to do its biochemical job, it can't perform properly." - Alexander Mauskop, Barry Fox, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Migraines: The Breakthrough Program That Can Help End Your Pain (Get the book.)

"Always keep one close at hand, in your briefcase, backpack, or handheld. That way, you can turn to it when you need it most. Maybe you'll soon be stuck in the waiting room while a loved one has surgery.11 Maybe you're about to give an important presentation to an unfamiliar audience. Maybe you've simply had a jam-packed, stressful day at work and need to switch gears before you greet your family at home. Notice how engaging with one of your portfolios helps you to breathe easier, how it opens your heart and broadens your mind." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Now imagine that he comes home from school one day, again without his key—but this time he has a backpack full of books on his back. He again opens the window and tries to squeeze through, but he can't. With the backpack strapped on, he's too big. He has to take the pack off, wriggle through the opening, then reach through the window to pull the backpack in along with him. In our world, it's easy to add or subtract backpacks and other things that make us temporarily too large to fit through openings. But in the biochemical world it's not so simple." - Alexander Mauskop, Barry Fox, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Migraines: The Breakthrough Program That Can Help End Your Pain (Get the book.)

"So, pack a quart (carefully) of strawberries in your backpack before hiking up to high altitudes. • Chinese Medicine to Relieve Dizziness Time to spell those dizzy spells. If you or a family member is prone to dizziness and your doctor has not yet found the right treatment, a Chinese patent remedy could help you in the meantime. J. Blood Pressure Repressing - OM tablets, which combine the herbs coptis and Scutellaria, are believed to be strong enough to remedy dizzy spells without causing the side effects of stronger drugs." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"I pass by Route 58, which Dad and I took everywhere into the mountains when I was kid when we were going up to the Sierra Nevada to backpack and fish. I wanted to go back into the mountains with my sons, and I hope that they will be able to do so with theirs and that some family stories will be passed along. I like the sense of continuity, and I'm trying so damn hard to see that the continuum keeps on. One thing is clear to me now in my fifth decade: my dad kept me away from the reality of the valley floor." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If you are going to be someplace in snake country that is really far from civilization, having one of these kits in your backpack is a necessity. After you use it, transport to the nearest hospital is still required so that proper care can be administered. moccasins), and a variety of rattlesnakes. Approximately 9,000 Americans are bitten by poisonous snakes each year, most commonly in the summer months, in grassy or rocky environments. However, only about 25 percent of these bites involve venom—that is, the snake saves its venom for its prey, not necessarily for defense." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"In place of welfare and other taxpayer-funded assistance programs, suffering families will have little choice but to turn to a shrinking universe of overburdened charities and informal support networks, such as "backpack clubs," where children fill up empty packs on Fridays with donated food so they will have something to eat over the weekend. During the early 1930s, families were forced to split up or move elsewhere in search of employment. Some ended up in shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles" after Herbert Hoover, who was president when the Great Depression began." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"When a kid came in with a sore back, he would tell her parents that a referral to an orthopedist wasn't necessary; she just needed to put fewer books in her backpack. But all that explaining took time, and time was the one thing he didn't have if he was going to see five patients an hour. Primary care doctors found themselves in a catch-22. On the one hand, with managed care squeezing their fees, they had to see more patients in order to make any money." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Life in such a universe means waking up in SpongeBob bedding in a room with SpongeBob wallpaper and SpongeBob furniture; eating SpongeBob Pop-Tarts for breakfast; going to school with a SpongeBob lunchbox and SpongeBob backpack; wearing a SpongeBob T-shirt; playing a SpongeBob video game after school; covering up a scrape with a SpongeBob Band-Aid; bathing with a SpongeBob towel and SpongeBob shower curtain; eating SpongeBob macaroni and cheese for dinner; brushing your teeth with a SpongeBob toothbrush and SpongeBob toothpaste; and climbing back into your SpongeBob bed and SpongeBob pajamas." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Portable Light Reading Mats are covered with fabric that illuminates a school desktop, and are integrated into a larger Reading Stool, which folds into a backpack. Students can group their stools together to form a learning station. The stool itself is a traditional Huichol design, and therein lies an essential ingredient in the project: the technology is brought into a new context and modified, customized, and embedded into the local aesthetic. Kennedy's objective is to create Portable Light "light kits" so that textile artists can weave flexible solar panels and lighting directly into fabric." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"At Cacaxtla we see the old, aquiline-nosed god of the Maya merchants and cacao-growers, Ek Chuah (or God L); with his traveling staff in hand, he stands resting before a cacao tree, his huge backpack propped up behind him. In other episodes depicted in the Cacaxtla mural program, a mighty battle is being fought in gory detail, and Putiin heroes (or perhaps gods) dance in Maya-Mexican costume, carrying Maya royal paraphernalia.19 How should we interpret Cacaxtla?" - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) "The normal load of cacao in the backpack of a trader or porter was three xiquipillis, or 24,000 beans. We are told by one source15 that to maintain the palace and court of Nezahualcoyotl (the king of Texcoco), his majordomo had to supply, among other items of food, no less than four xiquipillis of cacao on a daily basis—this is 32,000 beans.16 This amounts to 11,680,000 beans annually, or just over 486 loads." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"He pulled the object from the backpack and examined it. He couldn't read the English on it, nor decipher the numbers. Jose tossed it in the air a few times and caught it, then hit the metal casing where four small metal prongs extended outward. Jose was thrown back against the wall as the American M16A2 antipersonnel mine exploded. A few days later Jose regained consciousness. He could barely see, as one eye was gone. He looked down and screamed—both his arms were missing." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"How many grandpas do you know who regularly windsurf in the deep blue ocean or strap their grandson into a backpack to carry him on a mountainous hiking adventure? Because of proper diet, this is the kind of health I enjoy today. You'll also meet two of my patients, Larry and Louise Borton, who likewise found their way back to health by following the same plan that revolutionized my life. Their story is retold again and again in the hundreds of patients I've seen restored to good health and vitality during my thirty years of medical practice." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"Suzuki came in and greeted me, twinkle in his eyes, backpack slung casually over his shoulder. He looked like Pat Morita, the late actor whose role as sensei in The Karate Kid did so much to elevate martial arts to a spiritual as well as physical quest for millions of American children. I wanted to meet Suzuki for a long time. He is a seminal figure in the global environmental movement; yet, because he is considered to be a man of wisdom and vision, he has astutely avoided politicizing the environment." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"He has to take the pack off, wriggle through the opening, then reach through the window to pull the backpack in along with him. In our world, it's easy to add or subtract backpacks and other things that make us temporarily too large to fit through openings. But in the biochemical world it's not so simple. Magnesium that is bound to something else is like your son with a backpack: It doesn't fit through the opening anymore. Unable to get through that opening to do its biochemical job, it can't perform properly. Shape is just as important as size in the tiny world of body chemistry." - Alexander Mauskop, Barry Fox, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Migraines: The Breakthrough Program That Can Help End Your Pain (Get the book.)

"Her mount had thrown her onto rocks and she had landed on them, hard, with heavy camera gear in her backpack. I watched as Stanley did about 20 minutes of Vita-Flex on this woman. By the end she was twisting and turning her body to try and find the very last iota of discomfort so that Stanley could alleviate it with his fingers. It was truly a blessing for me to watch him perform—and, of course, a blessing for her to receive such a beneficial treatment. This electrical energy does not travel along nerves in the body, but travels on an entirely different system altogether." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Some work in charities in Nepal or Morocco, others backpack in Australia or South America. If students come from poor families, I put them in touch with sources of help. James Marsh's reticence at the entrance interviews meant that we did not know that the gap year would cause him problems. He went to Israel and worked on a kibbutz. His money and clothes were stolen. He moved to Tel Aviv and washed dishes, living in a work hostel. But another worker assaulted him. He then lived on the beach. Once he was arrested and spent three days in jail." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

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