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"Still water can be carbonated with either natural carbon dioxide (Poland Spring Sparkling fizzes its Maine water with carbon dioxide mined in Colorado) or manufactured carbon dioxide, which is what Canada Dry Club Soda uses. The difference? Natural carbon dioxide usually produces longer-lasting bubbles. CLUB SODA AND SELTZER If you want carbonated water with no added frills (minerals or mineral salts), go for seltzer. It is filtered, carbonated tap water, period. Club soda is also filtered, carbonated tap water, but minerals and mineral salts are frequently added." - Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis, Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food (Get the book.)

"Carbon and Non-Carbon Filters Most filters use carbon, either in the form of carbon blocks or granular activated carbon (GAC), alone or in combination with other filtering agents. Generally, GAC is preferable because it provides greater surface area within the filter element to capture contaminants. carbon alone will not stop Giardia cysts or asbestos, but combination filters will. carbon filters are also the only purifiers to effectively reduce radon in drinking water. Other filtering elements include porous ceramics and synthetic fibers." - Scott Alan Lewis, SC-Guide/Safe Drinking Water (Get the book.)

"OMEGA-6 FATTY ACIDS Omega-6s are a type of fat with the first carbon-carbon double bond (unsaturated) beginning at the sixth carbon atom. Linoleic acid is the major omega-6 Cooking the High-Omega-3 Way The simple decision of which fat we choose to cook and bake with can have a huge impact on our health. So which fats are best? The highest in omega-3s is canola oil, then soybean oil. The highest in monounsaturated fat is olive oil, followed by safflower and canola oil. So what do I do? Canola oil is also pretty high in vitamin E, so I use it for most of my baking and oven frying." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Every fatty acid contains a chain of carbon atoms, and each of these carbon atoms has two hydrogen molecules attached to it. When all of the carbon atoms in a fatty acid are bearing two hydrogen atoms, that fatty acid is referred to as saturated. Animal fats and tropical fats contain the greatest proportion of their fat as saturated fatty acids. When a fatty acid contains one or more carbon atoms that happen to be missing one of its hydrogen atoms, then the fatty acid in question is termed an unsaturated fatty acid." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"When carbonates are deposited in places where they cannot lose carbon dioxide, they remain as carbonates and a fibroid tumor develops at that site. The musculature of the uterus is a likely place for fibroids to occur. In cases where deposited carbonates lose carbon-dioxide forming caustic alkalis like caustic soda, and if this condition persists, cancer will develop at that site. For example, when the uterine mucosa receives from the blood a constant supply of carbonates which then convert to caustic alkalis, a chronic burning leucorrhoea persists ultimately resulting in cancer of the cervix." - Maurice Finkel, Fresh hope with new cancer treatments: Over twenty natural methods for prevention, treatment, and control of cancer (Get the book.)

"OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS Omega-3s are a group of fatty acids that all have their first carbon-carbon double bond (unsaturated) starting in the same place, the third carbon atom. ALA is the major omega-3 fatty acid found in plants, while DHA and EPA are in fish." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"A chemical compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms. This large group includes paraffins, olefins, acetylenes and alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons; petroleum, natural gas and coal products are all hydrocarbons. Many synthetic cosmetic ingredients are hydrocarbon derivatives (such as mineral oil, propylene glycol, coal tar colors, etc.). Hydrocarbons from petroleum (and its byproducts) are potentially allergenic and phototoxic, and they harm the environment. Hydrocarbons also occur naturally in essential oils. Also see colors." - Aubrey Hampton, What's in Your Cosmetics? A Complete Consumer's Guide to Natural and Synthetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"Organic compounds: Molecules containing carbon with exception of carbides, carbonates, and carbon oxides. Many of these are protein, fats, and carbs. Phosphatidyl: A phospolipid compound derived from soy lectins. Phospholipid: A class of 4 lipids and a major component of all biological membranes. Phytates: Phytic acid known as inositol henaphosphate or phytate in salt form. Phyto-chemicals: A phyto-nutrient (antioxidants) compound found in plants. Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons: Larger systems of benzene rings fused together are known." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Sparkling water is made bubbly by dissolved carbon dioxide gas, which can occur naturally in subsurface water or be added later. (The gas in most "naturally sparkling" waters, such as Perrier and Saratoga, is drawn off at the spring and reinjected during bottling.) Still water can be carbonated with either natural carbon dioxide (Poland Spring Sparkling fizzes its Maine water with carbon dioxide mined in Colorado) or manufactured carbon dioxide, which is what Canada Dry Club Soda uses. The difference? Natural carbon dioxide usually produces longer-lasting bubbles." - Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis, Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food (Get the book.)

"A second problem in radiocarbon dating is that the carbon 14 / carbon 12 ratio of the atmosphere is in fact not rigidly constant but fluctuates slightly with time, so calculations of radiocarbon dates based on the assumption of a constant ratio are subject to small systematic errors." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Food, water intake Oxygen intake DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Nutrients, water, salts Oxygen CIRCULATORY SYSTEM RESPIRATORY SYSTEM Elimination of food wastes Carbon dioxide Transport to and from all living cells Water, soluble elements Elimination of carbon dioxide URINARY SYSTEM V Elimination of excess water, salts, wastes The digestive system links to all other systems in the body. This is one of the reasons that the most obvious use of enzymes to overcome a health issue or symptom is to use them to enhance digestion." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"If you could look at a fat molecule under a powerful microscope, it would look like a long chain of carbon atoms, with perhaps 18 or 20 atoms joined in a line. Attached to the carbon chain are hydrogen atoms. If the chain is completely covered (i.e., saturated) with hydrogen atoms, the fat becomes a waxy solid and is called a saturated fat. If, however, hydrogen atoms are absent at several spots on the fat chain, the fat is called polyunsaturated. Polyunsaturated oils are liquids. And if just one spot on the carbon chain has no hydrogen atoms attached, the fat is called monounsaturated." - 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.)

"Deforestation, besides eliminating the planet's best defense against global warming—carbon-munching plants—also releases vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Losing these forests is suicidal. Sixty acres of rain forests vanish every minute. That's 32 million acres a year. One percent of African forests disappear annually. "The Amazon loses an area the size of New Jersey every year to clear-cutting and timbering," reports the The New York Times. Here in Borneo, it's muggy and overcast every day. An ominous brown cloud lingers over the entire island." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"However, the sugars available from inorganic carbon molecules are a use-it-and-lose-it resource, one that declines precipitously wherever it is used for food. This left early bacteria with a looming problem of declining resources, in the face of which some particularly inventive bacteria developed photosynthesis, combining the sun's energy with atmospheric hydrogen. Instead of eating ATP "raw" they could use it to fuel an engine that would make sugar out of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which is as close to a limitless resource as can be imagined." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Another important consideration for carbon filter effectiveness is the contact time of water with the filter. The slower the flow rate and the more carbon there is in the filter, the better job the filter does. Reverse osmosis (RO) is one of the best methods to get pure water without using up a lot of energy. RO units remove bacteria, viruses, nitrates, fluorides, sodium, chlorine, particulate matter, heavy metals, asbestos, organic chemicals, and dissolved minerals. They do not remove toxic gases, chloroform, phenols, THMs, some pesticides, and low-molecular-weight organic compounds." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The sodium ion was attached to a bicarbonate ion, which is HC03 (hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen). With the sodium released, the hydrogen ion from the sulfuric acid combines with the bicarbonate to produce carbonic acid—H2C03 Carbonic acid is eliminated through the lungs without taking along any precious neutralizing minerals. If we eat meat, and more meat, and more meat, and fewer and fewer vegetables and fruits, we reduce the amount of sodium and other neutralizing elements in the body. At some point, we run out of available sodium." - Hank Trisler, Fell's Official Know-It-All Guide No Bull Selling: Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know, Complete Guide (Fell's Official Know-It-All Guides) (Get the book.)

"When all of the carbon atoms in a fatty acid are bearing two hydrogen atoms, that fatty acid is referred to as saturated. Animal fats and tropical fats contain the greatest proportion of their fat as saturated fatty acids. When a fatty acid contains one or more carbon atoms that happen to be missing one of its hydrogen atoms, then the fatty acid in question is termed an unsaturated fatty acid. Those carbon atoms possessing a solo hydrogen atom are referred to as double bonds." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The best-known scientific method for establishing the age of objects without historic documentation is probably the measurement of a particular isotope of carbon, which, being radioactive, degrades to a more stable isotope at a very regular rate. Carbon-14 dating has its limits, including its inability to accurately date nonorganic marerial, but its precision is besr suited for really old objects, where an error factor of fifty to one hundred years is perfectly acceptable. For accuracy on a timescale measured in rhousands of years, rather than thousands of millennia, another method is needed." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"A proper medical evaluation discovered Warren was color-blind, his EEG showed abnormal but non specific brain wave patterns and a carbon monoxide assay revealed a blood saturation of this deadly gas at the dangerous 20% level. carbon monoxide was displacing the oxygen in Warren's bloodstream, drastically reducing the supply of oxygen to his brain. His fidgeting, falling academic performance and purposeless hyper behavior were all symptoms of low-level carbon monoxide poisoning. Warren's parents immediately called the gas company and had their heating system overhauled." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Then, because the rapid, shallow breathing expels too much carbon dioxide, the blood's pH level drops, triggering an alarm from the brain stem that causes muscles to constrict even more. (This is why breathing into a paper bag stops us from hyperventilating: it forces us to rebreathe the carbon dioxide.) Living with panic means avoiding anything that might set off another frightening episode. You withdraw into an emotional fetal position, and the fear leads to a desperate need for control—whatever is necessary to maintain a stable and safe environment." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"I have found that carbonated beverages, in general, create psychological effects. The carbon monoxide may compete with oxygen, or may speed the effects of caffeine and NutraSweet. Some women have reported panic attacks following undue life stress mixed with drinking a large quantity of diet colas. (The carbona-tion is suspected of contributing to these attacks.) It is well known, after all, that alcoholic beverages that are carbonated result in faster intoxication than noncarbonated alcoholic beverages." - Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., Constant Craving: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them (Get the book.)

"Another problem with sucralose is that when you mix the man-made chlorine with carbon in sucrose, you get a chlorocarbon. "These are pollutants that are toxic to your health," Dr. Hull explains. "So people are ingesting a manufactured grade of chlorine that compounds into a chlorocarbon. That is not a natural food source, and the body will digest it, contrary to Splenda's marketing claims. And that can be proven." Thus, Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"They settled on gigantic fluo-rinated carbon—football-shaped molecules of 70 carbon atoms—and pancake-shaped tetraphenylporphyrin, a derivative of the biodye present in chlorophyll. At more than 100 atoms apiece, both of these entities are among the largest molecules on the planet. Again, each one created an interference pattern with itself. Zeilinger's group repeatedly demonstrated that the molecules could be in two places at once, that they remained in a state of superposition even at this large scale." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"They can begin to turn blue-first in the extremities of their fingertips and lips-as their bodies run out of oxygen and congest with carbon dioxide. They often panic, and this heightens their sense of strangulation. As they fight for air, they often become drenched with sweat, to the point of dehydration. Unable to drink, their throats become parched, and this makes breathing even harder. Their chests heave and struggle against the oppressive lack of oxygen, as their muscles begin to burn and weaken. After hours of this, they can become utterly exhausted." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Our concern here is more with the other category, the volatile organic compounds, which are made up of carbon molecules. The commercial uses of volatile compounds break down into three major classes: formaldehyde, organic solvents and pesticides. "Formaldehyde is present in many, many commercial products. It is present in new homes in the building materials, paneling, floors, and ceilings made of plywood or particle board. It's also present in the carpets, fixtures and furnishings. The bad thing about formaldehyde in a building is that it is very slow to dissipate." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Volatile organic compounds (VOC) are substances that contain carbon and different proportions of other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, fluorine, bromine, sulfur, or nitrogen. Because VOCs become gases at room temperature, they're easily absorbed into our bodies. Perhaps the most famous example of a VOC, formaldehyde, has been banned in urea foam insulation, but formaldehyde is still used in many other consumer products, including paint-related products, household cleaners, vinyl flooring, adhesives, sealants, wall coverings, particleboard, and other renovation materials." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Where electricity is produced from coal—and most is—each CFL will cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 1,300 pounds over its lifetime. For information of CFLs, visit Panasonic's Web site (www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/bp_lighting/ default.asp). GE (www.GElighting.com) also has answers to frequently asked questions about CFLs. CFLs work best in light fixtures you tend to keep on for at least 15 minutes, and, of course, be sure to turn off standard light bulbs when lights aren't necessary. Your electricity bill will thank you! Insulation." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Or perhaps you're driving and feeling anxious, not realizing that one of the things you may be responding to is the carbon monoxide fumes coming at you. Natural treatment, in addition to that described earlier in this chapter, may involve acupuncture and massage. Both, according to Dr. Freeman, "essentially find a way to reorganize the body's natural chemistries." An acupuncrurist can read your body through your pulses. They understand that different organs hold different emotions." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "There are fast and easy ways to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in a classroom, which can tell you whether the ventilation is good or not. The level should be 800 ppm or less. Relatively simple tests can also be done to measure for certain chemicals, such as chlorine and formaldehyde. Sometimes, because of poor cleaning of the ventilation systems in schools, the problem is dust and molds, not chemicals. Other times, they put chemicals in the ductwork while cleaning, which really causes trouble because the chemicals then circulate throughout the school, causing illness." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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