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"And while we're on the subject of chickens, it's probably worth mentioning that according to a government study, over 90% of the chickens sold in this country are infected with leukosis (chicken cancer). As for those chickens with too much cancerous tissue to be sold, well . . . they're destroyed, ground up, and fed back to the chickens that we ultimately buy and eat!!! The high levels of casein are just one of several reasons that humans do not digest milk proteins very well, leading to numerous allergic reactions and high levels of mucous in our noses and bowels. Incidentally, Elmer's?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Eggs: Instant egg preparations, eggs from commercially farmed chickens that have been fed antibiotics or commercial feed. Hard-boiled or hard cooked eggs. (Eggs are very nutritious provided they are from free-range chickens, are undercooked, soft-boiled, soft-poached or lightly scrambled.) Cheeses: Most should be avoided—especially colored, processed, creamed and fancy cheese spreads. White cheese made from unpasteurized milk is okay. Sugars and sweets: White, brown, refined, all processed sugars, glucose, fructose, et cetera. Candy, chocolate, desserts, gums, artificial sweeteners." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Her home had chickens in the front yard and sometimes Edelmira and Teresa's grandma had tiffs but they got over it, just like Edelmira's chickens fought with Teresa's grandma's chickens. It was a neighborhood with plenty of neighborly intrigue, spats, and truces. A birdcage with a cockatiel hung from the branch of a big tree. Edelmira sat just to the side of the cage in a small child's chair at a small table with her tightly knitted fists resting on the tabletop. She wore a red skirt and had gold hair and bronze skin and dark eyebrows and blue-white nail polish with sparkles." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Chickens, Eggs, Feathers, and Tetracycline The first basic is eggs and chickens. Sometimes it is necessary to treat separately for egg white and egg yolk and for white or dark meat in chickens. Included in this treatment are feathers and tetracycline, an antibiotic commonly given to chickens. When this treatment is done, a patient must stay away from eggs, chicken, feathers, and tetracycline for twenty-five hours. I always treat for eggs and chickens first, even if people say they never eat them because they are ingredients in many foods and products such as shampoos and conditioners." - Ellen W. Cutler, Winning the War Against Asthma and Allergies (Get the book.)

"One day following administration of ascorbic acid chickens were chilled at 6 degree C for one hour and compared to a group of unsupplemented chickens receiving the same exposure. The ascorbic acid chickens had significantly lower Heterophiklymphocyte ratios than controls. chickens fed the ascorbic acid diet also showed increased resistance to virus Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection, a secondary Escherichia coli infection, and to primary E. coli infection. —W.B. Gross, "Effects of Ascorbic Acid on Stress and Disease in chickens," Avian Disease, 36(3), July-September, p. 688-692." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"As for those chickens with too much cancerous tissue to be sold, well . . . they're destroyed, ground up, and fed back to the chickens that we ultimately buy and eat!!! The high levels of casein are just one of several reasons that humans do not digest milk proteins very well, leading to numerous allergic reactions and high levels of mucous in our noses and bowels. Incidentally, Elmer's?glue is made from cow's milk casein; that's why you see Elsie the cow on each bottle of Elmer's* glue. are totally different beverages." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of the turkeys are Broad-Breasted Whites. With the rise of industrial agriculture, vast monocultures of a tiny group of plants, most of them cereal grains, have replaced the diversified farms that used to feed us. A century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"In Canada, researchers at the University of Guelph investigated the ability of probiotics to prevent Salmonella infection in broiler chickens. The researchers found that pre-administration with probiotics (Lacobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum and Streptococcus faecalis) enhanced the chicken's immune response. The probiotic supplement chickens had superior health. Prebiotics were also investigated in this trial, and they were found only to be of added health benefit when probiotics were given simultaneously." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Her home had chickens in the front yard and sometimes Edelmira and Teresa's grandma had tiffs but they got over it, just like Edelmira's chickens fought with Teresa's grandma's chickens. It was a neighborhood with plenty of neighborly intrigue, spats, and truces. A birdcage with a cockatiel hung from the branch of a big tree. Edelmira sat just to the side of the cage in a small child's chair at a small table with her tightly knitted fists resting on the tabletop. She wore a red skirt and had gold hair and bronze skin and dark eyebrows and blue-white nail polish with sparkles." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The chemists had better luck with a different tactic: they mixed the antibiotic with animal feed to create "a growth enhancer" for hogs, chickens, and cattle. To promote this agricultural use, Pfizer organized a hog-judging contest at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, which ended with two-hundred-pound squealing pigs running through the lobby as newsmen caught the mayhem on film. Delighted with the publicity, Pfizer hauled a steer into the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, where a waiter in a white jacket served the bovine hay on a silver tray." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Since then, however, primarily due to discoveries made in the large-scale raising of cattle, hogs, and chickens, we have learned that trace minerals are among the most important components of good health—and even life itself. A full complement of the 72-84 trace elements is essential for optimum health. Vitamins The dictionary defines a vitamin as "an organic compound naturally occurring in plant and animal tissue and that is essential in small amounts for the control of metabolic processes." A more illuminating definition is that vitamins are coenzymes." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The other way is through food, but very few foods naturally contain vitamin D-only fish liver oils, fatty fish, and egg yolks from chickens that have been fed vitamin D. The rest of the foods that contain D generally have been fortified-milk, yogurt, margarine, and cereal. FOOD VITAMIN D (IU) Cod liver oil, 1 Tbsp 1,360 Oysters, Pacific, 3.5 02, cooked 640 Mackerel, 3.5 oz canned 360 Milk, fortified, 1 c 100 Fish (most types), 3.5 oz 88 (average) Egg, 1, cooked 26 Beef, chicken, turkey, pork, 3." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"It is estimated that the average American will eat 15 cows, 24 hogs, 12 sheep, 900 chickens, 1,000 pounds of fish, and 25,250 pounds of dairy products in their lifetime.15 As we will learn in chapter 6, this extremely high intake of cooked protein is a very unhealthy trend because it causes stress to the body's organs, glands, and tissues, and how it depletes nutrient reserves. There is a clear relationship between changes in the consumption of processed food and the increase in degenerative diseases." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Irving (1991, 1992) proved this by testing chickens with the use of positive and negative lenses. This produces a transitory condition of myopia and hyper-metropia. This process results in the ocular globe growing toward the applied plus or minus lens, or in other words, in the direction of compensating refractive errors. Therefore, the eyes must look through positive lenses (to get a transitory fogging/myopia) to develop a shorter length of the ocular globe axis (thus becoming more positive), thereby counterbalancing the effect induced by the applied positive lens." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"VIRUS: Scientists at Seoul National University in South Korea fed an extract of kimchi, a spicy Korean version of sauerkraut, to thirteen chickens infected with avian flu. A week later, eleven of the birds started to recover. ULCERS: In a small study, participants who had stomach ulcers drank a liter of fresh cabbage juice daily for ten days. All ulcers had healed by the end of the ten days! Tips on Using Cabbage and Sauerkraut SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Cabbage heads should be large and compact without discolored veins." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Domesticated chickens can be traced back to 3200 b.c. in India. Full-blown egg production in the Middle East and Asia began as early as 3,500 years ago. Eggs were brought to the Western world in the fifth century a.d. Several hundred years later eggs were added to the list of foods not eaten during Lent because they were seen as luxurious. On Easter, people were allowed to begin eating eggs again, which explains their importance and popularity on that holiday. Where Do Eggs Come From?" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"They come from uncaged chickens that are given heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids in their feed. They pass those healthy eating habits along to you in the form of a great-tasting and healthier egg. Healthy, fit chickens produce a bright orange yolk with a deep taste, in contrast to broiler chickens' eggs, with their lifeless, pale yellow yolk. The pumpkin is packed with nutrition too—its bright orange color tells us it's loaded with the antioxidant beta-carotene. Colorful and healrhy—a winning combination!" - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

"Ditto for chickens. Does your ratio of omega-3S to omega-6s really matter? Take it from ground squirrels. They won't go into hibernation if the ratio is disrupted in the laboratory.22 Their genes "know" something is amiss and won't risk it! INFLAMMATORY DISEASES ON THE RISE With our production of inflammatory hormones now forty times greater than the anti-inflammatory ones, what diseases and conditions would you expect to appear? How about arthritis, asthma, skin lesions like psoriasis, eczema, and autoimmune diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn's?" - 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.)

"A flock of chickens, two cows, and an ox roamed freely. This was a town? "May we stop for a visit?" I asked. Juvenil looked at Jorge, then back at me. He looked as if he thought we were playing a trick on him, but in the typical unquestioning character of the region, he replied, "Why not?" and dropped his ax. His house looked much like Panchita's—except it lacked running water and electricity. The kitchen looked pure Chorotega: a fogon, corn kernels soaking in a black earthen pot, hollowed gourds for drinking, a packed-dirt floor, a dog sniffing for crumbs." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"This story of confinement, poor food, antibiotics, and lower nutritional value is also true for pigs, chickens, sheep, turkeys, and ducks. Unfortunately, even some organic products come from animals that are raised in confinement and fed grains. On the plus side, at least the feed for these "organic" meats and poultry doesn't contain restaurant waste, animal byproducts, municipal garbage, bubble gum (yes, gum and garbage are commonly used), and poultry manure, as it does in regular feedlots." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The studies in monkeys, chickens, and guinea pigs show an adaptation of the visual system—active emmetropization to the visual environment—in response to lens-driven refractive errors. The effect of applying an external negative lens produced a net negative change in focal status of the eye. The effect of applying an external positive lens produced a net positive change in focal status of the eye. This is because of the eye's ability to change its length proportional to the applied plus or minus lens, that is, the dynamic and innate emmetropization process." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.) "The first evidence for active emmetropization—the eye's response to its visual environment—following an induced myopic state was identified in chickens (Wallman & Adams, 1987; Norton, 1990; McBrien & Norton, 1992). The study carried out on the monkeys reported that the primate eye demonstrated a recovery from retinal defocus induced by contact lenses that were experimentally used on these animals (Smith et al., 1994)." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"He would routinely be seen making hospital rounds before the chickens shook the dew off their feathers and it was uncommon for him to close up the surgical suite before midnight. The ruptured disk kept him out of the operating room, and the inactivity just about drove him crazy (it did drive his wife crazy). He loved his work, he was a very good doctor (and still is), and he needed a way to speed his recovery. A mutual friend gave him some articles about antioxidants, notably coenzyme Qiq, and he thought, "Why not give it a try?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Many organic farms also raise organic chickens, turkeys, and larger livestock. You can buy eggs from these farms and butcher your own meat. APPENDIX B The Right Vitamin D Tests If you decide to get tested, work with your physician on your game plan. For the most exact dosing, you may want to have three blood tests; vitamin D3, intact PTH (parathyroid hormone), and calcium." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Eggs should be from chickens ranging outside. Beans, nuts, and seeds should be organic (or at least raw, in the case of nuts). Suggestion #1: Avoid commercially raised and/or grain-fed red meats. Replacement: Organic and preferably grass-fed meats. Suggestion #2: Avoid commercially raised chicken and turkey full of antibiotics, hormones, and growth stimulants. Replacement: Organic and free-range chickens and turkeys not raised with antibiotics or hormones." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Their backyard is a sheer mountainside, which creates a perfect microclimate. chickens wander about—fertilizing the apple trees, says Anna. "Other farms look like Versailles. Here we have weeds around the trees—we leave them be. Our farm is about animals, plants and insects all together." As she speaks, a fly lands on her eyelid and rests there. She's so in tune with nature that she doesn't even seem to notice it. When he finishes with the jam, George Zebroff comes out to greet us. At first, he's taciturn, almost stern. His wild gray hair is matched by a gnarled beard. He's very tall." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"We have few real eggs because we have few real chickens. Real chickens must be raised outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine, eating their natural diet of bugs, worms, pigweed, dandelions and other living foods. Most of today's chickens are cage reared, confined in factories where they do not obtain the benefits of exercise or sunlight and are fed nutritionally deficient, processed chicken feed. Neither the meat nor the eggs of these unhealthy animals support healthy human life. Commercial chickens are fed an incredibly deficient and toxic diet." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"The probiotic supplement chickens had superior health. Prebiotics were also investigated in this trial, and they were found only to be of added health benefit when probiotics were given simultaneously. It appears that probiotics can prevent Salmonella's growth in many animals commonly farmed for human consumption. These animal studies have shown a number of probiotic species are capable of preventing Salmonella from growing. Two other probiotics, S. cerevisiae and L. reuteri can inhibit the growth of Salmonella, according to laboratory-style research trials." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"They eat any sort of vegetable matter, from the obvious—seeds, nuts, leaves, and fruits—to such unlikely choices as paper, soap, and beeswax,' as well as eggs, baby chickens, pigs, even lambs. But for those charting the rat's impact on human history, their most significant dietary choice is grain. Grain is what induces rats to travel at all. A rat eats fifty pounds of grain annually, and spoils twice as much as it eats." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Using a fresh batch of virulent cholera culture, he then inoculated two groups of chickens: a group of previously uninoculated chickens and the original group that had remained unaffected by the aged culture inoculation. Nearly all the previously inoculated chickens remained healthy, while the new chickens developed chicken cholera. Pasteur described this age-dependent weakening process as "attenuation." Quickly realizing the potential of his discovery, Pasteur honored Jenner by naming his chicken-immunizing agent "vaccine," though it had nothing to do with cows." - Peggy O'Mara, Vaccination The Issue of Our Times (Get the book.)

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