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"One sees the fire in colors, very many colors, five colors, different colors. The flames divide—it is all brilliant, very brilliant and very beautiful. The beauty is very great, very great. It is a beauty such as one never sees without the peyote. The flames come up, they shoot up, and each flame divides into those colors and each color is multicolored—blue, green, yellow, all those colors. The yellow appears on the tip of the flames as the flame shoots upward. And on the tips you can see little sparks in many colors coming out." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Artificial colors make dead foods look vibrant The same is also true with the use of artificial colors in food and beverage products. Any time there's an artificial color used, it is misdirection. It is an attempt to appeal to the desire of consumers to purchase cosmetically appealing groceries. More often than not, these artificial colors mask the true nature of the foods, which is that they are dead foods made with unhealthy chemical additives. You see, artificial colors can make foods look alive, vibrant and fresh." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Synthetic colors: Synthetic colors, along with synthetic hair dyes, should be avoided at all costs. They will be labeled as FD&C or D&C, followed by a color and a number. Example: FD&C Red No. 6 / D&C Green No. 6. Many synthetic colors can be carcinogenic. If a cosmetic contains them, don't use it. Synthetic fragrances: The synthetic fragrances used in cosmetics can have hundreds of ingredients. There is no way to know what the chemicals are, since on the label it will simply read "fragrance." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The SlimDown is all the colors of the rainbow—blueberries, red peppers, orange carrots, green leafies—and the FlexPlan is all those colors plus . . . your choice! A luscious mug of chocolaty steaming cocoa? A bowl of juicy red watermelon? Perhaps a forkful or two of luscious raspberry pie shared with friends at a restaurant? They're all part of your FlexPlan if you so choose. You're painting your own picture of the "fit you" and you're adding the finishing touches. So let's get started on the FlexPlan." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Some of the "natural" colors are extracted from grass, nettles, and other plants, or produced by a chemical process. There is a new trend toward colors produced by fungal cells or plant cells in culture—because these too can be labeled "natural," even though we would not consider eating the items from which they are derived. Such colors are being sought as a replacement for the synthetic colors known as azo-dyes, which have caused much concern. Azo-dyes include colors such as tartrazine, sunset yellow, and amaranth—a complete list is given at the end of this section." - Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment (Get the book.)

"He said, "I watch my little daughter talk about her favorite colors, and I don't even know what colors I like, what colors feel good to me. Do I like blue or yellow or pink or what?" I asked him how that felt, and he smiled and said, "That's the first typical shrink question you've asked me. To answer you, I guess it makes me feel a little sad. Hey, I guess I can feel something!" There were once many skilled therapists who would spend time giving Yoohoos a safe place to get in touch with their feelings. But in today's era, this once conventional therapy has become less routine." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The SlimDown is all the colors of the rainbow—blueberries, red peppers, orange carrots, green leafies—and the FlexPlan is all those colors plus . . . your choice! A luscious mug of chocolaty steaming cocoa? A bowl of juicy red watermelon? Perhaps a forkful or two of luscious raspberry pie shared with friends at a restaurant? They're all part of your FlexPlan if you so choose. You're painting your own picture of the "fit you" and you're adding the finishing touches. So let's get started on the FlexPlan." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"He said, "I watch my little daughter talk about her favorite colors, and I don't even know what colors I like, what colors feel good to me. Do I like blue or yellow or pink or what?" I asked him how that felt, and he smiled and said, "That's the first typical shrink question you've asked me. To answer you, I guess it makes me feel a little sad. Hey, I guess I can feel something!" There were once many skilled therapists who would spend time giving Yoohoos a safe place to get in touch with their feelings. But in today's era, this once conventional therapy has become less routine." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"You know you are getting these when there is a full rainbow of colors in your vegetables, fruits, and grains, as colors are actually the pigments containing phytonutrients, which turn on the anti-aging, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory genes. Most important, these phytonutrients turn off the diabetes-causing genes and turn on the anti-diabetic genes. In Genetic Nutritioneering, Jeffrey Bland, PhD, explains how the hormone insulin indirectly speaks to the genes and alters gene expression. Insulin also influences the other hormones in the body." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"COLOR-VISION CHANGES Among "acid freaks" and others who use hallucinogens, seeing things morph into weird colors is a fairly common, not to mention much sought-after, experience. But if you're not into drugs, seeing abnormally colored objects—medically known as chromatopsia—can be an early warning sign of diabetic eye disease. Even slight fluctuations in blood sugar levels can very quickly produce these vision changes. If you do have diabetes, these color vision distortions can make it very difficult for you to monitor your blood sugar levels using color-coded urine test strips." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"After all, sunlight streams to Earth, a shaft of light breaks apart to its constituent colors in a prism, and a flashlight sends out a beam of light. However, in 1905 Albert Einstein, following in the footsteps of some earlier physicists, posited that light also has a particle nature—it comes in discrete "packets." He was eventually proved to be correct, and another physicist, Max Planck, called these packets of light "quanta," the word from which quantum theory gets its name. Because a packet of light was thought of as a particle, the new particle needed a name—the photon." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"There is a new trend toward colors produced by fungal cells or plant cells in culture—because these too can be labeled "natural," even though we would not consider eating the items from which they are derived. Such colors are being sought as a replacement for the synthetic colors known as azo-dyes, which have caused much concern. Azo-dyes include colors such as tartrazine, sunset yellow, and amaranth—a complete list is given at the end of this section. Any colorings in foods or medicines must now be listed on the label in the United States." - Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment (Get the book.)

"The most widely known species is the vegetable asparagus, which comes in green, white, and purple colors. A Serving of Food Lore... The Egyptians wrote about asparagus, which is believed to have originated in the Mediterranean region more than 2,000 years ago. Greeks and Romans prized asparagus for its unique flavor, texture, and alleged medicinal qualities. The Roman Empire even had an "asparagus fleet" of special ships charged with the task of gathering the finest asparagus plants in the world." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Cauliflower comes in several colors and varieties ranging from white to light green to purple. The three main varieties are white cauliflower, broccoflower (a mix between cauliflower and broccoli), and romanesco, which grows in a yellow-green color. White is the most common variety found in the United States, while the purple and green varieties are most appreciated in Italy. A Serving of Food Lore... Cauliflower originated in Asia Minor, where it has been cultivated since 600 b.c." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "There are approximately forty different varieties of apricots, differing in size from three-eighths of an inch to many varieties that surpass two inches, and in colors ranging from yellow to orangey red. The most prevalent varieties are the Pattersons, Blenheims, Tiltons, and Castlebrites. About half the apricot crop is canned and the remainder consists of dried, preserved, and fresh forms. If left to the effects of nature, orange apricots will turn brown within days of harvesting. Apricots stay orange-colored because they are treated with sulphur dioxide, a preserving agent." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"There is a new trend toward colors produced by fungal cells or plant cells in culture—because these too can be labeled "natural," even though we would not consider eating the items from which they are derived. Such colors are being sought as a replacement for the synthetic colors known as azo-dyes, which have caused much concern. Azo-dyes include colors such as tartrazine, sunset yellow, and amaranth—a complete list is given at the end of this section. Any colorings in foods or medicines must now be listed on the label in the United States." - Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment (Get the book.)

"It can have as many colors as the celestial moon has phases. For example, a blue moon isn't just the name of an old song. Medically known as azure lunula, a blue nail moon can be a sign of Wilson's disease, an inherited degenerative liver disease in which there is a buildup of copper. A red nail moon, on the other hand, can Fingernails grow faster than toenails, and both grow faster in the summer than in winter. Nails on your dominant hand grow faster than those on your less-used hand. Lastly, men's nails grow faster than women's. signal heart failure." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"He donned a hat that was on the one side red but on the other white, green before and black behind [these being the colors of the four World Directions: i.e., Edshu was a personification of the Center, the axis mundi, or the World Navel]; so that when the two friendly farmers had gone home to their village and the one had said to the other, 'Did you see that old fellow go by today in the white hat?' the other replied, 'Why, the hat was red.' To which the first retorted, 'It was not; it was white.' 'But it was red,' insisted the friend, 'I saw it with my own two eyes." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Mismatched Eye Color If you meet someone whose eyes are two different colors, you may think he or she put in a mismatched pair of colored contact lenses by mistake or is trying to look trendy. But it's more likely heterochromia iridium, a condition in which a person has two different-colored eyes—or irises, to be precise. Although fairly common among dogs, cats, and horses, heterochromia iridium is quite rare in humans." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "In another form of this condition, heterochromia iridis, the different colors are in the same eye, creating a piebald or SIGN OF THE TIMES The ancient Greeks feared people with blue eyes, believing they could cast the evil eye. To ward off the threat, they carried around blue charms that looked like blue eyes. Today, many Greeks—as well as other southern Europeans and Middle Easterners—still carry these blue amulets. mottled effect. Either type of heterochromia can be congenital or acquired by disease, injury, or drug reaction." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Polyphenols give many fruits and vegetables their blue, red-blue, or violet colors. This amazing family is basically divided into two subgroups, phenolic acids and flavonoids. Phenolic acids include, among others, ellagic acid, found in raspberries and strawberries (and other fruits); p-Coumaric acid, in citrus fruits; and resver-atrol, in red grape skins, wine, and nuts. Ellagic acid is believed to reduce damage caused by carcinogens in tobacco smoke and air pollutants, while resveratrol has shown powerful antioxidant action, potentially offering protection from heart disease." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"There are many surveys suggesting that backache colors the year for as many as half of women over age sixty-five. Osteoporotic pathological fractures are a minor factor in all this morbidity. Part of the degenerative process leads to the loss of discs, the soft tissue structures separating the vertebrae. Few over age sixty-five have not suffered this change at more than one spinal level, particularly at the low back and neck. As discussed in chapter 9, the presence of such degenerative changes correlates very poorly with symptoms." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"When a body-field structure is distorted or information is blocked or degraded, there is a corresponding effect in your body, and the colors on the scan results (the "colored flags" in our analogy) indicate bioenergetic calls for help. It's like a cell, organ, or metabolic process is holding up a flag and waving it to get your attention, shouting, "Hey, I need your attention!" - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Choose berries with the darkest colors. Currants can also be bought frozen. • Keep currants refrigerated and use them within two days. Wash just before use. Fresh currants can be frozen. PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS: • Wash the berries in cold running water. Remove stems or leaves. Drain and pat dry. • Use currants as a garnish for any dish. • Add dried currants to brown rice. • Top ice cream with fresh currants or a currant sauce. Red Currant Grill Sauce by Chef J. Hugh McEvoy Servings: 38 • Prep and cooking time: 40 minutes This recipe contains five powerhouse foods." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"PRACTICING DAILY INTENTIONS Like the individuals who craft them, Daily Intentions come in many forms, shapes, and colors. They're entirely individual, designed to meet our special needs and circumstances. We'd like to share some of our favorite Daily Intentions, gleaned from thousands of people in our workshops. They are compasses that guide us through the day and touchstones to which we can always return. But remember, the list below is only a suggestion of the numerous ways you can make your days happier, healthier, and more conscious. You should feel free to customize your own." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The women were sipping glasses of sauvignon blanc while watching the salesgirls from the Aveda salon demonstrate how to brighten their appearance with lipstick and blush that came in warm summer colors. One of the Aveda girls introduced herself as Kelly. She had dark hair cut in a short, punky style. She wore a black T-shirt inscribed with a line written by Emily Dickinson: "Beauty is not caused. It is." "I do hair," Kelly said. "I do waxing. If I'm not having a good hair day, my day is shot." - 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.)

"Our body responds to different frequencies, and different colors have varying frequencies, and thus our body responds accordingly. Light therapy, using a whole spectrum of colors, is one method proven beneficial for various conditions. Of all the stimulants the human brain responds to, one of the most powerful is light. The body has hundreds of biochemical and hormonal rhythms, all of which are governed by light and dark." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Pink is perceived as calming, and may be suitable for heart drugs or tranquilizers, while bold colors such as red suggest rapid action and stimulation, and may therefore be appropriate for a painkiller or antidepressant," the IMS consultants wrote in an article in 2001. "On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine a pill in black, a color associated with death and morbidity." - 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.)

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