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"Fortunately, a cultivation method of maitake was soon established on bio-farms, leading to stable quality, which, in turn, led to the beginning of maitake research. Today, the growing of maitake mushrooms with high quality control standards has become an important industry in various regions of the world. Not only could maitake now be commercially harvested, but more importantly, researchers found oral administration of maitake was as potent as injection by needles. With that discovery and improved cultivation yields, much research switched from shiitake to maitake." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Conventional Methodology and Its Limitations Our present knowledge of intestinal microflora is largely based on classical approaches of cultivation, direct microscopic observation, and biochemical analysis [64]. Results obtained using these conventional methodologies have improved our understanding of the intestinal microflora. However, many intestinal bacteria are difficult to culture because the media may not be specific (i.e., causing overestimation) or may be too selective (i.e., resulting in underestimation or absence of growth) for culturing the particular bacteria of interest [65]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Only through human cultivation were fruits improved and selected for desirable characteristics: smaller seeds, increased flesh and refined eating quality. This discredits the assumption that wild fruits are tastiest—in truth, uncultivated varieties are often inedible. The wild peach is an acrid pea-sized pellet. Feral bananas are filled with tooth-shattering seeds. Untamed pineapples are full of gritty pebbles. Sweet oranges only arrived in the Mediterranean basin in the late 1400s. Corn is believed to have evolved from a minuscule grain called teosinte, slightly bigger than an earwig." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Fine eating fruits all stem from human cultivation. The pioneers behind the varieties we enjoy today are usually anonymous. As Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre wrote, "The names of these public benefactors are chiefly unknown, whilst their benefits pass from generation to generation; whereas those of the destroyers of the human race are handed down to us on every page." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "According to the NAFFXHandbookfor Fruit Explorers, all members are "devoted to the discovery, cultivation and appreciation of superior varieties of fruits and nuts." They grow Tom Sawyer's favorite apple or the huckleberries Finn was named after. They run backyard research programs. They are fruit pioneers who do it for the spirit of experimentation, not for profit. They don't care what people say about fruits not growing in particular areas—they find ways to make them grow. Professional pomologists mainly work on creating fruits that are aimed at the grocery store cold chain." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"With that discovery and improved cultivation yields, much research switched from shiitake to maitake. People have either known or at least suspected for a very long time that the Monkey's Bench family, of which maitake is a member, possesses significant anticancer potential. Thus, they have used the ingredients obtained by boiling these substances down as a sort of medicinal hot water treatment for certain cancers. It is now known conclusively that the ingredients which exhibit the greatest antitumor effects are the result of the activity of various beta-glucans." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "However, the development of cultivation methods now ensures a steady supply of maitake, allowing researchers to study its medicinal properties and bring it to the forefront of cancer research. Both clinical and laboratory studies demonstrate maitake's ability to inhibit tumor growth, stimulate the immune system, and even kill cancer cells." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Various portions of the mushroom have different amounts of glycoproteins, and the cultivation methods also influence mycelium glycoprotein content. But mushrooms alone do not supply what we once had in our diet. Aloe vera contains polysaccharides known as acemannans, but many aloe vera products go through so much processing their acemannan content is destroyed. The aloe vera used in RM-10 is non-heated, non-pastureized, and non-preserved to deliver the most active acemannans to the body." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Pliny, in his Natural History, had some bizarre notions about wild silk cultivation (including the idea that the silk moths "grow shaggy hair and equip themselves with thick coats to combat winter, scraping together down from the leaves with their rough feet. They compact this into fleeces, card it with theit claws and draw it out into the woof, thinned out as if by a comb, and then they wrap this round rheir body."),14 bur at least knew that it was made by silkworms turning into moths." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Expanding the "frontier of cultivation" was not an • William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia believes that the clear-cutting of the great European forests is the beginning of the long history of human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, a reaction to "massive human mortality accompanying pandemics" option available in either the built-out lands of the Mediterranean or the deserts that surrounded Mesopotamia. Only western Europe possessed the topographic advantage of a potentially arable frontier, in the form of the great European forests." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Sometimes the stresses are relieved by some extraordinary event or a remarkable innovation, like the Younger Dryas-caused changeover to agriculture at Abu Hureyra or the large-scale cultivation of the potato in Europe during later stages of the Little Ice Age. But sometimes the collapse is total, as it was with the Moche and the Maya. The stresses are mounting dangerously in our own world. Like Stone Age foragers at the end of the Ice Age, we have just about run out of space to run away from our troubles." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Their natural methods of cultivation and scientific insight into the active chemicals in such plants has led to a breakthrough in cultivation to make echinacea a potentially more useful cold and flu remedy. Gaia has been committed to organic growing for over twenty years, and in this time has established itself as a leader in organic growing. Gaia is proud to be an Oregon Tilth certified grower. (Oregon Tilth is known for strict organic certification standards, and both the Gaia farm and processing facility are recertified each year." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Of course, the passage also reiterates its metropolitan author's view of India as fertile soil for the cultivation of scientific medicine. Some members of the colonial medical elites on the ground were eager to demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of health policies informed by germ theory—and thus to assert the new power and authority of medicine. Others saw such policies as simply perpetuating under a different name the Sanitarian model of public health, with its linkage between disease and morality: a particularly fraught connection in the colonies' non-Christian societies." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Mahendralal's defection was revealing in another way: he was, and continued after his homeopathic turn to be, a vocal proponent of science and 'scientific' medicine, founding in 1867 the Indian Association for the cultivation of Science to promote the growth of an indigenous scientific community, and the creation of scientific knowledge by and for Indians.25 He promoted homeopathy through the Calcutta Journal of Medicine he founded a year later, as a scientific and modern system." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "What are the medicinal plants grown in the vicinity already, and the measures which might be taken for extending the cultivation of them? ... What are the medical and chemical preparations made in the district from vegetables used in medicine?... What are the mines and other localities yielding crude mineral substances, and the quantities of them attainable for medical purposes? .. . What are the preparations of these now manufactured, and the practicability of producing them on a more extensive scale?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Through close observation, the careful cultivation of native informants and practitioners, and the illicit acquisition of some few Japanese medical texts and images, Ten Rhyne gathered enough information about acupuncture to describe it to a European audience enthralled with that little-known nation. Neither he himself nor his audience at home appear to have regarded the technique as in any way 'quackish'. Indeed, Ten Rhyne incorporated both the technique of therapeutic needling and its apparently instantaneous effects into his explanatory model of diseases." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Could it be that the cultivation of Buddhist mental virtues led over time to a physically healthier body and even brain? By the 1980s, programs modeled on Kabat-Zinn's approach, now known as MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), were being set up in other clinics and hospitals. Kabat-Zinn's 1990 introduction to his method in Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness has now been in print through twenty-six printings and a fifteenth-anniversary edition was released in 2005." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "To say this, however, did not mean that the cultivation of such "mindful" virtues might not be valuable to people who were challenged by chronic or serious medical disorders—or at least that was the conclusion of a young American teacher of Buddhist meditation and yoga (who also happened to hold a Ph.D. from MIT in molecular biology) named Jon Kabat-Zinn." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"After King Louis XIV's reign, mushroom cultivation gained popularity in England, and in the late nineteenth century, cultivated mushrooms came to the United States. Where Are Mushrooms Grown? China accounts for thirty-two percent of worldwide production. The United States cultivates sixteen percent of world output. Why Should I Eat Mushrooms? Though not generally thought of as "nutrition-packed" vegetables, many culinary mushrooms contain large amounts of selenium (in fact, more so than any other produce)." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Fermented and pickled cabbage made its way into Europe from the East, carried by Hun and Mongol warriors. cultivation of cabbage spread across northern Europe into Germany, Poland, and Russia, where it became a very popular vegetable in local food cultures. The savoy (Brassica oleracea capitata) CABBAGE PATCHIN' cabbage variety found its first admirers in Italy. During extended exploration voyages, Dutch sailors practically subsisted on sauerkraut, a dish made from fermented cabbage. Sauerkraut's high vitamin C content helped prevent scurvy." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "North Dakota and Michigan lead the nation in dry bean cultivation. Why Should I Eat Beans? Beans count as both a vegetable and a protein source in the United States Department of Agriculture's MyPyramid food guide. They are one of the few vegetables that are rich in both protein and fiber, including both soluble and insoluble fiber to promote regularity, control cholesterol, and reduce the risk of certain cancers. Beans are an excellent source of potassium, folate, and magnesium, and are also a good source of manganese, molybdenum, and the B vitamin thiamine." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Little attention has been paid to the possibilities of extending the cultivation of the crops of the Nicoyan garden, which require little land and slight care and yield abundantly . . . When the old ways disappear, as perhaps they must, it is regrettable that so little is saved from them, so that those who practice them suffer the penalty of obsolescence, as the poor folk of a new and more efficient world. For nine months, our team of scientists and researchers studied the amazing people of this tiny peninsula in northern Costa Rica." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Slash-and-burn cultivation worked well enough when the Maya farming population was small, but the crop yields were never sufficient to support large settlements. Nor could the stocks of surplus grain feed more than a handful of nonfarmers, such as stone ax makers or priests. However, until the last few centuries before Christ, this simple farming system was the staple of an increasingly complex village society that flourished in a hot, low-lying environment with poor, shallow soils. Could such an elemental farming system support an elaborate civilization of densely populated cities?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Media cultivation of Debate In an attempt to attract audiences, the news media try to present debate about issues on the public mind. This may mean creating a debate on topics that experts would not otherwise consider deserving of such discussion. The resulting media event may convey the impression that there are experts on all sides of the issue, thereby suggesting a lack of expert agreement on the very issues that people are most confused about. I have over the years been called by news people asking me if I would be willing to make a statement in support of some extreme view." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"I have had to force myself to relax and to maintain an internal calmness in all situations. The cultivation of poise has taken years. I have had to retrain my mind and rid myself of poor emotional/neurological habit patterns. This has required awareness and perseverance. Nevertheless, time and time again, I have had to do what they say to do here in Texas, "Bite the bullet, grin and bear it." I have no ulcers now. I thank God and Hygiene that I don't suffer with the sharp, knife-cutting pains in my stomach anymore." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"This intensification of production had begun centuries earlier, when the Maya combined milpa cultivation with wetland field systems and terracing. In the short term, these intensification strategies worked at the local level, especially when the elite exercised increasing control over production and crop yields through tribute assessments, and perhaps through taking careful inventory of farmland. Some Mayanists believe the Maya eventually went a step further and attempted to standardize farming practices over wide areas." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"About the time the whole floodplain came under cultivation, the plow appeared on the Sumerian plains near the Petsian Gulf: it allowed greater food production from land already farmed. Towns began to coalesce into cities. The town of Uruk (Erech) absorbed the surrounding villages and grew to about 50,000 people by 3000 bc. Construction of huge temples attests to the ability of teligious leaders to marshal labor." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The barbarians were kept at bay for centuries, but the threat of soil erosion was harder to stop as political stability under the pax romana encouraged continuous cultivation aimed at maximizing each year's harvest. By the time the Vandals crossed from Spain into Africa and took Carthage in ad 439, the Roman presence was so feeble that fewer than fifteen thousand men conquered all of North Africa. After the Roman capitulation, overgrazing by herds of nomadic sheep prevented rebuilding the soil. Today we hardly think of North Africa as the granary of the ancient world." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The areas of cultivation are western and northern Europe and the northern U.S. Production: White Mustard seed consists of the ripe, dried seed of Sinapis alba. Not To Be Confused With: Other Sinapis or Brassica species. Artificial colorings such as butter yellow or turmeric may be added. Other Names: White Mustard ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY COMPOUNDS Glucosinolates: chiefly sinalbin (p-hydroxybenzylglucosino-lates, 2." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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