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"The Gaia theory also "sees the earth as a responsive supra-organism that will tend to resist adverse environmental change and maintain 'homeostasis.' But if stressed beyond the limits of whatever happens to be the current regulatory apparatus, it will jump to a new stable environment where many of the current species will be eliminated." This illuminates the fact that the earth is a creator of its own existence and that environmental homeostasis or balance is necessary for life as we know it to be maintained. Spirit is defined in Webster's dictionary as "the vital principle held to give life." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In this context, if an environmental change caused the production of one or a subset of these compounds to become advantageous, natural selection would act to enhance its production. At first, the mechanism of enhancement may have been quite crude (e.g., up-regulating a key enzyme of primary metabolism) and probably would have had deleterious pleiotropic effects. If, however, the advantages of increasing the production of flavonoids were large enough, this would evolve despite the pleiotropic effects." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Nutrition education in the absence of environmental change is not likely to have significant effects (and sends mixed messages), and environmental change without nutrition education is likely to miss opportunities to teach children lessons they can use outside school. Teaching children healthy eating habits, coupled with changing the environment, is likely to have the greatest impact on overall lifestyle. Both education and environmental change are important. The School Food Triad: Three Barriers to a Healthy Food Environment Three barriers to healthy eating are fundamental to schools." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"In contemporary society unsustainability is the result of economic and social expansion combined with environmental change and degradation. These produce inequalities and imbalances that disorient people and overload the administrative and control capability of society's dominant structures and institutions. Frustration breeds resentment and generates hate and violence. Society enters a period of social and political crisis. Then comes the Macroshift's final phase." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"These altered discernments came from the institution of Maya kingship and from humanly induced and natural environmental change. Maya kingship developed from deep roots in the past. Like all slash-and-burn farmers, the earliest Maya lived close to the land. Their survival depended on expert knowledge of soils and weather signs, animals, plants, and the subtle changes that marked the passage of seasons. The villagers peopled the forest with spirit beings, half animals, half humans. This was the world of the fierce jaguar, equally at home in water and in the trees." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The international team blamed "heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks around the world [that] are contributing to profound environmental change." The only way we can be sure we're doing what is right is to see tangible results. If we start seeing levels of fossil fuel residues declining in polar bears, and healthy populations of wild salmon and amphibians, we will know we are hedging our bets against global warming. But that's going to require some major changes in our consciousness. Part of that change has to involve our being kind to animals, even farm animals." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"This acidity sensitizes the nerve endings, and they register this drastic environmental change by producing pain. Seventy-five percent of the weight of your upper body mass is supported by the hydraulic properties of the discs that absorb and hold water in their central cores. In a dehydrated state, when the body mass constantly squeezes out the water content of the discs during movement and bending, not enough of the lost water can be replaced. The dehydrated discs with their shrunken cores gradually become less supportive of the weight of the body." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"The savanna theory holds that our apelike ancestors abandoned the dark African forests and moved into the great grassy plains, perhaps because of climate changes that led to massive environmental change. In the forest, food was plentiful—fruits, nuts, and leaves could be found in abundance. But out in the savanna, life was tougher, so the theory goes, and our ancestors had to find new ways to get food. Males began to hunt bravely for meat among the herds of grazing animals." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"As much as climate change, the demand for food will be a major driver of global environmental change throughout the coming decades. Over the past century, the effects of long-term soil erosion were masked by bringing new land under cultivation and developing fertilizers, pesticides, and crop varieties that compensate for declining soil productivity. However, the greatest benefits of such technological advances accrue in applications to deep, organic-rich topsoil." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In contrast, the cultural evolution hypothesis holds that regional environmental change was unimportant in the gradual adoption of agriculture through an inevitable progression of social development. Unfortunately, neither hypothesis provides satisfying answers for why agriculture arose when and where it did. A fundamental problem with the oasis theory is that the wild ancestors of our modern grains came to the Middle East from northern Africa at the end of the last glaciation." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Thus, the consequential environmental change, when the cleansing process is inefficient, predisposes to conversion of normal cells in the affected area to new cell types that thrive in an otherwise hostile and insufficiently oxygenated local environment. Cancer cells have stem cell characteristics. They have the capability to achieve sophistication and develop specialized characteristics of normal cells." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

"Approaching this question from a different angle, although the human trait of having two arms is inherited, the heritability of humans having two arms is zero. The reason is that the heritability statistic describes variation in a population attributable to genes. Because virtually everyone is born with two arms, and because people with one arm become that way because of an environmental occurrence, 100% of the "armedness" variation in a population is caused by the environment, and 0% of the variation is caused by genes." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"When a papilloma host must adapt to some unprecedented environmental change, like an ice age, its papilloma viruses adapt too. Whereas some host individuals survive and others do not, however, all of the viruses survive. Those that had the competitive edge under the old conditions do not fall by the wayside. They survive along with those that have the edge under the new conditions. Their continued existence seems guaranteed no matter what happens to the host. In any host, papilloma viruses therefore exist as population of great and ever-growing diversity." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"When this irritation occurs, the brain is alerted about the chemical environmental change, which is translated and manifested as pain to the conscious mind. In other words, it is the acidity in the interior of the body that causes pain. Mechanism of Pain Production Alkaline Acidic (Dark urine) Figure 8.1: Nerve endings register the chemical environmental change with the brain. The brain translates the information for the conscious mind in the form of pain." - F. Batmanghelidj, Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty! (Get the book.)

"For a condition that is so prevalent, with health impacts that are so great and a public that is so willing, far more resources might be put into environmental change, as well as evaluating various weight-loss treatments and disseminating the results. It's startling that the first randomized trials of popular diets have been published only recently.25,26 A realistic expectation for individuals needs to be coupled with a realistic expectation for populations. Even a small weight loss on a population basis could yield many health benefits at a societal level." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"Causes of insomnia* Sleep-onset insomnia Anxiety or tension environmental change Emotional arousal Fear of insomnia Phobia of sleep Disruptive environment Pain or discomfort Caffeine Alcohol Sleep-maintenance insomnia Depression Environmental change Sleep apnea Nocturnal myoclonus Hypoglycemia Parasomnias Pain or discomfort Drugs Alcohol *The boundary between the categories is not entirely distinct." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 (Get the book.)

"Both education and environmental change are important. The School Food Triad: Three Barriers to a Healthy Food Environment Three barriers to healthy eating are fundamental to schools. These must be considered if schools are to become healthy places to eat. Schools Do Not Consider Healthy Eating Relevant to Their Mission What children eat has not typically been viewed as important to a school's educational mission. Providing food is often seen as a necessary service, much as custodial service might be, and is expected to generate a profit or at least break even." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

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