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"One, organic farming is usually a low-yield operation compared with high-yield commercial farming. Research by Donald R. Davis, Ph.D., of the University of Texas, Austin, has shown that an acre of soil has only so much nutrition to give. High-yield farming dilutes that nutrition among a larger number of plants. Two, pesticides reduce plants' production of vitamins and other antioxidants. When you can, buy grass- or range-fed meat or fowl, although they may not be organic per se. Animals that graze on grass have a healthy fat profile—high in the omega-3 fats—similar to that of wild salmon." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Organic farming is not a big business like regular crop farming. If you have to choose only some organic foods, seek organic foods at your grocery store or health food store that have the skin that is thin or permeable, such as grapes or strawberries because they are more easily permeated by the pesticides. However, you cannot wash away all of the pesticides that is in a fruit that has been sprayed. Once it is contaminated, it stays that way. It is wise to try to consume only organic foods if you can. If you cannot buy fresh fruits and vegetables, you can use flash frozen vegetables." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Eat Organic Food as Often as You Can Afford It Organic foods are grown without pesticides and with farming methods that sustain soil quality. You can buy organic vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and eggs at natural food stores, specialty markets (such as Trader Joe's), and many supermarkets. You can even get a few organic foods at Costco and Wal-Mart. Organic produce has higher nutrient levels for a number of reasons. One, organic farming is usually a low-yield operation compared with high-yield commercial farming. Research by Donald R. Davis, Ph.D." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"They had no interest in the arduous tasks associated with agriculture, although they possibly learned rudiments of farming from the Romans. "Even if ancient Sardinians knew of farming techniques, it didn't take," Francalacci said. "They carried on largely as hunter-gatherers and later as shepherds." Perhaps that's why Sardinians developed an intense wariness and disdain for visitors. Newcomers had always meant subjugation, exploitation, and taxes. So they turned inward, > developing an intense dedication to their families and community and earning a reputation for toughness." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Conventional farming involves the ongoing use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides on food crops. Unlike organic farming, conventional farming employs chemical dustings to discourage insects and rodents from eating the crops. If a pest deterrent?poison—is sprayed on both the crops and the soil, there is a good chance it will find its way into our food. Designed to kill small pests, pesticides when consumed by humans can at the very least cause a reaction from the immune system as it attempts to defend the body." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"One, organic farming is usually a low-yield operation compared with high-yield commercial farming. Research by Donald R. Davis, Ph.D., of the University of Texas, Austin, has shown that an acre of soil has only so much nutrition to give. High-yield farming dilutes that nutrition among a larger number of plants. Two, pesticides reduce plants' production of vitamins and other antioxidants. When you can, buy grass- or range-fed meat or fowl, although they may not be organic per se. Animals that graze on grass have a healthy fat profile—high in the omega-3 fats—similar to that of wild salmon." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"The dry spell hit after poor rains and below-average crops the year before had left many farming communities already hungry. Regional grain stocks in Zimbabwe were dangerously low because the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had fostered a "structural adjustment program'' to reduce the country's budget deficit and rampant inflation while combating stagnant economic growth. In response, Zimbabwe exported much of its food reserves both to reduce government spending on food storage and to earn precious foreign exchange." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"If you are concerned about the environment, then yes, buy organic, since organic farming is much gentler on the land. Organic farming is much less harmful to the environment than conventional farming, reducing both the pesticide residues in food and the land, as well as reducing the contamination of our water supplies. Conventional farming pollutes water with pesticide runoff, degrades topsoil, and uses nonrenewable energy resources." - Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., The Origin Diet: How Eating Like Our Stone Age Ancestors Will Maximize Your Health (Get the book.)

"In every state there is a government experiment station which has valuable bulletins on all kinds of farming subjects and many of them are free. Farming and Gardening Farming and gardening are intensely interesting when you learn to do them correctly. Many people might have an abundance of food now who have land, but do not make the right use of it. Here are some of my personal experiences: To have early tomatoes in the extreme northern states where it is very cold and the season short, plant the tomatoes in February in a box in the house when you do not have a greenhouse or hotbed." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.)

"DNA studies on the skeletal remains of pre-dairy farming Neolithic Europeans [21] indicate that the most common allele for lactase persistence in Europeans (-13910*T) was not present, arguing for the cultural-historical hypothesis (this mutation is discussed in more detail in the section on diagnosis of lactose maldigestion). In addition, Tishkoff et al. [22] have identified three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for lactase persistence that developed in African populations as little as 3000 years ago." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The productivity and reliability of potato farming helped increase Europe's population and freed more workers for nonagricultural employment—such as manning the factories of the Industrial Revolution. The cold centuries ended in the 1850s, as the Industrial Revolution was at its height. The world entered a new era of warmer temperatures and less extreme climatic swings, apparently triggered by entirely natural causes. (Some experts do wonder whether the higher levels of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the growing forces of the Industrial Revolution contributed to the warm-up." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, organic farming is much less harmful to the environment than conventional farming methods, reducing both the pesticide residues in food and the land, as well as reducing the contamination of our water supplies. Conventional farming pollutes water with pesticide runoff, degrades topsoil, and uses nonrenewable energy resources. In contrast, organic farming releases few chemicals into the environment, enhances soil quality, and encourages biodiversity of crops, thus protecting our natural resources." - Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"It has been hypothesized that individuals with a genetic mutation coding for lactase persistence would have gained a selective evolutionary advantage over LNP individuals in areas where dairy farming developed several thousand years ago [19, 20]. Under marginal nutritional conditions, the individual with lactase persistence would be able to comfortably consume dairy products, deriving greater nutritional benefit." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Second, modern farming techniques have stripped valuable nutrients from the soil, leaving produce that—even though chemically fertilized—is significantly inferior (nutritionally) to that produced one hundred years ago with natural farming techniques. Another cause of serious nutritional deficiencies is inertia in the conventional medical community. For many years, "experts" have advocated a low-fat, high-grain diet. Such diets have put healthy high-fat foods, like nuts and seeds, in the "eat sparingly" category, and highly processed foods like breads and pastas in the "eat regularly" position." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"THE NATURAL CHOICE I recommend free-range poultry and grass-fed beef, as their food sources are closest to those found before the advent of modern farming methods, which rely primarily on grain. Grazing animals are likeliest to have the most beneficial ratio of omega-3s to omega-6s, as well as being a great source of plant phytonutrients in their tissues. Likewise, you're better off eating wild-caught than farm-raised fish. BECOME A LEAN, GREEN EATING MACHINE I promised you that you would be able to eat plenty of food and never feel hungry on Diet Evolution." - 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.)

"Second, modern farming techniques have stripped valuable nutrients from the soil, leaving produce that—even though chemically fertilized—is significantly inferior (nutritionally) to that produced one hundred years ago with natural farming techniques. Another cause of serious nutritional deficiencies is inertia in the conventional medical community. For many years, "experts" have advocated a low-fat, high-grain diet. Such diets have put healthy high-fat foods, like nuts and seeds, in the "eat sparingly" category, and highly processed foods like breads and pastas in the "eat regularly" position." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"However, even a full-strength anchovy harvest could not feed the en- tire Moche farming population. We can be certain that several years of hunger gripped the kingdom, the flood damage aggravated by the ongoing drought. All the rulers could do was to muster the enormous, if weakened, labor force at their disposal. Teams of villagers set to work building entirely new irrigation systems adapted to tortuously changed topography. Some of these canals and field systems can still be traced on the ground today." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Even worse, our government still pays vatious and sundry subsidies, actually $345 million in the year 2000, to support tobacco farming.36 One cannot escape the conclusion that our government fights lung cancer with one fist, just as it promotes that dread disease with the other. We might focus on the public health establishment. Most of their effort is in controlling some problem that is a manifest threat, say, the spread of infectious disease. This is all for the good, though the effort is tiny by comparison to other branches of institutional medicine." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Fossil fuels are used to power tractors and mechanized farming devices, to manufacture the petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides that help fruit grow and to transport fruits from warehouses to supermarkets. Accordingly, our produce departments look like new-car lots full of enormous, perfect fruits gleaming with wax. The spectrum of colors is heightened by megawatts of directional lighting accentuating the beads of mist dripping from the temperature-controlled display cases. Unfortunately, many of these cars are lemons." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Eight inches represents the limit below which farming without irrigation becomes impossible, with all the consequences that entails. In the same way that the presence of water defined the internal boundaries of the Mediterranean empires that grew with seaborne trade and colonization, the absence of water defined the boundaries of the Mesopotamian empires, as far back as the birth of civilization itself. The "fertile crescent" of high school geography is outlined, on its concave side, by the 200 mm isohyet, with deserts to the north and east of the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Exacerbating her family medical history was Paula's use of tobacco and her environmental exposure to pesticides and fertilizers because she worked intermittently in commercial farming in rural Australia. She was on a regular regime of pharmaceuticals, including medications to thin her blood and help control high blood pressure and an elevated cholesterol level. In 2002, Paula failed a stress test. An angiogram revealed that the main artery to her heart was 80 percent blocked." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Food Production The commercial food we now consume is grown in soil that has been seriously depleted of its minerals because of continuous farming without crop rotation or rest. In addition, there is a total dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow produce. Depending on the soils they are grown on, there can be a significant difference between commercially grown and organically grown vegetables. One study concluded that organically grown foods were richer in minerals than commercially grown products." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Over the years, the FDA has similarly attempted to ban or destroy many other publications, including Rodale's Organic farming and Gardening magazine, which the FDA claimed was "advertising literature" that taught farmers how to increase the nutritional density of their crops through the use of natural, organic farming methods. ,# J FDA police state tactics: Searching and detaining senior citizens The FDA recently conducted a raid on a busload of senior citizens returning from Canada to buy prescription drugs they simply couldn't afford in the United States." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"In the first phase of Diet Evolution, you followed a way of eating that was as close as possible to the way people ate roughly a century ago, before modern farming methods changed the diet of cattle and other animals from grasses to grains and the introduction of new manufacturing processes that produced grain-based oils and ground grains. During the next six or more weeks, you'll evolve your eating patterns to mimic the diet of our ancestors before the onset of agriculture and the domestication of animals roughly 10,000 years ago." - 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.) "To do this, it's helpful to recall that farming allowed our forbears to grow and store calorie-dense foods in the form of grains, meat, and cheese. While agriculture stimulated population density and led to geographical dispersion, there's no evidence that humankind thrived. And, quite frankly, that's the situation for most of us who eat a diet characterized by "healthy" whole grains and skinned chicken breasts. After studying the effects of a number of foods on my patient volunteers and myself, I believe that the main ingredient missing from our more recent ancestors' diet was green leaves." - 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.)

"In the preparation of anthroposophical medicines, particular attention is paid to the source and methods of farming used in growing plant raw materials. Plant materials are grown according to the principles of bio-dynamic farming, which is similar to organic farming. Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies exist that are dedicated to the production of anthroposophical medicines. AROMATHERAPY History Aromatic plants and their extracts have been used in cosmetics and perfumes and for religious purposes for thousands of years, although the link with the therapeutic use of essential oils is weak." - Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy (Get the book.)

"Fruit farming is spiritually fulfilling," he says, as we stroll over to his fruit orchard in the adjacent lot. "It allows you to see the miracle of the cycles of life." I ask him if he's a fruitarian. He laughs, and says that he isn't quite a fruitarian, although he mainly eats fruits because he's a raw foodist. He does confirm the existence of fruitarians, many of whom indeed live in Puna. "Fruitarians have no constipation," he says. "They laugh at ex-lax." We taste some jaboticabas. They look like oversized deep purple grapes, matching his pants." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"And the mechanization of farming relieved many of the need to work on the land. Here again, positive feedback was at work. New discoveries led to new machinery and equipment, and these led to other discoveries. Efficient pumps paved the way for hydraulic power, giving us the ability to apply great pressure and move heavy loads. Precision engineering increased the reliability of scientific tools and instruments. As we came to understand more about the structure of matter, we gained the ability to create new materials with new properties: alloys, ceramics, plastics." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"One of the farmers interviewed in Broken Limbs, Dave Crosby, says that he first got into apple farming in the 1970s because he had been told that, 'You don't have to work—you just pick the apples. You make lots of money and you can just have a good time." It didn't work out quite how he imagined. Crosby lost his orchard in 2003. One of the main thoroughfares in Wenatchee, lined with the same fast-food franchises found all over America, is called Easy Street. It's a name dear to apple growers' hearts, especially to those who have adopted a monoculture approach." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In conventional farming, the soil is often just used as a medium for holding plants in a vertical position so that they can be chemically fertilized. North American farms are experiencing the worst soil erosion in history. 3. Protect Water Quality The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that pesticides contaminate the ground water in 38 states, polluting the primary source of drinking water for more than half of the country's population. 4. Save Energy Modern farming uses more petroleum than any other single industry, consuming 12 percent of the country's total energy supply." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

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