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"In response, Zimbabwe exported much of its food reserves both to reduce government spending on food storage and to earn precious foreign exchange. Before the structural adjustment program, the country had six months' food reserves on hand, more than enough to deploy to famine areas. Now the government had to buy maize on the international market for prices as much as three times higher than earlier in the year. These purchases, and vig- orous efforts by private agencies, averted widespread famine, but at a high price. Like the Sahara, the Sahel was not always so arid." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Under these circumstances, individuals with spiritual authority play important roles in supervising food storage. Over the generations, distinctive ideologies developed that validated strong leadership and the complex relations between the living and spiritual worlds. The messages of these ideologies have come down to us on textiles. The coastal people were expert weavers. The dry climate of the Peruvian coast has preserved cotton cloth well over two thousand years old, much of it dyed in at least 109 hues in several natural color categories." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Eating style and food storage habits in the home. Assessment of obese and nonobese families. Behav. Modif. 9, 242-261. 216. Boutelle, K., Neumark-Sztainer, D., Story, M., and Resnick, M. (2002). Weight control behaviors among obese, overweight, and non overweight adolescents. /. Pediatr. Psychol. 27, 531-540. 217. Rampersaud, G. C, Pereira, M. A., Girard, B. L., Adams, J., and Metzl, J. D. (2005). Breakfast habits, nutritional status, body weight, and academic performance in children and adolescents. /. Am. Diet. Assoc. 105(5), 743-760; quiz 761-762. Review. 218. Cho, S., Dietrich, M." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Resort to canning and other forms of safe food storage. When you buy vegetables and fruits, buy organic. Even better, grow your own vegetables and fruits. If that is impossible, buy them from a farmer's market. Be sure to ask about their use of pesticides and herbicides. For non-vegetarians, buy meat locally from people you know. If that is not possible, buy minimally processed meats, and avoid the meat of animals that were injected with antibiotics and hormones or that were fed animal feces." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Modern processing and food storage caused further depletion of the quality of our foods. We then take these foods home and continue to create further depletion because of storage and preparation. These all make good, solid arguments as to why we should be supplementing our diets with high-quality nutritional supplements. You must understand, however, that these are not the primary reasons I recommend the use of nutritional supplementation. Though these conditions have proven to be detrimental to our American health, our understanding of nutrition has been equally if not more harmful." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Udo also suggests that people should minimize the use of plastic in their food storage. "Plastic leaches into water," he reveals, "and I found out that oils swell plastics and make that leaching easier. So I get my water in glass and I've thrown all the plastic out of my kitchen. Oils don't swell glass, and glass doesn't leach. We don't know everything that's in plastic; we don't know what it does to the human body. All we know is that plastic is a synthetic material that has never been in the environment." A Conversation on the Bridge with Dr. Vandana Shiva Dr. Vandana Shiva (vshiva." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In effect, Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying. The necessary restoration of local networks of economic interdependence, and the communities that rely on them, will be a major theme later in this book. I will also propose that globalism as we have known it is in the process of ending. Its demise will coincide with the end of the cheap-oil age. For better or worse, many of the circumstances we associate with globalism will be reversed." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"LDPE (low density polyethylene): used in food storage bags and some "soft" bottles. #5 PP (polypropylene): used in rigid containers, including some baby bottles, and some cups and bowls. #6 PS (polystyrene): used in foam "clam-sheH"-type containers, meat and bakery trays, and in its rigid form, clear takeout containers, some plastic cutlery and cups. Polystyrene may leach styrene into food it comes into contact with." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.) "CDOKWARE, FOOD PREPARATION, AND food storage RECOMMENDATIONS Quality cookware helps you maintain good health and, in some cases, even enhances flavor. It's also useful to know the foods that most quickly react to plastic storage containers and to aluminum and cast-iron cookware. A vitreous enamel cooking surface is completely hygienic and impervious to acids and other chemicals. Not only does it provide superior cooking functions, it is perfect for foods that require marinating or for storage (raw or cooked) in the refrigerator or freezer." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Circulate those ice cubes, and wash your refrigerator handle with a natural cleaning product for a healthy food storage area. Water Purification Clean water is our most basic need. You can filter water at your kitchen tap with either a reverse osmosis or a solid-carbon activated charcoal filter and use it for all of your drinking water, cooking, and for your pets as well. The European bottled waters such as Perrier and Evian, and American waters, Trinity, or Ice Age, are high-quality clean waters." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.) "For more information about creating a healthy kitchen, safe drinking water, food storage and recycling, reading food labels, and finding out how chemicals get into our food supply, review my book, The Staying Healthy Shopper's Guide. Appliance Addiction by Bethany Argisle There are power strips and push buttons of all kinds; we can now sit in one place and turn things on and off—but not the sun yet! Yet, we try it with one another. I have been in meetings during which everyone's cells or pagers go off, any time of day and night." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Increased food storage and transportation time, which increases nutrient depletion. > Food processing and refinement that destroys nutrients. >- An increase in the amount of processed foods consumed by the average American. Many scientists now believe that everyone needs to have a higher intake of nutrients than their diet accounts for in order to improve body functioning, deal with the body's chemical load, and to prevent and treat illnesses." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Their functions include food storage, protection of membranes, and maintaining rigidity of cell walls in plants, except for seaweeds where they help maintain the flexibility required for life in the ocean (Bruneton 1995). Gums Many plants (especially those growing in semi-arid conditions) produce gummy exudates when the bark is damaged which serve to heal the wound. The exudate often dries to a hard amorphous mass, and is produced in sufficient abundance by some species of trees and shrubs to warrant collection and commercial utilisation." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"In normal physical function, leptin and insulin have a balancing effect on food intake, food storage, and a stable energy level. Once leptin resistance sets in and leptin levels are high, the pancreatic B-cells do not respond to the signal from leptin to stop making insulin.203 Not only is the brain developing leptin resistance, so is the pancreas. However, insulin keeps stimulating leptin production while at the same time insulin is encouraging calories to be stored as fat. Developing leptin resistance in the pancreas has now been proven to be a fast track towards becoming type II diabetic." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Avoid plastics for water and food storage. Use glass or ceramics whenever possible, especially to heat food. When plastic is heated, it rapidly diffuses into food. Use wax paper or a glass plate instead of plastic wrap to cover bowls in the microwave. • Use detergents with fewer chemicals. Chemical residue can be absorbed through your skin. • Choose shampoos, body soaps, makeup, and lotions that are paraben free. • Use natural pest control, not pesticides or herbicides. • Buy hormone-free meats; look for organics whenever possible." - Holly Lucille, Creating and Maintaining Balance: A Woman's Guide to Safe Natural Hormone Health (Get the book.)

"For example, after the ancestors of the Maori reached New Zealand, it apparently took them barely a century to discover all worthwhile stone sources; only a few more centuries to kill every last moa in some of the world's most rugged terrain; and only a few centuries to differentiate into a range of diverse societies, from that of coastal hunter-gatherers to that of farmers practicing new types of food storage." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Some hunter-gatherers in especially rich environments, such as the Pacific Northwest coast of North America and the coast of Ecuador, also developed sedentary societies, food storage, and nascent chiefdoms, but they did not go farther on the road to kingdoms. A stored food surplus built up by taxation can support other full-time specialists besides kings and bureaucrats. Of most direct relevance to wars of conquest, it can be used to feed professional soldiers. That was the decisive factor in the British Empire's eventual defeat of New Zealand's well-armed indigenous Maori population." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"A good set of pots and pans, including a vegetable steamer, a set of sharp knives, a cutting board and lots of hard plastic, or better yet, glass containers with lids for food storage and convenient take-along, are all essential. There are many other items, such as a food processor, blender, grinder, juicer, rice cooker, crock-pot, vacuum sealer, and salad spinner that are also very helpful. Don't buy or keep things around that you don't need or will never use, however, as they will only end up contributing to the clutter you are trying to reduce." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

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