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"The same holds true for giving candy to a child with ADD/ADHD. Let your friends and relatives know that you will be avoiding certain trigger foods that can worsen symptoms and lead to behavioral issues. These friends and relatives will be your allies, whom you can trust to have your child's best interests in mind when you are not immediately available. In order for them to become proper allies, however, they must first be informed of and agree to the relationship." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Marketers were giving the pill a personality. "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.)

"Instead, I am giving in each section a few striking examples from a number of widely scattered, representative traditions. During the course of the work I shift my sources gradually, so that the reader may savor the peculiar qualities of the various styles. By the time he comes to the last page, he will have reviewed an immense number of mythologies." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Now for the first time the power of prayer and meditation has been directed at the entire community of humans on the planet, with over a million entering a deeper state of consciousness and giving expression to their heartfelt wish that "peace may prevail on Earth." The collaboratively organized meditations of May 20, 2007, followed the same procedure wherever they took place and regardless of the culture, faith, and religion of the participants. The events began with 150 initial speeches, music, and dance and were followed by meditation or prayer guided by a spiritual master." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "These, however, are blocked by the absence of socioeconomic development, so that a vicious cycle is produced: underdevelopment creates frustration, and frustration, giving rise to defective behaviors, blocks development. This cycle must be broken at its point of greatest flexibility, and that is the development of the spirit and consciousness of human beings. Achieving this objective does not preempt the need for socioeconomic development with all its financial and technical resources but calls for a parallel mission in the spiritual field." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Rhesus monkeys have been known to starve themselves for days when they could get food only by giving an electric shock to a companion. When male chimps keep fighting, female chimps have been known to take the stones out of their hands, and if they fail to make up after a fight, the females often attempt to bring them together. Such behaviors go beyond personal benefits, or even interpersonal relationships; they are undertaken for the greater good of the community. As biologists Marc Hauser and Frans de Waal argue, these behaviors are precursors of human morality." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "The renewal of his long-standing friendship with Vitanyi was instrumental in giving birth to the Club of Budapest. There was a surge of interest in the work of the Club of Rome in Hungary following publication of its first report, The Limits to Growth (1972). This in turn raised interest in Laszlo's work, especially in the report he headed for the Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind (1977). Vitanyi in turn became Director of the Institute for Culture in 1970, where Maria Sagi was a researcher and later principal collaborator." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"He answered: 'forby giving thee a kiss, I will even hug thee!' Then he bends to embrace her, and gives her a kiss." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "Moreover, he made it appear that he was incensed against her, and sent letters to all the kings, giving them to know that she had been stricken with madness by the Jinn.26 With the hero and the heroine both following the negative way, and between them the continent of Asia, it will require a miracle to consummate the union of this eternally predestined pair. Whence can such a power come to break the life-negating spell and dissolve the wrath of the two childhood fathers? The reply to this question would remain the same throughout the mythologies of the world." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Do you ever feel like giving up even before you try? • Can you remember a time when you tried to do something that was hard, and actually did it? • How did you feel before you did it? • How did you feel after? • Did you know that everyone has trouble doing things correctly when they are stressed? • Did you know that everything is easier to do if you just remember to stay positive? • Did you know that there are no hardships in life for which there are no solutions?" - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"INVADING THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE Anyone who has spent any time in a doctor's office will have noticed the constant parade of attractive and well-dressed drug company sales representatives giving away trinkets to the staff and trying desperately to get a moment of the doctor's time. The number of reps making sales pitches in doctors' offices has tripled over the past 10 years. There is now one full-time drug rep for every four and a half office-based doctors. In 2001, drug companies spent $4." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Intrigued by the power and the possibilities of positive reinforcement, Stella was willing to change her perception and start giving positive behavioral therapy for her son a try. Once she saw the need for a change, all I had to do was offer occasional guidance. Stella managed to devise her own behavioral therapy at home based on some key principles and helpful pointers I gave her." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"However, Angeles Arrien, an anthropologist and teacher of shamanism, believes you cannot learn about giving until you know how to receive, that giving and receiving are all one process. If you are only giving, then you know nothing about giving. Although we need to bring light into many dark corners of the world and can do this by sharing divine light with others, we cannot give light until we can receive light. This is why it is so important to learn the ability to receive love." - Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (Get the book.)

"Recently I was leading a nutrition tour in a supermarket, giving copious advice in various aisles, and when I finally arrived at the produce department, I found myself simply saying five words: "It's all good—eat more!" So out with the old and in with the new—out goes the magic number five used by the 5 A Day program to educate people about the benefits of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. And in comes the new number—nine! Recent studies suggest that nine servings of fruits and vegetables is the amount that should be eaten for optimal health." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "And some are best known for giving plants their signature color. Beta-carotene, for example, lends a yellow-orange hue to carrots and sweet potatoes, while the red in tomatoes comes from the phytochemical lycopene. These same nutrients confer a wide variety of health benefits to humans as well. Perhaps most exciting, new avenues of research are leading scientists to better understand the complex interaction among phytochemicals, as it seems some combinations provide even more benefits when consumed together than alone." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"PART ONE: ENZYME ESSENTIALS CHAPTER ONE HOW ENZYMES AFFECT OUR HEALTH Imagine giving up forty years of life. For some unexplained reason we just decide that we don't need the extra time. Though this seems absurd, it is in effect what many of us do. What a shame it would be if we had the potential to live to be 110 but instead only lived to be 70. What if instead of losing years of life we lost precious quality of life? Perhaps we could live healthily, happily, and with little evidence of aging, but instead we felt tired, old, or sick." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"After giving birth to her spawn, she dies. At the Greek harvest ceremony called Thargelia, men and women used to beat their genitalia with wild fig branches thinking that would help fertilize fig trees. When crops were meager, humans wearing garlands of figs would be burned alive on fig-wood pyres to ensure abundant harvests. If only they knew they needed wasps. Unbeknownst to most of us today, some of the figs that we eat, such as the Calimyrna or the Smyrna, may contain wasp remains, although these insect husks are usually broken down by an enzyme called ficin." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "His sparse, wiry white hairs flutter in the breeze, giving him a hint of amiable lunacy. "I'm a priest. I'm a stamp designer. I'm a healing medicine man. I do many things." Moments after I arrive, an Italian tourist pops into Kanti's shop. They start talking about traditional Creole architecture. "I'm elected to the International Society of Architects," Kanti points out, winking. An Iranian honeymooner leafs through Kanti's photo album and asks how he happened to invite Empress Farah Pahlavi over to his house for dinner. "She invited herself because I'm a hell of a guy," he replies. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Those fateful pajamas belonged to a fabulously rich globe-trotter named Barbour Lathrop. giving his home address as San Francisco's Bohemian Club, Lathrop lived his days in exotic ports of call spending his vast family fortune. One morning in November 1983, aboard the steamer Fulda, the twenty-four-year-old Fairchild saw him decked out in pajamas and stared at him in openmouthed astonishment. (Pajamas, from Japan, were only then starting to replace nightshirts as the dominant form of sleepwear, and Fairchild, going abroad for the first time to study, had never seen any before." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"You're giving your family some of the greatest gifts you can offer. You're decreasing stress and anxiety. By changing nutrition, exercise patterns, and more, you're supporting every single family member. If you're doing your best to love and support all your family members, and enjoying the love you get in return, then you have everything you need to cure a lot of things—not just ADD/ADHD. Live well, enjoy life, and set your children up to do the same, every day. You've done it. Keep going. It's worth it." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"I have a strong mind and am not comfortable giving up control of my pinky finger. If that sounds like you, an authoritarian method wouldn't work on you. One reason the stage shows work is that stage hypnotists pre-screen participants for their degree of "suggestibility." Highly suggestible people tend to respond well to authoritarian methods. Out of those who can become hypnotized using these methods, only about a quarter will go into deep hypnosis. That ratio is too small to be useful in the work we're doing together. If you want to get the benefits of hypnosis, you need to be able to go deep." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Indeed, as its name suggests, the toes buckle and point downward, giving the toe a hammer-like look. Hammertoes are usually a benign but unattractive and sometimes painful sign that you're wearing the wrong shoes. If your shoes don't allow your toes to stretch out when you walk, your toes can bend permanently. If you find yourself buying wider and wider shoes and your big toe is pointing out to the side rather than straight ahead, you have the classic sign of a bunion." - 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.)

"It is scarcely original to observe that the Arabs and their defeated-and-converted conquests, by giving Europe such an enemy, defined it;* this is one of the central arguments of Henri Pirenne's great work Mohammed and Charlemagne. Europe—or Christendom, as it would more popularly be called for centuries—is at least partly a consequence of the Arabs who succeeded al-Harith and al-Mundhir." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"They were able to obtain a wide range of substrate levels by giving subjects high doses of cholecalciferol or by investigating subjects living in a sunny near-equatorial region. As shown in Figure 3, high doses of cholecalciferol from supplements [as much as 160 ug (6400 IU)] in panel A or sun exposure in Hawaii in panel B affected serum 25(OH)D similarly. The relationship is not linear, indicating a controlled, saturable reaction. Unless cholecalciferol is provided in sufficient amounts, the production of 25(OH)D is limited by its substrate. 4." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The main arches, which needed to bridge forty feet from main pier to secondary pier, were built of very large bricks—more than two feet square, and nearly a foot deep, giving the arch a depth of one-twentieth of its span. Though the engineers possessed no mathematical tools for calculating sttess, they did have hundreds of years of rule-of-thumb experience, which told them a depth of as little as one-one-hundredth of its span was workable. The margins were more than adequate. Or so they thought. Creating a beautiful and useful building that will stand for centuries is a difficult enough task." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The base of each one was stricken by the demon first, giving those who lived on the hilltops the same useless warning as the occupants of the top deck of a sinking ship. The best evidence is that the peak of the first wave of the epidemic lasted only four months, after which both rat and human populations had crashed so fast that Y. pestis could no longer spread. But for one hundred days, Constantinople was a window onto Hell. Every day, • Consider, as a comparison, that in 2002, the average daily death toll among the 7 million residents of New York City was 159." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Genetic epidemiology studies of human obesity employ a variety of designs and statistical methods, each giving somewhat different heritability4 estimates for obesity. For a discussion of genetic epidemiology methods employed in the study of obesity, see Bouchard et al. [1]. "Genetic heterogeneity refers to similar phenotypes caused by mutations in more than one gene. 3 Incomplete penetrance means that not all individuals who have the gene mutation develop the phenotype. 4 Genetic heritability is the percentage of interindividual variation in a trait that is explained by genetic factors." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Because pregnant women are at risk of becoming choline deficient [45], and thus having increased risk of giving birth to babies with neural tube defects [55], the recommendation that pregnant women should attempt to consume diets adequate in choline content seems reasonable. In addition, because half of the population has gene polymorphisms that affect choline and folate metabolisms [61, 62], it is likely that different individuals may have different dietary requirements for choline and may need to pay special attention to choline intake during pregnancy." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The mythology of Sumer is of especial importance to us of the West; for it was the source of the Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Biblical traditions (the last giving rise to Mohammedanism and Christianity), as well as an important influence in the religions of the pagan Celts, Greeks, Romans, Slavs, and Germans. 27 Or, as James Joyce has phrased it: "equals of opposites, evolved by a one-same power of nature or of spirit, as the sole condition and means of its himundher manifestation and polarised for reunion by the symphysis of their anfinathies" IFinnetmns Wake. n." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"A significant amount of congested energy of the type associated with extreme pain might make your hand buzz, perhaps even giving you a feeling of pins and needles in your hand and up your arm. This is natural and instructive, as it indicates where pain is concentrated. These sensations are a sign that you should deliver healing energy to this area until the sensations (tingling, buzzing, pins and needles, and so on) dissipate. If the buzzing goes all the way up to your elbow, however, pull away. This is too much negative energy for you to deal with at this point in your training." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

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