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"Cinnamon Since the dawn of human civilization, the aromatic spice cinnamon has been used to enhance food flavor and to manage various health conditions. Recently, however, cinnamon has been recognized for its remarkable effects on glucose metabolism. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Belts-ville Human Nutrition Research Center found that cinnamon contains certain water-soluble compounds—known collectively as polyphenols—that can increase glucose metabolism, which helps lower blood sugar levels and fight free-radical damage." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In those times was accomplished the heavy titan-work, the massive establishment of the foundations of our human civilization. But with the progress of the cycle, a period came when the work to be done was no longer proto- or superhuman; it was the labor specifically of man—control of the passions, exploration of the arts, elaboration of the economic and cultural institutions of the state. Now is required no incarnation of the Moon Bull, no Serpent Wisdom of the Eight Diagrams of Destiny, but a perfect human spirit alert to the needs and hopes of the heart." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"This is not a gloom-and-doom treatise on chemicals and how they will ultimately bring on the end of human civilization. I write this book to inspire you, to motivate you, and to give you the gift of knowledge so that you can treat yourself to the gift of health. While not a single day passes without someone's attempting to deny the need for regular internal cleansing and detoxification, this book will clearly explain why preserving the body's purification physiology is essential to achieving and maintaining the vibrant, lasting health you deserve." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Over several thousand years of human civilization, no one had invented an entirely new textile: the best we could come up with was velveret, linenette, and flannelette. It is against this backdrop that the manufacture of novel synthetic fibers for spinning and for weaving cloth must be understood. Could the manufacture of synthetic fibers be accomplished, it would be a technological accomplishment of tremendous significance. rayon Because of its value, silk was the most desirable target for a textile substitute, just as it had been for the cotton knockoffs." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Invention of the plow revolutionized human civilization and transformed Earth's surface. There were about four million people on Earth when Europe's glaciers melted. During the next five thousand years, the world's population grew by another million. Once agricultural societies developed, humanity began to double every thousand years, reaching perhaps as many as two hundred million by the time of Christ." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"We have all these miracle drugs that promise to improve your health, yet we have a nation more diseased than any population in the history of human civilization. How can we have the best drugs in the world, unlimited hype about our superior medical diagnostic equipment, breakthrough new surgical procedures and some of the most expensive treatments in the world, yet, at the same time, be the most diseased people in the world? The answer is: Because conventional medicine doesn't work. Prescription drugs harm people; they don't help people." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Short of some catastrophe, we can reasonably expect human civilization to embody successively more knowledge as time passes. But we are not entitled to assume that human culture is therefore destined to become ever more complex, especially if the advance of knowledge itself enables us to simplify our social and physical environment, in ways that are widely desired and require little sacrifice of what we judge to be of fundamental value. Popper's approach does not, however, easily lend itself to quantification." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"But as human civilization evolves beyond its biological roots, as the biosphere is transcended by the noosphere, this new kind of evolution actually relies on the construction of human artifacts to supply the external and objective counterparts of its advancing intersubjective development. The crucial role of artifacts in the evolution of human conscious- Upper Left Upper Right Stages of Increasing . Human Neurological J* »k Consciousness Brain Activation V?" - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "Now we can perhaps all agree that human civilization has developed, and whether this really constitutes true evolution or not is a matter we will discuss below. But, you may ask: What evidence is there that human consciousness has actually evolved much since the appearance of the Homo sapiens species forty thousand years ago? Scientists agree that the biology of the human brain has shown few signs of structural development for at least the last ten thousand years." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "So throughout this book, and especially in chapter 4 and chapter 8, we will see how the integral worldview overcomes the limitations of these previous worldviews while simultaneously preserving their enduring contributions to human civilization. But assuming that you don't insist that there is nothing more to consciousness than the electrical activity in your brain, we are ready to broaden our discussion of the nature of consciousness." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "It seems to me that I've been living in integral consciousness for over ten years now, and I can testify that it is what it appears to be: a new, historically significant level of human civilization. Although I have respectable academic credentials, I'm not a professional philosopher. But as American author Robert Pirsig has observed, most professional philosophers relate to philosophy as art historians relate to art. Professional philosophers are excellent at refining and consolidating existing philosophical systems, but not always as good at creating new philosophy." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"While the idea of working with nature is as ancient as human civilization, it's now easier to see that sustainable development done right can be truly lucrative, offering long-term mutual benefit to local populations and outside markets. Rural sustainable development is a strategy with a future. Poverty and the Environment ¦¦¦¦i Protecting the environment is one of the best ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and protect the gains they've made." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"And yet, we could still hold on to the idea that there was something distinctly special about our Earth—that it was the only planet with this particular set of life forms, and that our human civilization, with its art, culture, and history, was unique in the entire universe. One might think that that alone was reason enough to treasure our little planet like a precious work of art. Now, we have been robbed of this last claim to uniqueness. In the worldview that has emerged from eternal inflation, our Earth and our civilization are anything but unique." - Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Get the book.)

"Whether from chemical exposure in the environment or from the hormone-laden meats and dairy products, or chemically laced personal care and household products, exposure to dangerous chemicals has now reached the highest level of exposure in the entire history of human civilization. Is there any wonder why precocious puberty is a worldwide epidemic. Sherrill Sellman Because of vested commercial interests, greed, convenience, apathy, and gross misinformation, far too many people have been lulled into believing that anything they can get down their throats is okay to put there. It's not." - 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.)

"The period in which human civilization developed has been, if anything, an anomalous ten-thousand-year epoch of remarkable stability. It is even possible that human agricultural activity during most of this period—that is, before and up to the industrial age—had a paradoxical stabilizing effect on climate, while the profligate burning of fossil fuels during the past two hundred years has restarted the tipping mechanisms that can upset things again." - 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.)

"THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF WINE ON HEALTH With the exception of tea, no beverage is as inextricably linked to human civilization as wine. If its exhilarating side has certainly made it an inescapable aspect of celebrations and festive rituals, it is interesting to note the extent to which wine has always been regarded as beneficial to health. Wine, wrote Hippocrates, the founder of medicine, ". . ." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.) "Diet is at the heart of human civilization: an expression of humanity's ingenuity in exploring its environment in order to discover new foods; an illustration of its constant quest for well-being. It is impossible to accept that a mere century's worth of industrialization of food and agriculture has succeeded in destroying this heritage, in denying a certain collective wisdom and in laying waste to its basic principles." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"But the brilliance of human civilization had its dark side: environmental degradation, and, as a direct consequence, disease. There is little doubt that most human diseases (80-85%) were created by humans themselves during this period —though unintentionally, for the most part.6 7 8 It did not take long for large numbers of humans, residing in permanent dwellings, to foul up their environment." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"The technology that has resulted from pursuing this philosophy has brought human civilization to the brink of spontaneous combustion by disrupting the web of Nature. The evolution of our biosphere has been punctuated by five "mass extinctions," including the one that killed the dinosaurs. Each wave of extinction nearly wiped out all life on the planet. Some researchers believe, as I mentioned in Chapter 1, that we are "deep" into the sixth mass extinction. Unlike the others caused by galactic forces such as comets, the current extinction is being caused by a force much closer to home—humans." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"Genius Breeds Genius We know for a fact that there is a Genius Meme and that it works, because this meme has infected human civilization many times in past ages. Historians have long noted that genius never seems to appear alone. It generally sweeps upon humanity in a great wave of hyperachievement, later recorded in history books as a Golden Age or Renaissance. When Imhotep died, the Egyptians did not revert to their past dullness." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"Western philosophy and technology have now brought human civilization to the brink of spontaneous combustion. As you sit on your porch and watch the sunset, note its spectacular color. The beauty in the sky reflects the pollution in the air. Yet spontaneous combustion is not inevitable. Instead, we are at the turning point that comes after the decay. We can —says the I Ching ?find our way back to the Garden. 2. The powerful light that has been banished returns. How do we turn away from the decay?" - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.) "I refer to these dogmas as the "Three Assumptions of the Apocalypse" because I do not believe human civilization will survive unless we turn away from these false beliefs. Specifically, I rejected these three assumptions: 1) genes control biology; 2) evolution is a random process driven by a struggle for the survival of the fittest; and, 3) life can be understood by only studying the physical parts of the body. My feeling that these three assumptions were wrong was so strong that I left university life to study independently." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Grapes (Vitis) Wild grapes abounded in the Black Sea region long before human civilization. By 3000 B.C. they were being cultivated by Sumerians. Vitis vinifera was cultivated throughout antiquity for table grapes and especially for wine. In the 16th century wine grapes traveled to the New World, where they joined the native Concord grape, V. labrusca, which was mostly eaten fresh or preserved (grape jelly is still made from Concord grapes). American table grapes are dominated by the mild-flavored Thompson seedless variety." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"And though very few people other than John West were prepared to say as much, what was at stake in this dispute was a complete upheaval in accepted views about the evolution of human civilization. According to West: We are told that the evolution of human civilization is a linear process - that it goes from stupid cavemen to smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste." - Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (Get the book.)

"Teach Your Children Well Besides the fact that the planet is just fine and can "heal" itself without our help, we can engender a more balanced and healthy planet and lifestyle by reorganizing our civilization. human civilization has been organized around power for the few and manipulation of the many for millennia. "It is only by taming the wild human that we can put it to work to make us rich and powerful," we have believed. How can we create an economy and civilization based on cooperation and the movement of life through and around all of us instead? Many things will have to go, of course." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Join communities of like-minded people who are working toward advancing human civilization by realizing that Survival of the Most Loving is the only ethic that will ensure not only a healthy personal life but also a healthy planet. Remember those under-prepared, under-appreciated Caribbean students who banded together, like the cells they studied in their histology course, to form a community of successful students? Use them as role models and you will help ensure a Hollywood ending not just for individuals mired in self-sabotaging beliefs, but also for this planet." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

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