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"However, the possible benefits in a human population and the amounts of green tea necessary to produce beneficial effects remain to be determined. B. Curcumin One of the most exciting polyphenolic-containing dietary products that has emerged into the neuroscience literature in recent years is curcumin. Largely as a result of the groundbreaking work of Dr. Greg Cole and his colleagues [196], this spice, which has been used to treat illnesses for hundreds of years, has recently been shown to possess some putative important beneficial effects for neuroprotection and possible treatment in AD." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The best estimates suggest that human population growth and geographic range reached its nadir approximately forty thousand to seventy thousand years ago, when a global census would have numbered possibly only a few thousand individuals. H. sapiens's passage through that bottleneck, whether caused by, or coincidental with, the formation of tribes, resulted in a population explosion lasting seven hundred centuries, only occasionally disrupted by ecological catastrophes such as, for example, pandemic disease. Somewhere during those centuries, tribes grew into kingdoms, even nations." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Because it is a zoonosis, evolved to survive not in human, but in animal reservoirs, it is virtually impossible to eradicate from a human population. Further, it has no pressure to moderate its virulence so as to live side by side with human hosts. To the bacterium, the only animal that matters is the rat. To humans, on the other hand, the rat characteristic that matters most is the number and size of local rat populations living near human communities: more rats, more risk. Rat populations fluctuate in direct proportion to two things: availability of food and dry heat." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In other words, the human population became an effective garbage dumpster for the food industry while making the medical industry increasingly profitable as a result of treating the many soy-caused illnesses. This is not unlike the pouring of the poison fluoride—a hazardous waste product from aluminum plants—into the municipal water to "save" children from developing bad teeth. To dispose of fluoride in any other way would be extremely costly." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"When scientists observed the frequency of colon cancer in the human population, they found that the consumption of fermented dairy products, mainly yogurt, may reduce the risk of colon cancer. This epidemiological observa- ^ , - , , be a link between consuming probiotics and a low risk of colon cancer. The first time probiotics were thought to help prevent colon cancer was seen when different populations of people were compared and a difference in colon bacteria appeared to influence the risk of colon cancer." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Salmonella and Rotavirus cause serious illness at high frequency among the human population. Candida, a natural inhabitant of the human body, can cause havoc if allowed to grow uncontrolled. Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria have illustrated the ability to inhibit the invasion and growth of all of these nasty microbes. As well, probiotics support the immune system and thus enhance the body's ability to fight these pathogens. Their effect on the immune system goes even farther. Probiotics have positive effects on the immune system, which keeps it functioning properly." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"With better distribution of the resources, the entire human population could enjoy a decent standard of living. For example, if food supplies were more equitably distributed, every person could receive about a hundred calories more than the 1,800 to 3,000 calories required for health. But currently people in North America, Western Europe, and Japan use (and to a large extent waste) 140 percent of their daily caloric requirement, whereas populations in countries such as Madagascar, Guyana, and Laos obtain merely 70 percent. Current trends in energy consumption are likewise unsustainable." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"We write about it in The Okinawa Program" He continued, "Okinawa may be the only human population that purposefully restricts how many calories they eat, and they do it by reminding themselves to eat until they're 80 percent full. That's because it takes about 20 minutes for the stomach to tell the brain it is full. Undereating, as the theory goes, slows down the body's metabolism in a way such that it produces less damaging oxidants—agents that rust the body from within." How about sweet potatoes? Did she eat them anymore?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Human population biology and hypertension. Evolutionary and ecological aspects of blood pressure. In "Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management" (J. H. Laragh and B. M. Brenner, Eds.), pp. 137-145. Raven, New York. 7. Lowenstein, F. W. (1961). Blood-pressure in relation to age and sex in the tropics and subtropics. Lancet 1, 389-392. 8. Page, L. B., Damon, A., and Moellering, R. C. (1974). Antecedents of cardiovascular disease in six Solomon Islands societies. Circulation 49, 1132-1146. 9. Carvalho, J. J. M., et al. (1989)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The benefits and hazards of antioxidants: controlling apoptosis and other protective mechanisms in cancer patients and the human population. J. Am. Coll. Nutr. 20, 464S^172S. 32. Food and Drug Administration Office of Special Nutritionals. (1993). Conference on Antioxidant Vitamins and Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, November 1-3. Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC. 33. Seifried, H. E., McDonald, S. S., Anderson, D. E., Greenwald, P., and Milner, J. A. (2003). The antioxidant conundrum in cancer. Cancer Res. 63, 4295^1298. 34. Seifried, H. E., Anderson, D. E., Sorkin, B." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"It gives us a great deal of insight into the increase of degenerative diseases, and the decreases in fertility, in our human population. Conclusions from these studies Almost all we need to know about why disease conditions can develop is contained in the results of the Pottenger Cats Experiments: Cooking destroys the life-giving, and life-sustaining, properties of food. Enzymes are destroyed, and the viability of certain acids is seriously reduced. þDisease conditions result, over time, from eating a diet of mostly cooked and processed food." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Colin Campbell, a Cornell nutritional biochemist who served on the panel, all of the human population studies linking dietary fat to cancer actually showed that the groups with higher cancer rates consumed not just more fats, but also more animal foods and fewer plant foods as well. "This meant that these cancers could *Sucrose is the exception that proves the rule. Only the power of the sugar lobby in Washington can explain the fact that the official U.S. recommendation for the maximum permissible level of free sugars in the diet is an eye-popping 25 percent of daily calories." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "With widespread lipophobia taking hold of the human population, countless cattle lost their marbling and lean pork was repositioned as "the new white meat"—tasteless and tough as running shoes, perhaps, but now even a pork chop could compete with chicken as a way for eaters to "reduce saturated fat intake." In the years since then, egg producers figured out a clever way to redeem even the disreputable egg: By feeding flaxseed to hens, they could elevate levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the yolks." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"One of the best examples is a landmark research project from the human population Laboratory in Berkeley called the Alameda County Study. Researchers tracked 8,023 people for twenty-six years, surveying them about a number of factors related to lifestyle habits and healthiness starting in 1965. They checked back in with the participants in 1974 and in 1983. Of all the people with no signs of depression at the beginning, those who became inactive over the next nine years were 1.5 times more likely to have depression by 1983 than their active counterparts." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"In modern human populations studied so far, the proportion of males born relative to females in a healthy human population is .515. This can also be presented as the sex ratio of males to females of 1.06. For the past three decades in many industrial countries, this number is declining by very small amounts. Today there are nearly 4 million births in a single year in the United States. Since 1970, the proportion of baby boys born has fallen by just one out of every thousand births." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"As a result, it appears that the use of probiotics in farmed animals may help reduce their illness and the possibility of food-contaminated cases of Salmonella among the general human population. To date, there are no clinical trials on probiotic use in the prevention and treatment of Salmonella infections in humans. However, animal studies offer promise that probiotics may play a role in the prevention and treatment of Salmonella infections in humans. There are many bad microbes that probiotics are known to fight." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"As worldwide global warming began and the glaciers retreated, the growing human population approached the limits of the world's ability to support foragers. No one had as much room to move around, and there were more mouths to feed. Unlike animals, however, humans can get around environmental limits by using labor, social relationships, and technology to acquire more food. As the glaciers retreated and the world became full, they did just that. Foragers everywhere adopted new and even more intensive food-gathering strategies." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Before fifteen thousand years ago, the ability of the world's environments to support animals and people still exceeded the needs of the human population. But late-Ice Age people had developed increasingly efficient ways of exploiting food resources of every kind. Now their numbers rose much faster, especially in food-rich areas. They, and their ancestors, had an encyclopedic knowledge of plant foods. I once showed a !Kung man a collection of five-thousand-year-old seeds from an ancient camp in central Africa. He not only identified every one but knew the food and medicinal value of each." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Similarly, the human population has been growing rapidly and with little regard for its environment. We are a part of the earth's biosphere and totally dependent on it, yet we behave as if we were quite separate from it. Our cities eat into the countryside, eradicating natural ecosystems, spreading deserts of sand and concrete. We allow our toxic wastes to flow into our surroundings, poisoning other species, with hardly a thought. And we too are somewhat stupid; if we continue along this path, we are likely to cause irreversible damage to the biosphere, and will probably destroy ourselves." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Ten thousand years ago, the human population numbered around ten million, gathered into small settlements. As the conditions of • Chief Seattle our lives improved, our numbers grew. By A.D. 1000, there were about 350 million of us. In 1650, the world population was about 550 million; by 1800, it was 900 million. Nineteenth-century advances in hygiene and medicine kept our numbers expanding, and by 1900 they had reached 1.6 billion. In 1950, there were 2.5 billion of us; by 1990, 5 billion; and in 1998, we passed the 6 billion mark. Luckily, there are now signs that this explosion is slowing." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Short, often hot summers brought relief to the sparse human population, few of whom wintered on the open plains. The largest forager groups lived in deep river valleys and sheltered areas in southern and southwestern Europe, where pine and birch forests 73 grew and water meadows near fast-moving rivers supported game animals throughout the year. Their distant relatives in southwestern Asia exploited much drier landscapes, most living close to large rivers like the Euphrates, the Jordan, and the Nile." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Some of the descendants of the Classic Maya live in the Lacandon rain forest of Chiapas, where the human population has risen twenty-five-fold since 1960 while tree cover has fallen from 90 percent to 30 percent. Not only has the indigenous Maya population risen rapidly, but land-hungry peasants, Mexicans fleeing persecution, and refugees from Guatemala have settled here as well. Where 12,000 people once lived, there are now 300,000. The traditional Maya milpa system is undermined by the resulting environmental pressures." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"On an ecological note, before the agricultural revolution's advent, the world's human population remained almost stable for about 200,000 years, doubling about every 20,000 years. Today, partly because grains are such cheap sources of food for the masses, world population is skyrocketing. It went from three billion in 1960 to six billion in 1999. It is projected to double again by 2050. Thorn Hartman, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, predicts that when we run out of oil to run the agricultural machinery, billions could starve." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"If current trends continue, the human population will probably stabilize somewhere between 10 and 12 billion—a dauntingly large figure, but one that is sustainable, provided that we successfully tackle the various problems that follow in its wake. Our rapidly growing numbers mean that there are more and more mouths to feed, more and more bodies to clothe, and more and more people to house. There are an ever-increasing number of tools to manufacture, and a growing amount of waste to dispose of, and much more energy is required to do it all." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"During the Second World War, human population experiments were carried out by the Germans and by the Japanese. I will not discuss the impact of the concentration camps on the survivors, except to point out they too became vitamin dependent and responded when they were given large doses of niacin. My experience with the impact of the Japanese experiment came from the Canadian soldiers imprisoned in Hong Kong who came to me for help long after this war was over. The first one was Mr George Porteous, later Lieutenant-Governor of Province of Saskatchewan." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Billions of microscopic bugs can live in a handful of topsoil; those in a pound of fertile dirt outnumber Earth's human population. That's hard to imagine when you're packed into the Tokyo subway or trying to make your way down the streets of Calcutta or New York City. Yet our reality is built on, and in many ways depends upon, the invisible world of microbes that accelerate the release of nutrients and decay of organic matter, making the land hospitable for plants and therefore people." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The industry has become a grossly unethical, profit-seeking monstrosity that feeds upon the continued diseasification of the human population to ensure quarterly profits to shareholders. Nowhere is this more true than in psychiatry, where literally millions of children are harmed each day by dangerous narcotics given to them following the diagnosis of a wholly fictitious disease such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"This situation is analogous to that of the human population of the Earth. Each person starts as a baby and grows older with time, but the entire population includes people of all ages at any given moment. Although the total volume of the universe grows with time, the fraction of space occupied by each type of island does not change. In this sense, the eternally inflating universe is stationary. A striking feature of the new worldview is the existence of multiple "other worlds" beyond our observable region. Some of them are rather un-controversial." - Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Get the book.)

"Researchers from the National Cancer Institute in the United States and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China teamed up in 1994 to use epidemiological methods to investigate the effects of green tea in a human population. A cancer registry in China identified 902 esophageal cancer patients, and another 1,552 cancer-free men and women were included in the study as controls." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Tub ercuiosis With such a vast percentage of Earth's human population infected with pulmonary (lung) tuberculosis (nearly 2 billion out of 6 billion humans), and possibly billions more infected with latent TB (asymptomatic or showing no symptoms) and Family of Tubercular Mycobacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis —? Cause of tuberculosis in humans Mycobacterium bovis —? Cause of tuberculosis in cattle Mycobacterium avium —? Cause of tuberculosis in birds Mycobacterium paratuberculosis —?" - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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