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"The oceans hold most of the CO2 on the planet—at least fifty times more than is in the air and ten times more than in all the plant and soil sources. Circulation patterns, or megacurrents, transport the CO2 up and down in the oceans—most of the CO2 is held in deep, cold waters—and there is a constant interchange of CO2 between the ocean and the atmosphere. As the oceans have warmed up, they are giving up their CO2 to the air." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Algae and other plants are the firefighters of our overheated oceans. Scientists are presently engaged in studying sediments from the ocean's floor to see how the oceans cope with rising levels of gases. They are especially interested in the reaction of marine plants to global warming, as these plants are the primary shock absorbers of excess carbon dioxide. Algae provide oxygen and other benefits to plant and animal marine life. Algae offer a little wall of protection to the creatures of the sea from the worse excesses of man. I reconsidered my resistance to Acetabularia as a test subject." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Were the energy differential between the surface of the Sun (approximately 11,000 degrees F) and the surface of the Earth (about 77 degrees F) ever to equalize, only worms and clams at the bottom of the deepest oceans could survive for any appreciable amount of time. Plants use sunlight in photosynthesis, converting water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates; animals eat plants and other animals; and humans at the top of the food chain eat both plants and animals." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"And the development of fish farming, made necessary by the steady depletion of the Earth's oceans, poses some new dangers. Fish farming is so unhealthy that its products must be treated with antibiotics, and many health authorities advise against eating farm-grown fish. There is no doubt that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are valuable, but there are other, safer sources of these acids, which I will discuss in Chapter 8. 5. US DA recommendation: "When selecting and preparing meat, poultry, dry beans, and milk or milk products, make choices that are lean, low-fat, or fat-free." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"After all, salt is a rare commodity away from the oceans. Whenever I return from a run with my three dogs, the first thing they do is lick my legs. No, not because they like me or I smell particularly '"ripe," but because they're after the salt in my sweat. They have to replenish their "tank" every chance they get as well. Deer and cattle stampede for salt licks out on the range. From your genes' standpoint, salt is good, and the odds are that you will eat more of everything to which salt has been added. But, of course, too much salt is not good for you." - 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.)

"There are also possible allusions to nuclear weapons: "a gourd of ashes" that would fall from the sky, boiling the oceans and burning the land so that nothing would grow for many years. This would be the signal that the final stage was approaching. Man would travel to the moon and build a city in the sky, but then go no farther. However, the Hopi prophecy also says that at the height of the white man's foolishness great wisdom returns, coming from the East." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "As tropical air warms, it takes up more water from the oceans. When it arrives in Arctic regions, this moister air could result in greater cloud cover. The ground beneath, being shielded more from the sun, would cool, while the increased moisture would fall as more snow. Rather than melting, the ice caps could begin to grow. Paleoclimatologists estimate that recent ice ages have occurred in a regular cycle: roughly one hundred thousand years of ice, broken by warmer interglacial periods of about fifteen thousand years." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "The problem is that we are now producing this gas far faster than the oceans and plants can absorb it. As a result, the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has risen by about one-third over the last thirty years, with potentially serious consequences for the planet's climate. The more carbon dioxide there is, the more heat is trapped by the "greenhouse effect," and the warmer the atmosphere becomes. Just how much warming is currently occurring remains unclear, and its full impact is still far from certain, but it could trigger changes that radically alter the course of life on E^arth." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Even many of the trace elements in our cells and blood are in exactly the same concentrations as found in our oceans. If the concentration of salt gets too low in our blood or cells, the delicate cellular machinery sputters to a stop, as surely as if you ran out of air underwater. (Most deaths suffered during marathons occur not from heart attacks but from drinking too much water and losing too much salt.) Unfortunately, your body has a built-in salt leak. Every time you get hot and need to cool down, you toss off salt water as sweat." - 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.)

"For more information on quality seafood, check oceans Alive's website at www.oceansalive.org and Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch (www.seafoodwatch.org). To calculate your exposure to mercury from fish check www.gotmercury.org. Abalone, U.S. farmed Anchovies Arctic char, U.S. and Canadian farmed Catfish, U.S. farmed Clams Crawfish, U.S." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Salmon live in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Great Lakes, and other lakes throughout the world. The Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia contains the world's greatest salmon sanctuary. The majority of Atlantic salmon in today's market is typically farmed (ninety-nine percent), while the majority of Pacific salmon is caught in the wild (eighty percent). Salmon farming is popular in Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Canada, and Chile; this type of salmon is most commonly consumed in the United States and Europe." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Sardines are found throughout the oceans of the world. Many of the fresh and canned sardines come from Portugal. Why Should I Eat Sardines? Sardines are coldwater fish that are good sources of omega-3 fatty acids, protein, and calcium (due to the small bones in the fish). A three-ounce serving supplies just as much calcium as a cup of milk—300 milligrams! Home Remedies Sardines are a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to alleviating depression. Throw Me a Lifesaver!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"As I 113 swirl and turn, not of my own volition but by some great magnetic force, I begin to understand the magical power she possesses to move oceans. Journal Entry, January 2007 Plants have a direct line to source energy, and it is this energy that causes healing to take place. This source energy is very powerful and requires a container that can handle its magnitude and dynamism. The container of our bodies needs to be free of clutter and also needs to have the capacity to hold the enormous spiritual energy that moves through as we work with plant spirits." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Keep your eyes open for the reports of consumer advocate groups who often sound the alarm way in advance of government agencies (a good place to start is with the Environmental Defense Networks' oceans Alive Web site, www.oceansalive.org). Read the thoughtful books by Dr. Marion Nestle, who tends to take a middle ground (Safe Food, Food Politics, What to Eat). Keep your fish consumption to the recommended levels. And if you're so moved, get involved. Write to your congressperson. Elect people who want to clean up the environment and the food it produces. Join a consumer advocacy group." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"There is a multitude of atoms and molecules that are not integrated in the functional structure of living systems and of the biosphere: they make up the atmosphere and the oceans, rivers, lakes, soils, mountains, and deserts of the globe. Together with the Sun—which provides the free energy that drives the planet's biological and ecological processes—they constitute the physical environment of living systems. These entities qualify for the attribution of instrumental value." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Now a new generation of highly sophisticated research, in the depths of oceans, on ancient ice sheets, and in marshes and forests, has allowed archaeologists to observe how ancient societies wrestled with much shorter-term swings. For the first time we are on the way to understanding how the protean and unpredictable swings of global climate have affected the rise and fall of civilizations and many less complex societies for at least five thousand years. PART TWO El Nifios in Antiquity ..." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"An estimated 100,000 chemical compounds are injected into the land, rivers, and seas, millions of tons of sludge and solid waste are dumped into the oceans, and billions of tons of C02 are released into the air. The situation as regards water is critical. In the past, the planet's available freshwater reserves were adequate to satisfy human needs: in 1950 there was a potential reserve of nearly 17,000 m3 of freshwater for every person then living." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Vital balances are degrading in the atmosphere, in the oceans and freshwater systems, and in productive soils. The consequences include the greenhouse effect and a reduction of the productivity of seas, lakes, rivers, and agricultural lands. A number of critical processes feed on themselves and are out of control. As the Arctic ice melts, the sea absorbs more warmth, which makes for more melting; as Siberian permafrost disappears, the methane released from the peat bog below exacerbates the greenhouse effect and makes for more melting and thus for more methane." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Comitris For some 400 million years, sharks have inhabited the oceans of the world, living long and, for the most part, cancer-free lives, despite the increased toxins and pollutants introduced into their habitats. Sharks' ability to adapt to and remain healthy in their environment may be linked to the cartilage that makes up their skeletons. A strong, connective tissue, like that in the human ear, cartilage appears to inhibit angiogenesis, which is the development of blood vessels that feed tumors." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Oily fish like salmon and herring from cold-water oceans contain the least mercury, so are best to consume frequently, and fish oil supplements ensure your omega-3s are mercury-free. Several clinical and laboratory studies suggest omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the risk of breast, lung, prostate and colon cancers. Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids comprised of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA); fish oil contains high amounts of EPA and DHA." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"This almost unimaginably long time has produced a frighteningly sophisticated armory of survival weaponry, such as armor rhat permits bacteria to thrive in subzero glaciers, in vents at the bottom of the oceans where pressure is so high that the watet is nearly five hundred degrees, in environments as corrosive as superconcentrated sulphuric acid, and—even more hostile—the digestive system of X. cheopsis. The choice of that particular digestive system was a consequential one. Fleas are overwhelmingly species specific; cat fleas (Cteno-cephalides felis) only jump to dogs (C." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The response in Constantinople was enthusiastic; Justinian wrote "We have good hopes that God will grant us to restore our authority over the remaining countries which the ancient Romans possessed to the limits of both oceans and lost by subsequent neglect."26 The reaction in Gothic Italy was somewhat less happy. After the fall of Naples, the Ostrogoths finally grew tired of the inconstant and un-martial Theodahad; within a month he was deposed, and by December, killed by one of his own nobles and replaced by another, named Vitigis." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In the same way that foods are more than the sum of their nutrient parts, dietary patterns seem to be more than the sum of the foods that comprise them. oceans of ink have been spilled attempting to tease out and analyze the components of the Mediterranean diet, hoping to identify the X factor responsible for its healthfulness: Is it the olive oil?The fish?The wild greens?The garlic?The nuts?The French paradox too has been variously attributed to the salutary effects of red wine, olive oil, and even foie gras (liver is high in B vitamins and iron)." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"How did so much mercury get into the oceans and lakes to be consumed by fish in the first place? Since the advent of the industrial age, the atmospheric burden of mercury in our environment— meaning the amount falling from the sky from waste from coal combustion, incineration, mining, coal-fired utilities, and industrial boilers—has tripled. In the United States, coal-fired power plants alone spew about fifty tons of mercury into the air each year." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Richard Feynman himself once remarked that the energy in a cubic meter of space was enough to boil all the oceans of the world.18 After the discoveries of Heisenberg about Zero Point energy, most conventional physicists have subtracted the figures symbolizing Zero Point energy from their equations. They assumed that because the Zero Point Field was ever-present in matter, it did not change anything and so could be safely "renormalized" away." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Although a public fountain or square will do in a pinch, seek out more-natural sanctuaries: forests and rivers, meadows and oceans, the more expansive the better. Make these places regular destinations, whether to exercise, socialize, or just be one with nature. Tool 7. Learn and Apply Your Strengths One way to learn your strengths is to take a free, online survey that Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson developed with support from the Values in Action Institute.3 Allow yourself plenty of time to take this survey: it contains 240 items to measure twenty-four character strengths." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Scientists are presently engaged in studying sediments from the ocean's floor to see how the oceans cope with rising levels of gases. They are especially interested in the reaction of marine plants to global warming, as these plants are the primary shock absorbers of excess carbon dioxide. Algae provide oxygen and other benefits to plant and animal marine life. Algae offer a little wall of protection to the creatures of the sea from the worse excesses of man. I reconsidered my resistance to Acetabularia as a test subject. Algae might be critical to our survival." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"PCBs have been found in fish from the deepest and most remote parts of the world's oceans. Fish and shellfish are natural accumulators of toxins, because they live and are flushed by the water in which they dwell. Shellfish such as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops filter ten gallons of water every hour. In a month, an oyster will accumulate toxins at concentrations that are 70,000 times greater than the water they are living in. The problem isn't solved by not eating fish—after all, half the world's fish catch is fed to livestock." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"For the past 30 years, coral reefs, the centerpiece of the sea's ecosystem, have been vanishing from the Earth. When oceans warm, the algae hugging coral reefs get sloughed off, and without this protective layer, the coral reefs themselves die. About 97 percent of a certain species of coral has disappeared in the Caribbean alone, and the U.S. government has recently declared elkhorn and staghorn coral to be endangered species." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"We all evolved in a time before the eighty thousand toxic industrial chemicals were introduced into our world, before electromagnetic radiation was everywhere, and before we polluted our skies, lakes, rivers, oceans, and teeth (with dental amalgams) with mercury and lead. We used to get by with just the basic version of the genetic detoxification software encoded in our DNA, which is mediocre at ridding the body of toxins.We didn't need more. But who knew we would be poisoning ourselves and eating a processed, nutrient-depleted diet? So why is glutathione so important?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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