NaturalPedia > Animals > Rats

Quotes about Rats from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

Share

Tweet

Email to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 39 | Next ->

"Enlarged colon • Degeneration of motor nerves throughout the brain and spine And by the third generation, this group could not reproduce • Studies done with laboratory rats have shown that rats eating raw foods live about 30% longer than rats eating diets devoid of enzymes. • Then there's the fact that the classic Eskimo diet consists of 80% saturated fat? That's 80% saturated fat (primarily from raw fat and raw meat)! And yet, in a study of 3,000 of these people, not one of them had high cholesterol, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, or high blood pressure." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Chemoprevention of colonic aberrant crypt foci in Fischer rats by sulforaphane and phenethyl isothiocyanate." Carcinogenesis, 2000;21(12):2287-2291. Hecht, S.S., et al. "Effects of watercress consumption on metabolism of a tobacco-specific lung carcinogen in smokers." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 1995;4(8):877-884. Hirose, M., et al. "Effects of arctiin on PhlP-induced mammary, colon and pancreatic carcinogenesis in female Sprague-Dawley rats and MelQx-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in male F344 rats." Cancer Lett, 2000;155(l):79-88. Jarred, R.A., et al. " - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"All the rats are lured by the cheese, all of them set off a trap and get smacked on the head as the bar crashes down on them, and soon only a few rats are left. But those left are the biggest, strongest rats, because they're the only ones who could get smacked on the head and still live. When these rats have babies, their offspring turn out to be just as big and strong as their parents, and pretty soon those traps just don't work anymore. All of the small, weak rats have been weeded out of the population, and only the big, strong ones remain." - Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D., The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications (Get the book.)

"Enlarged colon • Degeneration of motor nerves throughout the brain and spine And by the third generation, this group could not reproduce • Studies done with laboratory rats have shown that rats eating raw foods live about 30% longer than rats eating diets devoid of enzymes. • Then there's the fact that the classic Eskimo diet consists of 80% saturated fat? That's 80% saturated fat (primarily from raw fat and raw meat)! And yet, in a study of 3,000 of these people, not one of them had high cholesterol, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, or high blood pressure." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"In one phase of the experiments, Ames and Hagen fed alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine to groups of old and young rats. Old rats are typically lethargic and have only about one-third the energy of young rats. After several weeks of supplementation, the two nutrients had a dramatic rejuvenating and energy-boosting effect. The old rats' physical activity doubled and was almost identical to that of nonsupplemented young rats. The improvements, according to the researchers, were like taking a seventy-five-year-old woman and restoring her to the vigor of someone half her age." - Jack Challem, Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging (Get the book.)

"A 1970 study in which rats were divided into groups and fed products made with whole wheat flour, white refined flour, or enriched white refined flour, found that the rats continued to thrive on whole wheat, while the ones fed white bread became malnourished.8 Animals that were fed enriched white flour products died first because the enrichment of this flour is from synthetic vitamins and minerals. Raw whole wheat contains approximately fifty main nutrients whereas refined white flour contains no more than two or three." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"An equal number of rats received a negligible background exposure of roughly 1 mG; these rats produced melatonin normally. Loscher then injected into each rodent a chemical that induces mammary cancer and kept the rats under observation for three months. Compared with the unexposed rats, those in the 100-mG field developed about 10 percent more tumors. Animal models exposed to 500 mG got 25 percent more cancer. And rats getting zapped with 1,000 mG developed 50 percent more cancer. Malignancies also grew as much as twice the size under the influence of these electromagnetic fields." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"A 1970 study in which rats were divided into groups and fed products made with whole wheat flour, white refined flour, or enriched white refined flour, found that the rats continued to thrive on whole wheat, while the ones fed white bread became malnourished.8 Animals that were fed enriched white flour products died first because the enrichment of this flour is from synthetic vitamins and minerals. Raw whole wheat contains approximately fifty main nutrients whereas refined white flour contains no more than two or three." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Ganmaa Davaasambuu, the Mongolian physician and researcher who published this report, found that rats fed low-fat milk were "more likely to develop tumors, and in greater numbers and of larger size, than rats fed water or artificial milk." Alternatives to Milk Products Luckily, there are lots of great alternatives to conventional milk products." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Tests with rats fed synthetic vitamins found that they died sooner than rats given nothing to eat.3 The synthetic, incomplete supplements stimulated the animals' systems, increasing their metabolic rates and literally causing them to "burn up" or wear out at a faster rate. Despite the preceding caveats, supplements can play an important role in paying back deficiency debts to the body created by years of nutrient-deficient food consumption." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"As a result, the rats never got the message to stop eating until they had consumed far greater amounts of food than normal rats. There is much circumstantial evidence that many humans are genetically predisposed to obesity. This predisposition may involve the same mechanism as that observed in the rats. In other words, many people may be predisposed to being overweight because they have a decreased conversion of tryptophan to 5-HTP and, as a result, decreased serotonin levels. By providing preformed 5-HTP, this genetic defect is bypassed and more serotonin is manufactured." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Erdman and published in a recent issue of the Journal of Nutrition, prostate tumors grew much less in rats that were fed tomato and broccoli powders than in rats who ate diets containing either just one of those powders or cancer-fighting substances that had been isolated from tomatoes or broccoli." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"By comparison, the rats bred for exercise had healthier mitochondria and sleeker, firmer bodies. The researchers postulated that impaired function of mitochondria was the underlying metabolic problem in the weaker rats with low aerobic activity levels. The mitochondria, as we have discussed, are the tiny structures within cells that produce ATP to fuel cellular activity. The more impaired the mitochondria, the poorer the inherent skill for and tolerance of physical exercise, and the more probable the animal would have insulin resistance, diabetes, and future cardiovascular disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Ganmaa Davaasambuu, the Mongolian physician and researcher who published this report, found that rats fed low-fat milk were "more likely to develop tumors, and in greater numbers and of larger size, than rats fed water or artificial milk." Alternatives to Milk Products Luckily, there are lots of great alternatives to conventional milk products." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"There was a small spike in the popularity of ginseng after it was reported that rats fed high doses of the herb learned the layout of a maze quicker than rats in a control group. The theory was that ginseng acted as a cholinergic agent, increasing levels of acetylcholine in the brain. These findings were not consistently replicated, and since we lack data on the long-term safety of ginseng ingestion, it is difficult to recommend the herb clinically. Fish oil and alpha lipoic acid." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"HTP as a Weight-Loss Aid As far back as 1975, researchers demonstrated that administering 5-HTP to rats that were bred to overeat and be obese resulted in significant reduction in food intake. It turns out that these rats had decreased activity of the enzyme that converts tryptophan to 5-HTP and subsequently to serotonin. In other words, these rats were fat as a result of a genetically determined low level of activity of the enzyme that starts the manufacture of serotonin from tryptophan." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"In a study of rats, researchers found that soy isoflavones actually played a role in reducing inflammation, a condition that we've looked at as playing a role in exacerbating obesity and weight gain. The rats in this study that consumed soy isoflavones had improved insulin sensitivity, which seemed to be caused by a reduction in inflammation.41' f you're a postmenopausal woman who has metabolic syndrome, you could benefit from regular consumption of soy nuts." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "An interesting study with rats showed that those who were fed artificially sweetened drink along with their food ate more calories and food than another group of rats that had been fed real sugar.8 We know for sure that since the widespread introduction of artificial sweeteners especially during the low-fat, "low-cal" diet days of the 1980s, the rate of obesity has skyrocketed." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"As a result, the rats never got the message to stop eating until they had consumed far greater amounts of food than normal rats. There is much circumstantial evidence that many humans are genetically predisposed to obesity. This predisposition may involve the same mechanism as that observed in the rats. In other words, many people may be predisposed to being overweight because they have a decreased conversion of tryptophan to 5-HTP and, as a result, decreased serotonin levels. By providing preformed 5-HTP, this genetic defect is bypassed and more serotonin is manufactured." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"An equal number of rats received a negligible background exposure of roughly 1 mG; these rats produced melatonin normally. Loscher then injected into each rodent a chemical that induces mammary cancer and kept the rats under observation for three months. Compared with the unexposed rats, those in the 100-mG field developed about 10 percent more tumors. Animal models exposed to 500 mG got 25 percent more cancer. And rats getting zapped with 1,000 mG developed 50 percent more cancer. Malignancies also grew as much as twice the size under the influence of these electromagnetic fields." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"Recent studies on rats show that new neuronal cells are generated in older brains, but that these cells are retained only by rats that engage in active learning to build synaptic connections between the cells.7 Subsequent studies have produced evidence that increased environmental complexity stimulates the growth of new hippocampal neurons (i.e., neurogenesis) in the adult brains of various species, such as birds, rodents, primates, and humans. Thus, neuroscience's long-held belief that there can be no addition of neurons in the adult mammalian brain has recently been revised." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Effects of arctiin on PhlP-induced mammary, colon and pancreatic carcinogenesis in female Sprague-Dawley rats and MelQx-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in male F344 rats." Cancer Lett, 2000;155(l):79-88. Jarred, R.A., et al. "Induction of apoptosis in low to moderate-grade human prostate carcinoma by red clover-derived dietary isoflavones." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2002;11(12):1689-1696. Kaegi, E. "Unconventional therapies for cancer: 1. Essiac. The Task Force on Alternative Therapies of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative." CMAJ, 1998;158(7):897-902. Review. Richardson, M." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The bone density of ovariectomized rats for which soy replaced casein in the diet was compared to another group that received estrogen. The addition of soy inhibited bone loss, although not to the same extent as was achieved with estrogen treatment.45 Another study of ovariectomized rats also reported a positive effect of the soy phytoestrogen genistein in maintaining bone.46 These authors also reported that genistein suppresses the bone resorption cells (osteoclasts) both in the test tube and in vivo." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"An interesting study with rats showed that those who were fed artificially sweetened drink along with their food ate more calories and food than another group of rats that had been fed real sugar.8 We know for sure that since the widespread introduction of artificial sweeteners especially during the low-fat, "low-cal" diet days of the 1980s, the rate of obesity has skyrocketed." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Everybody in this room knows just what the rat is dreaming of, if rats do dream. The short film ends. A second begins. The same rat that, moments ago, was unable to move is now racing around a shallow-sided plastic box with the vigor of a rodent triathlete. Call him Regeneration Rat, call him Robo Rodent, call him the Rebound King. He is one of a group of thirteen rodents recently cured of paralysis in a groundbreaking stem-cell study at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The audience bursts into enthusiastic applause." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

page 1 of 39 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.