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"It's easy to enjoy the benefits of a green kitchen: Maximize sunlight and ventilation. Nothing's more welcoming than a kitchen with a lot of big windows that let the sunlight and fresh air stream in. Natural sunlight can also reduce stress and improve your overall state of health. And as always, work to improve your indoor air quality by keeping the outdoor air circulating through your house. Filter your water." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"I am talking about sunlight in particular. Indoor light is not going to make any difference. You need to expose yourself to bright sunlight?just your eyes. There are artificial sun boxes that are commercially available. But if you have insomnia, get outside as much as you can, during your lunch hour, during your breaks. Don't wear sunglasses, unless you've got an eye condition that requires it." Exercising in the late afternoon or early evening may help some people with insomnia. "When you do aerobic exercise for half an hour, you raise your body temperature," Dr. Pearl says. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"One interesting new theory is that the lack of vitamin D from sunlight that occurs in the winter may be a contributor to the typical wintertime increase in minor illnesses, such as colds and flu. It may also be possible that a lack of vitamin D from the sun is related to the autoimmune disorder of multiple sclerosis, because multiple sclerosis is much more common in the northern hemisphere of the earth, which receives less direct sunlight. Vitamin D is found in cod liver oil, but there is almost ten times as much vitamin A in cod liver oil as vitamin D." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It's the subject of an entire track on my Twenty-Three Ways to Improve Your Life CD set (under the heading "get sensible sunlight"). New research is showing its importance in preventing cancer. We now know that it's essential for bone strength. Sex hormones are made from the stuff. Populations that don't get much sunlight are at greater risk for multiple sclerosis. And now new research is pointing to the fact that physical performance— especially in older folks—is significantly affected by their vitamin D status." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Sunlight and vitamin D: sunlight stimulates our bodies to manufacture vitamin D, which has been shown to be an ef- fective treatment for psoriasis.71 In general, slow tanning improves psoriasis, with sunshine and sunlamps prescribed as part of standard therapy. A recent study, done in Israel at the Dead Sea, long renowned for its treatment of psoriasis, showed that natural sunlight stimulated significant improvement in disease activity. One group was just given sunlight therapy, and the other received additional therapy in mud packs and sulfur baths." - Elizabeth Lipski, Digestive Wellness: How to Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion (Get the book.)

"Both fluorescent and incandescent lighting lack the full spectrum of wavelengths that exist in sunlight. Depriving yourself of natural sunlight has known health consequences, from chaotic circadian rhythms to depression. Circadian rhythms are the patterns of repeated activity associated with cycles of day and night. Our internal rhythms repeat roughly every twenty-four hours, and involve the sleep-wake cycle, the ebb and flow of hormones, the rise and fall of body temperature, and other subtle rhythms that mesh with the twenty-four-hour solar day." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Some experts consider sunlight a nutrient, as vital for well-being as certain dietary nutrients. sunlight, when it enters our eyes, prompts our endocrine system to produce hormones that help regulate basic body function and maintain a healthy immune system. Vitamin D, also known as the sunshine vitamin, is synthesized in our bodies when our skin is exposed to ultraviolet light. An essential component for calcium absorption and utilization, vitamin D is found in certain foods, but it is best obtained from sunlight." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"Nothing's more welcoming than a kitchen with a lot of big windows that let the sunlight and fresh air stream in. Natural sunlight can also reduce stress and improve your overall state of health. And as always, work to improve your indoor air quality by keeping the outdoor air circulating through your house. Filter your water. We're exposed to tap water through so many different channels: juices and hot beverages, vegetables, the bath or shower, in the swimming pool, or even in the water you use to prepare food." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Where he could not see the moonlight, Neither could behold the sunlight. Then he spake the words which follow, And expressed his thoughts in this wise: "Aid me Moon, and Sun release me, And the Great Bear lend his counsel, Through the portal that I know not, Through the unaccustomed passage. From the little nest that holds me, From a dwelling-place so narrow, To the land conduct the roamer, To the open air conduct me, To behold the moon in heaven, And the splendor of the sunlight; See the Great Bear's stars above me, And the shining stars in heaven." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"For the rest of us, the key is sunlight. Most of us live and work indoors, but 80 to 100 percent of our vitamin D requirement comes from our exposure to sunlight. And concerns about skin cancer encourage use of sunblock, which stops 97 percent of the skin's production of vitamin D. Use of sunscreen, dark skin color, increase in latitude, changes in seasonal sun exposure, aging, and wearing clothes that cover most of our body all affect our risk of vitamin D deficiency. Newer research by Dr." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Melatonin is produced in response to sunlight exposure. The more sunlight you take in, the more melatonin—and, thus, serotonin—your body is able to produce. Sunlight exposure occurs through the eye's iris. People who receive no sunlight exposure due to complete blindness have major serotonin impairments, including chronic insomnia, circadian (based on a 24-hour cycle) rhythm disorders, and premenstrual syndrome difficulties. SAD symptoms include carbohydrate cravings, compulsive overeating, and wintertime weight gains." - Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., Constant Craving: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them (Get the book.)

"They adapted to their harsh surroundings by developing an expertise at selecting soils with the correct moisture-retaining properties on north- and east-facing slopes that received little direct sunlight. Their farmers planted on river floodplains and at arroyo mouths, where the soil was naturally irrigated. They diverted water from streams and springs, using every drop of rainfall runoff they could. They developed maize with distinctive root structures that could be planted deep in the soil, where retained ground moisture would nourish the growing plants." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "So much salt sinks in the northern seas that a vast heat pump forms, caused by the constant inflow of warmer water, which heats the ocean as much as 30 percent beyond the heat provided by direct sunlight at these latitudes. What happens if the flushing fails? The pump slows down, the North Atlantic Current weakens, and temperatures fall rapidly in northwestern Europe. When downwelling resumes, the current accelerates and temperatures climb again. Understanding the workings of the North Atlantic Oscillation will require years of long-term observations using ships, buoys, and computer models." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Pelting rain and intense tropical sunlight wreaked havoc with forest-cleared land, which soon became impossible to farm as a layer of brick-hard lat-erite formed on the surface. To cultivate such demanding fields by clearing and burning off the forest, then planting, required great experience and unlimited reservoirs of patience. A greater contrast with the Nile Valley is hard to imagine. Like their modern descendants, the ancient Maya were plagued by droughts and decade-long climatic shifts, known to us from core borings into ancient lake beds." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The ancient im- agery came to life as the bright avenue of sunlight became a powerful ladder to heaven. Egyptian rulers were living gods, the very essence of the divine order of a prosperous world nourished by a bountiful river. The pharaohs were human existence, the embodiment of a unified Upper and Lower Egypt. An Egyptian king at the height of his powers was a blend of force and intelligence, nurture and fear, sustenance and punishment. Centuries after the events described in this chapter, a book of instruction for children written in the fourteenth century B.C." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Bacteria "eat" inorganic chemicals, sunlight, other bacteria, and every creature that walks, swims, flies, or crawls. But only during the most recent, tiniest fraction of their history have bacterial genes combined in a way that regards animals as food. At the most basic level, all living creatures on earth eat the same food: the compound adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which stores energy in the chemical bond that is the diffetence between adenosine diphosphate—ADP—and ATP." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Organisms that turn sunlight into ATP—that use the green pigment called chlorophyll to absorb the energy contained in a single photon of light and so convert the chlorophyll into a molecule of adenosine triphosphate—are pho-totrophic; everything else is chemotrophic. Modem chemotrophes, including humans, produce ATP by consuming both organisms that photosynthesize and other chemotrophes: salads and hamburgers. Simple as this seems, it is not the most basic of life's eating plans. Earth's earliest life forms predate photosynthesis by at least hundreds of millions of years." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Schachter's Alternative Therapy Program for prostate cancer includes the use of Flor-Essence, in addition to dietary changes, oral nutritional supplements, possible hormonal balancing, possible intravenous vitamin and mineral drips, an exercise program, fresh air and some sunlight exposure, stress management training if necessary, detoxification, and possible homeopathy and other immune-enhancing activities, such as chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, or dental treatment. Dr. Schachter's Case Files—Prostate Cancer Patients Using Flor-Essence According to Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The same holds for the activation of most forms of vitamin D, including the form produced by our skin after sunlight exposure. It is estimated that about an hour in the midday sun will generate our daily requirement. I hasten to add that there may be subsets of well people in advanced countries who are at risk for dietary insufficiency of calcium or vitamin D. In theory at least, people who avoid dairy products and thereby have a lower calcium intake and less vitamin D supplementation should be at risk for a special form of osteopenia called osteomalacia." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"As we entered the chapel, the sunlight was filtering through the beautiful stained-glass windows. We sat down and shared a couple of minutes of silence together. She then showed me her tidy room and gave me a tour of the grounds. The next time she came for an office visit I built up all my courage and asked, "Sister, when you are in your chapel meditating and I am alone reflecting on the larger issues of life, do you think that we are having similar experiences?" She responded without a moment's hesitation, "Of course we are." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It is also possible that fish oils potentiate the activity of vitamin D and sunlight. Dosage: Eat cold water fish—salmon, halibut, mackerel, sardines, tuna and herring—two to four times per week or take EPA/DHA capsules under a physician's supervision. Fish oils increase blood clotting time so use them carefully. Sunlight and vitamin D: sunlight stimulates our bodies to manufacture vitamin D, which has been shown to be an ef- fective treatment for psoriasis.71 In general, slow tanning improves psoriasis, with sunshine and sunlamps prescribed as part of standard therapy." - Elizabeth Lipski, Digestive Wellness: How to Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion (Get the book.)

"Store in airtight containers in a dry place away from sunlight and heat. Food Refrigerator Pantry Freezer Special Spices, ground 6 months Spices and herbs keep longer if refrigerated or frozen. Store in airtight containers in a dry place away from sunlight and heat. Spices & Herbs 6 months Spices and herbs keep longer if refrigerated or frozen. Store in airtight containers in a dry place away from sunlight and heat. Spice/herb blends 6 months Spices and herbs keep longer if refrigerated or frozen. Store in airtight containers in a dry place away from sunlight and heat." - Ruth Winter, Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E (Get the book.)

"Levels of melatonin tend to increase in the evening, decrease toward morning, and decrease further when we expose ourselves to sunlight. sunlight suppresses the production of melatonin. When it's cloudy, when we spend too much time indoors, or when we commute to and from work in the darker days of fall and winter, we're less likely to dispose of our excess melatonin. As a result, our circadian rhythm gets out of kilter, and we tend to feel depressed or physically sluggish. There are several ways to rectify the problem and reset our circadian clocks." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Other flowers, like day lilies, close up every evening and bloom again every time they see the sun. sunlight is essential to the growth of all green plants. Plants know this. They turn toward the light, stretching themselves open to take in as much as they can. Scientists call this the heliotropic effect. A similar heliotropic effect has been described in people.1 Positivity is essential to the growth of all humans. We know this instinctively. We turn toward positivity, stretching our minds open to take in as much as we can. I call this the broaden effect." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Populations that don't get much sunlight are at greater risk for multiple sclerosis. And now new research is pointing to the fact that physical performance— especially in older folks—is significantly affected by their vitamin D status. This might not be much of a problem except for the fact that more than 25 percent of the population—probably more—is vitamin D deficient. Let me explain. As of this writing the recommended daily allowance for vitamin D is 400 IU. I—and a growing body of nutritionists and doctors and health professionals—think that's way too low. Oh, I'm being polite." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Vitamin D occurs naturally in fish, but is most efficiently produced in the body by exposure to sunlight. Daily use of sunscreen and sunblock, however, can interfere with our absorption of vitamin D, says Mullin, making supplementation all the more critical. Juices fortified with vitamin D can also boost exposure, as can taking supplements. CURCUMIN. According to a recent study from the National Institutes of Health, turmeric, an ancient spice long used in traditional Asian medicine, may hold promise for the prevention of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Sunlight made the disease flare. "Right then a warning bell went off in my head," says Grant. "Something just didn't sound right to me." Then, a few weeks later, Grant found out that one more woman living on Moselle Street was sick with the same autoimmune disease. The next week there were five. A woman who lived three streets over from Moselle came in to say she'd been diagnosed with lupus as well. That was it for Grant. "Five in a single block?" She called the City of Buffalo Department of Public Works and relayed her concerns to an official in the water department." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Avoid using sunscreens and sunglasses; otherwise you won't gain the benefits from sunlight exposure. (See Chapter 4 for details). [To learn about the healing powers of the sun in much more detail, and specifically, how UV-light actually prevents and cures skin cancer and why most skin cancers are caused by sun protection creams and lotions, see Chapter Eight of my book, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation.} Sleeping Enough Hours Research shows that the immune system needs 8-9 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Local application of the synthetic tretinoin (vitamin A acid) is used to bleach pigmented spots, smooth wrinkles, and reduce sunlight damage. 2. Mica. Mica is the name for a group of fine crystallized minerals that create a light glow in facial cosmetics by increasing the reflection of light. They can be colored or colorless. Mica is harmless, except when inhaled as a fine dust, when it can cause acute or chronic lung irritation. 3. Bisabolol." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Oxygen free radicals can form in refined, polyunsaturated oils and fats once they are exposed to air and sunlight before consumption. The free radicals may also form in the tissues after the oils or fats have been ingested. Polyunsaturated fats are difficult to digest, since they are deprived of their natural bulk and are no longer protected against free radicals by their natural protector, vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant; this important vitamin is being removed during the refining process. Eating a hamburger and French fries, for example, can flood your body with free radicals." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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