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"Airborne pollens from grasses, flowers, weeds, trees, or ragweed are the culprits, so allergy season officially begins whenever trees and grasses start to pollinate in your area of the country. (In the South, trees can start as early as late February while grass may start around the end of April. Meanwhile, in the Midwest, things may not kick in until May. In the West, you have longer pollination time for grass and some weeds that will hang on all the way into the fall." - 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.)

"Lemon trees were planted in thirteenth century Spain and orange trees in fifteenth-century Portugal; mandarin trees were brought to Provence and North Africa in the 1800s. Long considered exotic fruit, citrus now belong in the diet of the vast majority of countries and cuisines; a billion citrus trees producing close to 1 00 million metric tons of fruit every year are cultivated around the globe." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"At his first visit, during which he could not hold a conversation, he tested positive for allergies to eggs, milk, peanuts, cat hair, and trees. His parents reported that his developmental symptoms were worse every spring, when the trees bloomed. He had low zinc, low vitamin A, low plasma cysteine, and low glutathione. Because he was very allergic to cat hair, I had to recommend that they find another home for their cat. When the cat was gone, and when Christopher began to avoid his allergenic foods, his neurological problems improved suddenly and dramatically." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The trees nearly became extinct during the Ice Age, but wild stands of the trees survived in parts of China. Due to deforestation they almost became extinct again, but according to legend were saved by Chinese monks who considered them holy. In this ancient tree species, there are separate male and female trees. The female trees bear a fruit called the "ginkgo nut" (even though it is not a nut). The rotting nuts give off a foul odor, so the female trees are rarely grown in this country." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"As I have a great love for trees, I tend to direct my prayers to ask for help on behalf of the trees. What I was told by my helping spirits was that although I thought my efforts to stop the wind and the fire and to bring rain had failed, my prayers to protect the trees in Santa Fe were being heard. I was directed to keep praying for the trees throughout the summer, when the fire danger would be great. I kept up my prayers for the land and the trees. The fire began to approach sacred ruins on the Santa Clara Pueblo." - Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (Get the book.)

"Lemon trees were planted in thirteenth century Spain and orange trees in fifteenth-century Portugal; mandarin trees were brought to Provence and North Africa in the 1800s. Long considered exotic fruit, citrus now belong in the diet of the vast majority of countries and cuisines; a billion citrus trees producing close to 1 00 million metric tons of fruit every year are cultivated around the globe." - Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D., Foods that Fight Cancer (Get the book.)

"Bird Friendly certification to Certified Organic coffee growers who also protect trees inhabited by local and migrating birds (typically, growers cut down shade trees on coffee plantations to be able to produce greater yields; this destroys bird habitats). Shade Grown addresses the same issue, but the plantations do not have to be organic. Fair Trade certification is about making a decent living; the coffee growers must be paid above-market prices for their crops. Most—but not all —Fair Trade coffees and teas are also Certified Organic and Shade Grown, but they do not have to be." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Thus, the number of rings in a piece of lumber in a prehistoric structure gives an accurate age for the tree that supplied it on the date it was cut down, and, by comparing the varying widths of those rings to some known baseline temperatutes (from historical documentation, other trees, and so on), an accurate date for the tree's harvest, and therefore of the construction date, can be calculated." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The efflorescence sometimes called "the Greek miracle" appears to cast a shadow on Rome like a great forest blocking smaller trees from the sun, with Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Herodotus, Socrates, Euclid, and Thucydides towering over Virgil, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch. To be sure, the world's debt to Rome is far more than merely, as has often been observed, the arch and the law." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Generations of European ethnographers have mapped the "peoples of Europe" in late antiquity to those occupying the same territories on a modern atlas, but in some respects their work is the scholarly equivalent of genealogical social climbing, building family trees in search of an appropriately glamorous ancestry." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Imagine standing at the terminus of the slope, watching the avalanche, which has been uprooting trees, smashing buildings, and destroying everything in its path for every one of three thousand miles, and you may be able to approximate the impact of the arrival of the horsemen of the Eurasian steppe on the more settled peoples of the west. The journey was first taken in the second century B.c.e. by the nomadic mounted archers known as Scythians, whose precise origin remains unknown, since the practice for centuries was to call every Central Asian horse archer a Scythian." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"America's President, Thomas Jefferson, loved pecans and had trees imported from Louisiana planted in his Monticello orchards. One of the origin tales of the pecan pie recounts that pecan pie was created by a French person who settled in New Orleans, and was introduced to the nut by Native Americans. Where Are Pecans Grown? Eighty percent of the world's pecans comes from the United States, with Georgia leading the nation in production." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "There are over twenty species of elder trees in existence today. Formerly thought to be in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, elder is now classified in the Moschatel family Adoxaceae. The flowers, leaves, berries, bark, and roots have all been used in traditional folk medicine for centuries. The fruit goes into elderberry wine, brandy, and the popular drink Sambuca, which is made by infusing elderberries and anise into alcohol. When cooked, elderberry can be used to make pies and jam." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"I swoosh through the trees in the forest.3 "I feel I succeeded (only) in half," Ourtane comments, "because I still felt myself being human as well. But I felt smaller (as an owl) and that experience of flying silently through the air was wonderful. It has made an impact, this dream, because the owls were so beautiful. It was a barn owl. I did some research and it turns out the barn owl flies indeed silently through the night, I never knew that."4 As we see in Ourtane's lucid dreams, subtle differences in wording affect the materialization or experience of the intent." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Bird Friendly certification to Certified Organic coffee growers who also protect trees inhabited by local and migrating birds (typically, growers cut down shade trees on coffee plantations to be able to produce greater yields; this destroys bird habitats). Shade Grown addresses the same issue, but the plantations do not have to be organic. Fair Trade certification is about making a decent living; the coffee growers must be paid above-market prices for their crops. Most—but not all —Fair Trade coffees and teas are also Certified Organic and Shade Grown, but they do not have to be." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"There are over 3,000 known varieties but only three species of pear trees bear the fruit we typically consume today. The Anjou, Bartlett, Bosc, Cornice, Seckel, and Forelle pear varieties are the most popular in the United States. A Serving of Food Lore... It is thought that the pear was used as a source of food during the Stone Age. The pear's likely place of origin was Asia and southeastern Europe. Records of cultivation can be traced as far back as 5000 b.c. in China. Around the seventeenth century, pears became popular in Europe." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The resulting fruit was up to twice the normal size, and 90% of it was completely free of the blemishes and scabs which the trees normally produced (right). The larger apples were plentiful and delicious. Biophotons in Water When water molecules are structured in the shape of a hexagon, they naturally contain an abundance of biophotons. The following images of biophotons in a drop of water were captured with a somatoscope at 30,000 magnification. To the knowledge of researchers Mr. and Mrs. Excelex and the author, the biophoton detail shown in figure 14." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"You begin to look at the world differently, and you see trees instead of a barren wasteland. When you see yourself moving, that alone is an achievement—proof that you can help yourself. OUT OF THE TUNNEL Science has come a long way since our search for the single culprit began, and the decades' worth of research generated from the monoamine hypothesis has taught us volumes about the biology of emotions. The closer we get to the cause of depression, the more complex it appears. When we began, everyone was fairly certain that the problem was an imbalance of neurotransmitters at the synapses." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Some of the obsessive reactions in the NIMH study were severe, for example, a child who raked leaves for seven straight hours and then waited for individual leaves to fall off the trees to rake some more. Typically, the stimulant-treated youngsters played their games or other activities in a compulsive, difficult-to-interrupt manner. In school activities, they would bear down hard enough on their pencils to tear their papers. They would repetitively erase and worry over insignificant details." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In in the course of researching this chapter, I came across a "case study" in a professional medical book that made me think that even professionals can't see the forest for the trees when it comes to treating diabetics. The book, Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine, 2nd ed. (Churchill Livingstone, 2004, p. 123), which was edited by a group of doctors and health-care workers, tells the story of type 2 diabetic "Stacey," a sixteen-year-old living in the U.K. who loves clubbing with her friends." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Middle Eastern traders introduced lime trees from Asia into Egypt and Northern Africa around the tenth century. The Arabian Moors brought them to Spain in the thirteenth century, from whence limes spread throughout southern Europe. Limes were on board when Columbus traveled on his second voyage to the Americas in 1493. In the United States, limes were established in Florida by the sixteenth century when Spanish explorers brought the West Indies lime to the Florida Keys, where that species was renamed "key lime." Where Are Limes Grown?" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"During a hike, while you are gazing up at the beauty of the trees around you, you can stub your toe on an unseen rock on the trail. Scientists were sure that somewhere, at some level, there was a clear boundary that separated the quantum world from the classical world. The shift across that hypothetical boundary represents the greatest "phase change" of them all, but until very recently no one had been able to detect where and how it happens. It turns out there is no well-defined boundary after all." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"These "decision trees" have been carefully constructed to help emergency doctors and radiologists decide when it is in a patient's best interests to order a test and when an image is not only unwarranted but potentially harmful. One set of rules, for example, which was designed to help physicians decide if they need a CT scan for a patient who might have a neck injury, could eliminate 12.6 percent of CT scans for neck trauma, or about one hundred thousand scans a year, without risking the possibility of leaving a patient untreated for a serious spinal injury." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Yet doctors ignore these decision trees and persist in believing that malpractice-suit fears and patient demand are the entire explanation for their habit of giving patients what they know are unnecessary tests. Everything in their training told them that ordering images would protect them from making mistakes, or at least looking stupid when a resident or attending demanded the results of a test. Once they are out in practice, there are few incentives to discourage them from the habits they learned in medical school." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Twelve-foot-tall potted fig trees dot the brightly lit space, and tastefully upholstered purple and mauve couches are scattered about the room. The contrast between the cancer center and the emergency room at Johns Hopkins reflects one of the financial realities of running a hospital: It is better to invest capital resources in departments that will attract paying patients, who will contribute to the bottom line, than to put money into departments, like the ER, that run at a loss." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In the winter, you may cut away up to 75 percent of the active leaf-bearing surface to keep fruit trees strong and producing fruit. Ouch! But like clockwork, come spring, out pop hundreds of new shoots, and by summer they seem more vigorous than ever. Pruning is essential, but continually pruning is counterproductive, just as removing all the supporting walls in a house will cause it to collapse. This failure to realize the need for two very different techniques at different times explains why most well-meaning diets ultimately don't work." - 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.) "Atkins and other low-carbers regard refined carbohydrates as the root of all evil, but they see only the trees, not the forest. Avoiding refined carbohydrates was a good start, but it is just one piece of the puzzle. Let me end this chapter on a cautionary note. Baboons, which subsist in the wild on leaves, nuts, fruit, insects, and small animals, normally have low cholesterol and no coronary artery disease-which would suggest that they have no genetic propensity to high cholesterol." - 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.)

"Sometimes we don't see the forest for the trees. And the field of nutrition is no exception. We can get so focused on the health benefits of a certain vitamin or nutrient that we miss a crucial link: Different components within a single food can work together for maximum health benefit, and certain components of different foods can produce amazing results when eaten together. For many years, the science of nutrition has focused on specific pieces of the puzzle instead of the power inherent in the whole picture. This book will help you learn how to tap into that power." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

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