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"It occurs most often in tropical and subtropical areas, but if you live in the United States, you can get it in Florida, or bring it back with you from your vacation to a tropical climate. Yellow fever can affect both sexes, all ages and races. Jungle yellow fever, of tropical Central and South America, occurs predominantly among adult males 20 to 40 years old who are exposed in the tropical forests. How is yellow fever spread? A certain type of mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is most often responsible for transmitting the virus." - American Medical Publishing, Proven Health Tips Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Although in cold regions with short growing seasons yields could increase, they will decrease in tropical and subtropical areas where crops are already growing near the limit of their heat tolerance. The negative effects outweigh the few positive consequences. Climate experts estimate that as the Gulf Stream deflects, the North Atlantic/Northern Europe region will become generally cooler, with storms and rain concentrated over Siberia. Most of the Southern Hemisphere will become warmer and dryer; even the monsoon may discharge its torrential rains over the sea rather than over land." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"It occurs most often in tropical and subtropical areas, but if you live in the United States, you can get it in Florida, or bring it back with you from your vacation to a tropical climate. Yellow fever can affect both sexes, all ages and races. Jungle yellow fever, of tropical Central and South America, occurs predominantly among adult males 20 to 40 years old who are exposed in the tropical forests. How is yellow fever spread? A certain type of mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is most often responsible for transmitting the virus." - American Medical Publishing, Proven Health Tips Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"It has been drunk in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world for centuries. Rich in electrolytes and therefore valuable for the replenishment of those lost in sweat, coconut water can help maintain smooth muscle contractions and energy levels, particularly in hot climates. I base a few of my sport drink recipes on coconut water for this reason. Another high-quality natural source of electrolytes is found in certain seaweeds. Dulse in particular (see Chapter 5, page 132) has a nicely balanced electrolyte profile." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"When you do eat fruits, eat low-calorie, low-starch, high-fiber fruits, such as apples, and avoid tropical and sugary fruits, such as pineapple, melons, and dates. 7. Limit caffeinated drinks, because they contribute to blood sugar spikes. 8. Strictly limit fruit juices. If they are consumed, make sure they are highly diluted with water. A good rule for the anti-hypoglycemia diet is: Don't drink your calories. 9. Eat frequent, high-protein meals and snacks, to help stabilize blood sugar levels. Your kids can feel better fast on this diet." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"BITTER MELON Bitter melon, also known as Momordica charantia or balsam pear, is a tropical fruit known throughout Asia, Africa, and South America. Its green fruit looks like an ugly cucumber. Bitter melon is made of several compounds that have anti-diabetic properties, including charantin, which has been shown to be more powerful than the hypoglycemic drug tolbutamide, and an insulin-like polypeptide called polypeptide-P, which lowers blood sugar when injected into Type-l diabetics.52 In one study, it decreased the glucose tolerance by 73 percent when people were given 2 ounces of the juice." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Graviola is a plant indigenous to most of the warmest tropical areas in South and North America, including the Amazon. Scientists have been studying Graviola's properties since the 1940s and discovered it has numerous active compounds and chemicals. Graviola has shown a large variety of benefits for many different ailments, one of which is cancer. Graviola contains a set of chemicals called Annonaceous acetogenins. It makes these compounds in its leaves and stem, bark, and fruit seeds." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Their only purpose, as far as he could tell, was to become fodder for tropical fish. Brine shrimp were already destined for the slaughterhouse. Only the most ardent antivivisectionist could object. Backster and Henson rigged up a gadget that would randomly select one of six possible moments when a small cup containing the brine shrimp would invert and tip its contents into a pot of continuously boiling water. The randomizer was placed in the far room in his suite of six offices, with three plants attached to polygraph equipment in three separate rooms at the other end of the laboratory." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"According to former UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller, each minute 52 acres of tropical forest are lost, 50 tons of fertile topsoil are blown off, and 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide are added to the atmosphere. Each hour 1,693 acres of productive dry land become desert, and each day 250,000 tons of sulfuric acid fall as acid rain in the Northern Hemisphere. 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." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"During the rest of his trip, Hammid and Price correctly identified when Hal was relaxing round a pool or driving through a tropical forest at the base of a volcano. They were even able to identify the color of his hotel rug.,Q Hal gathered together nine remote viewers in total, mostly beginners with no track record as psychics, who performed in total over fifty trials. Again, an impartial panel of judges compared targets with transcripts of subject descriptions." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Refrigeration is actually optional for the tropical oils such as coconut oil, but a necessity with other types of oil since they spoil readily when exposed to heat and light. Air exposure will cause these oils to spoil, so they should be tightly sealed. You will also want to refrigerate nuts and seeds, and, since they contain enzyme inhibitors, which make them difficult to digest, they should be soaked overnight in water to make them more digestible. Most packaged grains found in grocery stores are refined. White rice is an example. Choose brown rice over white." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"But unlike other Blue Zones, the Nicoyan diet featured portions of corn tortillas at almost every meal and huge quantities of tropical fruit. Sweet lemon {Citrus limetta), orange {Citrus sinensis), and a banana variety are the most common fruits throughout most of the year in Nicoya. Mata's explanation of nixtamale seems to explain the connection between maize and longevity, but how do fruits contribute to longevity? Luis had told me on our first trip that Nicoya had lower rates of stomach cancer—a major killer in the country." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "We'd wake each morning at seven and gather in the dining pavilion, where we'd take a breakfast of tropical fruit, beans, rice, and tortillas. Then we'd disperse like billiard balls after the break. Gianni, Michel, and Elizabeth struck out to do their interviews; their goal was nine a day. Eliza, Sabriya, and I would split up the video crews and photographers to track down leads." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "He has his rituals he doesn't like to break," Jorge sighed, mopping a sweaty forehead with a dirty rag. The tropical midmorning sun was already hot. "Moreover, the butchers are his friends." So we walked another half mile, Faustino leading the way, resolutely shuffling down the street 20 feet ahead of us. I was thinking: "This guy is a machine." Most people Faustino's age couldn't get out of a chair. "You don't forget your friends, do you Don Faustino?" shouted the butcher with a smile as we approached." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "T WAS SEVEN IN THE MORNING IN THE village of Hojancha, Costa Rica, and already the tropical sun was bearing down as I opened the squeaky front gate and called into the pastel-pink house for Tomas Castillo—Tommy to his friends. A moment later, Tommy emerged with his big, white-toothed grin, his brown pants tucked into his boots, a T-shirt, and his New York Yankees baseball cap pulled down low over his forehead. "Listo? (Ready?)" he asked, with no intention of waiting for an answer. We mounted a pair of bikes and, with a truant's delight, rolled out into the hot Costa Rican morning." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Its slender stem supports a tiny cupped sombrero, like a miniature green umbrella ready to be popped into an underwater tropical cocktail. For more than seventy years, biology students have marveled over this tiny plant, not simply for its appearance but for a single bizarre fact of its existence. Acetabularia is a freak of nature. From stem to sombrero, the entire plant, measuring up to two inches, consists of a single cell. Because of this, Acetabularia, unlike most living things, can be counted on to behave predictably." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The Kelvin waves created by the westerlies raise sea surface temperatures over much of the tropical Pacific, bringing thunderstorms into the central and eastern Pacific. Air pressure at sea level drops at Tahiti and rises at Darwin, Australia. Positive feedback develops between the ocean and the atmosphere, ultimately bringing on El Nino conditions. The quieter trades alter wind patterns and currents throughout the tropics. The Walker Circulation reverses its flow. Rising warm water in the east sucks in air from the west." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Doctors are invited to learn about new medical breakthroughs at free suppers and conferences in tropical paradises. And most pernicious: companies lure doctors into becoming paid consultants, staff experts, or lecturers, leveraging their relationships and prestige to hawk the companies' products to their peers. Doctors tend to believe that they are immune to drug company influence. They don't realize that at every step of the way, at every moment of information transfer, and with nearly unimaginable skill, the medical industry insinuates itself into their medical decision making." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The use of TFA became very popular in the mid-twentieth century when public health recommendations encouraged people to decrease their animal fat and tropical oil intakes. However, research that started in the early 1990s demonstrated numerous adverse effects of TFA [64, 65]. The adverse cardiovascular effects of TFA have been demonstrated in epidemiologic and clinical trials. In the Seven Countries Study, higher CHD mortality rates were observed in countries with greater TFA consumption (northern European countries versus Japan and Mediterranean countries) [66]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Bananas, an essential part of many tropical countries' diets, are the primary source of carbohydrates throughout East Africa. Seventy-two million metric tons are produced every year in the developing world—compared to a mere one metric ton in the developed world. To save the Cavendish from viral extinction requires uncovering varieties that are resistant to the new virus. Unfortunately, as the search for these forgotten strains has gotten under way, researchers have discovered that many wild banana varieties have disappeared as a result of logging and mass urbanization." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Crabs eat coconuts and tropical almonds. Many fish eat fruits. When not devouring entire cows, piranhas like guavas, berries and the fruits of the Piranhea trifoliata tree. There are even tiny fruits dispersed by ants and other minuscule insects. Some plants are so cunning that they developed fruits that resemble insects—in order to be eaten by that insect's predators. The fruits of Scor-piurus subvillosa look like centipedes. Other fruits imitate worms, spiders and even horned beetles. Birds carry them off, thinking they've snatched a squirmalicious snack." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The developing world cradles infinite varieties of underutilized tropical fruits. By discovering fruits, whether in our backyards or abroad, we can reconnect with nature, the realm of the sublime. To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. This then, is the story of fruits, and of the intense connections between fruits and humans. A caveat: they can become an all-consuming preoccupation." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The wonderful thing about tropical fruit is that there are amazing people involved," says Campbell. "There are all these guys around the world who keep in touch and travel together and have all these crazy stories." When Ossenfort and I meet William Whitman at his split-level Bal Harbour home, he is no longer the swashbuckling young man who rip curled his way into the Surfing Hall of Fame and introduced spear hunting to the Bahamas." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The emergence of aids, Ebola, and any number of other rainforest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the earth. Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest, or they come from tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people. The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world's plant and animal species. The rain forests are also its largest reservoirs of viruses, since all living things carry viruses." - Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (Get the book.)

"The consequence, as we are all well aware, is the plundering of the largest remaining forests: the tropical rainforests of South America and Southeast Asia. I remember the first time I flew across the Brazilian forests at night. I looked out the window and saw what looked like the thin red line you see along the edge of a smoldering piece of paper. The only problem was that the line was ten miles long, and it was not paper but forest that was burning. In 1997, we saw the devastating effect of forest fires in Indonesia, exacerbated by the Pacific's El Nino warming effect." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Hurricanes, which are seeded by warmer tropical waters, are likely to increase—both in frequency and strength. Even a modest global warming could trigger a runaway effect. Frozen in the tundras of northern Canada and Russia are vast amounts of methane, which is an even more potent greenhouse gas. If these areas thawed, releasing their methane into the atmosphere, the world would warm much faster." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Water vapor itself is a greenhouse gas; as the air becomes warmer and more moist, the heat trapped in the tropical regions will increase even further. Deforestation does not help, either; it reduces the biosphere's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. Moreover, the warmer the world becomes, the faster dead vegetation will decay, both on land and in the sea, further speeding the release of greenhouse gases. As a result of these and other feedback loops, the earth's temperature may rise much more rapidly than we initially suspected." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "It has even been argued that a warming in the tropics may flip the climate near the poles into an ice age. 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." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The formula combines an extract from the bark of the Amazonian tree, Pao pereira, and an extract from the bark of the roots of the tropical shrub Rauwolfia vomitoria, a medicinal plant traditionally used for many ailments including hormone regulation. The alkaloids found in these barks are the subject of numerous research studies linking alkaloids with the ability to fight cancer. Flavopereirine (also known as PB-100), an alkaloid from the Pao pereira tree, has been used to effectively treat brain tumors and several types of cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"This is not a problem in tropical areas, where enough vitamin D is produced despite dark skin color. People with very dark skin may only produce one-sixth as much vitamin D as fair-skinned people do in the same amount of time. Activation of Vitamin D Vitamin D3, whether taken as a supplement or made in the skin from sunlight, is biologically inactive. Cholecalciferol, vitamin D3, is circulated to the liver through the bloodstream. In the liver cholecalciferol is hydroxylated (hydrogen and oxygen are added) to form calcidiol, the storage form of vitamin D." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

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