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"Prevent waste: Design chemical syntheses to prevent waste, leaving no waste to treat or clean up. 2. Design safer chemicals and products: Design chemical products to be fully effective, yet have little or no toxicity. 3. Design less hazardous chemical syntheses: Design syntheses to use and generate substances with little or no toxicity to humans and the environment. 4. Use renewable feedstocks: Use raw materials and feedstocks that are renewable rather than depleting." - 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.)

"In addition to the financial waste, burgeoning bureaucracies, and unneeded medical tests, procedures, and prescriptions, our landfills are overflowing in part due to the huge volumes of medical waste generated by the large number of disposable objects used in treatment and diagnosis (and their sterile packaging). Their bio-toxicity is also an added hazard to our water supplies and to those who handle this waste. Fortunately, the field of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine (ESM) has developed, complete with a journal." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"If all is well, the two-way traffic through the membranes involves nutrients entering to sustain the activities inside while waste products exit. Fats (lipids) and proteins make up the cell membranes. If the fatty acids in your diet are predominantly unsaturated fat (from vegetables and fish oil), cell membranes maintain a desirable elasticity and permeability. Traffic flows in and out. However, if you eat too much saturated fat (as in meat and dairy) or trans fats (hydrogenated and fried oils), your membranes stiffen up and the cell has trouble exchanging nutrients for wastes." - 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.)

"A measure of the ability of the kidneys to filter and eliminate waste products from the body, glomeruli: The network of tiny blood vessels in the kidneys through which blood is filtered and waste materials are removed, glucagon: A hormone, made by the pancreas, that raises the level of glucose in the blood. glucose: A simple sugar, present in the blood, that is the body's main energy source. glucose tolerance test: A blood test that can help identify diabetes. A blood sample is taken after an overnight fast and before the individual has eaten in the morning." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"When she finds herself in particularly vulnerable situations, such as opening herself up to romance or trusting her experience in the distant universe where she's been transported, her father's words become the guiding principle of her beliefs: His response is simply that if we're alone in the universe, it seems like an awful waste of space. In much the same way, if we believe that the space between any two things is empty, then it seems like a tremendous waste as well. Scientists believe that more than 90 percent of the cosmos is "missing" and appears to us as empty space." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil. In the 1990s, manufacturers in Quincy Washington, intentionally sold toxic industrial waste to farmers as fertilizer, causing an eruption of cancers, brain tumors and pulmonary disease. Farmers in India recently started spraying their cotton and chili fields with Coca-Cola. They say it kills pests just as well as chemicals but costs less. In India, reports Vandana Shiva, tens of thousands of debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide, many by drinking pesticides." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Derivatives use additional reagents and generate waste. 7. Maximize atom economy: Design syntheses so that the final product contains the maximum proportion of the starting materials. There should be few, if any, wasted atoms. 8. Use safer solvents and reaction conditions: Avoid using solvents, separation agents, or other auxiliary chemicals. If these chemicals are necessary, use innocuous chemicals. 9. Increase energy efficiency: Run chemical reactions at ambient temperature and pressure whenever possible. 10." - 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.) "Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents: Minimize waste by using catalytic reactions. Catalysts are used in small amounts and can carry out a single reaction many times. They are preferable to stoichiometric reagents, which are used in excess and work only once. 6. Avoid chemical derivatives: Avoid using blocking or protecting groups or any temporary modifications if possible. Derivatives use additional reagents and generate waste. 7. Maximize atom economy: Design syntheses so that the final product contains the maximum proportion of the starting materials." - 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.)

"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.)

"Tumor angiogenesis is the proliferation of a network of blood vessels that penetrates into cancerous growths, supplying nutrients and oxygen and removing waste products. Tumor angiogenesis actually starts with cancerous tumor cells releasing molecules that send signals to surrounding normal host tissue. This signaling activates certain genes in the host tissue that, in turn, make proteins to encourage growth of new blood vessels. Fortunately, maitake's beta-glucans can prevent this process by stimulating tumor necrosis factor." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "As the herbs work their purging, dissolving, and removing of waste, the immune system eliminates toxins and poisons," he explained. Flor-Essence has also been used as a vaginal douche and an enema with astonishing results. Given these properties, who can afford not to take it? What Benefits Can I Expect from Flor-Essence?" - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"He also points out that it helps remove waste products from the mitochondria energy production factory, enabling them to be eliminated from the body. n O 03 O n c 71 m (/> "This is a very important job," he says. "If toxins are not removed from mitochondria, they can damage the mitochondria, which will slow down energy production even more." Several clinical trials have suggested that acetyl-L-carnitine may delay the onset of age-related cognitive decline and improve overall cognitive function in the elderly." - 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.)

"Nuclear reactors produce an almost unlimited supply of energy, but their waste products and their decommissioning pose serious problems. Genetic engineering can create virus-resistant and protein-rich plants, improved breeds of animals, vast supplies of animal proteins, and microorganisms capable of producing proteins and hormones and improving photosynthesis, but it can also produce lethal biological weapons and pathogenic microorganisms and destroy the diversity and the balance of nature." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Incomplete removal of waste products from this metabolic activity may create lipofuscin. Lysosomes are the waste disposal units in cells. They contain strong digestive enzymes to digest cellular waste and debris. Lipofuscin may accumulate if lysosomes become overloaded with cellular waste or if the lysosomal membranes become damaged, allowing the caustic enzymes to leak out into other areas of the cell.3 Demopoulos and other investigators suggest that lipofuscin deposits may be accumulated debris from free radical attacks that damage cell membranes and cellular components." - Ross Pelton, Mind Food and Smart Pills (Get the book.)

"The energy mill that powers life in the biosphere The thermal energy gradient between the energy streaming from the Sun to the surface of Earth and the temperature of space around the planet (the cosmic background temperature) constitutes an energy mill where the heat energy of solar radiation is transformed into systems of increasing complexity and the waste energy—degraded to lower temperatures—is radiated off into space." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "But currently people in North America, Western Europe, and Japan use (and to a large extent waste) 140 percent of their daily caloric requirement, whereas populations in countries such as Madagascar, Guyana, and Laos obtain merely 70 percent. Current trends in energy consumption are likewise unsustainable. The average amount of commercial electrical energy consumed by Africans is half a kilowatt-hour (kWh) per person, the corresponding average for Asians and Latin Americans is 2 to 3 kWh, and for Americans, Europeans, Australians, and Japanese it is 8 kWh." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"If your child is an active, engaged, happy child who gets enough rest, he or she certainly won't voluntarily waste energy on outbursts or tantrums. To make sure that your child does have enough energy to get through the day and to make the most of his or her waking hours, you must enforce and encourage good sleep habits. There's nothing wrong with creating and sticking to a strict bedtime. Any growing child who isn't getting enough sleep is jeopardizing his or her development, but a sleep-deprived ADD/ADHD child is more likely to backslide and experience increased symptoms." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Their parents, who are often exhausted from their jobs, child-care responsibilities, and other duties, are so grateful for the quiet time that they'll allow their children to waste hours of time this way. I asked Jessica and Ted to begin the nutritional part of the boys' treatment first. The food at the after-school programs and the doughnuts and other junk food served after the kids' soccer and baseball games was bad enough. But at home, there was an even more relaxed attitude toward junk food, and chips, candy, and cookies were seemingly unlimited." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"More water is useful to dilute the urine and ensure waste removal. Inadequate water intake has been correlated with increased rates of bladder cancer because of the longer time that the bladder may be exposed to potential carcinogens. One half-gallon to one gallon is a reasonable range of liquids for most people to drink each day. Hard work in the hot sun greatly increases water needs. Coffee, Figure 7-2 Blood pressure and water retention. tea, sodas, and alcoholic beverages are not good water substitutes as their diuretic action causes losses of about half of the amount taken." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Let's not forget that those little "yeasty-beasties" are actually living organisms that produce waste products of their own, which can cause an attack. One study found that 8 to 10 percent of chronic asthma and rhinitis patients are likely sensitive to one of three yeasts (one of which was Candida). For about 5 percent of candida-allergic patients studied, bronchial asthma was the major symptom of their yeast problem. (See page 179 for suggested treatments for Candida.) Asthma and allergies share a relationship to emotional stress." - 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.)

"Doing too many cardiac procedures can waste more than money. A study published in NEJM in 2001, two years after Mr. Wilkins died, showed that more than half of the people who go through coronary artery bypass surgery experience a significant decrease in mental capacity postoperatively, and the risk is even higher for older patients. In retrospect Mrs. Wilkins' frustration with her husband ("he's not himself") was almost certainly a reaction to mental impairment he had suffered as a result of his surgery. There is no way we can know whether Mr." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"John wrote, How can anyone speak of or recount such a hideous sight, and who can watch this burial, even though his soul should remain in his body and nor waste away from bitter lamentations over so much iniquity which would suffice to destroy the children of Adam? How and wirh what utterances, with what hymns, with what funeral laments and groanings should somebody mourn who has survived and witnessed this wine-press of the fury of the wrarh of God?*'0 • A direct quote from the Book of Revelation, 14:19." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"To build strong bodies, we also need quality materials in the form of quality food, and we need an efficient elimination of waste materials from the body. We can have all the very best materials to build our house in a pile at the construction site, but if we have no workers to assemble the materials they will sit there and eventually rot. It's the same with our bodies. There are only two things that do "construction" work in our bodies: enzymes and bowel bacteria." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Spleen The spleen is the largest mass of lymphatic tissue in the body and acts as a powerful blood waste filter. It is an organ about the size of a person's fist, and is located in the upper part of the abdominal cavity, just under the rib cage on the left side. It produces lymphocytes (white blood cells), destroys defective red blood cells, and serves as a blood reservoir. It recycles whatever molecules our bodies need to retain and reuse. During times of great stress or hemorrhage, the spleen can release stored blood to prevent shock." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Because of the mucus buildup, the colon passageway becomes narrowed, making it necessary for the body to add more water to the waste contents and increase contractions to empty whatever can be forced out. A healthy, properly functioning bowel contains an average of three pounds of friendly bacteria composed of over 400 kinds of microorganisms. These bacteria are essential ingredients for improving nutrition and protecting against disease. When antibiotics are taken to kill harmful bacteria in the body, they also kill many of the healthy strains." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Detoxify it of its acid waste stores, balance pH, replenish its supplies of enzymes and bowel flora, and feed it complete amino acid proteins for rebuilding. These three food forms must be consumed in sufficient quantity, along with lots of good water. All non-healthy foods must be strictly avoided. We must also address our attitudes and beliefs. When this is done he says, "Healing will happen. I've never seen it fail." NO INCURABLE DISEASE Here is a quote from Dr." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Use over-the-counter medications for allergies; do not waste money on prescription drugs for these. Do not use OTC medications for chronic asthma. As needed use beta-agonist and steroid inhalers for chronic asthma. If these do not control your asthma use a long-acting beta agonist only as a last resort, and then never in the absence of an inhaled steroid." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Make sure that any acupuncturist that you see has been accredited by the National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), which ensures that he or she has had the proper training. main waste materials disposed of by the kidneys are nitrogenous byproducts of protein metabolism (such as ammonia and urea). When excessive protein is consumed, the amount of nitrogenous waste sent for disposal is greatly increased." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Deep and intense pressure massage eases the stiffness often experienced by athletes and dancers, by draining waste products which accumulate in muscles after strenuous activity. Massage is not suitable for people with a fever, blood poisoning, haemorrhaging, vein inflammation or varicose veins, thrombosis, spinal disease, acute inflammation, tumours, skin disease, pregnancy, abscesses, tubercular joints, severe abdominal pain, a heart condition or in the throes of an asthma attack. A full body massage should take about 50?" - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

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