-->| If massive climate change was going to lead us into a new ice age, we'd have a few hundred thousand years to do something about it.
Of course, there were some contrary voices singing a different tune, but the larger scientific community paid them very little regard. Andrew ELUcott Douglass was an astronomer working in Arizona in 1895 when he first started cutting down trees to examine them for evidence of any effect from a specific solar activity, called sunspots, that occurs in cycles. | | The savanna theory holds that our apelike ancestors abandoned the dark African forests and moved into the great grassy plains, perhaps because of climate changes that led to massive environmental change. In the forest, food was plentiful—fruits, nuts, and leaves could be found in abundance. But out in the savanna, life was tougher, so the theory goes, and our ancestors had to find new ways to get food. Males began to hunt bravely for meat among the herds of grazing animals. | | In 1989 the United States mounted an expedition to drill a core all the way to the bottom of the two-mile Greenland ice sheet— representing 110,000 years of climate history. Just twenty miles away, a European team was conducting a similar study. Four years later, both teams got to the bottom—and the meaning of rapid was about to change again.
The ice cores revealed that the Younger Dryas—the last ice age—ended in just three years. Ice age to no ice age—not in three thousand years, not in three hundred years, but in three plain years. |  Kidney specialists feel that the "eight glasses" rule is an overestimate and that an average-size adult with healthy kidneys in a temperate climate needs no more than one liter of fluid. And it is true that no one really knows where the "eight glasses a day" rule came from, and that there isn't a lot of science to back up what we nutritionists are saying when we encourage people to drink, drink, drink. These experts also argue that we can get the fluids we need from other sources besides water.
I say, "phooey." You wouldn't wash your clothes in soda, would you? | | And that gorgeous sunny climate can't hurt, either. So what exactly is in olive oil, and what the
That said, virtually every nutritional researcher also heck does it do for you? Well, to start with, olive attributes at least some of the legendary health of oil is very high in compounds called phenols, those in the Mediterranean to the copious con- which are potent antioxidants. Olive oil is also sumption of olive oil. |  We've already sent the climate into a tailspin with carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, but that's only the beginning of this story. The Earth is being poisoned, day by day, by greenwashing corporations and gullible consumers, and it's only a matter of time before it all comes back to bite us so hard that we become a race of chemically-induced genetic mutants. | | In terms of our current political, economic, governmental, and educational climate, you will also see why now is the optimal time for crimes against humanity.
Randy Shultz, author of And The Band Played On, details the chronology of our HIV-AIDS crisis. Most readers will consider themselves outside the "at-risk" category; and as outsiders looking in, they might fail to recognize the mistakes that brought us to our current state. It's easy to overlook the high-and-mighty attitudes of the researchers in their quest for research dollars. |  Ultimately, if we are going to save our planet and human civilization from self-induced climate change chaos, we are going to have to do something about our public education system, too.
Why are we teaching high school students useless geometry theorems while neglecting to teach them how to read labels while shopping at the grocery store? Why are we teaching algebra but not how to estimate a 10 percent waiter's tip in your head? |  For a city, genes are geography—whether it's built on a river, or whether it's located in a hot or cold climate, or whether it lies directly in a prevalent hurricane path. The city's geography can't inherently change. But the city can adapt to that environment, with earthquake-proof construction, underground tunnels for walking in wintertime, or a ferry system for commuting. The adaptation the city makes to survive and to thrive is what's crucial to its vitality. The same goes for YOU. | | But you can manage the city's geographic area and climate by being innovative. After all great cities arise from very different geographies. slon of your genetic codes to decrease your risk of getting cancer. That means you do have some control over how your genes manifest themselves in your body and how they control the rate—and way—that you age.
Maybe you've been dealt a bad hand of genetics, but that doesn't mean you can't exchange a few cards, or at least change how you play them. |  Drink throughout the day when in a hot climate as a preventive measure. ¦
Acupuncture: Treatment may be needed every day for a few days to help recovery from sunstroke. Needles will be left in for 20-30 minutes during each session. Consult an experienced practitioner for advice on a treatment plan.
Acupressure: Press the Feng Chi and Hegu points with the tip of your finger or thumb for one minute, and repeat twice a day. The Hegu point is located on the back of the hand between the thumb and first finger. | | It often occurs when someone is in a hot climate that has higher temperatures that those they are used to. It can be exacerbated by dehydration, and exertion, for example, by engaging in a sporting activity. The first signs are often dizziness, fatigue, a headache, rapid pulse, rapid breathing, and muscle cramps. The condition becomes serious if the skin is flushed and the person is no longer sweating, has a high body temperature, is confused, or loses consciousness. If the body is unable to reduce its own temperature by sweating, it can rise to as high as 107°F in some cases. | | W
PRICKLY HEAT
DIAGNOSIS
Also known as heat rash, prickly heat is a very common condition, especially in babies and young children, but it can also affect adults, particularly when on vacation in a hot climate. Known medically as miliaria rubra, prickly heat is caused by an overreaction by the body to heat when it is unable to cool down efficiently and sweat ducts become blocked. This leads to a red rash and skin that feels hot and prickly. | | Humidifiers can be used in a dry climate, as they will help to moisturize the respiratory system. Too much humidity however, can cause more problems. The optimum level is about 35%.
Nasal washes: Using saline (saltwater) made from 1 tsp of salt to each pint of distilled warm water is an inexpensive and effective treatment. Sniff a small amount of the saline water into the nostrils one at a time and blow your nose. A syringe can also be used, as can a nasal spray.
Supplements: Take 1,000 mg of quercetin (eucalyptus flavonoid) three times a day. | | It may also occur if water is trapped in the ear after bathing or showering, particularly if there is a significant amount of ear wax or the climate is very humid. Swimmer's ear is most common during the summer months, as humidity also increases the possibility of infection, but the condition can occur year round. Symptoms include swelling or redness of the skin of the external ear canal, fluid draining into the ear canal, and tender lymph nodes near the ears.
To help prevent this condition, try to keep your ear canal dry. |  The plant prefers moist soil, a humid climate, and plenty of sunshine.
SYRIAN RUE
Botanical Name
Peganum barmala
Family
Nitariaceae (Nitaria Family) Etymology
The genus name, Peganum, is the classical Greek name for a species of rue, which Syrian rue was thought to resemble, although the two are not related. The species name, barmala, derives from that of the Lebanese town Hermel. |  Getting rid of meat in their diet is the single most powerful thing consumers can do right now to protect the planet against global warming and climate change."
For those consumers who still choose to purchase meat, Adams urges them to check the ingredients labels for "sodium nitrite" -- the chemical additive that many researchers believe to be responsible for much of the increased cancer risk of processed meat products. "Eating sodium nitrite is quite simply dangerous to your health," Adams said. |  Set in a region with a near-desert climate, the building also includes waterless urinals and low-flow toilets, and smart-glass coated windows that allow maximum light to come in with minimum heat. Each of these urinals can save 40,000 gallons of water a year, which translates into saving several million gallons annually for the building as a whole. The cafeteria offers organically raised local foods, uses plastic cutlery made out of potato starch or corn, and returns waste back to the growers for use as compost. |  Guidelines for Increasing Sun Exposure
If you wish to benefit from the sun but cannot afford much time to be outdoors, there are several ways to increase your exposure to sunlight:
• Windows should consist of glass that permits UV light to enter
• Have as many such windows as possible
• Keep your curtains pushed back so that you have maximum exposure
• Depending on weather and the season, keep your windows open
• Install as many full spectrum lights as possible (the best alternative to natural sunlight)
Those living in a moderate climate can sunbathe regularly. |  It has outstanding natural resources in terms of sunlight, fresh water and fresh air, and it offers an ideal climate for growing foods of high nutritional density. That includes not only macadamia nuts, but superfoods like spirulina (which is grown by the Cyanotech corporation, also located on the Big Island).
I support small, local farmers in every agricultural region, including Hawaii. |  The acceleration of natural disasters and radical climate change
Today, as mankind continues to destroy the planet's environment and ecosystems, some rather inconvenient natural events are about to be unleashed that will no doubt severely impact human populations. It doesn't mean trees will uproot themselves and march upon our cities, of course. That's just a cartoon depiction. What's far more likely to happen is that imbalanced ecosystems will unleash famines and infectious diseases that will ultimately devastate humankind.
Why famines? |  Now, just because you live in a miserable climate in the North Atlantic doesn't give you the right to spontaneously add random syllables to English words. Somehow, you manage to turn this four syllable word into FIVE syllables: Al - u - mi - ni - um. It's the kind of pronunciation that makes a Yank stop and shudder while we check our red, white and blue checkered underwear. So Brits, for the sake of all the Yanks listening, please limit your pronunciation of "aluminum" to four syllables. Same rule applies to "jewelry," which only has three syllables, not four. |  If we were to switch over to a system of generating artificial meat, then the climate effect of this meat production would be drastically reduced. There still may be some industrial runoff or some kind of post-production chemicals that need to be dealt with after creating artificial meat, but undoubtedly these would be far less harmful to the planet than the clear-cutting of rain forest, injecting cows with hormones and antibiotics and raising crops with pesticides so that cows can be fed in a very inefficient food production system. |  The countries are divided by Northern climate (less vitamin D from sunlight exposure) and equatorial countries (more sunlight and higher
Age-standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 person years) from lung cancer in males in 23 countries, 1971-1995
Country
1971-1995
Northern Nations (lower vitamin D levels)
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Hungary
180.91
Poland
158.34
Belgium
144.87
Netherlands
129.4
Canada
107.71
USA
115.23
Denmark
103.74
England and Wales
101.21
Finland
90.2
Norway
67.36
Sweden
48.21
Equatorial Nations (higher vitamin D levels)
Taiwan
58.44
Portugal
59.48
Japan
59. |  In fact, regardless of what type of climate you're in, there are plants as healing medicine that can be grown in your region, whether you're in the great white north, or the jungles of Central America. Whether you're in a dry desert climate, the plains, forest, rainforest, swampland, the icy north, the Rocky Mountains, or the Smoky Mountains, there are plants you can grow that will help heal you.
This is one of the main areas of research on which I'm focusing right now. I'm working on finding new ways for people to more easily grow plants that have a healing potential. | | Black pepper grows in almost all types of soil but prefers soils that are loose and well-drained, in a humid climate with much rainfall and partial shade.
PEYOTE
Botanical Name
Lophophora diffusa, L. williamsii Family
Cactaceae (Cactus Family) Also Known As
English: buttons, cactus pudding, divine plant, dry whiskey, hikuli, mescal button, pellote, peyotl, white mule
Spanish: tuna de la tierra
Etymology
The genus name Lophophora derives from the Greek lophos, "crest," in reference to the crests or tri-chemes on each tubercle. |  It's important to understand this climate so that you can fully appreciate what we're up against when trying to inform the public about treatments and interventions that don't have the "official" medical profession seal of approval. It's an uphill battle, but not an unfamiliar one.
Those of us who argued against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid and against the officially sanctioned high-carbohydrate, high-sugar diet have experienced this kind of resistance before. It's pretty hard to get a fair hearing for a low-carbohydrate diet when a good portion of the U.S. |  It would take an environmentally enlightened political climate to restore research funding and cleanup efforts at levels equal to the challenge," says Gilbert.
At the end of the 2005 conference Workshop on Lupus and the Environment: Disease Development, Progression and Flares, the National Institutes of Health asked scientists to provide suggestions for drafting what is known as a request for applications, or RFA. | | Depending on its position in relation to the earth's rotation, the position of the moon, and the sun's internal cyclic activities (sun spot cycles), the sun masterminds the entire earth's climate and seasonal changes down to the smallest details, including temperature, amount of rainfall, cloud formation, periods of dryness, etc.
21 In 1998 scientists have found the first evidence that genetically-modified food may damage human health. Researchers at the prestigious Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, U.K., found that genetically-modified foods could damage the immune systems of rats. | | Those humans and animals that happened to live in other tropical areas of the world experienced more moderate climate shifts and thus survived the sudden start of the ice age. However, they had to learn to live with the seasons as we know them today. During the cold seasons, they had no other option but to kill animals for food. This is when hunting and meat-eating became a necessity. Yet this has nothing to do with the original constitutional design of the human body. | |
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