David Steinman
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 Employees in the United States who travel for Nike business have the option of choosing delta Air Lines to allocate a portion of their ticket cost to a fund established by Nike and delta Air Lines. The Eco-Class fund is aimed at mitigating the annual climate impact of Nike's air travel on delta flights by offsetting the equivalent carbon emissions.
PCBs and the Hudson River go together like, well, GE and supermnd. Besides being responsible for PCB pollution of the Hudson River Valley, GE contributes to some seventy-five to one hundred Superfund sites. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 The brain slows down into theta waves, with intermittent surges of rapid brain waves (spindles) followed by large, slow bursts of delta waves. Breathing, heat rate, metabolic rate, and body temperature continue to decline. You may be awakened easily by sound and movement.
Stage 3: As the brain progressively slows down to large, slow delta waves, you enter a deeper stage of sleep. Muscles go limp and breathing is slow and even. You may begin to sweat. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 Hz), known as delta waves. Though delta is their predominant wave activity, babies can exhibit periodic short bursts of higher EEG activity. A child begins to spend more time at a higher level of EEG activity characterized as Theta (4-8 Hz) between two and six years of age. Hypnotherapists drop their patients' brain activity into delta and Theta because these low frequency brain waves put them into a more suggestible, programmable state. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The first farming settlements in the Nile delta date from about 5000 bc. Farming and livestock herding gradually replaced hunting and gathering as silt carried by the river began building a broad, seasonally flooded, and exceptionally fertile delta once the postglacial sea level's rise slowed enough to let the silt pile up in one place. At
Figure 5. Ancient Egyptian plow (Whitney 1925). first Egyptian farmers simply cast seeds into the mud as the annual flood receded, harvesting twice the amount of grain used for seed. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Vitamin E is actually a family of eight compounds—four of them are tocopherols (alpha, gamma, beta, and delta) and four of them are tocotrienols (alpha, gamma, beta, and delta). (Most common vitamin E supplements are just alpha-tocopherol, and that's a whole different discussion.) What's important here is that the tocotrienols are potent antioxidants and heart-healthy nutrients, and they are abundantly found in palm oil extracted from palm fruits.
Palm oil is believed to have a very high concentration of carotenoids, which is what gives it the distinctive red coloring. |
Bottom Line Health
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| For more information on animal-assisted — therapy, visit the delta Society at www. deltasociety.org.
Short of Breath?
It Could Be a Sign of
Heart Trouble
Daniel S. Berman, director, cardiac imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Alan Rozanski, MD, director of nuclear cardiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York City.
The New England Journal of Medicine.
Add dyspnea, or difficulty breathing, to the growing list of risk factors that could signal heart trouble. |
Mark Lynas
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 Rather than rising in Botswana, the Okavango River ends there, dying gradually under the hot sun in a flat delta of salt pans and wildlife-rich wetlands. Though diamonds are the mainstay of the economy (along with tourism), cattle are central to agricultural and cultural life. Owning ten thousand head of cattle would impress Botswanans far more than the possession of a posh condominium on New York's Fifth Avenue.
But sadly for Botswana, the long-range forecast shows very little rain. |
Devra Davis
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 While he served as a senior adviser to the NCI, Hammer's firm produced more than 100 billion tons of toxic chemicals, including those that created the superfund toxic waste site at Love Canal and led to the contamination of lush Mississippi River delta towns in Calcacieu Parish. Similar conflicts continue today.
Other global firms have been leaders in the war on cancer. Industrial Chemicals Inc. is a vast corporation. Divisions of the company make a number of pesticides and other cancer causing chemicals. |
| Major chemical companies bought up and moved the contaminated Louisiana delta towns of Mossville and Reveilletown. These companies did this without admitting any responsibility for the pollution that had rendered these places uninhabitable. They then pointed to the absence of information on health harms in these areas as proof that no such damage occurred. |
| As we motor through the swamp, we pass delta Downs, Starks Lookout Tower, Gum Cove Ferry, Black Bayou Ferry, Ellender Ferry, Southwest Louisiana Boys Village and the Indian Bayou Ferry. The most industrious animal in the area today is the beaver, whose dams attract birds, fish and other wildlife. Otters, minks and raccoons all feed off the world that the beaver builds. Louisiana has some very primitive fish—the bowfin, the garfish, the sturgeon and the paddle fish. These have evolved from ganoid fishes—one of the most primitive fish left in the world. |
Mark Lynas
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| Further to the east, Bangladesh will be losing a third of its land area, displacing tens of millions from the fertile Meghna delta. In Boston, USA, storm-surge flooding from higher sea levels could inundate even the city's central business district by 2075, causing estimated damages of $94 billion. Down the coast in New Jersey a 60-centimetre rise in sea level would flood 170 square kilometres of land, whilst a rise of double that would drown more than 3 per cent of the state, including some of the most densely populated coastal areas. |
| Most of the rest was reclaimed by the sea as the Nile delta, on which the ancient city was built, slowly subsided. Some of its finest treasures have been recovered from the seabed offshore after being submerged for centuries in Poseidon's watery grasp.
The waves are still encroaching, as global warming adds a further toll to the subsiding land. City authorities have to truck in huge amounts of sand from the inland desert near Cairo to keep the beaches from washing away, whilst massive breakwater fortifications have been constructed to keep the rising waters out of the city. |
David R. Montgomery
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| At Ottet Point Creek, Maryland, the sedimentation rate in a tidal freshwater delta in upper Chesapeake Bay increased by a factor of six after 1730, and then again by another factor of six by the mid-1800s. The rate of sediment accumulation in a bog at Flat Laurel Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina remained relatively steady for more than three thousand years and then increased four- to fivefold when land clearance reached the crest of the range around 1880.
Slavery wasn't the only reason that erosion was a bigger problem in the South than in the North. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The wild form Glycine soya is found in the Amur-Ussuri delta, northern China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.
Production: Lecithin is extracted from glycine enriched soybean extract with 73 to 79% 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine. Also present are phosphatidylethanolamine (maximum 7%), phosphatidylinositic acid (<0.5%), oil (2 - 6%), vitamine (0.2 to 0.5%). The range given includes production and analytical variances. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Mixed tocopherols is a mixture of unesterified natural isomers including alpha, beta, delta, and gamma tocopherol.
Tocophero Equivalents (Farrell & Roberts, 1994):
1 mg dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate = 1 IU
1 mg dl-alpha tocopherol = 1.1 IU
1 mg d-alpha tocopheryl acetate = 1.36 IU
1 mg d-alpha tocopherol = 1.49 IU
1 mg d-alpha tocopheryl acid succinate = 1.21 IU
1 mg dl-alpha tocopheryl acid succinate = 0.89 IU
Other Names: Alpha-tocopherol, D-alpha tocopherol, D-alpha tocopheryl acid succinate, Dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate, D-alpha tocopherol. |
| Habitat: The plant grows in the Mississippi delta region.
Production: False Unicorn Root is the rhizome of Veratrum luteum.
Other Names: Starwort, Helonias Root, Blazing Star, Fairy-Wand actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS
Steroid saponins: (mixture is referred to as chamaelirin, ca. 10%), aglycone diosgenin
EFFECTS
Oxytocic, diuretic, anthelmintic indications and usage
Unproven Uses: False Unicom Root is used for menstrual disturbances, dysmenorrhea, and pregnancy complaints. |
| Effects of perinatal exposure to delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol on the fetal and early postnatal development of tyrosine hydroxylase-containing neurons in rat brain. In: J Mol Neurosci, 7:291-308, 1996 Winter 1996.
Briggs GG, Freeman RK & Yaffe SJ. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, 4th ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1994.
Burke MD, Kilgour C & Pertwee RG. Potent but selective inhibition of cytochrome P-450 by cannabidiol. In: Br J Pharmacol; 83:445P,1984.
Castle DJ, Ames FR. Cannabis and the brain. |
| Hwang TC, Wang F, Yang IC et al: Genistein potentiates wild-type and delta F508-CFTR channel activity. Am J Physiol; 273(3 pt l):C988-998. 1997
Illek B. Yankaskas JR, Machen TE: cAMP and genistein stimulate HC03-conductance through CFTR in human airway epithelia. Am J Physiol; 272(4 pt 1):L752-L761. 1997
Jabbar MA, Larrea J, Shaw RA. Abnormal thyroid function tests in infants with congenital hypothyroidism: the influence of Soy-based formula. J Am Coll Nutr 16:280-282. 1997. |
Mark Lynas
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| Indeed, as the sea begins to encroach across ever-wider parts of the Nile delta, millions more will be evicted from their homes in other cities like Rosetta and Port Said. Beaches, wetlands and agricultural areas will all be submerged, devastating an area that is the heart of Egypt's economy. A part of the world that has always attracted conquerors, from Alexander to Napoleon, will be facing its final - and unvanquishable - foe.
Of course, Egypt will not be alone in suffering the effects of a global phenomenon like sea level rise. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 In the 1970s it was believed that Premarin consisted of only 10 estrogens—17 beta-estradiol, 17 beta dihy-droequilin, 17 beta dihydroequilenin, 17 alpha dihydroequilin, 17 alpha estradiol, estrone, equi-lin, 17 alpha dihydroequilenin, delta 8-9 dehy-droestrone sulfate, and equilenin. Since then, advancements in technology have revealed that the original 10 estrogens make up less than 40 percent of the hormonal content of Premarin. Using modern analytical techniques, today over 200 individual components have been identified, including androgens and progestins. |
John Boik
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 PROSTAGLANDIN PRODUCTION FROM DIETARY FATS docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)
Adapted from: Booyens and Maguire, 1985; Under, 1991:60 arachidonic acid delta 5D: delta-5-desaturase delta 6D: delta-6-desaturase GLA: gamma-linolenic acid DGLA: dihomogamma-linolenic acid EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid required to exert a physiologic effect. This difficulty may be due, in part, to the inhibition of EPA (and PGE3) by omega-6 fatty acids. Therefore, to achieve sufficient EPA concentrations, it may be necessary to severely restrict the intake of omega-6 fatty acids.
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| Omega-3 fatty acids inhibit delta 6 desaturase, and the production of both PGEj and PGE2 by linoleic acid. (Delta 6 desaturase is also decreased by dietary carbohydrates and is increased by protein.)
• Omega-3 fatty acids inhibit delta 5 desaturase and the conversion of DGLA to arachidonic acid, which may result in a reduction of PGE2 production. (Delta 5 desaturase is also stimulated by carbohydrates via insulin-mediated effects).
• Omega-3 fatty acids reduce kinin-induced PGEj and PGE2 release. |
Michael Castleman
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 Most growth and most recovery from illness occurs during sleep, specifically during the deepest, or delta, stage. Children spend a good deal of the night in delta sleep because they are growing. As adults grow older, delta sleep diminishes. Many people believe that loss of sound sleep is caused by aging, but it just might be the other way around. A decline in delta sleep may play a key role in the physical decline of aging by limiting the body's ability to repair itself. |
John Boik
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| PROSTAGLANDIN PRODUCTION FROM DIETARY FATS docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)
Adapted from: Booyens and Maguire, 1985; Under, 1991:60 arachidonic acid delta 5D: delta-5-desaturase delta 6D: delta-6-desaturase GLA: gamma-linolenic acid DGLA: dihomogamma-linolenic acid EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid required to exert a physiologic effect. This difficulty may be due, in part, to the inhibition of EPA (and PGE3) by omega-6 fatty acids. Therefore, to achieve sufficient EPA concentrations, it may be necessary to severely restrict the intake of omega-6 fatty acids.
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Henry Hobhouse
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 The Nile delta decayed several times in the period of which we have historical knowledge. The same is true of the lower Euphrates and the collapse of the Indus civilization before the Mogul invasion. After the fall of Rome similar cycles occurred in the wetlands between Seville and Cadiz in Spain, in the Rhone delta, at the mouth of the Danube, and, in the case for which there is a great deal more solid evidence, in the coastal belt of Portugal.
The inefficiency, disablement, and short life of the survivors rendered whole civilizations victims of their acquisitive neighbors. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Over thousands of years, millions of farmers armed with baskets full of dirt walled in and gradually raised four hundred miles of the river above its floodplain and delta. Seeing the muddy yellowish water, Lowdermilk realized that the heavy load of silt eroded from the highlands began to settle out when the river's slope dropped to less than one foot per mile. The more silt built up the riverbed, the faster farmers raised the dikes. There was no winning this game. |
Bill Sardi
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 Naturally occurring vitamin E is actually available in eight molecular forms, as alpha, beta, delta and gamma, in two families, the tocopherols and tocotrienols. While gamma-tocopherol (found in corn, soybean, and sesame oils and walnuts, peanuts and pecans) is the most common form of vitamin E in the U.S. diet, gamma-tocopherol levels are generally 10 times lower than levels of alpha-tocopherol in blood plasma. Also, alpha tocopherol sticks around in tissues longer than other forms of vitamin E. For these reasons, scientists have placed a greater focus on alpha-tocopherol. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Cacao survived as an industry in Brazil, but the commercial centet of gravity had moved out of the Amazon, to the coastal tegion of Bahia, south of the great river's delta.
The Fortunate (and Not-So-Fortunate) Islands
The beautiful islands of the West Indies, winter playground of rich and not-so-rich North Americans and Europeans, have had a checkered and often deeply tragic histoty—or we should say "histories," since European powers struggled over them for centuties following theit "discovery" by the Admiral of the Ocean Sea in 1492. |
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