Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
This is something that could be completely eliminated through genetic engineering. With engineering, the biochemistry responsible for this quest for calories could be altered, creating a person who isn't hungry all the time and who doesn't seek out refined carbohydrates or overeat even when there's plenty of food available.
Interestingly, our hardware and software has also developed to reward us through brain chemistry when we consume refined carbohydrates and fat. Why are these rewarded? They are rewarded because carbohydrates and fat represent the taste of energy. |
| Genetic engineering -- reprogramming the DNA of our species
There are some interesting technologies, though, that can help make the prevention of chronic disease easier for people. I have discussed some of these in my book "The Top 10 Most Important Emerging Technologies for Humanity," which is available for downloading free of charge at www.truthpublishing.com. In the book, I argue that genetic engineering is indeed an important technological advance for not only the success of our species, but also for enhancing the health of our population. |
David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts |
A USDA study found no overall reduction in pesticide use associated with genetically engineered crops, even though increased pest resistance is touted as a major advantage of crop engineering. Whereas the promise of gteatly increased crop yields from genetic engineering has proven elusive, some fear that genetically modified genes that convey sterility could cross to nonproprietary crops, with catastrophic results.
Given the significant real and potential drawbacks of bioengineering and agrochemistry, alternative approaches deserve a closer look. |
David De Angelis See book keywords and concepts |
Just imagine yourself taking a degree in engineering (the commitment and effort required), but in this case your own eyes and your sight are on the scales.
I'll give you an example related to mechanical-architectural engineering to help you understand it more clearly. Understand the concept of gradually building (brick by brick) the difference between a middle-sized building and a castle. The first step depends on the worker's engagement (in our case, it depends on your commitment to doing the exercises, which are similar to the bricks) and on the time you spend in doing the exercises. |
Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts |
Two of the major figures in this tiny subgroup were former dean of engineering Robert Jahn at the Princeton engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University and his colleague Brenda Dunne, who together created a sophisticated, scholarly research program grounded in hard science. Over 25 years, Jahn and Dunne led what became a massive international effort to quantify what is referred to as "micro-psychokinesis," the effect of mind on random-event generators (REGs), which perform the electronic, twenty-first-century equivalent of a toss of a coin. |
| Tiller borrowed some lab space at the Terman engineering building at Stanford from one of his tolerant colleagues in civil engineering and some other space in the biology department, made some adjustments to the commercial device, and began designing his experiments. He wanted to go for broke, to see if this "caged" intention could affect actual live test subjects. He realized he could not yet try his experiments on human beings, because they presented too many random, uncontrollable variables. |
David De Angelis See book keywords and concepts |
I was asked to sketch out the legal requirements for a preventive effort at a four-year aeronautical engineering college.
The following would be the basis for a "legal ownership agreement" and responsibility, leading to a signed statement with the Embry-Riddle students who would enter into this type of nearsightedness prevention study. If I were entering a four-year college, and I valued my distance vision, I would have no problem signing a contract of this nature as part of a scientific-engineering study.
My eyes belong to me. I am responsible for my body and my eyes. They are mine. |
David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts |
Whereas the promise of gteatly increased crop yields from genetic engineering has proven elusive, some fear that genetically modified genes that convey sterility could cross to nonproprietary crops, with catastrophic results.
Given the significant real and potential drawbacks of bioengineering and agrochemistry, alternative approaches deserve a closer look. Over the long run, intensive organic farming and othet nonconventional methods may prove our best hope for maintaining food production in the face of population growth and continuing loss of agticultutal land. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey See book keywords and concepts |
Wolff finds only three plausible reasons for scientists' insistence on retaining a particle-based view of quantum reality: þ It is extremely useful in engineering calculations to approximate mass as being at a precise point, even if it really isn't. þ Particle theory has been taught in physics and engineering schools for decades and so is too useful a concept to throw out too quickly. þ Our sensory organs (particularly our eyes) and conventional technology (such as most microscopes) cannot distinguish wavelengths smaller than visible light. Smaller objects appear to be point-like. |
Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts |
Tiller borrowed some lab space at the Terman engineering building at Stanford from one of his tolerant colleagues in civil engineering and some other space in the biology department, made some adjustments to the commercial device, and began designing his experiments. He wanted to go for broke, to see if this "caged" intention could affect actual live test subjects. He realized he could not yet try his experiments on human beings, because they presented too many random, uncontrollable variables. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts |
Jumping genes are beginning to look like Mother Nature's version of on-the-fly genetic engineering. The more we understand how they work, the more they may reveal about how our immune systems protect us against disease and how our very genetic structure responds to environmental stress. This could open up whole new avenues to immunize people against disease, restore compromised immune systems, and even reverse dangerous mutations on a genetic level. remember all that "junk DNA"? |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts |
| All of these are patented analogs of human insulin and were created through a genetic engineering process.
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, in a press release for the new product Lantus, stated: Safety Information:
Human insulin therapy may be associated with hypoglycemia, worsening of diabetic retinopathy [non-inflammatory disorders of the retina], lipodystrophy [changes in fat metabolism], skin reactions (such as injection site reaction, pruritus [itching], and rash) allergic reactions, sodium retention, and edema [swelling due to fluid accumulation]. |
| This is now the language used by pharmaceutical companies to create billions of dollars in profit from genetically engineering insulin-like molecules. Philip Dick, a noted sci-fi writer carried this one step further by stating: "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words" ().
When is an insulin molecule a "foreign" protein? Pharmaceutical companies will tell you the foreign protein insulin source is the pancreas of a pig or cow. |
| How Genetically Engineered Insulin Was Created
Genetic engineering has provided the science for new technology. Through the efforts of many scientists in university research, technology emerged that allowed the production of rDNA human insulin. Genetic manipulation of a simple gut (intestinal) bacteria, E. coli, guaranteed an uninterruptible and inexpensive supply of a drug that is at once both life-extending and deadly. The pharmaceutical industry permitted greed to overcome their moral and humanitarian goals. |
| It did help to have a former Lilly board member as Vice President of the United States, who assisted in defining diabetes as the next corporate money stream for Lilly
Isn't it interesting that Bush the elder did not have any compunctions about modifying and genetically engineering shit bacteria (otherwise known as E. coli) to produce Human insulin, ready to be cycled into the bodies of chronically ill diabetics. Now, Bush the younger insists that stem-cell research is immoral and must be stopped, aligning himself with the religious right and the animal rights groups. |
Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts |
IVIuch of modern medicine began with exciting dreams of basic science and engineering. Just as Leonardo da Vinci had imagined in the fifteenth century, humans could be made to fly. Wilhelm Rontgen's accidental discovery of x-rays at the end of the nineteenth century found immediate applications: to look straight through the body and many other materials. Within a few years x-rays were used to find tumors years before they would be detected by physicians. When these breakthroughs first occurred, no one thought to ask whether they might have any negative impacts on human health. |
Mark Sircus See book keywords and concepts |
Research of this kind may help us to understand why some therapies such as magnesium supplements are important in the prevention and management of hypertension or heart failure," said Jianmin Cui, the lead researcher and assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering at CWRU. "Along with some other groups, we have discovered that when magnesium is applied to calcium-activated potassium channels, these channels will open. We know from literature that the opening of these channels can reduce blood pressure. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts |
In mechanical engineering parlance, such points of weakness are called "stress concentrators." Mechanical stresses that are generated across an area of bone divert from their normal path of stress transmission to focus on the area of weakening, thereby overloading it. Thus, individuals with higher levels of bone remodeling activity will have more stress-concentrating lacunae on their bone surfaces, giving them a greater chance for fracture than somebody in a low remodeling state. Finally, the degree of bone mineralization is also an important feature of bone quality. |
Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts |
At the same time, well behind closed doors, the tobacco industry carried out a major research program of its own aimed at engineering what was variously termed a better cigarette, a less toxic cigarette, or a safer cigarette. The ability of the industry to simultaneously maintain these two different tacks is a testimony to its ingenuity and to the power of its purse to dictate the nature of research.
According to one supposed inside report, the tobacco companies already knew how to make cigarettes safer—by using filters. |
| To get from one to the other, it was all just supposed to be a matter of filling in the blanks to comply with their engineering requirements."
The U.S. government devoted more money to the war on cancer than it had ever committed to a medical problem. Ronald B. Herber-man, now the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, where I work, was a young investigator at the National Cancer Institute in the early 1970s. "I remember going to a big meeting at the NCI, which was pretty heady stuff for someone at my level. |
| Fresh out of college with a chemical engineering degree, in 1975 Pacinelli landed a job as a chemist in a plastics factory in Malvern, Pennsylvania. "I spent many hours working with no hood, no gloves, and lots of intriguing modern chemicals. We knew we were engaged in important work on important things. We were formulating polymer films and foams and used lots of solvents, things like free isocyanates and chlorinated hydrocarbons. We had absolutely no idea that our own health could be at risk. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts |
Life after all is a complicated gift—an almost impossible assemblage of biology, chemistry, electricity, and engineering that adds up to a miraculous whole so much greater than the sum of its parts. The entire universe is geared toward disorder. Given all the forces pulling for disorder, it's a wonder that we live at all—and as long and as well as most of us do. Which is why, instead of taking our health for granted, we should appreciate it with the reverence it deserves. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey See book keywords and concepts |
Particle theory has been taught in physics and engineering schools for decades and so is too useful a concept to throw out too quickly. þ Our sensory organs (particularly our eyes) and conventional technology (such as most microscopes) cannot distinguish wavelengths smaller than visible light. Smaller objects appear to be point-like. As a result, the concept of points, and by extension point-like quantum particles, is fixed in our senses, emotions, and traditions. |
Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts |
It's simpler from an engineering standpoint to place most refrigerated foods on the perimeter of a supermarket, where wires and pipes are beyond the view of customers. Doing so reduces the cost of running electrical cables and water lines to the center of the store, and many repairs can be made behind the scenes.
Savvy, time-proven marketing also guides the location of foods. Items with the highest profit margins—typically, bakery products and fresh produce—usually greet customers as they walk into the store. |
Richard Bartlett See book keywords and concepts |
When I focus my imagination on this process for the purpose of observing and engineering a physical change, I am, through an act of will, creating a new outcome. This is how I have set up the "rules" for my reality. With repeated practice the whole process becomes so streamlined that it requires little to no conscious thought or effort. It just naturally happens.
In effect, I am imposing or constraining an act of conscious creation to conform to the parameters of the template that I have created. |
Bottom Line Health See book keywords and concepts |
| Pisano, MD, professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, medical oncologist, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA.
Robert A. Smith, PhD, director, cancer screening, American Cancer Society.
The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.
American College of Radiology Imaging Network.
Compared with standard mammograms, which are recorded on film, computer-based digital mammograms are more accurate for more than half of the women who get breast cancer screenings, a large study has discovered. |
Richard Bartlett See book keywords and concepts |
Tesla did survive his illness and went on to engineering school, eventually ending up in the employment of Thomas Edison. One day, while feeding pigeons in the park at twilight, Tesla had a vision of a vast, oscillating universe that was made up of frequencies of energy. He developed one of these frequencies that he experienced in this mystical state, harnessing the one that vibrated at sixty cycles per second—which might sound familiar to you. It should, because that is the frequency for electric alternating current. |
| He points out that we do, after all, call professions the "field" of medicine, the "field" of engineering, and so forth. This makes perfect sense to me. I have discovered that if I don't know how to do a technique or system, and my client could benefit from that approach, I am able to directly access the morphic field information or abilities of the subject that I am interested in rather than take a seminar or read a book about the particular subject. I have, for instance, borrowed the skills of an acupuncturist in China in order to balance someone's meridians.
Is that really what I did? |
Dr Ron Roberts See book keywords and concepts |
Before turning to medicine he had studied engineering and this, along with his knowledge of anatomy, made him look on the body as a machine. He theorised that many illnesses were the result of the framework of bones, joints, muscles and ligaments being out of alignment. Disease was the result of interference to the blood supply or nerves, caused by abnormalities in or near joints or vertebrae, and that manipulation would restore balance and cure the illness. |
| Feldenkrais Technique
Moshe Feldenkrais, a Russian-born Israeli trained in engineering and applied physics, was involved in France's atomic programme and British antisubmarine research. One of the first Europeans to become a black belt in judo, Feldenkrais devised movements to teach people about their body's machinery. He believed that the body is arranged to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency but that the brain's images of the correct pattern of movement become scrambled and the result is the brain instructs the body to move incorrectly and painfully. |