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 But I intuitively felt this was an important documentary photo project and that the world needed to see these photos, so I continued on, tearing open the hot dogs, sausages and salami, arranging them for the camera, and searching for the most visually interesting elements to photograph.
Way beyond "point and shoot"
Macrophotography is a tricky thing. If you've ever tried it yourself, you probably know that you can't just stick a camera up close to something, snap a photo, and expect it to look good. |
| It didn't take long before the sickening smell of hot dogs, sodium lactate, sodium nitrite, beef hearts and pork parts filled my kitchen. And as I started taking the photos, there were several times I felt like gagging. My appetite was diminished and I actually started feeling angry at the meat processed industry for the way they manufacture and market these sickening products. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 According to this theory, illness is explained as due to "cold" causes, such as entry of air into the body, or "hot" causes, such as excessive consumption of hot foods, with curing conforming to a doctrine of opposites: hot remedies to drive out cold and cold remedies to extract heat. The classic study of the "hot/cold dichotomy" was conducted by George Foster181, who traced its origins to Greek humoral pathology brought by Spain to the New World. |
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| I wouldn't even think of taking a single bite of an Oscar Mayer hot dog or Jimmy Dean sausage, and even holding those foods in my hands made me feel icky just from the energy of the flesh from the slaughtered animals used to make those products. So I sure didn't want to get snapped by a camera standing in front of a Wal-Mart checkout lane with my hands full of junk processed meat products.
After I completed my undercover meat purchase, I headed home and set up the macrophotography equipment. Since I'm experienced at this (I love to take nature pictures, especially of flowers), that was easy. |
| I was worried that a NewsTarget reader might spot me buying this garbage food, snap a camera photo, and I'd end up all over the internet holding a package of Oscar Mayer hot dogs with that deer-in-the-headlights look...
So -- get this -- I put on a hat and sunglasses and actually stealthed my way through the Wal-Mart store, trying to buy these processed meat products without getting noticed! |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 He advocated releasing the insane from confinement and providing them hot baths, improved diets and body massages, as well as applying poultices, draining blood from their bodies and giving them opium.109
His goal was the reshuffling of the body's "atoms," but his means of doing so makes him one of the earliest advocates of using a psychotropic drug (a drug that influences the mind) to improve one's mental health. Yet it is not reasonable to tie the history of what we call antipsychotics or antidepressants to the ancient Greeks or Romans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Feeding hot dogs to children, in my opinion, is a form of child cruelty. Allowing these products to remain in the national food supply is, in my opinion, a form of mass chemical poisoning of the public.
I believe that most consumers who eat processed meat products do so blindly, without really thinking about what they're eating and where it came from. This macrophotography project is intended to show consumers exactly what they're really swallowing when they eat these processed meat products. |
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 REPPED: The Thai people have a long tradition of natural healing, and their hot compresses, known as herbal bags, are a favorite remedy around the world. "Herbal heat revival," also known as the herbal bolus treatment, is believed to calm the nerves and redirect the body energy in a way that is vital to good health.
Products at The Herbalist (www.theherbalist-shop.com) are "developed in alignment with ancient beliefs of the chakra system providing a fundamental context for treatment of body, mind and soul. |
Mark Lynas
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 Even with an increase in heat tolerance with different algae, he points out, ocean temperatures are still set to get too hot for most corals to survive. He and his co-authors used the latest models and reef analysis to again project bleaching frequencies in the decades to come - and their results confirmed the earlier pessimistic analysis. Severe bleaching will occur on most of the world's reefs every 3-5 years by the 2030s, and by the 2050s will strike every two years.
In any case, very few of the world's reefs are in any state to take on the challenges of climate change. |
| At the time of writing, the heatwave of 2003 has already begun to fade in people's memories, and the 'normal' summers of the following two years will have begun to soak up some of the extra carbon that entered the atmosphere during that deadly hot spell.
But we forget at our peril. The summer of 2003 was a 'natural experiment' whose conclusions should be taken very seriously. This wasn't just some output from a computer model, whose assumptions and projections can be legitimately challenged. It actually happened. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Kilham: hot Plants for Him or hot Plants for Her.
Mike: Okay, you'll have to keep that straight, otherwise…
Kilham: Otherwise, they could have a really interesting evening that they weren't expecting!
Mike: There might be a market for that too!
Kilham: There might be a market for that.
Mike: Well, Chris, it's been a delight.
Kilham: Thank you, Mike.
Mike: Thank you.
Kilham: It was a real pleasure.
About Chris Kilham:
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. The founder of Medicine Hunter Inc. |
| Mike: What do you think is the next biggest, hot item that people are going to be hearing about in the next year or so?
Kilham: I have a bias in that I've been working with sex-enhancing plants for 10 years or so, so I'm convinced that, in the sort of "hot plant" category, one will be the sex-enhancing plants. I know there's a lot of garbage out there. A lot of people get crazy spam: "Take this herb, your penis will be longer." That's not what I'm talking about.
Mike: Yeah.
Kilham: I'm talking about genuine, legitimate, sex-enhancing herbs. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Imagine putting your right hand into a bucket of extremely hot water. As your hand goes in the bucket, your immediate thought is, "I'm not sure I can even keep my hand in this thing!" And the water keeps getting hotter. Imagine the hottest tap water is in the bucket to begin with and that someone is using a teakettle full of boiling water to refresh the bucket at intervals. Now it's so hot it feels like it is burning the skin off your hand. Still, you leave your hand in the bucket. The heat is almost unbearable. You can feel it crawling up your fingers, all the way back to your palm. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here are the five worst offenders:
Hot dogs: The Cancer Prevention Coalition recommends that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of cancer. If you must have your hot dog fix, look for those without sodium nitrite listed among the ingredients.
Processed meats and bacon: These meats almost always contain the same sodium nitrite found in hot dogs. You can find some without nitrites, but you'll have to look for them in natural grocers or health food stores. |
Mark Lynas
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| Mediterranean sunburn
Perhaps the most striking images from 2003's hot summer came from Portugal, where gigantic forest fires swept through the tinder-dry landscape, destroying orchards, torching houses and killing eighteen people. In total an area almost the size of Luxembourg was devastated. The conflagrations were so huge that they cast palls of smoke right over the North Atlantic, with both fires and smoke easily visible from space. |
| These fires will be driven on by scorchingly hot temperatures. The number of days when the mercury climbs over 30°C is expected to increase by five to six weeks in inland Spain, southern France, Turkey, northern Africa and the Balkans. The number of'tropical nights', when temperatures don't cool off past 20°C, will increase by a month, and the entire region can expect an additional four weeks of summer. |
| The new warning came from James Hansen, the NASA scientist whose testimony to Congress back in the hot summer of 1988 did so much to put global warming on the international agenda for the first time. Hansen penned a characteristically straightforward article entitled 'Can we defuse the global warming time-bomb?', later published in Scientific American, which asked the key question: 'How fast will ice sheets respond to global warming? |
| The intensity of the hot spell also tells us something about the future. Averaged across the whole continent, temperatures were 2.3°C above the norm. So does that mean that in the two-degree world, summers like 2003 will be annual events? It seems so: in the UK-based study mentioned above, scientists used the Met Office's Hadley Centre computer model to project future climate change with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and concluded that by the 2040s - when temperatures globally in their model are still below two degrees - more than half the summers will actually be warmer than 2003. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Only a fool would inject their child with mercury-preserved vaccines.
3. hot dogs
Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts (click here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children!
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Dr. Timothy Scott
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| However, my father had concerns about her taking hormone supplements, so she avoided those pills for years—until she began experiencing "hot flashes" shortly before she turned 60. Her friends were also on estrogen, and one declared, "Well, I sure don't want to get osteoporosis in old age. I'm going to keep taking my estrogen." That concern, combined with the discomfort of hot flashes, was enough for Mom to decide it was time to take it herself.2 For nearly 12 years she faithfully took her Premarin brand of estrogen.3 (Premarin is derived from pregnant mares' urine; hence, the name. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But of course, this is almost precisely how hot dog ingredients are processed, and people seem to have no problem whatsoever eating hot dogs. Why? Because they don't associate the food item with the source. They even gave it a name to make you forget it's from a cow. People think of hot dogs as food objects that are made that way automatically, like, say, a potato or carrot. But there's nothing natural about hot dogs, nor the way they're made. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Witness the treatment of Fleishman and Pons, two chemists who demonstrated tabletop fusion in the late 1980's and were immediately attacked, discredited and ostracized by advocates of hot fusion. Yet cold fusion experiments are alive and well today, with verified results being replicated in literally hundreds of labs around the world.
Now a new round of attacks is being unleashed against Purdue researcher Rusi Taleyarkhan, who has gone public with his construction of a tabletop nuclear fusion device that's about the size of a coffee maker. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 However, among a subset of those in the study, the younger women, aged fifty to fifty-four, who experienced moderate to severe symptoms, the drugs offered some benefit with hot flashes (hot flushes) and sleeping problems.43 Importantly, there is a strong body of good evidence that these drugs are very effective in reducing the frequency and severity of hot flashes (hot flushes) for many women. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The conclusions are based in part on research conducted at the University of Hawaii that reveals a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer in people who consume large quantities of hot dogs, sausage and other processed meats, versus those who consume little or no processed meat. The study was led by Dr. Ute Nothlings and was announced at the annual gathering of the American Association for Cancer Research. |
| Packaged meats like hot dogs would normally appear a putrid gray, but with enough sodium nitrite added, the meats can seem visually fresh even if they've been on the shelves for months.
"Food producers use sodium nitrite for marketing reasons," says Adams. "It makes their food products look visually appealing, even while that very same ingredient promotes cancer when consumed." The USDA once tried to ban sodium nitrite, but was unsuccessful due to political influence and lobbying efforts of meat processing companies. |
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| His latest book, hot Plants, is available now. Chris also writes articles on plant medicines for several publications.
Chris lectures extensively on botanical medicines throughout the United States and abroad. He held the post of Honorary Consul to the United States for the Republic Of Vanuatu from 1997 through 2000. Chris has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Parade, Boston Herald, Vogue, Natural Health and Men’s Health, and hosted his own health-oriented talk radio programs in the Boston area for five years. |
| But yeah, people can find "Hot Plants," and if they can't find it in their local bookstore, they can find it on, of course, www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com.
Mike: And this book gives them a sort of encyclopedia of sex-enhancing herbs and plants?
Kilham: It gives them good information on 10 major sex-enhancing plants. But it does more than that; it tells them about my travels in different countries investigating these plants. I want to take people behind the scenes. |
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