Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We are advising people where to find good seeds, and, of course, our main job is to advise the grower on how to produce the seeds.
Mike: And for the readers and listeners, we're talking about chia seeds, right?
Ayerza: That's right. Chia seeds are more normally used for pets, but they're for human consumption, really.
Mike: So, in terms of omega-3 fatty acids, people typically don't think of chia seeds right away, but tell us about why they should.
Ayerza: Well, chia seeds are very important right now because there is a problem in the world with food that has no omega-3 at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Human beings evolved in a natural environment in which they had access to fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grasses and animals. These were all available free of charge as long as a person was willing to expend the effort and time necessary to gather such items. Nature offered them freely. Nature didn't charge you for creating vitamins and minerals. The plants and soils provided these on their own, naturally.
Plants create seeds naturally, and these seeds are freely available to humans, birds, insects and any other creature that wants to use those seeds. This is the natural order of things. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: I'd rather eat the seeds, personally.
Ayerza: Me too, but there are some people that prefer just the oil. And this is an option; it's an alternative that you can choose. This is good. Some time ago, chia was just for pottery. Now, chia is for omega-3 and you can have chia seeds and capsules.
Mike: So the web address is TheOmegaTree.com, and do they also sell chia seeds in bulk or just the oil?
Ayerza: They can sell what you want, but they don't sell in small quantities. For small quantities, you need to contact Dr. Wayne Coates. Dr. Wayne Coates can tell you where you can find it. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 When buying ground flaxseeds, look for vacuum-sealed and/or refrigerated packages, as the seeds are much more susceptible to oxidation once they are ground. Store ground seeds in an airtight container and refrigerate.
?Flaxseeds can be sprinkled on cereal and vegetables, added to breakfast shakes, or mixed into muffin, bread, or cookie recipes.
?When adding ground flaxseeds to a cooked dish, do so at the end of the cooking time. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Before he soaked the seeds, however, he had a healer lay hands on one container of salt water, which was to be used for one batch of seeds. The other container of salt water, which had not been exposed to the healer, would hold the remainder of seeds. After the seeds were soaked in the two containers of salt water, the batch exposed to the water treated by the healer grew taller than the other batch.
Grad then hypothesized that the reverse might also happen - negative feelings might have a negative effect on the growth of plants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, now it is indeed illegal to save these seeds, and if you don't play ball with the company that claims to own them, you're going to find yourself in court, or even in jail. Tennessee farmer Ken Ralph was sued by Monsanto and was ultimately sentenced to eight months in prison for lying about a truckload of cottonseed.
Think about that. Here was a farmer who was just trying to save seeds from one crop generation to the next. This is a practice that has been carried out by generations of farmers for as long as we can remember, going back to the roots of modern civilization in the Middle East. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Store ground seeds in an airtight container and refrigerate.
?Flaxseeds can be sprinkled on cereal and vegetables, added to breakfast shakes, or mixed into muffin, bread, or cookie recipes.
?When adding ground flaxseeds to a cooked dish, do so at the end of the cooking time. The soluble fiber in the seeds can cause the liquids in the dish to thicken, and high heat damages the delicate essential fatty acids in flax (and heating/frying with flax oil under high temperature generates cancer-promoting compounds).
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Comets carry the seeds of microbial life. And when comets slam into planets, those seeds are not entirely destroyed. In fact, there was a recent study showing that microbes are capable of surviving these enormous impacts that scientists once thought would kill every living thing.
As a side note, it's difficult to gain a true appreciation of the amount of energy that's released during the impact of a comet with a celestial body such as a planet. Even a small comet (5 meters wide, for example) striking a planet's surface at sufficient speed is far more powerful than a typical nuclear bomb. |
| Life on planet Earth may have actually begun with seeds brought to the planet riding on bits of rocks and chunks of other planets or comets from somewhere else in the galaxy. And it is perhaps through such mechanisms that life spreads throughout the galaxy: a series of collisions spreading seeds of life that then, through a process of evolution and natural selection over hundreds of millions of years, end up creating more complex organisms such as insects, mammals and even human beings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chia seeds probably will last 20 or 30 years. They do not go bad. Someone bought a container of them and distributed small amounts to health food stores throughout the U.S., and that container probably lasted for 15 years. The seeds were good. If you planted them, they would grow.
Flax seeds have been used in a number of different products and people use de-oiled flax meal and whatever. When chia came to me, I realized from the research I was doing that it had great antioxidant value, which the flax does not. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Remove the seeds right from the pumpkin, scraping away as much flesh and strings as possible, but do not rinse the seeds. Spread the seeds on a cookie sheet that has been lightly greased with cooking spray for 2 seconds. Bake for approximately 45 minutes, stirring halfway through the roasting process.
Note: This chili freezes well. Place in individual plastic containers and freeze. Thaw in the refrigerator and reheat prior to serving. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And when comets slam into planets, those seeds are not entirely destroyed. In fact, there was a recent study showing that microbes are capable of surviving these enormous impacts that scientists once thought would kill every living thing.
As a side note, it's difficult to gain a true appreciation of the amount of energy that's released during the impact of a comet with a celestial body such as a planet. Even a small comet (5 meters wide, for example) striking a planet's surface at sufficient speed is far more powerful than a typical nuclear bomb. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Remove the seeds right from the pumpkin, scraping away as much flesh and strings as possible, but do not rinse the seeds. Spread the seeds on a cookie sheet that has been lightly greased with cooking spray for 2 seconds. Bake for approximately 45 minutes, stirring halfway through the roasting process.
Note: This chili freezes well. Place in individual plastic containers and freeze. Thaw in the refrigerator and reheat prior to serving. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And it is perhaps through such mechanisms that life spreads throughout the galaxy: a series of collisions spreading seeds of life that then, through a process of evolution and natural selection over hundreds of millions of years, end up creating more complex organisms such as insects, mammals and even human beings.
I point all of this out because worrying about Earth contaminating Mars seems rather silly on the large scale of things, since Earth and Mars have probably cross-contaminated or, more accurately, cross-pollinated each other many times over the last five billion years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Here was a farmer who was just trying to save seeds from one crop generation to the next. This is a practice that has been carried out by generations of farmers for as long as we can remember, going back to the roots of modern civilization in the Middle East. And this farmer has been imprisoned for practicing this age-old custom. The only reason for this is because the corporation needs to protect its profits.
Can corporations really own nature?
You might say, "This is unnatural. This is exploitation of nature for corporate profits." I would respond that you are absolutely correct. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can't just put seeds in a sprouting bag, dip the bag in water one time and then forget about the seeds. You have to take care of the seeds by re-soaking them in the sprouting bag on a regular basis. If you are using a sprouting tray, you have to watch the sprouts to make sure they don't get mold or fungus, and removing the sprouts from the tray can be a bit of a hassle because the roots usually grow through the holes in order to get to the water at the bottom. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| The other container of salt water, which had not been exposed to the healer, would hold the remainder of seeds. After the seeds were soaked in the two containers of salt water, the batch exposed to the water treated by the healer grew taller than the other batch.
Grad then hypothesized that the reverse might also happen - negative feelings might have a negative effect on the growth of plants. In a follow-up study Grad had several psychiatric patients hold containers of ordinary water which were to be used again to sprout seeds. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The long fibers, which would be damaged by the saw teeth of the Whitney gin, are drawn by a leather roller between a metal plate called the doctor and a blade known as the beatet, which forces out the seeds. In the late nineteenth century the best material for covering the rollers seemed to be the stomach hide of the sea walrus—25,000 animals were slaughtered every year to meet the requirements of the cotton industry, and their carcasses were often left to rot.
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| When the raw cotton is dragged across the gin, the seeds stick to the nails, while the fibers are freed to be collected and baled. Ginning by hand is a labcrious task—one motivated man might gin a couple of pounds a day; the norm for a slave was less than a pound.
After ginning, cotton must be cleaned and carded, carding being the process by which the fibers are made parallel. Cleaning —the removal of dirt, detritus, bits of leaves, small pieces of twig, and short and unusable fiber—reduces the weight of the ginned cotton by 50-75 percent. The fiber is now ready for spinning and weaving. |
| Apart from the cotton gin, which traps the seeds, and various types of hoisting device, the only other modem use describes a trap called a gin trap or a gin (illegal in Btitain) used to catch rabbits Of other small mammals. It is incottect to claim that "gin," as used in cotton gin, is a shortened form of "engine," or is botrowed from "gin," meaning a crude female. This last use is Austtalian, contemporary with Eli Whitney (see p. 187) and derived from the native Aboriginal word for "married woman." Even in male chauvinist circles in Sydney ot Melbourne, women are no longer called "gins. |
| Nature can halt our progress and nature can advance it, and man would be foolish to overlook his role as a propagator of the seeds of change.
QUININE
Quinine and the White Man i Burden
In 1638, in the Viceregal Palace at what is today Lima in Peru, the beautiful wife of the Viceroy lay very ill. She had malaria. It was of the intermittent kind, and the recurring crisis of cold-dry, hot-dry, hot-wet was repeating itself apparently hopelessly and to one end. |
| Some of the roots, plants, and seeds were also sent to the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta, where multiplication was pursued. Some, romantically, were taken out by Markham himself, who wrote: "He who would desire to receive the most pleasant impression of India, on a first arrival, must follow in the wake of Vasco da Gama, and disembark on the coast of Malabar, the garden of the peninsula. . . . Late in the evening, we embarked in a canoe on the Beypur river. |
John A. McDougall
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 This can be done with wheat bran, psyllium seeds, flaxseeds, or as a last resort, with a nonabsorbable sugar called lactulose (doctor's prescription required). Ease and regularity of bowel movements should improve in the following days until movements are effortless, at which time the dosage of wheat bran, psyllium seeds, flaxseeds, and/or lactulose can be slowly decreased and eventually discontinued.
Larry Says Good-Bye to Laxatives ouise joked that Larry had single-handedly kept the laxative manufacturers in business. |
Henry Hobhouse
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| The idea that is central to seeds of Change stems from impatience with the usual cause-and-efTect explanations of human conduct in history, which are generally very unsatisfactory. History is full of the exploits of men and women—their actions are identified as causing change, development, catastrophe. If it pleases people to read and to be told that these things happened as the result of the direct and absolute intervention of men, then this is no surprise—for men have always liked to believe in their own influence and direction in the course of time. |
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