Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The taste makes you feel like you've been transported right into the amazon rainforest, surrounded by deep-rooted plant energy.
Their Ancient Wisdom Bar is sweetened with raw organic yacon syrup (which has a glycemic index of about 12, making it the ideal sweetener for anyone watching their blood sugar) and contains maca, lucuma powder and raw cacao. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Organic-rich soil of the Canadian Great Plains can be cultivated for more than fifty years before losing half its soil carbon, whereas amazon rainforest soils can lose all agricultural potential in under five years. A twenty-four-year fertilization experiment in northwestern China found that soil fertility declined under chemical fertilizers unless coupled to addition of straw and manure.
Nowhere is the debate over the appropriate application of technology more polarized than in the field of biotechnology. |
Mark Lynas
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 But the amazon rainforest is different: fires there are not a natural occurrence, and the forest is not adapted to cope with them. Nature doesn't start fires in the Amazon - even lightning strikes tend not to spark flames, because thunderstorms are accompanied by heavy downpours. Instead, human interference - especially with an area the size of France already deforested for soya cultivation and cattle ranching -is the spark which sets the forest alight. Fires tend to scrub out the understorey of the forest, and even to kill some of the larger trees. |
| Even if all this destruction stopped tomorrow, the Hadley Centre's model suggests that the amazon rainforest would still be doomed unless global warming levels off at two degrees. If the world crosses this crucial tipping point, the model simulates a tidal wave of destruction, beginning in north-eastern Amazonia and advancing steadily south and westwards across the continent. Modelled rainfall declines almost to zero in some areas by 2100. Temperatures soar to Saharan highs, reaching on average 38°C. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are also imported from Brazil where the amazon rainforest is being bulldozed in order to create more acreage for growing soybeans.
To gain more insight on the details of this emerging battle over organic standards, NewsTarget editor Mike Adams sat down with Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association for some straight talk on organic milk. What follows is the full interview.
Mike: I am here today talking with Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association. That is at www.OrganicConsumers.org. What's the overview of the situation on organic milk, Ronnie? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Also, more information has appeared regarding the environmental impact of soybean farming (the amazon rainforest is being devastated by clear cutting to create soybean agricultural lands) as well as the frightening fact that most soybeans grown today are genetically modified (GMO) varieties.
On top of this, most popular soy milk brands (I won't name names, but these are likely the ones in your grocery store) have been bought out by big, profit-seeking food and beverage corporations, and as a result, they've been sugared up and made nutritionally inferior. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Which herb from the amazon rainforest shows powerful anti-tumor activity
Why your geographic location on the planet impacts your breast cancer risk (includes graphs)
Why running in circles to raise money for a "cancer cure" is a complete waste of time
How top cancer non-profits have abandoned cancer prevention in favor of screening and "treatment"
In this special report, Breast Cancer Deception, Adams reveals that teaching the population how to prevent cancer would financially devastate cancer non-profit groups and pharmaceutical companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor
Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona
Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body's energy)
Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers)
Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Camu Camu is native to the amazon rainforest and has been used as natural medicine by indigenous populations there for thousands of years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In the case of the amazon rainforest, it means there's less land available to support natural rain forest habitat, which is, of course, important for the oxygen production of the entire planet. So, in a very understandable way, the mass consumption of red meat around this planet actually affects the climate of the planet. Global climate change is one side effects of massive meat consumption.
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've walked through parts of the amazon rainforest and I've admired the engineering of nature, up close and personal, one plant at a time. There's a miracle at work in nature. And the Amazon Herb Company helps deliver that miracle to the people in the Western world who need it most.
I've seen people suffering from chronic diseases, spending their life savings on conventional medical treatments, forfeiting their quality of life and time with loved ones. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Amazon rainforest contains about 900 tons of living plants, including more than 750 types of trees and 1,500 other plants. The Andean mountain range and the Amazon jungle are home to more than half of the world's species of flora and fauna; in fact, one in five of all the birds in the world live in the rainforests of the Amazon. To date, some 438,000 species
Children of the Peruvian Amazon paddling to school.
Over two-thirds of all the fresh water found on Earth is in the Amazon Basin's rivers, streams, and tributaries. |
| The first chapter provides an introductory discussion on the rainforest, the amazon rainforest in particular, and the issues involved in its destruction and preservation. Part One: Rainforest Herbal Primer provides information on herbal medicine principles in general, the similarities and differences between using herbs and drugs, methods of preparing herbal remedies, and some recipes for rainforest remedies. Part Two: Quick Guides to Medicinal Plants of the Amazon includes helpful at-a-glance references to essential information on rainforest herbs. |
| In the amazon rainforest, Indians have used the root of tayuya for snakebite and rheumatism for centuries. Indians in Colombia use the plant for sore eyes; indigenous tribes of Peru use it for skin problems.
Tayuya has a long history in Brazilian herbal medicine; it was first recorded in the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia as an official herbal drug in 1929. Brazilian botanist J. Monteiro Silva reports tayuya is used for the treatment of all types of pain and recommends it as an anti-syphilitic agent. Monteiro also believes it helps to regulate metabolism. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Amazon rainforest herb Amor Seco Fraction-3 forrespiratory smooth muscle action, bronchial dilator, reverses asthma; formuscle pain, car and sports injuries; counters hepatitis C, rebuilds damaged liver, reverses livercirrhosis. Companion plant for cornrepellingStrigaplantpest.
•DEVIL'S BIT (Scabiosa Succisa Pratensis) Grows 2-feettall in dry meadows, with elongated sculpted leaves and purple flowers. Reduces temperature, and excretes toxins through the skin, a perspirant (2 fl. oz. |
| PILOCARPUS TREE In the amazon rainforest yields Pilocarpine, a medicine for glaucoma.
•PIMPERNEL Root (Pimpinella alba major, Anagallis arvensis) Primula family; also called Great Burnet, Saxifrage, and Self Heal. A perennial growing on the edges of woods and walls, 3-feettall having serrated leaves and white flower umbels. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 For hundreds of years, caf s claw been used as a medicinal by the indigenous peoples of the amazon rainforest.
Among its many properties, cat's claw has been found to be a powerful anti-inflammatory. Both studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that it is useful in the treatment of arthritis of all kinds, bursitis, allergies, and a host of other inflammatory disorders. Moreover, it has analgesic properties, and thus helps to relieve the pain of inflammation.
The Science Behind It
Cat's claw has been studied for many years. |
Mike Adams
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 You can further reduce the risk of cancers to a cumulative 70 percent reduction by adding things like zinc, garlic, ginger, and herbs like gravida from the amazon rainforest. To further improve your picture, avoid the consumption of foods that promote cancer such as packaged, processed meats, which contain cancer-causing sodium nitrate. In all, people can reduce the risk of breast cancer by 90 percent to 95 percent. These strategies are very effective. They're extremely low-cost and yet they are completely ignored by the conventional cancer industry. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| This book represents almost ten years of my personal research and documentation on these important medicinal plants in the amazon rainforest during my journeys into the South American jungles and in my journey with Raintree. I firmly believe that medicinal plants, such as those discussed in this book, are the true wealth of the rainforest and the means by which it can be saved from destruction. They have for centuries positively affected the health and well-being of the inhabitants of the forest. |
| Waiting for my flight home in the Lima airport in Peru, I sat there sunburned, bug-bit, tired, and excited and decided that not only did I want to start a new company in the States to begin importing this wonderful plant called cat's claw but that I also had to try to make a difference to help stop the destruction of the amazon rainforest. I didn't quite know how then, but I knew that an odd, determined, stubborn, rebellious sort of person such as myself had as good a chance as anyone else did. |
| The Amazon River
The life force of the amazon rainforest is the mighty Amazon River. It starts as a trickle high in the snow-capped Andes Mountains and flows more than 4,000 miles across the South American continent until it enters the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil, where it is 200 to 300 miles across, depending on the season. Even 1,000 miles inland it is still 7 miles wide. The river is so deep that ocean liners can travel up its length to 2,300 miles inland. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you address your own distortions, your own beliefs and your own behavioral choices, and start with that as your foundation, and then add these healing herbs from the amazon rainforest, you will find that these two strategies multiply each others' effects. And then you will have initiated a sequence of healing effects in your own body that are multiplied by the biophysical, biochemical and bioenergetic healing potential of these herbs and you will be able to overcome practically any disease or condition imaginable. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 And though we often hear about the loss of amazon rainforest to ranchers raising cattle for fast-food franchises, soybean farming has wrought even greater devastation, causing the deforestation of an area larger than the state of New Jersey in less than a year.6 Yet the soybean is promoted as the salvation to world hunger and a "green," environmentally sound alternative to meat production.
The soy industry even claims that its modern processed soyfoods are the natural heritage of people of Asia. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Many herbs from the amazon rainforest are anti-cancer, most notably graviola and cat's claw, both of which have received some notoriety over the last couple years, and deservedly so, in my opinion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of my favorites is the Pure Camu product, made of pure camu camu powder from the amazon rainforest.
I'll tell you a secret about camu. Camu camu is the highest natural source of vitamin C in the world. And it's not just one isolated chemical (ascorbic acid), it's the full symphony of protective antioxidants. My research on this herb, based in part of the works of Dr. James Duke, leads me to the conclusion that camu camu crosses the blood-brain barrier and offers extraordinary protection to the nervous system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor
Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona
Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body's energy)
Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers)
Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Camu-Camu
The amazon rainforest produces a fruit that has more vitamin C than any other known plant in the world. Ounce for ounce, camu-camu has thirty times more vitamin C than an orange. This fruit is slightly bigger than a cherry and has a very sour taste. It grows wild in the swampy or flooded areas of the rainforest and is harvested from canoes. Some rainforest groups are investigating ways to cultivate camu-camu as a food crop. In Peru, it is made into drinks and ice cream. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Camu-camu, a shrub from the amazon rainforest, is revered for its rich supply of vitamin C (30 times mote than the amount found in X), which aids in circulation, fortifying blood vessel walls and regenerating tissue. Moreover, camu-camu has astringent, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties (Visentainer et al. 1997; Justi et al. 2000).
Both gotu kola and vitamin E help to heal wounds and promote connective tissue growth, as well as fight free radicals. The echinacea/chapparral/Pau D'Arco ttio make up an antibacterial team that also tames inflamed gums. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Car thieves would be given new jobs stealing phytochemical discoveries from medicinal plants in the amazon rainforest that could be patented and sold as monopoly drugs. (Explanation: Drug companies frequently exploit natural medicinal compounds in plants, then modify and patent them for manufacturing prescription drugs, even while discrediting the healing potential of the very same medicinal plants. Lovastatin, for example, was stolen from red yeast rice, a natural supplement that lowers LDL cholesterol. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| By August 1988, nearly 12 percent of the amazon rainforest had been torched and destroyed for farms, cattle ranches, dams, roads, and mining.
Why would the Rainforest Action Network stage hundreds of protests at Burger King franchises and even run a full-page ad in the New York Times asking readers to pressure the company to stop destroying rainforests of Central America? Much of Latin American forest has been destroyed over the past twenty-five years to market exotic woods and to create land for cattle grazing. |
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