Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They essentially spray the roots with a nutrient solution on timed intervals.
Spraying the roots of a plant every 15 minutes with this nutrient solution has advantages over the hydroponic approach, because you're able to create even more surface area between the nutrients in your liquids and the roots of the plant. In my experience, an aeroponic system produces substantially greater yields than the hydroponic system. If you think about what's responsible for that increase, you realize that it's the greater surface area of the smaller droplets of water being sprayed on the roots. |
Ron Garner
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 They only eat roots in time of drought or when fruits and greens are unavailable.9 This is very interesting because we typically eat the roots of carrots, turnips, and beets, and discard the tops.
As Victoria continued her search for understanding, she discovered that green leaf vegetable tops provide superior health benefits compared to the roots. The advantages are mainly twofold: the first is nutrition and the second is fiber. |
David Steinman
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 Most of us have been pretty destructive in our lives and we're trying to come back to our environmental roots, or maybe we're just putting down eco-roots or roots of goodness for the first time.
I do know this. I'm excited. I'm learning how to live and to be a litde, or maybe a whole lot, less toxic.
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Nothing about the roads of Vancouver, British Columbia, had made sense since I slid into my fossil-fuel Enterprise rental. I was totally lost. But, at least, I was there. Even as a child I wanted to live in what I always thought of as the Great Northwest. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 To make tea: Cut fine 5 grams of Rhodiola rosea roots. Pour the roots into a cup of boiling water and leave for (brew) at least four hours. Then filter. Drink one-fifth cup three to five times per day. You can also dilute Rhodiola rosea tea with juice, tonic, or other herbal teas.
To make vodka mix: Mill 30 grams of Rhodiola rosea roots in a coffee grinder, add 150 milliliters of vodka without aromatic additives, agitate, and steep three to five days at room temperature. Separate and filter the extract. |
Ron Garner
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| This is very interesting because we typically eat the roots of carrots, turnips, and beets, and discard the tops.
As Victoria continued her search for understanding, she discovered that green leaf vegetable tops provide superior health benefits compared to the roots. The advantages are mainly twofold: the first is nutrition and the second is fiber. The green leaf tops of root vegetables such as carrots, beets, parsnips, and turnips, contain a far greater abundance of chlorophyll, vitamins, alkaline minerals,10 and essential amino acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Spraying the roots of a plant every 15 minutes with this nutrient solution has advantages over the hydroponic approach, because you're able to create even more surface area between the nutrients in your liquids and the roots of the plant. In my experience, an aeroponic system produces substantially greater yields than the hydroponic system. If you think about what's responsible for that increase, you realize that it's the greater surface area of the smaller droplets of water being sprayed on the roots.
You can purchase home-built aeroponic systems on the internet. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Antidepressant Principles of Valerian Fauriei roots. Oshima Y; et al. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1995 January, 43(1):169-170.
Results of this study showed that a methanol extract of the roots of Valerian fauriei exhibited antidepressant activity in mice.
Rapidity of Onset of the Antidepressant Effect of Parenteral S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Fava M; et al. Psychiatry Research, 1995 April 28, 56(3):295-297.
Results of this study found that the parental administration of 400 mg of SAMe over a period of 15 days remitted depressive symptoms in patients suffering from depression. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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Approach root vegetables with caution. Some, like carrots and beets, are fine when eaten raw, but concentrate sugars when cooked. Avoid eating celery root, even raw, in the first few weeks when you are kick-starting your weight loss, but feel free to nibble on radishes or daikon, a large white radish which you can cut into sticks or grate into salads.
OILS
For dressing salads and other vegetables, my preference is extra-virgin olive oil, but many other oils add distinctive flavors. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Pour the roots into a cup of boiling water and leave for (brew) at least four hours. Then filter. Drink one-fifth cup three to five times per day. You can also dilute Rhodiola rosea tea with juice, tonic, or other herbal teas.
To make vodka mix: Mill 30 grams of Rhodiola rosea roots in a coffee grinder, add 150 milliliters of vodka without aromatic additives, agitate, and steep three to five days at room temperature. Separate and filter the extract. Have a teaspoon and a half a day for about three weeks (preferably at night, especially if you're operating heavy machinery). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I found the Freshlife unit very difficult to clean and found that the roots of the sprouts would get into all sorts of places that they weren't supposed to go, requiring a lot of extra attention during cleaning. With the EasyGreen sprouter, the roots stay in each individual sprout crop tray, so cleaning the unit is easy. You eat the sprouts, toss the trays into your automatic dishwashing machine, and the job is done.
The EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter functions on an external timing device. It ships with an external clock that you plug into a wall outlet. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The leaves are even higher in nutritional value than the roots, especially in calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C.
Beets make a delicious juice, but have a strong flavor and are usually best mixed with some combination of carrots, apples, spinach, and ginger.
Bok Choy
(Chinese cabbage, pak-choi, Chinese chard)
Bok choy is an Asian member of the cabbage family that has long, thick stalks topped by blue-green leaves. You probably know it as an ingredient in wonton soup, but despite that decidedly mundane use, it's actually a real health food.
Is It Really a Cabbage? |
Roberta Bivins
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Of course, it's not our taste for the outlandish that is new. |
| While the turbaned Indian and the frequent references to opium suggest the exotic, and the 'roots and herbs' hark back to traditional folk remedies around the world, the rest of this advertisement leans on the standard claims of patent medicines in the nineteenth-century west. The small print adds a perhaps inadvertent layer of irony by asserting 'Milford Drug Co., Sole manufacturers and originators of the Hindoo Tobacco Habit Cure': the remedy was as Indian as Indiana.
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| While both lay and professional audiences continued to associate acupuncture with its Asian roots, these ties were ornamental. Acupuncture as practised in Paris made no appeals to yin, yang, qi, or a system of channels and vessels linking the body's organs with its surface; nor did its supporters claim that acupuncture was a 'specific' for any particular diseases. Rather they pointed to its empirical success in individual cases, and in certain categories of complaint (particularly nervous and chronic pain). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He believes in returning America to its Constitutional roots, where the People don't have to live in fear of the U.S. Gestapo police who wiretap their phones, surveil their e-mails and steal their Amazon.com book purchasing records.
If you believe in freedom at all, there's only one candidate to vote for: Ron Paul.
Sure, Paul has some downsides. He's not up to speed on global warming and the role of governments in aggressively regulating corporations. I don't agree with Paul on everything. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They would thank the plant when they took its leaves, roots, or flowers, or rhizomes. Today our corporations say, "We own the planet, and we'll take what we want. We'll punish anybody else who tries to grow this plant because we own its intellectual property." There is a big difference between asking permission from nature and saying, "We own nature and we do with it what we want." But that is the attitude prevalent today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here in the desert, rabbits and Javelina will eat just about anything: Palo Verde leaves, prickly pear cactus pads, flowers and roots. But they won't eat aloe vera because the leaf and resin are too tough and bitter. If you slice open an aloe vera leaf, however and place that on the ground, the desert animals will gladly eat the gel! (I know because I've tried this experiment. Rabbits love the gel!)
So when it comes to aloe vera, what you want is the gel, not the leaf or the resin. "Whole Leaf" aloe vera products are sort of a marketing gimmick. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In this alternate universe, logic is reversed, good is bad, and trees grow with their branches stuck in the dirt and their roots stretched high into the air. In this alternate universe -- which we'll call "Allopathia" -- there's lots of health news printed every day just like in our own universe. The difference is that their health news makes no sense.
Want to see a taste of it? |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Used tea leaves can be tossed around the roots of flowering plants, particularly rose bushes, where they act as an excellent mulch. After they have been dried in the sun, accumulations of used tea leaves can be used to stuff pillows. In China, such pillows are reputed to result in an excellent night's sleep.
A smoldering tray of burning green tea leaves is reputed to drive away mosquitoes, but if the tea leaves fail in this regard, you can prepare a soothing salve for insect bites (and sunburn) by simply applying moist leaves to the afflicted area. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After the collapse of Western medicine, real health care will inevitably end up returning to its roots: The healing power of nature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The word menstruate, by the way, has its roots in Latin, where the word mensis means "month." It has no relational meaning to the modern English word "men.")
Men have always dominated Western medicine, and they have always used chemicals and surgeries to control or dominate women. Even today, the male-dominated breast cancer industry is a for-profit system that preys upon women through harmful mammograms that actually cause cancer and produce shockingly high rates of false positives. As I've stated in previous articles here on NewsTarget, mammography harms 10 women for every 1 that it helps. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| And that food source was a mix of what we could hunt—wild game—and what we could gather—natural foods like roots, berries, nuts, wild vegetables, and fruits.
Wild Game Can Help Lower Cholesterol and the Risk of Heart Disease
So what did Paleolithic man actually eat? Wild animal foods dominated their diets, and these foods provide a higher proportion of good fats compared to other types of commercial meat. (That included, by the way, some saturated fat as well!) Meat from grass-fed animals has two to four times more omega-3 fatty acids than meat from grain-fed animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It looks like a mass of roots from a large garden vegetable, turned upside down and colored red. Your heart pumps 1.5 liters of blood through your liver every minute! If that's not a reason to give up eating toxic chemicals, I don't know what is.
One more note about this exhibit: Most of the bodies were really small. It's not like they routinely used volunteers who were six feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. In fact, I'm pretty sure most of the bodies in the exhibit were actually hobbits. Some aren't even five feet tall. At one point, I wondered if some of the bodies were children. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Primacy, Harvard professor Stephen Walt explored the roots of rising resistance to U.S. leadership around the world. Walt suggests that
U.S. influence will continue to wane as long as the United States pursues policies that are perceived as being primarily motivated by self-interest.5,1 But even those expressions of self-interest are starting to look shortsighted, as what at first glance looks like a natural protection of American prerogatives begins to look more like stubborn resistance to change that is happening, anyway, all over the world. U.S. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Chinese traditionalists save the best roots of the plant for their families and friends, believing that it will increase feelings of compassion and love. Meanwhile, in India, it's used to promote fertility, reduce menstrual cramping, and increase milk production in nursing mothers. These customs have some basis in science—the root contains steroidal glycosides that actually affect hormone production and possibly influence emotions. In India, the race-mosa species is used to increase sperm count and nourish the ovum.
In the Western world, asparagus has long been touted as an aphrodisiac. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Small weeds have incredibly strong tap roots that thrust deep underground to find every last drop of moisture, and succulents have developed water storage techniques that capture water in an internal matrix of unique long-chain polysaccharides.
After a rain in the desert, you can actually watch the succulents swell to 130% their usual size as they take in water. During periods of drought, they slowly shrink back to normal as the excess water locked in their gel matrix is consumed. |
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