T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 A recent study in south africa helped to answer these questions. White South Africans have seventeen times more large bowel cancer than black South Africans, and this was first thought to be due to the much higher consumption of dietary fiber among black South Africans provided by unrefined maize.74 However, in more recent years, black South Africans have been increasingly consuming commercially refined maize-meal—maize minus its fiber. They now eat even less fiber than the white South Africans. |
Devra Davis
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 In 1994, to create a break with its deadly past, south africa set up a stunning series of national public confessions. Nelson Mandela, the head of the African National Congress, and South African President F. W. de Klerk both understood that for the racist system of apartheid to die, it needed a proper burial. Without public acknowledgment of the brutality of the apartheid past, the country would never recover.
De Klerk's white supremacist National Party wanted blanket amnesty for the violence they had committed in the name of the law. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Werner Bezwoda, South Africa's premier breast cancer specialist. Bezwoda's paper and Peters's boundless optimism gave transplanters reason to keep performing the procedure.
But Bezwoda's paper would turn out to be a fraud. When a team of cancer specialists from Washington, DC, traveled to south africa to audit Bezwoda's data in 2000, they discovered a jumble of incomplete records, missing patients, and deviations from standard scientific practice. Out of 1 C4 patients reported in his paper, Bezwoda had charts for only sixty-two cases. |
Mark Lynas
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 Synfuels' still supply half of South Africa's petrol and diesel, and with high world oil prices, coal 'synfuels' are becoming competitive elsewhere too. The liquidation of coal produces much more C02 than conventional refining - so peak oil in this case would worsen global warming.
Other 'unconventional oil' sources are similarly polluting - the extraction of oil from the tar sand deposits in the Canadian province of Alberta uses vast quantities of steam and natural gas, meaning that the 'energy returned on energy invested' ratio is dangerously low and emissions dangerously high. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Mashing an avocado and rubbing it into your hair for five minutes after washing will add luster to your hair; rinse afterwards. In south africa, an avocado mask made of mashed avocados, honey, and lime juice is applied to the face as a moisturizing treatment to counteract the drying effects of the hot sun.
Blueberries and Cranberries Protect Kidneys, Heart, Eyes, Skin
Urinary tract infections (UTI's) are triggered by bacteria, primarily E. coli, adhering to the walls of the bladder or kidney. |
Bill Sardi
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 A man in south africa with lymphoma, who read of the dietary supplement that could quell cancer. Within weeks his cancer had disappeared.
These patients didn't wait for tomorrow's cancer drugs.
Maybe the nutrients these patients took had nothing to do with these remissions. Maybe they just had tumors that were slow growing. But so many were diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and then suddenly regained a grip on life.
There is something amiss here. Why weren't doctors making these suggestions? Why were these patients suddenly beating their cancer and living normal lives? |
| Cancer Research 61:1927-33, 2001
An intriguing study was conducted among fishermen living on the West Coast of south africa compared to urban Cape Town residents. The fishermen smoked more cigarettes and had higher rates of tuberculosis. The fishermen were black, while the city dwellers were Caucasian. About a third of the urban dwellers took vitamin supplements while none of the fishermen did. The fishermen also consumed fewer vegetables and less fiber than did the urban dwellers. Yet, about six times more urban dwellers in Cape Town developed colon cancer than did coastal fishermen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real thing: a CITES certificate
In south africa, this authorization is provided by a CITES certificate. C.I.T.E.S. stands for Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Hoodia gordonii was added to the CITES schedule during a 2004 meeting in Bangkok. The official CITES listing for hoodia now reads:
Botswana , Namibia , and south africa submitted a proposal to the 14th Conference of the Parties of CITES to list all species of Hoodia on Appendix II. |
Devra Davis
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| Those who witnessed the creation of South Africa's TRC call it a miracle. They note that what took place in postwar Germany and Japan, and in Central and Latin America after the fall of right-wing dictatorships, made it clear that direct and full prosecution, if carried out, would rip a country apart. Where a majority are guilty, punishment becomes unending. Where only a few are prosecuted, as was the case in Germany and Japan, this creates the delusion that the rest of the country bears no responsibility for the past. |
| Her father, Joe Slovo, had fought Hitler in Germany and would fight with Mandela against the white supremacists in south africa. The last effort of his life was to seek restorative justice for the man who had murdered his wife.44
Gillian Slovo explained her father's remarkable position. "My father, one of the architects of the final settlement, put it this way: the best revenge, he said, that I can think of for those men who murdered my wife is that they be made to live in peace in a system that they had fought so brutally against. |
Mark Lynas
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| Another hot spot of biodiversity - and yet another World Heritage Site threatened by global warming - is the Cape Floristic Region of south africa. Covering a huge coastal arc inland from Cape Town, it is home to the greatest concentration of higher plant species in the world outside the tropical rainforests. Its inauspicious rocky soils and arid Mediterranean climate support 9,000 different plants, more than 6,000 of which are found nowhere else on the planet. The most iconic plants in the region are the proteas. |
| The Southern Dunefield, meanwhile, extends all the way down to the northernmost regions of south africa. And stuck right in the middle, of course, is Botswana.
There are two reasons why the dunes lie idle today. First, rainfall - limited though it might be - is still sufficient to support vegetation. Second, wind speeds are low enough that sand can't blow any great distance, and the giant dunes stay put. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Habitat: The plant is indigenous to the Nile area, Ethiopia, East Africa, Angola, Mozambique, south africa, Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India.
Production: The bark is collected from plants that are at least 7 years old and then left to mature for a year.
Not To Be Confused With: The bark of the Australian species Acacia decurrens; commercially available under the same name.
Other Names: Acacia Bark, Babul Bark, Wattle Bark, Indian Gum, Black Wattle
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Tannins
EFFECTS
The drug has an astringent effect. |
| Habitat: Indigenous to tropical regions of South America and south africa.
Production: Copaiba balsam is extracted from Copaifera reticulata and other varieties.
Other Names: Copaiva
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Volatile oil: chief constituent alpha- and beta-caryophyllene, L-cadinenes, copaene
Resins: in particular diterpenoid oleoresins
EFFECTS
Possible bacteriostatic effect on the urinary tract.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
The drug has various uses as a stimulant, laxative, and diuretic. Also used in infections of the urinary tract. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 Medicinal plants of south africa (Pretoria, South Africa: Briza Publications, 1997). rather limited set of very well-documented useful plants (mostly medicinal, but also those known to be toxic or used in nutrition). In ethnopharma-cology an important goal is the development of improved preparations for the use by local people. |
Mark Lynas
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| All will be suffering further serious reductions in the two-degree world. South Africa's majestic pro tea flowers will be losing much of their range, and 10 per cent could be extinct by 2050. In the Queensland rainforest, around a third of all the species studied will be well on their way to obliteration as temperatures hit two degrees. In each of these cases an outcry can be expected as well-loved animals and plants die off. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Habitat: The plant is found in Europe, the Near East as far as Iran, north and south africa, all of America, Australia and New Zealand.
Production: The dried, aerial parts and underground parts, collected in autumn, of Cichorium intybus. |
| Habitat: Indigenous to south africa, Cape region.
Production: Buchu leaf consists of the dried leaves of Barosma betulina.
Not To Be Confused With: Other Barosma and Diosma species.
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Volatile oil: chief components diosphenol and psi-diosphe-nol (mixture known as buccocamphor), limonene, (+)-men-thone, (-)-isomenthone, pulegone, furthermore (-)- cis- and (+)-trans-8-mercapto-p-menth-3-one (odor-determining, so-called cassis aroma)
Flavonoids: including rutin and diosmetin
EFFECTS
At present no studies of the drug are available. |
| In folk medicine the drug is used as a constituent of the so-called "Swedish herbs", which, in Germany are widely used as a cure-all. In south africa, the fresh juice finds use for eye inflammation and for syphilis. In Lesotho it is used by medicine men.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Aloe is contraindicated in cases of intestinal obstruction, acutely inflamed intestinal diseases (e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), appendicitis and abdominal pain of unknown origin.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: In single incidents, cramp-like discomforts of the gastrointestinal tract occur. |
| Aloe ferox is indigenous to south africa. Agave americana, known as American Aloe, is not a true Aloe.
Production: Curacao aloe consists of the dried latex of the leaves of Aloe barbadensis (syn. Aloe vera), as well as its preparations. Aloe is harvested from August until October. The juice is dried in various ways.
Cape aloe consists of the dried latex of the leaves of several species of the genus Aloe, especially Aloe ferox and its hybrids. The leaves are gathered by hand, and the collected liquid is thickened. |
Mark Lynas
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| A global analysis conducted for the 2007 IPCC report identifies several'hotspots for future drought': south-western North America, Central America, the Mediterranean, south africa and Australia. During the winter months, south-east Asia is a drought hot spot, whilst the Amazon, Siberia and part of West Africa suffer most during the summer. Even areas that get more average rainfall, such as the higher mid-latitudes, will see this extra wetness coming in winter, outside the main growing season when crops cannot benefit as much. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Pecans are also grown in Mexico, Australia, Israel, Peru, and south africa.
Why Should I Eat Pecans?
Pecans are a source of thiamine, gamma-tocopherol (a type of vitamin E), magnesium, protein, and fiber. They ranked fourteenth in total antioxidant capacity according to a 2004 report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and eighth out of fifty foods according to a report from the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo in Norway. They are also rich in the heart-healthy phytochemical beta-sitosterol. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 In south africa (a country the size of Texas) one diet organization sells more than $12 million worth of products a year, and that is in a so-called third-world country where malnutrition and related diseases are still out of control and yet obesity is increasing dramatically. Half of all South Africans are overweight or obese and 22 percent of all children ages one to nine are either overweight or obese. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Latham, the highest recorded recent prevalence has occurred in the 1990s in south africa.3 Some 50% of
59 patients seen in a clinic in Transvaal showed evidence of pellagra, while the majority of adults in a Pretoria mental hospital suffered from this disorder.
In 1914, Dr Joseph Goldberg was assigned by the United States Public Health Service to identify the cause of the pellagra epidemic in the Southern states> 5 He soon discovered that the well-fed staff of both mental hospitals and prisons did not develop pellagra, while malnourished patients and inmates often did. |
| An association between niacin deficiency and cancer has been shown in populations eating low-protein corn diets in Italy and south africa and in some provinces of China. Tissues vary in their sensitivity to low niacin. Bone marrow is most sensitive. Niacin deficiency, therefore, increases the rate of appearance and number of chemically induced cancers, especially forms of leukemia originating in the bone marrow.
Skin is also very sensitive to niacin deficiency. In rats, a lack of this vitamin increases the production of UV induced skin cancers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I am originally from south africa. I went to medical school at the University of Capetown, and then I came to the United States where I did residency at the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Then I went to the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where I did my cardiology fellowship. That's where they have the cardiac surgery program of Michael DeBakey. Just out of interest, I trained where Chris Barnhard did the first heart transplant in south africa. I had this exposure to these great cardiac surgeons who are true legends. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Counterfeit documentation
The second thing a con artist does is post a counterfeit CITES certificate, which is a certificate of export from south africa that covers the exportation of protected plant species. Genuine hoodia will always be accompanied by a CITES certificate. Real hoodia cannot be exported out of south africa without this certificate.
So what do hoodia con artists do? They download the certificates that have been posted by legitimate companies, and then they do a little Photoshop photo editing to modify the original information on this certificate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| At the same time, due to the massive harvesting effort of wild hoodia gordonii (the raping of the land, actually, for this lucrative herb), south africa, Botswana and Namibia have classified hoodia gordonii as an endangered species. Its harvesting and exporting is now controlled and must be authorized by the government.
The real thing: a CITES certificate
In south africa, this authorization is provided by a CITES certificate. C.I.T.E.S. stands for Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. |
| When hoodia gordonii is harvested in the wild in south africa, the economic incentive to find more hoodia gordonii results in people digging up practically any succulent that resembles hoodia in physical appearance. Ultimately, they get paid the same whether it's hoodia or not, because as long as there are buyers willing to shell out US$225 / kg for adulterated or counterfeit hoodia powder, there will always be plenty of individuals or organizations in south africa who are willing to provide it. |
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