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 Another operation worth supporting is Purdy's Macadamia Nut Farm, located on the small island of Molokai. I flew to Molokai and interviewed Purdy himself, who gives daily tours of his mac nut farm to visitors. You'll find his site at http://molokai-aloha.com/macnuts/
Neither one of these sites has any sort of sophisticated e-commerce system. You have to order the nuts by phone or mail. It's cumbersome, but it's worth it. Order several pounds at a time to make it worth your while. (My last order from South Kona Macs was for 35 pounds of mac nuts. I give some away to friends and family. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Is IQAir worth the high price?
With prices currently ranging from $689 to $835, the IQAir units are certainly not cheap. If you're willing to spend the money and care enough about the air you breathe, however, this system seems well worth the price of admission.
Of course, you have to be able to afford the unit in the first place. It is more like an investment in your future than an everyday appliance you can take for granted. But what if you don't believe that the HealthPro series is worth its price tag? |
Mike Adams
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| They say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with
] prescription drugs." So nutrition is dirt-cheap. It's a great investment for you personally, for your family, and of course for every nation.
Avoid the food ingredients that cause disease
Good nutrition, by the way, means more than just getting all of the right nutrients into your body through superfoods and nutritional supplementation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Are those people not worth remembering? Are their deaths not worth investigating? Are these people to be written off merely because they bled to death internally (from painkillers) rather than externally (from bombs)?
For those who say how dare I compare terrorism to pharmaceuticals, I say, "How dare you consider these lives worthless and unworthy of news coverage just because they died quietly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you're willing to spend the money and care enough about the air you breathe, however, this system seems well worth the price of admission.
Of course, you have to be able to afford the unit in the first place. It is more like an investment in your future than an everyday appliance you can take for granted. But what if you don't believe that the HealthPro series is worth its price tag? |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 And here I've been thinking I'm a loser, a failure, not worth knowing or being around, not having talents, skills, just being generally unworthy and someone to be ashamed of, wondering why anyone would like me or want to be my friend. Always just wanting to have the opportunity to just take a break, catch my breath, rest for a little while...and always wanting to have the chance to start over and do it right this time.
I'd binge on drugs and alcohol. Cocaine was a favorite for the energy, omnipotence, and numbness it would give me. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have a two-ounce size, which is about equal to a week's worth. It's to get you familiar with the product, because we find that some people are averse to buying a big portion of something that they don't know they're going to like. What we find is that these smaller sizes drive the prices of the bigger ones. The two-ounce is about a week's worth, and that retails for $9.95. The 10-ounce, which is about a month's worth, retails for $39.95.
Mike: Are the portions one serving a day then?
Wright: Well, the good thing in this case is that more is better. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here's a startling statistic: Did you know that reducing the cancer death rate by just 1% would be worth almost $500 billion to the U.S. economy over the next hundred years or so? (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. (These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.)
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38. |
Mike Adams
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| I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with
] prescription drugs." So nutrition is dirt-cheap. It's a great investment for you personally, for your family, and of course for every nation.
Avoid the food ingredients that cause disease
Good nutrition, by the way, means more than just getting all of the right nutrients into your body through superfoods and nutritional supplementation. It also means avoiding foods and drinks and chemical additives that deplete your body's nutrition. |
Mark Schapiro
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 China sells $19 billion a year worth of chemicals to the European Union, and billions more worth of chemical-containing consumer products. All would be subject to REACH.
One week after REACH'S final passage in December 2006 in Strasbourg, Zhang Xiangchen, director of the World Trade Organization Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commerce, announced in comments reported by the Xinhua News Service that the Chinese government would immediately begin consulting with local industries to help them comply with the new European directive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Are their deaths not worth investigating? Are these people to be written off merely because they bled to death internally (from painkillers) rather than externally (from bombs)?
For those who say how dare I compare terrorism to pharmaceuticals, I say, "How dare you consider these lives worthless and unworthy of news coverage just because they died quietly." I think the mainstream media is part of a great injustice taking place right now, an injustice that allows the ongoing operation of a system of medicine that kills a hundred thousand Americans each year, and yet goes virtually unreported. |
Mike Adams
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| I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with
] prescription drugs." So nutrition is dirt-cheap. It's a great investment for you personally, for your family, and of course for every nation.
Avoid the food ingredients that cause disease
Good nutrition, by the way, means more than just getting all of the right nutrients into your body through superfoods and nutritional supplementation. It also means avoiding foods and drinks and chemical additives that deplete your body's nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's cumbersome, but it's worth it. Order several pounds at a time to make it worth your while. (My last order from South Kona Macs was for 35 pounds of mac nuts. I give some away to friends and family. A pound of raw mac nuts from the Big Island of Hawaii makes a great gift!) Remember the time difference if you call: Hawaii is two or three hours behind California time, so don't call these folks at five in the morning Hawaii time, please.
I regret that I cannot list all the other deserving mac nut farmers in Hawaii. There are many others, but that is way beyond the scope of this article. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We only published an article critical of their use of yeast extract because we feel Amy's Kitchen is a company worth encouraging to clean up their labels. There are many other so-called "natural" food companies that aren't even worth contacting, since they have no desire to remove yeast extract or to even listen to the natural health community about hidden sources of MSG. But Amy's Kitchen is willing to listen.
The fact that Amy's Kitchen responded in a constructive way to our original article is good news, indeed. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Among the Nicarao, a rabbit was worth about ten of these "almonds," eight chicosapote fruits (from the tree which gives us chewing gum) were worth four "almonds," a slave about a hundred of them, and the services of a prostitute, eight to ten "according to how they agree." No doubt similar values prevailed among the Maya.
Bishop Landa has quite a bit to say about the uses and preparation of cacao in late pre-Conquest Yucatan:
They make of ground maize and cacao a kind of foaming drink which is very savory, and with which they celebrate their feasts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once we review the recording, we will make you a financial offer of how much we think it is worth. Video is obviously worth more than audio, and a more outrageous recording is worth more than a common everyday recording.
And if you so desire, we will protect your identity so that you do not get expelled from school for making these recordings. In fact, we don't even want to know your name. Don't tell us your name when you send these over, because we don't want the courts saying we have to reveal our sources. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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Product Information. Konsyl®, Konsyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Fort worth, Texas, 1999.
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Roberts DCK, Truswell AS, Bencke A et al. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| Among the Nicarao, a rabbit was worth about ten of these "almonds," eight chicosapote fruits (from the tree which gives us chewing gum) were worth four "almonds," a slave about a hundred of them, and the services of a prostitute, eight to ten "according to how they agree." No doubt similar values prevailed among the Maya.
Bishop Landa has quite a bit to say about the uses and preparation of cacao in late pre-Conquest Yucatan:
They make of ground maize and cacao a kind of foaming drink which is very savory, and with which they celebrate their feasts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Dinner was two hours late (but still worth the wait!), and the festival grounds get dangerously dark after hours, so bring a flashlight if you come next year. But despite these expected growing pains and organizational challenges, I think the Raw Spirit Festival is worth whatever it takes to get here. The food, the people and the vibe are all exceptional, and there's no question that I'm coming back next year for the 2008 festival. You may want to mark it on your own calendar too, even if you're from far away. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 The 8th International Symposium on ADP-Ribosylation. Fort worth, TX: Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1987.
11 lacobson M, lacobson E. Niacin, nutrition, ADP-ribosylation and cancer. The 8th International Symposium on ADP-Ribosylation. Fort worth, TX: Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1987.
12 Titus K. Scientists link niacin and cancer prevention. The D.0.1987; 3-97.
13 Hostetler D. Jacobsons put broad strokes in the niacin/cancer picture. The D.0.1987; 3-104.
14 Gerson M. Dietary considerations in malignant neoplastic disease. A preliminary report. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Soak this in:
Did you know that reducing the cancer death rate by just 1% would be worth almost $500 billion to the U.S. economy over the next hundred years or so? (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5 trillion dollars to the economy. These gains are due to increased productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This was worth every minute standing in line. I became an instant fan of Bruce's cuisine, and I've made a note to make sure I invite him for a future interview. Bruce trains raw foods chefs at culinary institutes throughout Oregon and California. He's a young living legend in the raw foods community.
What did we learn?
When you look at the event in its totality, it's worth asking the question, "What did we learn at this event this year?" Here's my own observation of the main points:
We learned that raw living foods is a fast-growing movement. |
Mike Adams
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| I say, "A penny's worth of prevention is worth a hundred dollars worth of medical treatment in a hospital, dosed up with
] prescription drugs." So nutrition is dirt-cheap. It's a great investment for you personally, for your family, and of course for every nation.
Avoid the food ingredients that cause disease
Good nutrition, by the way, means more than just getting all of the right nutrients into your body through superfoods and nutritional supplementation. It also means avoiding foods and drinks and chemical additives that deplete your body's nutrition. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 However, it is worth noting that a larger number of patients dropped out of treatment while on tricyclics because of side effects. Other studies have shown better responses for venlafaxine and duloxetine than for tricyclics and SSRIs.
Both venlafaxine and duloxetine can cause dizziness, constipation, dry mouth, headache, changes in sleep, and, more rarely, a serotonin syndrome with restlessness, shivering, and sweating. A decrease in saliva can cause cavities. Venlafaxine has also been associated with a dose-dependent increase in blood pressure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Regardless of whether Kunstler is correct about the bad news on dwindling energy supplies, "The Long Emergency" is worth reading. The thoughtful presentation shows that Kunstler has a wide-ranging, well-educated view of what makes society tick. He understands that in this era of mass specialization and dependence, it takes only one wrench in the machine to throw the whole system out of whack, and the end of cheap energy could be that wrench. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 It is worth noting that two of my patients, who had had moderately disabling strokes before the study began, did no exercise at all—yet like the others, they had excellent results that have lasted more than twenty years since the start of the study. Patients with coronary artery disease who cannot exercise must not despair. Full adherence to the nutrition program will protect them from progression of their disease.
Just one year into his study, Dr. Ornish published his findings to date. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These side effects of stunting growth and altering the brain chemistry of children might conceivably be worth it if Ritalin were actually treating a genuine disease. If Ritalin, for example, were preventing brain cancer in at-risk children, it might be reasonable to trade a reduction of cancer risk with stunted growth. But Ritalin has no justifiable medical use whatsoever and is, in fact, more a form of chemical mind control than anything resembling real medicine. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Meditation, deep-breathing exercises, and yoga are all worth trying. Even if they don't end up preventing hot flashes, you will get other benefits from these activities, such as improved sleep and general calmness. Slow, controlled, deep rhythmic breathing or "paced respiration" practiced twice a day has been shown to decrease hot flashes. Take a slow, deep breath, hold it for a few seconds, and exhale just as slowly. They say that the paced-respiration technique can help relieve a hot flash if begun at the onset.
Finally, if you smoke, entering menopause is a good time to quit. |
| The potential benefit from relief of BPH symptoms is usually worth the side effects of these medications. However, Uroxatral has cardiac side effects (lengthening of the Q-T interval) and should not be used in patients with liver problems.
TAMSULOSIN
Tamsulosin (Flomax) is a selective blocker of the alpha-1A adrenergic receptor that has fewer side effects than the other alpha-blockers because it is more selective to the alpha-1A adrenergic receptor than the other drugs reviewed above. |
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