David Steinman
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 Vision is one of the functions of the human brain, so it means that these chemicals find themselves through the mum, through the umbilical cord, into the baby, into the developing brain, and damaging functions there, and the baby is born already with a problem," Koren said.
Bucky Bailey is a member of one of eight families living near the DuPont factory in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who are suing the company over the effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one of the chemicals used in Teflon petrochemical fluoropolymers. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 Minerals are considered coenzymes, which means that they enable the body to perform all of its many functions—including all functions relating to the control of inflammation.
Minerals also play an important antioxidant role,
The Importance of Macro- and Micro-Minerals
All minerals are essential for good health. They help regulate and facilitate basic functions of the body, including energy production, growth, and healing. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Getting enough of these micronutrients into your body will boost many body functions, bringing broad improvements in mental and physical health. For instance:
• B vitamins can protect you from depression, anxiety, stress, confusion, fatigue, mental dullness, and emotional fragility, and can even boost your IQ.
• The minerals magnesium and calcium have hundreds of functions in your body, and promote bone health, steady heartbeat, and flexible, open blood vessels. These minerals also help improve asthma symptoms and reduce muscle cramping. |
Gregg Braden
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 The revolutionary work of neuroscientist Karl Pribram, for example, has shown that brain functions are more global than were once thought. Before Pribram's research, it was believed that there was a one-to-one correspondence between certain kinds of memory, conscious and subconscious, and the places where those memories are stored.
The problem was that the theory didn't pan out in laboratory tests. The experiments showed that animals kept their memories and continued their lives even though the parts of their brains that were believed to be responsible for such functions were removed. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Right-brain functions cover spatial tasks such as reading maps, artistic and musical activities, emotional perception and a sense of humor. functions reverse in the majority of people who are left-handed.
Choose activities that you enjoy because these are the ones that you'll stick with. Then exercise each side of your brain in a more or less alternating fashion. Examples...
Left-brain activities: Word games, crossword puzzles and reading.
Right-brain activities: Playing a musical instrument, jigsaw puzzles, three-dimensional spatial puzzles and games. |
Hyla Cass
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| Getting enough of these micronutrients into your body will boost many body functions, bringing broad improvements in mental and physical health. For instance:
?B vitamins can protect you from depression, anxiety, stress, confusion, fatigue, mental dullness, and emotional fragility, and can even boost your IQ.
?The minerals magnesium and calcium have hundreds of functions in your body and promote bone health, steady heartbeat, and flexible, open blood vessels. These minerals also help improve asthma symptoms and reduce muscle cramping.
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Bottom Line Health
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| Right-brain functions cover spatial tasks such as reading maps, artistic and musical activities, emotional perception and a sense of humor. functions reverse in the majority of people who are left-handed.
Choose activities that you enjoy because these are the ones that you'll stick with. Then exercise each side of your brain in a more or less alternating fashion. Examples...
Left-brain activities: Word games, crossword puzzles and reading.
Right-brain activities: Playing a musical instrument, jigsaw puzzles, three-dimensional spatial puzzles and games. |
David De Angelis
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 Biofeedback: Accommotrac Vision Trainer
The biofeedback technique is based upon the fact that many physiological functions that are ruled by the nervous system (for example, pupil opening and the process of accommodation) use a kind of servomechanism to adjust their response to a changeable condition. This system has been used worldwide to allow the treated person (with the help of a particular machine) to get control over certain organic functions that are often considered involuntary. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to the New York State Archives, the TIRC's functions "included both the funding of research and carrying out public relations activities relating to tobacco and health." Faced with mounting evidence that smoking was harmful, "it became evident that this was not a short-term endeavor, and that it was difficult to manage both scientific research and public relations in one organization. As a result the Tobacco Institute was formed to assume the public relations functions, and the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) was formed and incorporated to provide funding for scientific research. |
David Steinman
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| Vision is one of the functions of the human brain, so it means that these chemicals find themselves through the mum, through the umbilical cord, into the baby, into the developing brain, and damaging functions there, and the baby is born already with a problem," Koren said.
Bucky Bailey is a member of one of eight families living near the DuPont factory in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who are suing the company over the effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one of the chemicals used in Teflon petrochemical fluoropolymers. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Scalar fields appearing in the simplest electroweak and grand-unified theories have energy functions that are too steep for the purposes of inflation. But there is a class of supersymmetric theories, which include plenty of scalar fields with flat energy functions. The superstring theory, which is now the leading candidate for the fundamental theory of nature, belongs to this class. (We shall have more to say about superstrings in Chapter 15.)
THE NUFFIELD WORKSHOP
The next act of the drama was set in the medieval university town of Cambridge. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 The subconscious mind has numerous functions. It plays a role in guiding your bodily processes: your heartbeat, circulation, immune functioning, and so forth. It also contains a library-like catalogue of your life experiences and the thoughts and feelings associated with your important events. You probably can't recall what you were doing, feeling, and thinking on New Year's Eve when you were five years old, but your subconscious mind has it all tucked away in living color with surround sound.
Even with all of this, there is still more to the subconscious mind. |
Richard Bartlett
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 There is evidence to suggest that the unconscious mind serves as the receiver and our electromagnetic field functions as the antenna. Our need or desire acts as a force of attraction, which programs our awareness to seek out experiences or information. That's one reason I think the experience of what I have chosen to call Matrix Energetics happened to me. I had a desperate need and a burning desire, and I called out to the heavens for assistance. Something heard and responded in a way I never could have imagined. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 This disruption of the normal defense functions of the white blood cells is great at stopping the inflammatory response, but it essentially cripples the immune system. Long-term use of prednisone also causes abdominal obesity, puff-iness of the face ("moon face"), and accumulation of fat in the upper back ("buffalo hump").
The side effects of prednisone relate to dosage levels and length of time on the drug. Most of the side effects are not due to taking too much of the drug for a short period of time, but rather are due to long-term use, even at lower dosages. |
| With regular exercise, the body becomes stronger, functions more efficiently, and has greater endurance. Exercise is a vital component of a comprehensive stress management program, effective weight loss, and overall good health.
People who exercise regularly are much less likely to suffer from fatigue, tension, depression, feelings of inadequacy, and worries. Exercise alone has been demonstrated to have a tremendous effect in terms of improving mood and the ability to handle stressful life situations. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| The former term refers to the biology of the nervous system and the latter term refers to the science of neural circuitries and their relationship to mental and physical functions in the human body and the surrounding environment.
Philosophy—A discipline concerned with the critical examination of the rational grounds for our most fundamental beliefs and logical analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs. Philosophy is perhaps the oldest and most highly regarded of the sciences. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Creatine is used in muscle tissue for the production of phosphocreatine, an important factor in the formation of ATP, the source of energy for muscle contraction and many other functions in the body. Creatine supplementation works by increasing phosphocreatine levels in muscle and improving muscle protein synthesis, letting you work just a bit harder during your strength-training workout sessions.
Creatine supplementation appears to be useful in battling sarcopenia, but it must be combined with weight training. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| The seventh chakra is at the crown of the head, supports sophisticated brain functions, and is associated with a person's overall spiritual evolution.
Clinical psychology—The application of principles and methods from various branches of psychology as a way to study, measure, evaluate, and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional problems. |
| The second chakra is located near the genitals and fuels procre-ative functions. The third is near the sternum, supports organ health, and serves as a location for storage of strong emotion. The fourth chakra surrounds the heart, powers the heart and lungs, and serves as a storehouse of emotions relating to love, relationships, and human virtue. The fifth charka is in the throat, powers the thyroid, and is associated with personal expression. |
| This center fuels your procreative functions. A person who lacks sufficient energy here or chronically stores a lot of negative energy in this center might suffer from impotence or infertility or be prone to disorders of the reproductive organs: dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, prostate dysfunction or cancer, fibroid tumors in women, or even cancer of the vagina, cervix, or uterus.
A third, important energy cenrer encompasses the digestive system, pancreas, and liver. This is where we store emotion and hold our sense of personal power. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 All of those functions are important for maintaining the highest level of wellness throughout the life span.
CHAPTER 8
A "Nice Cup of Tea" for Digestion
Throughout history, people of many cultures have enjoyed a cup of tea with or after their meals, and the practice continues in modern times. Of course, the primary inspiration for this practice is the pleasing taste of tea beverages, but the tea habit also has beneficial effects on the digestive process. Its benefits include improved digestion, decreased risk of ulcers, and assistance in maintaining a healthy weight. |
Joseph Campbell
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| For when scrutinized in terms not of what it is but of how it functions, of how it has served mankind in the past, of how it may serve today, mythology shows itself to be as amenable as life itself to the obsessions and requirements of the individual, the race, the age.
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The Function of Myth, Cult, and Meditation
In his life-form the individual is necessarily only a fraction and distortion of the total image of man. He is limited either as male 2 Ibid., IV, 400-406. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Caffeine increases the body's basal metabolic rate (the rate at which energy is used for the basic functions of breathing, pumping blood, and mamtaining body temperature). This increase is referred to as a thermogenic effect; it may boost weight loss by helping the body burn more calories during day-today life. The potential effect on weight loss is small, but significant.13
Aside from being a tasty part of many meals, green tea is a healthful addition to the diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Satire and humor have important functions in any free society: They reveal what's wrong in a hilarious light, simultaneously entertaining us while encouraging us to challenge our own ideas and, perhaps, come up with new, better solutions for future generations. Political cartoons, stand-up comedians and satire pieces like this one all play a role in getting people to think more carefully about the issues at hand. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Poor Mental Function
Promotes healthy cognitive functions; may help prevent senility.
Green tea fanatics just plain live longer than people who avoid tea. One study that uncovered this fact examined the relationship of green tea to longevity by following the lives of 3,380 Japanese women for nine years. These women were all at least fifty years old and were all registered teachers of the Japanese tea ceremony in Tokyo. Green tea is an essential component of the Japanese tea ceremony, so the researchers assumed that these women were greater-than-average green tea drinkers. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The return of the bull should have symbolized his absolutely selfless submission to the functions of his role. The retaining of it represented, on the other hand, an impulse to egocentric self-aggrandizement. And so the king "by the grace of God" became the dangerous tyrant Holdfast—out for himself. Just as the traditional rites of passage used to teach the individual to die to the past and be reborn to the future, so the great ceremonials of investiture divested him of his private character and clothed him in the mantle of his vocation. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 They help tonify the heart, calm the spirit, strengthen the stomach and spleen, normalize bodily functions, invigorate chi, enhance the secretion of body fluids, nourish blood and chi, and improve the complexion. They can be used to help a person gain weight and have more energy, and they are added to many strong yang tonic formulas to buffer their effects. |
| However, the most well-known use of hops is in making beer, for which hops have been used since the Middle Ages; it functions as a preservative and also imparts a bitter flavor. A brown dye can be made from the flowers and leaves. The essential oil is used in perfumery. |
| It also functions as a liver tonic: folklore tells of a flock of sheep recovering from liver problems after grazing on a hedge of boldo. The herb was formerly used in place of quinine. Today it is used in the treatment of cystitis, gallbladder pain, gallstones, gonorrhea, hepatitis, jaundice, obesity, and urinary tract infection.
Topically, boldo can be prepared as a compress or used as a bath herb to relieve arthritis pain.
Some Native American peoples used blue cohosh as a protective charm for children. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 These "secondary compounds" instead serve a variety of ecological functions, ultimately, to enhance the plant's survivability. Interestingly, these compounds also may be responsible for the multitude of beneficial effects of fruits and vegetables on an array of health-related bioactivities; two of the most important may be their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. |
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