Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you buy from small, local organic growers, like you might find at a farmer's market or local co-op, then you are supporting sustainable farming and local families who have the knowledge and the determination to work close to the earth in an honorable profession. When you purchase from these local organic farmers, you are supporting a way of life that is truly sacred; a way of life that, frankly, more of us would do well to emulate. That way of life includes farming organic produce from the earth in the local sustainable way that honors nature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thus, it's easy for the public to forget that it was, in fact, the local law enforcement presence that made peace possible in the first place.
Because, remember, perhaps 30% of the population harbors a hidden criminal intent if the right circumstances appear. |
| What happens, especially in the big cities, is that when the local population figures out that law enforcement is no longer effective (that police officers can't respond for some reason, such as a huge, uncontrollable riot), then the equation of opportunity vs. risk changes in the minds of many people, and they decide that there's very little risk associated with destroying property, stealing, looting and committing other crimes against persons or property.
It is only the immediate threat of arrest that keeps most people relatively civilized. |
| In essence, what I'm saying is that if we did not have local law enforcement, most cities in the United States would be in a state of chaos. I think we'd have a situation of high violence, gangs and warlord control, sort of like we see today in Somalia.
A lot of people say "Oh, that's ridiculous, that couldn't happen in the United States... people are polite and mild-mannered." And I think that sort of statement misrepresents human nature and the capacity of populations to shift from peaceful, polite populations to out-of-control mobs. The "mob mentality" changes peoples' behavior. |
| But by and large, local law enforcement provides a tremendous benefit to communities for which they are rarely recognized. Police get no thanks when the streets are safe, but they always get blamed for law enforcement lapses. In law enforcement, it's easy for the public to see when things go wrong, and almost impossible to notice when things go right. After all, if the police are doing their jobs, the community is peaceful and nobody really notices a crime problem. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So buy food and food products from small, local companies or "natural" food manufacturers. Visit your local food coop. Eat local!
3. Support legislative efforts to require the labeling of genetically modified food ingredients. I'm not aware of any such pending legislation that's anywhere close to a vote, but if such legislation appears on the horizon, you can count on NewsTarget to rally readers to the cause. Make sure you're a subscriber to receive our email alerts. Click here to subscribe (free).
4. Read the Center for Food Safety report on pharmaceutical rice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So that, in a nutshell, is why I strongly support local law enforcement.
You see, the label of "criminal" is misleading. It's not accurate to point at someone and say, "He's a criminal," or "She's not a criminal." Criminality comes in shades of grey. Under the right circumstances, almost everyone is capable of certain acts considered criminal. When you change the risk vs. opportunity equation, you initiate criminal behavior from people who were otherwise law-abiding citizens. This is especially true for property crimes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Though many states and local school districts are undertaking heroic efforts to improve the nutritional quality of foods sold in schools, the junk-food industry fights those efforts tooth and nail," said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan.
"The industry likes to say school foods should be subject to local controls," said Wootan, "yet it strikes back at the efforts of parents and health professionals when they try to act locally."
Bottom line
Congress could pass a law which restricts junk food within the public school system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But back to the law enforcement issue, I think we owe a great deal to our local law enforcement officers in cities and counties all across this country -- these are men and women who are putting their lives on the line to keep our communities safe so that we can have the luxury of talking about subjects like nutrition, healthcare, physical exercise and how to be healthy, creative, productive human beings rather than spending time defending our homes against warlords and gangs like you'd see in Somalia.
Are there police abuses in this country? Absolutely. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When you purchase from these local organic farmers, you are supporting a way of life that is truly sacred; a way of life that, frankly, more of us would do well to emulate. That way of life includes farming organic produce from the earth in the local sustainable way that honors nature. That's a miracle in action, and every time you purchase those foods, you support those local community miracles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Support small sustainable farms, organic farms, family farms, your local food co-ops and your local farmer's market.
Another, huge step you can take is to have your own garden. Grow heirloom plants, not hybrid plants, so you can save your seeds and use them generation after generation. The very act of saving and using seeds is, in its own way, a respectful ritual for nature. Who knows? Someday you may have to depend on those seeds, because all the other corporate seeds out there have terminated themselves and can't be counted on anymore. So keep saving them, and keep them alive. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Soybeans grown for export have replaced indigenous crops in many countries around the world, causing serious local food shortages and the loss of small family farms to corporate agribusinesses. High-tech soy processing plants have supplanted local cottage industries, causing loss of dietary and cultural diversity as well as fewer jobs for locals. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 However, you may need extra-activated vitamin D for specific local needs, such as an infection in your lungs or cancer cells in your breast. The cells in your lungs and breast are able to make that extra amount of activated vitamin D as long as you have a big enough supply of vitamin D from sun or supplements. If you don't, you're out of luck, because your body can't deal with the local threat as effectively.
Properties of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a unique hormone that belongs to a group called the steroid hormone family. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Rosman's corn was collateral for a USDA Farm Service Agency loan. The local office had granted a loan extension, but the local manager told Rosman that the national head of operations ordered that it be confiscated instead. A driver revealed that it was sent to a Cargill plant to be processed for human consumption.
The FSA refused to provide Rosman with the records related to his corn. It took six separate Freedom of Information Act requests, two from Rosman, one from each of three nonprofit organizations and one from a US congressman, for the FDA to turn over part of his file. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 I'm arranging the lists this way because many people find that they do "destination" marketing: They shop for canned goods, for example, at their local supermarket and fresh fruits and vegetables at a farmer's market or other local source.
Obviously, you won't be buying everything you need to eat for the duration of your SuperFoods Diet in one shopping trip! Some of the SuperFoods are fresh foods that should be purchased on a regular basis. But don't think you must be running to the market constantly. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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 That hardly "refutes" local hidden variable theories, but does show, once again, that quantum experiments have not yet revealed any "incompleteness" that we can fill in by positing a local hidden variable.
However, a non-local hidden variable might explain Aspect's results and several other experiments, performed since Bell published his Theorem, which all indicate that non-local correlations do appear in the laboratory (experimentally) as well as in the equations (theoretically).
We still don't have a very clear idea of what a non-local hidden variable would look like, do we?
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Steven V. Joyal
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 A physical therapist or qualified fitness expert at a local health club can be helpful. You may consider taking a class on strength training offered by a local health club, community center, or hospital.
?You can do your strength training on the days you are not doing an aerobic workout or after an aerobic workout session. See which way works best for you.
?Avoid doing any movements that cause a sharp pain. It's okay to feel a "burn" in your muscles, but it's not okay to feel pain in any joint.
Strength training compares favorably with aerobic endurance training. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Entanglement shows how the quantum realm is based on nonlocal-ity, which means basically that local causes can have distant effects, even when there is no possible way a signal or force could travel between two objects fast enough to form a cause-and-effect relationship.
As an example, imagine a pair of particles, A and B. We want to measure a quantum property called spin, which can take one of two states, which for the sake of simplicity we will call spin up and spin down. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 According to local tradition, people who drank the tea rarely developed cancer and lived to a very old age.
Jiaogulan tea is used by millions of people in China, Japan, and Thailand. local people steep the herb in hot water, making a tea infusion that is taken before work to energize the body, during the day to improve concentration, and after coming home to reduce tension and induce relaxation. The leaves and young stems also can be cooked as a green vegetable and are used in casseroles and soups.
Jiaogulan Tea
Pour 8 ounces hot water over 1 teaspoon dried jiaogulan leaf. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only way to truly know where your food comes from is to know your local farmers. When you know the people growing your food, and you can meet them face to face, then you know what you're getting. That's why I'm a huge supporter of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), farmers' markets, backyard gardening and local food co-ops. Through organizations like these, consumers can maintain close relationships with the people who grow their food, and farmers are able to exercise far greater control over what they grow, how they grow it, and how much they get paid for it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Visit your local food coop. Eat local!
3. Support legislative efforts to require the labeling of genetically modified food ingredients. I'm not aware of any such pending legislation that's anywhere close to a vote, but if such legislation appears on the horizon, you can count on NewsTarget to rally readers to the cause. Make sure you're a subscriber to receive our email alerts. Click here to subscribe (free).
4. Read the Center for Food Safety report on pharmaceutical rice. Click here to download the report now (PDF). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The industry likes to say school foods should be subject to local controls," said Wootan, "yet it strikes back at the efforts of parents and health professionals when they try to act locally."
Bottom line
Congress could pass a law which restricts junk food within the public school system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Direct sales keep small farmers in business
In many agricultural areas, the small, local farmer is increasingly dependant on direct-to-consumer sales to remain in business. Selling mac nuts (or almost any other agricultural commodity, actually) to mega-business food corporations is a fast track to personal bankruptcy. Right now, in fact, when Hawaiian mac nut processors even offer to buy the nuts from local farmers, the dollar amount offered amounts to a net loss to the farmer. The small guys can only stay in business by selling direct to consumers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Visit your local food coop. Eat local!
3. Support legislative efforts to require the labeling of genetically modified food ingredients. I'm not aware of any such pending legislation that's anywhere close to a vote, but if such legislation appears on the horizon, you can count on NewsTarget to rally readers to the cause. Make sure you're a subscriber to receive our email alerts. Click here to subscribe (free).
4. Read the Center for Food Safety report on pharmaceutical rice. Click here to download the report now (PDF). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Support your local farmer, and keep the big food corporations out of the transaction.
The end of Hawaii's mac nut industry?
If something doesn't change in Hawaii soon, its local farmer mac nut industry could be all but wiped out in a matter of years. Perhaps in as few as two years, you may witness a devastation of the macadamia nut industry, to be replaced by factory farms, massive use of chemical pesticides, labor violations for the workers, and everything else that goes with corporate control of the food supply. |
Erich Grotewold
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 If flavonoids are taken up into the ER lumen in local areas, then the loss of the ability to escort flavonoids would have a negligible effect in this model. The ttl9 phenotype, in which proanthocyanidin precursors are restricted to a few small vacuoles, may indicate that TT19 has other unknown functions. One explanation is that TT19 also acts after proanthocyanidin precursors are taken up into the ER by TT12, for example, at the stage of intracellular vesicle trafficking of flavonoids. |
Michael Pollan
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 Most of my suggestions come down to strategies for escaping the Western diet, but before the resurgence of farmers' markets, the rise of the organic movement, and the renaissance of local agriculture now under way across the country, stepping outside the conventional food system simply was not a realistic option for most people. Now it is. We are entering a postindustrial era of food; for the first time in a generation it is possible to leave behind the Western diet without having also to leave behind civilization. |
| While on the coast, their diet consisted mainly of seafood, supplemented by birds, kangaroo, and witchetty grubs, the fatty larvae of a local insect. Hoping to find more plant foods, the group moved inland after two weeks, settling at a riverside location. Here, in addition to freshwater fish and shellfish, the diet expanded to include turtle, crocodile, birds, kangaroo, yams, figs, and bush honey. |
| To shop at a farmers' market or sign up with a CSA is to join a short food chain and that has several implications for your health. local produce is typically picked ripe and is fresher than supermarket produce, and for those reasons it should be tastier and more nutritious. As for supermarket organic produce, it too is likely to have come from far away—from the industrial organic farms of California or, increasingly, China. |
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