Jack Challem
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 But we often forget that the opposite is also true—that we can slow down the age-related accumulation of DNA damage. Eating healthy foods, taking certain nutritional supplements, engaging in regular physical activity, and limiting psychological and emotional stresses all work to preserve and maintain normal or enhanced gene function. While these health recommendations might sound familiar, the rationale behind them and the specific suggestions in Feed Your Genes Right differ from those in other health books. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Step one to adding body fat: slow your metabolism
The very first thing you've got to do is slow your metabolism; by slowing your metabolism you'll burn fewer calories when you're at rest and thus, even if you don't increase the amount of food you intake, you'll automatically add weight and store body fat. The easiest way to slow your metabolism is to stop all forms of exercise. Avoid walking. Spend a lot of time in front of the television. Take elevators instead of the stairs. And certainly don't sign up for any physical activities or spend much time outdoors. |
Carlo Petrini
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During the summer of 2001,1 went on a trip, first to San Francisco, to attend the First National Congress of slow Food USA, then on to Mexico, a country and a culture of which I am very fond and which I had not visited for some time. I stayed for a while in the Federal District of the immense Mexico City, where I saw with my own eyes the extreme poverty endured by millions of people who had left the countryside, selling off what little land they possessed, and who were now clogging up the suburbs of the capital in the hope of making a living. |
| So that summer I went to Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla, to learn more about an excellent project—winner of the 2002 slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity—to reintroduce amaranth to one of the poorest areas in Mexico, where the desert is inexorably advancing. The Quali project, founded and directed by Raul Hernandez Garciadiego, is combined with an ingenious plan to regenerate the water supply using some clever methods devised by the ancient inhabitants of this area. |
| I was due to have a couple of meetings with the local directors of slow Food France in the regional capital and make a stopover in Aubrac, an area south of the Massif Central, bordering on the more famous Auvergne. There, in the principal village of the area, Laguiole, I was to meet Andre Valadier, the president of the Jeune Montagne cooperative, which produces Laguiole cheese, one of the many French cheeses classified as Appellation d'Origine Controlee (AOC). |
| Valadier is a very charismatic figure, the head of the association of AOC cheese producers, and I wanted to meet him to discuss the possibility of their attending Cheese, the international conference which slow Food holds every two years in Bra, in September.
The visit also gave me an excuse to dine and stay at one of the most charming and relaxing relais in France, that of Michel Bras, a three-star chef based in Laguiole. |
| In my long experience as a gastronome, I have given hundreds of interviews both as a critic and as the president of slow Food. In all these interviews, there have been very few occasions when the interviewer did not ask: "What's your favorite dish?" or "What's your ideal meal?" It is repeated like a kind of mantra, and it shows how often culture and gastronomic journalism become banal and concentrate reductively on two elements alone: recipes and recommended restaurants. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In due time, these carbohydrates are going to slowly get converted into blood sugar, so they're going to give you a steady, slow stream of fuel. Fuel to power your brain (remember, your brain runs on blood glucose), fuel for the organs in your body, fuel for the physical movements you need to engage in just to get to work and get to your desk and so on. This is going to be a slow, steady source of fuel. By the way, if you combine it with some healthy oils and some quality proteins at the time of breakfast, then you will further slow the release of sugar into your bloodstream. |
Jack Challem
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| By applying this research, you can foster healthier genes, slow your aging process (that is, feel and even look younger), and lower your risk of virtually every disease. Feed Your Genes Right explains exactly how you can do this, with easy-to-follow advice.
Is Nutrition All That Important?
People often seem surprised to hear that all of the foods they eat (not just fats and carbohydrates) affect their physical health, aging process, stress responses, and appearance. The truth is that the nutrients you consume are literally the building blocks—the bricks and mortar—of your body. |
| Inadequate levels of vitamins and minerals become "rate-limiting" factors—that is, they slow or inhibit the rate of necessary chemical reactions.
If this idea seems a bit arcane, consider that the rates of these chemical reactions affect your heart function, your healing time, your energy levels, your thinking and memory, your resistance to infection and cancer, your body's ability to detoxify noxious chemicals, and every other physical function. |
| Low levels and outright deficiencies of micronutrients slow and inhibit genetic activities and chemical reactions, resulting at first in vague symptoms and later in diagnosed diseases. Optimal levels of vitamins and other micronutrients promote the necessary genetic activities and chemical reactions of health. |
| First, ginkgo is widely used to improve memory, and some research shows that it may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Also, this particular study demonstrated that ginkgo improves the activity of many different genes in brain cells.
Schulz found that ten key genes affecting brain function increased in activity by three to sixteen times after the mice consumed ginkgo. One of the genes increased activity in the hippocampus, the brain's center of learning and memory. |
Mike Adams
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 People who eat slowly tend to eat less than people who eat quickly because slow eating gives their bodies time to "realize" that they ate.
By helping your body move fat and calories through your digestive system, fiber actually increases the amount of calories you excrete in your feces (Mayell, Murray).
Your body digests soluble fiber more slowly than processed foods, which slows down your body's release of glucose and thereby reduces hunger pangs (Whitaker).
Fiber will make your body release natural appetite-suppressing hormones like cholecystokinin (Murray). |
Jack Challem
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| Knowledge is power, of course, and you can use this knowledge to overcome genetic weaknesses and to reduce, slow, and sometimes reverse age-related genetic damage. The payoff? You can greatly improve your health, regardless of the genes you were born with. In a very real sense, you do not have to rationalize that a particular health problem "runs in my family," because you do not have to let the health problem run in you.
Your Genes Are Flexible, Not Fixed
Our genes consist of a microscopic double strand coil of deoxyribonucleic acid, better known simply as DNA. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 These delicious hearts will taste like they were fried, but they aren't. The slow cooker does practically all the workfor you. Use it as a sandwich spread as well as a tasty side dish. Pressedfor time? Open a 16-ounce can of low-fat refried beans as a quick substitute.
V2 pound dried pinto beans (1V8 cup dry) x/% cup diced onions x/i tablespoon chili powder or adobo seasoning V2 teaspoon garlic powder
Place the beans in slow cooker and cover them with 6 cups of water. Allow them to sit, covered overnight. Drain and cover the beans again with 6 cups of fresh water. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Medical science is slow to change, and slow to give up its closely-guarded (false) beliefs. In time, however, virtually everything now supported by the medical industry (the FDA, AMA, ACS, etc.) will be regarded as insanely harmful to human health. One day, future scientists will look back on medicine today and wonder just how such an industry of evil and greed could have gained so much power and authority. The answer is found in "groupthink" and the strange knack for humans to defer to anyone in an apparent position of authority, regardless of whether such authority is warranted. |
Pam Montgomery
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 As I continued to perceive with my heart a slow undulation began and I felt the movement of the Earth. Then I realized that the birdcall, the wind shifting through the trees, and the rustle amongst the leaves all resonated in rhythm with the slow wavelike motion. These seemingly individual aspects manifested in a coordinated orchestration in which each unique part had its place in the whole, creating an incredible symphony of sound, light, and movement. |
| But I do remember that my heart felt slow and steady and uncommonly fierce and generous—all at once. And I remember that I drove home that night calmly and slowly. Even from inside the steel car, riding on rubber tires, I could see some sparkling stars outside, and I could feel a bit of the great turnings. And I had the sensation, as I remember it now, of small animals seeing me from inside the woods, winking at me as I drove. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| 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. There is never a bad time to quit smoking, of course, but smoking is linked to increased hot flashes. Quitting also improves your health in other ways, such as lowering your risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 In the same spaces, dendrites - tiny filaments of nerve endings wafting back and forth, like shafts of wheat in a slow breeze - communicate with other neurons, sending out and receiving their own electrical wave impulses. These 'slow-wave potentials', as they are called, flow through the glia, or glue, surrounding neurons, to gently touch or even collide with other waves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The best way to charge a battery is with slow current -- the slower, the better. I recommend 200mA (milli-amps) for all NiMH batteries except 9V, which should be charged at 50mA. Blasting batteries with very high current in order to "quick" charge them will overheat the battery and permanently alter the internal chemistry in a way that reduces total capacity. So avoid quick chargers. They're mostly just a marketing gimmick.
Finding a high-quality battery charger
Quality NiMH battery chargers are hard to find. I searched the market for well over a year to find one that I could recommend. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Medical science is slow to change, and slow to give up its closely-guarded (false) beliefs. In time, however, virtually everything now supported by the medical industry (the FDA, AMA, ACS, etc.) will be regarded as insanely harmful to human health. One day, future scientists will look back on medicine today and wonder just how such an industry of evil and greed could have gained so much power and authority. The answer is found in "groupthink" and the strange knack for humans to defer to anyone in an apparent position of authority, regardless of whether such authority is warranted. |
Carlo Petrini
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| It is woven into a network of other traditional skills that urgently need to be preserved and revalued, before we completely lose the joy of living in a world which is still on a recognizably human scale.
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Ann N. Martin
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 Sodium deficiencies may result in muscle cramps, fatigue, hair loss, dry skin, and slow growth. The main source of sodium is table salt. Other sources include, ham, bacon, canned sardines, and snack foods.
Zinc Zinc is an antioxidant. Zinc promotes the healing of wounds and normal growth development. Zinc deficiencies may result in slow wound healing, decreased growth, poor appetite, and prostate problems in older dogs. Natural sources of zinc are whole-grain products, egg yolks, molasses, wheat germ, garlic, fish, turkey, and lamb.
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Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Other side effects caused by chemotherapy can include hair loss, mouth sores, nausea, vomiting, abnormal blood profiles, suppression of the immune response, and difficulty swallowing. slow growing cancers, such as bowel cancers, are especially hard to treat in part because they grow slower than most tumors.
A chemotherapy drug called adriamycin (ADR) is one of the most effective broad-spectrum chemotherapy agents, but the dosage in which it can be used is limited because it also causes heart damage. |
Elaine Magee
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 Components of garlic have also shown the ability to slow or stop the growth of tumors in the prostate, bladder, and stomach tissue, and animal studies have shown that components in allium vegetables slow the development of cancer in several stages at various body sites: stomach, breast, esophagus, colon, and lung.
How might these smelly veggies be helping? In general, the group of allium vegetables appears to help block cancer-promoting enzymes, promote DNA repair, and regulate the cell life cycle. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Those who moderately reduced their consumption of fat did manage to slow the rate of progression of their disease. But they did not completely arrest it, and as it progressed— even at its new, slower rate—it continued to take its toll.
In early 2006, a report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association resulted in national headlines suggesting that low-fat diets do not decrease health risks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All they have is some stuff that will slow the progression of the electro-degeneration disease. He gave me some more pills to put into the gas tank that were supposed to slow this down a little bit.
I said, "But what about this? Is this safe?" And he said, "Oh yeah, it's perfectly safe, lots of people are using it. It's been clinically proven to slow the progression of EDD. Go ahead and use it, you'll be just fine." I said, "How much is that?" And he said, "It's $25 a day, no big deal. Maybe your car insurance will pay for that too. |
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