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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

Almost half of third-world farmers use green revolution seeds, which doubled the yield per unit of nitrogen fertilizer. In combination with an expansion of the area under cultivation, the green revolution increased third-world agricultural output by more than a third by the mid-1970s. Once again, increased agricultural yields did not end hunger because population growth kept pace—this time growing well beyond what could be maintained by the natural fertility of the soil.

The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith See book keywords and concepts

Another use of this technology is to produce a GM rice with increased iron and vitamins, which could alleviate chronic malnutrition in third-world countries. So on the surface it looks like this technology would be helpful to humans. Unfortunately, there is more data showing up to suggest there could be serious negative side effects using GM foods. It's important to note that we don't have a requirement in the United States to label foods as genetically modified if they in fact have come from this technology.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

Josie King was killed by a third-world condition, dehydration, in a first-world—indeed a first-class—American hospital. Yet it's impossible to fix blame on any single person or event in the string of tiny missteps that led to her death. Perhaps the most devastating error of all was that nobody paid sufficient attention to Sorrel King's observation that her daughter was desperately thirsty.

You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts

For example, the highest rate of colon cancer in the world is in New Jersey, in the most developed country in the world, while the lowest rate is in Punna, India, a third-world country. The chief reasons are Punna, India is closer to the equator where vitamin D-producing sun rays are more intense, and the people there eat plant foods rather than meat. Health authorities certainly know what the chief reason for increased rates of cancer is in northern climates - it's the lack of vitamin D. Exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays produces vitamin D in the skin.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa See book keywords and concepts

She was also a regular team member on physician-run medical missions overseas, helping children in third-world countries obtain lifesaving operations they might never otherwise receive. The first night after departing for their big Montana trip— fourteen hours in the car after they'd left behind the rural farming village where they lived near New Mexico's Rio Grande—the couple had stopped at their Idaho motel just shy of the Montana border.

The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Elevated blood pressure (>40/80 mm Hg) When I speak of a poor diet associated with urban stress, we need only look at the chart, "Diabetes World-Wide"", which depicts the diabetes ranking for emerged versus emerging third-world countries around the world. It becomes easy for us to plainly see how 'Urban Crawl" is accompanied with a simultaneously growing prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus as well.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

In combination with an expansion of the area under cultivation, the green revolution increased third-world agricultural output by more than a third by the mid-1970s. Once again, increased agricultural yields did not end hunger because population growth kept pace—this time growing well beyond what could be maintained by the natural fertility of the soil. Between 1950 and the early 1970s global grain production nearly doubled, yet per capita cereal production increased by just a third. Gains slowed after the 1970s when per capita grain production fell by more than 10 percent in Africa.

More ominously, the green revolution's new seeds increased third-world dependence on fertilizers and petroleum. In India agricultural output per ton of fertilizer fell by two-thirds while fertilizer use increased sixfold. In West Java a two-thirds jump in outlays for fertilizer and pesticides swallowed up profits from the resulting one-quarter increase in crop yields in the 1980s. Across Asia fertilizer use grew three to forty times faster than rice yields.

The Sunfood Diet Success System David Wolfe See book keywords and concepts

I once spoke to a Mormon missionary on the phone who had befriended a raw-foodist as they were both working to spread their message in a third-world country. On the phone, the missionary told me that the raw-foodist was known for cooking his water, instead of his food! The lesson I picked up from this conversation was valuable: if you are in a less-developed country with a questionable water supply, boil your water to kill any parasites, then recharge it by placing pink salt or sea salt, MSM powder, large quartz crystals and fresh lemon juice in the water before drinking it.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

No other first-world country has such an extensive land frontier with a third-world country. The income gap between the United States and Mexico is greater than that between any other two contiguous countries in the world. "Contiguity," Samuel Huntington writes, "enables Mexican immigrants to remain in intimate contact with their families, friends, and home localities in Mexico as no other immigrants have been able to do.

It is unlikely to be confined to the ghettos themselves but will likely resolve into a more generalized and protracted guerilla warfare of the kind that has been going on in third-world countries for decades, and it will occur against a background of widespread turbulence everywhere. American exceptionalism offers no protection from these potential disorders. Any place can become a Beirut under certain unfavorable circumstances. We can only hope to hear the appeal of those "better angels of our nature" invoked by Lincoln the last time the United States went through an internal convulsion.

The extraordinary rate of discovery in other parts of the world during the 1950s and 1960s reinforced American complacency, because it tended to suggest that more oil could always be found elsewhere, especially in third-world places where compliant peoples would be happy to benefit from its development. Proven world reserves, Yergin writes, had increased from 62 billion barrels in 1948 to 534 billion in 1972, almost all of it outside the United States (and the communist nations), and more than 80 percent of it in the Middle East.9 A twenty-year glut of oil developed.

Perfect Health the Natural Way Mary-Ann Shearer See book keywords and concepts

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.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

American commercial transport would quickly tumble to third-world levels of inefficiency and expense. I believe that the interstate highway system will reach a point of becoming unfixable and unmaintainable not far into the twenty-first century. The resources will not be there to keep up the level of service at the minimum necessary to prevent cascading failure. I think we will be shocked by how rapidly its deterioration proceeds. It will happen at the same time that the economics of mass car ownership become untenable, and the two failures will be mutually reinforcing.

Perfect Health the Natural Way Mary-Ann Shearer See book keywords and concepts

It makes crazy claims about type-A blood group not being able to eat mangoes and type-O blood group not being able to eat avocados, two extremely nutritious foods found in abundance in third-world countries. Imagine saying to a poor, uneducated family who just happened to live under a mango tree that they could not eat one of the most nutritious foods around simply because they have type-A blood. They would look at you as if you had lost your mind.

How to end cruelty to people, animals and nature, and create a world without war and environmental destruction Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Likewise, it is not acceptable to exploit poverty-wage labor in third-world countries in order to enrich corporations and their CEOs in developed nations. But this is no anti-trade rant: free trade is essential for lifting poor nations out of poverty, but only when combined with mechanisms that respect the sanctity of human life such as safe working conditions, living wages, and a system of recognizing private property ownership for the poor.

Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH See book keywords and concepts

While living in Western society we are seldom subject to the malnutrition from starvation that our ancestors experienced or third-world societies still suffer, but we are prone to malnutrition from a deficiency of essential nutrients. We need a diet that not only supplies adequate calories over the course of the day, but also provides adequate vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids. In a word, we need a nutrient-rich naturopathic diet for optimum health. TOWARD A NATURAL DIET There are many people who are well and, therefore, do not need to modify their diet.

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it Sue Palmer See book keywords and concepts

And after Germany's recent review, the minister for the family ruefully exclaimed that 'when it comes to childcare, compared to the rest of the European Union, Germany is a third-world country'. For successful politicians in the Big Four, it seems that catering for the interests of employers and working parents is the priority. Their interest in the needs of small children is minimal. As US economist Shirley Burgraff put it, 'Children might as well come from cabbage patches as far as most political and economic theory is concerned.

Disease Prevention and Treatment The Life Extension Editorial Staff See book keywords and concepts

The incidence of anemia is far greater in second- and third-world countries, where the death rate is still 100% for some forms of anemia. This protocol deals with three distinct blood diseases: anemia, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia. Anemia is generally defined as a decrease in the number of red blood cells or in the quantity of hemoglobin or lowered hematocrit. This reduced blood cell count reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry to the body. Thrombocytopenia is a condition that occurs when the body does not have enough blood platelets or the platelets are damaged.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

Since then, she has written on subjects ranging from third-world debt to international trade. I've always seen Susan's path as parallel to my own. If, in a sense, I have tried to dive beneath hunger to get at its toots in the scarcity of democracy, Susan has gone beneath hunger to its toots in economics—roots that we both know are inseparable. Surrounded by French antiques in her living room, Anna and I sit on a small mustard-colored loveseat and Susan wastes no time—the big idea. "You've heard of the Tobin Tax, haven't you?

Today, corporations in the industrialized world—not third-world governments, research institutions, or companies—hold roughly 90 percent of all the world's technology and product patents, many of them derived from plants cultivated in the third world.4 In a few hours, we'll be stepping off the plane to meet leaders of an Indian movement that is questioning the wisdom of all this: the Green Revolution and its 21st-century redux, the Gene Revolution, as well as new international rules governing patents, including those on life forms such as seeds.

He explained by describing his work with Doctors Without Borders, an international group that sends doctors and health-care workers into third-world countries. He enjoyed the work, he said, but realized he wanted to be part of preventing wounds, not just putting on bandages. His choice to help make sure people are fairly paid for their labor, through fair trade, can stop some of the wounds poverty causes. It seems so obvious, but how long will it take the obvious to become the norm?

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H. See book keywords and concepts

Yet nearly every other country, including third-world countries, have such a right written into their constitutions. With regard to access to health care, Article 25 of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay. See book keywords and concepts

I distrust commercial herbal crops grown with pesticides, purchased from underpaid third-world workers, then cooked up and concentrated until certain chemical markers reach standardization levels. The end result may have the right amount of XYZ acid, but who is fooling whom? If you don't believe me, take an organic carrot and a supermarket one of similar size and place them on the counter of your kitchen. Find out which one tastes sweeter, and which one rots first. In other words, trust your senses. How do you make good medicine?

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

However, some third-world countries still allow and use chlordane and export their food products here. For example, according to an article in Environmental Action, a newsletter by the Environmental Action Foundation, a nonprofit environmental organization, in April 1988, a shipment of 42,000 pounds of Honduran beef was imported to the United States containing eight times the allowable U.S. tolerance limit for chlordane. By the time the beef was tested, almost all the meat had been sold. Such cases have prompted consumer groups to caution against buying imported food.

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H. See book keywords and concepts

But, if America had universal coverage, our own "third-world" population would be largely freed from the ethical dilemma of defining public vs. individual needs. Meanwhile, we're all at risk as long as we perpetuate a system that seems to be designed to ignore public health considerations, factors that have been assumed (incorrectly) to be of minor financial importance and not a positive force for the short-term bottom line. It's as if some of us (maybe the CEOs and executives of the insurance companies) are not on this world with the rest of us.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete Home Reference to Natural Medicine Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC See book keywords and concepts

However, most research shows that while vitamin A supplementation helps people prevent or treat infections in third-world countries where deficiencies are common,47 little to no positive effect, and even slight adverse effects, have resulted from giving vitamin A supplements to people in countries where most people consume adequate amounts of vitamin A.48,49,50,5''52,53 Beta-carotene (p. 268) and other carotenoids have increased immune cell numbers and activity in animal and human research, an effect that appears to be separate from their role as precursors to vitamin A.

However, this was a study conducted in a vitamin B}-deficient third-world country. Therefore, these improvements might not occur in other diabetics. A recent German study also found that combining vitamin B^ (in a special fat-soluble form) and vitamin B6 plus vitamin B12 in high but variable amounts led to improvement in some aspects of diabetic neuropathy in 12 weeks.48 As a result, some doctors of natural medicine recommend that people with diabetic neuropathies supplement vitamin B , though the optimal level of intake remains unknown.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

In third-world countries, this is a much-used folk remedy for stopping frostbite," says Pamela Fischer, founder and director of the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies in Concord, California. Cayenne pepper and other hot chile peppers work externally by improving circulation to the areas that it touches. But don't sprinkle pepper in your socks, she says. The best way to apply it is to combine a little Chinese hot oil (which contains chile extracts) with an equal amount of olive oil, then rub the mixture into your feet before you go out in the cold. Don't apply the mixture to broken skin, however.

Book review: Rome Wasn't Burnt In A Day by Joe Scarborough Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I don't know where the United States is on this timeline of financial destruction. It may be able to continue fudging the numbers and hiding the truth about its own finances and national debt for another decade, perhaps even two decades if government accountants are creative enough. Or perhaps we will able to save our nation through widespread education efforts and radical financial reform that would reign in spending. That would, of course, be the preferred solution. Fiscal sanity and financial stability are always preferred over financial collapse and radical reforms.

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