Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 LESSONS IN THE WILD
With the exception of animals that hibernate or anticipate periods of starvation during the winter, there simply are no overweight wild animals. An individual animal's genetic code won't allow obesity to occur because, when adequate stores of fat are present, a sophisticated system of monitoring cells produce hormones that shut off hunger signals. Also, as just discussed, quite possibly the micronutrients in the foods in an animal's habitat act as a satiety switch. Change in the amount of daylight is another likely satiety switch. |
Michael Pollan
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 Wild game generally has less saturated fat and more omega-3 fatty acids than domesticated animals, because most of the wild animals we eat themselves eat a diverse diet of plants rather than grain. (The nutritional profile of grass-fed beef closely resembles that of wild game.) Wild fish generally have higher levels of omega-3 s than farmed fish, which are often fed grain. To judge by the experience of fish-eating cultures like the Japanese, adding a few servings of wild fish to the diet each week may lower our risk of heart disease, prolong our lives, and even make us happier. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 When primitive man consumed brain tissue from wild animals, he got generous amounts of DHA. Of course, the contamination of today's domesticated animal stocks with mad cow disease and other maladies has eliminated the option of eating animal brain and nervous tissue as sources of DHA. But wild game, organic beef, and grass-and pasture-fed animals have meats with more omega-3 fat than other meats available today. Many vegetarians supplement DHA produced from microalgae.
The FDA recently approved a commercially available omega-3 fatty acid supplement (Lovaza, Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Many songbirds and wild animals, including moose and elk, depend upon elderberries for sustenance.
ELECAMPANE
Botanical Name
Inula conyzae, I. helenium
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy Family) Etymology
The species name, helenium, is said to be a reference to Helen of Troy, who was supposedly collecting elecampane when Paris captured her. The common name elecampane is derived from the Latin cam-pana, "of the field. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The international trade in wildlife is now enormous, with hundreds of millions of wild animals and their products being transported around the world every year. The emergence of West Nile virus in North America, and AIDS and SARS globally, Cunningham points out, arose from such travel and trade in an age when "travelers can be in the middle of a tropical jungle one day and commuting to their desk in London the next. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| In folkloric tradition mullein is carried to inspire courage, to prevent wild animals from attacking, and to attract love. |
Pam Montgomery
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 She is a maiden who is at home in the wildness of nature, often roaming with wild animals at her side while befriending the wild plants as well. Mugwort's spirit mirrors this quality by helping one to access the spirit of nature and her green beings. Artemis is never to be domesticated, always free from spousal ties. She is also a moon goddess and, as such, is an ally to women, helping to influence fertility, childbirth, and menstruation. This aspect is reflected in the use of mugwort as a tonic to the reproductive organs affecting mother, maiden, and crone. |
| We ride the wave of fear that has risen and watch what it brings up. wild animals surely are about to eat us! We breathe and the fear subsides when we realize the wild animal is more afraid of us than we are of it. We walk on until we come to a fallen log, and here we sit, becoming more comfortable in this dark place, this unknown place. Walking in the dark like this is a way to build personal power, as it helps you to navigate uncharted territory or what seems that way because you can't see it. |
Dawson Church
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 It is part of a class of immediate early genes that modulates our body's response to stress; this class is activated by stressful situations—whether they're interoffice rivalries, marital disagreements, or attacks by wild animals. C-fos activates brain neurons to produce a protein called fos. Fos then binds to the DNA molecule where it triggers the transcription of other genes. The stresses that trigger the activation of C-fos can be physical traumas. They can also be stressful social or psychological situations. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The dwindling supplies of our natural diet of wild animals and wild plants, together with the huge expansion of the planet's population, made agriculture a necessity for survival.
Why Cereal Grains Are a Nutritional Compromise
But on the other hand, cereal grains are a nutritional compromise. They are not nearly as healthy, nor as nutritionally complete, nor as perfectly suited to our ancient digestive wiring, as the foods they have replaced. |
Mark Lynas
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 Much of this water drains underground through porous volcanic ash and lavas, and emerges in waterholes -vital for local people as well as for wild animals - far away on the savannah plains.
So is Kilimanjaro's water-generating capacity safe from global warming? Not quite: rising temperatures and diminishing rainfall increase the risk of fires, which have already begun to consume the upper reaches of montane forest. By the time the glaciers have disappeared, so will the higher forests, depriving downstream rivers of 15 million cubic metres of run-off every year, according to one estimate. |
David De Angelis
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 Monkeys, and generally all wild animals, have more or less clear levels of "hyperopia," as it would be defined concerning this "convention." We could develop the visual acuity over 20/20 with PVS. If man had stayed wild, without being constantly exposed to the state of overaccommodation due to narrow places (indoors), probably 21/20 or even more would have been considered as normal visual acuity. The way to run so as to overcome 20/20 is the same one that the myope must run to recover from his refractive error. The exercises are the same: muscular training and retinal defocus. |
David Wolfe
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 These powers are possessed by wild animals, and formerly by humanity. As soon as the body begins to be poisoned, the powers slip away. In any biological degeneration, the higher powers fade first. However, your natural superior abilities have not been totally destroyed by improper food, they are only dormant and are capable of rebirth, regeneration and resurrection.
One of the greatest values of The Sunfood Diet is that it opens you up to the idea that many of your other deep-seated beliefs may be totally false. The effects of adopting The Sunfood Diet disassemble your view of the world. |
| Not to wild animals in nature. It is the way food has always been done on Earth. Remember: life is extreme. It's life or death. If you want extreme transformations in your life, you need to start taking extreme actions. This is no dress rehearsal; this is the real thing. People are dying. The major diseases in America are related to the way people eat. People are looking for the answers. People are sick and tired of being lied to (figuratively and literally). The Earth is being trashed with pollution and it can be reversed by simple fundamental changes. |
| There is no evidence that wild animals, living on natural raw diets, have digestive enzyme juices even remotely approaching the strength of those found in civilized human beings."
Dr. Howell has demonstrated, through what he calls The Law of Adaptive Secretion of Digestive Enzymes (a manifestation of the Law of Vital Adjustment), that animals eating raw diets have no enzymes in their saliva, but they begin to when fed a heat-treated diet. Dogs taken away from their natural raw diet and put on a cooked-food diet had enzymes show up in the saliva in about a week. The opposite is true as well. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 No one would have accurate figures, but they were small enough for a man to disappear voluntarily for many years, and no one would ever know wiether he was still alive, or had been murdered, or had succumbed to the many wild animals, snakes, or fevers of this great empty land. The native Indian population, outnumbered by half-castes, had been much reduced by Spanish colonialism and was concentrated in mining areas. There was a shortage of food, only partially relieved by imports along the bad roads from Argentina.19 Brazil was virtually cut off by the swamps and jungles of the Upper Amazon. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 That is how animals are forced to rotate their menu and that is why all wild animals are browsers. They eat a small amount of one thing, then move on to many other plants during the course of the day. The body is capable of detoxifying small amounts of a great many things. Chimpanzees also rotate the green plants they eat. They go through approximately 117 different plants in one year.61 We humans need to learn to alternate our variety of greens as much as possible instead of eating only iceberg lettuce, spinach and romaine. |
| Whether they are at the age of two or fifteen years old, they look the same. wild animals only begin to slow down during the last weeks before they die. On the other hand, it is often easy to guess the age of humans, down to five years. At the same time, I have seen many people who looked younger upon improving their elimination.
I believe we should consume 50 to 70 grams of fiber per day or more. However, we have to increase the intake of fiber gradually. It can be dangerous to switch overnight from 10 grams to 70. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Learn how to discourage wild animals from entering your property. Learn how to send underground pests off to another area so they will never come back. Learn where the bugs hide in the winter. Learn special formulas that you can make with products around the home. Learn how to never see another mosquito or fly in your home or yard. Learn how to get rid of moths without the smell. Learn how to purchase pest control supplies inexpensively that are nontoxic, and much, much more. The book is available at www.naturalcures.com. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The meat of wild animals that early humans consumed was much different from the industrially produced, shrink-wrapped meat we find in supermarkets today. The demand for tender meat has led to the breeding of cattle whose meat contains 25 percent to 30 percent fat, or more. In contrast, meat from free-living animals and wild game has a fat content of less than 4 percent.
It's not just the amount of fat, however, that distinguishes industrially produced meat. Its composition is also different. |
Jack Challem
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 People hunted wild animals for meat and foraged for edible plants. If they lived near an ocean, lake, or river, they likely caught and ate fish and other types of seafood as well. The relative percentages of animal foods versus vegetable foods varied from culture to culture, but, interestingly, no society was entirely vegetarian. Many ancient diets were extraordinarily diverse, including up to a hundred different types of plant foods, as well as scores of land animals, many species of fish, and wild bird eggs. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Domestic beef contains primarily saturated fats and virtually no beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, while the fat of wild animals contains more than five times the polyunsaturated fat per gram and has substantial amounts, about 4 percent, of omega-3 fatty acids. Range-fed animals also contain ten times as much conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) as grain-fed animals. CLA is a slightly altered form of the essential fatty acid linoleic acid. It occurs naturally in meat and dairy products. |
| In contrast, the fat of wild animals contains over five times more polyunsaturated fat per gram and has desirable amounts of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids (approximately 4 percent).
What conclusions can we draw from the evidence of the wild primate and hunter-gatherer diets about how we should eat today? Overwhelmingly, it appears that humans are better suited to a diet composed primarily of plant foods. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 As already noted, following the rise of the mental hospital, those placed in these institutions were commonly treated like wild animals. Many believed that insanity was incurable. Virtually all others were convinced that insanity could only be overcome if treatments were applied that in most cases could be described as nothing less than torture. Many were chained and consequently, forced to sit in their own filth. Most admitted to these asylums would not survive more than three years.137 However another approach developed during the late 1700s that challenged the traditional methods. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 It is an example of what is known as a zoonosis, a parasite found in wild animals which can be transmitted to humans. This protozoan is regarded as the most common flagellate in the human digestive tract and is highly contagious. Treatment of this debilitating disease is usually accomplished using one of several drugs. Its conventional and alternative treatments have been thoroughly reviewed by Harris et al.10 Metronidazole is the treatment of choice, but benzimidazoles are now being used more frequently. Other treatments include quinacrine, paromomycin, and furazolidone. |
| Repeatedly European observers stated that if signs of a general poisoning appeared, the spectators would rush toward the poisoned person like wild animals and kill him.53
In sub-Saharan Africa it is very common to use oracles, especially before a court in the form of a poison ordeal. In former times opponents directly underwent a poison ordeal; today chicken or dogs are used instead. During these ceremonies, the poison is asked to make a decision and, depending on which animal dies and when, the ordeal will be interpreted either positively or negatively (see Photo 5.2). |
KC Craichy
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 Natural lipids (fatty acids) of the omega-3 EPA/DHA variety are derived from cold water oily fish as well as from wild animals and plants. Omega-3 fatty acids began to disappear from the typical Western diet in the twentieth century, and only recently have we begun to see the health concerns that their absence has caused. Omega-3 fatty acids control many of the most basic functions of the cell. Omega-3 oils are a major constituent of brain cell membranes and are converted to critical brain chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Look, I'm not a fan of locking up wild animals and putting them on parade for the general public, but the fact is that these animals are involuntary ambassadors, and their presence in zoos actually increases the appreciation for all animals by children and adults alike. And U.S. zoos do their best to try to make these animals comfortable, given severely limited funding and resources. |
Michael T. Murray
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 Domestic beef contains primarily saturated fats and virtually no beneficial omega-3 fatty acids (discussed shortly), while the fat of wild animals contains more than five times the polyunsaturated fat per gram and has substantial amounts (about 4 percent) of omega-3 fatty acids.
Range-fed animals also contain ten times as much conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) as grain-fed animals. CLA is a slightly altered form of the essential fatty acid linoleic acid. It occurs naturally in meat and dairy products. |
| As well, the meat of wild animals that early humans consumed was much different from the industrially produced, shrink-wrapped meat we find in supermarkets today. The demand for tender meat has led to the breeding of cattle whose meat contains 25 to 30 percent fat, or more. In contrast, meat from free-living animals and wild game has a fat content of less than 4 percent.
It's not just the amount of fat. The composition is also different. |
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