Over half of the plastic found in our oceans is from plastic fishing nets.
“profession? A report by the Institute of Medicine on medical training concluded that the fundamental approach to medical education has not changed since 1910.127”
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
“In a meat industry trade publication, an Alabama poultry science professor explained why we don’t have such a “heavy-handed” policy: “The American consumer is not going to pay that much. It’s as simple as that.” If the industry had to pay to make it safer, the price would go up. “The fact,” he said, “is that it’s too expensive not to sell salmonella-positive chicken.”99”
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
“In one study, researchers asked athletes to eat about a cup and a half of blueberries every day for six weeks to see if the berries could reduce the oxidative stress caused by long-distance running.42 The blueberries succeeded, unsurprisingly, but a more important finding was their effect on natural killer cells. Normally, these cells decrease in number after a bout of prolonged endurance exercise, dropping by half to about one billion. But the athletes consuming blueberries actually doubled their killer cell counts, to more than four billion.”
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
“the top reason doctors give for not counseling patients with high cholesterol to eat healthier is that they think patients may “fear privations related to dietary advice.”65 In other words, doctors perceive that patients would feel deprived of all the junk they’re eating. Can you imagine a doctor saying, “Yeah, I’d like to tell my patients to stop smoking, but I know how much they love it”?”
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
“To become virtually heart-attack proof, you need to get your LDL cholesterol at least under 70 mg/dL.”
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
― How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
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