Over half of the plastic found in our oceans is from plastic fishing nets.
“The best way to minimize your exposure to industrial toxins may be to eat as low as possible on the food chain, a plant-based diet.”
― 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
“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
“For disease prevention, berries of all colors have “emerged as champions,” according to the head of the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory.39 The purported anticancer properties of berry compounds have been attributed to their apparent ability to counteract, reduce, and repair damage resulting from oxidative stress and inflammation.40 But it wasn’t known until recently that berries may also boost your levels of natural killer cells.”
― 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
“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
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