Number of words: 189 In Charles Frazier’s civil War novel Cold Mountain, a wounded Soldier, Inman, travels perilously back home and along the way is helped and hindered by others, including a goat woman who takes him in and feeds him. Frazier writes, “A little spotted brown- and-white goat came to her and she stroked … Read more
Number of words: 489 Prior to 1900, vegetable oil was processed out of its natural state (such as corn oil from corn) by small, slow, cold- temperature batch presses. But in the 1920s, industrialists realized that human-dependent small, batch cold-pressing was too slow and not profitable enough, so they switched to automated heat and chemical … Read more
Number of words: 167 The long and the short of it was that the primitive people who ate historically indigenous diets almost always had all 32, perfectly aligned teeth, and cavities were a rarity. The photographs of these native people show smiles out of People magazine. They were attractive, cheerful, robust, fertile, and free from … Read more
Number of words: 166 According to Dr Daniel, edamame, which are boiled green vegetable soybeans, are safe to eat – occasionally – since the soybeans are harvested young before developing mature levels of antinutrients and toxins. But she is concerned that many people today are “noshing on edamame like it’s popcorn.” Tofu is made by … Read more
Number of words: 178 If isoflavone supplements are questionable, what about eating soy, and how much soy should we eat? We continue to hear that Asian have less disease because they eat a lot of soy. But how much soy do Asian really eat? In ancient times, farmers cultivated soybeans to instill nitrogen into the … Read more
Number of words: 284 MSG, made from the Seaweed Kombu (sea tangle), has been used for thousands of years by Japanese cooks to enhance the taste of foods. After World War II, military officials heard through the grapevine that American GIs were raving that Japanese military rations were truly edible, even delicious. The military, interested … Read more
Number of words: 203 Normal elimination is once or twice a day. Primitive humans likely didn’t have problems with constipation because their rough, fibrous foods, stimulated peristalsis, which is the organized, rhythm – like movement that moves foodstuff from the mouth through the digestive system to elimination. But since refined food products immediately turn into … Read more
Number of words: 44 Heroin, cocaine, caffeine, refined, white flour, and sugar are all white, powdery, highly addictive substance. Sugar happens to be a socially acceptable addiction, and it’s one ingredient that keeps us eating factory-food products. Excerpted from page 12 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by Nancy Deville
Number of words: 263 The second factor that thwarted American’s potential for utopia was that Pasteur’s germ theory of diseases unfortunately influenced our medical community to drop the pursuit of diseases prevention. Beginning in the 19th Century, chemicals with drugs actions were isolated from plants, and increasingly drugs were made by chemical synthesis. Our medical … Read more
Number of words: 203 Yahoo began as a list of other sites that Jerry and David had bookmarked using Marc Andreessen’s recently launched Mosaic browser. Known initially as Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web, then Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web, the list consisted at first of a hundred sites categorized … Read more
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