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Many times more nutrition and many times the taste, for far less than you pay at the grocery store. Such motivations are bringing hundreds of visitors per day to Lee O’Hara’s Organic Home Gardener website and causing thousands of his DVDs to be snapped up even in these troubled economic times—or, more likely, it is partially because of them: “more for your money” is part of the magic formula, after all.
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If he’d had another, perhaps lesser mission, it might have been the search for the Lost Ark or the Crystal Skull. But instead, Dr. Christopher Daugherty has scoured South American jungles, befriending and aiding indigenous peoples, searching out lost farming techniques and rare nutrient-dense foods that we back here in the “real world” have never imagined.
Dennis Frates has one of those jobs the rest of us can only dream about. From his home surrounded by breathtaking scenery in Wilsonville, Oregon, he strikes out on photographic excursions throughout the West, including his latest favorite: the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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Leo Galland, MD, has been practicing medicine for over 30 years, including a teaching stint at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of integrated medicine, which combines the best of alternative and conventional treatments. He is the author of three excellent books, Power Healing, Superimmunity for Kids, and The Fat Resistance Diet, and he currently practices in New York City, specializing in undiagnosed or difficult-to-treat illnesses. We recently sat down with Dr. Galland for a fascinating conversation about health, the state of medicine, the power of nutrition, and magnesium.
If this headline got your attention, it was purely by design. I believe that life isn’t inherently hard. It gets made that way.
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Their motto is “Better, Greener, Faster, Cheaper”—and with these words, Project FROG brings a unique perspective to the building industry. Using a product-based approach, the company designs prefabricated structures that are a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative to traditional construction. Not only are their creations highly sustainable, they are also less expensive and quicker to put up.
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Magnesium's relationship to stress cannot be overstated. This essential mineral plays a key role in allowing the body to relax, especially following a stressful episode. Without magnesium, calcium cannot be properly absorbed and utilized, and muscles tend to remain stiff and in “fight-or-flight” mode, resulting in muscle cramps, insomnia and a host of other symptoms. The secret of calcium-magnesium balance—as well as magnesium’s operation—is all the way down on a cellular level. We recently talked with magnesium expert Dr. Andrea Rosanoff to discover how cell science relates to our everyday health, and also to learn about the exciting new video she is now producing to translate science for the general public.
Alot has been said about the environment and once you’ve seen pictures of the polar ice melting and learn of the potential consequences, you’re either a believer or you haven’t been listening. The good news is that many people have been listening. But the situation facing our planet calls for emergency response—not business as usual.
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Have you ever wondered why today’s supermarket-purchased fruits taste like mostly water, why vegetables have more of a feel in your mouth than a flavor, and why, in order to remain healthy, we need to keep taking increasing amounts of vitamin and mineral supplements? Nutritionists have stated for years that a proper diet will keep us healthy, yet our society keeps turning up with increasing sickness, even when proper quantities of fruits and vegetables are consumed.
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As fossil fuel consumption has come under heavy criticism due to the carbon load into our atmosphere, and as gasoline prices have soared beyond belief, vehicles that use little or even no fossil fuel have become all the rage. But since I come from a long-ago time in which low-mileage, high-powered performance classics such as the Corvette and the Mustang ruled the roads, I have watched with some trepidation as a number of these eco-friendly things started being snapped up and zipped around Los Angeles. It’s probably just my own outdated gas-guzzling taste, but after my first up-close viewing experience of a vehicle that was environmentally friendly yet had all the style and speed of every “sensible” car I’d ever shunned, I beat a hasty retreat to my Infiniti G35, mashed down the pedal and ripped away in an emotional confusion of total guilt and sheer pleasure. At some point later the thought crept into my mind, “Am I really going to be forced to drive one of those someday?”
Honda Announces Production Hydrogen Car
Joining the ranks of BMW and their Hydrogen 7, Honda has just announced a production car that runs completely on hydrogen: the Honda FCX Clarity. With the obvious benefits of nonpolluting hydrogen and no need for expensive and environmentally harmful fossil fuel, such a vehicle could prove extremely popular with the green-minded and economically prudent alike.
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Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD, is a noted author and veteran nutritionist. Her books include The Nutrition Detective, Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating, User’s Guide to Calcium & Magnesium, and The Health Detective’s 456 Most Powerful Healing Secrets. She is also the author of the widely read monthly Women’s Health Letter.
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We named this magazine Organic Connections because of our belief that life is interconnected. We don’t live in isolation from our neighbors, our fellow humans across the planet or from the environment. The principle of cause and effect applies in each of these areas and is just beginning to be recognized on a global basis.
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While the US may be known for its supersized burgers, fries and sugary shakes, and while a large percentage of the population is suffering the dietary consequences of frequent patronage, there is a bright star on the horizon.
| Ultimately, in order to change human health, we have to go back and change the soil, because that’s where it comes from. And that’s really where preventative medicine begins—right in the soil |
One doesn’t find too many individuals like Dr. Arden Andersen. Not only is he an accomplished physician but he is also a world leader in the field of sustainable agriculture. He knows better than anyone that many of the health issues he is routinely seeing in his practice begin way down in the soil in which our food is grown. And in both cases, he is extremely well versed in what to do.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Andersen maintains the viewpoint that all life is connected and that something done to one aspect of life can affect all others. “Life forms are all interdependent,” he told Organic Connections. “The microorganisms in the soil determine how a crop is going to grow, which then determines how we’re going to grow with the nutrition from that crop. At the same time, how we farm and manage the plant has to do with what goes on with the rain forest and what goes on with the oceans. It’s all connected.”
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Some people run or jog for their health, or for fun, or often both. A good healthy run might be a mile or so. If a person is in really good shape, it might be a couple of miles. There are others who are more dedicated to running as an amateur sport, who participate in and hope to finish annual or semiannual marathons of about 27 miles.
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Most of us grew up in a world where nutritionally void fast food was the norm, where true nutrition was all but forgotten and never accurately addressed by mass media, and where giant corporate food conglomerates fought daily to keep us of unsound body. Some of us (such as the readers of this magazine) have been lucky enough to have, at some point, parted ways with such practices, and have discovered the truth about nutrition and health and what they actually require.
Why we must save our oceanic shelters of life
We know that coral reefs are very colorful and that they can be great places to explore by either scuba diving or snorkeling, due to the vast number of aquatic species around them. Two reefs are quite famous and attract visitors from all over the world: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the planet’s largest— over 1,600 miles long and even visible from outer space—and the world’s second largest, the Belize Barrier Reef, also known as the Great Maya Barrier Reef, which occupies over 180 miles off the eastern coast of Mexico and Belize.
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When you think of building construction, you probably don’t think “environmentally friendly,” and for good reason. Buildings utilize components made of PVC, which never decomposes. Wood is taken from lands being denuded and deforested. Petroleum and chemical-based materials are generously used resulting in harmful vapor off-gassing. And at the end of the life cycle, most components are never recycled but continue to pour into landfills spreading across our quickly disappearing landscape.
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