Bacillus thuringiensis: Profile of a bacterium - Basic info Apr 4, 2007 Basic info Print Send Bacillus thuringiensis It has been known for over a hundred years that certain common, soil-dwelling bacteria - Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) - have a toxic and deadly effect on insects. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is found everywhere – it has been isolated from soil samples, leaf surfaces and insects. The bacterium was first discovered in silkworms in 1901 by a Japanese scientist, who named it Bacillus sotto, although he remained unaware of its special characteristics. Field trials with Bacillus thuringiensis to control the European corn borer were being conducted as early as the late 1920s and in 1938 the first commercial Bt preparation (Sporeine) came onto the market in France. Since the introduction of the first Bt preparations in crop protection, more and more new, previously unknown strains of Bacillus thuringiensis have been identified, each of which affects only certain insect groups. Targeted use How the Bt toxin works
11 Reasons Dehydration Is Making You Sick And Fat Adverse effects from not drinking enough water include digestive, skin, bladder and kidney problems, fatigue, and even headaches. We need water as much as the air we breathe in! Keeping your body hydrated is not a joke. Did you know that dehydration actually sets in just before you start feeling thirsty? Sipping water throughout the day is the best way to handle it. Always have a bottle or a glass of water handy! Many of us believe that merely drinking fluids like sweetened juices, soda or tea will hydrate you as well as water does. Drinking water regularly speeds up your metabolism and makes you feel more ‘full’. H/T: SDFJ.org, Memolition, whydontyoutrythis.com
6 Vegetables You Can Grow Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. No matter what season you find yourself in or headed towards, a jumpstart in growing time is always useful to keep your organic vegetable garden producing (that’s one reason transplants are so commonly utilized). Melissa Melton and Aaron Dykes demonstrate how easy it can be to regrow food scraps from their leftover organic produce. Throw whatever you decide not to regrow into your compost bin, and keep the organic matter recycling back into a healthy and productive soil – Learn more with this important book on soil health, compost, mulching and organic gardening in Texas (or anywhere). Kitchen Scraps You Can Regrow: 1. Spring Onions are a wonderful choice because they are so easy, grow back in full in about a week, spruce up window space and add flavor to any number of dishes and soups. 2. Celery can be regrown after the useful and nutritious stalks are juiced (our favorite), tossed into a salad or chopped into a stirfry. 3. Editors Note: Check out this Little Girl's Experiment on Budnip 4.
The Congressional Debate Over What Makes Food "Natural" Kinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service. Would we have to label every food as genetically modified then? Just because we haven't opened up a plant's genome and tampered with it until recently, we have been genetically modifying all of the foods that we eat for thousands of years. As I understand it, the typical banana can't even breed on its own because we've bred it to stop producing seeds, but no one believes that eating a banana will turn them into a mutant banana-person. (Note to self-sell this idea to Syfy network). Alternatively, could we just take all of the money that will have to be used for labeling and give that to educate people about the GMO issue? Flagged
Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out | Magazine Adam Voorhes In January of this year, the first subject checked into the metabolic ward at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to participate in one of the most rigorous dietary studies ever devised. For eight weeks, he was forbidden to leave. He spent two days of each week inside tiny airtight rooms known as metabolic chambers, where scientists determined precisely how many calories he was burning by measuring changes in oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air. He received meals through vacuum-sealed portholes so that the researchers' breath wouldn't interfere with their measurements. The food itself had been chemically analyzed to ensure an exact number of carbohydrate, protein, and fat calories. The two-day stays in the chambers were only a small part of the testing, which was also being carried out on subjects at three other institutions around the US. NuSI's strategy is to bring the nation's top nutrition researchers together to find answers as a team. Gary Taubes
The Spice That Prevents Fluoride From Destroying Your Brain Fluoride is found everywhere today, from antibiotics to drinking water, no stick pans to toothpaste, making exposure inevitable. All the more reason why new research proving this common spice can prevent fluoride damage is so promising! Fluoride’s neurotoxicity has been the subject of academic debate for decades, and now a matter of increasingly impassioned controversy among the general public, as well. From ‘conspiracy theories’ about it being first used in drinking water in Russian and Nazi concentration camps to chemically lobotomize captives, to its now well-known IQ lowering properties, to its ability to enhance the calcification of the pineal gland – the traditional ‘seat of the soul’ – many around the world, and increasingly in the heavily fluoridated regions of the United States, are starting to organize at the local and statewide level to oust this ubiquitous toxicant from municipal drinking water. The study concluded, Discussion About the Author
Retail Food Protection > Growing Sprouts in Retail Food Establishment - CFP Issues 02-III-01 and 04-III-012 See more Food Safety Information Concerning Sprouts. See all Retail Food Protection Regulations, Codes & Code Interpretations . December 2004 Fresh produce is an important addition to a healthy diet, however, some produce, including sprouts, the germinating form of seeds and beans, have been implicated in foodborne illness. In July 1999, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory to the public, "Consumers Advised of Risks Associated with Raw Sprouts" (Ref. 4) based on the continued reports of illness from consuming raw sprouts. In October 1999, FDA released two guidance documents to provide recommendations to seed suppliers and sprout producers to reduce microbial food safety hazards common to the production of sprouts. Sprouts may include alfalfa, clover, sunflower, broccoli, mustard, radish, garlic, dill and pumpkin as well as mung, kidney, pinto, navy, soy beans and wheat berries (wheat grass). Contamination of seeds appears to be sporadic and usually at low levels.
7 Ways to Trigger the Heart Field – The Most Powerful Healing Force There Is Every cause of disease first begins with an imbalance in the body’s energy systems, specifically, the interaction between how the heart communicates with the brain and the body. Fix that and there is no disease, ever. The heart can produce an electrical field 100 times greater than the brain and a magnetic field 5000 times greater. Which one are you using to heal? Emotions are vibrations which influence consistently our reality. We not only think and work our way through a day, meeting, assignment, but also feel and believe our way through it. Simply put, the number one cause of health is your energetic and emotional state. All the emotions are varieties of two: fear and love: Fear/stress is contagious and causes contraction: inhibits creativity, brain activity, inhibits the immune system,selective perception and over extensive periods of time leads to breakdown. The quality of the field one creates with his heart influences his experience and reality. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Golden Milk: The Simple Drink That Could Change Your Life Golden Milk is a wonderful beverage to have in the evening and the benefits are extraordinary. The main ingredient in this recipe is turmeric. Turmeric contains curcumin, the polyphenol identified as its primary active component and which exhibits over 150 potentially therapeutic activities, which include antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Additional benefits: Anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antiseptic,analgesic,.Boosts immunity.Anti-carcinogenic.Helps maintain cholesterol levels.Promotes digestive health.Liver detoxifier.Regulates metabolism and weight management.High blood pressure.Memory and brain function.Various skin conditions.Neurological disorders.Lowers Triglycerides Adding black pepper to turmeric or turmeric-spiced food enhances curcumin’s bioavailability by 1,000 times, due to black pepper’s hot property called piperine. Golden Milk Step 1: Turmeric Paste: Ingredients: 1/4 cup of turmeric powder1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper1/2 cup of filtered water
Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says (CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain. Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s," he said on "CBS This Morning." "This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. Asked if the farming industry could change back to the grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be economically feasible because it yields less per acre. "If three people lost eight pounds, big deal," he said. To avoid these wheat-oriented products, Davis suggests eating "real food," such as avocados, olives, olive oil, meats, and vegetables. "It's really a wheat issue." Some health resources, such as the Mayo Clinic, advocate a more balanced diet that does include wheat.
This Is Your Brain on Fish Thicker, stronger, and more resilient. Once a week is all it takes, new research says. Alex Trautwig/Getty Have you ever considered undergoing brain-thickening surgery, only to find that such a thing does not exist? And that the guy in the van was probably not actually a surgeon? "Understanding the effects of fish consumption on brain structure is critical for the determination of modifiable factors that can decrease the risk of cognitive deficits and dementia," Raji and colleagues write. This study found that eating fish—baked or broiled, never fried—is associated with larger gray matter volumes in brain areas responsible for memory and cognition in healthy elderly people. "There wasn't one type of fish that was the best," Raji told me by phone, probably while eating fish. "If you eat fish just once a week, your hippocampus—the big memory and learning center—is 14 percent larger than in people who don't eat fish that frequently. 14 percent.
5,000 Year Old Buddhist Health Recipe Posted by El Barto | April 10, 2014 5,000 Year Old Buddhist Health Recipe This ancient recipe of a pharmacist was found in 1972 in a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Tibet. It was dated to be 5,000 years old. Add 350 grams of crushed garlic in a glass jar. The alcohol may not contain other substances, like benzalkonium chloride or methanol. - See more at: Close the jar hermetically and place in the refrigerator for 10 days. In the 11th day filter it all with a very fine strainer or gauze. After this period, the remedy is ready for treatment (the drops may be taken with some milk or water before starting to eat), as follows: Continue with 25 drops/ 3 times a day, until you finish the entire quantity. And possibly the most important one: It absorbs any internal and external tumors! Source: humansarefree.com
A Diet that Fits Your Genes The age of one-size-fits-all nutritional advice is coming to a close, thanks to the surging field of nutrigenomics. Soon, individual decisions about whether to focus on Mediterranean-style dining, low-fat foods or a salt-free diet will get easier as we learn more about our genetic makeup and how it interacts with what we eat. Consider a study published in the September 2013 issue of Diabetes Care. It found that in a group of people who carried a particular genetic risk for diabetes, and an associated higher risk of stroke, eating a Mediterranean diet negated their increased risk of stroke. Conducted in Spain with more than 7,000 participants ages 55 to 80, the five-year study demonstrated that people who carried two copies of the genetic mutation for diabetes and who followed a low-fat diet were almost three times as likely to have a stroke as those who carried one or no copies of the mutation. Tufts Now: You’ve been examining the link between genes and diet for years. M.E.