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Post by denis on Apr 27, 2024 8:34:45 GMT
www.yesmagazine.org/issue/reclaiming-commons/2001/07/01/the-cornucopia-of-the-commons?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1BdN-R1CLygLnb-OYphj6bXwIZEdJs8VdyXF6CvLrcmdaPHI-O_yI7AD8_aem_AR9Mioxq_opmWG5u4AzmDcvJGUtH601y7aMDpfkGVVBkPUQHFD_GRhNKk49AXCQVnisYcn-iFmOSSoIpl0NaJqBnThe Cornucopia of the Commons Community gardens, free software, self-help groups, and other examples of how the gift economy fosters community and social cohesion as well as economic innovation. www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2023/3/5/agrihoods-in-detroit?format=ampMaybe a familiar practice, but we like the new American name for urban and suburban areas which centre residence and work around the growing of food. They call them agrihoods, short for agricultural neighbourhoods. Part of a rebirth of the WWII “victory gardens” tradition that began ten years ago, the Urban Land Institute defines agrihoods as: master-planned housing communities with working farms as their focus. Overwhelmingly, they have large swaths of green space, orchards, hoop houses and greenhouses, and some with barns, outdoor community kitchens, and environmentally sustainable homes decked with solar panels and composting. David Byrne from Talking Heads started: reasonstobecheerful.world/
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Post by denis on Apr 27, 2024 10:46:55 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 27, 2024 11:16:03 GMT
foragersyear.wordpress.com/tag/eating-acorns/It has been called the ‘forager’s dilemma’, the problem of procuring, even in a world seemingly bursting with wild food, the energy-rich foundation of a carbohydrate source that almost all human diets rely on. In most traditional foraging economies, most Australian Aboriginal ones included, this quest for the daily bread was the biggest labour demand in the community, reliant on often labour-intensive gathering and processing of plant seeds and roots. It was the process of finding ways to influence the abundance and distribution of these plants that gave rise, not through any ‘agricultural revolution’ but by a gradual human-plant coevolution, to farming and the type of cultures from which most of us descend.Among those plants that could be farmed, a relatively small suite now provide the vast majority of human food energy. Among those not so easily farmed, many once-treasured species have become largely forgotten. Like oaks, and their acorns. Across much of the northern hemisphere, acorns, the fruit of oak trees (Quercus spp.), are believed by many to have been so fundamental to the human diet that people speak of ‘balanocultures’ (see here ondisturbedground.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/balanophagy-for-beginners/#comment-341 ), being those of people for whom the oak forest and its products was the home, the hearth and the daily bread.
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Post by denis on Apr 27, 2024 11:32:32 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 28, 2024 7:35:05 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 28, 2024 9:22:45 GMT
The researchers were blown away by exactly how well the white tea had performed. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810085312. Next time you’re making a cuppa, new research shows it might be wise to opt for a white tea if you want to reduce your risk of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis or even just age-associated wrinkles. Researchers from Kingston University teamed up with Neal’s Yard Remedies to test the health properties of 21 plant and herb extracts. They discovered all of the plants tested had some potential benefits, but were intrigued to find white tea considerably outperformed all of them.
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Post by denis on Apr 28, 2024 13:58:37 GMT
www.lifespan.io/news/ishige-okamurae-against-sarcopenia/A cohort study performed on middle-aged and elderly Korean populations has suggested that a seafood and seaweed diet can help in sarcopenia prevention [5]. Preclinical animal research also suggests improvements in muscle functions following seaweed consumption, specifically Ishige okamurae. The Dark Matter of Life is Sugar Coated www.phycohealth.com/blogs/news/the-dark-matter-of-life-is-sugar-coatedRare moments in scientific knowledge A recently published article about the emergence of complex life from green algae in Swedish lakes, and the importance of smart sugar, prompted me to revisit the story of glycans. The leaps of knowledge about life, that lie ahead of us through glycobiology, is tantalizingly exciting. Glycobiology is sugar biology, and it is still the most poorly understood field of molecular biology because chemists found it sticky and difficult to see in structure. But glycobiology is gaining so much traction today, and it is bringing together my two favorite fields of research - ecology and human health - at the molecular and cellular level.
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Post by denis on Apr 28, 2024 15:18:57 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 28, 2024 18:50:46 GMT
Human Diet Before Modern Times By Birger Jansson In: Sodium: “NO!” Potassium: “Yes!” Sodium increases and potassium decreases cancer risks. eirikgarnaas.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Jansson-Chapter-2.pdfWhy calcium and potassium effects in the research are so important web.archive.org/web/20100214010811/https://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/niemr/resonance1.phpweb.archive.org/web/20101114092712/http://www.kabencompany.com/article-RII-sang-accumulation-acid-print.htmlSummary Theoretically, we humans should be better adapted physiologically to the diet our ancestors were exposed to during millions of years of hominid evolution than to the diet we have been eating since the agricultural revolution a mere 10,000 years ago, and since industrialization only 200 years ago. Among the many health problems resulting from this mismatch between our genetically determined nutritional requirements and our current diet, some might be a consequence in part of the deficiency of potassium alkali salts (K-base), which are amply present in the plant foods that our ancestors ate in abundance, and the exchange of those salts for sodium chloride (NaCl), which has been incorporated copiously into the contemporary diet, which at the same time is meager in K-base-rich plant foods. Deficiency of K-base in the diet increases the net systemic acid load imposed by the diet. We know that clinically-recognized chronic metabolic acidosis has deleterious effects on the body, including growth retardation in children, decreased muscle and bone mass in adults, and kidney stone formation, and that correction of acidosis can ameliorate those conditions. Is it possible that lifetime of eating diets that deliver evolutionarily superphysiologic loads of acid to the body contribute to the decrease in bone and muscle mass, and growth hormone secretion, which occur normally with age? That is, are contemporary humans suffering from the consequences of chronic, diet induced low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis? Our group has shown that contemporary net acid-producing diets do indeed characteristically produce a low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis in otherwise healthy adult subjects, and that the degree of acidosis increases with age, in relation to the normally occurring age-related decline in renal functional capacity. We also found that neutralization of the diet net acid load with dietary supplements of potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3) improved calcium and phosphorus balances, reduced bone resorption rates, improved nitrogen balance, and mitigated the normally occurring age-related decline in growth hormone secretion – all without restricting dietary NaCl. Moreover, we found that co-administration of an alkalinizing salt of potassium (potassium citrate) with NaCl prevented NaCl from increasing urinary calcium excretion and bone resorption, as occurred with NaCl administration alone. In layman’s terms, potassium deficiency is the cause of many health problems and administering potassium bicarbonate can slow down the normally-occurring age-related low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis and can correct many of the aging symptoms such as calcium and phosphorus imbalances, fast bone resorption rates (slowing down osteoporosis), nitrogen imbalance (reduction of uric acid), etc.
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Post by denis on Apr 29, 2024 8:47:23 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 29, 2024 12:25:23 GMT
Neuroinflammation: An emerging role for herbs and spices? www.herbalreality.com/herbalism/herbal-research/neuroinflammation-emerging-role-herbs-spices/It was once thought that the brain and central nervous system (CNS) were largely protected by the ‘blood-brain barrier’ from immunological, inflammatory and infective processes in the wider body, and indeed from many medicines and plant constituents. This view now needs to be amended. Systemic inflammation or immune disease can disrupt this barrier, to provoke inflammatory processes within the CNS, with secondary complications there including protein aggregations, oxidative stress and disturbed mitochondrial function. This ‘neuroinflammation’ is now understood as the major factor in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and multiple sclerosis (1,2). It is also seen as contributing to mental diseases such as schizophrenia, clinical depression and bipolar disorder, (3) and increasingly to so far unexplained conditions like post-viral syndromes (including long Covid [4,5]) ME and other chronic fatigue syndromes (6) and fibromyalgia FORGOTTEN PHYSICS FOUNDATIONAL PHYSICS, EINSTEIN'S HIDDEN VARIABLES, AND RESONANCE SCIENCE forgottenphysics.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR33HoLCxX447b-3ph1jVoSd0_dc7MjWUr9OXcS6znyAmqXj4kLiOOQwI5w_aem_Ae-punsgTc9tkF-Qbky8wvJaXNs-CBmsqtsenVQ0asSmQbNeZwZh6sYoEAHGH838DDWTASV_-jJBXvzf0tNc1AfDarchive.org/details/politicsofameric0000greeThe politics of American science by Greenberg, Daniel S
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Post by Spud on Apr 29, 2024 12:27:35 GMT
Human Diet Before Modern Times By Birger Jansson In: Sodium: “NO!” Potassium: “Yes!” Sodium increases and potassium decreases cancer risks. eirikgarnaas.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Jansson-Chapter-2.pdfWhy calcium and potassium effects in the research are so important web.archive.org/web/20100214010811/https://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/niemr/resonance1.phpweb.archive.org/web/20101114092712/http://www.kabencompany.com/article-RII-sang-accumulation-acid-print.htmlSummary Theoretically, we humans should be better adapted physiologically to the diet our ancestors were exposed to during millions of years of hominid evolution than to the diet we have been eating since the agricultural revolution a mere 10,000 years ago, and since industrialization only 200 years ago. Among the many health problems resulting from this mismatch between our genetically determined nutritional requirements and our current diet, some might be a consequence in part of the deficiency of potassium alkali salts (K-base), which are amply present in the plant foods that our ancestors ate in abundance, and the exchange of those salts for sodium chloride (NaCl), which has been incorporated copiously into the contemporary diet, which at the same time is meager in K-base-rich plant foods. Deficiency of K-base in the diet increases the net systemic acid load imposed by the diet. We know that clinically-recognized chronic metabolic acidosis has deleterious effects on the body, including growth retardation in children, decreased muscle and bone mass in adults, and kidney stone formation, and that correction of acidosis can ameliorate those conditions. Is it possible that lifetime of eating diets that deliver evolutionarily superphysiologic loads of acid to the body contribute to the decrease in bone and muscle mass, and growth hormone secretion, which occur normally with age? That is, are contemporary humans suffering from the consequences of chronic, diet induced low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis? Our group has shown that contemporary net acid-producing diets do indeed characteristically produce a low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis in otherwise healthy adult subjects, and that the degree of acidosis increases with age, in relation to the normally occurring age-related decline in renal functional capacity. We also found that neutralization of the diet net acid load with dietary supplements of potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3) improved calcium and phosphorus balances, reduced bone resorption rates, improved nitrogen balance, and mitigated the normally occurring age-related decline in growth hormone secretion – all without restricting dietary NaCl. Moreover, we found that co-administration of an alkalinizing salt of potassium (potassium citrate) with NaCl prevented NaCl from increasing urinary calcium excretion and bone resorption, as occurred with NaCl administration alone. In layman’s terms, potassium deficiency is the cause of many health problems and administering potassium bicarbonate can slow down the normally-occurring age-related low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis and can correct many of the aging symptoms such as calcium and phosphorus imbalances, fast bone resorption rates (slowing down osteoporosis), nitrogen imbalance (reduction of uric acid), etc. POTATOES!
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Post by denis on Apr 30, 2024 2:49:55 GMT
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Post by denis on Apr 30, 2024 3:35:55 GMT
The Birth of Gods in the Neolithic - The Ideas of Jacques Cauvin deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2017/12/birth-of-gods-in-neolithic-ideas-of-jacques-cauvin.html?m=1In 1994 French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin published his masterwork The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture. Writing about the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic, he put forward a radical idea. He claimed that before the Neolithic Revolution could occur and before agriculture could change the life of humans forever, there was a mental and psychological revolution, a "Revolution of the Symbols." He wrote that this thought-revolution had to occur first before the physical revolution of planting and domesticating animals came about, i.e., the Neolithic Revolution which led to cities and civilizations and the world we live in today
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