“The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.” ImportantModernBuildingDiseasePlantVulnerableDietsVirusesCompoundsInfectionImmunity Author:Joel Fuhrman
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.” KnowsWayGivingHas BeensMadeFacesTurnsMistakeMysteryLandIgnoranceBrokenHealthyDiseaseMachinesTreatsPlantAppreciationVulnerableAttractiveSoilFedsLeapChemicalsFarmersInsectsInputHubrisFertilitySyntheticPesticidesNitrogen Author:Michael Pollan
“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.” MenWorldWellsAgeChallengesAnimalRaceEnemyLimitsDiseaseAspectDirectFellowsPlantSizeMortalsInjuryContinentsSuperiorityInsectsNotableGermsPlants And AnimalsMortal EnemiesDomesticated Animals Author:Warder Clyde Allee
“A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.” HeartProblemRiskProduceDiseasePlantCancerDietsGood HealthDiabetesKidneysPlant Based DietOsteoporosisKidney DiseaseHeart ProblemsGallstones Author:T. Colin Campbell
“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingYearsMayStillsEnoughBigsSeemsCareLastsSufferingBornRightsTroubleTreeProtectDiseaseHundredSickConstitutionBravePlantPaintTake CareCuresClimbsNo HopePlant A Tree Author:Linda Ellerbee
“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.” IfsHeartSimpleAnimalHabitDiseaseEatingPlantClimateClimate ChangeCrueltyCombinationFewerPollutionStarvationDon't ChangeAnimal CrueltyHeart DiseaseDeforestationEating Habits Book:A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more Source: A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.” HumansHardUsedStudyDiseaseToolsPlantIncrediblesValuable Author:Bill Gates
“As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.” NationsAnimalProtectDiseasePlantDepartmentAgricultureInspectionPests Author:Mike Rogers
“Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.” ImportantMatterReasonFormCertainSourceDrugDiseasePlantDietsInsectsLoadedDeerChemotherapyLeukemiaMadagascarPeriwinkle Author:Allen Lacy
“It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.” PeopleNeedsFactsBodyCommonIssuesToo MuchGrowingSeriousActivityDiseaseEvidencePlantIncludingAthleteCancerActiveMythMeatDietsMusclesFuelDiverseConsumptionProteinTissuesDairyKidneysHealth IssuesPlant Based DietOsteoporosisKidney Disease Author:Sharon Gannon
“In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.” WayNeedsGivingDoeGrowsCausesGrowthDiseasePlantSubstanceSoilOrganismsIndispensableMicrobesInfectious Diseases Author:Elie Metchnikoff
“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.” MenLittlesLongEndsKidsAsksSpeakGrowsWatchesCuttingTreeDadDiseaseSummerPlantMy DadBlockSavingDamageBranchesStrongestLittle KidChoppingEnd Of SummerCutting Off Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.” PersonsScienceLeftAnimalImpossibleObjectsActivityDiseasePlantSensitiveRadiationScentPersistentMeasurementNotableTubesContagious Author:Eve Curie