Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

This book talks about how pesticides are used in different environments and their affects on the living organisms, specially humans. The author talks about how the chemical industry has an adverse affect on the soil and the plants, which then goes to animals and us when we consume vegetables and meat with chemicals in them. The book also talks about DDT and the third world countries that do not have access to it and how around the world, specially in Africa, people die of malaria and can not use these chemicals.

Rachel Louise Carson (190 -1964) was an American marine biologist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movements.



Scientific Data

A scientific review in April's Nutrition Reviews shows that a vegetarian diet is highly effective for weight loss. Vegetarian populations tend to be slimmer than meat-eaters, and they experience lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other life-threatening conditions linked to overweight and obesity. The new review, compiling data from 87 previous studies, shows the weight-loss effect does not depend on exercise or calorie-counting, and it occurs at a rate of approximately 1 pound per week.

 A team of researchers led by Tim Key of Oxford University found that meat-eaters who switched to a plant-based diet gained less weight over a period of five years. Papers reviewed by Drs. Berkow and Barnard include several published by Dr. Key and his colleagues, as well as a recent study of more than 55,000 Swedish women showing that meat-eaters are more likely to be overweight than vegetarians and vegans.

LIFE

Life, the word that distinguished what is living and what is what we call dead. Animas, including humans, plants and microorganisms are considered living "things" in this world. What we distinguish living from dead is that if we see any activity that relates to multiplying to become more and expand one's population. For this reason many scientists do not consider viruses as living!

Diets For Blood Types

Type A:

Type As should eat their food in as natural a state as possible: pure, fresh, and organic in order to boost immune system and help to stop life threatening diseases.

Type B:

Biggest struggle is weightCorn, wheat, buckwheat, lentils, tomatoes, peanuts, and sesame seeds cause weight gain by affecting the efficiency of metabolic process.

Type O:

Diet rich in saltwater fish and kelp to regulate thyroid gland
Recommended to take a licorice preparation called DGL to aid in discomfort from high levels of stomach acid.

Type AB:

Avoid caffeine and alcohol
Focus on foods such as tofu, seafood, dairy, and green vegetables in order to lose weight
Avoid smoked or cured meats

Mtochondrial Eve

Mitochindrian eve is thought of as the mother of all human beings, the first woman that lived on earth and gave rise to humanity. Mitochondrial Eve is generally estimated to have lived around 200,000 years ago.

We have a wide range of ethnicities, here are a few:

American

Mexican

Indian

Swedish

African

Extremophiles

Extremophiles are microbes that live in conditions that would kill other creatures. Most known extremophiles are microbes. The domain Archaea contains renowned examples, but extremophiles are present in numerous and diverse genetic lineages of both bacteria and archaeans.

Plantie!!

Happy Birthday my Plantie! Today you are planted and it is your first day of life; you will grow soon and I will take care of you.
OMG you are out of the soil and I can see your head, with yor natural leaf protection :)

Now you are 5 days old and you are still growing. Your friends, the ones that my classmates are growing at the moment, are are mostly shorter than you, much shorter. You are being watered every day and being taken care of.

You are now 2 weeks old, and you are so tall that you are sad and you are beding. Your body can not take your weight and you are going to break soon, that's my guess.

I think I am right, you are already dying. I can see that you have hanged yourself and you are tired of life.