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This diminutive bolete has an acidic, almost lemony flavor that seems to match the bright yellow pore color. The droplets here aren't from rain, or even dew. Instead, they are from guttation: liquid expelled during the process of metabolizing nutrients. Aureoboletus auriporus, like most boletes, is mycorrhizal, depending on a mutually beneficial process of nutrient exchange with oaks.
Un día después de tantos festejos y excesos un trago natural
En el verano un trago natural a base de naranja con piña, nos refresca e hidrata, es fabuloso, con muchos nutrientes que ayudan a mantener la buena salud; tiene buen sabor dulce y ligeramente ácido se le puede añadir unos cubos de hielo para darle esa temperatura que el verano requiere.
Ayuda a eliminar toxinas.
Reducir la presión alta.
Ayuda a controlar el ácido úrico.
Sirve para bajar de peso.
Ayuda a quemar grasa.
Sirve para bajar los niveles de colesterol alto de la sangre.
Combate el acné y la piel grasa.
Embellece la piel.
Es antioxidante, por lo que previene el envejecimiento
prematuro.
Fortalece el sistema inmunológico.
Previene gripes y refriados.
Excelente fuente de vitamina C.
Es depurativo.
Es anticancerígeno.
Mejora la digestión.
Es diurético.
Muy refrescante.
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A Late Winter Haiga
(the image is above, and the hokku below)
The circle of life;
A tree holds the dead leaf
that will nourish it.
A fallen and decaying maple leaf (yin) caught on a dogwood branch, with young embryos (yang), or flower buds. The old (yin) with the young (yang).
Eventually, the leaf will fall to the ground, decompose, and its nutrients will be absorbed by the dogwood roots, giving nutrition to the dogwood tree. What was maple will be dogwood.
We, also, do not collect fallen leaves to be thrown away; we chop the dead leaves up with our lawn mower, so that the nutrients can be recycled into the trees and grass. Try it! The mulched leaves decompose quickly! Your neighbors will notice and do the same, we hope!
Southern KY, USA.
Liquen que crece en las rocas y paredes en entornos soleados y rico en nutrientes, muy resistente a la polución.
This youngster was 16 months old when I took this photo. He was born in January or February, while his mother was sleeping in her winter den.
When grizzly cubs are born, they are blind, hairless and toothless. Of all mammals, bears at birth are the smallest percentage of their adult size. The cubs weigh 500 grams (1 pound) or less at birth. Their mother's milk is one of the richest in nutrients and fat in all of nature though, enabling the babies to grow to a size where they can survive in the outside world when their mother leaves the den in April.
Cubs stay close to their mother and they learn all of their survival lessons from her over their first 2-1/2 years (some areas report cubs staying with their mothers for an additional year). Bear cubs are most frequently twins or triplets, with quadruplets and single cubs being less common.
At 16 months old, the cubs are eating more and more solid food and rely less on their mother's milk. They spend most of their time exploring the world within a hundred metres of their mother and wrestling with each other. At this age, they are excellent tree climbers, which they do to avoid danger.
This youngster is about the size of a large dog and looks friendly and huggable. However, he already has powerful claws and teeth and his omnipresent mother, nature's ultimate protector!
Most people know that Tulips grow from a bulb and most tulip bulbs only produce one flower on a stem. Tulips only bloom for 3 to 7 days in spring but the freshly cut tulips flowers will continue to grow in your vase to gain about another inch in height. When the bulb has finished flowering, the flower and leaves wither, but its important not to cut these off as the nutrients in the leaves and flower go back into the bulb which then lays dormant until the following spring when they start to show signs of life again. An interesting fact is that the variegated Tulips originally started to appear because of a viral disease which was transferred to the bulbs by aphids many years ago.
A Bromélia Neoregelia
Esse gênero é nativo do Brasil, e se caracteriza por não apresentar caule e ser uma planta rizomatosa, isto é, possui rizomas que são uma espécie de caule subterrâneo que tem como função armazenar nutrientes para o sustento e desenvolvimento da espécie vegetal embaixo do solo. As Bromélias que fazem parte do gênero Neoregelia possuem rosetas bem abertas, que apresentam até 40 (quarenta) centímetros de diâmetro. As folhas das espécies vegetais que pertencem a este gênero, podem ser largas e estreitas, mudando de acordo com a espécie de Bromélia. As folhas das Bromélias do gênero Neoregelia são duras e possuem aspecto coriáceo (lembram o couro), e apresentam espinhos em suas margens. As folhas podem ser encontradas na coloração verde. As inflorescências deste gênero de Bromélia são representadas pela mudança das folhas que ficam dentro da roseta, as chamadas brácteas, e de uma maneira geral apresentam coloração vermelha, com o objetivo de proteger as discretas flores brancas que são formadas. Essa combinação acaba compondo um conjunto bastante decorativo e ornamental, o que acaba ajudando o uso ornamental dessa espécie vegetal.
Fonte: flores.culturamix.com/flores/naturais/bromelias-do-genero...
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The Neoregelia Bromeliad
This genus is native to Brazil and is characterized by not having a stem and being a rhizomatous plant, that is, it has rhizomes that are a subterranean stem species whose function is to store nutrients for the sustenance and development of the plant species under the soil. Bromeliads that are part of the genus Neoregelia have very open rosettes, which are up to 40 (forty) centimeters in diameter. The leaves of the plant species that belong to this genus, can be wide and narrow, changing according to the species of Bromélia. The leaves of the Bromeliads of the genus Neoregelia are hard and have a leathery appearance (they resemble the leather), and present thorns in its margins. The leaves can be found in green coloration. The inflorescences of this genus of Bromelia are represented by the change of the leaves that remain inside the rosette, the so-called bracts, and in general have red coloration, in order to protect the discrete white flowers that are formed. This combination ends up composing a very decorative and ornamental set, which ends up helping the ornamental use of this plant species.
Link: flores.culturamix.com/flores/naturais/bromelias-do-genero...
Cuisine controversy! Commercial mushrooms that are not grown in manure, you probably do not need to peel. However, I am making blanquette de veau and need these to be white. If your mushrooms are loosing some of their freshness, then you can definitely improve them by peeling.
It is a myth that all of the nutrients are contained in the outer skin. I am going to make a liter of mushroom stock with all these scraps anyway.
This old snag seems to be holding on to life precariously while the one on the right is thriving on the rich nutrients of the soil it is rooted in.
I found this old tree near Titting, a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria. Titting is located in the Anlautertal. However, this tree is nearby in the Jura mountains, a sub-alpine mountain range being in Germany part of several plateaus like the Oberpfälzer Jura.
Not the most glamorous butterfly photo, but tiny pearl crescents do utilize the nutrients in horse dung. Two had alighted on this pile.
The famously brown waters of the Mekong, a shot from 2009.
The murky colour of the Mekong is caused by nutrient-rich sediments carried downstream by the river and its regular and massive floods during rainy season.
At least that is how it used to be, before several dams upstream reduced the water flow and with it the nutrients that sustained wildlife and agriculture that millions of people in SEA depend on.
Last year (in 2020) i saw news reports showing the waters blueish and almost clear, besides the nowadays much lower water levels. A social and ecological disaster in the making, in plain sight.
☞ more from along the Mekong
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I love the Autumn and the changing colours of the leaves as the trees store up their nutrients for the cold days ahead.
Leaf colour comes from pigments. These are natural substances produced by leaf cells to help them obtain food. The three pigments that colour leaves are chlorophyll (green), carotenes (yellow) and anthocyanins (reds and pinks).
The depth of colour is influenced by the blend of chemical processes and weather conditions.
Cold nights: low temperatures destroy chlorophyll so the green leaf fades to yellow, but if temperatures stay above freezing, anthocyanin production is enhanced and the leaves take on a red colour.
Dry weather: sugars become concentrated in the leaves, more anthocyanin is produced and consequently leaves are redder.
Bright sunny days: although the production of new chlorophyll stops in autumn, photosynthesis can still occur on sunny autumn days, using the remaining chlorophyll. Sugar concentration increases, more anthocyanin is produced and the leaves are redder.
(Source: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk)
Not a flower, this is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach to roots of trees. Lacking chlorophyll, it is unable to photosynthesize. Ectomycorrhizal symbioses involve a mutualism between a plant root and a fungus; the plant provides fixed carbon to the fungus and in return, the fungus provides mineral nutrients, water and protection from pathogens to the plant. The snow plant takes advantage of this mutualism by tapping into the network and stealing sugars from the photosynthetic partner by way of the fungus. This form of parasitism is known as mycoheterotrophy. - Wikipedia
Pine Mountain, Western Ventura County, California, USA.
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Many of the birds of Eastern Africa are strange and exotic for those of us accustomed to birds of North America, not the least of which is the Yellow-billed Hornbill. There are several varieties of hornbills in Africa. This Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill proudly shows off its morning catch. It may not seem to be a very appetizing meal, but consider that these birds consume everything from seed and certain fruits to arthropods, including scorpions! Their died can also include snakes and small mammals. Everything they eat goes “down the hatch” whole. Unlike many birds that regurgitate undigestible portions of a meal, the hornbill simply allows these non-nutrients to pass through their digestive system. #YellowbilledHornbill
The plant does not have chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize its own nutrients. The orchid depends on a specific soil fungus that obtains nutrients from decaying litter in the forest soil and transfer some of those nutrients into the root mass of the orchid.
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Ripples and waves of sand capture the morning shadow of a small cluster of Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata) shortly after sunrise, Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California.
Creosote Bush have what appear to be a supernatural ability to thrive in places where water is an afterthought and essential plant nutrients are minimal. These plants are incredibly drought tolerant, and have been known to live for at least 2 years with no water at all. However, when one considers the substantial investment they make in belowground root structures, the mystery is less mysterious. Shallow roots 3-4 m in length radiate outward to intercept any rain soon after it enters the surface soil, and in deeper sandy soils such as these with a water table underneath, substantial tap roots are also common. In addition, the Creosote Bush only photosynthesizes in the morning when humidity is high, and shuts down as the sun rises toward noon, the temperature climbs, and water vapor deficits become life threatening. It is for this reason that photosynthetically active leaf tissue commonly faces southeast as is evident here.
The conundrum of acquiring sufficient nutrients - e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus - is addressed via the relationships the plant sustains with algae, bacteria, and fungi. Data from the Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research site in New Mexico indicates that black areas on some branches are actually communities of microorganisms. When infrequent rain events do occur, the water that flows down the branches and over these organisms enters the soil containing 9 times the amount of phosphorus and 16 times the amount of nitrogen available in normal rain water.
The more I look, the more it appears that inter-dependence is a theme to which natural systems return over and over again. For people currently living in cities, it may be easy to forget this theme, or perhaps assume it applies to others elsewhere. Thinking about the relatively brief history of the United States being a country, I think it is safe to say that appreciation for inter-dependence has waned in the modern era. The Mormons surely understood it as they moved west into Utah. Today, how much do people think about the quality of the soil that ultimately sustains us? And the previously stable climate which made development of agriculture possible? While the Creosote Bush may survive more frequent droughts in the years to come, it seems the people of this world must recognize again that we need each other to survive. And in that 'other' there can be no room for partisan warfare, racism, misogyny, and antagonism to knowledge. We must re-develop a renewed appreciation for the inter-dependencies that make life itself possible.
In Full Blossom still in this uncommonly pleasant Autumn, Sweet William Catchfly, Silene armeria. Try as I might, I could see no caught flies. In the past, this pretty Silene has occasionally been classified among the carnivorous plants. Its stem exudes sticky messes that easily trap small insects. But whether this is for nutrients or has another purpose, I don't know. You can in fact feel this stickiness on your fingers if you touch its stem. Regardless, Silene armeria is no longer botanically arranged among carnivores. Oh! but it really is a beauty!
expanded crop row acreage in Minnesota leads to increased nutrients in the water this results in algae blooms.This results in negative effects from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
Blue Copper (Lycaena heteronea submaculata) (L) and Pacific Dotted-Blue (Euphilotes enoptes) (R) share a damp soil spot in what is referred to as "puddling". Generally, newer males (I'm told that apparently females from a small group of species also puddle) do this to absorb nutrients from the soil. The size and appearance differences are striking. Mt Ashland, Jackson County, OR.
… with a distinctive character.
The name Orchid originates from the Greek world ‘Orchis’ meaning ‘testes’ with the reference to the shape of root tubers (bulbous expansions used for storage of nutrients) seen in some terrestrial species. In many cultures, orchids were praised for their medicinal properties to treat various ailments and often were associated with masculinity and fertility powers. There are 28,000 species of orchids grouped into 850 groups (genus) which thrive in every corner of our planets except in extremes of the Polar regions. Orchids have been the part of folklore and symbolism mainly due to their amazing flowers that came in different shapes, forms and in all colours except black that intrigued people and scientists for many centuries and still fascinate us today.
This macro image of the Venus Slipper orchid, Paphiopedilum x maudiae ‘Femma’, has been converted to B&W to focus on a unique shape the flower can have at a certain angle. I feel it reflects well a magical essence of the world of Orchids. Bath, BANES, England, UK.
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Their teeth are very sharp, you'd really think that somebody carved the wood with gouges. Look at all these wood chips and shavings!
Beavers eat wood (bark, stem, twig etc.), it's their source of nutrients.
We spotted this group of Trooping crumble cap mushrooms in the shade of the front yard trees. AKA Fairy inkcap or Fairy bonnet, it grows on decaying wood in large clumps. The foreground is a single Elephant ear leaf that has weathered several winters and decided to try sprouting again.
Just before the rain, some Hoverflies were clubbing about for nutrients on elegantly beautiful but tiny Lavender Calamint
(www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/48498289496/in/photoli...). I noticed Syritta pipiens with its striking Club-shaped femurs... But Olymp took a fancy rather to Flat-footer, Platycheirus sp. (left inset) and that Baccha elongata. Baccha has a club-shaped body with a very narrow 'waist'. I don't think there's a common English name, but in Dutch it's called 'Vliegende Speld', Flying Pin, and you can easily see why.
..to find some nutrient stuff for a hungry bear belly.
LA: Ursus arctos
EN: Brown bear
DE: Braunbär
HU: Barna medve
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Great Crested Grebe(s) - Podiceps Cristatus
Family unit, with parent making offering to chick of a feather.......this happened frequently...must have certain nutrients in feathers for newborn chicks.
Trees within forests are connected to each other through underground fungal networks where they share water and nutrients and even communicate.
What do you think they're saying about us right now?
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, NJ/PA
Puddling, is a behavior common in butterflies, but occurs in other animals and insects as well; they seek out nutrients including sodium in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter and mud.
"Pholiota squarrosa, commonly known as the shaggy scalycap, the shaggy Pholiota, or the scaly Pholiota, is a species of mushroom in the Strophariaceae family. Common in North America and Europe, it is often an opportunistic parasite, and has a wide range of hosts among deciduous trees, although it can also infect conifers. It can also live as a saprobe, deriving nutrients from decomposing wood. The mushroom is typically found growing in clusters at the base of trees and stumps. Both the cap and the stem are covered in small, pointed scales that are pointed downward and backward. The crowded gills are yellowish, then later rust-brown. The mushroom has an odor that, depending on the author, has been described as resembling garlic, lemon, radish, onion, or skunk. It has a strong taste, resembling radishes. Once thought to be edible, it is now considered and known to be poisonous, especially if consumed in combination with alcohol. The mushroom contains unique chemicals thought to help it infect plants by neutralizing defensive responses employed by them." - WiKi
"De schubbige bundelzwam (Pholiota squarrosa) is een paddenstoel uit de familie Strophariaceae. De paddenstoel vestigt zich op levend hout en is een parasiet.
De 4-10 cm brede hoed is in de jeugd bol, maar is later uitgespreid. De hoed en de steel zijn lichtgeel tot roestbruin en bezet met bruine schubben. De gelige tot roestbruine lamellen staan dicht opeen. De steel is overal even dik. Het gelige vlees heeft een opvallende geur van radijs.
Meestal wordt de schubbige bundelzwam aangetroffen van september tot november. Hij groeit in bundels op de wortels en aan de voet van loofbomen, minder vaak op naaldbomen. De zwam brengt veel schade toe aan fruitbomen. In Nederland is het een algemeen voorkomende soort in bossen, parken en plantsoenen." - WiKi
commonly known as air plants because they obtain nutrients and water from the air, not needing soil for nourishment. They have a natural propensity to cling to whatever surfaces are readily available: telephone wires, tree branches, bark, bare rocks, etc. Their light seeds and a silky parachute facilitate their spread. Most Tillandsia species are epiphytes – which translates to 'upon a plant'. Some are aerophytes, which have a minimal root system and grow on shifting desert soil. Due to their epiphytic way of life, these plants will not grow in soil but live on the branches of trees, in deserts and on other substrates that will not be saturated with water for very long.
Moose of Grand Teton
Moose are the largest member of the deer family and love cold weather. They frequent marshy meadows and edges of lakes and streams. About 800 Moose inhabit the southern part of Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park and surrounding national forests. Moose are most heavily concentrated in Grand Teton Park.
To keep from sinking in mud while feeding, as the animal lowers its foot, a large dewclaw spreads to better support the weight. Similarly, the odd-looking crook of the hind leg allows a Moose to pull the leg straight up, more easily releasing it from deep, sucking mud.
Bull Moose lose their antlers anytime between December and March. Most of the Moose drop them in January. Immature bulls may not shed their antlers for the winter but retain them until the following spring. Female Moose do not have antlers.
A new set of antlers begin to grow the following spring, nourished by the covering of furry skin known as velvet. They take three to five months to develop fully – the velvet is then scraped and rubbed off against bushes and branches. The antlers are then ready for battle. Generally, each set of antlers will be larger than the one before.
Birds, carnivores, and rodents eat dropped antlers as they are full of protein and Moose themselves will eat antler velvet for the nutrients.
Take note—cow Moose with young can be particularly dangerous.
For more info: www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/about-moose/
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Condoriri River basin is located 36 kilometers north - west from La Paz city, Bolivia between 4400 m and 5300 m over sea level in the Royal Range of the Andes. Condoriri, Tuni and Huayna Potosi cover a total basin area of 90.39 km2.
. The river flows downhill towards Tuni Lake and provides drinking water to La Paz
and El Alto, the two major cities in Bolivia.
In the present study, field measurements were conducted in this basin on major ions composition, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total organic carbon and physicochemical parameters. Thus, the water quality in the river basin is an important parameter that needs to be assessed. Knowledge of this study can provide information on the nutrient loading and the chemical weathering in a high altitude river in the Andes.
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A tanker gets help into the oil refinery on the screed fishing grounds of the Lummi Nation.
Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve is an extraordinary stretch of shoreline where both people and ecosystems thrive. Pristine beaches lay below active bluffs, eelgrass beds form meadows over soft seafloors, and kelp beds float along the rocky coast. These nutrient-rich habitats provide diverse food and dwellings in abundance for birds, fish, and marine mammals as they live in and migrate through the area.
Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Cranes live on all continents except Antarctica and South America.
They are opportunistic feeders that change their diet according to the season and their own nutrient requirements. They eat a range of items from suitably sized small rodents, fish, amphibians, and insects to grain, berries, and plants.
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Growing up, in my own strength, tall and high, fighting, struggling, wanting.
Then cut down, short and flat, just like all the others around me.
What am I to do? I want to be tall, like those trees. How'd they do it?
So I grow again, taking in my nutrients from the world, taking it all in, just like everybody else. So we grow, big and tall, and I begin to think, "maybe, this time, I will grow tall like those trees". Then, from behind, comes the sound, the whir, the growl, the blade, cutting all my competition down flat. It passes by, and still I stand, tall and proud. But O, horror, here it comes again, cutting, bitting, throwing a cloud of my neighbors to the left of me. I am short and squat once again, and so I fall in despair I crumble, for I will never be a tree, for I am grass.
Then, from the sky, falls something small and round, I peer at it, for it is now at eye level, I see, it is an apple. The apple then speaks, it speaks of God, it tells me how to be a tree, it tells me that I must die, I must change, I must be saved. I laugh, I mock it, it rots, gone by morning.
So I grow for another week, cut down, right on time, it becomes routine. Then it stops raining, I stop growing, no more cutting, what is this all about? Then, apples, dozens of them begin falling all around me, just a few at first, but by the end of a few days, many lay on the ground, telling all the grass around how to become trees, how to stand tall in the soil of the Word of God, how to be saved from our hackable death. Most laugh at the small round objects, most just ignore them, but I, begin to listen, begin to piece it all together. I begin to see, begin to see how to be where the apples are. Soon, no more apples are on the ground, and the trees and grass all go to sleep for the long winter. I sleep, but in my dreams I see myself, tall and proud, not growing in the soil of the earth, but nourished by the Word of God and growing up, for His honor and glory, to tell all the grass beneath of His existence and their hope.
Spring comes, I grow, we all do, taller and taller, no hacker, no cutter, we grow. Then, it comes, the sound, the blade, the swoosh in the row beside. It comes, straight at me, for me, to kill me, I cannot watch, never have I grown so tall, never have I felt more like a tree! O, come rescue me, take me, forgive me for my folly, I need salvation, from God. The noise, the cut, is all around, but then, right in front of me, it stops. It comes no closer, I hear footsteps, coming closer, I feel warm fingers touching me. Nothing, what was that? The sound, the woosh, the cut, but it does not touch me. Night comes, I am in a tall, isolated circle. Why? Dawn. Then comes a sound, quite new and different, a lower, deeper grumble. It stops beside me, a blade, cuts down and pierces! It moves around, slicing, dicing, pushing, shoving. I am lifted! I am thrown. I am bumped and jostled. Then all is still, all is done, darkness, the end surely has come. Light! Glorious light, I am placed in quite a different spot, not amide the grass, my kin, I am amide the trees! I hear, through the joyous pounding in my stem a sound, a word, "There you go little fella, let's see what I can do with you. In a few years, with proper care and pruning, I'm sure, you too will be producing fruit for me, fruit for my glory." I sing.
Overview of Codex Alimentarius
by Rima Laibow, M.D.
At the request of the United Nations (UN) in 1962, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) took on the joint role of running and administering the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to establish standards and remove barriers to trade for all food and
food products. Having declared that nutrients are toxins from which we must be protected, the CAC
has been busy establishing enforceable international guidelines for upper limits of nutritional
supplement dosing. Codex has goals that affect every person in the UN’s 170+ member nations,
including the United States. As a tool for furthering these goals, member nations are urged to adopt
Codex standards and guidelines as domestic policy. The United States has already committed itself to
doing so despite U. S. law which prohibits this compliance.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has adopted Codex as a standard for the adjudication of foodrelated
international trade disputes and has the authority to enforce Codex standards through
implementation of harsh economic sanctions on non-Codexcompliant member nations. Pre-existing
international treaty laws dictate that WTO rulings will override the domestic laws already in place in
its member nations and, in fact, the WHO has successfully taken both states and the U. S. government
to court in the U. S. to force changes in our domestic laws eleven times. This means our nation’s hard
won laws that give you access to over-the-counter, natural health supplements will become
meaningless. Codex’s original mandate to remove barriers to trade and assure a clean food supply has,
under the influence of private, economically-driven multinational pharmaceutical, agricultural and
chemical corporations, self-expanded far beyond its original mandate. The result is a body of highly
dangerous and restrictive policies that threaten to become domestic law in the U. S. and, as such, are
a threat to your health and freedom.
The FDA has stated explicitly that its goal is complete "harmonization" with Codex and, in order to
bring that about, international regulations i.e., Codex will be given preference over domestic ones!
(Federal Register, 10/ 11 /95)
If Codex gets its way, as it already has in the EU, we can expect that, ultimately, only 18 or so dietary
supplements will be available over-the-counter in doses which are, by design, far too small to have any
discernible impact on any human being since codex classifies nutrients as toxins. High potency
nutrients will not be available either with or without physician’s prescription since these molecules
and compounds will be forbidden under any circumstances. The big surprise? Once in the hands of
pharmaceutical companies, consumer supplement costs are expected to more than quadruple. This
has, in fact, been the experience in Europe where this process is already underway and micro-dose
nutrient prices have increased 10 to 100 fold or more (e.g., in Norway a bottle of zinc lozenges which
previously cost $2 now costs $54; in France 12 Vitamin C tabs of just10 mg cost $117; while 10 Vitamin
E caps of only 10 IU each cost $110).
Australia and the European Union (EU) are in the process of enacting harmonized Codex policies that
restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements. America is next. Though Americans value
personal freedom, the fact Codex meets infrequently (and almost always offshore) and is bogged
down in highly technical language that is difficult to understand has resulted in many Americans
being unaware of this threat. The nearly total media blackout on Codex and its activities helps to
keep the U. S. uninformed and therefore, pliant.
While there have been rare serious adverse reactions to nutritional supplements during the past
decades, (usually when taken far in excess of the recommended dosing), numerous severe and even
fatal reactions to drugs (usually when taken at the recommended dosing) occur every day and are the
fourth leading cause of death in hospitalized clients in the United States when properly
used. When improperly used, they are, in fact, far and away the leading cause of death in
the United States. Even so, drug deaths are very likely underreported. Drugs are
inherently dangerous; nutrients are not. This fact makes it clear why the drug culture
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needs to eliminate all access to natural health options, including nutritional supplements,
in order to expand and intensify its influence and thus its profitability. Healthy people
take fewer drugs and thus are poor customers.
The global pharmaceutical powers -that-be have already purchased a large piece of the
lucrative global nutritional supplement pie but the considerable size of this pie keeps the
hugely profitable pharmaceutical profit -share-pie from reaching its maximum size so the
competing nutrient pie must be destroyed. Though unable to patent a natural substance,
pharmaceutical corporations can hold patents on synthetic versions of vitamins and
minerals that, unfortunately for the consumer, often do not act like their natural vitamin
counterparts in the body and often act in unpredic table and harmful ways. If Codexcompliant
Europe is any guide, the permitted micro-doses of permitted nutrients will be
only synthetic ones.
In addition to regulatory and/or administrative takeover and destruction of the dietary
supplement market and consumer access, Codex also mandates irradiation of food;
mandatory use of antibiotics, hormones and growth stimulants in all animals raised for
food, is expected to legalize the unlabeled inclusion of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (whose
safety has never been established while their serious dangers have) into our seed and food supplies and
will increase the allowable maximum tolerated levels of pesticides, herbicides, veterinary drugs and
other dangerous industrial toxins in food, likely driving up degenerative illnesses, including cancer,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, macular degeneration, MS, etc. All of these policies are made under
the guise of free and equal access to trade for all nations and protection of the public.
Some people have “Codex Anesthesia,” a state of overwhelming, numb confusion that occurs just
before people lose their health freedom. Many otherwise well-informed people from the manufacturing
and retailing sectors of natural healthcare believe that the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act (DSHEA), passed in 1994 to protect Americans’ access to natural healthcare substances, will still be
in place to protect them. This is not the case: Fundamental health freedoms afforded the American
public by DSHEA, which classifies supplements as food which, as such, can have no upper limit set on
their use, are now under well orchestrated legislative and/or administrative attack. Health nuts and
junk food devotees alike are not immune from this legislative attack on health freedom.
The following is a link to Dr. Laibow's website which gives a self-prompting 5-minute presentation that
tells you about Codex: http: //www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex.shtml
More in-depth information can be found on her website, www.healthfreedomusa.org, and on
the highly informative "Nutricide: the DVD" http: /
/www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml
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I watched my mother water the plants on our back porch this morning and it made me think... We are just like plants! We need the proper nutrients, water, love, and nourishment to grow as people. I have definitely grown as a person recently and I will keep growing!! Surround yourself with people who offer you the proper ingredients that allow you to grow and blossom :)
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Water is your body's principal chemical component, making up, on average, 60 percent of your body weight. Every system in your body depends on water. For example, water flushes toxins out of vital organs, carries nutrients to your cells and provides a moist environment for ear, nose and throat tissues.
Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you don't have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions. Even mild dehydration can drain your energy and make you tired.
Every day you lose water through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, you must replenish its water supply by consuming beverages and foods that contain water. If you drink enough fluid so that you rarely feel thirsty and produce 1.5 liters (6.3 cups) or more of colorless or slightly yellow urine a day, your fluid intake is probably adequate.
You may need to modify your total fluid intake depending on how active you are, the climate you live in, your health status, and if you're pregnant or breast-feeding.
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Slime moulds are saprobic organisms (i.e. they gain their nutrients by breaking down dead organic matter) that spend most of their life cycle feeding as separate amoeboid cells or disaggregated plasmodium. However, when conditions become right all the cells or plasmodium near each other will stream together to form a fungus-like fruiting body that releases spores. Because slime moulds thus resemble protozoa for part of their life cycle but fungi at other times, they were an early protagonist in the destruction of the idea that all organisms could be divided between plants and animals. Slime moulds, it turns out, are mostly not related to plants or animals. It has become clear that not all slime moulds are even related to other slime moulds. Instead, the term has been used to cover a number of phylogenetically disparate organisms with little in common other than similar life cycles (Source: Christopher Taylor). After some initial success, I had a long dry spell finding more slime moulds until yesterday when I found this one living on a dead branch on the forest floor. The fruiting bodies consist of stalked sporangia. In Physarum viride the sporangia are nodding, 0.3 to 0.5 mm (less than 0.02 inch) diam. with innate clusters of yellow lime-granules. At maturity the shell like covering breaks open and releases the spores.
Drosera intermedia, commonly known as the oblong-leaved sundew, spoonleaf sundew, or spatulate leaved sundew, is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus.
Drosera intermedia is a perennial herb which forms a semi-erect stemless rosette of spatulate leaves up to 10 cm tall. Plants in temperate regions undergo dormancy during which they form a winter resting bud called a hibernaculum.
As is typical for sundews, the leaf blades are densely covered with stalked mucilagenous glands which secrete a sugary nectar to attract insects. These then become ensnared by the mucilage and, unless they are strong enough to escape, are suffocated or die from exhaustion. The plant then secretes digestive enzymes from sessile glands and later absorbs the resulting nutrient solution to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the plants natural environment.
Drosera intermedia blooms from June through August, forming up to 15 cm. tall inflorescences bearing 3-8 white flowers. Fertilized ovaries swell to form egg-shaped dehiscent seed capsules which bear numerous tiny seeds.