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 Picture this: an organic dietary product that suppresses the desire to eat and significantly reduces a person's calorie intake. It has no known side-effects and contains a molecule that makes your brain tell the rest of your body you are not hungry. If you are one of the almost two million Irish people either overweight or obese (13% obese, 34% overweight - Slán 2003), the existence of such a product would be the answer to your prayers. With no hunger pangs wracking your body, successful dieting would be within your grasp. But such a product is mere fantasy, it doesn't exist, right? Irish Times journalist Bill Corcoran investigates (The Irish Times Aug 30, 2005) More |
 "At a time when the entire Western world is looking forward to a new year, a new century, a new millennium. I'd like to challenge this nation's physicians and pharmacists to do just the opposite: look back. It's my belief that the future of medicine is rooted in the past, before chemists undertook to synthesize synthetic silver bullets for all that ails, and before pharmaceutical companies hitched our collective health to what has become for them a multibillion-dollar wagon." Nov. 1999, James Duke PhD. former chief botanist USDA author of "The Green Pharmacy" More |
 The South American country of Peru is home to numerous beneficial plants, including maca, a legendary sex-enhancing root passed down from the Inca. I'd heard about maca for years. The plant is employed to increase strength, energy, stamina, libido and sexual function, a winning combination of health benefits if there ever was one. To investigate maca's health benefits and understand the role that maca plays in Peruvian culture, my wife and I headed down to Peru to explore the maca trail. In the process we met with maca traders, growers and scientists, and came back tremendously impressed by this plant, which is now available as a supplement in U.S. health food stores. During the height of the Incan empire, legend has it that Incan warriors would consume maca before entering into battle. This would make them fiercely strong. But after conquering a city the Incan soldiers were prohibited from using maca, to protect the conquered women from their powerful sexual impulses. Thus as far back as 5000 years ago, maca's reputation for enhancing strength, libido and fertility was already well established in Peru. Today, maca's popularity is very much on the increase as people discover that the plant really does boost libido, sexual function and overall energy. In Peru, maca is used by men and by women who want to put more fire into their sex lives. And in the U.S., Europe and Japan, dietary supplements containing maca are gaining ardent devotees. In Peru, maca is a food. At the Third Annual Maca Festival in Churin we sampled numerous products made with the sex-enhancing root. Read more at Discovery Health |
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 In the 1930s, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi won the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying vitamin C. Although he successfully isolated the molecule ascorbic acid in his research, his studies clearly demonstrated the vastly superior benefits of consuming foods rich in vitamin C. For this reason, even though he discovered ascorbic acid, he did not recommend its use! The proven health benefits we all associate with vitamin C are actually created by the intricate interaction of numerous supportive co-factors found only in food, not in isolated, synthesized molecules. In fact, Dr. Szent-Gyorgi affirmed over and over again that the best results occurred when people consumed vitamin C in its natural form. Read about Camu camu |
| Read here why scientist & Positive Health magazine’s editor Sandra Goodman PhD calls vitamin C ‘The Master Nutrient’. Rainforest facts |
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