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Enviornmental Work Group Website:

 You can donate to it too! Consumer Guides: Safe food; Cosmetics; Personal Care Products; Pesticides in produce; Healthy Cleaning Products; Sunscreen Guide; Safe Seafood and much more. EWG lobbies in Washington for these issues including labeling of GMOs. 

Blue Zones by Dan Beutter

Wines from the Blue Zone provides two to three times higher dose of vasulcar protective polyphenols than the average wines.

Sardinians:

Centenarians ate a plant-based diet until at least 1950s. Seniors who live with their families live longer, higher quality lives. Women shoulder most of the burden of child rearing, family finances, and household managment. 

Okinawans: 
Turmeric, used to flavor fish soup has been shown to slow aging process in mince. Seniors have less than 1/5 the rate of heart disease and certain cancers and diseases that kill 76% of Americans over 65. 

Adventists-Loma Linda CA:

Regular church goers appear to live as much as two years longer than non-churchgoers. Religion re-enforcees and heavily promotes health. Diet, taken emphasizes consumption of nuts, legumes and whole grains. Social circle of other Adventists tend to reinforce healthy behaviors. Avoid tobacco, liquor and spiced food. 

Nutritional Medicine by Alan Gabby M.D.
Nutritional Medicine is a holistic approach to the interactions of both nutrition and environment on human health. Nutrients are the building blocks of our physical body. When the body is supplied with the correct balance of foods, vitamins and minerals we remain healthy. It is part of Functional medicine. 

Nugget from this Class: "We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the eart; our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refereshment from her waters." - Pope Francis, Laudato Si