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A toxic choice produces the opposite effect: The acetyl markers reduce and the methyl markers increase, causing us to have less peace.
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Whether we switch on happiness, peace, and good health or switch on anxiety, worry, and negativity, we are changing the physical substance of the brain.
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The active mind changes the brain; the brain is the passive part of existence.
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change takes place over time through continual persistence.
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What a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptivity of the human brain God has given us.
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progression goes like this: the amygdala provides input to the mind about the emotions--gather; the thalamus and hypothalamus provide input on motivation; and the memory networks provide information on the existing memories--reflect; the central hub in the brain mixes and integrates this all together--write; and the heart acts as the checking station, and you make the decision--revisit.
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are not designed to go through life with a "fearful spirit," not able to cope with or face our problems."
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We are not designed to go through life with a "fearful spirit," not able to cope with or face our problems. We"
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There is something you can do that no one else can do, and the world needs you to do it!
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that the more you apply a pattern of deep, intellectual thought in your brain, the more you will improve the physical structure of your brain.
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What you wire into your brain through thinking is stored in your nonconscious mind. The nonconscious mind is where 99.9 percent of our mind activity is. It is the root level that stores the thoughts with the emotions and perceptions, and it impacts the conscious mind and what we say and do. Everything is first a thought.
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The snare of "long-life" foods can directly affect our health. Take the average loaf of bread available today. To adapt the production of bread to the food industry's goal of a large market for cheaply and efficiently produced foodstuffs, the wheat germ, which contains the natural oils that give bread its true, wholesome flavor and make it nutritious, has to be removed, since it causes bread to rot within a day. To make up for this loss of ..
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What do corn and soy have to do with meat and dairy? Today, animal feed is made up largely of corn and soy.
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Within these operations, it is both cheaper and less time-consuming to feed the animals corn and soy in confined spaces, even though these grain-based, immobile diets are not well adapted to the way God created these animals. For example, cattle have rumens, which are designed to digest various grasses and plants, not massive amounts of grain, and as a result these cattle are more prone to disease and general ill health, such as stomach ulc..
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God designed cattle as animals that graze over stretches of grass, but these industrial operations work on economies of time and scale: confined cattle eat all day, getting fatter in a much shorter space of time, while a single operation can hold far more cattle in a smaller space.17
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In the feces-covered facilities of many industrial operations, these grain-based diets necessitate the large-scale use of antibiotics (80 percent of all antibiotics in the United States alone) to simply prevent the animals from dying. This has significantly contributed to the global antibiotic-resistance crisis.
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Many animals are also given growth hormones to further speed up the fattening process.18 These hormones are associated with a number of health risks in both animals and humans, including a possible correlation with cancer, which is why many countries no longer permit the use of hormones in industrial meat production.
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Yet the animals are not just fed corn and soy. Expired cookies, candy, and even other animals are often turned into feed, including feed for large-scale dairy operations. We have turned herbivores like cattle into carnivores, often with fatal side effects.
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Perhaps the most infamous example of this is the recent epidemic of mad cow disease, a variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy that leads to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans.20 In the United Kingdom, cows that were fed the remains of other cows in meat and bone meal contracted this disease, killing over a hundred people in 1996.
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Although this major incident shows the dangers of feeding animals to other animals, it is often still considered an economically viable practice for industrial operations. Many feedlots in the United States, for instance, feed their cows chicken meat, while some companies even consider it "sustainable" to feed chicken to farmed fish.21"
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Excessive consumption of the high amounts of sodium in processed, salty foods can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease, stroke, kidney damage, cancer, weight gain, osteoporosis, and overeating--this list is equally long and alarming.2
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Processed, heated, and refined fats, as well as "trans fats" (hydrogenated fats), are the bad fats commonly found in foods such as margarine, shortening, your average American pizza, and the processed cheese so widely available in grocery stores. These bad fats have been linked to a higher risk of heart disease, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, certain cancers, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, infertility and endometriosis, and dep..
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These preservatives and additives have serious side effects.43 For instance, azodicarbonamide, a synthetic chemical used to manufacture rubber and plastic, is used in the United States as the food additive E927 to bleach flour and condition dough in industrial bread production.
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Perhaps one of the most well-known, and indeed controversial, examples of the global impact of food production is the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA opened the trade borders between the United States and Mexico, making American corn, subsidized by the US government, cheaper to purchase. Subsequently, many Mexican farmers lost their farms (since they could not compete with the low price of corn grown in the United St..
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Instead of taking the wheat germ out of the bread for our convenience, we should ask ourselves why God created wheat like that in the first place.
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Grocery stores, for example, deliberately place candy and chocolate bars by the checkout counter in order to promote "impulse buying."
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When we gather information like puzzle pieces without putting the puzzle together, intellectual growth is stifled.
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Our perception of the environment plus how we manage our environment controls our bodies and lives.
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Play games that are an effective mind sport, such as backgammon, chess, or bridge. If you do not already know how to play one of these games, learn. Strategize and think through the moves as you challenge your opponent. Maybe find a group of people who meet on a regular basis to play these games. Enjoy building your logical/mathematical thinking!
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The mind is a key factor throughout this book. Thinking, as you will see, plays a dominant role in eating. Toxic thoughts can negate the positive effects of good nutrition.
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Healthy thoughts can enhance the effects of good nutrition and mitigate the effects of bad nutrition--to a degree. In fact, healthy thoughts lead to better food choices. Eating and thinking are so intertwined that what you are thinking about before, during, and after eating will impact every single one of the 75-100 trillion cells in your body, including the cells of your digestive system. Your state of mind will have a negative or positive..
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Aqui esta la clave: Los pecados de los padres pueden crear una predisposicion, no un destino. Tu no eres responsable de algo a lo que estas predispuesto debido a decisiones ancestrales. Sin embargo, eres responsable de estar consciente de las predisposiciones, evaluarlas y decidir eliminarlas.
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Science, as I mentioned at the beginning of this book, shows us the how of operating in true or distorted love and the impact of operating in true or distorted love. We can be a part of God's rescue mission to heal the land and its people. Indeed, as we serve our communities in love, we heal our own minds. Love is the most powerful healing force. True love is not only a miracle but also creates miracles--true love has a "pay it forward" sno..
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Likewise, healthier products are often put close to the bottom on the shelves, while processed, sugary foods with bright packaging are put at eye level, socially conditioning us to buy more of them.48
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How real, then, is the food in our supermarkets? Real food, again, is fresh and nutritious, predominantly local, seasonal, grass fed, as wild as possible, free of synthetic chemicals, whole or minimally processed, and ecologically diverse. We have seen that in our supermarkets, even the fresh produce isn't very fresh. Foods are no longer whole, but processed to extend shelf life.
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They travel long distances. And synthetic chemicals are used freely.
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