Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

People know vegetable are good for you.
What they don't know is why and just how much.
Or where we get real health reform.

Barb's been recording a new show on TV, Doctor Oz. I couldn't help but notice 
that the diet for heart disease, cancer, and many other conditions happens to 
be mostly what we can grow in our own gardens, or as he pointed out, can be 
bought in the grocery for about the same cost as the poisonous foods.

http://www.doctoroz.com/
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-shopping-list
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/anti-cancer-cookbook

Today Oz had Dr. Katz on the show among others, and showed many vegetables 
that prove to have positive results for cancer prevention. This is hard 
science, not theory.

Dr. Katz is the Director and founder (1998) of Yale University's Prevention 
Research Center and has a very long, impressive CV.
http://www.davidkatzmd.com/bio.asp
http://www.yalegriffinprc.org/about_us/bios/dkatz_bios.php3

But the most fascinating part brought out is epigenetics. It explodes the 
long held myth that genes are destiny. This is the recently accepted view of 
modern genetics that environment, food, and lifestyle actually influences 
gene expression. This the missing link to explain why certain foods and herbs 
have surprising and provable effects on our health.

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/resources/res_epigenetics.dtl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics


paul tradingpost@lobo.net