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Author: Julie K. Lundgren Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning ISBN: 1625131941 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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This book introduces students to how important plants are to our planet and our existence and illustrates how plants have a positive medicinal effect in curing diseases, provide alternative forms of fuel, and help to reverse global warming.
Author: Julie K. Lundgren Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning ISBN: 1625131941 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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This book introduces students to how important plants are to our planet and our existence and illustrates how plants have a positive medicinal effect in curing diseases, provide alternative forms of fuel, and help to reverse global warming.
Author: Julie K. Lundgren Publisher: ISBN: 9781618101020 Category : Energy crops Languages : en Pages : 0
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Presents ways the planet and humans use plants for food, fuel, and medicine, including fossil fuels, drinking ginger tea for an upset stomach, and how cactus stems provide water for animals.
Author: Megan Rossi Publisher: The Experiment, LLC ISBN: 1615198792 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 422
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From the award-winning gut health doctor and author of Love Your Gut comes a medically proven guide—featuring the revolutionary Plant Point plan—that makes it easy to fuel up on fiber and nutrients by eating 30 or more plant foods each week “A must-have guide to plant-based eating.”—Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, NYT–bestselling author of Fiber Fueled “This is the ultimate guidebook for anyone wanting to transform their health in a practical, sustainable way without sacrificing the food they love.”—Carleigh Bodrug, NYT–bestselling author of PlantYou This book was previously published in the UK titled Eat Yourself Healthy Happy gut microbes are the key to our health goals—they support our brain, skin, immunity, hormones, metabolism, and more. In How to Eat More Plants, Dr. Megan Rossi explains how to give your gut what it really craves—variety! Eat 30 different plants per week, to fuel up on fiber and nutrients Each fruit, vegetable, legume, grain, nut, and seed counts as 1 Plant Point—and getting to 30 is easier than you think. Start your journey with the 28-day Plant Points Challenge Dr. Rossi’s 4-week plan makes it fun to get more plants on the menu! Rack up Plant Points with over 80 delicious recipes Fiber-filled breakfasts: Eat-the-Rainbow Pancakes Lighter bites: Leafy Taco Wraps, Butternut Muffins Easy to-go lunches: Roasted Veggie and Freekeh Salad Protein-packed dinners: Stir-fry, five ways; Hearty Lasagna Decadent desserts: Prebiotic Rocky Road, Loaded Melon Wedges How to Eat More Plants is all about inclusion, not exclusion—whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or just want to eat more veggies. Don’t diet—diversify. Your gut will thank you.
Author: Judith Sumner Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476676127 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 367
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As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. Vegetables provided the wartime diet both in North America and Europe, where vitamin-rich carrots, cabbages, and potatoes nourished millions. Chicle and cacao provided the chewing gum and chocolate bars in military rations. In England and Germany, herbs replaced pharmaceutical drugs; feverbark was in demand to treat malaria, and penicillin culture used a growth medium made from corn. Rubber was needed for gas masks and barrage balloons, while cotton and hemp provided clothing, canvas, and rope. Timber was used to manufacture Mosquito bombers, and wood gasification and coal replaced petroleum in European vehicles. Lebensraum, the Nazi desire for agricultural land, drove Germans eastward; troops weaponized conifers with shell bursts that caused splintering. Ironically, the Nazis condemned non-native plants, but adopted useful Asian soybeans and Mediterranean herbs. Jungle warfare and camouflage required botanical knowledge, and survival manuals detailed edible plants on Pacific islands. Botanical gardens relocated valuable specimens to safe areas, and while remote locations provided opportunities for field botany, Trees surviving in Hiroshima and Nagasaki live as a symbol of rebirth after vast destruction.
Author: Robert James Henry Publisher: Earthscan ISBN: 1849774544 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 201
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"Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition between the food needs of a growing human population and the conservation of biodiversity as intensified by the emerging use of crops for energy production. As concern about the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on climate grows and oil prices increase, energy production from agricultural crops has become a significant industry. At the same time, growth in food demand due to population growth has been accelerated by growing affluence associated with economic growth in major developing countries increasing per capita consumption. Consumers are concerned that the price of food will continue to increase sharply as a result of this competition but a loss of biodiversity may be another major outcome. Drawing on his expertise in plant conservation genetics, the author provides a balanced appraisal of the potential for developing new or improved crops for food or bioenergy production in the context of climate change, while at the same time protecting biodiversity."--Back cover.
Author: Alan Desmond Publisher: Yellow Kite ISBN: 1529310172 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 561
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'This book is fantastic. We love the recipes and secretly wish that we'd written them ourselves!' Stephen and David Flynn, The Happy Pear 'Get ready, because this book is going to change your life in so many positive ways!' Kathy Freston, New York Times best-selling author of Clean Protein 'Dr Alan Desmond's The Plant-Based Diet Revolution will introduce a new era of delicious food that promotes a healthy mind, body and gut. Long live - and live long - in the Revolution!' Dr Will Bulsiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of Fiber Fueled 'With clear scientific explanation, colourful illustrations, and dozens of easy, tasty recipes, Dr Desmond has created an instant classic that gently guides you through the delicious transition to a health-promoting, plant-based diet.' Dr Michael Klaper As rates of chronic disease continue to rise, 'What should we eat?' has become one of the most important questions of the 21st century. Dr Alan Desmond cuts through the diet confusion to explain how we can all unlock the power of a healthy gut and optimise our overall well-being by simply putting more plants on our plate. Alongside clear explanations of the science and 80 beautifully illustrated and completely plant-based recipes, you'll find 'the 28-day revolution', the essential step-by-step guide to discovering the true power of a plant-based diet for yourself. Join The Plant-Based Diet Revolution today and unleash the true power of the food on your plate!
Author: Elisabeth Hsu Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 0857456334 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 321
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Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.
Author: Stephen Harris Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet?Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. From the coffee bush and grass for cattle which give us milk for our cappuccinos to the rubber tree which produces tyres for our cars, our lives are inextricably linked to the world of plants.Taking us on a chronological journey, Stephen Harris identifies fifty plants that have been key to the development of the Western world, discussing trade, politics, medicine, travel and chemistry along the way.Plants have provided paper and ink, chemicals that could kill or cure, vital sustenance and stimulants. Some, such as barley, have been staples from earliest times; others, such as oil palm, are newcomers to Western industry. Moreover, with time, uses change: beets, which have been used variously as a treatment for leprosy, source of sugar and animal feed, are now showing potential as biofuels. What may the future hold for mandrake or woad?We remain dependent on plants for our food, our fuel and our medicines. Their effects on our lives, as the stories in this wide-ranging and engaging book demonstrate, continue to be profound, and often unpredictable.
Author: Julie K. Lundgren
Author: Julie K. Lundgren
Author: Julie K. Lundgren
Author: Megan Rossi
Author: Judith Sumner
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Author: Robert James Henry
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Author: Elisabeth Hsu
Author: Stephen Harris