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In Jungle Long Known for Cocaine, a Rare Nut Is Now All the Rage

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“Suddenly, the cacay (pronounced kahk-ai) has become a red-hot commodity, providing the key ingredient to anti-aging facial creams that can fetch $200 an ounce in beauty shops in Los Angeles and London.  While most of the nuts come from wild trees in remote areas, new plantations are popping up in impoverished parts of Colombia that were better known for cocaine and anti-government rebel groups.  It was Albert Jaramillo, the head of Bogota-based Kahai SAS, who found a market for the oil after attending trade shows and hiring a trial study of the oil’s use in skincare. Kahai, which buys nuts from growers and scavengers, expects to double sales this year.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/in-jungle-long-known-for-cocaine-a-rare-nut-is-now-all-the-rage

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Locally-grown, organic: LA’s first ever pot farmer’s market a hit

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“It looks like any other American farmer’s market. Buyers sniff the wares, test weights and compare, while vendors tout their product. But the only produce on offer is cannabis — organic, of course. The Heritage Farmer’s Market — held over the July 4th long weekend — was the first of its kind in Los Angeles. Despite the scorching sun, the line to get in stretched hundreds of meters. The crowd was diverse and multigenerational, interspersed with hippies, rockers, hipsters and some nondescript suburban types. But they all have at least one thing in common — they all have, as required for entry, a doctor’s prescription.”

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/locallygrown-organic-las-first-ever-pot-farmers-market-a-hit/story-fneuz9ev-1226979311460

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World’s Largest LED Hydroponic Farm Used to Be a Sony Factory

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“This enormous indoor lettuce farm for example—the largest of its kind in the world—produces 10,000 heads a day in less space than a single American football field and could signal a sea change in how we get our greens.  This 25,000 square foot (roughly half a football field) indoor farm actually used to be a Sony semiconductor plant in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture. That is, until plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura set about converting it into the world’s largest indoor farm illuminated by LED.  Using LED bulbs developed by GE, designed to produce the optimal wavelength of light that plants crave, Shimamura is able to accelerate plant growth by 250 percent.”

http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-led-hydroponic-farm-used-to-be-a-son-1603082545

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Uncertainty dominates new hemp market

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“Would-be hemp farmers are having mixed success navigating red tape on everything from seed acquisition to processing the finished plant. It will take years, farmers and regulators agree, before there’s a viable market for hemp.  Hemp is prized for oils, seeds and fiber, but its production was prohibited for five decades because the plant can be manipulated to enhance a psychoactive chemical, THC, making the drug marijuana.  The Farm Bill enacted this year ended decades of required federal permission to raise hemp, but only with state permission and checks to make sure the hemp doesn’t contain too much THC.  Fifteen states have removed barriers to hemp production.”

http://www.dailynews.com/business/20140607/uncertainty-dominates-new-hemp-market

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Are Organic Food Retailers Cheap Now?

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“Competition is the strongest factor in the selloff of organic food retailers. All of the organic food retailers have store targets well above their current store count.  Organic food retailers alone have targeted total store counts of 2,800 from a current store count of 399, representing a sevenfold increase.  In addition to competition from pure organic food retailers, traditional food retailers are seeing the growth in the organic growth segment as a way to boost growth in same store sale growth.  The increased competitive pressures are the key drivers of the weakness in the first and second quarter of 2014.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/market-commentary/35301/Are-Organic-Food-Retailers-Cheap-Now/

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Canines’ Cancer-Sniffing Snouts Showing 90%-Plus Accuracy

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“With 220 million olfactory cells in a canine snout, compared with 50 million for humans, dogs have long helped on search-and-rescue. Now, a growing body of evidence supports the possible use of canines by clinicians. The largest study ever done on cancer-sniffing dogs found they can detect prostate cancer by smelling urine samples with 98 percent accuracy. At least one application is in the works seeking U.S. approval of a kit using breath samples to find breast cancer.  When dogs sniff for cancer, they are detecting the chemicals emitted by a tumor.  VOCs have been found in the breath of lung cancer patients and colon cancer patients, as well as in the urine of prostate cancer patients.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-18/canines-cancer-sniffing-snouts-offer-new-testing-option.html

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Dairy industry opposes bills lifting restrictions on US raw milk sales

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“The two bills, the Milk Freedom Act of 2014 and the Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2014, are the latest salvo in an ongoing controversy between those who say they want to be able to consume unprocessed milk, straight from the cow, both for its taste and health benefits, and those who say there is too much of a public health risk.Opposing the bills are dairy industry organizations and food safety agencies.  According to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund website, 15 state prohibit the sale of raw milk to humans under any circumstances. The remaining 35 allow it, under a variety of circumstances. Some allow unrestricted retail sales, others only through co-ops or herd-sharing plans.”

http://digitaljournal.com/life/health/bipartisan-bills-would-lift-restrictions-on-us-raw-milk-sales/article/379795

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A low saturated fat diet ‘will not prevent heart disease or prolong life’

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“Health professionals recommend following a diet low in saturated fat. But a leading US cardiovascular scientist says that adopting such a diet does not curb heart disease or prolong life.  In an editorial recently published in the BMJ journal Open Heart, Dr. James DiNicolantonio says the consumption of saturated fat was first criticized back in the 1950s.  But Dr. DiNicolantonio says the findings of this research were flawed. He notes that the study author reached his conclusion using data from only six countries, choosing to exclude data from 16 countries that failed to fit his hypothesis. However, Dr. DiNicolantonio says this data ‘led us down the wrong ‘dietary road’ for decades to follow.'”

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/273528.php

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Why It Took More Than 30 Years to Confirm Vitamin C Fights Cancer

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“An article in a respected scientific journal confirmed what researchers have known for decades: High-dose vitamin C injections boost the effectiveness of traditional cancer therapies.  The mainstream media acted surprised. But this is old news: In the 1970s, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling published research linking vitamin C injections to the shrinkage of malignant tumors.  You might think that the FDA – the agency set up to ‘protect’ us from dangerous or ineffective drugs – would have immediately ordered clinical tests to confirm the discovery. Quite the opposite. [..] For the last 30-plus years, official government policy has been that vitamin C isn’t an effective cancer therapy.”

http://www.nestmann.com/why-it-took-more-than-30-years-to-confirm-vitamin-c-fights-cancer

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Cannabinoids Lead to Leukemia Cancer Cell Destruction

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“One new study, from researchers with Saint George’s University of London and published in Anticancer Research, reveals how various compounds within cannabis are able to work together to kill human leukemia cells.  The study looked at three non-psychoactive cannabinoids, including cannabidiol, cannabigerol, and cannabigevarin. These compounds were tested on two leukemia cell lines where they acted synergistically to fight the cancerous cells.  In total, six compounds were tested and each had anti-cancer properties as effective as those in THC. When combined with one another, the compounds had an even greater effect.”

http://naturalsociety.com/cannabinoids-marijuana-kill-leukemia-cancer-cells/

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