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The News Spot
News and features about coconuts
around the world.
"Oil
Pulling Therapy" Interview with Bruce Fife
A 4-part
audiovisual interview featuring Dr. Bruce Fife, author of Oil
Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing.
In this interview Joyce Riley of The Power Hour radio broadcast
interviews Dr. Fife who discusses the many benefits of oil pulling
therapy, as well as the correct methods for oil pulling. Includes
live testimonials.
Oil
Pulling Therapy Interview Part 1
Oil Pulling Therapy Interview Part 2
Oil Pulling Therapy Interview Part 3
Oil Pulling Therapy Interview Part 4
Usage of
Green Coconut Water and Different Tissue Culture Media for In Vitro
Honey Bee Semen Storage
Honey
bee semen was stored in green coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) water
plus dihydrostreptomycin and in commercial tissue culture media at
different temperatures. Glass capillary microtubes of 0.1cm diameter and
centrifuge microtubes 0.2ml capacity were used for semen storage. Sperm
motility was assessed after 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30, 50, 80 and 120 days.
Queens were instrumentally inseminated with diluted semen and their
laying behavior evaluated.
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Coconut
Water Solids Goes GRAS
After
review of safety and toxicology data by an independent panel of
scientists assembled by Soni & Associates, Inc., a coconut water solids
ingredient has been deemed self-affirmed GRAS in a variety of foods and
beverages, such as nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages, frozen dairy,
dairy product analogues, milk products, snack foods, imitation dairy
products, chewing gum, instant tea and coffee, and soups.
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Coconut
Oil by Dr. James South, MD
A wealth of
scientific data refutes claims that coconut oil is rich in
"artery-clogging" saturated fats. Switching from polyunsaturated
vegetable oils to traditional cooking fats such as coconut oil would
actually reduce several significant health risks - So says James South
MD.
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Packaged
Coconut Water Receives Thumbs Up from Customers
BANGALORE: Amidst
all the heat generated by the cola wars and the fizz created by their
advertisement blitzkrieg, it is good old grandmother's-recommended
cool coconut
water, albeit in tetra packs, that is making a come back
on the healthy drink trail of Indian consumers.
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Coconut
Oil Powers 747
UK: Virgin Atlantic carried
out the world’s first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with
biofuel yesterday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon
dioxide than normal jet fuels.
Some analysts praised the
jumbo jet test flight from London to Amsterdam as a potentially useful
experiment.
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Coco
Loco
Jennifer Aniston uses it and
the England rugby squad swear by its metabolism-boosting qualities.
Coconut oil is being touted as the health food of 2008 - but is this
just more 'superfood' hype? By Lucy Atkins
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How to
Open A Young Coconut
Jenna loves drinking
refreshing and nutritious young coconut water and eating the succulent
meat inside. Young coconut water is an amazing elixir and its meat is
pure ambrosia. The challenge was how to get into a young coconut without
being injured in the process. Join Jenna on her journey to the Hollywood
Raw Lifestyle Film Festival where Rod Rotondi, founder of Leaf Cuisine,
teaches her the safe and easy way to open a young coconut.
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The Palm
Oil Miracle
COPYRIGHT 2007 Midwest Book
Review
The Palm Oil Miracle:
Discover the Healing Power of Palm Oil is a fascinating guide to the
healthful and nutritional properties of palm oil, especially virgin
(red) palm oil. Palm...
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Canine
Candida: Many Common Health Problems Can be Traced to a Yeast Overgrowth
COPYRIGHT
2007 Belvoir Media Group, LLC
Thirty years ago, even though
the systemic yeast infection called candidiasis had already become an
epidemic, practically no one knew anything about it. Even now
conventional medicine tends to ignore the problem, but word has spread
among health-conscious consumers.
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Get
Baking with Gluten-Free Flours
COPYRIGHT 2006 PRIMEDIA
Intertec, a PRIMEDIA Company. All Rights Reserved.
A diet free of gluten used to
mean giving up baked goods. Luckily, it doesn't have to anymore.
Nowadays gluten-free flour options abound--even for those on low-carb or
hypoallergenic diets--and making gluten-free treats has never been
easier.
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A
Hangover Hangs No More
It’s a question I often have
to ask myself come Sunday morning… “How will this hangover subside?”
Well, maybe I don’t say “subside” I don’t usually say anything, in fact
it’s even hard to formulate sentences sometimes, but nevertheless here I
have for you some news.
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UN
agency promotes new coconut water preservation process to help small
farmers
21 February 2007 – The United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking to boost sales of bottled
coconut water by small farmers with a simple cold preservation process
that protects the natural taste for up to three weeks while avoiding the
loss of nutrients and almost all the delicate flavor entailed in
commercial canning.
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YouTube
- Coconut Water
The
best Sports Drink Ever!!! 5 essential electrolytes, no ...
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A Raw
Deal
HE HAD just about everything in the book:
cancer, vitiligo, facial palsy, epilepsy, kidney failure, high blood
pressure, bursitis and high cholesterol. You name it, Earl Chong
had it. Now he is completely cancer-free and has been healed of
all his ailments through a combination of strictly raw foods and his
faith in God.
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ALL THE
REST of the tree, too!
There is
hardly anything growing on a coconut tree that does not have some use,
making the total economic potential of the plant worldwide an immense
figure. The tree is a source of food, wood for building materials and
crafts, and raw material for clothing and numerous industrial products.
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Conrado
Dayrit, Dr. Coconut; 88
Inquirer
October 06, 2007
MANILA, Philippines--DR. CONRADO S. DAYRIT, cardiologist,
pharmacologist, National Scientist and past president of the National
Academy of Science and Technology, died at 6:45 a.m. yesterday at the
Victor Potenciano Medical Center where he was serving as its medical
director.
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Pacific
Islands look to coconut power to fuel future growth
By
David Brooks
Agence France-Presse
MAJURO, Marshall Islands -- The first thing you notice about a diesel
engine running on coconut oil is the smell. "It smells sweet.
You can put your nose right up to the exhaust," says Witon Barry,
assistant manager of the Tobolar Copra processing plant in the Marshall
Islands capital of Majuro.
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Cocosplit:
A New Coconut Splitting Tool
The Cocosplit is a tool designed to easily split a
mature coconut into two equal halfs. All it takes is one blow from a
mallet or hammer. Watch video…
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Making
and Using Coconut Milk
To make
coconut milk from fresh coconut, put 4 cups freshly grated coconut (the
yield from 1 medium coconut) in a blender. Add just enough boiling
water, or boiling water mixed with reserved coconut water, to make a
slurry that blends freely, probably 1 cup or a little more. Blend for at
least 30 seconds to extract as much flavor as possible...
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CocoTap:
Easy Access to Coconut Water
The Cocotap is a stainless steel tube with a sharp
spike at one end, the tube opens into a T shape, making it easy to hold
and screw into a coconut. Watch video…
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