#chemicals

Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203) ↗

— Cynthia Sass

#body-weight #chemicals #insects #natural-defenses #nutrients

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#chemicals #control #could #critical #derail

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#agents #before #biological #bottom #bottom line

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#brain #chain #chemicals #destroyed #different

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#diet-industry #dieting #food #self-esteem #diet

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#allows #buying #chemicals #earth #harsh

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#categorized #chemicals #earthly #good #illegal

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#chemicals #develop #film #friend #go

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans. ↗

— Delia Smith

#good #process #tend