I've not heard that before.

Like this 1986 study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3716780 and the bazillion years of old wives' tales that led up to such a study. Women know about synchronized menses guided by lunar cycles if they have lived together where lighting is celestial instead of artificial.

I think this is directly related to an old observation: women in a night-lit city have trouble with irregular menstruation until they can have a day-night AND lunar-cycle light patterns. Remember, the natural night is not completely dark, not equally dark every night of the moon's circuit.

I'm the grandmother in a paleo family - I eat raw food, the rest of the family do not. We all experienced better health with paleo, but I've had the best health improvement with raw paleo.

I know a marketing ploy when I see one. Cute, and probably effective.

Really interesting, Jessica. I think the Western view of race got sidetracked when "whites" tried to use the 3-race model and then put the white race on top.  I belong to a widely-dispersed highly-interbred race with three distinct group migrations, and I can always tell who is one of "my" migration by the face, and they know that I am one of them.

I don't even believe that Columbus thought he was in Asia because he must have taken one look at the indigenous people and known they weren't Asians.

Even in my hyper-diverse city, you can usually tell where someone is from - Vietnamese don't look like Cambodians, Ethiopians don't look like Somalis, Guatemalans don't resemble Salvadorans, Canadians don't look like Americans (LOL, gotcha!).

Back to your original question, my observation is that the "vegetarian" approaches of juicing (discarding the pulp) and blending (incorporated the pulp in a puree) are aimed at getting more nutrients than you could get by chewing all those vegetables. Kinda like the whole-foods version of megadoses of vitamins and/or minerals. The pulpy parts of the vegetables are almost an afterthought.

From an ancestral-eating perspective (which is my point of view), there is no reason to chow down on tons of liquid vegetable extract for the food value. No humans would have done that until recently.

From a therapeutic perspective, you might want to get all those nutrients from juices to see if you benefit from it. AV was into juicing for that reason; however, that level of highly-processing your food is a very modern approach, and it deprives you of the many benefits of chewing.

While you are experimenting, you might try "wadging" your veggies - chewing and swallowing the juices from a mouthful of veggies and then spitting out the pulp. The digestive enzymes in saliva will get mixed with your veggie juice, and that's a good thing.

This could easily be attributed to selection bias. That is, those who are feeling too ill and weak to continue working, because their lives are closer to the end and their health is failing, are more likely to retire. Whereas those who still feel they are healthy enough to continue working, may postpone retirement for a few more years.

I look at it from a different perspective: Those who hate their jobs can't wait to retire, but all those years of miserable employment have already taken their toll. The lesson here would be, "Don't let money or family expectations mis-guide you to the wrong purpose in life."

If a people choose occupations that are both fun to themselves and useful to others, it removes the stress from earning a living.

... Thats where our own personal role in participating in a TRUE DEMOCRACY is to be found.... we can work in collaboration to bring about a Federation of Free Minds which are outside the control of the Machine apparatus. Though this may seem Grandiose, and could in fact be a delusion, as is much of what human imaginings consist of... I have this feeling that my own personal calling is to be a kind of ambassador to mother earth on a diplomatic mission, on behalf of the spirit and unity of life, to envision a truce with the "Machine". To find some common ground, a middle path of equanimity that will hold together a humanity, which is being pulled apart in the way the biological imperatives of "Gaia", are at odds with the socioeconomic impositions of "Mammon".

You forgot to figure in human nature, sabertooth. The corruption springs from human nature, not from the poor design of our government. Even pure-minded endeavors can turn to crap to some degree or another. Then evil-minded endeavors put on "white hats" until nobody can tell who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

I prefer to think, "There are no good guys and no bad guys. They're all just... guys!

US voters do not have any say at all. Vote-rigging has been a regular phenomenon in the US since its inception. More recently, Ron Paul was prevented from becoming elected due to vote-rigging.

Yeahright. It's all one, big, fat conspiracy.

It's not as if we have any real sway on how the presidential election will turn out.

Now that you mention it, those of us who are voting US citizens do have a real sway on how the presidential elections will turn out. I realize that you prefer to think that the so-called powers that be run the US and the world, but I see the role of TPTB as unelected regulators that prevent our economic system from collapsing - a tricky business that allows no wiggle room. Day-to-day American life is very predictable and placid, even considering all our shortcomings.

Trump is not a predictable, placid candidate. He claims to be accountable to nobody. He fits the profile of Robber Baron, not President of the United States.

Scar tissue forms on the skin when the skin has been injured and then healed. Scar tissue is regular skin but it lines up differently. Are you really talking about scar tissue? or soreness of muscles after workouts?

I hear your passion, but I'm not sure what you are saying. You posted a topic calling packaged juice "freshly squeezed" and claiming that someone is shutting down juice bars. All sorts of packaged foods can be carriers of various bacterial hazards. Krauts and alcoholic ferments can go wrong, too.

Nevertheless, "freshly squeezed juice" gets pressed out of the plant's pulp and is not pasteurized if you drink it while it is still fresh.

I don't know who "they" are who are shutting down the healthy alternatives. In my area, the brand name freshly squeezed juices come from Jamba Juice or a bazillion other places, including many gyms, restaurants, and bars. All they need is a citrus juicer and a carrot juicer. Nobody seems to be shutting them down.

Bottled juices are not freshly squeezed. They are pasteurized so that they do not breed bacteria during shipment and storage prior to purchase. To see what I mean, try leaving some fresh juice out for a day or so and you will see mold colonies forming on the surface.

The freshest OJ, IMO, is the juice that you squeeze from orange sections with your teeth! When you deliver the juice directly to your mouth, the juice does not have time to oxidize (destructive to enzymes and vitamins) in the juicing machine.