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& REVIEWS STOP AMERICA'S #1 KILLER! vitamin C deficiency—risk factors such as attention. He takes us through landscapes of by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD high blood pressure, inflammation, high lev- crops destroyed by salination, mass poison- LivOn Books, Henderson, NV, USA, 2006 __ els of triglycerides, diabetes, smoking, infec- ings from arsenic contamination of the water ISBN 0-9779520-0-2 (319pp pb) tion and oxidative stress. Dr Levy explains table, dead wetlands, silted and stagnant Available: http:/(www.LivOnBooks.com how vitamin C intake can overcome these ponds, poisoned wells and shrunken inland eart disease, particularly coronary heart _TiSk factors and backs up his arguments with seas. Not pretty sights, nor ones that reflect disease, is the leading cause of death an array of scientific studies (listed in over water's true life-giving properties. _ around the world, yet it is preventable and 60 pages of references). What's gone wrong? Pearce describes reversible. According to US cardiologist Dr This is easy-to-understand, actionable some of the mad and costly paths that have Thomas E. Levy, vitamin C deficiency is at information that could save your life! been taken in diverse parts of the world: the core of many diseases. For instance, ath- choices of high-yielding crops that suck the erosclerosis—the build-up of plaque in the WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY: pare i boas covinsental building arteries that leads to heart attack—seems to What Happens When Our Water Runs oe : rrr ° ichtmclty avian ichcexy an PP Su avn ar cmp (scurvy) int Sohne the anton he acter by Fred Pearce cultures killed off, ecosystems devastated, and how its health can be ‘rasieall com Y Transworld, London, UK, 2006; and all the while there's the looming spectre promised b lack of vitamin C which is Beacon Press, Boston, USA, 2006 of water wars. By 2025, Pearce says, three éssential fee maintaining the inteerity and ISBN 1-903919576 (368pp hc, T'world); billion people around the planet will face strength of the "interce Tular alu" that binds _ 9-8070-8572-3 (hc, Beacon Press) chronic water shortages. the cells together. Depleted levels cause this Available: UK/Aust/NZ— Transworld; Individuals and governments need to work gel-like glue to become watery and allow USA—Beacon Press, www.beacon.org together, Pearce adds, to find ways to "go the penetration of foreign substances into the he water crisis that's affecting Australia, _with the flow" of nature. Our action plans basement membrane. the driest continent on Earth, is a micro- need to include small-scale solutions such as As for what causes depleted levels of vita- ©OSM for the dire situation in which much of __ i” situ water tanks that we can easily imple- min C in the arteries, Dr Levy says that in the world finds itself. Having recently been — ment, but it would help if governments almost every case this is due to significant captivated by the ABC's Two Men and a rewarded efforts towards sustainability. daily exposure to toxins, e.g., heavy metals Tinnie trek by scientist Tim Flannery and seule = from dental amalgam, which neutralise local broadcaster John Doyle along the Darling —— vitamin C stores. Soon the environment is and Murray river systems, I found Fred primed for an influx of calcium, cholesterol Pearce's environmental travelogue com- Fiad Penge and bad fats as well as macrophages—an pelling and cautionary reading. Pearce's when the rivers run d influx that continues for as long as the writings on science and the environment Plesdiecgai uieibca:iromier mia Oil abnormal solute deposition is maintained. would be well known to readers of New The answer for normalising artery health is Scientist magazine, and here, in his 14th supplementation with high doses of vitamin _ book, he asks the timely question of what C and other nutrients, and Dr Levy provides —_ happens when our rivers run dry. a chapter with advice and protocols for pre- The Murray-Darling system with its dwin- venting and reversing atherosclerosis. The dling environmental flows caused largely by largest section of his book highlights more man-made intervention is just one riverine than two dozen CHD risk factors relating to cause célébre that's captured Fred Pearce's vitamin C deficiency—tisk factors such as high blood pressure, inflammation, high lev- els of triglycerides, diabetes, smoking, infec- tion and oxidative stress. Dr Levy explains how vitamin C intake can overcome these risk factors and backs up his arguments with an array of scientific studies (listed in over 60 pages of references). This is easy-to-understand, actionable information that could save your life! NEXUS 71 DECEMBER 2006 — JANUARY 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com