At the root of many pain-causing conditions is chronic inflammation. A natural immune response to infection or injury, inflammation can become chronic due to factors like poor diet, stress, lack of exercise, and exposure to environmental toxins.
There are over 7,500 varieties of apples worldwide. The United States grows 2,500 apple varieties, but just 100 of them are grown commercially. Six states (Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia) produce the majority of apple types. Top 5 Popular Apple Varieties in U.S. (click on name of any apple variety for further details on uses)
They knew that the U.S. used to have 7,000 varieties of apples, but all but 1,000 were extinct. Every broccoli variety offered by seed catalogs in 1900 had disappeared. In Bangladesh, approximately 62% percent of the rice varieties came from a single mother plant. In Indonesia it was 74%, and in Sri Lanka it was 75%.