Rain forests From: Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright Weider Publications Nov 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Herbs are big for bodybuilders. They can help you build muscle and strength, train harder, lose fat and stay healthy so you can keep pumping iron. But while the herb business is booming on the dawn of the 21st century, the source of many medicinal herbs - the rain forest - is shrinking.

Both tropical and temperate rain forests foster the growth of perhaps millions of plant species. "More species of plants grow in the tropical forest of Panama than in all of Europe," says the Natural Resources Defense Council. But herbs, particularly those that thrive in rapidly disappearing ecosystems, ...

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