According to macrobiotic advocates, a majority of the world population in the past ate a diet based primarily on grains, vegetables, and other plants.

According to advocates of the quilt theory, there were ten quilt patterns that were used to direct slaves to take particular actions.

According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive Fred Hilmer wrote in his memoirs that " he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editorial culture at papers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was surprised that journalists saw themselves as advocates rather than simply reporters.

According to these advocates, traditional Christian views of human sexuality define traditional Western values in relation to this subject.

According to the Association of University Staff of New Zealand ( AUS ) in 2007, New Zealand universities, including the University of Auckland, had been taking a more litigious approach to managing their staff in recent years and engaged lawyers and employment advocates to handle even minor matters.

According to its mission statement, " Refugees International advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.

According to advocates of the natural health movement, the following are key tenets of patient empowerment:

According to its founding charter the Liberal Forum propagates political liberalism and advocates a free market economy.

According to its advocates, it should be impossible to know the actual identity of anyone in cipherspace.

According to Harold Bender and several of his colleagues, the Anabaptists were " voluntaristic in religious choice, advocates of a church completely free from state influence, biblical literalists, non-participants in any government activity to avoid moral compromise, suffering servant disciples of Jesus who emphasized moral living and who were persecuted and martyred as Jesus had been, and restitutionists who tried to restore pre-Constantinian Christian primitivism.

According to living wage advocates Smith advocated that labor should receive an equitable share of what labor produces ; According to Smith, this equitable share amounts to more than subsistence.

According to the FDA, health benefits claimed by raw milk advocates do not exist.

According to many Free Software advocates, Microsoft founded ISC in reaction to the call for the adoption of Free Software by politicians in many countries.

According to an article published in Forbes magazine, " Rowling is facing a rebellion at his fitness chain Gold ’ s Gym after his $ 2 million donation to Karl Rove ’ s conservative group sparked protest from gay rights advocates ".

" According to its mission statement, Judicial Watch " advocates high standards of ethics and morality in America's public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people.

According to Walmart and many self-described advocates of free trade, comparisons of wage levels between vastly different countries is not a useful way to assess the fairness of a trade policy.

According to advocates, such as Stephen Krashen, SSR has been shown to lead to gains in several literacy domains, including comprehension, spelling and increased vocabulary.

According to e-mails collected by the quiz's advocates, it has been used in 420 schools in the United States.

According to its advocates, nasal irrigation promotes good sinus and nasal health.

According to National CASA, today there are more than 70, 000 advocates serving in 1, 018 state and local program offices nationwide.

According to historian Lucian Boia, this stance was partly explained by the Jewish origin of its panelists, who, as advocates of assimilation, wanted to identify with the Romanian cultural nationalism and irredenta ; an exception was the Germanophile Brănişteanu, for a while marginalized within the group.

According to its website, WordAlone advocates reform and renewal of the church, representative governance, theological integrity, and freedom from a mandated historic episcopate.

According to advocates of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis, the resulting core of common vocabulary can only be explained by the hypothesis of common origin.

According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and an order of miracles and mystery.

According to Greenpeace, golden rice has not managed to do anything about malnutrition for 10 years during which alternative methods are already tackling malnutrition.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to the EU, the aim of the directive is to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment funds.

According to the alternative constitutive theory of statehood, a state exists only insofar as it is recognized by other states.

According to an alternative version, Malcolm's mother took both sons into exile at the court of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, an enemy of Macbeth's family, and perhaps Duncan's kinsman by marriage.

According to the most common definition of digital signal, both baseband and passband signals representing bit-streams are considered as digital transmission, while an alternative definition only considers the baseband signal as digital, and passband transmission of digital data as a form of digital-to-analog conversion.

According to a 2008 GRTC operations analysis report, a majority of GRTC riders utilize their services because they do not have an available alternative such as a private vehicle.

According to this interpretation, the purpose of a quantum-mechanical theory is to predict the relative probabilities of various alternative histories ( for example, of a particle ).

According to The Silmarillion, Ungoliant's unremitting hunger drove her to devour herself, although an alternative sketch of Eärendil's voyage suggests that he slew her in the south.

According to a 1998 task force report, some physicians are choosing to add naturopathic modalities to their practice, and states such as Texas have begun to establish practice guidelines for MDs who integrate alternative and complementary medicine into their practice.

" According to John T. Edge ( Donuts, an American passion 2006 ) the alternative spelling “ donut ” was invented when the New York – based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

According to most ancient sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( Ibycus, Bacchylides ) Plisthenides ( son of Plisthenes ) is used as an alternative name for Atreus himself.

According to Cook, the toponym Lydney derives from the Old English * Lydan-eġ, ‘ Lludd ’ s Island .’ However, alternative etymologies of Lydney are offered in other sources.

According to Walter Brueggemann, the task of prophetic ( Christian ) ministry is to nurture, nourish and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture.

According to Watters, urban tribes are groups of never-marrieds between the ages of 25 and 45 who gather in common-interest groups and enjoy an urban lifestyle, which offers an alternative to traditional family structures.

According to Frank Arjava Petter, Usui touched the diseased parts of the body, he massaged them, tapped them lightly, stroked them, blew on them, fixed his gaze upon them for two to three minutes, and specifically gave them energy, and used a technique commonly referred to as palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine.

According to Kent, another reason why this happened so often in the USA then, was because some anti-Vietnam War protesters and political activists became worn out or disillusioned of the possibilities to change society through political means, and as an alternative turned to religious means.

According to the Critical Mass book, a similar project known as Courteous Mass is described as " an alternative to Critical Mass.

According to alternative traditions, sailors brought cassoulet from the south of France or northern France and the Channel Islands where bean stews were popular.

According to Stephen Jay Gould, if Lamarck had been aware of Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, there is no reason to assume he would not have accepted it as a more likely alternative to his own mechanism.

According to the study conducted by Dr. Eric Ravussin, " Alternate-day fasting may be an alternative to prolonged diet restriction for increasing the life span ".

According to Roger Ebert's tongue-in-cheek Glossary of Movie Terms, the Down Under Rule " No film set in Australia is allowed to use the word Australia in its title where " Down Under " is an acceptable alternative.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to " vocal or instrumental alternative music albums containing at least 51 % playing time of newly recorded music ", defining " alternative " as a " non-traditional " genre that exists " outside of the mainstream music consciousness ".