Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 In the United States, the lowest incidence rates are seen among Korean and Vietnamese men, both relatively recent immigrant groups from Asia; the rates are somewhat higher among Chinese, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian men. Caucasian men have very high rates, but by far, the highest incidence of this cancer is among African American men [12, 13].
The incidence of prostate cancer varies nearly 50-fold in populations around the world (Figure 1). Indeed, of all common cancers, this site shows the widest variation
San Francisco, black 147.0 ] San Francisco, white 108. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 He also started to learn something else from his patients: the first and second generation Americans from asia, the ones who ate more traditional, Asian staple diets of rice and vegetables, were trim, fit and not afflicted with the chronic diseases that plagued John's other patients. The third and fourth generation Asian Americans, however, had fully adopted America's eating habits and suffered from obesity, diabetes and the whole host of other chronic diseases. It was from these people that John began to notice how important diet was for health. |
Michael Pollan
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 Very often when a society adopts a new food without the food culture surrounding it, as happened when corn first came to Europe, Africa, and asia, people get sick. The context in which a food is eaten can be nearly as important as the food itself.
The ancient Asian practice of fermenting soybeans and eating soy in the form of curds called tofu makes a healthy diet from a plant that eaten almost any other way would make people ill. |
Ron Garner
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 In fact, a few centuries ago, soy was not considered fit to eat in asia. Even now,
... except in times of famine, Asians consume soy products only in small amounts as condiments, and not as a replacement for animal foods—with one exception. Celibate monks, living in monasteries and leading a vegetarian lifestyle, find soy foods quite helpful because they dampen libido.13
Originally, soybeans were only used in crop rotation to fix nitrogen into the soil. Soy was not used as a food because of the high content of antinutrients it contains. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The huge push of Big Tobacco into asia, for example, is the result of support by "world trade" proponents who threatened to impose trade sanctions against Asian nations if they tried to ban cigarette advertising. Today, more than a third of Chinese men are addicted to cigarettes, generating billions in annual profits for Big Tobacco companies who are right now producing more Chinese casualties than any war in China's long history. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Not surprisingly, autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases are more common in Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia—where rates of Crohn's disease have been rising—and less common in southern Europe, asia, and Africa. But what is especially striking is that South Asian immigrants who move to Western countries soon show an increased incidence of autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 First recorded influenza pandemic begins in Europe and spreads to asia and Africa.
1700s – Influenza pandemics in 1729-1730, 1732-1733, 1781-1782.
1781 – Major epidemic causing high mortality among the elderly spreads across Russia from asia.
1830 – Major epidemic causing high mortality among the elderly spreads across Russia from asia.
1831, 1833-1834 – Influenza pandemics hit.
1847-1848 – Influenza sweeps through the Mediterranean to southern France and then continues across in Western Europe.
1878 – A disease causing high mortality in poultry becomes known as the "fowl plague. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For this reason, alcoholism is rarely existent in Asia; Asians would simply die in large numbers from alcohol poisoning. Also, some people pass out after the first (and only drink) because they have no natural defenses against acetaldehyde.
Beer—Hypnotism and a Big Tummy
If you have ever had the chance to smell a hops plant, then you know it has hypnotic effects. Harvesting any of the plants of the hemp family can make you quite sleepy. Cannabis, which is used to produce Hashish and Marijuana, is a close relative of hops. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The education gap between the United States and asia is widening, Friedman points out. Whereas in some Asian countries nearly half of the students score in the top tier, only 7 percent of U.S. students hit that mark.
TIMSS has been administered every four years since 1995. The 1999 edition included 230,000 students from thirty-eight countries, 59,000 of whom were from the United States. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Low rates tend to occur in asia, particularly China [5, 14]. The highest reported rates in the world are among African Americans, whereas the lowest reported rates are among Chinese men in Shanghai. Interestingly, Chinese men in more developed areas of asia (Singapore and Hong Kong) and Chinese men in the United States have much higher incidence rates than men in mainland China (see cross-hatched populations in Figure 1). Furthermore, immigrants from Japan to Brazil and the United States have higher rates than do men in Japan [11]. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Otherwise, the United States' primary pledge for advancing greater energy efficiency comes not in China, but at the asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate, a regional alliance the United States and Australia created as an alternative to Kyoto. At the group's inaugural summit in Australia in January 2006, Bodman promised $52 million to "promote clean energy technologies" in the Asia-Pacific region. One year later that money had still not been appropriated by Congress. |
| In 2006 the Association of Soufh-East Asian Nations issued a policy recommendation that all of Southeast asia apply similar policies among its membership. Japan already has laws very closely hewing to the guidelines laid down by the European Union. As for the United States, Taubitz explained, "We conform to European regulations in Europe, to Brazilian regulations in Brazil, to French regulations in France, and to U.S. regulations in the United States. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Dong quai, also known as tang-kuei, dang-gui, and Chinese angelica, is an aromatic herb widely used throughout asia. In asia, dong quai is to women's health what ginseng is to men's. It has predominantly been used as a female remedy to treat menopausal hot flashes, menstrual cramps, lack of menstruation, or frequent menstruation and to promote a healthy pregnancy and easy delivery. The coumarins in dong quai are found largely in the root. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 This is pointing to a problem that is obviously very serious throughout the world, including asia, where people in nations such as Korea, China, and Japan are 60 percent more genetically susceptible to diabetes than Caucasians, even though currently their national rates may be lower because they have not fully assimilated the Western cultural diet.
THE AMERICAS
Based on 1994 extrapolations from prevalence studies, there are now about 33 million people with diabetes in the Americas (approximately 20 million in the United States and 13 million in Latin America and the Caribbean). |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Despite a loss in total market share, however, the tayon industry still had room for growth, particularly in asia. Rayon manufacturing had already expanded greatly in Japan before World War II. In the 1960s the
Japanese began to export their industry (including secondhand equipment) to Korea, which experienced its own epidemic of carbon disulfide poisoning in the years that followed. So many cases occurred with such long-lasting effects that the Koreans opened a special hospital dedicated solely to treating carbon disulfide poisoning, documenting over eight hundred poisonings through 1999. |
Anne Harrington
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 While the immediate origins of the "Eastward journeys" narrative lie in the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the habits of thinking on which this narrative relies go back as far as the first sixteenth-century European ventures into asia for the purposes of trade, missionary work, exploration, and eventually colonization. Over the course of several centuries, there arose a convention of writing about the native people of those countries that was both patronizing and exoticizing. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 After all, millions of people living in Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and rural Africa and asia who eat a plant-based diet are acne-free throughout their lives—so why can't you also be acne-free, if you behave like they do?"
A diet rich in plant foods provides huge amounts of antioxidants and natural antiinflammatories. Whole foods are also high in fiber and low in sugar, and do not raise insulin to any levels that are likely to be problematic. Research going back to 1977 suggested that patients with acne may not metabolize sugar very well. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Eurycoma longifolia, grown in Southeast asia, is touted as a powerful aphrodisiac.
Manufacturers can throw together any combination of these allegedly ancient ingredients to make up their own secret formula. How can we know what combination is effective? How do we know the ingredients are pure? How can we be sure they are safe? As with most natural products such as these, little research has been done on adverse side effects, dosage requirements, restrictions or interactions. Again, buyer beware.
The Active Ingredient
There is another reason that natural does not mean safe. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Supplemental selenium can help protect against Kashin-Beck disease, a form of arthritis that afflicts many people in China and other parts of asia who live in selenium-deficient areas.
Then there are toxic metals like mercury. While this is yet to be "proven" conclusively, most nutritional experts I know believe that selenium is a powerful chelator, meaning it attaches to metals like mercury and helps to remove them from the body. Japanese researchers have found that adding selenium to the diets of birds gave them "complete protection" from large amounts of mercury. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Through his family's many contacts in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, he set up operations in Southeast asia to develop metalworking industries. He traveled a great deal, and whether at home or on the road, he continued to be—his own description—a "glutton." "I was gaining weight," he says, "but since I had my clothes tailor-made in Hong Kong, I'd have a suit made every trip, and didn't really notice that the old suits didn't fit. |
| Then there were all these other countries, especially in asia and Africa, where those diseases hardly showed up at all.
For example, women in the United States were twenty times more likely than women in Kenya to develop breast cancer.1 And in the early 1950s, breast cancer was almost unknown in Japan (later, the rates began to rise as the Japanese adopted lifestyles—and eating habits—more like those of affluent Westerners). A close look at the cultures with low rates of breast cancer showed an obvious common denominator: a low intake of dietary fat and correspondingly low cholesterol levels. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Habitat: The plant is distributed widely throughout Europe, northern asia and North America.
Other Names: Mad-Dog Weed, Water Plantain, Ze-Xie actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS
Triterpenes: including alisol-A, alisol-B, alisol-C and their monoacetates
Sesquiterpenes (guaian type): alismol, alismol oxide Flavone sulfate
Caffeic acid derivatives: chlorogenic acid sulfate
EFFECTS
No information is available. indications and usage
Unproven Uses: Alisma is used for diseases of the bladder and urinary tract. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Meanwhile, the Curves franchise has moved into Europe and asia, where they can sell the dream to a whole new culture of operators who have not yet figured out the truth about the concept.
To illustrate how Curves has been able to build their brand through marketing, I interviewed a close friend, Tom Gergley, who operates a successful chain of quality women's clubs in northern California called Butterfly Life. Prior to founding this club chain, he owned and operated a different women's club chain that he and his partners sold to a larger competitor. |
Mark Lynas
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 Dawson and West were hoping to discover evidence which might help settle a dispute amongst palaeontologists about whether there was once a land bridge between the high latitudes of Europe, asia and North America, along which early mammals might have migrated. What they discovered instead was something very surprising about the climate, an accident of fate which dramatically changed today's scientific understanding of the distant past.
Near the head of the fjord, Dawson and West spotted fragments of bone amongst exposed rock outcrops. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Rhodiola, also called golden root, has enjoyed centuries of use in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and asia. Traditionally, this herb was used in folk medicine to increase physical endurance, work productivity, longevity, resistance to high altitude sickness, fatigue, depression, anemia, impotence, gastrointestinal ailments, infections, and disorders of the nervous system. The folklore surrounding rhodiola led to the first investigations in its phytochemistry in the early 1960s, when scientists identified adap-togenic compounds in its roots. |
Jack Challem
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 Europe, asia, and Central and South America where they can make greater financial gains.
The companies have succeeded in selling more and making more money—getting fat financially by making people fat and unhealthy. That's no better than how the cigarette companies marketed their products.
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Dangers That Lurk beyond Calories and Carbs
People now consume far greater quantities of calories, sugars, and sugarlike carbohydrates than they did just a couple of generations ago, and this increase is one reason why many more people are now overweight and prediabetic. |
| The sad fact is that nutritional deficiencies are commonplace in the United States, Europe, and asia, a sign that it is difficult for people to obtain adequate or optimal levels of nutrients from food alone. The following
207 graph, compiled from U. S. Department of Agriculture nutrition data, shows the percentages of Americans who do not obtain the recommended amounts of many vitamins and minerals.
We believe that nutritional supplements are essential for health, especially for people who have prediabetes or weight problems. |
| Similar trends have appeared wherever American soft drinks and fast foods have been marketed in Europe and asia. moa isn t vvnat it usea to Be
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JANET'S STORY
Changing Her Eating Habits, Gaining More Energy
Janet was overweight and complained about being tired all of the time. She never ate breakfast, thinking that would help her lose weight. At work, Janet had a "little taste" of doughnuts or cakes that her coworkers brought in, as well as coffee with sugar. For lunch, she got a burger or fried chicken and ate at her desk. |
Charles Barber
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 The FDA allows clinical trials to be conducted in other countries. The asia Times reports that India has emerged as "a preferred destination for outsourcing clinical trials."50 An Indian medical journal complains that the country is becoming "the greatest source of human guinea pigs for the global drug industry."51 GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis all run trials there. Why? |
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