James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 As it turns out, he did discover the Fountain of Youth in the form of florida. florida is the Sunshine State and the southernmost point in the continental United States—and a destination for more retirees than any other state. Furthermore, it's also a major source of fresh produce from farming and seafood. UVB light is available in florida essentially year round for the production of vitamin D.
This is significant today—even more than historically—because vitamin D and a healthy diet represent a real Fountain of Youth. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Familia / Family: PASSIFLORACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Cascara de la Fruta, Hojas, frescas - Fruit peels, Leaves, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Topica - Topical
Preparacion / Preparation: Cocida, aplicada como Emplasto con Agua florida - Cooked, applied as Poultice with Agua Florida
Usos / Uses: Infecciones, Calambres menstruales - Infections, Menstrual cramps
Congona Serrana
Peperomia alata Ruiz & Pav. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 West Palm Beach, florida 33411
561-471-8876 www.hippocratesinst.com
We Care Spa
18000 Long Canyon Rd. Desert Hot Springs, CA 800-888-2523 www.wecarespa.com
Gerson Institute
1572 Second Ave.
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619-685-5353/
888-443-7766 (U.S. only)
800-838-2256 (toll-free, U.S. and Canada)
Fax:619-685-5363
Renew Life
1007N.Macdill Ave. Tampa, florida 33607-5126 813-871-3200 rclinic2@tampabay.rr.com
Optimum Health Institute
San Diego, CA 800-993-4325 www.optimumhealth.org
Environmental Health Center
Dallas, TX William Rea, M.D. 214-368-4132 www.ehcd. |
David Steinman
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 Such sexual blurring has been found in Missouri River sturgeon, the florida panther, alligators of Lake Apopka, florida, and elsewhere as well.
If animals are becoming feminized from these chemicals and their sexual organs are becoming blurred, does that mean our children's sex differences are, too?
At Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, researches have found that prenatal or perinatal (via breast milk) exposure to PCBs is associated with changes in the behavior of children at play. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 I have another friend who visits florida on many occasions. Every time he visits florida he goes right for the lobster, right for the crab and the shrimp. He always winds up getting sick in florida. I point out to him that his immune system is going to be suppressed by eating all the lobster, shrimp, and crab, but he never really thinks anything of it. It is obvious to me and everyone else, because every time he eats that stuff he always falls ill. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The ALCAT test is provided by Cell Science Systems Corporation in florida and is available in more than eighteen countries as of this writing. The LEAP test (Lifestyle, Eating and Performance) is administered by Signet Diagnostic Corporation in florida and has an outstanding medical advisory board. To find out more about the ALCAT test, call (800) 872-5228 or go to www.alcat.com. For more information on the LEAP test, call (888) 669-5327 or go to www.nowleap.com. |
Bottom Line Health
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| H7at florida petting zoos that sickened at least 34 people. The researchers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the florida Department of Health, interviewed petting-zoo visitors to find out what behaviors caused people to get an infection.
The behaviors most strongly associated with E. coli were feeding a cow or goat, touching a goat and stepping in manure or having manure on your shoes. Indirect contact that also led to illness included drying hands on clothes after washing them at the zoo. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 North florida Avenue, Lutz, florida 33549, from the Mini Mental State Examination, by Marshal Folstein and Susan Folstein, Copyright 1975,1998, 2001 by Mini Mental LLC, Inc. Published 2001 by Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission of PAR, Inc. The MMSEcan be purchased from PAR, Inc., by calling (813) 968-3003.
Neurological testing
Depending on how your first visit goes, the doctor may end the appointment by asking you to undergo several tests, some of which are CT scans, blood tests, and neuropsychological assessments. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 For Karl Pribram, a young neurosurgeon who'd relocated to florida just to do research with the great man, Lashley's failures were something of a revelation. Pribram had bought Lashley's monograph for ten cents secondhand, and when he first arrived in florida, he hadn't been shy about challenging it with the same fervor Lashley had reserved for many of his peers. Lashley had been stimulated by his bright upstart apprentice, whom he would eventually regard as the closest he ever had to a son. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| A local television station in Tallahassee, florida, was quick to respond to the Fox investigative series. Tallahassee's expert, a medical doctor specializing in diabetes, "intelligently" contradicted the insulin crisis with his factual interpretation: "Why would any human being want to take anything but human insulin?" (Since his format was not a call-in show, I could not ask him if he also felt that human beings would be wise to only consume human meat. Holy cannibals! |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The United States EPA and florida Department of Health guidelines for fish consumption indicate that any specimen with a mercury level [greater than] 1.5 ppm in their muscle tissue should not be consumed in any amount."10
Organic mercury is usually found in fish and other aquatic organisms but can also be detected in produce, livestock, processed grains, and dairy products. Most commonly, humans are exposed to mercury by eating contaminated fish or inhaling fumes from dental fillings. Refer to the following table for avoiding mercury found in fish. |
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| The researchers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the florida Department of Health, interviewed petting-zoo visitors to find out what behaviors caused people to get an infection.
The behaviors most strongly associated with E. coli were feeding a cow or goat, touching a goat and stepping in manure or having manure on your shoes. Indirect contact that also led to illness included drying hands on clothes after washing them at the zoo. |
| Larry Fields, MD
These appointment-free clinics—now operating in Arkansas, florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas—typically charge a $25 to $60 up-front fee (only some clinics take insurance) to address a limited range of 25 to 30 acute medical conditions and common ailments—allergies; bronchitis; colds; flu; eye, ear, skin and sinus infections; headaches; and gastrointestinal issues. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| A University of South florida researcher found that preventative diets of blueberries, spinach, and algae (specifically Spirulina) improved recovery after a stroke.5
Why aren't there more studies on how nutrition affects the body? Why hasn't the medical profession insisted on knowing more about the human body through basic research? Why are people so trusting that their chronic disease is going to be "cured" by the drugs of the pharmaceuticals? Why can't we trust the FDA to approve safe food and drugs? |
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| Jay Schauben, PharmD, director of the florida Poison Information Center in Jacksonville, says that mistakes like this are not unusual—but they're not always risk-free.
People who think that they may have taken the wrong medicine—or too high a dose—should immediately call the free National Poison Hotline, 800-222-1222. Callers are connected to the nearest poison center. Dr. Schauben notes that poison centers can resolve more than 80% of callers' questions over the phone.
Even better than treatment, of course, is preventing the problem in the first place. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Researchers at the University of florida also found that peanuts contain a high concentration of a polyphenol called p-coumaric acid. P-coumaric acid has been studied for its antioxidant abilities and its potential as an anticancer agent, though much more research is needed to determine the ideal dose. One research paper in the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology showed that p-coumaric acid worked as a powerful antioxidant in rats, significantly inhibiting the oxidation of their LDL ("bad") cholesterol. |
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| Bickford, PhD, professor of neurosurgery, University of South florida, and James A. Haley VA Hospital, both in Tampa.
Women's Health
Cervical Cancer Vaccine 100% Effective For Most Types
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first vaccine that protects against the human papillomavirus (HPV), known to cause most cervical cancers. The vaccine, Merck & Co.'s Gardasil, was approved for girls and women ages nine to 26. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will now decide whether to include the vaccine in routine vaccination schedules. |
David R. Montgomery
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 By 1908 the United States was the largest single producer of phosphate in the world, mining more than two and a half million tons from deposits in South Carolina, florida, and Tennessee. Almost half of U.S. phosphate production was exported, most of it to Europe.
By the First World War serious depletion of phosphorus was apparent in American soils.
For extensive areas in the South and East the phosphorus is so deficient that there is scarcely any attempt to taise a crop without the use of phosphate compounds as fertilizets. . . . |
| Rapa Nui (the native inhabitants' name for Easter Island) is located at the same latitude as central florida, but in the Southern Hemisphere. Continually swept by warm Pacific winds, the island consists of three ancient volcanoes occupying less than fifty square miles—a tropical paradise more than a thousand miles from the nearest inhabitable land. Such isolation meant that the island supported few native plants and animals when wayward Polynesians landed after paddling across the Pacific Ocean. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| The pool tournament was in Orlando, Florida; the film crew was there in Orlando, florida! But the Nightline piece said on their website and on the television that it was in Chicago. They can't even get their facts straight. 20/20 did a piece and said lie after lie after lie about me. They said I never sent them the report on the University of Calgary study on the combination of herbs that has been used in treating diabetes. The fact is that studies have been done on this combination of herbs (the FTC prohibits me from mentioning its trade name). |
| Every time he visits florida he goes right for the lobster, right for the crab and the shrimp. He always winds up getting sick in florida. I point out to him that his immune system is going to be suppressed by eating all the lobster, shrimp, and crab, but he never really thinks anything of it. It is obvious to me and everyone else, because every time he eats that stuff he always falls ill. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Vero Beach, florida, felt tormented and trapped in a brain that wouldn't think straight. She felt overcome by confusion, spaciness, and chaotic thoughts.
"Both my daughters knew when 'the brain fog' was hitting me, because I would get a dazed, glazed, 'out-there' look. It got to the point where I was losing my balance and I would have to go through my house holding on to furniture," she recalls.
Desperate for answers, Kate, then 53, went to her family physician. "I was afraid I was getting early-onset Alzheimer's, because both my parents suffered from this disease. |
| Illinois, Arizona, California, florida, and Wisconsin. The lawsuits alleged that the company's line of "Simply 100% Fruit" products was deceptive, because the products don't contain 100 percent fruit as billed and the main product component is fruit syrup from a variety of fruit sources. The cases—which eventually reached a nationwide class settlement—came soon after or around the time the watchdog consumer group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) publicly criticized the Orrville, Ohio-based company for misleading consumers. |
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| They expect to see blood squirting out of someone when they are shot," says coresearcher Kevin Kieffer, an assistant professor of psychology at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, florida.
THE RESEARCH
Kieffer and coresearcher Jessica Nicoll, also of Saint Leo, describe their review as an attempt to find recurrent "themes" in previous literature on the link between violent video games and aggression.
After looking at 16 studies of children younger than 18 years of age, all published between 1985 and 2004, Kieffer notes that three distinct trends emerged. |
Ann N. Martin
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 The Gainesville Sun in Gainesville, florida, ran a story in January 2000 on the Alachua County Animal Shelter where the employees actually had to deliver the euthanized animals to the rendering plant. According to the reporter, Paula Rausch, the employees had to "lift them off the truck and heave them into a pit exposing themselves to foul odors, putrid substances underfoot, and having to see the grinding go on."5 These duties were taking their toll on the staff at the shelter. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Dogwood
Cornus florida description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part is the dried bark. Fresh bark is also used occasionally.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers are sessile, small, greenish, and in clusters of 12 to 20 at the splayed end of a tough, 3-cm long stem. The bracts are white or pale reddish, ovate to long, and are longer than the inflorescence. The petals are about 4 mm long. The fruit is a scarlet berry.
Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is a deciduous shrub or a 4 to 9 m high tree, which is heavily branched and has a dark gray, thick, rough bark. |
| Nigg HN, Strandberg JO, Beier RC, Petersen HD, Harrison JM, Furanocoumarins in florida celery varieties increased by fungicide treatment. In: J Agricult Food Chem 45(4): 1430-1436. 1997.
Tsi D et al., Effects of aqueous celery (Apium graveolens) extract on lipid parameters of rats fed a high fat diet. In: PM 61(1): 18-21. 1995.
Uhlig, JW, Chang A, Jen JJ, Effect of phthalides on celery flavor. In: J Food Sci 52(3):658-660. 1987. |
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