Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Nearly one in four teens ... say their own parents have supplied them with alcohol ..."55
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Did You Know?
Alcohol Is a Drug!
If not treated as such, its effects can lead to:
1. Cancer caused by permanent damage to vital organs
2. Gastrointestinal illness, irritation or ulcers
3. Chronic Candida or yeast overgrowth
4. Sexual dysfunction
5. An overworked immune system
6. Liver disease
7. Malnutrition
8. Depression and anxiety
The liver processes 95% of the alcohol you consume. |
Bill Sardi
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 There you have it - an American culture that only pretends to implement smoking cessation programs while preying upon youth who are moving away from parental authority and into the age of influence as they enter their teens. All that counts is making money off these kids.
The tobacco industry
*// we had any thought or knowledge that in any way we were selling a product harmful to consumers, we would stop business tomorrow." Source: George Weissman, president, Philip Morris, 1954
" There is not one shred of conclusive evidence to support the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. |
Charles Barber
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 Nine percent of American teens have been prescribed drugs for depression.16
• The products are not limited to adults, and not even to humans. In 2002, n million antidepressant prescriptions were written for American children and adolescents.17 Before 1990, outside of the occasional use of Ritalin, the medicating of kids was just about taboo. Clomicalm (known as Anafranil when taken by humans) is approved by the FDA for separation anxiety for dogs. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 This water-resistant formula is better for teens and adults than babies.
COSMEDICINE (skin care only) cosmedicine at-a-glance
Strengths: Some fragrance-free options; state-of-the-art serums and moisturizers; every sunscreen includes avobenzone for reliable UVA protection. |
| This is a lot of money for a lot of flaky shine, but it is eyecatching, and the teens I observed in the bare escentuals store were all abuzz over this kit.
EYE AND BROW SHAPER: © bareMinerals Brow Powder ($11) is loose powder for the brows that comes in six suitable colors, though this is an incredibly untidy way to shape and define your brows. Why anyone would choose this over a pressed matte brow powder (or eyeshadow) or even a good, standard brow pencil is a mystery. In addition, all of the colors have a subtle shine. |
| Still, teens and twenty-somethings will find this a fun departure, and it does last. © Eye Liner ($6.39) is a very good, automatic, retractable pencil with a smooth application that is only slightly prone to smudging. It won't outlast the gel-based eyeliners from Stila, Bobbi Brown, and Paula's Choice, but is a worthy contender if you prefer pencils. As claimed, this pencil is waterproof. In fact, it requires an oil- or silicone-based makeup remover to get it to come off completely.
© Brow Defining Pencil ($7.49) is ultra-thin and does not require sharpening. |
Paula Begoun
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 Their latest collection is Headcase, and it is a kicky, slightly irreverent line of styling products aimed at preteens and teens. However, adults looking for remarkable products would be remiss to let this inexpensive line sit on the shelves. Most of the products perform admirably, and the formulations contain ingredients touted by many expensive lines that use them in much smaller amounts than Conair. If you can get past the edgy names, you'll find some of the best all-around styling products that are available at the drugstore. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Soft Drinks Undermining Americans' Health: teens Consuming Twice as Much 'Liquid Candy' as Milk." News release, October 21, 1998. http://www.cspinet.org/new/soda_10_21_98.htm. -. "Statement of CSPI Nutrition Policy Director Margo Wootan on the Findings of 'From Wallet to Waistline.'" http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/margo_w2w_statement.pdf. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "National Agenda for Public Health Action: A National
Public Health Initiative on Diabetes and Women's Health." http://www.cdc.gov/DIABETES/ pubs/action/facts.htm.
-. National Center for Health Statistics. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 In fact, one study looked at the degree of self-discipline children had at age 4 as measured by delaying gratification and found it predicted the degree to which those young children got along with other teens when they became teens themselves.90
It should not be surprising, in view of all the other relationships, that those with more self-discipline also have numerous psychological benefits. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Many of the young women whose babies she took care of were single teens who often ran into hard times. Lee regularly took foster kids into her home and was well known for the indefatigable vigor with which she, as she terms it figuratively, "beat up on teen moms so they would get their lives together and take care of their kids." Often, she succeeded. But once in a while there would be a mom who couldn't overcome her drug habit, and Lee would adopt that baby into her own family. Lee's family eventually expanded to eight boys and two girls. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Once they are in their late teens they can exchange anxiety for beliefs, let go of drugs and alcohol, and flee into the realm of ideas. Once we view beliefs as part of evolutionary brain processes, it all begins to make sense. It is why obsessive thoughts are way stations to more bizarre problems of psychosis. It is all part of a continuum of using ideas to quell pain. Psychosis is the last station on this journey. It is difficult to tell the difference sometimes: "If I hang this amulet around my neck, no harm can come to me." Is that an obsession or psychotic ideation? |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Most people who have progeria die in their teens of a heart attack or a stroke; nobody is known to have lived past thirty.
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria isn't the only disease that causes accelerated aging—it's just the most heartbreaking, because it's the fastest, and it starts at birth. Another aging disorder, Werner syndrome, doesn't manifest itself until someone carrying the mutation that causes it reaches puberty; it's sometimes called adult-onset progeria. After puberty, rapid aging sets in, and people who have Werner syndrome usually die of age-related disease by their early fifties. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 It is also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), or adult-onset diabetes, but this latter term is less used today, as the number of children and teens afflicted rises year by year.
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Medications administered to type 2 diabetics have strong potential to cause nutrient depletion, as you'll see. What's more, these depletions have been found to increase the risk of two of the major complications of the disease—heart disease and stroke. |
| Exercise, calcium/magnesium/vitamin D, and a good diet are crucial in the teens and early twenties. Drinking soda pop can deplete calcium by introducing too much phosphorus into the body.
SULFASALAZINE
Sulfasalazine (Azulfidine, Azulfidine EN-tabs) is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis.
Action: It acts as an anti-inflammatory in both ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis by reducing pro-inflammatory, hormone-like messengers called prostaglandins.
Side effects: Side effects include headache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. |
| Almost one out of three children and teens is considered overweight, and according to the American Obesity Association, 15 percent are frankly obese. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the number of diabetics worldwide will balloon to 300 million by 2025. And, according to the American Diabetes Association, about a third of people with diabetes don't know they have it—until symptoms become so severe that they can't ignore them any longer.
As you may already know, type 2 diabetes is a high-maintenance disease. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 In 2003, we were able to screen approximately 14,200 teens at these sites; among those students, we were able to identify approximately 3,500 youth with mental health problems and link them with treatment." And, apparently beaming with pride over the numbers of children they have been able to identify and "treat," Flynn further laid out for Congress the program's future dreams: "This year, we believe we will be able to identify close to 10,000 teens in need, a 300 percent increase over last year." |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Even women and men in their teens and twenties have been found to suffer from estrogen dominance that stems from environmental exposure. The symptoms include weight gain, PMS, fibrocystic breasts, bloating, troublesome periods, infertility, endometriosis, depression, and mood swings.
Xenoestrogens
Xeno literally means foreign; therefore, xenoestrogens are foreign estrogens. In addition to being highly estrogenic, xenoestrogens are fat soluble and nonbiodegradable. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| And the absurdity of the mental health screening initiative is made even more clear by TeenScreen guru Shaffer when he reports in his own 2004 study: "The CSS' positive predictive value of 16 percent (determined by a weighted prevalence of DISC positive in the sample) would result in 84 non-suicidal teens being referred for further evaluation for every 16 youths correctly identified." 20
Since when does an 84 percent failure rate equate to a reliable scientific test? |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Paint has faded from houses, sidewalks are cracked, office windows are smudged, and roads can have more potholes than teens have zits. It's the price you pay for actually having people live in, use, and enjoy the city. But you also ask: Where are the repair people?
The more often a city's infrastructure gets used, the more likely it is that it's not going to be able to absorb every bit of shock, trauma, and damage that it was designed to withstand (see Figure M.l). If it's worn down, then likely its use outstripped the ability of the city to maintain it. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| A divorced father, who left his family when the daughter was 6 years old and the son 8 years old, came back into the family's life when the children were in their late teens. He was hoping to make up for lost time. It was not to be. Their rapport was seriously ruptured, their pain of the loss deeply ingrained. In order to overcome the blockage of the earlier pain, the children have to go back to the time of abandonment, feel its hurt, beg Daddy not to leave, and then at the point maybe they can accept their father a little better into the family. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 A popular choice among teens and preteens are soft drinks. Drinking just one regular soft drink a day can add up to fifteen extra pounds of weight a year—and most American teens drink more than one soft drink a day.
Teenagers require moderate amounts of protein and dietary fiber, adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals, and restricted amounts of fats, salt, and sugar. Calcium is essential for their rapidly growing bones. The optimum daily intake is 1,200 milligrams. Zinc is vital for overall health and growth. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Drug companies enjoy margins that hover in the mid to high teens, a far cry from the 7 percent profit seen on average by companies in the Fortune coo. In 2002, Pfizer, the
Less Is More
295 world's biggest drug company, reported a 28.4 percent return on sales. That was two and a half times better than the 10.7 percent return of General Electric, which is ranked as America's best-managed company. It was nearly nine times better than the 3.3 percent return of Wal-Mart, America's most efficient retailer. |
| Even young women in their late teens and early twenties were being given hysterectomies, which left them unable to have children. Doctors were excising prostates mostly in older men who had developed benign prostatic hyperplasia, a condition in which the gland swells and can press on the urethra enough to make urination slow and difficult.
The two procedures clearly helped some patients, just as tonsillectomies are necessary for a few kids, but there was, and still is, little agreement among physicians about when patients really needed to have their reproductive parts removed. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Their silicosis is already advanced when they are still in their teens.21
As important as it is to see the larger societal and even global picture of regulation and public policy, also critical is the appreciation of another reality that can be discerned only at a finet level of resolution, in which one can actually make out the faces of the individuals involved. One element is invariably missing from a story such as the one told in these pages: a full and consistent retelling of the experience of industrial disease and environmental illness in the victims' own words. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 ASPS sufferers tend to be elderly, while people with DSPS are often in their teens or early twenties.
Dr. Lewy has successfully treated both advanced and delayed sleep phase syndromes with a combination of light therapy and low-dose melatonin supplements.6' People with ASPS can undergo light therapy in the early evening, when the body is just about to start its melatonin production. The light will delay melatonin buildup and keep the person awake. Then, upon awakening in the early morning, the person would take 0.5 mg of melatonin to promote melatonin secretion in the predawn darkness. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 In children age 1-6, 17% are deficient in Protein; in those age 7-9,33%; in those age 10-12,27%; in male teens 43%; female teens 53%; in those ages 4-20, 50%. Over one-third of women and men over age 60 are deficient in essential assimilable Protein.
Protein SOURCES: Spirulina* (*low Calorie, high Protein), Pollen, Nutritional Yeast, Sea Vegetables; Nuts, Seeds, and Beans/legumes combined with Cereal/ grains, Sprouts, Kelp*, Triphala*, small amounts of high-grade Proteins in vegetable foods, Wheat Germ, Olives, and Avocados. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| Is it really a "fact" that 750,000 teens are depressed? How long are they depressed and why. And, who makes the subjective diagnosis?
Flynn did not provide Congress with any objective, confirmable proof that depression is an abnormality of the brain, nor did she provide objective, confirmable proof that the "treatments"—mind-altering drugs—target a specific depression center in the brain. Yet, the TeenScreen advocate says it's a "fact" that so many hundreds-of-thousands of children are depressed. Ugh! |
Bottom Line Health
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| THE STUDY
In the study, researchers recruited eight men and eight women in their late teens and 20s, and adjusted their body clocks so they would sleep from 10 am to 6 pm, as if they were working late shifts.
Different colors of light can be used to change your alertness level, but blue light is better.
Steven Lockley, PhD
The researchers then attached brain-monitoring devices to the subjects and had them sit in front of specially designed blue or green lights for 6.5 hours without a break. The subjects were not allowed to do anything except sit and stay awake during the experiments. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Since his teens he had been on approximately 20 units of insulin per day. In four days on the Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program, he was off all insulin and in two weeks, his blood sugar was below 85. All symptoms disappeared, and he is in perfect health and diabetes-free two years later. As of nearly two years later, his HgbAlc is 6.0, down from his intitial HgbAlc of 11.8.
These three cases of Type-l diabetes experienced what is considered medically impossible. |
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