Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Barring some major historical political event, I plan to avoid the temptation to comment on these topics and, instead, focus on bringing more positive, productive natural health information to as many people as possible.
In case you're wondering, no, I haven't been visited by men in black and threatened with a "tropical vacation" to Guantanamo Bay if I didn't censor my own work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So I started writing articles, and then books, and have been doing consulting in this area ever since, focusing on how the company and the customer communicate online, whether it's the website or it's email or it's a frequently asked questions document. My focus now is measuring the impact -- how do you measure the success of your web efforts and your email efforts?
Mike: And the main focus of your site Targeting.com, is the web metrics right?
Sterne: Targeting.com is all the different kinds of consulting that I do, but focused very specifically on measurement right now, yeah. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Depth of view is extremely limited at these ranges, so camera focus becomes critical (and there are no auto-focus professional-grade macro lenses, you have to do it manually). A lot of photos ended up being deleted because the focus was off, or the lens filter was dirty, or the exposure was wrong, etc. But if you stick with it -- and you have the right equipment -- you can snag some incredible shots of really tiny things.
When you're zoomed in that close on something, it's also easy to get lost in the topography of the object. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Vitamin D, Inflammation, and the Metabolic Syndrome
Our understanding of cardiovascular disease has recently shifted from a simple focus on lipids to a focus on inflammation. The weight of evidence now suggests that chronic low-grade inflammation and its effect on blood vessels are actually what cause arteriosclerosis (coronary heart disease). Furthermore, diet and fat cells are the sources of this inflammation, and clear links between inflammation and low vitamin D levels have been shown. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a public education campaign that CHEC is launching in May, and the Blue Butterfly Campaign will focus on five tips that are the most important things you could do in your home. They'll have a number of celebrity spokespeople talking about this, and it's a privilege for us to be able to participate in this program with them because it is completely focused on education.
Mike: Now, let's remind everyone why it is important to focus on clean homes, especially with children.
Hollender: Children are so much more susceptible to these toxins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Smith: Some of them focus on strength training with weights, some of them focus on yoga and Pilates, and then some of them are focusing on the cardio -- whether it's step aerobics or whether it's doing Latin dancing -- but just the cardio. And my big philosophy that I've always followed is mix things up; have fun with it. Find something that you're really passionate about.
People ask me all the time, "What should I do?" And I throw it back to them and say, "Well, what do you like to do? |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Try to set aside five minutes three times a day to close your door, turn off the phone, and just focus on inhalation and exhalation. Some people accomplish this best when they are naturally sequestered; for instance, in a car or on the toilet. Try the following technique:
• Put your hand under your belly button and focus on moving your breath down through your belly rather than up through your chest.
• Breathe in through your nose for a count of four.
• Hold for a count of three.
• Exhale through your mouth for a count of four. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That was my focus. There are, I don't know, about 30 million people in the New York area. The focus was to think globally, act locally, so my focus was to start here. But in New York, you go anywhere -- we give out these red bags to people at each weekend -- and whenever I'm out on the street, I see people carrying these red bags. It's kind of a phenomenon here.
We have graduates in many yoga studios, health spas, doctor's offices and government offices. We have people working in Whole Foods, and mainstream corporations. Just this week I got a call from a woman from a major food corporation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Smith: Some of them focus on strength training with weights, some of them focus on yoga and Pilates, and then some of them are focusing on the cardio -- whether it's step aerobics or whether it's doing Latin dancing -- but just the cardio. And my big philosophy that I've always followed is mix things up; have fun with it. Find something that you're really passionate about.
People ask me all the time, "What should I do?" And I throw it back to them and say, "Well, what do you like to do? |
David R. Montgomery
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 Oddly, we are paying industrial farmers to practice unsustainable agriculture that undercuts the ability of the poor to feed themselves—the only possible solution to global hunger Political systems perpetually focused on the crisis du jour rarely address chronic problems like soil erosion; yet, if our society is to survive for the long haul, our political institutions need to focus on land stewardship as a mainstream—and critical—issue. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Professor Richard Lewontin, professor of genetics, Harvard University
SECTION 3:
The protein produced by the inserted gene may create problems
Many safety assessments focus solely on the health implications of the GM protein created by the transgene and ignore the potential for widespread damage in the DNA, presented in the previous section. Even if we limit our focus to the narrow evaluation of these single proteins, however, there are significant health risks.
T n trying to build a better soybean the company had made a potentially deadly one. "2
—Washington Post
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James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Vitamin D, Inflammation, and the Metabolic Syndrome
Our understanding of cardiovascular disease has recently shifted from a simple focus on lipids to a focus on inflammation. The weight of evidence now suggests that chronic low-grade inflammation and its effect on blood vessels are actually what cause arteriosclerosis (coronary heart disease). Furthermore, diet and fat cells are the sources of this inflammation, and clear links between inflammation and low vitamin D levels have been shown. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 That is why a mantra is sometimes used, as a meaningless phrase you can focus on. You can also focus on your breath?practise Controlled Pattern Breathing—concentrate on an object, or play a soothing tape to induce a meditative state. Guided meditation tapes are readily available from many alternative therapy outlets and stores.
MEDITATION AND ASTEIMA
Stress is a known cause of asthma and meditation is a self-help way to ease stress, thus preventing asthma. |
Elaine Magee
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 I admit that making these changes can be daunting, but if you focus on the health aspects, you'll be in a better place psychologically to maintain better eating habits and remain physically active. One of my nutritional mot-tos is "Eat and exercise for the health of it. . . and let the pounds fall where they may." Instead of focusing on numbers on the scale, turn your attention to the joy of living healthy because it's just plain good for you in both the short and long term.
Don't sweat a few extra pounds, either. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 My passions focus on areas that include disease prevention through nutrition, green living, renewable energy, consumer safety, animal welfare and more. For the past four years, my efforts have focused primarily on education, grassroots activism and content creation. Today, I'm expanding the scope of these efforts with the launch of two new for-profit entities that aim to deliver practical yet innovative products that help people live healthier, more sustainable lives in harmony with our planet.
The two companies are:
EcoLEDs (www.EcoLEDS. |
Bill Sardi
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 J Steroid Biochemical Molecular Biology 44: 147-53, 1993]
Widespread hea benefits of flaxseed and lignans
While the focus of this report centers on breast cancer, the health benefits of lignans are not confined to breast or prostate tissue.
Flax lignans and heart disease
In a recently published study conducted in Finland, high circulating levels of lignans were associated with reduced coronary heart disease and mortality from heart disease in middle aged men. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet to focus to closely on the 6% is to ignore the greater lesson from the other 94%.
The polio story was not unusual.
A careful study of historical demography teaches us two things— both quite important for this book—which seem completely counterintuitive. First, modern medicine has had little to do with the control of deadly infectious diseases, such as typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.. According to two prominent medical sociologists: "3. |
Jack Challem
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 Gaining better mental focus and having more energy will likely be among the first improvements you'll notice. In fact, you may feel better than you have in years. Recovering your health is a powerful motivator for staying healthy.
To keep on track, be mindful of what you eat and develop a personal discipline or a routine that governs what you choose to eat and not to eat. Being mindful means to be "in the moment" and also to be aware of potential consequences of your actions. |
Bill Sardi
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| So pharma companies, quite naturally, don't concentrate on solving the problem of metastasis (the thing that kills people); they focus on devising drugs that shrink tumors (the things that don't).
While it is true, 64% of cancer patients today have a 5-year survival, that doesn't mean survival can be attributed to treatment. For example, a recent review of chemotherapy employed for 22 different types of cancer found that chemotherapy is attributed to only 2.3% of the cancer patients who survived five years or more. |
| The potential of these herbal remedies to prevent bone loss, heart disease, menopausal symptoms and breast cancer has been a focus of attention since hormone replacement therapy has gone out of vogue.
Much more is said about the role of anti-estrogens, or plant phytoestrogens, in the section in this book on breast cancer. These herbal remedies will be addressed as a group in this chapter.
There are many herbs that have mild estrogen-like activity, including rosemary, licorice, red clover, flaxseed, soy, coffee, kudzu, black cohosh, onions and grapes. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Its focus," said Fran, "on the whole population, rather than the individual, is fundamentally different." After a moment she added: "In public health, an effect of five deaths per thousand is, and should be, quite significant. But the practicing physician sees one patient at a time. So it's yes or no, rather than a probability equation."
We decided that public health was outside of standard MD medicine and therefore would remain even as medicine disappeared.
The problem of what stays and what disappears is perhaps not as difficult as we first thought. Our criterion of success is mortality. |
Bill Sardi
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| Presently, the focus of age-related antioxidant research is on compounds, such as coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, and the glutathione-precursors like N-acetylcysteine, which may be able to neutralize undesirable reactive oxygen species at their sites of production in the mitochondria." [Ann NY Acad Sci 959:508-16, 2002]
The Mitochondria and coenzyme Q10 get overlooked
A key mitochondrial antioxidant produced naturally in the body which can be taken in supplemental form is coenzyme Q10. CoQIO is essential for the transport of electrons inside the mitochondria. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| WHY WE DIE
Given our focus on mortality, it is appropriate to begin with an examination of why we die. We all know the litany. The leading cause of death in 2000 was heart disease (30%),10 followed by cancer (23%) and strokes (7%).11 The public assumes without question that medical intervention is effective in diagnosing and treating these diseases—and that as a result we live longer. In the chapters that follow, we'll cast considerable doubt on these assumptions and suggest the way that we look at illness and health is wrongheaded. Which leads us to... |
Bill Sardi
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| Since, for the most part, treatment doesn't appear to be much better than watchful waiting, most patients who elect to undergo treatment usually focus on the potential for side effects.
When men sign a consent form for treatment, the form mentions the risk for side effects, such as impotence and loss of urinary control, but few consent forms say how often these problems occur. Studies indicate the incidence of side ef-
Email from a man with prostate cancer
"My main concern is still that this cancer, even though it is classified as encapsulated, could migrate to other parts of the body. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| We might just be healthier and live longer if we didn't focus on all those signs."
"And false positive from screening cause needless stress. So screening indirectly contributes to ill health," I added.
"And don't forget screening's direct effect on mortality and morbidity from iatrogenesis," she said, having, as usual, the final word.
Thus, the chapter's central question: What if there were no more routine office visits for a variety of maladies, or for complete physical examinations with all its screening procedures? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The effects reported here focus on these components and not necessarily Goldenseal in its raw form.
Berberine's broad-spectrum antibiotic activity, as well as its anti-infective and immune-enhancing properties, make it a popular recommendation for virtually all types of infections involving the upper respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract (particularly infectious diarrhea), and genitourinary tract. Goldenseal is also helpful in cirrhosis of the liver, and as an adjunct to standard cancer therapy. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Thus, does the sign become the focus of attention, the disease, if there is one, being invisible.
Third, there is a clear dichotomy between the mind and the body. Diseases are located in the body and caused by germ or virus or toxin or gene. Treatment involves intervening in or with body functions, or in aiding the body (as with antibiotics) to fend off disease. Even so-called mental illnesses are claimed to have an anatomical, physiological, or genetic basis; this last explanation is in current vogue because of advances in DNA analysis. |
Bill Sardi
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| For these reasons, scientists have placed a greater focus on alpha-tocopherol.
But Friedrich writes that cancer researchers have begun to pay closer attention to gamma-tocopherol, in particular, mainly because studies with alpha tocopherol have been inconsistent. This may be due to the problems of dietary intake reporting by patients, but studies where supplements have been used in humans have also been inconsistent.
Friedrich asks the question: could alpha-tocopherol be more effective when paired with the gamma compound? Some studies with other forms of cancer appear to confirm this theory. |
Mark Lynas
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 All these concerns focus on the climatic 'envelope' that species inhabit, and this also provides the approach for what may well turn out to be one of the most important scientific papers ever written. In a study published in Nature in 2004, the ecologist Chris Thomas and more than a dozen other experts revealed that according to their models over a third of all species would be 'committed to extinction' by the time global temperatures reached two degrees in
2050. 'Well over a million species could be threatened with extinction as a result of climate change,' Thomas told the press. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: The mucous membrane-irritating saponine effect of the drug is the chief focus in cases of poisoning. Symptoms include scratchy feeling in mouth and throat, salivation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, shortness of breath, possible spasm and asphyxiation. Disorders of cardiac function (cardiac arrhythmias) are to be expected with large intakes of the rhizome of Helleborus viridis. Poisonings are recorded among the animals that feed on the plant. |
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