Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Thus, the growing problem of obesity lies with the "growing disparities in income and wealth, [and the] declining value of the minimum wage" Evidence is emerging "that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.30
Recall our discussion from chapter 5 of statins, the drug of choice in preventing heart attacks. According to one meta-analysis that we reviewed, statins reduced heart attacks and strokes by 1.4% compared with the control. In other words, about 71 patients would need to be treated for 3 to 5 years to prevent one such event. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 However, there's a growing buzz about saw palmetto—it's beginning to get a reputation as being very good for clearing up acne. Though as of this writing there aren't any solid research studies on acne and saw palmetto, there's quite a lot of anecdotal evidence from a growing number of people who've had good luck with it. To understand why saw palmetto is getting so much attention as a possible treatment for acne, you need to understand a bit about what causes acne in the first place.
Two events conspire to create or aggravate most forms of acne. One is blockage, two is infection. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Look at the weeds in your yard, the bushes, trees and plants growing in the fields and forests nearby. Those are your medicines. Look at the foods growing out of the ground: The nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits. These are your nourishment. Mother Nature provides all the medicine we need to slash cancer rates by 90%, and she doesn't charge a dime in royalties or patent fees. She keeps on giving, generation after generation, hoping that one day a race of human beings will walk this planet with the humility to listen to her. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That is growing at, what, about 20 percent a year or something?
Ronnie: growing at 20 percent a year, whereas conventional food sales tend to grow about 2 percent a year. This 20 percent-a-year growth has been steady ever since 1991. It appears that it will continue through the end of this decade, so by then most food sold in grocery stores will have a label that says 'natural' or 'organic'.
The question is: If we let these gigantic corporations like Horizon and Wal-Mart take over the industry, will it really be organic? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, growing your own is free. And I always recommend growing and harvesting your own herbs any time you can. Fresh mint is better than dried mint. Fresh peaches are far more delicious than canned peaches, and fresh aloe vera is superior to dried aloe, even low-temperature dried aloe. So if you can grow it, I encourage you to do that first. If you can't, then get the gel powder. It's my top choice for an aloe vera supplement.
Resources:
Good Cause Wellness: www.GoodCauseWellness. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Thus, the growing problem of obesity lies with the "growing disparities in income and wealth, [and the] declining value of the minimum wage" Evidence is emerging "that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.30
Recall our discussion from chapter 5 of statins, the drug of choice in preventing heart attacks. According to one meta-analysis that we reviewed, statins reduced heart attacks and strokes by 1.4% compared with the control. In other words, about 71 patients would need to be treated for 3 to 5 years to prevent one such event. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're growing as well as we're growing. We're out of the woods. The company is financially stable. Even though the industry is still growing, we find that everybody is copying everyone else. So, we're way ahead of the curve.
Mike: This is one of the industry's well-kept secrets. It is never going to be front-page news. It is never going to be on the shelf at the regular grocery store.
Newman: I would never do that anyway, because my pet food retailers have been the ones to help me grow. I would never undersell them by selling to PetSmart, PETCO or a grocery store chain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: With the popularity of "The Secret" rapidly growing in the United States and around the world, there's growing interest in finding ways to maximize results while using the power of intention and Law of Attraction. Few people really know one of the most important secrets to making "The Secret" work: Establishing the right nutrition and dietary habits that clear your nervous system and allow intention to flow. In this article, I'll share some of the best nutritional secrets about The Secret, covering:
1) Foods and substances that interfere with the power of your intention. |
Mark Lynas
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 First millions, then billions of people will face an increasingly tough battle to survive as rising temperatures make growing sufficient food an ever more difficult task.
Silent summer
Most readers will by now have concluded that two degrees of global warming is likely to be survivable - barring any unpleasant surprises - for the majority of humanity. I agree.
The same cannot be said, unfortunately, for a large swathe of natural biodiversity: the plants and animals that share this planet with us. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine," he says.
Miller points out that Japanese consumption of iodine through seaweed is many, many times that of the United States, and that the health comparisons between the two countries are disturbing. He suggests that iodine consumption may be one of the many reasons why the incidence of breast cancer is so high in the United States and so low in Japan. |
| John's Wort is actually a perennial herb with many flowers that can be found growing wild in much of the world (the word "wort" just means plant). It's got a long and honorable history of use, probably dating back to the ancient Greeks, who believed that the fragrance of St. John's Wort caused evil spirits to simply fly, fly away. (Okay, maybe these days, not so much.) But it does have a 2,400-year history of folk use for everything from anxiety to sleep disturbances. St. John's Wort was officially recognized as an antidepressant drug in Germany in 1998, is
''''Natural medications such as St. |
| I—and a growing body of nutritionists and doctors and health professionals—think that's way too low. Oh, I'm being polite. We think it's ridiculous. The current (paltry) levels of vitamin D recommendations are based mostly on vitamin D's effects on bone health.
But as Denise Houston, Ph.D., observes, "higher amounts of vitamin D may be needed for the preservation of muscle strength and physical function as well as other conditions such as cancer prevention." Movement is underfoot to raise the "recommended" level to 1,000 IU, which would be more like it. |
| Add to that the increased knee replacement surgeries (more than 300,000 each year), visits to orthopedists for generalized back and muscle discomfort, and you're looking at a rapidly growing epidemic of the stiff, the sore, and the achy. And baby boomers, like my hiking buddy, are not only living longer, they're not going to take a life of inactivity sitting down (pun intended).
So how do we help alleviate the discomfort that comes with our weekend warrior lives and our rapidly degenerating joints?
Enter MSM. |
| Though as of this writing there aren't any solid research studies on acne and saw palmetto, there's quite a lot of anecdotal evidence from a growing number of people who've had good luck with it. To understand why saw palmetto is getting so much attention as a possible treatment for acne, you need to understand a bit about what causes acne in the first place.
Two events conspire to create or aggravate most forms of acne. One is blockage, two is infection. Here's how it works: Keratin is a fibrous protein that's the main component of the outermost layer of the skin. |
Mark Lynas
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| Only a few farmers remained nearby, eking out a living from the poor soils by growing stunted maize and beans. As excavating work continued, it gradually dawned on archaeologists that something dramatic and terrible had happened to the Maya, something which had precipitated the collapse of their entire civilisation almost overnight.
That something, it turned out, was drought. Most of the Mayan areas are underlain by limestone, which retains little water in times of low rainfall. |
Anne Harrington
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 Postwar anxieties in America about the cost of prosperity on our emotional and physical well-being helped catalyze further uses of this narrative, especially through the growing focus on a tragic (yet, paradoxically, rather admired) victim of modern capitalist society: the Type A personality. The greatest risk for such personalities was heart disease, it was believed, and the effects of stress on the heart remained a focus of research into the 1970s. At the same time, these years also saw the rise of a new frontline response to the stress epidemic. |
Mark Lynas
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| Indeed, the region is now so cold that most of it is completely barren, with just a few areas of herby tundra clinging on in sheltered spots which are watered in the short summer growing season by melting snow. During the Pliocene, clearly, both the Antarctic and the Arctic were much warmer than they are today. just how much warmer is indicated by plant and insect remains that have been recovered from an early Pliocene peat deposit on Ellesmere Island, in the far north of Canada. |
Anne Harrington
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| All this anxious talk about convulsions and their multiple dangers came at a time of growing anxiety (not unwarranted) among the upper classes of European society about stresses, strains, and—possibly—convulsions in the body politic. Increasingly anything that might inflame popular passions came under scrutiny. These were years that saw, among other things, the first efforts to outlaw or restrict blood sports like bear baiting and to abolish the public executions that were increasingly felt to increase rather than reduce crime (they were abolished in France in 1780 and in England in 1783). |
Andreas Moritz
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 But then we need sickness to keep the economy growing.
Vaccination No longer Makes Any Sense
Or did it ever? The much-acclaimed benefits of the latest vaccine against Hib meningitis also seem to be unfounded. In a pro-vaccine study published in 1993 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the children in the control group who didn't receive the vaccine also experienced a drastic reduction in the cases of Hib infection—from 99.3 to 68.5 per 100,000. |
| Instead, it tries everything in its power to keep this most profitable business in the world growing.
David Walker, who is the nation's top accountant—the comptroller general of the United States— said the following about the new Medicare plan. "The prescription drug bill was probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s." He perceives it as the most powerful force driving the United States toward bankruptcy. With one stroke of the pen, Walker says, the federal government increased existing Medicare obligations nearly 40 percent over the next 75 years. |
Anne Harrington
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| A growing number of middle-class Americans were holding what began to be called "white-collar" jobs, working as corporate middle managers, office workers, salespeople, service employees, and teachers. Automobile production quadrupled annually between 1945 and 1955. Low mortgage rates (designed particularly to make home ownership affordable for returning serviceman) fueled a housing boom. Many of the houses in question were built in the new suburbs, where they encouraged a lifestyle organized around the nuclear family and material comfort. |
| But the increasingly secular sensibilities of the time combined with the growing hostility of the civic authorities toward the Church to make Gassner's very successes the cause of his undoing. The medical profession complained; the local authorities complained; and in 1774, by order of Prince Max Joseph of Bavaria, a commission was set up to investigate all these goings-on. One of the experts invited to assist in the investigation was a young physician named Franz Anton Mesmer. |
| The immediate cause seems to lie instead in a growing sense of unease with the so-called magnetic convulsions of mesmerism. Prior to Mesmer, the ability to provoke convulsions on command had been one of the most common ways an exorcist flushed out a demon and demonstrated his control over it. And although Mesmer, in his initial secularization of the possession ritual, denied convulsions their theological meaning, he never denied their importance. For him, they remained the climax of the healing drama; in this he was in accord with the exorcists. |
Mark Lynas
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| In Finland, the growing season increases by up to two months.
It is unlikely, however, that major new areas of farmland can be opened up: most of the Arctic is rocky and acidic, with only thin soils. Some areas of formerly frozen bogland may dry out and be available for ploughing - but this would come at the expense of enormous carbon emissions from the decomposing peat. In a region where the predictable cycles of the seasons will have long since disappeared, this may not be the only surprise lurking just around the corner. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Bones are most susceptible to low vitamin D levels when the bones are growing rapidly. With severe deficiency, the arms and legs become bowed—this is called rickets. Rickets can also result in delayed closure of the soft spots (fontanels) of the skull in infants. In very severe cases, low levels of blood calcium affect the nerves and seizures may result.
Deficiency Risk Factors
Breast-fed infants not exposed to sunlight.
The elderly have less ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin. Institutionalized people of all ages. People with dark skin. People who live in cold climates. |
Bill Sardi
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 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 15: 406-07, 2006] Studies like these contribute to the growing body of pseudoscience being published to disparage nutritional approaches to cancer prevention.
Omega-6 oil, such as provided in corn and safflower oil, is known to enhance the growth of tumor cells, whereas omega-3 oils, such as from fish or flaxseed oil, has the opposite effect. This has also been found specifically for colon cancer. [Pharmacotherapy 83: 217-44, 1999]
Omega-3 oils have been shown to inhibit colon cancer, but dietary intake or low-dose supplements may have little effect. |
| WebMD March 28, 2006
Because prostate cancer is usually slow growing and remains within the prostate gland, it takes over a decade to ascertain whether treatment like this is effective. So far, no one knows. But that isn't how the medical center describes it.
The medical center where the proton beam treatment is provided says, "// may now be possible to successfully treat prostate cancer without the risk of life style changes and activity-diminishing side effects commonly associated with conventional radiation or surgery. |
| Cochrane Database System Review Oct, 18, 2006 CD 001877]
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The idea is, if breast tumors are growing for 8-10 years before detection, that mammograms in younger age groups should produce earlier detection and reduce mortality rates. One problem is that radiation from mammography increases the risk for death from breast cancer so that the advantages of screening in younger women are offset by the increased risk of radiation-induced cancer. [Journal Medical Screening 5: 81-87, 1998]
The promotion of mammography screening began in 1972. |
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