James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Where we differ from mainstream doctors is that we believe nonemergency conditions and most chronic health problems should be dealt with by using holistic therapies, whenever possible. They provide a nontoxic way for the body to heal itself, without the risks incurred from the use of suppressive or damaging pharmaceutical agents. By relying on natural therapies as the basis of therapy, we can add conventional treatment if needed, depending on the severity and the response of the patient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In his analysis, Lundborg controlled for health problems among all participants and found health problems were not the only cause of smokers' absenteeism. "I found that health problems accounted for about two days and something," said Lundborg. "The remaining eight days are probably explained by something other than health. There are a number of possible explanations for the difference," he said, "There might be personal characteristics that we can't observe."
Likewise, Conway and fellow researchers in a study of women in the U.S. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| The disorder can lead to very serious conditions, including stroke, heart disease, diabetes, eye damage, and kidney problems, so it is considered one of the country's leading health problems.
Sometimes there are symptoms of high blood pressure. You may have unexplained headaches, nosebleeds, or spells of dizziness or sweating. |
| People with anxiety disorders are vulnerable to the same health problems as anyone else with prolonged anxiety. They may also experience extreme states of nervousness and worry, called panic attacks. During a panic attack, the heart pounds and breathing becomes rapid or difficult. Sufferers may break into a cold sweat, experience tingling in the extremities, or feel dizzy and weak. Although panic attacks rarely last long—they can take anywhere frorp a few seconds to half an hour—they are quite frightening. |
| The effects of anxiety can also rr)ake any existing health problems much worse.
Sometimes people feel the symptoms of anxiety even when they're not facing a serious challenge or danger. Anxiety disorder is the name given to an excessive amount of worry that lasts longer than six months. What's excessive? Any nervous response that's out of proportion to its cause. A new job or a serious illness should naturally produce more anxiety than, say, planning a party. |
| Milk products lead to other health problems as well, so don't rely on them as a source of calcium. Unsweetened, cultured yogurt is an exception.
Super Seven Prescriptions—Osteoporosis
Super Prescription #1 Calcium
Take 500 to 600 mg twice daily in divided doses of well-absorbed calcium complexes, such as citrate, citrate-malate, chelate, or hydroxyappatite. Calcium is the main mineral that composes bone.
Super Prescription #2 Magnesium
Take 250 to 350 mg twice daily in divided doses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In his analysis, Lundborg controlled for health problems among all participants and found health problems were not the only cause of smokers' absenteeism. "I found that health problems accounted for about two days and something," said Lundborg. "The remaining eight days are probably explained by something other than health. There are a number of possible explanations for the difference," he said, "There might be personal characteristics that we can't observe."
Likewise, Conway and fellow researchers in a study of women in the U.S. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Packaged and processed foods are the Western diet, so stay away from them. A ow potassium intake, increases your likelihood
Detoxification
The buildup of heavy metals in the arteries can also cause damage and diminished blood flow. If you have heart disease, consider chelation therapy, either oral or intravenous, to encourage the excretion of these toxic substances.
Super Seven Prescriptions—Cardiovascular Disease
Super Prescription #1 High-potency multivitamin
Take as directed on the container. It provides a base of the many nutrients and antioxidants that promote cardiovascular health. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Insulin Resistance/Metabolic Syndrome
The October 2004 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition published two articles about common health problems related to low magnesium levels. Add that to the existing pool we've been collecting, and I'm ready to tell you how to use this simple nutrient to protect yourself from one of our epidemic health problems: keeping your blood sugar levels in check. Remember, type 2 diabetes is an epidemic these days! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A researcher at the University of Illinois at Springfield sums up the basic point behind these fluorescent bulbs: "People need to understand that these bulbs are considered "hazardous" and can cause long term damage to not only the environment, but if broken can cause health problems with people as well. Mercury has the ability to cause humans, as well as animals, serious health problems such as permanent nerve and kidney damage if exposed. |
Ray D. Strand
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 She had some health problems, but Liz honestly thought that if she married a physician her health would improve. Was she ever wrong!
Before long our family included three children under the age of four and a busy Liz grew increasingly weary. Every mom with little children is tired, but Liz seemed unusually fatigued. Although she was only thirty years old, she told me she felt sixty.
As the years passed she developed more symptoms and health problems that required several medications. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most pet health conditions can be easily prevented or cured with good nutrition, and more challenging health problems can be cheaply and safely solved with herbal therapies and other naturopathic modalities. There is no scientifically justifiable role in veterinary medicine for the majority of the pharmaceuticals now being pushed onto vets, vet techs, and pet owners.
Even the pet shelters are being influenced by Big Pharma. When I rescued my pet from a local animal shelter, I was given a DVD sponsored by a drug company. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All our health problems are obviously China's fault, and anyone who suggests the U.S. is to blame for its own diseased population is obviously unpatriotic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The more you use the microwave, the worse your nutritional state gets, and the more likely you are to be diagnosed with various diseases and put on pharmaceuticals which, of course, will create other health problems that lead to a grand spiraling nosedive of health.
Do yourself a favor: Toss your microwave, or donate it to some charity. It's much easier to avoid using the microwave if you don't have one around. It will clear up counter space, save you electricity and greatly enhance your dietary habits. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Over the more than 23 years I have been in clinical practice, not many health problems have eluded successful treatment as consistently as uterine fibroids. Women who are seeking an alternative to drug or surgical treatment for uterine fibroids will not find an easy, reliable alternative to shrink the tumors with natural medicine. Using the protocols in this book, we are usually able to successfully resolve or improve most symptoms that relate to the fibroids such as abnormal bleeding, pelvic pain or pressure, and backache. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Low doses of BPA lead to a range of health problems, including birth defects of the male and female reproductive systems in laboratory animals. Despite the growing evidence of risk to human health, there are no limits on the amount of BPA allowed in canned food.
The tests found that pregnant women and infants who eat even a single serving of some canned foods are exposed to unsafe doses of BPA. Of the foods [recently tested for BPA contamination] -- which included many of the canned foods eaten most often by women of childbearing age -- BPA levels were highest in canned pasta and soup. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When this kind of action is repeated a few hundred times a year, it leaves the population distrusting all nutritional supplements and believing that only synthetic patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals) can solve their health problems. It is no coincidence that pharmaceuticals are allowed to be advertised everywhere, promoted with outrageously false claims of benefits, and that such advertising is in no way regulated by anyone. "Free speech" is granted to pharmaceutical companies, but not to dietary supplement companies. It is my belief that free speech is not free if it only selectively allowed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Across the industry, there seems to be no concern whatsoever for the safety of consumers, and that's why everything from pet food to perfume is now manufactured with chemicals that are well known to cause cancer, infertility, neurological disorders and many other serious health problems.
Believe me: The discovery of phthalates in air freshener products is just the tip of the iceberg. What other chemicals lurk in these same air freshener products? And can you imagine all the toxic chemicals found in high-fragrance shampoos, nail polish, makeup remover and dryer sheets? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's also worth mentioning that I don't support the consumption of processed dairy products at all (raw milk is a different story), and it is my opinion that homogenized, pasteurized dairy products directly promote heart disease, obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disorders and many other health problems in humans. I personally consume no processed dairy products (organic or otherwise), and I encourage consumers to switch to raw almond milk as a healthy alternative to milk products acquired from cows. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Menopause, aging, and our concerns about long-term health problems evolve over time, and balance is necessary. Naivete is inappropriate, and over-medicalization of menopause is also inappropriate. Menopause is a normal and natural event of aging. It can be a time of strength, empowerment, personal growth, and positive, life-changing insights and decisions.
MENSTRUAL CRAMPS 13
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Menstrual cramps are one of the most common problems that women face, affecting over 50 percent of menstruating women. |
Michael Pollan
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 One of the more pernicious aspects of nutritionism is that it encourages us to blame our health problems on lifestyle choices, implying that the individual bears ultimate responsibility for whatever illnesses befall him. It's worth keeping in mind that a far more powerful predictor of heart disease than either diet or exercise is social class.
Long-term observational studies of cohort groups such as the Nurses' Health Study represent a big step up in reliability from the case-control study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mercury has the ability to cause humans, as well as animals, serious health problems such as permanent nerve and kidney damage if exposed."
Alternatives to mercury-containing compact fluorescent lights
Fortunately, consumers no longer have to bring mercury into their homes through the use of fluorescent lights. There are now sensible alternatives. One of the most eco-friendly options is LED light bulbs which are not only mercury free, they're also 300% more energy efficient than fluorescent lights (and about 1000% more efficient than incandescent lights). |
Michael Pollan
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| O'Dea does not report what happened next, whether the Aborigines elected to remain in the bush or return to civilization, but it's safe to assume that if they did return to their Western lifestyles, their health problems returned too. We have known for a century now that there is a complex of so-called Western diseases—including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and a specific set of diet-related cancers—that begin almost invariably to appear soon after a people abandons its traditional diet and way of life. |
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 In such cases, the person may be left with chronic health problems, and/or death might be unavoidable.
There are certain drugs that can be administered to an exposed person that allows the heavy metal to work its way out of the body through the digestive tract. What must be seriously considered is that these drugs will also eliminate from the body most other heavy metals such as zinc and copper. This can prove to be especially dangerous since these elements are needed by the body in trace amounts in order to function properly.
Natural treatments include products like Heavy Metal Detox (www. |
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 Many of the foods recommended in the article are well documented to promote cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems. The Canadian bacon recommendation, in particular, is one that directly promotes cancer. (See http://www.newstarget.com/sodium_nitrite.html )
The source of the story (Health Magazine) is not up to date with the nutritional science published over the last decade.
The pro-milk agenda of the story is obviously put in place to please advertisers (the dairy industry). The pro-milk research quoted in the story was funded in part by the dairy industry! |
Michael Pollan
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THE WESTERN DIET AND THE DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION one a THE ABORIGINE IN ALL OF US
In the summer of 1982, a group of ten middle-aged, overweight, and diabetic Aborigines living in settlements near the town of Derby, Western Australia, agreed to participate in an experiment to see if temporarily reversing the process of westernization they had undergone might also reverse their health problems. |
| And while everyone can agree that the flood of refined carbohydrates has pushed important mi-cronutrients out of the modern diet, the scientists who blame our health problems on deficiencies of these micronutrients are not the same scientists who see a sugar-soaked diet leading to metabolic syndrome and from there to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. It is only natural for scientists no less than the rest of us to gravitate toward a single, all-encompassing explanation. |
| Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans do—and no people suffer from as many diet-related health problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.*
The scientists haven't tested the hypothesis yet, but I'm willing to bet that when they do they'll find an inverse correlation between the amount of time people spend worrying about nutrition and their overall health and happiness. |
| Metabolic syndrome," or "syndrome X," is the medical term for the complex of health problems these Aborigines had developed: Large amounts of refined carbohydrates in the diet combined with a sedentary lifestyle had disordered the intricate (and still imperfectly understood) system by which the insulin hormone regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats in the body. Metabolic syndrome has been implicated not only in the development of type 2 diabetes, but also in obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and possibly certain cancers. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Though not a disease, there can be health problems associated with menopause. For many women, symptoms of these hormonal changes occur intermittently for a number of years. Dr. Susan Love calls this period "puberty in reverse." Just as the hormonal highs and lows of puberty brought sleepiness, acne, mood swings, and unpredictable menses, this end of the spectrum with its own hormonal fluctuations may bring hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, acne, poor concentration and memory, and unpredictable menses again.
No two women's menopause transition is alike. |
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