Lynne McTaggart
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 What is more, among the more hostile couples, the wounds healed at only 60 percent the rate of the more compatible pairs. Examination of the fluids in the wounds found different levels of a chemical called interleukin-6 (IL-6), a cytokine and key chemical in the immune system. Among the hostile couples, the levels of interleukin-6 were too low initially and then too high immediately after an argument, suggesting that their immune systems had been overwhelmed.34
The person sending out an intention might also need to be sent good intentions. |
Jack Challem
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 Anger and Physical Violence
Feelings of anger encompass a wide range of negative and hostile feelings toward other people, as well as toward institutions (such as the government or political parties). Anger-related feelings and behavior (how you express your feelings of anger) include brooding, resentment, annoyance, aggravation, rudeness, sarcasm, passive-aggressiveness, impatience, irritability, inflammatory language, outbursts, negative energy, road rage, hatred, hostile-personality disorder, vital exhaustion, destructive behavior, juvenile delinquency, and adult criminal violence. |
Dawson Church
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 You were already one of a select group of humans who had survived the dangers of a hostile world long enough to breed. Over tens of thousands of years, those with quick responses had survived long enough to produce offspring, and those with slow responses died before they could breed. So by the time a hostile tribesman ran at you with a blade, those thousands of years of evolutionary weeding had already produced a human admirably suited to fight or flee. The changes that occurred in your body in response to a threat were adaptive; they were useful adaptations for survival. |
| Scenario One: Ten thousand years ago, when a mugger (or a member of a hostile tribe) ran at you with a sharp blade, you quickly took action. Your blood flowed away from your digestive tract toward your muscles. Your brain became hyperactive and your reproductive drive shut down. Thousands of biochemical changes took place in all the cells of your body within a couple of seconds, enabling you to run away from the attacker, or defend yourself.
You were already one of a select group of humans who had survived the dangers of a hostile world long enough to breed. |
Anne Harrington
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 For the past month or so the media have been disseminating hostile propaganda, with the message that we will all die, that we must die. These death threats do not issue from the usual bigots. . . . We are being cursed in the name of science, and the imprecations directed against us have the imprimatur of the Public Health Service (PHS). The prognosis of doom is emanating from that peculiar form of medical survey research known as "epidemiology. |
| On the contrary, they seemed rather hostile toward him throughout the whole process. Much later, the woman herself finally indicated why:" 'I felt ashamed,' the woman said to me, 'that a thing like hypnosis should work where I myself, with all my will-power, was helpless.' I believe . . . neither she nor her husband have overcome their aversion toward hypnosis."9
Listening to Anna O.
Ambivalent and ungrateful patients were not Freud's only problem with hypnotic suggestion; the method also proved more finicky and less reliable than he had originally imagined. |
| Were it not for Bruce Lee and Star Wars, it is possible that "The Mystery of Chi" would have met a much more uncomprehending or hostile reception. As it was, both the media and the general public proved remarkably receptive, and Bill Moyers was widely credited with awakening the American public to the potential of Chinese mind-body healing exercises. By the mid-1990s, websites had sprung up offering trips to study Chinese medicine "in the style of Bill Moyers." Martial-arts centers added qigong teachers to their staff, books began to be published (a quick search in 2007 on Amazon. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Cancer cells are cells fighting to survive in a 'hostile,' toxic environment. Letting go of the need to fight in life reprograms the DNA of the body, changing its course of warfare and eventual annihilation to one of healthy reproduction. Not needing to fight for their survival gives the cancer cells a chance to be accepted again by the entire "family" of cells in the body. Cancer cells are normal cells that are rejected by what they consider home. They are deprived of proper nourishment and support. |
Mark Lynas
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 Perhaps the most memorable scene of all was a single military helicopter landing for just a few minutes, its crew flinging food parcels and water bottles out onto the ground before hurriedly taking off again as if from a hostile war zone. In scenes more reminiscent of a Third World refugee camp than an American urban centre, young men fought each other for the precious drinking water as pregnant women and the elderly looked on with nothing. Don't blame them for behaving this way, I thought. This is what happens when people are desperate. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 DSM-IV, which features a "recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least six months." This category is so subjectively broad that anyone who dared to question the psychiatric label - anyone who verbalized the nonsense of it, could be diagnosed with the alleged mental illness.
But in reviewing the above mental disorders, one has to wonder whether "conduct disorder" isn't negative, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior? |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Until that point, people assumed that liquidity in all forms would remain more or less the same, despite a 180-degree turnaround in global monetary conditions and an increasingly hostile market environment. The idea of not having access to one's own funds was almost inconceivable.
People had made a similar collective assumption about the nature of all sorts of financial relationships, from those that linked counterparties and constituents of the modern financial system to those among securities, products, and markets, and those that bound together nations and economic regions. |
| Finger-pointing will also be widespread, as politicians, regulators, and corporate chiefs scramble for cover in the face of increasingly hostile public opinion.
Meanwhile, Americans will scratch their heads and wonder how it all went so wrong so fast, or why they had not been aware of the dangers before. In reality, we should have seen it coming. Signs of impending doom were everywhere, plain for all to see, in the years leading up to the wide-ranging meltdown. Still, even if people had been aware of the gravity of the situation, it seemed that few cared all that much. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 As Albert Einstein once said, the most important decision you ever have to make is whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile one.
In the future, perhaps we will all have made enough educated choices, exercising cumulative veto power as consumers and demanding accountability from government officials and agencies, that that roomful of high school students we imagine talking with their teachers seventy years from now—your great-grandchildren, and mine—won't be pressing teachers as to why we didn't foresee the polluted, disease-laden legacy we were leaving behind. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| But with the economy rolling over, an increasingly hostile global monetary environment, liquidity and risk preferences undergoing a complete about-face, new rules exposing multibilliondollar pension obligations and other off-balance-sheet risks, and a growing scandal involving corporate share options, prices were poised to go one way: down. As the great unraveling plays out, equities will come under relentless and often frantic selling pressure, interrupted only by relatively brief short-covering rallies and periods of calm-before-the-storm complacency. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| I simply must address the threat of hostile organisms (parasites). Everyone is affected by parasites at some point—this is one of the most overlooked health problems facing humanity. Just ridding your body of parasites can boost your energy levels and overall sense of wellbeing.
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Parasites colonize the colon
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Michael J. Panzner
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| Odds are, however, that the operating environment will become so hostile that securing an income will increasingly depend on cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit. Diminishing social and financial safety nets combined with a massive scramble for survival as the disaster drags on will also enhance the value of having some means of self-sufficiency.
The years ahead will hold other threats to well-being and security. |
Ray D. Strand
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 I've never dealt with a subject in my life that elicited such an immediate hostile response."5
With all opposing theories silenced, the cholesterol theory went great guns. Drug companies began making their billions, and everyone was convinced that heart attacks and strokes were simply the result of too much cholesterol in the bloodstream. Wouldn't you say they did an excellent job in selling this to the medical community and to the general public?
Renewed Interest in Homocysteine
In 1990 Dr. Meir Stampfer revitalized interest in Dr. McCully's homocysteine theory. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Cross-cultural medicine is now receiving the same (often hostile, but often also assimilative) treatment from the medical profession as alternative medicine did in the nineteenth century. Cross-cultural medical practices are also the subject of similar levels of press and public attention. And practitioners of cross-cultural medicine are professionalizing: seeking official regulation; founding bodies to regulate standards and to grant licences; building schools and clinics in which to train succeeding generations of practitioners. |
| Culin had no axe to grind: he was neither a doctor nor a missionary, nor was he an unwelcome foreign 'guest' on often hostile Chinese soil. Perhaps this is why his first-hand account of Chinese medical practice was so free of the bile and stereotyping characteristic of reportage by Europeans resident in China. His report was broadly positive: 'The practice of medicine among them is comparatively free from superstitious observances.... The doctors show much solicitude about administering any medicine that may cause a fatal result... |
| In the Australian state of Victoria, burning with gold fever and strangled by epidemic diphtheria in the 1870s, Chinese doctors became the targets of hostile legislation.4 As the historian and acupuncturist Rey Tiquia has documented, western medical doctors were the principal lobbyists for new regulations intended to exclude the Chinese (as well as competitors from other systems) from practising medicine. Orthodox western practitioners outnumbered Chinese healers by almost ten to one in the 1861 census of Victoria, and were clearly the most prominent healing community. |
| Reactions to homeopathy from within the orthodox profession, although initially moderate and assimilative, rapidly became violently hostile (if still, surreptitiously, assimilative). And this hostility had a profound effect: rules like those of the AMA and BMA forbidding any consultation or cooperation between their members and 'homeopathists' and mandating the expulsion of any member caught 'dabbling' with homeopathy forced a unitary identity upon the wide range of healers who took up the system. |
| But there is at least one significant difference between their attitudes towards moxabustion: while Temple expressed strong approbation of the Asian medical models and expertise which underpinned the use of moxabustion for cases of the gout, Busschof was outspokenly hostile to several prominent aspects of that expertise—particularly the notion of burning the moxas only in 'certain determined and prescribed places of the body'. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 In comes the office jerk, a person who is hostile, with a big chip on his shoulder. He walks into the other person's cubicle and starts talking with a critical edge in his voice. If you read his energy field, you'll notice a sudden thrust—like an arrow—coming out from his field and invading his "victim's" field to "bite" a chunk of the other's energy. He steals his coworker's energy and leaves the victim feeling drained and anxious.
Another more common example is the energy-drained friend who calls you on the phone to complain about life. |
Melody Petersen
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 Pfizer bought Warner-Lambert in a hostile takeover in 2000, and many executives left the company. Yet doctors across the country continued to prescribe Neurontin for everything from bipolar disorder to alcohol withdrawal. In 2000 the company's data showed that nearly 90 percent of Neurontin prescriptions had been written for uses the government had not approved.
Injury reports continued to stream into the FDA. Many of the patients who appeared to have been harmed by Neurontin had received doses much higher than the maximum approved by the FDA. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| Businesses that had been kept alive only by virtue of stable markets and ample liquidity will not cope well with more hostile circumstances as end demand steadily erodes. Many will also discover that access to capital of any kind—cheap or otherwise—has seemingly vanished overnight, limiting their ability to respond to fast-changing circumstances and long-range operating requirements.
Eventually, individuals with plenty of resources at their disposal will also begin to cut back, as portfolios bleed with losses in various asset classes. |
Mark Sircus
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 The authors continued: "the possibility for genetic engineering and aerosol transmission [of influenza] suggests an enormous potential for bioterrorism" The possible hostile abuse of influenza virus is seen as a very real threat by public health officials in the USA. $15 million was granted by the US National Institutes of Health to Stanford University to study how to guard against the flu virus "if it were to be unleashed as an agent of bioterrorism". Stanford University News Release 17 September 2003, (See: http://mednews.stanford.edu/ newsreleases html/2003/septrelease/bioterror%20flu. |
Jack Challem
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| Not surprisingly, these nutrients have been found particularly useful in reducing aggressive and hostile behavior, including aggressive driving, bullying, verbal abusiveness, and fighting. The omega-3s are incorporated into cell membranes (walls), where they help brain cells to communicate with one another. They also dampen an overactive immune system, which seems to play a role in mood disorders. Start with 3 grams of fish oils daily; you can safely increase the dose up to 10 grams daily. Note: The omega-3 fish oils have a mild blood-thinning effect. Alternatively, you may try 1. |
| In The Food-Mood Solution, I tackle a variety of these more common mood problems, including
• Anger and hostile behavior
• Tension and anxiety
• Irritability and impatience
• Impulsive and distractible habits
• Fatigue and fuzzy thinking
• Stress and sleep problems
• Alcohol and drug abuse
This book is different from all the other food-mood books in another important way. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Consuming Kids: The hostile Takeover of Childhood. New York: New Press, 2004. Ludwig, David. "Effects of Decreasing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption on Body Weight in
Adolescents: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study." Pediatrics 117, no. 3 (2006): 673-80. Mokdad, Ali, et al. "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000." JAMA 291 (2004): 1238-45. -, et al. "The Continuing Epidemics of Obesity and Diabetes in the United States." JAMA 286, no. 10 (2001): 1195-1200. Nader, Ralph. "Big Snapple? Selling the City, Drink by Drink." Common Dreams, September 15,
2003. http://www. |
| The document also shows that the sugar organization "analyzed whether the key WHO officials are hostile to its interests," and it highlights the sugar group's "desire to win over policymakers who will have a big influence on countries that are trying to improve their national diet," The Observer's health editor, Jo Revill, reported.
Not surprisingly, the internal document dismayed both WHO officials and health-minded advocates, who believe, as The Observer put it, that the sugar industry "is trying to subvert attempts to introduce policies aimed at reducing sugar levels. |
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