Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When I was in medical school, I was under the impression that the wisest people in the field got together and looked at the things and said, "If it falls within this normal range, you can presume that there's no problem -- don't worry about it." It was a shock when I realized that the normal ranges are usually based on what's called two-standard deviations. That means they take 100 people -- the highest and lowest two and a half are defined as abnormal -- and the 95 in the middle are defined as normal.
Mike: Yes.
Teitelbaum: Let's apply this to shoe sizes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They've managed to convince people that true is false and false is true; that normal is extreme and that extreme is normal, and they've done a very good job of it.
Now what happens if you eat natural food for which your body was designed? If you return to a lifestyle of foods from nature in their uncooked form, you will find yourself moving rapidly towards a state of perfect human health. It's no exaggeration. |
| Overall, people have a very bizarre idea of what is normal, and you hear this in another common myth, which is that all foods, even ones that are bad for you, can be eaten in moderation. The food industry claims that all foods can be part of a healthy diet. You usually hear this from companies that are selling you the most disease-causing food and beverage products in the entire food supply. Soft drink companies, for example, say that soft drinks can be part of a healthy diet. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 There is nothing so monstrous about normal childhood behavior that it warrants the millions of seek-and-destroy missions that have been launched against it, with the label of ADHD used in the attempt to provide a legitimate cover. The school side of the story always focuses on how disruptive a few misbehaving children can be to a classroom, about how high student/teacher ratios makes it necessary to quiet the uncooperative minority. But latching on to drugs because they are perceived to make classroom management easier is not the answer. |
| He said she was easily distracted but could readjust fine and had normal intelligence. Aside from ear infections as a preschooler Steph was healthy as could be, but despite all that she was diagnosed ADD and prescribed Ritalin. It was then that her headaches began.. .every day, except on weekends, when she didn't take Ritalin."
The Ritalin was initially prescribed by a neurologist the Halls brought her to, with their pediatrician taking over from there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It was a shock when I realized that the normal ranges are usually based on what's called two-standard deviations. That means they take 100 people -- the highest and lowest two and a half are defined as abnormal -- and the 95 in the middle are defined as normal.
Mike: Yes.
Teitelbaum: Let's apply this to shoe sizes. Say you come to Hawaii to visit me and we have a Hawaiian luau -- my wife and I are there, and we leave our shoes at the door and they get the mixed up on the way out. I put on her size-five shoe and she puts on my size-twelve shoe -- and we go to the shoe doctor. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| He was back to normal, doing the things kids do instead of being so lethargic," his father reports.
When second grade began Michael and Jill decided to try him without the Ritalin. On the second day the school nurse called to find out why he wasn't being given the drug. Mr. Carroll detailed the problems they saw as a result of Ritalin and explained their rationale in stopping it. Soon after this conversation the school called the Albany County Department of Social Services and claimed that the decision to discontinue the Ritalin endangered Kyle's ability to function at school. |
| He was fine and acted like a normal, healthy little boy. He then started second grade. I again attempted no meds and this time the teacher only started up on the meds being needed because she was told by the school nurse that Adam had ADHD. So again we went back to his doctor. He was going to give him the Dexedrine again but I said no way; he loses too much weight and gets too weepy and depressed. The doctor recommended we try Ritalin. We had heard bad stories about kids on Ritalin so me and my husband asked him tons of questions, like are there any side effects? |
| Such a result is usually pointed to as proof that the child in question really has ADHD, but the truth is that Ritalin and the other ADHD drugs are intended to do nothing more than control unwanted (though normal) behaviors. Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's a normal procedure. No problem."
So this person had his gall bladder removed, and I'm thinking to myself, "Whoa, whoa, why do you think the body builds these organs?" The gallbladder is intimately connected to the digestive system. It has an important role, especially in the digestion of fats. If you don't have a gallbladder, you're going to have some major problems absorbing fat-soluble vitamins for the rest of your life, and surgeons don't even tell you this information. |
| If you want to be normal, there's a whole world of people waiting to welcome you to their way of life. Whip out that pharmacy discount card. Make another appointment with your doctor. Be sure to tune in to cable news so you can be told what to think today. And don't ever do anything strange or odd that might be non-conformist, or your peers will talk badly about you behind your back.
But for the rest of us who wish to live beyond the norm, there's veganism. It's the diet of the few intelligent, lucid, advanced human beings who now inhabit this planet. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| In his books he cites studies on normal people without a trace of back pain that have spinal abnormalities on X-ray. Other studies have shown that some people with back pain have normal spines on X-ray. So, Dr. Sarno says there is not necessarily any association between back pain and spinal X-ray abnormality.92 However, if a person happens to have back pain and an incidental abnormality on X-ray, they may be treated surgically, sometimes with no change in back pain, or worsening of back pain, or even permanent disability. |
Michael Pollan
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 Their triglyceride levels had fallen into the normal range. The proportion of omega-3 fatty acids in their tissues had increased dramatically. "In summary," O'Dea concluded, "all of the metabolic abnormalities of type II diabetes were either greatly improved (glucose tolerance, insulin response to glucose) or completely normalized (plasma lipids) in a group of diabetic Aborigines by a relatively short (seven week) reversion to traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They think macaroni and cheese is normal. Here are some of its ingredients: Petroleum products, processed salt, nerve toxins and chemicals that, in a different variation, are used to pave roads. Similarly, people have no idea what's in their powdered coffee creamer. It's almost pure hydrogenated oils and corn syrup solids. That's it. It's just sugar and plastic fat. I believe instant creamer delivers instant harm to the health of anyone foolish enough to put it in their coffee. |
| Everybody else is eating some deviation from that normal diet, yet they think a vegan diet is "extreme." But it's the standard American diet that's blatantly incompatible with the human body. It's incompatible with sustainable agriculture and balance between people and nature. It's incompatible with clear-headedness and lucid thinking. It's incompatible with internal health at all levels, including the health of women who are pregnant and trying to give life to another being. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| Along with a different outlook on behavioral causes, in the past there was more understanding and tolerance for the normal range of childhood behaviors. Children vary greatly in interests, abilities, talents, and behavioral styles and this was commonly known and understood, as it is today when we choose to be reasonable about it. In the years since, with all the talk of diversity and the acceptance of differences among individuals, the tolerance for differences in how children act has plummeted. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, cancer is just a name given to a normal metabolic function that has become abnormal in the fact that it is no longer restrained. Cancer, then, is really a normal biological process taking place in the wrong context. When cells are duplicating like crazy in a fetus, it's called a miracle of life. When cells are duplicating like crazy in the pancreas of a senior citizen, it's called a disease. Same process, different context.
As you can see, cancer is not caused by some outside invader. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's a size five, and it's in the normal range." -- because sizes four to 13 would be normal for shoe sizes.
Mike: I see.
Teitelbaum: I can't even get in the dang shoe and he says, "Oh, Jacob, sounds like it may be too small." Then he says, "Nope. Good news. You have a size five -- there's nothing wrong with the shoe."
Mike: Right.
Teitelbaum: And remember -- I can't even get in the thing. The same applies to thyroid. |
| That means they take 100 people -- the highest and lowest two and a half are defined as abnormal -- and the 95 in the middle are defined as normal.
Mike: Yes.
Teitelbaum: Let's apply this to shoe sizes. Say you come to Hawaii to visit me and we have a Hawaiian luau -- my wife and I are there, and we leave our shoes at the door and they get the mixed up on the way out. I put on her size-five shoe and she puts on my size-twelve shoe -- and we go to the shoe doctor. She says, "My shoes are falling off", and the doc says, "Sounds like maybe it's too big. We'll check the tests. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The evidence shows that:
• Chemical exposure can impact the hormonal system and disrupt normal development at doses far lower than previously suspected.17
• Genes and chemicals can work together to cause disease.18
Our Stolen Future products contain chemicals that can act like estrogen or disrupt hormones in the body, according to the 2005 Skin Deep report, an analysis of cosmetic ingredients conducted by the Environmental Working Group.15
More than half of cosmetic
Sterile bald eagles, alligators with small penises, panthers with abnormal testicles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe recent studies show as much as 15 to 20 percent of the population is currently suffering from some kind of a diagnosable mental disorder, and that's not normal.
Kevala: And what is normal, by the way?
Mike: normal is no mental disorders.
Kevala: Right, how many people are schizophrenic and running around, medicating themselves other ways – for example, using food, sugar and conspicuous consumption as their means of anesthetizing themselves?
Mike: That's a great way to put it – alcohol, caffeine, sodas, lots and lots of sugar. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Higher than normal adrenaline levels cause an increase in appetite, which encourages the body to eat more calories and replenish fat stores. In acute (short-term) stress situations, the adrenaline level will soon return to normal once the immediate appetite has been satisfied.
This brain-body hormone-stimulating phenomenon served human beings very well in times when people needed to avoid immediate dangers like being eaten by wolves or killed by invading armies. Today, however, the modern person in the United States is not frequently subjected to such immediate dangers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is no rational, scientific explanation for the explosion in diagnoses of such brain chemistry diseases, nor is there any rigorous examination of other potential causes for unhappiness such as poor dietary practices, chemical exposure, chronic environmental stress or just simply the fact that life is sometimes an emotional roller coaster, and that's perfectly normal.
What used to be just a normal unhappy moment or episode of sadness is now described by drug-pushing psychiatrists as a disease requiring chemical treatment. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| Other studies have shown that some people with back pain have normal spines on X-ray. So, Dr. Sarno says there is not necessarily any association between back pain and spinal X-ray abnormality.92 However, if a person happens to have back pain and an incidental abnormality on X-ray, they may be treated surgically, sometimes with no change in back pain, or worsening of back pain, or even permanent disability.
In addition, doctors often order X-rays as protection against malpractice claims to give the impression that they are leaving no stone unturned. |
Mark Lynas
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 Due to combined human pressures from habitat loss, hunting, pollution, resource use and the introduction of invasive species into new areas, natural species are already becoming extinct at a rate 100-1,000 times greater than the normal background rate of loss over evolutionary time. The most comprehensive-ever survey of the planet's health, the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, brought together 1,360 experts from 95 countries, who concluded that a full two-thirds of the ecosystems humans depend on are currently being degraded or used unsustainably. |
Jack Challem
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 Trans fats interfere with normal insulin function, reducing its ability to transport and burn glucose. They increase insulin resistance and raise blood levels of triglycerides. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported that trans fats increase insulin resistance, a hallmark of both prediabetes and diabetes. Even modest amounts of trans fats (less than what the average American currently consumes) are associated with an almost 40 percent increase in the risk of developing diabetes! |
| Your Body Proportions and Diabetes Risk
Although the BMI gives you a general idea of whether your weight is normal, we've found that body proportions often serve as a better guide to determining whether you might be prediabetic.
To explain, some people tend to gain weight in the buttocks, while others gain it around the belly. Belly fat is the better indicator of prediabetes and diabetes risk.
People with big rear ends tend to have a pear or pyramid shape, whereas those with a big belly have an apple or diamond shape. |
| Several studies have shown that modest elevations in blood sugar—within the normal range—can significantly increase your risk of suffering a heart attack. People with prediabetes or those who are overweight tend to have high levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and inflammation—all are known risk factors for heart disease.
Elevated cholesterol People who are prediabetic, diabetic, or overweight tend to have high levels of cholesterol, the "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, combined with low levels of the "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Teicher makes a crucial point: "Our team initiated this research with the hypothesis that early stress was a toxic agent that interfered with the normal, smoothly orchestrated progression of brain development. Exposure to stress generates molecular and neurobiological effects that alter neural development in an adaptive way that prepares the adult brain to survive and reproduce in a dangerous world."1 Dr. Teicher adds that a smaller corpus callosum leads to "less integration between the two halves of the brain," which corroborates our clinical observations. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Today, direct-to-consumer ad campaigns routinely paint mild conditions as serious and normal variations in human characteristics as disease. Saturation advertising from the drug industry and slick "disease awareness" campaigns from patient advocacy groups, many of which are funded by pharmaceutical companies, make us fret constantly about illness and have helped turn us into a nation of the worried well. |
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