Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The routine torture of dairy cows
Milking cows are treated like machines; confined from all other animals including their calves, they are made to stand on concrete floors in their own waste. In order to manipulate genetics and produce more milk, farmers pump the cows full of chemicals, hormones and antibiotics, many of which may make their way into the milk we drink and the cheese we eat.
Just like beef cattle, many of these cows suffer from disease, reproductive problems and lameness due to the stress of the factory setting. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Meet Joe
Joe was forty-one when he came into my office for a routine annual physical. He was feeling great and had absolutely no complaints. He just felt he needed a thorough checkup because he hadn't had a physical for several years. During the routine appointment, we drew some blood.
Because Joe felt so good, I was surprised and concerned when my lab technician showed me Joe's blood. It looked pink instead of red. After the technician spun the blood in the centrifuge, the upper portion of the sample looked like cream (meaning it was loaded with fat). |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Then we can settle into a routine of orderly caretaking and not be concerned about it. Everyone must scientifically find his or her own routine.
Rest is another important alchemical healer. It is so important that God even gave us a Sabbath so we could not misinterpret the message. In everyday work life, it is important to acknowledge this time for regeneration. In the process of kaya kalpa, the idea of complete rest is an integral part of the rejuvenation program. It works. Rest implies a break from all daily routines, responsibilities, irritating noises, and so on. |
Jack Challem
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 In the process, everything in our lives sped up—we segued from telephone calls and regular mail to the routine use of overnight deliveries and faxes, and now to cell phones, e-mails, and instant messages. Service companies routinely promise 24/7 service, and many employees remain in touch with their companies and customers on evenings and weekends. All of this adds stress and takes a toll on our neuronutrients and neurotransmitters.
In 1970, in his prescient book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler observed that the increasing speed of social change feels overwhelming. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Single-crop plantation farming thus lent itself well to the rules and routine procedures of slave labor. At the same time, slaves were most profitable when following a simple routine year after year.
Until the 1790s plantations wotked by slave labor grew virtually nothing but tobacco. Slave labor became less economical as southern plantations began raising a greater diversity of crops and kept more livestock at the end of the eighteenth century. Many in the South thought that slavery would fade into economic oblivion until the rise of cotton breathed new life into the slave trade. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Physicians certainly do encourage patients to have routine physicals in order to maintain their health. But a closer look into doctors' helpful recommendations quickly leads one to the conclusion that they are simply attempting to detect disease earlier. Think about it. As I've mentioned physicians routinely perform pap smears, mammograms, blood work, and the physical exam primarily to see if any silent diseases already exist in their patients. What has been prevented?
Obviously the earlier these diseases are detected, the better it is for the patient. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 The fact that it involves increased cost and is not needed in order to determine if a doctor should give a patient thyroid medication, it is not done as a matter of routine.
As it turns out, testing for reverse T3 may be one of the most useful tests a doctor can order as part of a routine health check. This fact has been pointed out to doctors in their literature for over 20 years.684 It is certainly helpful in our understanding of the overweight person who is stuck in perceived starvation. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Author of books on the healing benefits of water, Kneipp cured himself of a lung disorder by a routine of plunging himself into ice-cold water then warming himself with vigorous exercise. He recommended walking barefoot in wet grass and cold streams, which would stimulate a resurgence of blood to the limbs, creating warmth naturally and activating the body's own healing powers. Many of his treatments were adopted by naturopaths. His ideas have been extended to include natural spring waters, whirlpools, underwater massage and, more recently, flotation tanks and aqua-aerobics. |
| T'ai-chi is now becoming a routine for millions of people in the Western world too. Although a highly complex form of exercise, it is not merely a work-out, but a complete, natural and effective therapy focusing on mental, emotional and physical harmony.
T'ai-chi, meaning 'wholeness', is an abbreviation of the Chinese t'ai-chi ch'uan, meaning 'supreme, ultimate'. It was first practised by Taoist monks in the fourteenth century, with the aim of mastering the self, mind and body harmony in motion. |
| Try not to alter this breathing routine, no matter how exhausting it might seem at the beginning. Having taken yourself through the second-wind stage, breathing will become more natural and easier.
Obviously you should have learned Controlled Pattern Breathing and be practising it regularly before you try to use it during exercise, when an asthma attack may be triggered. It does require discipline in the early stages to control the urge to over-breathe and gulp air into the chest. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For many, over time, a heavy-duty dessert routine or quickie-carb overload can erode energy levels, corrode powers of concentration, or even sap their sex drive. For many more, blood sugar disorders such as insulin resistance or prediabetes set in. For still others, the effects of their excessive, long-term sugar or carb habit might not emerge until years later, when they're ambushed by severe physical problems such as diabetes, cancer, or heart disease.
Are You Suffering, Too, and Don't Know Why? |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| T'ai-chi's smooth, easy flowing movements—likened to those of birds and animals—encourage body awareness through a physical routine of relaxation, controlled breathing, flexibility and mobility. Although requiring patience and perseverance to learn, t'ai-chi replaces stress, anxiety, aggression and hostility with calmness, serenity, sensitivity and peace. T'ai-chi unfolds its benefits gradually and requires regular attendance at classes to learn the many movements. |
Jack Challem
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| Instead of trying to push against it or work at my usual deadline-oriented pace, I've learned to use these days to do more routine tasks, such as cleaning my office or filing papers. I have also found that the occasional down day is a wonderful time for contemplation, allowing me to reflect about what I like and what I want to change in my life. My down days don't seem to occur with any rhyme or reason, other than the fact that they usually appear after I've been working very hard for several straight months. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| It has been found that if athletes take care to do a thorough warm-up routine before they begin the serious exercise the chances of developing asthma are greatly reduced. Likewise, warm your body down slowly after strenuous activity.
If you do find that you are wheezing and are short of breath you must take care not to trigger an attack, although remember that panting may be the result of the normal exercise and is not necessarily asthma. Correct breathing may avert the asthma but if asthma does develop, take your prescribed medication, remembering that attacks must be avoided. |
David R. Montgomery
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| At the same time, slaves were most profitable when following a simple routine year after year.
Until the 1790s plantations wotked by slave labor grew virtually nothing but tobacco. Slave labor became less economical as southern plantations began raising a greater diversity of crops and kept more livestock at the end of the eighteenth century. Many in the South thought that slavery would fade into economic oblivion until the rise of cotton breathed new life into the slave trade. Cotton was almost as hard on the land and relied even more on slave labor than did tobacco. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 If you can incorporate both forms of exercise into your routine, good for you! If not, and you are heading toward menopause or are menopausal, focus on strength training; it does give you some aerobic benefits. A moderate investment of time is all that's needed: fifteen to thirty minutes of weight training two to three times per week provides the bone density you need to prevent osteoporosis if you work all your different muscle groups and let your muscles rest for a day between workouts. |
| Overall, COX-2 inhibitors are not recommended for cancer prevention in patients who do not have familial polyposis (even those with polyps found on routine colonoscopy) since polyps do not necessarily proceed to gastrointestinal cancer, and people on a coxib are five times more likely to have a cardiac event as they are to develop gastrointestinal cancer if they don't take a coxib. |
| If you are older and don't run or play a sport you should incorporate a daily thirty-minute walk into your routine. That is better for you than statins by any measure. And exercise has no side effects that we don't know about yet.
If you have risk factors and don't yet have heart disease, you should address them. Improving your diet will help you lower your cholesterol and prevent heart disease. In fact, following the low-fat diet advocated by the
National Cholesterol Education Program lowers LDL cholesterol as well as treatment with a statin and without the side effects. |
| CDC to pay makers for vaccines unsold "through routine market mechanisms." The bill will also require the CDC to conduct a "public awareness campaign" emphasizing "the safety and benefit of recommended vaccines for the public good."
And let me remind you that flu vaccinations are not innocuous. There is conjecture that the mercury and aluminum (metals that are known to have neurotoxic effects) in vaccine shots are associated with long-term adverse consequences. These vaccines can also overstimulate the immune system in ways that are not fully understood. |
| Most people find out that they have high blood pressure by getting a routine blood-pressure check at their doctor's office or more easily and cheaply at many pharmacies. If untreated (about 30% of people with high blood pressure don't know they have it) it can quietly damage your organs and set the course for developing other life-threatening diseases, including stroke, heart disease, and kidney failure. |
| The result is that nondisclosure of potentially harmful side effects of the drugs they make has become routine. Unearthing and compiling that veiled or hidden information is the mission of this book.
How We Got Here
The latest drive to get new pills on the shelves and into people's mouths began when government deregulation and an earnest attempt to help HIV-AIDS patients access important life-extending drugs collided. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Be flexible, vary their Controlled Pattern Breathing time to suit their daily lives and to make it a pleasurable routine for you and your child.
Activities for Asthmatic Children
The best activity for your asthmatic child is learning to swim or float. Floating encourages relaxation. It is impossible to float when tense or uptight: floating can only take place when one is calm and relaxed. Learning to float helps a child experience the weightlessness of their body and overcome any fear they might have of putting their face under water. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Take any routine interruption that you find annoying in life and "reprogram" it as a cue to pause and breathe more consciously. Red lights, e-mail message alerts, and being put on hold during a telephone call can all serve this function. meditate
For most of us, our minds are busy even when our bodies are still. When you use meditation to elicit the relaxation response, you turn your attention inward, concentrating on a repetitive positive thought, prayer, or image to reduce the reactivity of your thoughts. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 She's worked out the kinks in her back and has been very steady with her swimming routine. She says she's able to think and write more creatively, and she feels a newfound sense of vigor that hasn't gone unnoticed by her family and friends. Not that it should have surprised her: She recalled that when she was training every day for the tae kwon do team in college, she did some of her best work. Then as a young doctor in Boston, she got into running marathons. Like many people, it was only after she started a family that she fell out of the habit of exercise. |
| The stability of the routine alone can dramatically improve your mood. Clearly, there's something going on.
One of the best examples is a landmark research project from the Human Population Laboratory in Berkeley called the Alameda County Study. Researchers tracked 8,023 people for twenty-six years, surveying them about a number of factors related to lifestyle habits and healthiness starting in 1965. They checked back in with the participants in 1974 and in 1983. Of all the people with no signs of depression at the beginning, those who became inactive over the next nine years were 1. |
| Bill had never had depression, per se, but there was no doubt he felt more passionate about life once he got into an exercise routine. He discovered, entirely by accident, that he could be happier.
Our understanding of depression followed a similar path. Pure serendipity led to our first antidepressants, when in the 1950s it was discovered that an experimental tuberculosis drug made people "inappropriately happy." A few years later, a new antihistamine produced similar mood-elevating effects and spawned a class of drugs called tricyclic antidepressants. |
| And he's pretty confident that it's important to include complex motor movements (such as aerobic dance or martial arts) in your routine. But he can't give specific recommendations just yet.
And that's OK. We don't need to rely exclusively on neuroscientists to get started. First of all, there are certain conclusions we can draw from the work they've already done. Second, there is instructive evidence from other fields. Research from kinesiolo-gists to epidemiologists shows again and again that the better your fitness level, the better your brain works. |
Stacy Malkan
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 It also can't tell me what happens when TEA is mixed in combination with the 16 other potential carcinogens, two dozen endocrine disruptors and other toxic substances in my daily routine. Few, if any, of the chemicals in my cosmetics have been tested in mixtures to understand the long-term health impacts of chronic use over time. And since most risk assessments are calculated to figure risk for a typical 160-pound male, it may not accurately account for the impact on a teenage girl whose breasts and body were developing when the products were applied. Hmmm. All very curious. |
| Skin Deep tells me: 81 of the chemical ingredients in my former daily routine raise health concerns. Some highlights:
• 22 daily doses of parabens, along with four other suspected hormone-disrupting chemicals.
•17 hits of chemicals with limited or mixed evidence of carcinogenicity. One ingredient, petroleum distillates in my Cover Girl Marathon Waterproof Mascara, is banned in the European Union.
• 17 applications of penetration enhancers, which can draw the other chemicals more deeply into my body.
• 15 doses of chemicals that persist in the body or accumulate up the food chain. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Although Syndrome X doesn't show up in the blood tests normally given in the course of a routine medical checkup, a physician can order a series of specific tests to identify its six classic symptoms, any three of which are enough to classify you as having Syndrome X. According to the American Heart Association and leading metabolic-syndrome researcher Dr. Victor Zammit, this cluster of symptoms includes:
Excess abdominal fat—For men, your abdomen is greater than 40 inches; for women, your abdomen is larger than 35 inches. |
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