Dawson Church
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 Practitioner web sites are also a good source of information. Their web sites will often tell you their credentials, professional affiliations, training, how many years they've been practicing, treatment philosophy, endorsements and testimonials, details of their particular techniques, and what you can expect during the course of a professional relationship.
Use a search engine and type in the practitioner's name. This will give you a list of their publications, recent news stories about them, web sites on which they're listed, and a host of details. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Patients routinely go to web sites to diagnose themselves, or simply to learn more about a disease, a drug, or a scheduled procedure. But today's medical web sites vary widely in the quality of information they provide, and even the most reputable sites must rely on what's published in the medical literature, which we've learned is often of dubious value. By going to the AHRQ (which would probably need to be renamed something easier to remember, like the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness, or ICE), both patients and doctors could feel they were making the right clinical choices. |
Dawson Church
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| Their web sites will often tell you their credentials, professional affiliations, training, how many years they've been practicing, treatment philosophy, endorsements and testimonials, details of their particular techniques, and what you can expect during the course of a professional relationship.
Use a search engine and type in the practitioner's name. This will give you a list of their publications, recent news stories about them, web sites on which they're listed, and a host of details. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 I have suspected for some time that all three companies were under the same umbrella because their ad copy, packaging, and even their web sites and product packaging graphics are remarkably similar. As it turns out, my suspicion was correct: All three of these companies are part of Basic Research, LLC, a Provo, Utah-based company which, at least according to web sites devoted to legal issues and rip-off alerts, is as duplicitous and unethical as a company can be. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It is well known that the eight amino acids making up these proteins can be found in a simple meal of rice and beans or in one serving of the supergrain "Chia," available through web sites such as www.chiaforhealth.com. Rice contains the amino acids that are missing in beans, and beans contain the amino acids missing in rice; Chia has all 16 amino acids and more of them than are contained in meat. Although many more meat-free foods contain these proteins than there are types of meat, meat as a source of protein is still considered to be the better option. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In fact, on web sites like askthepatient.com statins are one of the most negatively rated drugs around. Probably because of these side effects, 40% of patients stop taking them in the first six months of treatment. Other side effects include impotence, abdominal pain, dizziness, and constipation.
The use of statins for patients over seventy is not recommended because of the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis. However, these guidelines are not followed by most doctors, due to either lack of knowledge about the guidelines (e.g. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 There are also a number of web sites that can give you your exact ratio (search: waist to hip calculator) or take the opportunity to practice your math by simply dividing your hip circumference into your waist circumference. Your WHR goal is less than 0.8 for women and 0.9 for men for healthy weight distribution and lower heart disease risk.
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Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| As it turns out, my suspicion was correct: All three of these companies are part of Basic Research, LLC, a Provo, Utah-based company which, at least according to web sites devoted to legal issues and rip-off alerts, is as duplicitous and unethical as a company can be. Its CEO, Dennis Gay, has received warning letters from the FDA for many unscrupulous products as well as for the ads that promote them (Source: www.fda.gov/foi/warn-ing_letters/g5195d.htm). The name of Klein-Becker's Director of Scientific Affairs, Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 I've seen web sites that claim that Goji berries cure cancer, guarantee you an extra twenty years of life, and make you a sexual superman. All of this is nonsense.
The Goji berry is one of about eighty varieties of the Lycium berry (Lycium barbarum) that is indigenous to the Tibetan and Mongolian
There are about a hundred references on the Internet that mention that fig extracts have shrunk tumors in (unidentified) ")apanese studies," supposedly because figs contain benzaidehyde (usually misspelled as benza/dehyde). If only. |
Devra Davis
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 Television programming of dizzying arrays, luxury and regular magazines and new web sites are proliferating to promote green living options that are not just for the true believers. Yes, such activities appear in the midst of commercials for Hummers and SUVs, but those are dropping faster than lead balloons. The environment is no longer a niche issue of radical chic, but a matter of broadly understood importance. Those of us who indict past failures have a duty to develop new solutions.
My parents, Brigadier General (retired) Harry B. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The consumer, of course, is clueless in this situation because if you visit one of these web sites, it all looks real. They might even have testimonials that are real or fictitious, and it looks like a good deal, because it's a lower price, perhaps, than some of the other web sites where you've seen hoodia. People buy into this, and this happens over and over, thousands of times a day across this country and around the world. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 It's hard for anyone, including researchers like me, to know what other drugs are already in trials, but the two web sites listed here may tip you off to new and early studies.
Finally, I wanted to discuss an entirely new class of drugs that is under the investigative microscope for treating fatigue and pain. The drugs act to stimulate one specific serotonin receptor in the brain. The neurotransmitter serotonin is definitely involved in depression, fatigue, and pain, and the specific serotonin receptor targeted by these drugs may primarily influence fatigue and pain. |
| There are plenty of books, web sites and experts to help you manage your stress load. My goal in this chapter is not to replace them. That would require an entire book (and probably a change of career for me). Instead, what I want to do is to give you an overview of the methods modern psychology has developed to help you manage stress.
Exercise
A major tool to use against stress is physical exercise. Exercise relieves stress by turning down the ANS and putting it into your control. |
| Magazine ads and web sites offer testimonials about the efficacy of literally thousands of food products that sound as if they might be helpful. Be careful—more often than not, these seemingly heartfelt comments by "actual" users amount to little more than a high-pressure sales technique—one aimed specifically at people whose chronic illnesses have made them feel desperate. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 I went online to one of many web sites, where I was directed to respond to a series of questions, being assured that a physician was carefully reviewing my answers. Were one to complete the process, Vicodin would arrive the following day by express post. Once I understood the process, I logged off with great offense. No harm done, I thought. But someone knows that I was shopping for the stuff. Someone is stealing my cookies! |
Andreas Moritz
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| Some web sites on the Internet claim that tea is very high in fluoride content. Fluoride in tea is supposedly much higher than the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) set for fluoride in drinking water. Another site confirms that information, adding that the typical cup of tea exceeds one milligram of fluoride, which is well over the recommended amount for fluoridated drinking water. On yet another site, it says that fluorine and its compounds in food are entirely different from chemically-produced sodium fluoride. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The original Stair Master® by Nautilus can be purchased for approximately $2,000 for their lowest level FreeClimber® unit, but I have found older 4000 PT versions for as little as $1,500 on independent fitness web sites that also sell the FreeClimber for less. If you like the idea of exercising with a stair climber, this is an excellent piece of equipment, and I know because this was the first piece of equipment I ever purchased for my home gym. I have owned it for more than 15 years, and I have never once had a problem with it. |
| There is no shortage of web sites that claim horny goat weed to be the "all natural Viagra" along with a convenient shopping cart to sell the product. But when you look closely at these products you will find synthetic blends of a wide variety of natural compounds.
Egyptian Blue Lotus is an herbal supplement that creates a feeling of euphoria. The Egyptians used it to simulate opium-like hallucinations without narcotics. Yohimbe is a popular herbal product marketed as a sexual stimulant by enhancing blood flow. |
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| You can find this information on the pharmacy web sites or you can call your insurance company to find out which, if any, Internet pharmacies are part of its network.
•Figure in extra costs. Some Internet pharmacies offer free shipping for standard ground delivery. This usually takes two weeks, so order well in advance. Fees for overnight delivery can be high.
A few Internet pharmacies, such as AARP's, charge patients annual membership fees. If you need many prescriptions over a year, the savings can more than offset the extra fee.
•Buy in bulk. |
Jack Challem
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 You can also get referrals through these web sites.
Network Therapy, a Mental Health Network www.networktherapy.com
Psychology Today magazine referral services www.psychologytoday.com
Nutritional Supplements
Thousands of companies sell proprietary brands of vitamins, minerals, and other types of nutritional supplements. I've found the companies listed in the following pages to have high-quality and reliable products.
Advanced Physicians 'Products
Founded by a nutritionally oriented physician, APP offers an extensive line of high-quality vitamin and mineral supplements. |
| Many health food stores and web sites sell Buzz Bars. You can also order them directly from CC Pollen by calling (800) 875-0096 or visiting www.ccpollen.com or www. buzzbars.com.
Earth Song Whole Foods
Earth Song makes several whole-grain snack bars that redefine the meaning of a wholesome sweet. Among the bars are apple-walnut and cranberry-orange. In addition, Earth Song blends an excellent gluten-free muesli, known as Grandpa's Secret Omega-3 Muesli, which makes for a tasty and quick breakfast (if you take about five minutes to prepare it the night before). |
Charles Barber
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 As a reflection of this embrace, or at least acceptance, of symptoms, one finds in the recovery movement a refreshing and sometimes disarming honesty about the problems people have to face day in and day out. web sites created by members of the recovery movement are called such things as www .psychosissucks.com and are organized by entities like "The Madness Group." There is also the recovery movement-friendly "Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research, whose motto is "Advancing in the general direction of bona fide science since last Tuesday" at www .bonkersinstitute.org. |
| You can get some CBT manuals free of charge, on the web sites of the National Institute of Corrections. Aaron Beck has said, "The drug companies spend several billion dollars a year on their consumer ads and promotions to professionals. This has created an aura of success" for drugs. "It is difficult to compete with such a juggernaut, but gradually it is becoming apparent that human problems are best solved by human solutions."57
The other reason why CBT and other psychotherapeutic approaches are not appreciated as they should be is that they require sheer hard work. |
| From the omnipresence of that uniquely
American icon, the smiley face, to the prevalence of emoticons (the smiley faces of e-mail discourse), to web sites like myspace.com that allow the user to register their mood at every entry, to the birth of a burgeoning new academic field, Happiness Studies, with its own journal, the appropriately named Journal of Happiness Studies, it is clear that happiness is something that Americans feel terribly compelled to pursue.
Perhaps the final critical factors in the new misery index are the forces that have pushed us inward, to contemplate only ourselves. |
| There's no longer any need to deal with an actual physician: all these drugs are readily available, with a few clicks and a ready credit card, at web sites like www.anxietydisorders.biz and www.drugsupplier .biz. Anyone who gets e-mail receives these sort of solicitations weekly, if not daily:
SPAM best price$ for top qulity [sic] meds:
Visit our new online pharmacy store and save up too [sic] 85%
Todays [sic] special offers: VIAGRA FOR AS LOW AS $1. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Specific instructions can be found at several web sites (for example, see www.ucop.edu/ humres/eap/relaxationrespone.html). Essentially all you have to do is sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed. Then concentrate on relaxing all your muscles—starting at your toes and moving up toward your head. Then breathe easily and naturally through your nose and as you end each breath, say "One." Do this for ten to twenty minutes per day. As you meditate in this way, your mind might wander; just bring your attention back to your breathing. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Also deserving a mention are consumer protection web sites, such as http://consumeraction.gov, www.lookstoogood tobetrue.com, www.nclnet.org, and http://bbb.org. At www.epls.gov, there is a list of individuals and firms that have had problems in their dealings with the U.S. government and have been excluded from receiving benefits from federal contracts.
Employing a thorough approach and following up as necessary will be essential. In a world quickly becoming unglued, a glowing past might not provide enough insight on what could happen tomorrow. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 There are other web sites that capture the power of story for those of us who are aging:
•www.storycorps.net A fascinating initiative that is recording the life histories of our elders and storing them in the Library of Congress.
•www.duplexplanet.com A site designed to portray the stories of elders who are in decline.
•www.memorybridge.org An organization with a mission to foster intergenerational communication and facilitate relationships between younger persons and people with dementia.
•www.storycenter. |
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| This will give you a list of their publications, recent news stories about them, web sites on which they're listed, and a host of details. Patient complaints will often show up here; there are sites that allow people to let off steam about bad experiences.
Payment information is usually not on a practitioner's web site, and you will usually have to call their office to find that out. A few operate within HMO, PPO, or other medical insurance plans; most do not. Many offer a sliding scale based on financial ability Some offer a free or low-cost introductory visit or examination. |
| Yet surfing through the Energy Psychology web sites reveals the names of thousands of physicians, social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists who have eagerly trained in these new methods for the benefit of their clients and patients.
Energy tapping is to the twenty-first century what hand-washing was to the nineteenth. It's a technique that's so simple, accessible, and low-tech that it doesn't seem possible it can deliver the results it promises. |
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