Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 DiMartino, MD, PhD Assistant Attending Physician Hospital for Special Surgery/
New York Presbyterian Hospital Instructor of Clinical Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College new york, New York
Loren Wissner Greene, MD Clinical Associate Professor Department of Medicine Co-director, Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Program of the Department of Medicine new york University School of
Medicine new york, New York
Axel Grothey, MD
Senior Associate Consultant
Division of Medical Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Stuart I. |
| Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center
Clinical Instructor, Department of
Ophthalmology Columbia University, College of
Physicians and Surgeons new york, New York
Rock Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH Director
Non-surgical Foot and Ankle
Service Hospital for Special Surgery new york Presbyterian Hospital new york, New York
Joseph Scharpf, MD Associate
Head and Neck Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
John J. Stangel, MD Medical Director Westchester County Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut
The Center for Advanced Reproductive Medicine Norwalk, Connecticut
Randall M. |
Ann N. Martin
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 How to Have a Healthier Dog, new york, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1981.
Congalton, D., Alexander, C, When Your Pet Outlives You, Troutdale, Oregon: NewSage Press, 2002.
Cusick, W.D., Canine Nutrition, Wilsonville, Oregon: Doral Publishing Inc., 1997.
Derrico, K., Unforgettable Mutts: Pure of Heart Not of Breed, Troutdale, Oregon: NewSage Press, 1999.
Downing, R., DVM, Pets Living with Cancer, Lakewood, Colorado: American Animal Hospital Association Press, 2000.
Eisnitz, G.A., Slaughterhouse, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books,
Fox, M.W. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Flying from new york to Paris, a 10-hour flight, will entail crossing five time zones. Thus, your circadian rhythms will act as if it's 5 p.m. when it's 10 p.m. local time, and it will take about four days before you feel comfortable with the Parisian time and sleep patterns. Meanwhile, your mental function will be impaired due to sleep deprivation. As you can imagine, safety is a special concern for airline pilots and others adversely affected by jet lag.
East-west travel usually presents fewer disruptions to sleep-wake patterns. If you leave from new york at 7 a.m. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 In 2003, while at the University of Missouri at Columbia, she reported that men in rural Missouri had a 42 percent lower sperm count than those who lived in cities like Minneapolis and new york. In another study, this one conducted by researchers for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System headquartered in Great Neck, new york, 40 percent of men with unexplained infertility tested high for lead in both blood and semen—higher than what is acceptable even for someone who is exposed to lead at work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How many journalists from the new york Times and other papers have been fired after being caught making up all the facts in their articles?" Some journalists, even well known ones, will simply invent interviews with fictional sources and use that as evidence to write their stories.
Many of the stories, even in big papers like the new york Times, don't involve any real fact checking; they're just based on information handed to them by the White House or corporations. The press is big on disease mongering, for example. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A delegation of nurses and doctors from across the country will embark on a tour of East Coast cities beginning today in new york to help energize the nurse grassroots. The tour will mostly take place in a colorfully-wrapped bus encouraging people to see the movie and is being planned in conjunction with premieres of the film in new york, Washington D.C., and other locales. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| If you leave from new york at 7 a.m. local time on a 5-hour nonstop flight, you'll arrive at San Francisco at noon new york time, which is 9 a.m. in San Francisco. You may feel more tired that night and go to bed earlier than your San Francisco counterparts, and awaken earlier the next morning, but in general your sleep will be only minimally and briefly affected because synchronizing to the new time and light cues won't require advancing your circadian rhythms. |
| Therefore, it will take approximately two days to adapt to new york time. Flying from new york to Paris, a 10-hour flight, will entail crossing five time zones. Thus, your circadian rhythms will act as if it's 5 p.m. when it's 10 p.m. local time, and it will take about four days before you feel comfortable with the Parisian time and sleep patterns. Meanwhile, your mental function will be impaired due to sleep deprivation. As you can imagine, safety is a special concern for airline pilots and others adversely affected by jet lag. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The epidemic begins in new york, and in order to contain the outbreak, U.S. military officials seal off the island, destroy the bridges and impose a strict quarantine. It is from this backdrop that Will Smith plays the role of a lone hero-survivor who must survive the violent aggression of the mutated human beasts while desperately searching for a medical cure that might reverse the disease.
The film is part horror, part action and part drama. The CG scenes of an abandoned, weed-overgrown new york City are nothing less than astonishing. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Natural Remedies for Dogs, new york, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Websites
In the United States
American Board of Veterinary Toxicology. Provides addresses and various links to toxicology sites: www.abvt.org
Animal Protection Institute. An organization that informs, educates, and advocates the humane treatment ofall animals: www.api4animals/org/
Katie Merwick. The Second Chance Ranch, provides insight into adopt-
In Defense of Animals. This site addresses cruelty to animals and what this organization is doing: to end such treatment:
Wendell Belfield, DVM. |
Roberta Bivins
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 At the Gates: Our Safety Depends on Official Vigilance', Harper's Weekly, new york, 5 September 1885. Cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox, all diseases associated with immigrants and the urban slums in which they were forced by poverty to live, are blocked from entering the Port of new york by a barrier labelled 'Quarantine', and an angel bearing a shield marked 'cleanliness'. This image typifies American attitudes towards immigration as a font of disease, and the new public health policies, shaped by both Sanitarian ideals and germ thinking which emerged from them. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Three of the patients moved from the worst classification, Class IV, to the best classification, Class I, under the new york Heart Association guide (see box). Four patients improved from Class III—IV to Class II, and two others improved from Class III to Class I.7
The new york Heart Association classifications for functional capacity:
Class I: No limitations; ordinary physical activity does not cause undue fatigue, shortness of breath, or heart palpitations.
Class II: Slight limitation of physical activity; such patients are comfortable at rest. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The new york Times revealed that some media are being paid to report promotional material under the guise of investigative reporting. The Times also reported that other newspapers use "medical reporters," who are paid to introduce a new product. This practice gives the illusion of "educating" the public, but since it is nothing more than bought-and-paid-for advertising, the words collusion and fraud come to mind. The new york Times, (May 7, 2003) says that pharmaceutical corporations use this method of "reporting" to skirt the law. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In 1997, Rhio started "Rhio's Raw Energy Hotline" on one of her phone lines in new york City where she lives. The hotline, which is updated once each month, provides information for people who are interested in the raw/live food lifestyle, including upcoming events in the new york area as well as worldwide.
Matt Monarch: Raw Foodist and Author
Author of "Raw Spirit"
After five years of eating a 100% raw food diet, Matt was inspired to write a book called Raw Spirit. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox, all diseases associated with immigrants and the urban slums in which they were forced by poverty to live, are blocked from entering the Port of new york by a barrier labelled 'Quarantine', and an angel bearing a shield marked 'cleanliness'. This image typifies American attitudes towards immigration as a font of disease, and the new public health policies, shaped by both Sanitarian ideals and germ thinking which emerged from them. ever-larger and more disorienting hospitals. |
Mark Sircus
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 According to the new york Times, "New evidence keeps emerging that the medical profession has sold its soul in exchange for what can only be described as bribes from the manufacturers of drugs and medical devices."1 A soulless medicine's first crime is its failure to seriously embrace preventive medicine and avoid disease in the first place. None of the pharmaceutical companies are interested in preventive medicine for they make all their money from sickness and disease.
Preventive medicine is as important as any other type of medicine. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Michael Bral of the new york University College of Dentistry outlined nine qualities of an ideal anti-plaque agent.4 They were:
• eliminates disease-causing bacteria only.
• does not lead to the development of resistant bacteria.
• stays in the mouth for an extended period of time.
• is safe.
• reduces plaque and gingivitis.
• does not stain teeth.
• has no adverse effects on teeth.
• is easy to use.
• is inexpensive.
Dr. Bral noted that no agent met all of these criteria. In fact, most potential agents fail in several areas. |
| Some historians suggest that Dutch settlers may have brought tea to New Amsterdam (later to become new york) before it was introduced in England. Tea remained a popular beverage with the British colonists. In 1773, however, America's relationship with tea took a turn for the worse. A group of colonists known as the Sons of Liberty, incensed by what they regarded as excessive taxation by the British government, dressed up as Indians and emptied the cargo of tea chests from the East India Company's ships moored in Boston Harbor, a cargo that would be valued at more than $200 million today. |
Michael Pollan
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 When the results were announced in 2006, it made front-page news (The new york Times headline said low-fat diet does not cut health risks, study finds) and the cloud of nutritional confusion beneath which Americans endeavor to eat darkened further.
Even a cursory examination of the study's methods makes you wonder what, if anything, it proved, either about dietary fat or meat eating. You could argue that, like the Nurses' Healthy Study, all any such trials prove is that changing one component in the diet at a time, and not by much, does not confer a significant health benefit. |
| The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science," points out Marion Nestle, a new york University nutritionist, "is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle."
If nutrition scientists know this, why do they do it anyway? Because a nutrient bias is built into the way science is done. Scientists study variables they can isolate; if they can't isolate a variable, they won't be able to tell whether its presence or absence is meaningful. |
| Premature or not," The new york Times' Jane Brody wrote in 1981, "the Dietary Goals are beginning to reshape the nutritional philosophy, if not yet the eating habits, of most Americans." six « EAT RIGHT, GET FATTER
In fact, we did change our eating habits in the wake of the new guidelines, endeavoring to replace the evil fats at the top of the food pyramid with the good carbs spread out at the bottom. |
| It buried the change in a set of new, seemingly consumer-friendly rules about nutrient labeling so that news of the imitation rule's repeal did not appear until the twenty-seventh paragraph of The new york Times' account, published under the headline f.d.a. proposes sweeping change in food labeling: new rules designed to give consumers a better idea of nutritional value. (The second deck of the headline gave away the game: processors back move. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 According to new york Mercantile Exchange rules, both are required to put up a "good faith" deposit, known as a "margin," to ensure that they honor their commitments.
But when a relatively small amount of such collateral is involved—or in the case of an option contract, where premium payments are typically a fraction of the face, or "notional," value of the deal—that represents a form of leverage. For a small down payment, one can control an asset worth many times that much. |
| Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of new york, has been uncharacteristically outspoken for a central banker. In a February 2006 speech on dramatic changes in the U.S. and global financial systems during the past quarter century, he began with the typically benign observation that derivatives appeared to have made the financial system "able to absorb more easily a broader array of shocks." But then he added:
They have not eliminated risk. They have not ended the tendency of markets to [undergo] occasional periods of mania and panic. |
| Other disasters, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, also triggered an ad hoc response, with Washington authorizing at least $20 billion for new york alone. That event also led to the creation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, which provided a backstop of $100 billion a year in the event of similar hostilities. |
| In September, new york Fed president Timothy Geithner, SEC commissioner Annette Nazareth, and the head of the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority wrote in the Financial Times that" [i] n a more integrated global market, we will increasingly find ourselves compelled to pursue borderless solutions." Unfortunately, although such efforts could prove of value, history suggests otherwise. Just consider the example of the lack of jurisdictional coordination that hampered rescue efforts in the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina disaster. |
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