Mark Sircus
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 Hospitals around new york city are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly half the patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease.15
Type II diabetes is being declared an epidemic in new york city.
With 1 in 3 children born in the United States five years ago expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in new york city offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city and the rest of the world is headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn. |
Anne Harrington
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 Indeed, the article concluded rather breathlessly, it was more than that: in new york city that day, "Arnold Toynbee's vision of a world renaissance sparked by the meeting of East and West seems to have arrived."90
I was an observer at that new york city meeting. What struck me at the time was less a sense of radical East-West convergence than a distinct lack of thematic integration. The conference participants discussed, on
Ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western neuroscience? |
Mark Sircus
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| Type II diabetes is being declared an epidemic in new york city.
With 1 in 3 children born in the United States five years ago expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in new york city offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city and the rest of the world is headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn. While the ranks of American diabetics have exploded by an extremely painful 80% in the last decade, New York has seen a devastating explosion of 140%. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The percentage of diabetics in new york city is about a third higher than the rest of the nation and cases have been increasing about twice as fast as nationally. In the past ten years, new york city has seen a 140 percent increase in diabetes. The proportion of diabetics is higher than that of Los Angeles, Chicago, or Boston. In New York, the diabetic rate is highest where there are ethnic groups with high genetic tendencies. i i-1-1?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In his BBC documentary "Guinea Pig Kids" and BBC News article of the same name, reporter Jamie Doran reveals that children involved in the new york city foster care system were unwitting human subjects in experimental AIDS drug trials from 1988 to, in his belief, present times (Doran).
(2005)
In response to the BBC documentary and article "Guinea Pig Kids", the new york city Administration of Children's Services (ACS) sends out an Apr. |
| The new york city Administration for Children's Services begins allowing foster care children living in about two dozen children's homes to be used in National Institutes of Health-sponsored (NIH) experimental AIDS drug trials. These children -- totaling 465 by the program's end -- experience serious side effects, including inability to walk, diarrhea, vomiting, swollen joints and cramps. Children's home employees are unaware that they are giving the HIV-infected children experimental drugs, rather than standard AIDS treatments (New York City ACS, Doran).
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The United States sends 1. |
Anne Harrington
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| Pastor for fifty-two years of the Marble Collegiate Church in new york city, Peale made his reputation in 1952 with publication of the runaway best-seller The Power of Positive Thinking, which opened with the ringing words "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!"35
What made Peale such an effective spokesman for positive thinking in the postwar era? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Back in the 1990s when I was working as a personal trainer in new york city, gyms were springing up all over the city. The New York Times called the phenomenon "The Gym Wars." There was much discussion about where to go to get the best workout, about who had the best aerobics classes, about which location had the most state-of-the-art equipment, which gym had the best trainers, and so on. I remember being interviewed at the time by one of the magazines, and being asked, "Which gym is best?"
Here was my answer: The best gym is the one you actually go to. |
| As my friend, nutritionist Robert Crayhon is fond of saying, "there's no double-blind study to prove that water puts out fire, but the entire new york city fire department operates on the presumption that it's a good working hypothesis!"
So What Is Natural Medicine, Anyway?
Try for a minute to come up with your own definition of "natural medicine" and you'll quickly get an idea of the difficulty I was faced with in writing this section of the book. Is it medicine that starts life as a plant? |
Stacy Malkan
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 Undercover, Part II
As the lobby drama played out in California one month before Schwarzenegger signed the bill, Susan Roll from the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition was dusting off her Joyful business cards and heading back to new york city for Health and Beauty America 2005. In the year since her last undercover visit to this major industry conference, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics had celebrated some key victories — top manufacturers had removed one of the worst ingredients from nail polish and the California legislature had passed a precedent-setting law. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Chiropractic for Back Pain
YEARS AGO, when I was in charge of the curriculum at the Equinox Fitness Training Institute in new york city, I had a lot of occasion to work with chiropractors. One thing I noticed was that, as a group, they seemed way more interested and knowledgeable about nutrition than most of the medical doctors I knew.
Maybe because chiropractors do not prescribe drugs, their orientation always seemed to be toward maximizing the body's natural ability to heal. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In 2007 new york city banned the use of trans fats in its restaurants; however, the trans fats are merely being replaced with new artificial fats that have the same or worse effects.
Healthy Today—Sick Tomorrow
Unfortunately, high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) has become the dominating health concern of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease that doesn't show up as one. Even the healthiest people may have elevated serum cholesterol and yet their health remains perfect. |
| In a 2003 study undertaken by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in new york city, researchers found that half of the men found to have PSA levels high enough to be recommended for a biopsy had follow-up tests with normal PSA levels. In fact, doctors at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle estimated that PSA screening may result in an over-diagnosis rate of more than 40 percent. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Despite the apparent connection, some might wonder whether a safer Big Apple had as much to do with the economic ground-swell that swept across the nation at that time as with New York City's zero-tolerance policing policy. Sociologist Steven Box would probably have argued in favor of the former after he outlined a strong link between illegal activity and unemployment, poverty, and heightened competition in his 1977 book Recession, Crime, and
Punishment. |
| Durant
M any law enforcement officials and criminologists assert that the broken-window theory, which holds that "disorder invites more disorder," played a key role in an unprecedented drop in crime rates in new york city during the 1990s. In a 1996 New Yorker article and later in his 2000 bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell recounts the strategy adopted by the city's police department. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Addiction
Reclaiming the Biology of Self-Control among the thirty-five thousand people who ran the new york city Marathon in November of 2006 were sixteen former drug addicts, a number of whom joked openly that they'd spent most of their lives "running from the cops." When they crossed the finish line, the distance they had come was far greater than 26.2 miles. |
Stacy Malkan
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| It's your story whether you live in new york city, the Arctic Circle or the top of the Rockies; no matter your race, nationality, age or income level.
It's your story and mine because all of us today share something unshared by countless generations of humans who lived before us: we carry man-made pollutants in our bodies. We inhale these toxicants
Daily Dose: How many personal care products did you use just this morning? Shampoo, deodorant, lotion, makeup — the average woman uses a dozen personal care products containing 168 chemical ingredients every day. |
Melody Petersen
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 Sackler, a psychiatrist from new york city, and his two brothers. Dr. Sackler is credited by many pharmaceutical and advertising executives for coming up with some of the industry's most aggressive and effective promotional techniques. In 1997, he was inducted into the industry's Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, which hailed his success in the 1960s in turning the tranquilizer Valium into the world's first $100 million drug. |
Anne Harrington
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| In 1988, one activist AIDS patient in new york city put the matter plainly in the pages of New York Native, a gay and lesbian periodical:
Psychological warfare is being waged against gay men in the United States. 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). |
Elaine Magee
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 But a recent review of garlic research by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in new york city concluded that garlic does indeed have modest lipid-lowering effects when consumed for 6 months.
Studies on a particular form of supplement, AGE (aged garlic extract), have some encouraging results to report. Two small studies from Pennsylvania State University in University Park and UCLA found that AGE reduced total cholesterol by 7 percent and 3 percent, respectively, and reduced LDL cholesterol by 8 percent and 22 percent. |
Anne Harrington
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| As one young woman in new york city explained to a journalist in 1967, "I kept thinking that through the constant use of LSD, I'd return to the religious feeling I had with it the first time. . . . But it never came and I met Swami. I gave up drugs. I was hooked on the religion and on yoga. I'm a better person now. I'm not hung up on myself anymore. |
| In May 1998, he was the guest of honor at a public conference in new york city that brought together a star-studded cast of brain scientists, physicians, and Buddhist scholars to discuss the "health effects of advanced meditation."
This last event is worthy of further comment, since it provided a foretaste of things to come. New York magazine's cover that week sported an image of the Dalai Lama posed in front of rows of computers showing colorful brain scan images. |
| I was an observer at that new york city meeting. What struck me at the time was less a sense of radical East-West convergence than a distinct lack of thematic integration. The conference participants discussed, on
Ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western neuroscience? The Dalai Lama gazes out from the cover of New York magazine with his bald pate covered in electrodes and posed against a bank of computers. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 I held a number of positions in the fitness industry from the ground up — from a nationally certified personal trainer to vice president to president of a premier health and fitness club chain in new york city and the president of the largest club chain in California. I was also the executive vice president of sales and marketing for the largest club chain in the world and owned and operated my own fitness company. Throughout my career I have researched and purchased millions of dollars worth of fitness equipment, supplements and other health and fitness related products and services. |
| I was 21 years old living in new york city making more than $40,000 in my first year of club management. Having made the decision that health and fitness was the career I wanted to pursue, the pressure to perform was on. Like most young people, I experimented with drugs. I never felt addicted to drugs, but then again, addicts do not admit to their addictions until they are ready to face them. Even though I was exercising and it looked like I was in shape, I was far from healthy. |
| Article from the National Center of Complementary and Alterative Medicine
"What Makes Us Stick to Our Bad Habits"
Bev Betkowski, University of Alberta Medical News Today (November 9, 2006)
"New York City Passes Trans Fats Ban"
MSN Health & Fitness (December 5, 2006)
Restaurants must eliminate artery-clogging ingredient by July 2008.
Chapter Two
The Prescription Drug Disaster
A drug may be on the market for up to five years before we learn about its harmful effects, while making you and millions of Americans human guinea pigs. |
| With a desire to get back East, I packed my bags and drove across country alone from California to new york city and called the first club listed in the yellow pages for a job. As the cliche goes, "If I could make it there, I'll make it anywhere." Within two weeks I was hired as a personal trainer for a whopping $3.50 an hour and I was on my way. My very first paycheck from June 1981 for $111.17 in take-home pay says it all. I had no relevant education, no fitness certifications and no prior experience. |
| In June 2006, the new york city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) warned residents against using herbal products made in China, specifically those containing high levels of lead and mercury. Sounds reasonable, but while the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board recommends avoiding food with more than 2 parts per million (ppm) of lead and 1 ppm of mercury, there are no federal standards about lead and mercury content in supplements.26 Again, there are no federal standards about lead and mercury content in supplements. This is absolute insanity. |
David R. Montgomery
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 High winds stirred up enough dust to choke people, shred crops, kill livestock, and shroud distant new york city in an eerie veil.
The National Resources Board reported that by the end of 1934, dust storms had destroyed an area larger than the state of Virginia. Another hundred million acres were severely degraded.
In the spring of 1935 strong winds again tore through the parched fields of Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. With the fields freshly plowed, there was no vegetation to hold the dry loess in place. |
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