David Steinman
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 To educate consumers and businesses about options for disposing of unwanted computers, the rethink Initiative coalition created a Web site (www.ebay.com/rethink) that includes information on how to safely sell, recycle, or donate used computers.
At Freedom Press, we've made some important breakthroughs, too. Our new computers come with lead-free motherboards and contain voltage regulators that reduce the actual power the machine requires to run.
Just in your home, there is so much you can do for free, and that is easy to do. I just got up and turned down our water heater to approximately 120? |
Ray D. Strand
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 Willett, chief of nutrition and preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School, proposed in his book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy that we must rethink the food pyramid the USDA recommends. The bottom rung should be low-glycemic carbohydrates, while high-glycemic foods (white bread, white flour, pasta, rice, and potatoes) belong at the top of the food pyramid with all the sweets."
Everyone realizes how bad sweets are for diabetics. But few realize that high-glycemic foods raise blood sugar much faster than eating candy does. |
Gregg Braden
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 Although I will share the leading-edge science that invites us to rethink our relationship to the world, this work has not been written to conform to the format or standards of a classroom science text or a technical journal.
?This is not a peer-reviewed research paper. Each chapter and every report of research has nor gone through the lengthy review process of a certified board or selected panel of "experts" with a history of seeing our world through the eyes of a single field of study, such as physics, math, or psychology.
?This is a well-researched and well-documented guide. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Avon, rethink your packaging for an otherwise state-of-the-art product!
© Anew Retroactive+ Repair Eye Serum ($18 for 0.4 ounce) contains mostly water, film-forming agent, slip agents, antioxidants, skin-identical ingredients, anti-irritant, a cell-communicating ingredient, plant oil, more film-forming agents, and preservative. It's a good lightweight serum for slightly dry skin, but the claims about what its cell-communicating ingredient is capable of go beyond what this class of ingredients is known to do for skin. |
Anne Harrington
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 If Marmot's new findings were right, then perhaps it was necessary to rethink the then-accepted explanation for the longevity and good health of the Rosetans and traditional Japanese. Perhaps these people owed their good fortune less to the power of healing ties and more to the fact that they lived in communities where everyone was provided with a clear and secure social role, where overt displays of status were discouraged, and where conformity was encouraged. In Roseto, everyone ate pasta on the same days of the week. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 If you think you can't afford to take the time to do some stress-reducing activities, rethink that.
You can't afford not to.
Ways to reduce stress are as easy to find as your own bathroom. A soak in a warm bath works wonders, especially when you add some epsom salts (loaded with relaxing magnesium).
Ditto lying in bed by candlelight reading a book that doesn't have anything to do with work. O
Making love works great, plus it raises both your 03
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Try spending time with an animal. Or in the 70 m sunshine. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Being removed from the workplace for five weeks gave her time to rest and to rethink some of her strategies of living—and then change them. This woman was unusual in that she figured it out for herself. She might have gone to the doctor to hear there was nothing wrong with her. What would have happened to her if she did not take a time-out from her hectic life? Who knows? But stress is something to be taken very seriously. Therefore, you should understand some of the basic facts and biology of stress.
What Is Stress? |
Ray D. Strand
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| We must rethink the meaning of RDAs—recommended daily allowances.
Optimal Levels Versus RDA Levels
First, you must understand how recommended daily allowances were developed in the first place. The RDAs started in the early 1920s and 1930s as minimal requirements of ten essential nutrients that could help us avoid acute deficiency diseases. These are diseases like scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C), rickets (deficiency of vitamin D), and pellagra (deficiency of niacin). In other words if you consumed the RDAs for vitamin C, vitamin D, and niacin, you would not develop any of these illnesses. |
| Major concern has arisen among researchers and clinicians alike—it's time to rethink our approach to cancer prevention and treatment.
But, you may ask, hasn't research made some great progress? Indeed. We have achieved some improvements, but those lie largely in the realm of being able to detect some cancers sooner through advances such as mammography for the detection of breast cancer and PSA tests for prostate cancer.
Is earlier detection all we can hope for? No. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Yunus took his capacity to rethink institutions from the bottom up and applied it to banking. It's possible, we hope, that this questioning—why does it have to be this way?—can inspire rethinking of all the businesses Grameen spawns. Grameen can help the potential Perdues of Bangladesh, for instance, rethink the poultry business, as is already happening here in the U.S., in Europe, and elsewhere, too. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 My hope is that this book causes you to rethink the role of medications and other pills in your life in relation to other actions you can take to maximize your health, such as making changes in your diet; incorporating exercise into your daily routine; learning and using stress-reduction techniques; and changing other behaviors like quitting smoking. The most common disorders, like diabetes and heart disease, are often better treated and prevented through changes in diet, exercise, and lifestyle than they are with medication. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Peter especially wrestled with having to rethink his entire belief system. It was no small feat to grasp some of the strange, although tantalizing, results of his experiments. For most readers, the difficulties will come in believing that so much can take place in their bodies at so infinitesimal a scale. To help readers make the shift from the familiar to the unfamiliar as effortlessly as possible, we will begin our journey by taking you on a tour of your body, into the awe-inspiring interior spaces of yourself. |
Ann N. Martin
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 My hope is that veterinary medicine and nonprofit animal organizations rethink their relationships with pet food companies.
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Mad Cow Disease and Animal Companions
M ad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease the general public often heard about in the 1990s as large numbers of cattle in the United Kingdom contracted it and died. In 1985 the first case of BSE was detected in the United Kingdom and by 1990 there were at least fifteen thousand confirmed cases of BSE in the country. |
Jay Joseph
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 This might have compelled psychiatry to rethink the position that its disorders are caused by faulty genes, but this has not occurred. A major reason is that a belief in the genetic basis of mental disorders is a cornerstone of contemporary psychiatry. Yet, the evidence supporting this position is stunningly weak. In this book I show why this is so, and why there must be a massive rethinking of the role of genetics in causing psychiatric disorders. |
Gregg Braden
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| So rather than building upon the certainty of what was believed in the past, the new discoveries have forced scientists to rethink their assumptions of how the universe works. In some ways, they've had to go back to square one. Probably the biggest shift in thinking has been the realization that matter itself—the stuff that everything is made of—doesn't even exist in the way we used to think it did.
Rather than thinking of the universe as being made of "things"? |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 In The Myth of Alzheimer's, we have already begun to rethink our understanding of AD in order to view it as a lifelong process over which the brain ages rather than a late-stage "disease." This chapter will push the new story further by outlining a plan for prevention in the twenty-first century that introduces you to risk factors for brain aging that you can confront to reduce the rate at which your brain ages.
But that is only half the story. |
Jay Joseph
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| The "distress engendered by the numerous reversals and non-replications," they continued, "has led many to rethink the paradigms being employed."2 Unfortunately, instead of rethinking the paradigms of kinship studies of twins and adoptees, they focused on improving the science of molecular genetic research, arguing for a "complex basis for the diseases being studied."3
The New Millennium
The unexpected failure to replicate linkage claims or to find genes by the year 2000 was the subject of several commentaries by those active in the field. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 These revelations force us to rethink not only what it is to be human, but also how to relate. We may have to reconsider the effect of everything that we think, whether we vocalize it or not. Our relationship with the world carries on, even in our silence.
We must also recognize that these ideas are no longer the ruminations of a few eccentric individu ds. The power of thought underpins many wellaccepted disciplines in every reach of life, from orthodox and alternative medicine to competitive sport. Modern medicine must fully appreciate the central role of intention in healing. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Home Office
If you have a home office or room where you store arts and crafts, you may want to rethink how you store glues, ink cartridges, liquid paper, rubber cement, carbon paper, and so on. Keep all of these products, which will be labeled as toxic, in sealed containers. As with any other room, you should keep this one well ventilated and place a large plant or two in a corner.
Light It Up Naturally
For all your house's rooms, try to bring in as much natural light as possible so you don't have to resort to so much artificial lighting. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Every engineer in the room was now being required to rethink the ingredients that enable their complex networks of circuits and chips to work. The Europeans had banned six of those substances —mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, and two chemical flame retardants called polybromi-nated biphenyl flame retardants—from all electrically powered devices. These heavy metals and chemicals have been integral to the circuitry, solder, and casing of thousands of small and large electronic devices. |
| Now he and his fellow engineers are being forced by events in Brussels to rethink how they construct those devices. Kirschener had just dismantled a Dell computer, as an exercise in coming to understand for himself the presence of those now undesirable chemicals that made all the connections in that machine run.
"All this [European] legislation is forcing the industry to reconsider some of the most basic production processes that have been in place for years," Kirschener said as we surveyed the wreckage on his worktable. "As an engineer, every material has a purpose. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Completely by accident, I came across a small pamphlet in a secondhand bookstall that forced me to rethink this chronology. It was a copy of a groundbreaking report submitted to the Council of the Royal Society in Great Britain, one of the world's leading scientific institutions. Entitled The Pollution of the Sea and Shore by Oil, its twenty-two pages lay out with great foresight this emerging environmental threat. The report is dated October 1936.8
The author of the pamphlet, a university chemist named Neil K. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In order to do it, we have to rethink the way we pay doctors and hospitals. The first step is for Medicare to address the way it overpays for certain procedures, like radiology and bypass surgery, and underpays for less-intensive care. The current system encourages hospitals to invest in expensive doctors and beds and technology that aren't necessarily what patients need. But there are other ways the payment system makes it hard for doctors to coordinate their care and leads to unnecessary hospitalizations. Take the example of caring for diabetics. |
Sue Palmer
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 As Julia Neuberger says in The Moral State We're In:
'Unless we rethink our social obligations and reassess the value of trust, we will become even more cynical, even more atomistic, ever more individualistic - and there really will be no such thing as society.'
DETOXING BEHAVIOUR
• Aim for an authoritative style in all dealings with your child. Try to be constantly aware of the need for warmth balanced by firmness.
• Parents' job is to give children what they need - this is not always the same as what they want. |
David Wolfe
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 The discoverer, Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras, stated, "It is so surprising we must rethink human evolution to fit that face." Discover magazine stated: "The Gran Dolina face is 800,000 years old and yet distinctively ours. It is almost that of a modern human."
The evidence is showing and will continue to show that all the Homo forms have existed together for thousands - or millions - of years without the gradual evolution through common ancestry concept. |
Jacky Law
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 It is forcing researchers to rethink some cherished ideas about medicine, from what makes an ideal drug and the design of clinical trials to the underlying causes of disease.20
CAM embraces many different practices but they all tend to share the same broad holistic perspective. In essence, this says that a healthy body is a system in hatmony with itself and with its surroundings. Moreover, diseases can be created by a fault that is disttibuted over the whole body rather than in one specific part. |
Alex Steffen
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 Transparency is revolutionizing every aspect of our economy and its industries and forcing firms to rethink their fundamental values."
þpposite, left: The United Farm Workers boycott of Gallo persuaded the winery to change its policies toward its workforce, San Francisco, 20DS.
Opposite, right: NGOs use the media to demand transparency, helping this union leader appeal for the release of arrested South Korean protesters.
In a transparent world, companies can't beat 'em with secrecy, and if they're smart, they won't try. |
| A company called Persuasive Games has created a line of video games—"anti-advergames"—designed to encourage players to rethink their relationship to consumption and to engage in corporate critique. The game Disaffected! satirizes the infamously disordered and endlessly frustrating customer service inside a Kinko's store.
In Disaffected!, the player controls the employees behind the counter. As customers file in and form a line, the player must find the customers' orders while coping with a host of problems and staff ineptitude. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 As a natural health practitioner, it has been necessary for me to rethink my recommendation of soy milk, particularly as I specialize in infertility and cannot afford to interfere with my patients' hormone health. It has also been brought to my attention from one 33-year-old male patient who after many years of using soy milk ceased having it to find that his energy levels increased and his rather poor libido improved almost instantly and has not changed in the last six months. R.K., Akron, Ohio
Even in health-food store soy foods, these added supplements are cheap, mass-produced products. |
Michele Simon
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 Next, we must rethink and reprioritize our key concerns. If small battles like removing sodas from schools remain our top priority, we can only hope to win small victories. But if we shift our focus to bigger-picture problems like the commercialization of childhood or the corporate takeover of the food supply, then our demands and goals will be more far-reaching and substantive.
What is the underlying cause of the problem?
Over the last century, the human diet has been radically altered. The foods we eat now bear little resemblance to those that sustained our ancestors for millennia. |
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