Mark Sircus
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 Cancer is the second leading cause of death, exceeded only by heart disease. Among children ages 1 to 14, cancer is now the leading cause of death by disease. At current rates, invasive cancer will be diagnosed in half of all men and in one in three women in their lifetime.
More than 1.3 million new cases of invasive cancer will have been diagnosed in 2006, meaning that approximately 1,500 Americans will die of the disease everyday. |
Ron Garner
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 A July 2000 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (jama) presented statistics to show that doctors are the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, in the United States.7 From a separate study commissioned by the Nutrition Institute of America, a more recent article entitled "Death by Medicine" by Drs. Null, Dean, Feldman, and Rasio concludes that the American medical system is the "leading cause of death and injury in the United States. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In case you're wondering, chronic lower respiratory conditions such as bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma rank as the fourth biggest killer, and accidents comprise the number five cause for death in the United States, although the Journal of the American Medical Association ranked iatrogenic causes, resulting from doctors' therapy or activity, as the third leading cause of death. Still other experts blame doctors as the leading cause of death.)
Acclaimed physician Mark Hyman, M.D. |
Bill Sardi
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 Gastroenterology Journal 47: 293-3000, 1989]
Among 571 autopsies of gastric cancer cases evaluated in Norway, 165 (29%) were incidental and not a cause of death or symptoms. [European Journal Surgical Oncology 16:417-22 1990]
Among autopsies of adults over age 95 that were reviewed, cancer as a cause of death was underestimated by nearly 50%. [Clinical Geriatric Medicine 13: 55-68, 1997] This means many were living with symptom-less cancer till their dying day.
Among 139 autopsies of males reviewed in Hungary, 38.8% had incidental prostate cancer detected only at autopsy. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| A Closer Look at the Sugar-Diabetes Connection
Diabetes, as I said previously, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. (It is also the fifth leading cause of death by disease.) Nearly 21 million people, or 7 percent of the population, already have diabetes, and another 41 million Americans have prediabetes, meaning that their blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
Of that, 14.6 million are diagnosed and another 6.2 million are undiagnosed. |
Dawson Church
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 According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, some 250,000 people each year die from the negative effects of drugs, unnecessary surgeries, infections they pick up in hospitals, and other iatrogenic (doctor-caused) illnesses, making iatrogenic illness the third largest cause of death in the U.S., just behind cancer and heart disease.21 According to a meticulous and recent analysis of data from a spectrum of U.S. government agencies, when all other factors are included, the number rises to 783,966, making doctors, hospitals, and drugs the leading cause of death in America. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| It is also the fifth leading cause of death by disease.) Nearly 21 million people, or 7 percent of the population, already have diabetes, and another 41 million Americans have prediabetes, meaning that their blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
Of that, 14.6 million are diagnosed and another 6.2 million are undiagnosed. The total cost for this disease to Americans is a whopping $132 billion, with $92 billion in direct medical costs.
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Andreas Moritz
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 Acidic blood levels are a leading cause of death!
Caffeine, which is a major component in most soft drinks, removes water from the body faster than the body can absorb it again, thereby generating constant thirst. People who frequently drink soft drinks are never really able to quench their thirst because their bodies continually and increasingly run out of cellular water. Some college students drink as many as 10-14 cans of cola a day. Eventually, they confuse their bodies' never-ending thirst signal with hunger and begin to overeat, causing swelling and excessive weight gain. |
| Heart disease, for example, which is today's leading cause of death, rarely killed anyone at the beginning of the 20th century.
Our time is characterized by overstimulation, which has a strong, energy-depleting effect on the body. |
| The tragedy in all of this is that such treatments don't change overall mortality rates; only the cause of death becomes altered. The message here is that if you don't want to damage or destroy your immune system, don't eat refined, processed fats and oils.
What Really Burns and Damages the Skin
A person who consumes polyunsaturated fats in his diet and exposes his skin to ultraviolet light to the point of reddening produces hormone-like substances called prostaglandins from the linoleic acid contained in the fats. |
| Since most people in the industrialized nations have consistently been consuming excessively large quantities of protein, particularly since World War II, coronary heart disease has become a leading cause of death in the developed world. As you will be able to see below, most of the major risk elements of suffering a heart attack are either directly or indirectly linked with high protein consumption and protein deposits in the blood vessel walls. Following are the indications of such risks:
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| It is estimated that by the year 2010 diabetes will actually exceed both heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death through its many complications. It is my hope that more and more scientists and doctors begin to see the strong link that exists between all these "diseases." They are metabolic disorders that share a common cause, but show up as different symptoms.
Autoimmune (Type 1) Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes affects nearly 700,000 people in the United States. It is the most common chronic metabolic disorder to affect children. |
| On the other hand, if an African is diagnosed with having "slim disease" without previous HIV infection and subsequently dies, AIDS is not considered the cause of death. It is worthy to note that there are at least as many cases of slim disease without HIV as there are with HIV, and that the retrovirus HIV has proven to be incapable of causing cell destruction, which is the main characteristic accompanying "slim disease".
If the HIV virus cannot be held responsible for causing AIDS diseases, then what is the cause of AIDS?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Organized medicine is the leading cause of death in this country. Prescription drugs are the fourth-leading cause of death. There are more than 750,000 people being killed each year by conventional medicine.
My source for that is the document Death by Medicine, authored in part by Dr. Gary Null. These statistics have all been documented and published. Some of them have been published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. These are stats right out of organized medicine.
If you walk into a hospital and see what kind of care patients get, it should be no surprise. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So what really got my attention was an article written in The Journal of American Medical Association back in 1998, in which they showed that properly prescribed medication, prescribed and taken properly, is the fourth-leading cause of death in the country. Then, when you add the improperly prescribed medications to this that are not taken properly, that is another 80,000 deaths, making it the third-leading cause of death. Yet, no one in this country is talking about it. We don’t even keep statistics on it. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In fact, the number two cause of death for women in their twenties and thirties after physical injury is suicide due to depression.
Let me begin with the ABCs of depression itself. As is the case with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), psychiatrists have come up with a clinical case definition by consensus. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines a major depressive episode as requiring "at least 2 weeks during which there is either depressed mood or the loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 There is a close association between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol and coronary heart disease, which is a leading cause of death all over the world.
Low density lipoproteins are assembled in the liver. They are not known to contribute to heart disease unless they are oxidized by free radicals. The creation of atherosclerotic plaque and its progression to heart disease is only partially understood. When LDL levels in the blood are elevated, the oxidation of LDL may lead to the accumulation of fatty slabs on the inside of the arterial walls. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Iatrogenic Causes Blamed for 3rd Leading cause of death Deficiences in U.S. Medical Care." JAMA 284, no. 17 (2001): 2184-85.
Reinberg, Steven. "Diet with the 'Right Carbs' Seems to Boost Health: Low-Glycemic-Index Plan Is Better Than Low-Fat or Low-Carb Diets, Study Says." HealthDay, August 26, 2004. http://www.healthday.com/view.cfm?id=520863.
Romieu, Isabelle, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Luisa Maria Sanchez-Zamorano, Walter Willett, and Mauricio Hernandez-Avila. "Carbohydrates and the Risk of Breast Cancer among Mexican Women." Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 13 (2004): 1283-89. |
| Still other experts blame doctors as the leading cause of death.)
Acclaimed physician Mark Hyman, M.D., author of UltraMetabolism and former co-medical director of Canyon Ranch health resort in Lenox, Massachusetts, puts it succinctly: "All the diseases that kill us in our society are related to refined carbohydrates and sugars—cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, stroke, and Alzheimer's. |
| Indeed, habitually overcon-suming low-quality carbs—which most Americans do—could play a role in the development of heart disease (the nation's number one killer), cancer (number two cause of death), stroke (number three), and diabetes (number six). Bear in mind that all those quickie culprit carbs also could trigger obesity and Syndrome X (metabolic syndrome), which could lead to heart disease and diabetes. |
Anne Harrington
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 Once seen as a relatively rare disease in the United States and Europe, by the second half of the twentieth century, heart disease had come to be called the silent epidemic of the times, responsible for some 30 percent of deaths in industrialized countries—the largest single cause of death from any disease.49
Why this sharp rise in the incidence of heart disease? In the late 1940s and 1950s a number of epidemiological efforts were launched to try to find out. |
Mark Sircus
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| Magnesium and Strokes
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and the most common cause of adult disability. An ischemic stroke occurs when a cerebral vessel occludes, obstructing blood flow to a portion of the brain. Each year, 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke. If they do not die on the spot, nearly 25% of them will die in a year from lack of appropriate treatment. Those 1.2 million Americans who have survived strokes now report serious disabilities that affect daily living. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Take stroke, for example—the third leading cause of death in the United States. The evidence is overwhelming that if you eat to save yourself from heart disease, you eat to save yourself from stroke.
There are two types of stroke. In hemorrhagic stroke, the less common of the two, a blood vessel in the brain ruptures because of high blood pressure or a genetic weakness of the vessel wall known as an aneurysm. A plant-based diet cannot do anything to cure a genetic aneurysm. But it will definitely help reduce blood pressure, an important step in the right direction. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury at nearly 800,000 in the US. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251."'
• "About 1,500 companies in the US manufacture and market medicinal drugs, with combined annual US revenue over $200 billion."9'
• "US health care spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2003, representing 1 4% of the nation's gross national product. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 CANCER
Prevalence
In the United States, malignant neoplasms are the dominant cause of death among those aged 45 to 64 years, being replaced by heart disease and dropping to the second most common cause of mortality in the more elderly.1 In total, roughly one million Americans are now developing cancer each year, and about 500,000 are dying from it.2 According to Health Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society, about 40% of Canadian men and 35% of women will develop cancer during their lifetimes.3 Indeed, 25% of all Canadian men and 20% of women will die from it. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Once a disease almost exclusive to postmenopausal women, breast cancer now strikes women in their 20s and 30s — especially young African-American women — and it is the second leading cause of death (after heart disease) in American women ages 25-54. What's going on?
More than half of all breast cancer cases can't be explained by any of the known risk factors, such as genetics, diet or reproductive history. Growing evidence indicates that the explanation lies in the environment around us: in the carcinogens and hormone-disrupting chemicals women are routinely exposed to throughout our lives. |
Bill Sardi
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| Cancer is just now passing heart disease as the number one cause of death in the United States.
On the other hand, remarkable and unexpected developments now make it possible to place the greatest cancer-blocking molecules directly into the hands of patients so that cancer prevention can be effectively practiced for the very first time. What's more, the most potent anti-cancer treatments can be employed at home, without a doctor's prescription. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Heart disease and cancer were listed as the nation's leading killers, but the underlying cause of death was the use of tobacco. The research found that smoking contributed to the deaths of 400 000 Americans annually—more than those caused by drug use, guns and car accidents put together. Rating second to tobacco came poor diet and lack of exercise.
Asthma sufferers often say that smoking helps relieve their asthma and that's why they don't want to give it up. Yes, in the short term smoking can relieve asthma. Why? |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 It should not be taken lightly; osteoporosis is the twelfth leading cause of death in America. More than 25 million Americans, four-fifths of them women, currently suffer from osteoporosis. After age sixty-five, one-half of all women and one-fifth of all men break bones due to osteoporosis—a total of 1.3 million fractures a year.
Treatments for osteoporosis are few and have a low success rate, but the disease may be preventable. |
| Diabetes has become so common that complications from diabetes rank as the seventh leading cause of death among Americans.
Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, is made in response to the level of glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream. Insulin serves two purposes: it lowers blood sugar levels and increases the availability of sugar for normal cell functioning. Normally after a meal, complex carbohydrates are digested and absorbed from the intestine into the bloodstream in the form of glucose and other simple sugars. |
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