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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

In October 2003, college students all over Iowa were tested for mental illness on an autumn morning that had been deemed National Depression Screening Day. This national campaign was organized by a nonprofit group called Screening for Mental Health, Inc., which was funded by companies selling antidepressants, including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Wyeth, Forest Laboratories, and GlaxoSmithKline. But few of the college students learned that fact.

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Robert Keith Wallace recruited college students who had taken a course in TM. He hooked them up to various measuring instruments, asked them to meditate, and found that on average they showed significant changes in their physiological state: reductions in oxygen consumption, reductions in resting heart rate, and changes in skin resistance. But that was not all.

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He was suffering from a bout of sleeplessness, an affliction that has plagued generations of college students. In 2 002, doctors wrote nearly eleven million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for kids between the ages of one and seventeen.

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Nearly half of all college students today have antibodies to HPV, according to studies released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibodies can be thought of as locks that the body sends out to collect keys that are coursing through the bloodstream and keep them from turning on the wrong sorts of cells at the wrong time. For reasons that are not fully understood, several of the commonest forms of the HPV virus place women at greater risk of cervical cancer, and probably a number of other forms of cancer as well.

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The CDC recommends giving the new vaccine to children at age 11 or at age 15, if they have not received the vaccine before; and to college students living in the close quarters of dormitories. PERTUSSIS VACCINE The new pertussis vaccine also comes as a relief to doctors, as whooping cough is the only vaccine-preventable disease that has not been quelled. In 1998, there were 7,405 reported cases in the United States. That figure rose to 9,771 in 2002. "The problem with the original vaccine is that when it was given to kids over seven, it caused some pretty severe reactions," Offit says.

Yadrick and her colleagues studied 100 African-American, female college students. "The [result] of this research is that women are more likely to pay attention to things that encourage them to take supplements in general rather than just folic acid," Yadrick says. Dr. Siobhan Dolan, associate medical director of the March of Dimes, says women need to make taking a multivitamin a daily habit. Taking a multivitamin at the same time every day or leaving the bottle near something associated with a morning ritual, such as a coffee cup or a box of cereal, might help boost compliance, she says.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

University of South Alabama in Mobile, studied 113 male and 138 female college students. Sixty-seven percent reported that they craved sugar-rich foods when feeling anxious, depressed, tired, or moody. As soon as they ate something sugary, most (79 percent) felt better right away—happy, relaxed, or energetic. "We looked at their reported feelings before and after they ate carbohydrates," explains Dr. Christensen, author of Diet-Behavior Relationships: Focus on Depression. "They reported more distress before and less afterward.

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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. Apart from its diuretic action and its addictive effects on the brain, regular caffeine intake overstimulates the heart muscles, causing exhaustion and heart disease.

The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

In a study, he asked 120 female college students to take either vitamin Bl or placebos for two months. The women taking vitamin Bl reported feeling more composed clearheaded and energetic, and their reaction times sped up as well. All of these improvements occurred even though the women had "normal" vitamin Bl levels when the study began. Eating large amounts of carbohydrates depletes vitamin Bl levels. The reason is that a family of enzymes called dehydrogenases helps to break down and use carbohydrates. The body needs vitamin Bl to make these enzymes.

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But like many college students, Justin was having trouble sleeping. On February 19, he went to the student health center, where the doctor gave him a thorough exam. She also questioned him to find out whether he was depressed and then prescribed Am-bien to help him sleep. In Justin's file, the doctor noted, "No suicidal ideation," which meant he expressed no desire to kill himself. The boy returned to the clinic a few days later, complaining that the sleeping pills left him feeling groggy and "depressed.

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine Anne Harrington See book keywords and concepts

To be sure there was no mistake, they brought in other long-term Buddhist practitioners (both monks and laypeople) and compared their brain wave activity in meditation to that of a control group of college students inexperienced in meditation. Those practitioners produced gamma waves that were thirty times as strong as the students'. In 2004, Ricard was a coauthor on a paper reporting these and related fabulous-seeming findings that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Mood Twenty healthy (11 female and nine male college students) were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in which a single dose of standardized Kava root extract (300 mg, containing 90 mg Kava pyrones) was given to half the group. Kava enhanced increased positive affect related to exhilaration in individuals disposed to cheerful mood, but did not alter bad mood or a state of "seriousness." It also enhanced cognitive performance, particularly visual attention and short-term memory retrieval.

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First-Year college students Who Feel Lonely Have a Weaker Immune Response to the Flu-Shot," "Asthmatic Responses to Allergens Worsen During Stressful Times," "Marital Strain Increases Women's Risk of Death, Heart Disease," and "Arguments Slow the Body's Ability to Heal from Wounds" are all recent newspaper headlines that warn that stressful events can derail the basic function of our immune cells.

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For example, while working out on the treadmill or the stationary bike for twenty minutes at a high intensity of 70 to 80 percent of their maximum heart rate, college students perform poorly on tests of complex learning. (So don't study for the Law School Admission Test with the elliptical machine on full-tilt.) However, blood flow shifts back almost immediately after you finish exercising, and this is the perfect time to focus on a project that demands sharp thinking and complex analysis.

He found fifty-four college students with generalized anxiety disorder who had elevated anxiety sensitivity scores and who exercised less than once a week. He randomly divided his sedentary subjects into two groups, both of which were assigned six twenty-minute exercise sessions over two weeks. The first group ran on treadmills at an intensity level of 60 to 90 percent of their maximum heart rates. The second group walked on treadmills at a pace of one mile per hour, roughly equal to 50 percent of their maximum heart rates.

Using fit, male college students either running on treadmills or cycling on stationary bikes for fifty minutes at 70 to 80 percent of their maximum heart rate, the researchers measured how the effort affected blood levels of anandamide. The result? Anandamide nearly doubled. Runner's high itself is difficult to study because it's so unpredictable— even marathon runners don't experience the feeling every time they train. And why isn't there such a thing as swimmer's high?

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This same article also points out that 25 percent of college students were sterile at the time as compared to 0.5 percent thirty-five years earlier. Most toxicity experts agree that the main source of human contamination comes from eating fish from waters in which the PCB levels are high, which today can be almost anywhere. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that fish can accumulate up to nine million times the level of PCBs in the water in which they live. PCBs have been found in fish from the deepest and most remote parts of the world's oceans.

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While the agency declined reasonable proposals to study bipolar disorder in children, it chose to fund studies of self-esteem in college students. It declined to fund research on postpartum depression but supported work on the hearing processes of crickets. Mental illness is a low priority. In 1999, for each person afflicted by illness, the government spent twelve dollars on cervical cancer for every dollar spent on bipolar disorder. For every dollar spent on schizophrenia, thirty dollars were spent on HrWAIDS.44 Unlike the psychotics, the neurotics pay cash.

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Stanford University conducts the Stanford Prison Experiment on a group of college students in order to learn the psychology of prison life. Some students are given the role as prison guards, while the others are given the role of prisoners. After only six days, the proposed two-week study has to end because of its psychological effects on the participants. The "guards" had begun to act sadistic, while the "prisoners" started to show signs of depression and severe psychological stress (University of New Hampshire).

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In a British study, researchers gave college students either 240 or 360 mg of ginkgo extracts or placebos. The students' memories and the speed of their thinking processes improved after taking ginkgo. Researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, found that ginkgo extracts improved various thinking processes in patients with multiple sclerosis. The subjects experienced an improvement in attention, planning, and decision making. All of the patients had previously sustained cognitive impairments as part of their multiple sclerosis.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts

Saccharin use and sugar intake by college students. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 76, 560-563. 162. Colditz, G. A., Willett, W. C, Stampfer, M. J., London, S. J., Segal, M. R., and Speizer, F. E. (1990). Patterns of weight change and their relation to diet in a cohort of healthy women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 51, 1100-1105. 163. Richardson, J. F. (1972). The sugar intake of businessmen and its inverse relationship with relative weight. Br. J. Nutr. 27, 449-460. 164. Chen, L. N. A., and Parham, E. S. (1991).

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In one study, 148 young British college students were served in a bar. Everything about the bar was real: the bottles, the glasses, the napkins, the sights and smells. Unbeknownst to the experimental group, there was one thing that was fake: the alcohol. Researchers had substituted the alcohol in the bottles of spirits, beer, and wine with tonic. The bartenders mixed the drinks as though they were serving the real McCoy, and the subjects became tipsy, acting in a manner similar to the control group, who were being served the real thing.

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But few of the college students learned that fact. During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. "I could feel the stress building as mid-term week approached.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts

They found that consumers, college students, were not using the sugar substitutes to substitute for carbohydrates, but rather they were consuming foods containing the sweeteners in addition to the sugars consumed in their diet. This pattern of behavior was not seen when low-calorie sweeteners were substituted covertly for sugar in the diet [165]. It seems that the knowledge of the contents of foods drastically changes the decision to consume it or not, an effect well documented in the laboratory [166-168], although not universally [169]. Miller et al.

The effect of the Holiday season on body weight and composition in college students. Nutr. Metab. 3, 44-50. 10. Van Staveren, W. A., Deurenberg, P., Burema, J., DeGroot, L. C, and Hautvast, J. G. (1986). Seasonal variation in food intake, pattern of physical activity and change in body weight in a group of young adult Dutch women consuming self-selected diets. Int. J. Obes. 10, 133-145. 11. Reid, R., and Hackett, A. F. (1999). Changes in nutritional status in adults over Christmas 1998. J. Hum. Nutr. Diet. 12, 133-145. 12. Klesges, R. C, Klem, M. L., and Bene, C. R. (1989).

However, in a study of college students [9], it was notable that despite the normal-weight individuals losing a significant amount of body weight by the end of the holiday period (post-New Year), they gained a significant amount of total body fat (p < 0.05), particularly in the leg and trunk areas. In consideration of the increased risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia associated with excess fat in the abdominal region, redistribution or increases in total body fat are undesirable, even if accompanied by maintenance of body weight.

A study of 94 college students noted a small (0.5-kg), but significant, increase of body weight over the Thanksgiving period [8]. Despite the small magnitude of these increases, they may be of clinical significance because small uncorrected errors over time will lead to weight gain. Furthermore, the group mean obscures significant weight gain in a subset of the population [8-11]. Hull et al. [8] reported fifteen percent of a college study sample gained 2.0 kg or more over the course of the holiday period. Approximately ten percent of the sample observed by Yanovski et al. [6] gained 2.

College students' use of high-intensity sweeteners is not consistently associated with sugar consumption. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 91, 686-689. 165. Naismith, D. J., and Rhodes, C. (1995). Adjustment in energy-intake following the covert removal of sugar from the diet. J. Hum. Nutr. Diet 8, 167-175. 166. Wooley, S. C. (1972). Physiologic versus cognitive factors in short term food regulation in the obese and nonobese. Psy-chosom. Med. 34, 62-68. 167. Caputo, F. A., and Mattes, R. D. (1993). Human dietary responses to perceived manipulation of fat content in a midday meal. Int. J. Obes. Relat.

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The RDA of selenium was established by taking ten male college students, measuring the selenium content of their diet, and determining that they weren't ill. Unfortunately, the serum level of selenium in the blood of the average American is dramatically lower than that of the average French person, who incidentally has a much lower risk of diabetes and insulin resistance. In each phase of Diet Evolution, I will suggest supplements that can enhance your health, work synergistically with your diet, and in certain cases, even help you lose weight.

It turns out that the two hormones that control hunger and satiety, ghrelin and leptin, respectively, are very sensitive to light and sleep duration. When college students were put in a sleep lab and allowed to sleep for eight hours, the following morning they had high levels of leptin and low levels of ghrelin. The next night they were awakened after only six hours of sleep. This time ghrelin levels were high and leptin levels were low, just as the long days of summer and shorter nights would stimulate us to lay down fat for the winter.

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