Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Weight Loss
Nearly two-thirds of Americans are obese or overweight. excess weight is a culprit in the onset and severity of many health problems: hypertension, high cholesterol, Type-2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, respiratory problems, and some cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon). Excessive weight also complicates symptoms associated with neurological and orthopedic problems. If your health is poor and you want to recover, you cannot carry excess weight. For all these reasons, I close this chapter with a hypnotic weight loss method. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Thus, a pale woman with perpetually cold hands and feet, a pale tongue, and terrible menstrual cramps, could be readily diagnosed as a person with excess yin in China, while her cold, pallor, and problems in menstruation would suggest an excess of phlegm in the West, and kapha in India. Healers in each system could then gain deeper insight into the nature of the patient's complaint by further extending their exploration of cosmological correspondences. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Grate the zucchini, carrot, and apple; place on a paper towel and squeeze out excess moisture. Combine with the chopped beans.
In a food processor, blend the chickpeas, onions, garlic, curry powder, chili powder, salt, pepper, and olive oil until smooth. Add to the green bean mixture.
Drain the cracked wheat in a strainer, pressing with the back of a spoon to extract excess liquid. Add to the vegetables. Stir in the cheese and add the bread crumbs. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Shape into four burgers. Cook 3 minutes on each side on a grill lightly brushed with olive oil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In this case they might prescribe water absorbing crystals that you would spread around the house to absorb this excess water, completely ignoring the integrity of the roof, as well as the need to actually repair the roof and not allow water to drip through it. If you said to them, "well, maybe we should think about repairing the roof," they would say, "The problem is clearly the water -- you can see the water, here's a measurement of the water." They might even say if you don't aggressively treat this excessive water, you're going to end up flooding your entire house. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Thus, a pale woman with perpetually cold hands and feet, a pale tongue, and terrible menstrual cramps, could be readily diagnosed as a person with excess yin in China, while her cold, pallor, and problems in menstruation would suggest an excess of phlegm in the West, and kapha in India. Healers in each system could then gain deeper insight into the nature of the patient's complaint by further extending their exploration of cosmological correspondences. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Their primary medicinal effect is as an expectorant, meaning that it brings up excess mucous.
The taste of sour indicates acids like citric acid or oxalic acid and tannins, which have astringency. Astringency causes tissues to tighten and can dry up excess liquid. This is what we are experiencing when we pucker. Sour taste usually indicates some type of action on the urinary tract and kidneys but can also be effective in protecting inflamed tissue, reducing swelling, and increasing stomach acid to cause an alkalizing response by the metabolism. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Blood serum levels of PCBs have been measured in a number of local residents in excess of 100 parts per billion. The CDC considers a blood PCB level in excess of 20 parts per billion to be significantly elevated. In 2003, two lawsuits against the PCB manufacturer and its spinoff companies resulted in a close to three-quarter-million-dollar settlement that was split, after lawyers' fees, among twenty thousand residents. Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from PCB production. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Examples of other suspected dietary promoters are saccharin, excess dietary fat, and excessive use of coffee or caffeine. It is estimated by cancer researchers that the instance of gastric carcinoma in the United States has decreased by
The Top Ten Cancers
The following are the ten most common types of cancer for men and women, ranked in order from one to ten.
For Men
For Women
1. Prostate
2. Lung
3. Colon & Rectum
4. Bladder
5. Lymphoma
6. Skin
7. Oral
8. Kidney
9. Leukemia
10. Stomach
1. Breast
2. Lung
3. Colon & Rectum
4. Uterus
5. Ovary
6. Lymphoma
7. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 They are especially interested in the reaction of marine plants to global warming, as these plants are the primary shock absorbers of excess carbon dioxide. Algae provide oxygen and other benefits to plant and animal marine life. Algae offer a little wall of protection to the creatures of the sea from the worse excesses of man.
I reconsidered my resistance to Acetabularia as a test subject. Algae might be critical to our survival. The health of most life in the seas depends on these lowly, single-celled creatures, and the seas, like the rain forests, represent the lungs of the Earth. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 In doing so, we take on excess amounts of the substance. What's more, eating fat causes the body itself to manufacture excessive amounts of cholesterol, which explains why vegetarians who eat oil, butter, cheese, milk, ice cream, glazed doughnuts, and French pastry develop coronary disease despite their avoidance of meat.
Medicine subdivides cholesterol into two types. High-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is sometimes known as "good" cholesterol. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 In models produced in animals, where an excess amount of a normally present neurotransmitter like glutamate is administered, neurons tend to die. Because glutamate and other excitatory neurotransmitters normally cause the nerve cells to fire electrically, it is believed that, in excess, they cause neurons to fire (excite) themselves to death.
Although it is fairly easy to demonstrate this destructive process in a variety of experimental circumstances, for example nerve cells isolated in a dish, no one is sure that this excitatory damage actually occurs in any natural disease process. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 During the phase-in period, Medicare should reform its distorted payment system, first eliminating the excess profitability of many procedures, so that hospitals won't be tempted, as they are now, to focus on certain departments at the expense of others. The next step will be an entirely new reimbursement system that capitates payments to a hospital and the doctors affiliated with it. Medicare will in effect be creating a series of health maintenance organizations, based on multispecialty group practices, which can compete with each other on the basis of quality. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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Summary for Vitamin K
Main functions: prevents excess bleeding and assists in bone mineralization. Daily Recommended Intake: men, 120 meg; women,
90 meg.
Vitamin K is non-toxic. No tolerable upper level has been set.
Deficiency: rare in adults, may occur in newborn infants. Food sources: green leafy vegetables are the best source. Principal forms in the body: phylloquinone (vitamin Kj) and menaquinone (vitamin K2) n
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Vitamin K is absorbed from the intestines with the help of bile salts. About 80 percent of dietary phylloquinone (K:) is absorbed. |
| This not only clears excess insulin from the blood, but also assists the cells in obtaining blood sugar. Compounds that assist insulin in clearing glucose from the blood are called glucose tolerance factors. Some glucose tolerance factors contain chromium. Trivalent chromium also enhances the ability of insulin to remove fats from the blood.
A decreased response to insulin can result in impaired glucose tolerance. A more serious insulin resistance is known as type 2 diabetes. The clinical signs of type 2 diabetes include elevated blood sugar levels and insulin resistance. |
| Excess zinc:
(a) Can cause a copper deficiency.
(b) Can reduce the effectiveness of superoxide dismutase.
(c) Can result from the use of zinc lozenges.
(d) All of the above.
16. The most active hormone made from iodine is:
(a) Adrenaline.
(b) Thyroxine (T4).
(c) Triiodothyronine (T3).
(d) Serotonin.
17. Which gland(s) control thyroid hormone production?
(a) Hypothalamus.
(b) Pituitary.
(c) Both (a) and (b).
(d) Neither (a) nor (b).
18. Which form of selenium supplementation is most absorbable?
(a) Sodium selenite.
(b) Sodium selenate.
(c) Selenomethionine.
(d) Selenium oxide. |
| Glutathione peroxidase.
20. excess copper:
(a) Is eliminated by the kidneys.
(b) Is eliminated in the bile.
(c) Is eliminated by intestinal cells.
(d) Is lost in sweat.
21. A manganese-dependent enzyme detoxifies:
(a) Acetone.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Ammonia.
(d) Bile.
22. Rich manganese sources include all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Whole grains.
(b) Hamburger.
(c) Green leafy vegetables.
(d) Peanut butter.
23. Manganese toxicity from food:
(a) Is very rare.
(b) Is common.
(c) Is a worldwide health problem.
(d) Is only a problem in populations that eat oysters.
24. |
| All of the above.
14. excess folate is removed from the body:
(a) Through the lungs.
(b) In urine.
(c) In bile.
(d) None of the above.
15. Supplementary vitamin B12 is often in the form of:
(a) Methylcobalamin.
(b) Deoxyadenosyl cobalamin.
(c) Cyanocobalamin.
(d) Magentocobalamin.
16. Which has the highest energy level?
(a) ADR
(b) AMP.
(c) APP.
(d) ATP.
17. Which one is a real vitamin?
(a) Vitamin K.
(b) Vitamin T.
(c) Vitamin P.
(d) Vitamin U.
18. Which of the following is NOT a cure for scurvy?
(a) The tips of young arbor vitae evergreen needles.
(b) Sauerkraut. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In 68,000 patients studied to date," wrote the editor of JAMA in 2005, "there is no compelling evidence that higher doses of vitamin E reduce cardiovascular risk or cancer; there are even some hints that vitamin E, in excess of normal daily intake, may slightly increase the risk of ischemic events or of heart failure."8 Added to this is the judgment of the editors of the Annals of Internal Medicine: "We think that high-dosage vitamin E may increase overall mortality. Therefore we believe that high-risk and healthy people should avoid this vitamin at high doses. |
Mark Lynas
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 The mercury rises in Europe
Under normal circumstances, the human body is good at dealing with excess heat. Capillaries under the skin flush with blood, allowing the extra warmth to radiate into the air. Sweat glands pump out moisture, disposing of heat through evaporation. Heat can even be lost through panting, and the heart works overtime. During exercise, the normal body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius can rise to 38 or 39°C with no ill effects. |
Bill Sardi
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 Salganik bred a strain of mice so they produced an excess of free radicals, and then depleted their diet of antioxidants. He claimed more oxidation occurred within tumor cells when the antioxidants were withheld and tumors were half their normal size. The claim was made that, by withholding antioxidants, more cancer cells died off by the desirable process of apoptosis. But the published study only indicated about 3% of the cancer cells died via apoptosis. [Annual Meeting American Society Cell Biology, 1999; Carcinogenesis 21: 909-14, 2000] Was this misleading? |
| Fully corrected individuals should have tissue levels of ascorbic acid in excess of 4.5 mg %. [Cancer Research 8: 349-51, 1948]
1952: Russell reports on the use of vitamin C with guinea pigs, an animal that does not produce vitamin C whereas most other animals do. He shows that cancers develop sooner in guinea pigs that are fed a diet deficient in vitamin C and then exposed to carcinogens as compared to guinea pigs exposed to the same carcinogens but on an adequate ascorbic acid diet. |
| Being overweight (postmenopausal women)
• Alcohol consumption (even moderate consumption is troublesome)
• Red meat consumption
• Lack of whole grains in the diet
• Diets containing corn oil (omega-6 oils) rather than fish oil or flax oil (omega-3 oils)
• Overconsumption of fatty foods
• Smoking tobacco
• Lack of sunshine (vitamin D)
• Environmental carcinogens
Source: J Womens Health 12: 183-92, 2003; Nutrition & Cancer 44:23-34, 2002; Cancer Causes Control 13: 883-93, 2002
Weight and cancer
Postmenopausal women who carry excess weight (who weigh more than 175 pounds) are at a 2. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| But the two reasons doctors give most often for why they do so much excess imaging are patient demand and worries about malpractice suits.
Many physicians, but especially those who work in high-wire specialties like neurology, emergency medicine, and radiology, live with the quiet but persistent fear that they will be sued for failing to order an imaging test—or failing to correctly diagnose a disease on a scan that's been performed. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Thus, the aggressive sympath may have an excess of noradrenaline. It doesn't cause anorexia; it is part of the ensemble of reactions to the original event.
Likewise, it is not that someone who is depressed is repressing her anger, as the Freudians would have it. It is that for a parasympath, the chemicals that make for anger are diminished in her, whereas those that make for depression are elevated, while her neurotransmitters tend to drop in the fight against her pain. Chronic depressives have low serotonin levels, for example, and they use up precious supplies in the battle to repress. |
Bill Sardi
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| Vitamin A versus beta carotene
Beta carotene isn't vitamin A; it converts to vitamin A on an as-needed basis, with excess amounts being stored in the skin. Foods like carrots, squash, pumpkin, cantaloupe and sweet potatoes provide exceptional amounts of beta carotene.
When animal products, such as butter, milk, fish and liver, are consumed, their beta carotene content has already been converted to vitamin A, so it is ready to use, and no liver conversion is necessary. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| The therapist delivers his truths in a calm, deliberate manner with a tone devoid of excess. He cannot imagine letting his patient roll around on the floor screaming and crying. This practice is all in the interest of being scientific and objective.
Thus psychological science and feeling have become antithetical propositions. The more scientific we become, the less we are interested in feeling; so much so that now in current psychoneurologic science, it is mostly a matter of what neuronal structures affect personality—a minute analysis of neurons instead of human beings. |
| For the sympath prototype, there seems to be an excess of secretions, while the parasympath remains in the "hypo" mode, in which many of his essential hormones are below normal output. Where we have found low testosterone levels in parasympaths, the opposite was the case for the sympaths. As a result of these prototypes and their systemic effects, the parasympath may tend toward impotence and the sympath may have a problem with premature ejaculation, a more externally aggressive response. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| So, vitamin C works in two ways to eliminate excess cholesterol.
Deficiency of Vitamin C
Deficiency of vitamin C is apparent in many body systems. Blood vessels are dependent on vitamin C to maintain their collagen. Bleeding gums and small hemorrhages under the skin can be signs of developing vitamin C deficiency. With severe deficiency, the muscles deteriorate, including the heart muscle. Wounds fail to heal and teeth become loosened because collagen cannot be formed. Infections are common. Death from scurvy can be from internal hemorrhaging. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Leszczynski DE, Kummerow FA: excess dietary lysine induces hypercholesterolemia in chickens. Experientia; 38(38):266-267. 1982
Limmroth V, May A, Diener H-C: Lysine-acetylsalicylic acid in acute migraine attacks. Eur Neurol; 41:88-93. 1999
Pradalier A, Chabriat H, Danchot J et al: Safety and efficacy of combined lysine acetylsalicylate and metoclopramide: Repeated intakes in migraine attacks. Headache; 39:125-131. 1999
Racusen LC, Whclton A, Solez K: Effects of lysine and other amino acids on kidney structure and function in the rat. Am J Pathol; 120(3):436-442. |
| Pontefract cakes can be bad for you: refractory hypertension and liquorice excess. Nephrol Dial Transplant; 14(l):218-220. 1999.
Dezaki K; Kimura I; Miyahara K; Kimura M. Complementary effects of paeoniflorin and glycyrrhizin on intracellular Ca2+ mobilization in the nerve-stimulated skeletal muscle of mice. Jpn J Pharmacol Nov;69(3):281-4. 1995.
DiPaola RS, Zhang H, Lambert GH et al. Clinical and biologic activity of an estrogenic herbal combination (PC-SPES) in prostate cancer. N Engl J Med; 339(12):785-791. 1998.
Dobbins KRB & Saul RF. Transient visual loss after licorice ingestion. |
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