David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of the firefighters entered a house, sniffed here and there, and said they did not smell anything. One of the firefighters told someone it was probably something that spilled on the road and that everybody should open their windows and doors, and if problems persisted to call them back. Most of the people left. A lot of people were calling 911. Flora Bautista was babysitting her nine-month-old nephew. She had a handful of kids. Kids outside playing started running in and saying their eyes were burning, and they were coughing. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  My wake-up call came when I was asked to coach Chicago firefighters in a cholesterol-reduction program. I found out that firefighters were at much greater risk of dying from a heart attack than they would ever be from putting out fires, so I was only too happy to help. As an act of solidarity, I had my own cholesterol drawn, only to discover that I had my own four-alarm fire coursing through my veins—a cholesterol level of 238! That did it for me. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  They often become entrepreneurs, bond traders, salespeople, emergency room doctors, firefighters, trial lawyers, movie moguls, or advertising executives. These are jobs in which the tendency toward hyperactivity, nonlinear thinking, and risk-taking can lead to great achievements. Sporadic attention can be a real strength in a frenetic setting. People with shadows of ADHD might retain problems with organization, for-getfulness, and personal relationships, but they can get it together when the pressure is on.
There are still those who think the way Sam's teacher's did. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |  But this long history does not make Australian bushfires any less dangerous to people: falling embers can sometimes start new blazes many kilometres away from the main burning area, trapping firefighters between two converging walls of flame. Most feared of all are 'crown fires', which not only speed through the treetops faster than people can run, but can also suck all the oxygen out of the air, asphyxiating anyone caught underneath. | | In 2003 wind-whipped fires tore across southern California, even reaching the outskirts of Los Angeles. firefighters could only stand and watch as massive tornadoes of flame rose above the conflagration.
According to projections for the future drawn up by the USDA Forest Service and academics based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the number of 'escaped' out-of-control wildfires could increase by over 50 per cent in the San Francisco South Bay area, and soar by 125 per cent on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada, further east. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  You have firefighters standing by, in the form of antioxidants, which your body produces to keep the Major Ager of oxidation from wounded mitochondria in check. And medicine can help too. Statins work by decreasing the inflammation in the plaque, which slows the progression of the clogging process and reduces sudden ruptures that can lead to clot formation and sudden closure of arteries.
Ultimately, though, many of our recommendations are aimed at adding to your firefighting unit so it stays fresh and is able to quench the small fires and occasional meltdowns that occur within your arteries. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | That could be a vital question for doctors, who are often woken up in the middle of the night to make important decisions, and for firefighters who must suddenly run out to fight a fire immediately after waking up, says Dr. Robert Vorona, an assistant professor of sleep medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
It takes some time until we're able to be efficient in our ability to make decisions and think clearly.
Kenneth P. Wright, Jr.. PhD
Ultimately, emergency workers may need to take the research into account when they figure out who makes the major decisions in a crisis, Wright says. | | However, people do need to think fast and clearly in emergencies, and Wright says the research could be especially relevant for firefighters, doctors and other individuals who need to function at their best soon after awakening.
THE NEXT STEP
Unsure of why sleep inertia occurs, researchers would like to figure out how long it takes for people to think and function clearly after waking, Wright says. "We're also interested [in finding out] if someone is [experiencing] a very intense emergency, does that affect how long it takes for the brain to wake up? |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | Firefighter's Honey Muesli by Dave Grotto Servings: 1 • Prep time: 5 minutes
This recipe was created as part of a cholesterol-lowering program for Chicago firefighters. It's quick, simple, and tasty—perfect fuel for putting out whatever kind of "fire" you're fighting! This recipe contains four powerhouse foods. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts |  Public services will also suffer, as police officers, firefighters, teachers, and others are laid off amid widespread budget cutting.
Undoubtedly, the collapsing real estate market will inspire a lucid and widespread awareness of a harsh new reality. In the decade before 2006, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the ballooning property market created more than $5 trillion of so-called bubble wealth, equivalent to nearly
40 percent of gross domestic product—with debts to go with it. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  Star Wars website, a British firefighters' union and a Nurse & Midwives fair pay campaign." Nevertheless, the campaign removed the slogan at L'Oreal's request and now had a few requests for L'Oreal in return. The letter requested a meeting with company officials to discuss nine L'Oreal products — three that contained the EU-banned phthalates and six that contained known or probable carcinogens according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  Water-carrying helicopters and some 1,500 firefighters, including recruits from neighboring Venezuela and Argentina, fought the flames to no avail.
In late March, the weather-modification experts were called in: two Caiapo Indian shamans especially flown to the Yanomami reservation, housing the last of what are believed to be Stone Age tribes. They danced around a bit and prayed, and gathered up a few leaves. Two days later, the heavens opened and it began to pour. Up to 90 percent of the fire was extinguished. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It's a scene of everyday Americans doing the right thing: truck drivers, firefighters, bartenders, teachers, and of course cops and firefighters. Most days, there's an abundance of heroism bundled up in the American people, and it only took the appearance of a natural disaster to unleash it. Personally, I'm just happy to be in a country where even if the government is incompetent, the people can collectively rig up solutions to almost anything. It's the man and woman on the street who deserve recognition on this one. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Firefighters were still extinguishing the fire when Harley bummed a ride to FedEx to send the grant proposal. The front of the car, meanwhile, "melted like icing."
As he'd predicted, fellow scientists were not supportive. He and James were, Harley says, "body-slammed." Nevertheless, true to his word, Harley closed down some other areas of research and he and James went to work. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts | | Algae and other plants are the firefighters of our overheated oceans. Scientists are presently engaged in studying sediments from the ocean's floor to see how the oceans cope with rising levels of gases. 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. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | One of the firefighters told someone it was probably something that spilled on the road and that everybody should open their windows and doors, and if problems persisted to call them back. Most of the people left. A lot of people were calling 911. Flora Bautista was babysitting her nine-month-old nephew. She had a handful of kids. Kids outside playing started running in and saying their eyes were burning, and they were coughing. When she called, the emergency operator told her to sit down and calm down. The operator had Flora on the phone for forty-five minutes. |
Melody Petersen
See book keywords and concepts |  They had called that autumn day to say her older sister, Virginia, had been found dead in the bedroom of her home. The firefighters had broken in and found her sister's body after her colleagues reported that the always dependable Virginia had not shown up for work on Monday and Tuesday. In fact, Friday was the last time anyone had heard from the pretty, petite fifty-nine-year-old woman with bright brown eyes, who lived alone after being twice divorced.
Almost from the moment she learned of Virginia's death, Rosemary believed she knew why her sister had died. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  A study of 19 urban and suburban communities in
Ontario, Canada, found that firefighters were able to reach 90% of all patients with cardiac arrest in eight minutes. Following the introduction of defibrillators used on several thousand patients, survival increased from 3.9% to 5.2%.17 Another study showed that with each minute defibrillation is delayed, the chances of successful resuscitation decrease anywhere from 2% to 10%.18
While such improvement is laudable—each life saved being precious—it is obvious that most people who suffer cardiac arrest die. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | I found out that firefighters were at much greater risk of dying from a heart attack than they would ever be from putting out fires, so I was only too happy to help. As an act of solidarity, I had my own cholesterol drawn, only to discover that I had my own four-alarm fire coursing through my veins—a cholesterol level of 238! That did it for me. But instead of my previous "nutrition smack-down" approach, I decided to slowly modify my diet by adding in the very foods you will read about throughout this book. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | For instance, a study of New York City firefighters found a "surprising" rate of abnormal scarring in the chest X rays of 226 veterans of the department that was described as being "consistent with prior asbestos exposure." The abnormal scarring occurred in 14 percent of the firefighters with no known previous exposure to asbestos. Similar scarring of the lungs or their lining was found in 35 percent of the sixty workers who were known to have worked in asbestos-insulated buildings. The actual level of asbestos to which the firefighters were exposed is unknown. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  To understand how some fats increase or decrease inflammation, it helps to see them (and other pro- and anti-inflammatory substances) in simple terms, such as "matches" or "firefighters." Chronic inflammation often results from too many dietary matches. However, by making greater use of dietary firefighters you can restore a balance that prevents or even reverses chronic inflammation.
Pro-Inflammatory Matches
Two specific types of fats, as well as free radicals, prime our bodies for inflammation. Here is a brief description of them. | | Key Inflammation Matches and firefighters pro-inflammatory anti-inflammatory matches firefighters
Linoleic acid Vegetable oils
Alpha-linolenic acid Gamma-linolenic acid Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) Oleic acid (in olive oil) Vitamins E and C
(e.g., corn and safflower) Arachidonic acid Partially hydrogenated oils
Free radicals
Free Radicals, Antioxidants, and Inflammation
Hazardous molecules known as free radicals damage cells and accelerate the aging process, as well as cause such age-related diseases as coronary artery disease and cancer. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Prior to 9/11 people generally believed that they were well looked after, and could depend on the government, the airlines, the police and firefighters to see to their safety, and then all at once they found that they couldn't rely on any of them—and the result was more inner rage, and the potential for more symptoms.
Fear, loss of control, unmet dependency needs, a sense of helplessness, victimization—all such feelings were intensified by the new reality of terror, resulting in frightening and painful feelings in the unconscious and a major increase in psychosomatic symptoms. | | Guilt and shame are intolerable to the child-primitive and evoke anger, emotional pain and sadness, and there is no dearth of those emotions among all of us. Many firefighters experienced survivor guilt after 9/11, guilt that they did not share their comrades' death. This reaction is well known from the experience of Holocaust survivors.
Guilt is tied in with inferiority feelings and the need to be perfect-good and with all that what those tendencies imply. People blame themselves for lots of things because of their low self-esteem and their perfectionist tendencies. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Rubin, Rita, "WTC firefighters Sidelined by Persistent Cough," USA Today, September 10, 2002.
93b www.nycosh.org/#anchorl62347
93c Scanlon, P.D., "World Trade Center Cough: A Lingering Legacy and a Cautionary Tale," N Engl J Med., September 12, 2002: 347, 840-842.
94 Gonzalez, Juan, NY Daily News, April 3, 2001. www.nydailynews.com/2001 -04-03/News_and Views/City_Beat/a-105855.asp
95 Sahley, Billy, Pain and Stress Clinic, 5282 Medical Drive, #160, San Antonio, TX 78229. 800.669.2256. www.painstresscenter.com.
96 Ross, Gerald, "Terrorism and Toxic Exposures," pg. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Those affected probably will consist of a wide range of people including construction workers, school and building custodians, firefighters, maintenance workers, demolition workers, and many others who have been exposed to hazardous concentrations of asbestos fibers.
There is growing evidence of a high rate of disease as a result of this final wave. For instance, a study of New York City firefighters found a "surprising" rate of abnormal scarring in the chest X rays of 226 veterans of the department that was described as being "consistent with prior asbestos exposure. | | The abnormal scarring occurred in 14 percent of the firefighters with no known previous exposure to asbestos. Similar scarring of the lungs or their lining was found in 35 percent of the sixty workers who were known to have worked in asbestos-insulated buildings. The actual level of asbestos to which the firefighters were exposed is unknown.
This unusual rate of asbestos-related scarring in the so-called never-exposed group was startling to researchers who said they would expect to find this kind of abnormal lung scarring in less than 2 percent of the overall population.
Box 6. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  Smoke from burning organic materials can contain a variety of dusts, gases, and vapors, depending on what is burning. firefighters are at special risk.
Gases, such as formaldehyde, ammonia, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and nitrogen oxides, are harmful. At greatest risk are those working around chemical reactions and in jobs involving high heat.
Vapors, such as solvents, usually irritate the nose and throat first before they affect the lungs.
Mists or sprays from paints, lacquers, hair spray, pesticides, cleaning products, acids, oils, and solvents constitute another source of pollutants. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | However, by making greater use of dietary firefighters you can restore a balance that prevents or even reverses chronic inflammation.
Pro-Inflammatory Matches
Two specific types of fats, as well as free radicals, prime our bodies for inflammation. Here is a brief description of them.
• The omega-6 family of fatty acids supplies the building blocks of a variety of powerful pro-inflammatory substances. |
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