Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Supply health education regarding nutrition and healthy weight management as part of required curriculum for health education.
?Train staff involved in nutrition education and offer work-site health promotion opportunities for staff.
?Educate children on the influence of food advertising on eating habits.
?Ban required watching of commercials for foods high in calories, fat, or sugar on school television programs.
?Conduct school-wide media campaigns to promote healthy eating (e.g., the "5 a day message").
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Bottom Line Health
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| GOVERNMENT ACTION NEEDED
To solve some of these problems, Blum believes that both state and federal action is needed, particularly in the areas of liability reform, reimbursement for emergency department visits, disaster and terrorist preparedness and public health education and legislation.
"People tend to count on and take for granted emergency care," Blum says. "But there are a lot of problems that are facing the people who deliver that care."
Dr. Stephen Epstein, an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, agrees. "It's like musical chairs," he says. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're welcoming videos on:
Raw foods recipes and preparation
Natural health education and commentary
Gardening, green living and organic farming
Dangers of medications
Interviews, demonstrations and more!
So crank up those video cameras and get ready to join the new NewsTarget video community site, coming soon! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's enough economic productivity to pay off our entire national debt, build new schools in every town and city in the country, provide free college educations to all young people who wish to go to college, invest billions in new energy technologies and even fund massive health education campaigns to keep our population healthy. With that kind of increased abundance, we could build a whole new society of health, wealth and education.
That's the future being denied by the cancer industry today. They have sold out our future in a desperate grab for next quarter's profits. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 In this liberating and transformative process, we naturally move beyond the false identity that has been given us by advertising, including the so-called health education we have received in our schools that has been primarily financed by the dairy and meat industries so we will buy their products. Please know that this "education" we take as the truth is directly contrary to our 3. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 A pioneer in health education, this Web site provides help to make informed health and wellness decisions.
WebMD www.webmd.com
Extensive information and links about important health and medical issues. organic and healthier living
Healthy Cleaning www.healthycleaning.com
A Web site for information and links to environmentally-friendly cleaning products for the home, automobile, laundry and personal care for infants, children and adults. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH): Intervention, Implementation, and Feasibility for Elementary Schools in the United States." health education and Behavior 24, no. 6 (1997): 716-35.
Rapp, Doris. Allergies and the Hyperactive Child. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
-. Is This Your Child? Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies. New York: William
Morrow, 1991.
-. Our Toxic World: A Wake-Up Call. Buffalo, New York: Environmental Medical Research
Foundation, 2004.
Ruggiero, Roberta. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Not everyone who has IBS seeks treatment due to embarrassment, economic difficulties (no insurance), lack of health education, etc. and this is one of the most often misdiagnosed conditions. "One challenge of population-based IBS studies is ensuring that IBS is accurately diagnosed using specific, validated criteria, rather than the clinical judgement of health care professionals."15
How Does Regular Colon Cleansing Help Relieve and Prevent IBS? |
Bottom Line Health
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| Shanon Whetstone Mescher, certified health education specialist (CHES) and consultant, Arthritis Foundation.
Breakthrough Treatments For Rheumatoid Arthritis
Harry D. Fischer, MD, chief of the division of rheumatology, Beth Israel Medical Center, and associate professor of clinical medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York City. He is coauthor, with Winnie Yu, of What to Do When the Doctor Says It's Rheumatoid Arthritis. Fair Winds.
Rheumatoid arthritis isn't just about achy joints. This condition can also affect other parts of the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's enough economic productivity to pay off our entire national debt, build new schools in every town and city in the country, provide free college educations to all young people who wish to go to college, invest billions in new energy technologies and even fund massive health education campaigns to keep our population healthy. $38 trillion is a lot of money. With that kind of increased abundance, we could build a whole new society of health, wealth and education.
But guess what? The cancer industry won't let that happen. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Because of the Dietary Supplement and health education Act (DSHEA) passed by Congress in 1994, weight-loss and other supplements are not regulated by the FDA, are not required to demonstrate efficacy for the conditions for which they are promoted, and are not even required to prove that they contain what they claim to contain. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Since being able to breast-feed is a sensitive window of a child's neurological development, health-care professionals who deal with childbirth, especially nurses, must take a proactive role in essential health education. All of us should encourage our loved ones to give their child the best foundation for neurological development by committing to breastfeeding when it is physiologically possible, safe, and feasible. We can also help defend women's rights to nurse their children in public in the name of promoting healthier brains in our younger generations. |
Devra Davis
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 Joseph Califano, the activist secretary of health education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter, had not only taken on Big Tobacco, as we saw in Chapter 7, he also went after the chemical industry. In testimony before Congress in 1978, Califano stated that up to 20 percent of cancer in the future would be due to workplace exposure. This shocking number sent the public relations industry into full battle mode. Others have written about this conflict. In making this prediction, Califano was trying to prevent more cancer. But the debate soon was turned upside down. |
David Steinman
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 The 1994 federal Dietary Supplement and health education Act specifically prohibits manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements from making claims that the supplements cure disease. First parties who profit from the product's sales must adhere to strictly narrow structure-and-function claims allowed within the DSHEA framework. However, third parties like The Doctors' Prescription for Healthy Living, that is, publishing companies and other sources of information that do not profit from the sale of the product, are protected under the First Amendment and may make stronger claims. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Require instruction in nutrition and weight management as part of the school curriculum for future health education teachers.
?Make a plant-based diet the focus of dietary guidance.
?Ban required watching of commercials for foods high in energy, fat, or sugar on school television programs (for example, Channel One).
?Declare and organize an annual National "No-TV" Week.
?Require and fund daily physical education and sports programs in primary and secondary schools, extending the school day if necessary.
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Ron Garner
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 The ensuing steps, of making positive changes in our lives and continuing with our health education, are up to us. This venture is the most interesting, exciting, and rewarding discovery I have made in my life. I hope it will be for you as well.
BREAKING THROUGH OUR CONDITIONING
Ignorance is defined as "not knowing." As we break into knowledge or "knowing," the first step is realizing that "we don't know that we don't know." For most of our lives, we have been taught by our parents, peers, culture, church, and government to look to others for direction, and to do what we are told. |
Alex Steffen
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 The program has had phenomenal success, both in terms of reducing the rate of AIDS among young people and in turning these kids into educators and advocates, providing information and health education to their communities and spreading the Pledge 25 commitment. sr
Community Response to AIDS Orphans
If it takes a village to raise a child, what do you do when you have a whole village full of orphans? This is the case in many African nations, where HIV/AIDS has killed off almost an entire generation of adults. |
Michele Simon
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 Part of the solution: Food companies claim they are part of the solution to obesity, for example, by marketing healthier products and promoting health education in schools.
Personal responsibility: The concept food lobbyists like to use to deflect criticism by blaming individuals for their fate—never mind the billions of dollars they spend in marketing each year.
Point of purchase: How marketers refer to the placement of certain messages targeting consumers at the moment they make a decision about buying a product to encourage what industry calls "impulse purchases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While most first-world nations invest substantial sums in health education and disease prevention, the United States doesn't believe in prevention. In the U.S., "prevention" is limited to mammograms and other screening tests which are really just detection, not prevention.
Big Pharma will bankrupt America
If you really look closely at the issue of health care costs in America, you'll eventually realize that unless trends are substantially altered, there can be only one outcome: The health care bankruptcy of America. |
Alex Steffen
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| Initiated by young people, contained in a mobile unit, and armed with hip-hop beats to draw attention, the People's Grocery brings a traveling larder of fresh, organic foods, local produce, and health education seasoned with street cred—to a population long underserved.
People's Grocery wants food justice. In close collaboration with the community they serve, the organizers work to establish a local food system and economy, making healthy food accessible as a basic human right. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Why was any health education we received as children and teens so simplistic it failed to arm us with vital information about our health?
The top priority of the pharmaceutical-based medical world is the sale of drugs. The top priority of public-health officials appears to be the dispensing and enforcement of immunization programs. Could more knowledge and education keep us off the drug path and on a health path whereby drugs are not needed in the first place? The person with the biggest vested interest in your health is you. Quality of health is at stake, your single most important asset. |
Alex Steffen
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| A few things are needed to make this happen: coaches for the team, medical professionals for health education and, most important, a field to play on. If the health educators also coached the team, they could build the players' trust in an atmosphere of camaraderie and recreation, making them more receptive to information about uncomfortable topics like sexual health and AIDS prevention. That's two crucial components—but the team still needs a field.
In 2005, Somkhele's football players, coaches, teachers, and community members reviewed a number of designs for the ideal field. |
| Because of this, a number of social-service outreach programs have recognized a significant opportunity to target beauty salons for both health education and domestic-violence prevention. Women of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds go to salons, where they are generally relaxed, relatively undistracted, and momentarily focused on themselves. If they are experiencing relationship or health woes that they otherwise might feel ashamed or fearful about, the salon is one place they might let their guard down and talk to someone. |
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Community Gardens
Few kids who've spent the day cooped up in a classroom will pass up an opportunity to run around and get dirty, so it is no surprise that gardens have proved to be a highly effective tool for introducing nutrition awareness and health education into underserved urban communities. Kids exude contagious enthusiasm, and when they take it home, it infects their family and friends. When a third grader tells his mom about eating a tomato he grew all by himself, the concept of reconnecting with our food literally hits home, and it's a realization that stays with us. |
Michele Simon
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| One of the more insidious manifestations of this strategy is how corporations are increasingly providing health education materials to schools. It's a rather brilliant PR move, since it allows food makers to continue targeting the lucrative kid market where they remain a captive audience in an authoritative setting.
For most cash-strapped public schools, the prospect of donated educational materials, even those plastered with corporate logos, is irresistible. In addition to McDonald's, soda companies are also targeting schools with their own "get healthy" messaging. |
| The disingenuousness of this approach to health education was revealed in the July 2005 edition of PR Week, which tracks the major players in the public relations industry. The magazine reported that "Coca-Cola will work with [mega PR firm] Weber Shandwick this fall to promote its new, seemingly selfless, Live It! children's fitness campaign in schools across the country." The PR firm will "focus on generating local publicity for schools that participate in the weeklong program. |
| The federal government's health education programs maintain the focus on the politically safe arena of individual responsibility. But this emphasis detracts from any meaningful debate on nutrition policy, which, of course, keeps the food industry very happy. As long as the "solution" to the nation's diet-related health woes emphasizes individual behavior and not corporate responsibility, all is well in junk food sales. |
Alex Steffen
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| In this comfortable atmosphere, they will find health education much more palatable, and outreach will therefore have a much better chance of success. This is the hope of Siyathemba. 5R
Swedish Sex Education mmmm No country in the world has put more organized emphasis on the importance of sexual freedom to overall sexual health than Sweden has. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Heck, it's more money than the entire United States spends on genuine disease prevention and health education.
In other words, it's a lotta dough. But bribing doctors requires a lot of cash. Doctors have big-dollar appetites. They drive Mercedes Benz, Hummers and Audis. They live in 5,000 square-foot houses with high heating and cooling bills (especially for the outdoor pool). They have expensive habits, expensive travel, and expensive dinner bills (fortunately, drug companies pick up most of the travel and dinner). |
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