Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The public relations firm Burson Marsteller told EuropaBio, "Public issues of environmental and human health risk are communications killing fields for bioindustries in Europe."22 They told them to avoid all public debates. In lieu of a rational discussions we get spin. When a linguist analyzed the rhetoric offered in defense of GM crops, he discovered that GM proponents use unscientific, emotional, and irrational arguments to attack critics as unscientific, emotional, and irrational. |
| GE that has the potential to be the single greatest long-term health risk entailed by this technology."
— David Schubert, molecular biologist and protein chemist, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1. Plants produce thousands of chemicals which, if ingested, may fight disease, influence behavior or be toxic.
2. The genome changes described in this section can alter the composition and concentration of these chemicals.
3. GM soybeans, for example, produce less cancer-fighting isoflavones.
4. Most GM-induced changes in these natural products go undetected. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 However, they show that health risk increases at higher levels of overweight and obesity. Even within the healthy BMI range, weight gains can carry health risks for adults.
Healthy Weight: BMI from 18.5 up to 25 refers to healthy weight.
Overweight: BMI from 25 up to 30 refers to overweight.
Obese: BMI 30 or higher refers to obesity. Obese persons are also considered overweight.
BMI. Body Mass Index is an indicator of body fat based on your height and weight. BMI has been used for years as a good guide because it takes into account your frame size. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 I just think it's been way oversold as a health risk and that the emphasis on that sii number has caused us to take our eye off the ball when it comes to a dozen far more significant risks for heart disease. Fully half the people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol, and half the people who have elevated cholesterol have perfectly healthy hearts.
There's more. While total cholesterol used to be neatly divided into "good" cholesterol (HDL) and "bad" cholesterol (LDL), the truth turns out to be a far more complicated affair. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Simply spotting a microtumor on a mammogram does not mean the tumor is necessarily a health risk.
Processed meat products containing sodium nitrite cause breast cancer. See http://www.newstarget.com/007024.html
Many cosmetic products and personal care products contain cancer-causing chemicals.
There is no motivation for anyone in the cancer industry to teach cancer prevention. Preventing cancer means losing repeat customers.
Chemotherapy is only effective on 1% - 2% of patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: A chemical called triclosan poses a health risk, as it is a toxic compound which can promote cancer. The most shocking thing is that triclosan is commonly found in everyday consumer goods such as antibacterial soaps, deodorants, body washes, creams, lotions, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, detergents, dishwashing liquids, and yes, mouthwash and toothpaste.
Toothpaste is supposed to help clean your teeth, but what it actually does just might horrify you. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Excess inflammation in the body is a serious health risk that demands immediate attention. Therefore, in our detailed discussion of food and diabetes in chapters 5 and 6, you will learn how to avoid dietary glycotoxins and the best ways to prepare foods to prevent their formation.
Yet another way to deal with glycotoxins is through the use of pharmaceuticals. |
Mike Adams
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 Soft drinks, phosphorus, meat and osteoporosis
In addition to the significant health risks posed by the artificial chemical sweeteners found in diet soft drinks, another major health risk exists. This one is rarely discussed, however, and because few people know about it. They happily drink gallons and gallons of diet soft drinks each year, thinking they are "protecting themselves" from the ravages of refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrup. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Alcohol is another one of those readily available beverages posing a serious health risk. It's estimated over 100 million people in the United
States regularly consume alcohol. As a matter of fact, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides data that ".. .more than half of Americans aged 12 or older reported being current drinkers of alcohol."48
More than 6 percent of the same demographic also reported heavy drinking on a regular basis (roughly 5 or more drinks at one time at least 5 days per month). |
| Inhaling chlorine is a serious health risk since it can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream without being filtered by the kidneys.
Did You Know?
Chlorine gas was used as a form of chemical warfare in World War I. That's how toxic this stuff really is!
In a study appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives, M. Kanarek and T. Young found that the consumption of chlorinated water significantly correlates to the onset of brain and colon cancer. Kanarek and Young also observed a higher risk for bladder and gastrointestinal cancer. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Stress also leads to more "health risk behaviors"—poor diet, alcohol abuse, and so on, which can in turn lead to poorer health outcomes.
Could the researchers prove that the number of people with autoimmune disease in the East Ferry area of Buffalo was statistically significant enough to be a cluster? Or was it merely a statistical aberration resulting from the difficult life circumstances of people in the area? These are the questions that the University at Buffalo team would ask in trying to judge whether East Ferry qualified as a cluster site. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Raw almonds represent no legitimate health risk whatsoever to consumers. (There's far more e.coli in meat products, and you don't see the U.S. government banning raw meat, do you?)
2) The labeling of pasteurized almonds as "raw" needs to be stopped. This is fraudulent, misleading labeling and it has the effect of causing consumers to realize they cannot trust ANY almonds, regardless of what the package says. After all, if pasteurized is labeled as "raw" then what does "organic" mean on the package? What does anything mean? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Despite such evidence, manufacturers of the chemical maintain that PFOA does not pose a health risk to humans, citing a lack of sufficient evidence.
Consider now the strawberries and cantaloupe Becky prepares for breakfast. Prior to arriving on her daughter's plate they have been sprayed repeatedly with insecticides to help protect their skins from pests both in the field and during transit to Becky's local grocery store, where she bought them wholly unblemished. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| While studies linking artificial sweeteners to cancer such as bladder, leukemia, and lymphomas or migraines or other adverse health effects have never been conclusive and although the FDA tells us that artificial sweeteners are generally considered safe (other countries ban them because of their demonstrated health risk in animal studies), my own feeling is that there is enough evidence associating the use of artificially sweetened foods to weight gain and enough unanswered questions about the effects of these chemical substances on our long-term health that they're best avoided. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Depending on whether a patient had already a deficient immune system or belonged to a certain health risk group, the symptoms of these diseases exactly matched those which are now considered AIDS diseases.
Before the HIV-AIDS hypothesis, a patient who died from pneumonia, tuberculosis, or a lymphoma died from the respective causes of these diseases. By contrast, a patient who dies from pneumonia today and happens to have antibodies to HIV or P24 in his blood, is automatically labeled and listed as an AIDS victim. |
| Chapter 1 explains in detail why the presence of gallstones in the bile ducts, both inside and outside the liver, can be considered the greatest health risk and the cause of almost every major or minor illness. In
Chapter 2, you will be able to identify the signs, marks, and symptoms that indicate the presence of stones in your liver or gallbladder. Other chapters deal with the possible causes of gallstones and what you can do to prevent new ones from occurring. In Chapter 4, you will learn the actual procedure to rid your body of gallstones. |
| Being deprived of sunlight for long periods of time each day, therefore, poses a significant health risk. |
| In the first 20 years or so of the epidemic, 95 percent of the AIDS cases were among the major health risk groups—highly active homosexuals, heroin addicts, or, in a few cases, hemophiliacs, and since then more and more heterosexual men and women are found to test HIV positive.
According to official estimates, two thirds of infected persons supposedly are in Africa, where the epidemic exploded during the 1990s, and one fifth are in Asia, where the epidemic has been growing rapidly in recent years. As of the end of 2003, an estimated 34.6 million to 42. |
| Still, HIV's most concentrated occurrence among health risk groups cannot be blamed for causing AIDS diseases, just as elevated cholesterol levels cannot be held responsible for causing heart disease. These are mere correlations. Another problem is that gay men, drug users, and hemophiliacs who are exposed to semen, drugs, blood transfusions, hepatitis, the Epstein Barr virus, and many other diseases or factors known to cause biological false positives in HIV tests, represent the most unreliable groups in society to demonstrate real presence of HIV. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Fischell denied that the stent posed a health risk. "I don't know what they are doing," he said of the FDA "They must have some other type of agenda." He claimed the investigation was unfair, even bizarre: "The only tiling that is strange about this is how amazing this thing is."
Stenting, approved for elective surgery only since 1994, has had an "explosive" growth rate. By the new millennium it was performed more than one million times annually (twice as often on men, compared with women), making it the third most common surgery in the United States today.
Does it work? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Residents learned that night that traces of the chemical remained in nearby sewers and that the sewer system ran through a heavily populated part of the East Ferry area, where, local advocates worried, PCB levels might still pose some health risk.
Together, this string of waste sites formed a kind of toxic Orion's belt that stretched across the East Ferry and Delavan-Grider neighborhoods—only this Orion's belt remained dangerously invisible to the naked eye. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 The NutraSweet Company would like you to believe aspartame poses no health risk to ongoing daily consumption for a lifetime.121 The American Dietetic Association has recently published a position paper supporting the use of aspartame every day for the rest of a person's life.122 They believe that it is not possible to consume enough aspartame for it to pose a toxic health risk, even at "abuse" levels by consumers. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Snoring unrelated to sleep apnea has not been found to pose any health risk and doesn't cause daytime drowsiness for the sleeper (though the bed partner may be awakened by loud snoring).16 To prevent snoring, sleep experts recommend that people sleep on their side. If you tend to roll on your back at night, sew a pocket into the back of your pajamas and put a tennis ball or golf balls inside. That will keep you on your side. Dental appliances are also sometimes used. |
| It's a shame that people who don't smoke (and even those who do) are being exposed to this health risk; if health were really the uppermost concern, they should have passed a law against smoking in bed! But as of February 2006, if you wish to purchase a mattress that doesn't contain these harmful chemicals, you must obtain a doctor's prescription and then actively search for a company that manufactures mattresses free of such chemicals.
Look for other ways to reduce toxicity in your bedroom, too. |
Mark Schapiro
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 This was not enough time spent sucking, the commission concluded, to deliver a "designated health risk" to children under the age of five.28
"The dose makes the poison," CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson explained to me. "There were not enough phthalates released in those toys to pose any danger."29 Wolfson's comment revealed another of the key differences between the European and American approaches to regulating chemical exposure. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In Tragic America, his 1931 commentary on the social and economic status of the American working class, Theodore Dreiser specifically cites asbestosis as an example of a worker's health risk to which factory owners in New Jersey were completely indifferent.31 New Jersey was a center of asbestos processing ever since H. W. Johns had first opened shop in the nineteenth century.
Although the link between asbestos exposure and cancer (as opposed to lung scarring) was first reported somewhat later, this notice still dates back to 1935, fifty years before any substantive controls were introduced. |
| By the 1970s, allergic skin rashes were established as a clear health risk arising from its use. In 1985, the first case of asthma in the United States from a cyanoacrylate instant glue was published in a medical journal.45 The person affected was a thirty-two-year-old accountant whose exposure was not on the job but rather through his hobby of model airplane building. He had been wheezing and short of breath for about a year. The pattern was always the same: about an hour after he'd use the glue, his eyes would become puffy and his nose would run profusely. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 John Abramson, professor of medicine at Harvard University, says this: "It is important to keep in mind that cholesterol is not a health risk in and of itself. In fact, cholesterol is vital to many of the body's essential functions." Cholesterol is the "parent" molecule of some of the body's most important compounds, including the sex hormones and vitamin D. It's also an integral part of the cell membrane.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the vast majority of cholesterol is made in your body, by the liver. If you take in more from the diet, the liver makes less. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Dental experts contend that when mercury is bound to the other metals it is encapsulated and does not pose a health risk.
Consumer groups, however, contend that mercury, a known neurotoxin, leaks out from the amalgam in the form of mercury vapor and then gets into the bloodstream.
According to the American Dental Association (ADA), the use of amalgam is declining. In 1990, dental amalgams comprised 67.6% of all dental restorations, by 1999 45.3% used amalgams, and in 2003, an estimated 30% of dental restorations used amalgam. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 If I think the patient is taking a health risk with a therapeutic choice, I try hard to convince him or her not to try that treatment. If the risk is only to the pocketbook, I say to give it a try but to keep my rules in mind.
Is the treatment risky? The alternative practitioner is not the person to ask. You don't need your doctor's endorsement of the alternative treatment you are going to try, either—just his or her help in assessing the risk of that treatment. Then follow the Natel-son Six-Week Rule. If you are confident that this treatment makes you feel better, continue. |
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