James Dowd and Diane Stafford
See book keywords and concepts |  A hundred years ago, we saw a flood of immigrants from Europe and China. In the past fifty years, many immigrants have come from Mexico, India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, all far sunnier climates than most of the United States.
For post-World War II Americans, problems started with their movement into darker industrial cities in the Midwest and the Northeast to look for jobs. Since the 1980s, the digital revolution has moved most of us from the factory floor and physical labor to the desk, where we sit facing a computer. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  Unlike Bangor and Nazareth, Roseto had been settled early in the previous century by immigrants from a poor town in southern Italy who had traveled together from the Old Country to build a new life for themselves. On arriving in Pennsylvania, the newcomers "were forced by snobbish neighbors"— towns settled previously by immigrants from England and Wales—"to look out entirely for themselves, to support one another for survival and to form their own enclave."8
And therein, Wolf and Bruhn believed, lay the unwitting source of the residents' good health. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Cabbage—a superstar vegetable on its own—first came to the attention of researchers after they observed that women living in Eastern European countries surrounding Poland and Russia and eating four or more servings of raw or barely cooked cabbage per week were 74 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than Polish-American immigrants who ate 1.5 or fewer servings of sauerkraut per week. Researchers now believe that the likely reason for the protective effect were phytochemicals found in cabbage called indoles. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts | | The Japanese men who immigrated to California turned out to have rates of coronary heart disease five times higher than the rates in Japan, while immigrants to Hawaii had rates intermediate between those in Japan and California. This heart disease "gradient" could not be explained by diet, Stallones reluctantly agreed (changes in diet in both the Hawaiian and the Californian groups were similar.) But neither could it be explained by Syme's "cultural mobility" hypothesis (after all, both groups had emigrated and experienced dislocation). | | The student was an Australian named Michael Marmot, who completed his dissertation on the heart disease gradient in Japanese immigrants in 1975. Marmot's explanation for the gradient focused neither on diet nor on cultural mobility but on the degree to which Japanese migrants were able to maintain their traditional culture. It turned out, he said, that the "most traditional" Japanese-Americans living in California had coronary heart disease prevalence no higher than what had been observed in Japan. | | The origins of this second "healing ties" story lie in the mid-1960s, when University of California, Berkeley sociologist Leonard Syme became involved in a project with epidemiologist Reuel Stallones to study rates of coronary heart disease and stroke among Japanese immigrants to Hawaii and California. At the time, the Japanese were of great interest to epidemiologists because of evidence showing they had the lowest overall rates of heart disease and lived on average longer than any other nation group on the planet. | | On arriving in Pennsylvania, the newcomers "were forced by snobbish neighbors"— towns settled previously by immigrants from England and Wales—"to look out entirely for themselves, to support one another for survival and to form their own enclave."8
And therein, Wolf and Bruhn believed, lay the unwitting source of the residents' good health. Denied the opportunity to assimilate, the newly immigrated Rosetans created an oasis of Old World values and customs in the heart of a rapidly modernizing America. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts |  Pressure for the government to "do something" to solve the mushrooming financial and economic crisis will bring forth only tough talk and an epidemic of populist proposals, many of which will be targeted at immigrants and foreigners. Calls for sharply higher tariffs, citizen identity cards, and massive walled borders will dominate the agenda. Not surprisingly, other nations will respond in kind, threatening economic and political retaliation and abandonment of the United States and its interests. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  One subgroup among the Japanese immigrants in California continued to have very low rates of heart disease, irrespective of whether their blood cholesterol levels were high or low. The group consisted of males who retained their sense of being Japanese by growing up in a Japanese neighborhood, by participating in traditional Japanese cultural and social events, and by learning and speaking their mother tongue. The close family ties and social support system were the only factors that prevented them from developing degenerative heart disease. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Although it is true, she agrees, that allergies, asthma, and autoimmunity may be higher in countries where there are more vaccines and fewer infections in early childhood, it is also true that immigrants from other countries who are exposed to numerous infections and few vaccines as young children develop allergies and autoimmune disease at rates similar to those of Americans soon after they immigrate to this country. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  I had Laotians, Hmong, Russian immigrants. At one point, I had the state of Washington calling me asking how I was keeping all my asthma patients out of the hospital. How I was able to get a 92 percent immunization rate," she says. One half of her secret was a team that included her receptionist and a nurse. As for the other half of her success, she says, "the moms trusted us. We took care of their kids. I had five translators that I called in. We found courtesy vans for my patients so they could get to my office. If they missed a scheduled immunization, my receptionist tracked them down. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This, she proposes, has combined historically with the commercial marketing of hygiene products to a melting pot of immigrants eager to fit in.3
Yet the data on bleach suggest that the United States is far from the leadet in use of this product. By the early 1990s, Spain, not the United
States, had the greatest average use of household bleach per capita per year, at more than twelve liters for every citizen. Portugal outstripped the United States too, coming in at more than eight liters per capita. The United States trailed behind at 6.4 liters. | | Almost all of the other workers were Mexican immigrants, many of whom spoke little or no English. Although assisted by a local community group, they did not have the resources for lengthy civil tort action. Moreover, despite a variety of ongoing symptoms, the majority of these former employees were too fearful of problems with immigration authorities to allow themselves the luxury of pursuing legal action over any potential long-term health effects from cyanide exposure. |
Michael J. Panzner
See book keywords and concepts | | In some places, vast detention camps will spring up, designed to handle a large influx of lawbreakers, troublemakers, and immigrants, illegal or otherwise, who will increasingly be seen as an unacceptable threat to national security.
Where there is local resistance, force and other aggressive measures will be justified in the name of preventing "foreign agents," or terrorists, from gaining a foothold on U.S. soil, and even mild dissent will frequently trigger dramatic responses. | | Foreigners, in general, and immigrants, in particular, will prove to be easy targets. In fact, America's long dependence on manufactured goods and money borrowed from abroad will spur considerable resentment toward outsiders, reinforcing a broad sense of xenophobic paranoia and efforts to close the nation's borders both figuratively and literally.
Everywhere and anywhere, those seen as rejecting even a small measure of an America-centric perspective will be labeled undesirables, subversives, and even "enemy combatants," whether or not evidence supports the assertion. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  Based on this analysis, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act in 1924, banning immigrants from "weaker" stock and forcibly sterilizing citizens deemed deficient.15 For the next sixty years, America would set genetic limits on those who wished to enter the country. My grandfather, Sam Langer, six feet four at fourteen years of age, came to Ellis Island from Romania in 1911. He was put in the queue to be turned back because he had been blinded in one eye, and only got into the country with the help of a small bribe given to an immigration officer. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | Studies show that almost 40 percent of newly arrived immigrants quickly change their diet to add in more prepackaged highly processed foods and snacks, eating fewer vegetables and fruit and less fish, rice, and beans. Not surprisingly, autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases are more common in Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia—where rates of Crohn's disease have been rising—and less common in southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  He noticed that his patients from the first generation of immigrants, who ate the "worst diet," according to traditional nutritional principles— virtually no dairy products or meat—always seemed trim and fit. "They avoided heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and arthritis, by and large, and they also lived to work and function fully into their eighties and sometimes nineties on a diet primarily of rice and vegetables. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | Britain, perhaps because it never faced the numbers of immigrants who headed to America, never adopted broad eugenics laws. But the British were not slackers in this respect and found other ways to promote eugenics.19The founder of biostatistics, Karl Pearson, nowadays known for a number of statistical tests that bear his name, took a Gal-tonian view of war as a purifying means of ensuring the survival of the fittest. | | He contended that America was a dynamic, "racially successful" society that practiced eugenics and segregation and kept out "racially degenerate" immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. Hitler believed that the majority of Americans were true "Aryans" who felt, as he did, keenly threatened by a Jewish plutocracy.34
By the 1930s, the country of Kant, Goethe and Beethoven, the country that had trained many of the world's physicians and captured half of all Nobel Prizes,35 had the highest rate of cancer in the world. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Cultivated oats came to America with the first British immigrants in the early 1600s. In fact, the British Quaker influence inspired the name "Quaker Oats" and the company remains the main supplier of oats to the United States today.
Where Are Oats Grown?
The top ten producers of grain include Russia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Finland, Australia, Germany, Belarus, People's Republic of China, and the Ukraine. Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa, and central Canada lead in oat production in North America.
Why Should I Eat Oats? |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Instead of clearing small patches of forest for short periods, immigrants to the Amazon are clearing large areas all at once, and then accelerating erosion through overgrazing, sucking the life from the land. The modern cycle of forest clearing, peasant farming, and cattle ranching strips off top-soil and nearly destroys the capacity to recover soil fertility. The result is that the land sustains fewer people. When they run out of productive soil, they move on. The modern Amazon experience reads a lot more like the history of North America than we tend to acknowledge. | | Thousands of years later, sometime between 5000 and 4000 bc, immigrants from the east introduced agriculture to the Italian Peninsula. Sheep, goat, and pig bones found along with wheat, barley seeds, and grinding stones reveal that these first farmers relied on mixed cereal cultivation and animal husbandry. Occupying ridges mantled with easily worked, well-drained soils these farmers relied on an integrated system of cereal cultivation and grazing similar to traditional peasant agriculture described by Roman agronomists thousands of years later. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In the study illustrated here, the levels of different cancers affecting Japanese and Japanese immigrants to Hawaii were compared with those affecting the ethnic Hawaiian population. For example, while prostate cancer was at the time little-known in Japan, the incidence of this cancer increased by a factor of ten in Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, to the point of becoming comparable to the native Hawaiian levels. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |  Aaron grew up as the third son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Providence, Rhode Island. He almost died at age eight, from a staph infection that developed after surgery for a broken arm. Two of his siblings died in childhood. His father was a socialist and a printer who wrote poetry. His mother likely suffered from depression. Beck attended Brown University and Yale Medical School. Two of his children, Judith and son Daniel, are cognitive therapists. A third son, Roy, is a neuroopthamologist and epidemiologist.
I asked Judith Beck if she has used CBT on herself. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts |  At first, the Aztec immigrants lived as poor vassals and serfs for these overlords, whom they impressed by their warlike propensities. Following a series of vicissitudes, the intruders were expelled by the original inhabitants to several, small, swampy islands in the midst of the great lake, the Lake of the Moon, which once filled much of the Valley of Mexico. On one of these—lo and behold!— was the eagle sitting on the cactus with the serpent in its mouth, and there they established their soon-to-be-mighty capital, Tenochtitlan. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Similar findings were found for all indigenous groups migrating to urban environments, such as Kurdish immigrants. Similar data has been gathered from Australian Aborigines,6 New Guinea aboriginal groups,7 and Polynesians in general.8
In summary, cross-cultural studies show the introduction of refined carbohydrates into cultures that previously had low incidences of diabetes, whether on a low-protein-and-fat and high-complex-carbohydrate diet or a high-fat and protein diet. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  Simply by moving to places like America, immigrants from nations with low rates of chronic disease seemed to quickly acquire them.
The other objection to the concept of Western diseases, one you sometimes still hear, was demographic. The reason we see so much chronic disease in the West is because these are illnesses that appear relatively late in life, and with the conquest of infectious disease early in the twentieth century, we're simply living long enough to get them. In this view, chronic disease is the inevitable price of a long life. | | America's early attraction to various forms of scientific eating may also have reflected discomfort about the way other people eat: the weird, messy, smelly, and mixed-up eating habits of immigrants.* How a people eats is one of the most powerful
*According to Levenstein, scientists seeking the secret of Fletcher's exemplary health scrupulously monitored his ingestions and excretions, "noting with regard to the latter, as all observers did, the remarkable absence of odor" (Levenstein, Revolution of the Table, p. 89). |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | In the early nineteenth century, Italian immigrants carried the vegetable with them to North America. It was not popular with non-Italian Americans and took another century to catch on and be grown commercially. The first commercial harvest was celebrated in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, in 1920.
Where Is Broccoli Grown?
Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, and the United States are the top contributors to broccoli production. Ninety percent of the broccoli grown in the United States comes from California's Salinas Valley and Santa Maria. |
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