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What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

Smoking during pregnancy causes an estimated 910 infant deaths.16 Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the cardiovascular system is "exquisitely sensitive" to the toxins in secondhand smoke. "The effects of even brief (minutes to hours) passive smoking are often nearly as large (averaging 80% to 90%) as chronic active smoking." Regular exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 30%.17 Indeed, in 1994, a new medical diagnostic code was created for "exposure to secondhand smoke."18 And what about obesity?

Dairy industry ridiculously claims milk prevents type 2 diabetes based on distorted study (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We know that infant deaths increase when they are fed cow's milk instead of human breast milk. We also know a vast majority of people are allergic to milk proteins and can't digest them properly. And then there's the stink factor: Drinking milk (or eating dairy products) flatly makes you stink. It makes you smell like a milk-and-butter American, and it drives huge profits in the deodorant industry. Give up milk products for 30 days, and you won't stink nearly as much. Give up all animal products for 30 days, and you may actually be able to skip a shower or two.

Depression and mental disorders can be prevented and treated with simple healing foods Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And actually, that's a distortion, because most of the deaths 50 years ago were infant deaths. Infants died of infectious disease due to a lack of good public sanitation. Back then, if you made it past the age of 5, you were going to live a lot longer than people live today.

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy Mark Sircus See book keywords and concepts

It is also suggested that magnesium deficiency might cause or predispose to certain skeletal and renal diseases, all of which can coexist. It has been said that many sudden deaths following vaccination can be prevented by sufficient vitamin C and vitamin A reserves (or supplementation), but we should probably take a good look at magnesium deficiency as a crucial factor in sudden death. In adults it has been seen how high levels of mercury in the heart becomes dangerous.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Drugs are killing more people than terrorists, murderers, car accidents, plane accidents, swimming pool accidents and infant deaths combined. In terms of what's killing people in this country, nothing compares to prescription drugs. We have a memorial in Washington, D.C. for all the veterans who died in the Vietnam War. It's a wall, and it's a fairly sizeable wall. It would take you some time to go through all the names on that wall.

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Birth defects account for more than 20% of infant deaths and contribute substantially to life-long disabilities. The causes of about 70% of all birth defects are unknown. Various occupational hazards, dietary factors, medications, personal habits, and environmental exposures may contribute to birth defects, but many questions remain about the exact nature of their influence. Neural tube defects (NTDs) are one of the most common birth defects. NTDs result when the neural tube (which includes the spinal cord and brain) fails to close during the first month of embryonic development.

Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of MSG, aspartame and excitotoxins Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: Could this explain some sudden infant deaths as well, you think? Dr. Blaylock: Oh yeah. I mean, look at the popularity of these soy infant formulas. Mothers are crazy to give their kids soy formula. There is a lot of concern about it. There's concern about the fluoride level, the manganese level, and the glutamate levels in these soy infant formulas. Mike: At Wal-Mart, I saw bottled water with added sodium fluoride. It's fluoride water. Dr. Blaylock: Oh yes, it's for babies. They have a picture of a baby on it.

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Overall, neonatal (younger than 28 days) deaths were rare for infants born to low-risk women. The rate was approximately one death per 1,000 live births. However, the study found that the death rate among neonatal infants who were delivered by Caesarean section was more than twice that of infants who were delivered vaginally. This held true even after the researchers adjusted for so-ciodemographic and medical risk factors. The researchers note that between 1996 and 2004, there was a 41% increase in the number of Caesarean sections in the US.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Meanwhile, more than a half-dozen nuclear-oriented stories were nominated for "best censored" of 1980, including the following: NO ONE DIED AT TMI—The Pennsylvania Health Department released a report entitled "No infant deaths Caused by TMI" that was widely publicized by the media. However, a devastating study by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, a protege of Albert Einstein and a professor of radiation physics at the University of Pittsburgh, which refutes that report went unpublicized. Using the government's own data, Dr. Sternglass laid the blame for a minimum of 430 infant deaths in the U.S.

How to slash national health care costs by 90% through education, nutrition, and a ban on junk food marketing Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It even contributes to infant deaths. This is something that we should stop serving our children as quickly as possible. (The dairy industry would disagree, of course...) We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald’s restaurants inside the hospital!

The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Smoking also increases the incidence of stillbirths, congenital malformations, and early infant deaths. • Smoking around newborns and infants increases their susceptibility to many diseases, particularly colds, ear infections, bronchitis, and pneumonia. • Women are at risk for all of the problems described in this list, but are particularly vulnerable if they are using birth control pills. For example, women who smoke and use the pill are 25 times more likely to suffer a heart attack than women who do neither.

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Today worldwide, more infant deaths result from dehydration caused by diarrhea than from any other condition. The chief digestive symptoms of gastroenteritis—vomiting and diarrhea—can be caused by other conditions as well. Some of these can be treated at home, but others require medical assistance. vomitin g Although it is decidedly an uncomfortable experience, vomiting is an important and effective defense mechanism. It allows the body to rid itself of poisons and germs, and it can remove food that the gastrointestinal tract is not digesting and absorbing properly.

Vaccination The Issue of Our Times Peggy O'Mara See book keywords and concepts

In this country, 46 deaths after dpt (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) vaccination were reported in 1979,33 of them sudden infant deaths. (The pertussis component of the dpt immunization is thought to be responsible for serious reactions following the injection.) It is not clear whether these deaths were caused by the immunization. In spite of these dangers, the American Academy of Pediatrics has concluded that the benefits of pertussis immunization outweigh the risks.

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America E. Richard Brown See book keywords and concepts

The percentage of low-birth-weight infants and infant deaths both decreased as the adequacy of maternal health services increased, within each racial, socioeconomic, social-risk, and medical-risk group. Among college-educated mothers, the infants of those with inadequate care were twice as likely to die as the babies of those with adequate care. Among black college-educated mothers, the infant death rate for those with inadequate maternal care was six times as great as the rate for those with adequate care.

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Recent studies of Sudden infant deaths (crib deaths) at the University of Boston Medical Center have conclusively shown that the death was linked to cervical (neck) spinal-cord damage due to unnatural interference during the delivery process. As soon as this interference occurs, the child begins functioning at less than 100 percent. Studies at the University of Colorado by Dr. C. H. Suh, Director of Biomechanical Research, have shown that minimal pressure on a nerve root at the point where it leaves the spinal column will reduce the functioning of that nerve by some 60 percent.

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Arden Pope of Brigham Young University, who studies the economic costs and health effects of air pollution, reported findings that linked infant deaths to high air pollution, including a survey of 4 million infants reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Infants living in cities with high levels of "particulate pollution" are 46% more likely to die of respiratory ailments and 26% more likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Common pollutants include household molds, bacteria, dust, and tobacco.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

Infant Mortality Rates are measured in infant deaths per on health care, and use midwives as their principal 1000 births, birth attendants. The results are not pretty. According to the World Health Organization's Marsden Wagner, "At least half of all cesareans performed in the U.S. are unnecessary. And a good number of them are life threatening, or at the very least, significantly debilitating. . . . The fact that cesareans pose serious risks to both mother and baby is one of America's best-kept secrets. . . .

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For the first time, studies in the United States, Brazil, Europe, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan show conclusively that air pollution in the developing world not only harms infants, old people, and the infirm but also unborn babies, causing stillbirths and infant deaths. Results of this research were coordinated and analyzed by Beate Ritz, an epidemiologist at UCLA's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. "Air Pollution doesn't just impact asthmatics and old people at the end of life.

Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Besides resulting in babies with lower birth weight than those of nonsmoking women, which may result from a decrease in blood circulation and thus a lower oxygen and nutrient supply to the fetus throughout pregnancy, smoking increases the incidence of miscarriages, stillbirths, congenital malformations, and early infant deaths. Nicotine gets into breast milk and may decrease its production. I believe that early nicotine exposure may cause a greater likelihood of smoking addiction in later life.

Food Politics Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

The article attacked UNICEF for blocking what the authors viewed as the only reasonable approach to preventing infant deaths caused by transmission of AIDS through breast milk. An editorial in the Journal's European edition expressed even greater sympathy with the plight of formula companies. It began, "Makers of infant formula have long known that no good deed goes unpunished. Offers to donate millions of dollars worth of nutritious baby formula are regarded as 'suspicious' by United Nations Children's Fund officials. In fact, UNICEF has been waging a feud against the industry since the 1970s.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

Birth defects are the greatest cause of infant deaths in the first year of life. Premature birth rates were especially high among African-American women. Researchers believe that environmental factors, such as toxins in the air and water, may account for the rise. Early Puberty "Precocious puberty," as it is called, is a phenomenon documented in a study that found 27 percent of African-American and almost 7 percent of white girls had either breast or pubic hair development by age seven.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

It is now estimated that "one million infant deaths per year can be prevented by using the world's most economical and effective health protection: breast milk." But Third World mothers are still not being told this and continue to be bombarded with promotions for formula. Anyone interested in this issue would be well advised to look up the original Mothering article. It is an exceptionally well-researched history of the problem dating back to 1939 when Nestle was selling sweetened condensed milk as infant food despite research showing it was unsafe for infants.

Sternglass laid the blame for a minimum of 430 infant deaths in the U.S. on TMI. SOURCE: Harrowsmith, June 1980, "The Silent Toll," by Thomas Pawlick. URANIUM MINING IN REMOTE NEW JERSEY—While the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recommends that facilities for mining and milling uranium be confined to "remote areas," Exxon and Standard Oil of New Jersey started exploratory drilling for uranium in an area of northern New Jersey where four cities and six towns, with a combined population of close to one million, now derive their water supplies.

Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition Larry Trivieri, Jr. See book keywords and concepts

One article, entitled "Fatal Forceps," recounts a pathologist's findings that some infant deaths may be due to delivery by forceps.63 Recent research has also found that mothers whose babies are born via vacuum extraction or forceps delivery are nearly twice as likely to develop fecal incontinence (difficulty controlling bowel movements and gas) than women who give birth without such procedures.66 CESAREAN SECTION (C-SECTION) Approximately 25% of all births in the U.S. are performed by c-section.

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Nonetheless (or perhaps as a result), Holland has fewer infant deaths than the United States even when minority women are factored out. Underlying these differences in approach to and outcomes from birthing is an attitudinal difference between Americans and the Dutch. Dutch society anticipates that birthing will be difficult and will involve some pain, but women accept this as a normal part of giving birth. All this leads to notable differences in the birthing landscapes of the two countries. American women often report anxiety about the aggravation and strain of undergoing vaginal births.

Food and Healing Annemarie Colbin See book keywords and concepts

Daily consumption of meat, together with dairy products, is at the core of our excessive protein intake, which has been associated with dehydration and heatstroke in athletes, fatal exacerbation of kidney and liver malfunctions, increased acidity of body fluids, infant deaths, premature aging, heart disease, and cancer.23 A high-protein diet creates toxic by-products in the form of unused nitrogen; excreting these can seriously overtax the kidneys, unless large amounts of water are taken to flush them out.

The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Selenium and vitamin E deficiencies of infant formulas may account for a quarter of the roughly 35,000 infant deaths in our country each year. For children, it is probably best that their selenium comes through food rather than supplements as long as their teeth are developing. Studies suggest that selenium supplements may be linked to an increased number of dental caries in children under ten.80 Selenium may also be responsible for changes in the chemical composition of the tooth enamel as it develops. Whole, natural foods are their best source of the mineral.

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