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 When Lenzer asked Dawes if she could do a thorough physical exam and get a complete history before making any referrals, Dawes was taken aback. Nonetheless, she agreed to allow Lenzer to take her history and examine her.
Thirty-seven years old at the time, Dawes had begun having complaints twenty-four years earlier, when she fainted for the first time at the age of thirteen. Since then, she had passed out more times than she could count. Most days, she could hardly stand up without feeling woozy. She was hospitalized at twenty-five for a "nervous breakdown," as she put it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, making healthier foods available is a good first step in any wellness program. An effective corporate wellness program can also reward people for lowering their overall body weight, lowering their cholesterol or making improvements that are easily measured by competent medical personnel.
The bottom line is that no corporation can force its employees to make positive changes if the employees don't want to make them. That's where the power of information enters. |
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| He was making a lot of doctors mad as hell. He alienated several powerful members of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Vermont when he pointed out that practically every woman over the age of fifty in the area around the university's hospital had been relieved of her uterus. |
| Longman's grandfather still made house calls, and he did not want to arrive in a Cadillac for fear of looking ostentatious; but he also didn't want to drive a Chevy for fear his patients would think he was not a very good doctor and therefore wasn't making any money. (He settled on a Ford Galaxy.) Medicare effectively removed the social controls on the fees physicians charged the elderly. With the disembodied government now footing the bill, the doctor was no longer charging his elderly patients directly, and it no longer mattered as much whether he drove a Cadillac or a Chevy. |
| Nearly seventy, Wennberg has no trouble making the steady climb over the snow. His face is craggy, with bristling brows and gray hair curling around his ears. With big, beefy hands, he looks more like a gentleman rancher than a maverick medical researcher.
At the top of a ridge we stop, our breath coming fast, to look out over the rolling hills and compact houses of Lyme, New Hampshire, which is not unlike one of the dozens of small towns Wennberg visited during his research in Vermont. I ask him why doctors deliver so much medical care that is useless and even harmful. |
| Are they making sure their female patients get regular Pap smears, and do they take steps to ensure that surgical patients don't contract infections? Physicians and hospitals are so wedded to the notion that more dollars buy better care that despite thirty years of data, the Dartmouth group's findings had gained only grudging acceptance. Fisher was looking to produce a study that would persuade his medical peers. |
| But if you don't have [a severe problem], if you've got a very mild problem, then making you a psychiatric patient, and putting you on a pill, may pose more risks than leaving you untreated."
Branded
Colin and Wolfe's campaign was just one example of the technique that emerged during the 1990s for selling drugs by selling sickness. Known as "condition branding" in marketing circles, the sales technique has proved itself time and time again as a potent means for getting people into their doctors' offices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But we're sure happy to be along for the ride and making a difference today!
Suddenly, being "green" is popular. Huge corporations like Wal-Mart, GM and Costco are going green. People are figuring out that pharmaceuticals are dangerous and that eating fresh produce is actually good for you. Even mainstream cereal companies are going whole-grain, and more and more food and beverage companies are releasing nutritious products that lack the dangerous chemicals we've covered here on NewsTarget. |
| We are making a huge difference in the world, one person at a time. Through the products you buy (and the products you avoid), you are voting with your dollars. And guess what? The rest of the world is following your leadership!
Late adopters are finally waking up to natural living principles
It's true! Three years ago when NewsTarget readers were buying organic, and avoiding fragrance chemicals in their body lotions, and eating blueberries and superfoods, most of the world thought you were nuts, right? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm not making this up
I sometimes receive emails from people who think that I'm making this stuff up. They say, "Mike, you've lost it this time. You're just making this up. Modern medicine couldn't be that crazy." Unfortunately, I can assure you I'm not making this up. You can verify for yourself: Go to Google News or any search engine you want and search for the keywords "double mastectomy breast cancer prevention." The Times of London did this report, so you can check it out yourself.
I am not making this stuff up, folks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It also goes to show the global nature of making positive health changes. For example, when a person improves their level of health, it doesn't just change their cholesterol numbers, it doesn't just change their blood pressure or their body weight; it changes their whole life. It changes and improves the nature of their relationships. It improves their work performance, mental performance and level of awareness, and it boosts their level of enjoyment and optimism in life. It changes their self-image, which has tremendous long-term implications. |
| Free access to health information is vital for making nationwide positive health changes
Only through internally motivated, holistic, long-term health changes can a person radically alter their health outcome for the better. It has to be changed from within. It has to be a day-to-day commitment to that change, and ideally, it's something that produces visible results so the person undergoing the transformation can witness those positive changes as they are taking place.
Make no mistake: Health information is powerful. |
| It was achieved by making positive health changes in diet and exercise, as well as by avoiding dangerous substances (such as harmful food ingredients) and prescription drugs. Essentially, the readers who reported these results are the kind of people who always want to be healthier. They want to improve their results, so they took the initiative, taught themselves this information and applied it in a smart way that boosted their work results. This was not something that was forced upon them. |
| An effective corporate wellness program can also reward people for lowering their overall body weight, lowering their cholesterol or making improvements that are easily measured by competent medical personnel.
The bottom line is that no corporation can force its employees to make positive changes if the employees don't want to make them. That's where the power of information enters. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In most cases, you can directly reverse this condition and return to a healthy metabolic state by making new choices in your foods and physical exercise. Remember, diabetes is a disease that is quite easy to reverse if you catch it early enough. And if you're pre-diabetic, you have an opportunity to reverse the situation right now.
Reversing it means making some tough choices in your life. It means, first of all, getting out and engaging in physical exercise on a regular basis. That's 45 minutes a day of walking, or something more strenuous if you can handle it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Taiwan businesspeople are making money, Chinese businesspeople are making money, Chinese politicians are making money, and Chinese police are making lots of bribery money because you've got to bribe the right people to do business in China. So, there's no profit in war. If you go to war, you spoil the economic profit that's there.
Now, back in the United States, let's say Donald Rumsfeld, for example, owned a chain of factories in Iraq before 2001. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Those are the five Kreb's cycle bionutrients that are actually produced in the process of making ATP in the body.
Mike: Yes, this is the primary cellular energy.
Dr. Liers: Yes, it is the energy form. Every single mitochondria and cell in the body knows what Kreb's cycle bionutrients are. They live with it. They understand it. They use it in other ways beyond just making energy. Alpha-ketoglutarate is a great detoxifier in the liver, for example. The whole idea, for me, was to put something into the body that the body can use in addition to being a carrier. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Diabetics are really good at making excuses. I know, I used to be pre-diabetic. I would find every reason in the world to avoid physical exercise.)
The second thing people can do is give up all foods that promote diabetes. This means foods that contain ingredients like refined white sugar, sucrose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, white flour, enriched flours, and so on. So that means getting rid of all ice cream, cakes, cookies, sweets, desserts, candy bars, etc. These foods are causing your diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You're just making this up. Modern medicine couldn't be that crazy." Unfortunately, I can assure you I'm not making this up. You can verify for yourself: Go to Google News or any search engine you want and search for the keywords "double mastectomy breast cancer prevention." The Times of London did this report, so you can check it out yourself.
I am not making this stuff up, folks. In fact, I couldn't possibly make this type of stuff up; it is much too bizarre to pop into my head. I'm busy thinking about other things, like "How are those tomato plants doing today in the back yard? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think we should all send kind letters to the Almond Board of California, thanking them for making our food purchasing decisions so simple that even complete idiots can now eat themselves into a state of sustained malnourishment without giving it a second thought.
It is a fascinating sign of the times when the authorities in charge of the food supply seem dead set on making foods as nutritionally worthless as possible.
Online resources for taking action
Organic Pastures www.OrganicPastures.com
160 acres of almonds, they can sell you raw almonds directly (and they're also into raw milk). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Without the many hours of time and effort he's spent watching this bill and analyzing the details of proposed amendments, we would never have been able to coordinate such an effective grassroots response that's making a real difference!
As Byron told me today, "We as a team are making a huge impact. We are sending a clear message to the Senate that a small band of health freedom advocates, and a legion of constitution-loving Americans, is a force to be reckoned with."
I completely agree. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The drug companies, surgeons, medical specialists, health insurance companies and private hospitals are making out like bandits, raking in multi-million dollar CEO salaries and -- I'm not making this up -- greater than 500,000% markups on prescription drugs. And while the American people get sicker, the drug companies, insurance companies and many health "care" providers (it's really more like "sick care providers") are rolling in cash. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It serves as a guidebook that shows us a different path we can take to start making real changes in our lives that not only create more happiness and abundance for us, but that also help create a happier, greener and more peaceful world at the same time.
You see, this isn't some simple self-help book. This is a book about global transformation through personal transformation. Gandhi said it best with, "Be the change you wish to see in the world," and The Flip shows us the practical ways we can set foot on that path and start making those changes a personal reality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I wasn't sure what it was going to be, but I really liked them so I just started making them and taking little bags of them with me everywhere I went, and that's how it got started.
Mike: Word got around and...
Waldner: Well, everyone started eating them and wanting more so I started making them more and more and more. I got a new oven so I could make enough for all my friends, and I got tired of making crackers, so I said to my husband, "I think we need to manufacture these so I can get out of the kitchen." And we started two years ago.
Mike: Wow. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Start having salad, stop going out to eat at night and start making your own food. Now how do you do that? Well, you just wing it. I mean, I'm way behind the current curve when it comes to making food. I just end up throwing everything into a blender, blending it up and running out the door.
You’ve got to go through a learning curve. I had this one guy who traveled with me for some time who was new to raw food and he was blending cabbage with MSM powder and water and eating it. |
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| Reversing it means making some tough choices in your life. It means, first of all, getting out and engaging in physical exercise on a regular basis. That's 45 minutes a day of walking, or something more strenuous if you can handle it. If you can't walk 45 minutes a day, walk 30 minutes a day. If you can't walk 30 minutes a day, walk 5 minutes a day. If you can't walk 5 minutes a day, just get up out of your chair 3 times -- do something to increase your exercise stamina, and work towards walking 45 minutes a day. Everybody can do something. |
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