Devra Davis
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 Abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage is the best form of sexual health."42
National and international surveys reveal that HPV remains a common sexually transmitted disease. The most common variants of the virus lay behind seven out of every ten cases of cervical cancer in industrial countries and probably even more in the rapidly developing regions of the world. Even today, 4,000 women in America—many more blacks than whites—die each year of a cancer that is believed to be largely avoidable. |
Jack Challem
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 That was the case with Ruth, a devout Catholic who married young and was in an abusive marriage for more than twenty years. With two small boys to care for, she saw no way out of the marriage short of hell, excommunication, or suicide. Because of her predicament, she became an alcoholic and even attempted suicide. On her own, she began to piece together the "Get aware, get willing, and get with it" steps I described earlier. She came to understand her path in life and how to change it into a more positive direction. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Stone, Radin, and their colleagues planned to examine two different outcomes: whether the training improved the marriage, and also whether there was any correspondence between the physical sensations of sender and receiver. Although they hoped to examine whether the intentions sent also affected the medical prognosis, limited funding made that aspect of the study impossible.
Stone and Levine were given the task of analyzing the social aspects of the study. Initially they discovered that the training made no difference to the quality of the couples' marriages. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When depression is relatively mild—especially if it seems linked to a situation (a bad job or troubled marriage, for example) or traumatic event (such as a death in the family)—it may be worthwhile to try psychotherapy first. But if depression interferes seriously with your life—particularly if you or family members have had depression and/ or anxiety before—medication combined with psychotherapy may be a better choice.
A GROWING ARSENAL
For nearly 50 years, doctors have prescribed tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline (Elavil) and imipramine (Tofranil).. . |
Devra Davis
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| Before her marriage to Albert Lasker, a man famous in his time as the father of modern advertising, Mary C. Lasker was an accomplished businesswoman. As a young child, she had been deeply upset by a visit she and her mother paid to their family laundress who lay dying of cancer. When her beloved cook, Maria Amosio, developed cancer some forty years later, Lasker was appalled that nothing had changed. She was told nothing could be done to help the poor woman, except place her in a hospital for incurables and the insane. |
| Her biography describes her as a "radiologist until marriage ."The choices for women in any profession at the time were limited: either be married or have a career. So Illig did each in succession.
The wife of a General Motors executive, Illig chaired the public health division of the General Women's Federation in 1935. As a radiologist, she had seen dozens of young women whose X-rays revealed abdomens riddled with spreading white blotches of disease. |
| Just as it's better for gays to get AIDS than use condoms, it's better for a woman to get cancer than have sex before marriage. It's honor killing on the installment plan."46
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
-charles darwin
Delaying the use of the Pap smear was not the worst legacy of the efforts against cancer in the 1950s. That honor must go to what the ACS, the AMA, and the American and British governments did to prolong and exaggerate scientific disputes about the harms of tobacco. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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• Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle Over Fen-Phen (2001) by Alicia Mundy
• Prescription for Profits: How the Pharmaceutical Industry
Bankrolled the Unholy marriage Between Science and Business (1997) by Linda Marsa
• Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet (1998) by Thomas J. Moore
• The Coming Plague (1995) by Laurie Garrett
• Confessions of a Medical Heretic (1990) by Robert S. |
Jack Challem
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| With two small boys to care for, she saw no way out of the marriage short of hell, excommunication, or suicide. Because of her predicament, she became an alcoholic and even attempted suicide. On her own, she began to piece together the "Get aware, get willing, and get with it" steps I described earlier. She came to understand her path in life and how to change it into a more positive direction. She sought professional help, joined Alcoholics Anonymous and stopped drinking, got divorced, and went to college and earned a degree. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Shoot, they even tackled the Catholic Church and Gay marriage. But do you ever see them investigate the snake-pit that is "business as usual" corporate America? If they really attacked corporate crime, including pharmaceutical crime, exposing the corporate sharks for the criminals they are, these poor excuses for hard-hitting journalists would be nothing more than anal debris at the bottom of the corporate cesspool.
By asserting their journalistic dedication and honesty, they are able to focus public attention on a myriad of topics. |
Walter Last
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 Marriage was desirable because it gave babies and status. The marriage lasted as long as the couple loved each other, usually for many years or a lifetime. While married, there was never any unfaithfulness or even a desire for it; they did not even have a word for it.
Marriage breakup was no disaster for the children. The father always remained a good friend of the mother and the children. Furthermore, as they did not have the concept of a biological father, the maternal uncle always played the role of the father. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Take Jo N, 41, of San Francisco, who was in a strained marriage for more than a decade until she found out that she had low blood sugar. Once she made that discovery, she quit sugar, joined a support group, and put an end to her mood swings. "Without my rages, my husband and I get along better, and we communicate more effectively."
Likewise, Michele A., 40, of Plantation, Florida, now has perspective on the sudden, seesawing spurts of anger that used to plague her. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 In many ancient cultures elder was held to be so sacred that it was neither burned as firewood nor used in woodworking lest it bring bad luck to the household, and it was planted by homes and worn in amulets to encourage prosperity, happy marriage, healthy children, and protection from both lightning and evil forces.
The leaves can be bruised and then rubbed on the body or worn in a hat to keep away pestering insects. A tea prepared from the leaves, cooled and strained, can be applied to other plants to prevent aphid infestation. |
| In Siberia it is traditionally given to couples prior to marriage to help them bring forth healthy children.
Rhodiola is used in the treatment of anemia, cancer, colds, depression, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, flu, headache, high cholesterol, hysteria, insomnia, stress, nervous system disorders, pain, premature ejaculation, stress, and tuberculosis.
Edible Uses
The young leaves, shoots, and roots are edible raw. The stems can be cooked as a vegetable.
Other Uses
The roots can be distilled to make a cosmetic floral water. |
| In some traditions brides wear a wreath of rosemary and carry it in their bridal bouquet as a symbol of their remembrance of their families and their marriage vows.
Rosemary's antiseptic aroma repels many kinds of insects, and it is one of the most traditional of incenses and sachet ingeredients. It can be placed in books to deter moths. It also can be burned in sick rooms to refresh and purify the air. The essential oil is widely used in massage oils, baths, and room sprays. A yellow-green dye can be obtained from the flowers and leaves. |
| Other Uses
Comfrey baths were once given to women before marriage to restore the hymen and thus "virginity." The roots were once used as a dye plant, and the plant has long been used as animal fodder. When added to the compost bin comfrey accelerates the breakdown of organic matter. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| A perfect marriage occurs for the pharmaceutical corporations when regulatory agencies, run by paper-shuffling MDs who have all but forgotten the Hippocratic Oath, are easily accessed by influence peddling.
On December 8,1998, David Willman reported that Dr. Richard C. Eastman,13 a top NIH researcher, oversaw a study of Rezu-lin, remarking it was a drug that "corrects the underlying cause of diabetes." While overseeing the $150 million study, Eastman was a paid consultant for Warner Lambert. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Knowing that, I'm not at all sure that I trust the government to decide exactly what level of carcinogenic toxins is "safe" for me to be exposed to, especially when I'm fully aware that their decisions and policies are the result of a marriage of some science and a lot of politics. |
Joseph Campbell
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| And when all are in crowd then send for thy son, Kamar al-Zaman, and summon him; and, when he cometh, broach to him the matter of marriage before the wazirs and grandees and officers of state and captains; for he will surely be bashful and daunted by their presence and will not dare to oppose thy will. |
| The king consulted with his wazir, and the minister advised: "O King, wait another year and, if after that thou be minded to speak to him on the matter of marriage, speak not to him privily, but address him on a day of state, when all the emirs and wazirs are present with the whole of the army standing before thee. |
| Woman as the Temptress
The mystical marriage with the queen goddess of the world represents the hero's total mastery of life; for the woman is life, the hero its knower and master. And the testings of the hero, which were preliminary to his ultimate experience and deed,
37 Antiphons for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15), at Vespers: from the Roman Missal. were symbolical of those crises of realization by means of which his consciousness came to be amplified and made capable of enduring the full possession of the mother-destroyer, his inevitable bride. |
| Well, if that is the state you are in," said he, "and if marriage with me will free you from the spell, I'll not leave the pig's head on you long."
Without delay the pig's head was dispatched and they set out together for Tir na n-Og, the Land of Youth. Oisin dwelt there as a king many happy years. But one day he turned and declared to his supernatural bride: " 'I wish I could be in Erin to-day to see my father and his men.'
" 'If you go,' said his wife, 'and set foot on the land of Erin, you'll never come back here to me, and you'll become a blind old man. |
Jack Challem
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 Steve's life was not set for favorable change, and as a result he felt trapped by circumstances. His marriage had ended in divorce, he was responsible for a teenage daughter, and his business had taken a downturn. There was no way to nurture his desire for an alternative career in entertainment. He felt sad, disheartened, and depressed. Steve kept eating way too many refined carbs, from sweets to pizzas, and his weight was pushing three hundred pounds. Not surprisingly, his triglycerides were extremely high. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Jablonski and a geographic computer specialist named George Chaplin combined their scientific disciplines (after already combining their lives in marriage) to chart the connection between skin color and sunlight. The results were as clear as the sky on a cloudless day—there was a near-constant correlation between skin color and sunlight exposure in populations that had remained in the same area for 500 years or more. They even produced an equation to express the relationship between a given population's skin color and its annual exposure to ultraviolet rays. |
Devra Davis
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| In twenty years of marriage and countless trips, he had never called about a letter. I knew something was up.
"Who's it from?" I asked. This didn't sound right. My husband had the tone of someone trying hard to sound like everything is okay. I knew he was about to lose it totally.
"There's a letter from the mammography clinic. I think you need to call them." Through the phone I heard a puff of resignation come through his closed, certainly frowning lips. A gulp and swallow followed. The unusual pause was a dead giveaway.
Doctoring Evidence
Or maybe we had lost our connection. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| You can have a friend who's absolutely great for going to basketball games with but with whom you wouldn't think of sharing your innermost feelings about your marriage. Some foods provide great fats like omega-3s, but no calcium. Others provide a cornucopia of vitamins and minerals, but no protein. No food provides everything. "Rating" them would involve making a decision about which essential vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients are more important, and that's impossible. You need them all. However, I did put stars on the foods I thought were exceptional in terms of nutritional value. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 His second marriage was in trouble, and he found himself looking for reasons not to come home. When he found the time to see his two teenagers from his first marriage, their get-togethers always seemed to end in a screaming match.
Because Joe was a take-charge guy, he did try to relieve his symptoms. He had followed a number of diets and supplement programs to lose weight, but he was never able to keep the pounds from coming back. He took over-the-counter sleep aids but still woke up tired. Antacids were his constant companions. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Over the years, I lost my marriage and most of my practice. I managed to work, to earn the barest of livings. I moved to a small house by the sea and saw only enough clients to keep food on the table and a roof over my head. I would have to go to bed at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and some days I slept fourteen or fifteen hours. My little cottage was less than one hundred meters from the sea, but I often could not even get to the shore. I would reserve all my energy to go to the grocery store to get the things I needed to live. CFS also fogs your brain and impairs your memory. |
Ron Garner
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 It is time for a marriage of everything that works for health, in a spirit of open-mindedness and love. It is time to consciously incorporate the best of science, nature, and spirit to build the bodies and lives we were designed to create from the very beginning.
GAINING A VISION FOR HEALTH
Vitality. Even the word has a nice ring to it. It means, "full of life and energy," or "the overall energy of the body." Vitality is the feeling of life within us. Wouldn't it be wonderful not to have our bodies break down, become more painful, and develop diseases as we grow older? This is possible! |
| It's like a single guy or gal wanting to be paired up, and while doing so, breaking up a stable marriage. In the process of becoming stable or paired again, free radicals attack other molecules. This is where the danger in living systems lies, because this process becomes a chain reaction. These reactions can take place in less than a millionth of a second. At any one time there can be millions of free-radical-attacking and neutralizing reactions going on within the body. Every time a free radical is neutralized it may have caused damage to some part of the body. |
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