Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet another excellent strategy for slashing national health care costs is to allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their supplements do for your health. This is something the FDA has disallowed for decades. They have never allowed manufacturers of nutritional supplements to make true statements about what those supplements can do for your health. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Imposing a surtax—before passing out executive bonuses and shareholder dividends—could underwrite a national health organization outside the purview of federal government, more in tune with citizens' needs. A surtax on offshore manufactured drugs brought back into the United States would also be in order.
Independent Research Institutes
Lobby for a national health research institute where our brightest minds can co-mingle to advance medicine by using real science. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 That means that millions of Americans who are doing the best they can to meet the standards set by national health officials are, in spite of their efforts, getting sick.
Here's a clear, plain English translation of what our government and the national health agencies have done: they have chosen a "safe" cholesterol level for the public that virtually guarantees—if everyone actually met their stated goal—that every year more than 1.2 million Americans will suffer heart attacks and that millions more will watch the inevitable progression of their coronary artery disease.
What is going on here? |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Right in line with these animal studies are results of the Third national health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Women's Health Study Data, which showed that low vitamin D and calcium intake led to metabolic syndrome. In the Women's Health Study, the relationship was stronger with calcium than vitamin D; in the national health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, both low vitamin D and calcium were independently associated with higher risk for developing metabolic syndrome.
For more information on diabetes, see http://ndep.nih.gov/. |
Charles Barber
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 The British government and national health Service are considering making a major investment in CBT. Lord Layard, a Labour peer and a former advisor to the prime minister, has proposed that the national health Service invest £600 million to train and hire 10,000 CBT therapists, who would work in a network of 250 psychological centers across the country. Characterizing mental illness as "our biggest social problem," Lord Layard hopes that through his initiative a million people would be treated by CBT. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Edward Livingston, chairman of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine and chairman of the bariatric surgery work group for the Department of Veterans Affairs' national health care system.
"Bariatric surgeries result in weight loss, but they can [also] result in complications and death. They can improve the complications of obesity and the quality of life, and they may increase longevity," says Livingston. |
| Hidden Dangers of Gastric Bypass Surgery
Edward Livingston, MD, Hudson-Penn Chair in Surgery, professor and chairman of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, and chairman of the bariatric surgery work group, Department of Veterans Affairs' national health care system.
David Zingmond, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Center for Surgical Outcomes and Quality, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.
The Journal of the American Medical Association. |
| Donald Garrow, a clinical instructor and a masters in clinical research fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and his team analyzed data on more than 226,000 Americans that was collected as part of the national health Interview Survey.
Most diabetics surveyed in the study had obesity-linked type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes insensitive to insulin. After compensating for factors that affect colon cancer risk— including age, gender, alcohol and tobacco use, and exercise—the researchers found that diabetics were 1. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Canada, with their national health system, has a very different reporting system. Access to the adverse events reported for any given drug can be accessed and compared over time. For example, from the time Humulin (rDNA human insulin) was introduced in 1983 to the present day, there have been ten times more reports of adverse events caused by human insulin than by animal insulin. In fact, the comparison was done using animal insulin numbers going back to 1965, which statistically shows that there was a 20-to-l ratio of adverse events when comparing human insulin to animal insulin. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| Here's a clear, plain English translation of what our government and the national health agencies have done: they have chosen a "safe" cholesterol level for the public that virtually guarantees—if everyone actually met their stated goal—that every year more than 1.2 million Americans will suffer heart attacks and that millions more will watch the inevitable progression of their coronary artery disease.
What is going on here? If the evidence is so clear that the goal for cholesterol levels should be set below 150 mg/dL, why don't the national experts and policy makers tell us that? |
| Most recently, national health organizations—the American Heart Association, the National Cholesterol Education Program, and the National Research Council—have decreed that serum cholesterol should be below 200 mg/dL.1 These same organizations suggest limiting fat consumption to no more than 30 percent of the calories consumed each day.
But that level of fat consumption has never been shown to arrest or reverse coronary artery disease. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 In this chapter, you have seen how the system is gamed with each group contributing to our national health crisis. But who is ultimately responsible for our over-reliance on prescription drugs?
Physicians have a tough job. They do their best under trying conditions, working long hours. Most hospitals have been systematically transitioned to for-profit business models. Health maintenance organizations try to minimize costs, ferret out fraud and reduce unnecessary tests and treatments, often at the expense of your well-being. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Both the national health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the
Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (1994-96 CSFII) indicated that the majority of people don't get near adequate levels. The average American over fifty years old only takes in 130 meg of folic acid per day. (The recommended daily allowance is 400 meg a day.) Sure, they've "fortified" cereals with folic acid to try to correct the problem, but I'm not sure cereal grains are the best choice of food for everyone on the planet (in fact, I'm pretty darn sure they're not). |
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United States reported having at least one occurrence of a urinary tract infection. Cranberry juice can—and does—help.
Cranberry Compounds to the Rescue
Cranberries contain important plant compounds called proanthocyanidins that are probably responsible for cranberry's remarkably positive effects on urinary tract infections. The bacteria responsible for the majority of UTIs are the ever popular E. coli. |
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| The national health Law Program offers *~ advice on how to control your healthcare costs at www.healthcarecoach.com.
Medicating the US: How Drug Companies Are Turning Us into Patients
Alan Cassels, drug policy researcher, University of Victoria, British Columbia, and coauthor of Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. Nation.
How many pills did you and your family take today? It seems that there is a prescription drug for every condition now, no matter how benign.
In fact, the US has become the most medicated society in the world. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The national health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an ongoing research project that looks at nutrition habits as they relate to health outcomes in a large population. An analysis of findings from the NHANES 1 looked at mortality from all causes and cross-referenced it with vitamin C intake. Researchers use a sophisticated predictive tool called the standard mortality ratio, which is the ratio of deaths observed in the study group compared to the number that would be expected in a similar, matched population. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Independent Research Institutes
Lobby for a national health research institute where our brightest minds can co-mingle to advance medicine by using real science. These scientists should be unencumbered by corporate ties, and would be the "purists" in their fields, who value science and humanity above self-aggrandizement. Patents would be obtained only to protect intellectual property from profiteers; not to be sold to the highest bidder.
Independent Reporting
Another matter that needs to be addressed is the formation of an independent group of statisticians. |
Andreas Moritz
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 According to published reports of national health statistics from around the world, one out of two people in the industrialized world will die from heart disease or a related blood vessel disease. In other words, heart disease is the leading killer disease in the world, with cancer following closely behind. As long ago as June 1961, the American Medical Association reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90 percent of our thromboembolic diseases'5 and 97 percent of our coronary occlusions. |
| Researchers used almost 10 years of data collected on nearly 18,000 subjects who took part in the national health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The study gathered information on general dietary and health habits. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| India has also been addressing national health issues. Their leading scientists indicate natural insulin is as effective as human insulin.15 Even early studies (1961) by Grodsky and Forsham,16 concluded there was little difference in the binding of beef and human insulin to antibodies produced in man. Thus, all insulins produce small amounts of immunogenicity and antibodies with inconsequential effects on receptor sites for insulin in the human body. As long as purity was controlled, this was a non-issue, a red herring used by the industry to promote their agenda. |
Devra Davis
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 This important association of physicians was determined not to annoy powerful members of Congress from tobacco states, whose votes were needed on various issues about which the AMA cared deeply, including the looming threat of national health insurance.
Eventually the two factions within the ACS reached a compromise: the organization itself would not take the lead in resolving the issue of smoking and cancer, but it would urge others to do so. In 1961 the ACS wrote to President John F. |
Bill Sardi
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 Number of cancer deaths avoided if all males achieved highest intake/blood levels of vitamin C (Based on 2000 US Census, ~70 million American men age 30-75 years)
Estimated 1,680,000 Cancer Deaths Prevented
Source: Data from the NHANESII Mortality Study part of the second national health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1976-1980) drew blood samples from over 7,000 US adults 30-75 years of age at examination.
In one study, 16.9% of hospitalized patients were vitamin C deficient and 47.3% had low vitamin C levels. |
| Vitamin C measured by blood plasma concentration
The Third national health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that vitamin C deficiency is common, with 23% of adults exhibiting true deficiency based on blood serum levels, and 17% in a depleted state. Smokers who did not use supplements had higher rates of deficiency. [American Journal Public Health 94: 870-75, 2004]
Intake and blood concentrations of vitamin C
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Above 73. |
| Men who participated in the national health and Nutrition Survey I in the early 1970s, and underwent extended followup through 1987, found males with the lowest cholesterol had a slightly higher risk for prostate cancer. [Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 4:807-11, 1995] Cholesterol accumulates in cancer cells, which may explain why there is less cholesterol in circulation. [Cancer Research 62: 2227-31, 2002] Very low circulating cholesterol (below 160 total cholesterol) increases the risk for cancer. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Mares-Perlman JA, Fisher Al, Klein R et al: Lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum and their relation to age-related maculopathy in the third national health and nutrition examination survey. Am J Epidemiol; 153(5):424-432. 2001
McCann SE. Freudenheim JL, Marshall JR et al: Diet in the epidemiology of endometrial cancer in western New York (United States). Cancer Causes Control; 11(10):965-974. 2000
Michaud DS, Feskanich D, Rimm EB et al: Intake of specific carotenoids and risk of lung cancer in 2 prospective US cohorts. Am J Clin Nutr, 72(4):990-997. |
| However, in the third national health and Nutrition Examination Survey of individuals over 40 years of age (n=8,222), dietary intake and serum levels of lutein/zeaxanthin were not inversely correlated with early or late AMD diagnosed by photographic evidence. Inverse relationships were noted in certain subgroups of the overall study group. Intake of lutein/ zeaxanthin were inversely correlated with pigment abnormalities in at-risk individuals aged 40 to 59 and late AMD in at-risk individuals aged 60 to 79. |
| Heart Disease
To clarify the effect of Green Tea consumption on cardiovascular disease and cancer, a large, population-based cohort study was conducted as part of the Ohsaki national health Insurance Cohort Study in Japan. The cause of mortalities was tracked in these participants for up to 11 years (and for up to 7 years for cause-specific mortalities). In this time frame, 4,209 people died. Analysis revealed that consumption of Green Tea was associated with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, as well as from other causes with the exception of cancer. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 But the AMA's efforts to quash national health insurance accomplished something the group never intended: They stirred a national debate among Americans about the right to health care. Most workers had health insurance through their employers by the 1960s, largely as a result of collective bargaining by unions, but there were two groups of Americans who were still "going bare": children and the elderly. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Harvard University Department of Psychiatry Depression and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital covered by the country's national health care system, and in fact is the number one prescribed antidepressant in Germany and most of Europe.
According to noted expert Steven Bratman, M.D., author of the excellent reference book The Natural Pharmacy, St. John's Wort has a scientific record approaching that of many prescription drugs, and is effective in about 55 percent of cases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Diabetes rates would plummet, mental health would greatly improve, birth defects would be sharply reduced and, most of all, the national health care bill would be slashed to a fraction of current costs.
And that, of course, is exactly why these ideas can never be allowed to pass. The profit-minded medical industry would lose billions. Hundreds of thousands of people who depend on the continuation of disease to provide job security would find themselves out of work. |
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