Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 While one could argue that a positive test must be followed by appropriate treatment, it is surely the case that a false positive has no preventive value. Rather, in producing stress, the false positive is inevitably harmful in and of itself to the patient. Even worse, a false positive necessitates further tests, which in themselves may be iatrogenic.
Finally, competence is a problem. Would that we could assume competence among physicians. Yet our previous discussion of medical errors—which kill 44,000 to 88,000 people per year—show that we cannot assume any such thing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So that's a positive change as well.
2006 goal: Teach people that food is medicine
There are a lot of positive health trends I see taking shape in 2006. I think this is a year during which we're going to make some additional progress in educating people about the healing potential of foods.
Suddenly people are recognizing that food should be your medicine, and they are learning about the hidden medicine found in foods. Of course, I’m one of the many passionate people out there attempting to spread the word about this, and we are winning the information race. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can make positive health changes and reform your own health outcome, just like many of these survey participants have done. You can experience long-lasting, positive health changes as a result.
Thanks for being a reader, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to share this information in a meaningful way. It is your appreciation and application of this content that gives me the motivation to keep researching and writing. I humbly thank you for giving me the opportunity to help enhance the lives of others. |
| 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Teach people that food is medicine
There are a lot of positive health trends I see taking shape in 2006. I think this is a year during which we're going to make some additional progress in educating people about the healing potential of foods.
Suddenly people are recognizing that food should be your medicine, and they are learning about the hidden medicine found in foods. Of course, I’m one of the many passionate people out there attempting to spread the word about this, and we are winning the information race. |
| Now, it would be even more positive if the FDA outlawed hydrogenated oils and trans fats. This is an ingredient that should, by any measure, be illegal. It should be completely banned from the food supply. In fact, the World Health Organization encouraged member nations to ban this ingredient decades ago, back in the late 1970s. We've gone almost 30 years in the United States, poisoning our children and the rest of our population with hydrogenated oils, even though the science was already clear that this was a harmful ingredient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| 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. Free access to health information can change people's lives for the better. It can impact millions of people, as we are doing here at Truth Publishing. It can help them become healthier. |
| 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. |
| 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. When a corporation makes information available to its workers -- free information that offers a variety of health tips like we have on this web site -- a certain percentage of those employees will automatically start reading that and putting it to work, boosting their own health, and therefore their work results, mood and outlook on life. |
| You can experience long-lasting, positive health changes as a result.
Thanks for being a reader, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to share this information in a meaningful way. It is your appreciation and application of this content that gives me the motivation to keep researching and writing. I humbly thank you for giving me the opportunity to help enhance the lives of others. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thirty-one point four percent reported receiving positive comments from their friends on their improved health or appearance. So, while some were being positively praised by their doctors, three times that many were receiving positive praise from their friends, and this just goes to show you the power of peer pressure in making positive changes. If you get healthier and lose weight and have more energy, your friends will notice.
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As an interesting side note to that, 27. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And as these positive changes begin to take hold in your own life, a universal ripple effect will begin to cause similar positive changes in the world around you -- in your friends, relationships, career, community and even seemingly random events.
There are a million ways to change the world for the better. The Flip simply brings many of them together in one place, where nearly two dozen visionary thinkers share many lifetimes of knowledge openly, freely and thoughtfully. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 If you're estrogen-receptor positive, most docs would advise you to stay away from all estrogen, even bioidentical pharmaceutical-grade estrogen and soy (the exception being that in late-stage estrogen-receptor-positive cancers, high doses of estrogen can induce remission). If you're estrogen-receptor negative, taking estrogen may still be an issue; many doctors are reluctant to prescribe estrogen after breast cancer treatment. If you don't know your type, ask the physician or the hospital where your cancer was removed. Virtually all breast cancers have had receptors typed since 1992. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In other words, I focus people on the positive -- the things that they can do -- and also on the negative -- the things that they should avoid. Detoxification involves both things. There are a lot of positive actions we can take, and there are also things to avoid, so there are two aspects of detoxification and preventative medicine.
Mike: Right.
Dr. Haas: The basic ideas of lifestyle medicine and preventative medicine include nutrition, exercising and moving the body to keep it working and flexible, getting proper sleep, learning to manage stress and keeping a positive attitude. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In five minutes," Kimbale said, "it tells you right there whether it's positive or negative." Instead of pregnancy (or not), a red stripe signifies the presence of at least one engineered gene, and a red and a blue stripe tells the farmer that there are multiple foreign genes in his corn. These are known in the trade as "singular or multiple 'genetic events.'" And having one or another of those is known as "bad news."
I asked Kimbale what happens if there is a positive result. Kimbale, who's on the technical side of the operation, didn't know: "We don't hear about the results," he said. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, while some were being positively praised by their doctors, three times that many were receiving positive praise from their friends, and this just goes to show you the power of peer pressure in making positive changes. If you get healthier and lose weight and have more energy, your friends will notice.
Improve your relationships through health education
As an interesting side note to that, 27.4 percent reported an improvement in the quality of their personal relationships. Now, if you're new to health, you might ask, "How can that be? What does health have to do with your relationships? |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Copper can shift between the cuprous state with a single positive charge (Cu+) to the cupric state, which has two positive charges (Cu++). Copper has important roles in energy production in the cell and in scavenging free radicals.
COPPER IN ENERGY PRODUCTION
Copper is used in an enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase in the energy-producing mitochondria in the cell. Cytochrome c oxidase helps to make ATP, the energy battery of the cell. By catalyzing the reaction between molecular oxygen and water, cytochrome c oxidase generates an electrical gradient used by the mitochondria to create ATP. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And as these positive changes begin to take hold in your own life, a universal ripple effect will begin to cause similar positive changes in the world around you -- in your friends, relationships, career, community and even seemingly random events.
There are a million ways to change the world for the better. The Flip simply brings many of them together in one place, where nearly two dozen visionary thinkers share many lifetimes of knowledge openly, freely and thoughtfully. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Eleven point six percent reported receiving praise from their doctor for making positive health changes. This is an interesting number because it shows that when patients rise to the challenge and are able to put some of those positive changes into play, that a little over one out of 10 of their doctors will actually praise them for it, and I think that is one sign of a good doctor. If you have a doctor who's noticing your positive health changes and giving you praise for it, that's probably a good doctor to stick with. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's the kind of positive transformation guide that simply needs to get into the hands of more people. In fact, I believe in this book so much that I got Truth Publishing to agree to stock the book and offer it to readers. So you can purchase a copy of The Flip at: www.truthpublishing.com/theflip.html and help support Truth Publishing and NewsTarget at the same time you're tapping into priceless information that can have a lasting, positive impact on your own life. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 And if the results come back positive, then you start to give blood regularly and modify your diet. But you can live with it. I do. i was around eighteen when I first started feeling "achy." And then it dawned on me—maybe I have iron overload like my grandfather. And sure enough, the tests came back positive. As you can imagine, that got me thinking—what did this mean for me? Why did I get it? And the biggest question of all—why would so many people inherit a gene for something potentially so harmful? |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 But ancient Egyptians and other cultures also believed in the positive, protective, and healing power of the eyes. The Eye of Horus, which first appeared more than 5,000 years ago, is one of the oldest enduring positive representations of the eye, symbolizing both protection and power. The left eye symbolized the moon, and the right—known as the Eye of Ra (or Re)—represented the sun. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only way those positive feelings can be increased is if you manage to associate exercise with things that are very positive in your mind. Because, let's face it, sweating it out in the gym is not going to produce positive results that very instant – unless those results are in your head. I believe that those people who are successful with regular physical exercise programs, whether it's cardiovascular training, strength training, swimming or other forms of exercise, are able to make these associations and keep them strong. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, while some were being positively praised by their doctors, three times that many were receiving positive praise from their friends, and this just goes to show you the power of peer pressure in making positive changes. If you get healthier and lose weight and have more energy, your friends will notice.
Improve your relationships through health education
As an interesting side note to that, 27.4 percent reported an improvement in the quality of their personal relationships. Now, if you're new to health, you might ask, "How can that be? What does health have to do with your relationships? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can create positive energy in foods by praying over them or even chanting over them in a mantra, the way Tibetan monks would do, for example. You can create positive energies in food by giving them clean, pure water, such as unpolluted rainwater. You can use organic soils that have microorganisms in them, so that they're living in balance with the natural ecosystem. You can create positive energy by having the foods harvested by people who are happy to be doing this work, who are not slave workers and who are making a fair wage, either by farming or wild harvesting these foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When the first test produced a positive result, the USDA declared it to be "inconclusive" -- that's USDA doublespeak for the word "positive." They call it inconclusive because they don't want to use the word "positive" anywhere near mad cow disease.
But you'll notice that the USDA never proclaims a negative result on this initial low-cost screening to be inconclusive -- it's simply called "negative" and it doesn't bother with any other testing. In other words, this testing system is frighteningly unscientific. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 It comes from studies conducted by the drug companies themselves, where positive results are reported an unsurprising 98% of the time. Are the drugs really this good? Of course not, but their creators are very good at suppressing negative outcomes and massaging positive outcomes. So why doesn't the government demand that negative results get released along with the positive? The studies are proprietary, which means they are the property of the pharmaceutical companies who fund them and are not obligated to make the results public. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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