Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Our current distrust of electronically climate-controlled, air-recirculated spaces pales when compared with standard nineteenth-century invective against the dangers of improper ventilation. proper home ventilation was considered even more important than proper ventilation in the workplace. For example, one English physician of the time inveighed, "Our houses, like bell glasses, cover and keep in numerous impurities."48
In the United States in the nineteenth century, the necessity of good ventilation became, if anything, even more of an idee fixe than it was in England. |
David Steinman
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Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The USDA, which advises America on the proper choice of food and daily consumption, frequently changes their recommendations (i.e., the food pyramid, in its various forms). The FDA, which offers advice to diabetics on proper nutrition and caloric intake, has changed recommendations several times in my 50 years of living with diabetes. Like a pendulum, they swing from recommending high fat/high protein/low carbohydrate to high carbohydrate/low fat/low protein. If you don't like today's recommendations.. .wait a bit. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Many people with asthma think they know what is causing it, but they may not necessarily be correct, and unless they have had a proper assessment of their triggers the asthma may not be treated properly, and the condition will not be managed effectively.
A medical practitioner will first take details of your history, and then may carry out diagnostic tests. He or she will certainly listen to your chest using a stethoscope, through which the sounds you make while breathing are amplified. If the asthma seems to be mild the doctor may then give you a prescription to use when necessary. |
Martin L. Cross
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 The cause of these incidents of adverse care covered every aspect of medicine, including:
• Failure to order proper diagnostic tests
• Inadequate prep of the patient for surgery
• Surgery done when not indicated
• Improper dosage and monitoring of anesthesia
• Delay in undertaking treatment.
• Failure to provide patient with ordered drugs
• Wrong placement of drainage tubes
• Not taking proper antisepsis steps
• Patient's chart not properly updated
• Failure to properly communicate with the patient
What can we make of it all? |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 When the porters tried to lift them, they were bent double with their weight, but at last they got the crates into the proper warehouse in Cadiz. When the inspectors opened one of them, they found huge blocks of chocolate, one on top of the other, all extremely weighty: they proved to be bars of pure gold, each coated with a finger's thickness of chocolate. The Jesuits refused to acknowledge the shipment; Saint-Simon avers they would rather lose it than claim responsibility—after all, this was smuggling of the first degree, since all gold was royal property. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Bottom line—no dietary supplement on the market today comes close to providing the life-saving properties of the 101 foods. proper supplementation can play an important role in maintaining or improving health but it doesn't compare to the healing-power capacity of food! Each food group serves an important function in the body, keeping you healthy and strong.
Carbo the magnificent: Carbohydrates give us energy. They're the fuel on which the human body runs. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Proper home ventilation was considered even more important than proper ventilation in the workplace. For example, one English physician of the time inveighed, "Our houses, like bell glasses, cover and keep in numerous impurities."48
In the United States in the nineteenth century, the necessity of good ventilation became, if anything, even more of an idee fixe than it was in England. Lewis Leeds's course of lectures on ventilation, delivered at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in the winter of 1866-67, *s an excellent example of this school of thought. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 The first requirement for health is a proper balance of the doshas. The root cause of imbalance, or disease, is an aggravation of a dosha caused by a wide variety of internal and external factors.
The Charaka Samhita states that problems of the digestive system are the root of disease. When the doshas become aggravated and start to accumulate toxins, this causes imbalance and disease. Properly digested food produces rasa, which helps to form healthy blood.
Rasayana—Rejuvenation
Ayurveda classifies medicinal plants into multiple groups according to their actions. |
Michael Pollan
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 This reductionist way of thinking about food had been pointed out and criticized before (notably by the Canadian historian Harvey Levenstein, the British nutritionist Geoffrey Cannon, and the American nutritionists Joan Gussow and Marion Nestle), but it had never before been given a proper name: "nutritionism." proper names have a way of making visible things we don't easily see or simply take for granted.
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 New research is discovering that it's also crucial to the proper function of the heart, the nervous system, the clotting process, and the immune system.
Without enough vitamin D, adults are prone to osteoporosis and children are prone to a disease called rickets that results in improper bone growth and deformity. Vitamin D deficiencies have also been shown to play a role in the development of dozens of diseases—everything from many different cancers to diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, psoriasis, and mental illness. |
Michael Pollan
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| This reductionist way of thinking about food had been pointed out and criticized before (notably by the Canadian historian Harvey Levenstein, the British nutritionist Geoffrey Cannon, and the American nutritionists Joan Gussow and Marion Nestle), but it had never before been given a proper name: "nutritionism." proper names have a way of making visible things we don't easily see or simply take for granted.
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Senate, 1936, "Modern Muscle Men," proper Food Mineral Balances, Charles Northen, 74th Cong, 2d sess. Serial set 10016.
Vlassara H et al. Inflammatory mediators are induced by dietary glycotoxins, a major risk factor for diabetic angiopathy. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 Nov 26; 99(24): 15596-601.
Williams CM. Beneficial nutritional properties of olive oil: Implications for postprandial lipoproteins and factor VII. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2001 Aug; 11 Suppl 4:51-56.
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Jiang R et al. Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in women. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Lacking the proper amount of magnesium, you may become resistant to vitamin D.
Magnesium is so important that without it, we would cease to exist. Magnesium is required for chlorophyll to function properly; chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that's necessary for photosynthesis. No magnesium, no plant life. We humans need magnesium for more than three hundred enzymatic reactions, bone formation, and muscle and nerve function, in addition to the job of buffering acid waste from protein digestion.
Here are some problems you may suffer if you have insufficient magnesium:
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Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 The main nutrients needed for proper immune function are the vitamins A, B6, C, D, and E, biotin, and folic acid; the minerals magnesium, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium; the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids; and a sufficient and high-quality supply of proteins. Magnesium, zinc, iron, and vitamin A seem to be most critical to proper immune system balance. For example, low levels of the mineral zinc can reduce the ability of certain parts of the immune system to work properly by up to 70 percent. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Because B12 is necessary for proper nerve conduction, if and when you have less of it, the nerve impulses or messages are less effective at getting to their destinations, so B12 is essential for the proper functioning of the brain. A deficiency of B12 may lead to mental disorders including confusion, depression, memory loss, and impaired coordination.
Vitamin B12 is also protective against the toxic buildup of another substance called homocysteine. |
Devra Davis
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 When after more than a year's time, the final information became available to the court and the plaintiff, there was no longer any doubt that even in the hands of the members of the Kettering Laboratory the incriminated oils had carcinogenic properties, although its Director had found it proper at the first hearing to make some snide remarks about my scientific reliability.28
The studies in the Kettering laboratories on aromatic amines remain so secretive that few have even heard about them even to this day. |
Joseph Campbell
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| He is "the king's son" who has come to know who he is and therewith has entered into the exercise of his proper power?God's son," who has learned to know how much that title means. From this point of view the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.
"For the One who has become many, remains the One undivided, but each part is all of Christ," we read in the writings of Saint Symeon the younger (949-1022 a.d.). "I saw Him in my house," the saint goes on. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Since they had tried VNS therapy with patients whose seizures continued despite the proper use of drugs, they did the same with patients whose
L. J \J 1 \J \J \\ J I 1V1 i 1 w 1V1 J f\ l\ lit l\ Hi £\ i-t depression continued despite adequate medication. An international trial showed that VNS is effective, and now the FDA has approved it for treatment-resistant depression—not its original intent, of course, but a great development. Had the device never been used for epilepsy, no one would have dreamed that stimulating the vagus nerve would relieve depression.
But the serendipity continues. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Take a High-Potency Multiple Vitamin and Mineral Formula with Chromium
A deficiency of any one of several key nutrients required for the proper manufacture and function of insulin can lead to impaired sugar metabolism. Especially important are the minerals chromium, magnesium, zinc, and manganese, and B vitamins. The use of a multiple vitamin and mineral supplements is associated with a minimum 30 percent reduction of diabetes risk in men and a 16 percent reduction in risk for women; however, the supplements used in these studies were far from ideal, in our opinion. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Many nutritionists believe in the benefits of proper food combining.15 For example, starchy tubers combined in one meal with sour fruits or vegetables can create fermentation and gas in our intestines.
Placing greens in the same category as vegetables has caused people to mistakenly apply the combining rules of starchy vegetables to greens. Driven by this confusion, many concerned people wrote to me inquiring if blending fruits with greens was proper food combining. They had heard that "fruits and vegetables did not mix well. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| In the same vein, new diabetic drugs like Human insulin were waiting in the wings for the proper moment to add fuel to the economic fires. If only patients could be convinced that the new (rDNA) insulin was as good as the products they were currently using, the economic explosion would propel Lilly and Novo into the stratosphere. An early report on the new rDNA product, however, stated that it was only 97% pure.1 The introduction of the product into the marketplace, after some less-than-scrupulous efforts succeeded in garnering FDA approval, was more fizzle than fire. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The modern psychologist can translate it back to its proper denotations and thus rescue for the contemporary world a rich and eloquent document of the profoundest depths of human character. Exhibited here, as in a fluoroscope, stand revealed the hidden processes of the enigma Homo sapiens—Occidental and Oriental, primitive and civilized, contemporary and archaic. The entire spectacle is before us. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Magnesium, zinc, iron, and vitamin A seem to be most critical to proper immune system balance. For example, low levels of the mineral zinc can reduce the ability of certain parts of the immune system to work properly by up to 70 percent. Unfortunately, people in both the developed and developing worlds are most commonly deficient in these nutrients.
But deficiency is not the only risk: slightly lower or suboptimal levels of these nutrients will also reduce the functioning of the immune system. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The moment he was ready, the proper heralds automatically appeared:
"Now on a certain day the Future Buddha wished to go to the park, and told his charioteer to make ready the chariot. Accordingly the man brought out a sumptuous and elegant chariot, and, adorning it richly, he harnessed to it four state horses of the Sindhava breed, as white as the petals of the white lotus, and announced to the Future Buddha that everything was ready. And the Future Buddha mounted the chariot, which was like to a palace of the gods, and proceeded toward the park. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Fortunately, our program reestablishes the proper ration of adiponectin to resistin and thus provides a key mechanism to improving the sensitivity to insulin, thereby reducing the expression of the thrifty genotype. And, as we will continually stress, improving the body's sensitivity to insulin is the key goal in breaking the weight-gain cycle, getting appetite under control, and allowing for maintenance of your ideal body weight.
CHAPTER SUMMARY þObesity can be calculated by determining your body mass index (BMI) or body fat percentage. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Then follows an interval of more or less extended retirement, during which are enacted rituals designed to introduce the life adventurer to the forms and proper feelings of his new estate, so that when, at last, the time has ripened for the return to the normal world, the initiate will be as good as reborn.10
Most amazing is the fact that a great number of the ritual trials and images correspond to those that appear automatically in dream the moment the psychoanalyzed patient begins to abandon his infantile fixations and to progress into the future. |
| Brynhild was preserved for her proper hero and little Briar-rose was rescued by a prince. Also, the young man transformed into a tree dreamed
20 Grimm, No. 50.
21 The Thousand Nights and One Night, Richard F. Burton translation (Bombay, 1885), Vol. I, pp. 164-167.
22 Genesis, 19:26.
23 Werner Zirus, Ahasverus, der Ewige Jude (Stoff- und Motivgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 6, Berlin and Leipzig, iqs?oV d. 1. subsequently of the unknown woman who pointed the way, as a mysterious guide to paths unknown.24 Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| An elevated Cortisol level also interferes with proper utilization of carbohydrates, leading to an increase in the storage of body fat and insulin resistance, a critical step in the development of obesity and diabetes. þElevating ghrelin and reducing leptin. Ghrelin is an appetite-stimulating hormone released mostly by the stomach. When ghrelin levels are up, people feel hungry. Leptin is a hormone released by fat cells that promotes a feeling of satiety. |
| In this chapter, we detail a comprehensive stress management program designed to counteract the everyday stresses of life and reset proper appetite control and metabolism by reducing excessive Cortisol secretion. But before we can discuss methods for helping you deal more effectively with stress and lower Cortisol levels, we need to explain the underlying features of the stress response and how it contributes to obesity.
STRESS: A HEALTHY VIEW
So often we think of stress as a negative in our lives, but stress is actually a good thing. Dr. |
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