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 Australia) get more sunlight and therefore have lower rates of vitamin D deficiency. People who live in rainy climates where clouds block the sun most of the year have much higher rates of vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency also strongly promotes breast cancer, prostate cancer and other cancers. And wouldn't you know it: Breast cancer rates are lowest in Southern U.S. states. Depression rates, at the same time, are highest in Seattle and similar places where clouds block out the sun.
To say that depression "causes" osteoporosis is remarkably ignorant. |
Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
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 Eat a Variety of Nutrient Groups at One Meal
Each nutrient group—proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—are digested at different rates. Both proteins and fats are slower than carbohydrates, and when combined with carbohydrates can slow down the absorption of sugar into your body. Eating a variety of food at a set number of meals slows down your rate of digestion while also slowing down the absorption of carbohydrates. In turn, slowing down the rate at which carbohydrates are absorbed helps keep blood sugar levels normal. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The epicenter of this outbreak was focused in the Mariana Islands of Guam and Rota, where Parkinsonism rates at their peak were a hundred times greater than those of the United States, although the rates have fallen off since. At first, the cause of this rise and fall in Parkinsonism was completely obscure. An infectious agent was initially suspected, but the pattern of disease argued against that theory. Moreover, not all groups seemed equally susceptible; the most traditional, least "Westernized" Chamorro natives of the islands were the ones with the highest rates of Parkinsonism. |
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| People who live in rainy climates where clouds block the sun most of the year have much higher rates of vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency also strongly promotes breast cancer, prostate cancer and other cancers. And wouldn't you know it: Breast cancer rates are lowest in Southern U.S. states. Depression rates, at the same time, are highest in Seattle and similar places where clouds block out the sun.
To say that depression "causes" osteoporosis is remarkably ignorant. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The epicenter of this outbreak was focused in the Mariana Islands of Guam and Rota, where Parkinsonism rates at their peak were a hundred times greater than those of the United States, although the rates have fallen off since. At first, the cause of this rise and fall in Parkinsonism was completely obscure. An infectious agent was initially suspected, but the pattern of disease argued against that theory. Moreover, not all groups seemed equally susceptible; the most traditional, least "Westernized" Chamorro natives of the islands were the ones with the highest rates of Parkinsonism. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In her book The Truth About Breast Cancer, Claire Hoy states the following:
Greenpeace found that one country that banned pesticides— Israel—quickly went from breast cancer rates that were among the highest in the world to rates in keeping with other industrialized nations. It also found that U.S. counties with chemical waste sites were 6.5 times more likely to have elevated breast cancer rates than those without waste sites. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 And in the early 1950s, breast cancer was almost unknown in Japan (later, the rates began to rise as the Japanese adopted lifestyles—and eating habits—more like those of affluent Westerners). A close look at the cultures with low rates of breast cancer showed an obvious common denominator: a low intake of dietary fat and correspondingly low cholesterol levels. The same was true for cancers of the colon, prostate, and ovary, and for diabetes and obesity.2
The more I read, the more convinced I became that the connection between nutrition and disease was critical. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The first group ran on treadmills at an intensity level of 60 to 90 percent of their maximum heart rates. The second group walked on treadmills at a pace of one mile per hour, roughly equal to 50 percent of their maximum heart rates.
Both regimens tended to reduce anxiety sensitivity, but rigorous exercise worked more quickly and effectively. Only the high-intensity group felt less afraid of the physical symptoms of anxiety, and this distinction started to show up after just the second exercise session. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Carbohydrates are absorbed at highly variable rates. Some are absorbed very rapidly, and others relatively slowly. So why would this matter? Because the rate of absorption of carbohydrates determines the amount of insulin secreted in response from the pancreas. Carbohydrates rapidly absorbed by the gut flood the blood stream with glucose (all carbohydrates are converted to glucose). To handle this sudden load of sugar the pancreas has to secrete a large amount of insulin. |
Dawson Church
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 It found that the men who engaged in regular volunteer activities had death rates half of those who did not. She says that, "altruistic side effects include reduced stress; improved immune
Prayer is good medicine for the person doing the praying as well as system functioning; a sense of joy, peace, and wellbeing; and even relief from physical and emotional pain. These effects tend to last long after the helping encounter, and...increase with the frequency of altruistic behavior."30
A study that demonstrates the effect of spiritual nurturing was performed by Jean Kristeller, Ph.D. |
Ray D. Strand
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 What many Americans don't fully realize is that carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar that the body absorbs at various rates. Did you know white bread, white flour, pasta, rice, and potatoes release their sugars into the bloodstream even faster than table sugar? It's true. This is why such foods are called high-glycemic.
On the other hand foods such as green beans, brussels sprouts, tomatoes, apples, and oranges release their sugars into the bloodstream much more slowly and are therefore considered low-glycemic foods. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Both the United States and Europe are seeing rising rates of infertility among males and females, increasing rates of endocrine-related malformations, and neurological disorders that scientists ascribe to the effects of toxic chemicals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control tested for 148 toxic chemicals in 2005 and discovered their presence in the bodies of "Americans of all ages. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
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 Consider the phenomenon of resonance between two tuning forks (A and B) that vibrate at similar rates. If one tuning fork (A) is struck, a second tuning fork (B) some distance from A will begin to "resonate" (make a sound), especially if B is identical in shape, size and substance to A.
How is this phenomenon explained? The classical, non-systemic interpretation is to say that tuning fork A generates sound "waves" which reach tuning fork B, and if B naturally vibrates at a frequency similar to the frequency generated by A, B will begin to move in synchrony with A. B therefore responds to A. |
KC Craichy
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 The major macro-nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in irradiated foods have potentially serious and negative consequences, just as they also produce altered metabolic rates when they are ingested and digested by humans. For example, carbohydrates in irradiated food may impair cell division. Fats and fatty acids in irradiated foods are changed into peroxidases and other toxic metabolites, acting as free radicals and wreaking havoc on our cells and DNA. New compounds and potential contaminants are created during the irradiating procedures. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For each of these modes, if desired, you can select the charge and discharge rates, giving you total control over the treatment of each battery (this charger has advanced, independent circuitry to control each battery separately). For example, you can select charge rates from 100mA all the way up to 1000mA, in increments of 100mA. Or, you can just let each mode run on automatic, using default settings.
After the modes run, the MH-C9000 reports the results to you in a clear, easy-to-read format. |
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| For each of these modes, if desired, you can select the charge and discharge rates, giving you total control over the treatment of each battery (this charger has advanced, independent circuitry to control each battery separately). For example, you can select charge rates from 100mA all the way up to 1000mA, in increments of 100mA. Or, you can just let each mode run on automatic, using default settings.
Advanced safety features protect your batteries AND your home
The WizardOne MH-C9000 comes with outstanding safety features built right in. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Businessweek, publishing a HealthDay report by Randy Dotinga, invokes particularly bad logic with this opening statement, "Adding to a growing body of evidence that rejects the idea that immunizations boost autism rates, a new study finds no proof that incidences of the disorder dropped after makers of most childhood vaccines stopped using a mercury-based preservative in their products."
Huh? How does a study focused only on mercury "reject the idea that immunizations boost autism rates? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Americans pay, by far, the highest fees in the world for health care services, and yet we simultaneously suffer the highest rates of degenerative disease in the world. Conventional cancer treatments, which essentially involve varying degrees of poisoning patients with either toxic chemicals or deadly radiation, have barely altered the survival rates for cancer in three decades. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 It is approaching (if it hasn't already exceeded) epidemic rates in this country. Today, approximately one in seven women in the United States is affected by breast cancer.
With such high rates of breast cancer prevalent today, no therapy should be prescribed that further increases the rate of breast cancer. The WHI clearly showed that the use of conventional hormones was responsible for a 26% increased risk of breast cancer. As mentioned above, the WHI was not the first study to point out this increased risk. |
| Anderson Cancer Center reported that in the U.S., rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped 15% from August 2002 to December 2003. Researchers have speculated that the decline may be due to women stopping their use of synthetic hormones after the Women's Health Initiative was released in the July of 2002.9 A second study reported in November, 2006 showed that breast cancer rates in California also fell during the same time period. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Both the United States and Europe are seeing rising rates of infertility among males and females, increasing rates of endocrine-related malformations, and neurological disorders that scientists ascribe to the effects of toxic chemicals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control tested for 148 toxic chemicals in 2005 and discovered their presence in the bodies of "Americans of all ages. |
Melody Petersen
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 Farasat Bokhari, an assistant professor of economics at Florida State University, and his colleagues published a study that showed that the counties with the highest rates of psychostimulant use had higher income levels, less unemployment, and more children in private schools.
The communities of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids in eastern Iowa have some of the highest rates of Ritalin use in the whole country, as does Iowa as a whole. |
Stacy Malkan
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 It just seems crazy that the government isn't more involved
"For years scientists have struggled to explain the rising rates of some cancers and childhood brain disorders. Something about modern living has driven a steady rise of certain maladies, from breast and prostate cancer to autism and learning disabilities. One suspect is now drawing intense scrutiny: the prevalence in the environment of certain industrial chemicals at extremely low levels. |
Michael Pollan
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 American nutritionists, who can't fathom how a people who enjoy their food as much as the French do, and blithely eat so many nutrients deemed toxic by nutritionists, could have substantially lower rates of heart disease than we do on our elaborately engineered low-fat diets. Maybe it's time we confronted the American paradox: a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthily.
I don't mean to suggest that all would be well if we could just stop worrying about food or the state of our dietary health: Let them eat Twinkies! |
| As for the Western diseases, they hadn't gone away—indeed, rates of heart disease exploded immediately after the war—but now they became the responsibility of modern medicine and reductionist science. Nutritionism became the accepted set of terms in which to conduct all conversations about diet and health. It wouldn't be until the late 1960s, with the rise of organic agriculture, that searching questions about the industrial food chain would be posed again. |
| Beginning in the 1950s, a growing body of scientific opinion held that the consumption of fat and dietary cholesterol, much of which came from meat and dairy products, was responsible for rising rates of heart disease during the twentieth century. The "lipid hypothesis," as it was called, had already been embraced by the American Heart Association, which in 1961 had begun recommending a "prudent diet" low in saturated fat and cholesterol from animal products. |
| For instance, during the decades of the twentieth century when rates of heart disease were rising in America, Americans were actually reducing their intake of animal fats (in the form of lard and tallow). In place of those fats, they consumed substantially more vegetable oils, especially in the form of margarine, sales of which outpaced butter for the first time in 1957. Between the end ofWorld War II and 1976 (the year of McGovern's hearings) , per capita consumption of animal fats from all sources dropped from eighty-four pounds to seventy-one, while fats from seed oils approximately doubled. |
Stacy Malkan
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| The carcinogen in the baby shampoo can't be separated from the carcinogens in the food and the air, just as the polluting chemical plants aren't separate from the leaching trash dumps at the end of the line; they aren't separate from the skyrocketing asthma rates or the chemo parties in the brand-new children's cancer ward.
The story of chemistry also brings us to the threshold of new possibilities. Designing substances at the molecular level so they do not induce toxic effects — who ever thought chemistry could be so cool! |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 According to Sears, excess insulin is the culprit behind skyrocketing rates of obesity, a premise he shares with all low-carb diet writers.
There are two basic ways to raise insulin levels. One is to eat too many carbohydrates. The other is to eat too much food. Americans do both.
The "Zone" actually refers to an optimal range of insulin levels. The diet claims to keep insulin levels from rising too high by replacing some of the carbs in the typical American diet with fat (which has no effect on insulin) and protein (which has some effect but not as much as carbs). |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Moreover, not all groups seemed equally susceptible; the most traditional, least "Westernized" Chamorro natives of the islands were the ones with the highest rates of Parkinsonism.
The link in the cases turned out to be dietary. A plant native to the Marianas, the false sago palm, or cycad, contains a potent but slow-working natural toxin. Scientists called attention to this source, noting that during the Japanese occupation of Guam (1941-44), food shortages, especially of the staple rice, led to a major dependence on judangseed flour, as the cycad foodstuff was called. |
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