Gabriel Cousens
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 Figure 17 shows the risk factors associated with other family member diabetics.
FAMILY risk factors FOR DIABETES
If:
Your risk factor is:
Your twin has diabetes
1 in 3
Your sibling has diabetes
1 in 14
One parent has diabetes
1 in 25
Your mother has diabetes
1 in 40-50
Your father has diabetes
1 in 20
No relative has diabetes
1 in 500
Figure 5: Family risk factors for diabetes (Source: Rotter, J I, Anderson, C E, Rubin, R, Congleton, J E, Terasaki, P I, and Rimoin, D L. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Nearly 800 patients were subdivided into two groups: high risk (those who had one or more risk factors, such as diabetes, a prior heart attack, or preexisting vascular disease), and low risk (those they had no risk factors other than their present symptoms). The two groups were again divided in two. In addition to ordinary medical treatment one group in each of the two categories was to receive the prayers of five people once a week for 26 weeks. The two other groups would simply continue with standard medical treatment. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Doctors, too, believe they can prevent disease by turning risk factors into conditions they must treat. Everything from high cholesterol to slightly elevated blood sugar, which aren't diseases in themselves but merely signs that a patient might be at risk for one, now warrants a prescription or treatment. We all assume that treating risk factors is based on good evidence, which has shown that early intervention will lower our chances of getting the disease, or dying from it. That's often not the case in the real world. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Researchers from Atlanta and San Diego looked at the records of more than 17,000 adults to identify risk factors for heart disease. The more problems in childhood, the more likely there would be heart disease later on. What the investigators did not look at was how early those risk factors might occur. A high level of anxiety in the mother will contribute to stress for the fetus. An anxious, pregnant mother—responding to her outer world— is stirring up the metabolism of her fetus, who is also responding to his environment. |
Gregg Braden
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 Every two years, the participants are evaluated for the risk factors that have been identified throughout the study. Although the study group represents a broad cross section of people from a variety of lifestyles, the discovery that the participants' belief played a role in their risk for heart disease was surprising to the researchers. Of the many statistics drawn from the study, correlations showed that women who believed they were prone to heart disease were nearly four times as likely to die as those with similar risk factors who didn't hold this belief. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| FAMILY risk factors FOR DIABETES
If:
Your risk factor is:
Your twin has diabetes
1 in 3
Your sibling has diabetes
1 in 14
One parent has diabetes
1 in 25
Your mother has diabetes
1 in 40-50
Your father has diabetes
1 in 20
No relative has diabetes
1 in 500
Figure 5: Family risk factors for diabetes (Source: Rotter, J I, Anderson, C E, Rubin, R, Congleton, J E, Terasaki, P I, and Rimoin, D L. "HLA genotypic study of insulin-dependent diabetes the excess of DR3/DR4 heterozygotes allows rejection of the recessive hypothesis." Diabetes, Feb. 1983, 32(2):169-174. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 NAAFA believes that there are not enough studies to conclusively prove that obesity alone increases risk factors associated with various diseases. Years ago, one could have argued that there wasn't enough conclusive evidence to support the fact that tobacco increased the risk of heart disease and various forms of cancer. Common sense says that all of the studies from the health and medical organizations worldwide that link obesity to a variety of health related risk factors are not categorically wrong. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 It is estimated that two-thirds of all cancer cases could be prevented if all of the known risk factors were avoided. For instance, 90 percent of all lung cancers in men would simply not occur if no one smoked cigarettes. Avoiding other major cancer risk factors, such as excessive sun exposure, alcohol, asbestos, pesticides, and some food additives, could also reduce the incidence of cancer.
Some substances in food are major contributors to cancer, including some that occur naturally and others that are added in processing. |
| These risk factors include:
• being male
• advancing age
• a family history of heart disease
• elevated blood cholesterol levels
• hypertension (high blood pressure)
• use of tobacco
• diabetes
• obesity
• stress
• use of oral contraceptives
• excessive alcohol intake
• malnutrition
• lack of physical activity
However, following further epidemiological research, cholesterol quickly took center stage as one of the most important risk factors in the development of cardiovascular diseases. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 The truth is that most of what you have been told about healthy eating and behavior comes from scientists' studies of risk factors. Almost every day on TV you hear a variation of this message: "In a new study, obesity has been associated with a 4.5 times increased risk of breast cancer."3 This is true, but obesity didn't "cause" the breast cancer. The point is that most of the risk factors are observations of association, not causes. This disconnect I believe is what creates most of our misunderstanding about dietary advice. Here's Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's missing from the risk factors list?
Hilariously, the ACS now says there are only four major modifiable risk factors that impact your risk of breast cancer. They are:
Weight
Alcohol use
Smoking
Exercise
Where is vitamin D on the list? It remains suspiciously absent.
Strange, don't you think? The single most powerful anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science -- one that helps halt the growth of virtually all tumors in the body while reducing breast cancer risk by 77 percent -- isn't on the American Cancer Society's list! |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 There's a well-established link between macular degeneration and cardiovascular disease, for example, and the two share a number of risk factors, including obesity, smoking, and inflammation. n
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Michael Geiger, O.D., a nutritionally minded optometrist and author of Eye Care Naturally, also recommends garlic. "Garlic helps with circulation," he told me. "One of the problems with macular degeneration is the buildup of waste products, so you want to get the blood flowing. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| NEJM: 1997; 331:869-813
If you do not want your kids to grow up with a physical disadvantage that can cause increased risk factors associated with a variety of diseases related to obesity and the possibility of an early death, I urge you to educate yourself about nutrition and get your kids involved with activities that will create lifestyle habits they can follow for life. When I originally wrote this, I did not write the words "and the possibility of an early death." I felt that this would be too harsh and people might take exception to it. |
| Common sense says that all of the studies from the health and medical organizations worldwide that link obesity to a variety of health related risk factors are not categorically wrong. The reduction of weight even in relatively small increments can have a positive impact on your health. NAAFA would have you believe that most of these studies have been debunked. Not true. The science is overwhelming. |
| It was originally created as an outpatient treatment and prevention program for people with major health issues such as coronary artery disease, coronary risk factors, diabetes, kidney disease and a variety of other health related issues. Many of these conditions are the result of obesity. Over the years, more and more people have chosen the Rice Diet Program as the best controlled environment to achieve results through supervision and education. During my grandmother's stay, I had the opportunity to visit the Rice House and to personally meet the late Dr. Kempner. |
Anne Harrington
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 These were the years when such large epidemiological studies as the Framingham Heart Study and Seven Countries Study were just beginning to pinpoint smoking and a high-fat diet as major risk factors for heart disease.7 If the emerging findings of these other studies were comprehensive, then Roseto should have been a case study in unhealthy living; for many Rosetans were overweight, and many smoked. People regularly feasted on generous portions of Italian sausages and meatballs that had been fried in lard rather than olive oil (which the Rosetans could not afford to import from Italy). |
| A decade later, in 1998, "heart health" expert Dean Ornishpreviously best known for his success in reversing risk factors for heart disease with a strict low-fat diet—published a new self-help book called Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy that elevated that advice into an entire program. Diet was still important in controlling heart disease, Ornish wrote, but it couldn't compare with love: "Love and intimacy are among the most powerful factors in health and illness," he declared. |
| The Alameda County study: with a little help from my friends
His dissertation behind him, Marmot went to England to begin a new project on risk factors for heart disease in civil servants, leaving his advisor Leonard Syme to continue to brood on the issues he had raised. As Syme recalled his thinking at that time:
What does it mean to say "Western ways" versus "Traditional ways"? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Jan's more obvious risk factors were clear enough. For starters, Jan was, like three-quarters of those afflicted with autoimmunity, female. Now, pour in Jan's personal genetic makeup: by the sheer fact that she has an autoimmune disease, Jan no doubt possesses a genetic vulnerability to autoimmunity. Add in the fact that Jan had recently increased her estrogen levels by going on birth-control pills, which may have toyed slightly with her endocrine system. A little more in the barrel. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Their plant-based diet reduced or entirely eliminated all the above cardiovascular risk factors. The more compliant the patient, the more he or she reduced the risks.
Along the way, they also reduced symptoms such as angina pectoris—chest pain—perhaps the most frightening and incapacitating symptom of heart disease. Normally, physical effort or strong emotion causes the endothelium to go into action, producing nitric oxide, dilating the blood vessels, and thus boosting the flow of blood to the heart muscle. But in a patient with coronary disease, the endothelium's capacity is badly diminished. |
Anne Harrington
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| Since nothing else had changed substantially in the lives of these men, the conclusion seemed to follow that the stress of meeting the deadline for filing tax returns had increased the accountants' risk factors for heart disease.53
Put another way, this study of accountants suggested that a certain kind of pressured working environment could affect heart functioning. It did not, however, imply that by virtue of their personalities, particular groups of professionals, such as accountants, were chronically at risk for heart disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| No one knows exactly what causes it, but there are a number of risk factors (see below). As the name suggests, it's a syndrome, which means it's more like a collection of multiple symptoms than an actual disease. Many doctors who see women with these symptoms don't necessarily connect the dots, and many women seek treatment for the individual symptoms from specialists who may miss the larger picture.
It can go completely undiagnosed because its symptoms overlap with so many other health concerns. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Genetic cardiovascular risk factors also play a role for many people. See the Cardiovascular Disease section for a more in-depth discussion of these risk factors.
A few other factors also increase the risk for stroke. If you have an irregular heartbeat or a damaged heart valve or have suffered a recent heart attack, you should be especially vigilant about your health and should be monitored regularly by a doctor. Women who take oral contraceptives and who smoke also have a greater chance of developing blood clots, as so women on certain types of synthetic hormone replacement. |
Jack Challem
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 All of these cardiovascular risk factors stem from the same eating habits that cause prediabetes and overweight. Elevations in total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol, and triglycerides almost always improve when people start to eat lean proteins (which are low in saturated fat), fish, and vegetables and avoid processed and other junk foods. In fact, eating more coldwater fish, rich in the omega-3 fats, can significantly reduce the amount of small LDL particles, the most dangerous kind. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Stroke
Strokes are largely preventable if certain risk factors are avoided. Niacin, by correcting lipid profiles, reduces a major risk factor.
Dr Hoffer has studied the effect of niacin on his patients who had already suffered brain damage from stroke or trauma. He became interested after reading a report from Sweden many years ago about the treatment of strokes. The authors reported that stroke patients on admission to hospital were promptly given IV niacin and, as a result, experienced a marked reduction in the incidence of subsequent strokes. |
| These conclusions appear to be compatible with one or more genetic risk factors for schizophrenia that provide a selective advantage against cancer. Many of the genetic aberrations that promote schizophrenia, but protect against cancer, are apparently involved in the metabolism of adrenochrome and its derivatives^1- 52
If this is true, then adrenochrome and associated catecholamine o-quinones should be protective against many types of cancer. There is growing evidence that this is, indeed, the case. As early as 1970, K. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 In the course of a study focusing on the factors responsible for mortality in cardiac disease patients, the French, in spite of a lifestyle and diet that boast many of the known risk factors for cardiovascular disease (high cholesterol levels, hypertension, smoking), were found to have an unusually low mortality rate from these diseases, much lower than other nationalities with roughly similar levels of the same risk factors. |
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