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You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The rich metaphor—the geography is like your genes, roadways are like arteries, the energy grid is like your brain circuitry, the green spaces are like your skin—describes the beauty of an elegant cHy. body's police force. Your arteries are like roadways that can be clogged, blocked, or worn down by years of abuse. Your brain is like the energy grid that supplies power to the entire city; it can be knocked out here and there if you let neurological branches fall on your power lines.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Operating a vehicle with a bG of 70, or 60, or less imperils not only the diabetic, but those who share the roadways with him. And since this fall can certainly occur within the interval BETWEEN tests, the only solution would be more frequent tests. Rather than 5 times a day.. .why not recommend that the diabetic test hourly...or better yet, every half hour? Diabusiness would certainly be quick to endorse such a proposal; the pain and mental anguish of the patient are inconsequential.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

The original span was constructed in 1932, but it had become a succession of interconnected bridges and roadways that soared over the Hackensack and Passaic rivers and the town of Kearny. It was a potential dropping-off point, literally, for dangerous activities, including improvised explosives. Here, along with oil tankers, there were some 600 onshore holding tanks with a total capacity of 15.3 million barrels. In another area, not far away, a chemical plant processes chlorine gas. It was so close to Manhattan, the Empire State Building served as a backdrop. It was eerie.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

It also submerged FDR Drive and other roadways in Manhattan under more than a metre of water, whilst two metres flooded into Battery Park tunnel. Seaside communities were evacuated in New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island. Officials breathed a sigh of relief when the storm began to move away: they knew that flood levels just half a metre higher would have resulted in massive inundation and loss of life.

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Hydralazine works in a similar manner, getting the arteries to widen a bit, which makes arterial roadways easier to travel and lowers the blood pressure. In many cases, physicians find that they produce better results for their patients by combining two kinds of blood pressure medication, sometimes within the same pill. That's the case with hydralazine plus hydrochlorothiazide. While hydralazine "opens" the arteries, hydrochlorothiazide (a diuretic) helps the body excrete fluid.

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Common sources of lead exposure may include paint, foods grown near roadways, and water from lead pipes.28 Nutritional supplements that may be helpful Test tube studies show that vitamin (page 600) increases growth of beneficial mouth bacteria and decreases growth of cavity-causing bacteria.29 A double-blind study found that pregnant women who supplemented with 20 mg per day of vitamin Pj6 had significantly fewer new caries and fillings during pregnancy.30 Lozenges containing vitamin Bg were more effective than capsules in this study, suggesting an important topical effect.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

Their fatuous expectations of meeting ever-increasing traffic loads with ever more sophisticated onboard car computers keyed to computers embedded in the roadways couldn't have been more detached from reality. Even on their own terms the schemes were laughable. They assumed that every car on the road would have an onboard computer. One had to wonder: What about the drivers only pretending to have onboard computers, just as so many drivers today only pretend to have licenses and insurance?

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

Wild, it bedecks roadways and gilds whole fields with sun-colored mandalas. Cultivated in home gardens it towers to impressive heights of fifteen feet or more and boasts a flower up to two feet in diameter. A single plant may yield several hundred plump, nutlike kernels, which are actually the fruit of the flower. These teatdrop-shaped seeds may be white, brown, black, or black with white stripes. Though the seeds have long been used as a dietary staple by American Indians, they were only introduced to Europeans in the sixteenth century.

Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

It also settles into the earth and its living vegetation; heavily traveled roadways show higher concentrations of lead in the air, soil, and nearby vegetation. Paint. Though, by law, the amount of lead in paints must be reduced, some still contain lead. Many homes retain lead paints, so this change may not affect us in environmental lead exposure for a couple of decades. Food. Lead is contained in many foods, especially in those grown near industrial areas or busy cities or roadways. Grains, legumes, commercial and garden fruit, and most meat products pick up some lead.

Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan See book keywords and concepts

Some might have accidents, spilling cargo and creating havoc. Cholesterol presents the same problem. When too many particles of cholesterol pass through your bloodstream, they create a different kind of congestion. The circulating particles can easily become damaged. When they do, they spark the formation of raised bumps called plaques, which are very much like small scars on your artery walls. Now, this is dangerous, because plaques are fragile. They can crack or rupture, and when that happens, the blood around the plaque starts to clot.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

Wide roads have been built without sidewalks or frequent crosswalks, and high-speed traffic makes those roadways particularly deadly. In many areas, intersections with crosswalks may be as much as a half-mile apart, leaving pedestrians with no safe way to cross the street.24 The same report noted that the number of trips taken on foot has dropped by 42 percent in the last twenty years. A study done across eight provinces in China found that people who lived in a household with motorized transportation had an 80 percent increased chance of being obese.

Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Gina Kolata See book keywords and concepts

Gray piles of hard-crusted snow cluttered parking lots and rimmed roadways. Everywhere—on buses and subways, in classrooms and offices— people were coughing and sneezing. Fort Dix was the perfect place for an adenovirus to spread. A draft of several thousand new recruits arrived after New Year's Day, and they were joined by men just back from their Christmas break who were to be their instructors in basic training. There, in this large mixing bowl for viruses, with men arriving from across the country, it would be surprising if a respiratory virus did not take hold.

Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body Neal Barnard, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And just as we don't want cement dumped just anywhere on our roadways, the body is similarly choosy about where and how cholesterol is delivered. It is manufactured in the liver and is carefully transported in special protein particles. So far, so good. But when people ingest cholesterol in foods or eat foods that cause the liver to make more cholesterol than normal, suddenly there is too much of it in the body—loads of "cement" being carried around in the blood with nowhere to go.

The Garlic Cure James F. Scheer, Lynn Allison and Charlie Fox See book keywords and concepts

Still on roadways, it is thrust to roadsides by millions of whirling tires, carried onto farmland and wind-blown into streams and lakes and, then, enters the foods we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. Other major lead sources are factory smoke, cigarette smoke, insecticides, some hair-colorings and cosmetics, newsprint and canned foods. This significant quotation appeared in a New York Times article, The Threat of Lead Pollution," on April 16, 1994: "Exposure to lead is considered the most serious pollution problem facing children.

The Super Anti-Oxidants: Why They Will Change the Face of Healthcare in the 21st Century James F. Balch, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Residue of leaded gas is found in soil near roadways. It can be tracked into the house on the bottoms of your shoes. Cooking with bowls that have certain glazes on them may allow lead to leach into your food. And don't forget your water pipes. Some older homes have lead pipes or copper pipes that have been soldered with lead. This leaches into your drinking water. Leaded paint and little children is a very dangerous combination. Little ones put everything into their mouths! Lead is far from the only culprit, however.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

Consider these examples: • The soil, roadways, and parking lots surrounding a ceramics industry are layered with lead contamination that has settled out from industrial air emissions. Rain washes the lead dust to collection basins and gutters that empty into an unlined industrial settling pond and an adjacent river. The lead dust on soil seeps with rain water deeper into the soil and reaches groundwater. • A pesticide sprayed on a potato field leaves residue within the recharge area of a farm well.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Lead is a well-known public health risk for children who are exposed to or inhale the metal in the environment from old paint, soil near roadways, or drinking water. It also represents a significant occupational hazard for adults, given its extensive production in smelting operations, radiator repair, battery manufacturing, and construction. Lead is a particularly sinister substance because it is not easily cleared from or detoxified within the body; thus, its toxicity is cumulative.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

The water-soluble sodium chloride either runs off roadways dissolved in melted ice and snow to nearby lakes and streams or it percolates into groundwater. Recharge areas for pub-he water supply and private wells are likely to be contaminated from high sodium levels if they are crisscrossed by highways on which road salt is heavily used. Excessive salt can contribute to hypertension, and high sodium levels pose a threat to those with heart, liver, or kidney ailments. At a time when so many people are cutting intake of salt in their diet, this problem increasingly plagues many water supplies.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

Studies in New Jersey show that children living within 100 feet of major roadways have higher blood lead levels than those living farther away. Winds: Which way do the winds blow in your community? Call your local weather bureau to find out. If your house site is located downwind of air-polluting industry, there's a good chance you're breathing bad air at least part of the time. Downwind drift can carry pollution several miles from its source. NEIGHBORHOOD CONSIDERATIONS What is your neighborhood like?

Carbon monoxide is commonly found in significant levels along well-traveled roadways. Other principal sources of carbon monoxide are tobacco smoke, home chimneys, and industrial smokestacks. Toxic Fallout Toxic fallout consists of invisible gases and fine particles carrying a startling array of man-made chemicals—compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, toxaphene, and chlordane—that can permanently alter the tiniest mechanisms of a cell. Billions of pounds of synthetic chemicals are released into the air each year, some routinely, from industry and agriculture.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Because public-sector interference (in the form of regulation and taxation) was discouraged, however, governments could not affotd to build adequate roadways to accommodate those automobiles. agribusiness The part of the economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food, including the financial institutions that fund these activities. fa Agribusiness emphasizes agriculture as a big business rather than as the work of small family farms. American Stock Exchange The second latgest stock exchange in the United States, after the New York Stock Exchange.

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating Rebecca Wood See book keywords and concepts

Wild, it lines roadways and gilds whole fields with its stunning, sun-colored manda-las. Cultivated in home gardens, it towers to impressive heights of fifteen feet or more and boasts a flower up to two feet in diameter. A showy plant indeed. This daisy relative, which originated in western North America, is more than just show. Both sunflower seeds and sunflower tubers (Jerusalem artichoke) were important Native American foods. Sunflowers were introduced in Europe in the 1500s and have become a staple in Russia.

Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine Elson M. Haas, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Lead is contained in many foods, especially in those grown near industrial areas or busy cities or roadways. Grains, legumes, commercial and garden fruit, and most meat products pick up some lead. Liver and lunch meats are usually higher. Liverwurst and other sausages may contain more lead than other foods. Roadside vegetation, such as herbs, fruits, and vegetables, has higher concentrations of lead than vegetation growing in more secluded areas. Measurements of lead in trees growing along roads show much more than was present in the 1930s.

Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 Michael T. Murray, ND See book keywords and concepts

It is commonly used by municipalities and states to spray roadways and rights-of-way to keep the weeds down. It can be purchased at home stores for home lawn care and is often applied by chemical lawn care companies. It contains several dioxin contaminates and, in my opinion, is quite toxic to animals, children and adults.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Because public-sector interference (in the form of regulation and taxation) was discouraged, however, governments could not afford to build adequate roadways to accommodate those automobiles. agribusiness The part of the economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food, including the financial institutions that fund these activities. fa Agribusiness emphasizes agriculture as a big business rather than as the work of small family farms. American Stock Exchange The second largest stock exchange in the United States, after the New York Stock Exchange.

Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra See book keywords and concepts

Jogging in polluted environments, such as on roadways with excessive exhaust fumes, is as unhealthy as jogging in very hot or very cold weather, which may result in heat exhaustion or frostbite. Okay, enough of this downside. What about the advantages of mild to moderate exercise? Scientific evidence has consistently linked regular physical activity to a wide range of physical and mental health benefits, as well as the alleviation of occupational stress. Exercise training has been shown to benefit patients suffering from congestive heart failure as well.

Safe Food: Eating Wisely In A Risky World Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland See book keywords and concepts

Irradiation requires more transport of radioactive materials on busy roadways, puts more workers at risk of exposure to low-level radiation, and adds to the hazardous-waste disposal problem. In the case of poultry, irradiation would be a band-aid solution to a serious problem. Better, more fundamental ways exist to control bacteria—including improved production, slaughtering, and processing methods, and better government inspection. In other cases, alternative methods are often cheaper and easier.

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