Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Faced with mounting evidence that smoking was harmful, "it became evident that this was not a short-term endeavor, and that it was difficult to manage both scientific research and public relations in one organization. As a result the Tobacco Institute was formed to assume the public relations functions, and the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) was formed and incorporated to provide funding for scientific research."
Whether or not individual doctors supported smoking, lending their names to the TIRC gave it credibility. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 At various times I firsthand saw them ignore the scientific research, distort good scientific research and can even say I saw them lie about good scientific research. I also saw them produce or use research that was poorly done when the results were said to come from that poor research suited their purposes. So when they say that it is scientifically based it couldn't be further from the truth."
And finally, Dr. Robert Spitzer, the well-known architect of the DSM admitted in the Jan. |
Bottom Line Health
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| What does a medical consumer do when new scientific research contradicts long-standing health advice? In previous years, we've confronted this problem as new major studies called into question the use of aspirin, sunscreen and vitamin E. Doctors were left scrambling, and consumers felt utterly confused. Because I advocate on behalf of medical consumers in all health matters, I followed up on these issues by reviewing the studies and consulting leading experts. Myfindings...
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David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 HEALTH CLAIMS FOR HERBAL MEDICINE
Modern scientific research has much to say about what criteria are used to evaluate health claims for herbs. There seem to be two approaches: (1) the evidence-based or science-based approach and (2) the empirical or traditional approach. In herbal medicinal practice, there is basically only one approach and it involves an integration of both approaches.
There is a longstanding empirical criterion that has been used for thousands of years: do the substances work? |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The development of PGX is the result of intense scientific research at the University of Toronto led by Dr. David Jenkins, Dr. Tom Wolever,
Dr. Alexandra Jenkins, and Dr. Vladimir Vuksan, discoverers of the now-popular glycemic index. This world-recognized research team tested hundreds of different fiber combinations in laboratory, animal, and human studies before the basic composition of this super fiber was discovered. Coauthor Dr. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 SUNSCREENS: Valid scientific research abounds demonstrating that wrinkles, skin damage, many skin discolorations, and many skin cancers are primarily a result of unprotected sun exposure (Sources: British Journal of Dermatology, July 2007, pages 26-32; Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, May 2007, pages 376-380; Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, March 2007, pages 61-68; and Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, April 2002, pages 801-810). Clearly this subject has to do not only with cosmetics, but also with serious health issues. |
| An abundant and ever-expanding amount of scientific research is proving how antioxidants not only boost a sunscreens efficacy but also play a role in mitigating sun damage by reducing the free radicals and skin inflammation that sun exposure generates. A state-of-the-art sunscreen contains not only effective UVA-protecting ingredients but also antioxidants and other ingredients that help skin look and feel better. In
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Devra Davis
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 This was a society that in 1933 passed some of the world's first laws protecting animals from cruel treatment in scientific research, intending to awaken sympathy for other creatures as "one of the highest moral values of a people." A cartoon featured Hermann Goring receiving the Nazi one-armed salute from rabbits and dogs, presumably acknowledging his efforts on their behalf to ban animal experiments. |
| The new administration also curtailed funding for testing chemicals under the National Toxicology Program, while federal support for scientific research aimed at designing "safe cigarettes" grew. The problem with "safe cigarettes" is that, well before the 1980s, it was well known that there is no such thing. Inhaling thick clouds of smoke into your lungs, raising levels of carbon monoxide in your blood and that of your children, spouses and office mates, whether from burning tobacco, wood or coal, is simply an unhealthy thing to do.
What of the war on cancer itself? |
Alex Vilenkin
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 His insight was confirmed by centuries of scientific research, and we now take it for granted that nature follows precise mathematical laws. But if you stop to think about it, this fact is highly peculiar.
Mathematics appears to be a product of pure thought, with a very loose relation to experience. But then how come it is so ideally suited to describing the physical universe? This is what the physicist Eugene Wigner called "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences." Consider the ellipse as a simple example. |
Devra Davis
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| By cleverly crafting confusion about what scientific research really shows about the dangers of tobacco, the industry created the standard for what constitutes proof of human harm about any public health hazard. It hardly needs saying that this standard serves industry better than it serves the public health.
Modern society depends on doubt. Insecurities about what we look like and how we feel keep people spending money on things they basically know provide neither eternal youth nor beauty. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 One reason for meditation's elevation in the eyes of mainstream medicine is that there's scientific research pointing to its effectiveness. In a study of more than ninety women with fibromyalgia, for example, those who underwent eight weekly sessions of mindfulness meditation (which we explain below) had a significant improvement in depressive symptoms when compared with women who did not meditate. Among older depressed adults, mindfulness meditation has been successful in alleviating depression. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 There is a well-loved joke in scientific research in which a veteran lab researcher calls his grown son in order to share with him some astonishing news. "Son," he says, "we are turning old rats into new rats in the lab!" His son replies, "Great dad—call me when you can turn old people into young rats."
The point is well taken. Curing rats is a far cry from curing humans, and yet because rats, like mice, share remarkably similar neurological and immune systems to ours, it is with rodents that most medical research begins. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 This is due to a simple but well-understood requirement of the scientific method itself—that it be an open, completely transparent enterprise in which any and all aspects of scientific research are open to full review by scientific peers. Peer review and independent corroboration of research findings are axioms of the scientific method, and part of the very meaning of the objectivity and neutrality of science. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 For kids looking to follow their role model's examples, it is important to point out that scientific research has linked Andro to acne, breast enlargement in men and heart problems.19 Those are unnecessary and dangerous prices for a kid trying to excel in sports to pay.
Teens and others regularly use supplements containing caffeine and amphetamines to increase alertness and aggressiveness on the field. Cold remedies like Sudafed® and decongestants like AcuTrim®, which is also used as an appetite suppressant, contain stimulants that boost physical performance. |
Andreas Moritz
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 How can they be so sure of this when there is no scientific research to back up that claim, and when no testing procedures are in place to ensure their safety? Quite the opposite is true — plenty of evidence shows that vaccines are not safe.
Questions have recently emerged in the United States and Australia about the effectiveness and possibly dangerous side effects of Gardasil, Merck's newly licensed vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV). This vaccine is given to young girls to prevent cervical cancer, which kills about 3,700 women each year. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its related scientific research agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, are also on the defensive now more than ever. For some time at OSHA the trend has been to downgrade penalties and forgo prosecutions, even for the most egregious offenders. In the current political climate, this formerly ad hoc practice has been elevated to the status of de facto policy. |
Melody Petersen
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 The results of this push into scientific research were a revolution that James Harvey Young, an authority on the history of drug regulation, called "one of the major events in medical history."
More truly effective drugs were invented between 1935 and 1955 than in all previous human history Penicillin was followed by other antibiotics, new vaccines, synthetic vitamins, antihistamines, tranquilizers, and steroid drugs like cortisone. Some of these new medicines set new standards because they didn't just soothe symptoms of illness. They actually cured or prevented life-threatening diseases. |
| Now the ad firms were expanding their services to include scientific research and clinical drug trials.
"We provide services that go from the beginning of drug development all the way to the launch of your products," explained Joe Torre, an executive at Interpublic, in 2002, after his firm had bought a CRO called Target Research Associates.
The advertising firms quickly showed what potent partners their clinical research operations could be for drug companies eager to boost sales. The story of a pain reliever called Bextra provides a case in point. |
| Secrecy is contrary to the spirit of science and to the core definition of scientific research, which is the search for new knowledge. "The right to search for truth implies also a duty," Albert Einstein once said. "One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
So what does this mean for patients? Some scientists have pointed out that only a fraction of present-day medical interventions—the drugs prescribed, tests ordered, procedures performed—are supported by sound scientific evidence. Their concern goes far beyond the studies that have been kept secret.
Dr. John P. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The American College of Sports Medicine promotes and integrates scientific research, education, and practical applications of sports medicine and exercise science to maintain and enhance physical performance, fitness, health, and quality of life. It provides publications, audiotapes, and videotapes on physical fitness and weight loss to health professionals and the general public.
AFAA — Aerobic and Fitness Association of America www.afaa. |
Charles Barber
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 A substantial body of scientific research has consistently found that participants in cognitive-behavioral programs have recidivism rates that are 10 percent to 30 percent lower than rates for offenders who did not receive such services. Among the general population of prisoners, cognitive-behavioral treatment has decreased recidivism by about a third. Larger gains have consistendy been noted with higher-risk prisoners.20 Cognitive-behavioral treatment programs for prisoners have been shown to be dramatically cost-effective. |
Anne Harrington
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 It polled a range of experts about the clinical scope of the effect, how it might be used, and what the most important directions for new scientific research might be. But its real showstopper was a true-life story that showed the "astonishing" placebo effect in action.
Here is how the story went. In the early 1990s, a surgeon by the name of Bruce Moseley persuaded his hospital to allow him to conduct a placebo-controlled trial of a common form of arthroscopic knee surgery. |
Devra Davis
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| We need more scientific research before we can act to control cancer, so let's wait. And wait. And wait.
In the 1960s and 1970s there were other young doctors like Her-berman, people with research aspirations who joined the growing band of clinicians in the new specialty of treating cancer patients. Excited and inspired by the spectacular leukemia cures, they devoted themselves to searching for novel ways to cure other forms of cancer.
My cousin MarkTuckfelt was part of this golden age. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a system that delivers thousands of healing phytonutrients (plant medicines) to the body's cells on a daily basis. New scientific research shows that these phytonutrients destroy cancer cells, stabilize blood sugar and reverse type-2 diabetes, eliminate symptoms of heart disease, rapidly drop excess body weight and support the body's crucial organs: liver, pancreas, heart brain, kidneys, bladder and more.
The six-CD audio course features a live presentation by David Rain and Mike Adams, who discuss the "why" and "how" of Juice Feasting. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| See our discussion of scientific research in chapter 4.
Adaptogens: An Overview
Adaptogens are remarkable natural substances that help the body adapt to stress, support normal metabolic functions, and help restore balance. They increase the body's resistance to physical, biological, emotional, and environmental stressors and provide a defense response to acute or chronic stress. They are unique from other substances in their ability to restore the balance of endocrine hormones, modulate the immune system, and allow the body to maintain optimal homeostasis. |
| Most of the scientific research has been done in animals (in vivo) and in test tubes (in vitro) and published in Asian or European languages. There has been clinical (human) research that has confirmed animal research, but these studies were few and usually involved small samples of test subjects.
Fortunately, there has been significant clinical research on a few adaptogens, including Asian ginseng, eleuthero, reishi, and rhodiola. It is also possible, even probable, that different adaptogens have different modes of action.
Here is an example of what scientists are saying. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Ladd, a small but determined gray-haired dynamo who had founded the organization, was able to come up with only five thousand dollars to fund the project, a paltry sum in the high-roller arena of scientific research. With that, Rose hired a PhD candidate, giving her about a month to ferret out how many patients had each of the twenty-five autoimmune diseases they would be counting. Two years later, Rose's student came up for air with the astounding statistic that 9 million patients were suffering from those twenty-five autoimmune diseases alone—as many patients as had cancer. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The amazing scientific research that we have summarized in this book is only the beginning; researchers are always learning more about green tea and how it promotes good health. More good news about green tea is sure to come in the coming months and years. Meanwhile, continue to enjoy green tea every day!
Glossary
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A deadly progressive disease caused by a virus, leading to compromised immune function.
Aflatoxin. A carcinogen produced by molds, especially in stored agricultural crops, such as peanuts.
Agranulocytosis. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Considerable scientific research exists that demonstrates the effect of these natural therapies and interventions in lowering cholesterol, improving blood lipid ratios, lowering blood pressure, preventing clots and strokes, inhibiting fibrinogen, lowering homocysteine levels, strengthening the cardiac muscle, and preventing the oxidative damage to vessel walls, all of which are implicated in cardiovascular disease risk. |
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