Hyla Cass
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 DOSING ISSUES: ONE size DOESN'T FIT ALL
Because most drugs today are marketed and prescribed in one-size-fits-all, standard doses, a ninety-year-old, hundred-pound grandmother on five medications is getting the same dose as a two-hundred-thirty-pound football player.
The common, one-size-fits-all drug dose ignores our biological individuality, which is influenced by gender, race, body size, individual genetics, variations in nutritional status, and other factors. For example, women generally require lower doses than men and may suffer serious side effects when given larger, man-sized doses. |
| DOSING ISSUES: ONE size DOESN'T FIT ALL
Because most drugs today are marketed and prescribed in one-size-fits-all, standard doses, a ninety-year-old, hundred-pound grandmother on five medications is getting the same dose as a two-hundred-thirty-pound football player.
The common, one-size-fits-all drug dose ignores our biological individuality, which is influenced by gender, race, body size, individual genetics, variations in nutritional status, and other factors. For example, women generally require lower doses than men and may suffer serious side effects when given larger, man-sized doses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's a size five, and it's in the normal range." -- because sizes four to 13 would be normal for shoe sizes.
Mike: I see.
Teitelbaum: I can't even get in the dang shoe and he says, "Oh, Jacob, sounds like it may be too small." Then he says, "Nope. Good news. You have a size five -- there's nothing wrong with the shoe."
Mike: Right.
Teitelbaum: And remember -- I can't even get in the thing. The same applies to thyroid. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 How do you figure out what kind of supplements you need and where you can get the right kind?
One size Does Not Fit All
Vitamin D is fat-soluble. The bigger you are, the more D you need. When it comes to vitamin D supplements, one size doesn't fit all.
Drawing on information that Drs. Robert Heaney and Michael Holick published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, I chose a weight-based calculation method to determine the amount of vitamin D you need. This takes body size into account when determining the appropriate replacement dose. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Hundreds of personal care products already contain nano-sized ingredients, and thousands more contain ingredients that are available in nano form but don't include information about particle size on the labels, according to a Skin Deep analysis. Since nano-sized ingredients are absorbed differendy into the body, they require separate safety studies. But as Jane Houlihan noted, "Manufacturers seem to be following the pattern they established with conventional chemical ingredients — put poorly tested chemicals into personal care products and do the science later, if at all. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| The common, one-size-fits-all drug dose ignores our biological individuality, which is influenced by gender, race, body size, individual genetics, variations in nutritional status, and other factors. For example, women generally require lower doses than men and may suffer serious side effects when given larger, man-sized doses. In 2001, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reported that in early drug studies for establishing drug doses, 78 percent of the subjects were men. No wonder so many women cannot tolerate standard doses of top-selling drugs!
Thanks to such crusaders as Jay S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You have a size five -- there's nothing wrong with the shoe."
Mike: Right.
Teitelbaum: And remember -- I can't even get in the thing. The same applies to thyroid. There's as much variation in thyroid function size as is in shoe size, and to say that, because you're not in the lowest three percent of the population means that you're normal is absurd.
Mike: Yes it is. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Your doctor should also look at the size of the red cell on a complete blood count (CBC). Extra large red cells are a sign of "macrocytic" or "large cell" anemia. That is, the B12-deficient red cells enlarge in order to carry more oxygen. Their bigger size make them less flexible, and unable to reach the ends of the smaller capillaries. The result? Less oxygen to many of the cells of the body, including those oxygen-hungry heart and brain cells.
The RDA for vitamin B12 is 2.4 meg a day, so you can get enough into the body with a dose of 200 to 500 meg a day. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 As an early Victorian occupational health text noted,
Glue and size boilers are exposed to strong putrid and ammoniacal exhalations from the decomposition of animal refuse. The stench of the boiling and drying rooms is indeed well known to be highly offensive, even to the neighborhood. . . . Yet the men [who work with glue] declare it agrees well with them—nay, many assert that on entering this employ, they experience a great increase in appetite and health. All the glue and size makers we saw, were remarkably fresh-looking and robust. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The processed leaves are sifted through progressively smaller mesh sieves to sort them by size. The best teas are chosen from the largest leaves, and lower grades of tea continue down in size. The tea "dust" that is left is used to make tea bags. The final result is packaged and shipped around the world for millions of people to enjoy every day.
VARIETIES OF TEA
There are many teas, but just one plant; all teas are produced from Camellia sinensis, and slight differences in processing methods result in the tea Vcirieties. The three common tea types are green tea, black tea, and oolong tea. |
Tom Bohager
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 The sores can range from the size of a pinhead to the size of a quarter, but they are not contagious. Canker sores are different from fever blisters or cold sores, which are caused by the herpes virus and are contagious. Fever blisters are usually found on the outside of the lips or on the corners of the mouth.
Recurrent canker sores appear to be related to stress, nutrient deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, poor dental hygiene, Crohn's Disease or other digestive tract ailments, and food sensitivities (particularly to gluten, milk, and chocolate). |
Hyla Cass
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| Your doctor should also look at the size of the red cell on a complete blood count (CBC). Extra large red cells are a sign of "macrocytic" or "large cell" anemia. That is, the B12-deficient red cells enlarge in order to carry more oxygen. Their bigger size make them less flexible, and unable to reach the ends of the smaller capillaries. The result? Less oxygen to many of the cells of the body, including those oxygen-hungry heart and brain cells.
The RDA for vitamin B12 is 2.4 meg a day, so you can get enough into the body with a dose of 200 to 500 meg a day. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 The significance of these findings, to which no reference is made in industry promotional literature, is emphasized by the small size of the trial groups, ranging from seven to 47 cows for each treatment group. The gross statistical insensitivity of such trials has recently been emphasized. "At least 2,423 cows would be needed in each group to detect an increase in disease frequency from 5 to 10 percent, and at least 11,773 cows in each group for a change from I to 2 percent" (4). |
David De Angelis
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 Is the size of the letters in the text very important when we train to read with training lenses? Which size is the best one? g. Is it true that some people are able to reach visual acuity over 20/20 with the methods of visual reeducation? h. As for different acuity between two eyes: Which difference (in diopters, if possible) requires training with reading with suitable lenses on, blindfolding the weak eye at first, so as to make it equal to the good one? When isn't such a difference important? i. |
Gregg Braden
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 Big or Small, a Computer Is Always a Computer
While computers have gone through a tremendous evolution in size and speed since they burst on the scene in the mid-20th century, in some ways they have changed very little. Whether they fill an entire room or are miniaturized to fit into the palm of our hand, all computers have some things in common.
Regardless of its size, for example, a computer will always need hardware, an operating system, and programs to create its output. To shed new light on reality, however, it's important to understand just what these parts of a computer really do. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| When it comes to vitamin D supplements, one size doesn't fit all.
Drawing on information that Drs. Robert Heaney and Michael Holick published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, I chose a weight-based calculation method to determine the amount of vitamin D you need. This takes body size into account when determining the appropriate replacement dose.
Here's how you should supplement vitamin D if you don't want to bother with measuring your vitamin D level. Just figure out your risk profile score and use that number to arrive at the right dose. |
Elaine Magee
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 Size Matters When It Comes to Cholesterol
Canadian heart researcher Salim Yusuf, MD, suggests that cholesterol particle size also helps determine risk of heart attack. The smaller, heavier cholesterol molecules (a protein linked to LDL and other bad cholesterol particles) increase the risk of heart disease because they can more easily invade the artery wall, causing inflammation and atherosclerosis plaque, he explains. This factor alone may increase your risk of heart attack by as much as 54 percent. |
Jack Challem
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 When grains, such as wheat and corn, are refined food particle size is reduced through grinding, and fiber is either similarly reduced in size or removed altogether. The result is a wheat- or corn-containing food that is absorbed almost as quickly as pure sugar.
Examples: Sugars, such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, are found in nearly all nonfruit sweets, including desserts, doughnuts, pastries, and muffins, as well as soft drinks. Refined grains are used to make bagels, breads, pastas, and pizzas—and most whole-grain breads and pastas are also problematic. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 It's interesting to note that, in mammals, with a few exceptions, there's a close correlation between size and life expectancy. The bigger you are, the longer you live. (That doesn't mean you should head to Dairy Queen—the bigger the natural size of the species, the longer the average member of the species lives, not the bigger the individual.) The longer life expectancy of larger mammals is at least partially due to their superior ability to repair DNA. But that explains, at least in part, how we live longer; it doesn't explain why we big creatures developed those superior repair mechanisms. |
Michael Pollan
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 Rozin focused on portion size and time spent eating. He found that serving sizes in France, both in restaurants and supermarkets, are considerably smaller than they are in the United States. This matters because most people have what psychologists call a unit bias—we tend to believe that however big or small the portion served, that's the proper amount to eat. Rozin also found that the French spend considerably more time enjoying their tiny servings than we do our Brobdingnagian ones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This article implies that these junk foods will result in a reduction of your waist size. And yet any person with even an inkling of nutritional knowledge knows that the foods recommended in the article actually increase your waist size. That makes the article yet another example of truly bad (and downright irresponsible) journalism put out by a mainstream magazine and a major cable news organization (CNN).
The bottom of the article offers a "free trial" of a subscription to Health Magazine. Wow, I can't wait to see what other nutritional nonsense will be contained in future issues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Manipulating serving sizes
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0.5 grams or less of trans fatty acids per serving is allowed to claim ZERO trans fats on the label. That's FDA logic for you, where 0.5 = 0. But fuzzy math isn't the only game played by the FDA to protect the commercial interests of the industry is claims to regulate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To avoid listing trans fats, or to claim "trans fat free" on their label, food manufacturers simply adjust the serving size until the trans fat content falls under 0.5 grams per serving. This is how you get modern food labels with serving sizes that essentially equate to a single bite of food. Not exactly a "serving" of food, is it?
Besides being a cancer factor, trans fats promote heart disease, interrupt metabolic processes, and cause belly fat that crowd the organs and strain the heart. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There's as much variation in thyroid function size as is in shoe size, and to say that, because you're not in the lowest three percent of the population means that you're normal is absurd.
Mike: Yes it is.
Teitelbaum: The studies show that if you take the thyroid hormone when you're tired, achy, cold, intolerant, have weight gain -- those kind of things -- the majority of people are going to feel a lot better, and it's healthy for the heart.
Mike: Outstanding.
Teitelbaum: So, that's the "H" in SHIN for hormones. "I" would be infections. The yeast would be the main ones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only other question I had was this: Earlier you said that we can figure out portion size ourselves and that that's usually not an issue, but I believe the old and the new food guide pyramids have the portions laid out for you, at least . Does theHonest Food Guide have portion sizes?
Mike: No, but I want to get back to the portion sizes that you mention because some people will say, "I don't believe that people can control their own portions." The issue is what they're eating, because if you're eating processed foods then it's true: You can't "control your own portions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 An interesting thing to think about is that one cod liver can be roughly the size of your head. The fish may not be all that big, but the size of the liver in some cases is a third of the size of the fish. It is a giant liver. If you see a picture of a cod, it is bulging out around the mid section. It resembles a salmon when it is carrying all of its eggs. I don't know if you've gone fishing, but personally I have had that experience, and you see it bulging out. One liver can yield as many as six bottles at eight ounces apiece. The refining technique is really where the cost is built in. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Particle size is not the issue, according to the agency. This view is out of step with the entire scientific community. size matters at the nano-scale. Nano is best understood to mean "fundamentally different." Kimbrell feels strongly that the FDA must act quickly if the agency hopes to avoid past regulatory failures such as asbestos, DDT and PCBs.
More environmental health studies are urgently needed. Only 4% of the $9 billion dedicated to nanotechnology research in 2006 went to environmental and health research. |
Jack Challem
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| When grains, such as wheat and corn, are refined food particle size is reduced through grinding, and fiber is either similarly reduced in size or removed altogether. The result is a wheat- or corn-containing food that is absorbed almost as quickly as pure sugar.
Examples: Sugars, such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, are found in nearly all nonfruit sweets, including desserts, doughnuts, pastries, and muffins, as well as soft drinks. Refined grains are used to make bagels, breads, pastas, and pizzas—and most whole-grain breads and pastas are also problematic. |
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