Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If Merck really wants to help these teenage girls, why don't they pledge to give away all their vaccines free of charge? In fact, if they're such a humanitarian organization, why don't they give away all their drugs, and release third world countries from patent protection at the same time? The answer, of course, is because this is all about money, not public health. If Merck was really about "patients first," they should convert to a 501(c)3 non-profit, stop paying their CEOs $10+ million salaries, and give all their drugs away for free as a gift to humankind, shouldn't they? |
| Expose this medical madness before we all end up prisoners under a system of medical tyranny that turns the bodies of teenage girls into profit centers for Big Pharma! And unlike Merck, we don't care about the intellectual property royalties on this comic. Make as many copies as you want. Print up T-shirts. Add it to your book. Use it as you wish, and you don't owe me a dime. Why? Because I actually do care about my fellow human beings and I'm here to help stop the medical madness sweeping America today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gardasil, a vaccine they claim prevents HPV, a sexually-transmitted virus. In February 2007, Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- who was revealed to have financial ties with Merck, the vaccine manufacturer -- mandates the vaccine in teenage girls (see http://www.newstarget.com/021572.html ). A key Merck lobbyist named Mike Toomey, it turned out, had served as Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 One survey found that many teenage girls are so frightened of getting breast cancer that they are now doing breast self-exams, even though the likelihood that a woman under the age of thirty will be diagnosed with breast cancer is about one in nineteen hundred, less than the chances of a person of any age dying from the flu.
Not all of the blame for our national obsession with illness can be laid at the feet of pharmaceutical marketers. |
Marshall Editions
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 They are also common in teenage girls and women approaching menopause. This condition can be caused by pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, and endometriosis. Occasionally, a particularly heavy period can actually be a miscarriage, in which case you may need to have a surgical procedure known as dilation and curettage (D&C).
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• Irregular or absent periods
• Heavy or light periods
• Abdominal pain
Treatment of menstrual disorders depends on the type and cause of the condition. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The FDA denied that this move was politically motivated, and said it arose from concern that teenage girls would not be able to use the product safely.
REACTION
Reaction from groups that advocate the OTC sale of this contraception was swift in coming.
"The American Society for Reproductive Medicine [ASRM] is pleased that the FDA has approved making emergency contraception available to women age 18 and over," says ASRM President Dr. Joseph S. Sanfilippo. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Fibroadenomas are common even among teenage girls. They often become larger during pregnancy and lactation, and older women may notice more cysts during late menopause, if they're on hormone replacement therapy, or if they're very thin.
SWOLLEN, DISCOLORED BREASTS
While swollen breasts are a common sign that a woman is about to get her period, red and swollen breasts, particularly if they're warm to the touch, may be a sign of a very aggressive form of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Pink, reddish purple, or bruised-looking breasts can also signal IBC.
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Stacy Malkan
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 So here is our pro-business Republican governor with his tough-guy image, under pressure from teenage girls and beauty queens and fellow actors over beauty products — a Hollywood staple," Lundstrom described in the Bee. "So relentless was Migden in ensuring her bill's passage that she popped over to the floor of the Assembly during a vote and pushed a Republican member's yes' button. Meanwhile, the $35 billion industry unleashed its own big guns on the Capitol in what bill supporters saw as a 'David and Goliath' confrontation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The mainstream media is now reporting -- and I'm not kidding -- that young boys should be vaccinated with Gardasil (the drug now being pushed onto teenage girls to supposedly prevent cervical cancer) based on the idea that if they have oral sex with girls who carry HPV, they might get throat cancer!
This is an incredible stretch of scientific credibility, and it's such a preposterous marketing campaign that only Big Pharma could have come up with it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Rick Perry -- who was revealed to have financial ties with Merck, the vaccine manufacturer -- mandates the vaccine in teenage girls (see http://www.newstarget.com/021572.html ). A key Merck lobbyist named Mike Toomey, it turned out, had served as Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff.
The Texas decision to mandate the vaccine was a notable and troubling milestone in public health policy because it is the first time a vaccine is mandated for a disease that cannot be contracted through casual contact in public schools. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 In fact, 20 percent of teenage girls with severe menorrhagia have a significant coagulation problem. A decrease in the number of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia) can also cause abnormal bleeding. Other systemic diseases, such as hypothyroidism and severe liver diseases, can also cause prolonged menses, heavy menses, or intermenstrual bleeding.
An abnormal pregnancy is the most common cause of abnormal vaginal bleeding in women who are of reproductive age. Any type of miscarriage can present with abnormal bleeding that is also often associared with cramping pains. |
Charles Barber
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 Look at the headlines: car bombs in Iraq; teenage girls killed by predators they encounter on myspace .com; lying presidents; melting snows in the Antarctic; corporate scandals, not to mention the old staples of death, mortality, and disease. Maybe, if you feel sadness at such things, you're aware and sensitive and alive. Maybe it's a credit to your constitution, demonstrating that you are capable of thinking, feeling, responding, breathing, and yes, suffering.
As Percy says in Lost in the Cosmos:
Assume that you are quite right [to be depressed]. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 It seemed to me a very odd and sad coincidence that two teenage girls living right next door to each other would be struck with lupus at nearly the same time."
Three months later a thirty-eight-year-old woman named Linda Winston,* who lived at 378 Moselle—almost across the street from Devonne—came into the store and told Grant that she was having a hard time because she couldn't go out in the sunshine anymore. Her doctor had just diagnosed her with lupus. Sunlight made the disease flare.
"Right then a warning bell went off in my head," says Grant. "Something just didn't sound right to me. |
Elaine Magee
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 It took trying a few different brands, but I finally found one my two teenage girls like.
I look for opportunities to switch to whole grain everywhere possible. While you may not be ready to switch to whole grains entirely, everyone can add a serving here and there. And that can be enough to make a difference in your health.
10 Tips for Enjoying a Whole Foods Diet
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Check labels carefully to make sure they contain the nutrients that are suggested by advertising claims. |
Melody Petersen
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 Miss America worked with teenage girls, but the marketers required a more masculine approach when it came to men, a group not generally susceptible to messages that claimed they were sick. "We know that men don't like to go to the doctor as much as women," one Pfizer marketing executive explained in 2003. "How can we best reach men in a way where they're receptive:1"
By 2005 it was clear that Pfizer and its competitors had found their answer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Even the idea of mandatory vaccinations for teenage girls is little more than desperate disease mongering designed to sell vaccines. Carrying HPV doesn't automatically lead to cervical cancer any more than carrying chicken pox turns you into a walking biological weapon. Most people who carry the virus show no symptoms at all, and girls with healthy immune systems and healthy lifestyles (diet, nutrition, etc.) have a near-zero risk of ever developing cervical cancer, even if they're exposed to HPV on a repeated basis. |
Melody Petersen
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| And Wyeth was letting teenage girls create their own melodic ring tones and download them to their cell phones at a website promoting birth control pills called Alesse.
James U. McNeal, an expert on the marketing of all types of products to children, explained in his 1999 book The Kids Market that companies had learned to give away toys and other fun prizes because play is a child's number one need. At the same time, children like those who give them things and are fondest of the biggest givers.
"My research suggests that children begin to relate to brands? |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Bone mineral gain following calcium supplementation in teenage girls is preserved two years after withdrawal of the supplement. J. Bone Miner. Res. 16(S1), S173.
53. Lee, W. T. K., Leung, S. S. F., Leung, D. M. Y., and Cheng, J. C. Y. (1996). A follow-up study on the effect of calcium-supplement withdrawal and puberty on bone acquisition of children. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 64, 71-77.
54. Slemenda, C. W., Peacock, M., Hui, S., Zhou, L., and Johnston, C. C. (1997). Reduced rates of skeletal remodeling are associated with increased bone mineral density during the development of peak skeletal mass. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 OCPs are safe for teenage girls to use, with the exception of Depo-Provera, which I mentioned on page 238.
The Bottom Line on Contraceptives
Use an OCP with low doses of estradiol (< 50 meg). Taking an OCP is safe for women who don't smoke. Women over age thirty-five who smoke or who should not take the regular pill for other reasons (e.g., history of blood clots) should consider the mini pill, another all-progesterone pill, or one of the alternatives to the pill I describe below. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 That is why anorexia nervosa is more prevalent today than it was 60 years ago when teenage girls were not continuously exposed to magazines and television shows which glorify the perfect body and a beautiful face.126 Now, guess again. Is it 60-, 70-and 80-year-old women who are most susceptible or is it girls of 12, 16 and 20? As you know, the answer is the younger group of mostly teens. But why? I will answer that question with three questions. Who thinks the most about looking good? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These hormones help explain why unusually young teenage girls develop breasts at such a young age, or why hormone-related cancers like prostate cancer are being discovered in unprecedented numbers. In order to protect Monsanto, the manufacturer of hormones used in the industry, the USDA currently bans organic milk producers from claiming their milk comes from cows that were not treated with synthetic hormones. Even organic milk is now under fire as the Organic Consumers Association says Horizon milk products are falsely labeled as organic. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Every time these teenage girls stare at a beautiful young lady or read an article on looking good or attracting guys, their values are slowly but surely being changed—and the more likely they will become anorexic.131 My advice is to give up the magazines entirely and adopt and actively voice contrary values: "It is unhealthy to place too much value on beauty. The media has fooled me in the past, but from now on I am going to help influence others not to overly value beauty and fashion by not focusing on those issues." This will not work if it is simply done cognitively. |
Byron J. Richards
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 This is especially true if a young woman struggles with obesity and leptin issues during developmental years. teenage girls who are overweight disturb leptin function as it relates to their female system, an issue with lifelong consequences. Reproductive function is significantly disturbed if obesity starts early, compared to later life onset of leptin problems.
Anorexia is a low-leptin starvation state. The adverse consequences of this eating disorder on reproductive health and fertility are well documented. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Further, problems always will accompany any weight-loss product, especially when used by teenage girls, who often take doses far exceeding those recommended when they become desperate to lose weight. Many herbs with hypoglycemic properties also can cause problems. Many are brain stimulants and can, under certain circumstances cause mania, panic attacks, insomnia, and even seizures.
On the other hand, many herbs have safely been used for thousands of years by millions of people, and some have been studied in the laboratory for their medicinal properties. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Anorexia nervosa occurs most frequently in teenage girls and college-age women, and it's estimated that about 1 percer t of all young women in this age group suffer from the disease. It is here that eating disorders take their most disturbing form: slow, deliberate starvation. Despite their obviously emaciated bodies, anorexics believe that they are overweight. They refuse food, or they eat just enough to keep their systems minimally functioning. Some may eat occasionally, just to please their families or friends, but they often purge themselves of the food afterward. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Many teenage girls and boys are also on junk-food diets high in "bad fats." These fats include corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, and, to a lesser degree, canola oil. These oils share several unwelcome characteristics. They increase inflammation, depress the immune system, and impair enzymes necessary to convert other oils (linolenic fats) into DHA oils. This results in a severe depletion of "good fats," which include fish oils and flaxseed oil. Fish oils are composed of two types of fats, EPA and DHA, both of which play a role in protecting the baby's brain from injury. |
| Nutrition and the Ova
The same factors listed above can also damage the genes within the ovum. More teenage girls are smoking today than ever before, and many will become addicted to cigarettes. Free-radical production associated with smoking causes accelerated aging of all of the body's tissues, including the reproductive cells in the ovaries. A significant number of these same young women are also engaging in drug use, which is very damaging to reproductive cells.
Another common practice among young women is starvation dieting to maintain their image of a supermodel. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The groups at highest risk for iron deficiency are infants under 2 years of age, teenage girls, pregnant women, and the elderly. Iron deficiency may be due to an increased iron requirement, decreased dietary intake, diminished iron absorption or utilization, blood loss, or a combination of factors.
The diagnosis of iron deficiency can best be made by measuring serum ferritin, the iron storage protein. This is by far the most sensitive test for iron deficiency. |
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.
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 Bulimia, also known as bingeing and purging, is more common than anorexia, and usually affects teenage girls and women in their twenties. It involves a recurring, emotionally driven cycle of compulsive consumption of large quantities of high-calorie food in a short period of time, followed by induced vomiting. Some individuals also use laxatives, drugs that induce vomiting, diuretics, or excessive exercise in an attempt to purge. About 50% of anorexics also purge, and both bulimia and anorexia can coexist in the same person. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Eating disorders are not limited to teenage girls. Women aged forty and older are also susceptible. Doctors suspect that low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, may be the cause, producing psychological problems linked to anorexia and bulimia.
Some people with anorexia just quit eating; some make themselves vomit immediately after eating; some take laxatives after eating; and some do all three. Most people with anorexia have normal feelings of hunger at the onset of the disease but teach themselves to ignore them. |
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