Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Ask yourself one question: Why does the FDA continue to allow these dangerous drugs to be prescribed to children and teens when 1) They have never been tested on children or teens, and 2) Other countries have already banned the prescribing of these drugs to children and teens?
Story Notes: The Associated Press originally reported Hawkins' age as 20 years old, but corrected it to 19 years old following a correction by local police. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Alarming Statistics about Alcohol Consumption in the United States
Nearly a third of kids and teens are underage drinkers, regardless if they live in a city or small town.51
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reports ".. .approximately one-half of all sexual assault victims report that they were drinking alcohol at the time of the assault."52
In one American Medical Association survey, 26 percent of U. S. parents felt it was okay for teens to drink alcohol at home. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
See book keywords and concepts |  Among teens that are depressed, 60-80 percent go untreated."12
Is it really a "fact" that 750,000 teens are depressed? How long are they depressed and why. And, who makes the subjective diagnosis?
Flynn did not provide Congress with any objective, confirmable proof that depression is an abnormality of the brain, nor did she provide objective, confirmable proof that the "treatments"—mind-altering drugs—target a specific depression center in the brain. Yet, the TeenScreen advocate says it's a "fact" that so many hundreds-of-thousands of children are depressed. Ugh! |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  A third case was a person who developed Type-1 diabetes in his teens, starting with a rapid onset of diabetes with possible insulinitis and then scarring. He was hospitalized with an FBS of 1,200 and diagnosed as Type-1. One way to explain his rapid response to the Tree of Life program is to claim he was misdiagnosed, but that ignores the typical rapid onset and acute transition to a potentially life threatening blood sugar of 1,200. In a previously healthy person, Type-2 is classically known to have a slow, gradual onset. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Despite increasing rates of obesity in children and teens, the Senate hasn't held a hearing on the sale of junk foods in schools since 2003.
"Though many states and local school districts are undertaking heroic efforts to improve the nutritional quality of foods sold in schools, the junk-food industry fights those efforts tooth and nail," said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan.
"The industry likes to say school foods should be subject to local controls," said Wootan, "yet it strikes back at the efforts of parents and health professionals when they try to act locally. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This includes children, teens, adults and senior citizens. It's a brilliant way to sell hundreds of millions of doses of a dangerous injected substance that nobody actually needs, and it's all made possible by the doorknob scare campaign! (And if doorknobs aren't convincing enough, they can start scare stories about public toilet seats instead.)
Drug companies have turned the United States into a nation of hypochondriacs
If they can convince parents that their male children need to be vaccinated against a virus linked to cervical cancer, I suppose they can sell just about anything to anyone. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Perhaps, given that diabetes and obesity are now epidemic among teens, we should stop persuading children to drink and eat the products that make them diabetic and obese.
I know, it makes wholly too much sense to be adopted by Big Business (or even most politicians). They'd have to distort it in some way, like getting an ex-President (Clinton, maybe?) to sign on to some watered-down "voluntary" industry self-regulation that will ultimately prove entirely ineffective. Which is, of course, the whole point of the exercise. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Scores in the teens are very common in medically unexplained illness and really don't mean clinical depression. However, scores in the 20s catch my attention, while scores in the 30s or 40s definitely concern me. Maybe it is because I am not a psychiatrist, but I think the score on the CES-D is every bit as important as the textbook diagnosis of depression in deciding whether to treat a patient for depression. So if you are quite sad and tearful with a tendency to do less than usual but have occasional good moments, you wouldn't be diagnosed with depression. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  We live on a planet of children, preteens, and teens, where almost 2 billion people are under the age of eighteen. Huge strides are being made toward slowing the population explosion —in educating young women, providing them with economic opportunities, and making sure they have access to family-planning techniques: the three best-proven means of slowing population growth. But the odds are good that most young women will want, as we nearly all do, to have families. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Depression, of course, is treated with SSRI drugs, none of which have ever been safety approved by the FDA for use on children or teens. In other words, the use of these drugs on teenagers is a grand, mind-altering medical experiment, and what we just witnessed in Omaha is one result of that experiment.
There will be more. I hate to be accurate about this grisly prediction, because I grieve for the families of those lost to pharmaceutically-induced violence, but the truth is that until we stop drugging our children with psychotropic drugs, the shootings are not going to stop. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  She wasn't into sports, but beginning in her teens, she exercised almost mani-cally, sometimes three hours a day, to keep her weight down to 110 pounds. Without the exercise, her mom found her impossible to deal with. The absurdity of sticking to that weight convinced her to quit modeling, and she's since earned a master's degree in social work. There have been times, even years, when she's lapsed from her routine, but she always comes back to it. "It helps the most with the mood swings," she says. "It takes the edge off and gets out that aggression that comes with the hormones. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, one study looked at the degree of self-discipline children had at age 4 as measured by delaying gratification and found it predicted the degree to which those young children got along with other teens when they became teens themselves.90
It should not be surprising, in view of all the other relationships, that those with more self-discipline also have numerous psychological benefits. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  As they waited, ignored for more than an hour, the girls began to feel hopeless as they stood outside the office holding their signs — "Teens should not have to choose between beauty and health" and "SB 484 must pass." Finally, the door cracked open and Schwarzenegger's deputy of cabinet affairs Kacy Hutchinson invited the teenagers inside. It was a critical moment. Opposition to the bill was so heated that the bill's supporters had not been able to make appointments to lobby the governor, according to Pete Price, the environmental lobbyist for the National Environmental Trust. | | Feel Better for Teens" program for cancer patients ages 13 to 17 — a growing demographic since childhood cancer rates have been increasing. The program addresses the needs of both boys and girls, and its interactive, information-packed website covers skin care, head coverings, makeup, fitness and nutrition, and offers "tips for dealing with friends, fatigue, activities, school, and looking your best through it all."27
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The normalization of cancer is everywhere. | | If you can engage teens to really get involved in something they are passionate about, it becomes part of their daily lives, there's so much they can do to effect change that adults cannot."
Beauty Queens Take on the Governator
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is no girlie man — just ask him — but he does wear makeup," observed columnist Marjie Lundstrom in the Sacramento Bee* "So will he, or won't he? | | But could he really afford to veto a bill backed by breast cancer activists, teens, beauty queens, Catholics, actors and women in general — especially since he had picked (and lost) messy fights with California teachers and nurses during his first rocky year in office? Surprising even some of his closest allies, Schwarzenegger signed the California Safe Cosmetics Act into law October 8, 2005. David Crane, the governor's economic advisor and one of the few Democrats on his staff, had advised the governor to sign the bill, but Crane said Schwarzenegger's decision was, "believe me, entirely him .. | | I think that message isn't pushed enough with teens — that one person's idea, one person's thoughts, if you really are behind it, you can change something," she says. "And when I talk to people about getting involved, that's the number one thing I talk about. This is a chance to change something that needs to be dealt with, and you can make that change. It's not just that we're having adults, or the president or whoever — it's you, personally, changing something."
As Katie keeps talking, it feels like a new day is dawning right here at the mall. | | So get signify the teens'war on toxic chemicals, for the involved. Don't be scared. Just "Project Prom" rally in San Francisco's Union get involved in any way you can." Square.
From MOMS organizing to clean up their breast milk, to health care systems demanding safer products, to the forward-thinking governments around the world that are passing precautionary, health-protective chemical policies, momentum is building for change. "The chemical industry is also going to have to change. The world is changing," as Horst Rechelbacher said. The only question is, can we change it fast enough? |
Greg Critser
See book keywords and concepts |  To be sure, every generation of teens is labeled different. But previous generations were not raised in a highly pharmaceuticalized culture, a mass culture that pharma not only sells to, but also has a strong hand in creating. As such, Gen-Rxl has all the same problems that average teens experience, plus the baggage of an overpharmaceuticalized worldview. Many do and will eventually challenge that view, but in the meantime, life is increasingly colored by their early pharma identity.
Consider college, a time when young adults take on all kinds of important personal challenges. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  American diet.4 In teens, it's even higher pushing over 12 percent of total calories! Indeed, soft drinks are making a major contribution to our added poundage. Of course, if you cut out the 150 calories— all from sugar—you get in each can of soda from other places in your diet, you'd wind up even in terms of calories (except for the nutrients missed, which is a major minus!) but most people don't do this. Keep in mind that just one soda a day that's not compensated for by some other reduction in your diet can add up to 15 pounds in just 1 year. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | In 2005, 23 percent of the young drivers (15 to 20 years old) involved in fatal crashes had a [blood alcohol level exceeding the "safe" limit]."54
"Nearly one in four teens ... say their own parents have supplied them with alcohol ..."55
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Did You Know?
Alcohol Is a Drug!
If not treated as such, its effects can lead to:
1. Cancer caused by permanent damage to vital organs
2. Gastrointestinal illness, irritation or ulcers
3. Chronic Candida or yeast overgrowth
4. Sexual dysfunction
5. An overworked immune system
6. Liver disease
7. Malnutrition
8. |
Dr. Steve Blake
See book keywords and concepts |  In children and younger teens, topical fluoride treatments seem to reduce tooth decay.
INTAKE OF FLUORIDE
The major source of fluoride in the United States is fluoridated water. About two-thirds of the population of the United States drinks fluoridated water. The fluoride content of food is extremely low. Only tea and sardines have been found to contain even small amounts of fluoride. The swallowing of fluoride-containing toothpaste is a major source of fluoride intake, especially in children.
TOXICITY OF FLUORIDE
There is some controversy about the toxicity of fluoride. | | Individuals at Greater Risk of Zinc Deficiency
Children and infants
Pregnant and breastfeeding women, especially teens People whose main diet consists of grains and legumes People with chronic digestive disorders Patients receiving only intravenous feedings Alcoholics
People with sickle cell anemia Adults 65 years and older
Malnourished people or those with anorexia nervosa
Food Sources of Zinc
Oysters are the richest source of zinc; in fact, six oysters have more than the tolerable upper intake level (UL) of zinc. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  This side effect can occur with any age group, from infants and teens to the elderly. The mortality rate ranges from 25-80 percent. Those who survive the ordeal are scarred for life, often to a point of total disfigurement. As the number of people taking these drugs rises, the number of victims increases.
There is no real need to take any of these drugs. Suppression of symptoms jeopardizes the body's own healing efforts and only makes matters worse. | | A 20-year-old acne medicine that millions of American teens are, no doubt, taking every day has been linked to a stunning array of negative psychiatric conditions including suicide, depression, psychosis, violent and aggressive behaviors, mood swings, emotional instability, paranoia and changes in personality. This makes one wonder if any drug, no matter how commonly prescribed is even remotely safe. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  The research team took blood samples from healthy children and teens and found that roughly 70 percent of these children had EBV DNA present in their bloodstreams. But when they examined lupus patients from the same age group, they saw that virtually every one of them tested positive for Epstein-Barr exposure. Ninety-nine percent of the same children who had lupus were also positive for Epstein-Barr—a statistically significant higher percentage than in their control group. | | Lee had been taking numerous medications to help control her lupus for the past ten years, and despite her illness she had managed to keep giving, helping out young teens, fostering needy children. Until, one day in 2000, Rhonda became a bit like Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, with almost nothing left to give away. That was the year she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time on top of having lupus, and her indefatigable vigor began to wane.
Grant and Lee couldn't stop talking that day in the store. They were both health professionals trained in nursing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | In 2006, we reported the results of a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry showing that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide (and to be "successful" at completing the act). See http://www.newstarget.com/020643.html
On September 11, 2006, I reported on the link between antidepressant drugs and violent behavior yet again. (See http://www.newstarget.com/020394.html ) In that article, I explained, "If you're going to alter the brain chemistry of these children, you had better be prepared for the results. The result we're seeing now is mass killings. |
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