Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 One mini-epidemic of CFS, although not preceded by infection, did occur in veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war. Rates of this illness were approximately three times higher in these veterans than in veterans who never left the United States, and the incidence of illness was also higher in female than in male vets. The mini-epidemic onset of CFS in these veterans suggests that something about serving in the Gulf triggered the illness. The nature of that trigger remains a research question even today. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 All the Hong Kong veterans were awarded a special pension.
Mr Porteous told his fellow POWs about his success with niacin therapy, and within a few years I treated a dozen Canadian vets and some POWs from the United States. Later, the information spread to other POWs. Without exception, veterans who went onto the vitamin program recovered fully or enough so that they were pleased with their new health.
After my experience with the veterans and after reading the literature, I concluded that 1 year in the camps had aged the veterans by 4 years. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 He had been depressed, experienced severe arthritis, was fearful, was heat and cold intolerant, and had spent some time on a psychiatric ward for veterans. He had been diagnosed as having a personality disorder. Much to his surprise, after 2 weeks on niacin, he became normal. All his symptoms disappeared. He became Lieutenant Governor for the Province of Saskatchewan and remained well until he died years later.
Through his intercession, 20 more Hong Kong veterans, as well as American former prisoners of war, came to see Dr Hoffer for treatment. Given niacin, they all recovered. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 House of Representatives' House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, alerting the House on the use of American veterans in VA Hospitals as human guinea pigs and calling for national reforms ("Testimony of Adil E. Shamoo, Ph.D.").
Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania inject 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger with an experimental gene therapy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. |
Devra Davis
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 They began to kill babies with major defects and moved quickly to others, including mentally ill persons and military veterans who had been disabled by fighting in the First World War. By the summer of 1941, about 100,000 people from various industrialized nations had been murdered in Germany and its occupied territories.
This effort to end the lives of defectives was drastically curtailed because of uproar from the families of war veterans. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 A study of285,705 American veterans with diabetes measured seasonal differences in their blood sugar levels. Sure enough, the veterans' blood sugar levels climbed dramatically in the colder months and bottomed out during the summer. More telling, the contrast between summer and winter was even more pronounced in those who lived in colder climates, with greater differences in seasonal temperature. Diabetes, it seems, has some deep connection to the cold. we don't know enough today to state with certainty that the predisposition to Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes is related to human cold response. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 I do a lot of work with veterans. About two years ago, a fifty-five-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War came to my office seeking help with his symptoms associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a problem that affects a large number of war veterans involving the subconscious and conscious repetition of trauma and a heightened vulnerability to stress of any kind. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 We know that in combat veterans, their norepinephrine levels are high (as measured in urine samples). Those with terrible childhoods are also combat veterans; the war is rather silent and subtle, but murderous of the soul, as well. Interestingly, when patients were given a medication to raise the norepinephrine level (galvanizing feelings), they had flashbacks to traumatic events during childhood. What we do in therapy is accomplish that without medication. We raise the emotional stakes, and history comes along for the ride. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Asch notes that the veterans Affairs system is already using upgraded information technology and "care has improved dramatically"— approximately two-thirds of veterans are now receiving the recommended care.
"We wouldn't tolerate this in almost any other sector of society," he continues. "We wouldn't tolerate it if a pilot had to memorize his pre-flight checklist before he flew cross-country. It's a complicated thing to give medical care, and to do it right you need assistance."
..Q Visit the Agency for Healthcare Quality — and Research at www.ahrq. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 This 12-month, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial enrolled 90 veterans from two veterans' medical facilities. Patients were randomized to three groups: Group 1 (n=29) received lutein 10 mg; 3roup 2 (n=30) received the combination of lutein 10 mg plus tntioxidants/vitamins/minerals in a broad-spectrum formulation; Group 3 (n=31) received placebo. The objective was to note any improvements in visual function and symptoms related to supplementation with lutein.
Ophthalmic testing occurred at baseline and at 4, 8, and 12 months in all subjects. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Without exception, veterans who went onto the vitamin program recovered fully or enough so that they were pleased with their new health.
After my experience with the veterans and after reading the literature, I concluded that 1 year in the camps had aged the veterans by 4 years. A prisoner in camp 4 years would come back having aged the equivalent of 16 years. Other investigators had come to a similar conclusion. By this time I was familiar with the concept of vitamin dependency. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 National Cancer Institute undertook a follow-up study of more than a thousand veterans who had been exposed to tetrachloroethane during World War II.71 Incredibly, the chemical had been used to impregnate uniforms against chemical warfare agents. The veterans studied had been assigned to field units processing the uniforms. The later concern was over possible long-term effects, because laboratory studies had shown that tetrachloroethane exhibited cancer potential in test animals. |
Charles Barber
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 On the inverse side, veterans of the Vietnam and Gulf wars who have suffered from trauma have reduced hippocampi. It has been proven that the release of the hormone Cortisol, under stress, literally kills cells in the hippocampus.)
All of this goes to show that Shakespeare wasn't so far off the mark when he wrote in Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 And you can see from the many comments from SuperFoodsRx Diet veterans that hunger is not an issue. So don't feel anxious about "giving up" something because later, when you come to the FlexPlan, you'll see that the issue isn't deprivation it's planning— planning to include things you enjoy.
The Prep & Practice Week—think of it as the SuperFoodsRx Diet with training wheels—is the week that sets you up for success.
Here's a preview of what you're going to accomplish this week.
Prep & Practice Week Tasks:
Take Stock: Assess the foods that currently fill your fridge and pantry. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-mee-kuhs kyoor-ee-eye) See friend of the court. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| The mini-epidemic onset of CFS in these veterans suggests that something about serving in the Gulf triggered the illness. The nature of that trigger remains a research question even today.
Widespread Pain, Bodily Tenderness, and Fibromyalgia
Unlike people whose fatigue begins with flulike symptoms and who often are sent to doctors specializing in infectious diseases, those reporting a slow progression of bodywide pain usually wind up seeing doctors who specialize in rheumatic diseases, problems related to the ligaments or joints. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Department of veterans Affairs (VA), negotiate the price for prescription drugs directly with the pharmaceutical companies and pay merely 10 percent of the amount that Medicare has to pay for the top 10 prescription drugs. Since this bill was passed over three years ago, Medicare has been legally required to pay an average of 60 percent more than the VA pays for the same prescription drugs. Most other countries in the world, which receive their prescription drugs from the same source as Medicare, also pay the lower rates. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And if that's not enough, the Department of veterans Affairs' and the Department of Defense's 2004 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Post-Traumatic Stress placed EMDR in the "A" category as "strongly recommended" for the treatment of trauma.
The Theory behind EMDR
The originator and developer of the therapy is Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association. |
Anne Harrington
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 In her 1989 best-selling book Trauma and Recovery, the activist psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman made the links explicit:
[This] is a book about commonalities: between rape survivors and combat veterans, between battered women and political prisoners, between the survivors of vast concentration camps created by tyrants who rule nations and the survivors of small, hidden concentration camps created by tyrants who rule their homes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Shamoo of the University of Maryland and the organization Citizens for Responsible Care and Research sends a written testimony on the unethical use of veterans in medical research to the U.S. Senate's Committee on Governmental Affairs, stating: "This type of research is on-going nationwide in medical centers and VA hospitals supported by tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers money. These experiments are high risk and are abusive, causing not only physical and psychic harm to the most vulnerable groups but also degrading our society’s system of basic human values. |
Anne Harrington
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| In the early 1980s, the American Psychiatric Association responded to intense lobbying by Vietnam veterans by recognizing a new diagnostic category: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This diagnosis replaced the diagnostic category "war neurosis," which during World War II had in its own right replaced the World War I concept of shell shock. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| One of these former Hong Kong veterans was the administrator of a retirement home for many elderly men and women. Dr Hoffer was studying the effect of niacin on the aging process, and this veteran wanted to try it himself, so that he could discuss the associated flush more intelligently with the retirement home residents. Later, he described his 44-month experience in the Far East prison camp to Dr Hoffer and explained how sick he had been after coming back to Canada. |
Charles Barber
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| The "shell shock" of the survivors of World War I led to some novel treatments (some innovative and compassionate, others as horrific as the war itself), as well as the rise of the "mental hygiene" movement of the 1920s and 1930s; the experience of Vietnam veterans led direcdy to the entry of posttraumatic stress disorder into the revised psychiatric diagnostic manual in 1980; and a considerable amount of the news coverage of the Iraq War has addressed the (deteriorating) mental status of the troops, with calls for more assessment, treatment, and general vigilance for their fragile psyches. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Hong Kong veterans study. J Orthomolecular Psychiatry 1974;3:34-36.
9 Hoffer A. Senility and chronic malnutrition. J Orthomolecular Psychiatry 1974;3:2-19.
10 Cesani MF, Orden B, Zucchi M, Mune MC, Oyhenart EE, and Pucciarelli HM. Effect of undernutrition on the cranial growth of the rat. Cell Tissue Organs 2003;174:129-35.
11 Foster HD. Why HIV-i has diffused so much more rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa than in North America. Medicine Hypotheses 2003;6o(4):6n-i4.
12 Foster HD. Halting the AIDS pandemic. In: Janelle DG, Warf B, Hansen K (eds). |
Anne Harrington
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| The relevant history here begins in the world of early Viennese psychoanalytic practice, then moves to the battlefields of World War I and the veterans' hospitals of World War II. Our story also takes us into a comparative exploration of German-speaking and American psychosomatic medicine. The former was distinctly romantic, alternative, buoyed along by larger holistic cultural strains of the time, and then increasingly politicized as Germany succumbed to Nazism in the 1930s. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| After my experience with the veterans and after reading the literature, I concluded that 1 year in the camps had aged the veterans by 4 years. A prisoner in camp 4 years would come back having aged the equivalent of 16 years. Other investigators had come to a similar conclusion. By this time I was familiar with the concept of vitamin dependency. |
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