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"Giles (an epidemiologist with the cdc) reported that compared with participating in regular exercise, a sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of stroke eightfold. Smoking increases the risk sixfold. High blood pressure increases the risk of stroke by two to four times. And diabetes doubles the risk of stroke. It's the same basic story: attention diverted from prevention to lucrative, but less effective, intervention. For example, you may have noticed that strokes today are sometimes called "brain attacks." The name is actually quite fitting as a description of the problem." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "According to the data presented by Giles at the cdc conference, an elevated cholesterol level increases the risk of stroke one-eighth as much as diabetes, one-eighth to one-sixteenth as much as elevated blood pressure, and less than a thirtieth as much as a sedentary lifestyle. With expensive therapies getting all the attention, the very effective and inexpensive basics of stroke prevention have been pushed aside. Engaging in routine exercise, not smoking, eating fish at least once a week, and controlling blood pressure (often with diuretics that cost less than $0." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations. The CDC's report was based on a 1994 article in the prestigious Mil-bank Quarterly, written by researchers from Harvard and King's College, London. They found that preventive care as recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force report—including, for example, blood pressure screening, cancer screening, counseling about smoking, routine immunizations, and aspirin to prevent heart attacks—adds only 18 to 19 months to our lives." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"One need only peruse the list of childhood diseases listed by the cdc to notice that not a single psychiatric diagnosis is listed. If, in fact, the APA and NIMH are correct and the psychiatric diagnoses are real diseases of the brain, wouldn't one expect the United States' leading watchdog of disease to at least list the psychiatric diseases? It appears that the cdc requires a higher standard of what constitutes disease than does the APA and NIMH. The FDA, on the other hand, apparently cannot decide what to call mental illness. In an Oct." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"There are several vaccines that still contain thimerosal including the majority of influenza vaccines; the doctor also made no mention of all the other thimerosal-contaminated vaccines he'd administered before the cdc recommended phasing it out in 1999. "What if a mother expresses doubts about getting five vaccines at once? What if she prefers to have the vaccines spread out over a longer period of time?" "Well, then," he said simply, "in that case I recommend them to another pediatrician." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The CDC's website now informs concerned consumers that PBDEs may indeed impair the cells of the immune system in animal studies. Let's look at some of the other culprits Becky encountered in her day, such as Teflon, pesticides, and plastics. At breakfast, Becky's favorite no-hassle, stick-free Teflon pan is sending up gaseous fumes." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still use a paper-based data-collection system for record tracking, the Chinese cdc uses a digital system that tracks daily records from 16,000 hospitals on dozens of diseases. Given concerns over lurking epidemics such as avian flu, this is smart; given that innovations like these are the first steps in bringing first-class health care to all, this is worldchanging. sr Hi resource Institute for OneWorld Health http://www.oneworldhealth." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Explore: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/ growing_stronger/. While this program was originally designed for older people, it could be used by anyone who's beginning a strength-training program. It provides animated photos of exercises and detailed guidelines on how to proceed. The American College of Sports Medicine provides a free brochure called "Selecting and Effectively Using Free Weights." You can download it from: http://www.acsm.org/Content/ContentFolders/Publications/ Brochures/FreeWeightsbrochure." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"The cdc has bought into this in its "Healthy People 2010" agenda that sets a goal of screening 80 percent of the adult population. The principal underlying these guidelines is the supposition that the risk imparted by cholesterol is linear; the benefit of lowering cholesterol should be colinear. It matters little that benefit has proved elusive except in the high-risk groups, mainly those who already have heart disease (Hayward et al. 2006; Manuel et al. 2006; Abramson and Wright 2007)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Their percentages of body fat were way below national norms using the CDC's height and weight standards. On other fitness variables, something like ninety-eight percent of the students passed." Broeder is perfectly aware of Naperville's demographics, yet he's still impressed. "The numbers are too high for it to just be that," he says. "The PE program itself has to have had an additive impact on what that population would achieve otherwise." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Aside from wreaking havoc on the cardiovascular and metabolic systems, body fat has its own nasty effects on the brain. The cdc estimates that 73 percent of Americans over sixty-five are overweight, and, given the potential problems obesity can lead to—from cardiovascular disease to diabetes—the agency is right in declaring it a pandemic. Simply being overweight doubles the chances of developing dementia, and if we factor in high blood pressure and high cholesterol—symptoms that often come along with obesity—the risk increases sixfold." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "We've had the medical proof that exercise protects against these diseases for decades, yet, according to the cdc, about a third of the population over sixty-five reports that they engage in no leisure-time activity. My hope is that if you understand how exercise can also protect your mind, you'll take it to heart. Some of the most persuasive evidence about the effect of exercise on the aging brain comes from a landmark research project called the Nurses' Health Study, which began surveying the health habits of more than 122,000 nurses every two years, in the mid-1970s." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The district's bootstrap story has prompted visits from state representatives and even the president of the cdc. During one such show-and-tell, as McCord led a group past the junior high's climbing wall, he noticed a girl named Stephanie stuck about halfway up. Bookish and a little heavyset, she was on display for everyone to see her fail. But as her classmates noticed her struggling, they began cheering, "Go, Stephanie!" She made it to the top, and McCord spoke to her later. "She started to cry and couldn't believe the other kids were cheering her on," McCord recalls. " - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The current cdc guidelines (2006) recommend that all women under the age of 25 have annual screenings for both chlamydia and gonorrhea, and then anytime a woman has a new partner, screening is recommended. Return visits for a repeat test for cure were recommended in the past, but now they are only done in the cases of pregnant women. Single-dose therapy is highly effective, especially when administered in the provider's office. It is thus recommended that, if possible, providers carry a supply of medications for administration to the patient before she leaves the office or clinic." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Pregnant women should always be screened for chlamydia and gonorrhea. The cdc now recommends that all women with positive chlamydia tests have a reevaluation and testing at three months after their therapy to look for reinfection. This differs from the test-of-cure evaluations that have been done extensively in the past and are currently not recommended. Repeating the test in three months to make sure that the patient is not reinfected is important for preservation of future fertility and prevention of tubo-ovarian abscesses. Treating infected patients prevents transmission to sex partners." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The 2006 cdc recommendations for treatment of candidiasis are listed in Table 20.1. Topical azoles are more effective than nystatin and provide for symptom relief and complete treatment in 80 to 90 percent of patients who follow recommended treatment guidelines. Creams and suppositories are oil-based and can weaken latex condoms and diaphragms, however, so it is important to be warned of this possibility. For recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis, extend the initial topical or oral therapy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Around 30,000 cases of culture-confirmed cases are reported to the cdc (Center for Disease Control) every year in the United States. This number may account for about two percent or less of the actual number of infections. The cdc estimates "... 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur annually in the United States", making it one of the nation's leading causes of bacterial gastroenteritis.128 Warning! These Foods May Contain Salmonella!" - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"The cdc considers a blood PCB level in excess of 20 parts per billion to be significantly elevated. In 2003, two lawsuits against the PCB manufacturer and its spinoff companies resulted in a close to three-quarter-million-dollar settlement that was split, after lawyers' fees, among twenty thousand residents. Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from PCB production." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"This is especially true because the handling of vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program of the cdc has been called into question by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. A meta-analysis epidemiological assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders following vaccines administered from 1994 through 2000 in the United States. Geier DA, Geier MR.—The Institute for Chronic Illnesses, Inc., Silver Spring, MD 20905, USA. mgeier@comcast.net. Neuroen-docrinology Letters. 2006 Aug;27(4):401-13." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The cdc found traces of all 116 chemicals they looked for. Then, in 2005, a set of findings emerged that shocked toxicologists around the world. Researchers working through two major laboratories found an alarming cocktail of 287 industrial chemicals and pollutants in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country, in samples taken by the American Red Cross. These chemicals included pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame retardants, and breakdown chemicals of Teflon, among other chemicals known to damage the immune system." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Each state has its own programs, information about which you can access at www .cdc.gov/diabetes/states/index.htm. The purpose of these programs is to provide information and services to individuals and groups to reduce the risks and complications associated with diabetes. Self-Help and Support Groups Both real and virtual (online) self-help and support groups can be a lifeline for people who, for whatever reason, are unable to access other diabetes services or groups or who want to take advantage of these groups in addition to other services." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"For the past 20 years, the CDC's claimed 36,000 people die each year from "flu" or "flu-related pneumonia" is a knowingly false claim. When called on the truth of their statements concerning vaccines, cdc officials have admitted (in their "sworn" testimony before Washington State and Delaware legislators) that they knowingly lie about various aspects of vaccines because their "job" is to promote vaccination at all costs, and count the people who die of pneumonia during the "flu season" as "flu-related" deaths even though most are not confirmed to be infected with the "flu" virus." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Based on the current published studies on influenza effectiveness and the CDC's actual reported "influenza" illness and mortality data during the period 1987-2000: • The current influenza vaccines are NOT effective for children two and under or adults over 65. • For all other groups, the current influenza vaccines are less than 50 percent effective in a good year and not effective in years where there is a "strain mismatch." • For the past 20 years, the CDC's claimed 36,000 people die each year from "flu" or "flu-related pneumonia" is a knowingly false claim." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Two groups of investigators from the cdc have analyzed data from a number of cross-sectional national surveys undertaken periodically between i960 and 2000. It is clear that all cardiovascular disease risk factors (with the possible exception of diabetes) have declined considerably over the past forty years in all bmi groups (Gregg et al. 2005) to such an extent that obesity (bmi between 25 and 30) is no longer a risk factor (Flegal et al. 2005)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Epidemiological data show that depression increases from adolescence to the early adult years, after which it remains stable, until increasing in late life (probably related to vascular-related depression) (www.cdc.gov). The much-quoted fact that "suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents" ignores the fact that depression is half as common in fourteen-year-olds as it is in twenty-five-year olds. However, kids are being given a host of drugs to treat depression. This is another example of a generational shift in the way kids are treated for their problems." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The backlash to this epidemiology was swift and loud, so that the director of the cdc urged the public to ignore the finding. However, the readers of this book know better. We also know better than to accept all the portending (and the prescribing that will follow) about the U.S. epidemic of "obesity." Perhaps the small risk, and therefore the limited potential yield, explains the disappointing results of all those trials of weight loss rather than the usual explanation ?recidivism. Most trials of weight loss are plagued by noncompliance." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The bill will also require the cdc to conduct a "public awareness campaign" emphasizing "the safety and benefit of recommended vaccines for the public good." And let me remind you that flu vaccinations are not innocuous. There is conjecture that the mercury and aluminum (metals that are known to have neurotoxic effects) in vaccine shots are associated with long-term adverse consequences. These vaccines can also overstimulate the immune system in ways that are not fully understood. For that reason, I recommend that only people with COPD get flu shots." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"One recommendation is to plot the growth patterns of children on both the specialized charts, when appropriate, and the cdc growth charts. This will allow comparisons of growth to the general population of children and to the references for children identified with a similar condition. Assessing serial growth measurements and using disorder-specific growth charts for genetic disorders (e.g." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Although the reasons are not clear, the prevalence of autism appears to be increasing in the United States; recent surveillance data (from only 14 counties) published by the cdc indicate that 1/150 American children has a potential diagnosis of autism [68]. For the purposes of this discussion, the broad category of ASD is used to encompass all nutritional issues that may be seen in this population. Although the diagnosis itself need not trigger an automatic referral for nutrition assessment, some behaviors seen with ASD can lead to feeding or eating disorders." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"A 2003 study by the cdc determined that 62 percent of Americans have the insecticide in their bodies. Lindane is implicated in causing cancer, fetal toxicity, birth defects, reproductive problems, aplastic anemia (a blood disorder), kidney damage, and endocrine disruption; lindane also is acutely toxic to aquatic life. A higher incidence of breast cancer has been found in areas where lindane is used extensively. Despite all the health risks and warnings, pesticides continue to be used extensively throughout the world." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

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