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"I can remember one christmas morning. It was six o'clock. I had a one-year-old and a two-year-old, and I had to rush to the hospital to put in an emergency pacemaker for one of my patients. I left a cup of steaming coffee on the kitchen table and unopened packages under the christmas tree. One day, I woke up and seriously questioned what I was doing. I liked my job, but I also hated it. After doing some heroics on a heart patient whom we had treated before, I told another doctor that we were barking up the wrong tree." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"A local rancher named Stephen Hunt was only thirty-eight years old when he walked into the emergency room at Redding Medical Center just before christmas in 2001, complaining of blurry vision in one eye. Hunt knew he had high blood pressure, but he was shocked when Moon told him he needed immediate bypass surgery—that he could suffer a heart attack and die on his way back to his car. Moon also told him there just happened to be an opening in the hospital's operating schedule on christmas Eve. Hunt went ahead with the surgery." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The pear tree was immortalized alongside a partridge in the eighteenth-century christmas carol "The Twelve Days of christmas." An attempt at planting the first pear tree in the northeastern American colonies failed due to a poor growing climate in 1620. Pear trees did much better farther west in Oregon and Washington and have flourished there since the 1800s. Where Are Pears Grown? The leading pear-producing countries are China, the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and France." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Right after christmas, though, Lynne called in a panic. Paul was regressing, she said. He was losing his newfound ability to converse. He was turning into the old Paul. He threw fits. His stomach was grossly distended. He was pale, with dark circles under his eyes. Lynne and Wesley were back on Paul Duty. It was bad news. The worst. What was happening? Had he just eaten more christmas candy than he could handle? Or had something more threatening happened? I couldn't be certain." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"When she received an MMR vaccine at 16 months, shortly before christmas 1995, the weakened vaccine virus lodged in her gut, causing an inflamed bowel and eventually damaging her brain. Michelle is very ill. In addition to her autism she suffers from inflammatory bowel disease, a seizure disorder and chronic eye inflammations that have left her 90 percent blind. She was pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair because arthritis has left her unsteady on her feet, her mother testified. But the theory that vaccines caused all this pain and suffering is shaping up as a very hard sell." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The British Medical Journal (BMJ) had published it in the christmas 2001 issue,1 which is generally reserved for light-hearted commentary, next to a reindeer-shaped cluster of rogue cells. But Leibovici was not joking. He was trying to make a serious point in the most graphic way he could. Leibovici had a particular affinity for mathematics and statistics, and used them repeatedly in his reviews and meta-analyses when evaluating particular procedures. He had even come to believe that diseases and the success of treatment could be predicted through mathematical models." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Two years before, also in the christmas issue of the BMJ, he had published an article claiming that alternative medicine masquerading as scientific medicine was like a cuckoo chick in a reed warbler's nest.3 The begging noises of the interloper chick are indistinguishable from those of its warbler counterparts; indeed, as it grows, the cries of the cuckoo are so loud that they match the noise of eight little warblers. The warbler parents ignore any clues that they have an impostor in their midst and continue to nourish the cuckoo chick—to the detriment, even death, of their own offspring." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"By Thanksgiving and christmas, in the upper half of the United States, many people have very low D levels. Worldwide, the same phenomenon occurs, moving from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere as the seasons change, and the wave of respiratory illnesses (including flu) follows. Vitamin D turns out to be very important in your immune system's defense against viral and bacterial attack. As less vitamin D is available, your immune system's ability to mobilize the right cells in the right places becomes sluggish." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Some possible ingredients: • Organic walnuts or pistachios and dried cherries • Organic almonds (raw plain almonds mixed with tamari almonds) • Organic pumpkin seeds • Organic goji berries with raw pistachios (I call this one "Christmas granola") • Organic dried pineapple chunks • Organic banana chips • Organic dry rolled oats mixed with walnuts, almonds, raisins, dried pineapples, blueberries, or cherries • Organic dried mango and filberts Rio Grande Granola For a more elaborate granola, try the one we make at the ranch." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"None would even confirm Lynne's certainty that something dreadful was happening, and that her child should not be trying to eat christmas tree decorations, or stick metal objects into electric outlets, or run away so often that they had to fence the yard and put locks on all the doors. She was told that kids developed at different paces. She was told that toddlers were a handful. She discovered that the medical world was much different for the patient than it was for the professional. A year somehow crawled past, with Lynne constantly searching for signs of improvement, but never finding any." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Thanksgiving dinner, of course, was completely impossible with Paul in the house, and at christmas Paul just tore open everyone's packages, with no interest whatsoever in l ne v^niiaren / their contents. Normal activities ceased. Bike rides? Not possible. The movies? No way. The mall? Out of the question. Church, where Wesley was the minister? No-Lynne and Paul sat outside on the curb. Play dates? With whom} Paul Duty didn't consist of play dates. Ordinary family life was over, practically before it had begun." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Had he just eaten more christmas candy than he could handle? Or had something more threatening happened? I couldn't be certain. Lynne made it very clear, though, that even with this setback, she considered Paul's treatment to have been extremely successful. Prior to it, he had been largely vacant from his own life, and now he had a life. Helping severely autistic children to at last reach out of their painful haze and be part of the world is always a blessing to the kids and their families." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"When I was a kid," he recalls, "the apples were mostly wormy and you were lucky at christmas if you got an orange in your sock. We didn't eat any peaches because we couldn't afford them." Zaiger's lack of fresh fruits as a child triggered his life's work of making good fruits as widely available as possible. "Today, we're breeding for the whole world," says Zaiger, not immodestly. He has sold millions of trees, which have produced untold billions of fruits in countries like Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Egypt, China, Tunisia and South Africa." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"On holidays, particularly christmas and Mother's Day, or when I see my friends with their parents, the longing is unbearable. Worst of all, that's when my MS gets worse." When we met Jayne, she explained how Recasting has saved her from this cycle. Feelings: "I've trained myself. When I first feel the sadness coming on I say, 'Stop, it's time to Recast before I begin to spiral down.'" Meaning: "The meaning can vary. Sometimes it's just realizing that I feel particularly vulnerable right now, or needy, or fatigued. Other times it means that I have to change what I'm doing." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"But with christmas fast approaching, Dave and Dot decided he should remain at home at least until after New Year's Day. "Christmas was a big thing to Steve, and Helen was coming home from the university for the holidays, anyway," Dot recollected. "There was a set formula: a real tree with lights on, a particular menu for christmas. Out of all of us, he was the one who had to have all these things done. But in fact, he fell asleep halfway through christmas dinner. He hardly ate anything. He was on another planet, really. He just didn't know what was happening." A pair of fuzzy gorilla slippers ?" - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Max became convinced that the stress of this double life was wreaking havoc on his system, and he believed the only way out was to end his marriage with Danielle. On christmas Day, 1968, Max drove to the house he shared with Danielle to tell her he couldn't be married to her anymore. Tormented by the guilt of betraying the one person he really loved, he decided that it was better to push her away in one quick, violent discussion than to continue lying to her. "I expected Danielle to throw a lamp at me and kick me out," he says, "but she didn't." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Trouble began after a six-week school trip to India over Thanksgiving and christmas. Soon after returning home from overseas, Emily started getting sick to her stomach, probably from an exotic gastrointestinal parasite that a raft of tests failed to identify. An operation on her gallbladder seemed to help for a few weeks but then the chronic nausea returned. The disorder did not interfere with her eating and she didn't have to vomit but being nauseous much of time wasn't fun." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "To understand the charm of that conclusion, you need to know that the trial was held in late December, shortly before christmas. The judge in the case was very elderly. He displayed a very sweet manner toward the jury, regularly asking them how they were holding up, if they could hear everything being said from the witness stand, if they needed bathroom breaks, and so on. He fussed over them much like a grandfather with his grandchildren. At the same time, he was hard of hearing, and tended to speak loudly, adding to the paternalistic effect." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Meanwhile, my testimony was finished and I could return home, as I was eager to do, especially since it was so near christmas. After getting off the witness stand, I walked across the front of the courtroom to say good-bye to attorney Chafetz at the plaintiff's table. As I got there, a commotion broke out behind me from the direction of the judge's bench. I turned to see three or four members of the jury rushing up to the judge. The jurors were pointing at me. In my career, I had never seen anything like it. "Who does he remind you of?" the several jurors in unison asked their elderly judge." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The jurors were comparing me to the kind and gentle, if somewhat bemused, unsophisticated and rotund angel who saves Jimmy Stewart's life in America's favorite christmas movie. I tried to think of something to say back but attorney Chafetz wisely restrained me from interfering with this perfect courtroom moment. Clearly the attack on me had utterly failed. I had not only kept my composure but communicated a degree of spirituality to them. If the defendants had been sensible, they would have settled the case on the spot, but they insisted on taking the trial to the bitter end." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Britain's Stephen Switzer, author of 1724's The Practical Fruit Gardener, wrote that "a well-contriv'd Fruit-Garden is an Epitome of Paradise itself" The glowing lights on christmas trees are linked to the pagan Germanic belief in wish-fulfilling trees laden with numinous fruits. References to the divine crop up repeatedly in the scientific names for fruits. Taxonomists named cacao fruits Theobroma, Greek for "food of gods." A Latin binomial for bananas was Musa paradisica, or fruits of paradise. In 1830, grapefruits became Citrus paradisi. Persimmons are Diospy-ros: "fruit of the gods." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "From a distance, the red orbs glowing in their boughs resemble christmas tree ornaments. But as I pull into Gary Snyder's orchard, this wholesome image starts to warp. Something smells like grape bubble gum. "Sorry—it's me—I've been doing Grapple testing," explains Snyder, the inventor of an apple that tastes like grapes. "The percentage of solution I get on myself can be quite high when I work with the raw product." Snyder has never revealed how Grapples are made, saying only that it involves dunking Gala or Fuji apples in artificial grape flavor." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Judgment Day never came. When christmas morning rolled around, the group descended the mountain and bolted their doors, awaiting further instruction. Two earthquakes passed through the valley that week, rattling windows and dishes but causing no harm. Early in the New Year, word spread throughout the Okanagan Valley, and eventually to the news desks in Vancouver, that forty people, including schoolchildren, were holed up in a building waiting for the apocalypse." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"I left a cup of steaming coffee on the kitchen table and unopened packages under the christmas tree. One day, I woke up and seriously questioned what I was doing. I liked my job, but I also hated it. After doing some heroics on a heart patient whom we had treated before, I told another doctor that we were barking up the wrong tree. We prescribed drugs and applied different therapies aimed at directly fixing the problem. For the short term, our efforts worked. We were doing all the things we were trained to do but we weren't helping to heal our patients for the long term." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The first gift of christmas!" in The Polar Express. Just in case you are timid about buying and storing berries, here are four basic tips. þAvoid buying bruised or oozing berries. Turn the clear baskets over to check the berries on the bottom. þLook for firm, plump, full-colored berries. þWhen you bring berries home, cover and refrigerate them until they are ready to be served. þUse berries quickly, because if they are perfectly ripe the day you buy them, they can deteriorate and become soft and moldy within a couple days." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Professor Vyvyan Howard, expert in fetal and infant toxico -pathology CONCLUSION Genetic Roulette: Gambling with our Health and Environment On christmas Day 1859, the Victorian Acclimatization Society released 24 rabbits into the Australian countryside so that settlers could hunt them for sport and feel more "at home."1 The rabbits multiplied to well over 200 million, spreading out over 4 million square kilometers. That christmas present now costs Australian agriculture about $600 million per year.2 With the benefit of hindsight, the mistake was obvious." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"A local rancher named Stephen Hunt was only thirty-eight years old when he walked into the emergency room at Redding Medical Center just before christmas in 2001, complaining of blurry vision in one eye. Hunt knew he had high blood pressure, but he was shocked when Moon told him he needed immediate bypass surgery—that he could suffer a heart attack and die on his way back to his car. Moon also told him there just happened to be an opening in the hospital's operating schedule on christmas Eve. Hunt went ahead with the surgery." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"For many people, feelings of stress and anxiety peak between Thanksgiving and christmas because of family and shopping pressures, long lines in stores, and traffic jams (combined with dietary lapses). The result is that the christmas season brings out the worst in our behavior— irritability, rudeness, and pushiness—not the cherished qualities of giving and tolerance. In this chapter, I describe a variety of anxiety-related mood and behavior problems, as well as nutrition and lifestyle changes to lessen them." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"As if kicking her habit wasn't difficult enough, Zoe's husband left her in the midst of her effort to stay sober, just before christmas. I was worried, and so was she. "During the winter it gets cold and very dark in Holland," she wrote in an e-mail. "I was so scared that I would get depressed again and go back on pot, but I haven't. The change comes from the difference between feeling like a loser (smoking) and a winner (exercise)." Zoe's recovery is tenuous, as it is for any long-term drug user. But she's certainly on the right track." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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