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"CHAPTER ONE About Cancer ancer costs are staggering financially, both to the individual and society. According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer costs $107 billion a year: $37 billion in direct medical costs, $11 billion in morbidity costs (lost productivity), and $59 billion in mortality (dying) costs. Breast, lung, and prostate cancers account for over half of direct medical costs. As of 1994, about 18% of Americans under age 65 had no health insurance, and about 14% of older persons had only Medicare coverage." - Richard Harkness, The Natural Pharmacist: Your Complete Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk (Get the book.)

"The estimated annual additional costs associated with all ADE's were $5.6 million. 4 These estimates do not include costs of injuries to pa dents, malpractice costs, or the costs of less serious medication errors or hospital admissions related to ADE's. 5. The additional length of a hospital stay associated with an ADE was 2.2 days (for a preventable ADE, it was 4.6 days) 6. The increase in costs associated with an ADE was $3,244 (preventable ADE cost was $5,857.) 7. They found that the occurrence of an ADE was asso ciated with nearly double the risk of death (1.88). 8." - Cynthia A. Foster, M.D., Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor's Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"A report from 1991 calculated that total costs associated with this type of care per patient was on average 15% less than costs associated with conventional medicine. Source: Drug Store News, May 17, 1999 "Clinical Study Suggests That Homeopathy Could Save Healthcare Dollars" by Rob Eder www. findarticles." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Well, consider this: Treating childhood cancer alone costs our society an estimated $600 million every year. The total cost of treating childhood diseases caused by environmental insults is an amazing $54.9 billion every year—that's approximately 2.8 percent of total health care costs! The National Children's Study operates on a tiny fraction of this unbelievable figure. It just makes common sense that investing in our children's future today will in the long run save us a tremendous amount, of both money and heartache. In other words, we can't afford not to do this study." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer costs $107 billion a year: $37 billion in direct medical costs, $11 billion in morbidity costs (lost productivity), and $59 billion in mortality (dying) costs. Breast, lung, and prostate cancers account for over half of direct medical costs. As of 1994, about 18% of Americans under age 65 had no health insurance, and about 14% of older persons had only Medicare coverage." - Richard Harkness, The Natural Pharmacist: Your Complete Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk (Get the book.)

"Across the American economic spectrum, employers are trying desperately to rein in health costs, asking workers to pick up more of the tab for their care or, in many cases, dropping insurance coverage entirely. Labor unions are discovering that they cannot negotiate contracts that keep wages apace with inflation because the cost of health care is severely eroding corporate profit margins. Companies are closing down factories and jobs at home and relocating them overseas, where wages and health costs are much lower." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer costs $107 billion a year: $37 billion in direct medical costs, $11 billion in morbidity costs (lost productivity), and $59 billion in mortality (dying) costs. Breast, lung, and prostate cancers account for over half of direct medical costs. As of 1994, about 18% of Americans under age 65 had no health insurance, and about 14% of older persons had only Medicare coverage." - Richard Harkness, The Natural Pharmacist: Your Complete Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk (Get the book.)

"Costs for the Tests The costs listed here are current through early 2004 and subject to change. You can get updated pricing from the labs performing the tests that are given in the resources section. • Serum thiol test: $65. • F2-Isoprostane test strips: $10. • Saliva hormone panels: Each hormone in the panel costs $25. Single hormone tests are $30. The test kit for collecting and submitting your sample costs $10, but this fee is refunded at the time your sample is submitted for testing. How Do I Use These Test Results?" - Vincent Giampapa, Ronald Pero, and Marcia Zimmerman, The Anti-Aging Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Looking and Feeling Young (Get the book.)

"This is a lot of money for most families, but it can be a smart investment in health care, particularly when compared to the costs of so many other therapies, such as the behavioral treatments that require one-on-one attention from therapists. Also, as recovery takes hold, it's often possible to discontinue certain supplements. Supplements can be purchased more cheaply from discount stores and mail-order companies, and many of the supplements from these sources are of high quality-particularly for the most basic nutrients, such as vitamin C or A." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Medical arrogance like this costs lives. My patients know about the CoQIO studies. I've heard that some sneak their CoQIO into the hospital. They don't want to die from arrogance. CoQIO and High Blood Pressure As far back as 1976, researchers noted that CoQIO decreases blood pressure in patients with established hypertension. Over the years, the evidence has continued to grow and now points to CoQIO deficiency as a cause of high blood pressure in some people. Heart muscle cells, as we know, are packed with mitochondria and utilize a lot of CoQIO." - 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.) "Insurance companies don't pay for this state-of-the-art test (it costs about $300), so it is not something we order routinely. Nevertheless, we both feel that genetic testing should not be overlooked, particularly in tough, resistant cases. 12. Radiation We are all exposed to radiation in the form of medical X-rays. Cardiologists, for instance, are exposed to a considerable amount of radiation because of the nature of this work. We do fluoroscopy all the time, putting in pacemakers and cardiac catheterizations." - 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.) "Vitamin C costs pennies a day. Antioxidants and essential fatty acids do the same for $250 a year. The big fallout from statin abuse is coming. We track the research carefully. We take care of thousands of patients. We ourselves would be the first to take a statin if we had high coronary calcification, particularly in the critical left main coronary artery, or a stent, or a bypass, or a previous heart attack. We want the drug for its high-powered antiinflammatory effect in those threatening situations." - 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.)

"Make a list of what fat costs you in your life. We can start you out with the obvious: "Using fat as a source of safety means I won't be able to feel like an adult who can make empowered choices solve problems feel loveable feel worthy be healthy earn the respect and admiration of others live a fulfilled life be seen for who I really am Being overweight has surely protected you from some very frightening emotions and core beliefs, but it has cost you a lot. One way to retreat from center stage, to allay expectations, is to get fat. As we mentioned on page 98, people suffer from being fat." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "The costs of Powerlessness Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.—Samuel Johnson Power versus Powerlessness There are at least two different kinds of power for us to consider: the power over others and the power over yourself. The first is your power to influence or control events and circumstances outside yourself. This power depends in large part on your role in life, and the power invested in that role by the institution you work in." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Sure, you have to keep it in check to some degree or you wouldn't be able to maintain any relationships or hold down a job, but a part of you still wants to do it your way at all costs, because the pattern, once established, becomes entrenched. Though it might be relegated to your unconscious mind, it still plays the old tape, which goes something like this: "They can stop me from doing everything else, but I retain the power to eat as much as I want, and to eat what I want. I'll sneak or binge and purge or do anything necessary to keep this basic building block of autonomy." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "You'll examine what it costs you to retreat into the food trance instead of facing your feelings, especially the fact that it keeps you from solving the problems that need to be solved. • YouTl identify the other ways you can get a time-out when feelings become too intense. • You'll learn to master the feeling phobia and food trance, and then you'll be ready to understand the deeper issues that make you feel powerless." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Esterified vitamin C (Ester C) is better absorbed than regular vitamin C, but it costs more. The bottom line: it doesn't really matter which vitamin C you take. Just take it. Find a preparation you tolerate well and can easily afford. Vitamin C represents a very inexpensive way to reduce Lp(a). For people with a high Lp(a) level and known coronary disease, we recommend 1,000 mg for every 10 points of Lp(a). So if you test at 50 mg/dl, for instance, we would suggest 5,000 mg of vitamin C. We like to see a level below 30, ideally below 20." - 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.)

"This economic reality of high-priced fresh foods is going to encourage you to frequent farmer's markets, co-ops, and locally grown foods where the costs are much lower for higher-quality foods because the prices are not controlled by agribusiness, which tends to push the high-calorie junk foods. Buying local food straight from the farmer puts you in closer touch with the origin of the food, cuts a significant portion of the time and money spent transporting and "selling" the food, saves you money, and places more dollars in the pocket of those who produce your food." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A shift toward prevention is desperately needed at this moment in history, as nations must bear the rising health-care costs of increasingly aging populations. In 2005 the annual United Nations report on world population informed us that, globally, the number of persons aged sixty years or over is expected to almost triple, increasing from 672 million in 2005 to nearly 1.9 billion by 2050." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "While Kraepelin's Munich clinic struggled financially, so much so that Alzheimer had to foot his own lab costs, Freud and his disciples, including Carl Jung, were achieving widespread adulation for their psychoanalytic system. Their scholarship was also being backed with copious funding.18 Compared to Kraepelin's expensive organic laboratory, the innovative humanistic techniques of psychoanalysis were ostensibly more effective as well as more cost-efficient." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Today 25 million people around the world (and five million Americans) are said to be affected by Alzheimer's disease at immeasurable costs that have been estimated at $250 billion a year.12 In the next decade, as members of the baby boom generation advance into their sixties, they will constitute the largest elderly population in our country's history. By the year 2030, it is estimated that nearly one-fifth (70 million) of the American population will be sixty-five or older, with average life expectancy being approximately 77.5 years for men and eighty-three for women." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In fact, I have no doubt that more effective therapies can be developed, but the questions are: How powerful will these therapies be, when will they arrive, how expensive will they be, and at what opportunity costs to society? Our resources and our hope are being overinvested in the search for a far-off cure when, really, the genuine and effective answers lie within ourselves, and in our ability to care for one another. That said, if my father, mother, or wife were to develop disabling cognitive problems, I would love for a magic bullet to appear." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Apart from the price of the book, using this method costs nothing in monetary terms. It is true that a considerable degree of personal commitment and effort is required to do the specific exercises. Do you think that researchers in ophthalmology or the ophthalmologists themselves could react? There is no doubt that I will not be appreciated by all those who are stuck to the old and obsolete theories on the human eye's functioning. The human eye is often compared to a camera with fixed focusing, but it isn't so." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"This study, conducted at Harvard, estimated that ADHD costs Americans approximately $77 billion each year in lost wages. Employers tend to be very wary of people with ADHD symptoms, and those symptoms are more frequently recognized now, as awareness of ADHD grows. Furthermore, divorce rates are also higher among adults with ADHD symptoms, approaching approximately 65 percent. Adults with ADHD are also significantly less likely than others to report satisfaction with their other relationships, including those with friends, family members, and coworkers." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In Latin America, families pay 40-60 percent of diabetes care costs out of their own pockets, and in India, the poorest people with diabetes spend an average of 25 percent of their income on private care. Most of this money is used to stay alive by avoiding fatally high blood sugar levels. Because diabetes is increasing faster in the world's developing economies than in its developed ones, it is the developing world that will bear the brunt of the future cost burden. More than 80 percent of expenditures for medical care for diabetes are made in the world's economically richest countries." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Asthma now costs $11.5 billion annually in medical care. • Workplaces with indoor air pollution are a leading trigger of asthma. • Asthma causes 14 million missed school days each year, and 12 million missed work days. • Almost 6 percent of all Americans have asthma. These statistics strongly suggest that the new epidemic of asthma is closely tied to the recent increased toxification of America. Episodes of asthma are clearly linked to air that is polluted from smog, industrial chemicals, particulates, and pollen." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"If we actually followed the diet of prevention we could probably save hundreds of billions in direct and indirect costs, but are we going to do that—that is the question. Why not do the obvious? Roughly $40 billion in federal subsidies are going to pay corn growers, so that corn syrup is able to replace cane sugar. Corn syrup has been singled out by many health experts as one of the chief culprits of rising obesity, because corn syrup does not turn off appetite. Since the advent of corn syrup, consumption of all sweeteners has soared, as have people's weights." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"They also project that the costs associated with deaths caused by medical interventions total approximately $282 billion per year, and estimate the costs for unnecessary hospitalization and medical procedures to total $16.4 million per year. The complete text of "Death by Medicine" can be found online at www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004. More than 150 references and an extensive appendix support the discussions and conclusions presented. • Look Again Shocking? Yes! However, this information does appear to paint a rather unrealistic picture of conventional medicine." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

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