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"American latinos are more likely to die of diabetes, liver disease, and infectious disease than non-Latinos. And Native Americans have higher rates of tuberculosis, pneumonia, and influenza. It seems like new examples crop up every month in the scientific literature. The most recent study discovered that African Americans who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day are far more likely to develop lung cancer than whites with the exact same habit. Now, these statistics don't necessarily tell the whole story." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"African Americans and latinos have about twice the risk of developing Type-2 diabetes. Type-2 diabetics are about three-four times more likely to develop clinical depression than non-diabetics. There is explicit hope for Type-2 diabetes being completely reversed in a relatively short time. The good news is that Type-2 diabetes is not necessarily a death sentence; rather, it is a benign disease if it is appropriately addressed. The message is apparent." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "African Americans, latinos, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans have a diabetes rate close to twice that of white people. In England, we see the same kinds of racial ratios. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders also appear more susceptible, and they seem to develop diabetes at lower comparative weights. There is no question that genetics plays a role, but our lifestyle is the determining factor. Our collective world lifestyle is one big Crime Against Wisdom." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"High blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease are more prevalent in Native Americans, African Americans, and latinos than in European Americans. Ethnicities with high skin melanin are at greater risk, and women and children are the fastest-growing sectors of these populations at risk. United States Obesity Incidence Map 2005 | 15%-19% | 20%-24% §| 25%-29% fj >30% Annual obesity maps of U.S." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"I'm Cuban," she notes, "and we latinos are more sensitive to cooked food than people of many other ethnicities." Jessica: Her Baby Made Her Eat Raw! Jessica had never heard of the raw food diet. You could say that her body was her teacher, or maybe even her unborn baby\ It was through a pregnancy plagued by morni ng sickness that she was forced to go raw. Her baby daughter, now three months old, was her raw food instructor. A month or two into the pregnancy, she developed a strong aversion to anything cooked. It made her nauseous." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Seniors, blacks, latinos, Native Americans, and Asians have an increased risk. You're more at risk, too, if it's in your family or you're overweight. What are the symptoms? • frequent urination • excessive thirst or increased appetite • unexplained weight loss • blurry vision Check out this new eating plan Move over low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. There's a new way to eat if you're diabetic. Experts from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) came up with a delicious eating plan that centers around monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), the good kind of fat." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"African-Americans, latinos and Native Americans older than age 45.. .anyone who has a close relative who is a type 2 diabetic. Cost: Approximately $12 for a fasting blood glucose test.. .approximately $25 for an oral glucose tolerance test. •Coronary heart disease (CHD). In CHD, the walls of the coronary arteries are narrowed Test costs vary based on facility and region. or blocked by a buildup of fatty plaque. CHD is the single largest killer of men and women in the US." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Before long, Forbes's ad hoc committee evolved into Consejo de latinos Unidos (Council of United latinos), a public charity, though it was still a shoestring operation, working out of donated office space in East Los Angeles with Forbes its only full-time employee. Hispanics still comprised most of the cases, but its base began to broaden. Investigations spread to San Antonio, Orlando, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New Orleans, Fort Myers, Denver, Chicago, Miami, and Oklahoma City." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"In what was hailed as one of the company's more progressive moments, Parke-Davis decided to target latinos. The company perceived them as an underserved market that was easily influenced. The campaign — "Rezulin: Una Vez al Dia" (Rezulin: Once a day) — was soon plastered in and around every barrio bus stop, big-city clinic, and immigrant doctor's office in the nation, including Dr. Lara's. But Dr. Lara was an exception in one important regard. When it came to prescribing new drugs, he was very old-school. He liked to wait a few years before trying something new." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"African-Americans and latinos are twice as likely as Caucasians to have ulcers. If left untreated, ulcers can cause internal bleeding or perforation of the stomach or small intestine. Unless otherwise specified, the dosages recommended here are for adults. For children between the ages of twelve and seventeen, reduce the dose to three-quarters the recommended amount. For children between six and twelve, use one-half the recommended dose, and for children under the age of six, use one-quarter the recommended amount." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Similar issues emerged with Rezulin: Why was the safety information for latinos left in English? What was that about? Yet in the new, incentivized pharma era, when every department from R&.D to regulatory affairs had a greater, grander vision of what was possible, such fretting was easily dismissed, or shunted off to some dismal cubicle in some New Jersey regional office. Almost without exception, the industry viewed Parke-Davis and Wild as the pivotal figures in the most remarkable turnaround in recent pharma history." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Certain groups, like blacks, latinos, Indians, and Asians, are more at risk. You're also more in danger if insulin resistance runs in your family, you're overweight, or you don't exercise. What are the symptoms? • high blood pressure • low levels of "good" HDL cholesterol • high levels of blood sugar, insulin, and triglycerides You can overcome this 'silent killer' Dr. Gerald Reaven is like the investment firm in those old television commercials. When he talks about Syndrome X, everybody listens. Reaven is the Stanford University professor who first discovered and named Syndrome X." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"The next logical step is to take these insights from the lab and expand them from generalizations about various populations (for example, Latinos' CP450 genes make them bad metabolizers of alcohol) to more specific tests for individual and group susceptibility to liver poisoning. And to do that, a growing cadre of scientists say, drug companies should invest heavily in drug-gene identification." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Cases of patients gouged by inflated hospital charges came from reports, data, and documents compiled by the Consejo de latinos Unidos, Los Angeles, and through interviews with its director, K. B. Forbes. Data on the uninsured are drawn from many sources, including "Uninsured in America," the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testimony of Diane Rowland, Director, before the U.S." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"Those in minority groups, particularly young latinos, seem especially likely to suffer from depression or contemplate suicide.6 Long separations from family members left behind in native countries are thought to play a significant role. Incidentally, while we Americans tend to view depression as a byproduct of living in a modern industrialized society, indigenous peoples worldwide are suffering, too. Many factors—war, famine, geographic dislocation, and the destruction of tribal cultures—are having disastrous effects on the mental health of native populations." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In New Mexico, latinos fought for land arid water rights against real estate developers who tried to throw them off land they had lived on for decades. In 1988 there was a confrontation, and the people organized an armed occupation, built bunkers for protection against attack, and won support from other communities in the Southwest; finally, a court ruled in their favor. Abnormal rates of cancer for farmworkers in California aroused the Chicano community. Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers fasted for thirty-five days in 1988 to call attention to these conditions." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"In June 2001, Forbes issued his first report documenting that southern California hospitals were billing self-paying uninsured latinos almost five times the amount they were charging HMOs. Forbes concluded that the hospitals charge huge fees "so that they can offer superficial discounts and arrange long-term payment plans while making a profit on the most vulnerable: the uninsured Latino." The report generated another round of publicity, and leads began to pour in about similar practices elsewhere." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"By 1991, 80,000 latinos lived in North Carolina, 30,000 in north Georgia. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which had won a difficult strike in the Ohio tomato fields in 1979, the largest agricultural strike ever in the Midwest, brought thousands of farmworkers together in several Midwest states. As the Latino population of the country kept growing, it soon matched the 12 percent of the population that was African-American and began to have a distinct effect on American culture. Much of its music, art, and drama, was much more consciously political and satirical than mainstream culture." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "The AFL-CIO put on hundreds of new organizers to work among latinos, African-Americans, and Asian Americans. Rank-and-file workers in old, stagnant unions began to rebel. In 1991, the notoriously corrupt leadership of the powerful Teamsters Union was voted out of office by a reform slate. The new leadership immediately became a force in Washington, and took the lead in working for independent political coalitions outside the two major parties. But the labor movement as a whole, much diminished, was struggling for survival." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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