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"Hospitals around new york city are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly half the patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease.15 Type II diabetes is being declared an epidemic in new york city. With 1 in 3 children born in the United States five years ago expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in new york city offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city and the rest of the world is headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"In the past ten years, new york city has seen a 140 percent increase in diabetes. The proportion of diabetics is higher than that of Los Angeles, Chicago, or Boston. In New York, the diabetic rate is highest where there are ethnic groups with high genetic tendencies. i i-1-1? 1994- 1996- 1998- 2000- 2002 1995 1997 1999 2001 Sources: NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization Figure 9: Diabetes rates in new york city (Source: NYC Dept." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Chiropractic for Back Pain YEARS AGO, when I was in charge of the curriculum at the Equinox Fitness Training Institute in new york city, I had a lot of occasion to work with chiropractors. One thing I noticed was that, as a group, they seemed way more interested and knowledgeable about nutrition than most of the medical doctors I knew. Maybe because chiropractors do not prescribe drugs, their orientation always seemed to be toward maximizing the body's natural ability to heal." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Pastor for fifty-two years of the Marble Collegiate Church in new york city, Peale made his reputation in 1952 with publication of the runaway best-seller The Power of Positive Thinking, which opened with the ringing words "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!"35 What made Peale such an effective spokesman for positive thinking in the postwar era?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Rich in a compound called baicalin, which has been found to be a strong inhibitor of pro-inflammatory COX and LO enzymes, this herb (in studies from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in new york city) suppressed the synthesis and expression of inflammatory substances (including prostaglandins) in head and neck cancer cells. It also inhibited the expression of COX-2 and reduced tumor mass by 66 percent in the mice used in the study. Prostate and breast cancer cells were found to be particularly vulnerable." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Back in the 1990s when I was working as a personal trainer in new york city, gyms were springing up all over the city. The New York Times called the phenomenon "The Gym Wars." There was much discussion about where to go to get the best workout, about who had the best aerobics classes, about which location had the most state-of-the-art equipment, which gym had the best trainers, and so on. I remember being interviewed at the time by one of the magazines, and being asked, "Which gym is best?" Here was my answer: The best gym is the one you actually go to." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Several years ago, we transferred leadership of the organization to younger individuals including the current director, new york city psychotherapist Dr. Dominick Riccio. As director emeritus, I no longer take a governing role in ICSPP but I speak at the annual conferences and frequently contribute to the journal. None of the leaders of ICSPP gets paid; every one is a devoted volunteer. Inspiring Conferences The annual ICSPP conferences are always enlightening and entertaining." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In 1894 Takamine moved his family to the United States and opened his own research laboratory in new york city. Takamine allowed the pharmaceutical company Parke, Davis & Company to produce his enzyme, takadiastase, on a commercial scale; it is still in use today as a digestive aid (Higasi, K., "Structural Chemistry," in Livermore, Arthur H., Science in Japan, (Washington, DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965), 239?66). In 1926, Dr. James B. Sumner was able to determine that enzymes are actually proteins." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Every day, • Consider, as a comparison, that in 2002, the average daily death toll among the 7 million residents of new york city was 159. one, two, sometimes five thousand of the city's residents—one in one hundred of the preplague population—would become infected. A day's moderate fever would be followed by a week of delirium. Buboes would appear under the aims, in the groin, behind the ears, and grow to the size of melons. Edemas—of blood—infiltrated the nerve endings of the swollen lymphatic glands, causing massive pain." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In 1988, one activist AIDS patient in new york city put the matter plainly in the pages of New York Native, a gay and lesbian periodical: Psychological warfare is being waged against gay men in the United States. For the past month or so the media have been disseminating hostile propaganda, with the message that we will all die, that we must die. These death threats do not issue from the usual bigots. . . . We are being cursed in the name of science, and the imprecations directed against us have the imprimatur of the Public Health Service (PHS)." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"A day later I showed Fran a quote by Hermann Biggs, founder of New York City's pioneering Bacteriological Diagnostic Laboratory, in 1911, it summarized my argument. "The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.8 I figured that not much had changed since then. Mortality was and still is the best way to measure the progress of medicine, and yet the physician's task as healer does—and ought to—go far beyond any single way of assessing outcomes. "What about emergency treatment for accidents?" I asked aloud a few days later. " - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"After multiple trips to specialists in new york city, Jack got the diagnosis: psoriatic arthritis, a serious autoimmune illness that destroys bones and joints. "Psoriatic arthritis (PA) was a perfect match with the company. I didn't feel my life was my own, and with PA in full swing, neither was my body. Work was miserable, my body was miserable. I finally got so disabled that I couldn't type or play tennis or piano. Even though I avoided dealing with my issues about work, my body forced me to deal with the PA. As I did, the disease also made me confront why I wasn't happy." - 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.) "As a young man growing up in new york city in the late 1940s, hustling was not only his means of survival, it became his way of life. By the 1950s, Max knew a lot of the right people, and he parlayed those connections into an entry-level job at a public relations firm. Technically, Max was nothing more than a gofer, driving clients to and from important engagements and taking care of other less-than-glamorous duties. But, hustler to the core, Max used his manipulative skills to con his employer's world-famous clientele into believing that he was a high-rolling publicist." - 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.)

"In a 2003 study undertaken by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in new york city, researchers found that half of the men with PSA levels high enough to be recommended for a biopsy had follow-up tests with normal PSA levels. In fact, doctors at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle estimated that PSA screening may result in an over-diagnosis rate of more than 40 percent. To make matters worse, a disturbing new study finds that fully 15% of older men whose PSA readings were considered perfectly normal had prostate cancer—some with relatively advanced tumors." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Richard Green became the first African-American chancellor of the Board of Education of new york city, an appointment that both the city's parents and children welcomed with enthusiasm. After fourteen months on the job Dr. Green was well on his way to making critical improvements in the city's school system. But all that changed at 1:40 a.m. on May 10, 1989, when Dr. Green suffered a massive asthma attack in his home. At 2:30 a.m. he died at Roosevelt Hospital after attempts to revive him had failed. The fifty-one-year-old left behind a wife and daughter as well as a shocked city. Dr." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"As my friend, nutritionist Robert Crayhon is fond of saying, "there's no double-blind study to prove that water puts out fire, but the entire new york city fire department operates on the presumption that it's a good working hypothesis!" So What Is Natural Medicine, Anyway? Try for a minute to come up with your own definition of "natural medicine" and you'll quickly get an idea of the difficulty I was faced with in writing this section of the book. Is it medicine that starts life as a plant?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"I was an observer at that new york city meeting. What struck me at the time was less a sense of radical East-West convergence than a distinct lack of thematic integration. The conference participants discussed, on Ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western neuroscience? The Dalai Lama gazes out from the cover of New York magazine with his bald pate covered in electrodes and posed against a bank of computers." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This would help doctors understand which treatments are more dangerous than they have believed. new york city has attempted to do this by adding "therapeutic complication" to the options on the death certificate that a physician can choose as the manner of death. Most states now have only five possibilities for the manner of death: natural, accident, suicide, homicide, or undetermined. This makes it too easy to attribute a death caused by a medicine to "natural" causes." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The preeminent Georgia peach was the Elberta, sufficiently firm to make it to new york city without turning to gooey mush. Henry Ford's assembly line became the model for production. The advent of refrigeration, supermarkets and family automobiles abetted the urban availability of fruits—although taste quality suffered. An influx of 7 million Italians (mainly in between 1880 and 1921) also had a major impact on American eating habits and agriculture. Their love of produce was contagious. Until the twentieth century, much fruit in Britain rotted on the trees." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "When it first arrived in new york city, entire shipments sold out within hours at high-end grocery stores. No one seemed to know—or care—that they had been electronically pasteurized. Even if they were labeled, the choice is between zapped rambutans or none at all. Another method is hot-water baths. Some exotic fruits imported into the United States spend four hours in saturated water vapor at 117.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Boiled, underripe mangoes: yum! Even after all the preventative measures, some fruits still harbor larvae." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "At Hunts Point, New York City's main wholesale market, corrupt USDA inspectors have long accepted bribes from wholesalers. In 1999, an undercover federal investigation code-named "Operation Forbidden Fruit" resulted in eight inspectors and thirteen market employees being arrested, imprisoned or fined. According to the House Agriculture Subcommittee, "The investigation revealed that owners of twelve produce firms at the Hunts Point Market had been routinely paying cash bribes to the USDA inspectors in exchange for lowering the grade of the produce being inspected." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, a 2007 new york city Health and Nutrition Examination Survey recently reported that a quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels. Similarly, in 2004, a study conducted jointly by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Greenpeace analyzed women's hair samples (one of several scientific means of testing for heavy metal exposure) and found that 21 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury levels higher than the EPA's safety limit of 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Health & Mental Hygiene; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization Figure 9: Diabetes rates in new york city (Source: NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene) It is worst in East Harlem, where the health department survey shows that 16-20 percent, or up to one in five, adults have diabetes. The only place that is higher is among the Pima Indians in Arizona, where approximately 50 percent suffer from diabetes. In East Harlem diabetes-related amputations are also higher than in any other part of the city." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In 1995, at the age of eighteen, LaShekia set off for Pace University in new york city, hoping to be the first college graduate in her family. Despite her physical setbacks, she had managed to graduate from high school with the rest of her class. She got as far as Halloween during her freshman year at Pace, when it became clear that her physical torpor was worsening. She had lost significant weight. Twice since she had left for university, LaShekia had blacked out and ended up in New York Downtown Hospital's emergency room." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The Commerce of Mood 2 2 three The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry 60 four American Misery 100 part two A Series of Alternative Approaches five Cogito, Ergo Sum 139 six The Human Factor 168 seven The Sea Snail Syndrome 191 Postscript: Emotional Rescue 211 Acknowledgments 227 Notes 231 Index 267 Foreword "So Hip, So Quickly" In 1988, almost by accident, I began working with homeless people suffering from mental illness in new york city. This was meant to be a short-term vocation, a year at most." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Returning to my work on the streets and in the shelters of new york city, I felt that what I was doing was at the very margins of American society. But by the end of the 1990s, at these same cocktail parties, not only did people enthusiastically appreciate what I did, they were likely to share with me in no longer hushed tones that their friend or son or "someone very close to me" was suffering from depression or some other major psychiatric illness, and many were taking a number of the same drugs my clients were." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Meanwhile, back in the shelters in new york city, my clients remained essentially unchanged by the pharmacological advances which had surrounded them during the 1990s. In the early 2000s, they were suffering from the same exact set of monstrous afflictions that had beset them a decade earlier. The new medications had brought some relief, and in a few cases dramatic improvements, but in general they were a disappointment." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "And when a man in a new york city subway station jumped onto the tracks to save a stranger, the Times speculated that the reason had to do not with a sense of altruism or duty, but the way his brain was wired: "If it wasn't the Navy training that compelled Wesley Autrey to save a complete stranger, it was his well-oiled anterior cingulate, or his 'mirror neurons.' "33 (Mirror neurons fire in response to observing the actions of another person and are thought to be sensitive even to the perceived intentions of another person." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The first college of naturopathic medicine in the United States opened in new york city in 1902. It taught a system of medicine that included nutritional therapy, natural dietetics, herbal medicine, homeopathy, manipulation, exercise therapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and stress reduction techniques. Naturopathic medicine grew and flourished from the early 1900s until the mid-1950s. At that point in history, the conventional medical profession began to influence the health-care system in several ways." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As one young woman in new york city explained to a journalist in 1967, "I kept thinking that through the constant use of LSD, I'd return to the religious feeling I had with it the first time. . . . But it never came and I met Swami. I gave up drugs. I was hooked on the religion and on yoga. I'm a better person now. I'm not hung up on myself anymore." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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