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"Responding to this newfound threat to public health, the federal government mandated that white flour be fortified with a bare minimum of eight essential vitamins and minerals-the very ones that steel-roller milling removed. To avoid a public relations nightmare, the new flour was called "enriched white flour," marketing-speak for "stuff so lethal that the federal government made us put some other stuff in it so it won't kill you as quickly." That 1920s mandate made white flour "safe" again. We loved our white flour so much that we wanted it at any cost." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"It also amends the public health Service Act to stipulate that a vaccine is banned if it contains 1 or more micrograms of mercury per dose. Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007: This bill would require the NIH to conduct a comprehensive study to compare total health outcomes, including the risk of autism, between vaccinated and unvaccinated U.S. populations and also to determine whether vaccines or vaccine components play a role in the development of autism spectrum disorder or other neurological conditions." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Within two or three generations, Westerners have gone from dealing with the occurrence of starvation for a significant part of the population to experiencing obesity as a serious public health issue. Over the past thirty years I have seen changes that scare me to death. In fact, I can even look at you fully clothed and pretty much know what your blood vessels, heart, liver, prostate, and brain-yes, your brain-look like. A huge number of you have allowed a condition to occur that guarantees the activation of killer genes. If you're still in denial, just look at your belly in the mirror." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"These threats, as well as the horrific loss of life caused by the two diseases, stirred the Raj into public health action. Rendered less blithely confident of gratitude by the vaccination episode, and more cautious by the uprising of 1857, the Government of India tackled cholera at the mid-century with some reluctance, and only in the face of the intense international pressure." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Chapter Four: You Lost Your "Right To Know" "The cosmetics industry has borrowed a page from the playbook of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health." -Sen. Edward Kennedy, September 10,1997,at Senate hearings on the FDA Reform Bill More than three decades ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader made one of the first public declarations about how thoroughly the cosmetics safety deck is stacked in favor of manufacturers and against the buying public. "The FDA claims to see great advantages in voluntary [industry] actions ?" - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"But medical research found a home too in industry, in universities, and in governmental organizations of various types, ranging from public health laboratories to military installations. The twentieth century also witnessed the rise of third-party payers and, particularly in Western Europe, national health services. In either case, a new entity obtruded itself into the doctor—patient relationship." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "The Sanitarians sought to prevent particularly urban disease by cleansing cities of their disease-ridden grime, improving the housing stock, providing clean water, educating and morally reforming the poor, and harnessing the new sciences of statistics and hygiene to quantify and improve the public health. Using statistics, Sanitarians could prove that their methods, expensive, and time-consuming though they were, worked—and worked to produce not merely purer environments and healthier cities, but what they saw as a more moral and more Christian culture as well." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"I read 2 or 3 years ago that the public health Service concluded that folic acid prevents birth defects. When I talked to my mother about it, she gave me a copy of your 1984 book. You had a whole chapter in there about preventing birth defects with folic acid!" "Government 'authorities' are usually the last to know," I replied. "Diana started taking folic acid right away," John said. "I did, too, I figured it wouldn't hurt me any. But then we decided to make an appointment, just in case there were other things we could do that the public health Service or FDA or whomever doesn't know yet." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Certainly vitamin manufacturers do not want the studies publicized, but public health officials should have an interest in making sure the knowledge is widely distributed to the public. VITAMIN A One of the most potentially toxic vitamins is vitamin A. Found naturally in the form of beta-carotenes in carrots and other bright orange, yellow, and green vegetables like sweet potato, pumpkin, asparagus, and spinach and in liver, it is vital to good vision and other physiological functions." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Further, adverse effects are amply documented and are far more significant to public health than any adverse effects of infectious diseases. Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than have any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In terms of public health, with the exception of the negative health effects of ultraviolet radiation from the sun and radon gas from the earth, there is little scientific agreement about the health effects of energy fields, natural or man-made. Debate rages about the effects of the loss of the ozone layer and the output from high-power electrical transmission lines on health. Despite reams of studies, we are left with contradictory guidelines about the safety of cell phones, microwave ovens, computers, and other electronics that emit low-level electromagnetic or magnetic fields." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Egypt public health Assoc 2000; 75(3-4):323-33. Mahesh T et al. Effect of photo-irradiated curcumin treatment against oxidative stress in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. / Medic Food'2005 Jun; 8(2):251-55. Marin P et al. The effects of testosterone treatment on body composition and metabolism in middle-aged obese men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1992 Dec; 16(12):991-97. Martin J et al. Chromium picolinate supplementation attenuates body weight gain and increases insulin sensitivity in subjects with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2006 Aug; 29(8): 1826-32. McKenney J, Sica D." - 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.)

"The risks of the new vaccination programs were not brought to the attention of the public until years later, when journalists and public health advocates, including David Kirby, Dr. Stephanie Cave, Dr. Sidney Baker, and Robert Kennedy Jr., began to write about them. By that time, terrible damage had been done." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Thomas Halton and Frank Hu of the Harvard University School of public health compared the satiety factor of high-protein diets to high-carbohydrate and low-fat diets, and they concluded that you feel more satisfied if you eat a high-protein diet, which, in turn, will result in your consuming fewer calories. This makes you lose more weight—and sustain the loss—than you would if you ate a high-carb or a low-fat diet. The basics to take away from these studies of weight-loss programs are two simple facts: 1. To lose weight, you have to be able to stay on the program. 2." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Now a major public health problem, asthma affects nearly one in thirteen school-age kids, making it the most common chronic childhood illness in the United States. It's the number-one cause of missed school, responsible for 14.7 million missed school days every year. In Canada and the United States, five children die from asthma every week. Like many of the diseases affecting our children today, asthma is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Allergens, viruses, preexisting food allergies, and poor air quality can all trigger asthma in a susceptible child." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"More recent research (Japan public health Center-based Prospective study, 2007) showed that men could cut their risk of developing prostrate cancer by half. New research showed that black tea also has profound benefits in that it reduces prostate enlargement and prostate cancer in men who drink just 5 cups a week. Black tea may also prevent prostate cancer. The product "Healthy Prostate & Ovary" is a blend of Chinese and Vietnamese herbs that are traditionally known to be supportive in promoting the health of ovary, prostate, breast and other organs and tissues." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Epstein, who is also a professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of public health, has been warning about the risks of mammography since at least 1992. Commenting on the official mammography guidelines, Epstein says: "They were conscious, chosen, politically expedient acts by a small group of people for the sake of their own power, prestige and financial gain, resulting in suffering and death for millions of women. They fit the classification of crimes against humanity." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "As reported on CBC 12 July 2008, Toronto's department of public health has advised teenagers and young children to limit their use of cell phones, in order to avoid potential health risks. According to the advisory, which is the first of its kind in Canada, children under eight should only use a cell phone in emergencies, and teenagers should limit calls to less than 10 minutes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The news will please vaccination programme officials in the public health Laboratory Service. They have ridiculed his research and still insist that MMR, recommended officially for every child at around 13 months and again at four years, is safe. He added last night: "I am very concerned that I have been unable to gain any guarantee from the hospital that the children we have already seen, and who need to be seen, will be looked after." Parents of autistic children involved in his research expressed their anger last night." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"A class-two designation meant that the site, according to the DEC, posed "a significant threat to the public health or environment" and that "action was required" to remediate the site. The odd thing about it was that the investigation that had found the property to be highly hazardous had taken place three years earlier—yet this memo was just now coming to the city council. Grant was both upset and baffled. She knew that property well. The lot was a deceptively lush piece of land two blocks from her store." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Moreover, as scientists concerned with public health, they needed to reach those who were ill and help them get the treatment and care they needed. With the aid of Vena's grant money, Judith Anderson was asked to be the lupus educator for the project and chair of the Research and Survey Committee. Since federal law does not allow access to patients through doctors' offices or health records, Judith had to be creative. She examined old tax records to find those who had lived in the area and moved, then, if she was able to track them down, she asked about their health status." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Despite Virchow's error, his contributions to medicine and public health are formidable. He was one of the first advocates for modern water and sewage systems in the West, which drastically reduced the spread of disease and death. Scholars such as the humanist Harvard physician Paul Farmer also credit Virchow with establishing the field of social medicine, which is predicated on the understanding that disease is never purely biological but also has many contributing social factors. From what limited records we have of the meeting, it would seem that those on hand were not overly impressed." - 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.)

"A MYSTERIOUS SLICE OF MIDDLE AMERICA In 1955, public health researchers began to be mystified by the mortality records in the small town of Roseto. They eventually published a documented medical study called "The Roseto Effect." Weighed against the norm of neighboring small-sized communities, Roseto's citizens broke every accepted good health practice. They drank more alcohol, ate more red meat and fatty food, and exercised and dieted less. Yet they suffered 35 to 40 percent fewer heart attacks than did residents of comparable communities, even those nearby that shared the same water source." - 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.)

"I knew that the amount we had prescribed wasn't toxic, because thirty years ago, public health policy in the Netherlands had mandated that all newborns receive 2,000 IU of vitamin D (in cod liver oil) to prevent rickets, and there were no observations of any toxicity. How did Jennifer do? Her first-visit scores and notes looked like this: ?0.375-65-0-15-6 (function, pain, fatigue, health perception, sleep) ?90 minutes of stiffness in the morning At follow-up four months later, though, the changes looked like this: ?0.125-0-15-5-6 scores ?No stiffness ?Function improved by 67 percent ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Low infection rates and high vaccination rates should not be the cornerstone of our public health policy. Vaccine reactions should not be discounted, whatever their numbers. Further, the true cost-benefit of the vaccination program must be considered, and what has been presented is barely the tip of the iceberg. 2. Parents, and all adults, must retain their right to refuse vaccines. They are not without risk, and those "rare" complications can result in significant costs, both economic and in terms of human life. 3." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Elina Hypponen and her colleagues at the Tampere School of public health in Finland analyzed health records of babies who were born in 1966 in Oulu and Lapland, Finland, to check for development of type 1 diabetes. This landmark analysis showed an 80 percent reduction in occurrence of type 1 diabetes among those who were receiving vitamin D at 2,000 IU per day. Those in the study who didn't take vitamin D and developed rickets as children had a 200 percent higher risk than compliant children of developing type 1 diabetes. Unfortunately, this evidence didn't make a big impression on the Finns." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "This kind of research has influenced public health policy, so we get a recommendation of three servings of low-fat dairy a day-—and it's now part of our food pyramid. The issues that haven't been addressed are: Why are three-fourths of the world's populations lactose intolerant, and how are North Americans supposed to comply with this recommendation? Would this dairy benefit evaporate if people normalized their vitamin D levels? We're the only animals on the planet who consume other animals' milk as adults." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Diabetes is already a major public health problem in Africa and its impact is bound to increase significantly if nothing is done to curb the rising rate of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), which now exceeds 16 percent in some countries.21 THE MIDDLE EAST In Israel, mostly among the large non-European immigrant population, the diabetes rate is already 7 percent of the population, with some 400,000 people diagnosed with diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Simin Liu of the Harvard Medical School and School of public health in Boston, said, "Our studies provided some direct evidence that greater intake of dietary magnesium may have a long-term protective effect on lowering diabetes risk."147 Diabetics often have low magnesium levels in their cells and blood, and some researchers believe that they might even have a defect in the metabolism of magnesium that exacerbates the disease. Even if you're not a diabetic, you're likely to suffer from insulin resistance if you're low in magnesium." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The discovery of the Type A personality and his apparent vulnerability to heart attack had roots in a far more broadly based set of public health concerns in the postwar period. This was a period of sharply rising levels of coronary heart disease in the American population. Once seen as a relatively rare disease in the United States and Europe, by the second half of the twentieth century, heart disease had come to be called the silent epidemic of the times, responsible for some 30 percent of deaths in industrialized countries—the largest single cause of death from any disease." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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