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"Back up to the cloud a return stroke explodes. It follows the same channel cut out in the sky that the original descending one used, but there the resemblance ends. The downward initial stroke traveled a few tens of thousands of miles per hour, about the speed of an ordinary re-entering spacecraft. The upward return stroke however moves at 60 million mph-almost a tenth of the fastest speed obtainable in the universe. This upward stroke takes so much electricity with it that it glows at a temperature of 25,000 C. That is hot; the surface of the sun is only 5,000 C." - David Bodanis, The Secret House : The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day (Get the book.)

"We are well aware of the complications and associated conditions: cardiovascular disease (the cause of 80 percent of deaths in people with diabetes),2 Syndrome X, hypertension, obesity, impotence, nephropathy (kidney disease), retinopathy (eye disease), neuropathy (nerve disease), infections, liver damage, gallstones, stroke, chronic pain, depression, and Candida. For the majority of these health challenges, the underlying cause, and reversing mechanism, is found in diet and lifestyle." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In 1993 the New England Journal of Medicine6* reported that eating 8-16 walnuts per day decreased total and LDL cholesterol by 5-10 percent, and reduced incidence of stroke and clogging of arteries up to 70 percent.69 Additional research has confirmed that when walnuts are eaten as part of a modified low-fat diet, the result is a more cardioprotective fat profile in diabetic patients than can be achieved by simply lowering the fat content of the diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"For example, Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is a technique that uses low-level electrical currents to reactivate nerves in the arms and legs of people who suffer paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, head injury, or stroke. Biofield therapy—using simple mentalistic means to manipulate BioEM energies—is much more powerful and versatile than conventional energy medicine. It can often stand alone as a cure. I have had countless experiences like the one earlier in this chapter of complete and instantaneous healing using only biofield therapy." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Yamamura listed sixty-seven clinical studies that evaluated coenzyme Qio in cases of heart muscle disease, arrhythmias, and heart damage from drugs, high blood pressure, and stroke. At the same time, Per Langsjoen, M.D., in Texas, reported on coenzyme Q10 as a valuable nutrient for cardiomyopathy in a double-blind test. Just one year later (in 1986), the prestigious Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society was awarded to Dr. Folkers, who is often called the "father of coenzyme Qio" for his research into this nutrient as well as others." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"More than 40 percent of American women between the ages of fifty and seventy-four were taking Prempro or a similar drug in 2002, when a large government study found that the pills raised a woman's risk of breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. Upon learning of the study's results, millions of women threw away their pill bottles. The number of prescriptions written for Prempro fell by more than 65 percent. But that was not the end of the tale." - 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.)

"British Medical Journal HRT increases stroke risk by 30%. British Medical Journal Heart drug causes kidney failure. University of Michigan Viagra causes blindness in some users. University of Minnesota Medical School Antipsychotic drugs increase mortality rate in elderly patients. FDA Acetaminophen linked to asthma and pulmonary disease. Third National Health and Nutrition Survey III Asthma drugs make symptoms worse. FDA Statin drugs increase risk of stroke for severely ill diabetics. New England Journal of Medicine Birth control pills increase cancer risk." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"People who chronically hold negative energy in this center are prone to migraines, stroke, cancer, or disorders of the central nervous system. They may also suffer from chronic sinus, ear, and eye problems. The seventh energy center is at the very top of the head. This center has to do with the overall spiritual evolution of a person. It does not necessarily tell you the merit of the individual, however. A fine, virtuous person whom you admire might not be particularly evolved spiritually while someone who is highly evolved might be letting all of that spiritual power go to waste." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"In a manner similar to that by which serum cholesterol concentration predicts risk for heart attack or blood pressure predicts risk for stroke, BMD measurements can successfully identify subjects at risk of fracture and can help physicians select those individuals who will derive greatest benefit for initiation of therapy. Indeed, the gradient of risk associated with a 1 SD difference in BMD is even greater than those for cholesterol and heart attack. TABLE 2 A Partial List of Risk Factors for Osteoporosis and Related Fractures Major factors ?Personal history of fracture as an adult ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Trial analysis identified a 77% decrease in nonfatal myocardial infarction but also a nonsignificant increase in early deaths from CVD and total mortality, although no increase in risk of hemorrhagic stroke was observed. Interpretation of this study was complicated by unbalanced randomization, incomplete follow-up, and a midstudy change in vitamin E dose (800 IU per day to 400 IU per day) [78]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Decreases risk for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and colon cancer ?Can aid in managing mild to moderate depression and anxiety Different types of physical activity may have different benefits. For example, resistance exercise can increase muscular strength and endurance, if performed on 2 or more days per week. Vigorous physical activity provides better fitness and thus a lower risk of developing chronic diseases." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Another single common amino acid-changing polymorphism (A370T) has been investigated, and some investigators found an association between this polymorphism and stroke, independent of lipid levels [190]. However, another study did not show any association between this SNP and plasma lipids [191]. No reports of gene-diet interactions have been reported for this locus despite its pivotal role in lipoprotein metabolism. B." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"It made prescription drugs the country's fourth leading cause of death, after heart disease, cancer, and stroke. According to the study, another two million Americans were seriously injured by their medicines, but did not die. The researchers had been selective as they set out to estimate the number of drug-induced deaths. They excluded injuries caused by medication errors made by doctors and pharmacists. They also left out overdoses and cases where patients died after abusing the medications." - 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.)

"In addition to those mentioned above, physical health problems that may contribute to depression include Candida or yeast infection, amino acid deficiencies, electrolyte imbalances, toxic exposure to heavy metals or chemicals, cardiopulmonary obstructive disease, brain tumors, Alzheimer's, stroke, seizure, hypertension, viral infections, diabetes, insulin resistance, and difficulty metabolizing carbohydrates. There are different degrees of depression, and its treatment has varied considerably according to trends in psychiatry, psychology, and psychopharmacol-ogy in recent decades." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Six months after that December 2000 video, government researchers announced they had shut down a study of Prempro after finding it caused a higher risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke. While the drug would remain on the market, the news startled millions of women who had believed the daily pills would keep them vigorous, sexy, and young. Robert Chandler and Gianfranco Chicco were two of the industry's top experts on producing buzz about pharmaceutical products. They operated a global public relations firm from an office in the heart of Manhattan's meatpacking district." - 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.)

"A heart attack or stroke is just waiting to happen. Supplements to Reduce High Blood Pressure_ When your goal is reducing hypertension, the following will help: the superstar mineral potassium (500 mg to 800 mg); 1,500 mg of calcium magnesium citrate; vitamin C (5,000 mg to 10,000 mg); vitamin Bg (100 mg); coenzyme Q10 (generally 300 to 500 mg); the omega-3 fatty acids from fish (1,500 mg); L-car-nitine (1,500 mg); L-glutamine (1,000 mg); vitamin E with tocotrienols and gamma tocopherol (400 to 800 units); red clover; and again, our tried and true friend garlic." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States has been estimated at $432 billion for 2007, including health care expenditures and lost productivity. Imagine how much America might save if we could bring our heart disease rates down to those of Okinawa. Since lifestyle, not genes, is the chief determinant of how long we live, I argued that the Okinawan Blue Zone offered the world's best practices in health and longevity. During my first trip in 2000,1 spent time with 13 centenarians and heard their stories." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Panchita pulled herself back up and now began to stroke Tommy's knee. "How is your leg, my son?" A few days earlier, he had injured it working around the house. "Mama, I'm fine, please!" he said, grimacing. As the scene unfolded, I sat by and smiled to see an exchange between a loving mother and a son who didn't want to be embarrassed in front of a new friend. Under the circumstances, I could see Tommy's point. He was, after all, an 80-year-old man and a great-grandfather himself. His mother, Panchita, had recently celebrated her 100th birthday." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "We don't oranges have been credited nQW mu(fo Qf tne f00Js fa^t with helping prevent heart dis- grow in his garden Aureliano has ease, cancer, and stroke. eaten mroughout his entire life, and we don't know what else he has also eaten. It could be something you didn't even see. In fact, we can associate his longevity more easily to the fact that Aureliano lives with a daughter than what he grows in his garden." Then Gianni went on to describe a study done in rural Poland showing that every daughter increases a man's life expectancy by 75 weeks." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"In 2007, UCLA researchers published a stunning report that said exposure to a combination of diesel exhaust and high blood cholesterol increases the risk for heart attack and stroke far more than exposure to either factor alone. This is a perfect example of how toxins can have a deadly, synergistic effect—even with tissues or cells that are not themselves toxins. Adding diesel particles (1) to cholesterol fats (1) equals 3, not 2." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "A 2007 edition of the online journal Genome Biology published a study stating that the combination of diesel exhaust and high cholesterol can increase the risk for heart attack and stroke far more than the exposure to either one alone. The study explains how fine particles in air pollution can interact with low-density lipoprotein (LDL, "bad cholesterol") and create a dangerous synergy that results in blood vessel inflammation and hardening of the arteries. One can only imagine what this means for millions of urbanites with stressful jobs and long commutes on congested highways." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The major health consequences of diabetes include heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, pregnancy complications, lower-extremity amputations, and death. What really gets me is the number of people projected to have diabetes in the future: One in three Americans born in the year 2000 will develop adult-onset diabetes. As the United States population gains weight, including record numbers of children, the tremendously increased incidence of this debilitating disease is causing many doctors and leaders to worry that the word disaster rather than just epidemic is looming ahead." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "This can lead to an obstruction of blood vessels, high blood pressure, heart attacks, and stroke. As fat builds up in the liver and other organs, metabolism (conversion of food to energy) slows down, resulting in weight gain (especially in the belly) and unsightly cellulite deposits. Because a toxic liver is not filtering properly, it is unable to rid the bloodstream of undigested food particles that have arrived there via a leaky gut, giving rise to an autoimmune response." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Reaven stated in the June 2006 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that the World Health Organization, the Adult Treatment Panel III, and the International Diabetes Federation have all created diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome, but that diagnosing the syndrome in a person isn't nearly as important as targeting the core underlying problem—insulin resistance—and aggressively taking steps to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke in these people. We agree." - 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.)

"Excerpta Medica, a firm in New Jersey, said that the "highly sophisticated publication plan" it had created for a company selling a stroke medication had succeeded in getting more than 150 articles published in one year. The articles, the firm's executives explained, "ensured an extensive level of noise'" about the drug in the medical literature. The marketing firms aimed to have the articles published in even the world's best medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association." - 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 manufacturer just publicly repeated the little slip it had made in the original misleadingly titled NEJM article "Pravastin and the Risk of stroke," which may have led busy readers to draw the same incorrect conclusion. But in this case the FDA was paying attention. These "false and misleading" ads earned Bristol-Myers Squibb one of only five Warning Letters sent to drug makers for advertising violations in 2003." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In another study, at the University of Bristol and the Bristol, researchers found that patients receiving a red blood cell transfusion were three times more likely to experience complications from lack of oxygen to key organs, such as heart attack or stroke. And an earlier study at Duke University in 2004 found that patients who receive a blood transfusion to treat blood loss or anemia were twice as likely to die during their first 30 days of hospitalization." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The longer the blood has been stored, the higher the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke and death. Nitric oxide in red blood cells is critical to the delivery of oxygen to tissues. If blood is stored for more than two weeks, its nitric oxide concentration drops to a level that may endanger the life of the patient. Current practice is to store blood for transfusion for up to six weeks. The above risk could be reduced by enriching the blood with nitric oxide, but very few hospitals do so." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "To deal with these injuries or lesions, the body attaches protective plaque, including cholesterol, to the interior of the artery wall in order to prevent dangerous blood clots from escaping into the bloodstream and triggering a heart attack or stroke. Venules and veins, on the other hand, always remain free of plaque because their basal membranes are not exposed to the damaging proteins. For this reason, heart surgeons are able to 15 More details about the protein self-sufficiency of the body in the section on vegetarianism of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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