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"One outcome of this 1980 report was the issuance of the Surgeon General's Advisory on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in May 1981, for which Dr. Warren was the lead contributor. Twenty-four years later, he again played a significant role in the development and issuance of an updated Surgeon General's Advisory in February 2005. In Greening Your Cleaning, the first installment of the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shows just how easy it is to make "living green" your way of life." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Recent comments from Richard Carmona, US surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, are revealing. Carmona says that during his tenure his speeches were censored by the Bush administration and he was stopped from providing accurate scientific information to the public on a variety of issues. If it doesn't "fit into the ideological, theological, or political agenda," he told a congressional committee in 2007, it "is ignored, marginalized, or simply buried." "The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation," he lamented, "not the doctor of a political party." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The majority of those with a diagnosable mental disorder [are] not receiving treatment," wrote the U.S. surgeon general in a 1999 report. Studies published in 1985, 2000, and 2001 found that 50 percent, 42 percent, and 46 percent, respectively, of people with serious mental illness were receiving no treatment for their illnesses.41 The World Health Organization's massive study on the prevalence of mental illness revealed that in developed countries 35 to 50 percent of people with serious cases had not been treated in the last year, and in poor countries, the figure was 80 percent." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Healthy People: "The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention," Chapter 11, United States Public Health Service; Report No.: DHEW (PHS) Publication No. 79-55071, Washington, DC. 5. American Institute for Cancer ResearchAVorld Cancer Research Fund. (1997). In "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective" (World Cancer Research Fund, Ed.). American Institute for Cancer Research, Washington, DC. 6. Radimer, K. L., Bindewald, B., Hughes, J., Ervin, B., Swanson, C, and Picciano, M. F." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The U.S. Surgeon General's report on health and nutrition, published back in 1988, concluded that 8 out of the top 10 causes of death in America were directly related to diet.1 The number one cause of death, heart disease, has been directly linked to trans fats from hydrogenated oils.2 Chronic degenerative diseases in general are higher where diets are richer in animal products and in total fat.3 Our personal choices concerning what we eat appear to have the most influence on our long-term health prospects." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In 1999, Bill Clinton convened a high-profile summit meeting on the nation's mental health, and his surgeon general released the first report on that topic. Even George W. Bush, not typically known for his progressive stances, issued his own remarkably forward-looking report on mental health in 2002 and publicly supported "mental health parity"—equality in the insurance coverage of physical and mental ailments. Bush declared: "Political leaders, health-care professionals, and all Americans must understand and send this message: mental disability is not a scandal—it is an illness." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Several factors have contributed to this improvement: After the first Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking was issued in 1964, the percentage of adult smokers in the United States declined steadily, from 42 percent in 1965 to 25 percent in 1990. (Smoking is responsible for as much as 30 percent of all deaths from coronary heart disease in the United States each year.) Beginning in 1970, Americans' per capita consumption of beef, eggs, and whole milk began to decline, leading to a decrease in the percentage of calories derived from saturated fats and cholesterol." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Smoking_ Warning labels: "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy. SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health. SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, premature birth, and low birth weight. SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide." Cigarettes are probably the most toxic of consumer products. If you smoke and the health dangers have not yet convinced you to quit, consider also the environmental effects." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Do the threats those exposures pose outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding according to AAP's Pediatric Environmental Health guidebook, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. surgeon general "have considered the problem of environmental contaminants in human milk and continue to recommend breastfeeding." Many integrative physicians, like Kenneth Bock, M.D., likewise recommend breastfeeding whenever possible. "But you have to recognize that breastfeeding is a double-edged sword," Dr. Bock said. " - 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 U.S. Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, only 2.6 percent of American adults have such entrenched conditions, which are treated—for those who receive treatment—by antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antianxiety agents. Meanwhile, more than 10 percent of American women are taking antidepressants alone." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Twenty-four years later, he again played a significant role in the development and issuance of an updated Surgeon General's Advisory in February 2005. In Greening Your Cleaning, the first installment of the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Deirdre Imus shows just how easy it is to make "living green" your way of life." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"HISTORY Beginning in the 1980s, the surgeon general of the United States and the National Academy of Sciences advised consumers that diets low in saturated fat and high in fiber could be beneficial to their health. Statistics like those reported in Healthy People 2000 showing that 5 of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States—including coronary heart disease, some types of cancer, stroke, diabetes, and atherosclerosis—were related to dietary imbalances, created a new focus on diet and health." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, who predicted that by 198 c nine out of ten diseases would be eradicated and "spare parts for the human body . . . may seem almost commonplace." Television aired shows about heroic doctors, including Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, and Marcus Welby M.D., which in 1969 was the nation's favorite program. Americans thought they had the best health care in the world, and doctors were convinced they had the best job in the country. And yet, patients still died unnecessarily." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"It could leave out the surgeon general's warning required on its cigarette packages and in its printed advertisements that said tobacco could kill. At the racetrack, R. J. Reynolds also learned to confront fans directly. The tobacco company had forty of its "agents" roam the stands, looking for fans who smoked. The agents invited the smokers to the company's Winston tent, where they were given free cigarettes and NASCAR collectibles. The fans gave RJR their names and other personal information. The experience helped the tobacco company form "a relationship" with the smoker." - 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.)

"To help put these figures into perspective, a similar analysis by the surgeon general found that smoking a pack a day or more conferred a 2.5-fold risk of developing CHD(47). In other words, major depression is every bit as bad for your heart as regular cigarette smoking, a habit that the surgeon general in 1983 described as "... the most important of the known modifiable risk factors for coronary heart disease in the United States. "(5\) As for stroke, studies conducted so far have established a 1.7- to 2." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the surgeon general. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA. 62. American College of Sports Medicine. Position Stand. (2002). Progression models in resistance training for healthy adults. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 34(2), 364-380. 63. Haskell, W. L., Lee, I-M., Pate, R. R., Powell, K. E., Blair, S. N., Franklin, B. A., Macera, C. A., Heath, G. W., Thompson, P. D., and Bauman, A. (2007)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "This prescription was endorsed by the 1996 NIH Consensus Development Panel on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health [5] and incorporated into the 1996 Physical Activity and Health: Report of the surgeon general [6]. Although there was substantial evidence that this level of physical activity would limit health risks for a number of chronic diseases [4-6], its role in weight control was unclear, thus prompting the ACSM to sponsor a scientific roundtable on the role of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities [7]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Second only to smoking cigarettes according to the EPA, surgeon general, and The American Lung Association. Millions of homes and buildings contain high levels of radon gas. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/ "Although California has made strides in reducing hazardous air pollution, a Congressional Report released on 3/1/99 found toxins at high enough levels that the risk of cancer was 426 times higher than health standards established by the 1990 federal Clean Air Act." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Physical activity and health: a report of the surgeon general. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA. 66. Wing, R. R. (1999). Physical activity in the treatment of the adulthood overweight and obesity: current evidence and research issues. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 30(11), S547-S552. 67. Zachwieja, J. J. (1996). Exercise as treatment for obesity. Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. N. Am. 25(4), 965-988. 68. Schoeller, D. A., Shay, K., and Kushner, R. F. (1997). How much physical activity is needed to minimize weight gain in previously obese women? Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 66, 551-556. 69. Jakicic, J. M." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"I sat with the surgeon general and the director of the National Institutes of Mental Health,Thomas Insel, M.D.The discussion around the dinner table focused on the limitations of our current approach of breaking down the body into its component parts to understand how things work. I asked Dr. Insel what he thought of the DSM-IV He said that it has 100 percent accuracy, but 0 percent validity—that it provides a perfect way to describe symptoms, but has nothing to tell us about the underlying biology for what causes them." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Despite their usefulness in shedding light on a subject still considered shameful, the Surgeon General's Report, the World Health Organization alarm, and President Bush's commission fall far short of what they might have been. Nowhere do they mention the connection between mind and body, which is the starting point of all holistic medicine." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation," he lamented, "not the doctor of a political party." The Drug Industry_ According to IMS Health, a health-care information company, nearly 230 million prescriptions were filled for antidepressants in the United States in 2006, more than any other type of medication. Sales of antidepressants and antipsychotics combined totaled $25 billion. Two decades ago, sales were at $500 million. In the mental health arena, these and other drugs are the pillars of conventional treatment for many conditions." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"All mental processes, even the most complex psychological processes, derive from operations of the brain. The central tenet of this view is that what we commonly call mind is a range of functions carried out by the brain. — eric kandel, nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, 1998 statement [Everything in our conscious life, from feeling pains, tickles, and itches to—pick your favorite—feeling the angst of post-industrial man under late capitalism or experiencing the ecstasy of skiing in deep powder—is caused by brain processes." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor. We know that the incidence of obesity and diabetes is skyrocketing and that Americans' health is slipping away, and we know what to blame: diet. So shouldn't the government be leading us to better nutrition?" - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Surgeon General's report concludes that secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke.10 If you are overweight or obese and you smoke cigarettes, the health risks are increased dramatically. Since cigarette smoking speeds up your heart rate and constricts the flow of blood throughout your body, it will significantly increase your odds of experiencing a heart attack. Nicotine addiction also results in withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to stop smoking." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"For support and information, parents can also try the following resources: • The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity: Overweight in Children and Adolescents (www. surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/ fact_adolescents.htm) How Parents Can Fight the Obesity Epidemic (www.med.umich.edu/llibr/yourchild/ fightobesity.htm) Shapedown for Parents, Kids & Teens (www.shapedown.com/page2.htm) CHRONIC CANDIDIASIS See also: Yeast Infection (page 454) What do I need to know?" - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Cooper and began recommending a modest exercise program. The surgeon general of the United States issued a statement in the early 1980s listing all the major health benefits that result from a modest exercise program. The highlights of these benefits are: • weight loss. • lower blood pressure. • stronger bones and a decreased risk of osteoporosis. • elevated levels of "good" HDL cholesterol. • decreased levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol. • decreased levels of triglycerides (fats). • increased strength and coordination, which leads to a decrease in the risk of falls." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"In an attempt to educate the nation in public health terms about AIDS, surgeon general C. Everett Koop released the "Surgeon General's Report on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" in 1986. President Reagan did not meet with the surgeon general to discuss the epidemic. By the time Reagan gave his first speech on AIDS in June of 1986, 20,849 Americans had died from AIDS and 36,058 had been diagnosed with AIDS. In February of 1989, when True Health began their 180-day AIDS Test, AIDS had been researched for about eight years. There was no effective treatment—the disease was just being managed." - Elaine Feuer, Innocent Casualties : The FDA's War Against Humanity (Get the book.)

"Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general, called smoking an addiction rather than a habit, he forever changed the way we look at smoking.4 How? He informed the public about the addictive qualities of nicotine, which the tobacco companies supposedly had known about for half a century. In fact strong evidence exists that says you can become addicted to nicotine within two to three weeks.5 Is it any wonder that it is so difficult for people to quit smoking? I have found it much more difficult for patients to stop smoking than to stop drinking alcohol." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"A Report of the surgeon general. -U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 1222 pp. Surgeon General. 1980. The Health Consequences of Smoking for Women. A Report of the surgeon general. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 359 pp. Tannenbaum, S. R., D. Moran, W. Rand, C. Cuello, and P. Correa. 1979. Gastric cancer in Colombia. IV. Nitrite and other ions in gastric contents of residents from a high-risk region. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 62:9-12. Teppo, L., E. Pukkala, M. Hakama, T. Hakulinen, A. Herva, and E. Saxen. 1980." - Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council, Diet, Nutrition and Cancer (Get the book.)

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