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"Undertreatment of cardiovascular risk factors among persons with diabetes in the united states. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2006 Nov 20. Marcy TR et al. Second-generation thiazolidinediones and hepo-totoxicity. Ann Pbarmacother 2004 Sep; 38(9):l4l9-23. Mayfield JA, White RD. Insulin therapy for type 2 diabetes: Rescue, augmentation and replacement of beta-cell function. Am Fam Physician 2004; 70:E489-500. Miyata T et al. Angiotensin II receptor antagonists and angio-tensin-converting enzyme inhibitors lower in vitro the formation of advanced glycation end products: Biochemical mechanisms." - 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.) "Impact of the metabolic syndrome on mortality from coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and all causes in united states adults. Circulation 2004 Sep 7; 110(10): 1245-50. Nakanishi N et al. Components of the metabolic syndrome as predictors of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in middle-aged Japanese men. Diabetes Res Clin Pract2004 Apr; 64(l):59-70. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute statistics: www.nhlbi. nih.gov/hbp/hbp/whathbp.htm Reaven G. The metabolic syndrome: Is this diagnosis necessary? Am J Clin Nutr 2006 ]un; 83(6): 1237-47. Selvin E et al." - 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.) "Mindfulness meditation is one of the most common meditation approaches practiced in the united states. There are many books and tapes on how to practice mindfulness (see the Suggested Reading List), and with practice, preferably daily, you can have a significant positive impact on your glucose levels. Mindfulness meditation is the practice of focusing your awareness on each moment; that is, your goal is to live each moment fully, which includes learning to accept and live with diabetes more completely." - 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.)

"At the age of ninety, Elizabeth Eichelaum from the united states became the oldest person to receive a Ph.D. Her degree in education was awarded by the University of Tennessee on May 12,2000. I do want to stress that even if you didn't have a high school or college education in your youth, this does not mean that you are doomed to suffer from dementia earlier than others. Our brains are resilient, malleable organs that can be reorganized and rewired at various life stages." - 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.)

"Beginning in the early nineteenth-century, Orientalist conventions of writing and thinking were also used in the united states and Europe by critics and radicals who effectively reversed the original moral logic of this tradition. Still stylized, still exoticizing, this new, more romantic form of Orientalism used idealized images of the East to highlight Western moral and spiritual failings." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Consider the following statistics: • In 1987, the incidence of autism was estimated at 1 in 10,000 children in the united states. • Ten years later, the rate had leaped to about 1 in 500. • Today, an estimated 1 in 150 U.S. children has some form of ASD. • In the first five years that the government required reporting of autism in school children ages six and above, the number of cases climbed from 5,415 to 34,101 (between the 1991-92 and 1996-97 academic years)." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Laparoscopic myomectomies for intramural or subserosal fibroids are very rare, and there are only a few physicians in the united states capable of performing them. Abdominal myomectomies have many of the same risks associated with a hysterectomy and can often be associated with more blood loss. Many women feel much more comfortable with retaining rheir reproductive organs and should be encouraged to find a physician who is comfortable with the concept of myomectomy when the patient prefers that approach." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As some readers may know, Carlos Castaneda was an anthropology graduate student at UCLA in the 1960s who sought to learn from native shamans about psychotropic plants in the southwestern united states and Mexico. According to his story, he met a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan, who agreed to teach him about hallucinogenic plants. In the process, don Juan provided Castaneda with a unique view of the world. Even more important, perhaps, don Juan supplied techniques to experience this new worldview." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"And research continues, with studies currently underway in major universities in the united states and abroad focusing on the benefit of ribose administration on oxygen utilization in congestive heart failure, cardiac surgical recovery, enhancing the exercise tolerance and quality of life of heart patients, athletic performance, and improving the world blood supply. Two of these studies have been completed, and as this book goes to press these reports are scheduled for presentation at major heart symposia and for later publication." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The EPA estimates that a proposed set of changes in diesel engine technology could result in 12,000 fewer premature mortalities, 15,000 fewer heart attacks, 6,000 fewer emergency room visits by children with asthma, and 8,900fewer respiratory-related hospital admissions each year in the united states. Not surprisingly, Los Angeles topped the American Lung Association's bad air 2007 list of most polluted cities in America. But there are signs of improvement: the number of days residents breathed the nation's worst ozone levels was fewer than in previous years." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Lindane may have been banned in fifty-two countries, but it's still used today in the united states and persists in the environment. The EPA no longer allows its use as a pesticide in agriculture, describing it as one of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever registered, yet the FDA continues to allow its use in lice treatment shampoos for children. What's ludicrous is that this highly toxic chemical cannot be used on plants and pets anymore, yet we permit it on children's heads (where it can readily be absorbed through the skin)." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The vast majority of perchlorate manufactured in the united states is used by the Department of Defense to make solid rocket and missile fuel, while smaller amounts are used to make fireworks and road flares. Perchlorate is also a contaminant of certain types of fertilizer that were widely used in the early part of the twentieth century but are in limited use today. In addition to water supplies, perchlorate has also been found in a wide variety of domestic and imported produce." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Leonard Bailey, a few hundred of the United States' infant heart transplants have occurred at LLUMC. The photographic display is a montage of survivors, including a strapping young man in his early twenties who was the world's first successful infant-to-infant heart transplant recipient in 1985. After the tour, I made a long trek through the courtyard to a far corner of the campus. There I found a side entrance to Evans Hall, a building that once housed unassuming classrooms for medical and dental students and now housed the university's Center for Health Promotion." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Comparing these findings with data from developed countries, Luis figured that a Costa Rican man at age 60 had about twice the chance of reaching age 90 as did a man living in the united states, France, or even Japan. He also found that if a male reached 90, he could expect, on average, another 4.4 years of life—again a life expectancy higher than in most developed countries. If Rosero-Bixby's numbers were correct, it was an extraordinary find." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "He made his way to the united states, earned a Ph.D. in demography, and then secured a position at Princeton University where he worked in the office of Office of Population Research. He established the Central American Population Center with grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 and has run it ever since. "It's really nothing," he concluded with a modest shrug. At Las Juntas, three hours north of San Jose, we turned off the Pan-American Highway and drove westward toward through progressively drier and hotter terrain." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Because virtually every woman who lives in an industrialized country (the united states, in particular) is at high risk of estrogen dominance because of exposure to xenoestrogens. Xenoestrogens, which are mostly petroleum-based synthetic estrogens, are now present in massive amounts in our food chain, water supply, and environment. At one time, our diets afforded some protection. Fruits and grains and vegetables (in their natutal state) provide low-action phytoestrogens for the body." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"He suggests that iodine consumption may be one of the many reasons why the incidence of breast cancer is so high in the united states and so low in Japan. Women with goiter—a noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland due to iodine deficiency— have three times greater incidence of breast cancer. Interesting." - 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.)

"It's also worth keeping in mind that the population of the united states has incteased 360% in the last hundred years (75,000,000 to 270,000,000). That means you can multiply both the survival and mortality rates by 3.6. In other words, the 8-17 times becomes 29?1 times. And that's how cancer has risen from virtual obscurity to become the numbet two killer in the USA, claiming several hundred thousand people a year. "Mortality rates are actually worse than they first appear." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Trying to make sense of what I was seeing, I had the intuitive feeling that the building housed computers and was somewhere in the southwestern united states. But where? As I took a few steps toward the building to look for a name, the imagery started to become unfocused. I looked back at my hands but it was too late—the lucid dream collapsed and I awoke. It began to sink in that knowing it was a dream did not make it seem unreal. The grass felt like real grass. My skin felt like real skin." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"I knew I wouldn't be able to bring the fresh berries into the united states, so we made a brandy tincture there and brought it home. What a treat to sip hawthorn brandy on cold winter nights! Hawthorn is a member of the Rose family that blooms in May, thus one of its names: Mayblossom. It has long been associated with the festivities of May Day, when the Queen of the May presides wearing a wreath of hawthorn blossoms. The ancient ceremony this time of year is Beltane, which is the cross-quarter day between spring equinox and summer solstice." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Worsley, the leading proponent of the Chinese Five Element system in the united states says, "the elements describe the way in which we could function in accordance with Nature; they reveal to us the true extent of our natural powers in body, mind and spirit." Each one of us is made up of all the elements, as we are a part of nature, but we have one element that is predominant which is referred to as the causative factor. This element is where we live from. It is where our greatest gifts lie, where we will encounter our greatest challenges, and where the most imbalances can occur." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Journal Entry, March 2006 Heart disease is the single leading cause of death in the united states, claiming more lives than the combined next four causes of mortality. Fifty-eight percent of all deaths are directly or indirectly related to cardiovascular disease, as 2,500 people die of heart disease each day or one every thirty-five seconds. Health care related to heart disease costs Americans 403 billion dollars a year with one in every three persons having some form of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association's 2006 statistics." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In 2007, the CIA World Factbook ranked the united states forty-fifth for life expectancy at birth, below countries like Israel, Jordan, Bosnia, and Bermuda. Future gains in life expectancy depend largely on how much we can extend life among the elderly—exceedingly difficult, when you consider that the incidence of diabetes in people over seventy-five is projected to increase 336 percent during the first half of this century. aspects of our lives was still fairly fresh, the price of "progress," especially to our health, seemed more obvious to many people and therefore more open to question." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Malpractice fears drive defensive medicine, and then there is medical custom, which varies from region to region of the united states. But the most powerful reason doctors and hospitals overtreat is that most of them are paid for how much care they deliver, not how well they care for their patients. They get paid more for doing more. This simple fact has led not only to overtreatment but also to the profound disorder of the American health care system. Modern medicine is a team sport, requiring coordination between primary care doctors, specialists, and hospitals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "That's almost as much as the worldwide market for petroleum, and more than the united states spends on food. We spend more per capita on health care than the Chinese spend, per capita, on everything. Looking to the future, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts annual health care costs will hit $4.1 trillion by 201 6, eating up nearly 20 percent of our gross domestic product. We currently spend nearly $6,000 apiece on health care, two and a half times the median for the rest of the industrialized world. What do we get for our money?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This variety might be hard to find in parts of the united states, but any dark red wine should do. Treat yourself to a "Happy Hour." Set up yours to include a glass of wine, nuts as an appetizer, and a gathering of friends or time with a spouse. Take it easy. A serving or two per day of red wine is the most you need to drink to take advantage of its health benefits. Overdoing it negates any benefits you might enjoy, so drink in moderation." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The breast-cancer population of the Bay Area, which is higher than average in the united states, has been extremely well studied. From the lackluster response to their advertising, it appeared that sufferers were unwilling to take part in yet more research. The scientists decided to open the study to any couple if either partner was suffering from cancer of any variety. Eventually 31 couples volunteered, including healthy couples who were to act as controls. Jerome Stone wrote a training manual for the couples, after analyzing a number of healers and distilling their common practices." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"From a cord-blood sample taken from ten randomly selected babies born in the united states in August and September of 2004, researchers found an astonishing 287 of the 413 industrial chemicals it tested for. These included perfluorochemicals, or PFCs (found in some stain and oil repellants); flame retardants used in the manufacturing of furniture foam, computers, televisions, and kids'furniture; metals (lead, mercury, arsenic, much of which enters the environment through burning coal, gasoline, and garbage), and chlorinated dioxins." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Obviously, there is no hope of explaining home prices in the united states solely in terms of building costs, population, or interest rates, all shown in Figure 2.1. The pattern of change from year to year in home prices bears no consistent relation with any of these factors. None of these can explain the "rocket-taking-off" effect starting after 1997. Building costs have been mostly level or declining all the way back to 1980, with no major break in the trend.8 Population growth has been very steady." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "United States in 1944 to 1,952,000 homes built in 1950. Even though this massive increase in supply did not stop price increases, the popular understanding seems to have been that it would. It is different now. We are increasingly feeling worried and vulnerable, and the market volatility that flares up from time to time, in both the stock market and the housing market, reflects this. Before the post-1997 boom, there were a couple of false starts (failed launches, so to speak), one in the late 1970s and one in the late 1980s." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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