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"In early human times this must have seemed like a miracle, and, after too long a winter in vermont, the song of the first robins heralding spring is indeed a miracle. The earliest known spiral was found on a mammoth-tooth amulet dating twenty-four thousand years ago. Some suggest that the double volute spirals carved on the tooth by Cro-Magnon hunters indicate migrations of people—the comings and goings, moving from place to place with the seasons or in larger cycles—always returning to the place known to give life." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Rather than being told to just leave the hospital, as most deinstitutionalized patients were, the vermont patients were afforded a ten-year rehabilitation program in the community, which involved the provision of community housing, vocational programs that led to real employment, education, social supports, and individual treatment planning. These services were provided variously by psychiatrists, nurses, vocational counselors, even sociologists. Harding tracked down all but seven of the original 269 patients in the 1980s, an average of thirty years after they were admitted to the hospital." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Psychiatrists earn more money from drug companies than doctors in any other specialty," wrote The New York Times in reporting a story about lecture fees and gifts given to psychiatrists in vermont and Minnesota.87 And more than half of the psychiatrists involved in developing the 1994 edition of the DSM had financial ties to drug companies.88 One can argue that financial self-interest is influencing medicine to its core, in the very defining of how to practice medicine." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Bob and Cindy Maynard live in vermont, running their business, the Vermont Country Cyclers, and raising their two children, Megan and Tyler. Every year since they've lived in vermont, Bob and Cindy have strapped on their cross-country skis and gone out to the woods the day before Christmas to chop down their tree. One year, that expedition became the highlight of the entire holiday. "We've known and been friendly with five other couples since we moved to vermont," says Bob. "But we just hadn't been that close." - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"Harding studied patients leaving vermont State Hospital, a state psychiatric hospital, between 1955 and i960. The 269 patients in the study were "the classic back ward cases ... diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and deemed unable to survive outside" the hospital. These patients were the happy recipients of one of the first true deinstitutionalization programs, which was highly unusual if not unprecedented for its day." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In the 1960s, 60% of children under age twenty had the operation in Morrison, vermont, but only 10% from neighboring Middlebury had the same procedure. In the 1970s, the probability of a woman undergoing a hysterectomy in Middlebury was about one-quarter by age 75, whereas in nearby Lewistown, seven of ten women had the surgery. In 1982, carotid endarterectomies were twice as common in Boston than they were in New Haven, but the rates for coronary bypass were the reverse. Hysterectomies were more common for New Haven women, but hip replacements were performed at a higher rate in Boston." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"But even these vermont pathologists, who were concerned that doctors lacked the training to determine the true causes of deaths, disregarded the harm caused by prescription drugs. In one of the cases they wrote about, a patient died after the diuretic pills prescribed for congestive heart failure caused hyponatremia, a dangerous condition in which there is not enough sodium in the blood. Such an electrolyte imbalance is a known risk of diuretic treatment. The patient's doctors had listed hyponatremia as the cause of death on the death certificate. The pathologists said this was wrong." - 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 Maine program amounted to giving the patients drugs and checking in with them every once in a while. "The vermont model was self-sufficiency, rehabilitation, and community integration. The Maine model was meds, maintenance, and stabilization," said Harding.22 Through such studies, and by listening to patients—instead of listening to Prozac—three elements of the recovery movement have been identified consistently. First, social inclusion is critical to getting better. " - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"HAWTHORN—CRATAEGUS SPR It's autumn in vermont and the hillsides are splashed with color as the trees display their finery, dressing as if they are going to a festive ball. This last splurge before taking their long winter rest fills me with deep gratitude and awe for the magnificent beings they are. Walking with appreciation I comb the woodland edges in search of the elusive red berries. As the twilight descends I come upon the Thorn Apple covered with pomes and I notice a flickering of light beneath the tree. I look to see what could be reflecting light but find nothing." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Jarvis was a country doctor in vermont in the first half of the 1900s and recorded his observations on the benefits of including acv in the diets of both humans and animals. He noted that hunting dogs, when given rations of acv with their daily feed, had more than twice the endurance, better appetites, as well as an ability to retain their weight during hunting season, compared to dogs that had not received regular acv rations. acv has many other uses besides nutritional ones." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In the early 1970s, when Wennberg and Gittelsohn conducted a study in Maine similar to what they had done in vermont, they saw just as much variation in the rates of surgeries in different areas of that state. Two procedures in particular stood out: the hysterectomy, in which a surgeon removes a woman's uterus and sometimes her ovaries and cervix, and the prostatectomy, or removal of a man's prostate gland, which sits at the base of the penis and helps produce seminal fluid." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The photo was taken in 1937, on the slopes near his hometown of Bellows Falls, vermont, where his father managed the paper mill. A Norwegian immigrant, the elder Wennberg made his son read the plays of the great Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. The family snow-shoed and skied in the long New England winters; Wennberg fished in the summers. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Vancouver, 13 Washington, a raw Western mill town in the shadow of Mount Saint Helens. Wennberg spent his summers at Spirit Lake, on the flanks of the volcano, fishing and working at a YMCA camp." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "He installed his family on a farm just outside of Stowe, vermont, and set out to uncover pockets of medical need in the state. Like most doctors, Wennberg assumed that the most serious problem in American health care was that many citizens were not getting enough of it." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Just as Wennberg had suspected, the people living in different parts of vermont were remarkably homogeneous in their health, their socioeconomic status, their level of education, and how well-insured they were. Practically everybody was white; nearly everybody had a personal physician, whom they visited on average about as often from one region to the next. Practically nobody was going to the emergency room for routine care. It was absolutely clear. The high rates of surgery were not being driven by patients but rather by doctors." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"It was no longer just a mountain, one of many in vermont, but instead he was an elder holding the wisdom of the ages in his arms where I could walk, listen, and learn. I continued to drive, transfixed by this image, and when I returned home, the epiphany continued as I was told by Marble Mountain that I was to apprentice with him and the Heart Spring (the pure water spring outside my door that I had already begun to learn from). He is the masculine aspect of the teachings and the spring is the feminine aspect of the teachings." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "My work broke through to new levels when my dear heart, Mark, moved from his life-long home of Minnesota to vermont, where we now share a special life together. Together we have stepped into "being love," and it is from this profound yet simple way of being that my work and play with plant spirits flourishes. What I now realize is that the plant spirits are "being love" with us, and when we meet them in this being-ness, we arrive home—exactly where we were always meant to be." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Other states with high numbers of medicated children include New Hampshire, vermont, Michigan, and Delaware, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which closely tracks the flow of the drugs because of their potential for addiction and abuse. These statistics tend to feed on themselves. When numbers are released from an area of the country where prescriptions are high, officials at schools with lower numbers can be quick to believe that they have children suffering from the disorder who have not yet been diagnosed." - 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.)

"You see, the water from our well in vermont is extremely hard. It contains abundant sources of calcium, magnesium, and other minerals. And while this is good for the body, it's wreaks havoc when it comes to cleaning our black granite counter- 179 top and those black designer sinks, toilets, and glassware. I hear her sigh and moan as she scrubs and chisels the whitish deposits left behind by standing water, but as a nurse and my research editor, she now believes in the power of minerals like magnesium." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"He'd come to the lab in 1980 for a year-long sabbatical from teaching at a college in vermont, but then one year turned into two, and before long he informed his college that he wasn't coming back. The PEAR work was intoxicating for the Nebraska-born Nelson, red-bearded and rustic-featured, another philosopher scientist drawn, even as a child, to the scientific frontier. Nelson had been sitting up in the civil engineering department at Princeton, creating graphs for the distributions of the scores for multiple REG runs." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"New Chapter, located in Brattleboro, vermont, manufactures the formula, now being tested at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. Herbal chemoprevention, the use of select herbs and nutrients to prevent the growth of cancer, is also being studied by Dr. Robert A. Newman, Ph.D. Dr. Newman holds a contract with the National Cancer Institute to perform assays, determine any toxicity, and assess the pharmacokinetics (the absorption, distribution through the body, and elimination from the body) of substances with promise as cancer drugs." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Another example of how this works was detailed in a 2005 study by pathologists in vermont. The doctors had pored through the medical charts of fifty patients who had died in an academic medical center. They used their expertise in forensics to determine what they believed caused the patients to die and then compared their finding with what doctors at the medical center had written on the death certificate. They found that 96 percent of death certificates contained some kind of error." - 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.)

"Gary Margolis, the director of counseling at Middlebury College in vermont, reported that "the old relationship of mutual communication has transformed into 'What can you give me to feel better and perform?' I say this descriptively, not pejoratively. They have seen the Pac-Man version of neurotransmitter theory and they come in quoting it." And, more troubling, "Students are sharing the drugs," Margolis says, "particularly at the end of the semester, and also, frankly, there is a party use of the drugs — so you can perform well at a party!" - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Petty, Medical Director of the vermont Healing Tools Project. Free radicals are like pollution left behind when Helicobacter pyloribacteria attack your stomach. Then these scavenging free radicals irritate an already irritated ulcer. By taking care of these free radicals, antioxidants may help heal your ulcer. "The antioxidant properties of botanicals as well as pharmaceuticals," Petty agrees, "are believed to contribute to their anti-ulcer effects." Here's a short list of botanicals, or traditional herbal remedies, that are full of ulcer-fighting antioxidants. Licorice." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"That's just what Central vermont Public Service (CVPS) has been doing with its Cow Power program, which promises to provide "renewable energy one cow at a time." In order to reap power from poop, farms install an anaerobic digester which, over a period of twenty days or so, breaks down some of the collected poop's solids into acids, which feed bacteria, which in turn digest the manure and produce biogas. The gas is then pushed through a pipe into a modified natural gas engine, and electricity generated by burning the gas is fed into the CVPS system." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Houston, TX 77030 713-792-2553 or 1-800-345-6324 Vermont Vermont Cancer Center University of vermont 1 South Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05401 802-656-4580 Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1124 Columbia Street Seattle, WA 98104 206-467-4675 Wisconsin Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center University of Wisconsin 600 Highland Avenue Madison, Wl 53792 608-263-8090 Unusual Oncology Practices (Variations in Medical Practice) This section gives four examples of what is sometimes referred to as "variations in medical practice." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"Carter, a self-described "old-school" brand of counselor and the director of psychological services at Bennington College in vermont is a widely admired observer of psychological trends in university life, about which she has a wry sense of humor and sharp analytical views. (Of the difference between Bennington and Williams College students, she once said that "Bennington tends to be more bulimic — or defiant — whereas Williams tends to be more anorexic — or compliant.") Her therapeutic metier is one-on-one counseling." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Just across the border in the Green Mountain State of vermont, according to a 1998 congressional report prepared for Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a longtime critic of the drug industry. One hundred Relafen pills for arthritis pain would be costly in Canada at just under $60, but exorbitant in vermont, at $120.27. Overall, the study found that the ten drugs accounting for the highest dollar sales to elderly Vermonters cost them 81 percent more than their counterparts in Canada pay for the drugs." - Katharine Greider, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (Get the book.)

"Duke University and his medical degree from the University of vermont College of Medicine. Dr. Hoffman completed a family practice residency at St. Margaret's Memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a primary care sports medicine fellowship at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Currently, he practices nonoperative orthopedics/sports medicine in Duluth, Minnesota, where he is the team physician for the University of Wisconsin-Superior and the Duluth Huskies baseball team. Dr. Hoffman enjoys sports, including Nordic skiing, cycling, and kayaking." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2000. Strombeck, D.R., DVM, Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1999. Zucker, M., Natural Remedies for Cats, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Zucker, M. Natural Remedies for Dogs, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Websites In the United States American Board of Veterinary Toxicology. Provides addresses and various links to toxicology sites: www.abvt.org Animal Protection Institute. An organization that informs, educates, and advocates the humane treatment ofall animals: www." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"We're doing this primarily as a precautionary measure to protect unborn children from unnecessary exposure to mercury," says Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, located in Montpelier, vermont. "We're very concerned that our government is not doing what it should to protect the unborn. "Why isn't the FDA joining Health Canada and the other countries in banning the placement [of mercury fillings] in expectant mothers?" he asks. "FDA silence over mercury is the same kind of silence our government once had for tobacco." Still, any ban could have consequences." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

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