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"Before an artificial nail is applied, any old color on the natural nail is removed, and the natural nail is filed or sanded to create a rough surface. The stylist then dips a small brush applicator into liquid ethyl methacrylate (EMA) and then into a powdered primer, which catalyses the liquid into a solid polymer. The mixture is brushed onto to each nail before the artificial nail is applied. The artificial nail is then shaped and filed, generating fine dust." - 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.)

"This includes recommendations for minimizing or eliminating artificial sweeteners, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, artificial colors, or hydrogenated oils. In general, one of the easiest ways to begin the transition to a healthy lifestyle is to avoid products with added sugars, including desserts, soft drinks, and snacks. Although fresh fruit juice is a wholesome beverage, it is best consumed in small quantities or diluted to minimize its concentrated sweetness. If this sounds like a lot of work, it can be." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"The stratum of society that dies before its time falls victim to an "artificial epidemic." "Artificial epidemics" account for 75 percent of mortal hazard. They will not respond to pharmaceuticals nor can they be surgically excised. They play out well beyond the walls of the clinic and the hospital. They are not considered the proper target of the "Health Promotion, Disease Prevention" initiatives of contemporary medicine. Rather, contemporary medicine nibbles at the frays of the other 25 percent of mortal hazard." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The great German pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) developed a notion of "natural" as opposed to "artificial" diseases and epidemics. He considered typhus, scurvy, and tuberculosis to be "artificial" because they were primarily due to social conditions: "The artificial epidemics are attributes of society, products of a false culture, that is not distributed to all classes. They point toward deficiencies produced by the structure of the state or society, and strike therefore primarily those classes which do not enjoy the advantages of the culture." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"There are trials that suggest that these bizarre pieces of hardware are as ineffective as fusion despite serving the latest theory; preserving "motion" of spinal segments is better for you in the long run than eliminating motion by fusing (Zeller 2006). The artificial disc is difficult to put in, more difficult to remove, and very profitable. The licensing of the artificial disc (two manufacturers are vying for this market) is yet another reproach to the fashion in which the fda safeguards us. It's reminiscent of the saga of the coronary artery stents (chapter 2)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The mixture is brushed onto to each nail before the artificial nail is applied. The artificial nail is then shaped and filed, generating fine dust. In most salons, the stylist sits opposite the client on one side of a small table, and sculpts and files nails about one to two feet below her face. During this time, both clients and stylists are exposed to this EMA vapor and dust. Salon employees sometimes wear simple cotton or other masks in attempts to filter the dust released in filing acrylic nails, but these masks do not protect them, nor their clients, from chemical fumes." - 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.)

"The stratum of society that dies before its time falls victim to an "artificial epidemic." "Artificial epidemics" account for 75 percent of mortal hazard. They will not respond to pharmaceuticals nor can they be surgically excised. They play out well beyond the walls of the clinic and the hospital. They are not considered the proper target of the "Health Promotion, Disease Prevention" initiatives of contemporary medicine. Rather, contemporary medicine nibbles at the frays of the other 25 percent of mortal hazard." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"For example, watch out for statements like these on packages: • NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS • WITH REAL FRUIT JUICE • ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS • NO artificial PRESERVATIVES • 100% NATURAL • REAL FRUIT • NO PRESERVATIVES • NO artificial INGREDIENTS Statements like these do not mean there are no harmful additives in the product or that the products are healthful, they simply mean the manufacturer hopes you'll think there are no harmful ingredients." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Hahnemann reasoned that the artificial diseases reliably and briefly induced by his 'proven'—experimentally tested—medicines more powerfully engaged the patient's vital force. The strong symptoms thus artificially induced 'extinguished' the weaker (but more persistent) effects of the natural disease, then disappeared as the medicines left the patient's system: 'By giving a remedy which resembles the disease the instinctive vital force is compelled to increase its vital energy until it becomes stronger than the disease which, in turn, is vanquished." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"He considered typhus, scurvy, and tuberculosis to be "artificial" because they were primarily due to social conditions: "The artificial epidemics are attributes of society, products of a false culture, that is not distributed to all classes. They point toward deficiencies produced by the structure of the state or society, and strike therefore primarily those classes which do not enjoy the advantages of the culture." The stratum of society that dies before its time falls victim to "artificial epidemics," which account for 75 per cent of mortal hazard." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"For example, watch out for statements like these on packages: • NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS • WITH REAL FRUIT JUICE • ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS • NO artificial PRESERVATIVES • 100% NATURAL • REAL FRUIT • NO PRESERVATIVES • NO artificial INGREDIENTS Statements like these do not mean there are no harmful additives in the product or that the products are healthful, they simply mean the manufacturer hopes you'll think there are no harmful ingredients." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"As you've learned, for most of us, eating ground-up grain products, drinking beverages or eating foods full of sugar, and even experiencing the taste of sugar in artificial, noncaloric sweeteners convinces our computer program 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, that winter is coming and our body must make fat in order to survive. You've also learned that you may be saddled with hunger genes, sometimes labeled "thrifty genes" by the popular press. You may even feel powerless to oppose their instructions and blame them for your weight problems, abandoning hope of ever gaining the upper hand." - 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.)

"You take out the sugar or HFCS and replace it with an artificial sweetener. Then you can have ice cream or soda or candy or cookies that are "good" for dieters because they satisfy your need for a sweet without adding too many calories. Right? Wrong! In fact, some fascinating studies have concluded that folks who consumed diet soda (sweetened with aspartame in this study) were more likely to gain weight over time than those who consumed regular sugar sweetened soda. Indeed, the risk of overweight for those consuming one to two cans of diet soda a day was 54." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Foods that contain artificial sweeteners are the stealth bombers of healthy eating. Food manufacturers have led us to believe that "low cal" is king. How The Truth About "Low Fat" Packaged Foods. People who are trying to lose weight see reduced-fat foods as great diet foods. But they usually fail to notice that what's missing in terms of fat has been added in some other form to make up for the loss of flavor and texture that fat provides. These foods are often nearly or as high in calories as a full-fat food." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Foods that contain added sugars or artificial sweeteners. You know that ice cream and cake have lots of sugar and you're probably well aware that these are not foods that are going to help you lose weight. While sugar is not the enemy, the amount we consume these days is a significant problem. The average American consumes 142 pounds of sugar a year, which is the average healthy weight of a woman standing 5-foot-8! To break it down to a small measure, on a daily basis most of us eat roughly 42 teaspoons of sugar. It's not all in our coffee." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"The causes of diarrhea vary and can include ingestion of certain foods or substances (such as caffeine, artificial sweeteners, or food allergens), food poisoning, viral or bacterial infection, parasites, excessive use of laxatives or antacids, overgrowth of natural bacteria in the intestines, exposure to chemicals the body cannot tolerate, and various bowel disorders or diseases. Acute diarrhea affects almost everyone from time to time. Chronic diarrhea or presence of blood in the stool may be due to a serious intestinal disorder and a physician should be consulted." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"The main offenders are: Protein, especially animal þShellfish Caffeine Dairy products, especially pasteurized, processed Nicotine Sugar and artificial sweeteners Carbonated beverages, soft drinks Table salt Margarine, commercial cooking oils Processed flour products, pasta, pastries Grains ? Alcohol The normal waste products of cellular metabolism are acidic. The body has to neutralize the acids because a healthy blood pH must be maintained at all costs. It does this with alkaline minerals." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The exact causes of ADHD are not known, but contributing factors include oxygen deprivation at birth, prenatal trauma, heredity, food allergies and artificial additives in food (particularly foods containing salicylates), smoking during pregnancy, lead poisoning, a low-protein diet, a protease deficiency, and environmental pollutants." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"They suggested that Selye had exaggerated the uniformity of the responses seen in different experimental situations, had not adequately defined stress as a concept, and that, in any event, many of his experiments were highly artificial and had little if anything to say about pathophysiological processes seen in a clinical context.24 Instead of backing off or continuing to try to persuade his skeptical colleagues, however, Selye responded by looking outside physiology for allies and supporters." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This simple adjustment saves your child from the artificial bounce—and then crash—that he or she suffers from when getting heavy, regular doses of refined sugar. Sugary treats are everywhere. Kids today bring to school lunch boxes full of foods that have more sugar content than nutritional value. Teachers hand sugary foods out as rewards to students—a practice I find ridiculous. Halloween and other holidays are devoted to celebrating with sugar, not just for the day but for weeks, until the sugar stash is depleted. It's challenging to wean your child off sugar." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"You won't get instantly smarter from "smart" water or faster from sports drinks or healthier from teas that have lots of artificial sweeteners or corn syrup. If you want to sweeten a beverage, use a teaspoon of honey or add x/% inch of 100 percent juice to your water or fresh brewed tea. If you count it as a half a Flex (2 for 1), you can combine 4 ounces of any 100 percent SuperFoods juice to your water or tea. And unless you're out there exercising for more than 60 minutes doing cardiovascular, aerobic exercise on a regular basis, you generally don't need a sports drink." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Simplistically, they have tried to duplicate its function through the creation of the artificial heart. Attempts at replacing the human heart with an artificial one have been fraught with problems. The most frequent problem appears to be recurrent strokes and subsequent neurological dysfunction. This complication has occurred with nearly every recipient of the artificial heart, with severity varying among patients. Stroke occurs frequently enough that the FDA is only allowing the use of the artificial heart as a temporary measure prior to human heart transplantation." - Richard Gerber, M.D., Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies (Get the book.)

"The human mind is the product of evolution almost entirely in the absence of the printed word, e-mail, the Internet, or any other artificial means of com- munication. Human society has been able to conquer almost all habitats of this planet primarily because of its own innate information processing ability. A fundamental component of this information processing ability is effective communication of important facts from one person to another." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Their elaborate irrigation systems created an artificial landscape that supported dense farming populations in the midst of one of the driest deserts on earth, where farming would be impossible without technological ingenuity. The farmers were well aware of the hazards of droughts and El Ninos, but technology and irrigation could not guarantee the survival of a highly centralized society driven by ideology as much as pragmatic concerns. There were limits to the climatic shifts Moche civilization could absorb. Ultimately, the warrior-priests ran out of options and their civilization collapsed." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Canola oil þFlaxseed oil (do not heat) þGrapeseed oil þHempseedoil (do not heat) þMacadamia nut oil þOlive oil (extra-virgin only, preferably unfiltered and cold pressed) þSesame oil (both plain and Asian roasted) þTahini (sesame seed paste), in small amounts only þWalnut oil (do not heat) CONDIMENTS You can use the following condiments, but avoid any condiments such as chutney, ketchup, and barbeque sauce made with sugar, corn syrup, or any other natural or artificial sweeteners. Read the list of ingredients, and when in doubt, leave it out. A.i." - 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.)

"In the south, where the water table is much lower, the cities relied on reservoirs, rainwater cisterns, and artificial aguadas for water supplies. When these dried up, large communities were in deep trouble. The same dry conditions pummeled crop yields just as the cumulative effects of centuries of overexploitation of fragile and marginal soils, widespread deforestation, and sheet erosion took their toll. When it did rain, the torrential downpours swept away unprotected soil. Kingship faltered in the face of drought and restless, hungry commoners." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "President Carlos Andres Perez warned that "Venezuela is living with a totally artificial economy" supported only by the oil price increase; nevertheless the stock market soared.6 The price increase was not reversed in the subsequent year, but by January 1993 Venezuelan real stock prices had lost 60.3% of their January 1991 value, and by January 1999 they had lost 82.0% of that value. The fourth-largest one-year price increase, at 360.9%, took place in Peru from August 1992 to August 1993." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Approximately one in every four American women will enter an abrupt, artificial menopause as the result of a hysterectomy. If you are a woman who has had a partial hysterectomy—that is, removal of the uterus only—you can still be estrogen dominant because your ovaries will continue to produce some estrogen and even less progesterone. If you are a woman who has had a complete hysterectomy—that is, removal of the entire reproductive tract (the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries), you can still be estrogen dominant." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

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