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"On a daily basis, prescription pills are estimated to kill more than 270 Americans—more than twice as many as are killed in automobile accidents. Prescription medicines, taken according to doctors' instructions, kill more Americans than either diabetes or Alzheimer's disease. America has become "a grossly overprescribed nation," says Dr. Arnold Relman, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. "Again and again you see examples where patients get far more medication than they need." - 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.)

"Moreover, when you look at all other causes of death, people with higher cholesterol have less cancer, respiratory failure, automobile accidents, and suicides. Accidents and suicides? The connection: you need cholesterol to make brain cells. A level too low (around 160 mg/dl) has, in fact, been linked to depression, aggression, and cerebral hemorrhages. Low cholesterol can also promote global amnesia because proper nerve transmission is affected. You need cholesterol for memory." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Worldwide more deaths per year are linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents. Health effects range from subtle biochemical and physiological changes to difficulty breathing; aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions; birth defects; damage to the immune, neurological, or reproductive system; and cancer. 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." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Prevent automobile accidents caused by drivers impaired by the effects of their medications. The FDA should require a clear, bold warning against driving on the bottles of prescription or over-the-counter medications that cause drowsiness, dizziness, or any other side effect that can make it dangerous to drive. The warning should include a prominent symbol, like a bright red triangle, that patients can't miss. States also need tough penalties for physicians who fail to warn patients not to drive after taking these medications as well as for patients who don't heed their doctors'warnings." - 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.) "One patient reported having five or six automobile accidents while taking a daily dose of 3,600 milligrams, twice the government's recommended maximum. A pharmacist reported that another patient taking high doses of Neurontin had suffered a concussion in an accident. A woman reported that her husband, a diabetic, had died. The forty-three-year-old man had sometimes suffered from hypoglycemia in the middle of the night, his wife had explained. Before taking Neurontin, this had not been a problem, she said." - 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.)

"During this time he also served on the board of the Center for Risk Analysis at Harvard University—which specializes in statistical studies of comparative risk and what it calls "cost-effectiveness analysis," weighing, for example, the risk from automobile accidents versus chemical exposure, and advocating policies that reflect the greater acute danger from the former. The center acts as an intellectual farm team for advocates of environmental deregulation, and has provided some of President George W. Bush's key regulatory-agency appointments." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"I believe that increased diabetic deaths, increased emergency room visits, increased automobile accidents due to hypoglycemia, and increased "dead in bed" syndrome are not coincidental. A large percentage of the diabetic population could maintain lower glycohemoglobin levels (Ales), have less incidence of hypoglycemia, and have lower maintenance costs using natural insulin analog protocols. It is interesting to note that rDNA beef or pork analogs could be made using the E. coli or yeast process. The result would be (a) unpatentable and, therefore, (b) less profitable." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Years ago, in the early 1980s, when cholesterol-lowering drugs first hit the mass market, studies found an increase in suicides, homicides, and automobile accidents. But those results were somehow overlooked in the rush to prescribe these "wonder" meds. At the 2005 American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), I attended a lecture by a prominent cardiologist, Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"On a more individual level, physical triggers are one of the most common catalysts of the psychosomatic process. automobile accidents, falls, physical abuse, and repetitive motion in the workplace are examples of physical triggers that often result in chronic pain syndromes. Mr. S is a forty-two-year-old construction worker who slipped on the ice and fell backward, landing on his back, while at work. He experienced immediate moderate low back pain, but over the next several days his pain worsened to the point where he had trouble walking and sleeping despite pain medication." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Drowsiness accounts for 200,000 to 400,000 automobile accidents every year, and is responsible for two-thirds of all industrial mishaps, most common among shift workers in the early morning hours. Sleeping pills are also the third most commonly used means in suicide and are implicated in one-third of all drug-related suicide attempts and deaths. Q| Over-the-counter sleep aids can cause a wide range of side effects, including agitation, confusion, depression, dry mouth, and worsening of symptoms of enlarged prostate." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Other people who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, including child abuse, criminal assaults such as rape, terrorist acts, automobile accidents, and airplane crashes, may also suffer from PTSD. The symptoms include anxiety, which is often intertwined with depression, as well as a tendency to be easily startled, have flashbacks and nightmares, be sensitive to noise, be hypervigilant, feel emotionally numbed, or have panic attacks. Psychological Tips Post-traumatic stress disorder is serious. The earlier it is treated, however, the quicker a person's recovery is likely to be." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Modern medicine kills more people than all terrorists, murderers and automobile accidents combined. It is almost as if these conventional medical organizations have declared war on the American population, but it is a stealth war, because no one seems to realize it is going on. People volunteer to take drugs and undergo surgical procedures and they die from them. They do it all because they've been told to do it by figures of apparent authority; people who wear lab coats, who have an MD degree on the wall or who work at the FDA." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"With the help of the Center for Urban Affairs, they identified their seven most common reasons for hospitalization: (1) automobile accidents; (2) interpersonal attacks; (3) accidents (nonauto); (4) bronchial ailments; (5) alcoholism; (6) drug-related problems (medically and nonmedically administered); and (7) dog bites. These health problems, it turned out, were for the most part not diseases but social problems that the community could itself attempt to solve—and by so doing, build a stronger community." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "While the entrance was not the only cause of automobile accidents, taking action to define this health problem as a social problem empowered more people in the community to become politically active. Perhaps the most interesting action was the community's response to bronchial problems. Again, the community could not control many of the factors contributing to this health issue, but they could focus on at least one variable: better nutrition." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Drowsiness accounts for 200,000 to 400,000 automobile accidents every year and is responsible for two-thirds of all industrial mishaps, most common among shift workers in the early morning hours. People who take sleeping pills on a regular basis are 50 percent more likely than other people to die in accidents. Sleeping pills are also the third most commonly used means in suicide.2 Many people go to bed late and get up early to exercise to try to be healthy, but the reality is that in most cases those people would be better off to sleep more and exercise less." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Are estimated to cause over 16,000 automobile accidents annually in America. Elavil and Endep cause eye pain, light-headedness, drowsiness, fainting, hallucinations, difficult urination, and constipation. Elavil/amitriptyline and Trofini 1/imipramine cause drowsiness, dry mouth, constipation, and impaired urination. Anti-Diabetic Medications Diabinase. Micronase, Glucatrol, and DiaBeta used in type 2 adult-onset diabetes, increase the risk of fatal heart attack 2.5 times. DietAid Phenylpropanolamine is dangerous if taken with decongestants and coffee." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"She had suffered a broken arm after a fall while skiing two years before, and she'd had two automobile accidents in the last eighteen months. Nancy's family had a history of stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Her Braverman Nature Assessment identified her acetylcholine nature, and blood tests revealed a normal estrogen level, due to the Premarin (which we replaced with a natural bioidentical form of estrogen), but identified deficiencies in growth hormone and progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and calcitonin (Miacalcin). Tests also uncovered osteopenia—the early stage of osteoporosis." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

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