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 "Rarely do people change lifelong patterns of behavior simply in response to a recommendation from a health professional, though it does happen occasionally and is certainly worth a try. More typically, people's behaviors are anchored in their personal histories, social relationships, and cultural and economic circumstances: in what might be called a personal paradigm. Significant and lasting change in behavior often requires changing the deep assumptions that sustain this paradigm of self."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "Words were now quiet on the page, his dreams had gone, his behavior was more purposeful. On June 22,1972 he was nearly well with marked improvement in school. On August 9,1973 his mother told me he remained well as long as he took the vitamins. On one occasion he began to deteriorate until his mother discovered he was hiding his pills. John Hoffer found he still had illusions when off medication. He had difficulty in his social relationships at school, was very slow, daydreamed a lot. He was evaluated 1,0.5,0.5,0 (2) — improved." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & behavior Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "In a small study of clinically hyperactive children over a 10-week period, researchers found that those who took karate lessons, for unexplained reasons, learned to control their impulsive behavior better than children of the same age who did not receive the training.
Although the study was limited to children and needs to be repeated among other groups in other locales, the results point to a potential treatment that has gone virtually unnoticed in recent years ?martial arts as behavioral medicine!" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) |
 "For another, I think every human being has just so many personal behavior modification units available—that is, if you're asked to change too much, you will eventually balk!— and I was already asking a great deal of my patients. It was imperative that they focus all their capacity for changing their behavior on modifying their diets and reducing cholesterol levels in order to arrest and control their disease. So even though relaxation, meditation, and regular exercise have demonstrable health benefits, for this program, they remained entirely optional."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "If your father was a smoker and you are not a smoker, or if you model your mother's mellow behavior rather than your father's aggressive behavior, these are modifying elements that can lower your risks.
We believe that plaque formation is really a lifestyle disease, the result of years of unhealthy eating, lack of exercise, stress, unchecked bacterial activity, and environmental toxins that conspire to damage the arteries. These factors cause inflammation—the root cause of heart disease. Our program aims to keep inflammation at bay."- 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.) |
 "A large component of : successful weight loss is, after all, : behavior change. Eating massive or j even large amounts of any food simply ¦ reinforces behaviors that got us into i trouble in the first place. This is one : reason, by the way, that so many diets about being honest with yourself instead of playing tricks. It's not about deprivation, either. You'll find that you can be satisfied and leave the table contented when your body has become accustomed to eating healthy portions of foods."- Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) |
 "You don't have to excuse their behavior, just understand that the person was possibly operating with insufficient skills. In the case of Mandela, the guards might have known that their behavior was abominable but for whatever reason were too limited to act humanely—maybe because in a system like apartheid no one feels human.
Mandela's story is a powerful reminder for me that forgiveness is the doorway to freedom. Only I can liberate myself. Only you can liberate yourself. It is a choice.
One final thought: the person we often have the hardest time forgiving is ourself."- Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) |
 "Second, changing behavior is not always enough for real healing to occur. We need to address what underlies the behavior. It's not sufficient simply to change behaviors like diet and exercise, because our behaviors are only manifestations of our self-perceptions. We need also to change those perceptions of isolation that can lead to these behaviors. The issue is not only living longer, but also being more free of self-imposed limitations that often lead to suffering."- Dean Ornish, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Nearly every study of behavior problems—from simple lack of concentration to actual aggressive behavior in prison inmates—has shown that people with these problems have low levels of omega-3 fats in their bloodstream. This doesn't mean that omega-3s will fix every behavior problem, but it's certainly of more than academic interest that this correlation shows up so frequently. On a side note, the omega-3 s in fish have a significant effect on the developing brain of a human fetus."- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) |
| "In February his behavior deteriorated and he was positive. On niacinamide 500 mg after each meal, he was normal in two days. By the end of 1973 he was still normal and in third-year dentistry.
"Felicity," the sixth child, normal and urine negative, began to suffer nightmares and restlessness in 1967. On niacinamide 500 mg after each meal she was normal in a few days. By the end of 1973 she was well as long as she stayed on the vitamin. "Heather," the youngest child, was also normal and negative but in May 1965 she also began to deteriorate in school." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & behavior Disorders (Get the book.) "None of these allowed treatments were really effective in treating these patients but something had to be used to control psychotic behavior. In a blind experiment no one is supposed to know which compounds are being given; the nurses, social workers, doctors, and patients would not be allowed to know. That is why it was double blind. However, it is impossible to double blind niacin because it causes a dramatic flush especially at the onset of treatment. We, therefore, added the third group on niacinamide because it does not cause any flushing." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & behavior Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "The chances are that you will sustain that behavior for a much longer time.
And the name of the game here is sustaining. These things that we try—usually after some cataclysmic event has occurred, and we now want to ward off what seems to be the more perceptible threat of dying—don't hold up over the long haul. We find all sorts of reasons not to do it.
The second thing I'd tell you is don't take up smoking. The biggest threat to improving our lifestyles has been cigarette smoking. That trumps everything else."- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
 "Although each metal produces its own set of unique symptoms at toxic levels, they all chiefly affect the nervous system, the production of blood cells, the kidneys, the reproductive system, and behavior. For this reason, heavy metal poisoning is associated with everything from depression and poor memory to insomnia, chronic fatigue, and kidney and liver damage. Moreover, heavy metals can disrupt normal metabolic processes and block detoxification pathways.
The more technologically advanced we get, the more metals we release out into our environment."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "This has also led some doctors to point fingers at refined sugar as if it were as bad as alcohol in its destructive behavior on the liver (not to mention other body parts and systems). The progression of NASH can take years, even decades. The process can stop and, in some cases, reverse on its own without specific therapy (but likely with some diet and lifestyle changes). Or NASH can slowly worsen, causing scarring or "fibrosis" to appear and accumulate in the liver. As fibrosis worsens, cirrhosis develops; the liver becomes seriously scarred, hardened, and unable to function normally." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
| "A recent study in the Journal of Heath and Social behavior followed 3,617 people for seven and half years and found that those who attended religious services at least once a month reduced their risk of death by about a third. As a group, the attendees had a longer life expectancy, with an impact about as great as that of moderate physical activity.
The NIH-funded Adventist Health Study had similar findings. It followed more than 34,000 people over a period of 12 years, and found that those who went to church services frequently were 20 percent less likely to die at any age." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
| "It's likely laced with food additives and preservatives, including an artificial sweetener linked to all kinds of health problems, from allergies to behavior problems, brain tumors, neurological diseases, and cancer. As you multitask in the kitchen, you make yourself a sandwich for lunch, again with foods loaded with additives and preservatives including nitrates, antibiotics, and synthetic hormones. You then wrap it in plastic that contains vinyl chloride, known to cause cancer in the brain, liver, and lungs." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
| "So, leading behavior experts will also offer an action plan to put these longevity secrets to work in your own life. And here's the good news: You don't have to do it all. We present an a la carte menu of sorts. You can pick and choose the most appealing items, follow our advice for converting items from the longevity menu into everyday habits, and know that whatever you choose, chances are you'll be adding months or years to your life.
Encoded in the world's Blue Zones are centuries—even millennia—of human experiences." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
| "The World Savior's cross, in spite of the behavior of its professed priests, is a vastly more democratic symbol than the local flag.111
The understanding of the final—and critical—implications of the world-redemptive words and symbols of the tradition of Christendom has been so disarranged, during the tumultuous centuries that have elapsed since St. Augustine's declaration of the holy war of the Civitas Dei against the Civitas Diaboli, that the modern thinker wishing to know the meaning of a world religion (i.e." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) |
 "Plants are as sophisticated in behavior as animals [author's emphasis] but their potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many orders of magnitude less than that operating in animals." Others, such as Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, have called plant cells "thoughtful," while Darwin referred to their "root-tip brains." Leslie Sieberth, a biologist at the University of Utah, says, "If intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, then, absolutely, plants are intelligent."- Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "This information becomes knowledge when it is retrieved and used to modify further behavior. As Jeremy Narby says, "Science now indicates that plants, like animals and humans, can learn about the world around them and use cellular mechanisms similar to those we rely on. Plants learn, remember, and decide, without brains." I offer you this fairly scientific viewpoint to illustrate how science is, finally, catching up with what many, including indigenous peoples, have known all along. Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone peoples, says, "Everything has spirit." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "I can only attribute this reversal in behavior to Agrimony." Just like the little man in my daydream indicated, Agrimony is used to heal many conditions including inflammatory eye problems and liver conditions such as cirrhosis, gallstones, gout, arthritis, ulcers, colitis, and diarrhea. It serves as a digestive tonic as well as an astringent, which stems all manner of excessive bleeding and aids in the healing of wounds. It makes an excellent gargle for sore throat and inflamed gums." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) |
 "They wanted his behavior controlled."
And then there was the day the stepmother of one of her patients called to say she was worried because the girl was depressed. Dr. Collins referred the family to a counselor she knew, but the visit was brief. The counselor talked to the girl for twenty minutes, before sending her back to Dr. Collins. The counselor told Dr. Collins that she believed the girl had lost her joy for living and needed an antidepressant. When the girl arrived, Dr. Collins began asking her question after question, trying to find out just what it was that had saddened her. "- 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 doctors writing the report said that Neurontin had aggravated the children's behavior. The kids grew defiant and more hyperactive. They threw tantrums and became aggressive. The doctors said they had been forced to take the children off the drug or greatly reduce the dose. Franklin was stunned by the report. His superiors expected him to tell doctors that Neurontin helped children with attention deficit disorder. And now a doctor had shown him a report on how Neurontin had harmed some of these kids. He sat in his car outside the physician's office and cried." - 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 of the outgrowths of the symposium is a new peer-reviewed journal, Plant Signaling and behavior, whose mission statement includes,
"Our viewing of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities being merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for accumulation of photosynthate." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) |
 "And we seek to minimize the effects that these stresses have on our body and behavior by exercising, eating healthily, or giving the body the rest it needs.
While these may be helpful courses of action, it is also becoming clear that the mind plays a crucial role in most stress reactions. I may, for example, think that being stuck in a traffic jam causes me stress. In doing so, I overlook the crucial role my own thinking plays in my reaction. It is not the traffic jam itself that is causing the tension. A traffic jam is actually quite relaxing."- Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) |
 "I also wondered whether it could be shown that quantum behavior like the observer effect occurs outside the subatomic world, in the world of the everyday. What Rosenbaum had discovered in his refrigerator might offer some vital clues as to how every object or organism in the physical world, which classical physics depicts as an irreversible fact, a finalized assemblage, changeable only by the brute force of Newtonian physics, could be affected and ultimately altered by the energy of a thought."- Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "He worked out mathematically a means of starting from zero, so that any deviation from normal behavior would readily show up. In this way, he would then be able to determine whether any additional change represented an increase or a decrease in the number of biophoton emissions. The number of emissions he then plotted on his graph reflected any excess increase or decrease from the norm. In all three instances, our subjects registered a significant decrease in bio-photons during the meditation sessions, compared with the control periods." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "The systems behavior is more than a sum of its parts—but how much more we can't often predict. In Walker's and Stapp's view, turning quantum theory into a nonlinear system would enable them to include one other element in the equation: the human mind. In Schmidt's martial arts study, the numbers on the visual display remained in their "potential" state of all possible sets of numbers until they had been observed by the students. At that point, the mental intent of the students and the numbers on the display interacted in a quantum way." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) |
 "Since Tim was my first child, I had nothing to compare his behavior to and since I was coming out of the corporate world, I didn't really know with whom I could share my doubts and insecurities. I felt very vulnerable exposing myself to other mothers and saying, "I can't do this. What's wrong with my child?"
By the time Tim was three, there were times when I just couldn't stand being a mother. All I did was say "No, no, no " all the time. He started doing dangerous things to his younger brother, such as pushing him down the basement stairs in a walker. And I thought, "This is not Timothy."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "One of the psychological-emotional components of my behavior was that I always had a very difficult time getting started in the morning. The first thing I would think about when I got up was what I was going to eat, which usually included cereal with sugar, a pastry, and sugar-laden coffee. There has been a slow, progressive bettering of my diet, but there has still always been the sugar craving. Sometimes I would be able to get away from it for a week or two weeks, but it would always creep back in." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
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