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"In October 2003, college students all over Iowa were tested for mental illness on an autumn morning that had been deemed National Depression Screening Day. This national campaign was organized by a nonprofit group called Screening for Mental Health, Inc., which was funded by companies selling antidepressants, including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Wyeth, Forest Laboratories, and GlaxoSmithKline. But few of the college students learned that fact." - 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 RDA of selenium was established by taking ten male college students, measuring the selenium content of their diet, and determining that they weren't ill. Unfortunately, the serum level of selenium in the blood of the average American is dramatically lower than that of the average French person, who incidentally has a much lower risk of diabetes and insulin resistance. In each phase of Diet Evolution, I will suggest supplements that can enhance your health, work synergistically with your diet, and in certain cases, even help you lose weight." - 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 addition to his clinical responsibilities, he is involved in the entire spectrum of education with college students, medical students, residents, and continuing education. Before coming to Hacken-sack University Medical Center he was associate director of pediatrics and coordinator for pediatric education at Lenox Hill Hospital. He has been involved in medical education at a national level and as delegate to the Committee on Medical Education to Pediatrics (COMSEP). In his spare time, he's a father to five wonderful children and is an occasional Mets fan. Mady Hornig, M.D." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"This same article also points out that 25 percent of college students were sterile at the time as compared to 0.5 percent thirty-five years earlier. Most toxicity experts agree that the main source of human contamination comes from eating fish from waters in which the PCB levels are high, which today can be almost anywhere. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that fish can accumulate up to nine million times the level of PCBs in the water in which they live. PCBs have been found in fish from the deepest and most remote parts of the world's oceans." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"But few of the college students learned that fact. During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. "I could feel the stress building as mid-term week approached." - 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.)

"A study of 94 college students noted a small (0.5-kg), but significant, increase of body weight over the Thanksgiving period [8]. Despite the small magnitude of these increases, they may be of clinical significance because small uncorrected errors over time will lead to weight gain. Furthermore, the group mean obscures significant weight gain in a subset of the population [8-11]. Hull et al. [8] reported fifteen percent of a college study sample gained 2.0 kg or more over the course of the holiday period. Approximately ten percent of the sample observed by Yanovski et al. [6] gained 2." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "However, in a study of college students [9], it was notable that despite the normal-weight individuals losing a significant amount of body weight by the end of the holiday period (post-New Year), they gained a significant amount of total body fat (p < 0.05), particularly in the leg and trunk areas. In consideration of the increased risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia associated with excess fat in the abdominal region, redistribution or increases in total body fat are undesirable, even if accompanied by maintenance of body weight." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The effect of the Holiday season on body weight and composition in college students. Nutr. Metab. 3, 44-50. 10. Van Staveren, W. A., Deurenberg, P., Burema, J., DeGroot, L. C, and Hautvast, J. G. (1986). Seasonal variation in food intake, pattern of physical activity and change in body weight in a group of young adult Dutch women consuming self-selected diets. Int. J. Obes. 10, 133-145. 11. Reid, R., and Hackett, A. F. (1999). Changes in nutritional status in adults over Christmas 1998. J. Hum. Nutr. Diet. 12, 133-145. 12. Klesges, R. C, Klem, M. L., and Bene, C. R. (1989)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Studies found that participants, healthy male college students, started to eat much more. They reported craving more high calorie, high density and carbohydrate foods. They had a 24% increase in appetite for candy, cookies, chips, nuts and starchy foods such as bread and pasta. After just one week into the experiment, blood tests showed a poor insulin response that mimicked diabetes. A lack of sleep also increased the production of Cortisol, a hormone associated with increased belly fat. The researchers concluded that sleep deprivation boosted appetite. Increased appetite caused overeating." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"It turns out that the two hormones that control hunger and satiety, ghrelin and leptin, respectively, are very sensitive to light and sleep duration. When college students were put in a sleep lab and allowed to sleep for eight hours, the following morning they had high levels of leptin and low levels of ghrelin. The next night they were awakened after only six hours of sleep. This time ghrelin levels were high and leptin levels were low, just as the long days of summer and shorter nights would stimulate us to lay down fat for the winter." - 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.)

"When that wasn't enough, the state officials turned to college students. They sharply reduced funding to Iowa's three public universities, causing a spike in tuition and fees between 2001 and 2005 of more than 60 percent. "Iowa used to pride itself on providing high-quality, affordable education," the editorial board of The Des Moines Register wrote in 2006, when a study determined that an average student at Iowa State would graduate with almost thirty thousand dollars in debt. "It's no longer affordable." - 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.)

"Robert Keith Wallace recruited college students who had taken a course in TM. He hooked them up to various measuring instruments, asked them to meditate, and found that on average they showed significant changes in their physiological state: reductions in oxygen consumption, reductions in resting heart rate, and changes in skin resistance. But that was not all." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "To be sure there was no mistake, they brought in other long-term Buddhist practitioners (both monks and laypeople) and compared their brain wave activity in meditation to that of a control group of college students inexperienced in meditation. Those practitioners produced gamma waves that were thirty times as strong as the students'. In 2004, Ricard was a coauthor on a paper reporting these and related fabulous-seeming findings that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"First-Year college students Who Feel Lonely Have a Weaker Immune Response to the Flu-Shot," "Asthmatic Responses to Allergens Worsen During Stressful Times," "Marital Strain Increases Women's Risk of Death, Heart Disease," and "Arguments Slow the Body's Ability to Heal from Wounds" are all recent newspaper headlines that warn that stressful events can derail the basic function of our immune cells." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"While the agency declined reasonable proposals to study bipolar disorder in children, it chose to fund studies of self-esteem in college students. It declined to fund research on postpartum depression but supported work on the hearing processes of crickets. Mental illness is a low priority. In 1999, for each person afflicted by illness, the government spent twelve dollars on cervical cancer for every dollar spent on bipolar disorder. For every dollar spent on schizophrenia, thirty dollars were spent on HrWAIDS.44 Unlike the psychotics, the neurotics pay cash." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Using fit, male college students either running on treadmills or cycling on stationary bikes for fifty minutes at 70 to 80 percent of their maximum heart rate, the researchers measured how the effort affected blood levels of anandamide. The result? Anandamide nearly doubled. Runner's high itself is difficult to study because it's so unpredictable— even marathon runners don't experience the feeling every time they train. And why isn't there such a thing as swimmer's high?" - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "He found fifty-four college students with generalized anxiety disorder who had elevated anxiety sensitivity scores and who exercised less than once a week. He randomly divided his sedentary subjects into two groups, both of which were assigned six twenty-minute exercise sessions over two weeks. The first group ran on treadmills at an intensity level of 60 to 90 percent of their maximum heart rates. The second group walked on treadmills at a pace of one mile per hour, roughly equal to 50 percent of their maximum heart rates." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "For example, while working out on the treadmill or the stationary bike for twenty minutes at a high intensity of 70 to 80 percent of their maximum heart rate, college students perform poorly on tests of complex learning. (So don't study for the Law School Admission Test with the elliptical machine on full-tilt.) However, blood flow shifts back almost immediately after you finish exercising, and this is the perfect time to focus on a project that demands sharp thinking and complex analysis." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"They found that consumers, college students, were not using the sugar substitutes to substitute for carbohydrates, but rather they were consuming foods containing the sweeteners in addition to the sugars consumed in their diet. This pattern of behavior was not seen when low-calorie sweeteners were substituted covertly for sugar in the diet [165]. It seems that the knowledge of the contents of foods drastically changes the decision to consume it or not, an effect well documented in the laboratory [166-168], although not universally [169]. Miller et al." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"We had just completed a large study in which we'd measured the purported resilience levels of more than 100 college students using a simple survey. Perhaps we could find those folks again to investigate resilience in action in the wake of 9/11. Did their ranking on the resilience survey predict correctly how they were doing during these trying times? If so, were positive emotions central to their ability to rebound? Within days we had the approvals we needed to recontact those students.2 We invited them back to complete additional surveys." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) "We first asked college students to use the circles to convey how they felt about their relationship with their best friend. Next we injected positivity, negativity, or utter neutrality. We then gave them another set of overlapping circles, and asked them to again select a pair of circles that reflected how they felt about their best friend.21 Doing experiments like these, we found that a temporary boost in positivity allowed people to see more overlap between themselves and others. With positivity, people feel closer and more connected to the important people in their lives." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"He was suffering from a bout of sleeplessness, an affliction that has plagued generations of college students. In 2 002, doctors wrote nearly eleven million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for kids between the ages of one and seventeen." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "But like many college students, Justin was having trouble sleeping. On February 19, he went to the student health center, where the doctor gave him a thorough exam. She also questioned him to find out whether he was depressed and then prescribed Am-bien to help him sleep. In Justin's file, the doctor noted, "No suicidal ideation," which meant he expressed no desire to kill himself. The boy returned to the clinic a few days later, complaining that the sleeping pills left him feeling groggy and "depressed." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"I'd estimated these college students' odds of being resilient with a survey developed by psychology pioneer Jack Block of the University of California, Berkeley, and his then graduate student, Adam Kremen. With items like "I enjoy trying new foods I have never tasted before," "I like to take different paths to familiar places," and "Most people I meet are likeable," it's hard to see at first blush how these traits add up to resilience." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) "These college students lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, safely removed from Ground Zero. Even so, like most Americans, they experienced considerable stress after 9/11. They were worried about friends and family who lived or worked in New York City or Washington, D.C. They were afraid of future terrorist attacks and the possibility of war. Some were afraid to fly. Others were afraid to go to a football game. If you follow Big Ten football, you know that Michigan Stadium is the largest open-air sports arena in the United States." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Studies showed that college students who were given 100 milligrams of caffeine did not do as well on tests compared to students who were given a placebo.3'7 316 Ibid. pp. 97 - 98 317 Ibid. p. 120 So with all these side effects there is yet one more question regarding coffee. Is it addictive? Well, here we see that someone who wants to stop drinking coffee suffers withdrawal symptoms as with any other addictive drug. They suffer headaches, depression, anxiety and fatigue, to name a few. The answer to this is yes." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I have taught classes full of college students since 1982 and frequently speak to large audiences, but I am uncomfortable at some social events. But how many Americans reading such a prescription are fooled into thinking they may have a medical condition? The Zoloft ad then declares, "Social anxiety disorder is a serious illness. It can cause real problems in your life. Like any health condition, it needs to be treated." Next follows a list to help further clarify if you have this disorder and need Zoloft." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Nearly half of all college students today have antibodies to HPV, according to studies released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibodies can be thought of as locks that the body sends out to collect keys that are coursing through the bloodstream and keep them from turning on the wrong sorts of cells at the wrong time. For reasons that are not fully understood, several of the commonest forms of the HPV virus place women at greater risk of cervical cancer, and probably a number of other forms of cancer as well." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"People who frequently drink soft drinks are never really able to quench their thirst because their bodies continually and increasingly run out of cellular water. Some college students drink as many as 10-14 cans of cola a day. Eventually, they confuse their bodies' never-ending thirst signal with hunger and begin to overeat, causing swelling and excessive weight gain. Apart from its diuretic action and its addictive effects on the brain, regular caffeine intake overstimulates the heart muscles, causing exhaustion and heart disease." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In a controlled trial, 10 weeks of aerobic exercise resulted in healthier responses to acute mental stress in college students compared with students who did no exercise.58 Nutritional supplements that may be helpful Tyrosine (page 465) is an amino acid (page 465) used by the body to produce certain adrenal stress hormones and chemical messengers in the nervous system (neurotransmitters)." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

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