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"From my experience, they may be more prone to depression, but they are almost always right when they warn that a family, a community, a society, or a culture is in trouble. The more we see these people "falling off their perch"—and the epidemic of depression suggests that this is the case—the more we all should be concerned about what's destroying them. Even if you are neither depressed nor especially altruistic, it is no great stretch to recognize that what's getting to the canary will ultimately get to you." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "Depending on which side of the fence people are on, they will likely differ not only in their beliefs about depression, but also in their inclination to accept or reject the tensions that come along with genuine community and true democracy. Changing Focus and Gaining Energy I believe that one of the reasons people get stuck in immobilization is that they have become rigidly attached to a single way of gaining energy." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "In the first fifty pages of Living My Life, Goldman tells how in the late 1880s the Haymarket martyrs provided her unhappy life with a cause, which energized her to leave her boring husband and move from Rochester, New York, to New York City, where she quickly hooked up with a lover, a mentor, and a community of like-minded souls. My antiauthoritarian client has a passion for reading and forgoes booze when captivated by a good book, and so the 993 pages of Goldman's epic provided a longer detox treatment than that provided by many insurance companies." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The Company's markets also include: Wild Oats Marketplace, Henry's Farmers Market, Sun Harvest and Capers community Markets. At the time of this printing, Wild Oats website was still operational: www.wildoats.com. Websites Many people initially complain that buying organic is too expensive. Yes, organic foods can be pricey if you just shop in your supermarket, but you probably have a lot more choices for organic food in your community than you realize. All it takes is a little research to find out." - 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.)

"In the 1990s, a type of MRSA appeared in the wider community. Today, that form of Staph, known as community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for many serious infections of the skin and other soft tissues and a serious form of pneumonia. How does Staph become ?acn yeaf some soo,000 patients in American drug-resistant? There are two hospitals contract a Staph infection. ways this an happen. First, a bacteria like Staph can mutate so it can evade an antibiotic." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"It is unnatural to withdraw from that which is energizing; and if a population has withdrawn from its political arena, even if it is labeled as democracy, it's not likely to be true democracy. In the United States a smaller percentage of eligible citizens vote in national elections than in most other nations that have elections (40 to 50 percent of those eligible do not vote even for president, and election turnouts are even lower for local elections)." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"While many in the alternative health community have fought for recognition from the medical establishment, personally, I have been very wary of it. And now that tecognition has come, I believe we are about to pay the price. What specifically is the problem? The answer lies in one word: "co-option" (definition: to take over an independent minority movement through assimilation into an established group or culture). Standardization Almost everyone now believes that standardized extracts are a good thing. They answer the medical community's need for predictable doses and effects." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"For children who are not yet in grade school, churches, synagogues, and community groups can be vital sources of help. Do some research on the Internet for specialized playgroups, day-care centers, camps, and advocacy organizations in your area. If you find that your community doesn't offer this type of help, consider creating a group yourself. After all, ADD/ADHD affects a shockingly large portion of the population, as we know by now, and it's likely that people close at hand are facing many of the same problems." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Recently transferred from another community hospital, Mary was suffering with congestive heart failure complicated by pneumonia. She was seventy-nine years old, and, except for childbirth, it was the only time she had ever been admitted to a hospital. Until now, she had been a healthy, vibrant woman. Mary's son Bob, a Ph.D. biochemist, was an expert in coenzyme Q10 and other nutritional supplements. He had asked the doctors at the community hospital if he could place his mother on coenzyme Q10, but they'd refused." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"It may include help from professionals such as diabetes educators, health professionals who give talks in the community, professional societies like the American Diabetes Association (ADA), independent health and wellness organizations like Life Extension, and local experts involved with in-hospital or community-based diabetes self-management programs. More informal support may come from self-help groups and/or online support groups, and don't forget the invaluable moral support you can get from understanding and empathetic friends and family members." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"There are lots of easy ways you can work to bring about changes in your community, and the benefits are enormous. You can organize petitions for organic food, or lobby your local government for cleaner buses. In fighting for these changes, you'll also be acting as a role model for your kids and teaching them invaluable lessons about the importance of taking responsibility for the world they live in. Advocate for Organic Foods Visit your local health-food store to find a wide range of organic, environmentally safe products that are free of toxins and other threats to your child's well-being." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Become the continuation of those who are living the lifestyle that is achieving what you want so much to have as your daily life reality. The community of people living in the Culture of Life are some of the most vibrant, switched-on people you will ever have the pleasure of loving, and being loved by. Further Support The Tree of Life offers a once-a-month follow-up as support with someone knowledgeable in living the Culture of Life, or, if locally accessible, a Tree of Life branch member or potluck. See www.treeoflife.nu for a list of such groups globally." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "From my thirty-five years of clinical experience as a wholistic medical doctor, and that of live-food therapeutic centers since the 1920s when Max Gerson, MD, healed Albert Schweitzer of diabetes with live foods, the fact that diabetes is a curable disease is common knowledge in the live-food community. Diabetes is not a fixed sentence; it is not our natural condition, and has only become a problem of pandemic proportions since the 1940s. The word pandemic comes from the Greek pan-, meaning "all," plus demos, meaning "people or population." Thus, "pandemos" or "all the people." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Branches of the Tree of Life Association: Become a beacon of light in your own community, and a branch of our ever-expanding global Tree of Life network by hosting monthly potlucks and seminars following the regularly scheduled Alive with Gabriel or Wake Up with Gabriel live Internet telecasts. Becoming a branch, which requires certain criteria be met, also comes with several benefits. Superfood Juice Feasting: For those who have long-term weight loss, detoxification, and healing needs. Visit www.treeoflife.nu and www.JuiceFeasting.com for more information." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Free registration; sign up to be part of the type 2 diabetes support community. Defeat Diabetes www.defeatdiabetes.org/self_management/text.asp?id= Diabetes_Support_Gro List of diabetes support: groups and education programs by state. Diabetes Care Journal http: //care. diabetesj ournals. org Online access to Diabetes Care and Diabetes journals, as well as other information. Diabetic Mommy www. diabeticmommy. com Support for women who are diabetic and pregnant or who plan to become pregnant. Support for dealing with the complications of pregnancy and childbirth." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "You may consider taking a class on strength training offered by a local health club, community center, or hospital. ?You can do your strength training on the days you are not doing an aerobic workout or after an aerobic workout session. See which way works best for you. ?Avoid doing any movements that cause a sharp pain. It's okay to feel a "burn" in your muscles, but it's not okay to feel pain in any joint. Strength training compares favorably with aerobic endurance training." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"But if there isn't a health-food store or organic market in your community, you can take steps to remedy the situation. Submit a petition signed by parents to local grocers, requesting that they designate a section for organic products. It's really that easy—if more people understood how effective petitioning can be, they'd no longer accept food contaminated with toxic fertilizers and other chemicals. This grassroots movement is how the whole organic-foods movement got started in this country." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Those who do understand, however, are reminded daily of the highly significant impact ribose plays in treating their patients, and they consider it their mission to reach others in the healthcare community and pass this knowledge along. Biochemistry and Metabolism of D-Ribose The official chemical name of D-ribose is a-D-ribofuranose. It is a simple five-carbon sugar, or pentose, and is found in every cell in the human body (see Figure 6.3)." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Carpooling helps reduce your family's carbon footprint, and it also builds community, saves time, and lowers stress. Taking the high occupancy vehicle lane will bypass traffic and shorten your commute. Green the Cleaning at Your Children's Schools Teachers and administrators have your children's best interests at heart and will be responsive to your concerns. Parents who've lobbied their children's schools to replace toxic cleaning products with environmentally friendly alternatives have a great track record of success. If enough concerned parents speak up, school administrators will listen." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It was just that his behaviorwas bad: not conducive to a healthy educational environment for the school community. The counselor looked over her glasses at them, and told them very patiently that ADHD was a complex neurological issue. There were two fundamental types of ADHD, she said. To simplify: the "AD" type, and the "HD" type. The AD children were the attention-deficit ones, who were categorized as being in the inattentive subtype, and the HD children were the hyper kids, in the hyperactive-impulsive subtype." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Despite the promise of this important insight, though, Anju was receiving no government grants to pursue it, nor was she being offered any special support from Chicago's community of mainstream medicine. Anju, myself, and the other DAN doctors were, to a painful degree, engaged in this struggle by ourselves. We stood alone on a new frontier of medicine. As a parent, Anju was even more alone. Her isolation existed for a simple reason: There is no one in the world who feels more alone than the parent of a seriously ill child. Failure to Thrive "He's not responding?" - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Your intestinal tract is a complex community of microbes. Do you have the right microbes in you? i-; I Bacterial Basics Bacteria are unicellular, e.g., one-cell, and may have spherical, rod-like or curved bodies. Bacteria are very small. On average, bacteria are about one micrometer long and half a micrometer in diameter. The bacteria cell is surrounded by a membrane that regulates the flow of materials in and out. Some species of bacteria are surrounded by a capsule which has many functions, including protecting the bacteria from drying." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Louise was seventy-nine years old at the time and had been admitted to a community hospital with heart failure complicated by pneumonia. Louise's son said she had been on a ventilator for several days, was getting powerful steroids and high concentrations of oxygen, but she was still failing. She went into kidney failure and her doctors said there was nothing more to do. Louise's son was a biochemist and knowledgeable about the nutritional supplement CoQIO. He had asked the doctors at the hospital to place his mother on CoQIO. They refused. CoQIO was not on their list of "approved formulas." - 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.)

"Yoga classes and instructions are widely available and offered by schools, private yoga instructors, community centers, senior centers, and fitness centers. Many offer free introductory sessions or even entire courses for little or no cost. Yoga also can be learned from tapes, DVDs, and books, although we recommend participating in individual or group yoga sessions at least in the beginning so you can learn the basics with a professional instructor. As always, talk to your doctor before beginning any new exercise program." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In just about every community around the country, psychiatrists are doing a sort of knee-jerk reaction to the problem of anxiety and depression. They never bother to ask, 'Why is my patient having a problem?' Instead, they immediately ask, 'What is the name of the problem and what's its standard orthodox treatment?' They are bypassing the most important question of all: 'Why is my patient sick?'" It is also important to determine how a person's anxiety and depression change over time. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"More than 91 percent of the people tested had above average levels of breakdown products of chlorpyrifos in their urine, and most of the women had amounts above the level calculated from EPA data to be safe for pregnant and nursing women. community members currently are calling for stronger protections from chlorpyrifos and other high-hazard pesticides, including establishing protection zones between residential areas and fields that are sprayed, and notification laws for applicators so that residents can be warned before spraying occurs." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "If you receive your water from a public water supply, you can get a general idea about the quality of your water by researching your community's Annual Quality Report. Check the NRDC report "What's On Tap?" at www.nrdc.org, and ask your water utility (the company that sends you your water bill) for a copy of their annual water quality report. This report will list the detected contaminants, the potential source(s) of those contaminants, and the levels at which those contaminants were present in the water supply." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "In 2000 the hit movie Erin Brockovich was based on one woman's crusade to prove that a chemical leak into the groundwater of a small town led to a disturbing array of health problems in the community. Another case that made headlines recently involved a military base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where 75,000 Marines and their families were exposed to toxic tap water that may have caused cancer and birth defects." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In studies of longevity, those people who live longest are often not only those who believe in a higher spiritual being, but also those who have the strongest sense of belonging to a community.2? It might mean that the intention of the healer was as important as his or her medicine. The frantic doctor who wishes his patient could cancel so he could have his lunch; the junior doctor who has stayed up for three nights straight; the doctor who doesn't like a particular patient - all may have a deleterious effect." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Despite their rigorous scientific protocols, nobody in the orthodox community was taking any other discoveries of theirs seriously. Some, like Benveniste, had merely been marginalized. For many years, Edgar Mitchell, now 71, depended on lectures about his exploits in outer space to fund his research into consciousness. Every so often Robert Jahn would submit a paper with unimpeachable statistical evidence to an engineering journal, and they would dismiss it out of hand. Not for the science, but for its shattering implications about the current scientific world view." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

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