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 "That may be why we find that Swedish women who had cosmetic surgery were found to have suicide rates 2.9 times what v/ould be expected.3 The rate reported by a study of Danish women was 3.1 times the expected number." Of course, it is also true that women having cosmetic surgery are more likely to have mental disorders (47.7% in one study)5 and are more egotistical.6
Another line of research which supports my contention that focusing on one's self is unhealthy: women who gaze (not just look) at the mirror invariably feel worse after the mirror gazing than they did before."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "An interesting aside to this is the history of cosmetic surgery. The idea of self-improvement through surgery seemed vulgar and tasteless—until plastic surgeons began selling it as a way to improve self-image, as a utilitarian path toward personal and financial success.) In the case of Viagra, marketers had to reconcile these two opposing views of drugs in the American psyche by presenting impotence as a bona fide medical condition (which it is, of course, for some men) and the little blue pill as a treatment."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Injected collagen is used in cosmetic surgery, especially to thicken lips.
Ferrous iron is required as a cofactor for collagen synthesis in the body. Vitamin C plays its role as an antioxidant to reduce the iron from its oxidized state. The iron can then go on as a cofactor to make more collagen.
Vitamin C as an Antioxidant
Vitamin C is one of the most important antioxidants. Vitamin C safeguards the water-soluble substances in the body from damage by free radicals. Free radicals are molecules with an unpaired electron—they are hungry for another electron."- Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) |
 "When you have shows like "The Swan," which communicates the idea that physical beauty is everything, you get an audience that is far more interested in liposuction, Botox injections, cosmetic surgery and things that can produce effects without effort, because that's what they see on the show.
They're taking people who were overweight and physically unattractive, who might have been depressed, and then they're putting them through cosmetic surgery, liposuction and beauty makeovers that are nothing but external remedies involving cosmetics and hairstyling."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "For example, while most health plans exclude cosmetic surgery, many of them leave some wiggle room in the wording of the exclusion. A typical exclusion prohibits surgery "primarily for cosmetic purposes." The key word here is "primarily." Certain types of cosmetic surgery, such as breast reductions, may be "primarily" for health reasons, yet have ancillary cosmetic benefits. cosmetic surgery of this type should be covered despite this exclusion.
Other exclusions actually make clear that certain types of cosmetic surgery are covered."- Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) |
| "Liposuction and other forms of cosmetic surgery say, "We will turn you into a thin person, even though you are not a thin person. We will make you look fit, even though you are not fit," or "We will give you that athletic look, even though you are not athletic."
The seduction lies in the belief that we can be transformed into other people ?sexy, socially acceptable, thin and athletic people ?without actually going through the process of earning those qualities. Being athletic takes work. Achieving an athletic body takes hours and hours of training and discipline in diet and physical exercise." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "The logical extension of this view includes lip augmentation, breast augmentation, a transcutaneous facelift, laser resurfacing, nose reduction and other types of cosmetic surgery, orthodontic work and liposuction. (For men this may include muscle-building steroids, hair transplants or an expensive car.) In other words, don't focus less on beauty; focus on it even more.
In fact, more and more Americans are having plastic surgery.1 Is this the road to joy?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Of course, it is also true that women having cosmetic surgery are more likely to have mental disorders (47.7% in one study)5 and are more egotistical.6 Another line of research which supports my contention that focusing on one's self is unhealthy: women who gaze (not just look) at the mirror invariably feel worse after the mirror gazing than they did before.7 One more question related to this issue: Would you guess that anorexic girls are more or less likely to have mothers who carefully diet and who have an above average focus on their own appearance?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "Should you cancel your cosmetic surgery appointment? No way! The anti-aging ingredients include a selection of B-vitamin polypeptides along with antioxidant vitamins A, C, and E—all listed after the preservative, meaning their presence is insignificant. As an eyeshadow, this product has a thick texture that applies unevenly; it tends to get chunky and then thinner as it is blended. The mostly pastel and pale neutral colors have shimmer, and enough of it to make less-than-smooth eyelids look wrinkled, plus the formula creases slightly."- Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) "If they were true, hundreds of well-formulated moisturizers (that's essentially all idebenol is) would have the same effect, and we'd all enjoy wrinkle-free faces that would never require cosmetic surgery or Botox treatments. The ad text for Idebenol had the same tone as ads for Klein-Becker's StriVectin-SD and Bremenn Research Lab's Hylexin. I have suspected for some time that all three companies were under the same umbrella because their ad copy, packaging, and even their Web sites and product packaging graphics are remarkably similar." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) |
| "Certain types of cosmetic surgery, such as breast reductions, may be "primarily" for health reasons, yet have ancillary cosmetic benefits. cosmetic surgery of this type should be covered despite this exclusion.
Other exclusions actually make clear that certain types of cosmetic surgery are covered. For example, one plan excludes
"[C]osmetic surgery unless required for a congenital anomaly or to restore or correct a part of the body which has been altered as a result of accidental injury, disease, or surgery." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) |
 "One option for hyperhidrosis that was not available in times past evolved from cosmetic surgery. Liposuction is usually used to remove excess fat, but it also can be employed to take some of the sweat glands from the armpits. Not many studies have been done on this approach, so thoroughly check out the plastic surgeon who will perform the procedure. It may take time, possibly as long as 6 or 8 months after the procedure, to get the full results.
There is a more drastic, last-resort surgery that has been studied more fully. It is known as endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy, or ETS for short."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
| "Certain types of cosmetic surgery, such as breast reductions, may be "primarily" for health reasons, yet have ancillary cosmetic benefits. cosmetic surgery of this type should be covered despite this exclusion.
Other exclusions actually make clear that certain types of cosmetic surgery are covered. For example, one plan excludes
"[C]osmetic surgery unless required for a congenital anomaly or to restore or correct a part of the body which has been altered as a result of accidental injury, disease, or surgery." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) |
 "Zone Massage Machine to improve appearance without liposuction, or to complement cosmetic surgery. Stalled lymphatic fluid can cause unsightly and unwanted bulges so Lypossage?helps to cleanse the body, improve lymph flow and break up the connective fibers that hold fat in the dimpled areas. It also helps to tone muscles and firm sagging tissues, especially in the lower face and neck area along with the buttocks and upper thighs.
Only professionals trained by Pro-Actif Spa Systems International, its certified Master Trainers or 5 Star Educators may use the trademarked term
"Lypossage?."- Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.) |
| "They're taking people who were overweight and physically unattractive, who might have been depressed, and then they're putting them through cosmetic surgery, liposuction and beauty makeovers that are nothing but external remedies involving cosmetics and hairstyling. Then they are presenting them to the world as newly reformed, happy, upbeat, energetic people who are now suddenly beautiful because of no effort on their part. The message is that you, too, can be beautiful and happy, if you only undergo these same procedures." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "What you should work on: Getting rid of it! cosmetic surgery is a $10-billion-a-year industry, growing by estimates of 10 percent per year. Much of those revenues come from people dealing with the aftermath of static scowls. If you have to get wrinkles, make them those adorable crow's-feet you get from laughing too much instead of those vertical hatchet lines between the eyebrows that you get from scowling. Also, try to keep your lips just slightly parted so as to avoid an "angry-looking" mouth. George Orwell said it best: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."- Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.) |
 "This procedure has become the latest fad in cosmetic surgery. Two million persons will have this operation this year. The surgery has become a $3 to $5 billion industry. Consider avoiding this procedure because the long-term consequences are yet to be fully known. As in any surgery complications may occur. There is a great variation in the skills of the physicians performing this procedure. Many doctors have learned how to do this procedure operating on pig eyes at a weekend seminar.
Only 5% of cases are estimated to have complications from this surgery."- James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.) |
 "I'm glad to be anywhere" But the economic boom in exercise equipment, wrinkle creams, and cosmetic surgery clearly shows a widespread aversion to growing old.
A decade ago many gerontologists were still saying that aging has no apparent cause, and research evidence indicated that cells should continue to live forever. But at that time gerontologists were not focused at the molecular level. The free radical paradigm now allows a comprehensive theory of aging, a theory supported by considerable experimental data. We can now trace many of the aging mechanisms—if not all."- Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) |
 "An interesting aside to this is the history of cosmetic surgery. The idea of self-improvement through surgery seemed vulgar and tasteless—until plastic surgeons began selling it as a way to improve self-image, as a utilitarian path toward personal and financial success.) In the case of Viagra, marketers had to reconcile these two opposing views of drugs in the American psyche by presenting impotence as a bona fide medical condition (which it is, of course, for some men) and the little blue pill as a treatment."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in 2004 there were 334,052 breast augmentations in the United States (up 19% from the previous year), making this procedure the second most popular cosmetic surgery following liposuction. While plastic surgeons do promote breast augmentation as a product (current cost about $3,000), the medicalization of breasts and bodies is driven largely by the consumer
market. Overall, 11."- Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "Imershein and Estes (1996) argue that medical services are increasingly organized into product lines (with attached payment schemes), consistent with a market-based approach to exchange. cosmetic surgery is the most commodified of medical specialties; it offers treatments such as liposuction and breast augmentation that are often not covered by insurance (Sullivan, 2001)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "This is manifested in studies of reproduction and birth control, childbirth, infertility, premenstrual syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, eating disorders, sexuality, menopause, cosmetic surgery, anxiety, and depression. Catherine Kohler Riessman (1983) and Elianne Riska (2003) incisively examined the particular gendered aspects of medicalization. While the medicalization of women's bodies and difficulties continues (Lock, 2004), as discussed in chapter 2, men, especially aging male bodies, are now also being increasingly medicalized." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "What is interesting here is both the widespread use of medicalized enhancements to change bodies and the trajectory of consumption. cosmetic surgery has become far more popular and acceptable than it was several decades ago. This popularity is apparent in television shows like Extreme Makeover and The Swan, as well as in the profound increase in cosmetic surgical procedures (Sullivan, 2001). The statistic of 2 million breast implants over three decades (1960-90) seemed formidable, but the current rate of 340,000 a year in the United States is astounding." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "This makes you feel enormous pressure to achieve that standard and conclude that the only way to do that is through cosmetic surgery, liposuction, botox injections, the use of grossly overpriced cosmetics and/or the use of prescription drugs.
After we cover these 10 mind hacks, we will then talk about who's promoting it; how advertising companies continue to propagate these tactics and prey upon the victim mentality to exploit people for financial gain. We'll talk about how the media disseminates this information, and why it serves its interests to do so." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "Other exclusions actually make clear that certain types of cosmetic surgery are covered. For example, one plan excludes
"[C]osmetic surgery unless required for a congenital anomaly or to restore or correct a part of the body which has been altered as a result of accidental injury, disease, or surgery." This exclusion plainly means that cosmetic surgery is covered when it is "required for a congenital anomaly" and in the other specified circumstances." - Rhonda D. Orin, Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care (Get the book.) |
 "In an earlier series in November and December 1998, "Cosmetic Surgery: The Hidden Dangers," Schulte and another reporter, Jenni Bergal, uncovered the deaths of thirty-four people "following seemingly routine plastic surgery in Florida."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE. In September 2000, Michael J. Berens wrote a three-part series, "Dangerous Care: Nurses' Hidden Role in Medical Error." Berens described how "overwhelmed and inadequately trained nurses kill and injure hundreds of patients every year as hospitals sacrifice safety for an improved bottom line."- Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) |
 "Another case involved a 32-year-old women undergoing elective cosmetic surgery who also experienced increased bleeding post-operatively. Her heavy dietary garlic intake prior to surgery is suspected to have caused her increased blood clotting time.173
Several cases of occupational asthma stimulated by garlic have also been reported in the literature.175177
In animal studies, rats fed high concentrations of garlic for a prolonged period of time suffered from anemia, weight loss and failure to grow."- Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND, The Natural Medicine Guide to the 50 Most Common Medicinal Herbs (Get the book.) |
 "Cosmetic Surgery
More Men Are Opting for o Nip and Tuck
"\ou'd be surprised who gets cosmetic surgery these days. We all know about actors, and executives with salaries in the stratosphere, but would you believe construction workers? Athletes? One of your office buddies?
Plastic surgeons report that men—all sorts of men—make up increasingly large portions of their practices. For many of these men, the motivation is the same: They want to look younger.
If you're concerned about aging and the thought of going under the knife doesn't deter you, the technology is out there."- Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine, Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years (Get the book.) |
 "He was apparently an expert meditator. He is said to have been able to become so still during his meditations, so tuned to his body's signals, that he was able to chart the course of the blood flowing through his arteries, and draw an anatomically accurate rendition of their locations! He wrote a book called Susruta Samhita, one of the core texts of Ayurvedic medicine.
Human awareness of these energy channels along which qi flows is ancient indeed, and methods to enhance the flow may have been part of the knowledge base of prehistoric shamans from many cultures."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "The schmuck needs to spend, spend, spend—or he's going to be spending his nights alone.
You might say that a smart woman would see her way through the foolishness of it all and prefer a man with no desire to show off—maybe a good, solid schoolteacher who cares about the environment and drives an old Pinto. But if she mates with such a man, she dooms her offspring, say the scientists, for the man is likely to father sons much like himself—men who are attractive only to smart women. And how many of those are there?"- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
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