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"The average American diet, consisting of very fatty, protein-rich, highly processed food items, has almost nothing in common with the diet typically consumed by folks in developing countries. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains still form the standard diet of people living in most developing countries, although the Western influence of bringing unnatural and fast foods into their towns and villages is now making its way into the eating habits of these populations." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Corn would be a more cost-effective way to get these compounds into populations in developing countries that are at risk of getting HIV. Using probiotics as a vessel for antibodies is a fascinating new area of research and may offer a way to treat or prevent many diseases. Bacterial Face-Lift Very preliminary research suggests there could be a link between probiotics and the youthfulness of your skin. Bifidobacterial species may enhance the production of hylauronic acid in the skin. Hylauronic acid is involved in the elasticity of the skin." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This remarkable fact had gone unnoticed because in developing countries and in Central America—a part of the world notorious for malaria, dengue fever, and revolutions—most mortality studies didn't even ask if anyone lived past age 80, which was considered well beyond the life expectancy of the area. Moreover, organizations like the United Nations had assumed that many Costa Ricans often exaggerated their ages, so that any finding would be considered invalid. Nevertheless, Rosero-Bixby, the director of the Central American Population Center in San Jose, decided to investigate further." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"But instead the level of emissions has continued to grow rapidly, with most of the increase coming from the developing countries. It is impossible to predict the ultimate cost to individuals and corporations of efforts to reduce emissions or to deal with other global limits to growth. How- ever, considering the inevitable conflicts as less developed countries try to follow the path of developed countries, thus multiplying environmental problems, the kind of enormous earnings growth in the future that would justify recent stock market levels seems less likely." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The increasing challenges of aging populations in developing countries deserve greater emphasis on the world stage. a "cause celebrity" The mainstream acceptance of the AD myth and the emergence of a cultural language of distress and fear about AD was further augmented by celebrity involvement with the emerging "cause." Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, the daughter of film star Rita Hayworth—who had been diagnosed with AD in 1981—was a highly visible advocate for the disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"COSTS TO SOCIETY By 2025, the largest increases in diabetes prevalence will take place in developing countries. Each year an additional 7 million people worldwide develop diabetes. An even greater number die from cardiovascular disease made worse by diabetes-related lipid disorders and hypertension.30 People with diabetes face the near certainty, and in many poor countries the stark reality, of premature death." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "According to the WHO in 2007, by 2025, the largest increases in diabetes prevalence will take place in developing countries, where the number of people with diabetes will increase by 150 percent.3 With no action to defuse this increase, it is estimated that total direct health care expenditures on diabetes worldwide will be up to 396 billion international dollars (ID) in 2025. This means that the proportion of the world's health care budget spent on diabetes care in 2025 will be between 7 percent and 13 percent.4 Figure 1: Diabetes prevalence by region, current and projected." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Moreover, in many developing countries, CFC production has not decreased at all; in some, it has even increased. The U.S. has put a high tax on its existing CFC stocks so as to encourage people to use less harmful alternatives. But across the Mexican border, where production continues, CFCs cost one-fifth the price, and much of this production finds its way into the U.S., creating the biggest smuggling problem after drugs. According to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, the trade in illegal CFCs is currently more than 60,000 tons per year. And why?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The World Health Organization recently made it a top priority for one form of Artemisia to be available in developing countries." "Here in Okinawa it is nearly a weed," Greg said. "It grows everywhere. People eat it all the time and use it for medicine, including the treatment of fevers. Did you notice all the turmeric? Turmeric is one-fifth as powerful as cisplatin, which is one of the most powerful drugs in chemotherapy. Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer. This comes back to inflammation. Many age-related diseases are caused by an immune system out of balance." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The numbers are similar in other developed countries and only slightly lower in developing countries. Unfortunately, many of these women also smoke during pregnancy—about 11 percent. Not only does smoking harm a woman's long-term health, it can increase numerous complications and cause serious problems for newborn infants. According to statistics, we could reduce the rate of stillbirths by 11 percent, and newborn deaths by 5 percent, if all pregnant women stopped smoking." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "A line representing maternal mortality in developing countries would be 25 centimeters to 1.5 meters tall [10 inches to just under five feet]. Risks attendant to birth control use must be measured against the risk of the pregnancies they prevent. We are fortunate to live in the time of the lowest maternal mortality ever—and still the risk of oral contraception we all worry about is one-fifth that of pregnancy. If we can manage to avoid pregnancy in other ways, presumably they are safer than the pills." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The hypothesis suggests that the increase in allergic diseases, particularly in developing countries, is due to a decrease in infections during childhood. Children are not getting exposed to microbes as much, and thus their immune systems are not maturing properly. The result is inappropriate immune reactions or allergic diseases. Clinical studies of children and animals show that being exposed to microbes in the intestinal tract helps to shape your immune function." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Brazil, India, South Korea, and other developing countries. • Global military spending experiences a sharp rise, as the U.S. and its allies and the opposing bloc countries enter the spiral of an arms race. • Global economic stagnation combined with U.S. unilateralism weakens the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. As regional economic agreements become more attractive than multilateral trade arrangements and bilateral trade with the U.S., trade wars become frequent and destabilizing." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "CIVIL SOCIETY The lion's share of current world population growth occurs in the developing countries. As a result—unless starvation and inhuman living conditions decimate those populations—the centers of poverty will expand dramatically. The population of the least developed countries will increase from 800 million today to 1.7 billion in 2050, with populations tripling in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Congo, East 39 Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, and Uganda. On the other hand, the population of the industrialized countries will either shrink or remain constant." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Effective advertising campaigns also convinced farmers in developing countries to use more chemicals in their search for cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient ways to farm. Large-scale U.S. farms were used as the model for farmers to copy in developing countries. The same war chemicals that chemical corporations sold to U.S. farmers became the centerpiece of pest and fertility management for Green Revolution projects all over the world and were held out as the saviors that would cure hunger and make farmers profitable." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains still form the standard diet of people living in most developing countries, although the Western influence of bringing unnatural and fast foods into their towns and villages is now making its way into the eating habits of these populations. With these newly introduced, and now "fashionable" eating habits, formerly unheard of disorders like osteoporosis, skin cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and other problems are becoming more and more common in their larger cities." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Cervical cancer presently ranks third in cancer deaths of American women, although it remains the leading cause of death from cancer among women in developing countries who do not enjoy the same access to diagnosis and early treatment.1 In the United States, approximately 9,710 cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in 2006 and about 3,700 women died from it. Worldwide, human papilloma infection causes almost 500,000 cases of cervical cancer and 280,000 deaths each year." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The incidence of pneumonia in children in developing countries has been reduced with zinc supplementation. Zinc is essential for T-lymphocyte development and activation. ZINC AND PREGNANCY Four out of five pregnant women worldwide have inadequate zinc levels. Low maternal zinc status has been associated with low birth weight and premature delivery. Mothers with low zinc levels also have more labor and delivery complications than mothers with normal zinc levels. Zinc supplementation has been found to help pregnant women who have low nutritional status." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Mild Zinc Deficiency Mild zinc deficiency is commonly found in children in developing countries. Mild zinc deficiency can impair weight gain and can prevent children from growing taller. Researchers suspect that lowered zinc levels can interfere with the cellular response to the growth-regulating hormone insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Zinc supplementation has been found to correct these growth problems. INFANT ZINC DEFICIENCY Infants fed cow's milk may be more susceptible to mild zinc deficiency." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"The role of vitamin A in preventing night blindness and xerophthalmia, which remain common problems in developing countries, has been widely discussed [If Food shortages, as occurred in Cuba in 1991 to 1994 and among the allied prisoners of World War II, or chronic alcohol use can result in a condition broadly referred to as nutritional amblyopia, which results in blurred vision and reduced visual acuity (recently discussed [2]). This may be the result of poor intake and absorption of B vitamins or antioxidants, alcohol and tobacco toxicity, or a combination of these factors." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "However, the economic burden of cataract in developing countries is high. In the United States, an estimated 17% of Americans older than 40 years have cataract in either eye, and 5% have had cataracts extracted [9]. Cataract surgery accounted for more than 12% of the Medicare budget the last time this was evaluated in 1992 [10]. The occurrence of cataract will dramatically increase in the next 20 years as the aging U.S. population grows [9]. The large increase in cataract surgical procedures predicted for the U.S." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Developed countries have high incidence rates and developing countries have much lower incidence rates. Migrant populations who move from countries of low to high incidence adopt the rates of the host country [3]. These facts suggest that changes in diet and lifestyle associated with development or Westernization are associated with colorectal cancer. Much research attention has been focused on diet?with the expectation that identification of specific dietary factors that contribute to changing incidence rates will provide avenues for prevention of colorectal cancer." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "GI tracts of infants born and raised in developing countries (i.e., assumed to have a low level of sanitation) appear to be colonized at an early stage by gram-negative bacteria and variable enterobacterial strains. On the other hand, infants in developed countries (i.e., assumed to have a high level of sanitation) acquired gram-negative bacteria later and more stable enterobacterial strains." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Davidson's contention is supported by the provocative finding by a number of independent researchers that schizophrenia outcomes are better in developing countries, where social and family supports are generally greater and where people are far less likely to be excluded from their natural communities.26 I have witnessed what Davidson is referring to. When you interview patients about how they got better, rarely do they cite a particular doctor or treatment program or medication." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"And over half of the children in developing countries use them.What impact does this have on a developing brain? While I do use a cell phone, I try to limit its use and use a safe headset such as one that has an air tube to diffuse the EMF (not a wireless one). Cell phones are only the most obvious form of EMFs we are exposed to. As I mentioned at the start of this section, we are also exposed to toxic waves in many other forms.There are things you can do to reduce your exposure to these toxic waves and protect yourself, and you may not even have to give up all your electronics to do it." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Around the world, people from developed and developing countries are facing an obesity epidemic. This epidemic is driven by multiple ecological factors: •Urbanism ?Expansion of global markets ?Changing family structures ?Changing work environments ?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Almost nonexistent in the industrialized world, it is a major problem in developing countries where food is less plentiful. When beta-carotene is broken down, it yields vitamin A. Both vitamin A and the beta-carotenes are sold as vitamins or supplements, respectively; however, they both are converted in the body to the physiologically active form of vitamin A, retinoic acid, which is the version of vitamin A that actually has an effect on the body." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The soaring AIDS epidemic is a product of mass deception based on faulty science, unreliable AIDS tests, and a greedy pharmaceutical industry that does everything in its power to have unrestricted access to the mostly untapped profit potential of Third World populations. developing countries thus far have largely refused to rely on modern medicine to keep their people healthy. AIDS has profoundly scared them, and so they have given into the tremendous pressure exerted onto them by international organizations, such as the WHO and their generous sponsors—the drug giants." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Breast cancer rates are much higher in industrialized countries, such as North America and northern Europe, than in developing countries. People who move to industrialized countries from countries with lower breast cancer rates soon develop the higher rates of their new country.1 The increase in breast cancer also parallels the proliferation of man-made chemicals since World War II. Many of these chemicals persist in the environment, accumulate in body fat and can remain in breast tissue for decades." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"And not just in a limited set of locations: the study covered 286 different projects in 57 developing countries. That's more than 12 million farms. Of the various crops the group studied, a quarter—largely maize, potatoes, and beans—saw yields increase by 100 percent, and half saw increases of at least 20 percent. Only rice and cotton saw just minor increases or slight declines." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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