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"Overall performance" measures the efficiency of a health system by taking into account the per-person health expenditures required to reach its level of achievement. On this measure the U.S. health care system ranking falls to 37. Finally, "performance on the level of health" measures the efficiency with which health care systems improve their citizens' overall health. On this measure, the United States' ranking drops to a lowly 72 in the world. Despite the poor performance of the American health care system, our health care costs are simply staggering." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"CBT was better than zopiclone for sleep efficiency, with an increase from 81% to 90%, compared to zopiclone, which remained at 82% before and after treatment. CBT resulted in an increase in slow-wave sleep and a decrease in time spent awake at night. Six months after the end of treatment, CBT resulted in better sleep efficiency as measured using polysomnography than either placebo or zopiclone." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"So, in the case of arthritis, you might have to address the efficiency of the liver by taking Energetic Integrator 8 Infoceutical and bioenergetically improve oxygenation efficiency in the body by taking Energetic Integrator 2 Infoceutical. Those are possibilities, and only a NES scan can indicate whether they are called for in a particular case, as other Integrator and/ or Driver fields might have to be strengthened or corrected first." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The positive effects of sufficient vitamin D on hair follicles and sweat glands enhance your cooling efficiency during exercise. The fuel burned during exercise varies with the type of exercise. During short, quick activities such as sprinting and power lifting, the body uses glucose. But during aerobic exercise or prolonged exertion, you primarily burn fat, and that's why aerobic exercise is so important for restoring and maintaining lean body mass. That's also the reason that aerobic exercise raises vitamin D levels." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "How long you can sustain repeated muscle contractions depends on the efficiency and supply of your fuel. Vitamin D improves insulin sensitivity, and this serves muscles well during exercise. You need vitamin D to breathe well. Researchers measured how much air you can blow out in one second and the total amount of air you can blow out period, and they found that both were significantly higher in people with the highest vitamin D levels compared to those with the lowest levels. The differences were greatest in people sixty or older." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Below a vitamin D level of 20 nanograms per milliliter, this efficiency drops by 50 percent. But in studies of diverse populations, researchers find that average vitamin D levels lie between these two numbers. Raising your D levels may conservatively decrease your calcium needs by 25 to 50 percent, depending on how deficient you are. Remember, too, that a diet with acid excess and lots of salt makes you lose calcium in your urine. This kind of loss can amount to 100 milligrams of calcium per day." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"It can even improve the efficiency of the skeletal muscles in your peripheral tissues, bolstering them to extract additional oxygen in times of exertional demand. Remember, skeletal muscle, like heart muscle, requires the oxidation of fatty acids as an important energy source. Just as patients with angina have heart pain during activity; patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) develop skeletal muscle ischemia upon exertion. But what is the biochemical basis for these symptoms? To begin with, we know that skeletal muscle metabolism may be altered by poor perfusion of blood in the leg." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "If the aberration is present, the person is at a disadvantage in efficiency in making the conversion. The disadvantage may be slight or in very rare situations, total. If there is a mild reductase enzyme aberration, then taking more ubiquinone or taking it with vitamin C may compensate for the deficiency. Certainly more research needs to be done. Therefore, in some of these genetically "impaired" people or in patients with severe depletion of their energy, perhaps ubiquinol may have an advantage especially if high doses of biologically active ubiquinone don't appear to do the job." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "If D-ribose is given to these cells in sufficient quantity to make this pathway run at maximum efficiency, energy molecules can be made quickly and the health of the cellular energy pool can be restored in very short order. The second of these restoration mechanisms is called purine salvage (see Figure 3.11 again). When ATP degradation occurs and the breakdown products adenine, inosine, and hypoxanthine are formed, they can be captured (or salvaged) before they are lost from the cell." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "The amount of gasoline you supply to the spark plugs will, in large part, determine their efficiency. If they are not given enough gas, the spark plugs will still burn what they are given, but the explosion will be inefficient and may not be powerful enough to move the car. The engine will sputter, and, if there is not enough gas to keep it going, it will die. The amount of substrate (gasoline) provided to the enzymes (spark plugs) is key to efficient operation. While your car has a fuel gauge telling you how much energy you have left in the tank, your cells do not." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"More than 90 percent of particulates you want to filter are small enough to be handled by a HEPA (high efficiency particle absorption) filter. If you suffer from allergies or asthma, air purifiers can help reduce your symptoms. (Try www.air-purifiers-america.com as a start.) Also change the air-conditioning filters in your house often. Get the ducts cleaned yearly. If you don't want to invest in an air filter today, the simplest and quickest way to keep your air toxins low at home is to be diligent about ventilating your house frequently. Open the windows!" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Muscular work—in this case, doing the work of fixing at extreme parts of the visual field—leads to an initial drop of the trained muscle's efficiency. In the case of ocular muscle training, this phase is characterized by a transient and physiological drop in focusing capacity. After a suitable recovery time, the muscle both overcompen-sates—becomes used to the training load given by the exercise —and, as a physiological consequence, develops better properties—strength, flexibility, and resistance." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Use high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in every room of your house to remove airborne pollutants, dust, mold spores, and other allergens from the air. A HEPA filter is especially important in the bedroom. I also recommend getting a HEPA vacuum. And make sure to replace your HEPA filters on a regular basis. • In humid areas, use a dehumidifier to limit mold development. • Buy allergy-proof bedding, including mattress and pillowcase covers, to reduce allergy symptoms, and regularly wash sheets, blankets, and pillowcases in hot water." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It is important that we improve their functioning and efficiency so that we can achieve better personal, emotional, and social results. The eyes are not only perceptive but also interactive organs. Myopia, Power Vision, and the Strength of Glance There's a huge difference between a glance "lost in the distance" that doesn't fix on anything and one that is concentrated "looking" at something—an object, a point, or another glance. Any myope has his own limit beyond which everything is blurred (or he doesn't see at all). Over that limit, the gaze is directed somewhere but doesn't fix." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.) "After eliminating the causes of imbalance and having rehabilitated the organ or physiological system and returning to the initial level of efficiency (visual training in this case), a person 113 feels as if he were reborn—with a new awareness and perception of himself and the entire world. In this case, "knowledge is power"—the power of influencing your own health and well-being by your lifestyle. Each of us should be aware that it is up to us to motivate ourselves to develop healthy lifestyles, and that neither a pill nor a pair of glasses is enough to protect a person from disease." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Our brains are fatty organs, with over 50 percent of their structure being composed of fat, and essential fatty acids such as n-3 fatty acids make up nearly 30 percent of our nerve cell membranes, keeping them elastic and permeable so that electrical signals can pass through with efficiency. In fact, the synaptic junctions where nerve cells connect with one another are made of about 60 percent n-3 fatty acids. In essence, our brains are replenished by the essential n-3 fatty acids we acquire primarily through our consumption of fish, vegetables, nuts, and other foods." - 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.) "Not only did we focus on drugs, we also explored pharmaco-economic issues, considered ethical and cultural issues that affected drug development, and brought attention to the need to improve the efficiency of drug development around the world. The governing bodies that oversee the health of our citizens must challenge the pharmaceutical industry to spur real innovation and turn out products that lengthen life, enhance its quality, and sustain cognitive vitality." - 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.) "Despite the barrage of direct-to-consumer advertising you are exposed to that seems to suggest drug companies are producing a steady stream of innovative medicines, the success of the industry's research and development efforts has been slowing down just as genomics and a variety of other approaches have come along with the promise of improving the efficiency of drug development." - 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.)

"This organization makes for an extraordinary efficiency of energy. Instead of sending a light about 3 meters, the laser emits a wave 300 million times that far. Scientists were convinced that a Bose—Einstein condensate was a peculiar property of atoms and molecules slowing down so much that they are almost at rest, when exposed to temperatures only a fraction above the coldest temperatures in the universe. But then Fritz-Albert Popp and the scientists working with him made the astonishing discovery that a similar property existed in the weak light emanating from organisms." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"As the brain ages, it fails to make phosphatidyl serine or it substantially decreases in efficiency," Dr. Kidd says. "As we get older, we seem to need more of it. There is not very much of it in our foods except in brain and people don't eat brain very often. Brain as a food is not so safe anymore. When people in their 50s, 60s and older receive supplemental phosphatidyl serine, all of their measurable brain functions improve." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Hodes's other recommendations are herbal remedies; homeopathic remedies; developmental/behavioral optometric vision therapy for improved visualization, perception, cognition, and memory efficiency; applied kinesiology; and chiropractic and osteopathic care. Finally, he maintains: "Since the brain of an Alzheimer's patient shrinks, we have to rehydrate it with pure water, eight to ten glasses daily. It takes about six months to compensate for the shrinkage." Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa heads the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation in Tucson, Arizona." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Miiller of Geigy Pharmaceutical (now Ciba-Geigy) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods." After the war, DDT's production skyrocketed as it made its way into the agricultural world, where it was used as a potent insecticide. But with all the focus on how powerful and effective DDT was on insects, no one focused on its health consequences to not only human life but other animal life." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Health benefits can certainly be obtained in a conventional sauna or steambath as well, but the infrared sauna has a greater range of therapeutic efficiency, especially for detoxification. The infrared sauna actually has an energizing effect on users, making them feel good as toxins are eliminated. Conventional saunas and steambaths are generally found in gymnasiums and health spas. Infrared saunas are more apt to be found in clinics run by holistic practitioners. People with health problems should consult a natural health care practitioner before using either type of sauna." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Any imbalance causes lower efficiency in "pointing" movable targets, lower and imprecise focusing capability on central fovea (central fixation), as well as lower saccadic vibration capability (because of slow and "dulled" muscles). The quality of ocular muscles' work and of all the striated muscles in general depends on harmonious interaction between agonist and antagonistic muscles in a certain movement." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Independent third-party testing by STS Duotek Laboratories confirms that Sovereign Silver possesses the highest antimicrobial efficiency of the six leading silver supplements on the market. CLINICAL STUDIES Promising results were found in a study involving 30 Central American female patients between the ages of 32 to 52, diagnosed with breast cancer by an oncologist. Each patient received a single intravenous dosage of silver-oxide-hydrosol (Ag404) to achieve a blood plasma concentration of 10 ppm." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Three to four times that number are produced to be embedded in cars, printers, television sets, and cameras, all of them geared to increasing our efficiency?and hence to pushing the pace of life ever faster. Global Interconnection The communications revolution has also furthered humanity's integration into a single learning system. The ability to exchange ideas and experiences instantaneously that began with the emergence of language is now possible worldwide." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "The Industrial Revolution integrated the efficiency of the wheel with the energy of fire. Steam power replaced animal power and led to factories and increased production. Rail transport speeded communication and made resources and products more easily available. Steel led to revolutions in engineering. Pumps facilitated the mining of coal and minerals. And the mechanization of farming relieved many of the need to work on the land. Here again, positive feedback was at work. New discoveries led to new machinery and equipment, and these led to other discoveries." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Machinery of all kinds increased the efficiency of production, resulting in a plethora of material goods that allowed us to perform more tasks and achieve grander goals. Sturdier ships, railways, and later automobiles and planes gave us far greater freedom of movement and allowed industry to use resources from all over the globe. Medical discoveries relieved us from the scourge of many diseases, freed us from much physical pain, and helped us recover from physical injury." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Local exhaust ventilation should be made available at every location, and designed to evacuate air through filters to the external air. The efficiency of each ventilation system should conform to standards established by nationally certified ventilation engineers, and compliance should be checked regularly." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

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