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"But the young victims of the "invisible epidemics," as the 4-A disorders are sometimes called, were suffused with pain, as was Anju. Even so, Anju and her husband had three other children to raise, and a life to continue. They persevered, boats against the current. Aniyka's situation was particularly troubling. For most of her life, Aniyka had been struggling against the destructive force of her own immune system. Only her first four months in life had been easy. She'd missed her day-one hepatitis-B vaccination, and that had seemed to help her avoid the colic that had tormented Priya." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Allergies contribute immeasurably to the epidemics of autism, ADHD, and asthma. • Allergies are an epidemic in their own right. Food allergies have increased by approximately 400percent in just the last ten years, and fatal allergies are far more common than ever before. Only the crippling force of toxins matches the damage that is done every day by allergies. Many people, however, vastly underestimate the harm that allergies do. They don't perceive allergies as a life-or-death issue, but only as a minor annoyance that causes sniffling and hives." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Many children who suffer from the 4-A epidemics have persistent infection, particularly in their gastrointestinal systems. These infections can last for years, because so many 4-A kids have impaired immunity. To intervene in the cycle of inflammation-disorder-inflammation, parents and doctors must remove as many of the sources of inflammation as possible, and must also counteract existing inflammation. Nutrients are among the very best treatments for inflammation." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "I now believe, as do many others, that these other 4-A epidemics are also related, in part, to the increase in childhood vaccinations, which can trigger subsequent skewing of the immune system. Despite the current preponderance of evidence, many people still think it is safe to administer vaccinations with thimerosal. They note, for example, that a can of tuna fish contains an average of 17 micrograms of mercury, compared to 12.5 micrograms in a single dose of the hepatitis-B vaccine. However, as the prominent physician Stephanie Cave, M.D." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The octogenarian and great German pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821 -1902) developed a notion of "natural" as opposed to "artificial" diseases and epidemics. He considered typhus, scurvy, tuberculosis, and mental disease to be "artificial" because they were primarily due to social conditions: "The artificial epidemics are attributes of society, products of a false culture that is not distributed to all classes. They point toward deficiencies produced by the structure of the state or society, and strike therefore primarily those classes which do not enjoy the advantages of the culture." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock and Cameron Stauth investigates the root cause of these childhood epidemics and offers innovative healing solutions. Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jaquelyn McCandless goes into detail about the causes of ASDs and offers innovative, effective treatment options." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"From 1981 [to] 1987, soy dust from grain silo unloading in the harbor caused 26 epidemics of asthma in Barcelona, seriously affecting 687 people and leading to 1,155 hospitalizations. No further epidemics occurred after filters were installed, but a minor outbreak in 1994 established the need for monitoring of preventive measures. Reports of the epidemic in Barcelona led epidemiologists in New Orleans to investigate cases of epidemic asthma that occurred from 1957 [to] 1968, when more than 200 people sought treatment at a Charily Hospital." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Cholera epidemics carried away entire villages. Many areas did not recover for half a century. Another major drought came in 1685-1688. A century later the famine of 1770 caused a third of Bengal to lie "waste and silent" for two decades. An Indian army official, Colonel Baird Smith, described how food prices rose inexorably as the rains faltered in two previous years. By January 1770, fifty people a day were dying of starvation in northern Bengal. Smith saw the dead "left uninterred; dogs, jackals, and vultures were the sole scavengers." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Water-borne epidemics such as cholera are almost unheard of in the United States. On the other hand, acknowledging what has been accomplished does not mean that we should close our eyes to the problems that exist. Keep in mind that the MCLs (maximum contamination levels) that water districts so proudly adhere to merely represent a compromise standard designed to be economically feasible for water districts to meet. They in no way come close to the safety standards established by the US government's Safe Water Drinking Act." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The problem seemed newsworthy to at least two dozen papers, which ran stories about the twin epidemics of insomnia and no sex that were gripping the nation. The National Sleep Foundation has an obvious interest in inflating the number of people suffering from insomnia. The more widespread sleeplessness seems, the more seriously the press will take the foundation, and the more likely it is that the public will pay attention to its health message." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The breakdown of the poorest and most directly exposed regions creates a global security threat: • epidemics of infectious diseases spread over Africa, Asia, and the Americas owing to heat waves, outbreaks of agricultural pests, and contaminated drinking water. • The waves of migration to relatively well-off regions overload the local resource base and create conflict with the established populations. • Terrorist groups, nuclear proliferators, narco-traffickers, and organized crime form alliances with unscrupulous entrepreneurs and expand the scale and scope of their activities." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The formal mathematical theory of epidemics appears, however, to be less accurate for modeling social processes than for modeling disease spread or ant behavior, and it has yet to spawn an influential and successful literature by social scientists. This lack of success may be explained by the fact that the basic parameters of these models are not as constant in the social sciences as in biological applications." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Wherever these refining technologies came into widespread use, devastating epidemics of pellagra and beriberi soon followed. Both are diseases caused by deficiencies in the B vitamins that the germ had contributed to the diet. But the sudden absence from bread of several other micronutrients, as well as omega-3 fatty acids, probably also took its toll on public health, particularly among the urban poor of Europe, many of whom ate little but bread. In the 1930s, with the discovery of vitamins, scientists figured out what had happened, and millers began fortifying refined grain with B vitamins." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"After this date, when mass vaccinations against the disease were begun, "unprecedented" diphtheria epidemics followed in "fully vaccinated subjects." Mass vaccinations against tetanus and whooping cough also began in many countries in the 1940s, and were followed by outbreaks of the "so-called provocation poliomyelitis."18 The evidence appears very clear that vaccinations are an unnatural assault on the body, which compromises and weakens the immune system. The long-term effects of all vaccines are unknown. Dr." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Guylaine Lanctot, author of The Medical Mafia, is very blunt regarding health authorities' claims that vaccines protect us against contagious illnesses and epidemics. She calls this "the big lie." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Other scientists are examining the relationship between the measles virus and multiple sclerosis, suggesting that viral outbreaks of measles might contribute to some localized epidemics of multiple sclerosis. And for many years, one of the more unsettling questions in the field of viral autoimmune-disease research has been whether individuals exposed to common viruses while in their mothers' wombs, or as newborns, are more likely to develop type 1 juvenile-onset diabetes." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Still, the obesity and diabetes epidemics show that the focus of medicine cannot be limited to the health of individuals. The cultural environment in which our lives unfold also plays a major role in determining our health. Pediatricians and family doctors, for example, cannot possibly stem the tide of childhood obesity by themselves when advertisements for fast food and snack foods and vending machines containing high-calorie snacks saturate children's environment, presenting a far more compelling message." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"They have been blamed for everything from chronic traffic jams to famine-causing droughts, epidemics, and delayed PGA golf tournaments. To grant them such omnipotent powers is to overstate the case. Although for five thousand years we have become increasingly vulnerable to severe El Nino episodes, they have never, on their own, caused the collapse of any civilization. But they have acted on many occasions as a knockout blow. The Moche civilization of coastal Peru is a case in point." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Both faced the same early epidemics of smallpox and measles, the same political instability, the same stormy third century. At the dawning of the sixth century, the Chinese empire, like Justinian's, faced a similar loss of traditional land to barbarians (the so-called Sixteen Kingdoms of northern China) and reconstituted itself in an eerily similar way, led by an emperor of enormous talent and peasant birth named Yang Chien.f Only afterward, "historical developments in these two regions began to diverge permanently."35 The reasons were, frankly, demonic." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"At the 1866 International Sanitary Conference at Constantinople, Britain was pointedly reminded of its special responsibility to fight cholera, based on its stewardship of India and its 'armies' of contagious pilgrims, then seen as 'the most powerful of all causes which conduce to the development and to the propagation of epidemics of cholera.'11 A subsequent essayist spelled it out even more clearly: 'The squalid pilgrim army..." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Certain epidemics might grip societies as a physical manifestation of a type of energetic hysteria. If intention creates health ?that is, improved order ?in another person, it would suggest that illness is a disturbance in the quantum fluctuations of an individual. Healing, as Popp's work suggests, might be a matter of reprogramming individual quantum fluctuations to operate more coherently. Healing may also be seen as providing information to return the system to stability." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Popular, medical, and administrative responses to the plague epidemics at the close of the nineteenth century illustrate the next phase of the interaction between medicine and empire. Unlike cholera, with its mysterious and much-contested aetiology, the western medical community in India rapidly reached a consensus that plague was contagious, caused by a micro-organism, and therefore that its dangers were embedded in and spread by the individual sick body." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "In part because of such conciliatory and educational approaches, even during the plague epidemics not all protests were directed at government action. Government inaction, too, was becoming a source of concern among the Indian middle classes. This concern would only become more intense as the status and authority of scientific medicine grew. Members of the Indian middle class and elites began to call for higher levels of government investment in the public health and sanitary state of India, and particularly Indian cities." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Starvation and unsanitary conditions accelerate the spread of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and other epidemics throughout the poor countries. • The Gulf Stream vacillates, producing icy temperatures in spring and summer in western and northern Europe. The Military Fallout • Political and economic conflict between the U.S. and its allies, and the opposing military-political bloc reaches a crisis point; hawks and armaments lobbies press for the use of weapons of mass destruction. • Strong-arm regimes come to power in the Southern Hemisphere, determined to use armed force to right perceived wrongs." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"In other cities, including both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as a small community in Georgia—three places where studies have been conducted to date—contamination of the water supply by trichloroethylene has been closely related to cluster epidemics of patients with lupus. TCE is regularly detected in breast milk, and 10 percent of Americans now have detectable levels of TCE in their blood, from exposure through drinking water as well as breathing it in from the air around us. One of our most significant contacts, however, comes from taking showers." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Food, drug, and supplement manufacturers sometimes make seemingly minute changes in the use or combination of chemicals that can result in dire consequences for consumers—some of which, in the past, have led to frightening overnight autoimmune cluster epidemics. Such was the case, for example, in 1989 with an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS), an autoimmune cluster epidemic that caused severe fatigue, muscle pain, and weakness to the point that patients were rendered unable to function." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"He is also the author of The Road to Immunity: How To Survive and Thrive in a Toxic World and the co-author of Natural Relief for Your Child's Asthma: A Guide to Controlling Symptoms & Reducing Your Child's Dependence on Drugs and, most recently, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"ANTIBIOTIC EFFECTS: In West African villages where cholera epidemics occurred, using lime juice during the main meal of the day was determined to have been protective against the contraction of the disease. Tips on Using Limes SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Choose firm and heavy limes for the most juice. • Select limes that are glossy and light to deep green in color. • Small brown areas on the skin should not affect flavor, but large blemishes or soft spots indicate a damaged lime. Hard, shriveled skin is a sign of dryness." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"As the water receded and the rivers went down, typhoid and other epidemics swept through the valleys, wiping out entire communities. Infant mortality soared. Cerro Blanco suffered badly. Floodwaters covered parts of the city with as much as ten meters of alluvium, stripping away five meters of soil or more in other places. The river eroded away much of the huacas, turning them into crater-sided hills. The valley soils were so dry that much of the surface water soon vanished into the ground, turning the devastated floodplain into hardened mud." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"We may have learned how to extend the lifespan through the conquest of epidemics and contagious disease, but until we can achieve that level of vitality, well-being and complete freedom from degenerative disease known by the Hunzas at extremely advanced ages, we will not even have begun to penetrate the real secrets of longevity" (The Chemistry of Youth, p. 31). It was at his center at Rancho La Puerta, Mexico, that Szekely claimed to have pioneered organic gardening, long before the term became popular. From his observations in what Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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