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"During New York's 2003 fashion Week, swimsuit models shimmied down the catwalk, showing off Johnson & Johnson's new contraceptive, a white-colored patch that was glued to the skin. By wearing the drug as a fashion accessory, one company executive explained, women "can look beautiful and feel confident." Men attending professional golf tournaments in 2004 heard a different pitch. Step right up for free tips on your golf game, offered marketers working in a tent promoting Cialis, a drug for erectile dysfunction." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Yet on 15 April she can write this: I want to tell you, my dear child, that chocolate is no longer for me what it was, fashion has led me astray, as it always does. Everyone who spoke well of it now tells me bad things about it; it is cursed, and accused of causing one's ills, it is the source of vapors and palpitations; it flatters you for a while, and then suddenly lights a continuous fever in you that leads to death. ... In the name of God, don't keep it up, and don't think that it is still the fashion of the fashionable." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"But fitness equipment, like fashion, is cyclical. What was once out of fashion always seems to come back into fashion at some point. Most equipment manufacturers are back to using the old pulley system with free motion used to describe an unrestricted motion during the exercise. When using a traditional piece of strength training equipment such as a biceps curl or chest press, the movement is very restricted and specific to that exercise. The newer free motion types of equipment are less restrictive and require the use of core muscles in your midsection to perform the exercise." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Use herbs and vitamin supplements judiciously (in a rotated fashion, varying supplements every three to four months) to support your hormones and to help stabilize changing levels (see below). If symptoms are mainly in the week or two before your period and you have tried everything above without success, or you're just too busy, lazy, or overwhelmed to do these things, ask your doctor to start you on natural progesterone. If your symptoms are happening all over the place, in no clear relationship to your cycle, or if you are skipping periods, test and treat for low estradiol." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The ideas we have about fashion, the values we hold about right and wrong, the beliefs we have about work and leisure, the value we put on money, our assumptions about the purpose of life ?these are all memes. Like genes, memes reproduce as they pass from one person to another. A hundred years ago, the meme of using computers to help us in our work did not exist. Today it has spread to everyone; the idea is firmly implanted within us all. Memes are the basic unit of cultural heredity; like the genes in a cell, they bind us together into a cohesive society. Some memes are useful." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Unlike chimpanzees or gorillas, and unlike any other creature on Earth, human beings wear clothes, grow food, paint pictures, sing songs, dig wells, mine coal, read books, go to school, get married, remember anniversaries, earn money, go to discotheques, hoard gold, hold elections, employ lawyers, belong to unions, take vacations, follow fashion, join fan clubs, collect stamps, give parties, fly planes, build highways, spray insecticides, stockpile nuclear weapons, and worship God. Man is nothing but evolution become conscious of itself." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Mary Quant, British fashion designer With aging, there's less of this lubrication, and moving the joints becomes more difficult. Joint stiffness, regardless of your age, is often worse in the morning or after being inactive for long periods of time, as when sitting in a theater or on a plane. As you move about during the day, the stiffness usually dissipates. While chronic morning stiff- SPEAKING OF SIGNS ness can be a sign that you need a new mattress, it's also a common sign of arthritis. In fact, morning stiffness is its hallmark." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Our nails—which are also part of our skin—have been a focus of fashion throughout the centuries. Today we still file, trim, clip, shape, buff, polish, and extend our nails, all with the intent to beautify and adorn them. However, the appearance of our nails reflects not only how meticulous (or even obsessed) we are with our appearance but also our medical history and nutritional status, not to speaking of signs Unfortunate is the man who has no fingernails to scratch his head with. —Arabian proverb mention, in many cases, our occupation." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Four centuries later another English monarch, Queen Elizabeth I, made the practice of wearing white lead paint facial makeup popular in the early years of her reign, but the fashion fell out of favor with many of her subjects during the black plague; rumors spread that cosmetics might pose a threat to health because they blocked "body vapors" from naturally circulating. (These concerns, warranted or not, might well constitute the first-ever consumer health alert." - 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.)

"He was college age when kids are in the "party mode" when drinking and late night parties are the fashion. His mother was interested in natural remedies and sent him to a Homeopath she had read about in a magazine. His symptoms were related to over indulgence. Nux Vomica 30 CH, probiotics, fish oil and B12 with folic acid were taken. His diet was adjusted to include more fruits and vegetables, and to avoid deep fried and rich foods. Within one month he said that he felt a lot better. He only got pain occasionally. His bowel movements improved and he had no blood or dark stools." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"By 1929 a bevy of Hollywood actresses had generated still another new fashion trend ?skin tanning, using specially formulated self-tanning liquids and powders. It wasn't until 1936 that a chemist, Eugene Schueller, founder of L'Oreal, invented the first sunscreen. Another eight years would pass before Florida pharmacist Benjamin Green created the first mass-marketed suntan lotion, which came to be known as Coppertone." - 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.)

"It is produced in a cyclic fashion according to our natural circadian rhythm, and this rhythm is vital for a good night's sleep. A high evening or nighttime level of Cortisol will make falling or staying asleep impossible. The problem is not that we have too much Cortisol, as most television commercials would have you believe, it is rather that our Cortisol regulation is poor. Cortisol should normally be high first thing in the morning and gradually fall as the day wears on." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "If you are perimenopausal, it must be used in a cycled fashion or else erratic bleeding may occur. Erratic bleeding is not harmful but can certainly be annoying, confusing, and alarming. Timing Okay, here are the nuts and bolts of how to use progesterone to treat PMS and other symptoms of perimenopause. It's all about timing and dosages. The first day of your menstrual bleeding is considered "day 1." You need to know this day to know when to start using your progesterone. Use progesterone two weeks after your period starts (or two weeks after your period was due if you miss a cycle)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"It was like watching Austin Powers shoot fashion models. He was taking dozens of shots a second, oohing and aahing, cooing, "Spectacular?oh yeah, oh YES! I'm going to open this up all the way—ooh!" I commented on it: "So that's why they call it food porn." He stopped shooting, became dead serious, and said, "What do you mean?" I tried to explain myself, but he stopped listening and went back to the glistening strawberries. The growers, Rick Gean and Molly Iwamoto Gean (whose father was the Harry in Harry's Berries), came over to greet us. They asked how our drive had been." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "He noted, with satisfaction, the remarkable fashion in which their bowels would soon evacuate. The Western belief that fruits served only a medicinal purpose lasted until the Renaissance. The nomadic tribes that sacked Rome saw no need for agriculture, so they uprooted trees. Barrenness descended upon Europe. "It would not lift until forty medieval generations had suffered, wrought their pathetic destinies, and passed on," writes historian William Manchester." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The company's star fruit breeder, Allan White, a self-styled "fruit fashion designer," has also created a non-GMO Bartlett pear and Asian pear hybrid that he says tastes so good it'll blow people's socks off. Quebec government fruit breeder Shahrokh Khanizadeh recently found a type of apple that doesn't turn brown after being sliced open. The fruit wasn't produced through genetic engineering; it was an all-natural mutation that just happened to turn up in his orchard one day. The Eden maintains its whiteness, freshness and flavor for a week after being sliced." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Theda Bara started another fashion trend by painting her toenails, which newspapers and magazines breathlessly reported to be a milestone in the annals of beauty innovation. Hollywood films and their glamorous players became the engine generating much of the consumer demand for wider choices in cosmetics and personal care products." - 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.)

"Having been so successfully likened to caustics and cautery, when those techniques went out of fashion, so too did moxabustion. Acupuncture, on the other hand, had no European analogue to launch it into the marketplace. Nor did it capture the attention of a group of patients, as moxabustion had captured gout sufferers. I have found no records of acupuncture being practised in Europe before the 1780s. But then, its mysteriousness actually became an advantage." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"In a more recent study funded by the NIH, 225 men over age forty-nine with moderate to severe symptoms of BPH were randomly assigned to receive saw palmetto or placebo in a double-blind fashion. There were no differences in urinary symptoms, urine flow rates, prostate size, or quality of life.4 Based on the studies to date I cannot recommend saw palmetto, but given the lack of adverse effects I will not discourage anyone from taking it, either." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Given that the core problems of type 2 diabetes involve beta-cell dysfunction and insulin resistance, we recommend new technology in this situation (when drugs are needed): exciting new drug therapies that improve beta-cell function in a glucose-dependent fashion, which we discuss in more detail in chapter 10. Lipid Test This test helps gauge your risk of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and heart disease. Like the fasting plasma glucose test, you need to fast for ten to twelve hours before giving a blood sample for this test." - 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.) "Old-technology therapies like sulfonylureas promote insulin secretion in a glucose-independent fashion, which means they cause beta cells to secrete insulin regardless of what your blood sugar level is, be it 500 mg/dL or 50 mg/dL. New-technology drugs like exenatide are glucose-dependent, which means they prompt the beta cells to secrete insulin only when blood sugar levels are high. Thus, exenatide will not cause already low blood sugar levels to fall even lower, to potentially dangerous levels. The old-technology therapy can cause some problems." - 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.) "Old-technology drugs like sulfonylureas that prompt insulin secretion in a glucose-independent fashion place patients at greater risk for hypoglycemia because they trigger insulin secretion without regard to blood sugar level. The many benefits of exenatide are countered by a few downsides: it is injectable, and it can cause nausea (however, nausea almost always disappears within a short time after the beginning of treatment). Headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and nervousness may also occur." - 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.) "As we mentioned in earlier chapters, hyperinsulinemia (high insulin levels) is common among people who have early-stage type 2 diabetes, and we believe that taking sulfonylureas, which act in a glucose-independent fashion (regardless of blood sugar level), places undue stress on the beta cells to produce insulin and may actually hasten progression of beta-cell burnout. In fact, this has been a nagging concern among diabetes experts for a number of years, but prior to the approval of GLP-1 and DPP-4 technologies, there were no new beta cell-directed drugs available." - 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.)

"BLUE LIPS Someone with blue lips may be making a fashion statement, but it's more likely that he or she has been out in the cold too long. But blue lips may be a sign of Raynaud's disease, a condition in which the small arteries, usually in the fingers and toes but sometimes in other parts of the body, become constricted from the cold or emotional stress. This prevents those body parts from getting enough oxygen and turns them blue. (See Chapters 7 and 9." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Most of Mesmer's successful cases were among middle- and upper-class women, whose attendance at his clinic was due as much to fashion and politics as to medical complaints. These patients, surrounded by acquaintances and fellow sufferers, were fixed by the intense gaze, and sometimes stroked by the wand, of Dr Mesmer. If a 'crisis' was produced, the individual might faint, cry out—perhaps with pleasure, perhaps in pain?or even fall into a fit." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders—which frequently accompany alcoholism and remain even after a person has stopped drinking—are treated in a similar fashion, by providing the nutritional building blocks of the neurotransmitters that are low in these conditions. Because the Health Recovery Center believes, as I do, that every addict needs to be treated as an individual and there is no one perfect "formula" for treating something as complicated as addiction, there is no "Natural Prescription" for addiction." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The cold caused great suffering and brought the potato into fashion as a staple for Europe's poor. These centuries-long cycles were like irregular heartbeats in the steady rhythm of global weather. They caused much comment at the time but are mere background noise to the passage of climatic history. The most dramatic shifts have been on an even shorter compass—the decadal flips of the North Atlantic Oscillation, the constant seesaws of ENSO in the Pacific." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Many people in the world cure their own cancers in this fashion. Some are aware of this because their diagnosed tumors went into spontaneous remission without any form of medical treatment, but most will never even know they had cancer because they never received a diagnosis. After passing through a bout of the flu, a week of coughing up bad-smelling phlegm, or a couple of days with a high fever, many people eliminate massive amounts of toxins, and along with them, tumor tissue. Recent cancer research on gravely ill patients at M.D." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"However, most parents quickly realize that they can still cook in the traditional meat-and-potatoes fashion, and prepare wholesome and hearty meals that satisfy the whole family. In fact, parents sometimes even find that cooking becomes much easier when they create simple meals. There's nothing difficult about preparing a meal of grilled meat or fish, a salad, a potato, and a vegetable. These meals can be much less time consuming and fussy than more elaborate combinations of processed foods, sauces, and casseroles." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Bible, the first known fashion statement was made with fig leaves? "Then the eyes of both [Adam and Eve] were opened and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves." What's the Story? Figs are commonly thought of as a fruit but they are actually inverted flowers with the seeds being the actual fruit. There are hundreds of different varieties of figs but the most popular are the Celeste, Brown Turkey, Brunswick, and Marseilles. In the United States, the Calimyrna and Black Mission are most common. (Ficus carica L." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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