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"Burt, chief of ambulatory care statistics at the National Center for health statistics, who administered the study, stated that the increase in prescribing is "...a lot more than we would have expected just from the aging of the population." The increase was largely attributed to aggressive marketing by the drug companies. Heavily advertised drugs tended to be in the top twenty most prescribed drugs. Some good news came from the study. Prescriptions for antibiotics are down.100 There is little research on the safety and effectiveness of mixing multiple medications in a single patient." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"This fact is dramatically reflected in a lengthy and well-documented report compiled by medical doctors and researchers with the Nutrition Institute of America and presented a detailed analysis of medical literature and government health statistics released in 2003." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "According to the National Center for health statistics, a 42 percent jump in fertility problems was reported between 1982 and 1995. Women in the prime of their childbearingyears aren't the only ones having trouble with fertility. Studies are now pouring out of various institutions showing connections between exposure to toxins and male infertility as well. Sperm rates have fallen in much of the industrialized, Western world. They've declined more so in places where pesticides are prominent, and male infertility reports are mounting like never before." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The most recent data, for 2001, was published in 2003, by the National Center for health statistics. It shows that 19% of all visits are "emergent" and 32% are "urgent." Next, most interestingly, a new category has been added: 16% are deemed "semi-urgent," defined as patients who should be seen within 1—2 hoursl Alas, according to this classification, only 9% of all visits are "non-urgent."9 "It appears that medicine and politics are sharing the same hospital bed!" I said, catching my breath. We were raking leaves, and it annoyed me that I tired much more quickly than she did." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"National Center for health statistics, CDC. (1997). Update: prevalence of overweight among children, adolescents, and adults-United States 1988-1994. Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 46, 199-202. 31. Pate, R. R., Pratt, M., Blair, S. N., Haskell, W. L., Macera, C. A., Bouchard, C, Buchner, D., Ettinger, W., Heath, G. W., King, A. C, Kriska, A., Leon, A. S., Marcus, B. H, Morris, J., Paffenbarger, R. S., Patrick, K, Pollack, M. L., Rippe, J. M., Sallis, J., and Wilmore, J. H. (1995)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "National Center for health statistics, Hyattsville, MD. 24. Chapuy, M. C, Arlot, M. E., Duboeuf, F., Brun, J., Crouzet, B., Amaud, S., Delmas, P. D., and Meunier, P. J. (1992). Vitamin D3 and calcium to prevent hip fractures in the elderly women. N. Engl. J. Med. 327, 1637-1642. 25. NIH Consensus Conference. (1994). Optimal calcium intake. JAMA 272, 1942-1948. 26. Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. (1997). "Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Vitamin D, and Fluoride." National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 27. " - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Recent research reviews and an analysis of peer-reviewed medical journals, as well as government health statistics, demonstrate that our trusted medical model can cause more harm than good. Complications from "standard-of-care" interventions, medical errors, and overuse of antibiotics are increasing at an alarming rate. When we consider that the fourth leading cause of death in the United States is properly prescribed medications in a hospital setting, something's got to give!" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"And why were our health statistics so much worse? In running down these questions, it became clear to me that the lack of rigorous science and evidence was just one of many factors that lead physicians and hospitals to deliver care that doesn't improve health. I also discovered along the way that most of the solutions to our various health care crises—consumer-driven care, malpractice reform, universal coverage, pay for performance, electronic medical records—only nibble around the edges of fixing the system." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"National Center for health statistics, Washington, DC. 129. The Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2005). Retrieved August 6, 2007, from http://www.health.gov/dietaryguide-lines/dga2005/report/default.htm. 130. Nightengale, J., and Woodward, J. M. (2006). Guidelines for management of patients with a short bowel. Gut 55, 1-12. 131. Gupte, G. L., Beath, S. V., Kelly, D. A., Millar, A. J. W., and Booth, I. W. (2006). Current issues in the management of intestinal failure. Arch. Dis. Child. 91, 256-264. 132. Carbonnel, F., Cosnes, J." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Similarly, according to the National Center for health statistics, one in fourteen American adults will have cancer at some time in their life. This means that an American is more likely to get an autoimmune disease than either cancer or heart disease. Yet we hear much more in the press about heart disease and cancer than we do about autoimmunity. And this silence is mirrored in relative funding by the National Institutes of Health, the major funding agency for biomedical research in the United States." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Numbers on how many Americans have each type of cancer in each state have been collected by the National Cancer Institute since 1973; the National Center for health statistics and the Centers for Disease Control have collected data on cancer since the early 1900s. Yet it was only a decade ago that scientists first began to cast about for a general sense of how many Americans might be afflicted with autoimmune disease." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Currently 9 million children over the age of six in the USA are obese, while an- other 15% are borderline and at risk, according to the National Center for health statistics. Sixty percent of children ages 5-10 had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease according to 2004 data from the Institute of Medicine report "Childhood Obesity, Health in the Balance, 2004." In children as young as eight years old, the increase in Type II diabetes is so high that it can no longer rightfully be called "adult" onset diabetes." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"National Center for health statistics produced a compendium of health data that considered the influence of ses (Pamuk et al. 1998) that remains an important resource. The realization continues to grow that the relationship between srh and mortality has less to do with "health needs" than with employment (O'Reilly et al. 2005). For a discussion of the health consequences of destitution in countries that are resource constrained, see the classic theoretical treatise by Dasgupta (1993)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"National Center for health statistics. (2006). "Health, United States, 2006, with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans." CDC, Hyattsville, MD. 4. Stamler, J., Neaton, J. D., and Wentworth, D. N. (1989). Blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) and risk of fatal coronary heart disease. Hypertension 13(Suppl I), 1-2?-12. 5. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. (2004). National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD. 6. James, G. D., and Baker, P. T. (1990)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"According to the National Center for health statistics, nearly 1.2 million C-sections—29-1% of all births—were performed in the United States in 2004. IMPLICATIONS "These findings should be of concern for clinicians and policy makers who are observing the rapid growth in the number of primary Caesar-eans to mothers without a medical indication," says lead researcher Marian MacDorman, a CDC statistician and senior social scientist, and co-chair of the SIDS and Infant Mortality Committee for the American Public Health Association." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, almost 5 percent of adults were classified as extremely obese, according to CDC's National Center for health statistics. But even adults at the higher end of the "normal" BMI range, with BMIs of 22 to 24, could stand to lose some weight, according to Dr. Walter C. Willett of Harvard. In all, "up to 80 percent of American adults should weigh less than they do," he says. Perhaps most alarming to health experts is the fact that our nation's kids are steadily gaining weight, with 17.1 percent of children and adolescents 2 to 19 years of age (over 12.5 million youngsters) overweight." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "National Center for health statistics. "Deaths: Final Data for 2003." http://www.cdc .gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/finaldeaths03/finaldeaths03.htm. -. "Prevelance of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: United States, 1999-2002." http:// www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/obese/obse99.htm. Commercial Alert. "Coalition Wants Schools to Stop Pushing Junk Food on Children." http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/education/junk-food/coalition-wants-schools-to-stop-pushing-junk-food-onchildren. -. "Soda Deal for Schools Is Weak on Marketing and Enforcement Says Commercial Alert." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"According to science and health statistics, 95 percent of all diets fail. That's 95 percent. The reason the diet and weight loss industry has been so successful for so long is that when people get fat enough, the first thing they think about is weight loss, and when most people think about weight loss, they think about dieting, not exercise. When people think about exercise, they associate it with work and pain, and who wants that? In fact, most people prefer to avoid dieting and exercise altogether and lose weight by just taking a pill if that were possible." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Most updated National Center for health statistics 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES). http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/06facts/obesity 03_04.htm. -. "Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2003-2004." http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/obese03_04/overwght_adult_03.htm. Center for Science in the Public Interest. "CSPI Applauds Agreement to Get High-Calorie Drinks Out of Schools; Drops Planned Litigation." http://www.cspinet.org/new/200605031.html. -. "Liquid Candy: How Soft Drinks Are Harming America's Health." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In the 1930s, the world's leading cancer experts, using experimental information, detailed observations on highly exposed workers, and some public health statistics, identified many important causes of cancer in industry, nutrition and behavior. For the past seventy-five years, that evidence has been stretched, reviewed, revised, culled, pulled about and put back together again. While Heraclitus said no one ever steps into the same river twice, he could not have had in mind the circular voyage the world of cancer research has taken." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "For me this meant going to the offices of the National Center for health statistics, then located in beautiful suburban Hy-attsville, Maryland, amid shopping centers and concrete office towers. At the NCHS I pored over black books so huge they had to be placed on tables to be opened. They contained the counts of the entire population in any year." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Even though most of us don't think about it, we are all part of health statistics every day. If we're lucky, we belong to the population that is healthy, in which case we form part of the denominator against which cancer is gauged. If we're unlucky, we become part of the numerator—the top part of the fraction, the segment of the population that has the disease. That same year my hardy, guy's guy dad became one of the cancer statistics I would be working on. At first his doctor, who was also his tennis partner, did not want to give him the news." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"According to the Center for health statistics, the American obesity epidemic started in the early 1980s—at the same time that the market was being flooded with low-fat products. Suddenly, the rate of overweight in adults went through the roof. At the start of the 1980s, 13 to 14 percent of adults were overweight; by the end of that decade, the rate of overweight rose to nearly 25 percent of adults. Yes, there are "bad" fats—the trans-fatty acids found in most baked goods and many processed foods, for example." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"And why were our health statistics so much worse? In running down these questions, it became clear to me that the lack of rigorous science and evidence was just one of many factors that lead physicians and hospitals to deliver care that doesn't improve health. I also discovered along the way that most of the solutions to our various health care crises—consumer-driven care, malpractice reform, universal coverage, pay for performance, electronic medical records—only nibble around the edges of fixing the system." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Weight Loss and Weight gain Thirty percent of American adults age 20 and older, over 60 million people, are obese, according to National Center for Health Statistics' data for 1999 to 2002. This means that approximately one-third of the adult population in the United States has a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, putting them at high risk for chronic disease and death. Are you one of these 60 million people? To calculate your BMI, divide your weight in kilograms by your height squared. A BMI that is below 18.5 means that you are underweight, 18.5 to 24.9 is normal, 25 to 29." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The paper also suggested that the EPA, CDC, National Centers for health statistics, National Institute of Dental Research, and state dental societies all work together to move on communities considered ripe for the implementation of fluoridation. Incredibly, this seminal paper even included a suggestion for behavioral profiling of opponents so that they could be better dealt with. It said that public debates about safety Fluoride... • causes dental fluorosis. • damages DNA repair enzymes. • increases risk for osteoporosis. • increases risk for cancer (bone, oral, bladder, lung)." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"A study that analyzed government health statistics and other data gathered nationwide during the period from 1988 to 2000 found that at least 65 million people in the United States—or one-third of American adults—have hypertension, which was defined in the study as a blood pressure of 140/90 or higher (on medication for those who took it) or having been told at least twice by a physician or other health-care professional that they had high blood pressure. This figure is significantly higher than previous estimates based on a 1988-1994 report." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Children's Mental health statistics." http://www.nmha .org/children/prevent/stats.cfm. Omega-3 Information Service, http://www.omega-3info.com/research.htm. Pelchat, Marcia. "Of Human Bondage: Food Craving, Obsession, Compulsion, and Addiction." Physiology and Behavior 76 (2002): 347-52. Rados, Carol. "FDA, EPA Revise Guidelines on Mercury in Fish." FDA, May-June 2004. http:// www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/304_fish.html. Ronzio, Robert. The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health. New York: Facts on File, 2003. Ross, Julia. The Mood Cure. New York: Viking, 2002. Schauss, Alex." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Researchers reported only fifty-six percent agreement between the underlying causes of death offered by physicians and the correct standardized diagnoses published by the National Center for health statistics. The exact level of agreement varied from fifteen to ninety-nine percent, depending on the complexity of the case(34). While the exact diagnosis of death can vary widely, the results for total mortality are final. One can debate endlessly about the precise cause of death, but in the end, the point is moot?the patient is dead." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"According to published reports of national health statistics from around the world, one out of two people in the industrialized world will die from heart disease or a related blood vessel disease. In other words, heart disease is the leading killer disease in the world, with cancer following closely behind. As long ago as June 1961, the American Medical Association reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90 percent of our thromboembolic diseases'5 and 97 percent of our coronary occlusions." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

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