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"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. A new medicine, which isn't based only on healing symptoms but foresees a global healing of the entire person and informs her of her ability to be responsible for her own health, will lead to a new society: not only a more healthy society from a bodily point of view but also a more creative, healthy, and sane society from any point of view." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Choice in doctors and medical approaches, involvement in the health-care process, healthy lifestyles, and safer, nontoxic natural therapies are recognized by today's women as essential to health and well-being. Women highly value the longer time spent in discussion with their alternative provider as well as the careful, complete, and respectful collection of their history. They value processing their options thoroughly and individually. This unique quality of alternative health-care systems is rare in conventional medicine and is one of the chief reasons women seek alternative care." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Practicing the principles found in the healthy lifestyles Checklist. Recognizing the symptoms your body is giving you to signal that it needs your cooperation for it to correct the underlying causes of your health challenges. WHAT DOES HEALTH LOOK LIKE? Some of the characteristics of a totally healthy person, devoid of all toxins, would be the following:17 Neither overweight nor underweight. Solid muscular build. No weakness or fatigue. þBright eyes, whites not yellow or blood shot. No presence of disease or illness. Quick healing of injuries. Clear, soft, and smooth skin. Sweet breath." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In the same cohort, breast cancer survivors who reported consuming five or more daily servings of vegetables and fruit and exercised at least at a moderate level 30 minutes nearly every day had a 50% reduction in risk associated with these healthy lifestyles [166]. An overall dietary pattern characterized by higher intakes of vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products was not related to all-cause or breast cancer mortality but was related to a significantly lower risk of mortality from other causes during a 20-year follow period in another cohort of 2619 women [207]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Additionally, supplement users tend to have healthy lifestyles and diets favorable for disease prevention [93]. C. Polymorphism: An Additional Risk Factor in Cancer Evidence is increasingly surfacing that genetic polymorphisms can influence the response to an arsenal of agents used in the battle against cancer, including both drugs and dietary components." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"And in practice, doctors are not rewarded for educating patients about the merits of truly healthy lifestyles. Over the past one hundred years, the mechanical treatment of disease has increasingly dominated the medical profession in the United States. Surgery is the prototype, and its dramatic progress— light-years removed from the cathartics, bloodletting, and amputations that dominated medicine in previous centuries—is nothing short of breathtaking. But surgery has serious flaws." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Protective associations in population studies may reflect better diets or other healthy lifestyles in multivitamin supplement users. Data from clinical trials over 6 years in length are lacking but soon forthcoming." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Some people come to enhance and support their already healthy lifestyles and to ensure their healthy futures. Some are seeking more joy, peace, and a deeper soul connection to the Divine, while others simply wish to experience the joy of a vegan vegetarian spiritual retreat that is in alignment with their personal lifestyle. There are also those who are suffering the results of years of damaging lifestyle and dietary choices, and visit out of their need to address a serious, life-threatening degenerative illness." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Each Alive with Gabriel monthly program (called Wake Up with Gabriel when it is in the morning), presented by Gabriel Cousens, features a variety of practical and invaluable information about spirituality, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles to help you sustain the Culture of Life. The Tree of Life Awakened Living Shoppe: Located at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, the Awakened Living Shoppe offers vegan, organic foods and supplements, books, and other products to support a healthy awakened life." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"And once your children start facing school and homework with high levels of energy, fueled by their healthy lifestyles, they'll learn how to care about and enjoy learning. Fostering a Passion for Learning As you make the necessary adjustments to your child's diet, you'll be encouraged as you see his or her concentration levels steadily improve. At this point, you'll be able to begin helping your child develop something that has likely been placed on the back burner because of the more pressing behavioral problems: good study habits." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"In other words physicians are simply too busy treating disease to worry about educating their patients in healthy lifestyles that help avoid developing degenerative diseases in the first place. True Preventive Medicine If we are going to label something preventive, then I believe it should actually prevent something. I strongly suggest that true preventive medicine involves encouraging and supporting patients to take a threefold approach: eating healthily, practicing a consistent exercise program, and consuming high-quality nutritional supplements." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"In other words, McDonald's wants its customers to associate the idea of healthy lifestyles with its brand—a classic halo effect maneuver. TIMING OF MCDONALD'S 2004 ANNOUNCEMENT Announces phasing out of "super sizes" by year's end March 2004 A Salad in Name Only? In 2003, the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) conducted a nutritional analysis of thirty-four salads served at fast-food chains, and the results, to put it mildly, were dismal." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Where it's less obvious, there are red flags, including the use of key catchphrases such as "energy balance" and "healthy lifestyles." (For a guide to such philanthropic programs, see Appendix 2.) Branded playgrounds In a demonstration of infinite corporate chutzpah, PepsiCo is funding branded playgrounds for kids. In November 2005, the company opened a playground in a Washington, D.C. preschool, the first of thirteen planned sites.17 Brock Leach, PepsiCo's chief innovation officer, explained that funding playgrounds is "all about moving more, helping kids move more." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Salsa, Sabor y Salud Kraft Foods' "healthy lifestyles program for Latino families." www. nlci. org/salsa/indexSSS .htm Weekly Reader MyPyramid Grocery Manufacturers Association's curriculum on the food guide pyramid. www.gmabrands.com/news/docs/NewsRelease.cfm?DocID=1569 Public-Private Partnerships America on the Move The Web site's claim that "[i]t's all about energy balance" tells all; the two main corporate sponsors arc PepsiCo and (meat packer) Cargill. www.americaonthcmovc." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Eat right, don't smoke. healthy lifestyles promote wound healing. •Watch it. If the wound shows signs of infection (redness, increased pain or swelling, yellow or green discharge), seek medical attention. ¦n . The American Academy of Family Physi-— cians has more information on caring for wounds at http://familydoctor.org/041.xml. Mayo Clinic news release. The Healing Power of Honey The combination of the sugar and antibacterial components in honey kills germs when applied topically." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The researchers also found that this group was into current events, led healthy lifestyles (really, now?), and also considered faith and spirituality a priority. The U.S. Census Bureau says we'll have seven times more centenarians by the year 2040; that's a half million more than we have today. We think the number could be much greater. Figure 16.1 Age Old? If we graph quality of life against calendar age, we see that many of us begin to get frail in our middle years and live lives of progressively declining health until we finally fall off our rocker." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"In addition, the Stitts and Natural Ovens Bakery helped launch a "Peak Performance" program in another 35 midwestern schools and a "Healthy Lifestyles Initiative" in the Perspectives Charter School in Chicago, Illinois. Lithonia, Georgia: School Goes Mostly Sugar Free In 1996, then-obese Yvonne Sanders-Butler, Ed.D., was rushed to the emergency room because she was about to have a massive stroke. The five-foot, four-inch, 187-pound, Mississippi native had dangerously high blood pressure, joint pain, allergies, memory problems, depression, frequent nosebleeds, and a huge sugar addiction." - 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.)

"However, many people in their sixties, seventies, and eighties sleep soundly because they maintain healthy lifestyles. Sleep problems are not an automatic accompaniment to aging, emphasizes H. Vafi, MD.41 "Although uninterrupted sleep may be more difficult to achieve [with aging], insomnia may not be as much a factor in growing older as it is a by-product of a negative attitude about aging," says Dr. Vafi." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"In March 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the healthy lifestyles and Disease Prevention Initiative. The campaign "encourages American families to take small, manageable steps within their current lifestyle—versus drastic changes— to ensure effective, long-term weight control."10 It features (what else?) a Web site (www.smallstep.gov), where HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson explains that people don't need to resort to "extreme measures"—such as following a diet fad or joining a gym—to lose weight." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"If we have learned anything about healthy lifestyles, it is that moderation in all things is the key to success. You will find a wonderful story in our appendix (page 467) from Laura Effel. It is titled "How I Lowered My LDL Cholesterol 44 Points in 5 Weeks without Drugs." Laura is our poster child for how sensible eating can make a difference for some people. þ Bile Acid Binders These drugs include cholestyramine, colestipol, and colesevelam. They lower total cholesterol by up to 20 percent and LDL cholesterol by around 15 percent. Triglycerides go up modestly." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Free of charge, this organization offers hotline counseling, a national network of free support groups, referrals to health care professionals, and education and prevention programs to promote self-acceptance and healthy lifestyles. nutrition and children (at home and in school) FoodStudies.org Antonia Demas, Ph.D. www.foodstudies.org The Food Studies Institute (FSI) is devoted to changing the health destinies of children through proper nutrition and education. This has been the life-long work of Dr." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"The greater meat consumption of obese Seventh-Day Adventists was simply one of numerous characteristics present with greater frequency among those living less healthy lifestyles. Why single out meat when so many other possible culprits were present? What do other studies show? What about other large-scale studies, involving populations other than Seventh-Day Adventists, that recruited vegetarians and non-vegetarians and compared their subsequent mortality rates?" - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Much of this can be attributed to our lack of interest in natural healthy lifestyles and nutrition, our obsession with highly processed fast foods that have little nutritional value, and our belief, reinforced by daily pharmaceutical advertisements, that there is a pill for every illness. Nearly 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates, "The Father of Medicine," offered this simple advice: "Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be thy food." Appendix Websites for AdditionalInformation Many of the websites listed below are nonprofit organizations run by concerned citizens and doctors." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Linked to this suggestion that with age our health inevitably needs shoring up with chemical nostrums, is an ardent determination within the medical profession to refuse to deal in either preventive or environmental health, or to engage in robust discussion of healthy lifestyles. In fact, flying in the face of reason, it goes farther than this. Not only are pharmaceutical companies bent on flooding the market with quack cures, but they are also spending millions of dollars organising against vitamins, food supplements and natural health care." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"If a person can get under 15% body fat, for example, or get their cholesterol below 130, or maintain a healthy body weight, they should have rebates on their insurance compared to people who choose not to follow healthy lifestyles. This would create a financial incentive for people to pursue healthful dietary and exercise strategies. And the long-term result is that everyone's insurance rates would go down, because healthy people cost a lot less in terms of medical expenses." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"If you look at the consumers and try to understand the evolution of their healthy lifestyles, what you see is that things like exercise and eating organic food are some of the activities that they adopt early on," Hollender said. "We know that buying environmentally nontoxic household products is something that is a later stage of developing." Having children helps sway reluctant shoppers, he added. "All of a sudden indoor air quality becomes a much bigger priority," he said, especially health issues like asthma, allergies, and chemical sensitivities." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Is it possible that people are now looking to their physician's prescription pad as the answer to their health problems, as opposed to seeking and living healthy lifestyles? It is estimated that 48 million people, approximately 20 percent Drug Addiction of the population aged 12 or older, have used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons in their lifetime.6 Of this staggering number, approximately 4.4 million have used narcotic pain relievers, 1.2 million have used anti-anxiety medications and 1 million have used stimulants and sedatives." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Increased public health outreach activities, especially in schools and in communities, to promote healthy lifestyles, especially physical activity and a healthy diet. 8) Appropriate taxation (or the opposite, positive financial incentives) to encourage healthy lifestyles, especially exercise as a routine activity. Examples: greatly increased tobacco, alcohol and gasoline taxes; taxing soft drinks; higher vehicle licensing fees." - Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H., Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (Get the book.)

"And it fits right into today's healthy lifestyles. However, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise that concerned consumers can reduce their risk of E. coli 0157 infection by first boiling fresh cider." A brief description of symptoms for a dozen common food-borne illnesses can also be found on STOP's website, www.STOP-usa.org. But the burden of improving food safety belongs squarely on the shoulders of industry and government. The food industry must clean up its act. Better cleansing technology is just a start." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Indy in Motion (in Indianapolis) Initiated through the national group Partnership to Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living, Indy in Motion has brought together numerous groups and organizations in Indianapolis to promote healthy lifestyles. One program, "A Walk in the Park," supports walking and other activity programs in nine city parks.72 Project Active in Dallas Researchers at the Cooper Institute developed an innovative program that can be used to counsel individuals or small groups about being physically active." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

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