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 "Mothers who have stayed in shape during pregnancy have reported an easier time during labor, too; a fit mother tends to have a shorter labor, with fewer complications. Regular exercise will help you recover quickly after childbirth, and it can also increase your stamina and energy when you most need it—after the baby arrives.
Be careful, though, to avoid any overly strenuous activity, especially as your pregnancy progresses. Don't overdo it. Consider a prenatal yoga class to help you stay fit and manage stress during pregnancy."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Medical induction of labor," in which the obstetrician induces labor by injecting a drug, usually Pitocin, increased from 1% in 1980 to 12% in 2000. By the year 2000, these two procedures were used in more than one-third of all deliveries. Add to that the Cesarean section, which accounted for almost one-quarter of all live births in 2000, and we arrive at an amazing conclusion, one that seems to fly in the face of popular ideology: that six of ten of all live births are induced by some surgical procedure—that is, they are "unnatural."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Treatment of bacterial vaginosis with antibiotics decreases the incidence of preterm labor, according to preliminary studies. Probiotics may be a safe alternative to antibiotics for treatment and they may even prevent bacterial vaginosis. Evidence suggests that Lactobacillus plays an important role in maintaining the health of the urinary and reproductive tract. In 2006, a research study was initiated at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto to investigate the effects of Lactobacilli in preterm labor."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "Much of what we call recreation or exercise consists of pointless physical labor, so it is especially satisfying when we can give that labor a point. But gardening consists of mental work as well: learning about the different varieties; figuring out which do best under the conditions of your garden; acquainting yourself with the various microclimates—the subtle differences in light, moisture, and soil quality across even the tiniest patch of earth; and devising ways to outwit pests without resorting to chemicals."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
| "Mothers who have stayed in shape during pregnancy have reported an easier time during labor, too; a fit mother tends to have a shorter labor, with fewer complications. Regular exercise will help you recover quickly after childbirth, and it can also increase your stamina and energy when you most need it—after the baby arrives.
Be careful, though, to avoid any overly strenuous activity, especially as your pregnancy progresses. Don't overdo it. Consider a prenatal yoga class to help you stay fit and manage stress during pregnancy." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "But with the progress of the cycle, a period came when the work to be done was no longer proto- or superhuman; it was the labor specifically of man—control of the passions, exploration of the arts, elaboration of the economic and cultural institutions of the state. Now is required no incarnation of the Moon Bull, no Serpent Wisdom of the Eight Diagrams of Destiny, but a perfect human spirit alert to the needs and hopes of the heart. Accordingly, the cosmogonic cycle yields an emperor in human form who shall stand for all generations to come as the model of man the king." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) |
 "They brought a stationary bicycle into the labor suite. Somehow they found fifty women who agreed to pedal for periods of twenty minutes, rate their pain levels, and have their blood tested for endorphins right up until they gave birth. Most of them (84 percent) said contractions were less painful during exercise than at rest, and their ratings were inversely proportional to endorphin levels. The researchers concluded that, "exercising on a bicycle ergometer during labor seems to be safe for the fetus, a stimulus to uterine contractions, and a source of analgesia."- John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Several years ago a group of German researchers decided to test whether exercise would have any impact on the painful process of labor. They brought a stationary bicycle into the labor suite. Somehow they found fifty women who agreed to pedal for periods of twenty minutes, rate their pain levels, and have their blood tested for endorphins right up until they gave birth. Most of them (84 percent) said contractions were less painful during exercise than at rest, and their ratings were inversely proportional to endorphin levels." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "These extra steps can add time and effort to the labor of blood processing. Furthermore, the complexity of an assay method can vary from the ability to analyze hundreds of samples a day at a cost of a few dollars per sample to a labor-intensive, weeklong process that costs hundreds of dollars per sample.
The ability to measure particular biomarkers is also often linked to technological challenges and existing capabilities."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
| "Much of what we call recreation or exercise consists of pointless physical labor, so it is especially satisfying when we can give that labor a point. But gardening consists of mental work as well: learning about the different varieties; figuring out which do best under the conditions of your garden; acquainting yourself with the various microclimates—the subtle differences in light, moisture, and soil quality across even the tiniest patch of earth; and devising ways to outwit pests without resorting to chemicals." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "Since the 1980s, the digital revolution has moved most of us from the factory floor and physical labor to the desk, where we sit facing a computer. The problems continued as our urban transformation changed our diet. As immigrants and other Americans left their farms and began living and working in cities, their diets began to change.
Then the mechanization of the food industry compounded these dietary changes: canned and frozen produce replaced fresh fruits and vegetables. Free-range cattle gave way to feedlots. Fresh, lean meat was replaced by processed and canned meats."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "However, according to the Consumers Union and 19 labor union and public interest groups, after the new prescription drug "benefit" takes effect, the average Medicare patient, who spent $2318 out of pocket for prescription drugs in 2003, will spend $2911 out of pocket in 2007. Ostensibly designed to
• The actual name of this legislation, signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 8,2003, is the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. decrease the financial burden of prescription drugs for senior citizens, the legislation will do just the opposite."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Specifically, federal and state labor policies can help expand the pool of front-line caregivers. States must reach out to younger generations to increase the pool of committed workers and volunteers. We can create youth apprenticeship programs in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in which high school students who wish to experience hands-on learning in the workplace in conjunction with classroom instruction are given the opportunity to have mentored on-the-job learning in an elder-care setting."- 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.) |
 "In this marketplace, individuals offer up the best of their skills, material resources, knowledge, emotional support, and even the sweat of their labor. And they receive in return. It works much like historical bazaars, souks, and village barter exchanges. One family's product is another's need, and vice versa. All the essentials of life, including nonmaterial things like mutual aid and support, are traded in a network that binds individuals into one self-supporting and self-protecting community."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
| "As we labor under the misapprehension that a single condition called "Alzheimer's disease" exists, and wait patiently for a cure, funds flow freely into the pockets of those who distort the truth. It's manipulative, unfair, and unwise. AD supporters are entitled to their opinion about the promise of science, but we must allow other voices, which are growing in amplitude, to express alternative interpretations of the current science. How much longer do we endure and invest in the wait for a "breakthrough"? How much can we improve upon current treatments?" - 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.) |
| "You might also consider hiring a doula to help you during labor. For more information on doulas, see Dona International's Web site (www.dona.org).
If you've taken all of these steps in the early months of your pregnancy, you've gone a long way toward protecting the health of your child.
Choosing the Right Hospital
Take some time to consider where you're going to give birth. If you're not planning to do a home birth, you should choose a green hospital or birthing center, like the one my environmental center helped to build at the Hackensack University Medical Center." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "Probiotics inhibit bad microbes in the vagina from causing infections that can cause early labor. Probiotics also promote proper immune reactions in the mother, preventing the mother from having negative immune reactions that can harm the baby.
The most important benefit of the mother's probiotics (maternal microflora) for the growing fetus is their ability to fight bad microbes. The maternal microflora prevents the growth of bad microbes in the vaginal tract; however, sometimes this is not enough and infections occur. It is estimated that vaginal infections cause up to 30% of preterm labour." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "In 2005, Japan's Ministry of Health, labor, and Welfare posted the intent, purpose, and related information of changing the name for dementia on their Web site and invited opinions from the public.
Ninchishou emerged as the victor.
The purpose of instituting this new terminology is that a patient given the label will better be able to reconcile their condition and adapt to it without feeling themselves to be fools. Likewise, such a semantic adaptation may lessen the tendency to ostracize aging persons, and may help communities embrace the elderly and see the person rather than the dementia." - 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.) |
| "The results of this study (not released at time of publication) may offer some insight into the use of probiotics to prevent preterm labor caused by bacterial vaginosis in at-risk mothers. i-1
Bacterial Vaginosis
Symptoms of bacterial vaginosis include pain, discharge and itching. Bacterial vaginosis is commonly mistaken for yeast infection and is commonly self-treated with over-the-counter antifungals. This misdiagnosis and mistreatment of bacterial vaginosis can have bad consequences. The use of antifungals to treat bacterial vaginosis is not very successful; cure rates are as low as 60%." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "We now have rigorous labor standards for pregnant women, pills to treat impotence and ADHD, and circumcision is an unquestioned hospital procedure for 80 percent of American families.5 Those are the stories that shape our reality, some for better, some for worse.
The "Alzheimerization" of dementia . . . has served to impede the process of cultural transformation.6
?" - 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.) |
| "A mother's microflora can affect labor time and influence the makeup of an infants microflora. Breast-feeding appears to promote the presence of healthy microflora in newborn infants. Bifidobacteria are the dominant species in infants with B. breve, B. infantis, B. longum and B. bifidum being the dominant species. Some Lactobacilli are present in an infant's microflora, but not at levels seen in adults. Despite the difference in composition, probiotics appear to offer an infant similar health benefits as seen in adults." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "But if you don't have the good health to go along with it, you are not going to enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you want a retirement with good health, you need to start working early on your health, just as you do on your finances. Don't wait until you get sick.
Prevention is not complicated. Our four pillars of healing that we laid out earlier in this chapter are important. As far as supplements are concerned, you don't need as many as someone with CVD."- Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) |
 "For decades, United Fruit resolved labor disputes with armed confrontations. Using brute force as their main negotiating tactic, representatives of the United Fruit Company opened fire on striking workers in the Santa Marta Massacre of Colombia. Their "Great White Fleet" was used in the world wars to transport soldiers and supplies. They funded the Bay of Pigs invasion to protest Castro's nationalization of plantations. They engaged the Hon-duran army to bulldoze villages to make way for processing plants and banana fields. They were caught by the U.S."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Rainfall faltered, and people once again turned to human labor and technology to boost the carrying capacity of their lands. The delta farmers developed irrigation into a fine art. Crop yields and population densities climbed rapidly at a time when the Gulf was moving inland at a remarkable rate. Communities near the water's edge had to move several times within a generation. In a tightly packed farming landscape, even a minor move altered jealously guarded territorial boundaries and sent political and social ripples through a wide area. We can imagine such an incident."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The British Raj left rural India well alone, except when rapidly expanding commercial agriculture ventures aimed at overseas markets needed cheap labor. The colonial authorities were content to collect taxes and exercise administrative control while investing litde in village development. Over many decades, late-nineteenth-century administrators favored a cautious policy of preventing famine rather than mitigating it." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Vaughan Nash met scores of families migrating toward government-sponsored work camps, where they would carry out manual labor in exchange for basic rations. The refugees walked in "the burning dust, with lips and throats too parched for speech, their garments often in shreds and their eyes hollow with hunger."8 At one village in Gujerat, the fierce heat dried up the river so fast that hundreds of fish flapped in the shallows. Starving people from kilometers around gathered up the fish by hand and ate them. Someone in the crowd introduced cholera. Two hundred people died the first day." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "In addition, since our economies are based on the input of human labor (human time is the principal component of any price, the natural resources being intrinsically free), wide-scale unemployment can spell disaster for a nation's economic well-being.
The question we should be asking is not how to maintain employment, but how to create an economic system that can distribute resources and enhance our well-being, while at the same time fulfilling our age-old wish to be free from unwanted toil.
Freedom for What?
Freedom from toil is not the only freedom we have sought."- Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) |
 "Additional support for the act came from public health and labor organizations, particularly those representing nail, hairdressing, and beauty salon workers, and the Screen Actors Guild.
California's highly progressive initiative has motivated changes in other parts of the country as well. The act helped inspire the Oregon state legislature to pass a joint resolution in 2007 telling the U.S. Congress that it wants the federal government to mandate accurate labeling of all ingredients 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.) "In Japan, prior to April 1, 2003, cosmetics were regulated under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law (PAL) by the Pharmaceutical and Safety Bureau, under the authority of the Ministry of Health, labor and Welfare. Beginning in 2003, however, cosmetics were effectively de-regulated and responsibility shifted from the ministry to industry. Abolition of the PAL has thus effectively harmonized the Japanese and U.S. markets. However, there are important differences between Japanese law and our own. Importing companies are now required to notify the ministry that they intend to sell a product in Japan." - 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.) "Department of Labor's Material Safety Data Sheet on this substance further warns: "Precautions: Do not breathe dust. Causes respiratory tract irritation." It also notes: "Protective Equipment: Be sure to use an approved respirator" if handling the powder. Titanium dioxide powder particle size is very fine, less than one micron, which is why it is readily inhaled deeply into human lungs. Though titanium dioxide appears in sunblocks, toothpastes, and other non-powdered products, it poses no similar threat to health in those non-powder forms." - 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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