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"Accelerated aging occurs with an FBS of 86 or greater and with that an increased risk of premature death. We have just begun to recognize that even a high normal glucose can eventually become a serious threat to our health. The point is we need to understand the complex toxic effects that high blood sugar or hyperglycemia creates in the body. It should be clear at this point that a high blood sugar damages cells through multiple mechanisms and accelerates all elements of aging. The following list shows the potential problems that can arise from a high-glycemic diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Little or no support after a heart attack translates into a three- to four-time greater risk of premature death than if patients are surrounded by friends and family. Modern medicine has explained many of the physiological relationships of the mind/body connection. In the early 1900s, Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon first described the fight-or-flight response—the internal response of the body to a threat or a perceived threat. The body releases stress hormones that touch off a cascade of events priming a person or an animal to run or fight." - 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.) "If you have a family history of high lipids, early heart attacks, and premature death, you may opt to be more aggressive. But suppose you are a young male or female in your forties with no history of heart disease. Your laboratory evaluation reveals normal blood sugar, low CRP, and elevated cholesterol. Your physician wants to prescribe a statin to lower your cholesterol. If it works, he or she will keep you on it for the rest of your life. Should you go for it? This scenario weighs heavy on the risk side and light on the benefit side." - 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.) "Metabolic Syndrome Metabolic syndrome involves a specific set of measurements that do not by themselves cause symptoms but represent risk factors for CVD, obesity, diabetes, physical frailty, and premature death. Medical experts believe one out of four adults in the overall population and one out of two over the age of fifty have metabolic syndrome and do not know it. Doctors will likely include most of these factors in their assessment, but they usually do not measure waist girth and do not tend to look at these measurements collectively." - 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.)

"There is suggestive evidence that it was Jackie Kennedy's frequent use of these hair dyes that resulted in her premature death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In fact, frequent and prolonged use of these dyes has been associated with significant risks for a range of cancers, including acute and chronic leukemia, multiple myeloma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and bladder and breast cancers. It is estimated that use of these dyes accounts for over 20 percent of all non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in women, the incidence of which escalated by 70 percent from 1975 to 2004." - 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.)

"Meanwhile, the toll on our bodies is manifested in various ways: aches and pains, indigestion, insomnia, high blood pressure, allergies, lowered immunity, illness, sometimes even premature death. These are not the only effects of stress. Increased tension, friction, anger, hostility, intolerance, anxiety, depression, irrationality, fear, fragility, instability, ineffectiveness and muddled thinking, selfishness, and general craziness, all damage the general health and well-being of society." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, about 438,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking, a loss of about five million years of potential life span, associated with an annual cost of $92 billion in productivity loses. One in every five deaths is smoking related.15 These mind-boggling numbers overwhelm any potential health gain from the various procedures and treatments reviewed in our first seven chapters. A related and serious public health problem, and a generally overlooked one, is the effect of secondhand smoking." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"At the time, the evidence seemed clear that, unless they changed their ways, such men risked a tragic end: premature death from heart failure. The discovery of the Type A personality and his apparent vulnerability to heart attack had roots in a far more broadly based set of public health concerns in the postwar period. This was a period of sharply rising levels of coronary heart disease in the American population." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "If people were willing to blame modern life in general for a range of stress-linked disorders, did it not follow that they should also be willing to blame the corporate world for its role in encouraging behaviors that increased employees' risk of heart disease and premature death? A few people moved cautiously in this direction, noting that the "20th-century Western milieu" had "probably increased the prevalence of [Type A behavior] . . . if only by offering special rewards to those who can perform more competitively, aggressively, and rapidly than others." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Sanctified by suffering, this woman has emerged from the abyss of premature death to be a witness to the divine healing properties of the grape." The American Cancer Society investigated the Grape Cure on a number of occasions and never established any proof of it healing cancer or other diseases. Quackwatch.org concludes that it is a book worth ignoring: "There is no scientific evidence that the Johanna Brandt's Grape Cure has any value." Following grapes, there was an unsubstantiated craze for apricot seeds in the 1960s and 1970s." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In 2002, the total cost of diabetes was $132 billion; $92 billion in direct medical costs and $40 billion in disability, work loss, and premature death. Given the enormous toll of type 2 diabetes in terms of both human suffering and health care resources, one would expect that controlling this epidemic would be a top health priority. But most of what doctors and the public are hearing about diabetes recently has more to do with statin drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Although there are no magic cures to arrest the aging process, there are measures that one can take to slow the process and reduce the risks of premature death. Significant factors that may contribute to an individual's longevity include genetics, access to health care, hygiene, diet, exercise, and lifestyle. Therefore, recommendations to increase longevity include a healthy, well-balanced diet, stress management, rest, regular exercise, support of the digestive and immune systems, and enzyme supplementation for overall improved health." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. It is also a proinflammatory condition, which means that excess adipose (fat) tissue releases substances such as inflammatory cytokines and other factors that are associated with insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, and oxidized cholesterol (which promotes the formation of plaque), all of which are implicated in heart disease and stroke." - 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.)

"For these high-risk men in Oslo, lifestyle counseling was half again more effective at preventing heart disease and premature death than was treatment with a statin drug in the high-risk men included in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS). For secondary prevention of heart disease, the situation in which the statins have the greatest benefit, studies also show that nondrug approaches can be more effective than treatment with statin drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"But those women who exercised the most, and the most intensely, had the greatest reductions in premature death, especially from respiratory or cardiovascular disease. • Pycnogenol Power ot so long ago, many nutritionists scoffed at the idea of anti-aging antioxidants—those nutrients found in foods and o supplements that could delay aging by slowing the normal rate at which skin, cardiovascular tissues and organs break down. But then, scientists discovered that Pycnogenol, a product that contains vitamin- like flavonoids, is a powerful pill." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Living Longer, Stronger Iby exercising regularly, postmenopausal women can reduce their risk of premature death by 30%, accord- -ing to a recent study of more than 40,000 women in Iowa. Even women who were physically active ? Undernutrition for Longer Life? In the world of anti-aging medicine, the remarkable does not always turn out to be practical. At least not yet. For already there is one method of dramatically extending lives in lab animals: Undernutrition, or feeding the animals half as much as they would like to eat, at every meal." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Vivian Vetrano partially blames a sugary diet high in fruit and low in protein for the premature death of health educator and publicist T. C. Fry. He died at 70 with symptoms of Bl2 and protein deficiency because he refused to eat more than a very few nuts and seeds on his mainly fruit diet. She objected when he kept offering to share his delicious, sweet fruits with her, "Sure you can stay off nuts, but look what it makes you do: overeat on sweet, dried fruit!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I'd take issue with the notion of "preventable death" and the notion of "premature death," as you know from chapter 1. At least I can find like-minded individuals on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2003), which found "insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening." The quest for the effective oral hypoglycemic is yet another Grail of the pharmaceutical industry. After all, we are defining an ever-expanding population of diabetics, an epidemic if you will, which represents an ever-expanding market to be captured." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The real goal of medical care is, after all, to improve overall health—in this case to decrease the risk of coronary heart disease, serious illness of all kinds, and premature death from all causes—and not simply to lower blood levels of LDL cholesterol. Even though much of what we know about the relationship between cholesterol and coronary heart disease comes from the Framingham Heart Study, the mother of all cholesterol studies, some of its most important findings will come as a surprise—especially to doctors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "It turned out, however, that these changes did not predict an increased risk of premature death. The women who were among the least fit, on the other hand, had far more risk of dying of CHD and more than twice the overall risk of death during 20 years of follow-up than did the most fit women. Does exercise help people who already have heart disease? Post-heart attack patients randomized to participate in an exercise program had a statistically significant (27 percent) lower death rate than those in the control group." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Keeping our cellular powerhouses healthy is vital to delaying the premature death of cells, which we now believe to be the main cause of early aging, illness, and death. Since most of us do not consume the proper balance of nutrients in the foods we eat to provide the nutrients the mitochondria require, supplementation has become a necessary way of life. Why is it, for example, that one eighty-five-year-old person can pole vault, while another fifty-year-old person can look and act like he is eighty? It's no mystery. If mitochondria are healthy, then so are we." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"People with diabetes face the near certainty, and in many poor countries the stark reality, of premature death. Type-1 diabetes is particularly costly in terms of mortality in poor countries, where many children die because access to life-saving insulin is not subsidized by governments (in some countries, there even is a high tax on purchased insulin), and is often not available at any price." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"We have premature death, impaired productivity, motor vehicle crashes and repeatedly more crimes. Who pays this bill? We do! We have increasingly more "iatrogenic" diseases. My God, why don't we just say that doctors kill, and cause disease instead of saying "iatrogenic" disease? Nevertheless, sleeping pills are an attractive market. And who wants to give up on the billions of dollars that is profited with aspirin, Viagra, and all the other blockbuster-drugs we spoke of: drugs for the young, drugs for the old, drugs for athletes, drugs for the whole population?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"For many patients, of course, the medical progress of the past several decades has meant the difference between life and a premature death or a disability. But for others, it has simply meant more opportunities to receive even more costly unnecessary care. For some it has meant premature disability and death. "The resistance to change is structural," says Wennberg. "It relates to the fact that doctors don't want to think they aren't doing the right thing. You can understand why doctors would feel that way; they've done it all their lives." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Yet even that is not a fail-safe talisman for warding off premature death. Howard Brody, a primary care physician at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, recalls a tragic case of a young woman who put her faith in the Pap test: One of the saddest cases I ever took care of was a woman in her late thirties who died of cervical cancer. She'd had an abnormal Pap smear four or five years earlier. A [biopsy] found some abnormal cells. Everybody thought we'd gotten it all. She had a normal Pap smear every year after that, year in, year out." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Tanzania These estimates are based on lost productivity, resulting primarily from premature death. Accounting for disability might double or triple these figures. Diabetes also has a negative impact upon a person's general health condition and work performance. In 2003, the CDC found: 33.6 percent of U.S. adults with diabetes reported at least one day of poor mental health for each thirty days; 53.9 percent reported at least one day of poor physical health; and 62.8 percent reported at least one day of either poor mental or physical health. Also, 32." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Free radical "hits" on cells and their essential components accumulate over time, producing the signs and symptoms of aging: premature death, heart disease, cancer, dimming cognition, cataracts, and wrinkles. If free radicals are the problem, then antioxidants are, without a doubt, the solution. According to Dr. Denham Harman, a free radical expert from the University of Nebraska, "addition of one of a number of different antioxidants in the diet can increase the average life span." Undoubtedly, green tea's polyphenols are potent antioxidants that can help hold back the hands of time." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Hemolytic anemia refers to a category of anemia in which red blood cells become fragile and undergo premature death. Vitamin E (page 609) deficiency, though quite rare, can cause hemolytic anemia because vitamin E protects the red blood cell membrane from oxidative damage. Vitamin E deficiency anemia usually affects only premature infants and children with cystic fibrosis (page 143)." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"This sounded like something a person would want to be true, but was it really the last word? In 2001, the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute published the results of a large multicenter clinical trial called Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) that shook at least some people's confidence in healing ties." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Chronic illness predisposes one to accelerated aging and premature death. Each time an infection is suppressed, the subsequent congestion in the deeper-lying structures of the body increases the workload of the heart, making it increasingly weak and stressed. Heart disease, which is the prevalent killer in most countries of the industrialized world, could largely be prevented if we didn't suppress immune responses such as the common infection." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

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