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 "These risks provide possible explanations why L-tryptophan, produced by GM bacteria, contained contaminants that were responsible for a deadly epidemic in the 1980s (See section 1.20).
Unfortunately, there are no special precautions for ingredients produced through GMOs. And like GM crops, the safety testing does not adequately guard against unpre-dicted outcomes of the technology.
Case study: fish protein in ice cream
To improve the taste and texture of its lowfat ice cream, Unilever introduced GM ice-structuring protein (ISP), which lowers the temperature at which ice crystals grow."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "They apparendy reduce risks of diseases of aging. For example, the isoflavones in soy products may reduce the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, and several types of cancer."99 Antioxidants found in grape skins may also fight cancer and reduce heart disease and the pigment in blueberries may revive the brain's neural communication system. "Plants make a very large variety of nutrients and antioxidants whose loss or reduction could have serious adverse consequences for human health." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Health risks to individual consumers... would thus depend on how much of the milk consumed was from cows treated with [rbGH]."22 Regulators pressured for drug approval One FDA scientist said he was fired after expressing concerns about insufficient data in the rbGH analysis. Other FDA employees sent an anonymous letter complaining of "fraud" and "conflict of interest" in relation to the drug's approval. They claimed, for example, that a Monsanto-re-searcher-turned-FDA-employee raised allowable levels of antibiotics in milk one-hundredfold, to pave the way for rbGH approval." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "What kinds of risks would you say are the hardest for you to take?
1. commitment risks (long-term involvement with a person, activity or career)
2. emotional risks (in relationships or showing my feelings)
3. financial risks (of losing money)
4. physical risks (of life and limb)
Assume that you are equally capable of all of the activities listed below. For each set, pick the one that you would most enjoy. (If neither activity appeals to you, pick the one that's least unappealing.)
12. 1. driving a dune buggy 2. hiking in the desert
13. 1. skiing down a steep slope 2."- Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine, Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years (Get the book.) |
 "Whitaker: "Yes, there are risks, and those risks keep physicians from speaking out against Big Pharma even if they're inclined to do so. You wonder why conventional doctors are lockstep in their scorn of natural therapies and
dependence on pharmaceuticals. All you have to do is look at what happens to physicians who step outside of the norm."
"How many patients come to you on prescription meds that are actually only remedies for side effects of other medications they are taking? "
Dr. Whitaker: "That's hard to say because we see so much polypharmacy."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "Because estrogen is associated with side effects and long-term risks as well as benefits, a woman and her doctor must weigh the benefits against the risks before deciding whether to use estrogen replacement therapy. Side effects of estrogen therapy may include nausea, breast discomfort, headaches, and mood swings. The possibility that estrogen might increase the risk of breast cancer has long been a concern. For women who are already at high risk, it is not recommended."- Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
 "The benefits are extraordinary; the risks virtually nonexistent. And the risks of not supplementing potentially include an increased risk of breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and osteoporosis—to reiterate just a few.
And as for Men
As we've already mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, men too are exposed to the effects of xenoestrogens. In addition, as their testosterone levels drop with age (see next section), there is, in many cases, a concomitant tise in estradiol levels—the major reason that many older men develop breasts."- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
 "The short-range goal of reducing tooth decay seems to have blinded us to the long-range risks fluoridation subjects people to. If you ask me, fluoridated municipal water supplies may well be a reason why thyroid dysfunction is so common. Fluoride's ability to impair thyroid function is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that up until the 1970s European doctors used fluoride as a thyroid-suppressing medication for patients with an overactive thyroid. If you'd like to learn more about the potential risks of adding fluoride to our water systems, visit www.fluoridealert.org."- Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) |
 "Feeling good is valuable because it means that odds are you're out of the woods for those risks and troubles.
But positivity does so much more than simply signal the absence of negativity and health risks. It does more than signal the presence of safety and satisfaction, success or good health.
The latest scientific evidence tells us that positivity doesn't simply reflect success and health, it can also produce success and health. This means that even after positivity fades, we can find traces of its impact.
What Good Is Feeling Good?"- Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) |
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| "Because estrogen is associated with side effects and long-term risks as well as benefits, a woman and her doctor must weigh the benefits against the risks before deciding whether to use estrogen replacement therapy. Side effects of estrogen therapy may include nausea, breast discomfort, headaches, and mood swings. The possibility that estrogen might increase the risk of breast cancer has long been a concern. For women who are already at high risk, it is not recommended." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
 "To complicate the choice, the evaluations we order and the treatments we select may actually create unnecessary risks for patients—risks that are out of proportion to the benefits they will experience. Continuing technological advances, although necessary, add to the complexity of the decision-making process.
Cardiologists have grown reliant upon these sophisticated medical processes. But, somewhere along the way, something has gone amiss. There has been much mistrust among the public of the conventional medical model recently."- Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
 "To lesser degrees, these gene mutations also increase the risks of cancer of the ovaries, prostate, pancreas, and stomach and the risks of melanoma.
These genes play a fundamental role in cancer suppression. There are numerous tumor-suppressing genes, and when they mutate or something impairs their expression, cancer risk goes up. Tumor-suppressing genes actually have overlapping functions that reduce the risk of cancer development, and local/on-demand production of activated vitamin D turns on many of these genes."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "The implications for secrecy were immense and opened the door to a new era of intelligence gathering with fewer risks to people on the ground—fewer risks, that is, until the remote-viewing programs were shut down in the mid-1990s. With intriguing code names such as Project Stargate, the last one was "officially" terminated in 1995. Although the process was considered by some to be a "fringe" science and even discounted altogether by military skeptics, a number of remote-viewing sessions were validated through successes that couldn't be attributed to coincidence. Some may have even saved lives."- Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.) |
 "Garlic: Effects on Cardiovascular risks and Disease, Proliferative Effects Against Cancer, and Clinical Adverse Effects, http://ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/garlicsum.htm. Accessed June 2, 2007.
Allium Vegetables and Organosulfur Compounds: Do They Help Prevent Cancer? http://ehpnetl.niehs.nih.gov/members/2001/109p893-902bianchini/bianchinifull. html. Accessed June 3,2007.
Efendy, JL et al. The effect of the aged garlic extract, "Kyolic," on the development of experimental atherosclerosis. Arterosclerosis. 1997;132:37-42.
Fleischauer, AT, Arab L."- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
 "In the late nineties, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the National Cancer Institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives, which can cause imbalances in natural hormone levels.
Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. In addition, most people routinely use bug sprays, weed killers, and other pesticides in their homes and yards."- C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks. One study, for example, showed that our chances for developing Alzheimer's drops 17 percent for every year of education we have beyond high school.
Statistics aside, we know from animal studies that exercise can redirect the biology of the brain. Carl Cotman tested the effects of exercise on mice bred with a gene predisposing them to plaque buildup and found that exercise slowed down the accumulation compared to the inactive mice."- John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "In the last chapter I discussed possible safety risks posed by nutritional supplements. But the risks are few, especially compared with drugs. This is because vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, and so on are actually natural substances that support natural enzyme, antioxidant, and immune systems.
Because we now have the means of producing nutritional supplements, we are able to provide these nutrients at optimal levels. Optimal levels are those levels that have been shown to provide a health benefit in the medical literature. These are not RDA levels (see Chapter 16)."- Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) |
| "If they understood the benefits of exercise—not only in reducing pregnancy risks but also in improving their physical and mental health and that of their babies—then they'd feel much more comfortable being active. The truth is we don't have all the answers about the effects of exercise on pregnancy, but we do have some good ones.
During pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone levels remain exponentially higher than normal, and in some cases this stabilizes mood and alleviates anxiety and depression. Indeed, pregnancy can change a number of different systems for the better." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "We've long known that one of the risks of weight loss is losing muscle and bone mass. Adding rich sources of calcium to a weight-reducing diet, along with a program of exercise—both features of the SuperFoodsRx Diet—is therefore adding insurance that muscle and bone loss as a result of general weight loss will be minimized, while your metabolism is preserved.26,27
Walnuts: Fat-Busting Fat
No one can deny that walnuts and their sidekicks pack a nutritional wallop unmatched by most other foods."- Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "So while a dieter on a high-protein diet is increasing his intake of saturated fat which has been linked to a range of health problems, he is also reducing his intake of high-quality whole foods like healthy carbohydrates and fruits and vegetables which are rich in the very nutrients that have been associated with reducing risks to the most common chronic causes of disease and death. To step back for a moment, there's no question that evidence points to some association between high-protein foods and weight loss." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "We know that exercisers can reduce heart disease risk as well as risk of diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, and high blood pressure as well as other disease risks. The very good news is that these benefits can be enjoyed with a regular, moderate physical activity such as walking. It's easy to set and achieve goals when you exercise-walk, particularly with the help of a pedometer. In fact, research has demonstrated that walking is the chosen exercise among people who lose weight and subsequently maintain their healthy weight." Your goal on the SlimDown is to walk 30 minutes a day." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) |
 "The 1996 Task Force admits that radiation probably contributed to "a small number" of new cases of cancer. Such risks may be small for the individual patient, but significant for large populations. Any invasive procedure has the potential for iatrogenesis. Colonoscopy, for example, causes perforation of the bowel—a very serious problem—in one of every 5,000 examinations.
Increased anxiety about breast cancer after false positive mammograms has been observed in both short-term and long-term follow-ups of screened women."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "There are also risks associated with C-sections, most notably for the infant prematurity or respiratory disease and infection. Maternal mortality is two to four times higher compared to vaginal births.7 Not all pregnant women have an equal chance of undergoing the procedure. Reminiscent of Shaw's complaint, it turns out that women who are healthier, of higher social class, better insured or cared for in private services are at higher "risk" than their poorer, less-insured counterparts, even though it is lower-class women that have higher risk pregnancies." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "There were risks, particularly bile duct injuries, malpractice claims for which increased fivefold.31 Enthusiasm for this surgery lowered the threshold for the operation, which resulted in a 22 % increase in the procedure. With more persons now having the surgery, the "total number of gall bladder related deaths in the population either stayed the same or, in some regions, increased by over 10%." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "George Louis Carlo, a $28 million research grant to put to rest once and for all any concerns about risks associated with cell phones. Much to the benefit and relief of the industry, initial results covering three years of research indicated that there were no problems with cell phone use. However, by 1999, Dr. Carlo had gained significantly more evidence indicating a risk to DNA, eye cancers, and brain tumors."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
| "Equally important, though, is that for the first time the ACOG recommended that sedentary women begin exercising when they become pregnant, largely to counter risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and preeclampsia that can develop during gestation and harm both mother and child.
Certainly there are complications for which bed rest is the sensible prescription, so it's important to speak with your obstetrician before beginning an exercise regimen. Forget ice hockey, racquet-ball, basketball, and any other contact sports." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Parents are encouraged to read the research on this subject to understand the risks of vaccinations. They can learn about their right to refuse vaccinations for their family. For example, in Canada, there are no laws that can force a person to be vaccinated against their will. Health officials, however, fail to inform the public of these rights.
The question of taking vaccines is also an issue for adults. There is such a media blitz, especially toward the elderly, to have annual flu shots; yet there is very little evidence that they are effective."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
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