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"For example, bacterial colonization of the GI tract of Pakistani infants born in poor areas with minimal sanitation occurred significantly earlier than in Swedish infants delivered in more sanitary conditions, regardless of delivery method [14]. There are numerous external and internal factors that shape the composition of the microbial community in the GI tract (Figure 6). External factors include mode of birth, composition of the diet, sanitation of the living environment, and the use of medicines, especially antibiotics." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"At the same time, focusing on individual bodies threatened some programmes that were popular with powerful interests in India—expensive programmes of urban sanitation, for example, initially intended to create healthier cities by removing miasma. Like Pettenkofer's dramatic swigging of germs, the debates between these groups were explicitly intended for public consumption?and they extended well into the twentieth century. Amongst that public in India were, of course, many well-educated and active healers and consumers of the indigenous medical systems, whether Unani Tibb, Siddha, or Ayurveda." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The Vaccine Controversy A Brief History of Vaccines Vaccines have saved millions of lives over the last one hundred years, but less well-recognized is the impact of improved nutrition and sanitation methods in reducing diseases— often long before vaccine programs were implemented. Infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, sepsis, and gangrene have killed more people throughout history than all wars combined. In the 1930s, the number one killer in the United States was infection; only after the widespread introduction of antibiotics and better sanitation did this statistic change." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"This is why the world continues to spend $750 billion per year on armaments, rather than on food, sanitation, housing, and education. Someone, somewhere, believes the change would not be in their own best interest. Yet, much as we may resist change, we cannot prevent it. If the patterns of the past hold up (and there is every reason to expect that they will), change is going to come faster and faster. We will need to become more flexible, more free in ourselves, to accept change. To do this, we must learn to let go of our many unnecessary fears." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Seen in this light, the nuclear threat, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, the wide-scale extinction of species, acid rain, soil erosion, the depletion of the ozone layer, the problem of atomic waste, pollution, the energy crisis, the economic crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis, the housing crisis, the sanitation crisis, and the many other crises that humanity faces are all symptoms of a deeper psychological crisis. The real crisis is in our thinking, in our perception of what it is we really want and how to go about getting it. Happiness ?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "It has given us plows, irrigation, housing, sanitation, medicine, and heating. But in the service of our inner needs, it has been far from beneficial. Unconsciously assuming that these needs can also be satisfied by changing the world around us, we have applied our creative energies and our technologies to the search for more powerful ways of getting what we think we want. As a result, technology has not only amplified our power to change the world, it has also amplified the error in our thinking—with potentially disastrous consequences." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"For now, we suggest that the principal contribution to the decline in mortality was the improvement in public health, particularly improvements in the quality of food and sanitation. In the nineteenth century, there were no dramatic changes in working-class living conditions, but there were advances in water purification and sewage control. Beginning in 1900, there were great improvements in food hygiene, especially in the quality of milk." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations. The CDC's report was based on a 1994 article in the prestigious Mil-bank Quarterly, written by researchers from Harvard and King's College, London. They found that preventive care as recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force report—including, for example, blood pressure screening, cancer screening, counseling about smoking, routine immunizations, and aspirin to prevent heart attacks—adds only 18 to 19 months to our lives." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In fact, much of the reduction in death from infectious disease is due to public-health measures, including improved nutrition and sanitation. And vaccinations are not without potential danger. We still don't know the potential long-term effects of vaccination. An oft-repeated fact is that 36,000 people die each year from the flu. The government urges citizens to get vaccinated, presumably to prevent these deaths." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, infants in developed countries (i.e., assumed to have a high level of sanitation) acquired gram-negative bacteria later and more stable enterobacterial strains. Such differences in the intestinal microflora composition have been associated with a higher prevalence of allergies and atopic diseases in infants born and raised in developed countries than those in developing countries [40]. Another study that compared the intestinal microflora profiles of children in Europe observed that Swedish and Estonian toddlers with low counts of Lactobacillus spp., Bifidobacterium spp." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The practice of public health had long been defined as that of protecting and improving the health of a community through such preventive measures as education, vaccines, sanitation, and monitoring environmental hazards. Public health scientists, funded by government grants, have also looked more broadly at the long-term risks and benefits of prescription medicines. But in Iowa the College of Public Health had become a magnet for industrial drug trials, some of which did not end up serving the public's health." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Diarrhea: 58 million incidences a year caused by environmental factors, primarily the result of unsafe water, sanitation, or hygiene ?Lower respiratory infections: 37 million incidences each year, or 41 percent of all cases globally, primarily caused by indoor and outdoor air pollution ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "We have become a society that no longer has to worry so much about things like plague, famine, and poor sanitation. We now suffer from the products and iy-products of our own technological advancements that provoke poor health and chronic illness. In addition to ubiquitous chemical toxins, we have too much food, especially from unnatural, processed sources; we are oversanitized; and we owe our major health threats such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease largely to lifestyle choices." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer's disease might have remained rare and insignificant if it weren't for several developments in the mid-late twentieth century that gradually increased the mean life expectancy of people living in industrialized countries; namely, the advent of modern medicines, machines, surgical procedures, and, most important, improved diets and sanitation measures that prolonged and protected life." - 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.)

"This curriculum touches on sanitation and sterilization, and the chemistry of how products affect skin and hair, but no instruction is given on how ingredients pose serious threats to the health of the stylists and, to a lesser extent, their clients. A student in one of California's cosmetology schools, Judy Le, recalled in a 2006 interview with the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum how she first learned about cancer-causing ingredients in beauty products only while doing independent research outside of her cosmetology school." - 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.)

"Considering the poor sanitation in European cities of the day, the smell must have been truly awesome. So were the profits. The consortium could land a ton in Britain for about $30 and sell it wholesale for $90. The guano trade mushroomed into big business almost overnight. For the next forty years the Peruvian government earned most of its foreign exchange from selling bird excrement in Europe and North America. With its uniquely high nitrogen content, Peruvian guano had no rivals until manufactured fertilizers came into widespread use for turnips and other root crops in the 1860s." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Week 3 /\clctp t The state of our health reflects the food we eat, the exercise we take, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the quality of our housing and sanitation. I believe it also extends to our social needs and circumstances—the need to belong to a community, the need for meaningful work and daily purpose. The need in our lives for dignity and kindness, for self-respect, for hope and, above all, for harmony and, dare I say it, beauty. It encompasses the power of art, the healing properties of loving human relationships and the role of the human spirit." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Sound nutrition and good sanitation. By elevating those scientific principles and "disdaining the proof of the palate," Shapiro writes, "they made it possible for American cooking to accept a flood of damaging innovations for years to come"—low-fat processed food products prominent among them. So scientific eating is an old and venerable tradition in America." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Sahelian population increased threefold thanks to well digging, improved medical care, and sanitation. National governments restricted mobility, initiated cash-crop planting schemes, and encouraged cattle herders to settle in permanent villages. The colonial economy had arrived on the Sahel. Granaries might bidge with grain, but the stockpile was sold for cash to pay taxes, making it impossible for many communities to feed themselves in lean years." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Sure, they had some disease (mostly from poor sanitation and untreated water) and came to the hospital with broken bones or pneumonia, but they did not suffer from fatigue, headaches, digestive problems, or the general aches and pains that my more sophisticated urban patients did. Since there was no electricity, people were forced to live with the rhythms of nature. Day and night dictated what was done when, and being synchronous with the seasons was essential for survival. Community, music, and dance also played an integral role in bringing rhythm into their lives." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The floods polluted springs and streams, overwhelmed sanitation systems, and stripped thousands of acres of fertile soil. As the water receded and the rivers went down, typhoid and other epidemics swept through the valleys, wiping out entire communities. Infant mortality soared. Cerro Blanco suffered badly. Floodwaters covered parts of the city with as much as ten meters of alluvium, stripping away five meters of soil or more in other places. The river eroded away much of the huacas, turning them into crater-sided hills." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"They come to inhabit an inauthentic and less challenging existence and embrace a uniquely American form of emotional sanitation. Or as one veteran of Paxil observed: "I hate this feeling . . . this feeling of not being able to feel."7 When going off the drugs, many people say they are happy to feel the highs and the lows again. One wonders: What is going on in the heart of America—in America "thick and prime"? What miseries are residing within the chamber of the human heart in Winterset? Why did Winterset want to get numb?" - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Instead, we've embarked on a uniquely American process of emotional sanitation. We have been equally driven to inoculate ourselves against the rough-and-tumble aspects of existence. But death, pain, strife are the constants. Look at the great stories, the great teachers, the great writers: the Bible, the Koran, Shakespeare, Dante, Melville, Dos-toevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, Emily Dickinson, the films of Hitchcock and Scorsese. All of these stories are absolutely dense with turmoil and murder, hell and high water, fear and loathing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Such differences in the intestinal microflora composition have been associated with a higher prevalence of allergies and atopic diseases in infants born and raised in developed countries than those in developing countries [40]. Another study that compared the intestinal microflora profiles of children in Europe observed that Swedish and Estonian toddlers with low counts of Lactobacillus spp., Bifidobacterium spp., Bacteroides spp., and Enterococcus spp., but having higher levels of Clostridia and Staphylococcus aureus, were more prone to allergies than were healthy infants [41, 42]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This drastic decrease in gastric cancer rates where there has been a decline in H. pylori infections is consistent with epidemiological links between gastic cancer and this bacterium. Consequently, H. pylori has been categorized as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. How does H. pylori cause cancer? Despite the direct causal relationships noted, researchers are not yet sure how H. pylori causes gastric cancer. There are two theories currently under investigation. First, H. pylori might increase the production of free radicals, which Are All H. pylori Strains Bad?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Another example, reported by Professor John Wilson in 1961, involved a tribe in Africa who were shown a film on sanitation. At the end of the movie, none of the 30 or so villagers could describe the story the film was trying to unfold. In fact, when asked what they had seen, they said, "We saw a chicken," which had appeared for about a second in the corner of one of the frames of the film. Apparently, the concept of a motion picture and of pictures appearing on a screen out of thin air was so foreign to the villagers that they literally could not see the movie being projected on the screen." - Margaret Ruby, The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Get the book.)

"And studies have shown that babies living under conditions of poor sanitation who are fed cows' milk from a bottle have a five times greater rate of mortality than breast-fed babies living under the same conditions. Even bottle-fed infants raised in areas with good sanitation have greater rates of mortality than those fed at the breast. - Michael Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., The Protein Power Lifeplan There's even a link between cows' milk and multiple sclerosis, as described in the same book: The circumstantial evidence connecting MS and essential-fat deficiency is pretty strong." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"A screw-on lid greatly improves sanitation by preventing contaminants from entering the water. A similar product is the Hippo Water Roller. Though less sturdy, it has a larger capacity, and comes with a kit for a drip-irrigation attachment. jjf Worldchanging Water Pumps memrnm It's one thing to improve water-carrying techniques, it's quite another to build water pumps that function without infrastructure—without being connected to a public water system or electricity, both of which are out of reach for many rural poor people. Two new devices do just that." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The only thing that set it apart was an abandoned tuberculosis sanitorium on forty-five acres of One of the most remarkable development programs in the world, the Barefoot College addresses issues of water conservation, women's literacy, sanitation, job training, and more in multiple campuses throughout India. government land. When Roy looked at the vacant buildings, he knew they would make the perfect headquarters for the organization he wanted to start." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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