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"The other prerequisite relates to the entitlement of senior citizens to the best health care money can buy. senior citizens are a powerful lobby in that regard. However, they have been duped into marching arm-in-arm with the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital industry, and components of the medical industry. Is Plan D of Medicare an advance in health care or in Type II Medical Malpractice? Analysis of Medicare data documents that excess spending and excessive care transfers considerable wealth but does nothing for the well-being or satisfaction of the elderly." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"It was also becoming clear that senior citizens would soon get some kind of assistance with prescription drug coverage from the federal government. Lower-income minority communities like Harlem represent relatively unpenetrated markets for expensive drugs with purported widespread benefits. A generous prescription drug benefit would make statin drugs affordable to many residents in this community who could not previously afford them." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Adolescents' growing pains can be the result of musculoskeletal injury from seemingly minor falls or accidents when they were younger. Senior citizens' back or joint pain can often be helped. Chiropractic now enjoys worldwide acceptance. It is no longer considered 'alternative', and a growing number of health insurance schemes around the world cover chiropractic in the same way as orthodox medical consultations. The chiropractor works in a close relationship with other health practitioners." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Even the blood serum levels of thyroid hormone in those thriving senior citizens register on the extreme hypothyroid scale, which means they're the animal equivalent of high-efficiency, low-polluting "engines." In other words, these older folks got to where they are by slowly but surely reducing their metabolic rate. This energy efficiency is exactly what your genetic autopilot wants when it sends out signals to reduce muscle mass as you age so you'll eat less. The lower your metabolic rate, the less food you need to eat." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"THE LIFE LIST Much of the public discourse on aging focuses on baby boomers becoming senior citizens and the belief that their vast numbers will take an unprecedented toll on the health care system, in the form of dementia and other costly health problems. But I don't believe we're stuck with this picture of doom and gloom. Despite my generation's familiarity with fast food and pay per view, we also came of age with Kenneth Cooper's revolutionary concept of aerobics." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Although generally dismissed as "safe," the huge numbers of prescription drugs—especially those that alter brain chemistry—being consumed by toddlers, adolescents, mature adults, and senior citizens do a great deal of proven harm. Dr. Parris Kidd, a cellular biologist, says that up to 10 percent of all the people diagnosed with dementia are actually suffering from drug-induced brain damage, which appears to be dementia. "When they are taken off the drug," he says, "they begin to improve." Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Here's something else to consider: 51 percent of all senior citizens in nursing homes are given antipsychotic medication and yet less than one half of 1 percent have ever been diagnosed as psychotic. The horrors continue. It's clearly arbitrary to classify people by a term that makes them seem abnormal. I am very concerned about any group that has the sole power by such non-scientific terminology to say someone has a disease." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "She bought herself a car and became very active among senior citizens. The depression was gone. She had been on 13 different drugs, and he probably got her off three-fourths of them. —Nancy Dr. Ken Korins explains that Candida is a yeast, which is a normal part of the constitution. "Usually, it lives harmlessly in the GI tract or the skin. However, overgrowth can affect the GI tract, the genital-urinary tract, the endocrine system, and the nervous system." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Anton Chekhov Americans now spend more than $200 billion a year on prescription drugs, and the largest consumers are senior citizens. Our faith in the pharmaceutical industry is powerful. We rarely pause to think: What exactly are loved ones with memory challenges putting into their bodies? How were our current drugs developed? How much can we expect of them, and of the stem cell treatments and amyloid vaccines we hear bruited about with such promise? Are there complementary and alternative treatments that offer more promise?" - 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.) "Some of these older adults are students from local colleges (including my university, Case Western Reserve); others are senior citizens with memory challenges, some of whom have received Alzheimer's diagnoses and pills for their condition. One such volunteer is Mrs. Mary At-wood, a Cleveland resident who has been volunteering as a reading mentor for the last four years. Mrs. Atwood received a diagnosis of AD nearly five years ago. Ever since, she—AD label and all—has been one of our most steady volunteers and has helped dozens of children learn how to read." - 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.) "Gardening •Reading intellectually challenging books •Taking an adult-education class •Picking up a new skill •Keeping a notebook or starting an online blog •Volunteering in your community •Maintaining a positive outlook on life In the building that houses my clinic—Fairhill Center, a converted Merchant Marine hospital—we have art programs for senior citizens. Similar programs exist in communities around the country." - 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 June 2002, Say No to Drugs reported on Bush's launch of the new plan for prescription drugs (which involves senior citizens signing up with insurance companies to obtain drugs). Under this plan there would be no extension of Medicare to senior citizens. Often, of course, the insurance companies are linked anyway to the drug companies. Twenty-one company donors, mainly pharmaceutical companies, paid $250,000 each for a place at the dinner, which launched the policy and which it was hoped would raise $30 million for the Republican Party." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"A quick look at the 15 most frequently prescribed drugs for seniors in 2003 shows that, before coming up with a very expensive plan to provide access to these drugs, it would be wise to determine which drugs actually provide effective and efficient treatment for senior citizens. Celebrex 200 mg was the sixth most frequently prescribed drug for American seniors in 2003." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"A list of the best-selling drugs among senior citizens shows three ACE inhibitors, but no diuretics. We have replaced the inexpensive drug with an expensive one. Third, ACE inhibitors do have a limited effect in reducing the risk of heart failure and death from strokes. The HOPE study found that the treated group suffered fewer heart failures (9% compared to the 11.5% for the placebo), fewer deaths from diabetes (6.4% compared with 7.6%), and fewer deaths from all causes (10.4% to 12.2%).24 A meta-evaluation of five major studies involving more than 12,000 patients found similar results." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Those deductions, which were entirely voluntary, were to be used, along with funds from the general treasury, to purchase private health insurance policies only for the senior citizens who wanted them. Bettercare was entirely voluntary, and it would give private insurers a piece of the action. Members of the Ways and Means Committee were still bickering over which bill to support when Mills launched a preemptive strike on March 2, 1965, calling Wilbur Cohen, an assistant secretary for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to a meeting of the committee." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"A potion that consisted of crushed and liquefied dog testicles, and reputedly would cause senior citizens to experience their youth again, sold widely in Western countries in 1889, and was typical of the era's offerings. In 1984, at a Society of Cosmetic Chemists meeting, Dr. Albert Kligman, a dermatologist seeking a way to describe products that did more than color the skin but less than what pharmaceutical drugs are designed to do, coined the term "cosmeceutical." - 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.)

"However, octogenarians in the advantaged West have another challenge that relates to the entitlement of senior citizens to the "best" health care money can buy. senior citizens are a powerful lobby in that regard. Yet, in contemporary society, they are marching arm in arm with the moral entrepreneurs of the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital industry, and the other components of the medical industry. Analysis of Medicare data documents that excess spending and excessive care transfer considerable wealth but do nothing for the well-being or satisfaction of the elderly." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"J FDA police state tactics: Searching and detaining senior citizens The FDA recently conducted a raid on a busload of senior citizens returning from Canada to buy prescription drugs they simply couldn't afford in the United States. Elderly people were ordered off the bus while the vehicle was searched almost like a cocaine raid. But they didn't have cocaine, they had medication. They were buying 100% legal drugs in Canada and being treated like common criminals by U.S. health authorities for daring to go outside the monopoly drug racket operated in the United States and protected by the FDA." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Mills was hailed by senior citizens' groups as one of the fathers of Medicare, which was a good sign for his presidential hopes. Physicians, on the other hand, threatened to boycott the program. They would go to jail, said many doctors, before they would fill out a government reimbursement form." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Cashiers in liquor stores periodically tell us about senior citizens who surreptitiously buy a bottle of gin for their arthritis. They don't want their friends or neighbors to know their little secret. Some say the nine daily raisins help their knees. Others insist the remedy relieves the pain and inflammation in their neck or elbows. My mother has arthritis in the joint of one of her little fingers. The joint was frozen and she was in constant pain. Since she started eating gin-soaked golden raisins, the pain is gone and she is able to play tennis twice a week without discomfort." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"According to a recent study, this situation has escalated into a very serious problem: 20 percent of all emergency room visits are made by senior citizens suffering drug-related side effects or interactions. Another problem is overdosing on the medications. One 2002 study identified 2.2 million cases of seniors taking more than the recommended dosages of their medications. The only solution to this problem is assisting the elderly to deal with the root causes of their health problems, rather than encouraging them to suppress the symptoms of their ailments." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "The research clearly implies that senior citizens are overmedicated, and not just for blood pressure. Just as we have seen with blood cholesterol levels, a normal blood pressure among the elderly population is naturally higher than it is for the younger population. Lowering their blood pressure with medications that have harmful side effects is not only harmful to their brain cells and other parts of the body, but it is highly unethical, too." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that senior citizens who took tranquilizers suffered 70 percent more hip fractures than did other people their age. Very often, medications can affect balance. You should discuss this particular side effect with your physician before taking any medication. Q One study purports to have identified a link between osteoporosis and high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine. Homocysteine is involved in methionine Q Feverfew is good for pain relief and acts as an antiinflammatory." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Other senior citizens who continue to work experience anxiety about their ability to compete with their younger colleagues, or anger at having to deal with bosses who are younger and less capable than they are or who have inherited businesses that they were instrumental in starting. Living with a painful (other than TMS) or disabling condition is common among the elderly. All of these can lead to mindbody symptoms and can be ameliorated by the TMS education program and/or working with a psychologist." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"The FDA conducted an illegal search and seizure raid on a bus load of senior citizens returning to the U.S. from Canada, claiming they were buying drugs at cheaper prices across the border. The Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org), a pioneering publisher and nutritional supplement formulator that regularly prints scientific research on the health benefits of foods and supplements, has been raided multiple times by armed agents of the FDA and supporting law enforcement organizations. Their crime? Telling the truth about the healing powers of nutritional supplements." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"A study from Boston University tracked a group of 640 senior citizens to determine the role of nutrients in osteoarthritis risk. About half started out the study with arthritic symptoms. By the end of the eight-year study, it was evident that those who took in the most vitamin C from food and supplements were three times less likely to end up with arthritis or to have worsening symptoms. Joint pain was also much less in those who consumed more vitamin C, a natural anti-inflammatory. Don't go another day without replenishing it!" - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The abuses of psychiatric drugs Big Pharma, which once nobly focused on creating drugs to save the lives of genuinely sick people, now focuses on ensnaring children, adults, and senior citizens into a lifetime regimen of medications they never needed in the first place (and which may cause permanent harm). The industry has become a grossly unethical, profit-seeking monstrosity that feeds upon the continued diseasification of the human population to ensure quarterly profits to shareholders." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Approximately one-third of senior citizens suffer from atrophic gastritis, a condition in which they don't produce enough stomach acid. A lack of stomach acid interferes with the absorption of vitamin B12. Like folic acid, vitamin B12 is involved in the production of DNA, which is needed to make new brain cells. Drugs such as omeprazole (Prilosec), which reduce gastric acid secretion, also lower B12 absorption. In addition, antacids, antibiotics, oral contraceptives, and the use of nitrous oxide anesthesia during surgery can reduce B12 levels." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

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