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 "Surely the experts who wrote the review article knew that the whole purpose of doing statistics is to determine the degree of probability and the role of chance.
Anyone who has taken statistics 101 knows that p values of .05 or less (p < .05) are considered statistically significant. In this case it means that if the VIGOR study were repeated 100 times, more than 95 of those trials would show that the people who took Vioxx had at least twice as many heart attacks, strokes, and death from any cardiovascular event than the people who took naproxen."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "The Sanitarians sought to prevent particularly urban disease by cleansing cities of their disease-ridden grime, improving the housing stock, providing clean water, educating and morally reforming the poor, and harnessing the new sciences of statistics and hygiene to quantify and improve the public health. Using statistics, Sanitarians could prove that their methods, expensive, and time-consuming though they were, worked—and worked to produce not merely purer environments and healthier cities, but what they saw as a more moral and more Christian culture as well."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "At the turn of the century Thomas Lindsley Bradford, MD, wrote a book called "The Logic of Figures" where he documented statistics that h,compared the conventional therapeutics with homeopathic ones. These statistics included epidemics such as scarlet fever, yellow fever and typhoid for example. The homeopathic hospitals typically had 50 to 80% less deaths per 100 people, depending on the disease they were comparing. www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy."- Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) |
 "Here's the incentive: People with blood pressure of less than 120/80 mm Hg have about half the lifetime risk of stroke, compared with those who have hypertension, according to the AHA's "Heart Disease and Stroke statistics?006 Update."
5. Keep blood sugar under control. The risk for stroke is two to four times higher among people with diabetes, according to AHA statistics. This could be, in part, because if you have type 2 diabetes, you also face increased risk for two factors that can raise your risk of stroke: high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol levels."- Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) |
 "American Heart Association statistics Committee and Stroke statistics Subcommittee. Circulation 115(5), e69-171.
204. Casaqrande, S., et al. (2007). Have Americans increased their fruit and vegetable intake? The trends between 1988 and 2002. Am. J. Prev. Med. 32(4), 257-263.
205. U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2001). Nutrient intakes: mean amount consumed per individual, one day, Retrieved May 4, 2007, from http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/ Place/12355000/pdf/Table_l_BIA.pdf.
206. Bandura, A. (1986). "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: a Social Cognitive Theory."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "U.S. statistics for metabolic syndrome, we have plenty of statistics on obesity, the most common symptom of metabolic syndrome. In fact, the rising incidence of metabolic syndrome closely parallels the prevalence of obesity in America. The incidence of metabolic syndrome lags behind the incidence of obesity by about two years.
On the CDC Web site, you can review trends in U.S. obesity over time. The map on this URL shows 2005 state-by-state percentages of people whose body mass index is 30 or higher: www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ dnpa/obesity/trend/index.htm."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "One cancer researcher said it even more bluntly: "The five year cancer survival statistics of the American Cancer Society are very misleading. They now count things that are not cancer, and, because we are able to diagnose at an earlier stage of the disease, patients falsely appear to live longer. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a failure. More people over 30 are dying from cancer than ever before... More women with mild or benign diseases are being included in statistics and reported as being 'cured'."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "The study, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, was based on population surveys from 2002 to 2004 from the Bureau of Labor statistics and the Census Bureau. Let's keep adding to those numbers! peak 2: keeping your head in the clouds: enjoying being a lifelong learner
One of the most persistent themes in this book has been the importance of lifelong learning. Learning strengthens our cognitive reserve and saves us from intellectual stagnation. Increasingly, baby boomers are embracing their retirements as an opportunity for awakening and reinvention."- 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.) |
 "As the following statistics suggest, that's a really good thing.
A few years ago the National Science Foundation reported that the average person has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 thoughts an hour. Depending on whether or not we could be considered "deep thinkers," we can have between 12,000 and 50,000 thoughts each day. Out of curiosity, sometimes I ask friends and coworkers to share what they're thinking. When I do, I quickly discover that many of their thoughts are about things that they would prefer to keep to themselves!"- Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "While intuitively we know that positive beliefs of safety and well-being are good for us, these statistics appear to be confirming what we already suspect: that while life-affirming beliefs can heal us, negative beliefs from shock and trauma can hurt us as well. Here the proof is, coming from a medical perspective. In the preceding example, while the perceived danger may or may not be real, it's the students' belief that they live in an unsafe world that contributes to their stress." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "When the participants' feelings changed, the statistics were reversed. This study confirmed the earlier findings: When a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, it was reflected in the world around them. The experiments took into account the days of the week, holidays, and even lunar cycles; and the data was so consistent that the researchers were able to identify how many people are needed to share the experience of peace before it's mirrored in their world. The number is the square root of one percent of the population." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) |
| "Bike helmets are a cheap, simple, and inexpensive way to protect against dementia. statistics show that the average careful bike rider may still crash about every 4,500 miles, while medical research shows that bike helmets can prevent 85 percent of cyclists' head injuries. Helmets sell in bike shops or by mail order for twenty dollars and up, or in discount stores for less.
When buying a helmet, make sure it fits to get maximum protection. A good fit means level on your head, touching all around, comfortably snug but not tight." - 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.) |
| "Current statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that more than half of the general population is vitamin D-deficient regardless of age. And about 70 percent of elderly Americans and 90 percent of Americans of color are vitamin D-deficient. Add to the mix those people who are overweight or obese because of dietary imbalance or inactivity, and the totals are staggering.
How Did We Go So Wrong?
For many people, health troubles started when they immigrated to North America from sunnier climates in other parts of the world." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "According to statistics, African Americans have more kidney dysfunction stemming from high blood pressure. Furthermore, a person whose kidneys aren't working well has a limited ability to handle dietary acidosis, which contributes to forming uric acid kidney stones. Why are there more kidney stones today? The answer is urbanization of diets. The two diet elements that figure into kidney stone formation are hydration and acid-base balance, determined by dietary composition." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "Some of the statistics on diabetes and research findings vary. For example the Centers for Disease Control estimates 21 million pre-diabetics in the U.S. and the American Diabetic Association estimates 54 million. I have chosen to include the variances, rather than to average. The variations show the state of the knowledge and should not be interpreted as contradictions."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The mythology supported by the allopathic treatment approach, which has indeed not been particularly successful, is that diabetes is a one-way, downhill road to death involving multiple complications. The statistics show that diabetes as currently treated will take off 10-19 years from a person's life. When we free ourselves from the lifestyle of the Culture of Death, and transition to the Culture of Life, the current pattern of irreversibility shifts to one of reversibility. Type-2 diabetes is a disease of both a complex and simple etiology." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
| "With this "empirical fact" in mind, his statistics show that at least one of his three propositions must be true.
If the first or second is true, then the probability that we're living in a simulation is slim. The third possibility is where things get really interesting—if it is true, he concludes, "we almost certainly live in a simulation [my emphasis]."7 In other words, if it's likely that our species survives the things that threaten our future and has the interest or need to create a simulated world, then the technology that comes under such conditions will allow us to do so." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) |
 "It was statistics tied up in a knot and gone berserk. So that his motive would be clear, he added:
The article has nothing to do with religion. I believe that prayer is a real comfort and help to a believer. I do not believe it should be tested in controlled trials.
Instead, the true purpose was:
To deny from the beginning that empirical methods can be applied to questions that are completely outside the scientific model of the physical world."- Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) |
| "Diabetes is clearly a pandemic created by the world lifestyle of the Culture of Death. The statistics are overwhelming. Nothing less than the health of whole societies is at stake. What is needed is to help the world transition into the Culture of Life, which must be done on a personal basis." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
| "A different type of analysis of all the best studies of time displacement was carried out in 1996 by Dick Bierman, also an experimental physicist at the University of Utrecht. In statistics, the best way to judge an effect is to work out how much it deviates from the mean, or average. One method popular with statisticians is to work out the chi-square distribution, which entails plotting the square of each individual score. Any deviation from chance, whether positive or negative, will show up as a large positive deviation in bold relief." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) |
 "Ihe Keal story of Diabetes
These findings are not unique, and in fact many subsequent studies have reported similar shocking results and disturbing statistics. A 2006 study from Children's Hospital in Boston compared the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in twelve- to nineteen-year-olds in the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) from two time periods: 1988?1994 and 1999-2000. The researchers found that metabolic syndrome affected 9.2 percent of young people in the earlier survey and 12."- 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.) |
| "We may have the power as communities to improve the quality of our air and water, our crime and accident statistics, the educational levels of our children. One well-directed thought may be a gentle but effective way for men and women on the street to take matters of global interest into their own hands.
This knowledge may give us back a sense of individual and collective power, which has been wrested from us largely by the current worldview espoused by modern science, which portrays an indifferent universe populated by things that are separate and unengaged." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) |
 "Based on prevalence statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007).
2. Based on the autism prevalence rate of 2 to 6 per 1,000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001) and 2000 U.S. Census figure of 280 million Americans.
3. U.S. Department of Education's "Twenty-First Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (1999).
4. Jarbrink K, Knapp M, 2001, London School of Economics study: "The economic impact on autism in Britain," 5 (1): 7-22.
5."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "These statistics are endorsed by the CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics, and other federal organizations. U.S. FACTS: ?A new case of autism is diagnosed nearly every 20 minutes ?There are 24,000 new cases diagnosed in the U.S. per year ?The economic impact of autism is more than $90 billion and expected to more ?than double in the next decade. ?Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases. ?There is no medical detection treatment, or cure for autism." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "AUTISM & CALIFORNIA STATISTICS: ?EIGHT new cases each day - 7 days a week in California alone! ?From 1987-1998 there was a 633 % increase in Autism (DSMIV) in the State of California. (Note: In 1998 mandatory immunizations programs and the MMR vaccine were introduced.) ?From 1998-2002 there was an additional 96% increase in Autism (DSM IV) in the State of California. ?There are 20,277 cases of autism in California as of December 2003. ?Autism cases represent over 12% of the Regional Center caseload. Annual budget for ASD care is over $171,000,000. ?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "BOYS: Autism often strikes boys more often than girls—roughly four times more common in boys. statistics being 1 in every 166 children that makes it 1 in every 41 males. Appendix E Prozac ??? Prozac: Recent News_ FDA Proposes New Warnings About Suicidal Thinking, Behavior in Young Adults Who Take Antidepressant Medications May 2, 2007 I www.fda.gov The U.S." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Roger then pulled up the statistics for the third test, when people were not supposed to have any intention toward the machine. It was supposed to be a baseline, with a shape that was virtually indistinguishable from those of pure chance when the machine was running by itself, with nobody trying to affect it. The graph was nothing like that. It was all squeezed together. In the very center, there was a neat and obvious exception, a little bar jutting up, resembling nothing so much as a clenched little fist. There it was, wagging at him in reproach."- Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "At the close of the program in 1995, a government-sponsored review of all the SRI and SAIC data, carried out by Jessica Utts, a statistics professor at the University of California at Davis, and Dr Ray Hyman, a skeptic of psychic phenomena, agreed that the statistical results for remote viewing phenomena were far beyond what could have occurred by chance.20 As far as the US government was concerned, the SRI studies gave America a possible advantage over Russian intelligence. But to the scientists themselves, these results represented far more than a chess maneuver in the Cold War." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Jahn and Dunne decided to use a tried-and-tested method in statistics called cumulative deviation, which entailed continually adding up your deviation from the chance score - 100 ?for each trial and averaging it, and then plotting it on a graph. The graph would show the mean, or average, and certain standard deviations ?margins where results deviate from the mean.but are still not considered significant." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) |
 "But now that more women are talking about their struggles with pregnancy and the topic is less taboo, we are seeing some incredible statistics that are grabbing the attention of public health officials, politicians, and fertility experts.
At least 10 percent of all couples in the United States cannot conceive a child, and this percentage appears to be increasing. Also on the rise are tubal pregnancies and in vitro fertilization clinics reporting abnormal embryos being produced by young, "healthy" women in their twenties."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
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