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"There is a summer version of the problem called summer SAD. This condition occurs in July and August and is characterized by agitation, insomnia and weight loss. Both types of SAD are most common in women aged 21 to 40.Winter SAD affects only 1.4% of persons in Florida whereas in New Hampshire, the incidence approaches 10%. Alaska also manifests a 10% incidence of winter SAD. Patients with SAD show a different pattern of conception. The usual peak period for conception is in December but patients with SAD have a peak period for conception in late summer. Dr." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Vincent Bruzzese, the author of a study that showed that young males had attended 24 percent fewer movies in the summer of 2005 than in the summer of 2003, said, "The digital environment has really captured the hearts and minds of everyone, and particularly younger males. They are staying home at an incredible rate right now."62 As my sister-in-law said, "Not even the kids play outside anymore." Many of the popular TV shows present unending torment and misery." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"As a child, I had brief periods of asthma, and the eczema was intense every spring and summer until I was about 16. From age 17 to 21, I enjoyed good health—the best of my life. However, by age 22, hay fever started with each spring and lasted into the summer. By age 25, the asthma returned, and I had to carry a bronchial dilator with me at all times. After living on a farm for a year, I became allergic to most grass and tree pollens, dust, dogs, cats, horses, and cows, as well as eggs and bee pollen." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Energy Healing When my children were growing up, we used to go to a family camp for a week at the end of the summer. Whole families (rather than just the kids) would stay in a bungalow and do all the camp activities. I quickly got the reputation of "camp healer." Every summer for five consecutive years, kids and adults alike would come to me with all kinds of minor ailments, everything from headaches to upset stomachs to sprained ankles." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Even in higher latitudes, ten minutes of sun on the arms and face just three times weekly in the spring, summer, and fall will provide enough vitamin D for the whole year. Except for summer, it is important that this exposure be between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm so that more UVB will be available. It requires twice the sunning time at 9:15 am or 2:15 pm than at noon to provide the same amount of UVB exposure. Animals also produce vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced in fur and feathers. Animals lick or preen to absorb the vitamin." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"I was about to play a solo in a jazz combo and the song was Gershwin's haunting "Summer Time." 1 had played "Summer Time" probably hundreds of times, and my guitar playing was beginning to become almost effortless. As best I can explain it, I went into a "flow" state, I was in the "zone." These are words that are sometimes used by artists and athletes to describe a particular "altered" state of consciousness involving time and space. Time suddenly slowed down, I was way out of my body, and I witnessed myself playing the solo with the combo from a distance above and behind the band." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"In the summer of 2006, for example, 2,500 scientists gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, for the general assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Due to the discovery that there are other chunks of rock even larger than Pluto orbiting our sun, the former planet was reclassified as a dwarf planet. It happened just like that! One minute Pluto was a real planet; the next, it wasn't. While this reclassification surprised and saddened some people, in the overall scheme of our lives it had little impact." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "In the summer of 2005, BBC News carried the report of a woman who lifted over 20 times her body weight to free a friend who was trapped beneath her car following an accident—and she did so even though she was injured herself. The 57" woman, 23-year-old Kyla Smith, lost control of her car and it rolled over as it veered off the road. When it came to a rest, she could see that her friend's leg was outside the car, pinned beneath it. She pulled herself out of the driver's window and then raised the car six or seven inches from the ground to free her friend. " - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "They had permanent homes that protected them from the hot desert summer and insulated them from the harsh winds of the high-altitude winter. They couldn't turn their backs on a thousand years of traditions that they believed in, nor could they honestly embrace the God of the Spanish explorers. "The choice was clear," our guide continued. His ancestors had to conform to the religion of the explorers or lose everything. So they compromised. In a maneuver of sheer brilliance, they masked their beliefs, hiding them in the language and customs that satisfied the Spanish." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "What was it that set her apart from the people surrounding her on that summer day in 2005 and allowed her to perform such a feat? Maybe the bigger question is: What happens to anyone who does something so miraculous? * How many times have we heard of people doing things that seem to violate the common sense of everyday reality and even break the "laws" of physics and nature, at least as we understand them today?" - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"You get more sun and consume more fruits and vegetables in the summer, which raises your vitamin D and calcium absorption levels and increases your magnesium and serotonin production. You're going along great, feeling good, mood elevated; but then winter comes and your vitamin D level falls. Your serotonin production and calcium and magnesium levels decline, too, and these changes depress your mood. The longer your winter, the more pronounced the seasonal variations in serotonin production." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Recurrent depressive episodes may also occur in the summer but less frequently." Seasonal affective disorder can even have lethal extremes. Dr. Gavin Lambert of Baker Medical Research Institute in Australia found that suicide rates peak in the spring just after winter's end. This seasonal variation also showed up in other studies. At the same time, this phenomenon was absent when we reviewed suicide rates in an equatorial population in Singapore." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"We layer up in the winter and may crank the air-conditioning up in the summer. We use cheat sheets and mnemonics, PDAs and other electronic devices to help hold memories and information that our minds can't cling to. Some people are unaffected on the surface by these molecular changes. Everyone has a "sharp as a tack" relative who seems inoculated against the ravages of aging. Others struggle daily to remember where they put the house keys or parked the car. No single mechanism adequately explains why some brains age differently than others." - 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.)

"Because vitamin D levels fluctuate with varying sun exposure, yours are probably highest at the end of summer (September to October) and lowest at the end of winter (February to April). The farther you move from the equator, the greater these fluctuations. Although you don't have to measure your vitamin D level, the ideal time of year to do this if you want to detect your deficiency is at winter's end, because that's when you'll get your lowest value for the year. But if you're concerned about vitamin D-related health troubles right now, don't wait to measure your level. Start the program." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"For instance, in the 2005 summer issue of Newsweek, an article called "7 Ways to Save a Brain" alleged that while "current treatments don't slow the underlying disease process . . . researchers are now testing an array of new therapies intended to do just that." It also reports that "better treatments could help patients . . . stay out of nursing homes" and that "these are becoming real possibilities." These important qualifiers that I have italicized are easy to miss when tantalizing headlines imply cures for Alzheimer's disease and play to our desire for hope." - 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.)

"A high-glycemic diet also includes cooked beets and carrots, rutabaga, summer squash, cooked yams, pumpkin, parsnips, white potatoes, apricots, figs, grapes, raisins, melons, mangos, bananas, papaya, pears, peaches, plums, pineapple, kiwi, sapote, cherimoya, rambutian, durian, dates, and dried fruits. All fruit juices, carrot juice, and beet juice are also high-glycemic foods. High insulin index foods, which are low on the glycemic index but still diabetogenic, include meat, fish, chicken, and dairy." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "One twenty-minute full-body exposure to the summer sun will result in putting 20,000 IU into the body within forty-eight hours. However, if you are older, obese, or dark-skinned, you will get far less. In fact, using sunscreen of even a low SPF rating of 8 reduces vitamin D production by 95 percent.110 Dr. Robert Heany of Creighton University, one of the top vitamin D researchers, has stated that as many as 75 percent of the women in the U.S. are deficient." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "For example: bay leaves, cumin, winter or summer savory, fresh epazote (available in Hispanic markets). Many people from India maintain the tradition of chewing on dried fennel seeds or drinking a cup of fennel tea at the end of a legume meal to aid the digestion. As a general rule of thumb, 1 cup of dried beans will yield about VA to 3 cups of cooked beans. Quick-Soak Method for Dried Beans: When time is limited, you can wash and pick over beans and put them in a stock pot with water to cover by 3 inches. Bring to a boil and boil for 10 minutes to remove toxins." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "During the summer months of July-September, Patagonia, Arizona, is regularly 8-15 degrees cooler than Tucson or Phoenix." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"When it was time for Madison to attend summer camp, however, a required medical examination revealed that she had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Tracy was shocked. "I always thought high blood pressure and high cholesterol only affected older people," she said. "Suddenly the doctor is telling us that our daughter could develop heart disease. Heart disease! I decided then and there that we had to do something about this, and that it was going to have to be a family effort." - 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.)

"On the other hand, farmers in Minnesota may be outdoors most of the time during spring and summer, but they live so far north their bodies can't make adequate vitamin D from October through April. If you're a Minnesota farmer whose vitamin D level is 40 in September, that figure will drop to 20 by January and may decline by 50 percent again by early spring, leaving you extremely D-deficient. Similarly, submarine sailors lose about 50 percent of their vitamin D after they go without UVB light for ten weeks. This figure represents the relationship between vitamin D and the seasons." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Over the summer, his student would leave photocopies of technical papers on his desk and even managed to coax him into accompanying her to a meeting of the Parapsychological Association. He tried to get a feel for the people involved in studying what had always been dismissed as a fringe science. Jahn rather hoped that the entire subject would go away." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"There was also some intelligence sharing about which sports teams the sons should try to play for in summer. After the Giangs left, I was invited to accompany Justin and Austin to a rehearsal, or jam session, with other youth members of the church the Mocks attend, as they prepared for a performance at the service the next morning. Austin's drum set was loaded into the van. Jesse drove over with me, talking mostly about college basketball and how the boys have adjusted to the move. The ten or so members of the youth band aren't about to top the charts anytime soon." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"In four months they had fallen under the limit but increased again in the hot summer months, taking three years to remain permanently below the limit.) All this before 9:00 in the morning! The list continues throughout your day as you work under fluorescent lighting, lunch at a fast food restaurant, and take in all the gases floating around your breathing spaces. A DOSE OF REALITY Before you pack up the car and think about living off the land in a remote corner of the country, let's get one thing straight." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Federal hearings took place in the summer of 2007, and numerous residents of the base testified about their personal horror stories—children born with severe disabilities or disorders, and many who later died of unusual cancers. Are Chlorine and Fluoride a Problem? Two of the most damaging substances, both to overall health and to digestive function, found abundantly in the water supply are chlorine and fluoride." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM Last summer, Vogue magazine published its "Age Issue" with a cover story that got a lot of women talking. The story was titled "An Inconceivable Truth: The Link Between Infertility and the Environment." And it brought a host of facts and truths to light that many devoted readers of the magazine probably had never considered. We have long blamed women's infertility on timing matters—a woman who waited too long to have children or who cannot point to a medical condition and is thus somehow personally at fault." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Just recently, in the summer of2007, research revealed a correlation between higher rates of autism and mothers exposed to the organochlorine pesticides endosulfan and dicofol. 255 Hie study found that the closer an expectant mother lived to places where these pesticides were used the greater the risk that her children would develop autism spectrum disorder. The timing of exposure was also found to be critical, with the exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy—when critical structures are developing in the brain—carrying the greatest risk of autism (the chances were 6." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"An astrophysicist at Lockheed, Bernie was looking forward to spending the rest of his summer doing research on the X-ray emission of stars and considered himself lucky to have landed the opportunity. Bernie was an odd hybrid, a formal and cautious manner belying a private expressiveness which found its outlet in writing folk songs. But in the laboratory he was as little given to hyperbole as his friend Alfonso Rueda, a noted physicist and applied mathematician at the California State University in Long Beach, who'd left the message." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In the summer of 2006, the Tenth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders was held in Madrid, Spain. At the conference the buzz was that there was a clear link between diabetes and dementia. Diabetes had been known for some time to be a risk factor for vascular diseases like heart attack and stroke." - 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.)

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