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"As reported on CBC 12 July 2008, Toronto's department of public health has advised teenagers and young children to limit their use of cell phones, in order to avoid potential health risks. According to the advisory, which is the first of its kind in Canada, children under eight should only use a cell phone in emergencies, and teenagers should limit calls to less than 10 minutes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The prevalence increased 30 percent between 1988 and 1994, with the greatest increase among teenagers, and quintupled among white teenagers and doubled among whites in their twenties. Some 25.6 percent of women and 17.8 percent of men test positive for the virus in their blood, and blacks have a higher prevalence (45.9 percent) than do whites (17.6 percent).4 Testing positive in the blood is different than having a genital herpes eruption history." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"You want to make sure that, by this pivotal stage, your teenagers respect their bodies, have a healthy relationship with food and exercise, and maintain open channels of communication with you." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Frankincense is a good choice for teenagers' rooms as well, especially for kids with high stress levels who spend hours every afternoon locked up in their room. In addition to frankincense, I recommend trying some citrus oils, which are known for reducing tension and depression. (Tangerine and lemon in particular are effective at boosting moods and brightening the atmosphere of your house.) Bergamot is very relaxing and good for the nervous system, and lavender can soothe anxieties and promote sleep." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Getting your teenagers involved in a sport or any other athletic activity is an effective means of combating our increasingly sedentary ways, all the while fostering a sense of belonging and achievement. Stress and Self-Reliance Instilling a strong work ethic at an early age is the most important gift you can give your child. No matter what financial resources your children start out with in life, they need to learn to work hard." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The list of stressors typically cited by patients include the following: daily time-management issues, juggling work and family, being laid off or fired, experiencing major money worries, losing a parent, going through a divorce, and dealing with difficult infants, angry teenagers, or aging parents. Can you identify? How does stress impact hormone levels? When the brain perceives some form of danger, it signals the adrenal glands to pump out more adrenaline, often referred to as the "fight-or-flight" hormone. The sudden surge in adrenaline levels signals fat cells to quickly release energy." - 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.)

"Floaters usually first appear when we're teenagers and tend to increase in frequency as we get older. This is because the vitreous humor starts to pull away from the retina as we age. Small shreds of the gel then break off and float across our field of vision. Floaters are usually just an annoying sign of aging. They can, however, sometimes signal a serious problem, especially if: you start seeing a lot more than usual, you see larger ones, you notice them when looking at dark as well as light backgrounds, or they cluster in one spot." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"A lot of the problems teenagers face, from substance abuse to sexual promiscuity, can be curbed with early intervention. Just by carving out a little bit of time every day, you can prevent many of these problems from ever taking hold. Spotlight On: Precocious Puberty Every year, our children are growing up a little faster—not just psychologically, but physically. Premature sexual development has become a fact of life in recent years, especially for African-American children. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Researchers found the initial stages of atherosclerosis in the form of fatty plaques and streaks in most children and teenagers.98 DIET AND TYPE-2 DIABETES PREVENTION AND REVERSAL FOR CHILDREN Research by Dr. Milagros G. Huerta has suggested that magnesium deficiency is related to Type-2 diabetes in obese children, who are more likely to have insulin resistance.99 This study was performed to see if obese children get enough magnesium in their diets and if a lack of magnesium can cause insulin resistance and thus Type-2 diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Lisa, for example, is a forty-one-year-old single working mother of two teenagers who has type 2 diabetes. Her children participate in after-school sporting events, which she often tries to attend after work, and she typically brings work home with her as well. Since her mother was diagnosed with cancer last year, she has spent much of her spare time helping with her care in a nearby town." - 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.)

"An even more disturbing cause of aggression in children, as well as teenagers and adults, can be traced directly to the kinds of psychiatric drugs they have been taking. Dr. Peter Breggin, a leading critic of Ritalin and Prozac, and medical consultant in several lawsuits brought against the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these and other drugs, calls Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder "a disease of the professionals rather than of the children." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Moreover, I have seen teenagers and children who are acting out, who are written off as hyperactive, when they may be suffering from a thyroid disorder. Because thyroid dysfunction often leads to frequent infections, these kids are placed on antibiotics. Then they wind up with an overgrowth of yeast in their gut that in turn causes a low-grade inflammation in their gastrointestinal system. As a result, they don't adequately digest their food, so the body starts regarding the food as a foreign invader and puts out antibodies to the food." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers." Dennis Clarke, chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, expands our understand of drug-induced violence to include some well known mass murderers. "In Austin, Texas in 1966, Charles Whitman went up into the Texas Tower, the first school shooting in the United States. Forty-eight hours later, the FBI held a press conference and said no drugs were found in Whitman's body." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Most alarming was the 212 percent rise of prescription drug abuse found among teenagers during those years. Some parents had become unwitting drug pushers, the researchers said, by filling their bathroom cabinets with addictive prescription narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. But there was more behind the rise in addiction than medicine chests stocked full. Today's children are the first generation to grow up with omnipresent prescription drug ads." - 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.)

"And in recent years, imaging studies have shown that the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully develop until we are well into our twenties, which could explain why most people who experiment with drugs and get hooked do so as teenagers or during early adulthood, when their inhibition hasn't fully developed. "They end up with a hypersensitive system that wants drugs, and they make very bad decisions," says Robinson. "It's the worst of both possible worlds." GETTING BACK ON YOUR FEET There's nothing like appearing before a judge to hasten the development of a teenager's inhibition." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The TeenScreen program focused on teenagers, but some of the antidepressant manufacturers had also pushed in recent years to screen Iowa children who were much younger. For example, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eli Lilly paid in 2001 to promote mental health screenings for all kids during what organizers called Child Health Month. The event's main message was that one out of every five Iowa children had a mental illness that could be diagnosed and treated." - 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.)

"According to the United States Dietary Association, children (one to eight years old) need 500-800 mg per day, teenagers (nine to 18 years old) need 1,300 mg per day, adult men and women need 1,000 mg per day and people over the age of 50 need 1,200 mg per day. A list of other food sources of calcium is listed in Appendix 12-1. What Other Nutrients Do Your Bones Need? Calcium cannot do its critical work alone. Calcium needs an entire team of bone-building nutrients to keep your bones healthy and strong." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Children and teenagers should be physically active for 60 minutes every day, or most days. Know the limits on fats, sugars, and salt (sodium) Make most of your fat sources from fish, nuts, and vegetable oils. Limit solid fats like butter, margarine, shortening, and lard, as well as foods that contain these. Check the Nutrition Facts label to keep saturated fats, Choose food and beverages low i calories with few. if any, nutrients. MyPyramid.gov FIGURE 1 MyPyramid: Steps to a healthier you. See color plate." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Infants, teenagers, adults and the elderly have been included in these trials. Probiotics are safe for most people. Probiotics are administered at what can be considered a very high dosage. The most well-known probiotics are of the genera Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium, and most members of these genera are known to be safe, due to their long history of use and presence in the human intestinal tract. L. acidophilus and L. casei Shirota, which have been consumed for over 60 years are likely the species with the longest track record of safety." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Studies going back to Korean War and Vietnam War casualties show that even some teenagers have early arterial disease. More recently, Silent Inflammation Starts Early researchers specializing in the study of early-onset atherosclerosis reported in the medical journal Circulation that 20 to 25 percent of young people (aged fourteen to thirty-five) autopsied after death from homicide, auto accident, or suicide already had a major lesion in the coronary arteries. The study was performed on three thousand bodies." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "More than two-thirds of teenagers and a third of younger children already have mild gingivitis. • Two out of ten adults suffer from destructive periodontitis-advanced gum disease. • One out of ten adults has no natural teeth. Many more are missing multiple teeth. arteries. The bloodstream swarms with antibodies against these common oral microorganisms. But as the disease progresses, the antibodies also attack damaged arterial tissue." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "It works for teenagers with cardiomyopathy, baby boomers with blocked arteries, and octogenarians with failing hearts. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes inflamed and dilated and doesn't pump well. It enlarges to pump more blood. When the heart can't pump enough blood, the condition is called heart failure. This life-threatening situation can also result from narrowed arteries, a past heart attack with scarring of the heart muscle, high blood pressure, a congenital heart defect (present at birth), or heart valve dysfunction." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Perimenopause is not a great time to be dealing with teenagers, aging parents, lawyers, career changes, or haggling with siblings about whose turn it is to take Dad to the doctor. Let's face it, it can just plain suck. It is certainly not a time you want to embrace "the new you." You may find yourself questioning what it is that really matters and what your priorities are. Forget about finding balance with work and family, you want balance for you. Menopause is all about you. Your life, your time. The Chinese Perspective I love the Chinese view of menopause." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Julie: Perimenopause Cured with Thyroid and Adrenal Support Julie was a fifty-two-year-old married mother of two teenagers, juggling her career and motherhood while trying to return to school and manage a singing group "for fun." She always had to push to get things done, but this was getting harder and harder to do. Reliable sleep, energy, and a stable mood had become things of the past. When I met her she was still menstruating, but she had noticed that her previously regular periods were now happening every twenty-one days instead of every twenty-eight." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"According to the advisory, which is the first of its kind in Canada, children under eight should only use a cell phone in emergencies, and teenagers should limit calls to less than 10 minutes. • As little as 10 minutes on a cell phone can trigger changes in brain cells linked to cell division and cancer, suggests a new study conducted by researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and published in the Biochemical Journal. The changes they observed were not caused by heating of tissues." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Stories from the Recasting Archives THE LAUNDRY GODDESS With four teenagers to raise, Linda spent all day at work, only to return home and toil away her evenings doing laundry in her musty basement, the "dungeon." As much as Linda asked her family to pick up and sort their clothes, there was always Molly's soccer practice, or Aiden's homework, or trips to the supermarket. Helping with the laundry, invariably, came last. Feelings: "Being stuck down in the dungeon alone was the worst part of my day," says Linda. "I felt such resentment welling up in me night after night." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Writes a series of novels for teenagers from other countries who are newly arrived in the United States. • Serves on the board of an organization that helps disenfranchised kids. • Works with an Ethiopian woman who is writing a book about her country. • Travels to Guatemala every summer to learn Spanish and work with kids in a Mayan school. Rita's story can teach us a great deal. Let's not wait until we have a near-death experience to live richly, to do what we most want to do, to grab the golden ring of adventure." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Bradley, had a very tender love scene between two teenagers. Mike was interested in girls and on two occasions over the previous year he had started relationships. Mr. Bradley explained, "Their idea of dating was, 'Meet you at the church.'" The church social group monitored the activities of young people. Mike especially cared about one girl in particular with whom he had spent time at a religious retreat several months earlier. She had not returned his interest and they hadn't seen much of each other for several months. Mr." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Almost every time that I place teenagers on a restricted diet as part of their Healing Program, I sit down with them, preferably alone, and try to gain their own endorsement of these often difficult restrictions. I tell them in a compassionate but clear way that I don't want to waste their time, my time, and their parents' money on a program that will be sabotaged by their unwillingness to fully participate. It's critically important that they invest their own personal sense of ownership in the program." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

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