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"Type-2 diabetics, or 8 percent of the adult population. the who predicts that deaths from diabetes in India will increase by 35 percent over the next ten years. In China, the number of people with Type-2 diabetes is likely to reach 50 million in the next twenty-five years. What we are looking at is a trend toward diabetes in Asian countries. We do not have to look far to understand why. About 14 percent of Asian children are obese. That's Bang lades h China ? Ind a Indonesia Jauar 1 Philippines Vietnan 9 ....." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"According to the who study group, a woman has osteoporosis when her bone mineral density (BMD), as measured by a simple x-ray test, is 2.5 or more standard deviations below the average peak bone mass of healthy young adult women. This is defined as a T score of-2.5 or less. Osteopenia is diagnosed when a woman's T score is between -1.0 and -2.5." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"By 2000 Accutane had earned the distinction of having the largest number of reports of side effects to agencies like the who of any drug in the world.2 As I said earlier, Accutane is only a minor modification of the active form of vitamin A. Vitamin A is found naturally in foods like liver, carrots, and other orange vegetables in the form of beta-carotene. When vitamin A is digested, the beta-carotene is converted to retinoic acid, which has biological effects." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"So far this may sound compelling, but a closer look presents a very different picture: The definitions developed by the who Study Group are based on the assumption that the young adult skeleton is healthy and that as people age, their bones become progressively more "diseased." The study group's criteria, however, ignore the fact that loss of bone mass is a perfectly normal part of aging, especially in postmenopausal women." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For example, if you are a woman who gets a BMD test and follows the who criteria, there is a 50% chance you will be diagnosed with osteoporosis at the age of seventy-two (t score < -2.5) and a good chance your doctor will recommend medication. Your risk of having osteopenia (^score < -1.0), for which your doctor may recommend medication to "prevent" osteoporosis, is 50% by age fifty-two. In other words, according to the guidelines, half of postmenopausal women should be taking medication for osteoporosis." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Similarly, according to the who study group's definition of osteoporosis, about half of all American women will have the "disease" by the age of 72. WHO's definitions transform the majority of healthy postmenopausal women whose bones are aging normally into "patients" having or being at risk of having a frightening bone "disease." A decrease in T score is usually no more a measure of disease than is the greater amount of time it takes an elderly jogger to run a mile than it did when she was at her peak performance." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For example, most postmenopausal women with fractures do not have a bone density score that meets the who osteoporosis criteria.7 The World Health Organization, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, and other expert panels are in the process of releasing new guidelines to estimate a woman's risk of an osteoporotic fracture, using a bone density test along with these other risks. These new guidelines will provide better direction for treatment interventions." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The outcome of the who studies challenges conventional wisdom that the most disturbed patients really need psychiatrists and their physical treatments. In reality, they really need to be protected from psychiatrists and their treatments. Anyone whose grip on reality is already tenuous needs more than ever to be shielded from brain-disabling, spellbinding, maddening drugs. When not driven by drugs or genuine brain diseases, madness or psychosis is caused by a collapse of personal relationships with others." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Sixty-one cases of abnormal vision were reported to the who. In the United States, the FDA's Office of Epidemiology and Surveillance identified twelve cases of acute liver failure, resulting in four deaths, and an additional twenty-three cases of acute, serious liver injury in patients taking telithromycin up to April 2006. Since other antibiotics can be used instead of Ketek, I do not recommend its use." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The WHO aggregated these results into a measure called "health system responsiveness," on which the United States ranks first. The myth of excellence is also sustained by the assumption that advances in medical care are responsible for most of the gains in health and longevity realized in the United States during the twentieth century. I admit that I was dubious when I first read that this was not the case. According to the U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"According to the who in 2007, by 2025, the largest increases in diabetes prevalence will take place in developing countries, where the number of people with diabetes will increase by 150 percent.3 With no action to defuse this increase, it is estimated that total direct health care expenditures on diabetes worldwide will be up to 396 billion international dollars (ID) in 2025. This means that the proportion of the world's health care budget spent on diabetes care in 2025 will be between 7 percent and 13 percent.4 Figure 1: Diabetes prevalence by region, current and projected." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"While the who? and the Why? of such a program are certainly key, Zuse was looking more at how something like this could be possible. Although he was asking the right questions, the technology to test his theories was simply not available to him as it is to us now. In recent years, new discoveries have directed scientists right back to Zuse's original questions. Picking up where he left off, a growing number are now thinking along the same lines and asking the same question: Are we living in a virtual simulation?" - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"As I stated in the Introduction, of the 102 diseases regularly included in the WHO's annual assessment of global health (called The World Health Report), 85 are now known to be partially caused by exposure to environmental factors. The major ones, shown to have the largest impact on the environment in terms of death, illness, or disability, are as follows: ?Diarrhea: 58 million incidences a year caused by environmental factors, primarily the result of unsafe water, sanitation, or hygiene ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "In what is perhaps the most comprehensive study yet designed to examine how environmental factors, including exposure to unsafe water and indoor and outdoor air pollution, contribute to disease and ill health, the who stated that of the 102 major diseases reported yearly, 85 are partly caused by environmental factors, and it estimates that in the United States alone nearly 400,000 deaths each year are preventable simply by making improvements to our environment." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "In its June 2006 report, titled "Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments," the who focused on the environmental causes of disease and how numerous diseases are influenced by environmental factors." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"At present, the who initiative has not been published, but it is anticipated that it will become available sometime during 2007. A. Beyond BMD: The Question of Bone Quality As stated in the introduction to this chapter, osteoporosis is a condition of decreased bone strength, where strength is a composite function of bone mineral density and bone quality. Several diverse qualitative characteristics have been described that directly influence bone strength." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The test should be performed as described by the who, using a glucose load containing the equivalent of 75 g anhydrous glucose dissolved in water. any time of day, above 11.1 mmol/L (> 200 mg/dl); (2) a person who has a fasting plasma glucose concentration (FPG) of 7.0 mmol/L (> 126 mg/dl) or higher, fasting meaning at least 8 hours after food consumption; or (3) a person with a plasma glucose concentration of 11.1 mmol/L (> 200 mg/dl) or higher 2 hours after an oral challenge of 75 g glucose?called an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Pregnant women who meet the who criteria for diabetes mellitus [fasting glucose >7.0 mmol/liter (> 126 mg/dl) or 2-hour glucose > 11.1 mmol/ liter (>200 mg/dl)] or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) [fasting glucose >7.0 mmol/liter (> 126 mg/dl) or 2-hour post glucose load >7.8 mmol/liter (> 140 mg/dl) and < 11.1 mmol/liter (<200 mg/dl)] are classified as having GDM [19]. The criteria used by the American Dietetic Association indicate that a fasting plasma glucose level above 126 mg/dl or a casual plasma glucose above 200 mg/dl meets the threshold for the diagnosis of diabetes." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Professor James and his colleagues at the who stood up to the pressure; the FNB group appears to have caved in. The U.S. panel received funding from the M&M Mars candy company and a consortium of soft drink companies. Is it possible that the U.S. group felt an obligation to these sugar companies? Incidentally, the sugar industry, in their fight against the who conclusion, has relied heavily7 on the FNB report with its 25% limit." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"TABLE 5 Method for Estimating Energy Requirement for CF Patients Step I: Estimate basal metabolic rate (BMR) by using the who equations [133]: Males Females 0-3 years 60.9 x wt - 54 61.0xwt-51 3-10 years 22.7 x wt + 495 22.5 x wt + 499 10-18 years 17.5 x wt + 651 12.2 x wt + 476 18-30 years 15.3 x wt + 679 14.7 x wt + 496 >30 years 11.6 x wt + 879 8.7 x wt + 829 Step II: Estimate energy expenditure (EE) using the following equation: EE = BMR (activity coefficient + disease coefficient) Where activity coefficient =1.3 (confined to bed) 1.5 (sedentary) 1." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"With the imprimatur of the who, this definition established an international benchmark, which has gone on to spawn the mainstream measures of the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis around the world, from Alberta to New South Wales. Based on the who definition, groups like the National Osteoporosis Foundation in the U.S. tell us that this "debilitating disease" is a "major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans," or more than half of the entire population over fifty years old." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

"The sugar industry was infuriated and demanded from the WHO's Director General, Gro Brundtland, that this report be withdrawn, threatening that otherwise the industry would see to it that the WHO's annual financial contribution from the United States government would be withheld. Dr. Brundtland responded by publishing both the report and the threats. 3 Incidentally, in 1993 the CPSO reprimanded Toronto's Dr." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Internationally known scientists drafted the who report. The report comes to obvious conclusions. Threatened by such conclusions, food companies and their friends in government try to pick apart the science, ridicule the process, and delay action, just as the cigarette industry did for so many years." Drs." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The sugar industry was infuriated and demanded from the WHO's Director General, Gro Brundtland, that this report be withdrawn, threatening that otherwise the industry would see to it that the WHO's annual financial contribution from the United States government would be withheld. Dr. Brundtland responded by publishing both the report and the threats. 3 Incidentally, in 1993 the CPSO reprimanded Toronto's Dr." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"By winter, the who issued a Phase 3 alert, the first stage of a bird flu pandemic. In 2006, it was killing birds and people in Iraq. After SARS in 2003, the 2004 tsunami in the South Pacific, and two of the worst hurricane years in history (2004 and 2005), the world prepared for the worst—a bird flu pandemic. What's the Bird Flu? Bird flu is a type of avian influenza (H5N1 avian influenza A) that infects domestic birds such as chickens, ducks, and turkeys. The reservoir for the virus is in the intestines of wild birds, including migratory waterfowl such as ducks, geese, and swans." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"We witnessed its efficacy in the speed with which the who managed to gain control over SARS. The response took place simultaneously and widely, thanks to networked communication and preparedness. Indeed, technology can in many ways replicate the labor required for all of those billions of house calls, but much more quickly, cheaply, and safely. This is the power of networks. With more people using the Internet all the time, finding ways to track human travel patterns and the spread of epidemics has become easier. But it's still a challenge." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Nestle and Brownell's letter continued: "Senators Larry Craig and John Breaux, co-chairmen of the Senate Sweetener Caucus, asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to call on the who to 'cease further promotion' of the report, while trade associations for the sugar, corn refining, and snack food industries questioned the report's legitimacy and asked for Mr. Thompson's personal intervention. They got it." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"African women and 25 percent of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the who predicts that these numbers will rise to 41 percent and 30 percent respectively in the next ten years. In the developed world, obesity is a true epidemic. North America has the highest percentage of people who are obese, as well as the highest number of people who are succumbing to obesity-related illnesses. Our healthcare system is already strained by this epidemic, and the ability to sustain even basic healthcare in the years to come is in doubt if obesity continues to prevail as it does today." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Canada, Japan, and all of Western Europe except Portugal, according to the who. Our dirty little secret is that the drug industry already sells its products, right here in the U.S., at the same low prices charged in Canada and Europe. It's done through rebates. These are given to those with enough power to negotiate drug prices, such as the Veterans Administration. A 2001 study by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that drug companies' favorite customers paid just a little over half the retail price." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"WHO's report, curable diseases —from sore throats and ear infections to tb and malaria —are in danger of becoming incurable. The report's findings read like a futuristic thriller, although they were frighten-ingly true. Iowa and the rest of the world were moving backward in time, closer to the days before the discovery of penicillin, when a scrape on the knee could mean death from runaway infection. Yet even as medical experts were growing more anxious, the corporate sellers of antibiotics were just getting warmed up." - 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.)

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