Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Saying that all these heavily sweetened drinks or foods cannot harm you is the moral equivalent of the tobacco industry claiming for decades that their products had no causal relationship to heart disease or cancer," laments one knowledgeable source, who desired anonymity for fear of reprisal in the workplace.
It's Not Nice to Fool Consumers: The Legal Volleys Begin
Not surprisingly, while I was writing this book, experts told me about a dozen legal volleys (i.e. class action lawsuits) already proposed against companies making sugary foods and drinks or fast food. |
| To avoid temptation, don't bring harmful foods into your home, car, or workplace. You can't binge on a quart of ice cream if it's not in your freezer. So don't taunt yourself by keeping junk food anywhere near you. And ask for your family's support in this.
As you keep these nutrient-lacking carbs out of sight, get perspective by reminding yourself that you don't need these so-called goodies to have a sweet life.
6. GET A LIFE WITH ZEST AND SPARKLE!
You know that phrase, "Get a life"? It offers simple, brilliant, effective advice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They choose to ignore the truth about cancer-causing chemicals in food, beverages, personal care products and in the workplace. They refuse to look at the chemical toxicities that are ever-present in the environment, and instead put their efforts into cancer treatment (because that's where the money is). Conventional medicine makes money in chemotherapy or cutting out tumors. There's no money to be made in preventing cancers.
There's a whole lot of money to be made in covering up the truth about toxic chemicals, however. |
Jack Challem
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 Rather than being a badge of honor, 24/7 is really a sign of how perverted and stressful the workplace has become. To successfully compete, many companies cannot afford to sleep (after all, the rest of the world is awake and working), and fewer workers can afford to be out of touch on weekends or vacation.
Newspaper and magazine headlines have conveyed the pervasiveness of the problem with such headlines as "Eight Isn't Enough in Today's Jobs," "Ground Down by Daily Grind," and "Is There Life after Work? |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Being removed from the workplace for five weeks gave her time to rest and to rethink some of her strategies of living—and then change them. This woman was unusual in that she figured it out for herself. She might have gone to the doctor to hear there was nothing wrong with her. What would have happened to her if she did not take a time-out from her hectic life? Who knows? But stress is something to be taken very seriously. Therefore, you should understand some of the basic facts and biology of stress.
What Is Stress? |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Make sure you have enough to tuck a few teabags into your purse or briefcase or to store at your workplace. Take them with you when you travel. You can get a cup of hot water most anywhere, and it's great to have a lovely cup of tea to sip.
Canned tomatoes. Do you like to cook with canned tomatoes? We have some terrific recipes using them that you'll enjoy so pick up a couple of cans. Look for diced or whole tomatoes that are low in sodium. Read the labels carefully to be sure you don't buy tomatoes with added sweetener like high-fructose corn syrup.
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Bill Sardi
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 Indoor work, particularly a basement workplace, would deprive workers of sunlight exposure. Sunlight produces vitamin D in humans. A deficiency of vitamin D is linked with breast cancer. Was the increase in male breast cancer caused by magnetic fields or by lack of vitamin D? These are the types of questions that make it difficult to ascertain if there is a link between EMF exposure and cancer.
To make matters worse, a cell biologist doing work on EMFs for the Department of Energy, faked data linking cancer to electromagnetic fields in order to gain $3. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Your Home Environment
People are now exposed to a chemical soup at home and in the workplace. Buildings are tightly sealed for energy efficiency and may trap chemical gasses and dust from a variety of sources. Cleaning agents left on floors and other surfaces dry and can eventually circulate on dust particles throughout the house or workplace and be inhaled with each breath. Fire retardants and other chemicals used in fabrics and foams in furniture, mattresses, and electrical insulation can be irritating to the airway. |
Anne Harrington
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 Instead, the literature increasingly adopted a strategy that involved accommodation to existing workplace values. In part, this happened because it was felt that Type A personalities themselves were not fundamentally interested in changing—they stood to lose too much. In 1978, Rosenman wrote that doctors should take care to reassure their patients that "alternative behavior [to the classic Type A pattern] is not a threat to their socioeconomic well-being. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Radiation (Detection Devices)
Use a detector such as the (Radalert'" 100) to check the levels of radiation in your home and workplace.
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You simply MUST quit smoking! You may need a support group to help you so don't give up.
§ Foundation for a Smokefree America o www.anti-smoking.org
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Quitnet® Quit All Together www.quitnet.com
The Stop Smoking Center www.stopsmokingcenter. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The British Medical Journal reported that the documents disappeared in 1994, during the case of Joseph Wesbecker, a printing press operator who had killed eight people at his Louisville, Kentucky, workplace five years before while taking fluoxetine. He then shot and killed himself.
The FDA has recently warned that antidepressants can cause side effects such as agitation, panic attacks, insomnia and aggressiveness. This is truly bad news for people in Great Britain where Prozac is being taken in such large quantities that it can now be found in Britain's drinking water. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Use a detector such as the (Radalert™ 1 00) to check the levels of radiation in your home and workplace.
Take a proactive stance and write the cell phone company CEOs and the local and federal government asking them for more testing and protection from these harmful devices.
See "Radiation", "Fluorescent Lighting", and "Geopathic Stress" in the Resources.
How to Eliminate or Reduce EMF Radiation from Home Electronics
(Safe exposure levels are between 0.5 and 2 milligauss of radiation daily.)
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Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Can the workplace promote the cognitive health of baby boomers?
Most jobs require us to have social interactions and to use our minds in challenging situations, and can compel us to be physically active, punctual, and driven by a daily sense of purpose. These benefits are positive in the face of the fact that there is little chance of baby boomers retiring as their parents did. Working into old age may now be a financial necessity or a personal choice for our generation. Whatever the case may be, work has the potential to be protective for individuals and good for society as a whole. |
| We can create youth apprenticeship programs in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in which high school students who wish to experience hands-on learning in the workplace in conjunction with classroom instruction are given the opportunity to have mentored on-the-job learning in an elder-care setting. Such programs can endow up-and-coming workers with the skills and competencies they will need to care for the growing number of elders in our society, and provide them with the knowledge, insight, and real-world experience they will need to take care of us in the future. |
| Maintaining the presence of elders in the workplace can be a tremendous boon to businesses and organizations. Elders are known for their work ethic and integrity, and aging persons possess wisdom and an ability to see the big picture. If a job needs sharp, quick thinking and retrieval of new names, words, and facts—what we call "fluid intelligence"70—then youth prevails. But if a task requires wealth of knowledge, experience, commitment, and broad vision—so-called crystallized intelligence71—then elders are well positioned to contribute. ient who had been a partner at an international law firm. |
Devra Davis
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 Today in France, only one in four cases of mesothelioma—a rare tumor believed to be uniquely tied with asbestos exposure—is compensated for workplace exposures.21 In many industrial countries today, one in three men and half of all women with this disease have no known history of exposure to asbestos.22
• Until he was fired in November 1989, Meyron Mehlman served at Mobil Oil as director of toxicology and manager of its environmental health and science laboratory, responsible for the international firm's testing of chemicals. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Whereas prior generations prepared children for the workplace within a society of scarcity," today's children have much higher expectations, "being reared to become pleasure seeking consumers in a prosperous new economy." That along with the increased number of divorces and two working parents leads to much less parental supervision, and such symptoms as irritability, running away from home, decline in schoolwork, and headaches that are all characteristics of what is called "depression." Yet the very label of depression may lead to treatment with SSRIs that does not help and even creates harm. |
Marshall Editions
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 Exposure to various chemicals in the home or workplace may also contribute to nasal congestion, and indoor and outdoor air pollution can be a factor for those who are already susceptible. Smoking and passive smoking have been implicated in chronic nasal congestion and the prevalence of chronic rhinitis among men has been shown to increase with cigarette consumption. Those exposed to chlorine, such as lifeguards and swimmers, may also be at risk of developing this condition. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Jurisdiction over phthalates in the United States is scattered: the EPA has responsibility for phthalates released into the environment; the FDA for medical devices like intravenous tubes; the National
Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health for workplace exposure (there appear to be higher pancreatic cancer rates among phthalate workers).26 In each agency, U.S. policy makers are confronted with a powerful industry lobby that has largely succeeded in shaping a regulatory culture that imposes an obstacle course of cost-benefit analyses before acting.
"If you're a U.S. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): 12 million cases per year, or 42 percent, of all cases globally as a result of exposure to workplace contaminants, chemical fumes, and indoor and outdoor air pollution
The WHO further states that most of the environmentally triggered diseases rank as the biggest killers outright. Below are the diseases with the largest absolute number of deaths annually from environmental factors:
?Cardiovascular disease: 2.6 million deaths each year
?Diarrheal disease: 1.7 million deaths each year
?Lower respiratory infections: 1.5 million deaths each year
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David Steinman
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 As the researchers study the babies of women who were exposed to chemical solvents in the workplace are studied, they are found to have vision problems.
"Vision is one of the functions of the human brain, so it means that these chemicals find themselves through the mum, through the umbilical cord, into the baby, into the developing brain, and damaging functions there, and the baby is born already with a problem," Koren said. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Job stress has been identified as a significant risk factor for a number of health problems, including cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders, alcoholism/drug addiction, workplace injuries, eating disorders, and even suicide in severe cases.
• It's estimated 3 out of 4 people experience significant levels of stress at least every other week.
Staggering Stress Statistics (contd.)
"Research indicates that up to one-third of all workers report high levels of stress on the job."98
"48% of workers say they have too much work to do ... and unreasonable deadlines."99
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Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 I've seen this in the workplace on numerous occasions. Someone will be sitting down minding his own business, doing his work. In comes the office jerk, a person who is hostile, with a big chip on his shoulder. He walks into the other person's cubicle and starts talking with a critical edge in his voice. If you read his energy field, you'll notice a sudden thrust—like an arrow—coming out from his field and invading his "victim's" field to "bite" a chunk of the other's energy. He steals his coworker's energy and leaves the victim feeling drained and anxious. |
Devra Davis
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| They combined autopsies with medical, personal and workplace histories of people who had come dowrn with cancer. They reasoned that if they found tars and soots in the lungs of those who had worked in mining and showed that these same things caused tumors when placed on the skin or into the lungs of animals, that was sufficient to deem these gooey residues a cause of cancer that should be controlled. |
| Hueper went on to hold a number of other research posts, developing experimental studies of suspect materials and amassing a library of papers on workplace hazards. He ended up in what seemed to be a dream job at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. From 1948 until his retirement in 1968, Hueper led its first section on environmental cancer, where he provided original experimental research and synthesized the world's literature on avoidable causes of the disease. |
| How can you determine the role of one factor, such as cell phone exposure to the skull, when others, like diet, workplace conditions and local air pollution, are changing at the same time and at different rates? The science that was invoked in Newman's case was not the work of lab researchers conducting experiments in test tubes under highly controlled conditions, changing one condition at a time to see which triggered the most serious or severe effects. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Although both of these two conditions are generally associated with the workplace, an important distinction should be made. Sick Building Syndrome occurs when inhabitants of a particular building report health symptoms seemingly linked to actual time spent in that building. However, no specific illness can be pinpointed. Building Related Illness, on the other hand, characterizes an occupant's diagnosable condition
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A Variety Of Common Toxins Found in Homes
1. Synthetic Insulation
2. Poor Air Circulation
3. Lack of Fresh Air
4. Smoke
5. Paint Fumes
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Charles Barber
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 The second likely mechanism by which Julie got her Prozac was by receiving a clinical diagnosis for what is in fact a troublesome life situation, such as divorce, the pressures of the workplace, or adjusting to change. In other words, psychological distress, but not mental illness. A 2007 study showed that about one in four people who appear to be depressed are in fact dealing with the aftermath of a recent emotional blow, like the end of a marriage, the loss of a job, or the collapse of a business. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 First, there is apparently a lot of age discrimination going on in the workplace. So, in addition to the racial discrimination and gender discrimination, we also have a fair amount of age discrimination going on. The older you are, the more likely you are to be let go, it seems. So a lot of men think if they simply appear younger, with black hair, younger-looking skin, a facelift and a nose job, they can stay in their current job or have better job prospects.
Sadly, they may, in fact, be right, because many employers do tend to judge people on their appearance, even if it's not conscious. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 Just a few hours north of Bancroft's former workplace is Chicago, the site of the first of a national chain of sex clinics for women run by Dr. Laura Berman—one half of the beautiful Berman sisters, who also host their own TV show. At the Chicago clinic's auspicious opening, Berman explained to the assembled cameras that medications and hormones would be offered alongside the sex therapy and the yoga: the approach would be to treat the "whole woman. |
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