Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 There is a rich and well-documented history of injury and illness, much of it concentrated in the workplace or in neighborhoods contaminated from spillage just beyond the factory door. This history has a clear and important message to transmit. It shows us how time and again innovative processes have been introduced into large factories or small workshops, novel products have entered the marketplace, and new contaminants have been released into the environment. Each time these have occurred, episodes of disease, disability, and death have ensued. |
| Improved workplace hygiene, it was argued, was a more realistic solution to the problem of phossy jaw. As a part of this strategy, specific regulations were passed in a numbet of countries, beginning with an inspection rule as early as 1846 in Austria, mandating health-screening examinations of workers and other protective steps.
One intervention popular among some employers was to provide the laborers in their factories with turpentine-soaked sponges to wear beneath the chin as a protector against the phosphorous fumes. |
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration was sufficiently convinced of the cancer link to propose a new workplace limit for benzene exposure. The new OSHA regulation, which was meant to cover over two hundred thousand U.S. workers regularly exposed to the toxin, would have tightened the limits on air contamination by a factor of ten. The standard would also have banned outright any direct skin contact with benzene.
The American Petroleum Institute, which was not convinced by the benzene body count, had its day in court. On 2 July 1980, the U.S. |
| A week before Thanksgiving 2000, to vociferous congressional and business criticism, the outgoing Clinton administration finally proposed workplace rules intended to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive strain injuries. By then, the government estimated that 1.8 million U.S. workers suffered from the effects of such damage. Promising to actively fight the standard, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spokesperson responded, "We don't think there is any scientific basis to say how many repetitions are too many, how much weight is too much. |
| Weir Mitchell extended his concerns about occupational "neural exhaustion" from the traditional workplace to non-salaried vocations of all sorts. He goes on to note, "I firmly believe—and I am not alone in this opinion—that as concerns the physical future of women they would do far better if the brain were lightly tasked and the school-hours but three or four a day until they reach the age of seventeen at least."60
Mitchell carried this over from formal schooling to intellectual vocations of any sort if attempted by a woman. |
| Given the changing characteristics of the workplace involving these equipment-oriented tasks, we should not be surprised that carpal tunnel syndrome has exploded on the scene, spreading like a computer virus. But this disease too, just like asbestosis, is not new. Carpal tunnel syndrome is one of a family of conditions known collectively as either cumulative trauma disorders or repetitive strain injuries? |
Dawson Church
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 These practical techniques have been used successfully to:
Alleviate workplace stress
Decrease workplace injuries
Reduce anxiety in particularly stressful situations
Eliminate phobias such as fear of public speaking, or heights Reduce PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) Improve marital relationships Eliminate allergies Alleviate depression
Produce remission in serious diseases such as cancer
Soul Medicine Institute has also set up the first international database of Energy Psychology case histories. This research tool collects medical and psychiatric diagoses before treatment. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The nonsmoker can be exposed to tobacco smoke in the workplace, at home, in restaurants and bars, and in other public places. However, I'm glad to say, many metropolitan governments are now enacting measures to ban cigarette smoke in all interior environments.
So far, fourteen states have implemented significant anti-smoking laws. Nine of these states ban smoking in nearly all workplaces. This is encouraging but we still have a long way to go. Children and non-smoking adults continue to suffer from the ill effects of secondhand smoke in their own homes due to the presence of others whom smoke. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 If occupational asthma has been diagnosed it is best to change your workplace,- if you can't do this at least try to avoid the offending irritant. If these options are not possible you could wear a face mask or use medications before exposure.
LIVING WITH ASTHMA
So you have been diagnosed as having asthma and have had an asthma attack. What can you expect? A lifetime of taking drugs, frequent trips to your health practitioner and occasional visits to hospital? This may be the case, but you might be able to reduce your reliance on medication by taking some practical steps. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Health-care workers should be focused and careful and practice universal precautions in their workplace.
(NAATs), that are significantly more sensitive than previous nonculture tests in detecting DNA or RNA sequences. The Gen-Probe PACE 2 and the Digene Hybrid Caprure II can detect for both organisms in a single specimen. Rapid in-office tests may be used by some clinics to test for chlamydia; liquid-based Pap smears and urine rests can also be used to detect chlamydia.
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B (HBV) is a virus that infects more than 300,000 Americans annually. It is estimated that 1. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 As evidence of this, one study found that there are more workplace accidents during the Great American Smokeout than on any other day of the year. Many of my ADHD patients use cigarettes to help them focus when they have to write or push through a challenging task, and without the nicotine they feel lost.
Some drugs, of course, dull the brain to begin with. A novel study from researchers in Iran recently examined how exercise affects rats on morphine. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) if you work in Canada for relevant information about the toxic chemicals found in products used in your workplace. You could insist on appropriate measures to control chem-
A Chemical-Free Work Environment
> Keep inks, carbon paper, liquid paper, and rubber cement in sealed containers.
>• Place a plant in your office.
>• Use the appropriate protective equipment whenever it is available, especially if working with hazardous chemicals. |
| Ensure good ventilation in your workplace.
>• Don't bring your workplace chemicals home with you. If you work with chemicals,you should shower and change your clothes, before you leave work if necessary.
>• If you work with chemicals, don't wash your work clothes with the family wash. Although you may think that the amount of chemical contaminant you bring home on your clothes (or skin) is small, over time this can add up to a significant exposure that could lead to a serious illness. |
Roberta Bivins
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 He also cited sources from the contemporary western press, including Bernard Shaw, Morley Roberts, and an article from the London Times criticizing the bacteriologically focused public health campaigns of the preceding decade, and citing workplace pollution and poor nutrition as the true 'soil' of disease. His most potent ammunition, however, was drawn from germ theory's recent and bitter defeat in the face of the influenza pandemic. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Many people are rats in someone else's experiment if they live close to a freeway, where small particles roam the air and increase lung problems, especially for young children and their stay-at-home mothers, who don't escape to the safety of the workplace. You should also note that a similar damaging effect can happen when you're exposed to indoor pollutants like radon, asbestos, mite dust, and mold. Molds, for instance, produce mycotoxins, which weaken or kill the things they live on or compete with. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| You can take control of your condition and reduce or eliminate your exposure to household and workplace pollutants. ž Keep everything that gives off unpleasant odours out of inhalation range until you need to use them. These include polishes, window and oven cleaners, insecticides, cosmetics, nail polish and remover, glues, etc. Use only in well ventilated areas.
Don't buy expensive aerosol cleaners, make your own with natural ingredients.
Disconnect your automatic gas stove pilot light—a constant source of gas seepage—and keep gas use to a minimum. |
| Grain dust, for instance, can be carried spasmodically by the wind from nearby flourmills to a workplace and the allergy may only develop over a period of time.
Cigarette smokers are much more likely to develop occupational asthma than non-smokers. This is because the linings of the air passages are damaged by cigarette smoke and they then react more to other triggers.
It is important to understand there is a risk that long-term occupational asthma can lead to serious and irreversible airway obstruction. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Relationships and stress in the workplace are also important contributors, and often these factors combine. These are things that need to be dealt with through psychotherapy, exercise, diet, journaling, spiritual growth, and/or a change of circumstances if necessary, which includes getting out of dysfunctional relationships or jobs. If you have severe major depression, medication alone may not suffice; psychotherapy plus medication is better than taking medication alone. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) if you work in Canada for relevant information about the toxic chemicals found in products used in your workplace. You could insist on appropriate measures to control chem-
A Chemical-Free Work Environment
> Keep inks, carbon paper, liquid paper, and rubber cement in sealed containers.
>• Place a plant in your office.
>• Use the appropriate protective equipment whenever it is available, especially if working with hazardous chemicals. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| This perverted view of science and education, sanctified by a professional association that represents practicing physicians amounts to little more than a mob-controlled workplace. If pharmaceutical corporations can be likened to the godfather of a crime family, then the upper echelon of the American Medical Association (AMA) could be considered consigliores.
Education Physicians
Have you ever sat in a hospital emergency room on a Saturday night? Or called for an acute appointment only to be told that the soonest the doctor can see you is in two weeks? |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Occupational Asthma
Exposure to offending allergen or irritant substances in the workplace puts many asthma-sensitive people at great risk. Certain occupations and particular industries have been associated with high levels of occupational asthma. These include the heavy metal and chemical industries through to bakeries and supermarkets. Housepainters are at risk because of chemicals in the paints, as are hairdressers who are exposed to chemicals in colourings and petrol station attendants surrounded by fuel fumes. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 If you work in an office it will be well worth the effort to SlimDown your workplace. The good news is that more and more people are eager to upgrade the food options and temptations at school and work. I recently spoke with a teacher who told me that her elementary school was making a concerted effort to improve the children's food choices at lunch and at snacktime. It quickly became apparent that it was important for the teachers to serve as examples to their students so no more cookies and candies in the teachers' lounge! Everyone is benefiting from the new standards. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 To date, home conditions such as Parkinson's dis- and workplace saliva tests can detect ilease, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and licit drugs' alcoho1' H1V' hormonal changes, and even stress. Scientists have even HIV/AIDS. a|so had SQme success in detecting oral
It's often difficult to distinguish cancer from saliva. dry mouth from excessive thirstone often results in the other. But extreme or unquenchable thirst can be a danger sign of advanced hyperthyroidism. (See Appendix I.) Extreme hunger is another sign. |
Devra Davis
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 From the start, this national campaign was blocked from dealing with some cancer causes that were known at the time—tobacco, the workplace and the general environment. Proof that the world in which we live and work has a lot to do with whether or not we get the disease was either overlooked or kept out of sight altogether, often by folks who had major economic interests in seeing this happen. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| If your workplace is filled with food traps, you can at least rid your own area of these temptations and substitute healthy choices. Get rid of that bag of M&MS in your bottom desk drawer and substitute individual serving-size bags (or one individual serving bag if more is too tempting) of nuts and dried fruit for snacking. Make sure you have an ample supply of green and black tea on hand. Keep some baby carrots and pepper slices in the office fridge. |
Devra Davis
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| By the 1950s, some scientists had developed a program aimed at training physicians to recognize and reduce risks from workplace and environmental hazards. How do scientists today go about figuring out the hazards of work or the world around us for our health? We do pretty much what Agricola, Ramazzini, Pott and Roffo did. We look around. We visit and talk to people who are going through natural experiments of their own sort to learn about the goods and bads in their life histories that could account for their health. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Men, who are often affected by hearing loss more than women, since they typically have more workplace exposure to loud noises, may find they can hear low-frequency pulsations but not high pitches and consonants (they have trouble distinguishing between B and P, or T and D). It's not that they don't want to take out the trash or do the dishes (although this is likely the case in some homes); it's that while they can hear the deep male voices shouting out the scores on SportsCenter, they truly can't hear the higher pitches and softer tones of the women they live with. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's true, this industry actually opposes removing cancer-causing chemicals from the workplace...)
Read more at Dr. Sam Epstein's website: http://www.preventcancer.com
The bottom line in all this? New research shows us that using low-cost calcium and vitamin D supplements (or just natural sunlight), we could slash cancer rates by an astonishing 77 percent. The cancer industry opposes this and is firmly positioned as an opponent of cancer prevention. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The causes of miscarriage include unknown factors, stressors, environmental factors (toxic substances in food, water, and air and pollutants in the workplace), smoking, drinking alcohol, dietary deficiencies, and fetal abnormalities. As discussed earlier in the nutrition section, low zinc intake has been associated with spontaneous aborrion and premarure delivery, and vitamin E supplementation and bioflavonoids may help to prevent miscarriage. In addition, Susun Weed lists the following herbs as being used in traditional herbal medicine for preventing miscarriage:140
• Black haw root. |
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