Charles Barber
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 The questions they want answered are different than the public health questions."45
It is also disconcerting that many FDA standards for clinical studies are surprisingly flimsy. The FDA allows studies to recruit what are called "samples of convenience," the result of which is that often patients in studies bear little resemblance to those who will actually take the drug once it is on the market.46 "Samples of convenience" typically means those patients who are relatively easy to recruit—college students are the classic example. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 A related and serious public health problem, and a generally overlooked one, is the effect of secondhand smoking.
Each year, exposure to secondhand smoke causes approximately 35,000 deaths from heart disease, 3,000 deaths from lung cancer. Smoking during pregnancy causes an estimated 910 infant deaths.16 Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the cardiovascular system is "exquisitely sensitive" to the toxins in secondhand smoke. "The effects of even brief (minutes to hours) passive smoking are often nearly as large (averaging 80% to 90%) as chronic active smoking. |
Anne Harrington
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 We are being cursed in the name of science, and the imprecations directed against us have the imprimatur of the public health Service (PHS). The prognosis of doom is emanating from that peculiar form of medical survey research known as "epidemiology."61
That same year, 1988, psychiatrist Sanford Cohen offered intimate clinical evidence that the AIDS patient was in fact vulnerable to being killed by negative beliefs. In an article about AIDS and "voodoo death," he described a patient whose mother learned on the same day that her son was gay and had AIDS. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| And not only public health. As we have seen in chapter 8, lifestyles cannot be overestimated as a causative factor in the maintenance of health—and in the probability of illness and early death. Because people have smoked cigarettes, historical reductions in mortality were considerably less, perhaps by half, than they would have been in a cigarette-free world. Such possible improvements in health dwarf anything and everything done by physicians. |
Bill Sardi
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 A study of females in Iowa, conducted by the University of Iowa, College of public health, found that 60% of the radon readings in basements of people who developed lung cancer, along with others who did not, were above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's action level for radon. There were hardly any differences in radiation exposure between healthy women and women with lung cancer. But researchers incredulously concluded that "this indicates that residential radon exposure is a significant cause of lung cancer. |
| The four natural anti-blood clotting nutrients are magnesium [Southeast Asian J Trop Med public health. 33 Suppl 2:6-9, 2002; J Vet Med Sci 60: 837-42, 1998], vitamin E [Hormone Metab Res 334: 49-54, 2002; Platelets 12: 389-94, 2001], garlic [Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 63:217-21, 2000; Thombosis Res 32: 155-69, 1983] and omega-3 oils from fish or flaxseed. (Note: omega-6 oils from corn, safflower and sunflower, encourage blood clotting. |
| Public health authorities and pharmaceutical interests are often in collusion without regard for public welfare.
Approximately two-thirds of the world's population is infected with H. pylori. Infected persons have a 2- to 6-fold increased risk of developing gastric cancer and mucosal-asso-ciated-lymphoid-type (MALT) lymphoma compared with their uninfected counterparts. The Centers for Disease Control says that because the source of H. pylori is not yet known, they have not issued any recommendations for avoiding infection. |
| American Journal public health 82: 867-69, 1992]
In the U.S., states adjust their tobacco taxes to be lower than surrounding states so that consumers will cross state lines to purchase cigarettes in their state. Cigarette taxes are all about swiping money out of smokers pockets, not smoking cessation!
Tobacco taxes are pledged to be used to conduct anti-smoking advertisements. Exposure to anti-tobacco TV ads is said to increase the rate for quitting smoking by 10%, but this happens only after 5,000 TV spots are aired. [Health Education Research Nov. |
| The researchers conservatively recommend 1,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D daily, which by weight is only 25 micrograms, or 1 /4th of one milligram, to prevent cancer. public health authorities could easily fortify foods with this much vitamin D, but there is no impetus to do so. Most Americans, including health professionals, mistakenly avoid "high-dose" vitamin D because of unfounded concerns over toxicity. |
| Call for action
Recently the Vitamin D Council has been calling for public health officials to take urgent action, given the growing body of data linking low levels of vitamin D with a wide list of health problems in addition to cancer, such as rickets, hypertension, diabetes, autoimmune disease, heart failure, bone deterioration, urinary incontinence, heart failure, thyroid problems, loss of muscle tone and weakened immunity. |
Gary Null
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| Montague continues,
Meanwhile, the normal public health approach primary prevention languishes without mention and without funding. We know what causes the vast majority of cancers: exposure to carcinogens. What would a normal public health approach entail? Reduce the burden of cancer by reducing our exposure to carcinogens. One key idea has defined public health for more than 100 years: PREVENTION. But with cancer, everything is different. In the case of cancer, prevention has been banished from polite discussion. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Department of public health warned us that 85 percent of American drinking water is contaminated. And I can hardly believe things have gotten better over the past decade. More than fifty thousand different chemicals now contaminate our water supplies. Here's a frightening fact: the average water treatment plant can test for only thirty to forty of these chemicals. In addition heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and aluminum contaminate most of our water supplies. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| In a 2004 Lancet editorial, Richard Horton called Vioxx a "public health catastrophe" and accused Merck and the FDA of "ruthless, shortsighted and irresponsible self-interest."43 He especially criticized the FDA for failing to act as early as 2001, and called for a complete restructuring of that agency. Strong words, indeed. In an interview, Eric Topol said that he had "never read a more powerful editorial in a medical journal. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Walter Willet, a professor of public health at Harvard, has written a book touting the benefits of monounsaturated oil. Recently, when he was lecturing in Cleveland, I asked whether he had seen any evidence that a diet rich in monounsaturated oils has arrested and reversed coronary artery disease. No, he replied—but added that there was indirect evidence of arrest and reversal in the Lyon Diet Heart Study.
But let's take another look at that study. There is no question that the group consuming the Mediterranean-style diet did not fare nearly as badly as those in the control group. |
Charles Barber
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| When a medicine goes from being used by a few people to being used by hundreds of millions of people, for long periods of time, there have to be studies that look at the public health implications and the effects of long-term use ... It's true that we don't really know the long-term effects on the brain."140 And SSRIs, of course, run through the whole body, not just the brain. Ninety-five percent of the serotonin in the body actually resides in the intestines, where it acts as a signaling mechanism to the brain.141 The heart, too, has serotonin receptors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The curtain is closing on America's future
America is a public health disaster. And it's going to pay the ultimate price: As I've stated before, I believe that health care costs and the mass poisoning of the American people will ultimately cause this nation to self destruct. The "America experiment" is nearly over, and when the whole giant mass of disease and debt collapses, we're going to be left with a nation of mutant humans hopped up on pharmaceuticals... infertile, mentally impaired, emotionally imbalanced and nutritionally devastated. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 In 1914, Dr Joseph Goldberg was assigned by the United States public health Service to identify the cause of the pellagra epidemic in the Southern states> 5 He soon discovered that the well-fed staff of both mental hospitals and prisons did not develop pellagra, while malnourished patients and inmates often did. He concluded that pellagra must be a nutritional illness, not one caused by germs, as was generally believed. |
| Cancer in the mentally ill. public health Rep 1941;56:132-49.
41 Cohen M, Dembling B, Schorling I. The association between schizophrenias and cancer: A population-based mortality study. Schizophrenia Res 2002557(2-3):i39-46.
42 Rice D. No lung cancer in schizophrenics. Brit J Psychiat 19795134:128.
43 Craig TJ, Lin SP. Cancer and mental illness. Compr psychiat 1981;22:404-10.
44 Gulbinat W, Dupoint A, Jablensky A, Jensen OM, Marsella A, Nakane Y, et al. Cancer incidence of schizophrenic patients. Results of record linkage studies in three countries. |
| This public health strategy would not be new. During the Second World War, the United States government mandated the enrichment of flour with niacinamide. However, current dietary levels are still too low. Increasing the intake of niacinamide would carry no known risks, since it is not addictive, nor is it a narcotic, euphoriant, or analgesic. In short, a small investment in niacinamide would provide huge economic and social benefits to society with no known associated risks. |
| In 1952, he was the Director of Psychiatric Research in the Department of public health for the Province of Saskatchewan. This department was responsible for two large mental hospitals and a school for the mentally challenged, which together housed over 5,000 patients. One half were schizophrenics. At the time, there was no viable treatment for this illness; these patients could expect to spend the rest of their lives in such facilities. |
| This belief that only small doses are required has been enshrined in the establishment of recommended daily allowances (RDAs) for most nutrients, adopted as nutrition guides by public health agencies in most Western nations.
Vitamins-as-Therapy
Soon after vitamins were established as preventive for many classic deficiency diseases, their role as therapeutic agents was discovered in treating disease using large doses. This was first recognized in the treatment of pellagra and schizophrenia. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Justice Department for fabricating test results indicating that Aspartame was safe (and later for racketeering charges) but legal mat-
Epidemiological:
The branch of science concerned with public health and the causes of disease. ters were held up and delayed by unscrupulous attorneys (whom later took extremely lucrative positions within the Aspartame industry) until the statute of limitations expired. An initial investigation titled "The Bressler Report" details numerous discrepancies between reported study data and the actual, verifiable data describing the toxicity of Aspartame. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 I read 2 or 3 years ago that the public health Service concluded that folic acid prevents birth defects. When I talked to my mother about it, she gave me a copy of your 1984 book. You had a whole chapter in there about preventing birth defects with folic acid!"
"Government 'authorities' are usually the last to know," I replied.
"Diana started taking folic acid right away," John said. "I did, too, I figured it wouldn't hurt me any. But then we decided to make an appointment, just in case there were other things we could do that the public health Service or FDA or whomever doesn't know yet. |
Anne Harrington
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| To begin to find out, Berkman agreed to undertake a dissertation project that involved analyzing an already existing set of data from a 1965 public health survey of a large group of residents of Alameda County, California. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| This is an international embarrassment and a public health disaster. The truth is that giving the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as presently configured, the responsibility for issuing such guidelines is much like inviting Al Capone to prepare your income tax returns.
But our medical organizations have also waffled when it comes to this subject. |
Anne Harrington
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| The discovery of the Type A personality and his apparent vulnerability to heart attack had roots in a far more broadly based set of public health concerns in the postwar period. This was a period of sharply rising levels of coronary heart disease in the American population. Once seen as a relatively rare disease in the United States and Europe, by the second half of the twentieth century, heart disease had come to be called the silent epidemic of the times, responsible for some 30 percent of deaths in industrialized countries—the largest single cause of death from any disease. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| Modern hospitals offer almost nothing to enhance public health. They are cathedrals of sickness.
There are some signs of change. Physicians and researchers increasingly agree that lifestyle changes—controlling blood pressure, stopping smoking, reducing cholesterol, exercising, and modifying diets—are essential to overall health. It is hard to deny the evidence, mounting with every passing year, that people who have spent a lifetime consuming the typical American diet are in dire trouble. Dr. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Some companies are also producing polish that is free of two chemicals that are equally troubling to environmental public health groups: formaldehyde, a preservative, and toluene, a solvent that helps polish to flow more evenly. Nevertheless, the majority of nail products still contain phthalates, formaldehyde, and toluene.
One concern with nail polish is that it is often used by even very young girls, and "play" polishes for children abound. To date, Procter & Gamble, Estee Lauder, and several others have eliminated phthalates from their nail polish. |
| Today, environmental legislation and regulations that guide the decisions we make about public health and the environment focus on managing current risk (how high a level of trichlo-roethylene or mercury can humans handle in their bloodstreams before falling ill?) rather than preventing future harm (how do we change manufacturing practices that emit toxic agents into the environment in the first place?). |
| The story of how Kerr and his team came to cure paralyzed rats began in 1998 in Douglas Kerr's lab on the fifth floor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health. At the time, Kerr's meager research team consisted only of himself and two others. Today, taped across the door to his lab, along with photos of Kerr with his wife and two young daughters costumed as a beekeeper and bees for Halloween, are pictures of him with his current research staff—which has burgeoned into a team of twenty. |
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