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Articles

Overworked, Sick, and Injured
PHO #14

When and how much you work increases your risk of ill health, injury, and decreases your capacity to recover.

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Life, Death, and Vegetables
PHO #14

Despite its flaws, a study shows why health starts with doing the simplest things first.

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Antioxidant Myths
PHO #11

Antioxidant Myths: Biased reporting on biased research foster the myth that antioxidants don't work

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Nicotine Addiction
PHO #4

Nicotine Addiction: A new discovery in nicotine biochemistry points to nutrient therapies

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Shows

Aerial Spraying and Detoxification

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the risks posed by aerial spraying against the light brown apple moth and other agricultural pests along with detoxication methods for protection against these exposures Resources: Stop the Spraying www.stopthespray.org; resources on environmental health and on detoxification

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Dependencies: Solutions

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD the attachments that create health risks from food to drugs, how to start the change process, and how to support the body in making changes. Resources: Resources on addiction and detoxification, mind, mood, and stress, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn, End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant,, and Changing for Good by James Prochaska

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Exercise and Disease Prevention

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease including specific recommendations on forms of exercise and training regimes. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; also resources on aging, cancer, heart health, insulin resistance, hormones, and stress

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Does Green Mean Non-toxic?

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss toxic risks in “green” products and describe how to avoid exposures and boost detoxification pathways. Resources: Resources on environmental health and on detoxification; Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Baumgart; Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org; Our Stolen Future www.ourstolenfuture.org; Microwave News www.microwavenews.com; Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt; Healthy Car www.healthycar.org; Toxic at Any Speed by the Ecology Center www.ecocenter.org; A Small Dose of Toxicology www.asmalldoseof.org

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A Unique Approach to Addictions

Patt Denning, PhD discusses Harm Reduction Therapy from her book Over the Influence, an approach based on the belief that people have a complex relationship with drugs and alcohol and that addiction needs to be addressed simultaneously with social, psychological and emotional issues. Resources: The Harm Reduction Therapy Center www.harmreductiontherapy.org; Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol by Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, and Adina Glickman; resources on addiction

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Explaining Unexplained Illnesses

Martin Pall, PhD discusses his upcoming book which offers a new model for how people with chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivities, gulf war syndrome and fibromyalgia become sick. Resources: Martin Pall, PhD Washington State University research page; Explaining Unexplained Illnesses: Disease Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Fibomyalgia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gulf War Syndrome, and Others by Martin Pall

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Public Health and Toxic Waste

David O. Carpenter MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, where he is also professor of environmental health and toxicology and former dean of the School of Public Health, discusses where and how people are exposed to environmental stressors and what role of public health institutions in protecting us. Resources: Institute for Health and the Environment www.albany.edu/ihe/; Resources on environmental health, resources on detoxification, resources on diabetes, resources on heart health, resources on chronic illness, and resources on EMF and radiation

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Detoxification

Health educator Layna Berman discusses the body's natural detoxification pathways and how to boost them using nutrients. Resources: Resources on detoxification and addiction and on environmental health

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Smoking: The Truth

Stan Glantz, MD professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and an anti-tobacco activist unpacks the science behind smoking's dangers and overweight's relative safety. Resources: UCSF Tobacco Control Program cc.ucsf.edu/research/tobacco.html; Tobacco Control Archives library.ucsf.edu/tobacco; Smoke Free Movies smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/; "Nicotine Addiction" Progressive Health Observer #4

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Healing the Whole Addict

Medical journalist Stephanie Marohn discusses where traditional addiction treatments fall short. Resources: The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn www.stephaniemarohn.com

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Toxic Cosmetics

Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Groups discusses how personal care products contribute to your toxic body burden. Resources: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics www.safecosmetics.org

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End Addictions With Nutrient Therapy

Physician and researcher Dr. Charles Gant, MD, PhD discusses nutrient-based treatment of addiction Resources: End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant

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End Your Addiction Now

Physician and researcher Dr. Charles Gant, MD, PhD discusses nutrient-based treatment of addiction Resources: End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant

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Far Infra Red Saunas for Detoxification and Health

Dr. Lawrence Wilson, MD, discusses the use and construction of far infra red saunas for detoxification and health promotion

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Detoxifying Metals

Dr. Eric Gordon, MD discusses recovery from mercury and other metal toxicity

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Addiction-Free Naturally

Herbalist Brigitte Mars discusses her book about the treatment of addiction using non-invasive, natural therapies Resources: Addiction-Free Naturally by Brigitte Mars

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Food Allergy, Addiction and Eating Disorders

Health Integrationist Layna Berman discusses causes, treatment and diagnosis

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Evironmental Illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

Health Integrationist Layna Berman

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Healing Addiction and Eating Disorders with The Diet Cure

Julia Ross MA, nutritional psychologist discusses her new book Resources: The Diet Cure by Julia Ross

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Eating Disorders Allergy/Addiction

Julia Ross MFCC, director Recovery Systems

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Food Allergies

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Environmental Illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

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Detoxification and Healing

Dr. Sydney Baker MD

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Health Strategies for the Highly Sensitive

Health Educator Layna Berman

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Surviving the Toxic Crisis

Health Educator Layna Berman

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Seven Weeks to Sobriety

Dr. Joan Mathews Larson discusses her book Resources: Seven Weeks to Sobriety by Joan Mathews Larson

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