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HOMEWORK ATSDR CSEM
Taking an Environmental Health History
atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=17&po=o (or pdf on moodle
complete post-test questions 1-8 by next class

class on week 11 is when we get the take-home final
due friday week 12
homeworks will be reviewed over Thanksgiving
and notice given to students who haven't complete them
no homeworks will be graded late

ACAM & AAEM conference in PDX this week
Marianne Marchese is speaking, 2002 NCNM grad
her book: 8 Wks to Wmns Wellness
( notes (melanoma notes integrated from this date back, radiation notes integrated from this entry to radiation protocol) )

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html

This is the latest Ted Talk to cross my viewscreen. It's Richard Wilkinson, speaking about the differences between societies with wide vs narrow differences between the highest and lowest income groups. The finding is intuitive, but the specific data that he pulls together, and the way he makes sense of it, is very interesting. At the end of brings it all together with some science about stress. According to him, the stressors that cause the greatest increase in cortisol are "social evaluative threats" to one's esteem or status. In other words, "people are sensitive to being looked down on". In societies where there is greater equality, there is less stress, hence explaining the increased longevity, health and peace that is seen in those societies. Of course, the US rates only second to Singapore in his scaling of wealth disparity, with Japan and Sweden at the other end of the scale. Anyway, it's worth seeing for yourself, if you have the 15 minutes.

If medicine takes aim at death prevention, rather than at health and relief of suffering, if it regards every death as premature, as a failure of today's medicine - but avoidable by tomorrow's - then it is tacitly asserting that its true goal is bodily immortality... Physicians should try to keep their eyes on the main business, restoring and correcting what can be corrected and restored, always acknowledging that death will and must come, that health is a mortal good, and that as embodied beings we are fragile beings that must stop sooner or later, medicine or no medicine.
--Kass, L.R. in JAMA 1980.244:1947

A treatment plan that seeks to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong and enhance the quality of life; or therapy that is performed to maintain or prevent deterioration of a chronic condition is deemed not medically necessary.
--Medicare Guidelines, Section 2251.3

He who has health,
has hope;
he who has hope,
has everything.
--Thomas Carlysle

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself...
--Rachel Carson, 1963

( notes from article by by: Jacob Schor ND, FABNO )

What the Dalai Lama said when asked what surprises him most:

Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

( stuff )

Ever since a few brave scientists started speaking out about their findings---that mammograms weren't actually savings lives, that they aren't the best way to screen for breast pathology---the numbers of women who are going in for regular breast squishing and irradiation has been on the decrease. And the folks who were in that biz are not happy about it. Their pockets aren't so full anymore.

I don't believe the powers when they tell me to panic. And I definitely don't believe them when they tell me NOT to panic. I think back to 9/11, when all those people in burning skyscrapers, just hit by airplanes, were told to remain calm and stay at their desks. The ones who decided for themselves that the situation was fubar and ran down the stairs were the ones who survived.

For this Japanese quake and tsunami the media machine has been spewing something constantly. Panic. Don't panic. Nothing to worry about. All under control. Oooops, out of control. Whoopsie.

It's up to us to decide what to do for ourselves.

Japan reportedly to rate nuclear crisis at highest level
By Chico Harlan, Monday, April 11, 9:30 PM

TOKYO — Japanese authorities planned Tuesday to raise their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the Kyodo news agency.

A level 7 accident, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, is typified by a “major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-to-raise-rating-of-nuclear-crisis-to-highest-level/2011/04/11/AFxrFEND_story.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

Current Mood: accomplished

There's an effort afoot to get some research done on LGBT population health and sort out who's getting what and why and how prevention and treatment efforts might be improved.
IOM Report on LGBT Health at
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/The-Health-of-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-and-Transgender-People.aspx?utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=Institute%20of%20Medicine&utm_campaign=03.31.11+Report+-+LGBT+Health&utm_content=LGBT%20Health%20Issues&utm_term=Non-profit

This graphic is so cool that they're selling pdf's of it for two buck fifty. Gives better information on relative exposures and health effects of acute radiation exposure than anything else I've seen.

( thanks to Terry Hammel on the local Ron Paul meetup )

I've been looking around and this continues to look good to me:
http://web.mac.com/chameleon21/iWeb/Multipure/Multipure.html
What say you?

http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

Interactive map where you can see health indices, income, education, political and religion stats for all the states. Very interesting, and very useful for my current project of sorting out where I want to set up.

I didn't know what this dance was until just now. Very cool!!

The *mummys didn't have cancer* argument is only part of it. Scroll down to the comments to see his breakdown of how we give ourselves cancer.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/03/cancer-not-found-in-ancient-mummies-appears-to-be-recent-disease.aspx

Ask your physician how to feel good, and he’ll look you squarely in the eye and say, ‘Eat right and exercise.’ Yet for every dollar spent in fitness centers, Americans spend nineteen dollars on cocaine.

The reason? Two seconds after you snort cocaine you feel like Superman. Two weeks of diet and exercise just makes you hungry and sore.

~ Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads

Which diet is the healthiest, according to the science, as reported by Dr Schor?
( the Mediterranean diet )

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Entries tagged with health

Environmental Medicine (week 9): RADIATION

Social Inequality: What a Miserable Lot We Are

QotD: the Goal of Medicine

QotD: Medicare Madness:: Prevention Not Medically Necessary???

QotD: Hope

QotD: Nature

Tart Cherries make my top 10 Healthy Foods List

QotD: What Surprises the Dalai Lama

Following the status of Naturopathy in Tennessee

Mammograms OUT, Breast Cancer Screening Industry Upset

Radiation: Nothing to Worry About

Understanding LGBT Health

Radiation Exposure Comparison Graphic

Radiation Links

A good water filter

Mapping the Measure of America

The Lindy Hop Hop HOP

Mercola's argument that cancer is "man-made"

QotD: Cocaine beats Healthy Living 19 to 1

The Healthiest Diet