Introduction
1. Elizabeth Frazão, “High Costs of Poor Eating Patterns in the United States,” chapter 1, Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib750/aib750a.pdf (accessed September 9, 2011).
Chapter 1
Our Toxic Earth
1. Maureen Hoch, “New Estimate Puts Gulf Oil Leak at 205 Million Gallons,” PBS NewsHour, August 2, 2010, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/08/new-estimate-puts-oil-leak-at-49-million-barrels.html (accessed July 23, 2011).
2. Bryan Walsh, “Assessing the Health Effects of the Oil Spill,” TIME, June 25, 2010, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1999479,00.html(accessed June 20, 2011).
3. Shari Roan, “Possible Health Effects of Nuclear Crisis,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/16/health/la-he-japan-quake-radiation-20110316 (accessed June 6, 2011).
4. VOA News, “Two Japanese Workers Exceed Radiation Exposure Limits,” June 3, 2011, http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Two-Japanese-Workers-Exceed-Radiation-Exposure-Limits-123102673.html (accessed June 7, 2011).
5. Majirox News, “Fukushima Evacuation Zone Areas Uninhabitable, PM to Apologize,” August 21, 2011, http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/08/21/fukushima-evacuation-zone-areas-uninhabitable-pm-to-apologize/ (accessed August 24, 2011).
6. Jacqueline Krohn, Natural Detoxification (Vancouver, BC: Hartley & Marks Publishers, Inc., 1996).
7. C. C. Patterson, “Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man,” Archives of Environmental Health 11 (1965): 344.
8. E. Cranton, By-Passing By-Pass (Troutdale, VA: Medex Publishers, 1996), 97.
9. Richard Knox, “How Will the Gulf Oil Spill Affect Human Health?” NPR, June 23, 2010, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128008826(accessed June 20, 2011).
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Bryan Walsh, “What Is the Health Impact of the Spill?”TIME, August 16, 2010, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2010953,00.html(accessed June 6, 2011).
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Bryan Walsh, “Assessing the Health Effects of the Oil Spill.”
18. Neil Katz, ÜRadiation Exposure: What’s the Danger for Japan and America?” CBSNews.com, March 15, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20043313-10391704.html (accessed June 20, 2011).
19. Ibid.
20. Mehul Srivastava and Simeon Bennett, “Radiation Contamination Risk Growing as Japan Nuclear Crisis Deepens: Q&A,” Bloomberg News, March 16, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-16/radiation-contamination-risk-growing-as-japan-nuclear-crisis-deepens-q-a.html (accessed June 20, 2011.
21. Ibid.
22. BBC News, “Japan ‘Unprepared’ for Fukushima Nuclear Disaster,” June 7, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13678627(accessed June 7, 2011).
23. Deborah Dupre, “Children Sickness Linked to Fukushima Radiation,” Examiner.com, June 19, 2011, http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/children-sickness-linked-to-fukushima-radiation (accessed June 20, 2011).
24. The Japan Times, “Radioactive Strontium Detected 62 Km From Fukushima No. 1 Plant,” June 10, 2011, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110610a2.html (accessed June 20, 2011).
25. Ibid.
26. Environmental Protection Agency, “2009 Toxics Release Inventory: National Analysis Overview,” http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri09/nationalanalysis/overview/2009TRINAOverviewfinal.pdf (accessed July 23, 2011).
27. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege, “How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins,” Mercola.com, February 19, 2005, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/02/19/common-toxins.aspx (accessed May 16, 2011).
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
31. Joanna Zelman, “Power Plant Air Pollution Kills 13,000 People Per Year, Coal-Fired Are Most Hazardous: ALA Report,” Huffington Post, March 15, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/power-plant-air-pollution-coal-kills_n_833385.html (accessed June 6, 2011).
32. ScienceDaily.com, “Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Tied to Lower IQ in Children, Study Finds,” April 22, 2011, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110421082519.htm (accessed May 16, 2011).
33. Alice Park, “Study: A Link Between Pesticides and ADHD,”TIME.com, May 17, 2010, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1989564,00.html(accessed May 16, 2011).
34. 22nd Annual Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health.
35. Rebecca Sutton, “CDC: Americans Carry Body Burden of Toxic Sunscreen Chemical,” Environmental Working Group, March 25, 2008, http://www.ewg.org/analysis/toxicsunscreen (accessed June 14, 2011).
36. Karl Tupper, “At Long Last: EPA Releases Pesticide Use Statistics,” Pesticide Action Network, Ground Truth blog, February 22, 2011, http://www.panna.org/blog/long-last-epa-releases-pesticide-use-statistics (accessed June 10, 2011).
37. Environmental Protection Agency, “Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage Report,” 2006 and 2007 Usage, page 11.
38. G. T. Sterling et al, “Health effects of phenoxy herbicides,” Scandinavian Journal of Work Environmental Health 12 (1986): 161–173.
39. Panna.org, “POPs Residues in U.S. Diets,” December 4, 2000, http://www.panna.org/legacy/panups/panup_20001204.dv.html (accessed October 20, 2011).
40. Ibid.
41. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962).
42. Krohn, Natural Detoxification.
43. John Lee et al., What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause (New York: Waner Books, 1999).
44. Made available by the Environmental Working Group at http://www.foodnews.org.
45. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, “Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat,” April 2006, http://www.iatp.org/files/421_2_80529.pdf.
46. J. B. Weston and E. Richter, The Israeli Breast Cancer Anomaly (New York: Academy of Sciences, 1990), 269–279.
47. J. Beasley et al., “The Kellogg Report: The Impact of Nutrition, Environment and Lifestyle on the Health of Americans,” New York Institute of Health Policy and Practice, The Baird College Center, 1989.
48. Joseph Mercola and Rachael Droege, “How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins.”
49. Theo Colborn, Our Stolen Future (New York: Penguin Group, 1997), 150– 152.
50. Ibid.
51. Joseph Mercola and Dietrich Klinghardt, “Mercury Toxicity and Systemic Elimination Agents,” Mercola.com, http://www.mercola.com/article/mercury/mercury_elimination.htm (accessed June 1, 2011).
52. Ibid.
53. Environmental Protection Agency, “What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish,” http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm (accessed July 25, 2011).
54. Joseph Mercola and Rachael Droege, “How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins.”
Chapter 3
Overnourished While Starving?
1. Frazão, “High Costs of Poor Eating Patterns in the United States.”
2. Don Colbert, What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You (Lake Mary, FL: Siloam Press, 2000), 108.
3. Joseph Mercola, “12 Food Additives to Avoid,” Mercola.com, June 24, 2008, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/24/12-food-additives-to-avoid.aspx (accessed June 8, 2011).
4. C. H. Barrows, “Nutritional Aging: The Time Has Come to Move From Laboratory Research to Clinical Studied,” Geriatrics 32 (1977): 39.
5. Paul Bragg, The Miracle of Fasting (Santa Barbara, CA: Health Science, 1983).
6. C. Ruckner et al., The Seventh-Day Adventist Diet (New York: Random House, 1991).
7. B. Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management (Escondido, CA: Bernard Jensen Enterprises, 1981).
8. Ibid.
9. Joseph Mercola, “Nine Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Food,” Mercola.com, September 1, 2009, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/01/9-hidden-toxins-lurking-in-your-food.aspx (accessed June 7, 2011).
10. Ibid.
Chapter 5
The Joy of Juice
1. J. Selhub et al., American Medical Association 270 (1993): 2693–2726.
2. R. G. Ziegler, “A Review of Epidemiologic Evidence That Carotenoids Reduce the Risk of Cancer,” Journal of Nutrition 119 (1989): 116–122.
3. E. Giovannucci et al., “Tomatoes, Lycopene and Prostate Cancer,” Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 218 (1998): 129–139.
4. G. S. Omenn et al., “Risk Factors for Lung Cancer and for Intervention Effects in CARET, the Beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 88, no. 21 (November 6, 1996): 1550–1559.
5. K. A. Steinmetz et al. “Vegetables, Fruit and Cancer. II. Mechanisms,” Cancer Causes & Control 2 (1991): 427–442.
6. American Cancer Society, Nutrition and Prevention (New York: American Cancer Society, 1984).
7. D. Ahn et al., “The Effects of Dietary Ellagic Acid on Rat Hepatic and Esophageal Mucosal Cytochrome P450 and Phase II Enzymes,” Carcinogenesis 17 (1996): 821–828.
8. S. A. Glynn et al., “Folate and Cancer: A Review of the Literature,” New England Journal of Medicine (1998): 1176–1178.
Chapter 6
Dr. C’s Detox Fast
1. Elson Haas, Staying Healthy With Nutrition (Berleley, CA: Celestial Arts Pub., 1992).
Chapter 7
Your Champion Prizefighter
1. L. J. Chun, M. J. Tong, R. W. Busuttil, and J. R. Hiatt, “Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity and Acute Liver Failure,” Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 43, no. 4 (April 2009): 342–349.
Chapter 8
A Nutritional Program for a Healthy Liver
1. Mark Hyman, “Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants,” Huffington Post, April 10, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/glutathione-the-mother-of_b_530494.html (accessed May 31, 2011).
2. Ibid.
3. Thomas E. Levy, GSH: Master Defender Against Disease, Toxins, and Aging (Henderson, NV: LivOn Books, 2008), 10–11.
4. Frank D. Gilliland et al., “Glutathione S-Transferases M1 and P1 Prevent Aggravation of Allergic Responses by Secondhand Smoke,” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 174 (2006): 1335–1341; I. Rahman and W. MacNee, “Oxidative Stress and Regulation of Glutathione in Lung Inflammation,” European Respiratory Journal (September 2000): 534–554; C. Duong et al., “Glutathione Peroxidase-1 Protects Against Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation in Mice,” American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology (September 2010): L425–433.
5. E. Lubos, J. Loscalzo, and D. E. Handy, “Glutathione Peroxidase-1 in Health and Disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities,” Antioxidants and Redox Signaling (April 10, 2011).
6. Life Extension, “Heavy Metal Toxicity,” http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-156d.shtml (accessed May 31, 2011).
7. J. E. Biaglow et al., “Factors Involved in Depletion of Glutathione From A549 Human Lung Carcinoma Cells: Implications for Radiotherapy,” International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics (August 1984): 1221–1227.
Chapter 9
“Eliminate the Negative”
1. Don Colbert, The Bible Cure for Heartburn and Indigestion (Lake Mary: FL Siloam, 1999), 3.
2. D. Burkett and H. Trowell, Western Diseases and Their Emergence and Prevention (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981).
3. Ibid.
4. Colbert, The Bible Cure for Heartburn and Indigestion, 4.
5. K. J. Pienta et al., “Inhibition of Spontaneous Metastasis in Rat Prostate Cancer Model by Oral Administration of Modified Citrus Pectin,” Journal of the Nutritional Cancer Institute 87 (1995): 348–353.
Chapter 10
Finding Healing Through Fasting
1. George H. Malkmus, Why Christians Get Sick (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, 1995), 19, 103.
2. Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet and Healing System (Beaumont, CA: Ehret Literature, 1972).
3. Dean Ornish et al., “Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Coronary Heart Disease?” Lancet 336 (1990): 129–133.
4. Bragg, The Miracle of Fasting.
5. H. L. Steward, Sugar Busters (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998)
Chapter 11
Spiritual Fasting—What It’s All About
1. J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers, edited and completed by J. R. Harner (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books Press, 1956).
Appendix A
Other Solutions for Toxic Relief
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “What to Expect From the Oil Spill and How to Protect Your Health,” http://www.bt.cdc.gov/gulfoilspill2010/what_to_expect.asp (accessed June 1, 2011).
2. Environmental Protection Agency, “Radiation Protection Basics,” http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/protection_basics.html(accessed June 1, 2011).