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My daughter's wedding is next month and I just tried on the dress I've gotten for it. It fit when I got it but now it's too tight. I've got 49 days until the wedding and figure I need to loose 15 to 20 pounds. What's the best way for me to do that? Would a "cleanse" be a good way to get a quick start?
Your best chance is whole foods. Absolutely no processed oils. Absolutely no added sugar. No alcohol. Fresh veggies, brown rice, beans, maybe one or two pieces of fresh fruit a day. Get some exercise in. You've got to lose almost 3 pounds a week. That's do-able, but you'll have to be strict. Don't starve yourself - EAT. Just eat good, nutritious, whole foods with no added junk, no empty calories. Let us know how it goes.
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Losing that much weight that quickly will probably amount to non-permanent weight loss to some degree. Watch out for the inevitable weight gain once you go back to eating a sustainable diet. But eventually, a Kickstart diet will get you to the weight you want to be.
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Susan is absolutely right. Most of us have been there and done that. Lose 5, gain 6, on and on and on. You REALLY have to look at this from a standpoint of being healthy. Let weight loss be a bonus. 1.5 - 2 pounds a week is a much more realistic goal, and still pretty fast to lose weight. In the long run you may be better off getting a new dress.
I'm not expecting long-term weight loss; what I'm after right now is an emergency quick-fix weight loss. Just enough to get me through the wedding. AFTER the wedding when my daughter's moved out of my house I'll be able to follow a vegan diet easier. For example, for dinner today I fixed ratatouille. Her son (my grandson) and I enjoyed it thoroughly. (He's been asking for ratatouille since he saw the movie the other day. I doubt he knew what he was asking for, but he cleaned his plate and asked for seconds!) My daughter went to Taco Bell to get something for lunch. (I use the Skillet Ratatouille recipe in the Health Promoting Cookbook I got from PCRM.)
Eat a lot of veggies/fruit exercise 1-3hrs a day/4 to 5 days a wk. no bread, pasta, sugary breakfast,alcohol, or juices(unless you juice your own) and drink a cup of green tea with each meal.this is not the healthiest way to loose weight but it works in cases of emergency like yours,good luck.
Wow! While I understand your situation, I'm disappointed that there is a thread discussing unhealthy ways to lose weight fast.
Wit h all due respect, it sounds like pretty healthy ways to lose weight to me! In a perfect world, we would all eat perfect low fat, whole food, vegan meals allowing us to end up at our perfect weight at some point and remain there effortlessly. unfortunately that is not the world I live in most of the time. Knowing that I can get back on tract and drop a few pounds by focusing on more salads, greens and other veggies, fruits, "whole" carbs like oats and brown rice, green tea and lots of water while cutting back on breads, pasta, other flour products, starchy vegs, vegan treats and desserts, and alcohol, and upping the exercise a little provides me with a sense of security that this is a doable, sensible, way of eating. I wish I never over-ate, or made bad choices, but sometimes I do, tho less and less. Knowing how to handle it makes all the difference!
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Creating a calorie deficit and exercising 3 times more than usual will get you there if that is your goal and you don't care about long term goals. And yes, choosing whole plant foods low in calorie density is the best choice.
Since it's a only month away, why not just quit eating. Many cultures fast for religious reasons. You can even have it supervised by plant-based doctors; True North HealthClinic. You probably won't have any energy by the wedding date, but you'll sure look good.
Thank you for all the helpful advice. I appreciate your understanding and apologize to whomever I've offended for my not being perfect in following a vegan diet.
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The Bureau of Land Management estimates that 49,209 wild horses and burros (about 40,815 horses and 8,394 burros) are roaming on BLM-managed rangelands in 10 Western states, based on the latest data available, compiled as of March 1, 2014. (This compares to the 2013 estimate of 40,605 animals.) Wild horses and burros have virtually no natural predators and their herd sizes can double about every four years. As a result, the agency must remove thousands of animals from the range each year to control herd sizes.
The estimated current free-roaming population exceeds by more than 22,500 the number that the BLM has determined can exist in balance with other public rangeland resources and uses. The maximum appropriate management level (AML) is approximately 26,684.
Off the range, as of April 2015, there were 47,393 other wild horses and burros fed and cared for at short-term corrals and long-term pastures. (Specifically, there were 15,848 horses and 822 burros in short-term holding [for a total of 16,670 animals] and 30,723 horses in long-term pastures. The combined figure of 47,393 animals in holding compares to the BLM's total holding capacity of 50,929.) All wild horses and burros in holding, like those roaming Western public rangelands, are protected by the BLM under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, as amended.
Wild Horse and Burro Acreage
In 1971, when Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, these animals were found roaming across 53.8 million acres known as Herd Areas, of which 42.4 million acres were under the BLM's jurisdiction. Today the BLM manages wild horses and burros in 179 subsets of these Herd Areas (known as Herd Management Areas) that comprise 31.6 million acres, of which 26.9 million acres are under BLM management. For the answer to the question "What happened to the 'missing' 22.2 million acres on which wild horses and burros were found roaming?," see below. Also, it should be noted that under the 1971 Act, horses and burros may not be re-located to other public lands where they were not found roaming when the law was passed.
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Congress appropriated $77.245 million to the Wild Horse and Burro Program in Fiscal Year 2014, which ended September 30, 2014. Of that year's program expenditures ($67.9 million), holding costs accounted for $43.235 million (64 percent); gathers and removals, $1.2 million (1.8 percent); and adoption events, $4.6 million (6.8 percent). Other activities, such as monitoring Herd Management Areas, made up the balance. (The $9.3 million difference between appropriations and expenditures is a result of the use of prior-year, contracted-related funding.)
Removing Wild Horses and Burros from the Range and Placing Animals in Adoption
To help ensure that herd sizes are in balance with other public rangeland resources and uses, the BLM removed 1,863 (1,695 horses and 168 burros) from the range in Fiscal Year 2014, which ended September 30, 2014. (This figure compares to 4,176 animals removed from the range in FY 2013 and to 8,255 removed in FY 2012.) The Bureau placed 2,173 removed animals into private care through adoption in FY 2014, as compared to 2,311 placed in FY 2013. In contrast, 5,701 animals were adopted out a decade ago (FY 2005). Since 1971, when Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, the BLM has adopted out more than 235,000 horses and burros. For more information about adoptions, please visit How to Adopt and the national adoption schedule.
Population Growth-Suppression Treatments
In Fiscal Year 2014, the BLM applied 384 fertility-control treatments to mares, 65 with PZP-22 and 319 with PZP (porcine zona pellucida, now known as ZonaStat H).
In FY 2013, the BLM applied 509 fertility-control treatments to mares, 310 with PZP-22 and 199 with PZP.
In FY 2012, the BLM applied 1,051 PZP fertility-control treatments to mares and released 180 more stallions than mares back into herds during gather operations, for a grand total of 1,195 population growth-suppression treatments in FY 2012.
With regard to a call by advocacy groups for a moratorium on all BLM gathers of herds, this is untenable given the fact that herds grow at an average rate of 20 percent a year and can double in size every four years.*
* Eberhardt, L. L., Majorowicz, A. K. & Wilcox, J. A. (1982). Apparent Rates of Increase for Two Feral Horse Herds. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 46(2), 367-374.
Garrott, Robert A., Siniff, Donald B. & Eberhardt, L. Lee. (1991). Growth Rates of Feral Horse Populations. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 55(4), 641-648.
Garrott, Robert A. & Taylor, Lynne. (1990). Dynamics of a Feral Horse Population in Montana. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 54(4), 603-612.
The ecosystems of public rangelands are not able to withstand the impacts from overpopulated herds, which include soil erosion, sedimentation of streams, and damage to wildlife habitat. As for the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, as amended, Section 1333 of that law mandates that once the Interior Secretary "determines...on the basis of all information currently available to him, that an overpopulation exists on a given area of the public lands and that action is necessary to remove excess animals, he shall immediately remove excess animals from the range so as to achieve appropriate management levels."
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The BLM manages the nation's public lands for multiple uses, in accordance with the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The Bureau manages wild horses and burros as part of this multiple-use mandate.
The BLM manages, protects, and controls wild horses and burros under the authority of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (as amended by Congress in 1976, 1978, 1996, and 2004). This law authorizes the BLM to remove excess wild horses and burros from the range to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands.
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"What Happened to the 22.2 Million Acres?"
Frequently Asked Question: In 1971, wild horses and burros were found roaming across 53.8 million acres of Herd Areas, of which 42.4 million acres were under the BLM's jurisdiction. Today the BLM manages wild horses and burros in 179 subsets of these Herd Areas (known as Herd Management Areas) that comprise 31.6 million acres, of which 26.9 million acres are under BLM management. What happened to the 22.2 million acres on which these animals were originally found roaming?
Answer: No specific amount of acreage was "set aside" for the exclusive use of wild horses and burros under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. The Act directed the BLM to determine the areas where horses and burros were found roaming and to manage them "in a manner that is designed to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance on the public lands." The law also stipulated in Section 1339 that "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the [Interior] Secretary to relocate wild free-roaming horses or burros to areas of the public lands where they do not presently exist." Of the 22.2 million acres no longer managed for wild horse and burro use:
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This tree and its unlocated companion panel, part of the decorative mosaics from an ancient synagogue, probably represented the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life, from the Garden of Eden and described in the biblical Book of Genesis. For the Jewish congregation of Hammam Lif it also evoked the city of Jerusalem, a place often represented in art by the date palm, perhaps because dates were a major export crop of the region.
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Alternative medicine practices are as diverse in their foundations as in their methodologies. Practices may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing. Jurisdictions where alternative medical practices are sufficiently widespread may license and regulate them. The claims made by alternative medicine practitioners are generally not accepted by the medical community because evidence-based assessment is not available for the safety and efficacy of many of these practices. If scientific investigation establishes the safety and effectiveness of an alternative medical practice, it may be adopted by conventional practitioners. Because alternative techniques tend to lack evidence, some have advocated defining it as non-evidence based medicine, or not medicine at all. Some researchers have noted that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.
A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31% of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine. Alternative medicine varies from country to country; Dr. Edzard Ernst believes that in Austria and Germany CAM is mainly in the hands of physicians, although some estimates suggest that half of CAM is administered by physicians in the US. In Germany, herbs are tightly regulated, with half prescribed by doctors and covered by health insurance based on their Commission E legislation.
David M. Eisenberg defines it as "medical interventions not taught widely at US medical schools or generally available at US. hospitals," while Richard Dawkins sardonically defines it as a "set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests."
The term "alternative medicine" is generally used to describe practices used independently or in place of conventional medicine. The term "complementary medicine" is primarily used to describe practices used in conjunction with or to complement conventional medical treatments. NCCAM suggests "using aromatherapy therapy in which the scent of essential oils from flowers, herbs, and trees is inhaled in an attempt to promote health and well-being and to help lessen a patient's discomfort following surgery" as an example of complementary medicine. The terms "integrative" or "integrated medicine" indicate combinations of conventional and alternative medical treatments which have some scientific proof of efficacy; such practices are viewed by advocates as the best examples of complementary medicine. Ralph Snyderman and Andrew Weil go so far as to claim that "integrative medicine is not synonymous with complementary and alternative medicine. It has a far larger meaning and mission in that it calls for restoration of the focus of medicine on health and healing and emphasizes the centrality of the patient-physician relationship." The combination of orthodox and complementary medicine with an emphasis on prevention and lifestyle changes is known as Integrated health.
Well-known proponents of evidence-based medicine, such as the Cochrane Collaboration and Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, use the term alternative medicine but agree that all treatments, whether "mainstream" or "alternative", ought to be held to standards of the scientific method. Their view is that evidence-based medicine is an ideal state which has not yet been achieved by either current mainstream or alternative medicine. Ernst characterizes the evidence for many alternative techniques as weak, nonexistent, or negative, but notes that compelling evidence exists for others, particularly certain herbs and acupuncture – although this evidence does not mean these treatments are mainstream, especially not worldwide. What is alternative varies by discipline as well and country. For example, biofeedback is commonly used within the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation community, but is considered alternative within the medical community as a whole, and some herbal therapies are mainstream in Europe, but are alternative in the United States.
Criticisms of CAM by mainstream physicians have been numerous. Barrie R. Cassileth has succinctly summed up the situation:
According to the NCCAM, formerly unproven remedies may be incorporated into conventional medicine if they are shown to be safe and effective. Several scientists share this point of view and state that "[o]nce a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted." According to them it is possible for a method to change categories (proven vs. unproven) in either direction, based on increased knowledge of its effectiveness or lack thereof. Prominent proponents of this position are George D. Lundberg, former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and Phil B. Fontanarosa, Senior Editor of JAMA," Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and Stephen Barrett, founder and operator of Quackwatch, who argues that techniques currently labeled "alternative" should be reclassified as "genuine, experimental, or questionable. Genuine alternatives are comparable methods that have met science-based criteria for safety and effectiveness. Experimental alternatives are unproven but have a plausible rationale and are undergoing responsible investigation. ... Questionable alternatives are groundless and lack a scientifically plausible rationale. ... Blurring these distinctions enables promoters of quackery to argue that because some practices labeled "alternative" have merit, the rest deserve equal consideration and respect. Enough is known, however, to conclude that most questionable "alternatives" are worthless. Oxford University Press publishes a peer-reviewed journal entitled Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM).
M.R. Tonelli argues that CAM cannot be evidence-based unless the definition of evidence is changed. He states that "the methods of developing knowledge within CAM currently have limitations and are subject to bias and varied interpretation. CAM must develop and defend a rational and coherent method for assessing causality and efficacy, though not necessarily one based on the results of controlled clinical trials." Further, A review of Michael L. Millenson's book Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age described it as "a wake up call to both medicine and nursing" due to what Millenson calls a "lack of scientific-based medical practice". According to the review, the book states that "85% of current practice has not been scientifically validated" and that it suggests that users of the research presented by Medline should question research articles rather than assuming they are accurate simply because of where they are published. The review states that Millenson's thesis and conclusion call for all health researchers and policy makers do a better job in assuring valid methodology and avoidance of bias in published research. Michael Dixon, the Director of the NHS Alliance stated that "People argue against complementary therapies on the basis of a lack of evidence. But I'd say only 10 per cent of what doctors do in primary care is evidence-based. Angell and Kassirer acknowledge that "many treatments used in conventional medicine have not been rigorously tested, either" but note that the scientific community is generally aware that this is a failing that needs to be remedied."
Many CAM methods are criticized by the activist non-profit organization Quackwatch.
NCCAM classifies complementary and alternative therapies into five major groups. The classification are rather loose, and there can be some overlap.
Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia that "about half the general population in developed countries use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)."Survey results released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the United States National Institutes of Health, found that in 2002 62.1% of adults in the country had used some form of CAM in the past 12 months and 75% across lifespan (though these figure drop to 36.0% and 50% if prayer specifically for health reasons is excluded); this study included yoga, meditation, herbal treatments and the Atkins diet as CAM. Another study suggests a similar figure of 40%. A British telephone survey by the BBC of 1209 adults in 1998 shows that around 20% of adults in Britain had used alternative medicine in the past 12 months. Ernst has been active politically on this issue as well, publicly requesting that Prince Charles recall two guides to alternative medicine published by the Foundation for Integrated Health, on the grounds that "[t]hey both contain numerous misleading and inaccurate claims concerning the supposed benefits of alternative medicine" and that "[t]he nation cannot be served by promoting ineffective and sometimes dangerous alternative treatments." In general, he believes that CAM can and should be subjected to scientific testing.
The use of alternative medicine in developed countries appears to be increasing. A 1998 study showed that the use of alternative medicine had risen from 33.8% in 1990 to 42.1% in 1997. In the United Kingdom, a 2000 report ordered by the House of Lords suggested that "...limited data seem to support the idea that CAM use in the United Kingdom is high and is increasing." In developing nations, access to essential medicines is severely restricted by lack of resources and poverty. Traditional remedies, often closely resembling or forming the basis for alternative remedies, may comprise primary health care or be integrated into the health care system. In Africa, traditional medicine is used for 80% of primary health care, and in developing nations as a whole over one third of the population lack access to essential medicines.
Advocates of alternative medicine hold that the various alternative treatment methods are effective in treating a wide range of major and minor medical conditions, and contend that recently published research (such as Michalsen, 2003, Gonsalkorale 2003, and Berga 2003) proves the effectiveness of specific alternative treatments. They assert that a PubMed search revealed over 370,000 research papers classified as alternative medicine published in Medline-recognized journals since 1966 in the National Library of Medicine database. See also Kleijnen 1991, and Linde 1997.
Complementary therapies are often used in palliative care or by practitioners attempting to manage chronic pain in patients. Complementary medicine is considered more acceptable in the interdisciplinary approach used in palliative care than in other areas of medicine. "From its early experiences of care for the dying, palliative care took for granted the necessity of placing patient values and lifestyle habits at the core of any design and delivery of quality care at the end of life. If the patient desired complementary therapies, and as long as such treatments provided additional support and did not endanger the patient, they were considered acceptable. The non-pharmacologic interventions of complementary medicine can employ mind-body interventions designed to "reduce pain and concomitant mood disturbance and increase quality of life. Physicians who practice complementary medicine usually discuss and advise patients as to available complementary therapies. Patients often express interest in mind-body complementary therapies because they offer a non-drug approach to treating some health conditions. Some mind-body techniques, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, were once considered complementary medicine, but are now a part of conventional medicine in the United States. "Complementary medicine treatments used for pain include: acupuncture, low-level laser therapy, meditation, aroma therapy, Chinese medicine, dance therapy, music therapy, massage, herbalism, therapeutic touch, yoga, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and homeopathy.
The use of alternative medicine appears to be increasing, as a 1998 study showed that the use of alternative medicine had risen from 33.8% in 1990 to 42.1% in 1997. In the United Kingdom, a 2000 report ordered by the House of Lords suggested that "...limited data seem to support the idea that CAM use in the United Kingdom is high and is increasing."
In defining complementary medicine in the UK, the House of Lords Select Committee determined that the following therapies were the most often used to complement conventional medicine: Alexander technique, Aromatherapy, Bach and other flower remedies, Body work therapies including massage, Counselling stress therapies, hypnotherapy, Meditation, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Maharishi Ayurvedic medicine, Nutritional medicine, and Yoga.
A 2002 survey of US adults 18 years and older conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (CDC) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine indicated:
In the state of Texas, physicians may be partially protected from charges of unprofessional conduct or failure to practice medicine in an acceptable manner, and thus from disciplinary action, when they prescribe alternative medicine in a complementary manner, if board specific practice requirements are satisfied and the therapies utilized do not present "a safety risk for the patient that is unreasonably greater that the conventional treatment for the patient's medical condition.
Similarly "unconventional medicine courses are widely represented at European universities. They cover a wide range of therapies. Many of them are used clinically. Research work is underway at several faculties, but "only 40% of the responding [European] universities were offering some form of CAM training.
In Britain, no conventional medical schools offer courses that teach the clinical practice of alternative medicine. However, alternative medicine is taught in several unconventional schools as part of their curriculum. Teaching is based mostly on theory and understanding of alternative medicine, with emphasis on being able to communicate with alternative medicine specialists. To obtain competence in practicing clinical alternative medicine, qualifications must be obtained from individual medical societies. The student must have graduated and be a qualified doctor. The British Medical Acupuncture Society, which offers medical acupuncture certificates to doctors, is one such example, as is the College of Naturopathic Medicine UK and Ireland.
Due to the uncertain nature of various alternative therapies and the wide variety of claims different practitioners make, alternative medicine has been a source of vigorous debate, even over the definition of alternative medicine. Dietary supplements, their ingredients, safety, and claims, are a continual source of controversy. In some cases, political issues, mainstream medicine and alternative medicine all collide, such as the case where synthetic drugs are legal but the herbal sources of the same active chemical are banned. In other cases, controversy over mainstream medicine causes questions about the nature of a treatment, such as water fluoridation. Alternative medicine and mainstream medicine debates can also spill over into freedom of religion discussions, such as the right to decline lifesaving treatment for one's children because of religious beliefs. Government regulators continue to attempt to find a regulatory balance.
Jurisdiction differs concerning which branches of alternative medicine are legal, which are regulated, and which (if any) are provided by a government-controlled health service or reimbursed by a private health medical insurance company. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - article 34 (Specific legal obligations) of the General Comment No. 14 (2000) on The right to the highest attainable standard of health - states that
Specific implementations of this article are, of course, left to member states.
A number of alternative medicine advocates disagree with the restrictions of government agencies that approve medical treatments. In the USA, for example, critics claim that the Food and Drug Administration's criteria for experimental evaluation methods impedes those seeking to bring useful and effective treatments and approaches to the public, and protest that their contributions and discoveries are unfairly dismissed, overlooked or suppressed. Alternative medicine providers recognize that health fraud occurs, and argue that it should be dealt with appropriately when it does, but that these restrictions should not extend to what they view as legitimate health care products.
In New Zealand alternative medicine products are classified as food products, so there are no regulations or safety standards in place.
The production of modern pharmaceuticals is strictly regulated to ensure that medicines contain a standardized quantity of active ingredients and are free from contamination. Alternative medicine products are not subject to the same governmental quality control standards, and consistency between doses can vary. This leads to uncertainty in the chemical content and biological activity of individual doses. This lack of oversight means that alternative health products are vulnerable to adulteration and contamination. This problem is magnified by international commerce, since different countries have different types and degrees of regulation. This can make it difficult for consumers to properly evaluate the risks and qualities of given products.
As of 2005 the Cochrane Library had 145 CAM-related Cochrane systematic reviews and 340 non-Cochrane systematic reviews. An analysis of the conclusions of only the 145 Cochrane reviews was done by two readers. In 83% of the cases, the readers agreed. In the 17% in which they disagreed, a third reader agreed with one of the initial readers to set a rating. These studies found that for CAM, 38.4% concluded positive effect or possibly positive (12.4%) effect, 4.8% concluded no effect, 0.69% concluded harmful effect, and 56.6% concluded insufficient evidence. An assessment of conventional treatments found that 41.3% concluded positive or possibly positive effect, 20% concluded no effect, 8.1% concluded net harmful effects, and 21.3% concluded insufficient evidence. However, the CAM review used the 2004 Cochrane database while the conventional review used the 1998 Cochrane database.
Most alternative medical treatments are not patentable, which may lead to less research funded by the private sector; some have proposed adopting a prize system to reward medical research. However, public funding for research exists. Increasing the funding for research of alternative medicine techniques was the purpose of the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. NCCAM and its predecessor, the Office of Alternative Medicine, have spent more than $1 billion on such research since 1992. The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices Commission E has studied many herbal remedies for efficacy. The lack of legal pressure to prove efficacy may also reduce the amount of research.
Some skeptics of alternative practices point out that a person may attribute symptomatic relief to an otherwise ineffective therapy due to the placebo effect, the natural recovery from or the cyclical nature of an illness (the regression fallacy), or the possibility that the person never originally had a true illness. CAM proponents point out this may also apply in cases where conventional treatments have been used.
Forms of alternative medicine that are biologically active can be dangerous even when used in conjunction with conventional medicine. Examples include immuno-augmentation therapy, shark cartilage, bioresonance therapy, oxygen and ozone therapies, insulin potentiation therapy. Some herbal remedies can cause dangerous interactions with chemotherapy drugs, radiation therapy or anesthetics during surgery, among other problems. An anecdotal example of these dangers was reported by Associate Professor Alastair MacLennan of Adelaide University, Australia regarding a patient who almost bled to death on the operating table after neglecting to mention that she had been taking "natural" potions to "build up her strength" before the operation, including a powerful anticoagulant that nearly caused her death.
To ABC Online, MacLennan also gives another possible mechanism:
Conventional treatments are subjected to testing for undesired side-effects, whereas alternative treatments generally are not subjected to such testing at all. Any treatment — whether conventional or alternative — that has a biological or psychological effect on a patient may also have potentially dangerous biological or psychological side-effects. Attempts to refute this fact with regard to alternative treatments sometimes use the appeal to nature fallacy, i.e. "that which is natural cannot be harmful".
An exception to the normal thinking regarding side-effects is Homeopathy. Since 1938 the FDA has regulated homeopathic products in "several significantly different ways from other drugs." Homeopathic preparations, termed "remedies," are extremely dilute, often far beyond the point where a single molecule of the original active (and possibly toxic) ingredient is likely to remain. They are thus considered safe on that count, but "their products are exempt from good manufacturing practice requirements related to expiration dating and from finished product testing for identity and strength," and their alcohol concentration may be much higher than allowed in conventional drugs.
A study published in 1998 indicates that a majority of alternative medicine use was in conjunction with standard medical treatments. Approximately 4.4 percent of those studied used alternative medicine as a replacement for conventional medicine. The research found that those who used alternative medicine tended to have higher education or report poorer health status. Dissatisfaction with conventional medicine was not a meaningful factor in the choice, but rather the majority of alternative medicine users appear to be doing so largely because "they find these health care alternatives to be more congruent with their own values, beliefs, and philosophical orientations toward health and life." In particular, subjects reported a holistic orientation to health, a transformational experience that changed their worldview, identification with a number of groups committed to environmentalism, feminism, psychology, and/or spirituality and personal growth, or that they were suffering from a variety of common and minor ailments - notably anxiety, back problems, and chronic pain.
Authors have speculated on the socio-cultural and psychological reasons for the appeal of alternative medicines among that minority whose use them in lieu of conventional medicine. There are several socio-cultural reasons for the interest in these treatments centered around the low level of scientific literacy among the public at large and a concomitant increase in antiscientific attitudes and new age mysticism. Related to this are vigorous marketing of extravagant claims by the alternative medical community combined with inadequate media scrutiny and attacks on critics. There is also an increase in conspiracy theories towards conventional medicine and pharmaceutical companies, mistrust of traditional authority figures, such as the physician, and a dislike of the current delivery methods of scientific biomedicine, all of which have lead patients to seek out alternative medicine to treat a variety of ailments. Many patients lack access to contemporary medicine, due to a lack of private or public health insurance, which lead them to seek out lower-cost alternative medicine. Medical doctors are also aggressively marketing alternative medicine to profit from this market.
In addition to the social-cultural underpinnings of the popularity of alternative medicine, there are several psychological issues that are critical to its growth. One of the most critical is the placebo effect, which is a well-established observation in medicine. Related to it are similar psychological effects such as the will to believe, cognitive biases that help maintain self-esteem and promote harmonious social functioning, and the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. Patients can also be averse to the painful, unpleasant, and sometimes dangerous side effects of biomedical treatments. Treatments for severe diseases such as cancer and HIV infection have well-known, significant side effects. Even low-risk medications such as antibiotics can potentially cause life-threatening anaphylactic reactions in a very few individuals. More commonly, many medications may cause minor but bothersome symptoms such as cough or upset stomach. In all of these cases, patients may be seeking out alternative treatments to avoid the adverse effects of conventional treatments.


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After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by Bullock and CEO Mitt Romney, as well as how they created systems and culture to endow effective working knowledge to the 90% of their staff who started working two weeks before the games began.
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Love and Meth
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Mass Hysteria
Almost made the cut: Tell Me What You Want and Victimized
Songs I don't really care for as much as some people: Spike In My Veins
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Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
1.Lullaby for a Sadist
2.Mass Hysteria
3.Punishment Time
4. Love and Meth
5. Never Never
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Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
Love & Meth
Paranoid and Aroused
Lullaby for a Sadist
Mass Hysteria
Prey for me
RE: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
What We Do
What We Do
What We Do
What We Do
What We Do
Best song ever !!!
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I am disappointed in the bonus tracks. In all their albums their bonus tracks have been better than the songs on the actual album itself. This time around they are up there with the worse songs on the album in my opinion. To be fair, there really arent any BAD songs on this album, I absolutely love this album!!
My least favorite would have to be Never Never (its not that it is bad, but I can tell it is one of those songs that I will be skipping past pretty much every time I listen to the album. And because of this I will do what I always do after buying the album and determining which are my favorite songs and weeding out the songs I know I will skip over, I burn a CD with all my favorite songs.
With that said, my favorite tracks are as follows:
Prey For Me - This song goes down as ONE of my all time favorite KoRn songs. The atmosphere of this track and JD's lyrics and the way he sings it is nothing short of amazing and is a perfect opener to a great album, setting the pace and expectation for something great, and thankfully Paradigm Shift does not disappoint. I want to tell you all what I feel is classic JD on this track, fast forward Prey For Me to 2:15. The way he sings sends shivers down my spine. The way he sings it and the lyrics are what makes JD, JD. That very bit is the voice in my head. I FUCKING LOVE IT AND CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT. If I can just play 2:15 on over and over again forever that would be fine by me.
Next favorite would be Paranoid and Aroused followed by Mass Hysteria, then Lullaby for a Sadist, Love and Meth. That's 5.
If I was compiling a list of just 2 tracks from each album (which I do often, I love making KoRn CD's where I take a emotion and pull 2 or 3 tracks from each album and put together a CD for myself like a CD for RAGE, one for HURT AND PAIN, etc) I would choose Prey For Me and Paranoid and Aroused.
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
Prey For Me
Paranoid and Aroused
Mass Hysteria
Lullaby for a Sadist
Wish I Wasn't Born Today
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
Paranoid and Aroused
Lullaby For a Sadist
Prey For Me
Punishment Time
Tell Me What You Want
No particular order...
RE: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
Die Another Day (TPS: Deluxe Edition - Japanese Release) Hidden Track
Love & Meth
Spike In My Vains
Wish I Wasn't Born Today
Never Never
(Note: "Die Another Day" is a hidden bonus track & wasn't on TPS: Deluxe Edition - US Release Version)
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It's Great If Your Not A Celebrity? It's Just Creativity & Immortality.
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
1. Lullaby For A Sadist 2. Love & Meth 3. Punishment Time 4. Mass hysteria 5.Prey For Me
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
1. Mass Hysteria
2. Spike In My Veins
3. Lullaby for a Sadist
4. Prey For Me
5. Love and Meth
I know you guys work and pour your heart n soul into every album, I just want to thank you for walking back from the other side, because I didn't want to "See You On The Other Side" again.
Welcome back Korn. I haven't enjoyed an Album this much since I was 20 years old a decade ago. I'm suggesting all my friends go purchase so that you'll keep up this awesomeness. I feel young, goosebump ridden and so pumped that I feel I could move fast enough to watch a supernova in slow motion. Bravo sirs.
VERY IMPORTANT although it was not on my top five, it is VERY IMPORTANT to have a song like Never Ever. That's pure adrenaline slush. I liked it A LOT too. Its hard picking songs when you love the WHOLE album so much.
I may not understand why Head left, and it doesn't matter ultimately its none of my damn business. I know the reasons hes given to the public and those are good enough. All I want to say is WELCOME BACK MAN!!! Its hard to leave other bands in the dust when you're missing a leg.
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
1. Lullaby for a sadist
2. Victimized
3. Spike In My Veins
4. Prey for me
5. Mass Hysteria
Does it make me bad??
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
1.Prey for me
2.Lullaby for Sadist
4.Punishment Time
But i love the other songs to....it was really hard for me to decide to pick up 5 of them!
KoRn is Lifestyle!
RE: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
P.S. Let the other songs from this epic album to be on the first place too - 1.6., 1.7. etc.
P.P.S. Thank God Head is back! "Prey for You" Guys!
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
I'm a total fanboy for DIE ANOTHER DAY. Don't know why but that song just sings to me.
1. Die Another Day
2. It's All Wrong
3. Love And Meth
4. Spike In My Veins
5. Prey For Me
Re: Your top 5 Songs off The Paradigm Shift
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Naganathan has served UT for 28 years. He has led the College of Engineering as dean since May 2003 and had previously spent more than two years as the college's interim dean. A member of the UT faculty since 1986, he is a tenured professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering with expertise in the areas of smart material systems and structures, robotics, vibrations and control, and microcomputer applications in electromechanical systems.
Under his leadership, the College of Engineering has achieved record high student enrollments, registering an increase in the undergraduate enrollment every fall semester for the last eight academic years. Naganathan also has worked to elevate the college's mandatory co-operative experience program – one of only eight in the nation – exceeding 15,000 placements in partnership with more than 1,600 employers in more than 40 states in the U.S. and in more than 30 foreign countries.
He created the Engineering Leadership Institute with philanthropic support from Roy and Marcia Armes, CEO of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and a 1975 UT mechanical engineering graduate, to provide leadership opportunities for students. And Naganathan's interest in collaborations lead to new joint degree programs with the College of Business and Innovation and College of Medicine and Life Sciences in the areas of information technology and biomedical engineering.
The college has grown under Naganathan's tenure with the addition of the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex and the Thomas and Elizabeth Brady Engineering Innovation Center. It also has grown in prestige nationally. In October 2006, the engineering graduate program was listed for the first time in the Princeton Review's the top 20 graduate programs and U.S. News and World Report has ranked the practice oriented masters program among the top 50 in the nation during for the last three years.
Naganathan's research projects have been funded with $6.5 million in grants and contracts from external sponsors, including the National Science Foundation and automotive manufacturers. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He also has been awarded a U.S. patent on the use of piezoelectric devices in active suspension systems (US Patent 5,390,949). Naganathan's work with industry includes conducting vibration analysis and control studies on heavy-duty truck powertrains for Dana Corporation and as a design engineer with Ashok Leyland Motors.
Naganathan has received a number of prestigious awards, including a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, UT Outstanding Teacher Award, UT Outstanding Researcher Award, SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, ASME Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor Award, TST/TSPE Engineer of the Year, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater, the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli, India.
He serves as an elected director of the national American Society of Engineering Education Engineering Deans Council Executive Board, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the World Association for Cooperative & Work-Integrated Education, Board of Directors of the Ohio Aerospace Institute, Executive Committee of the Council of Energy Research and Education Leaders, and Rotary International.
Naganathan earned his bachelor's degree with honors in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli (formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli), University of Madras, India, a master's degree in mechanical and industrial engineering from Clarkson University, New York and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University.