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> Taken from information written in the 1990s.

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> http://www.foodrevolution.org/roh_facts_print.htm

> RECLAIMING OUR HEALTH

> REALITIES

>

> Facts excerpted from Reclaiming Our Health:

> Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

> by John Robbins

>

> The Present Situation

>

> Americans who had no medical insurance in 1993, when President

Clinton launched his crusade for universal health coverage - 39

million (1)

> Americans who had no medical insurance in 1996 - 42 million (1)

> Additional Americans who were seriously underinsured in 1996 - 29

million (1)

> At current rate of increase, number of years before more than half

of all Americans are either uninsured or seriously underinsured - 20

(2)

> Number of other fully industrialized countries that do not

guarantee minimum healthcare to every single citizen - 0 (3)

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> Annual per capita income in Shanghai - $350 (4)

> Annual per capital income in New York City - $20,500 (4)

> Money spent on medical care in Shanghai annually - $38 per person

(4)

> Money spent on medical care in New York City annually - $3,000 per

person (4)

> Number of infants born in Shanghai who die before their first

birthday - 10.9 per 1,000 births (4)

> Number of infants born in New York City who die before their first

birthday - 13.3 per 1,000 births (4)

> Life expectancy at birth in Shanghai - 75.5 years (4)

> Life expectancy at birth in New York City for people of color - 70

years (4)

> Life expectancy at birth in New York City for whites - 73 years (4)

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> Percentage of U.S. GNP spent on healthcare in 1935 - 3% (5)

> Percentage of U.S. GNP spent on healthcare in 1965 - 6% (5)

> Percentage of U.S. GNP spent on healthcare in 1995 - 14% (5)

> At current rate of growth, number of years before U.S. healthcare

costs would exceed nation's entire GNP - 75 (2)

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> Percentage by which per capita U.S. healthcare expenditures exceed

those of Canada - 40% (6)

> Percentage by which per capita U.S. healthcare expenditures exceed

those of Germany - 90% (6)

> Percentage by which per capita U.S. healthcare expenditures exceed

those of Japan - 100% (6)

> Primary reason U.S. automobiles are more expensive than Japanese

cars considered to be of comparable quality - higher employee

healthcare costs (7)

> Year the average Fortune 500 company's healthcare costs are

expected to equal 60% of after-tax profits - 2000 (8)

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> Average amount of time U.S. patients are allowed to speak before

being interrupted by their doctors - 18 seconds (9)

> Percentage of U.S. patients who, once interrupted, go on to finish

their statement or question - 2% (9)

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> Widely held belief among Americans - The U.S. has the best

healthcare system in the world

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> U.S. rank among world nations in per capita expenditure on medical

care - 1st (10)

> U.S. rank among world nations in malpractice suits - 1st (10)

> U.S. rank among world nations in infant mortality - 25th (11)

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> Beginning With Birth

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> Percentage of nations in western Europe whose infant mortality

rates are superior to ours - 100% (11)

> Percentage of births attended by midwives in western Europe - 75%

(12)

> Percentage of births attended by midwives in U.S. - 4% (12)

> Average cost of midwife-attended birth in the U.S. - $1,200 (13)

> Average cost of physician-attended birth in the U.S. - $4,200 (14)

> Healthcare savings obtainable annually by utilizing midwifery care

for 75% of pregnancies in the U.S. - $8.5 billion a year (15)

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> Widely held belief among Americans - Birth practices in the U.S.

have improved greatly since the 1960s

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> U.S. cesarean rate in early 1960s - 3% (16)

> U.S. cesarean rate in 1996 - 22.9% (17)

> Average cost of a cesarean birth in a U.S. hospital - $8,000 (18)

> U.S. cesarean rate in for-profit hospitals compared to non-profit

hospitals - nearly double (19)

> Newborn/mother contact in first 48 hours after vaginal birth -

often constant

> Newborn/mother contact in first 48 hours after cesarean birth -

minimal and drugged

> Cesarean rate for hospital births compared to those begun in

freestanding birth centers - 4 times greater (20)

> Principal birth attendants in freestanding birth centers - midwives

(20)

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> Number of studies that have compared outcomes for babies and

mothers at freestanding birth centers to those in hospitals - many

(21)

> Number of studies that have found worse outcomes for babies or

mothers at freestanding birth centers compared to hospitals - none

(21)

> Percentage of women who give birth in freestanding U.S. birth

centers who say they are very satisfied with their experience and

would recommend the birth center to friends and family - 99% (22)

> Percentage of women who give birth in U.S. hospitals who say they

are not satisfied - 60% (23)

> Incidence of fetal distress in babies born in hospitals compared to

birth centers - 17 times greater (24)

> Incidence of neurological abnormalities - 3 times greater (24)

> Incidence of jaundice - 6 times greater (24)

> Position of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on

freestanding birth centers - opposition (25)

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> Often credited for historical decline in maternal and infant

mortality - obstetrical interventions

> Actual reason, according to the British Journal of Obstetrics and

Gynecology - Advances in public health, sanitation, and nutrition,

improvement in women's working conditions, the addition of Vitamin D

to milk (thus preventing rickets), and the development of antibiotics

(26)

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> Percentage of the 24 countries with lower infant mortality rates

than the U.S. that provide universal prenatal care - 100% (27)

> Percentage of pregnant women in the U.S. who receive little or no

prenatal care - 25% (28)

> Consequence of lack of prenatal care - far more low birthweight

babies (29)

> Percentage of infant deaths linked to low birthweight - 60% (30)

> Average cost of healthcare through the age of 35 for a low-

birthweight baby - $50,558 (31)

> Average cost of healthcare through the age of 35 for a baby of

average weight - $20,033 (31)

> Cost of prenatal care for one woman - $500 (32)

> Cost of newborn intensive care for one infant - $20,000 - $100,000

(30)

> Healthcare savings obtainable annually by providing universal

prenatal care to all pregnant women in the U.S. - $10 billion a year

(33)

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> Patriarchal Medicine

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> Year the AMA elected its first woman board member - 1989

> Number of women presidents in AMA's 148 year history - 0 (34)

> Percentage of medical school deans in U.S. today who are women - 3%

(34)

> Percentage of today's gynecologists and obstetricians who are male -

80% (35)

> Percentage of their patients who are male - 0%

> Number of times in its history the executive board of the American

College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been less than 75%

male - 0 (34)

> Percentage of American women who will have a hysterectomy in their

lifetimes - 50% (36)

> Percentage of U.S. hysterectomies that are medically imperative -

10% (37)

> Most common reason for hysterectomy in the U.S. - fibroids (37)

> Number of women with fibroids who are relieved of the pain and

heavy bleeding within three months of adopting a low-fat high-fiber

vegetarian diet - the vast majority (38)

> Second most common reason for hysterectomy in the U.S. -

endometriosis (37)

> Number of women with endometriosis whose symptoms disappear or

lessen dramatically on a low-fat high-fiber vegetarian diet - the

vast majority (39)

> Percentage of American physicians who recommend dietary changes for

fibroids and endometriosis - less than 1% (40)

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> Menopause, Naturally

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> Most widely prescribed drug in U.S. - Premarin (Estrogen

Replacement Therapy) (41)

> Primary reasons prescribed - Hot flashes, osteoporosis, and heart

disease

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> Percentage of menopausal women who obtained complete relief from

hot flashes by taking 200 mg of vitamin C and 200 mg of bioflavonoids

6 times a day - 67% (42)

> Percentage of menopausal women who obtained relief from hot flashes

by taking two herbal capsules three times a day (licorice root,

burdock root, wild yam root, dong quai root, and motherwort) for

three months in a double-blind placebo-controlled study - 100% (43)

> Percentage of women in same study who obtained relief from placebo -

6% (43)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians who discuss natural approaches with

their menopausal patients - 2% (44)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians who routinely prescribe estrogen -

84% (44)

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> Years a woman must take estrogen to obtain benefits for

osteoporosis - 20 or more (45)

> Health drawbacks to estrogen - substantially increased breast

cancer risk, increased risk for liver and gallbladder disease,

prolonged incidence of fibroids and endometriosis, greatly increased

uterine cancer risk (if taken without progestins), increased side

effects (if taken with progestins) (46)

> Years a woman must take natural progesterone to obtain benefits for

osteoporosis - 1 (47)

> Health drawbacks to natural progesterone - rare (47)

> Percentage of post-menopausal women who showed substantial new bone

formation on natural progesterone cream - 97% (47)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians familiar with natural progesterone -

less than 1% (40)

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> Evidence that heart disease can be prevented and reversed with low-

fat vegetarian diets - conclusive (48)

> Average bone loss of 65-year-old meat-eating American woman - 35%

(49)

> Average bone loss of 65-year-old vegetarian American woman - 18%

(49)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians who recommend low-fat vegetarian

diets to prevent heart disease and osteoporosis - less than 1% (40)

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> Kids, Drugs, and Nutrition

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> Primary treatment for U.S. schoolchildren diagnosed with attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - Ritalin

> Percentage of U.S. schoolchildren on Ritalin - 5% (50)

> Potential side effects from Ritalin - Anxiety, hair loss,

convulsions, nausea, insomnia, headaches, weight loss, slowing of

growth, compulsive nervous behaviors (51)

> Number of well-designed studies in which Ritalin has been shown to

enhance long-term learning - 0 (52)

> Percentage of hyperactive children who improved when artificial

colorings, flavorings and sugar were eliminated from their diet - 79%

(53)

> Change in problem behavior (theft, insubordination, hyperactivity,

suicide attempts, etc.) in juvenile delinquents when artificial

colorings, flavorings and sugar were eliminated from their diet -

Dropped 47% (54)

> Years when New York City public schools gradually eliminated all

artificial colors and flavors and reduced sugar in school cafeterias

serving more than 1 million schoolchildren- 1979-1983 (55)

> Change in mean national academic performance in New York City

public schools during experiment - Jumped from 39th to 55th

percentile (the largest gain ever measured in any comparable period

of time in any metropolitan school district in U.S. history) (55)

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> American Academy of Pediatrics position on medication and drug

treatment for children with ADHD - endorsement (56)

> Number of words in American Academy of Pediatrics position paper on

ADHD about nutrition - 0 (56)

> Funders for American Academy of Pediatrics 1995 nutrition video for

children - The Sugar Association and the Meat Board (57)

> Title of fact sheet promoted by the American Dietetic Association

that focuses on ADHD - " Questions Most Frequently Asked About

Hyperactivity " (58)

> Answer given to questions, " Is there a dietary relationship to

hyperactivity? Should I restrict certain foods from my child's

diet? " - " No. " (59)

> Statement given regarding sugar - " Sugar has a mildly quieting

effect on some children. " (60)

> Source of fact sheet promoted by American Dietetic Association -

The Sugar Association (58)

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> Number of accredited medical schools in the United States - 127 (61)

> Number with no required courses in nutrition - 95 (61)

> Average U.S. physician's course work in nutrition during four years

of medical school - 2.5 hours (62)

> Percentage of first year medical school students who consider

nutrition to be important to their future careers - 74% (63)

> Percentage who, after two years of medical school, still consider

nutrition important - 13% (63)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians who are overweight - 55% (64)

> Percentage of U.S. physicians who eat the recommended daily

servings of fruits and vegetables - 20% (64)

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> Antibiotics Tomorrow

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> Staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960 - 13% (65)

> Staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1987 - 91% (65)

> What's happening to all our antibiotics today - becoming

increasingly ineffective due to microbes developing resistance (66)

> Primary cause - overuse of antibiotics (66)

> Effect of antibiotics on viruses - none

> Number of antibiotic prescriptions written by U.S. doctors for cold

viruses annually - 4 million (67)

> Total purchases of antibiotics by U.S. hospitals in 1962 - $94

million (67)

> Total purchases of antibiotics by U.S. hospitals in 1995 - $8.7

billion (67)

> Breeding ground of many antibiotic resistant bacteria today - U.S.

hospitals (68)

> Number of Americans who die each year from infections they pick up

in a hospital - more than four times the number who die in automobile

accidents (67)

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> Alternative Medicine and the AMA

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> AMA's historical relationship to midwifery - vehement opposition

> AMA's historical relationship to virtually all alternative forms of

medicine - vehement opposition

> U.S. District Court's ruling in 1987 - the AMA and its officials

were found guilty of conspiring to eliminate the chiropractic

profession

> U.S. Supreme Court's decision after AMA appealed - Upheld the ruling

> Book published by AMA and featured in AMA's 1996 catalog -

Alternative Health Methods (69)

> Description of Alternative Health Methods in AMA catalog - " A must

for answering questions [about] unproven, disproven, controversial,

fraudulent, and/or otherwise questionable approaches [such as]

acupuncture, faith healing, biofeedback, homeopathy, naturopathy,

colonic irrigation, and more! " (69)

> Characterization of holistic medicine found in Alternative Health

Methods - " A melange of banalities, truisms, exaggerations,

falsehoods, overlaid with disparagement. . . of logical reasoning

itself. " (70)

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> Tobacco and the AMA

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> Number of Americans killed by cigarettes annually - 434,000 (more

than are killed by automobile accidents, fires, alcohol-related

deaths, murder, suicide, AIDS, cocaine and heroin combined) (71)

> Number of American deaths caused by second-hand smoke annually -

50,000 (more than are killed by AIDS, illegal drugs and teenage

drinking combined) (72)

> Percentage of U.S. smokers who have never been advised by their

doctors to quit, despite averaging over four doctors' visits a year -

56% (73)

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> Year it was learned that 96.5% of patients with lung cancer had

been smokers - 1950 (74)

> Year the U.S. Surgeon General announced that smoking not only

caused lung cancer, but also heart disease and emphysema, and was

costing the country tens of billions of dollars a year in healthcare

costs - 1964

> Public statement by AMA president Edward R. Annis in 1964 regarding

Surgeon General's report - " The AMA is not opposed to smoking and

tobacco. " (75)

> Title of the AMA's primary study of the health consequences of

tobacco (1964-1978) - the AMA-ERF study

> Amount of funding for AMA-ERF study provided by AMA - $500,000 (76)

> Amount of funding for AMA-ERF study provided by tobacco industry -

$16,000,000 (76)

> Position of AMA when the American Cancer Society, the Public Health

Service, and the Federal Trade Commission supported health warnings

on cigarette packages - opposition (77)

> Year that AMA's Member Retirement Fund was discovered to have

millions invested in tobacco securities - 1981 (78)

> Year the AMA wrote a special supplement published by Newsweek on

personal health to " help readers avoid self-induced illnesses " - 1983

(79)

> Discussion of health hazards of tobacco - none (79)

> Year the Chicago Sun-Times disclosed that two AMA Board members,

including the AMA's president- elect Dr. Harrison L. Rogers, owned a

farm on which tobacco was grown - 1985 (80)

> Name of 1989 bill which effectively banned smoking on almost all

commercial domestic airplane flights - the Durbin bill

> AMA's response - claimed credit and sent out letters boasting of

its role (81)

> Congressman Richard Durbin's view of AMA's role - " There was no

evidence of any strong support for our effort from the AMA. " (81)

> Award given annually by the AMA for outstanding contributions to

the betterment of public health - Nathan Davis award (named for AMA's

founder)

> Recipient of AMA's 1993 Nathan Davis award - Congressman J. Roy

Rowland, M.D.

> American Lung Association's opinion of Congressman J. Roy Rowland,

M.D. - " Rowland has consistently championed the interests of the

tobacco industry. He has actively opposed measures designed to

protect children from tobacco addiction and even voted against

legislation to eliminate smoking on airplanes. " (82)

> Year the New England Journal of Medicine published a special

article analyzing the campaign contributions made by the AMA to

Congressional candidates - 1994 (83)

> Conclusion of New England Journal of Medicine report - AMA gave

significantly more money to legislators supporting tobacco export

promotion than those opposing it (83)

> Consequence of U.S. tobacco export promotion - Tremendous rise in

tobacco use in many countries, particularly among young people.

Smoking among teenage girls in Korea rose more than 300%. (84)

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> Average tax per pack of cigarettes in England - $3.09 (85)

> Average tax per pack of cigarettes in Canada - $3.25 (85)

> Average tax per pack of cigarettes in Norway - $3.93 (85)

> Average tax per pack of cigarettes in U.S. - $0.51 (85)

> What happened in New Zealand between 1980 and 1991 due to a tax

increase of $1.97 per pack - Cigarette consumption dropped more than

60% (85)

> Number of nations who have raised cigarette taxes substantially who

have not experienced dramatic reductions in cigarette consumption -

None (85)

> Healthcare savings obtainable annually in U.S. with a 60% drop in

cigarette consumption - $60 billion (40)

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> Do You Trust These People To Make Your Healthcare Decisions For You?

> World's largest private cancer treatment and research center-

Memorial Sloan-Kettering

> Director, Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Board of Overseers and

Managers - John S. Reed

> John S. Reed's other job - Director, Philip Morris

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> Health insurance companies heavily invested in tobacco stocks -

Travelers, Prudential, Cigna, MetLife, Aetna (86)

> Prudential Insurance Company's 1995 investment in tobacco stocks -

$248 million (86)

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> Lifetime cap on injury awards for pain and suffering sought by U.S.

health insurance companies - $250,000 (87)

> Leading advocate of such legislation - American International Group

Insurance Company (87)

> 1994 compensation of American International Group Insurance

Company's CEO (Maurice Greenberg) - $12,080,000 (87)

> How often Maurice Greenberg received the amount of money ($250,000)

that his and other health insurance companies have sought to place as

a lifetime cap on pain and suffering injury awards - every 2 weeks (2)

> CEO of Hospital Corporation of America in 1992 - Thomas F. Frist

> Thomas F. Frist's 1992 compensation - $127,000,000 ($500,000 per

business day)

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> How much health insurance companies typically pay for a heart

patient's bypass surgery - $30,000 (88)

> How much for a heart patient's balloon angioplasty - $7,500 (88)

> How much for a heart patient's nutrition and stress management

education - $150 (88)

> How much health insurance companies typically pay for teaching a

well person how to eat well, stay healthy, and prevent heart disease -

$0 (88)

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> The Cancer Industry

>

> Percentage of cancer patients whose lives are reliably saved by

chemotherapy - 3% (89)

> Evidence for the majority of cancers that chemotherapy exerts a

significant positive influence on survival or quality of life - none

(89)

> Percentage of oncologists who said that if they developed cancer

they would not participate in chemotherapy trials due to " the

ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of

toxicity " - 75% (90)

> Percentage of people with cancer in the United States who receive

chemotherapy - 75% (91)

>

> Company that accounts for nearly half of the chemotherapy sales in

the world - Bristol-Meyers Squibb

> Chairman of the Board, Bristol-Meyers Squibb - Richard L. Gelb

> Richard L. Gelb's other job - Vice-Chairman, Memorial Sloan-

Kettering Cancer Center

> Director, Bristol-Meyers Squibb - James D. Robinson III

> James D. Robinson III's other job - Chairman of the Board, Memorial

Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

> Director, Ivax, Inc. (a prominent chemotherapy company) - Samuel

Broder

> Samuel Broder's other job (until 1995) - Executive Director, the

National Cancer Institute

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> Reclaiming Our Health

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> Medical costs attributable to smoking and meat consumption combined-

greater than the costs of providing health coverage for all

currently uninsured Americans (92)

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> Annual costs, according to the World Health Organization, required

to provide every human being on Earth with access to primary

education, healthcare, family planning services, safe drinking water,

and adequate nutrition - $20 billion (93)

> Annual healthcare savings obtainable in the U.S. alone by providing

universal prenatal care, utilizing midwifery, encouraging

breastfeeding, raising tobacco taxes to Canadian level, and

eliminating government subsidies for tobacco and meat production -

$120 billion (40)

>

> As provocative as these facts are, their significance can best be

grasped in context. In Reclaiming Our Health, John Robbins brings

these and many other stunning realities into a perspective that shows

a way to true healing for us as individuals, for our society, and for

the whole earth community.

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> Endnotes

>

> (1) - Analysis released April 26, 1996 by the American College of

Physicians.

> (2) - Author's calculation, based on above figures.

> (3) - William Thompson, " The Case for Single-Payer, " International

Journal of Issues in Medicine, Aug. 1995.

> (4) - Nicholas Kristof, " China Sets Example in Health Care, " New

York Times -- Ann Arbor News, April 14, 1991, A-6. Jane Lii, " China

Booms, The World Holds Its Breath, " New York Times Magazine, Feb. 18,

1996, pg 27.

> (5) - Joseph Pizzorno, Total Wellness (Rocklin, California: Prima,

1996).

> (6) - " Overview of Healthamerica: Affordable Health Care for

Americans, " U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Feb.

1992.

> (7) - Fred Solomon, " Health Care Costs Are Eroding U.S.

Competitiveness, " Automobile Journal Times, March, 1996, p.8.

> (8) - Ken Pelletier, " A Review and Analysis of the Health and Cost-

Effective Outcome Studies of Comprehensive Health Promotion and

Disease Prevention Programs at the Worksite: 1991-1993 Update, "

American Journal of Health Promotion 1993, 8:50-61.

> (9) - H.B. Beckman, et al., " The Effect of Physician Behavior on

the Collection of Data, " Annals of Internal Medicine, Nov. 1984, pp.

692-96.

> (10) - Bruce Williamson, " Malpractice Suits Drive Up Healthcare

Costs, " International Journal of Issues in Medicine, Dec. 1995.

> (11) - The State of the World's Children, 1996, UNICEF.

> (12) - The Alan Guttmacher Institute, " Facts in Brief, " March 1993.

> (13) - Midwives Alliance of North America survey, Feb 1993,

reported in " Perinatal Healthcare Statistics, " Mothering , Fall 1993.

> (14) - Health Insurance Associates of America, 1993, reported

in " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (15) - " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (16) - Esther Zorn, " Profile of the Cesarean Epidemic. " Francis C.

Notzen, " International Differences in the Use of Obstetric

Interventions, " Journal of the American Medical Association, June 27,

1990, vol 263, no. 25, pg 3286-91. Richard Johnson, " Cesarean

Section Rates An American Disgrace, " International Journal of Issues

in Medicine, April, 1996.

> (17) - R. Johnson, as per note 16.

> (18) - M. G. Rosen and J. C. Dickinson, " Vaginal Birth After

Cesarean: A Meta-Analysis of Indicators for Success, " Obstetrics and

Gynecology vol 76, 1990, pp. 865-69.

> (19) - Marsden Wagner, " An Epidemic of Unnecessary Cesareans, "

Mothering, Fall 1993, p. 72. Lynn Silver and Sidney

Wolfe, " Unnecessary Sections - How To Cure a National Epidemic, "

Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

> (20) - J. P. Rooks, et al., " Outcomes of Care in Birth Centers: The

National Birth Center Study, " New England Journal of Medicine, Dec

28, 1989; 321(26): pg 1804-11.

> (21) - Henci Goer, Obstetric Myths Veresus Research Realities: A

Guide to the Medical Literature (Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey,

1995), pp. 319-30.

> (22) - Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer, A Good Birth, A Safe Birth

(Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1992), p. 35, 47.

> (23) - Ibid, p. 34.

> (24) - Robert C. Goodlin, " Low-Risk Obstetric Care for Low-Risk

Mothers, " Lancet 1:8176, May 10, 1980.

> (25) - H. Goer, as per note 21, p. 320.

> (26) - Marjorie Tew, " Do Obstetric Intranatal Interventions Make

Birth Safer? " British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecaeology, July

1986;93(7), pg 684-9.

> (27) - C. Miller, " Infant Mortality in the U.S., " Scientific

American, July 1985.

> (28) - Northeast Ohio Coalition for National Health Care Report,

Oct 1991, reported in " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (29) - The Alan Guttmacher Institute, " Facts in Brief, " Feb, 1993,

reported in " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (30) - Lawton Chiles, " The National Commission to Prevent Infant

Mortality, " Mothering, Summer 1988, pg 67.

> (31) - Challenges in Health Care: A Chartbook Perspective,

(Princeton, NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1991), pp. 36-37,

reported in " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (32) - Jim Lake, " Prenatal Care: A Cost-Effective Approach, "

Journal of Advances in Childcare, July 1995.

> (33) - " Perinatal... " as per note 13.

> (34) - Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse, Outrageous Practices

(New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994), p. 42.

> (35) - John M. Smith, Women and Doctors (New York: Atlantic Monthly

Press, 1992), p. 2.

> (36) - Celso-Ramon Garcia, et al., " Preservation of the Ovary: A

Reevaluation, " Fertility and Sterility, 42(4), Oct, 1984, pg 510-14.

J. Smith, as per note 35, p. 14. Christiane Northrup, Women's Bodies,

Women's Wisdom (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. 152.

> (37) - Stanley West, The Hysterectomy Hoax (New York: Doubleday,

1994), p. 1, 23.

> (38) - C. Northrup, as per note 36, p. 172.

> (39) - Ibid, p. 166.

> (40) - Figure based on author's research and calculations.

> (41) - L. L. Piana Simonsen, " Top 200 Drugs of 1992: What Are

Pharmacists Dispensing Most Often? " Pharmacy Times, April 1993, pp.

29-44.

> (42) - Carolyn DeMarco, Take Charge Of Your Body (Winlaw, B.C.:

Well Women Press, 1994), p. 220.

> (43) - Tori Hudson, et al -- " A Pilot Study Using Botanical

Medicines in the Treatment of Menopause Symptoms, " Townsend Letter

for Doctors, Dec. 1994, pg 1372.

> (44) - " Women's Information About Menopause is Limited, " North

American Menopause Society, Sept 4, 1993. Results of a Gallup survey

of 833 menopausal women.

> (45) - Editorial, New England Journal of Medicine; Aug 27, 1992.

> (46) - Sadja Greenwood, Menopause, Naturally (Volcano, Calif.:

Volcano Press, 1992), pp. 111-15.

> (47) - John Lee, " Osteoporosis Reversal with Transdermal

Progesterone, " Lancet, 336, 1990, p. 1327. John Lee, " Osteoporosis

Reversal: The Role of Progesterone, " Clinical Nutritional Review, 10,

1990, pp. 384-91. John Lee, " Is Natural Progesterone the Missing Link

in Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment? " Medical Hypotheses, 35,

1991, pp. 316-8.

> (48) - Dean Ornish, " Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Coronary Heart

Disease? " Lifestyle Heart Trial, Lancet, vol 336, July 21, 1990, pp.

129-33. Dean Ornish, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart

Disease (New York: Random House, 1990). Caldwell Esselstyn, Journal

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> (49) - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 1983.

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