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The Hidden Cause of Acne

How Toxic Water Is Affecting Your Health and What You Can Do about It

By: Melissa Gallico

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The Hidden Cause of Acne

How Toxic Water Is Affecting Your Health and What You Can Do about It

By: Melissa Gallico

An investigation into the root cause of the modern acne epidemic--fluoride--and how to remove it from your diet and lifestyle for clear, healthy skin • Chronicles the existing acne research to reveal fluoride was behind the rise of teenage acne in the mid-20th century and the dramatic increase in adult acne today • Details how to avoid fluoridated foods and beverages as well as other common sources of fluoride, such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and household products • Explains how to displace fluoride stored in your bones and other tissues through nutrition and the careful use of iodine According to a recent study, over 20 percent of men and 35 percent of women experience acne after the age of 30. At the same time, remote indigenous societies--such as the Inuit before they “moved to town” in the 1960s--experience no acne at all, even among their teenagers. Many things have been cited as causing acne, from sugar, chocolate, or pizza to dirty pillowcases, hormones, or genetics, but none of these “causes” have been able to explain the majority of acne cases, nor why chronic acne is on the rise. Using her FBI intelligence analyst skills, Melissa Gallico identifies fluoride as the root cause of the modern acne epidemic. Chronicling the existing acne research, she reveals where each study went wrong and what they missed. She shares her personal 20-year struggle with severe cystic acne not only on her face, but on her neck, chest, back, and even inside her ears. She explains how her travels around the world and her intelligence work helped her pinpoint exactly what was causing her treatment-resistant flare-ups--fluoridated water, foods, dental products, and the systemic build-up of childhood fluoride treatments. She details how to avoid fluoridated foods and beverages and explains how sources of fluoride work their way deeply into our daily lives through water as well as fluoride-based pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and common household products. The author exposes the corrupt science used to convince people of fluoride’s health benefits and examines the systemic toxicity of fluoride, including its anti-thyroid and neurotoxin effects, how it remains in the body for years, and how it can cause the symptoms of illnesses, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, and depression. She explains how to displace fluoride stored in your bones and tissues through nutrition and the careful use of iodine. Offering a guide to freeing yourself from persistent adult acne, Gallico shows that it is possible to heal your skin even when dermatologists and their prescriptions have failed.

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326

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Simon and Schuster

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162055710X

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9781620557105

Reading Practice

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print

By: Melissa Reynolds

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Reading Practice

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print

By: Melissa Reynolds

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading Practice tells the story of how ordinary people grew comfortable learning from commonplace manuscripts and printed books, such as almanacs, medical recipe collections, and herbals. From the turn of the fifteenth century to the close of the sixteenth century, these were the books English people read when they wanted to attend to their health or understand their place in the universe. Before then, these works had largely been the purview of those who could read Latin. Around 1400, however, medical and scientific texts became available in Middle English while manuscripts became less expensive. These vernacular manuscripts invited their readers into a very old and learned conversation: Hippocrates and Galen weren’t distant authorities whose word was law, they were trusted guides, whose advice could be excerpted, rearranged, recombined, and even altered to suit a manuscript compiler’s needs. This conversation continued even after the printing press arrived in England in 1476. Printers mined manuscripts for medical and scientific texts that they would publish throughout the sixteenth century, though the pressures of a commercial printing market encouraged printers to package these old texts in new ways. Without the weight of authority conditioning their reactions and responses to very old knowledge, and with so many editions of practical books to choose from, English readers grew into confident critics and purveyors of natural knowledge in their own right. Melissa Reynolds reconstructs shifting attitudes toward medicine and science over two centuries of seismic change within English culture, attending especially to the effects of the Reformation on attitudes toward nature and the human body. Her study shows how readers learned to be discerning and selective consumers of knowledge gradually, through everyday interactions with utilitarian books.

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319

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823636

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9780226823638

Ms. Miller's Etiquette for Cats

By: Melissa Miller

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Ms. Miller's Etiquette for Cats

By: Melissa Miller

Proper feline etiquette can be defined as whatever behavior best suits one's needs and desires. Now, from the author of The Dog I.Q. Test comes a helpful guide which illuminates many of the finer points of proper cat decorum. For all cats wishing there were a Miss Manners to help them out of sticky situations, here is the perfect reference tool to study--or ignore--as they please. Color illustrations.

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100

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Penguin Mass Market

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0140254889

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9780140254884

Alaska Off the Beaten Path

A Guide to Unique Places

By: Melissa DeVaughn

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Alaska Off the Beaten Path

A Guide to Unique Places

By: Melissa DeVaughn

In a state where everything is a bit off the beaten path this guide deliberately includes some of Alaskas most offbeat attractions Visit the driftwood-covered Arctic Brotherhood Hall in Skagway or the smallest desert in the world in southern Yukon; or

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0762702613

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9780762702619

Alaska

A Guide to Unique Places

By: Melissa DeVaughn

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Alaska

A Guide to Unique Places

By: Melissa DeVaughn

Explore the unusual wonders of Alaska with this guide to the off-the-beaten-path places in this vast and scenic state.

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0762710535

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9780762710539

Book's by Melissa Gallico

The Hidden Cause of Acne

The Hidden Cause of Acne

Reading Practice

Reading Practice

Ms. Miller's Etiquette for Cats

Ms. Miller's Etiquette for Cats

Alaska Off the Beaten Path

Alaska Off the Beaten Path

Alaska

Alaska

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