Nurture Nature / Nurture Health:
Your Health and the Environment
New Book by Oncologist, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, Signals How Environmental Exposures Foster Rising Rates of Disease and
How Individuals Can Restore Optimum Health to Our Bodies and the Planet
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
- Indian Proverb-
As health crises continue to escalate in this country, one of America"s most renowned oncologists looks at the rising epidemics - breast cancer, asthma, learning disabilities, autism - to expose the environment's role in contributing to many of the diseases that are devastating people of all ages. 
Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, New York oncologist and founder of Gaynor Integrative Oncology, has now completed his fourth book, Nurture Nature/Nurture Health: Your Health and the Environment . His book not only looks at the evidence of environmental links to these health crises, but how each of us can take actions to prevent dangerous exposures and to support our environment which, in turn, balances our own health.
Underwritten by Nurture New York"s Nature, Inc. (NNYN), a not-for-profit collaboration of corporations and environmental organizations in New York City, Dr. Gaynor"s book is the first of its kind: A book which uses scientific research to underline the mounting evidence that links environmental exposures - whether from tobacco smoke, air pollution, ozone depletion, arsenic in drinking water or pesticides on our lawns - to increasing incidences of disease and debilitation throughout America. Nurture Nature/Nurture Health also offers Dr. Gaynor"s successful nutritional program to maximize the body"s immune and detoxification systems.
Nurture Nature/Nurture Health wakes all of us to the devastation of environmental exposures, which in the last 20 years, have been linked to frightening increases in diseases of adults, children and newborns.
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· This country"s annual cost of environmental pollutants (man-made toxic chemicals) is estimated at .9 billion.
· Autism rates in children in California rose 273% in one decade, between 1987 and 1998.
· New York City accounts for 25% of the state"s total pesticide use.
· Of 3,000 high-production-volume chemicals in this country, only 10% have been thoroughly tested. Only 43% have been minimally tested.
· Non-Hodgkin"s lymphoma rates have tripled in the last 30 years.
· Childhood leukemia is up 30 percent since the 1970s.
· Breast cancer rates are currently 1 in 7; in the 1940s, the rates were 1 in 22.
· Sperm counts have steadily declined. Birth defects have steadily risen. |
In fact, post-World War II industrialization in this country has spawned death and disease at unprecedented rates as unwanted consequences of our technological advances. The very chemicals that make life easier are also making it more unsafe.
Dr. Gaynor's book elucidates the human consequences of these environmental exposures and the importance of maintaining balance and diversity in nature, a key concept in his health philosophy: When we care for the environment, we also care for ourselves and generations to come.
"People are shocked to learn that your internal and your external environments are one," says Dr. Gaynor, an expert in the field of integrative medicine who serves as the Health Advocate for New York's Carriage House Center. "We are now living in a country where one in three Americans will hear the words, "You have cancer." "
Dr. Gaynor makes it clear that we cannot afford to wait for definitive scientific proof of the causes of these diseases. One, traditional double-blind studies cannot be conducted because it is impossible to find people who have not been exposed. Two, the mounting evidence is sufficient to suggest that something other than genetics accounts for many of these alarming increases.
"The link between human illness and environmental toxins is irrefutable," Dr. Gaynor states. "Sadly, the experience in which we wasted 50 years debating whether smoking causes cancer is being played out again with toxins such as dioxin, furans and other persistent organic pollutants. Many of these are found in human breast milk and are immunotoxic, neurotoxic and either definitive or probable human carcinogens."
Dr. Gaynor"s book will help educate inhabitants of New York and other cities and towns throughout America about environmental dangers and what each of us can do to preserve and protect our extraordinary habitat. As part of NNYY's mission to protect and advance the health and well being of the City of New York and its inhabitants, Nurture Nature, Nurture Health is now being published by Nurture Nature Press in conjunction with other NNYN initiatives such as the Green Roofs Project and environmental courses on sustainable development at the City of New York University (CUNY).
PREVENT CANCER AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLNESS LINKED TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS BEFORE THEY START WITH THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS OUTLINED IN NURTURE NATURE, NURTURE HEALTH - YOUR HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
Cancer specialist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D. is also the founder and president of Gaynor Integrative Oncology in New York City (www.gaynoroncology.com). In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Gaynor shows you:
# The benefits of phytonutrients, powerful foods that can easily be added to your diet.
# Quick and easy ways to reduce the environmental risks in your home.
# The dangers in your workplace and how to identify environmental factors placing you at risk.
# How to protect your most valuable and vulnerable resource-your children.
# How toxins are hidden in the places you least expect.
EMPOWERING AND INFORMATIVE, THIS METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED BOOK IS THE PRESCRIPITION FOR NURTURING YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH.
To order book log on into www.nurturenaturepress.com
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