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"The Current Climate By the turn of the century, the big business bubble had begun to burst, but conflict of interest continued. I am reminded of a cartoon published in USA Today in July 2001, soon after Congress passed President Bush's tax rebate. Tided "Things You Can Buy with Your Tax Rebate Check. . . ." it depicts four items: a bicycle, a DVD player, clothes, and Your Congressman (shown ripping up a piece of paper containing the words "campaign reform").18 A politician's vote is one of the many things that money can buy." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with big business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.)

"Sleep disorders are big business. As of this writing, use of sleep medications has grown by more than 60 percent since 2000, and in 2006, makers of sleeping pills spent more than $600 million advertising directly to consumers. Obviously, more than a few people are having some problems catching some good shut-eye. Inositol might be the answer. This interesting substance is usually considered a member of the B vitamin family, but it's not technically a vitamin (it contains no nitrogen) and it's synthesized by the human body. No matter." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Building pharmacies had become such a big business that one company bragged in 2004 that it could construct one in just three days. Dozens of supermarkets in Iowa had recently added a pharmacist and a prescription counter. Hy-Vee, one of the largest supermarket chains in Iowa, was offering discounted groceries to anyone who transferred a prescription. Pharmacies had also been built inside the megastores like Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, and Kmart. On Civic Mills Parkway in the booming suburban city of West Des Moines, the newly built pharmacies came one after another." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Magnetics is big business in medicine, especially in imaging. Most readers will be familiar with the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine, which uses magnetics to create an image of tissue by measuring tissue density. It is a static technology. However, the newer fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) is a dynamic technology that images parts of the body, such as the brain, as they are working." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The subject has become what Erasmus calls a "cholesterol scare": The cholesterol scare is big business for doctors, laboratories, and drug companies. It is also a powerful marketing gimmick for vegetable oil and margarine manufacturers who can advertise their products to be 'cholesterol-free.' The fact is that 999 out of every 1000 people (or 499 out of every 500, depending on which expert source you read) can control their cholesterol level and, more importantly, their cardiovascular health, by nutritional improvement." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It's not news that medical research has become big business, often with billions of dollars on the line. The problem is that the search for scientific truth is, by its very nature, unpredictable, and this uncertainty is hardly optimal from a business point of view. There is far too much at stake to leave this process to the uncertainties of science. In this context, the role of the drug and medical-device companies has evolved so that their most important products are no longer the things they make. Now their most important product is "scientific evidence." This is what drives sales." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Nonetheless, bone marrow transplantation had become an accepted therapy (covered by insurance), and big business. A superb article in the New York Times explained that at $80,000 to $200,000 per procedure, the service was a great lure for doctors and hospitals. A for-profit chain of cancer treatment centers, Response Oncology, grossed $128 million in revenues in 1998, mostly from bone marrow transplants. For-profit hospitals were advertising, competing for patients, and even offering to reimburse patients for their transportation costs. Academic medical centers got in on the action." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"They are stalwart supporters of consumer society; their culture is that of the office towers and factories of big business and of the banks and stock markets. Their values are those taught in the most prestigious schools and colleges of America. In 1999 this was the culture of some 48 percent of the American people: 93 million out of about 193 million adults, more men than women. Family income was $40,000 to $50,000 per year, situating moderns in the middle to upper income bracket." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Perfumes are very big business, and represent nearly 50 percent of all prestige beauty dollars now spent in the U.S. Fragrances are also extensively used in a wide range of other products. The primary objectives of IFRA are to protect the self-regulatory practices, policies and status of the industry by the development of a Code of Practices and safety guidelines. These objectives include: • Maintaining a self-policing system based on its own Code of Practices. • Establishing international usage guidelines. • Mamtaining the "trade secret" status of fragrances." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"That is big business for the makers of Turns and Zantac. Almost a third of heartburn sufferers feel they will never again be able to enjoy the foods they love. Another third of frequent heartburn sufferers say medication cost has an influence on their ability to effectively treat their heartburn. Why are we so dependent on drugs for answers? Diet is the most effective treatment of heartburn related symptoms. WHAT IS ACID REFLUX OR HEARTBURN? Acid Reflux is related to an incompetence of the lower esophageal sphincter." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"No wonder stress management is not only a major health goal for the twenty-first century, but big business as well: witness the mushrooming of high-end spas, yoga classes, relaxation techniques, and spiritual retreats. The research on stress and its damaging effects is hardly new, and there's no deficit of techniques for dealing with it. But in the rush to try the latest, hippest technique for stress busting, let's not forget that the basics have been around for eons." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The guano trade mushroomed into big business almost overnight. For the next forty years the Peruvian government earned most of its foreign exchange from selling bird excrement in Europe and North America. With its uniquely high nitrogen content, Peruvian guano had no rivals until manufactured fertilizers came into widespread use for turnips and other root crops in the 1860s. Farmers on the Chesapeake Bay praised guano as thirty-five times more effective than barn manure. Rutabaga and turnip crops in some parts of Maine and Massachusetts quadrupled when fertilized with guano." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In fact, the naming of drugs is now big business. "Coming up with a brand naming used to be an afterthought," says Bill Trombetta, a professor of pharmaceutical marketing. "But today, pharmaceutical companies realize that they need to brand drugs as early as they can and build equity in the brand."113 The stakes are so high that drug companies now work with branding agencies to select just the right name ... a name like Zoloft, uplifting and scientific all at the same time. The hard, decisive sounds of the letters X, Z, C, and D are attractive to drug namers. According to James L." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It is a really big business. If you get a lot of these kids labeled, you get a lot of funding." "Who decides that the child has ADD/ADHD? " Dr. Arlen J. Lieberman: "Dr. Mary Ann Block talks about that in her book No More ADHD. Apparently many doctors just take the teacher's word for it and prescribe the drug even without doing a physical exam." "What other drugs are prescribed for ADD/ADHD besides the ones already mentioned? " Dr. Arlen J. Lieberman: "Amphetamines such as Adderall, Dexedrine and Cylert are also used. These are 'speed' type drugs and are controlled substances." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Well, Methadone is currently big business. In some countries, doctors are permitted to sell it to drug addicts, and they also give prescriptions for this extremely dangerous drug. But guess what? Some of those doctors have already been taken to court. One doctor, who specialized in dealing with drug addicts, started a flourishing business by handing out Methadone to minors and, even worse, selling it to Russian criminals. Another doctor sold Methadone illegally because he needed cash himself - he was on cocainel (Source: Der Spiegel 41/2006, S. 66) So what will the future bring?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "In the end, the pharmacy gets the smaller part of business; the big business is between the doctors and the pharmaceutical industry." "Can the doctor evaluate a new prescription drug easily? " Ulrich Sommer: "Theoretically yes, what I observed was that doctors have hardly the time to look into everything when it comes to a new prescription drug. They get lectures by representatives of the pharmaceutical industry and usually believe their reports." "How do the pharmaceutical companies ensure that they stay on top of the game? " - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Big business insists that the amount released into the environment is insignificant, politicians continue to curry favor with big business by giving them unacceptably long lead times to clean up their act, and meanwhile our rivers, lakes, and oceans are contaminated with this powerful toxin." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "We all know that retooling industrial plants so that they don't spew it everywhere costs a fortune, and we've all watched with dismay as the issue has become a political football, largely because no one wants to pay the enormous price of change. big business insists that the amount released into the environment is insignificant, politicians continue to curry favor with big business by giving them unacceptably long lead times to clean up their act, and meanwhile our rivers, lakes, and oceans are contaminated with this powerful toxin." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Forgotten is the fact that this is the wrong path to vibrant heath; that it weakens the immune system in the long run; and forgotten are the horrible side effects. It's big business. So soldiers are target markets, wonderful ones, because they seldom fight back, they are trained to obey. Each new disease is a wonderful new target market. The old diseases (aids and cancer) are at any rate, if not only for the vaccination professionals. Understand this: it is unbelievably good news for the pharmaceutical industry, if there is a new threat, a new disease. Mass panic sells." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Organic farming is not a big business like regular crop farming. If you have to choose only some organic foods, seek organic foods at your grocery store or health food store that have the skin that is thin or permeable, such as grapes or strawberries because they are more easily permeated by the pesticides. However, you cannot wash away all of the pesticides that is in a fruit that has been sprayed. Once it is contaminated, it stays that way. It is wise to try to consume only organic foods if you can. If you cannot buy fresh fruits and vegetables, you can use flash frozen vegetables." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"It seemed that threats to big business were considered a crime. But I knew in my heart that great health was the birthright of every human being, and I refused to sit back and watch greedy industries take that right away from us. I remembered a conversation with my dad before my mother died. "Son, you have so much passion and fire," he'd said, "but you don't understand how corrupt the system is. Nothing we do will make a difference a hundred years from now—no matter how hard you try to change it." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Marketing to kids is big business. Kids are spending more of their own money at younger ages. They also influence a substantial proportion of the total sales of certain foods, including salty snacks, soft drinks, frozen pizza, and cold cereals.2 The problem of excessive junk food marketing to kids is well documented by other authors and consumer groups.3 In recent years, the issue has taken center stage in the national debate surrounding the causes of the childhood obesity epidemic." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Lowering cholesterol is big business. In 2005, the two top-selling drugs on Forbes magazine's list of pharmaceutical juggernauts were Lipitor and Zocor, both cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. Together, they did a combined business of more than $13 billion. It's worth noting that many researchers believe that the good that statin drugs accomplish has much less to do with their ability to lower cholesterol than their ability to lower inflammation, which is indeed a definite risk for heart disease, as well as a component of Alzheimer's, obesity, and diabetes." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"It's a food guide designed to protect your health, not big business profits, and it's available free of charge as a download right now at www.HonestFoodGuide.org. Weight control with natural stimulants Imagine increasing your energy and mental alertness, suppressing your appetite and helping your body burn fat by increasing your metabolism. Natural stimulants can give you all those benefits, but with a price." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Fluoride treatments are big business, and there are a lots of dentists in competition. The main problem is that most dentists do not realize that they have been lied to by the ADA. This is especially important for the very young and for pregnant mothers. Drink only purified water, free of fluoride. This means you will have to purchase water that is either distilled or treated by reverse osmosis. For those who can afford it, a home distillation or reverse osmosis unit will save you the trouble of purchasing bottled water." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"This is big business in Europe. According to BusinessWeek, "The system is helping foster green investments in countries that are home to some of the world's biggest polluters."25 For example, JGC Corp. and Marubeni Corp. teamed with a chemical maker in China's Zhejiang Province to recover gases released in making refrigerants. The estimated carbon savings was 40 million tons of C02. Now, with this reduction, the company owned credits worth $200 million, which it could sell to other companies that can't meet the required caps. Says BusinessWeek, "Sumitomo Corp." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Environmental groups recognize political influences on science when they ask what happens when "biology meets big business," as in this cover story from Sierra, July/August 2.001. (Courtesy of Sierra magazine and the photographer, Philip Kaake. Reprinted with permission.) New Nature—What Happens When Biology Meets big business?" (see figure 3)." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"How did big business and lobbyists take control of our government? What can be done about it? After decades of political wrangling, misuse and abuse of science, and catering to the demands of lobbyists and corporations, the USDA is now a corrupt behemoth that needs to be dismantled and restructured. Control of agriculture should be in the hands of local government. The federal government may be required for regulating food in cases of interstate commerce and shipments across national borders, but otherwise the feds should stay out of the food business." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Since the 1980s they've gathered increasing support from two unlikely allies - big business and national governments, who've worked out that getting women into work means more consumers, more taxpayers and a massive boost to the economy. On the opposite side of the battlefield are the champions of the traditional family. They urge a return to 'old-fashioned values' by pleading the case of the child ... and, as an incidental aside, the return of woman to the home front and the right of man to retain the role of primary provider." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Let's face it. If big business were really interested in correcting the health of this nation, they would teach the public about the causes, as I'm doing in this book. But they are not! That means we have to wake up to the fact that our only protection lies in educating ourselves about our own bodies and what we are putting into them. We are the cause, and we are the cure. Our only real insurance policy is ourselves. Cooked vs. Raw, Live vs." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

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