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"GREAT britain TAKES STRONG ACTIONS GREAT britain TOOK A STRONGER STAND and banned Halcion in 1991. On December 9, 1991, the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) responded to Upjohn's appeal to rescind their decision with a definitive scientific conclusion about the dangers of Halcion. The agency found a clearly established causal relationship between Halcion and adverse psychiatric effects. These adverse effects occurred, in the committee's opinion, far more frequently with Halcion than with other tranquilizers. Why would Great britain take a tougher stand against Halcion?" - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"For example, the relative lack of a formidable physical frontier in britain (resulting from the relatively small size and scale of the country) has surely contributed to the prominent and abiding role of resdess imagination and exploration in that culture. It broke one of two ways—inward or outward—depending on the temperament of the explorer. Inward-looking souls were drawn to the imagination and created intricate inner worlds. Why do the best children's authors—Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, J. M. Barrie, J. K. Rowling—come from britain? Why did Shelley write Ozymandias?" - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Tom Simpson (Great britain) who admitted the same "fault" died during the Tour de France (1967). Rudi Altig (Germany) admitted the same "mistake" (1969). Eddy MerckX (Belgium) also took Amphetamines (1969). Walter Godefroot (Belgium) took Ritalin (1974). Alex Zulle (Switzerland) took?ra (1998). Christian Henn (Germany) "helped" himself with Testosterone (1999). Johan Museeuw (Belgium) took Epo (2004). Tyler Hamilton (USA) doped himself with blood. (2004). David Millar (Great britain) took Epo (2004). Lance Armstrong (USA) took Epo (2005)." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In the Summer of 2003 Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency prohibited the prescription of the SSRI drug Paxil (sold in britain under the name Seroxat) to depressed patients.142 In December of 2003 the MHPRA declared antidepressants Zoloft, Lexapro, Celexa, Luvox, Serzone, Remeron, and Paxil unsuitable for those under eighteen years of age.143 The Committee on Safety of Medicines, a subagency of the MHPRA, found "the risks of treating depressive illness in under 18s with certain SSRIs outweigh the benefits of treatment." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Alaric agreed to withdraw to the north, subject to a payment of five thousand pounds of gold, thirty • That same year, britain revolted for the last time. It would never again be part of the empire. thousand pounds of silver, and other trinkets, including a ton and a half of pepper. But either because he was fundamentally untrustworthy, or in response to a tteacherous attack by Roman troops, in 410, Alaric and his Visigoths returned. This time, his target was neither Milan nor Ravenna, but Rome." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Though it experienced successive waves of migration from the continent, and traded in high-value objects like amber and precious metals, britain was relatively detached from the Mediterranean world until Julius Caesar began its conquest in 54 B.C.E. Two centuries later, Roman domination was complete, with three legions?15,000 men—and nearly three times as many auxiliary troops enforcing Roman law from Wales to Scotland ... or, at least, to the Tyne River, at the isthmus across which Hadrian built his wall." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Great Britain's Committee on Safety of Medicines—that country's drug monitoring agency—recommended in 1988, "Benzodiazepines should not be used alone to treat depression or anxiety associated with depression. Suicide may be precipitated in such patients." The most interesting evidence for use at the trial had come hot off the griddle—secret FDA documents that had come into my hands. Data from the Spontaneous Reporting System The FDA's Spontaneous Reporting System, now called MedWatch, consists of a computerized record of all reports sent to the agency concerning adverse drug effects." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"United States and Canada, despite being banned in britain, Australia and Norway. The World Health Organization periodically issues warnings, and studies dating back to 1973 have shown it causes internal organ damage and cancer in mice and rats. Cooking with peel, making marmalade, zesting oranges, putting a slice in a drink, even sinking your teeth into an orange may be a flirt with toxicity. In order to establish whether your citrus has been dyed, peel off the rind and look at the white stringy fluff still attached to the fruit—is it orangeish?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "In the 1890s, the apple became Britain's national fruit. The government started an "Eat more fruit" campaign. Although eating citrus was known to prevent scurvy, tens of thousands of soldiers succumbed to the disease as late as the 1910s. The conclusive discovery of vitamins around the time of WWI marked a decisive shift toward considering raw fruits not only as beneficial, but as necessary. Still, fresh fruits disappeared during the twentieth century's world wars." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The same applied in ancient China, where the Imperial gardens were magical diagrams of the otherworld. Britain's Stephen Switzer, author of 1724's The Practical Fruit Gardener, wrote that "a well-contriv'd Fruit-Garden is an Epitome of Paradise itself" The glowing lights on Christmas trees are linked to the pagan Germanic belief in wish-fulfilling trees laden with numinous fruits. References to the divine crop up repeatedly in the scientific names for fruits. Taxonomists named cacao fruits Theobroma, Greek for "food of gods." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The Americas became a separate continent by 11,000 B.C., britain an island five thousand years later. Rivers like the Mississippi and the Nile formed fertile floodplains as they filled up their deep valleys. Pelting rains watered once-dry Southwest Asia and North Africa. Lush oak forests grew along the flanks of the Euphrates and Jordan river valleys in what is now Syria and Jordan. Shallow lakes and semi-arid grasslands covered hundreds of square kilometers of the Sahara." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"A subsequent study by two consumer groups in britain and Sweden found that 79 percent of personal care products on their store shelves carried phthalates, and more than half of them contained multiple phthalates. (4) Nor was the situation any different in Asia. A women's group in South Korea had twenty-four products tested in 2003 and found that 100 percent contained phthalates; half contained more than three different types. (5) Because phthalates have become so prevalent, we have countless opportunities to absorb them every day." - 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.)

"Even for a national scheme such as Britain's, important inaccuracies are readily measurable (Singleton 2007). I am less concerned about the data regarding all-cause mortality. I have some concerns about the accuracy of ascribing death to cardiovascular disease because so many patients have cardiovascular disease as comorbidity at the time of death regardless of the cause, and weighting the proximate cause can be quite subjective." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"An example was Britain's late Sir Richard Doll, a leading expert on the avoidable causes of cancer in his early career. However, fordecades Doll was employed as a closet industry consultant. He trivialized escalating ratios of cancer, explaining them away by blaming the victims and their lifestyles. This was coupled with his "guesstimates" that pollution and industrial products account for only 3 percent of cancer mortality ( 7)." - 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.) "During the reign of Britain's Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century, cosmetics once again fell into disfavor in that country. The Queen considered facial make-up to be vulgar and improper for ladies, and acceptable to wear only if you were an actor or a prostitute. Being simple and plain—which is to say, Victorian—went on to impact much of the English-speaking world's conception of beauty for many years. The early twentieth century's spirit of discovery and innovation helped to jumpstart renewed interest in matters of body care." - 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.)

"If this were to occur, countries such as britain could be in for a dramatic cooling rather than a warming. Hurricanes, which are seeded by warmer tropical waters, are likely to increase—both in frequency and strength. Even a modest global warming could trigger a runaway effect. Frozen in the tundras of northern Canada and Russia are vast amounts of methane, which is an even more potent greenhouse gas. If these areas thawed, releasing their methane into the atmosphere, the world would warm much faster." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The following article, regarding the frustrations of doctors in britain, was taken from an emailed issue of the McAlvany Health Alert (October 23, 2004): The Royal College of General Practitioners has accused drug companies of "disease-mongering" in order to boost sales. The college, whose members include many of Britain's 37,000 GPs, says the pharmaceutical industry is taking the National Health Service to the brink of collapse by encouraging unnecessary prescribing of costly drugs." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Lawyers for the Payne sons were expected to go to the High Court in britain sometime in 2001, to try to prove that the drug is to blame for the deaths of their parents. At the time, Verkaik wrote "If successful, it could open the floodgates for hundreds of other families who believe Prozac played a role in the deaths of loved ones." This article also brings to light that, as of December of 2000, Prozac?was being taken by 500,000 people in britain, (and Americans were taking far more medications than the British)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"He knew that rising postglacial seas had flooded the southern North Sea, once a low-lying, marshy plain that joined britain to the Netherlands, and he theorized boldly that Stone Age people had walked to southeastern England from what is now called the Continent. The Leman and Ower deer antler confirmed his hypothesis, but he was even more interested in the damp peat adhering to the spearhead, which had the potential to yield priceless information about the former land bridge." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "About one-quarter of the Indian government's total expenditure went to pay for Britain's India Office, British officials' pensions, and interest on a rapidly increasing national debt. The excessive overhead charges levied on the Indian government by home authorities and, in turn, on village communities consumed most of India's grain surpluses in the years imme- diately preceding the monsoon failures of 1896-1897 and 1899-1900. Many grain shipments arrived too late and were little more than a salve for British consciences." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "These were the climatically benign centuries when the Norse colonized Greenland and voyaged west to North America, William the Conqueror landed in britain and imposed Norman rule, and Inca civilization rose to prominence in the high Andes. Warmer temperatures and higher sea levels affected New Zealand and the southwest Pacific, perhaps stimulating widespread Polynesian voyaging. It may be no coincidence that canoe travelers from the Society Islands settled New Zealand's North Island during this period, although the exact date of first settlement is unknown." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"When pineapples first arrived in britain they created a frenzy among aristocrats. Bananas once caused such a sensation in the United States that they were served as the piece de resistance at the hundredth-anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence. They symbolized freedom, as they did in East Berlin when the wall came down—garbage cans were surrounded by banana peels, as they were the first thing the Ossis bought. In the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, there have been moments of truce over sharbat, a local fruit juice." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"At the time Glaxo was best known in britain as the company that "builds bonnie babies," a reference to its longtime marketing of a dried milk formula for infants. It also had a successful medicine business but had no operations in the United States, where sales of prescription drugs were booming. An unabashedly self-assured accountant named Paul Girolami was determined that Glaxo would discover America. Girolami had joined Glaxo as financial controller and worked his way up the ranks to become chief executive in 1980." - 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.)

"Though we have more neonatologists and neonatal intensive care units than Australia, Canada, and britain, we also have a higher infant mortality rate. American babies are 3 times more likely to die in the first month of life as children born in Japan and 2.5 times more likely than babies in Finland, Iceland, or Norway. While many experts again link the increase in artificial technologies and multiple births, many feel that stress, poor nutrition, and alcohol abuse might also contribute. Limited access to health care is another problem, as is our lack of emphasis on prenatal care. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A colleague in britain, Susan Greenfield, nicely describes the benefits of reading in relation to other modern activities: "When you are reading a book, you read it and digest it. You can find yourself staring at a blank wall, thinking about the story and its implications. On-screen stories can mitigate against that. Children are likely to go for the most easily available stimulating things, such as speed, noise and so on, rather than digesting the text." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "The reasons why memantine was not approved in britain are complex, but apparently relate in part to the inconsistency in trial results and the drug's limited effect. is there hope for future cholinergic drugs? The story of cholinergic drugs is by no means over." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Harry Cayton, National Director for Patients and the Public, National Health Service in britain alzheimer's 101 I must admit that the myth of Alzheimer's disease can be a monstrous one. It's no wonder people are afraid. After all, no one wants to lose themselves to such a horrific degenerative disease as AD. But we must first consider whether or not Alzheimer's is a disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"In the most cautious such analysis, Professor Edzard Ernst, the exacting and skeptical chair of complementary medicine at Exeter University in britain, concluded that of twenty-three studies, 57 percent had shown a positive effect.22 Among the most rigorously scientific (those with double-blind trials), the average effect size, or size of change among those treated, was 0.40—about 10 times better than the effect size of aspirin or propanolol, two drugs considered highly successful in preventing heart attacks." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

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