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"For example, the food and drug administration (FDA) has recently issued warnings about antidepressants that corroborate much of what I've been saying for many years in numerous books and scientific articles. But most of my colleagues in medicine and psychiatry continue to practice without sufficient regard for the dangers of medication madness or, for that matter, electroshock treatment. The public—and not the medical or psychiatric profession—will have to stem the tide of cavalier prescription practices and the widespread use of mind-altering drugs that often do more harm than good." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Congress, federal regulatory agencies (particularly the food and drug administration [FDA], Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], and Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]), and even more importantly, the public, with well-documented scientific information on how to avoid causes of cancer, other than pointing to lifestyle faults. That information exists, but remains buried in government and industry files and in scientific literature that is relatively inaccessible to the general public." - 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.)

"Unfortunately, it took the food and drug administration (FDA) until 2005 to require drug companies to add black box warnings to antidepressant labels about the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents, and until 2007 to extend that warning to young adults aged eighteen to twenty-four. The Promise of Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Psychoimmunology ¦¦? Despite the forces defending the medical status quo, change is happening. There are some physicians—albeit a relative handful out of the 700,000 in the US—who are using the therapies referred to in this book." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Vaccine injuries are reported to be "rare," but only because very few reactions are "accepted" by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and the food and drug administration (FDA) as being caused by vaccines. I have frequently said that when a vaccine is given, and a bad reaction occurs, "ANYTHING BUT" the vaccine is "blamed" for the reaction." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, our own food and drug administration is not so enlightened yet. Now that governments are getting involved in doing the right thing, perhaps the traditional medical community will follow suit. But first we have to educate them to do so. As most of you may know, representatives from pharmaceutical companies make regular rounds to the offices of prescribing medical professionals like physicians, physician assistants (PAs), advanced practice nurses (APRNs), and nurse practitioners (NPs) to keep them informed about the latest drugs their companies are releasing." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"On May 21, 2007, the food and drug administration issued a news release in which it stated that rosiglitazone was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and other heart-related conditions. The related article published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the risks were 43 percent for heart failure and 64 percent for death from cardiovascular causes. Insulins For people who have type 1 diabetes, insulin is a life-saving medication that must be taken every day." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In 1988, the food and drug administration found that 73 percent of milk samples from grocery stores in ten different cities contained pesticide residues. While you may have been led to believe that milk is necessary for strong bones and teeth, it may not be good for you or your children. Still, if you do decide to give your child dairy products, I strongly recommend that you go organic. Let's take a closer look at some of the potentially dangerous substances that might be present in nonorganic cow's milk: • Growth hormones." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"By 1982 so many reports of toxic reactions had surfaced that the food and drug administration proposed that thimerosal be banned in over-the-counter products, and in 1991 the FDA considered banning it from animal vaccinations. Even so, it remained a standard in human vaccinations, because it was unquestionably effective as a preservative. American health authorities, still traumatized by the polio epidemic of the mid-1900s, embraced the concept of vaccination, and were willing to accept the negative aspects of thimerosal as a reasonable element of the risk/benefit ratio." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In the United States, the food and drug administration is responsible for ensuring all probiotics in supplements and foods are safe. In New Zealand, supplements are guarded by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority. In Canada, it is the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Natural Health Products Directorate that ensures all probiotics on the shelf are safe. Other countries have similar regulations. Many countries, including Canada, require that all probiotic supplements are third-party tested to ensure they are pure, potent and of the highest quality." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This very same Crestor has been under fire by the consumer group Public Citizen, which contends that this drug has "unique risks" and should not be prescribed, especially at the dose (40 mg a day] used in the study unless smaller doses and other drugs fail to help. The food and drug administration in 2005 required a warning on its label because of potentially serious kidney and musculoskeletal problems." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "So much in fact that in 2004 the food and drug administration permitted food containing olive oil to carry labels saying it may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Although limited, the evidence suggests that eating about 2 tablespoons (2 3 grams) of olive oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the monounsaturated fat content. So a change as simple as sauteing food at a low heat in olive oil instead of butter may be much better for your heart." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"U. S. food and drug administration (FDA) 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville MD 20857-0001 888-INFO-FDA (888-463-6332) www.fda.gov/ Helpful Websites Second Look For a bibliography of scientific literature on fluoride, go to www.slweb.org/bibliography.html The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) www.atsdr.cdc.gov Air Now (for air quality index and information) www.airnow.gov Chemical Industry Archives, a project by Environmental Working Group www.chemicalindustryarchives.org Environmental Health Perspectives www.ehponline." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Association (AMA), the food and drug administration (FDA), and the major oncology centers all feel threatened by the successes of alternative cancer therapies. Of course, this is not difficult to understand, given the high failure rate (93%) of medical therapies." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Surprisingly, cosmetics ingredients don't fall under the jurisdiction of either the EPA or the food and drug administration, and many such products sold in the United States today contain known toxins. Formaldehyde and toluene, both identified by the EPA as carcinogens, are part of the mix in many common cosmetics, including nail care products, as are phthalates, chemicals that have been linked to birth defects. Cosmetics manufacturers are now required to disclose dangerous ingredients to the State Department of Health and Human Services, but they are not required to remove them." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"All of the drug-induced psychiatric side effects described in this book can be documented in the scientific literature, and the food and drug administration has now confirmed most of them, including antidepressant-induced suicide and mania. Several sections in Medication Madness, including chapter 1, will describe and discuss the criteria necessary for determining whether a drug played a causative role in producing a harmful outcome." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Supporting this theory is the Food and Drug Administration's requirement that baby formula manufacturers include long- and short-chain RNAs in their products so babies have fewer cases of diarrhea. RNAs seem to be essential nutrients especially when the body is under physiological stress. "This information was really only uncovered in the last 10 to 15 years, and again, Beljanski provided so much of the research findings first and most accurately," said Dr. Grutsch. "Today, the data are overwhelming." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Most recently, based on these successful clinical reports, Maitake D-fraction was given an investigational new drug status from the food and drug administration (FDA) to conduct a Phase II pilot study in the United States on its benefits in treatment of advanced breast and prostate cancer patients. Because of the established safety of the Maitake D-fraction, the FDA waived the need for additional Phase I toxicity studies." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "The United States food and drug administration (FDA) in 2000 also granted orphan drug status to a systemic enzyme supplement. Studies using systemic enzymes as an adjuvant therapy for multiple myeloma (cancer of the B cells in the blood) showed promising results. Since 1977, systemic enzymes have been used with success for chemotherapy patients in Europe. CLINICAL CASES In excess of 160 clinical studies support the efficacy of systemic enzyme therapies. In July 1993, Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"On September 19,1974, Sam Fine of the food and drug administration sent a letter saying that "miracle-fruit products" were not allowed to be sold in any form whatsoever. "Immediately, under penalty of law, I had to close the company down," recalls Harvey. Up until that point, Miralin had been assured by key government figures that the miracle fruit would easily attain regulatory approval. After all, studies had concluded that miracle fruits were entirely safe even in massive doses." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "He says this is one of the few places on the mainland that I'll be able to taste it: after being perceived as a threat to the sugar industry, commercial production of the fruit was banned by the food and drug administration in the 1960s. Nearby is a thorny cactus covered in dragon fruits. A little farther down the path is a fruit that he describes as a pet project: the keppel. Initially discovered at the deserted Water Palace of Indonesia, an erstwhile harem, the keppel was once used as an aphrodisiac by the sultans and their odalisques." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Senator Orrin Hatch was the architect of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which absolved producers from having to gain food and drug administration approval before being sold. Not surprisingly, Hatch is himself an investor in Utah herbal companies such as Pharmics and accepts major financial donations from supplement manufacturers. The makers of XanGo made campaign contributions of $46,200 to Hatch in 2006." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"While it may seem trite to say that consumers must assume responsibility for their own safety and health, the reality is that, in the absence of leadership from the various states, until Congress legislatively forces the food and drug administration to do its job, we have only ourselves to rely upon." - 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.) "This role puts the food and drug administration in the middle of the health-education business. [Emphasis added.] Kennedy never had the reforming effect on his Agency that he sought, but his position remains a vigorous statement on the "responsibility of government to intervene actively, if only with information, to protect the public from health risks that are not sufficiently warded off by the forces of the market." His vision of government's role remains just as pertinent and essential in this century as when he made those remarks decades ago." - 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.) "The FFDCA does not require pre-market safety testing, review, or approval for either cosmetics or and personal care products, and the U. S. food and drug administration can pursue enforcement action only after a cosmetic and personal care product enters the marketplace. Q. Doesn't the cosmetics and personal care products industry regulate itself to make sure products are safe? On numerous occasions FDA officials have found that many cosmetic manufacturers lack adequate data from safety tests and have generally refused to disclose the results of even the tests they have done." - 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.)

"The drug companies reporting their findings to the food and drug administration (FDA) only need to prove that the tested drug have shown some benefit in some people. If the researchers manage to recruit enough candidates with a positive disposition that are likely to produce a good placebo response to the drug treatment, they may hit the jackpot and produce a "convincing" study, and a marketable drug." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Some academic disciplines are devoted to pushing back the frontier of this methodological triumph, and certain licensing agencies, beginning with the food and drug administration (fda) in the 1960s, now demand evidence of safety and efficacy before pharmaceuticals can be marketed (see chapter 9). The ethic, the methodology, and the regulations have converged to create the modern clinical trials enterprise. It is an enormous enterprise, spewing forth trials in the thousands and data points in the millions each year. Its output threatened to overwhelm comprehensibility and effectiveness." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"HYPERTENSION AND STROKE: According to the food and drug administration, "Foods, such as potatoes, that are good sources of potassium and low in sodium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke." Tips on Using Potatoes SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Select firm, smooth potatoes. Avoid those with wrinkled or wilted skins, soft dark areas, cut surfaces, or those green in appearance. • Potatoes will keep for several weeks when left in a cool, dark place with good ventilation. But don't store potatoes in the refrigerator because they will become dark when cooked." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "HEART HEALTH: The food and drug administration advises that "Diets containing foods that are good sources of potassium and low in sodium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke." WEIGHT CONTROL: Fibers found in the white layer of an orange curb appetite and suppress hunger levels for up to four hours after eating. Studies show that people who eat fruit such as oranges tend to eat less at subsequent meals compared to people who eat snacks such as chips, snack crackers, desserts, or candy." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "HEART DISEASE: The United States food and drug administration (FDA) in clear, albeit careful, terms has stated: "Limited and not conclusive scientific evidence suggests that eating about two tablespoons (23 grams) of olive oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the monounsaturated fat in olive oil. To achieve this possible benefit, olive oil is to replace a similar amount of saturated fat and not increase the total number of calories you eat in a day." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "In 2003, the food and drug administration approved a limited health claim for almonds saying that consuming them may reduce the risk of heart disease. Dr. David Jenkins of the University of Toronto found that eating a healthy diet that included almonds reduced inflammation by about the same level as taking Lovastatin, a popular statin drug for fighting heart disease. The almond-rich diet not only lowered cholesterol but it also lowered C-reactive protein, a leading marker of inflammation and an independent risk factor for heart disease." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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