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"Until the last decade, hollywood offered two paradigms of mental instability: the kindly mentally impaired person, suffering from some vaguely defined but nonetheless manifestly organic neurological disease (Rain Man, Awakenings), or the homicidal over-the-top psychotic (Psycho, Taxi Driver). But the last decade has brought depictions, sometimes even accurate ones, of specific disorders—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression—and their treatments. hollywood has, in other words, discovered diagnosis and nuance." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Citizens Committee on Human Rights 6362 hollywood Boulevard, Suite B Los Angeles CA 90028 Tel: (727) 723-2176 AUBREY M. WORRELL, JR., M.D., is a board-certified allergist/immunologist with special interests in clinical ecology, environmental medicine, and nutrition. RAY C. WUNDERLICH, JR., M.D., is a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practices nutritional and preventive medicine. 8821 MLK Street North St. Petersburg FL Tel: (727) 822-3612 JOSE A. YARYURA-TOBIAS, M.D., is the medical director at the Institute for Bio-Behavioral Therapy and Research." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If cholesterol were a hollywood movie, it would be a blockbuster. The marketing success of health agencies in raising awareness of cholesterol has been enormous. What Is Cholesterol? Labeled as a "bad guy," cholesterol has been thought to play a limited role in the body. Contrary to popular belief, cholesterol has a number of essential functions in the body. In every cell of your body, cholesterol is a major part of the plasma membrane. The plasma membrane surrounds each cell and is involved in transporting nutrients, waste and messages between cells." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Next time you're on the John, rather than burying your head in the tabloids to get the latest dirt on hollywood stars, you may be better off getting the scoop on your own poop. You may lift the lid on a myriad of medical conditions, some of which may even be life-threatening. GREEN STOOLS A green planet is something most of us would love to have, but green stools? In fact, green stools may be a perfectly healthy and benign sign that you've been eating a lot of green vegetables, which are rich in chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Her afterglow started a fashion trend among hollywood starlets that hasn't abated to this day. In 1944, Miami pharmacist Benjamin Green developed a suntan cream called Red Vet Pet, which he made from a mixture of cocoa butter and jasmine, cooked on his wife's stove, and tested on his own bald head. Sun-worshippers on Florida beaches were his target consumers. His creation later became Coppertone Suntan Cream, the first mass produced sunscreen. Mainstream consumers soon took note, and a multi-billion dollar industry was spawned." - 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.) "By 1929 a bevy of hollywood actresses had generated still another new fashion trend ?skin tanning, using specially formulated self-tanning liquids and powders. It wasn't until 1936 that a chemist, Eugene Schueller, founder of L'Oreal, invented the first sunscreen. Another eight years would pass before Florida pharmacist Benjamin Green created the first mass-marketed suntan lotion, which came to be known as Coppertone." - 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.) "A New Cleopatra Playing the movie role of Cleopatra in 1917, silent film star Theda Bara, Hollywood's first sex symbol, caused a sensation by wearing layers of cosmetics applied by Helena Rubinstein, the cosmetic industrialist responsible for introducing mascara and colored facial powders to mainstream consumers. Theda Bara started another fashion trend by painting her toenails, which newspapers and magazines breathlessly reported to be a milestone in the annals of beauty innovation." - 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.)

"Hollywood Glo ($24) is another bottle of liquid shimmer lotion with a pale golden pink shimmer. Compared to High Beam and Moon Beam above, the shine is subtle and works under or over foundation or moisturizer to highlight skin, but only if your nose can tolerate the potent rosy fragrance of this product (it's strong enough to clash with your regular perfume). © $$$ hollywood Glo Body Lustre ($26) is a shimmer-infused body balm that leaves skin shiny but is also over-scented. It's a decent option, but make sure you like the fragrance, because it really lingers." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"This less threatening image of a squatter also adds a touch of reality to a topic that many may relegate to the realm of sorcery or hollywood. The truth is that disembodied souls taking up residence in folks is more common than you would think. Accidental, traumatic, sudden, and ungrieved death seems to cause a soul to become destabilized on its journey to the afterlife. Unfortunately, hospital deaths can be very traumatizing as they are often very unnatural in the way they take place." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Later that year, Nelson planned to attend the Direct Mental Healing Interactions (DHML) group, held at the Esalen Institute in California, which promised to be a powerful conference of a dozen scientists examining how to conduct research on healing. In hollywood, a certain awe was reserved for people who were 'good meetings'. In Nelson's case, the question was whether a REG machine would pick up the good vibrations as well." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The depiction of craziness or mental impairment used to make the occasional appearance in the hollywood of the 1930s through the 1970s—The Lost Weekend, The Three Faces of Eve, The Snake Pit—but now, clearly, it is an annual affair. Every A-list actor, it seems, has to take their shot playing a mentally retarded or crazy person. In addition, the nature of the portrayal has changed." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Regulars at the hollywood farmer's market freak out when they learn that the season is over. "People really into kishus have kishu issues," laughs Brenneis. For the most part, farmers grow trees bred to produce efficiently and abundantly, rather than the delicious, forgotten anomalies of yesteryear. Those willing to grow fine fruits often care deeply about their crops. Passion is essential: the technical and artistic challenges of a fickle fruit are infinitely complex. It's more lucrative to simply sell one's farmland. Unless, of course, there's nothing else you'd rather be doing." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Just as hollywood churns out sequels, kiwi growers are finding new ways to capitalize on the fruit's initial success. With golden kiwis making a splash in recent years, red- and purple-fleshed kiwis, as well as a variety covered with white polka dots, are now being introduced. Tiny hardy kiwis with edible skin, known as peewees or passion popper kiwi-berries, have also started generating solid revenues due in large part to their cotton candy flavor. Proper promotion is vital, says Frieda Kaplan, a wholesaler who worked with growers to promote the original green kiwis. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Like that golden speck that fell in my lap in hollywood, any plant part containing a seed is a fruit. In botanical parlance, a fruit is the developed ovary of a flower, alongside any other structures that ripen with it and form a unit with it. Fruits are basically plant eggs. In human terms, think of a pregnant woman: a fruit is the plant version of the amniotic bubble that contains the fetus. The baby is the seed (or seeds, as with quintuplets); the entire spherical container in which the baby floats is the fruit. A fruit is how a plant gives birth." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "I was sprawled on a poolside deck chair at Hollywood's Highland Gardens Hotel, reading about how fairy tales are the basis for our modern stories. Just as I began a paragraph describing the magic seeds that guide the hero through treacherous trials, a golden speck landed on the page. I looked up at the branch overhead. A moment later, a second speck fell onto the open book, right on the y in eternity. Pressing my finger into it, I picked up the plant particle to give it a closer examination. Slightly smaller than a peppercorn, it was oblong and covered in tiny bristles." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"If only microbes were a more glamorous topic, this epic war would be the next blockbuster hit in hollywood, but we are not likely to soon see Brad Pitt on the big screen, depicting this bacterial intestinal war. Despite the lack of glamour and glitz, the war in your intestines between good and bad microbes is perhaps the most important war you'll ever learn of. Let's first look at why your intestines are exposed to incoming microbes. The intestines are exposed to almost everything in your environment." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"A fad diet based on eating grapefruits was developed in hollywood, California, and first became popular in the 1930s, making a later resurgence in the 1970s. Medical and nutritional experts found it to be nutritionally incomplete and unsound. But be assured—adding grapefruit to a healthy diet is sound advice and may be a valuable tool in achieving an optimal weight! CANCER: A study found that a particular flavonoid found specifically in grapefruit helps to repair damaged DNA in human prostate cancer cells." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Write down your history in two or three pages, as if you were writing the synopsis to the hollywood screenplay of your life. Do it in chronological order: birthplace, family of origin, schools, moves, jobs, important relationships, memorable accomplishments, major setbacks, lost love, births of children, and so on. Chronicle the five major people (question 1) and five major events at the point they occurred (question 2), along with important events relating to the things that jazz you (question 3)." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"When his paper was published, Popp was 33 and good-looking, with the set jaw and direct steel-blue gaze of a hollywood swashbuckler and a boyish face always assumed to be years younger. Even his wife, who was seven years younger than him, was often mistaken as the senior partner. And indeed, there was something of the swashbuckler about him; he had a reputation among his fellow students as the best fencer on campus ?a reputation which had been tested in various duels, one of which had left him with a gash all along the left side of his head." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The executives talked about their companies' medicines as if they were hollywood producers about to release a new film. They spoke of "launching their next blockbuster," which they defined as a medicine that could bring in sales of one billion dollars or more in a single year. It was astounding to learn a company could earn so much from chemicals pressed into tablets. A billion dollars was enough in 2004 to send more than eighty-eight thousand American students to a public university, covering not only their tuition, but also their fees, room, and board." - 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.)

"He promptly told me some hollywood version of "been there done that." "That stuff doesn't work," he told me. "I tried it for a while and nothing happened." When I questioned him more closely, I found out he had been taking one or two capsules a day. "Like the bottle says to," he added. And how much was in each capsule? He had no idea, but I checked. Each capsule was 500 mg. Fuggedaboudit! I put him on 8 to 10 grams a day of MSM. Since that comes to about 16 to 20 capsules, I put him on the powdered form (available on my website, www.jonnybowden." - 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.) "MSM for Pain and Inflammation A FEW YEARS AGO I used to regularly hike in Runyon Canyon in the hollywood Hills with a friend of mine who used to be a big television star. (Now he does reality shows, but that's another story.) This guy is in great shape, but his years as a professional dancer and athlete had taken a toll on his knee and he was beginning to have some real difficulties with our usual hike. He was beginning to limp a little." - 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.)

"LUMINAL: A TRUE hollywood STORY Some of the first treatments of insomnia were barbiturates. Also known colloquially in the 1950s and 1960s as "mother's little helper," barbiturates have been around since the late nineteenth century, when heavy doses were found to put users out for a day and a half. In 1912 two independent teams of chemists synthesized what became known as Luminal, or phenobarbitol, a drug to which users can easily build up a resistance." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The Hippocrates Health Institute, one of the places where people have gone to learn about the raw food diet, was once described by Cosmopolitan magazine as the "well-kept secret" of beauty and rejuvenation of various famous hollywood movie stars and celebrities. Now the news media are letting the secret out. When Demi Moore appeared in a bikini in the Charlie's Angels movie Full Throttle and looked every bit as great as the women younger than her, the word went out that the secret was her raw food diet. Other celebrities who have caught the wave include Alicia Silverstone and Woody Harrelson." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "He owns a raw food restaurant in hollywood and is also chef to some of the stars, such as Demi Moore. Some of the recipes are time-consuming, as they entail making two or three recipes in one. But the results are well worth it ?truly gourmet eating. Roxanne Klein and Charlie Trotter's Raw is also heavy-duty gourmet. I used to think Juliano's recipes were complicated until I saw this book. The recipes look intimidating, but once you get started, they are worth it. Each recipe is depicted in a stunning, full-color photo." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "She became happy and carefree, and she was free from addictions] Bragg reported, "She became one of the best writers in the hollywood TV and movie world. Her income doubled and tripled. Her personal magnetism increased, and she attracted a handsome, wholesome man for a husband" (The Miracle of Fasting, pp. 110-111). Through his experience in supervising fasts, Paul Bragg proved repeatedly that anyone with addictions can find the answer in fasting. When the body becomes clean, it will no longer tolerate poisons without taking action to expel them." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "A hilarious hollywood glimpse into life at The Sans can be seen in the movie The Road to Wellville. The emphasis on keeping the colon clean is vividly portrayed in this turn-of-the-century trip to a fancy health retreat for the rich and famous! If one genetically predisposed to bowel problems abuses his genetics by eating a toxic diet, intestinal pathology inevitably results over time. One or more of the following can develop: flatulence, odor, diarrhea, constipation, colitis, ulcerative colitis, spastic colon, diverticulosis, polyps, tumors, cancer and other conditions." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"He and his food creations were reportedly, "the toast of hollywood." The fare was billed as "Uncooked, Unadulterated, Unbelievably Delicious Living Food." Although this hardback volume is somewhat expensive, it is worth the price for the interest, variety, and enjoyment it can add to raw food eating. Its table of contents lists a wide array of items such as: soups, salads, breads, snacks, sushi, pizza, main courses, desserts, drinks, dressings, and sauces. The items are vegan cuisine with nothing heated above ioo°f (38°c). A second recipe book is The Raw Gourmet by Nomi Shannon." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"But the last decade has brought depictions, sometimes even accurate ones, of specific disorders—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression—and their treatments. hollywood has, in other words, discovered diagnosis and nuance. Shine, A Beautiful Mind, As Good as It Gets, Good Will Hunting, and Girl, Interrupted have all presented characters that are ill but talented, impaired but not stupid, troubled but attractive. The drugs themselves have become protagonists in recent movies." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Elixir Teas and Tonics 8612 Melrose Ave West hollywood, CA 90069 310.657.9310 A quaint cafe in hollywood that offers amazing raw treats, teas and tonics! Erewhon 7660-A Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 323-937-0777 Fax: 323-937-2281 erewhonmarket@yahoo.com Words can hardly describe the cornucopia of raw food available here. Quite simply the best selection of raw prepared food and superfoods ever. The Euphoria Company 717 Broadway Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-383-1513 Contact: MattAmsden www.euphoriacompany.com www.rawvolution." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

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