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"The food industry's labeling distorts our perception of healthy foods. For example, packages state the contents are "low fat" yet they are high in refined carbohydrates, salt, sugar and chemicals. All the other ingredients may make us fat but the product itself contains less fat. We assume a low fat product is a healthy choice, but often it is not. Did you know? You are what you eat and do not excrete.... If you spread out the surface of the lining of your small intestine, it would fill the surface of a tennis court!" - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Instead of asking all children to be able to read at the same time, let's embrace and appreciate all their differences instead of labeling them when they're five years old. Very simply, there just aren't that many kids who need to be medicated. Difficulties in school early on may simply call for transferring your child to a new school that has different teaching methods. There's no point in putting your children in a learning environment that makes them feel incompetent or unintelligent. This only leads to more frustration and pressure on the children, the educators, and the parents." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Even on its own terms, the labeling policy that is the mainstay of CPSC action on toxic materials is inadequate. In 1991, the Public Interest Research Group called on the CPSC to crack down on improper labeling of arts and crafts supplies, including glues, when it found that 44 percent of the products it surveyed carried insufficient warnings. " 'Our compliance people will take a look at it,' replied a CPSC spokesperson." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"However, when information was encoded within the atoms as to the path they took, the fringes vanished. The labeling of the paths did not need to be read out to produce the disappearance of the interference pattern; it was enough that the atoms were labeled so that this information could be read out. It appears that not only do individually emitted, and hence presumably corpuscular, particles or atoms interfere with each other as waves, but a which-path detecting apparatus is also coherently coupled with the stream of particles or atoms to which the apparatus is tuned." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Jacob Liberman, author of the book Light: Medicine of the Future (1991), puts it in perspective, as follows: For years we have been labeling and re-labeling children who appear to have difficulties we do not understand. We test and tutor them continually, only to find out that they are usually very bright but that for some reason outside of our understanding they do not achieve in the expected manner within the traditional learning environment." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"It is not an all inclusive list because new labeling deceptions are invented to confound the consumer. Labeling Requirements for Imported Foods According to the FDA, imported food items are required to comply with the same labeling standards as food products manufactured in the United States. However, FDA officials are quick to say that the enforcement of labeling standards is very difficult. They cannot easily check manufacturing plants in foreign countries." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"Despite these impurities, many of these products were nevertheless labeled as "organic" or "natural" because the government does not regulate personal-care-product labeling, and a product need only contain one or two botanical extracts to acquire the "natural" or "organic" label. The FDA has reviewed the safety of only 11 percent of the 10,500 ingredients being used in personal-care products today. Which means the onus is on you to do your own screening." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Included in the FDA's proposed bill was a sweeping rejection of states' right to regulate any aspect of labeling. The FDA furthermore proposed an exemption for the cosmetics and personal care products industry from requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires that industries issue formal statements on possible toxic environmental impacts of their ingredients and products. The FDA's proposal evoked strong criticism from Senator Edward Kennedy and thankfully failed to pass." - 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.)

"I'm sure I got into the habit of criticizing and labeling. I was putting the kids down." She was forced to quit working in 2000, when she became disabled from the rare disease she had been battling since childhood. The connective tissue disease called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has crippled her with arthritis. She now needs a cane to walk. Her eyesight is almost gone. She loses the phone when she puts it down. But she hasn't lost her spirit. When I admired the view of the wooded hills from her living room, she said, "I can't see it anymore, but I know it's beautiful.'" - 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.)

"PCNA] and Ki67) are used more widely to quantify proliferative activity in tissue specimens. labeling indices involving tritiated thymidine and PCNA have been used to quantify the proliferative activity in colonic mucosal samples from human subjects [85] and have been used successfully as end points in several nutrition intervention studies to prevent colon cancer [86]. These indices are being further refined by staining for proteins present during apoptosis (e.g., Bax, Bcl-2) and in differentiated cells in order to provide a more complete picture of cell dynamics." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Nancy Waxier, an anthropologist who helped develop social labeling theory, has shown that the socially stigmatizing labels we use in Western industrialized countries often prolong and exacerbate illness.20 For instance, she found that in modern societies, expectations and beliefs about mental illness serve largely to alienate schizophrenic patients from their normal roles and thus to prolong illness. In contrast, nonbiomedical beliefs and practices held in nonindustrial societies encouraged shorter-term illness and a quicker return to normality." - 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.)

"Most drugs, in fact, are made with chlorine (you'll see the "CI" in drug labeling). It's been said that you absorb the vast majority of the sun's damage to your skin by the time you reach the ripe old age of eighteen. Well, it has also been suggested that by the time you were six months old, you had already absorbed about 30 percent of your total lifetime toxic load of chemicals. Some of that chemical load is largely due to the combinations of vaccines children receive that also contain additives." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"This study found nearly a 7-fold increase in heart attack risk with low dose Vioxx. The labeling at approval said nothing about heart attack risks. In November 2000, another Merck clinical trial named VIGOR found a 5-fold increase in heart attack risk with high-dose Vioxx. The company said the drug was safe and that the comparison drug naproxen was protective. In 2002, a large epidemiologic study reported a 2-fold increase in heart attack risk with high-dose Vioxx and another study reported that naproxen did not affect heart attack risk." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "B), Congress defined any statement in labeling concerning the relationship of a nutrient "to a disease or a health-related condition" to be a health claim. Before the NLEA became law, FDA pressed upon Congress its desire that the statutory definition for "health claim" be the same as was contained in an FDA 1990 proposed rule (defining "health messages" as "the value that ingestion (e.g., reduced ingestion) of a dietary component may have in either lowering the risk, or forestalling the premature onset, of a particular chronic disease"169)." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "In their comments Pearson and Shaw advocated that FDA adopt a bifurcated approach in which the agency would permit on the label and in labeling claims that were truthful (even if the claims were not backed by that level, degree, or quality of scientific evidence FDA deemed necessary to endorse a claim), leaving FDA with the option of including a disclaimer to make clear the agency's objections." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "About 18 months after the VIGOR results were published, FDA made a labeling change about heart attack risk with high-dose Vioxx, but did not place this in the "Warnings" section. Also, it did not ban the high-dose formulation and its use. I believe such a ban should have been implemented. Of note, FDA's label change had absolutely no effect on how often high-dose Vioxx was prescribed, so what good did it achieve? In March of 2004, another epidemiologic study reported that both high-dose and low-dose Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks compared to Vioxx's leading competitor, Celebrex." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"The memo stated in bold letters that "Pharmacia does not, may not and will not promote or encourage the usage of our products outside of the approved labeling." Anyone who works in pharmaceutical marketing knows that it is illegal to promote a product beyond the FDA-approved labeling. A company can't say the drug works for a disease or use which has not been approved by the FDA. Companies that have been caught doing so have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The question in my mind was simple: Since everyone knew this basic fact of pharmaceutical sales and marketing, why the memo?" - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Because wheat is the most commonly used grain in the United States, by clarifying the source of ingredients and identifying "wheat," about 90% of labeling concerns are resolved for celiac and gluten-sensitive patients. The new law also calls for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue rules, by 2008, detailing what it means when a product is labeled "gluten-free." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"As soon as you do, accountability becomes once again a matter of relationships instead of regulation or labeling or legal liability. Food safety didn't become a national or global problem until the industrialization of the food chain attenuated the relationships between food producers and eaters. That was the story Upton Sinclair told about the Beef Trust in 1906, and it's the story unfolding in China today, where the rapid industrialization of the food system is leading to alarming breakdowns in food safety and integrity." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The good news is that new labeling laws let you know how much trans fat is in a product. And by limiting full-fat dairy products, higher-fat red meats, poultry skin, stick margarine (except cholesterol-lowering types), cookies, crackers, and fast-food french fries, you can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease. Try to keep saturated fat to less than 7 percent of your total calories per day (about 15 grams for a 2,000-calorie diet), and try to eliminate trans fats completely." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Some margarines and shortenings contain as much as 20 to 40 percent trans fatty acids, though with new labeling laws now in effect, consumer demand for trans-free products may make unhealthier products harder to find in the future. FOOD SYNERGY AND THE GOOD FATS Here are just a few exciting examples of the synergistic partnerships good fats can offer, but I'm sure there are many more we haven't discovered yet. Boost nutrient absorption with good fat." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"In November 2006 the FDA approved a labeling supplement precaution about neuropsychiatric events based on postmarketing reports (mostly in children from Japan) of self-injury and delirium with the use of Tamiflu in patients with influenza. GARDASIL The human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus that is spread by unprotected sexual intercourse, affects more than half of the world's population. HPV can cause genital warts and in rare cases cervical cancer. Of those who are infected, however, 95% are asymptomatic and never know they have HPV." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The doctor will be aware of an extensive psychiatric literature labeling patients with unexplained symptoms as "somatizers" or "hypochondriacs." We'll discuss these labels in more detail later, but they've been around long enough to cause many generalists, family doctors, and internists to apply them in all too many cases. You see your symptoms as real; your doctor looks skeptical and makes a mental note that you're a "crock" or a complainer." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Canada, all the while labeling those medical doctors "quacks." It happened to Dr. Leo Roy whom I quote in this book. The final stroke of genius was to ensure that the general public could afford the expensive drugs and treatment procedures. Government health insurance was set up, but only for orthodox medical treatment. Health insurance companies were convinced that the medical association treatment methods were the best and that natural healing methods were ineffective. With these organizations in place, the pharmaceutical cartel's control was complete, and tremendous profits were assured." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Gadamer was correct: if the condition doesn't objectify itself, one is hard pressed to consider it a disease and is likely to do the patient a disservice by labeling it so (Meador 1965). But aging is acquired and objectifies itself in many ways, from graying to weakened bones. Are aging, graying, and weakened bones disease states? Chapter n is devoted to this query. I have long taught medical students that one of the most dangerous acts a physician undertakes is to take a history from a patient. We have no choice but to do so." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "The same consequence of labeling has been shown for the "hypertension," "sickle trait," and several other diagnoses. Other statins have been tested for effectiveness in primary prevention, in- randomized controlled trials. These often recruit thousands of subjects, seek the statistical power to detect the small difference in effectiveness I decry, and last a year or a few years. Post-marketing, the agent can be prescribed to tens of thousands for many years. As with Baychol, it only takes the appearance of fifty tragedies from unique complications to spot the toxicity and assign its cause." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Bringing a probiotic-containing functional food to the market: Microbiological, product, regulatory and labeling issues. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 76, 293-315. 86. Fasoli, S., Marzotto, M., Rizzotti, L., Rossi, F., Dellaglio, F., and Torriani, S. (2003). Bacterial composition of commercial probiotic products as evaluated by PCR-DGGE analysis. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 82, 59-70. 87. Saxelin, M., Tynkkynen, S., Mattila-Sandholm, T., and de Vos, W. M. (2005). Probiotic and other functional microbes: From markets to mechanisms. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 16, 204-211. 88. Alander, M., Satokari, R." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Take heart—most food labels are going to get better. New labeling law to the rescue Under a new federal law, the Nutrition labeling and Education Act of 1990, the FDA is going to be overhauling food labeling requirements to give us more accurate, useful information on the nutrition value of our food. For one thing, detailed nutrition labeling will be required on most packaged foods (right now it's required only if a product makes nutritional claims or if it has been fortified)." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely In A Risky World (Get the book.)

"The American Psychiatry Association introduced a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 1952, revised in 1987 (called DSM-III-R), in which symptoms and signs, personality disorders and mental disorders are described, physical conditions, psycho social stressors, etc, are (in the best case) put together, but the labeling of a condition is often questionable. Today, we have less electroshock (at least it is banned in some countries by law), but we have an overload of drugs. We have an unbelievable amount of drugs with partially horrible side effects." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "What were your observations regarding the psychiatric labeling of mental diseases? " Dr. Whitaker: "It is obvious to me that psychiatrists simply make up diseases. The DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of psychiatric diagnoses, is nothing but a list of clusters of human behaviors that have been classified in such a way as to create disease. So now we have all these diseases that do not have a shred of laboratory or diagnostic verification other than the description of an individual's behavior." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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