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"What's interesting about this test is that the relationship between a bone mineral density test result and the risk of fracture is very close—closer, in fact, than the relationship between cholesterol and the risk of heart attack or between high blood pressure and the risk of stroke. The u.s. government gives us averages that doctors can use as standards for calculating T-scores. Here's how the results break down: ?Negative T-score: your bones have less mineral than desirable, and your fracture risk is increased ?0 to -0.9: normal ?-1.0 to -2.4: osteopenia or moderately low ?-2." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"According to a National Research Council report, most u.s. government policies actually "work against environmentally benign practices and the adoption of alternative agriculture systems." Governmental regulatory boards aren't only beholden to their benefactors—agribusiness corporations have donated over 400 million dollars to U.S. political parties since 1990—they're helmed by industry affiliates with blatantly vested interests. "More than a hundred representatives from polluting industries occupy key spots at the federal agencies that regulate environmental quality," reports Robert F." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Chiquita's profligacy worked: the u.s. government ended up imposing a 100 percent tax on a number of European products, such as Camembert cheese, cashmere sweaters and luxury handbags. The sanctions served their purpose: the banana quota was lifted and Chiquita emerged with an even greater share of the European market. Such strong-arm tactics have long dominated international trade. America is the world's leading food exporter, selling 40 billion dollars' worth of agricultural exports a year—funded by 20 billion dollars of taxpayer subsidies." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Medication Madness Caused by "Recreational" Drugs In the 1950s, the u.s. government experimented on unwitting people by giving them the powerful hallucinogenic drug, LSD. At least one of the experimental subjects, army officer Eric Olson, committed suicide by leaping out the window of an office building in which he was confined for the experiment. Eric didn't know he was the subject of an experiment and therefore had no idea that he was being driven mad by a drug." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The Women's Health Initiative study, published in 2002, was funded by the u.s. government to study two different hormone therapies and their effects on heart disease and breast cancer. This study fueled most of the bad press on hormones and resulted in over 7 million women of all ages suddenly quitting hormones completely. The WHI study was unique because it followed women who didn't have symptoms of menopause (so that the dropout rate would be low). But using women who had few or no symptoms skewed the study because women without menopausal symptoms tended to be older." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"U.S. government's National Library of Medicine [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/}. • Vitamin A has come under scrutiny. Long-term use of vitamin A supplements-over twenty years-may increase the possibility of hip fracture. We don't recommend more than 5,000 units of pure vitamin A [retinyl palmitate) a day. We prefer natural carotenoids (such as beta-carotene), which the liver converts into vitamin A as needed. Beta-carotene supplementation cannot produce vitamin A overload. • Patients often ask when to take supplements if they are also taking medication." - 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.) "The medical world thus settled into the "cholesterol is the cause of heart disease" paradigm. The u.s. government sponsored efforts to educate the public about lowering cholesterol as a means of reducing the risk of heart disease. Currently the "official" target level for total cholesterol is 200 mg/dl or less and 40 mg/dl or higher for HDL. If you consider all the research and just look at cardiovascular mortality in men, the lower the cholesterol level the better. The higher the worse. But not in women. In women, cholesterol is less predictive of cardiac death." - 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.)

"You may have heard the joke that the u.s. government was designed by geniuses so it could be safely run by idiots. Well, just as the wisdom of Enlightenment philosophy was used in the design of the separation of powers found in the U.S. Constitution, so too will the new wisdom of integral philosophy be used to design the structure of a world federal constitution. First of all, unlike the u.s. government, which has all but eliminated the autonomy of its states, an integrally informed global authority would be truly federal." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Shortly after its brief investigation, the u.s. government embargoed its own research statistics, and refused to investigate the issue any further. One particularly unpopular tactic the government used was passing an act called "The Eli Lilly Protection Act," as part of a Homeland Security law, which prohibited parents from collecting damages for children who had suffered vaccine-related brain disorders. The justification for the law was that if Eli Lilly were put out of business by lawsuits, it could not protect America from biological attacks by terrorists." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Some years ago, scientists working for the u.s. government conducted a simple experiment. They sprayed harmless bacteria into the departure lounge of Washington's National Airport. Hitching rides on the passengers and transferring onto others at their destinations, the bacteria spread from person to person. Within three weeks, they were to be found in nearly every part of the U.S. We should count ourselves lucky that AIDS is not spread as easily; we would all have been infected before the first case had been diagnosed." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The tenth annual Council on Environmental Quality, sponsored by the u.s. government, reported PCBs in 100 percent of all human sperm samples. According to a Washington Post article in 1979, PCBs are considered one of the main reasons that the average sperm count of the American male is approximately 70 percent of what it was thirty years ago. This same article also points out that 25 percent of college students were sterile at the time as compared to 0.5 percent thirty-five years earlier." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005," 6th ed. u.s. government Printing Office, Washington, DC. Retrieved September 12, 2006, from http://www.healthierus.gov/dietary guidelines 46. Ballow, C, Kuester, S., and Gillespie, C. (2000). Beverage choices affect adequacy of children's nutrient intakes. Arch. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med. 154, 1148-1152. 47. Gao, X., Wilde, P. E., Lichtenstein, A. H., and Tucker, K. L. (2006). Meeting adequate intake for dietary calcium without dairy foods in adolescents aged 9 to 18 years (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2002). J. Am. Diet. Assoc." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"About 97 percent of a certain species of coral has disappeared in the Caribbean alone, and the u.s. government has recently declared elkhorn and staghorn coral to be endangered species." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Third Report on Nutrition Monitoring in the United States." u.s. government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 172. McDowell, M. A., Briefel, R. R., Alaimo, K., Bischof, A. M., Caughman, C. R., Carroll, M. D., Loria, C. M., and Johnson, C. L. (1994). Energy and macronutrient intakes of persons ages 2 months and over in the United States: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Phase 1, 1988-91. Adv. Data 255, 1-24. 173. Tippett, K. S., and Cleveland, L. E. (1999). How current diets stack up: Comparison with dietary guidelines." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Life-Style and Cancer: From Epidemiological Evidence to Public Behavior Change to Mortality Reduction of Target Cancers." u.s. government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 98. Sesso, H. D., Paffenbarger, R. S., Jr., and Lee, I. M. (2001). Alcohol consumption and risk of prostate cancer: The Harvard Alumni Health Study. Int. J. Epidemiol. 30, 749-755. 99. Schuurman, A. G, Goldbohm, R. A., and van den Brandt, P. A. (1999). A prospective cohort study on consumption of alcoholic beverages in relation to prostate cancer incidence (The Netherlands). Cancer Causes Control 10, 597-605. 100. Hiatt, R." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Food Safety Concerns about foodborne illness led to the inclusion of a guideline on food safety in both 2000 and 2005. The u.s. government Accounting Office has estimated a range of 6.5 to 33 million cases of foodborne illness a year [42]. More recently, the CDC estimated that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5000 deaths in the United States each year [43]. The estimates are difficult to derive because the majority of cases are not reported to health care providers." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This campaign was so fierce and effective that the word "hemp" became synonymous with the slang word "marijuana," and resulted in the u.s. government prohibition of 1937. The confusion over hemp versus marijuana remains to this day, especially in North America, but it is beginning to change. While the development of a hemp industry is severely restricted in the United States, today industrial hemp is cultivated in many countries, among them Canada, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, England, and Poland. "So what are the benefits of hemp?" you may ask." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"There are extensive guidelines for major depressive disorder.) The U.S. government's Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, in preparing a report on recommended treatments for depression, reviewed 315 clinical studies evaluating medications and found a grand total of three trials on subsyndromal depression worthy of review. Their conclusion: Clinicians who "choose to generalize efficacy data from adult patients with major depression" two other kinds of patients, such as those with subsyndromal depression, or children and adolescents "should do so with care." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Indeed, doing so has been official u.s. government policy since the mid-seventies, when a sharp spike in food prices brought protesting housewives into the street and prompted the Nixon administration to adopt an ambitious cheap food policy." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "First, notice that the stark message to "eat less" of a particular food—in this case meat—had been deep-sixed; don't look for it ever again in any official u.s. government dietary pronouncement. Say what you will about this or that food, you are not allowed officially to tell people to eat less of it or the industry in question will have you for lunch. But there is a path around this immovable obstacle, and it was McGovern's staffers who blazed it: Speak no more of foods, only nutrients." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The data from the CDC's preliminary study supports published data that immunization starting after 2 months is associated with an increased risk of diabetes. The u.s. government study showed that hepatitis B immunization starting after two months was associated with an almost doubling of the risk of IDDM. Coffee and Caffeinated Beverages According to Hal Huggins in It's All in Your Head, one cup of coffee can elevate the glucose level enough to need three units of insulin to counteract it." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Despite the fact that the U.S. government's past actions raised the corporate profits tax from 0% to 50.75%, effectively nationalizing more than half the stock market, potential future adjustments in this tax are rarely mentioned in discussing the outlook for the market. The 1901 example illustrates one way in which new era thinking can go wrong: such thinking concentrates attention on the effects of events currently prominent in the news. Little attention is paid to "what-ifs," even if they have substantial probability." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Interest rate is the yield of long-term u.s. government bonds (nominal), January 1881 to January 2005 (author's splicing of two historical long-term interest rate series).5 on the index. The points shown reflect monthly data, January 1881 to January 2005. The price-earnings ratio is a measure of how expensive the market is relative to an objective measure of the ability of corporations to earn profits. I use the ten-year average of real earnings for the denominator, along lines proposed by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in 1934." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"This epidemic has been fueled by many factors, including the collusion between the food industry and the u.s. government. Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the u.s. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"One gets the same impression of vast available land surrounding the city when one visits Las Vegas, but in the case of Las Vegas that land is owned by the u.s. government, and its Bureau of Land Management has been reluctant to release much land for development. It is no surprise that home prices have been booming in Las Vegas, in sharp contrast to Phoenix." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "To clarify this, in the fall of 19931 asked institutional investors a similar but differently worded question: Consider the following claim: "There is no 30-year period since 1860 in which u.s. government bonds have outperformed stocks." Have you heard roughly this claim (even if the details, such as the use of 30 years, are different)? 1. Yes, often. 2. Yes, once or twice. 3. No. Of the 125 respondents, 52% chose "Yes, often," 22% chose "Yes, once or twice," and 26% chose "No." Thus 74% say they remember hearing this statement." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The False Claims Act allows private individuals to sue in the name of the u.s. government when the government has lost money based on sales, marketing, and other practices that violate federal laws. The person who files the suit can also collect a substantial share of any fines, which sometimes run into the hundreds of millions. My lawsuit, filed back in 2003, alleged that, from about 1997 until 2003, Pharmacia illegally promoted Genotropin for off-label uses for anti-aging in adults and short-stature in children unrelated to growth hormone deficiency." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"All powerful organizations, from the u.s. government and the Girl Scouts to the Democratic Party and your local food co-op, began when one person decided to stop following along and start up something better. Start-ups of all kinds, for profit or not, create more positive influence and potential for change than any individual could ever create alone. Start-ups are tools for changing the world, seb How Your Business Will Change the World mmmm Anything can be improved." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Among the reasons: it increases inflammation of the udder in cows, has unknown potential effects on humans, and is unnecessary because the u.s. government already support milk prices because there is an overabundance of milk on the market. - Ruth Winter, M.S., Food Additives It is strange, indeed: why is the u.s. government supporting the use of BGH when taxpayer money is being spent to subsidize milk production in the first place? There's a bit of a politically-motivated money shell game at work here, no doubt." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Published u.s. government studies on the connection between pesticides and cancer have led researchers to investigate the specific connection between organochlorines and colon cancer. Had enough red flags by now? Well, let's talk about some solutions to these concerns. Following the tips in the chart below will greatly reduce the number of pesticides in your environment! How to Eliminate Toxins from Pesticides You can reduce the levels of pesticides you consume by 90% just by avoiding the crop items containing the highest levels of pesticide residue." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

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