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 "These are the kinds of statements doctors were more than happy make, as long as they were getting paid by the cigarette companies.
Big Pharma = Big Tobacco
Of course, today no doctor in his or her right mind would back cigarette companies, but they are backing something far more dangerous to the American public: Drug companies. Drug companies' products, just like "Big Tobacco" products, can kill you if used as directed."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "And, unlike the asbestos and cigarette companies, the pharmaceutical companies have become so rich that there is little chance that they will have to declare themselves bankrupt.
Amid all this medical degeneration, hormone replacement therapy stands out as a classic paradigm of corruption and quackery. Besides the drug companies we find selected physicians and political leaders with no real interest in health. Perhaps those most to blame for the continuing confusion about HRT are journalists.
In Britain, at least, medical journalism has become almost completely debased."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "Big Pharma = Big Tobacco
Of course, today no doctor in his or her right mind would back cigarette companies, but they are backing something far more dangerous to the American public: Drug companies. Drug companies' products, just like "Big Tobacco" products, can kill you if used as directed. In fact, prescription drugs kill at least 100,000 Americans each year, according to the American Medical Association, or as many as three-quar-ters-of-a-million people, according to research conducted by Dr. Gary Null (see Death By Medicine)." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "Even cigarette companies now have to label cigarettes with warnings that say smoking promotes cancer and birth defects. But food companies can market all sorts of cancer causing ingredients without having to warn consumers at all. As a result, consumers are right now eating massive quantities of foods and food ingredients that directly promote disease. And as a result, we're a nation with the highest rates of chronic disease ever witnessed in the entire known history of humanity." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) |
 "I asked Richard Daynard, professor at Northeastern University School of Law and veteran of the tobacco wars, about how cigarette companies used "personal responsibility" as a strategy. He said the concept was "one of the leading defenses that the tobacco industry used both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion." He continued:
Basically, the personal responsibility argument was that anybody who is stupid enough to use their products and gullible enough to believe the companies when they said their products don't cause lung cancer and other diseases, deserve to get those diseases."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "That's no better than how the cigarette companies marketed their products.
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Dangers That Lurk beyond Calories and Carbs
People now consume far greater quantities of calories, sugars, and sugarlike carbohydrates than they did just a couple of generations ago, and this increase is one reason why many more people are now overweight and prediabetic. But several other factors exacerbate the situation and propel people toward developing prediabetes and becoming overweight.
Food Addictions: Why You Can't Stop Eating
Many people have a history of being yo-yo dieters."- Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
 "Kenneth Warner from the University of Michigan wrote an editorial for the American Journal of Public Health on how this history unfolded with cigarette companies.
To read the cigarette manufacturers' websites, one would think the industry must be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Public Health Service. The sites warn about the dangers of smoking, say smoking is addictive, list chemicals added in manufacturing cigarettes, encourage smoke-free environments for nonsmokers, and offer smokers Web-based quitting resources."- Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) |
 "The similarities between the actions of cigarette companies and food companies are no coincidence. As explained in the Introduction, some cigarette companies own food companies.
No matter who owns them, food companies lobby government and agencies, and they become financially enmeshed with experts on nutrition and health. Although the food industry frames such tactics as promoting individual liberty and free will, its true objective is (not surprisingly) "trade and unrestricted profit."- Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.) "Mergers among food and cigarette companies merit special interest. As described in Table 2, two of the four leading U.S. cigarette companies, R. J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, bought—and sometimes swapped—food and beverage companies in maneuvers designed to protect stockholders' investments against tobacco liability lawsuits. The increasing consumption of food outside the home also has implications for the food industry—and for health. Table 3 lists the leading U.S. food service companies by category: fast foods, restaurant chains, contract corporations, and hotel operations." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.) "In this regard, food companies hardly differ from cigarette companies. They lobby Congress to eliminate regulations perceived as unfavorable; they press federal regulatory agencies not to enforce such regulations; and when they don't like regulatory decisions, they file lawsuits. Like cigarette companies, food companies co-opt food and nutrition experts by supporting professional organizations and research, and they expand sales by marketing directly to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries—whether or not the products are likely to improve people's diets." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.) |
 "The sort of action taken against people who speak out against MSG is reminiscent of the movie, "The Insider" in which a lone tobacco scientist wanted to share the truth about cigarette companies and their manipulation of nicotine in their products in order to addict customers.
In fact, there are strong parallels between the tobacco industry and the MSG industry. Both industries manufacture a product that causes widespread disease. Both industries are well funded and bankroll fraudulent scientific studies to support their baseless positions."- 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.) |
 "In this regard, food companies hardly differ from cigarette companies.
Marion Nestle, Food Politics more aggressive marketing schemes
Because food preferences, much like personalities, are developed in the formative stages of life, targeting children has become the primary aim of many food manufacturers. Tantalizing commercials and appealing toy prizes catalyze innocent children to torment their parents to purchase processed candy, cereals, and fast-food kid meals."- Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) |
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