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"Like many young college graduates in the late 1960s, Peabody went into medicine because he was smart, he did well in school, and he wanted to do something important with his life. He wanted to make a difference. He didn't go into medicine to make a lot of money. "I thought anybody who made fifty thousand dollars a year and who had a hundred-thousand-dollar house was rich," he says. He was drafted before medical school, and once he got out of residency, he did his time in the air force before starting his practice." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The longitudinal study of 678 Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame living in Mankato, Minnesota, the Nun Study, demonstrated that women who were college graduates had two to four times the chance of being functionally independent at advanced age than nuns with less education.54 When viewed ecologically, the aforementioned studies provide compelling evidence that the trajectory for cognitive decline later in life may be influenced by the amount of education available to children in their formative years." - 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.)

"For example, 29% of mothers with less than 12 years of education reported that their infants watched television, compared with only 14% of college graduates. Cross-sectional research has shown that there is a consistently strong positive relationship between television watching and obesity in children [62, 64, 72, 75-90] and adults [68, 69, 91, 92]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"No industry, which is the reason for young college graduates to abandon this town. There is no place to get ahead. Other than the mills, there is nothing a person can do for a living. . . . The children in Roseto have a chance for a good education, but it is hard to live in Roseto if you acquire a specialized education. All Rosetans have a higher goal, but old people want to keep things the way they are used to." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In 1958, Cuba had even more female college graduates (to scale) than the United States."6 In terms of literacy, daily nutrition, and access to mass media, Cuba was a leader in Latin America—though, admittedly, this was not always saying a lot—and was crowding the heels of some developed, Western countries.7 Of course, not everyone benefited equally. Doctors were aplenty, but not always where they were needed. The rural poor, especially sugar workers, had a hard life." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"It is my opinion that since the knowledge learned in pursuing academic degrees is based on research studies, no skill is more important to college graduates than an ability to critique research studies. I think you will understand why I feel so strongly about this before you finish all ten tricks of the trade. Trick One: Count Only Successes It would seem blatantly dishonest to count only the studies which yielded favorable results and to exclude all those which did not. It is clearly dishonest, but this is the standard procedure used by mind drug manufacturers." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, most college graduates have never taken a single research design course. They do not know how to evaluate the research they read. They cannot accurately assess whether a. study is of high quality and its findings and conclusions are valid or whether the study's findings and conclusions are completely invalid distortions of truth. They are not aware of how much research is funded by those with a financial interest in a positive outcome. Neither are most physicians aware." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Like many young college graduates in the late 1960s, Peabody went into medicine because he was smart, he did well in school, and he wanted to do something important with his life. He wanted to make a difference. He didn't go into medicine to make a lot of money. "I thought anybody who made fifty thousand dollars a year and who had a hundred-thousand-dollar house was rich," he says. He was drafted before medical school, and once he got out of residency, he did his time in the air force before starting his practice." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Today there are more doctors, scientists, Ph.D.s, college graduates, and literate people walking around than at any time in human history. By one estimate, 90 percent of all the scientists who ever lived are alive today. No previous generation had access to such massive brainpower. We need to start networking—to go out and begin talking to one another and to share our views, our opinions, and our dreams. Only in this way can we pool the massive intellectual resources now at our disposal." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"China, causing college graduates to line up for job opportunities.22 Japan has more than 3,000 McDonald's franchises serving rice dishes and a fried chicken sandwich with soy sauce and ginger. Thai customers order Samurai Pork Burgers, a teriyaki-spiced sandwich that may have contributed to the chain's 10 to 15 percent increase in expansion in 1999 alone. Hong Kong has 158 franchises, which is one restaurant for every 42,000 residents, not far from the U.S. number, which approaches one restaurant for every 30,000 Americans." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Alice Waters introduced me to dozens of farmers: they were all well-to-do college graduates, former employees of Silicon Valley, many of them young. Meanwhile, their customers, most of whom seemed to be actresses, went home clutching their peppers, squashes, and apples, showing them off like jewels, status symbols. Two of the producers in particular struck me: a young man with a long beard and a man who was selling oil." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"These new refugees may move into careers that they never could have conceived of twenty years earlier, when they were young college graduates: farmer, farm laborer. Wherever they go, they are going to discover a nation preoccupied with food production above all other activities." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Young college graduates marched into MBA programs in hordes, hoping to emerge as corporate ninja warriors. It was precisely the entrepreneurial zest of brilliant young corporate innovators that produced the wizardry of the computer industry. The rise of computers, in turn, promoted the fantasy that commerce in sheer information would be the long-sought replacement for all the played-out activities of the smokestack economy. A country like America, it was now thought, no longer needed steelmaking or tire factories or other harsh, dirty, troublesome enterprises." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"College graduates are the least likely to smoke. Methods for Quitting "Cold turkey" Behavioral modification Smoking cessation aids: Nicotine gum Nicotine inhalers Nicotine patches Buproprion (Wellbutrin) Nicotine nasal spray Major Conclusions of the Surgeon General's Report about Women • Despite all that is known of the devastating health consequences of smoking, 22 percent of women smoked cigarettes in 1998. Cigarette smoking became prevalent among men first, and smoking in the United States has always been lower among women than among men." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

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