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"Yet the companies were adept at hiding when it was in their best interest. To do this, they got out their checkbooks and paid others who appeared to be independent to deliver messages for them, making the promotion all the more powerful and effective. Audiences subject to these covert marketing campaigns did not realize they needed to be just as skeptical of the information as they would of that in a drug ad. They did not even know a marketing effort was under way. These underground marketing operations targeted Iowans of all ages, starting with those in preschool." - 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.) "At the time the executives were planning their sales strategy for the epilepsy drug, Warner-Lambert was one of the nation's fastest-growing companies. Few Americans would have recognized the name Neurontin, or Warner-Lambert for that matter. They were more likely to know the company's nonmedicinal products, which included Bubblicious chewing gum, Schick razors, and Listerine. It was not the candy or mouthwash that was making Warner-Lambert rich, however. Most of its profits came from Parke-Davis, the subsidiary selling prescription drugs." - 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.) "The idea behind 'condition branding' is relatively simple," he wrote. "If you can define a particular condition and its associated symptoms in the minds of physicians and patients, you can also predicate the best treatment for that condition." Parry traced marketers' use of this technique back to the early twentieth century. He pointed to how the Lambert Company, which eventually became the drug giant Warner-Lambert, had greatly expanded the market for Listerine in the 1920s by creating public anxiety about a serious-sounding condition called halitosis." - 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.) "Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Wyeth, Forest Laboratories, and GlaxoSmithKline. But few of the college students learned that fact. During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. " - 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.)

"Consequently, these companies spend millions of dollars marketing synthetic hormones to physicians by sponsoring continuing medical education (CME) programs, office lunch presentations, and off-site forums at resort locations. In her book, The Truth About the Drug companies, Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, states: "Drug companies have become vast marketing machines wielding nearly limitless influence over medical research, education and how doctors do their jobs." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In recent years, the top ten companies have included five European giants—GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Roche, and Aventis. Their profit margins are similar to those of their American counterparts, and so are their expenditures for R & D and marketing and administration. Furthermore, they are members of the industry's trade association, the misleadingly named Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Recently I heard Daniel Vasella, the chairman and CEO of Novartis, speak at a conference. He was clearly pleased with the American commercial and research climate. " - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"Since the second half of the twentieth century it has also been attempted by economic means: wealthy states and global companies using their power to impose their will and values on wide layers of the population. For states the goal of extensive growth is territorial sovereignty, including sovereignty over the human and natural resources of the territories. The corresponding goal for global companies is to generate demand for consumption, often without regard for the social and environmental consequences." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Drug companies sometimes contend that direct-to-consumer advertising is also educational, but it is even less educational than company-sponsored meetings for doctors in Hawaii. There is no way consumers can evaluate clinical claims in a thirty-second TV advertisement. The purpose and the effect of these commercials is to increase pressure on doctors to prescribe the latest, most expensive me-too drugs. Direct-to-consumer advertising should be prohibited in the United States just as it is in other advanced countries. At the very least, it should be regulated more stringently." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"In fact, most so-called natural foods you buy in stores that are labeled that way aren't good for you, and many of them are loaded with so much sugar, it's ridiculous that the companies that produce them can tell you they're healthy. Remember this about food companies: the packaging on their products is meant to get you from the food aisle to the checkout counter with the product in your hand. They don't have any responsibility to you and your family. They don't care if their product is worsening your child's behavior problems." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Moreover, I undertook this with my own money, without scholarships or being sponsored by companies that take part in selling or the "business of sight" (as often happens with "worldwide congresses" that are sponsored by such companies)." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Or if one drug causes side effects, another one won't. The companies could easily test that proposition. They could test their me-too drugs in patients who have not done well on the first one. But they don't do that, probably because they don't really want to know the results—if Prilosec doesn't work, Nexium probably won't, either. They simply compare their me-too drugs with placebos. But unless the proposition is tested in proper clinical trials, there is no way to know whether it is true. Anecdotes about individual patients are no substitute." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"More and more companies are encouraging their employees to take advantage of in-house gyms or health club memberships, and some health insurance companies reimburse clients for club fees. Their generosity is informed by studies showing that exercise reduces stress and makes for more productive employees. In 2004 researchers at Leeds Metropolitan University in England found that workers who used their company's gym were more productive and felt better able to handle their workloads." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"They ship the raw material in powder form to supplement companies around the world. Prior to the mid-1990s, these companies sold their CoQIO in the form of capsule-filled powder, the form that researchers first used. Animal and cell culture studies show that supplementation increases both tissue and mitochondrial levels of CoQIO. If sufficient CoQIO can reach the bloodstream, our cells will readily take it in. The problem with taking CoQIO by mouth is that the substance is a big molecule and doesn't absorb well in the dry powder capsule form." - 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.)

"It's been overplayed because companies realize it makes "wonderful marketing copy" he says.27 "It's the kind of thing that a GP [family physician] can use when they're trying to persuade a person to have pills." It's also the kind of rationale that drug reps like Michael Oldani can use to persuade physicians to use their products. "They're trying to get us to think a particular way," Healy says. "They are trying to get us doctors to see the illnesses that we will then see in you, the patients, and the sales of their product will then follow ..." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "The more you listen to this industry insider, the more you realize that what companies might describe as awareness-raising activities are really designed to change awareness—in ways that serve the "marketing needs" of their latest products, as Parry explains it. There's a couple of ways that manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and health care products approach someone such as myself or other people in the branding business. It could be a direct request from them saying that, you know, there's a particular condition, you know, such as ADHD for example." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "Despite repeated violations across the industry, and tens of millions of Americans being regularly exposed to misleading information about the risks and benefits of widely prescribed drugs, companies are not fined and executives are not held accountable.9 These days, though, another theme has emerged in the analysis of pharmaceutical industry advertising. Researchers are finding more and more ads are helping sell the idea that everyday human experiences are symptoms of medical conditions requiring treatment with drugs. Together with colleagues, the Dartmouth Medical School duo Dts." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

"Fortune 500 companies put together in 2002. Unfortunately, with the passage of the Medicare reform bill in 2003, public policy has moved in exactly the opposite direction from any reasonable brake on pharmaceutical prices. The prescription drug benefit expressly forbids Medicare to use its purchasing power to bargain for lower prices. That provision was tantamount to writing a multibillion-dollar check—signed by taxpayers—to big pharma. (Not for nothing does this industry have the largest lobby in Washington.) Expenditures on drugs will quickly rise to exceed the value of the benefit." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"But large companies live and die through the strength of their patent portfolios and its protected, proprietary pharmaceutical formulas. The fact that research on coenzyme Qi0 is publicly available has all but eliminated any hope that a pharmaceutical company can obtain meaningful patent protection covering any important use of this nutrient. Therefore, these companies would rather dis- 54 count the benefits of coenzyme Qio to the advantage of some new patented drug they roll out of their laboratories." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Adapted from the International Food Information Council Foundation RECIPE CREDITS I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to all of those individuals, organizations, and companies that contributed to the 101 recipes. Their time and talents surely helped make good-for-you foods taste spectacular! Christine M. Palumbo, MBA, RD—www.christinepalumbo.com Rick Bayless—author of many cookbooks and chef and owner of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo, Chicago, Illinois; www.rickbayless.com Dave Hamlin—corporate executive chef for Price Chopper supermarkets; www.pricechopper." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"These companies grouped together and formed a cartel. In the late 1800s this cartel established operations in the United States. It was backed by Rockefeller and the German chemical and pharmaceutical company I. G. Farben in alliance with Dupont, Standard Oil, and Ford. The Food and Drug Administration, or fda, was formed in 1906 to establish credibility and keep public opinion positive toward the use of pharmaceuticals. It was set up to be an independent government organization whose purpose was to test all foods and drugs, and remove from the market any products it considered to be unsafe." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Anti-Aging Supplements Many companies have jumped on the anti-aging bandwagon after it was discovered that the pituitary gland can actually be fed the necessary precursors that allow it to increase its natural production of hgh. If you decide to look into this mode of supplementation, be sure the product you select is made entirely from natural ingredients. Basically, you need to look for a supplement that will feed the body, not stimulate it." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In the late 1980s, Peter had begun to amass homeopathic tissue samples, getting many from companies in Australia and importing others. He gathered thousands of ampoules, which contained the homeopathic, or energetic, imprints of just about everything of importance in the body.5 He had ampoules representing nearly two hundred different kinds of cells and various kinds of tissues, from skin to gut to brain samples, and blood, enzymes, hormones, and the like. He had amassed droves of minerals and elements from calcium to potassium to zinc, and he had samples of environmental chemicals and toxins." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"These companies cater full dinners to lure doctors to presentations about one or another application of their drugs. While many doctors find such events distasteful, they are required to attend medical courses to maintain their hospital or university affiliations, and drug companies have cornered the medical education market. At the ADA annual meeting, drug company representatives arrive at the loading dock looking as if they are preparing to put on an enormous political convention." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Plus it could be ground year-round by large companies in big cities: Heavy stone mills, which typically relied on water power, operated mostly when and where rivers flowed; steam engines could drive the new rollers whenever and wherever.) Thus was one of the main staples of the Western diet cut loose from its moorings in place and time and marketed on the basis of image rather than nutritional value. In this, white flour was a modern industrial food, one of the first. The problem was that this gorgeous white powder was nutritionally worthless, or nearly so." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"It is unfortunate that the FDA still allows companies to use it to process foods we eat. Research also shows that we are able to reverse the effects of alloxan with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null's Clinicians' Handbook of Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the harmful effects of administered alloxan. In support of that, researchers have found that among rats that are genetically susceptible to IDDM, feeding wheat gluten will cause 40 percent of the subjects to develop IDDM." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Though there are not a lot of companies that specialize in enzymes, the ones that do make very reputable and effective products. I recommend my company, Enzymedica. 2. Check the potency in the Supplement Facts. Although potency is often difficult to assess (see appendix A), the best products contain high active units (not milligrams) with multiple strains in each category. This is often expressed as a blend of protease, lipase, or amylase. This blending will allow the enzymes to break down more protein, fat, and carbohydrates over a longer period of time. 3." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Many companies that sell products with these microflora as the main ingredients will often state that the number of CFUs (colony forming units) contained in the capsule are "at time of manufacture." This is basically telling the customer that by the time they consume the product there is no telling exactly how many of these sensitive bacteria will be alive, which is one of the reasons that so much scrutiny has been placed on these products. Often fewer than half of the probiotic products tested will meet their label claim." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"There are supplement companies which manufacture brain formulas, which are composed of various amino acids, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and herbs," Dr. Hodes says. "Niacin, or vitamin B3, is helpful because it opens up the blood vessels and brings nutrients, blood, oxygen, and other nutrients to the brain. Mineral baths, consisting of sodium, potassium, and magnesium, which seep into our bodies through the pores of the skin, are also helpful." Among Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Very few women experience side effects (reported as less than 4 percent by the manufacturing companies), but these may include breast tenderness, drowsiness, depressive moods, headaches, and irritability. In my experience as a clinician, I have found very few side effects. Bio-identical progesterone cream is typically used for menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, sleep disruption, and irregular and/or heavy bleeding. Absorption of progesterone from the creams through the skin is variable from person to person." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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