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"Although different in detail from Rome and the South, the economics of large corporate farms similarly discounted concern about soil erosion. Corporations are, by nature, remporary land owners. ... A tenant on corporate land has no assurance whatsoevet of staying on the farm more than a year. ... A high proportion of corporate land tends to cause instability in land tenute and to foster erosion, unless the majority of corporations can be induced to adopt definite soil conservation programs on their land." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Over time, her emotional freedom came from speaking at corporate "lunch-n-learn" programs about the importance of colonoscopies in cancer prevention. • One year after Andy's kidney transplant, he looked for a way to make his life meaningful and inspirational to others. After pushing himself to bike ride across the United States, he made it his passion to provide hope to patients waiting for an organ match by speaking about his expedition. There are many people in our world who give richly. But let's also note that our society has some weird and ambiguous notions about the nature of giving." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Doctors who allow their reputations and academic positions to be leveraged by drug companies for commercial purposes provide a crucial link in the chain of corporate influence. Most insist that these financial relationships do not color their opinions, but a review article published in JAMA titled, "Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Is a Gift Ever Just a Gift?" shows that drug company-sponsored lectures are two-and-a-half to three times more likely to mention the sponsor's drug in a positive light and the competitors' drugs in a neutral or negative light." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The substitution of narrow corporate interests for medical progress has produced some dramatic excesses. When the manufacturer of Paxil performs nine clinical studies on the treatment of adolescents for depression and finds that Paxil is no more effective than placebos and, in fact, significantly increases the frequency of "emotional lability" (including suicidal thoughts and attempts), it's no problem. The company publishes one study that shows a benefit, fails to publish the other eight, and markets away. When British drug authorities spill the beans? No problem." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"He was informed that his friend the porn star was getting her stock tips from a corporate executive who had insider information. Sam tried to explain that he had no idea what they were talking about. He didn't know her boyfriend's name, let alone his job description. Nor did he take all her investment advice and he always researched the options for himself. But Sam was unable to explain all this clearly or succinctly. The deposition is marred in part by Sam's memory problems but even more by his poor judgment and communication skills." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Instead of encouraging the kind of transparency that a democracy should require of its corporations, Eli Lilly fights for its right to hide itself beneath the dark mud of corporate secrecy. The company is not protecting trade secrets; it is protecting information about potentially lethal adverse effects, including diabetes. Unlike earlier Lilly public relations successes, in the case of Zyprexa the truth came out with a big bang.22 Alaskan lawyer and heroic psychiatric reformer Jim Gottstein obtained the sealed documents." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The hypocrisy behind this spin on brain damage is apparent if we look at how the same medical center, Johns Hopkins, treated brain changes caused by recreational drugs, that is, drugs without corporate sponsors. In late 2002, another Johns Hopkins public-relations bulletin displayed this alarming headline:15 Recreational Use of Ecstasy Causes New Brain Damage Both of these press releases—the one spun in favor of antidepressants and the other more rationally critical of Ecstasy—were picked up by news agencies around the world." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "On December 19, 2005, a headline in a promotional bulletin called Johns Hopkins Medicine made an astonishing claim:14 Popular Antidepressants Boost Brain Growth, Hopkins Scientists Report The university's Office of corporate Communications distributed this Johns Hopkins Public Relations Release. It touted a recently published study by medical center researchers showing that antidepressants increased the density of nerve trunks in many regions of the brain including the frontal lobe and limbic system." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and corporate Accountability, Pesticide Action Network North America, May, 2004. www.panna.org Shinghal, J.N. Quick Bedside Prescriber. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd., 1998. Thom, Dick. Coping With Food Intolerance, Fourth Edition. New York: Sterling Publishing Company Inc., 2002. Tyler, M.L., Pointers to the Common Remedies. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd., 1993. Ullman, Dana. The Homeopathic Revolution; Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2007." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"In the years we've worked with groups of patients and corporate teams, this activity usually invokes palpable changes in the room's energy. For some, it's a feeling of lightness and joy, for others, deep thoughtfulness. A few find the experience frustrating, a kind of window shopping excursion filled with longing. Once you've done it, notice your own response and ask yourself, "How do I feel and why?" Take a few more minutes to enhance your list by considering some additional questions: • If I had an afternoon without obligations, how would I spend it?" - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"As collaborators in business and actors in the economy, we are responsible for ensuring that corporate objectives do not center uniquely on profit and growth but include a concern that products and services respond to human needs and demands without harming people and impairing nature, do not serve destructive ends and unscrupulous designs, and respect the rights of all entrepreneurs and enterprises who compete fairly in the global marketplace." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"We've done our own research during some of our corporate workshops. We've asked more than four hundred people from all walks of life one simple question: "When you feel emotionally down, what do you do to elevate your mood?" ninety-two percent of the responses fall into the Centrality category, like listening to favorite music, engaging in a favorite sport, and spending time with loved ones. So it appears that most of us already know the curative power of doing what we love. It's just that we don't find ways to do it more often." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"You'll also be making a powerful statement to corporate America and paving the way for other concerned parents in the future. The more of us who commit to purchasing nontoxic consumer goods and reducing waste, the more widely available these products will become. So the next time you walk into your local supermarket or department store, remember that you're the one in control. Use your power responsibly. Greening Your Cleaning A truly healthy, toxin-free environment starts at home." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"After leaving the corporate world in 1990, I was living temporarily in the San Francisco area developing seminars and writing books by day. In the evenings I would work with clients who had asked for my help in understanding the role of belief in their lives and relationships. One evening I scheduled an appointment with a client whom I'd worked with many times before. Our session began as usual. As the woman relaxed into the wicker chair in front of me, I asked her to describe what had happened in the week since we'd last talked." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "For both the nation in general and the corporate culture in which I found myself immersed, the last thing on anyone's mind was the possibility that our beliefs could influence reality. Within a few days of beginning my new job, I met a woman hired at about the same time. She would describe the situation of a life-and-death belief so powerful that she and her family accepted it as an "inherited" fact. As new employees, we'd just completed the customary orientation process earlier in the day." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Eisai developed donepezil, and their corporate motto is "HHC" (human health care). Accordingly, they have supported many psychosocial^ oriented programs to complement their innovative biological efforts, which is commendable. Naturally, one might ask how the pharmaceutical industry can improve its commitment to and measurement of quality of life in the future? One answer to this is narrative." - 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.)

"By conforming to demanding corporate cultures, they may avoid rocking the boat, but they end up with gut-wrenching internal conflicts because they're not doing what they truly enjoy and quickly fall out of integrity with themselves. Crab another chance to use your higher brain. Regardless of your job, find ways to enjoy it by using the best of your strengths and passions. In most workplace settings, as long as you are embracing the company's values and turning out a high-quality product, you have the creative opportunity to be intentional about how you approach the job." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Arthur Hull Hayes, the head of the FDA responsible for the decision, came under fire for accepting corporate gifts and left his post in 1983 (that year, NutraSweet brought in $336 million dollars). Hayes was promptly hired by Searle's public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller. Concerns about aspartame's toxicity continue to surface in ongoing studies. With all these suspicious sweeteners swirling around, perhaps the government was just being extra-prudent. FDA employee Virgil Wodicka claims that the agency disapproved of Miralin staging kiddie taste tests before approval had been granted." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Source: "Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and corporate Accountability" by Kristin Shafer www.panna.org It is wise to eat properly to ease the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. For portions, you can visually look at your plate and divide it into four equal parts. One part should be protein such as lean meats (chicken, turkey, fish) or legumes, one portion should be a whole grain (such as brown rice, whole wheat, rye, potatoes and whole grain pasta); and two portions should comprise fruits and vegetables." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Most future scenarios, whether devised by corporate strategists, government think tanks, or science fiction writers, generally assume that the pace of development will be similar to the pace today, or perhaps a little faster. Seldom do forecasters consider the full impact of continued exponential acceleration. In the early 1950s, for example, eminent scientists were predicting that it would take at least fifty years to put a person on the moon, primarily because it would take that long to make all the necessary technological advances." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"With no government agency standing watch over them, most manufacturers simply don't take consumer health as seriously as they do corporate profitability. Needed Reforms Convincing companies to discontinue their use of toxic ingredients means making it more cost-effective to change than to continue as they are. One way to do this is through the power of the marketplace. If enough citizens boycott hazardous products in favor of safer ones, companies will be forced to alter their products to compete. And the first step towards making that a reality is re-estabhshing the consumer's right to know." - 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.) "Unfortunately, this has meant that these companies' previously safe products are in danger of being laced with problematic chemical ingredients as the companies' new corporate parents cut manufacturing corners or try to maximize company profits. As large corporations made similar in-roads into organic foods, they lobbied the U.S. Congress to dilute organic standards so they could use more synthetic ingredients and still call their products organic or natural." - 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.) "Sensing profits to be made, mainstream corporate players have been buying up natural and organic producers of cosmetics and personal care products over the past decade. Clorox Company, a manufacturer of bleach and other consumer products, purchased Burt's Bees, a product line of natural soaps, lotions, and shampoos, for $913 million in November 2007. In previous years, Colgate-Palmolive bought Tom's of Maine, the natural toothpaste and deodorant manufacturer, for $100 million, and L'Oreal paid $1.4 billion for the Body Shop chain of natural product stores." - 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.)

"In words that should have shaken the medical profession to its core, the statement told of "dracon-ian" terms being imposed on medical researchers by corporate sponsors. And it warned that the "precious objectivity" of the clinical studies that were being published in their journals was being threatened by the transformation of clinical research into a commercial activity. The editors said that the use of commercially sponsored clinical trials "primarily for marketing .. . makes a mockery of clinical investigation and is a misuse of a powerful tool." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Diabetics were already gobbling up miraculin. The corporate behemoths in the sugar industry were hell-bent on its demise. Everybody else wanted a piece of the action. LifeSavers was conducting miraculin tests. Warner-Lambert, which manufactured Dentyne, Chiclets and Trident had developed a miracle-fruit chewing gum. Miralin was approached with eight-figure deals. And then it all turned to dust. Just as miraculin was about to become widely available, a number of mysterious events took place. "Things started to get very weird," says Harvey." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"My greatest hope is that this book will inspire readers to consider the responsibility of citizenship in this time of excessive medical profiteering and corporate influence, and to take up one of the most important challenges of our time: high-quality health care for all based on the translation of well-ordered science into accurate, unbiased medical information. We have come to a critical juncture, and our future depends on our willingness to act on our country's highest ideals." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It's a way for traditional family farms to create a new market in the face of corporate farming and for newfound fruit visionaries—like the people I've been meeting—to create viable business opportunities. He explains that he's hoping to convert the orchard at the nearby university into a model fruit tourism destination. "It will be a central resource for travelers and farmers. We'll have a shop where you can buy fruits and books or find out about fruit tourism. You'll be able to have a local coffee and white pineapples." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Without wavering in velocity, I attempt to convey the countenance of a corporate type with massive fiscal responsibilities. Four seconds. "EXCUSE ME," comes the voice, again. I continue forward. A muscle spasm ripples across my back. A bead of sweat appears at my temple and squiggles away Two seconds. The sliding doors open. Footsteps pound behind me on the terrazzo. "Stop right there!" yells the officer. "Who, me?" I ask, craning my neck around and feigning befuddle-ment. "Yes, you," he replies sternly. 'You can't bring any apples into the country. Step this way." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"We have let a group of corporate executives and food scientists (and remember they are just people, not disembodied corporations) increase their profit margins at the expense of our health. Their goal is not our increased health but a rise in their stock price and corporate assets. Their lack of understanding and knowledge of our bodies and its nutritional needs has led them to make many unwise decisions that affect the health of our bodies. How Our Body Works Our body is composed of trillions of cells." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Tens of thousands of people—from corporate executives to college kids, teenagers, and, increasingly, small children—are becoming enthusiastic participators in mind-body relaxation routines like yoga classes and acupuncture. I don't claim to have received any formal training in complementary or alternative medicine, but in my practice I have seen enough success with it that I readily recommend it to all my patients. Yoga Yoga originated in India more than three thousand years ago and is now incredibly popular in our modern world as a way to improve the health of both mind and body." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

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