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"These factors have rendered therapies including D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio victims of politics, bias, insufficient marketing, economics, and ignorance regarding the results of real science. That is not to say that the nutritional supplement industry is blameless. Too many dietary supplements—claiming to treat everything from heart health to weight loss to male sexual enhancement—have hit the market with major media campaigns, plenty of claims, and a host of promises, with little, if any, science behind them." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"But most of these scholars of finance and economics shrink from public statements about the level of the stock market (although they are often more loose-lipped in expressing their opinions at lunch and over beers) because they do not want to be caught saying things in public that they cannot prove. Assuming the mantle of scientific detachment, these financial economists tend to fall back on the simple but elegant model of market efficiency to justify their professional position." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "These fields include economics, psychology, demography, sociology, and history. In addition to more conventional modes of financial analysis, they bring potent insights to bear on the issues at hand. Much of the evidence is drawn from the emerging field of behavioral finance, which, as the years go by, is looking less and less like a minor subfield of finance and more and more like a central pillar of serious finance theory. I marshal the most important insights offered by researchers in these fields." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In this century, the efficient markets theory has long been a fixture in university economics and finance departments. The theory has commonly been offered to justify what seem to be elevated market valuations such as the 1929 stock market peak. Professor Joseph Lawrence of Princeton concluded in 1929 that "the consensus of judgment of the millions whose valuations function on that admirable market, the Stock Exchange, is that stocks are not at present overvalued. ... Where is that group of men with all-embracing wisdom which will entitle them to veto the judgment of the intelligent multitude?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The efficient markets theory and the random walk hypothesis have been subjected to many tests using data on stock markets, in studies published in scholarly journals of finance and economics. Although the theory has been statistically rejected many times in these publications, by some interpretations it may nevertheless be described as approximately true. The literature on the evidence for this theory is well developed and includes work of the highest quality. Therefore, whether or not we ultimately agree with it, we must at least take the efficient markets theory seriously." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"What were once purely philosophical pursuits have evolved into the modern specialized fields of psychology, sociology, linguistics, and economics. Philosophical rigor informs all modern sciences, medicine, mathematics, politics, and linguistics. There are four main branches of philosophy: ethics (moral conduct with respect to Tightness or wrongness), metaphysics (the essential nature of things), epistemology (what counts as genuine knowledge), and logic (the correct principles of reasoning). Each branch has several sub-classifications." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Normal economics no longer applied. To help create this system, the companies lobbied successfully in Washington for changes to laws that made it easier for them to patent a medicine and hold control of it for years. They also succeeded in changing laws so that it became illegal to advertise the price of drugs, and soon no one really knew how much medicines cost. More important, the industry learned a simple lesson: it could sell high volumes of most any medicine by spending more on promotion." - 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.) "Wiggins, a professor of economics at Texas A&M, had interviewed executives at the major pharmaceutical companies for a paper he delivered at an industry conference in 1979. Scientists had begun to lose their power inside the big companies in the late 1960s, Dr. Wiggins said. Before the power shift, he said, marketers could not offer advice on what medicines the company's scientists should work on. "The degree and exact timing of the change varied across companies," he wrote, "but in all companies there was a lessening of scientific power over research resources." - 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.) "Farasat Bokhari, an assistant professor of economics at Florida State University, and his colleagues published a study that showed that the counties with the highest rates of psychostimulant use had higher income levels, less unemployment, and more children in private schools. The communities of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids in eastern Iowa have some of the highest rates of Ritalin use in the whole country, as does Iowa as a whole." - 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.) "But the economics of the pharmaceutical business had changed to the point where it was not just the world's poor who were not getting drugs they desperately needed. As the drug companies concentrated on selling daily medications to treat chronic conditions and on lifestyle pills like Viagra, some abandoned efforts to discover products like antibiotics and vaccines that actually saved lives but were taken just once or for brief periods. In 2002, for example, Bristol-Myers, Abbott Laboratories, and Eli Lilly halted or substantially reduced their efforts to discover antibiotics." - 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.)

"Can the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration or a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission expect to have a chair in a major university's department of medicine or economics if the endowment for that chair is financed by a company that did not fair well in agency decisionmaking? Thus, it is that the future of those appointed to assume regulatory positions in the agencies and commissions is affected by the decisions they make in those positions. That reality colors everything they do." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Information theory has invigorated other disciplines, including ecology, economics, biology, and sociology. As physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein reminds us, "Ask anybody what the physical world is made of, and you are likely told matter and energy. Yet, if we have learned anything from engineering, biology, and physics, information is just as crucial an ingredient."5 In the opinion of physicist Anton Zeilinger, information may have a deeper reality than anything else in the universe, so that physics itself might be thought of not as the theory of energy and matter but as the theory of information." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Jarbrink K, Knapp M, 2001, London School of economics study: "The economic impact on autism in Britain," 5 (1): 7-22. 5. ASA calculates that the annual cost of autism will increase to $200-400 billion in 10 years. February 2003. 2003, 2006 Copyright Autism Society of America. All rights reserved. TACAnow.com webpage, Latest Autism Statistics, Talk About Curing Autism, 2007 http://www.tacanow.com/autism/latest_autism_statistics.htm LATEST AUTISM STATISTICS, 2007 by TACA (Talk About Curing Autism) The purposes of this document/web link is to provide the latest in Autism statistics." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The scope of neuroscience has become very broad over the last two decades, signaling a convergence of interest in the fields of psychology, computer science, statistics, physics, medicine, sociology, and economics. There are several subspecialties within the field of neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience addresses how psychological and cognitive functions are produced by neural circuitry, and vice versa. Social neuroscience focuses on the brain's interaction with the environment. Neurobiology is sometimes confused with neuroscience." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Basically angina, whether stable or unstable, is related to cardiac economics: Whatever the cause, the heart's demand for oxygen has outstripped its supply and this imbalance has caused the heart to deplete its energy stores. When treating someone with angina, the physician's goal is to raise what we call the anginal threshold, also called the hypoxic threshold, the point at which the symptom cuts in like an unwanted dance partner and limits the amount of activity one can perform." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "This is why it's crucial for cardiologists treating heart failure to think in terms of energy expenditure and energy economics. Efforts must be directed toward more targeted treatments—treatments that can get directly into the cell—and not just work to reduce "pre-load" and "after-load," the opposing forces that work against and strain the heart muscle. We have drugs to target these external forces that weaken the heart, but nutritional supplementation with our "triad" assists the energy-starved heart by supporting energy expenditure and boosting oxygen utilization." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Classical economics reinforces this belief by viewing the individual as a self-centered economic actor, pursuing his or her own interests, harmonized at best with the interests of others through the workings of the market. But, as we shall see in part 2, the contemporary sciences no longer support such a view. Now every quantum is known to be intrinsically connected with every other quantum, and every organism with other organisms in the biosphere." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The following quotes come from an agenda of economics, not conscious health concerns. Junk food, empty calories, low nutrient density, high-sugar content, and low-fiber foods can never be considered healthy by the wildest stretch of the imagination. It is time we stop listening to the economic propaganda of the Culture of Death: It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that all foods can fit into a healthful eating style. ADA POSITION STATEMENT All foods and beverages can fit into a healthy diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"AFTERWORD: RAYS OF HOPE AND SIGNS OF PROMISE Ascribe Business and economics News Service. "Parents, Socially Conscious Food Companies Team Up to Promote Healthy Eating at Home," September 25, 2005. www.highbeam.com/browse/Business-Finance-AScribe+Business+~A~+Economics+News+Service/September-2005-pl-65k. Brent Zook, Kristal. "We Can't Let the Obesity Epidemic Claim Our Children." Essence, April 2005. http://www.findarticles.eom/p/articles/mi_ml264/is_12_35/ai_nl3596183. Calhoun School website, http://www.calhoun.org. CBS News. "Cookie Monster Changes His Tune," April 8, 2005. http://www." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Constantine's fusion of empire with Church demanded a similar diversion of capital—witness the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem—but the great churches of late antiquity seem to be rooted more in politics than economics. The Christians of Constantine's New Rome, his city of God-and-Emperor, needed a leader, and the church's leader needed a cathedral—from cathedra, originally the name of the seat occupied by a bishop. The first cathedral built by Constantine was the Hagia Irene, north of the Hippodrome." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "In what is almost certainly the first documented exercise of what would come to be called trickle-down economics, Anastasius abolished a wide range of taxes that fell heavily on the empire's most productive classes, its ctaftsmen and merchants. The emperor had argued, it turns out correctly, that a prosperous merchant would pay even more in fees than the treasury losr in taxes. Thus, despite three major wars, and several revolts by subjects opposing the emperor's Monophysitism, the treasury at Anastasius's death was richer by 320,000 pounds of gold* than it had been at his accession." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"For the sake of our patients and the economics of medicine, the future must bring about a union in which there will be no separate alternative medicine and conventional medicine. Instead, we must have smart medicine in which physicians consider combinations of nutrition, lifestyle, pharmacology, and surgery to prevent or treat CVD. Hopefully, this union will occur in time to help you and your family, and before our expensive disease management approach bankrupts the Medicare and Medicaid programs." - 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.) "Practitioners who use chelation believe this resistance arises from fear of competition within the medical establishment, and specifically that chelation threatens the economics of entrenched therapies, such as pharmaceuticals and surgery. In an attempt to clear up the controversy, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has launched the first large-scale study of EDTA chelation therapy for patients with coronary artery disease." - 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.)

"Reporting for the Forensic Research Document of Agricultural and Resource economics (AREC) Research, William P. Kopp now states: "The effects of micro waved food byproducts are long-term, permanent within the human body. Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down." Microwaves turn healthy food into deadly poison. Seeing the unprecedented cancer epidemic in the U.S." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Beth, a twenty-two-year-old economics major, has suffered from occasional mild asthma for years. She's found that when stress at school or work begins to pile on and she feels her breathing begin to get tight, she relieves her symptoms by taking her medication and immediately conjuring the most calming image from her Bliss List: playing with her two dogs when they were puppies." - 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.)

"Family economics and Nutrition Review. 1999;12(2). Brandi G et al. Mechanisms of action and antiproliferative properties of Brassica oler-acea juice in human breast cancer cell lines. J Nutr. 2005 Iun;135(6):1503-1509. Cerhan J, Criswell L, Merlino L, Mikuls T, Saag K. Antioxidant micronutrients and risk of rheumatoid arthritis in a cohort of older women. Am J Epidemiol. 2003; 157:345-354. Fan S, Meng Q, Auborn K, Carter T, Rosen EM. BRCA1 and BRCA2 as molecular targets for phytochemicals indole-3-carbinol and genistein in breast and prostate cancer cells. Br] Cancer." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"But the third, less-obvious aspect of unnecessary cardiac procedures has to do with the perverse and poorly understood economics of American health care. Cardiac catheterization serves as a dramatic example of the law of supply-driven demand, an economic principle that may be unique to medicine. In this case, supply-driven demand means that when hospitals build more catheterization labs, cardiologists do more catheterizations." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This was a much more classically Durkheimian way of understanding the relationship between modern social values and health than the concept of social support had been, and it pointed toward a new kind of social critique: one that was less about community and more about capitalist economics. In the words of Ichiro Kawachi, director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, and Harvard School of Public Health professor Bruce P. Kennedy, "striving after fame and fortune should come with a government health warning." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"According to Epstein, the principles of behavioral economics or behavioral choice theory can be applied to sedentary individuals who, given the opportunity to choose between sedentary and physically active alternatives, will consistently choose the sedentary alternative. Choice of a given alternative, in this case, sedentary behavior, depends on the behavioral "cost" of that choice. Epstein argues and has demonstrated empirically in the laboratory that reducing the accessibility of sedentary behaviors or increasing the cost of being sedentary are both methods for reducing sedentary behavior." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Cholera and plague shared two important aspects: first, their epidemic spread threatened the economics of empire; second, their control seemed to demand major, expensive, and culturally disruptive social and sanitary interventions. In the face of repeated outbreaks in West of both diseases, Britain was faced with the unappealing prospect of either imposing quarantine or enduring embargoes of its Indian ports and shipping. These threats, as well as the horrific loss of life caused by the two diseases, stirred the Raj into public health action." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

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