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"Responding to this newfound threat to public health, the federal government mandated that white flour be fortified with a bare minimum of eight essential vitamins and minerals-the very ones that steel-roller milling removed. To avoid a public relations nightmare, the new flour was called "enriched white flour," marketing-speak for "stuff so lethal that the federal government made us put some other stuff in it so it won't kill you as quickly." That 1920s mandate made white flour "safe" again. We loved our white flour so much that we wanted it at any cost." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"By then Redding Medical's parent company, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, had agree to pay $£9-S million to the federal government to settle charges of Medicare fraud, at the time the largest settlement made by a health care company. A flurry of news reports appeared across the country, tracking the spectacular fall of Redding Medical Center. Most of the articles interpreted the events as an exceptional example of doctors run amok, or an isolated case of Medicare fraud, or an especially egregious episode in the ongoing saga of for-profit health care." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "With the help of transplant doctors like Peters, they lobbied state legislatures and the federal government to mandate insurance coverage for the procedure. Insurers were in a bind. Paying for transplants could cost them millions of dollars a year. But if they refused to cover them, they faced court cases like Health Net or irate legislatures. Most chose to pay, and as the insurance money flowed, the number of breast cancer patients who were transplanted soared. In the 1980s, fewer than a hundred transplants a year were being performed on breast cancer patients." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"That year the federal government first provided disability insurance coverage for mental disorders. The states could at last relieve themselves of the financial burden by refusing admission to new patients and by discharging old ones. The discharged patients, callously abandoned by psychiatry, received a small federal check for their support in other facilities, such as nursing or board and care homes. Some patients went home as dependents while others went onto the streets." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Franklin, a former medical liaison himself, who filed a whistleblower action with the federal government. For his services, Dr. Franklin received $24 million, his share of the civil settlement.73 By 2000, about two-thirds of biomedical research was funded by the industry and about a third by the government. In 1980, it was the reverse. Of the eighty thousand clinical trials conducted in the United States in a typical year, fifty thousand to sixty thousand are industry-sponsored." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"One might conclude that the purpose of this drug bill was to transfer wealth from the taxpayers to the drug companies rather than to ensure senior citizens access to the most effective drugs at the lowest possible cost to themselves and to the federal government. As an unnamed drug lobbyist told the New York Times when this legislation was being debated, "Having both houses of Congress Republican-controlled was great. Like in Monopoly, when you get to add hotels." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In 1986, the federal government set up a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate vaccine-injured victims. To date, close to $1 billion has been paid out. • In addition to the "active" part of the vaccine, the vaccine includes substances such as ethylene glycol (antifreeze), formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), and aluminum. Look, I'm not saying vaccines should be eliminated—just that we should use a little more discrimination than we are at the moment." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"That's about the same amount the nation spent on the first two and half years of its military venture in Iraq, and fully twice as much as the federal government allocates annually for all research and development—including R&D for defense and national security.1 But here is the truly shocking statistic: nearly all of that money is devoted to treating symptoms. It pays for cardiac drugs, for clot-dissolving medications, and for costly mechanical techniques that bypass clogged arteries or widen them with balloons, tiny rotating knives, lasers, and stents." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"We know that the federal government will not help. Drug companies are reluctant to step in because of patent issues—and because each of these diseases, taken individually, does not afflict a large enough number of patients. We go month to month hoping that something will happen with funding that will allow us to keep going." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As always, ten million poor and landless bore the brunt of it, as a slow-moving federal government neglected them. In Pernambuco state, local political bosses and wealthy landowners have developed a "drought industry" that controls relief supplies and makes the poor dependent on emergency supplies as a way of controlling their votes. In the past the underprivileged simply endured this arrangement. In 1998, having been forewarned of the drought and backed by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), they rose in hunger and indignation." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The federal government deemed it prudent to vaccinate all Americans. In October 1976, the National Influenza Immunization Program officially began. Initially, nearly 1 million Americans were vaccinated each week, with the number growing to more than 4 million a week by the end of that first month. By the middle of November, 6 million Americans were being vaccinated each week. From the very start of the campaign, the National Influenza Immunization Program ran a well-organized surveillance system, monitoring for adverse side effects." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, the nation is rapidly rushing toward something far more menacing—the systematic "mental health screening" of schoolchildren and even infants. The federal government's New Freedom Commission supports both Early Mental Health Screening in the schools, and the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, a pharmaceutical company attempt to enforce guidelines necessitating the use of its products." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Control of agriculture should be in the hands of local government. The federal government may be required for regulating food in cases of interstate commerce and shipments across national borders, but otherwise the feds should stay out of the food business. The USDA has lost its credibility in ensuring a safe, nutritious food supply. The power of the federal government (and the corporations who pull its strings) has usurped the protections that state government should provide us. The best—and perhaps the only—way to make a change is by voting with our dollars." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Wennberg intended to use his federal grant to find out what the citizens of Vermont actually needed, so the federal government could build new medical facilities that would really make a difference in the health of the population. He installed his family on a farm just outside of Stowe, Vermont, and set out to uncover pockets of medical need in the state. Like most doctors, Wennberg assumed that the most serious problem in American health care was that many citizens were not getting enough of it." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In recent years, pharmaceutical companies had successfully lobbied the federal government to remove the "by prescription only" status from many medicines, including big sellers such as Zantac, Tagamet, and Prilosec. No longer did the consumer need a physician. It was becoming easier to self-medicate. The drug companies promoted some of these over-the-counter medicines as sugary confections. In 2006 Johnson & Johnson, for example, sold Tylenol in chewy melt-aways flavored in Grape Punch, Wacky Watermelon, or Bubblegum Burst. "Kids prefer it," said the company's ads." - 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.)

"Originally, Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 1976 as a means of giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a way to track industrial chemicals produced within or imported into the United States, and to be a means for the federal government to require comprehensive health and safety testing for all new and existing chemicals. But now the TSCA is one of the weakest environmental laws in the United States. The Chemical Manufacturers Association has waged a fierce battle against this act, mainly because of the safety testing requirements." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"To avoid a public relations nightmare, the new flour was called "enriched white flour," marketing-speak for "stuff so lethal that the federal government made us put some other stuff in it so it won't kill you as quickly." That 1920s mandate made white flour "safe" again. We loved our white flour so much that we wanted it at any cost. Grain products have been a major food source, seemingly without considerable problems for the last 10,000 years, so why did white flour and other highly processed grains initiate the rule of twenty years?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Since he took the job in 1972, McDowell has sorted and classified hundreds of thousands of deaths so that statistics on the cause of each one can be sent to the federal government. Malignant neoplasm. Diabetes mellitus. Acute myocardial infarction. Influenza. Asthma. Automobile accident. The rare assault. The death certificates keep coming and coming, about five hundred every week. McDowell, a short man with a wide mind for details, says the endless reports on the dead have never bothered him. He rarely looks at the names. A computer helps catalog the deceased." - 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 machine spits out cases that don't fit the federal government's classification rules. McDowell processes these cases—about a hundred each week—by hand, often calling the physician who signed the certificate if something doesn't make sense. Among the cases spewed from the machine are deaths caused by prescription drugs. In a world dominated by the pharmaceutical companies and their cash, few researchers have tried to compile these deaths or estimate how many Americans are dying from their medications every year." - 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.)

"That suggestion is based on exciting recent data from the federal government's nutrition research center at Tufts University, where two different measures of immunity were boosted after subjects took vitamin E over an eight-month period. Responses to skin tests and to a hepatitis virus were decidedly more vigorous among the E supplement group—which is one of the first times researchers have linked cellular responses with a vitamin supplement. Still, check with your doctor before taking the highest experimental amount, just to be safe." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"It was also becoming clear that senior citizens would soon get some kind of assistance with prescription drug coverage from the federal government. Lower-income minority communities like Harlem represent relatively unpenetrated markets for expensive drugs with purported widespread benefits. A generous prescription drug benefit would make statin drugs affordable to many residents in this community who could not previously afford them." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The drug industry was jockeying for a bill that would enhance its bottom line by providing Medicare funds to purchase its drugs, while at the same time blocking the federal government from using purchasing power to negotiate lower prices (as Medicare has done so successfully with payments to doctors and hospitals). In the letter, Nicholson expresses his approval of "forming a pharmaceutical coalition" that will provide the "perfect vehicle for the Republican Party to reach out to the health care community and discuss their legislative needs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Congress that it wants the federal government to mandate accurate labeling of all ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. The resolution also urged Congress to require the FDA to test the safety of all products used on the skin. In addition, thanks to efforts by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a series of grassroots initiatives has taken hold in cities and small towns across the U.S." - 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.) "Consideration should also be given by state and federal government to using laws on white-collar crime ?which are now applied largely just to crimes of economic motivation with adverse economic consequences —against crimes of economic motivation with adverse public health consequences, consistent with a major legislative initiative that I proposed nearly three decades ago (5)." - 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.)

"Expenditures for prescription drugs have been increasing seven times faster than the rate of inflation, but the 2003 legislation specifically prohibits the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate prices with drug makers, as is done successfully by the Veterans Health Administration and Defense Department (and by Canada and the European countries—which is why their drug prices are so much lower than those in the United States). The U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Preventive eye care in people with diabetes is cost-saving to the federal government: implications for health-care reform. Diabetes Care 17, 909-917. 245. The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. (1993). The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. N. Engl. J. Med. 329, 977-986. 246. Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33). (1998)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Dietary Guidelines for Americans and certain other authoritative statements of federal government agencies and the National Academy of Science are not evaluated under the evidence-based ranking system, but instead upon FDA procedural guidelines designed to ensure health claims are supported by "significant scientific agreement" through equivalent systems of scientific evaluation. Food and Drug Modernization Act, P.L. No. 105-115, ?03, 111 Stat." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"By 2000 the companies' share of total research spending had grown to 62 percent, while the percentage paid by the federal government fell. But there was one problem the companies had to solve. They knew they could not just have their own scientists perform the clinical trials and write the research papers that promoted their products. Most doctors reading medical journals will immediately discount the results of a study conducted by industrial scientists. They will be wary that corporate bias has crept in to make the drugs appear better than they actually are." - 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.)

"All of the members supported the Zapatista resistance to the federal government, and Mut Vitz formally declared itself an Autonomous Organization, eschewing assistance of any kind from the state and federal governments. Its members could not be bought or bribed, but they were also on their own. The cooperative suffered continual commercial and physical harassment over the years (even the murders of several members) but kept on its autonomous path. Mut Vitz held firm during the worst years of the coffee crisis, paying its members almost twice what the coyotes were." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Initially, President Richard Nixon vetoed the authorizing bill in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government. Two months before leaving office, he withdrew his opposition, presumably to avoid alienating a Congress that was deliberating his impeachment. The NIA was created and endowed with the responsibility of developing "a plan for a research program on aging designed to coordinate and promote research into the biological, medical, psychological, social, educational, and economic aspects of aging."5 Immediately, the NIA, under the leadership of Dr." - 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.)

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