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"Myth: Marketing has little impact on food choices What also often gets lost in the personal responsibility discussion is the fact that the food industry spend upwards of $36 billion annually to market its products. The food business is extremely competitive. While most of us like to think we're immune to advertising, the truth is that corporations do not keep spending that kind of cash without expecting a handsome return on their investment. The reality is that we are all influenced by advertising, whether we know it or not, or whether we care to admit it or not." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the food industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "But despite the increased media attention, not everyone fully understands the scope of the food industry's role in creating such problems. And how could they, given that so much of the relevant information is distorted or kept hidden by food manufacturers and government agencies alike? For example, restaurant chains are refusing to provide even with the most basic nutrition information to help people exercise more personal responsibility. There are numerous examples of how food-industry lobbyists control and manipulate the discourse on food and food policy." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the food industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "This might help explain why the food industry donated $4 million to New York State legislative and gubernatorial campaigns between 1999 and 2005.23 That kind of dough can buy a lot of lobbying clout. And industry expects a good return on its investment, such as fending off meddling do-good politicians. New York assemblyman Felix Ortiz, whom we met earlier, is one of the most active members of any state legislature when it comes to proposing policies to promote health." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the food industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Therefore, despite corporate attempts to proclaim their desire to act responsibly, the underlying drive for profit maximization always remains. The food industry is just another example of this model. It is vitally important to understand the economic constraints under which a food company operates. Many people mistakenly believe that companies can simply stop marketing certain products out of the goodness of their hearts. The truth is that every decision a company makes that might undercut profits in one part of the business must be made up for somewhere else." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the food industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"This epidemic has been fueled by many factors, including the collusion between the food industry and the U.S. government. Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the U.S. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"You don't have to buy into the options the food industry relentlessly promotes. Q: How can we become more "immuno-competent" after age forty? A: You can make your immune system work better by following the Vitamin D Cure. Immuno-competent is just a fancy term for a healthy immune system. We know vitamin D is important early in your immune system's development, establishing tolerance to your own ecosystem yet preparing your body for microbial threats. Once your immune system becomes self-tolerant, it remains important lifelong for its protection from infection." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Without question, American baby boomers and the generations that have followed have been led to the trough of obesity and told to indulge with pleasure by the food industry as well as the policies of the U.S. government. Food companies and the fast-food industry have used marketing as well as the science of food technology to trigger wanton gluttony in a way that is eerily similar to the methods the tobacco companies employed to develop more addictive cigarettes." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Thus, the food industry is precluded from funding the kinds of EBM-recommended tests needed to show population-level benefits. G. Ethics Because of the difference in response characteristic between drugs and nutrients, a valid RCT for a nutrient requires that the control group be placed on an inadequate intake. With new drugs, one can always summon equipoise. One does not know, in advance, whether the agent being tested will confer any net benefit; and it is not, in fact, a deprivation to be "deprived" of a drug that is ineffective. But that posture is never possible for nutrients." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Schlosser gives an incisive history of the development of American fast food, drawing alarming conclusions about how we have come to face epidemic obesity and toxic, sometimes lethal, food sources, and generally how the fast food industry has changed the landscape of how Americans eat and live. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and inexpensive meal at a fast food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. According to Time magazine, 70 percent of kids ages six to eight think fast food is healthier than home food." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "But the fast food industry isn't solely to blame, as food additives are found in just about everything these days. Many strawberry yogurts, for example, get their color from carmine, which is also found in many frozen fruit bars, candies, fruit fillings, and juice drinks, as well as cosmetics like lipstick and eye shadow. Carmine is a food dye derived from ground-up insects that produce the pigment-containing carminic acid. (As with many food additives, carmine FACT The American flavor industry has annual revenues of about $1.4 billion." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Then the mechanization of the food industry compounded these dietary changes: canned and frozen produce replaced fresh fruits and vegetables. Free-range cattle gave way to feedlots. Fresh, lean meat was replaced by processed and canned meats. Foods such as canned ham—high in salt, saturated fat, and sugar—became popular, and the population explosion increased the demand for these inexpensive, well-preserved, tasty, and convenient foods. The result of these altered lifestyles was an urbanization picture of decreased vitamin D production and increased consumption of wrong foods." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Combining probiotics with prebiotics has already been welcomed by the food industry. In Europe, there are many dairy drinks and yogurt manufacturers combining both in products such as Aktifit (Emmi, Switzerland), Probioplus (Migros, Switzerland) and Fyos (Nutricia, Belgium), to name a few. Watch for more research in this area, particularly studies that identify which probiotic strains and prebiotic combinations are most effective. This is an exciting new area for prebiotics." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"By placing these addictive drugs into the most popular foods and beverages, the food industry has created a society where the eating habits of the majority of its members have spun out of control. With 75% of the population now overweight or obese, American society as a whole is afflicted by a "tumor" of massive proportions; the resultant ill health of the majority and the skyrocketing medical costs go along with it. This tumor eats up an ever-increasing proportion of our national resources. In 2007, $2.3 trillion was spent on health care; that's 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Since ingesting these foods causes severe nutritional deficiencies, they also cause food cravings that can never be satisfied. The food industry knows this "dirty little secret" and meets the ever-increasing demand for such "smart" foods by producing an even greater variety of mouth-watering products that especially cater to the obese or overweight. Eye-catching phrases include low cholesterol, fat free, low sodium, low calorie, sugar-free. Although these foods should be utterly unappealing to the taste buds, chemical food additives and flavors ensure they taste great." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Unnatural Foods and Beverages In the United States, the food industry produces over 40,000 different food products, the vast majority of which have no or very limited nutritional value. Highly processed, refined, "improved," fortified, preserved, flavored, pre-cooked, genetically modified, gassed, radiated, microwave-heated, and other altered foods have the common effect of starving human cells. Cancer is the result of progressive famine on the cellular level. It occurs when the body no longer receives what it needs to grow according to its original design." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "If you have cancer, your chances of recovery will increase dramatically when you eat only natural foods that have not been manipulated and altered by the food industry. I especially recommend that you consume only organically grown foods, ideally locally grown, during the recovery period. This allows the body to focus on healing rather than forcing it to engage its already battered immune system in battles with chemical additives and pesticides. Changing your diet greatly reduces your risk of developing cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"If our food industry is going to make GEF, we need to have the right to choose what we're eating. Go to: www.thecampaign.org. Our food industry and the FDA assume these foods are not substantially different from our existing foods. I feel this kind of altering of foods could never happen in nature so why mess with altering our foods and taking very big chances with possible side effects? Only a small amount of testing has been done on GEF so far. Who knows the impact these foods will have on us down the road? Remember to try and buy organic vegetables from local farmers if you can." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"In the mid '80s the food industry went to the FDA and got legislation passed under something called proprietary rights, which means they can hide their formula in food substances, they don't have to tell you that this is MSG." Dr. Joseph Debe suggests a variety of special evaluative tests. One of these is an organic acid analysis. "Organic acids are metabolic intermediate compounds. They are compounds produced by the body in the course of metabolism and normally shouldn't appear in the urine in any concentration. When any particular one of these organic acids is elevated, it has a meaning." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In response to public fears about food safety, Congress did seek to regulate the food industry by passing the Delaney Clause, first introduced in 1958. Delaney was considered to be rigorous, forbidding the sale of food containing a substance shown to produce cancer in laboratory animals or humans. Delaney was amended in the late 1980s as a result of a policy written by the FDA "based on the doctrine of de minimis, which holds that the law does not concern itself with trifling matters and that courts should not apply literally the terms of a statute to mandate results." - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the food industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (Get the book.)

"It turned out that six of the eleven committee members, including the chairman, had financial ties to the food industry. In my opinion, the Department of Agriculture, which by definition is supposed to protect and promote the nation's agricultural interests, should disqualify itself from responsibility for setting nutrition standards. That duty belongs more properly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "Food and Drug Administration has forced the food industry to label fat content of foods more accurately than it did in the past. However, there is at least one very important loophole in the labeling rules. The FDA allows manufacturers to say that a product contains zero fat per serving if one serving contains lj2 gram of fat or less. So imagine a box of doughnuts, each of which contains i gram of fat. Under the new system, the manufacturers simply state on the box that the six doughnuts inside represent twelve servings—i.e., that a single serving equals half a doughnut." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "He is utterly fearless, candidly analyzing the backroom deals and politics of a paranoid animal food industry that will stop at nothing to maintain the dominance of its products in the American diet. And he has played what is almost certain to be a critical role in the future of how we eat. For years, he has taught America's foremost course in undergraduate nutrition, and his students will form the foundation of American nutrition in the twenty-first century. Nathan Pritikin is another example of those who have bravely bucked the nutrition establishment." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "And yet, with all the research that demonstrates the wisdom and benefits of plant-based nutrition, its growing ranks of proponents still face a formidable array of opponents, from the titans of the animal food industry to the medical establishment itself. My colleague Dean Ornish succinctly sums up the dilemma faced by those of us who believe in this healthy way of eating: "I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open." Well said. 12 B~ _ _ _ ..." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Also keep in mind that as natto becomes more popular it will probably be embraced, coopted, and therefore ruined by the food industry. Since it's not very palatable in its natural, sticky state, it's inevitable that food companies will attempt to make it taste better. If history is any guide, it will wind up losing much of its effectiveness in the process. Either develop a taste for the real thing— highly recommended—or go for high-quality supplements of nattokinase." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Food Politics: How the food industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Ph.D. I don't agree with Nestle about everything, but she sure got it right in this terrific book. Dense, but important. RESOURCES FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS Acne Books The Dietaiy Cure for Acne by Loren Cordain, Ph.D. This book, by the respected researcher Loren Cordain, is the original "Paleo Diet" for acne on which I based my work in this book. It's backed by solid research and is a great nuts-and-bolts approach, complete with an actual diet plan. Highly recommended. Available only as a download at www." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Even at the height of the season, most supermarkets only stock the same subpar apples, oranges and strawberries. The food industry term for this blurred seasonality is "permanent global summertime." It means that everything is always available—and always mediocre. Only a tiny fraction of fruit biodiversity is for sale: 90 percent of the foods we eat derive from only thirty plant species. Manifold reasons account for this bottleneck: most fruits aren't dependable. They don't ship well. They aren't precision calibrated. They don't produce anywhere near the volume required by national chains." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Read labels for ingredients and look for the word "hydrogenated" even if it says zero trans fats, because if it has less than half a gram per serving the government allows the food industry to deceptively say "zero" trans fats. • ?Processed and packaged foods—This means anything that comes in a box, bag, package, or can. ??Alcohol. If you are concerned about reading labels correctly, go to www.ultra mind.com/guide and download the companion guide for this book where I have included a set of tips on what to look for on labels." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Omega-3s, being less stable than omega-6s, spoil more readily, so the food industry, focused on store food, has been strongly disposed against omega-3s long before we even knew what they were. (Omega-3s weren't recognized as essential to the human diet until the 1980s—some time after nutrition-ism's blanket hostility to fat had already taken hold.) For years plant breeders have been unwittingly selecting for plants that produce fewer omega-3s, because such crops don't spoil as quickly. (Wild greens like purslane have substantially higher levels of omega-3s than most domesticated plants." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"When anecdotal and epidemiological reports were delivered to the FDA concerning the neurotoxic effects of some of the top-selling sweetening and flavoring agents, the reports' significance was dismissed by the food industry. Instead of trying to raise the standard, they bolstered efforts to debunk what they were hearing. In some cases, as we will see later, brand-name food manufacturers hired their fiercest critics to work in their legal or public relations departments to silence them." - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the food industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (Get the book.)

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