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"Gerd Schaller: "I have a dream that our efforts join together to create a saner, better health industry. "Man has started to intervene into the natural routine processes of life and is on the verge of destroying the natural order on our planet. We are destroying woods and inventing medicinal products which no longer cure but cause long-lasting damage to the well balanced harmony and function of our bodies. "It is time to distinctly announce that health for all living beings can only be achieved if things are in line and in agreement with natural laws." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "He started a completely new career in the health industry. Today, Gerd Schaller is the Executive Director of Nature Power Trading Ltd., a company that has tens of thousands of customers. The company concentrates on nutritive supplements and is one of the key opinion leaders in the field of alternative healing in Great Britain. As well, the company increasingly provides those supplements to other countries. Because of this international approach, we are able to obtain from Mr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "A real solution would endeavor to turn this world toward a completely different direction, away from drugs and obsessive operations, away from this gigantic health industry. It would eradicate suppressive, nutritional food companies and forbid chemical, water, and air pollution. A real solution would mean an utterly new way of living and a much higher standard of life. Let's take a look at that. 10. FIGHTING DRUGS AND FINDING ALTERNATIVES (1): HEALTHY NUTRITION It would not be fair to talk about the horrible side effects of drugs, without at least mentioning the alternatives to drugs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The content in this book does not include much medical and health industry terminology: both can be confusing. Nor does it go into deep or detailed background explanations. Some concepts are mentioned in more than one place and may appear to be repetitious to the reader. There are two reasons for this. First, repeating basic principles helps with learning and understanding. Second, this book is written to be both a practical reference that can be read and understood on a topical basis and a complete work." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Public health agencies, communities, government, health organizations, the media, and the food and health industry must form alliances if we are to combat obesity. Education ?Provide federal funding to state public health department for mass media health promotion campaigns that emphasize healthful eating and physical activity patterns. ?Require instruction in nutrition and weight management as part of the school curriculum for future health education teachers. ?Make a plant-based diet the focus of dietary guidance. ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In fact, the mainstream health industry has been rushing in the opposite direction. Less time. Less individuality. More and more drugs. Every year, more conditions are "diagnosed" as requiring medication. I recently saw a scientific paper claiming that the disease of "imagined ugliness" should be treated with antidepressants. The direction is toward more pills, more "quick fixes," and more profit for the pharmaceutical industry. For many years, the experts on my radio show and I have been protesting the huge and still increasing numbers people taking drugs to treat mental disorders." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Consider this: there has been an ongoing campaign against the health industry in this country for well over fifty years. Every day you see advocates of the alternative position challenged as being unscientific and the purveyors of fraud. But what you have here is an industry making about one-fourth the amount of money as all the herbs and organic produce, all of the natural food stores and the vitamins and minerals that are sold, everything that we call the health movement. Electroconvulsive therapy makes that amount of money, and kills one in ten thousand people." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The relationship between the medical profession and the health industry (device manufacturers and drug companies) is problematic to say the least. Arthur Kleinman, the famous medical anthropologist from Harvard, has called the corrupted partnership the greatest ethical problem in medicine today. Personally, I find the lapses in ethical behavior in the medical profession distressing. After all, we expect businesses to try to sell their products, and improve their bottom line." - 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.)

"In addition, he was doing well as an accountant with executive-level responsibilities at a large nonprofit in the health industry. The only stress in their lives was Henry's growing irritability and insensitivity. He bragged much too much about his newfound wealth, spent too much on foolish things, and seemed to have lost much of his genuine feeling for his family. Everything changed overnight. Henry came home from work to announce that he was in trouble, not serious trouble from his viewpoint, but trouble enough. He'd been caught embezzling funds at work. "How much?" - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The problems we are now having in our health industry are the result. Now, an interest in alternative medicine is on the rise. Some agencies in our government are trying to stop nutritional supplements from being sold, and put them in the hands of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), American Medical Association (AMA), or similar government departments, to be monitored. Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor in colonial America, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"No recommendations of products I This position of financial independence and honest journalism is almost unheard of in the health industry, by the way. Doctors are frequently on the take from drug companies, through free vacations, meals, or gifts. Non-profit disease organizations take millions of dollars from drug companies. The American Diabetes Association even takes money from candy manufacturers!" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"It is a war being waged in the interests of the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry, which is not a health industry but rather an investment business built upon the continuation and expansion of global diseases. Your health and the health of every person in America is threatened in several ways: I."The business with disease" as the basis of the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is a multibillion dollar investment business that has orchestrated the largest fraud in human history. It promises health, but in fact thrives on the continuation of diseases." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Moreover, antidepressants and other mental health industry treatments divert all of us from examining the unsustainable aspects of society that create the social conditions for depression. In this book, I am speaking to those who feel alienated from an increasingly extremist consumer culture and who are seeking genuine community. And I am speaking to those who have already rejected standard psychiatric theories and treatments of depression and are seeking alternative explanations and solutions. The U.S." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "Transforming Negative Energy The mental health industry approaches our negative emotional states in a negative way. Hopelessness, anxiety, and anger are often treated like weeds on a lawn, and these days that means using chemicals to get rid of them. However, negativity per se is not bad. It is negativity about one's negativity that is problematic. Although anger is not the most fun way in the world to get energized, I must confess that when I've had little else to motivate me, I have used anger to get a few things done." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"It has become part of every single food and health industry in the country, from oranges to tomatoes, from cereals to vitamin supplements. The plant food industry got carried away recently when another ca-rotenoid was "discovered." You've probably heard of it. It is called lyco-pene, and it provides the red color in tomatoes. In 1995, it was reported that people who ate more tomatoes, including whole tomatoes and tomato-containing foods like pasta sauces, had a lower risk for prostate cancer,24 supporting an earlier report." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"So, with apologies to the careful reader, the following restatements are meant to address common false attributions: • Criticism of the mental health industry is not trivializing mental suffering. • Depathologizing mental suffering is not romanticizing it. • "Just saying know'''' to illegal and prescription psychotropic drugs means informed consent and respecting choice when it comes to drugs. • By noting the similarities between psychiatric drugs and illegal drugs and alcohol, I am not advocating prohibition of psychiatric drugs. Rather, I am exposing hypocrisy." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The fitness and health industry is a billion dollar industry and it feeds off of your confusion. You've been there—I know, I have too. The same gadgets, books and DVD's are in my closets, too. These are all reminders of how we've been duped into thinking that if we just do this simple thing or use some easy system, we'll magically be granted all our health and fitness wishes. All in about 20 seconds or so, of course. Let me ask you this... Would you go to a used car salesman to ask him for advice about how to get a good deal on a car that's sitting on HIS lot? No way!" - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"Breggin points out that this is "an all too common situation with children who are recruited by the mental health industry." He further warns that "Eventually, these children end up on four or five psychiatric drugs at once and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder by the age of eight or ten." One concerning study, reported in the June 2006 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that "there were about 201,000 office-based visits for youths aged 20 and younger that involved antipsychotic treatment in 1993. That number rose to 1,224,000 in 2002." That's a tremendous increase!" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Which means, if not for the disruption by Rebecca's untimely death, this family represented five steady customers for the "mental health industry." with 100% of the costs for doctor's visits and prescriptions paid for by public health care programs. (http://www.sierratimes.com/07/02/27/75 7 243 126 94769.htm) The elderly are also at risk! A study reported in the June 13, 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine reviewed antipsychotic use in nursing homes for approximately two and a half million Medicaid beneficiaries and "found that over half (58." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"AdvaMed, representing the medical device manufacturers, was then known as HIMA, the health industry Manufacturers Association. The late Seymour Perry headed the center and wrote about the opposition of HIMA and also of the American Medical Association.21 He concluded that the "unalterable bottom line for the health industry Manufacturer's Association in its opposition was the fear that the Center's activities had the potential ability to constrain industry's freedom in the marketplace." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"Imagine how much more likely consumers would be to try supplements and other natural products if the alternative health industry was in a position to give away $16 billion worth of its products every year. Obviously, this is not going to happen. It is, however, important for consumers to realize the disparity that exists between these industries in achieving public awareness for their products." - Shari Lieberman, Alan Xenakis, Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss & Inflammation Naturally (Get the book.)

"Psychiatrists such as Koplewicz are not at the fringe of the mental health industry but at the center; he and others like him not only are NAMI heroes but are routinely invited to White House conferences on mental health. "It's nobody's fault" means that it is neither our fault nor our parents' fault that we are depressed, and this is a very seductive message. There is nothing so seductive as the exoneration of responsibility, in this case blaming brain chemistry rather than confronting society and human relationships." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"I would consider the effort of producing this book well worth it if it causes you to check out for yourself the basis for the claims the health industry and doctors make (including myself). We need to know that human beings on planet earth are like fish in a tank of finite dimensions. As the Greek master physician, Hippocrates taught 2,500 years ago, our health is determined by the air we breathe, the food we eat, the soil in which we grow it, the water we drink, and the way we feel and behave towards others." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"In the final showdown," Carter charged,366 Congress "was flooded with money, in the form of campaign contributions from the health industry.... [T]he American Medical Association alone ... contributed an average of more than eight thousand dollars to each of the two hundred and two members of the House of Representatives who voted against the bill! Of the fifty members who accepted more than twice this average amount, forty-eight voted with the health industry. They prevailed, and the American people lost." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"It was championed by the health industry Manufacturers Association (now called AdvaMed) with the support of its members, including Pfizer. The clause was killed when it became widely known.8 Many patients still have the Bjork-Shiley convexo-concave valves in place, and fractures are still being reported. These patients and their doctors now face a difficult decision about whether and when to consider open-heart surgery to replace the valves, in an effort to avoid disastrous valve failures. Open-heart surgery itself poses substantial risks, of course." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"Dietary supplements and genetically engineered vegetable oils are two ways in which the food and health industry is trying to increase our exposure to lauric acid. By far the best and richest natural sources of lauric acid are coconuts and coconut oil. For instance, 1 tablespoon of dried shredded coconut contains about 2 grams of lauric acid. A tablespoon of pure coconut oil contains 7 grams." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

"GOING, GOING, GONE: THE FATE OF OMEGA-3s Omega-3 fatty acids are the latest darling of the health industry. Soy oil contains relatively large amounts of omega-3s compared to other commercial vegetable oils, but if the steam and pressure of the refining process doesn't kill them, the deodorizing intended to cover the telltale rancid smells and tastes will. More than half of the omega-3s and some of the omega-6s are destroyed during processing, leaving the oil with a lowered essential fatty acid (EFA) value." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"It is a war being waged in the interests of the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry, which is not a health industry but rather an investment business built on the continuation and expansion of global diseases. Your health and the health of every person in America are threatened in several ways: 1. "The business with disease" as the basis of the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is a multibillion dollar investment business that has orchestrated the largest fraud in human history. It promises health, but in fact thrives on the continuation of diseases." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"He concluded that the "unalterable bottom line for the health industry Manufacturer's Association in its opposition was the fear that the Center's activities had the potential ability to constrain industry's freedom in the marketplace." For the AMA, the fear seemed to be that doctors would lose the autonomy to make any decisions they wanted about new treatments." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

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