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"To do this, the marketers created websites to attract people looking for health information. The websites offered gifts to those willing to fill out surveys and provide personal information. The companies added each new piece of data to their in-house databases, which allowed them to create profiles of individuals and better understand what motivated them. One marketing executive explained that this transformed customers from "anonymous and unengaged" to "profiled and active." The data collection began with toddlers watching Big Bird and Ernie on Sesame Street." - 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 charts are based on the recommendations of the National Women's health information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health as of October 2006. Recommended Screening Tests and Immunizations for Women at Average Risk Screening Tests Ages 18-39 Full checkup, including weight and height Thyroid test (TSH) Blood pressure test Cholesterol test Bone mineral density test Blood glucose test Mammogram Pap test and pelvic exam Chlamydia test Discuss with your doctor or nurse." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"With advertising of prescription drugs and other medical products having emerged as a major source of revenue for all media (especially television—the greatest source of people's health information), the pressure to have news content that supports or at least does not directly oppose advertisers' interests has grown. And therein lies the Achilles' heel of the media when it comes to medical reporting." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "In this case, however, the source of information is the trusted World Health Organization, on which public health officials in every country rely for health information and policy recommendations. Can't we trust that its recommendations are free of commercial influence and in the best interests of women around the world? Unfortunately, we cannot. At the time that the WHO study group did its work, there were several new drugs for osteoporosis in the pipeline." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"According to the Cleveland Clinic health information Center, depression in the elderly may differ from that of the general population in several ways. It is often linked with other medical conditions. It tends to last longer. In addition, it "doubles their risk of developing cardiac disease, reduces their ability to rehabilitate, and increases their risk of death from illness." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"As a category, mental health issues are searched for more often than immunizations, dental health, Medicare or Medicaid, sexual health information, or problems with drugs and alcohol.29 In July 2006, of the ten most popular online searches for pharmaceutical and medical products, six concerned psychiatric drugs or psychiatric disease. (They were, in order, Lexapro, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Wellbutrin [an antianxiety agent], Effexor, and the illness of depression itself.)30 Among people who have visited a medication site, depression is by far the most researched medical condition, with 2." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In the last few years, there has been a lot of public health information available on the importance of avoiding alcohol while pregnant, but when it comes to the influence of alcohol consumption on female fertility, mild to moderate alcohol use has not been well studied. It seems, however, that alcohol does reduce conception rates with a dose-related connection. Research demonstrated that female alcohol intake was associated with two to three times the risk of spontaneous abortion, and alcohol intake during the week of conception increased the risk of early pregnancy loss." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"A popular alternative medicine and natural health information site. Free newsletter available. Comprehensive medical and alternative health information. http://www.mercola.com Healing Food Reference Database ?A comprehensive resource with cross-referenced information about healing foods and the conditions they may help, http://www.healingfoodreference.com/ Healing Herbs Reference Database ?Companion website for healing foods above. Provides cross-referenced information on herbs and conditions they may help, http://www.herbreference.com HerbMed ?" - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Almost half of Americans turn to the Internet for health information. If you go to the website sponsored by Merck, the manufacturer of Fosamax, you will be advised to "know your T score" and told that "If your T score is less than -1.0, talk to your doctor about treatment options." (Remember, on a statistical basis, half of women in their early fifties have a T score of-1.0 or less, but treating these women with drugs does not decrease, and may actually increase, their risk of fractures." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I have a dream that health information is provided in a way everybody can understand. It is my dream, the usual medical mumbo-jumbo that the ordinary citizen cannot comprehend will be forbidden one day. I believe that it is urgently necessary to tell people the truth about the side effects of one method compared with another one in a much more compelling and lucid way. "I have a dream more and more responsible doctors give up being afraid of losing income and reputation, and decide to show the people the way to long-term and natural health by means of proper nutrition." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"National Women's health information Center www.womenshealth.gov NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases—National Resource Center www.niams.nih.gov/bone North American Menopause Society www.menopause.org Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association www.pcosupport.org Scleroderma Foundation www.scleroderma.org Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation www.sjogrens.org U.S. Food and Drug Administration www.fda.gov U.S. National Library of Medicine www.pubmed.gov BOOKS Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form Michael Sims Penguin, 2004 The Body Has a Head Dr." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Yet another pressure group is Operation Cure All, which has a plan to restrict health information, supplements and natural therapies. The World Health Organization, the United Nations, international banks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies are all working in concert to make this happen. This group has already conspired to outlaw all health claims for products sold on the Internet. Testimonials are not allowed either." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"On the Web, he said, people would have instant access to all of their health information, and SmithKline could play the role of a "health partner." He could see it now, he would tell anyone who would listen: "The whole world is changing! Now the patient has the information. He will be a partner with SmithKline and his doctor. If you are a diabetic, and that really bugs you, really gets under your skin, well, you will spend hours a month studying up on it. Forty percent of the Net is people seeking health information, and we are going to be there." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"That new legislation should place the burden of proof on the government to establish the falsity of health information used in the market upon empirical evidence, not conjecture." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "It has proven itself willing to censor health information even when that censorship leads to death and disability of the most vulnerable in our population, newborns (e.g., its multi-year refusal to allow a folic acid-neural tube defect claim despite 2,500 preventable neural tube defect births each year its censorship remained in place). FDA has thus proven that it cannot be trusted to abide by decisions of the federal courts. Rather, it can be counted upon to achieve its desired end even if that end violates the Constitution and the orders of federal courts." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Thompson III invited a new approach to censorship of health information by confirming that FDA could lawfully censor all nutrient-disease treatment claims for dietary supplements, including truthful claims. The court thus invited FDA to define what constitutes a disease treatment (or drug) claim and to engage in a categorical suppression of those claims, regardless of their validity." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "FDA's blanket prior restraint has suppressed an enormous volume of health information that could aid consumers in choosing which food and food elements to ingest to maximize their health by reducing disease risk and by retarding the progress of, mitigating, or curing disease. The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act defines a drug based on its intended use, not its physiological effect on the body. Thus, under 21 U.S.C. ?321(g)(1)(B), a drug is defined as "articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"We are not denying that those perceptive people who can see the aura and its colors can extract information, including health information, from it, but we are suggesting that the information will always be partial at best. To use an analogy to make this distinction clear, think of how a mechanic can extract information about how your car's engine is performing by analyzing only the emissions from the tailpipe. He'll know a lot about the engine, but not everything." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"You can find out more about the benefits — of breast-feeding for both mom and baby from The National Women's health information Center at www.4tuoman.gov/breastfeeding. Click on "Benefits of Breastfeeding." The 4 Biggest Mistakes Diabetics Make Paul S. Jellinger, MD, professor of medicine, voluntary faculty, University of Miami School of Medicine; endocrinologist, Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Care, Hollywood, FL; immediate past president, American College of Endocrinology; and past president, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Click on "Health Information" and look for "Back Pain." Low-Back Pain Relief Low-back pain can be relieved by antidepressants. A recent review of published studies found that people who experienced chronic low-back pain who took the tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline (Aventyl) had less pain and needed fewer painkillers than those taking a placebo. Theory: The analgesic properties of these antidepressants, which inhibit the uptake of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, help relieve back pain." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Much of the health information that we get is distorted so that drugs are the first choice we consider for, say, depression, high cholesterol or high blood pressure—even if there are safer effective alternatives, such as exercise or a healthy diet. Drug ads use statistical gimmicks to exaggerate benefits. I saw an ad that claimed a certain pill would lower your risk of a heart attack by 33%. Technically, that's correct, but the actual clinical study indicated a drop in risk from 3% to 2%. In absolute terms, that's only a one-percentage-point reduction." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "The National Women's health information Center 8270 Willow Oaks Corporate Dr. Fairfax, VA 22031 800-994-WOMAN (9662) www.4woman.gov ¦ Parkinson's Disease Foundation 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509 New York, NY 10018 800-457-6676 www.pdf.org ¦ The Skin Cancer Foundation 245 Fifth Ave., Suite 1403 New York, NY 10016 800-SKIN-490 (754-6490) www.skincancer.org ¦ The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250 Dallas, TX 75244 972-855-1600 www.komen.org m United Network for Organ Sharing PO Box 2484 Richmond, VA 23218 804-782-4800 www.unos." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"As a result, tens of millions of Americans have died unnecessarily over the past decades because this life-saving health information has not been available to them. 5. Suppressing effective natural therapies by law. Effective, safe and non-patentable natural therapies threaten the very basis of the pharmaceutical investment business. They target and correct the underlying cellular deficiencies of today's most common diseases, thereby preventing and even eradicating them." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"TeenScreen does not offer specifics to the above, and the criteria are so broad that one seriously has to wonder who won't be privy to the child's personal mental health information. This is an interesting concept when one recalls that information about what psychiatric drugs school shooters may have been prescribed is handled as if it were a state secret. Okay, time for a recap." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"This will be the only place in the world where every bit of health information relating to a disease will be available, because it is the only place in the world where there are no conflicts of interest, no financial ties to the sale of drugs or the use of specific machines. With no advertisers to skew the information or make the information biased, you can be assured that you have the answers that you need regarding your health. 2. Healthcare directory. I believe it is vital that you get professional treatment from licensed healthcare practitioners." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"At any point in time, 10 to 15 percent of children and adolescents suffer some symptoms of depression, according to the National Mental health information Center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Sugar's Depression Reaction around the World The potential link between our sugar intake and plummeting mood is so beguiling that one group of researchers has tracked both depression and sugar consumption rates in six countries around the world: New Zealand, Canada, Germany, France, the United States, and Korea." - 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.) "National Women's health information Center. "Vaginal Yeast Infections," July 2002. http://www .4woman.gov/faq/yeastinfect.htm. Prevention's Ultimate Guide to Women's Health and Wellness. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2002. Shaw, G., et al. "Neural Tube Defects Associated with Maternal Periconceptional Dietary Intake of Simple Sugars and Glycemic Index." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 78, no. 5 (2003): 972-78. Somer, Elizabeth. Food and Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best. New York: Henry Holt 1999. Teitlebaum, J., et al. " - 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.)

"It will be the only place in the world where you can get unbiased and totally complete health information. The website will not accept any advertising, and we will not have any ties to any products or companies that sell products. Building NaturalCures.com is a massive undertaking. It will take over 500 employees and huge amounts of money to produce the vision that I have for this ultimate source of information. Imagine you find out you have prostate cancer. You are scared; you are nervous; you don't know what to do." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"They must ban health information from appearing on the internet if they are going to complete their domination of the health consumer. If they succeed, then someday it may not only be illegal to sell broccoli sprouts; it might also be illegal to state that broccoli sprouts actually prevent cancer! People who dare to speak those words might be rounded up and incarcerated for daring to speak out against the centralized authorities who determine what is "accepted" science and what isn't, primarily based on what makes the most money for pharmaceutical giants." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"I have often met people who use this fact to justify their ambivalence toward health information. But I take a different view. I have never pursued health hoping for immortality. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live." - 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.)

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