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"When health professionals petitioned in 1981 for a bill to limit and label the sodium content of processed foods, over 100 Representatives signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation, and numerous health organizations, including the American Medical Association, were in favor of it. But the bill was withdrawn after Congressmen were wined and dined by food producers. Refined Sugar Since the early 1900s, sugar consumption in America has increased tremendously. The average American today consumes 130-150 pounds of refined sugar a year." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (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.)

"Until major health organizations reconsider their priorities and begin treating our children as individuals, we must remain vigilent and battle for our children's health every step of the way. In the meantime, you as a parent can take immediate action to protect your children from thimerosal and other contaminants in vaccines." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Besides training doctors and nurses at some of America's leading health organizations, we're been applying the nine practices of the model to create innovative programs, like the Happy Heart Campaign for Mayo Clinic's cardiac patients. In addition, we have half a dozen other research studies under way correlating the nine practices with the success of patients dealing with diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses. This surprising period in our professional lives also brought us to Dr." - 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.)

"The American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health and the World health organizations have agreed with the FDA that milk from bST-supplemented cows is the same and is safe. Others in the news media who attended Epstein's press conference or reviewed his study—such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post— chose not to run this "story" because they believed his theories lacked scientific evidence." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"It also lines up with official health organizations' recommendations for acceptable intakes of fat and carbohydrates. Prepared meal plans. These programs deliver pre-cooked balanced meals — usually low-fat and low-calorie — directly to your door. Research shows this approach can work, resulting in weight loss, improved heart health, and perhaps most importantly, an improved quality of life. Liquid and supplement diets. Replacing one to three meals a day with just a shake can be a hard regimen to stick to. But research shows if you're diligent it can work — even over the long-term." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"Thanks to the enlightening report, From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Super Sizing, issued by a coalition of health organizations, here's an idea of how saying yes to supersizing piles on the calories: For example, if you opt for a Classic Cinnabon instead of a Minibon, you pay "only" 48 cents more but get 370 extra calories or 123 percent more. Or, if you move from a regular portion to 7-Eleven DoubleGulp Coke, you pay a mere 37 cents more, but get an extra 450 extra calories, more than you'd get in a McDonald's Quarter Pounder." - 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.)

"Remember that these days, even well-known and highly respected health organizations like the American Diabetes Association are finding it increasingly difficult not to compromise their integrity in exchange for corporate funding. Be wary of their statements and positions. Truly unbiased groups will clearly state that they take no corporate funding. 9. Stay on top of industry efforts to co-opt science and health experts. Professionals and organizations you can trust today may get bought off tomorrow." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Truth be told, I haven't had much confidence in the integrity of the major health organizations since attempting to volunteer with my local branch of the American Heart Association in 1996. Then I was the sole dissenting voice on a conference planning committee and wound up quitting, disgusted that my objections to the group's decision to accept funding from the California Beef Council were not taken seriously. Even so, I find the ADA's involvement with Cadbury even more dispiriting, because of its outright shamelessness—not to mention Richard Kahn's utter clue-lessness." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Even more disturbing, this partnership is but one indicator of how low America's leading health organizations and professionals are prepared to stoop in exchange for a hefty cash payout from Big Food. While research has a critical role to play in the ongoing —Attorney Carol Hogan, advising food companies to waste no time in hiring scientific experts wii^m* .....nrrfp' policy debate around food and health, increasingly, nutrition science is being co-opted by the powerful forces that stand to benefit most from obfuscation of the truth." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The bottom line is this: Despite the comments in psychology textbooks, explanations in the literature of non-profit mental health organizations (funded by drug companies), and what most doctors and the public have come to believe, the "chemical imbalance causes mental problems" philosophy is marketing, not science. Denmark's leading researcher in this field put it to me like this in 2005: "Today we cannot quantify the absolute amount of any neurotransmitter in the living brain, but research will probably eventually succeed in doing it if enough time and money is invested in the project." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"The letter also claimed that Epstein had "no standing among his peers in the scientific community and no credibility with the leading health organizations in this country." It also said that " USA Today was the only newspaper to print these allegations and we recently held a heated meeting with them." We will know next week if The Boston Globe is in the same league as The New York Times or if it is down there with USA Today. Dairy Coalition vs. USA Today On Wednesday (2/7/96), representatives of the Dairy Coalition met with reporter Anita Manning and her editor at USA Today." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Health Physics 75:428-30, 1998] ____ The EPA says: "Although some scientists dispute the precise number of deaths due to radon, all the major health organizations (like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Lung Association and the American Medical Association) agree with estimates that radon causes thousands of preventable lung cancer deaths every year. This is especially true among smokers, since the risk to smokers is much greater than to non-smokers." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Weltner may not know that Samuel Epstein has no standing among his peers in the scientific community and no credibility with the leading health organizations in this country. He has no training in endocrinology or in oncology. He has conducted no original research and his study cites no new research. All that can be said of his "study" is that it takes the work of legitimate scientists out of context. Epstein's interpretations have often been rejected by the very researchers he cites, as well as by leading experts in endocrinology and oncology." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Although the "chemical imbalance" theory is bandied about as fact by a number of pharmaceutical companies, mental health organizations and an untold number of physicians and psychiatrists, "chemical imbalance" is today, despite decades of research, still a theory and even the NIMH refrains from elevating the theory to the status of medical/scientific fact. Naturally one wonders how Pfizer got away with the unqualified statement that the company's mind-altering drug/"medicine," Zoloft, "helps correct the chemical imbalance of serotonin in the brain." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "In fact, the "chemical imbalance" theory is rampant among private mental health organizations and even in the top echelon of the mental-health experts in the federal government. For example, the National Alliance for the Mentally 111 (NAMI), which boasts it is "The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness," states, in part, on its website that although "there is no single cause of major depression...whatever the specific causes of depression, scientific research has firmly established that major depression is a biological brain disorder." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "In fact, the APA, governmental bodies, pharmaceutical companies and private mental health organizations have spent billions on advertising campaigns to educate and reassure those afflicted with the reported psychiatric mental illnesses that it isn't their fault and that they shouldn't be stigmatized." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "More importantly, though, one has to seriously consider just how much "better" a child, or an adult for that matter, can be after years of ingesting a prescribed psychiatric drug such as Ritalin-a stimulant (speed), and a drug the federal government, along with other world health organizations, categorizes as a Schedule II controlled substance, just like morphine, opium, cocaine and the heroin substitute methadone." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"By visiting libraries and bookstores and contacting health organizations that focus on cancer, you should be able to find a number of comprehensive, up-to-date books that provide additional information about alternative treatments. Once you have a better idea of the therapy or therapies that would best serve your needs, contact educational organizations and patient-referral services that provide information on these treatments. (See Part Three, remedies and therapies, for further information about alternative treatments." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Healthy Greens and other food supplements by agreeing to pay $600,000, divided equally, to three different health organizations.3 This was a small price for the company to pay, considering the ultimate revenues that were generated by the exploding nutrient supplement market. FOCUS ON FAT The focus on individual nutrients instead of whole foods has become commonplace in the past two decades, and part of the blame can be put on our 1982 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.)

"CCF has even developed a Web site called ActivistCash, which claims to "expose" the funding sources of various environmental and public health organizations. (Never mind that such information is already publicly available.) Also on this site, you'll find a guide to the "key players" in nutrition advocacy. Among the people singled out is New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle, who is described as "one of the country's most hysterical anti-food-industry fanatics," a food cop with "radical goals." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"These precepts constitute the bottom line of what seem to be the far more complicated dietary recommendations of many health organizations and national and international governments —the forty-one "key recommendations" of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, for example. The guidelines also tend to deal with single nutrients or foods, not dietary patterns. Although you may feel as though advice about nutrition is constantly changing, the basic ideas behind my four precepts have not changed in half a century. And they leave plenty of room for enjoying the pleasures of food." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Scientists, doctors and the public alike frequently rely on advice from the health organizations they trust and respect, not realizing the recommendations proffered may well be the product of a hidden agenda. Such is the danger of relying on second-hand information-one must hope that the accuracy, honesty and objectivity of those supplying the information are of good merit. At this point, skeptical readers may be asking: "So why should we trust you, Colpo?" My answer is~don't. Do your own research." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "Because of the conformist mindset so prevalent amongst scientists and society in general, once proponents of the lipid hypothesis seized control of official CHD prevention policy in 1984, the rest was a breeze. The health organizations that handed out research grants were fully committed to the lipid hypothesis, as were the manufacturers of highly profitable lipid-lowering drugs, making funding for dissenting theories a highly unlikely proposition. After the lipid hypothesis became official policy, the question was no longer whether cholesterol caused heart disease, but how." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "When it comes to healthy fat intake, nature~not confused researchers, biased food manufacturers, nor the health organizations that receive royalties from these same manufacturers-knows best! Antioxidants-Nature's Free Radical Fighters In the comparison between Swedish and Lithuanian men we talked about earlier, higher LDL cholesterol oxidation in the latter was accompanied not only by lower overall LDL levels, but significantly poorer blood levels of important diet-derived antioxidants such as beta carotene, lycopene, and gamma tocopherol (a form of vitamin E)(28,29)." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "The desire by health organizations to save face is by no means the only factor driving the continued perpetuation of the lipid hypothesis. Another huge motivator is the staggering sum of money to be made from cholesterol-free, low-fat foods and lipid-lowering drugs. You Scratch My Back, and I'll Scratch Yours Most members of the general public would not even begin to realize just how much money is lavished upon 'impartial' health authorities by food and drug manufacturers." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"But that does not mean that Post cereals lack apparent "endorsements" from health organizations. Take a look at Post cereals like Honey Nut Shredded Wheat and Frosted Shredded Wheat. Both cereals have banners on the front saying "Helps reduce the risk of heart disease because it is rich in whole grains." Now look at the side panel. There, in bold letters, is American Diabetes Association. Can this be an endorsement of these presweetened cereals? Not at all. You have to look at the small print." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "They also get medical and health organizations to endorse—or appear to endorse —the health benefits of their products. How that system works comes next. Packaged Foods: Health Endorsements ecause health claims increase product sales, food companies also use alliances with medical authorities to appeal to health-conscious adults in the same way that they use alliances with sports celebrities to appeal to kids. But cereal, snack food, and drink companies get plenty of active assistance in marketing their products from health professionals." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"First, this is the dietary pattern that many major health organizations and an abundance of research indicate is optimal for lifelong health. Second, foods high in complex carbohydrates, such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, tend to be rich in fiber, water, or both. Fiber may be particularly important because it increases food volume without added calories and can slow the absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream, thereby lowering blood sugar and stabilizing blood insulin levels." - David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.)

"Similar problems exist in the recommendations of nonprofit health organizations that receive funding from industry. Sadly, even the American Heart Association advocates a diet that has been shown to increase heart disease.26 Multiple dietary intervention trials have taken place testing diets suggested by the American Heart Association. Because these diets failed to show substantial benefits over the horrendous diets that most Americans eat, most medical authorities and physicians concluded that dietary modification was of little or no consequence." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

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