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"Merck even let the doctors it was flying around the world select their "first choice" and "second choice" of hotels. Most doctors saw nothing wrong with this. "They are making a lot of hay about nothing," said Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, the chairman of the department of psychiatry at Emory School of Medicine, after two scientists raised concerns about how he had favorably described some experimental treatments for depression without disclosing his financial ties to the corporate developers. At the time, Dr." - 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.)

"Outside, a dozen red-eyed young men immediately pounce on me, barking information and hawking services ranging from hotels and taxis to relieving me of my possessions. My contact, a horticultural administrator from Limbe's botanical garden named Joseph Mbelle, is nowhere to be seen. He'd confirmed several times by e-mail that he would be here with a "plycard" bearing my name. Clutching the gift he asked me to bring (a silver-plated watch with "genuine leather strap"), I look around expectantly. At that moment, a dwarf breaks through the throng to assail me. "What company are you with?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "It is banned in many hotels and public spaces throughout Asia. In Singapore, signs on subway stations warn that durian carriers face a five hundred Singapore dollars fine. Durianpalace.com thinks banning nature's grandest pudding is "a hopeless rule just like outlawing farts, when we know that it is such a pleasure and everybody's secretly doing it." Aviation alerts have been caused by passengers transporting the fruit in their luggage. Citing "grossness," not safety, Virgin Airlines manager Brett Godfrey canceled a 2003 flight in Australia because of a castaway durian. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Like in Monopoly, when you get to add hotels." As if that weren't bad enough, Congress was not even allowed to see Medicare's own estimate of the real cost of the prescription drug bill before it voted (this estimate was $100-$200 billion higher than the projected cost that the Bush administration was presenting to Congress). Medicare's chief actuary, Richard S. Foster, told the New York Times that he had been ordered not to provide this information to Congress and ordered not to respond directly to Congressional requests for data." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "I've turned down more offers than I can count for "educational" dinners, sporting events, golf and ski outings, and even weekends in the best hotels plus $500. And I must confess to having given in to temptation on several occasions. A couple of months after the Boston Celtics were defeated by the Los Angeles Lakers in the historic 1987 NBA world championship series (the last great Larry Bird-versus-Magic Johnson showdown), the manufacturer of the latest anti-inflammatory drug sponsored a weekend outing." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"We figured we would stay at one of the larger hotels but were dismayed to find out that most hotels were booked. There were quite a few conferences that week in Burlington, and it appeared that every room was occupied. "Maybe we will have to stay at the Swiss Host Motel," Larry said with a grin, trying to find humor in our surreal situation. The Swiss Host Motel was a tiny 1960s-style motel painted fluorescent green with bright purple trim. It was located in South Burlington among other strip architecture. A very strange and unbecoming place." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Products that appear in hotels, restaurants, condominiums, public washrooms, and schools are still generally unlabeled. Additionally, unlabeled products manufactured by small, unregistered "rogue" industries are commonplace. Cosmetic Ingredient Reviexv Compendium The Council does have a publication reporting on ingredient safety, but this report, like its testing guidelines and labeling manual, is deeply flawed. The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) was established by the Council in 1976, and is finalized by the Council's member companies before being published annually." - 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.)

"The eager recruit quickly put the strange questions out of his mind as the executives offered him a salary that was three times what he was making at Dana-Farber, a brand-new Chevrolet Lumina to use for both work and pleasure, and an expense account that would soon have him dining at four-star restaurants and staying at the finest hotels. Parke-Davis even had a slogan that appealed to an earnest young scientist like Franklin. On its corporate letterhead the company called itself the "People Who Care." "I didn't really believe it," Franklin said years later, recalling the events of that day. " - 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.)

"For most of her life she indulged her passions: getting together with friends after work, spending her weekends sunning on the decks of the famous Art Deco hotels of South Beach, and treating herself to shopping and restaurant-hopping. She was always on the go. But ill health began to creep up on her. She often found herself too exhausted to do her favorite things anymore, and she couldn't find relief from debilitating joint pain. Despite visits to a long succession of doctors, she couldn't seem to make progress against her pain." - 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.)

"Purdue spent tens of millions of dollars between 1996 and 2000 flying doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to resort hotels in places like Boca Raton, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, where they were wined and dined and trained as speakers to spread the word that painkillers like OxyContin were safe. By 2002 Purdue's list of trained lecturers included twenty-five hundred physicians. These speakers went back to their hometowns, where Purdue paid them to speak at local hospitals and before medical groups. The audiences at these lectures also often received checks written by Purdue." - 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.)

"Here are some other tips: Breakfast: Many hotels have those awful scrambled eggs on the buffet bar: Don't sweat it! Eat them, and leave the hash browns and toast alone. Or order poached eggs or an omelet with veggies. Substitute sliced tomatoes for toast and potatoes, and make sure they don't serve you the complimentary orange juice. If they pour it, you'll drink it. Airports: Almost all airports now have some sort of chain dining establishment, whether it's TGI Fridays or Chili's, or a local version of such. Order a Caesar salad with no croutons." - 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.)

"But there are some potential allies in the cause: the professional chefs of the world, those employed by upscale hotels, restaurants, businesses, clubs, and other venues that require food of exquisite taste, texture, variety, and presentation. These chefs are masters at achieving delightful meals no matter what the basic foods. Several years ago, I was invited to speak about arresting and reversing heart disease at a luncheon meeting of health maintenance organization directors at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"First-class airfare, four-star hotels, prizes and giveaways, Sunbelt resort stays, and sumptuous meals are commonplace for presenters. Any casual attendee simply passing through the exhibit spaces can grab enough Zoloft pens, Viagra calendars, and Zyprexa coffee cups to last a decade. Major international conferences, such as the World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, feature bizarre installations to promote the drugs. At the Berlin conference in 2001, Eli Lilly set up what were described as "fun houses" to draw the attention of physicians to their products." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Avoid mini bars at hotels. They're expensive and tend to feature high-calorie, low-nutrient-density foods. Request a room without a mini bar or ask that the mini bar be emptied before you arrive so you can fill it with bottled water, veggies, or fruit snacks. Remember your Veggie Day. It will help keep you mindful of your SuperFoodsRx lifestyle. If you're traveling abroad or domestically, you'll often find interesting vegetarian choices that will make your Veggie Day a memorable pleasure." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Make any trip an active one by choosing hotels with fitness centers and walk, walk, walk wherever you find yourself. If you're on a business trip, make a point to schedule time for exercise. There's always a spare hour in the morning, the evening, or even at lunchtime. Conduct your meetings in motion when you can: Walk and talk. Walk while you use your cell phone. Walk at the end of the day to wind down and refresh. Resistance bands and water-filled hand weights are two exercise aids that travel well and will keep you on target with your strength-training exercises. Help!" - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Parke-Davis also paid all the bills as these speakers traveled to and stayed at some of the most luxurious resorts and hotels in the country. "Yesterday, I was here on the beach, frolicking in the sun, and I was on a boogie board," Dr. Cynthia Harden, a physician from New York, told her audience at the meeting in Jupiter Beach, Florida. "And I was trying to ride the waves in but I noticed that I wasn't getting anywhere. In fact, I was starting to float out to Bermuda. "Thankfully, the Parke-Davis people had been watching me, and one of their marketing people . . ." - 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.)

"Stay in "Green Hotels" (www.greenhotels.org) that are committed to energy conservation. • Write letters to the editor about sound conservation practices. EIGHT RIPPING THE COIN From Scarcity to Abundance Barry is heavily invested in the American Dream. Physically, emotionally, financially, and spititually, Barry is bought in. Fot years he has worked arduously to climb his way up to material nirvana. Yet his ascent is slowed by mountainous credit card debt, first and Wealth si second mottgages, impulse buys of things unneeded, irra- ? ?? once and his rate skyrocketed to 30." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"They were a success: "Los Angeles was a crowded, seething city of promoters, amateur and professional; hotels bulged with occupants, prices soared to astronomic levels, and everywhere?on the streets, in print, in homes and clubs—the incessant topic was land, the land of southern California."36 The boom was followed by a collapse in prices in 1888-89: "Persons who had been talking 'land and climate' for two years now regretted intensely the lack of a stable industrial basis for southern California's economy." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Tourism is now one of two main businesses in this town of ninety thousand residents and more than four hundred hotels. The other main business is medicine. Between them, Shasta Regional Medical Center and Mercy Medical Center employ more than two thousand people, and generate nearly one hundred million dollars a year in revenue. Dr. Patrick Campbell arrived in Redding with his wife and two children in 1993, less than two years out from his internship and residency at the University of California, Davis." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"We stayed in one of the few hotels in Kundiawa, a ring of cottages with a galvanized tin sheet for a security gate. A dance had been organized at a local bar next to the hotel to raise money for the festival in Kup and to announce the formation of the Digne Coffee Growers Association in Simbu, Iggy's attempt at a cooperative venture here. The dance was pretty well attended, with lots of in-town couples and singles out on the dance floor. The local band was good, belting out tokpisin and English reggae, disco, and whatever." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "Our hosts rather abruptly dropped us off at the Bird of Paradise Hotel, one of the two hotels in Goroka that offered twenty-four-hour security (it was owned by the provincial governor), and promised to be back for dinner. I opened the door to my room and was met by a naked, skinny Indian fellow sitting on my bed. "Sorry, I was taking a shower." He wrapped a towel around his middle and left. David and I settled into our rooms and hit the bar. A surly Aussie woman demanded another room key, as she couldn't find hers." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "After a very long hot day of hoofing it all over Solola, we returned to our hotels. Gregorio wished us a good evening and said we should reconvene at 5 am so that we could be at our polls before they opened at 6. I had just dozed off, Journey to Ixtlan open and resting across my nose, when I heard people outside my door speaking in Cakchiquel, then a polite knock. Hiderico and four other men from the FDNG crowded my doorway. He stepped forward with his white hat gripped to his chest. "Please, sir, we are having a dinner tonight to prepare for the election. We would like you to come." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"I sat between a couple that had gone to Las Vegas with their daughter and son-in-law, all of whom stayed and ate at one of the top hotels, and who were now all very sick with a bout of food poisoning. They were sleeping or making frequent trips to the bathroom, but otherwise they were nice folks. I was in the middle of them, trying to be as thin as a slice of bologna, typing madly on my laptop. I arrived at Albany at 10:45 P.M. The Albany airport was simple to navigate and relatively small." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Airports closed and travel advisory warnings were in effect, paralyzing international travel. hotels faced massive cancellations. Retail sales plummeted, and meetings and concerts were Six Things We Learned from SARS That Could Help Beat Pandemic Influenza 1 . a lethal human virus can jump directly from an animal virus. 2. a common virus can mutate into a killer. 3. in a fast-moving plague, there's no time to come up with a vaccine. 4. Antiviral drug resistance develops so quickly that pharmaceutical drugs have no effect. 5. Steroid drugs pose immense risk when used improperly. 6." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"The guy on the bus taking me to the only room I could find on late notice told me that the hotels were always overbooked on Mondays and the car rental agencies were always totally out of cars on this day, and that's the way it was and the way it had always been, and it had not been a problem anyone felt was worth paying attention to until I brought it up. So I shut up. The bed I slept in had bugs, and the Chinese food wasn't very good either." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Today more than sixty Swedish corporations, including IKEA, Electrolux, McDonald's Sweden, and Scandic hotels, are actively using The Natural Step's principles and approach to sustainability. McDonald's embraced The Natural Step program in Umea, Sweden, to become part of its "Green Zone," a public-private enterprise comprising a Ford dealership that was selling mostly hybrid vehicles, an environmentally conscious car wash, and fast-food place. (This green zone is not to be confused with the governmental one in Baghdad." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"State Department and every travel guide warn visitors not to venture out of their hotels at night in Port Moresby. In fact, most warn not to go to Port Moresby in the first place. I found it charming. The bars were full of the most exquisite polyglot peoples, as Papua New Guinea has been a coastal trading destination for every race of Pacific mariner. People were friendly, the women were stunning, and the beer was really cold. All of my high standards were met. Our meetings with the Asian Development Bank and several other groups were very successful. Iggy's flip-flops held." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"The fruits are banned by hotels and airlines because of the overpowering, sulphurous smell. Unripe fruits may be boiled and eaten, and the large seeds are edible when roasted or sliced and fried in oil. Durian can be processed by drying, fermenting, pickling, deep-freezing or salting. It may be eaten with sugar, fresh cream or coconut milk. Nutritional value Arils contain carbohydrates (28%) and have an energy value of 140 kcal per 100 g. They also contain proteins (2.7%), vitamin C (32-58 mg) and are rich in potassium, beta-carotene and vitamins Bl and B2." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"The researchers recruited eighty-four maids who cleaned rooms in hotels. The sample was divided into two groups. One group heard a brief presentation explaining that their work qualifies as good exercise. The other group did not. Over the next thirty days, the changes in the bodies of the women who had heard the presentation were significant: "The exercise-informed women perceived themselves to be getting markedly more exercise than they had indicated before the presentation." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

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