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"Add to this the nearly continuous drip of media messages we take in from our televisions, radios, ipods, and billboards. No wonder we often don't have space in our heads to focus on others, celebrate silliness, see the extraordinary right under our noses, or let our dreams grow big. People who enjoy the sweet fruits of positivity in their lives intuitively understand this simple truth. We all have the power to turn positivity on and off for ourselves. Experiment with this. Turn positivity on right now. Take a moment to notice your physical surroundings." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"While many of the techniques drug companies use to market their wares are no different from those used to sell other consumer products, drugs are not like cars or ipods. They alter the body in profound ways, and they all have side effects, some worse than others. In redefining diseases, marketers have done more than sell product; they have blurred the definitions of wellness and health. They have changed the way consumers think about themselves and transformed huge numbers of formerly healthy people into patients who view themselves as sick." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Media overstimulation can seriously hamper our children's mind-body development: with ipods, video games, and televisions running twenty-four hours a day, many of them never get a chance just to sit back and collect their thoughts, much less go outside and sweat. On top of that, they're expected to have perfect grades, get into the perfect college, and have their whole existence figured out by the age of eighteen. These competing, impossible pressures—and nonstop distractions—are taking a major toll on our children, nurse Barbara McGoey told me. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The first level consists of the outer distractions: traffic congestion, the weather, ipods, radio, TV, the Xerox machine at the office, the IRS, and even something positive like the birth of a new child in the family. The second level relates to bodily distractions: your backache, your stiff neck, your indigestion, and so forth. Even the effort to breathe and keep your heart beating requires your mental energy (though you may not be consciously aware of it). Meditation silences these first two levels of distraction by cutting off the "sensory telephones" to the outside world and to the body." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Apple produces the world-famous Macintosh computers and family of ipods. Although we could not find data on Apple's toxic emissions for where its computers or other electronics gear are manufactured, since October 2002 Apple has partnered with the City of Cupertino—home of Apple's worldwide headquarters?to develop an electronics recycling program. Through this program, the city's residents can return their used or unwanted computer systems and selected home electronics (regardless of manufacturer) to Apple's Cupertino recycling collection facility." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Apple is now taking back ipods, according to Barbara Kyle of the SVTC, because these products contain the same kinds of highly toxic materials you'll find in a home computer, but they are small enough that people will actually throw them into trash cans. "The design is also poor," she said. The battery wears out somewhat quickly, sometimes within a year, then it is $100 to replace it." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In less than two decades, technology has transformed our homes: PCs, laptops, email, the worldwide web; cable, satellite and digital TV, camcorders, DVD; computer games, PlayStations, iPods; mobile phones, text messaging, camphones ... And everything happens much, much faster than it did in the past. Social changes have been no less startling." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "Children are also bombarded daily with violent ideas, explicit sexual references and bad language through pop music, which they access through MTV and ipods. Again, parents are often unaware of this, because it's not the music they listen to themselves. In general, there's been a gradual escalation of gratuitous violence, antisocial behaviour and sleazy sex in the less-responsible sections of all media - and children are watching and listening to it all behind closed doors." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"And it's not just about beauty products, it's about clothes, ipods, books, TV shows, everything," Anne said. "What needs to happen is that we have to reconnect with who we really are." Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Ken Harris admits to feeling a bit guilty about what he does for a living. As a "digital photo retoucher," he airbrushes fashion photos of the glamorous models who broadcast idealized images of beauty around the world. We know, of course, about the airbrushing. Still, it's surprising to see Harris in action in Jesse Epstein's award-winning documentary film Wet Dreams and False Images." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"The FUD concept succeeded so well that it is now used to sell almost every imaginable product, from tooth whiteners to paper shredders to prescription drugs. Even ipods use the fear of not looking cool as a marketing technique. Talk radio, argumentative cable news shows, and news teasers all use FUD to sell products and to keep people tuned in. If you're told there's an upcoming story affecting your health or finances, or a breaking crime story, you will probably be worried enough to listen." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"As a result, diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis claim far fewer lives in in dustrialized nations today than at any time in human history While some may question whether filling the world with ipods and text-messaging has made us better human beings, none can question that other achievements of modern life have allowed us to live longer and better than our grandparents. If medicine didn't vanquish lethal epidemics of the past, surely today the story is more nuanced." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Some people accused Apple of employing planned obsolescence in the development of its superpopular ipods a few years ago—manufacturing them with batteries that only lasted for about eighteen months and couldn't be replaced, forcing consumers to buy a new model when their battery died. (Apple now has a battery replacement program, although it's tantamount to an iPod replacement program—for a small fee, they send you a new or refurbished equivalent to your now-powerless purchase.) Biogenic obsolescence—that is to say, aging—might accomplish two similar ends." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"While many of the techniques drug companies use to market their wares are no different from those used to sell other consumer products, drugs are not like cars or ipods. They alter the body in profound ways, and they all have side effects, some worse than others. In redefining diseases, marketers have done more than sell product; they have blurred the definitions of wellness and health. They have changed the way consumers think about themselves and transformed huge numbers of formerly healthy people into patients who view themselves as sick." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In trying to imagine what happens to the millions of parts and thousands of chemical ingredients that age, decay, and slowly implode, I try to think of a Tinguely machine —miniature versions of which are in everything from ipods to DVD players, from toasters to the computer on which these words are being written. Sometimes the parts are large, like in an automobile, and sometimes infinitesi-mally small, like in a cell phone. But no matter their size, the one thing they have in common is they die. And then what happens?" - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"We fear that millions of teenagers and young adults may be setting themselves up for tinnitus and other forms of hearing loss by exposing themselves to high volume levels while listening to ipods and other music devices. There are so many loud noises in our environment that the cumulative effect can damage our ears and increase our risk of tinnitus. We're talking about everyday things in our lives like blenders, vacuum cleaners, motorcycles, leaf blowers, and lawn mowers. All of them are loud and can contribute to hearing problems. • • • Q. / have just developed a hissing sound in my ears." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

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