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"The fast growth in the use of these drugs began in the early 1990s, as the pharmaceutical companies increased their promotion and after federal lawmakers made attention deficit disorder a protected disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. lawmakers also agreed that families could collect federal disability payments known as supplemental security income (SSI), in cases in which children were impaired by the disorder. Doctors wrote almost five times as many prescriptions for Ritalin and similar drugs in 1996 as they had just six years before." - 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.)

"Prevention must become a task in all our lives and a priority for our lawmakers. Baby boomers will not go gently into their elder years and retirement. In fact, we can reinvent both aging and retirement. After all, this was the generation whose activism and energy fed the idealism of the 1960s. If we all take the actions necessary for changing our own lives and advocate for greater societal changes, we can begin to construct a new framework for aging in our culture. "let thy food be thy medicine": can better nutrition keep us vital?" - 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.)

"Regulatory agencies set in place by our lawmakers are also beholden to those lawmakers and, therefore, are influenced by the same corporate money that controls them. Next, the prestigious halls of higher learning, where research and teaching for the medical profession are accomplished, have been purchased by corporations. One of the primary missions of our colleges and universities has historically been to produce unbiased research and share results among the scientific community This mission has been compromised by the influx of corporate dollars." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"As an incentive to get American scientists to work harder, the lawmakers passed a measure that allowed researchers receiving federal grants to patent and profit from their discoveries. The law was known as the Bayh-Dole Act. Sponsored by the senators Birch Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana, and Robert Dole, a Republican from Kansas, it reversed decades of policy. Before this law, any discoveries made during studies paid for by the federal government had been in the public domain—that is, they had been owned and controlled by the taxpayers who had paid for them." - 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.) "Write or talk to your state and federal lawmakers. Vote for those political candidates who promise to take on the pharmaceutical industry and change the system so that patients once again come first. There's too much at stake." - 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.) "In the late 1930s, after more than a hundred Americans died from the sweet-tasting Elixir Sulfanilamide, lawmakers had passed a measure requiring manufacturers to test their products before selling them. And in 1962, after thalidomide proved disastrous when given to pregnant women, Congress had strengthened the FDA's control over drug promotion. In this modern-day medicine show the watchdogs acted differently. Just six months after Dr. Kessler stepped down from running the FDA, the acting commissioner, Dr. Michael J." - 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.)

"It also persuades our lawmakers to invest disproportionately in the search for the cure, when really our resources would be much better off invested in building communities that can help families care for the large number of aging persons in the twenty-first century. writing the new story of brain aging As the British author Philip Pullman says, stories may not be the best medicine, but they are nutritious and sustaining.3 They feed the mind with information and the heart with hope and strength." - 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.)

"The next day the Washington Post landed in front of the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. SIXTEEN Risking Everything The Washington Post article caught the notice of several lawmakers in the U.S. Congress. Within a day, I received a call from the office of Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT). His aide told me that a bipartisan group of senators and members of Congress wanted me to come to Washington to participate in a panel to discuss reimportation of drugs." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Attend city-council meetings, and talk to your local lawmakers. Everyone benefits- from greener neighborhoods. Start a Local Community Garden or Farmer's Market People are always talking about the importance of buying locally grown fruits and vegetables, and I agree that local food is far healthier than food that has been transported in planes and trucks and been stripped of many of its nutrients in the process. Unfortunately, in many communities buying locally just isn't a realistic option yet. In small towns all over the country, people just don't have access to farmer's markets." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Sensing the changed public attitudes that had elected them, these lawmakers were much more pro-business than their Democratic predecessors. This change in Congress has boosted public confidence in the stock market, because of a variety of controls that the legislature can exert over corporate profits and investor returns. No sooner had the Republican Congress been seated in 1995 than proposals to cut the capital gains tax became prominent. In 1997, the top capital gains tax rate was cut from 28% to 20%. After this cut had been enacted, Congress talked of cutting rates further." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"We all have a relationship to the health care system: patients and potential patients, doctors and other health care professionals, researchers, workers in health care industries, health policy experts, government officials, lawmakers, and investors. We have all been pulled into this enormous and complex system by our hopes and fears, our myths and ideologies, our dedication and pursuit of scientific knowledge, and our personal and institutional aspirations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"One of the purposes of this "Codex" appears to be to eliminate, with the help of the lawmakers, smaller manufacturers and suppliers of nutritional supplements so that the pharmaceutical industry can take over the market. Another one is most certainly the increase of their market by creating and selling more and more drugs." "What are the creation costs of those medications? " Ulrich Sommer: "I don't know their calculations. But a lot of drugs appear to be quite profitable if one compares the actual cost of the chemical with the price of the end product." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I was appalled how the lawmakers created this monopoly for medical doctors. I reluctantly acquired a prescription. When I had my blood drawn I paid the bill and asked when I could get my results. I was told it was against the law for them to give me my test results. It must be sent to a medical doctor. This was my blood, and I paid for the tests with my money, yet the law denies me direct access to the results. This is a good example of how lawmakers guarantee profits for medical doctors. Some people wonder if corporate executives are as ruthless and greedy as I suggest many of them are." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"The book investigates every avenue from behind-the-scenes deals between lawmakers and pharmaceutical companies to using the media's ability to misinform the people. It explains how front PR firms are used, including the blatant dismissal of legitimate research supporting supplements safety." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "The drug companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to persuade lawmakers to ban safe and effective all-natural remedies. The pharmaceutical cartel spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to convince the public that natural remedies are dangerous and ineffective, and their pharmaceutical drugs are effective and safe. THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE! A perfect example of this was when the FDA banned the sale of Ephedra. The FDA claimed that Ephedra was so dangerous that it had to be banned from American shelves." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"This rosy rhetoric has been roundly criticized by CSPI and other advocates and lawmakers who are calling on restaurants to make nutrition information clearly visible in restaurants at the point of decision-making—on menus and menu boards. Marketers call such positioning "point-of-purchase" and understand that it has the highest impact on consumer behavior, which explains why industry is so dead set against it." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Thus the demise of the measure was effectively ensured, even though a few lawmakers did try to defend it against O'Donnell's grandstanding. Assembly member Richard Gottfried said, "This is not a laughing matter. This is life and death for tens of millions of Americans; it's as simple as that." He explained that the bill was not as complicated as O'Donnell and others were claiming." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Speaking from behind the cover of a seemingly bona fide health organization, Finn is well positioned to dazzle lawmakers with ostensibly authoritative and trustworthy claims about obesity and the futility of government intervention. In addition to bearing witness before Congress, Finn has written opinion pieces for a number of major newspapers. In November 2003, she penned two letters to the editor—one published in the Chicago Sun-Times and the other in the Oregonian—that neatly encapsulate ACFN's basic position on obesity." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Other underhanded tactics included Coca-Cola's lobbyists sharing data regarding school income from soda sales with lawmakers behind closed doors so that advocates could not refute the information. Also, a well-stocked Coca-Cola cooler was delivered to the Democratic caucus room in the capitol just before the House was expected to vote on the bill. Lucy Nolan, executive director of End Hunger Connecticut, the bill's lead sponsor, called the timing "very suspicious." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Lamb encouraged the lawmakers to review critiques of Swan's work on the Web site of the Phthalate Esthers Panel, which is supported by a consortium of plastics manufacturers and the American Chemical Council, the chemical industry trade association.1" - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The "cure carrot" dangled in front of U.S. lawmakers and consumers is little more than a clever marketing gimmick—a trick designed to distract people from the very real fact that they are getting ripped off by drug company profiteering. I find it amazing that when a local gas station raises gas prices by 20 percent following some national disaster (like a hurricane), people go crazy with accusations of profiteering." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Not exactly what lawmakers had intended when they had passed the measure. Government efforts at constructing a financial safety net to protect Americans—covering an estimated $6 trillion in claims, according to the Center on Federal Financial Institutions—have led to similarly unexpected, though more pernicious, outcomes. Take the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), for example. Set up in 1934 by the U.S." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"The champions of health freedom The leaders of this health freedom movement include one admirable and honorable lawmaker, Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who is unique among most lawmakers in the fact that he actually stands up for the rights of the people he represents. He has, as of this writing, introduced a bill called the Health Freedom Protection Act (HR4282), which would give nutritional supplement makers and food companies the right to tell the truth about their products, as long as such statements were scientifically supportable." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"From underreporting, distorting, or hiding inflation and money supply statistics, to implementing wage and price controls, to limiting access to one's own funds, lawmakers and government agencies will try every trick in the book—except to decrease the supply of worthless currency—to turn things around. But the measures will prove as fruitless as those introduced in the early 1970s. Then, the Nixon administration implemented economy-wide wage and price controls that lasted for two years to stem apparent rampant inflation." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"A growing number of experts, including many psychiatrists, believe the increased use of psychotropic drugs is a two-pronged problem which, to date, has received a one-sided review by lawmakers and federal officials who set public policy. The question that remains inexplicably taboo is: Have Americans become prescription psychotropic drug users in record numbers because they suffer from objective, confirmable abnormalities of the brain?" - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"In fact, if the trend continues, both attorneys and lawmakers may decide to take a closer look (if they haven't already) at the part corporations may play in harming the health of our citizens with their nutrient-deprived food products. Some industry observers insist that when food corporations bombard would-be, unsuspecting customers with sensual, pleasurable images or messages about cereals, fast foods, cookies, candies, chips, ice cream, and other junk foods, they may be to blame because, in a way, they're thwarting people's sense of personal responsibility and choice." - 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.)

"One approach might be the introduction of caps on cost-of-living adjustments or the mandatory conversion of retirement savings balances into dollar-denominated, long-term government debt. Or lawmakers will impose restrictions similar to those that certain Latin American nations have adopted, whereby depositors seeking access to funds held at banks and other financial institutions are limited in terms of how much and how often they can withdraw." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"In a mock legislative session, participants adopt simple new laws; afterward, they put pressure on real lawmakers to approve the new laws. While Legislative Theatre has had a significant impact on the actual laws in Brazil and other countries, often participants invent laws that are already in effect. The exercise thus not only enables them to inform the law-making process, but to become better informed themselves about existing laws so that they can exercise their rights." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Congressional investigators target the FDA The harm caused by the FDA, both in terms of its assaults on natural medicine and its defense of Big Pharma and its harmful products, has finally attracted the attention of U.S. lawmakers. In June 2006, Rep. Henry Waxman issued a report based on fifteen months of investigating the FDA's enforcement activities. This report, entitled, "Prescription for Harm: The Decline in FDA Enforcement Activity," reached the following three conclusions (as stated in the report): 1. FDA enforcement actions have declined under the Bush Administration." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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