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"As I mentioned, the mass media also plays a fundamental role in disseminating the war metaphors. By quoting experts who offer words of encouragement using complex (and often bellicose) medical terminology, and by enthusiastically publicizing new neuroimaging devices and pharmaceuticals, the mass media legitimizes, informs, and helps shape the myth of Alzheimer's disease that we have all come to know. I've seen this phenomenon progressively unfold over my last three decades in the field and deeply regret the effect it has had on the public." - 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 reframing of senility as Alzheimer's disease and the large-scale financial commitments from the government generated excitement among researchers and trickled down to family members and caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, who spoke passionately of its ravages in the mass media and helped shape the contemporary paradigm of AD. Not only did Alzheimer's disease begin to replace senility as a societal marker for cognitive impairments associated with age, a cultural "idiom of distress"11 also began to emerge around the concept of AD." - 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.)

"Testosterone cream applied to the genital region has received mass media attention on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It is used as an alternate method of delivering the testosterone. Common prescriptions are anywhere from 1 to 4 mg per gram of cream. These are applied to the external genital region right before sexual activity to enhance sensation to touch and orgasm. Use should not exceed twice per week to avert local testosterone side effects such as enlargement of the clitoris that can occur if testosterone cream is used daily and in the stronger dosages." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"He presides over the mass media, the college classroom, the chatter at parties, the playgrounds of the middle classes."35 The literary critic Lionel Trilling, in 1947, called Freud's legacy "the only systematic account of the human mind, which, in point of subtlety and complexity, of interest and tragic power, deserves to stand beside the chaotic mass of psychological insights that literature has accumulated through the centuries."36 Freud of course reigned over American psychiatry in the 1950s and 1960s." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"This was the first mass media exposure of Americans to acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. "I have seen the past," wrote Reston, "and it works."' DEFINITIONS The subject of this chapter is known by many names: "unorthodox" or "unconventional," or sometimes less accurately as "naturopathic."2 In vogue today is "complementary and alternative medicine," abbreviated as CAM. We'll use the term "alternative." Our first problem is to decide exactly what is alternative?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"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. ?Ban required watching of commercials for foods high in energy, fat, or sugar on school television programs (for example, Channel One). ?Declare and organize an annual National "No-TV" Week. ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"By quoting experts who offer words of encouragement using complex (and often bellicose) medical terminology, and by enthusiastically publicizing new neuroimaging devices and pharmaceuticals, the mass media legitimizes, informs, and helps shape the myth of Alzheimer's disease that we have all come to know. I've seen this phenomenon progressively unfold over my last three decades in the field and deeply regret the effect it has had on the public." - 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.)

"I would agree that if we look to the mass media and popular opinion, we have every reason to believe that our world is anything but safe. On the other hand, if we truly believe at the very core of our being that this is a dangerous world, and we embody that belief each day in our lives, we'll see it play out in everything from our jobs and careers to our relationships and health. Even when new opportunities come our way, we'll feel that we aren't supported, ready, or worthy of accepting them." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The question why the incidence of skin cancer has increased so dramatically since the massive promotion of sunscreens should have raised a red flag among consumers, but, instead, it made them lather their skin with even more of these deadly chemicals. The mass media (financed largely by drug giants) made certain, the population would not hear about such important studies as the following ones: Dr. Gordon Ainsleigh in California found that the 17% increase in breast cancer observed between 1981 and 1992 may be the result of the pervasive use of sunscreens over the past decade (Ainsleigh, H." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "You will most likely answer, "Yes," given the "informed" opinion that the medical industry and mass media have fed to the masses for many decades. Yet, the more important yet rarely asked question remains, "Why do you think cancer is a disease?" You may answer, "Because I know cancer kills people every day." I would then question you further, "How do you know that it is the cancer that kills people?" You would probably argue that most people who have cancer die, so obviously it must be the cancer that kills them. Besides, you may reason, all the expert doctors tell us so." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "If the mass media reported the truth that medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit genocide in the U.S. and the world, their best sponsors (the pharmaceutical companies) would have to withdraw their misleading advertisements from the television media, radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. But neither group wants to go bankrupt. Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge that there are no benefits at all." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"There is now both a moral and a practical obligation for each of us to look beyond the surface of events, beyond the plots and polemics of practical policies, the sensationalistic headlines of the mass media, and the fads and fashions of changing lifestyles and styles of work, an obligation to feel the groundswell underneath the events and perceive the direction they are taking: to evolve the spirit and the consciousness that could enable us to perceive the problems and the opportunities—and to act on them. A CALL FOR CREATIVITY AND DIVERSITY 6." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Because Rockefeller interests owned, or controlled through lavish advertising, most of the mass media, Bealle had to self-publish his book. It was first published in 1949, and even though it received no media attention, it was already into its 33rd printing in the 1970s. Rockefeller was once perhaps the wealthiest man in America, owning Chase National Bank and Standard Oil. He wanted to make even more profit from the waste products of petroleum refining; so in the 1860s, he patented bottled raw petroleum as a cure for cancer and the popular maladies of the day." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Before the Net, the only people who really had freedom of speech were those who owned or controlled the mass media and the printing presses. Now the big corporations are even trying to buy out the Internet, our last vestige of free speech. The government is threatening to use "terrorism" as an excuse to censor it! Personal-care product companies are also major players in the media industry, and of course they would be none too happy if the healing power of the raw diet ever caught on. Who would need drugs? Who would buy Coca-Cola?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"No longer under the influence of mass media, she began the lifelong process of self-nurturing. She gradually adopted a healthy lifestyle of nutritious food in proper amounrs. She minimized her intake of TV and radio. She likes television, but now watches only a few selected shows a week. Her schedule no longer revolves around start times for TV programs. She is less exposed to seductive commercials for bacon double cheeseburgers surrounded by a mountain of French fries, and other gastronomic come-ons. Instead, Mary hungers for spiritually uplifting entertainment." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"He meant that it was the kind of idea that would be more attractive to mass media than to physicists. But I could tell that Jaume was hooked. He was about to leave for his native Catalonia, and we agreed to resume the discussion during my visit to the University of Barcelona, where he worked. Two months later, Jaume met me and my wife at the Barcelona airport. We arrived on a weekend and had two days free before the beginning of my "official" visit. I could not wait to get back to our physics discussion, but it turned out that our program had already been fixed." - Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, a great deal of time, energy, and money is spent to market bad health practices. The mass media constantly bombard us with messages affecting health, diet, and lifestyle. We urge you to ignore these messages and instead make a commitment to achieving optimal health. Build a strong foundation by making healthy choices over less healthy ones." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"We are all, whatever our age, constantly manipulated by the mass media, but most adults are savvy enough to recognise the manipulation, understand the differences between real and make-believe, enjoy our viewing and make rational decisions based on what we see. Children are not. The younger they are, the more the distinction between TV and reality is blurred. Responsible programme-makers realise this and take it into account - but marketing agencies are not renowned for responsible behaviour. Their interest in children is to sell more stuff." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"The idea, fostered by the mass media, that there is a gene for this or a gene for that, is incorrect. Genes are implicated in conditions in a variety of ways. Headlines like the October 29, 2005 proclamation in the New York Times stating, "Two More Genes Linked to Dyslexia" (in addition to a third gene announced a year earlier) oversimplify the cascade of genetic factors involved in conditions. After a subtitle that says, "Findings Support that Disorder is Genetic," the story goes on to tell us that, "..." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Through the mass media and doctor's advice, people are being told that the most important objective is to get rid of the excessive cholesterol so that it doesn't clog up arteries and cause a heart attack. However, this rather simplistic train of thought got us into trouble in the first place. Contrary to what we know about the true value of cholesterol, we are made to believe this essential substance to be a dangerous nuisance that only makes our lives miserable." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "A new study on women published in the medical journal General Psychiatry and reported by the mass media in September 2007 showed that women suffering a panic attack have a three times higher risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke within five years. How does a prolonged state of anger, depression or anxiety damage the heart? That's a question researchers have been asking for years. A research team led by Dr. Boyle, Duke University North Carolina, wanted to find out if a troubled mind might trigger the type of inflammation that could damage the heart and blood vessels." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"No doubt there will be plenty of extraneous noise. The mass media, for example, will probably paint a picture of what is unfolding that might best be described as manic-depressive. Politicians and others with a vested interest will try to engage in censorship, whether overtly or behind the scenes, disseminating virtually continuous propaganda: everything is under control, and there is light at the end of the tunnel." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"The study cost the American taxpayers $415 million, but this money seems to have been wasted. The mass media, medical industry and food manufacturers have not taken much notice of this important finding. In the meanwhile, the low-fat hysteria continues to escalate. "Light Fats" and their "Amazing" Effects Take for instance "light-butter" or half-fat butter, which has been heralded as one of the greatest "achievements" of food technology so far. In this high-tech product, at least half of the fat content of butter is replaced with water." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This is partly the result of the expanding hegemony of Western biomedicine, but it is facilitated by multinational drug companies and the global reach of mass media and the Internet. As John McKinlay and Lisa Marceau note, "Transnational corporations involved in the globalization of medicine (pharmaceuticals, services, medical insurance, and biotechnology) generate local demand for services" (2002: 399). The pharmaceutical companies' introduction and promotion of "mild depression" as an illness in Japan has resulted in a dramatic rise in SSRI treatment since 1999 (Schulz, 2004)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"I feel incredibly fortunate for having created the opportunity to communicate the raw nutrition message through mass media (radio, television, magazines, newspapers and the Internet). Over the years, I have had the incredible privilege of meeting and communicating with thousands of raw-foodists the world over. The Internet and e-mail have allowed communication and networking on this subject to reach a remarkable level. The time for this information to reach a worldwide audience has come." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"But there are other ways to get medical information into the mass media. Being sensational and being willing to spend lots of money on marketing can work wonders. Promotion by Drug Companies New York gynecologist Dr. Robert A. Wilson believed that spreading the hormone replacement message was so important that he quit his private practice, established the Wilson Research Foundation and began working on a book which he hoped would widely educate the public. That book, Feminine Forever, came out in 1966 and became a national bestseller." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"And Redux was, like Rezulin, a phenomenon of the mass media, both paid and free. It was the subject of a huge, $52 million advertising campaign. (The company's public relations firm even created a mascot for the drug, Roxanne Redux, to establish its brand image quickly.) Redux became a billion-dollar blockbuster in its first year on the market. The increasingly familiar nightmare followed, courtesy of the new synergy." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Jerome Groopman, a Harvard Professor of Medicine, suggested that the contemporary epidemic of fibromyalgia was analogous to that of neurasthenia, with the Internet and mass media feeding the epidemic based largely on misinformation. I have managed a number of TMS cases that were diagnosed by other physicians as fibromyalgia. Here are two such cases: Ms. G was a forty-six-year-old woman who had developed sciatica during pregnancy twenty years prior and had had lower back pain since the birth of her daughter." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"The workings of the invisible wires of the mass media about which the public relations guru Bernays waxed did not end on Madison Avenue but ran straight through the academic world. Goaded by a bevy of expertly expressed technical doubts, public opinion came to wonder whether proof could ever be developed that smoking is harmful. Each time a report appeared showing that smokers faced increased risks of lung cancer or other diseases, experts were tapped to explain how the given study had not quite got it right. Crucial evidence was missing. The groups looked into were not really the right ones." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"No other country in the world currently allows drug companies to advertise directly to consumers, but the FDA cleared the way for Big Pharma in the United States, and by 1998, DTC advertising was not only legalized, it had unleashed a tidal wave of mass media ads that hyped the supposed benefits of synthetic chemicals. "Ask your doctor about X," every ad claimed, with the implication that such drugs would make you feel as happy, beautiful, and healthy as the actors hired to appear in such ads." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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