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"Pioneers such as the American psychiatrist David Rothschild made it clear that the bleak neuropathologization of aging could be damaging to modern society: "Too exclusive a preoccupation with the cerebral pathology," he argued, had "led to a tendency to forget that the changes are occurring in living, mentally functioning persons."2 The perils of aging were hard enough without reductionist disease labels like AD making it more difficult to deal with, Rothschild seemed to be saying." - 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.)

"In a complex modern society, an understanding of the responsibility for damage to the individual, of cause and effect, of blame and justice, are crucial; they are also becoming more difficult to divine. This is not only because complexity brings difficulties of comprehension, but also because modern society is full of many groups who pursue, often secretly, vested interests that are inimical to the interests of individual personal happiness, community and public safety." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"This is very likely due to a bias inherent in the culture of modern society. In the Western world most of us tend to ignore, and even to repress from consciousness, phenomena that do not fit the belief encapsulated in the tenet of classical empiricism, "There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the eye." This is a powerful belief, and it is likely to limit the occurrence of ITC to people who either have a natural disposition to receiving information of nonsensory origin or are able to open their minds sufficiently not to repress the intuitions they may occasionally receive." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "The cultural bias inherent in modern society militates not only against the study and recognition of after-death phenomena but also against all experiences related to death and dying. Modern people strongly believe that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter, produced by the brain. This concept profoundly influences beliefs, and even perceptions, in today's civilization. If consciousness cannot possibly exist independently of the living brain, communication beyond the grave must be pure fantasy." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The Toll of Chronic Stress on Blood Glucose Stress triggers the fight-or-flight response, an evolutionary adaptation that helped our ancestors to mobilize the stress hormones adrenaline and Cortisol when fighting the wooly mammoth and the cave bear, but this response is maladaptive in modern society. The fight-or-flight response involves a host of bodily changes triggered by a surge in adrenaline and Cortisol levels that impact blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and heart rate, as well as a slowdown in the activity of the gastrointestinal tract (intestines, stomach)." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"For how long will we, our children, and our grandchildren be victims of ignorance on this issue? modern society could have correct statements on refractive errors if politicians or leaders in health care intervened. Maybe, such revolution in the optic industry could be born, informing and awakening every single person who is interested in really treating his or her own sight. The project of informing people of their power and the possibilities of preventing or, at least, decreasing the spread of myopia, should contain the following phases: ?" - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging." - 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.)

"By feeding our children and ourselves non-physiological foods, such as mold-resistant French fries and hamburgers, that thicken cell membranes and force cells to mutate in order to function in an anaerobic environment, we are creating diseases that will literally wipe out entire communities; and this trend has already begun to take its course. Our modern society suffers greatly from cancer. It is up to each one of us to make those choices that favor life over death. What we put in our mouth has a lot to do with how our society will survive." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"For example, osteoarthritis, a disease that is rampant in modern society, is said to be caused at least in part by a calcium sheath that builds up around the tendons, especially at the joints. The bioenergetic approach, however, is not to address the muscles and joints directly, but instead to address the information networks that affect these body areas. So, in the case of arthritis, you might have to address the efficiency of the liver by taking Energetic Integrator 8 Infoceutical and bioenergetically improve oxygenation efficiency in the body by taking Energetic Integrator 2 Infoceutical." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"For this reason, in modern society there is likely to be rapidly spreading conversation about a buying opportunity for a hot stock, or about immediate threats to personal wealth, or about the story of the people who run a company. These topics resemble the kinds of things our ancestors have talked about since time immemorial. But conversation seems to flow less well about abstract topics, such as the mathematics of finance, or statistics about asset returns, or optimal levels of saving for retirement. Transmission of such knowledge is of course effortful, infrequent, and imperfect." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"It is neither primitive nor has it outdated itself, and even modern society is part of nature. It was back in the Stone Age when man discovered the healing benefit of various herbs. The ancient Greeks saw the first practicing and teaching physicians who were written into history books; long before that time there were shamans and druids. In the Middle Ages naturopathy was cultivated in monasteries. "I have a dream people learn that illness is always a lack of something or that there is something in the body that should not be there." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Alongside the need to develop one's capacity for positive thinking, he told his readers, was the need to do something about a growing problem of modern society: the problem of "stress." What did this unfamiliar word mean? Peale helped his readers understand by telling them a little story: A friend of mine is a pilot for one of the great airlines. He flies a big DC-6 and, when I fly with him, I enjoy the privilege of spending some time with him in the cockpit. On one of these trips he was discussing the use of engine power." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "As Benson told a journalist at this time, "In modern society this fight or flight response is often an anachronism, and such stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system may lead to diseases like hypertension. TM appears at the present time to be the easiest and most rapid way of turning on an opposite response."31 Benson was personally persuaded of the importance of TM, but he remained nervous about the wider implications of what he was doing." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Practically speaking, it is often easier to live in our modern society in a way that does not match a natural, genetically supportive rhythm. Catching up on work in front of a bright computer screen until the wee hours of the morning, misusing exercise, and eating processed foods is convenient—until we feel Spent. I say all this because your first and primary goal of what to do next is not to lose this precious rhythm that you have worked very hard to reestablish." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Society as a whole does learn, and the cumulative effect of such learning is the reason that modern society has made such progress when compared with former centuries. But the question remains whether society has really learned something important about the stock market. Is this really true? If so, what have we learned? "Learning" about Risk It is commonly said that people have recently learned that the stock market is much less risky than they once thought it was, and that the stock market has 195 always outperformed other investments." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"According to this theory, our modern society, requiring much near-work, leads people to many different refractive errors (particularly myopia). Skeffington postulated that long periods of intense concentration, immobilization, and mental effort, associated with near-work (like studying, reading, and other cognitive processes) lead to the focusing system adapting to very short distances—with the eye developing a negative focal status as a consequence." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"In exploring the fundamental role of soil in human history, the key lesson is as simple as it is clear: modern society risks repeating mistakes that hastened the demise of past civilizations. Mortgaging our grandchildren's future by consuming soil faster than it forms, we face the dilemma that sometimes the slowest changes prove most difficult to stop. For most of recorded history, soil occupied a central place in human cultures. Some of the earliest books were agricultural manuals that passed on knowledge of soils and farming methods." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"One reason could be Western medicine's reliance on drugs, and another reason could be modern society's relative absence of gentle, supportive, healing groups. In the late eighteenth century in England, the Quakers, a socially radical group of that era, were skeptical and distrustful of doctors, especially their treatment of the seriously mentally disturbed. The Quakers had a completely different mind-set, as noted by Robert Whitaker in Mad in America (2001): "They would treat the ill with gentleness and respect, as the 'brethren' they were." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "So few people in modern society have adequate self-acceptance, self-worth, and self-respect that talk of being secure enough to move to the next level of self-release feels almost wistful. And so I will begin with the fundamentals of self-acceptance. Self-Acceptance: Yoohoos, Yahoos, and Emotional Perspective While it is my experience that denying (or "being out of touch with" or "stuffing") emotions can be a source of depression, it is a mistake to think that only "feeling-stuffers" get in trouble with their emotions. Many depressed people are dominated by their feelings." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "For many depressed people, modern society is hostile, dangerous, and withholding of the necessities for survival. One depressed attorney told me: "We've been expelled from the Garden of Eden. We've all been kicked out into a world of social, economic, or actual landmines. No matter how careful we may be, we can step on a mine and have it rip off our limbs, rip out our eyes, or just rip us off. Unless we are willing to violate our integrity or somebody else's, we will become homeless—and look how our society treats the homeless." It's difficult to disagree with him." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "However, in modern society, many adults also can't make the vital distinction between the tension of frustration and the tension of resentment. While dissatisfaction of a need leads to frustration, disrespect (including neglect, abuse, or exploitation) results in resentment. Unless you have rebelled from consumer culture's socialization of human beings as mere amalgams of needs, you have little chance of having satisfying intimate relationships. Why?" - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Gebser, however, attacked mental-perspectival consciousness as being centered in the ego, and he thus blamed this way of seeing as the primary cause of the pathology of modern society. Against the rational-perspectival outlook of the mental structure, Gebser advocated the superiority of what he saw as the newly emerging mutation of the integral structure, with its distinct form of integral-aperspectivalawareness." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"One particular genre of self-improvement in modern society is "biomedical enhancements." These include drugs, surgery, and other medical interventions aimed at improving one's mind, body, or performance. Cosmetic surgery, including lipo- suction, face lifts, breast augmentation, and "nose jobs" (Sullivan, 2001), has become a common biomedical road to bodily improvement. Performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids, hormones, and stimulant medications, often used by competitive athletes, have caused controversy." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"That soil abuse remains a threat to modern society is clear from the plight of environmental refugees driven from the southern plains' Dust Bowl in the 1930s, the African Sahel in the 1970s, and across the Amazon basin today. While the world's population keeps growing, the amount of productive farmland began declining in the 1970s and the supply of cheap fossil fuels used to make synthetic fertilizers will run out later this century." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"We've fumbled around for the past 2,500 years, building up the unsustainable behemoth that we now call modern society. We certainly won't have another 2,500 years to remember the teachings of Plato, Pythagoras, Seneca and Macilwain; we won't even have 250 years. From this urgency arises great opportunity, and because of that I am filled with hope. People are beginning to sense the need for change and are beginning to question some of the most basic assumptions that we have about food and health." - 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.)

"Stress Reduction: modern society is filled with stresses from work, family life, and even daily driving on highways. Sometimes stress leads to depression, anger, and even violence. Vitamin C can reduce the deleterious effects of stress and help us to withstand the inevitable stresses that we encounter each day. A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 120 healthy young adults assessed the ability of vitamin C to moderate stress." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Future history: modern society is blind to the causes of chronic disease I think that 50 years from now when pharmaceutical medicine has long since been revealed as a sham and when medicine has moved past this "dark ages" of treating people with toxic chemicals, we will look back on this period in the history of civilization and we will wonder, how could people have been so foolish as to ignore the relationships between nutrition and chronic disease? We will wonder, why in a nation ofsuch wealth, as we have in the United States, we didn't have nutritious foods on the grocery store shelves7." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"For better or worse, modern society relies on electronics. If we want to keep all these gadgets and live wherever we want, we'll just have to protect ourselves as much as we can from cellular towers, fault lines, and underground sources emitting negative radiation. We can take measures to limit the amount of daily electromagnetic radiation to which we and our loved ones are exposed. By following the recommendations in the chart below, I believe you can reduce your daily radiation exposure by up to 80%." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"One of the most common ways that distractibility and impulsiveness play out in modern society is with our eating habits. With plenty to do at home and at work, people often don't plan ahead for substantial, healthy meals. So when we do get hungry (that is, when our blood sugar is low and we're already short on neuronutrients), we are especially susceptible to making impulsive decisions about where to quickly get our next meal—such as choosing between the drive-through line at McDonald's or at Taco Bell. In a real sense, eating has become an impulsive act." - 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.) "Reducing Distractible and Impulsive ADHD-like Behavior Many people in modern society seem distracted, impulsive, bored or addicted to certain types of distractible behavior. These traits are often ascribed to children with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Today, many children with ADHD have become adults with either ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms because they do not consume adequate neuronutrients. The problem with this type of behavior is that it reduces our ability to clearly focus, hurts our productivity and relationships, and, at times, it risks serious injury." - 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.)

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