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 "As for the news media, newspapers and television have mostly treated the raw food movement as an eccentric fad or oddity rather than the real solution to many of our physical, mental and societal problems that it actually is. This is understandable when you ask who funds the advertisements that ultimately fund the
media. TV, newspapers and magazines are largely funded by pharmaceutical corporations, restaurants and processed-food companies through their advertising.
These companies also prepare press releases with "news stories" by "experts" touting the latest drug or processed-food product."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "There is a daily drumbeat emanating from the TV and the newspapers informing us that behavior is genetic, hardwired, strictly biological. newspapers, which hardly reported health news thirty years ago, report study after study showing that behavior is biologically inherited and determined. Headlines scream "Man's Genes Made Him Kill, His Lawyers Claim," or ask "Are Your Genes to Blame?" or simply state, as The New York Times did, "Lack Direction? Evaluate Your Brain's C.E.O.": "You can be truly smart and still struggle in life if you lack the ability to plan, [and] organize time and space . . ."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "This is manifest on all sides by articles in magazines, in the newspapers, frequent references to psychiatry and psychiatric problems on the radio and in the movies."48 Demand for psychiatric treatment grew tremendously. For the first time, the image of the mysterious but all-knowing analyst became a stock-in-trade of cartoonists.49 There was much eloquent writing by analysts and their followers about the transformative possibilities of therapy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "In July of 2002, everyone found out that it was not Mother Nature but the American College of Physicians and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology that had made the big mistake. The newspapers were full of articles about the government-sponsored Women's Health Initiative study, which had been specifically designed to determine whether routine HRT was beneficial for postmenopausal women. The 16,000 women in the study had been randomly assigned to take either combined (estrogen and progestin) HRT or a placebo."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Perfumes and colognes, newspapers, glue, wood smoke.
Ethanol.
Car exhaust, perfume, household cleaners, wood smoke.
Fluoride.
Tap water, toothpaste, fluoride treatments.
Benzyl alcohol.
Solvents, perfume, artificial flavors.
Glycerin.
Makeup, soap, lotion, furniture polish.
SUMMARY: FOOD REACTIONS
Overcoming food reactions is of absolute, pivotal importance. It is often the single most significant element of the Healing Program. In many cases it's just as important as the element of eliminating toxicity. As the old saying goes, "One man's meat is another man's poison."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "The Associated Press was quick to spread the news in a report taken up by multiple newspapers and trade magazines: "Therapy doesn't extend breast cancer patients' lives."70
Spiegel's own response was to insist that the last word had not yet been said on this matter. There might be at least two reasons, he said, why the replication had failed. Improvements in conventional cancer treatment since the 1980s, for example, might be masking the independent impact that group therapy really does have on the course of disease."- Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Theda Bara started another fashion trend by painting her toenails, which newspapers and magazines breathlessly reported to be a milestone in the annals of beauty innovation.
Hollywood films and their glamorous players became the engine generating much of the consumer demand for wider choices in cosmetics and personal care products."- 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.) |
 "And, as we go through life, the daily deluge of television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and billboards reinforces the belief that happiness comes from what happens to us. Wherever we turn, the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become "human havings" and "human doings" rather than human beings.
Somewhere deep inside, most of us know that this way of operating has its limits. We recognize that whether or not we are content depends as much on how we are inside ourselves as on how things are around us."- Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) |
 "Chemical Reaction
In the late 1990s, newspapers in Denmark and the Netherlands reported that infants were being routinely exposed to carcinogens and neurotoxins. Babies were sleeping in pajamas treated with poly-brominated flame retardants; they were sucking on bottles laced with phthalate-containing polyvinyl chloride; their diapers were glued together with tributyltin, a neurotoxin normally used to line the bottom of ships to kill algae. The same chemical, it would later be revealed in German newspapers, was used in the jerseys of Germany's national soccer team."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
| "Brain images are still far cruder than one would think after reading the sensational insights attributed to them in the science pages of newspapers and magazines. Neural events occur at a micrometer scale; whereas the images of fMRI, for example, are on the millimeter scale. That's sort of like watching a football game on a small television fifty yards away with your glasses off, and trying to identify the left tackle.
Second, it must be remembered that these are secondary images of blood flow and glucose in the brain and not of brain tissue itself." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "Lilly Defends Itself
Deeply stung by the revelations, Eli Lilly took out full-page ads in newspapers around the world claiming that it had withheld nothing and that the documents contained nothing new. Very cleverly, the company did not challenge the authenticity of the documents, their contents, or their implications. Any attention given to the actual documents would have highlighted the contents and proven the accusations, including that Eli Lilly had known for decades that Prozac increased the suicide attempt rate in its controlled clinical trials."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "The Lunesta 7-Night Challenge" made the rounds in newspapers and on television in 2007. The print ads exhorted: "Ask your doctor how to get 7 nights of Lunesta absolutely free!"98
Paxil and Zoloft in particular have been the recipients of heavy DTC rotations. Paxil's story is a particularly sordid, and successful, episode in the history of drug marketing. Paxil was a late entrant to the SSRI party—not arriving until 1993, five years after Prozac and a year after Zoloft. Sales prospects seemed limited." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "Economists rarely talk of the news media as a force of similarity across countries; the public's expectations of economists is that they should be
calculating the effects of such things as interest rates and exchange rates, not that they should be interpreting the stories that appear in newspapers around the world."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The chart shows a number of wiggles in home prices before World War I, but our efforts to find confirming evidence of such sharp price movements in old newspapers for those dates turned up nothing significant. We suspect that some of the wiggles in the earliest years plotted in Figure 2.1 are just the result of sampling error and so do not reflect actual home price changes. I will return in Chapter 6 to the stories of some of the price movements from that era that we can begin to understand." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "As evidence for this, or as part of the reason for this, note that there was no regularly published and regularly cited price index for existing homes in the United States until 1968, when the National Association of Real Estate Boards median price of existing homes first began to be cited in major newspapers.21 There was no high-quality existing home price index until Karl Case and I developed the weighted repeat sales method, used it to estimate price indexes for major U.S. cities, and published these in a couple of articles in the late 1980s." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Many people fixed their attention on plots of rising stock prices in newspapers every day, and they seemed to come away with an intuitive feeling that every decline is reversed, to be followed swiftly by new highs. The same human pattern-recognition faculty that we used when we learned to ride a bike or to drive a car, giving us an intuitive sense of what to expect next, shapes our expectations for the market. For investors in the middle years of their lives in the 1990s, this upward trend characterized most of the years they had been observing or investing in the market." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
| "They are the things we read in books and newspapers, hear on the bus, tell over dinner, and use to guide behavior and experience. They refer to immediate, concrete events, people, scientific findings, and more. Narratives, however, are templates: they provide us with tropes and plotlines that help us understand the larger import of specific stories we hear, read, or see in action. They also help us construct specific stories of our own—including ones about our own experience—that others can recognize and affirm." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "She had read an article in the Costa Rican newspapers about the Blue Zone project, and, having recently retired from the World Bank, she was looking to get involved with something, her new plan de vida. So Luis put her in touch with me, knowing our project was short on local expertise. When we met, I immediately recognized her as a godsend. A Costa Rican native, she spoke fluent Spanish, and thus served as a perfect liaison between Gianni and Michel (who did not speak Spanish) and the interviewees."- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
 "Even in our day-to-day lives stories are ubiquitous, appearing in newspapers, on television, on the Internet, surfacing in conversations with friends, in e-mails and cell phone discussions, and even cropping up in our inner monologues and daydreams. The stories most meaningful to us are the ones that give shape to our values and beliefs, and form cognitive frames that help us sort out a complex world that might otherwise overwhelm us."- 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.) "People "get" Alzheimer's in old age It seems as if more people fall victim to Alzheimer's each year. newspapers and magazines would have us believe that Alzheimer's is spreading throughout human populations, and especially baby boomers, like an epidemic and claiming millions more victims. However, what you aren't told is that we don't even know how to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, let alone tabulate the numbers of disease victims." - 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.) "They tend to read the newspapers and are aware of the latest stories about therapeutic efforts, and are thus willing and ready to try the latest front-line treatments. One of my most interesting situations involved a billionaire who gave me a multithousand-dollar grant to search the world for a memory enhancer, hoping that a powerful pill might just be waiting to be found in some foreign pharmacopeia somewhere. Though I searched high and low, and consulted with dozens of trusted friends on many continents, I was not so surprisingly unable to locate any miracle pills." - 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.) "Caching newspapers in bizarre places around the house is a sign that there may be an underlying condition that requires medical consultation. Changes in mood or behavior Everyone can become sad or moody from time to time. Someone with dementia may show rapid mood swings—from calm to tears to anger—for no apparent reason. Indeed, from Chapter 3 recall that Dr. Alzheimer described Auguste D. as becoming lachrymose and tearful without the slightest bit of provocation." - 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.) |
 "She has published articles in magazines, newspapers and internet sites, including, Redflagsdaily.com, Mercola.com and Mothering.com. She has presented at the National Vaccine Information Centers annual meeting and at several international conferences on autism. Dr. Tenpenny is a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. She received her medical training at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Tenpenny is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. Dr."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Yet the experts, my colleagues in psychiatry, get on the radio, TV, newspapers, and say there is no evidence at all for this reaction when there is a great deal of evidence. Prozac, in one study, produced mania in 6 percent of the children and they had to drop out of the study. Luvox, which is another antidepressant very similar to Prozac, caused a 4 percent rate of mania in a similar study." Dr. Breggin expresses serious concern about what this means for the general public. "These rates are occurring in little four to six week trials, where the kids are carefully monitored," he says. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
| "THE GOOD NEWS NARRATIVE
Have you ever noticed how much good news about medical progress is on television and in newspapers? With this constant stream of breakthroughs, you would think that by now we would have cured all diseases known to humanity two or three times over." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "Then the butcher sliced off two slabs of pork from a dangling pig carcass and wrapped them in newspapers. Faustino paid with exact change and shuffled off again.
Down the block, in a general store stocked with canned goods and wilted produce, he bought sweet corn bread. This was not for him. "It's for my son," uttered Don Faustino in his soft voice. "It's his favorite." (This bit of thoughtfulness conjured images of a little kid receiving a much-awaited treat until Jorge reminded me that Faustino's son is 79.)
This time before paying Faustino made what seemed like an impulse buy—a calendar." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
| "With repetition in trusted sources—television, newspapers, radio, and magazines—the messages carried in these so-called news stories gradually take hold. It is a very effective way to influence both public opinion and health policy.
The issue of counterfeit drugs provides a good example. In the past few years, many American senior citizens have been taking bus rides to Canada to buy prescription drugs to avoid prices in the United States that average up to 70 percent higher. Others are ordering drugs by mail and over the Internet from Canadian pharmacies." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Not only do they read three daily newspapers and revel in the conversation of their many friends and neighbors, they solicit stories from each person they meet. "Every new customer is the chance for learning, expanding our minds and opinions," they told us. "We get to travel the world with the tourists who come into our shop."
Abdullah and Mohamed remind us that our physical environments don't have to define who we are or set limits on how we live."- 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.) |
 "Television stations and newspapers carried stories of the youngest Iowans who suffered. Blue-eyed Caitlin Mouw, just twenty months old, was the first Iowan to die. Her parents said the toddler was struck by both the flu and a case of pneumonia.
"They said it was a mild case of pneumonia, nothing to be concerned about," Dan Mouw, the child's father, told a reporter from KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids. "It's just an empty place in my heart where she used to be."
State officials later said they believed four Iowa children had died from the flu or its complications."- 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.) "Reports in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television hailed each new medicine that was introduced as another therapeutic wonder produced by modern medicine. Almost always these reports were exaggerated, but the media knew what their audience wanted to hear. The Saturday Evening Post, for instance, did not mention a drug in its editorial columns during 1936. Twenty years later, in 1956, the magazine's stories referred to seventy-two different medicines a total of 330 times. " - 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.) |
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