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"Frankly, I believe that this anti-medication approach is not always driven by pure clinical practicality, but sometimes by overly strict adherence to a philosophy of naturalism. In contrast, the only philosophy to which I am inextricably attached is the pragmatic principle of doing everything I possibly can to help the children I treat. My philosophy of pragmatism also prompts me to avoid any stratified, rigid medication protocol for any specific disorder. Instead, I give very different medication programs to different children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Americans have embraced a "nutritional philosophy," to borrow Jane Brody's words, that, regardless of whether that philosophy does anything for our health, surely takes much of the pleasure out of eating. But why do we even need a nutritional philosophy in the first place? Perhaps because we Americans have always had a problem taking pleasure in eating. We certainly have gone to unusual lengths to avoid it." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"In contrast, the only philosophy to which I am inextricably attached is the pragmatic principle of doing everything I possibly can to help the children I treat. My philosophy of pragmatism also prompts me to avoid any stratified, rigid medication protocol for any specific disorder. Instead, I give very different medication programs to different children. Just as there is no one-size-fits-all diet in the Healing Program, there is also no standard set of meds. It's critically important to medicate children according to their individual metabolisms and widely varying needs." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"First and foremost stated in the company philosophy is a dedication "to food in its purest state." So how's business? Well, let's just say Whole Foods is now the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with 184 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. Their 2005 revenue was $4.7 billion, and they have 78 new stores in the pipeline between now and 2009. muscle and, in excessive amounts, is associated with an increased risk for a number of health problems." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"George Merck had a history that illustrated his philosophy. He had become president of his father's company in 1925, a time when the American drug companies had little interest in science. The industry then was largely a group of chemical companies manufacturing millions of bottles of pills that did little to treat real disease. The nation's academic pharmacologists held these pill peddlers in such low esteem that they refused to allow any industrial scientist to become a member of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, which had been founded by Dr." - 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.)

"The metal element person is the artist who has a great aesthetic sense and who loves philosophy and lofty discussion in search of higher truths. Metal is always striving to understand the essential nature of life and is fueled by inspiration that may come from this understanding. Concerned with ethics and high moral standards, a metal person focuses on the qualities of inner strength, stability, and true knowledge instead of outer trappings. The earth element is of the mother whereas the metal element is of the father." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Quite frankly, though, I'm less concerned with the theory and philosophy underlying these exercises than with their medical effects, and I encourage my patients with breathing problems to give these exercises a try. Some of the exercises designed to get you into a relaxed state require you to say or chant a few phrases. This is called a mantra. Chapter 6 noted that Dr. Herbert Benson dispensed with these in teaching people a simplified way to meditate. However, the teachers of this form of yoga are pretty adamant that the sound you make when you say or chant the mantra can be health enhancing." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"However, Arabic physics was at a loss to explain the seasonal variations in wind and rainfall, dependent as it was on a mixture of Aristotelian natural philosophy, Islamic religious belief, astrology, and folklore. Even the great tenth-century geographer al-Mas'udi was moved to remark that "the angel to whose care the seas are confided immerses the heel of his foot into the sea at the extremity of China, and, as the sea is swelled, the flow takes place." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Lawrence Rosen calls "a philosophy of whole child care." Children, he said, are "not just physical beings. They are made up of a mind, a body, and a spirit that all come together." Accordingly, green pediatricians like Dr. Rosen believe that children's "health is dependent on not just their physical biochemical state, but also on how they interact with their parents, their family, their community at large, the environment they live in. And those systems all have an impact on what we call the child's health." Dr. Rosen went on to emphasize a core practice of green doctors. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"He was charged by the Sun God Re to establish and enforce ma'at on earth, a philosophy that allowed for a king's failure. Middle Kingdom pharaohs saw themselves as shepherds of the people, more concerned with the common welfare than their Old Kingdom predecessors. They were also efficient administrators who imposed a firm bureaucracy on every aspect of Egyptian life. Pharaoh Senusret III (1878-1841 B.C.) was a great warrior and a man of imposing height. (Manetho tells us he was "4 cubits 3 palms, 2 fingers breadth [over 2 meters] tall."" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"By the mid-1960s, Illich had evolved into an outspoken reactionary whose philosophy ran so counter to the Church that he left the priesthood in 1968 and spent the remainder of his career as a peripatetic intellectual and academic. He came to believe that all institutions of the industrial hegemony, communist or capitalist, had destructive potential. He saw much of value in a preindustrial society and launched into a career making that argument about organized religion, institutionalized education, and medicine." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In accordance with Adventist philosophy, they volunteered together for two international missions, spending three months each in Ethiopia and Zambia. Always ready to tackle new things, Marge began riding a bicycle at age 12 on a dare from her father, who called her too fat, and she's never stopped pedaling. She took up golf at age 40 and played for decades. At 90, she decided to go to Disneyland and sit in "one of those rides that swirl you around." When she was 96, she finally decided she was tired of cooking and cleaning and moved with her husband into Linda Valley Villa." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"This recipe is a great example of that philosophy. It looks beautiful enough to carry to a picnic or tailgatingparty. It's also perfect to serve at a patio party of your own, with no guilt!" - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Your eating this week will follow the basic SuperFoodsRx philosophy: It's more about what you should include than what you should avoid. This week the emphasis will be on introducing some of the SuperFoods into your regular rotation while you try and make SuperFoods in general the backbone of your diet. You learned about portion sizes in chapter 2 and it's important to review that. (Most clients are astounded by what they learn about portions!" - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"This was the philosophy of many traditional remedies that have now been lost or replaced. In the RENEW program you will come to understand how the body is equipped to heal itself through uniquely designed detoxification methods. In combination with proper nutrients, exercise, and other habits, you can help determine the direction your body takes—to optimum or downgraded health. Many drugs can inhibit each other's clearance from the body, causing toxic, elevated amounts of each to be stored in cells, notably in the liver and kidneys." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Yet, this healing philosophy has become much more accepted over the last ten years. Mainstream thought is just beginning to accept the fact that, as a society, we likely aren't detoxifying as well as we should. This is due to the overwhelming body of evidence about the dangers of toxicity, air and water pollution, and the buildup of chemicals in our environment—evidence that is mounting daily. A cultural shift in the last few years alone has brought the topic of toxins to the forefront of the general public's attention, right alongside the issue of global warming." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"I started this book with an emphasis on getting back to the basics, and at no point is this philosophy more essential than when your children hit adolescence. You want to make sure that, by this pivotal stage, your teenagers respect their bodies, have a healthy relationship with food and exercise, and maintain open channels of communication with you." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The sacred writings (Shastras) of Hinduism are divided into four classes: (1) Shruti, which are regarded as direct divine revelation; these include the four Vedas (ancient books of psalms) and certain of the Upanishads (ancient books of philosophy); (2) Smriti, which include the traditional teachings of the orthodox sages, canonical instructions for domestic ceremonials, and certain works of secular and religious law; (3) Purana, which are the Hindu mythological and epic works par exoellence; these treat of cosmogonic, thenlrwiral." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"He took his bachelor's degree in biochemistry, biophysics, and philosophy from Penn State and both a medical degree and a Ph.D., in medical genetics, from Columbia University. He served his internship and residency at Harvard. Now a fellow at the world-renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, he was about to administer the experimental breast cancer therapy that would be linked with his name and would come to be considered one of the most controversial treatments in all of medicine. His patient's name was Diane." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"I (falsely) remember having recently done with a yoga/Eastern philosophy magazine on the subject. (7) [D. B.] actually looks interested. I ask him if I can do anything for him—perhaps something he wants me to relate to someone in physical reality? I tell him that his wife E. B. does well, and ask him if he has any specific message he'd like me to relay to her. He looks like he might, but before he can answer, against my will I rapidly return to waking physical reality." Of the corresponding points that follow, numbers 1 through 6 are based upon information Ed received from D. B.'s wife, E. B." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.) "In my first dream of the night: I seem to be at a college like Michigan State, where I seem to be taking two courses, one on "forms" and one on "philosophy." After talking with others about the classes, I say, "It's not like I actually have to weld anything together, like a rhombus and an octahedron ..." Then they all pipe up, telling me that the test involves exactly that—welding things together!" - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"It was not until the late 1970s that studies found that the particular school or philosophy was nowhere near as important as the relation between therapist and patient. As I said before, a good doctor-patient relation is a powerful tool for wellness. Those earlier therapists turned out to be right: when patients returned, it was a pretty good indication that they'd found a given doctor's treatment beneficial—one kind of successful outcome. But what schools those therapists had come from didn't matter a whit." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"As Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, explains, Hindu philosophy considered the ego the abamkara. She writes, "Ahamkara, literally 'The making of an "I," ' is best translated as egoism; it is a mistaken perception, the source of the whole series of errors that cause us to become embroiled in samsara [the world of rebirth, illusion, and worldly involvement]. Once we realize that T does not exist, we are free from the most basic of all illusions." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Eventually, I would become one of the world's experts on that kind of data—but at the time I was relying mostly on idealistic philosophy with a dash of science thrown in from my basic medical and psychiatric training. THE CRUX OF THE MATTER THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK we have found that research studies and especially clinical trials demonstrate surprisingly high rates of medication madness." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The complexity of weight management has led clinicians to adopt the philosophy that absence of weight gain is itself a reputable goal. Long-term maintenance of weight loss is more challenging than initial weight loss. Some strategies that are associated with success include eating a low-calorie diet (~1400 kcal/ day) and low fat (<30% of total intake), daily monitoring of body weight, and regular physical activity." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This is the process known to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy as viveka, "discrimination." The archetypes to be discovered and assimilated are precisely those that have inspired, throughout the annals of human culture, the basic images of ritual, mythology, and vision. These 18 "Forms or images o?a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous, individual products of unconscious origin" (C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion [Collected Works, vol. 11; New York and London, 1958], par. 88. Orig. written in English 1937." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In the language of Indian philosophy, they have come to know that Atman, the consciousness that manifests within us all, is Brahman, the source and essence of all Creation. The vast majority of us may still be far from such realization. But it is the direction we are headed in, both as individuals and as a species. And, as we have seen, there are good reasons to believe that our inner awakening need not take a lot of time. We could, if we put our minds to it, find ourselves fulfilling this inner quest within a century or so —or even less. Then Brahman would know Itself in all Its dimensions." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"It is practiced for twenty minutes twice a day and does not involve any religious belief, philosophy, or change in lifestyle. During TM, the thinking process effortlessly settles down until mental activity of ordinary waking consciousness is "transcended" and a unique state of restful alertness is created. In addition, there is a corresponding settling down of the body's machinery. Studies indicate that transcending and a resultant deep physiological rest offer a powerful natural antidote to chronic stress and other major risk factors for CVD." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"In describing the MST's curriculum, Vilmar says, "MST teaches philosophy to children in the lowest grades." At this I am puzzled. My idea of philosophy is Plato or Kant, not exactly the domain of eight-year-olds. But then I brace myself: Maybe this is it. Maybe by "philosophy" they mean the kind of Marxist indoctrination the newspapers had warned about. "We teach children to look around them and not to accept what they see as given," Vilmar explains. "By philosophy, we mean encouraging them to ask questions, to ask how things should be, and how they want them to be." - Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Get the book.)

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