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"INTRODUCTION Plant-derived foods that are rich in flavonoids are regularly touted in the popular press for their benefits in ameliorating age-related diseases. A majority of these reports focus on the antioxidant characteristics of flavonoid-rich diets and their enhancement of cardiovascular health. However, a growing number of reports in the pharmacology literature characterize flavonoid interactions with cellular components implicated in neurological pathologies and cancer." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Discussions of the Alexander approach to psychosomatic medicine also began to appear in the popular press, from Reader's Digest to Ladies' Home Journal. And in 1950, this approach had a kind of milestone moment in terms of its penetration into the wider culture: it became the basis of a hit number, "Adelaide's Lament," in Frank Loesser's Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. Adelaide is a cabaret dancer of a certain age who has been unable, after thirteen years, to persuade her ne'er-do-well gambler fiance to marry her." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Lynch's book hit a nerve, certainly in the popular press.35 In short order, he was being interviewed on television talk shows and in popular magazines. U.S. News & World Report identified him as "an authority on the ways and misfortunes of the world's lonely people."36 The medical community, it is true, was more ambivalent about him: the book was not widely reviewed in the professional medical literature." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "In the popular press, it was her work specifically on so-called accident-proneness (a term she coined) that had the most resonance. As late as August 1969, an article in Family Weekly highlighted Dunbar's work in the context of a call for more attention to be given to accidents as "one of the nation's major health problems." Chronic repression of anger and guilt, the article intoned, "can be as dangerous as faulty brakes or a broken step." Becoming aware of these "human factors," however—and seeking psychiatric help if necessary—could help more people avoid dangerous mishaps." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the two years preceding Paxil's approval, fewer than fifty stories on social anxiety disorder had appeared in the popular press. Hardly anybody even knew what social anxiety was. By the time the FDA had approved the drug for social anxiety, and SmithKline had unleashed its direct-to-consumer ad campaign, which could now link social anxiety to its cure, Paxil, hundreds of stories about the illness had cropped up in U.S. publications and on broadcast programs." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Once studies were published and word of the results reached the popular press, I was contacted by a number of people who had developed psychiatric side effects after taking Accutane. One family from Missouri was particularly desperate to talk to me. They drove all the way from their home state to Georgia to meet with me. The entire family, including the parents, two sisters, and the young boy who had taken the Accutane, filed into my office." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"You've also learned that you may be saddled with hunger genes, sometimes labeled "thrifty genes" by the popular press. You may even feel powerless to oppose their instructions and blame them for your weight problems, abandoning hope of ever gaining the upper hand. The good news is that you're wrong. Your genes are just following your current instructions and will follow new instructions that you'll learn shortly. In Part Two, you'll learn how to stop communicating these incorrect messages to your genes, as the first step to taking control of your health, your weight, and your life." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Two papers that fueled the controversy appeared in 1986 and caused a stir in the popular press and in the scientific community. In a fascinating, but brief, letter to The Lancet, Blundell and Hill [155] reported that the ingestion of aspartame caused an increase in hunger ratings in human subjects, and in another paper, Stellman and Garfinkel [156] reported that women who consumed the sweetener saccharin were more likely to gain body weight than nonusers of saccharin." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"To the popular press, which pounced on the published paper, Benveniste had discovered 'the memory of water', and his studies were widely regarded as making a valid case for homeopathy. Benveniste himself realized that his results had repercussions far beyond any theory of alternative medicine. If water were able to imprint and store information from molecules, this would have an impact on our understanding of molecules and how they,'talk' to one another in our bodies, as molecules in human cells, of course, are surrounded by water." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Although there's been an upsurge of coverage in the popular press about connecting our emotions to our physical health, you're reading the first practical road map for achieving that connection. We all know negative emotions like stress, anxiety, anger, and depression are bad for us. But only now is twenty-first-century medical research substantiating what our grandmothers told us, and what the ancients have known for ages: positive attitude benefits your health." - 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.)

"In the popular press, the British public read tales of Chinese medicine and technology, set in the context of an obstinate and autocratic government. Perhaps even worse, at least for perceptions of Chinese medicine, they were told that Britain's generous attempt to negotiate had been blocked by a Chinese doctor. China during this period gallingly persisted in regarding itself as self-sufTicient, and culturally superior." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"In 2000, after late-night television host David Letterman underwent surgery for heart disease, a piece appeared in the popular press entitled "David Letterman's Cynical Heart." The writer, Robert Wright, put the matter to his readers straight: What is wrong with David Letterman's heart? The official reason for his quintuple bypass last month was atherosclerosis—clogged arteries. Some observers, such as People magazine, go deeper in search of the explanation, citing "Type A," workaholic behavior." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"It is also rich in vitamin E, which has been proven to be effective as an antioxidant for cardiovascular health, despite what you may have heard in the popular press about vitamin E. This is why, if you want vitamin E in your diet and you want to get it from a natural source, one of the best things to do is buy wheat germ. Wheat germ is, in a sense, a superfood. That's what makes it such an outstanding choice for sprinkling on cereals or oatmeal or wherever you choose to use it in your diet." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "If you look at the big question of why nutrition isn't really talked about in the popular press and by food companies, the answer is because all of the big players have very clear financial incentives to avoid talking about nutrition. There's no reason for organized medicine to talk about nutrition as a way to prevent chronic disease. There's certainly no reason for pharmaceutical companies to study the correlation between healthy foods and disease prevention." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Before long, the popular press had picked up the story with headlines of stomach-friendly aspirins. And now the nocebo effect was kicking in with respect to regular aspirins and other NSAIDs. This is the opposite of the placebo effect and works to make drugs less effective if they are believed to cause harm. Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, for example, points to a study which found that patients warned about the gastrointestinal effects of taking aspirin were three times more likely to suffer from them." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Alley (Princeton University Press, 2000) "The climate-change community is so much more confident of global warming than is the popular press," warns Greenland ice-core expert Richard Alley, one of the key scientists in the early 1990s who discovered that the last ice age ended abruptly, in a span of only three years. The Two-Mile Time Machine tells the story of global climate change through annual readings of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a fascinating and important story that informs the climate we live in today, and how we will proceed tomorrow." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The letter announced: "Recent publicity in the popular press has led the public to believe that there is a widespread and unrecognized occurrence of hypoglycemia in this country. Furthermore, it has been suggested repeatedly that the condition is causing many of the common symptoms that affect the American population. These claims are not supported by medical evidence. "Hypoglycemia means low blood sugar," the letter continued. " - 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.)

"Analysts" from front groups like the CCF are often credited as bona fide research experts in the popular press, despite their lack of qualifications. 5. Don't believe the scientific views of any alleged expert without first verifying in whose name she is conducting research—no matter what high-sounding institution she hails from, be it Harvard, the American Diabetes Association, or Coca-Cola's Beverage Institute. It takes only a few seconds on the Internet to find out if a researcher has a pro-industry bias. When it's not obvious, remain skeptical until you can be sure." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The move also enabled soda makers to position themselves as being "responsive" to lawmakers' efforts to pass school-based soda legislation—bills that create an enormous PR headache for industry when exposed in the popular press. This point was even acknowledged by a leading food-industry publication, Vending Market Watch, which noted: "This new policy is clearly designed to counteract criticism from consumer activists and politicians who say the beverage industry is profiting at children's expense." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Several hundred papers, abstracts, and formal presentations as well as articles which have appeared in the popular press have presented data on the many facets and implications of the use of bovine somatotropin. These presentations have placed into the public domain data to address the concerns, so that an enlightened decision on the safety and efficacy of this involved issue can be made. This issue of labeling milk and meat from treated cows has been publicly refuted as having no scientific basis." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"In medical journals and the popular press, doctors suggested that water birthing was dangerous, filled with unacceptable risks of infection and drowning. It wasn't until 1999, when Ruth Gilbert and PatTookey of the Institute of Child Health in London published a serious study showing that water birth was at least as safe as conventional methods, that all these predictions of doom and gloom were shown to be largely baseless. An even more recent Italian study, published in 2005, has confirmed the safely of water birthing—and demonstrated some stunning advantages." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"In the two years preceding Paxil's approval, fewer than fifty stories on social anxiety disorder had appeared in the popular press. Hardly anybody even knew what social anxiety was. By the time the FDA had approved the drug for social anxiety, and SmithKline had unleashed its direct-to-consumer ad campaign, which could now link social anxiety to its cure, Paxil, hundreds of stories about the illness had cropped up in U.S. publications and on broadcast programs." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Now you know how drug companies, the FDA, the popular press, and many doctors lie with this numerical shell game. It's a clever way to promote the minuscule benefits of pharmaceuticals while discrediting the enormous healing effects of natural remedies. Now, do you want to hear some real statistics on cancer? I'll share a few. Out of every 100 women who might get breast cancer, 50 of them can avoid breast cancer by simply getting adequate levels of vitamin D in their body, and that's available free of charge through sensible exposure to natural sunlight, which produces vitamin D." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Nutritional deficiencies create a multi billion dollar disease treatment industry Another reason you don't hear much discussion on the correlation between nutrition and chronic disease in the popular press these days, or among practitioners of conventional medicine, is because most of the revenues generated from conventional medicine actually come from the treatment of the symptoms caused by nutritional imbalances and deficiencies." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The popular press comments on the ensuing debate that the x-rays showing an increase in bone density do not reflect stronger bones. Martinez, B. What women can learn from debate over two leading osteoporosis drugs. Wall Street Journal Sept 28, 2004, Dl. 3. Researchers point out that the use of bisphosphonates for bones was an "accidental" discovery, not a discovery based on sound science relating to bone metabolism. Mun-dy GR. Directions of drug discovery in osteoporosis. Annu Rev Med. 2002;53:337-54. 4." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"This is probably why Charles and Diana, like many other celebrity divorcees, didn't set a particularly good example - much to the delight of the popular press. However, if parents can be helped to focus on the present and future needs of their children, it does deflect attention from their own grievances. There is a welcome movement internationally in legal circles to provide conciliation and counselling services rather than the old-fashioned confrontational approach to divorce." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Tanning beds have been disparaged to an even greater degree and are called "cancer machines" by many in the medical profession and in the popular press. There are movements afoot to make it illegal for those under the age of 18 to even use them. This is woefully misguided and ill-advised. Every beneficial effect of vitamin D that is produced by sunlight exposure is also produced by the use of high-quality tanning beds. What's more, the risks associated with UV overexposure do not appear to be related to regular, non-burning exposure, which tanning beds can provide quite effectively." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"The British Medical Journal devoted nearly an entire issue (2002) to medicalization topics, and we increasingly see the term "medicalization" used in the popular press. A outstanding example of this is the Seattle Times' five-part investigative series, "Suddenly Sick: The Hidden Big Business behind Your Doctor's Diagnosis" (Kelle-her and Wilson, 2005). For years, when I talked with people about medicalization, I would always need to explain in detail what I meant. Now most people quickly understand what the term means." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "Articles began to appear in the popular press and in academic journals questioning the safety of the implants and highlighting the problems, including silicone gel leakage, hardening of the breasts, carcinogenicity, and autoimmune disease. Throughout the 1990s, as the controversy publicly exploded, tens of thousands of women joined legal suits that resulted in several global settlements against implant manufacturers. In 1992 the FDA called for a voluntary moratorium on the distribution and implementation of the devices, to which the manufacturers agreed (see Conrad and Jacobson, 2003)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Even the popular press was able to predict the 40-page decision with great detail and accuracy, and surely no one is so naive as to believe that between April 25 and June 15, when the ruling was issued, Mr. Ruekelshaus had time to study completely Mr. Sweeney's recommendations and the 9,000 pages of testimony on which they were based. In short, the entire process smells badly of farce and fraud. The fraud, however, is no worse than the original one perpetrated by the environmental mystics and pseudo scientists who hoodwinked the public and its political medicine men on DDT." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

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