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"MOST FREQUENTLY CONSUMED RAW VEGETABLES Asparagus F Bell pepper F (some stores) Broccoli F Carrots LL Cauliflower F Celery Cucumber Green cabbage Green onions Green snap beans F Iceberg lettuce Leaf lettuce Mushrooms F (some stores) Onions F (some stores) Potatoes Tl Radishes Summer squash Sweet corn F Sweet potatoes Tomato Source: Federal Register, March 20, 2002 Industry statistics show frozen vegetable sales peak between November and April, but highest sales are during the three holidays that fall within these months—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Evidently, the recommended sales technique worked. Prozac soon accounted for one-quarter of Lilly's revenues, with annual sales reaching $2.6 billion. In 2000, just before Prozac was to lose its patent protection in 2001, Eli Lilly changed the name from Prozac to Sarafem, changed the pill's color from green and white to pink and lavender, and got FDA approval to market it for severe premenstrual symptoms, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Prior to the launch of Sarafem, Lilly spent $2.3 billion on marketing, much more than the $1." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"School systems earn sales commissions by vending these junk foods. School officials rationalize that the kids would buy them anyway, so the schools may as well share in the profits from these sales. However, there was one alternative school in Wisconsin where administrators were smart enough to change this practice by offering only whole foods, albeit cooked. (Search the Internet for "Miracle in Wisconsin.") The school was also filmed in the documentary Super Size Me. The kids in this school shaped up, focused on their schoolwork, and achieved better grades." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The Drug Industry_ According to IMS Health, a health-care information company, nearly 230 million prescriptions were filled for antidepressants in the United States in 2006, more than any other type of medication. sales of antidepressants and antipsychotics combined totaled $25 billion. Two decades ago, sales were at $500 million. In the mental health arena, these and other drugs are the pillars of conventional treatment for many conditions. The power and influence of the pharmaceutical industry is enormous, and there's no end in sight." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"MOST FREQUENTLY CONSUMED RAW VEGETABLES Asparagus F Bell pepper F (some stores) Broccoli F Carrots LL Cauliflower F Celery Cucumber Green cabbage Green onions Green snap beans F Iceberg lettuce Leaf lettuce Mushrooms F (some stores) Onions F (some stores) Potatoes Tl Radishes Summer squash Sweet corn F Sweet potatoes Tomato Source: Federal Register, March 20, 2002 Industry statistics show frozen vegetable sales peak between November and April, but highest sales are during the three holidays that fall within these months—Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"A top-performing sales rep for an insurance company while in her thirties, Arntsen, who used to run three miles a day, now lives on Social Security disability—which, she says ruefully, allows time for "my new full-time job—seeing specialists." She gets going each day by around noon and spends what stamina she has left volunteering at the Lupus Foundation of Mid and Northern New York, which has become her "baby," although it can hardly begin to make up for the fact that "the chance to be a mother has been stolen from me." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Several of the mushrooms—including Coriolus versicolor and Lentinus edodes—are utilized as medical "drugs" in Japan, with sales there in excess of one-billion dollars annually. Specifically, Cordyceps sinensis (CS-4) inhibits the production of DNA and RNA synthesis in cancer cells and has displayed antitumor activity on bladder, kidney, colon, and lung carcinoma as well as on fibroblas-toma cell lines." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The fate and supermarket sales of each whole food rises and falls with every change in the nutritional weather while the processed foods simply get reformulated and differently supplemented. That's why when the Atkins diet storm hit the food industry in 2003, bread and pasta got a quick redesign (dialing back the carbs; boosting the proteins) while poor unreconstructed potatoes and carrots were left out in the carbohydrate cold." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "In place of those fats, they consumed substantially more vegetable oils, especially in the form of margarine, sales of which outpaced butter for the first time in 1957. Between the end ofWorld War II and 1976 (the year of McGovern's hearings) , per capita consumption of animal fats from all sources dropped from eighty-four pounds to seventy-one, while fats from seed oils approximately doubled. Americans appeared to be moving in the direction of a "prudent diet" and yet, paradoxically, having more heart attacks on it, not fewer." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Craig rambled on irrationally about the business, saying that their inventory was gone, a natural consequence of good sales at that time of year. He had a "crazed look" in his eye and was pacing "like a caged animal." Meanwhile, Danny dialed 911 on his cell phone. After what seemed like an eternity—twenty minutes during which Craig brandished his shotgun, rambled, and issued warnings—the sheriff finally arrived. SWAT team members positioned themselves on the perimeter of the yard of the business where the little group was gathered around Craig and his truck." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The marketing has been so excessive that the drug companies clearly took advantage of the events of September 11 for sales. Even Psychiatric News, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association, said that drug makers like Glaxo found 9/11 "a marketing opportunity." According to Nielsen Media Research, drug ads increased dramatically in the weeks after the attacks. In October 2001 alone, Glaxo spent $16 million on advertising Paxil, almost twice what they spent the previous October.102 It worked." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The excesses and ethical lapses have become so blatant that even mainstream bastions of free enterprise such as Forbes have labeled the drug companies as corporate "pill pushers" and accused them of abandoning science for sales.25 Drugs are the fastest-growing component in health care, where costs have soared generally.26 Prices of the best-selling drugs routinely go up at two to three times the rate of inflation. Uninsured patients in the United States pay more for drugs than people who are insured, who have the large FIMOs to bargain for them." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The combined sales of Remicade, Humira and Enbrel in 2007 earned the drug makers $13 billion. You can easily heal the causes of arthritis, Crohn's disease, and psoriasis through cleansing of the liver, kidneys and colon, eliminating animal protein from the diet and eating a nutritious vegetarian diet, while adhering to a balanced lifestyle. I suffered from rheumatoid arthritis over 35 years ago, and once I knew what caused it, I healed it quickly without any medical aid." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"This, the sales reps explained, was an illustration of the communication problems associated with schizophrenia.61 To boost the image of the products they sell, drug representatives are typically vivacious and cute and female. "There's a saying that you'll never meet an ugly drug rep," said Dr. Thomas Carli, of the University of Michigan.62 "Many give off a kind of glow, as if they had just emerged from a spa or salon. And they are always, hands down, the best-dressed people in the hospital," writes Carl Elliott, longtime observer of the drug industry." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"For years, one of these patients was Kathleen Arntsen, a forty-four-year-old sales professional from Verona, New York. After five years of searching for a diagnosis for what would turn out later to be myasthenia gravis, a disease in which sufferers develop severe muscle fatigue and disabling weakness, Kathleen was told by a doctor she'd been to eight times, "We've given you every test known to man except for an autopsy. Would you like one of those too?" For half a decade, she says, "I was treated like an absolute fruitcake. No one could tell me what was wrong with me, much less treat me." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "The normal stressors of life that once seemed so significant—a difficult neighbor or the sick dog or the sales presentation looming next week—become insignificant when faced with problems such as how to meet escalating medical debts or how to get up and down the stairs. Which brings us back to a catch-22 situation. If mental and emotional stress can cause elevated levels of cytokine activity, which can lead to more episodes and flare-ups of autoimmune disease, how can we break this self-defeating cycle?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In her 1999 book The Red Devil, Katherine Russell Rich had this to say: After reading Love, I suspected that friends and relatives of the stricken, in need of a quick hospital gift, were largely to blame for the sales. I haven't met many actual cancer patients who actually liked the book. The ECaPs, for starters, are obnoxious paragons. "While the typical patient may ask, Why me, Lord?' " Siegel writes, "the exceptional patient says . . . 'Try me, Lord." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"According to Energy Times, April 2006, sales of organic food and drinks reached $15 billion in 2004, and are estimated to double by 2009, with organic sales having increased 17% to 21% each year since 1997 in the U.S. marketplace. Remember, if you're a little confused when you go to the store and start to see these new labels while you're shopping, just ask your grocer if it's truly organic. If not, "Just say no." Make sure to look for foods that say "100% organic." If it just says "organic" on the label, it may not be 100% organic." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"There is no evidence that her slap at this trend within the pages of a specialist journal made any significant dent in the sales of the relevant paperback best-sellers. There is other evidence, however, that by the late 1990s initial popular enthusiasms for dissolving tumors through positive attitudes had begun to temper." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Product marketing thrives on pointing out imperfections, because nothing ensures sales like a client base looking for salvation from their own perceived physical inadequacies. Is it any wonder, then, that we find it so difficult to appreciate our own bodies? And what you tell your body to become at a conscious and unconscious level becomes a self-fulfilling command. If your messages from your brain are that you are sick, fat, unhealthy, or ugly, your body will do everything in its physical capacity to comply. There's no rocket science here." - 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.)

"The only problem with trazodone is that it is long off-patent, meaning there's comparatively very little revenue left to be generated by its sales. A series of new sleep aids, such as Ambien CR, Lunesta, and Rozerem, have recently tried to move into trazodone's territory. Being new agents, Ambien CR, Rozerem, and Lunesta are at the start of their patent lives and therefore lucrative years. Recently, several articles have been published in the professional journals that have been described as "trazodone-bashing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Every Valentine's Day the makers and sellers of chocolates, flowers, and perfumes reap a fortune in sales because these products have become traditional symbols for love and devotion. These gifts seem innocuous enough. But imagine if you learned that the chocolates you bought or received were laced with rat poison, or that the flowers were heavily laden with toxic pesticides. Would you still eat the chocolates or inhale the aroma of the flowers, much less encourage your loved one to do so? But lovers give bottles of toxic chemicals to each other as signs of their affection yearly." - 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.)

"Popeye was credited with a whopping thirty-three percent increase in sales and was given recognition for single-handedly saving the spinach industry! What's the Story? Spinach belongs to the same family as beets and chard. There are three main types of spinach including smooth leaf, savoy, and semi-savoy. All are delicious and rich in nutrients. A Serving of Food Lore... It is thought that spinach originated in ancient Persia. In the seventh century, the king of Nepal sent it to China as a gift and it became known as the "herb of Persia." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Annual sales jumped from $100,000 to over $4 million in just 6 years! tion. For example, it can signal gastroesophageal reflux disease (aka GERD or acid reflux), a condition in which stomach acid backs up into the esophagus (see Chapters 6 and 8). Fecal breath can also be a sign of a scary-sounding and controversial condition called intestinal permeability (aka leaky gut syndrome), which is thought to be a quite common disorder in which the intestinal lining becomes overly porous." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Prozac soon accounted for one-quarter of Lilly's revenues, with annual sales reaching $2.6 billion. In 2000, just before Prozac was to lose its patent protection in 2001, Eli Lilly changed the name from Prozac to Sarafem, changed the pill's color from green and white to pink and lavender, and got FDA approval to market it for severe premenstrual symptoms, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Prior to the launch of Sarafem, Lilly spent $2.3 billion on marketing, much more than the $1.5 billion it had spent on the drug's research and development." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Therefore, there are no company sales representatives going into physicians' offices to educate them about the causes and dangers of estrogen dominance. Because of this ignorance within the medical community many women and men continue to suffer needlessly. Worst of all, when a woman complains of even the slightest symptoms of estrogen dominance, most conventional medical doctors recommend a prescription of synthetic estrogen replacement. This practice is both irresponsible and dangerous, and even though it is usually rooted in ignorance, it can have tragic consequences." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, the medical research institutions and universities that publish these studies do not have the budget to hire a sales force to go out into the field to educate physicians. Consequently, most doctors continue to remain unenlightened regarding the science behind the safe treatment option of bio-identical hormones. how bio-identical progesterone kick-starts weight loss at a cellular level Bio-identical progesterone neutralizes estrogen dominance, thereby kick-starting weight loss at a cellular level. Here's what happens. First, progesterone eliminates the hypothyroid condition." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Laxative sales are booming. According to some U.S. statistics, 3.1 million people suffer with constipation. One million are on prescription drugs for it. Our bowels are a holding tank for our body's waste. Our waste is not only what we eat and drink but our manufactured toxins such as hormones, acids, alcohols and cholesterol. There are environmental toxins that we absorb such as pesticides, heavy metals and pollution. A popular revision of the old proverb is "You are what you eat and don't excrete." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"She was a professional volunteer—my father wouldn't let her work—and our basement was full of donated clothing for church rummage sales, which meant we got first pick. As a second-generation working-class American from Czechoslovakia, she was certainly a product of the Depression: thrifty and stern, tough but loving. My father, Stephen, was four years older, and he died when my mother was fifty-nine. Although it took her several years to recover, she was a resilient woman with lots of friends, and eventually she met another man and remarried in her midsixties." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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