Quotes about Standards from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "It reinforces standards of what is right or wrong, standards for how we should act on the job, standards for relationships, and standards for success. We accept many of these beliefs as "Truth" without examining them. Although this giant web of limitations is an illusion, we believe it is real.
A friend of mine from England helped me understand one of the illusions of the Matrix that we have in the United States: the belief that bigger is better. She was teaching a course where I live in Sandpoint, Idaho. One morning, we went out for breakfast and she ordered pancakes."- Margaret Ruby, The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Get the book.) |
 "And yet the government standards for limitations of pesticides are set by adult standards, which do not take into account the heightened susceptibility of children.
"In order to assess the damage caused by pesticides and other toxic chemicals to the nervous and immune systems in children, every educated person should read a government publication entitled Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System. It points out that behavioral problems are one of the earliest signs of chemical toxicity, which is what we are seeing in children today."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Advertising, of course, also sets the social standards of physical beauty, and unfortunately it sets them at such a high level (or low level, depending on how you look at it) that these levels are virtually impossible for most people to attain. You can't necessarily run around at five percent body fat with a super-athletic look if you're a male, or a super-slim, tall figure if you are a female, and yet those are the images that are propagated through our media. They attempt to tell us that these are the standards, and if we don't achieve those standards then we are somehow lesser human beings."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Note: Supplements are not regulated, so individual manufacturers are responsible for standards of safety and correct labeling (what is stated on the label should be what's in the product). 1 use only brands that I trust and have experience with. These products are made from high-quality ingredients and have proven safety and efficacy. All the products I recommend meet these high standards and are produced in an FDA-registered drug-manufacturing facility. See www.spentmd.com for resources.
• Have a lunch loaded with color—a substantial salad or a stir-fry with lean protein."- Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) |
 "Standards have been set by AFNOR (Association French Normalization Regulation) and ISO (International standards Organization) certification, both of which determine, by a variety of laboratory tests, whether essential oils are of therapeutic grade by their chemical constituent profile. A gas chromatograph, which uses higher European standards instead of American ones, is used to measure the energy or light contained or held in the essential oil; this light quality determines whether the product is indeed therapeutic."- Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.) |
 "The dose was, in fact, about double what a worker in a dry cleaners or tannery might be "safely" exposed to under standards set by both EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. For four weeks Gilbert and Pumford monitored the mice. "We had no idea what kind of immune-system alteration we might see," says Gilbert. So they did a whole battery of tests to look at what was happening with some of the cells in the mice that would tell them if there was, indeed, an autoimmune reaction."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "In our house, my wife, Ann, is the cook, and over the past twenty years she has learned a great deal about how to concoct wonderful meals that meet the strict standards of my nutrition plan. During the sixty- to ninety-minute counseling sessions I hold with all prospective patients and their spouses, Ann shares her own experiences and insights into how to plan and prepare dishes and menus that they will enjoy for the rest of their lives. In the following chapters, she will do the same for you."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "In my opinion, the Department of Agriculture, which by definition is supposed to protect and promote the nation's agricultural interests, should disqualify itself from responsibility for setting nutrition standards. That duty belongs more properly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But so far, the US DA still holds the power to advise Americans on what they should be eating, and every five years, when it updates its advice, its guidelines end up misleading the public and betraying the science." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "What is, by ancient standards, such a high percentage, is largely due to a perpetual grant of a ration of bread—the panes aedium—which was not only given to anyone building a house in the city but passed along to the new owners with the sale of the house ... a powerful incentive to both house builders and home buyers.12 Even so, the street was home to a large number of Constantinople's residents, possibly even a majority, who lacked any sort of permanent lodging, and depended upon homeless shelters run by the city's monasteries and churches.
They also depended on the dole."- William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "At a moment in history that is practically last week by bacterial standards, somewhere between 570 to 800 million years ago, life on earth got complicated. An enduring image from classical mythology is the tale of the Titans, earth's first rulers, whose king, Cronos, ate his own children. Like Cronos, Earth's first life form was about to evolve its future larder. That planet that they occupied had been utterly made over by the activities of bacterial and single-celled eukaryotic life." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) |
| "In every case, intensive lobbying by industry— the producers and purveyors of dairy products, meat, and poultry— has caused those who set the standards to pull their punches.
To put it quite simply, the fox is in the henhouse. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the United States Department of Agriculture, which since the late 1970s has been issuing the government's official guidelines on what American citizens should be eating." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Her daughter was doing well by almost any standards but Christine felt unable to fully connect emotionally with her daughter.
Christine began to taper herself off the medications and then came to me for help in the final stages of withdrawal. She was already down to taking only one-half of a 10 mg tablet of Celexa each day. Together Christine and I decided to slowly taper the last of the Celexa. Her life at the time was very stable, including a convenient part-time job and a nurturing boyfriend."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "According to official diagnostic standards, children under age six are too young to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But after evaluating Willow, the neurologist wrote, "I really feel that Willow fits into the attention deficit disorder category with potential for learning disability." It was another way of saying, "The kid needs drugs." As so often happens, being diagnosed would shape a lifetime. For Willow it became her first step into a brief and terminal career as a psychiatric patient. After the neurologist started Willow on the stimulant Ritalin, Mrs." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Founded in 1972, by the author as a support group in his successful effort to stop the resurgence of lobotomy, it has grown into a network and educational forum for professionals and laypersons alike who are devoted to raising the ethical and scientific standards in psychiatry, psychology, and related health fields (see appendix B for more about ICSPP). This is not the place to present my own personal philosophy in more detail than I have already done here and in earlier books such as The Heart of Being Helpful (1997) and Beyond Conflict (1992)." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "That means that millions of Americans who are doing the best they can to meet the standards set by national health officials are, in spite of their efforts, getting sick.
Here's a clear, plain English translation of what our government and the national health agencies have done: they have chosen a "safe" cholesterol level for the public that virtually guarantees—if everyone actually met their stated goal—that every year more than 1.2 million Americans will suffer heart attacks and that millions more will watch the inevitable progression of their coronary artery disease.
What is going on here?" - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "We would work on lowering her perfectionistic standards from 100 percent perfect to maybe 80 percent perfect.
"We didn't have to do too much work on behavioral engagement, like increasing the number of pleasurable activities in her life. When she started looking at her thinking, she was able to start to do some things again. She started taking a writing class, which is something she always wanted to do.
"Our therapy is winding down. Martha is now considering a career change, something more creative where she can use writing. Some kind of link between the business world and writing."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Samuelson traces the origins of the contemporary uses of the term entitlement, which he defines as "specific government programs, in which benefits are promised if people (or institutions) meet explicit legal standards." (He may as well have added "whether they really need them or not.") According to Samuelson, by that definition, entitlement first appeared in a long-forgotten 1944 law. It then disappeared from political and popular discourse for decades. It resurfaced only in the early 1980s." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "Although there are exceptions, if a physician prescribes within accepted standards of care there's little likelihood of a child developing severe abuse and dependence during the treatment process. However, the long-term effects are more menacing. The routine use of Ritalin in childhood for the treatment of ADHD predisposes the individual to abuse cocaine in young adulthood.
Prescribed even in relatively small clinical doses, stimulants have a long-term and persisting impact on the brain." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "They attempt to tell us that these are the standards, and if we don't achieve those standards then we are somehow lesser human beings. That's a dangerous message, especially for young girls who are acutely aware of their own physical image versus that of the supermodels they see in the media. It is widely believed that this contributes to the problem of eating disorders in teenage girls.
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Lastly, one of the success mechanisms of advertising in terms of brain spam is the fact that these ads make you believe whatever they're showing in the ad is perfectly normal." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "A separate study of seventeen homes conducted by the National Institute of standards and Technology found disturbingly high concentrations of PBDEs in household dust and dryer lint.
From our floors, this chemical-laden dust is then kicked up into the air, where it is inhaled into our bodies. Babies and toddlers, who have the highest levels of PBDEs, ingest even greater levels because they chew on plastic toys, drop them in that invisible household dust, and then pick them up and mouth on them again (think of Zachary's dropped pacifier, and suddenly the five-second rule loses its appeal)." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "Today, the growing of maitake mushrooms with high quality control standards has become an important industry in various regions of the world. Not only could maitake now be commercially harvested, but more importantly, researchers found oral administration of maitake was as potent as injection by needles. With that discovery and improved cultivation yields, much research switched from shiitake to maitake. People have either known or at least suspected for a very long time that the Monkey's Bench family, of which maitake is a member, possesses significant anticancer potential."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "The FDA devotes several hundred inspectors and laboratory personnel to this activity nationwide, and state and local governments also inspect food processing plants with varying frequencies and under varying standards, attempting to ensure that product ingredients are safe and free of chemical impurities.
But inspectors can't be everywhere all the time." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "They are "nice" by other people's standards, however. They are conditional lovers. They are giving only in order to receive love. If their giving is not rewarded, they are more vulnerable to illness than ever.76
Consider some of our common expressions. "He's a pain in the neck/ass. Get off my back. This problem is eating me up alive. You're breaking my heart." The body responds to the mind's messages, whether conscious or unconscious. In general, these may be either "live" or "die" messages."- Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Using these definitions and standards, only about 2 percent of adults and about 5 percent of children have real allergies. And therein lies the rub.
A "true" (in the classic sense) food allergy will indeed produce a dramatic and usually quick reaction like hives. But here's the thing: There are many other ways your body can react to a food to let you know that it doesn't like it— fatigue, bloating, "brain fog," energy crashes, and even delayed aches and pains are all common examples."- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "In a double-blind, randomized clinical trial, seventy patients diagnosed with PMS (by the standards of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised) were treated for three months with either krill oil or plain old omega-3 fish oil. The krill oil group had a statistically significant improvement in dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) as well as in the emotional symptoms of PMS. The women taking the krill oil also chose to consume significantly less painkillers during the treatment period." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "By today's standards," said Fran, "it is obvious that he suffered from clinical depression, presumably..." she thumbed through the volume, "a 'major' and 'recurrent' depressive disorder, most likely 296.3x in DSM-IV-TR.
"I agree. His illness probably was characterized by 'melancholic fea-tures.
"I don't know," retorted Fran. "Given his conversations with God, he probably had 'psychotic features.'"
Throughout most of medical history, he would not have received such a diagnosis. Until the second half of the twentieth century, depression was actually a rare disorder."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "An organic farmer must adhere to strict standards and undergo regular inspections to ensure that he meets all standards for organic growing. There now seems to be a problem with the real meaning of organic, natural, grass-fed, and free range. These are some of the words the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is using to help define, or redefine, the word organic, and at this point, consumers are naturally confused about the definitions of these new words popping up in the marketplace."- Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Soon he was managing and producing some of the biggest names in the business, and by conventional standards, he was a huge success. He had even married a woman, Danielle, whom he referred to as "the love of my life." They had a child and a new home in Beverly Hills. But although Max's street smarts, smooth talking, and manipulations appeared to have taken him far, he was really going nowhere, and his body was paying the price.
"This life was killing me," says Max, recalling his dawning awareness of how it all began to catch up with him. "My chest felt like it was going to explode."- 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.) "By all normal professional standards, he had arrived. But soon, Jack wasn't feeling his usual upbeat self. In fact, within a few months, he was absolutely miserable. "To everyone else, I was amazingly successful. But being stuck in a hermetically sealed building working on monotonous copyright issues didn't turn out to be my idea of success. It couldn't have been any more remote from my musical interests. I was working long hours and felt I'd lost control over my life." Meanwhile, Jack began to feel terrible pain in his hands and back, which grew to nearly paralyzing proportions." - 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.) |
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