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"However, these tactics generally increase client resistance and diminish the probability of change." Furthermore, Miller thought of readiness to change not as a client trait but as a fluctuating product of interpersonal interaction. "You can't resist alone on a beach," was how Miller put it to me. Motivation may ultimately reside with the client, but it can also be understood to result from the interactions with the therapist and other people or environmental factors. Motivation to change is typically strongly influenced by family, friends, and community support—or the lack of any of these." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A more subtle layer of public deception that shields dangerous chemicals from scrutiny is the result of the intimidation tactics sometimes used against experts who go public about health hazards. Some of the best examples illustrating this pattern of retaliation against dissent come from FDA and manufacturer responses to criticisms of pharmaceutical drugs." - 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.)

"Hillmer's sales tactics had not been aggressive like those of a promoter of vacation time shares. Instead, her approach had been far more subtle but quite effective. After Sanofi's insomnia class, I stopped at the local Hy-Vee supermarket for a soft drink for the drive back to my parents' farm, which was two hours south. I parked next to a large sign that said, fill your prescriptions at your friendly hy-vee. Inside, I walked down the liquor aisle to get to the pharmacy, where employees had laid out free copies of a glossy magazine." - 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.)

"But there will be many times when you will be eating out—at friends' homes, in restaurants—and also many occasions like parties and holidays that require certain tactics to enable you to stick to your healthy lifestyle. We'll provide LifePlan tips for each of those situations. Building a SuperFoodsRx-friendly meal-anywhere, anytime Let's begin with a general rule that will be true for dining in restaurants, during travel and at parties." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"These prevention tactics are all the more important because, once your child has asthma, she's more likely to develop not just other allergies, but a range of different health problems as well. "Everything is interlinked," Dr. Manny Alvarez told me. "An asthmatic kid can't go to school, can't exercise and play with his friends in the backyard, so he's not burning calories. So what does he do? He opens up a bottle of soda, and he eats, and he watches cartoons." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Despite his hard-sell tactics, I declined to purchase them, explaining that I was a journalist, not a retailer. "Ah." He shrugged. "In that case, let me show you something special." From under his table, he took out an apple that had been imprinted with an elaborate, embroidered scene of an upright man lifting a woman onto his phallus. It was like something out of the Illustrated Kama Sutra. Seeing that I was taking notes about it, he started playfully calling me names: "Oh, la vachel P'titcochon! Salaud! Gourmand!" (Cow! Piglet! Bastard! Glutton!" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Such strong-arm tactics have long dominated international trade. America is the world's leading food exporter, selling 40 billion dollars' worth of agricultural exports a year—funded by 20 billion dollars of taxpayer subsidies. Many of these crops are indigenous to countries that now find it cheaper to buy them from the United States rather than to grow their own. Wheat, for example, originates in Iraq—but now America sells it to them. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The meeting was held in Sydney, Australia, and happened to coincide with the 2000 Olympic games. With tactics like this, it is hardly surprising that companies manage to gain the allegiance of influential doctors. Besides the talks and formal lectures, drug companies also work hard to draw doctors into an environment where they are predisposed to be agreeable—be it a convenient lunch or a luxury resort." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The army that had slaughtered Leo's expedition had, in the intervening seventy years, not merely failed to adopt the tactics that Belisarius's cavalry had learned fighting the Huns and Persians; they had also gone soft. From the moment that the Romans landed in North Africa, Procopius encountered and recorded examples of what he must have tegarded as the corrupting effects of civilization, beginning with the historian's surprised admiration for the Vandals' beautifully cultivated fruit ttees at Grasse—today Sidi Khalifa, and still famous for its gardens." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "By the time Theodoric Strabo died, in 481, the younger Theodoric had "survived the greatest crisis of his career,"'8 learning, along the way, the tactics that would earn him the appellation the Great. Part of that greatness, to be sure, is the beautified version of Theodoric's life and ancestry bequeathed to subsequent generations by Jordanes's Getica, based as it was on the work of the Ostrogothic king's house panegyrist, Cassiodorus. Even so, the facts about Theodoric's life after 481, and the regard in which he was held by other contemporaneous historians, are impressive enough." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The third century restructuring of imperial defense had done far more to change the army's sttategic organization than its tactics. Through the thitd and fourth centuries, heavily armored infantty remained the predominant arm of the Roman military, though the fife-power of the legions, as they wete still known, had been significantly increased by the addition of archers and slingers. Though foot soldiers are the most conservative of men, the legionnaires' equipment did change with a view to meeting the challenges of war with barbarians who had themselves changed over the centuries." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"As a result of such tactics, scientists and physicians are often reluctant to publicize their concerns. There are avoidable exposures to carcinogens that the public never learns about, and that the industry is able to suppress, because the FDA never points out dangers in cosmetics and personal care products independent of the industry itself. The key player in this process is the industry's trade association." - 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.)

"Among the tactics employed by Warner-Lambert were false claims about Neurontin's efficacy and its approval for off-label uses. According to the Department of Justice, "medical liaisons" were hired who "represented themselves (often falsely) as scientific experts in a particular disease." To promote off-label uses of Neurontin, Warner-Lambert also paid doctors to attend expensive dinners and events, such as trips to Hawaii, Florida, and the Atlanta Olympics. The investigation of Warner-Lambert was initiated by a Dr. David P." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"As our species has evolved, our physical skills have developed into abstract abilities to predict, sequence, estimate, plan, rehearse, observe ourselves, judge, correct mistakes, shift tactics, and then remember everything we did in order to survive. The brain circuits that our ancient ancestors used to start a fire are the same ones we use today to learn French. Take the cerebellum, which coordinates motor movements and allows us to do everything from returning a tennis serve to resisting the pull of gravity." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"As for restaurants in unfamiliar locales, use the same tactics while traveling that you use at home: try to call ahead and let the chef or maitre d' know what kind of meal you will need. You will doubtless come up with strategies of your own. My patient Anthony Yen, who travels far and wide on business, has shown particular ingenuity over his twenty-plus years on the program. Among other things, he put together a set of cards that request— in a variety of languages—plant-based food that contains no oil." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"These cells know that they will eventually die, too, once their final survival tactics fail to keep the body alive. To understand cancer and treat it more successfully than we currently do, we may have to radically alter our currently held views about it. We may also have to ask what its purpose is in the body and why the immune system fails to stop it from spreading. It is just not good enough to claim that cancer is an autoimmune disease that is out to kill the body. Such a notion (of the body trying to commit suicide) goes against the core principles of physical life." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "If it were not forced to use cancer growth as one of its last survival tactics, the body would not opt for this final attempt at self-preservation—final, because it could very well fail in its attempt to survive against the odds. As mentioned before, most tumors (about 90-95%) appear and disappear completely on their own, without any medical intervention. Millions of people walk around with cancers in their body and will never know they had them. There is no cancer treatment that can even remotely compete with the body's own healing mechanism, which we unfortunately label as disease." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Even more indicative of the modernizers' tactics is the testimony of Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. King, Sanitary Commissioner to the Government in Madras. King praised Gopalacharlu's 'special knowledge of ancient Hindu medicine' and Sanskrit texts, then noted that, 'at his request I have examined the dispensary at which he works': I consider the whole arrangements reflect much credit upon himself and the committee concerned... Personally I am no believer in 'systems', but consider that science can gather fruit from the tree of experience in whatever soil it grows." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Gradually a set of selling tactics emerged that came to be known among industry insiders as the blockbuster model. The recipe goes something like this: Focus your money and marketing efforts on drugs for chronic illnesses or problems like heartburn, cholesterol, and depression. The most profitable of these medicines are taken every day and don't cure illness. They only treat symptoms. Each patient on these once-a-day pills, like a smoker hooked on cigarettes or a coffee lover addicted to espresso, becomes an annuity, paying the company handsomely for years." - 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.) "Witnesses described one case after another in which the companies had lavished physicians with gifts and cash or manipulated the public's impression of their products through secretive public relations tactics. The star witness at the hearing was David C. Jones, a former executive with Ciba Geigy and later at Abbott Laboratories. Mr. Jones had been a vice president at Abbott when he left the company in 1986 because of marketing practices he said he found "untenable." - 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.)

"This is a public advocacy group, and in keeping with that credential it is predisposed to aggressive language, if not tactics. But they do their homework and are a worthy source of information. Fairfield and Fletcher (2002) reviewed the scientific literature exploring the effects of vitamin supplementation on chronic disease prevention in adults. The review is outstanding and both reiterated and updated in an nih "State- of-the-Science" conference (Huang et al. 2006)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"To strengthen the spiritual dimension of your Blue Zone, try these tactics. Be more involved. If you already belong to a religious community, take a more active role in the organization. The longevity-enhancing effect may be a function of how you attend rather than the fact that you just attend. Getting involved in activities like singing in the choir or volunteering might enhance well-being and possibly reduce mortality. Explore a new tradition. If you don't have a particular religious faith, commit to trying a new faith community." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "LOMA LINDA'S BLUE ZONE SECRETS Try these tactics practiced by America's longevity alt-stars. Find a sanctuary in time. A weekly break from the rigors of daily life, the 24-hour Sabbath provides a time to focus on family, God, camaraderie, and nature. Adventists claim this relieves their stress, strengthens social networks, and provides consistent exercise. Maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI)." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Most people might quit an effort if there is the slightest problem or if another ophthalmologist or optometrist uses scare tactics against them. If this happens, they will quit the effort and blame the optometrist for anything that might happen with their eyes. There is scant incentive for optometrists to attempt to help the general public for that reason. 119 Many in the health professions judge that they have no choice but to apply a minus lens (with a few exceptions)." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"What concerns me is the intimidation tactics that a school can use to coerce a parent to drug their child. The question is raised, what will happen to the parent without the financial means to combat these tactics? If I didn't have family members who were willing to financially back my son and I in my son's cause, it is entirely possible that my son would have ended up in a psychiatric ward. Today, Michael is doing fine. He has been off drugs for 9 months and is once again a happy, outgoing boy. He is in a private school, and I also home school him." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"The 1920s saw the spread of "boiler rooms" and "bucket shops" that actively sold stocks to the public using the telephone, employing questionable tactics that easily slipped past ineffective "blue-sky" legislation at the level of the states. The proliferation of telephones undoubtedly made it easier to sell stocks to the public, and the resulting impetus to fraud helped bring the country to the point of enacting the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the Securities and Exchange Commission." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"What are the tactics and strategies against the natural products? " Ulrich Sommer: "There are more and more restrictions on nutritional supplements. Restrictions originally were very different from country to country. Today there is a tendency towards globalization, which seeks to include countries that had fewer restrictions like The Netherlands, England and the United States. In the USA there are even efforts to forbid giving testimonials." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Same tactics, different times. The intent of conventional medicine today is identical to that of the slave owners in years past: To control and exploit the people for their own profits, and to do so through any means necessary, including censorship, oppression, and tyranny. These are not casual accusations. All of these statements will be irrefutably supported throughout this book. By the time you finish this book, you will bear witness to the kind of information that, if widely circulated, could actually help bring an end to this modern medical regime." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"As a result of numerous complaints and bad public relations resulting from their advertising and high-pressure sales tactics, the company has been forced to make some positive changes over the years. The problem is that the original business model for Bally Total Fitness was designed more like a finance company than a fitness company. It was based on selling long-term contractual memberships with high interest rates and few options for getting out of the contract. Memberships are advertised with extremely low enrollment and monthly dues." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) "It gives you the behind-the-scenes knowledge and inside scoop of the tactics companies in the health and fitness industries use to manipulate you into buying their product or taking their pills — most of which do not work, and often do more harm than good. This is powerful stuff. It is protection against companies that want one thing from you—your money — and could care less whether your ailment, disease or condition is resolved." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

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