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"Their studies consistently find people to be less willing to accept risks induced by technology, those poorly understood by science, and those subject to contradictory statements from experts. The more such value-based factors characterize a particular risk, the more the risk generates feelings of anxiety, alarm, dread, and outrage. In fact, risk communication researchers rank such factors on a predictable scale of dread and outrage." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"We split our focus because we have to, because all this technology allows us to multitask, and because the huge volume of work that we are expected to do in our many roles demands it. Despite technology's claim to make life easier and more efficient, many of us find ourselves more hectic, hurried, and harried. And when we aren't hard at work, today's multimedia environment—with its endless array of cell phones, portable music and video players, electronic games, and home entertainment centers—provides all of us with a continuous stream of distractions." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Our research center was the first in the world to utilize a remarkable new technology as a tool for understanding the increased appetite and frequent food cravings so typical of individuals who are struggling with their weight, and to then use this technology in helping overweight and obese people succeed in their weight-loss efforts. The technology, known as the continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) from Medtronic MiniMed, has provided an amazing window through which we can view an overweight person's blood sugar on a continuous basis." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"RESEARCH "Nanotechnology," which has become somewhat of a technology buzzword in the past decade, refers to the study of materials and devices that operate at the nanoscale. In the metric system, "nano" equals a billionth and, therefore, a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. To appreciate the size, a human red blood cell is over 2,000 nanometers long. A picometer is even smaller—only one tenth of an already miniscule nano!" - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"At a meeting late in zooo, I heard an official of the EPA say—unfortunately not for direct quotation—that Aventis had worked hard to lobby the White House Office of Science and technology Policy, the State Department, and the FDA, USDA, and EPA during the months prior to the taco shell disclosure in an effort to convince federal officials that StarLink was not going to cause safety problems." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"While the hot-selling technology companies held little more than a promise of sales in the future, the drug companies were succeeding in real time, making profits at more than twice the rate of the broader market, a feat they had accomplished for two decades. They weren't the high-risk technology companies they claimed to be. They made money even when the economy turned sour. Selling medicines was an odd business. Disease meant money. Suffering brought profit." - 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.)

"Furthermore, irradiation companies are using the anthrax scare of fall 2001 (discussed in the concluding chapter) to "do something they've been unable to do themselves: sell consumers on their controversial germ-zapping technology."32 Even if consumers do opt to buy irradiated foods, the process is unlikely to solve food safety problems." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Yet too often physicians prescribe oral antidiabetes drugs made with "old" technology, which raise insulin levels in the blood regardless of blood sugar levels. The use of drugs that indiscriminately raise insulin levels is not ideal. These old-technology drugs are called sulfonylureas, and we discuss them in more depth in chapter 10. Our approach to the treatment of prediabetes and early-stage type 2 diabetes is to improve insulin resistance and beta-cell function through an integrated, scientifically sound program that includes the following: ?" - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"He referred to the mechanical wizardry available in vascular disease— the angioplasties and bypass procedures—as "halfway technology." A mechanical approach to a metabolic, biochemical epidemic, he argued, was not the answer. Dr. Thomas further cautioned that there would be a moral and ethical challenge to physicians down the road: to relinquish this halfway technology in favor of simpler, safer metabolic and biochemical cures. The time is now. The weight of scientific evidence and public opinion, once the truth is known, will prevail." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"The cardiovascular surgery community has two powerful allies: it is supported by an enormously profitable, codependent, interventional cardiology industry, and it is such a darling of the lay press that seems wedded to applauding technology for technology's sake. As a result, an untenable clinical hypothesis has become a social construction. It is commonly believed, by physicians and the laity alike, that if a patient has angina, any putatively offending plaques must be circumvented." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"To succeed in developing countries, the technology must be transferred to locally grown varieties. The degree of acceptance by consumers is also a matter of concern. Preliminary surveys suggested that some people found the yellow color unattractive; they thought someone might have urinated on the rice. Scientists can remove the undesirable color by inserting the genes for the additional enzymes in the pathway to vitamin A (which is colorless), but these steps only add to the technical difficulties." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Many of us are not aging gracefully, and many of us are reaching our older age more burned out than our unliberated mothers, who didn't have the luxuries of career, family, and technology running them ragged. So we may live longer, but we have a good chance of suffering from Parkinson's, dementia, bone loss, or depression, not to mention bad skin and lots of body aches. It is estimated that in twenty years there will be more than one million people living longer than one hundred years." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The Power to Choose Is the Power to Change The prospect of relying on something within us to meet the challenges of our time, as opposed to depending on the science and technology of our outer world, can be a little unsettling for some people. "How do we learn to do something so powerful and so necessary?" is the question that often arises. It's usually followed by another: "If this is the way of the future, how do we learn now—and do so fast?" Perhaps both of these questions are best answered in the words of the 20th-century philosopher and poet Kahlil Gibran." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth. The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale—as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"You can't make vitamin D sitting next to a window in your home, your office, and your car because most modern glass technology blocks most UVB light. Wear a wide-brimmed hat and long sleeves and you get no D either. If casual sun exposure is defined as fifteen minutes of sun, three times a week year round, let's see how that fits into forty-eight days. 15 minutes/day X 3 days/week X 52 weeks/year = 2,340 minutes/48 days = 49 minutes/day About fifty minutes of sun exposure on each of the forty-eight days available may allow you to produce enough vitamin D." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "You won't see much difference in the D levels of people living in Florida and those from the northern United States simply because culture, urbanization, and technology have lured all of us indoors and out of the sun over the past quarter century. Moreover, the smog in large metropolitan areas decreases D production compared to rural areas at the same latitude. The casual sunlight exposure of today's urban lifestyle isn't enough to produce adequate amounts of vitamin D, no matter what your latitude. That's why the Vitamin D Cure is essential!" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Now Titusville's secondary schools have climbing walls, and the fitness centers are brimming with the latest training technology, most of it donated. The Cybex Trazer, for instance, is a brand-new device that looks like an upright computer station where students chase flashing lights. There are also cycling trainers, which allow kids to race one another on video screens or cue up routes from the Tour de France and compete with virtual Lance Armstrongs. McCord has also reached out to the community, opening the schools' fitness centers to members of the senior center." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"From the morning rituals that we go through to greet the world each day, to the inventions that we use to make our lives better, to the technology that destroys life through war—our personal routines, community customs, religious ceremonies, and entire civilizations are based on our beliefs. Not only do our beliefs provide the structure for the way we live our lives, now the same areas of study that have discounted our inner experiences in the past are showing us that the way we feel about the world around us is a force that extends into that world." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "In a series of essays written by experts in fields that range from global health and energy consumption to sustainable lifestyles, the general agreement is that we simply can't continue with the way we use energy, the direction of technology, and an ever-expanding population if we expect to survive another hundred years. Complicating all of these problems is the growing threat of a world war that is driven, at least in part, by the competition for the same disappearing resources that defined the essays. Perhaps the uniqueness of our time is best described by Harvard University biologist E. O." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"In the late 1950s, I was involved in research on kidney transplantation technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of technology. I had developed methods to freeze kidneys safely without the organs becoming physically damaged. This was considered a step forward in technology. Until this time, however, the function of the frozen kidneys was still compromised in rhe process, making them unusable as transplants. Transplantation technology was still rather primitive then." - Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain (Get the book.)

"Tandem mass spectrometry technology has increased the number of disorders that can be effectively screened [47]. An effective NBS program involves timely community-based collection of initial blood samples, laboratory TABLE 2 General Timeline for Collecting Newborn Screening (NBS) Samples Between Day 1 (birth) and Discharge ?Inform parents of NBS and their right to refuse for specific statutory reasons. ?Send sample to state lab within 24 hours of collection. Or ?If parents refuse screening (e.g., based on religious beliefs) obtain refusal signature before discharge." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Adoption of aberrant crypt foci (early morphological changes in colonic epithelium that are considered potential precursors of adenomatous polyps) as biomarkers in humans is an example of how improvements in technology have led to the adoption of a biomarker that until recently could only be used in animal studies. Development of magnifying endoscopes with improved resolution now allows investigators to monitor aberrant crypt foci in colon tissue samples from healthy humans [87]. IV." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Because the availability of the technology to measure genotypes in large studies is relatively new, there are few hypotheses related to the interaction of diet and genetics in cancer etiology that have been examined in numerous studies. Many questions have been examined in only a single study. This is a rapidly expanding field. With further development of the field, it will be possible to begin to identify the most consistent and important associations. At all times, it is important to examine findings critically and to look for consistent findings from well-conducted studies." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The development of microarray technology has provided the ability to analyze the expression profiles for thousands of genes in parallel [102, 103]. This technique will rapidly advance knowledge regarding the mechanisms by which nutrition and diet affect disease risk; however, its application in intact humans will still be limited by access to the tissue of interest and the capacity to detect small but relevant changes in gene expression in response to diet. VI. SUMMARY The use of biomarkers in humans is an integral component of nutrition intervention research." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"They weren't the high-risk technology companies they claimed to be. They made money even when the economy turned sour. Selling medicines was an odd business. Disease meant money. Suffering brought profit. When I interviewed the pharmaceutical executives, I often heard something like this: "Our respiratory business is doing extremely well, as is our cholesterol business. The depression business has performed better than expected. Parts of that business are really growing strongly. It is the migraine market that is the problem." - 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.) "In his talk, Dean Robillard called for new rewards for faculty who won industrial contracts, which the university referred to as technology transfers. According to the notes to his presentation, Dean Robillard said that in addition to the school's duty of taking care of Iowans' health, "we have also a responsibility in creating wealth." Some of the most lucrative industrial deals went to those university physicians who recruited Iowans for clinical trials in which medicines were tested in humans." - 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 more our technology advanced, the more did our ability to gather and process information. Progress fed back on itself in an ever-tightening spiral, increasing the pace at every turn. Ephemeralization Not only are we doing more, we are doing it with less and less—a process that Buckminster Fuller called "ephemeralization." The dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the largest of its time, took 5,000 tons of stone and forty years to build. Today we can build a carbon-fiber geodesic dome of the same size weighing only a few tons, and erect it in less than a week." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Advances in science, technology, communications, education, health care, and culture are all bound together in a multidimensional feedback loop. We are learning • Lewis Carroll faster, growing faster, moving faster, and changing faster. In one year, we experience more innovations than the Pharaohs did in a century. Looking to the future, one thing seems certain: whatever form development may take, its pace will continue to increase. New discoveries and new technologies will lead to further new abilities and new ways of changing the world. Creativity will continue to breed creativity." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

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