Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Beyond the goodwill they seek by connecting with professional health organizations, sports enterprises (e.g., Pepsi Center in Denver, NASCAR sponsorships, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl), and world events like the Olympics, they make campaign contributions, support powerful lobbying groups, and use their political muscle in many ways.
In addition, the industry is employing a number of strategies when it perceives legislative, regulatory, and public relations threats. We will list the main arguments and give our response to each. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 While aspartame gets the overwhelming stamp of approval from government agencies and health organizations around the world, the safety of aspartame has been strongly challenged. Doing a simple Internet search for "dangers of aspartame," will give you some idea of the extent of the controversy.
Anti-aspartame activists claim that "aspartame kills," and that complaints against aspartame constitute 75 percent of all additive-related complaints to the FDA department of consumer complaints. They warn consumers that methanol (wood alcohol) makes up 10 percent of aspartame and is highly toxic. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Because sugar is devoid of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and has such a deteriorating effect on the endocrine system, major researchers and major health organizations (American Dietetic Association and American Diabetic Association) agree that sugar consumption in America is one of the three major causes of degenerative disease." The rise in type 2 diabetes cases in young people is so great that experts are calling it an "emerging epidemic. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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| Prominent health organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, and the American Dietetics Association also support saccharin's safety. Among the voices against lifting the saccharin warning on labels has been the nonprofit food watchdog agency Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CSPI charged that the favorable evaluation of saccharin was "unscientific" because about half of the twenty-six-member review committee was tied to industry. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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| Department of Agriculture created a program called "Healthy School Nutrition Environments" in conjunction with several health organizations. Claiming that nutrition should be a priority in every school, the group pointed out that students "are flunking healthy eating." þOnly 2 percent of youth meet all the recommendations of the food guide pyramid; 16 percent do not meet any. þFewer than 15 percent to 20 percent of schoolchildren get adequate servings of fruits and vegetables. þOnly 16 percent of children meet the guidelines for saturated fat. |
Robert Hass, M.S.
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 I do object, however, to the recommendations made by national health organizations to consume several servings of dairy foods each day. You can get all the calcium you need from vegetables, especially legumes, soy foods, and soy beverages—as well as from calcium supplements, if your doctor advises you to take them.
Cow's milk takes a backseat to soy milk and soy cocktails on the Permanent Remissions plan for two important reasons:
1. When you replace cow's milk with soy milk, cholesterol levels decline, especially in those people with the highest blood levels.
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the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
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 They also lack some of the other nutrients you need. Most health organizations, including the American Heart Association and the American Dietetic Association, recommend avoiding high-protein diets. r
A word of caution
Don't let worries about your weight lead you to drink alcohol — it's high in calories. As a matter of fact, an ounce of alcohol, the amount in an average drink, has about 130 calories, almost the same as half an ounce of fat.
Alcohol also slows down your ability to burn stored body fat. And it may even lead to the storage of fat in the "beer belly," where it is most dangerous. |
| Most health organizations recommend getting between 25 and 35 grams of fiber into your daily diet. You certainly don't have to get it all from oat bran. Other good sources of soluble fiber include barley, beans, oatmeal, apples, and other fruits and vegetables.
Unsaturated fats. Trimming fat from your diet helps trim your cholesterol levels — but don't go overboard. Like some kinds of cholesterol, certain fats actually help you. Some even lower LDL cholesterol.
Monounsaturated fat wipes out bad LDL cholesterol without harming good HDL cholesterol. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 If there were an American Salt Reduction Council, you would have seen television commercials about it, but, of course, no industry benefits directly from reductions in salt (sodium chloride) intake. When health organizations make diet tec-ommendations, they prefer to emphasize what people can add to their diets rather than what people might omit because industry groups complain vigorously when their products are criticized.
Sometimes they complain very loudly. |
| Calcium Depleters
• Animal protein
• Caffeine
• Excess phosphorus (sodas, animal products)
• Sodium (animal products, canned or snack foods)
• Tobacco
• Sedentary lifestyle healthy calcium sources
Some health organizations have promoted high calcium intakes in recent years, typically eight hundred milligrams per day or more. They are trying to make up for the extraordinary calcium losses caused by animal protein, phosphorus, caffeine, sodium, tobacco, and other factors. It does not work very well. |
Paul Pitchford
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 Although several national health organizations recommend 20%, a balanced vegetarian diet will often contain about 10% fat, based on caloric intake. Within limits, appropriate con-
*Both proteins and carbohydrates yield four calories per gram, whereas fat provides nine calories per gram.
Oils and Fats sumption of fat, like any nutrient, varies with the individual. In general, it is the upper limit that is overstepped. A high-fat diet promotes tumors, cancers, obesity, heart disease, gall bladder and liver disorders, and may contribute to diabetes, among other degenerative conditions. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 The coalition, which has attracted the support of about 120 groups (including consumer, public interest, labor, health providers, health planning and voluntary health organizations, pollution control equipment manufacturers, and religious bodies), is hiring a small permanent staff and has set up a Washington-based information center as the focus of its activities. |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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| One might wonder why two health organizations would jump simultaneously to defend a genetically engineered drug that has no health benefit, does not improve milk in any way, and was marketed only to help dairy farmers get more milk per unit of feed. The relationships are at least partly financial. Monsanto Corporation, a major BGH manufacturer, made a grant of $30,000 for an AMA television program "educating" consumers on BGH. Monsanto also kicked in $80,000 to the American Dietetic Association for a consumer hotline giving out positive information on BGH.
This should not be too surprising. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| But some are major health organizations and medical facilities who are offering information your doctor may not know about unless he's been working hard to stay abreast of new developments in medicine.
By accessing this information yourself, you'll learn the downside and hidden dangers of some medications and treatments, knowledge that can mean the difference between life and death but which your doctor may not be aware of or will forget to tell you in his haste to railroad you through the assembly line most medical offices now operate. j>
Getting onto the Internet has never been easier. |
| This loosely knit group is comprised of health researchers, renegade doctors, and independent health organizations.
This unorganized "underground" movement of alternate medicine and treatments offers not just cheaper treatments for many diseases, it also sometimes offers more effective treatments for diseases and conditions. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 While most medical and health organizations, as well as the U.S. government, have recommended that no more than ten percent of a person's total caloric intake be derived from refined sugars that are added to foods, added sugar accounts for roughly thirty percent of the total calories consumed by most Americans.10 The average American consumes over 100 pounds of sucrose and 40 pounds of corn syrup each year. This sugar addiction plays a major role in the high prevalence of poor health and chronic disease in the United States. |
the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
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| Unfortunately, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, and other health organizations advise against it.
An initial drop in weight is common with a high-protein diet, but it's due primarily to water loss. These diets don't work very well in the long run — nor do they build muscles as they claim. Most important, they can be dangerous, increasing your risk of heart disease, kidney and artery damage, and bone loss.
While most high-protein foods contain plenty of vitamin B12 and iron, they are low in other vitamins and minerals. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Less than ten years ago, major health organizations were actively propagandizing against the early inklings that nutrition might be important in cancer prevention. With storerooms full of such outdated literature, it's no wonder that most organizations haven't been in a hurry to change their tune. Some of these groups also have a big investment in the idea that the answer to cancer will be found in the form of a cure. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| While most medical and health organizations, as well as the US Government, have recommended that no more than 10% of the total caloric intake be derived from refined sugars that are added to foods, added sugar accounts for roughly 30% of the total calories consumed by most Americans.12 The average American consumes over 100 pounds of sucrose and 40 pounds of corn syrup each year. This sugar addiction plays a major role in the high prevalence of ill health and chronic disease in the US. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 By 1944, at a time when the American Society for the Control of Cancer itself had 986 members, the Women's Field Army had over a million members and was already "one of the most important health organizations in the history of the United States" (ibid.: 154). The blue-blooded Society members fretted over this development.
At the same time, orthodox medicine appeared to be losing ideological control of the cancer field. New and innovative treatments sprang up all over the country. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| There are only a few instances in which holistic health organizations have been able to effectively influence legislative and cultural organizations to implement healthful laws and policies. The holistic health movement must join with other holistically oriented organizations to become an active force in the political process.
It is our collective experience of healing that will ultimately form the basis of an effective program in holistic health and medicine. I invite you to participate with us in this process. |
Marion Nestle
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 Because dietary advice affects sales, food companies also conduct systematic, pervasive, and unrelenting—but far less apparent—campaigns to convince government officials, health organizations, and nutrition professionals that their products are healthful or harmless, to undermine any suggestion to the contrary, and to ensure that federal dietary guidelines and food guides will help promote sales. |
| As part of this effort, Nestle formed alliances with other formula manufacturers and with national and international health organizations in industrialized and developing countries. Along the way, it gathered intelligence reports on advocacy groups, suppressed public discussions of the issue, and worked to exclude critics from decision-making processes.30
Its most effective public relations maneuver, however, was to create and fund the Nestle Infant Formula Audit Commission (NIFAC) to collect and evaluate complaints about the company's potential violations of the Code. |
John Robbins
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 This diet has been denounced by all of the leading scientific organizations, including government health organizations, and all of the major universities and medical journals, that have commented on it. (Noting the many ways D'Adamo has found to make money from his program, one satirical critic called it the "Eat Right for My Tax-Bracket" diet. |
| Impartial researchers and nonprofit public health organizations such as the World Health Organization, the American Institute for Cancer Research, the American Heart Association, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the National Cancer Institute, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, however, have a different perspective.
It can get contentious. . . .
Is that so?
"[It's a] myth [that] people who eat vegetarian diets are healthier than people who eat meat. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| The permanent approval given Red #40 by the FDA in 1971 contradicted its own guidelines, endorsed by several worldwide health organizations, that food additives should be tested for carcinogenicity in at least two animal species. In 1974, an expert committee of the World Health Organization refused to grant even temporary approval for the dye, "as only very limited information is available."15 Not surprisingly, the dye has not been approved for use in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Italy, Israel, France, Austria, United Kingdom, or Australia. |
William Evans, Ph.D., and Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., with Jacqueline Thompson
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 In early 1990, a panel representing a broad coalition of American health organizations and government agencies issued a strongly worded report urging all Americans to reduce the fat content of their diets from an average of 37 percent to less than 30 percent of daily calorie intake, predicting that if Americans follow the directive, there could eventually be a 20 percent reduction in heart disease.
We're happy to report that the massive public cholesterol education campaign is working. Actually, it's been working for the last two decades. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| This negativism to critical preventive health legislation, which has generally been enacted in spite of rather than because of the society and other voluntary health organizations, aroused the unfavorable comments of Congressman Paul Rogers (D-Fla.) in an address to the Third National Conference on Health Policies on May 22, 1978:
I regret that this legislation was adopted with little or no help from groups or individuals involved with health care. |
Peggy O'Mara
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 Concerned parents have to seek it out in medical reference books, in several books on the subject, and in newsletters and pamphlets distributed by ad hoc groups and alternative health organizations. If you have time to read only one book, read Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher's DPT: A Shot in the Dark (New York: Harcourt Brace lovanovich, 1985), a remarkable work that blends personal stories with solid scientific research and reporting. Remember, however, that all information provided by either side has to be taken with a grain of salt. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| For decades, the major national voluntary health organizations and expert committees have stressed the role of diet as a controllable risk factor in preventing disease. Diet plays a significant role in the risk of developing such chronic health problems as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
The first group to focus on a specific disease with respect to diet was the American Heart Association. In the early 1960s, they proposed a set of dietary guidelines to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. |
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