Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device
Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. |
Dawson Church
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 An act is initiated before we decide to perform it!"10 He goes on to say, "Man is not primarily conscious. Man is primarily nonconscious. The idea of a conscious T as housekeeper of everything that comes in and goes out of one is an illusion; perhaps a useful one, but still an illusion."11
Brad Blanton, Ph.D., in his book RadicalHonesty, applies Libet's work to practical psychotherapy12 He points out that the half-second delay means that the mind thinks up rationalizations to explain what we did—after we already decided to do it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Or maybe I'll go to the poker table, have the dealer toss me ten cards, and then I'll decide which five cards I want to be in my hand! It sure would be nice to be able to cherry pick the results I want to "count" after the fact, wouldn't it?
That's what Merck is doing with this study: It's decided what data to choose after all the cards are on the table!
Now, I don't know what your definition of the Scientific Method is, but most people agree it goes something like this:
1. First, you define the goal of the study and declare what you're going to measure.
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James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 T-cells that judge and decide whether the evidence is friendly or dangerous
?B-cells that police your body and make antibodies
?D-cells that present evidence and decide on tolerance or attack
When vitamin D suppresses D-cell maturation during immune system development, it's playing a key role in creating tolerance and friendly recognition of self. During your adulthood, D beefs up your ability to ward off infections by enhancing your production of antimicrobial proteins (especially in D-cells).
Vitamin D acts as your immune system's noise filter. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How do you decide what's better: A conventional apple grown locally with chemical pesticides, or an organic apple from another continent?
This is a common conundrum among consumers: How do you decide which grocery products are best for not just your own personal health, but also the health of the planet? It's a more complex decision than it might first seem. For one thing, much of the information necessary to make an informed decision simply isn't available to consumers. |
Dawson Church
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| In his funny, provocative, and oft-quoted book The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size, Danish science writer Tor Norretranders, explaining Libet's work, says, "The show starts before we decide it should! An act is initiated before we decide to perform it!"10 He goes on to say, "Man is not primarily conscious. Man is primarily nonconscious. The idea of a conscious T as housekeeper of everything that comes in and goes out of one is an illusion; perhaps a useful one, but still an illusion."11
Brad Blanton, Ph.D. |
| Yet many people are able to decide, before they go to bed, exactly what time they will wake up.
Like many travelers, I set my internal alarm clock when I'm on a trip. I decide when I want to wake up each morning just before dropping off to sleep. When I wake up and look at the clock, I'm usually within a few minutes of my target time. If I want to then sleep some more, I'll say to myself, "I'll wake up fully in twenty minutes"—and usually I will. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 When you do decide to eat out, be sure to determine in advance that you are going to make wise food choices and keep on track with your weight-loss program. Choosing a restaurant wisely and knowing what is on the restaurant's menu can help you decide what you are going to eat before you arrive and are tempted and begin to be influenced by all of the wonderful aromas. In addition, remember to always try to spoil your appetite by eating something healthy or taking PGX before you get to the restaurant to avoid being overly tempted to choose the higher calorie menu items. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 We must have the integrity to tell them the truth and let them decide what to do with it. We cannot force them to follow the guidelines we recommend, but we can give them these guidelines and then let them decide. I personally have great faith in the public. We must tell them that a diet of roots, stems, seeds, flowers, fruit, and leaves is the healthiest diet and the only diet we can promote, endorse, and recommend."6
Following the conference, I prepared a summary that was ultimately approved by ten of the thirteen faculty participants. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| You the jurors now need to decide upon the preponderance of evidence presented.
1. What role did each "criminal" play in the demise of the victim(s) of diabetes (chronic disease sufferers)?
2. What role are you willing to accept in remedying the situation? Will bringing a verdict of guilty suffice? Or do you feel a need to participate in the remedy in a more active manner? Are you willing to step outside the "courtroom" and join others who feel that it will take more than a guilty verdict to right the wrongs that have been leveled against the victims?
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| And from a host of "might-be" culprits, you will have to use your innate moral consciousness to help decide who is criminal. Ethics and morality will be stretched due to the complicated nature of modern-day life. Justice becomes more than righting a wrong; and the way to achieve it rests collectively with society. The solution is neither easy nor final.. .perhaps not even possible. Identifying yourself as a victim in this mystery, though, should aid in its resolution.
If you are up to the challenge, perhaps you, like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, can solve this mystery All help is appreciated. |
Devra Davis
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 With chilling enthusiasm, physicians eagerly took charge of devising a system that would decide who would live or die or be allowed to reproduce. How they went about doing this, what criteria were used, how mistakes were to be avoided—all this was up to the individuals charged with the task. Under the sway accorded medical science at the time, clinical credentials per se proved that those who held such positions merited trust. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| I am asking you, dear reader, to become a juror, and to decide if the harm or death caused by this "fulfillment of a corporate mission" should be regarded as assault and battery, manslaughter, negligent homicide, murder, or premeditated murder.
Maybe it is time we hold these criminals accountable for their deeds! Do not let criminals hide behind corporate or government deniability.
Chapter 1 The Victims (Opening remarks)
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. - Dr. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 A woman might decide to see a licensed healthcare practitioner because she needs a breast exam or wants to determine the exact nature of her breast pain/tenderness or lumps. The practitioner will ask about her symptoms as well as other pertinent factors in her medical history and will perform a physical examination.
If the practitioner considers it necessary, she or he might recommend a mammogram and/or ultrasound to determine the nature of a specific lump and may encourage aspiration of a mass to determine whether it is cystic or solid. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 If you decide to eat a mixture of organic and conventionally grown produce, here are the best vegetables and fruits to buy organic, because otherwise they're found consistently contaminated with pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group:
¦ Apples ¦ Peaches n Bell peppers » Pears
« Celery s Potatoes
« Cherries ¦ Red raspberries b Imported grapes Spinach
Nectarines > Strawberries
Stop SUGAR SHOCK! to Lose Weight
Sugar Kickers around the world say that kicking sweets and refined carbs peeled off pounds like no other diet they've undertaken. |
| Determine why you're so sugar obsessed right now. a decide to respect yourself. Now ignore your "cravings." Watch them subside, and then give yourself nonfood treats.
Delight that you've said no! Really relish your joy, relief, and pride that you successfully took control over your destructive habit.
Use the powerful, effective "Six Ds" over and over again—all throughout the hour, day, week, and so on. You can even choose a different "D" to focus on every day.
12. H.A.L.T.
While doing the Six Ds, you also can inwardly holler, "H.A.L.T.! |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Why did the framers of our Constitution decide to declare our independence from England? Corporations were ruling the colonies for George III. Taxing the colonists, sending their monies to England, and allowing them no voice in the process left the colonists feeling like indentured servants. This was one of the reasons our Founding Fathers did not extend to corporations the rights given to individuals.1
Today's pharmaceutical corporations are demanding the rights of personhood while insisting that their corporatehood allows them deniability for harm done. |
Devra Davis
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| Different rules have been developed in science to decide when a specific relationship between any two things can be considered to be proven or evident, and who is responsible for informing people of a suspected hazard. At this point, the absence of epidemiological proof of harm is taken by many to mean that no harm exists. In fact, what it mostly tells us is that proof is hard to come by and may not be achievable at all. Once a hazard is identified, there are no clear rules about who is responsible for conveying this information to the public. |
Ann N. Martin
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 I would leave it to the discretion of pet owners or their veterinarian to decide if milk can be added to the animal's diet.
There is no doubt that a homemade diet, although time consuming, can add years to the life of your pets and save you a great deal of money in veterinary bills. Shawn Messonnier, author of numerous books on pet health, including The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats, writes, "When it comes to feeding pets, dog and cat owners have two choices: prepare a fresh diet at home, or feed a processed food. |
| If you decide to feed your animal companions commercial pet foods that do not use human grade ingredients, then read the labels. And even then, buyer beware.
Deciphering Pet Food Labels
Pet food labels can be deceiving—they only provide half the story. The other half of the story is hidden behind obscure ingredients listed on the label. Even conscientious consumers couldn't possibly detect the hidden ingredients that can be legally put in pet food, because only about half the actual contents of the pet food are listed on the label due to minimal legal regulations. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| EMBRACE THE "SIX Ds": DELAY, DISTANCE, DISTRACT, DECODE, decide, AND DELIGHT.
Your well-meaning coworker keeps asking you if you want a donut, and you're close to caving in. Yes, you want one now! Acknowledge and own up
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O-LO to the feeling. Then let the the "Six Ds" come to the rescue. Before you succumb to temptation . . .
« Delay! Drink a glass of water and then delay for 15 minutes. Then delay a half hour. Chances are that the craving will pass.
Distance! Make an escape! |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| As we discuss what is going on in the Fourth Estate, we need to decide if this industry—comprised of a handful of corporations — has the duty to print or broadcast information about carnage occurring right here in our homeland. Further, is it their responsibility to investigate such activities and expose them to the American public in an unbiased manner?
A few newspaper reporters, e.g., David Willman of the L.A. Times2 and Jeff Swiatek of the Indianapolis Star, have done some good investigative journalism, drawing attention to drugs that entered the marketplace despite known dangers. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| In fact, if the trend continues, both attorneys and lawmakers may decide to take a closer look (if they haven't already) at the part corporations may play in harming the health of our citizens with their nutrient-deprived food products.
Some industry observers insist that when food corporations bombard would-be, unsuspecting customers with sensual, pleasurable images or messages about cereals, fast foods, cookies, candies, chips, ice cream, and other junk foods, they may be to blame because, in a way, they're thwarting people's sense of personal responsibility and choice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even if you decide to undergo surgery (and there are many surgical procedures that have been proven to be largely unjustified, such as coronary bypass surgery, so make your decision carefully), you can take steps to speed your recovery even before you go under the knife. Good nutrition and supplementation helps ensure that small wounds heal quickly. Healthy immune systems also protect you from infection. In addition, the following herbs and supplements are well known for helping the body heal more quickly following surgery or trauma. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Whether churches are allowed to continue practicing religious freedom is now left up to corrupt FDA "experts" who can decide, on a whim, to outlaw any religious object, liquid or oil by regulating them as drugs or medical devices. In other words, it is now the FDA, not God, that grants permission to conduct religious ceremony in the United States. And the FDA believes it overrides God.
Importantly, the idea of "faith" does not stand up to the FDA's so-called scientific scrutiny. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 If you decide to run 5 miles at a brisk pace, you will mainly use glycogen, while walking slowly primarily uses free fatty acids (and some glycogen as well, but not very much).
To best improve insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake by muscle cells, you should focus on exercise that stresses the glycogen system.
Effect on Metabolic Syndrome
Physical activity has an impact on the other factors that are part of insulin resistance—blood pressure, triglyceride levels, and HDL cholesterol levels. |
Mark Sircus
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 Though chelation is a big subject, the following will give you a general overview so that you can compare several chelation protocols to help you decide what is best for you with the main options being either the natural route or synthetic drugs that themselves contribute to the toxicity of the body.
The Golden Triangle of Natural Chelation
After discovering that the pristine environments of the world have vanished we now have discovered too late that the same thing has happened to our blood streams and thus cell environments in our bodies. |
Mike Adams
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 When his parents decided to find an alternative treatment option for Hodgkin's disease his parents were thrown in jail for exercising their right to choose treatment and supporting their son's decision to decide what happens to his body.
Abraham Cherrix continues to fight the state for control of his own body in one of the most important cases of 2006.
State-sponsored medical terrorism
Consider the case of medical terrorism that happened in Texas when state medical authorities kidnapped a 13-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes. |
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