David R. Montgomery
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 During the most recent glaciation, large herds of reindeer, mammoth, wooly rhinoceroses, and giant elk roamed Europe's frozen plains. Ice covered Scandinavia, the Baltic coast, northern Britain, and most of Ireland. Treeless tundra stretched from France through Germany, on to Poland and across Russia. European forests shrank to a narrow fringe around the Mediterranean. Early Europeans lived through this frozen time by following and culling herds of large animals. Some of these species, notably wooly rhinos and giant elk, did not survive the transition to the postglacial climate. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Our diets and health are unfortunately largely controlled by three giant sectors and driving forces of the economy: food and agricultural corporations, including processed food giants; pharmaceutical companies; and the chemical and manufacturing industry, which aims to create unnaturally occurring products that may be superior in some ways to naturally occurring ones, yet incredibly harmful to humans in other ways. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Over many generations, Tikopians turned rheir world into a giant garden with an overstory of coconut and breadfruit trees and an understory of yams and giant swamp taro. Around the end of the sixteenth century, the island's chiefs banished pigs from their world because they damaged the all-important gardens.
In addition to their islandwide system of multistory orchards and fields, social adaptations sustained the Tikopian economy. Most important, the islanders' religious ideology preached zero population growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the same time, we have these giant retail giants like Wal-Mart who have noticed that the public wants organic food and they are willing to pay a premium price for it, so they and the other retail chain stores have moved with a vengeance to dominate the organic market. Wal-Mart is now the number-one seller of organic milk in the country. The problem is that the milk they are selling - Horizon Organic - is not really organic. It is coming from the factory-style dairy farms where the animals are kept in intensive confinement and have been imported from conventional farms as calves. |
Jack Challem
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 In the United States, the giant fast-food and soft drink companies compete for increased sales using marketing plans that resemble military battle plans. With the U.S. fast-food and soft drink markets now largely saturated, the giant food companies have worked to open new markets in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America where they can make greater financial gains.
The companies have succeeded in selling more and making more money—getting fat financially by making people fat and unhealthy. That's no better than how the cigarette companies marketed their products. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 I forgot it; you may never have known it; and giant food companies don't want you to know about it.
EVOLUTION OFTHE HUMAN DIET
The fossil record is undeniable: our distant ancestors added meat to their diet of leaves and fruit somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.6 million years ago. Just as we evolved as a species, so our diet evolved in response to social, climatic, and food-source changes. But let me assure you, this book is not about another "caveman" or Paleolithic diet. Remember, carnivores, because they eat meat, have shorter lives than herbivores. |
Joseph Campbell
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| And there lived at the bottom of this lake an ancient giant, Tegid the Bald, together with his wife, Caridwen. The latter, in one of her aspects, was a patroness of grain and fertile crops, and in another, a goddess of poetry and letters. She was the owner of an immense kettle and desired to prepare therein a brew of science and inspiration. With the aid of necromantic books she contrived a black concoction which she then set over a fire to brew for a year, at the end of which period three blessed drops should be obtained of the grace of inspiration. |
Devra Davis
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 Elmer Bobst was CEO of the New Jersey pharmaceutical giant Warner Chilcott and a major donor to the Republican party. Known as "Uncle Elmer" toTricia Nixon Cox, he would go on to engineer the nomination of Spiro Agnew to the vice presidency. Eventually he secured presidential backing for independent funding of the NCI.
As the ACS became a domain for titans of industry, the Field Army fell out of step. A largely volunteer network of amateurs and activists, its members said and did things that the ACS board found embarrassing. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Ralston Purina, the largest pet food manufacturer, made a decision in late 2001 to sell its pet food division to Swiss giant Nestle for a reported $10.3 billion. The company is now known as Nestle Purina Pet Care Center. (Previous purchases by Nestle include Carnation in 1985, which owned Friskies. And in 1994, Nestle had purchased the Alpo brand dog food.)
As a part of the sale, Nestle agreed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stipulation to sell Meow Mix and Alley Cat, (two dry foods made by Purina) to the Boston-based investment firm J.W Childs Equity Partners 11 L. |
| Colin Freeze reported, "Quebec rendering giant Sanimal, Inc. recently told its suppliers, including shelters across the province that put down pets, that bowing to consumer sensibilities, it will no longer accept the carcasses of domestic pets."10
Philip Lee-Shanok, a reporter from the Toronto Sun, reported, "The protein meal is sold to various pet food manufacturers and other animal feed companies. |
Devra Davis
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| During the war years, the Board was infiltrated by people who were determined that this organization was a sleeping giant. I suppose it started with one individual, Elmer Bobst, coming on board and saying, 'This has a great potential, let's get my friend, Mr. So and So, like Jim Adams.' . . . They got one of their friends after another on the Board. They were all people of tremendous gusto and enthusiasm and style, and most of them had a good deal of influence.29
By 1946, half the ACS board consisted of nonscientists. These were not ordinary folks but pillars of the American corporate world. |
| In his latest reinvention, the wealthy, unsalaried governor of California appears as the great green giant, campaigning for a just and clean world, featured on the cover of Newsweek holding up the entire globe with one finger. For more than twenty years, since the death of her first husband, Sen. John Heinz, Teresa Heinz Kerry has marshaled the wealth of the Heinz Endowment to foster a green renaissance of the once smoky city of Pittsburgh. |
| He now works directly for the tobacco industry and edits the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, which receives some funding directly from tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds.
What Gori lacked in scientific pedigrees at the time, he more than made up for in schmoozing ability. Frank Rauscher succeeded Endi-cott as chief of the NCI in 1971 and apparently found Gori an impressive manager of a program that someone needed to carry out.
A number of people felt that Gori was a lesser version of Wynder. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Pre-World War II Germany was controlled by a few giant corporations. The masses were dependent on the corporations for both goods and employment, and the corporations wielded undue political influence and power. Hitler was chosen by these power-mongers, and he served them well. The masses were subdued by the few.
Benjamin Franklin stated: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Terrorism, as witnessed on September 11, 2001, did more damage than the killing and maiming of our citizens. |
| He intends to launch a legal action in the Court of Session in Edinburgh against Aventis, the European pharmaceutical giant that makes the drug.
Lantus was hailed as the biggest advance in the treatment of diabetes for 80 years. However, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received 99 reports of adverse reactions associated with the drug since it was launched in Britain in August last year.
More than 40 patients have raised concerns about the drug's side effects with the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT). |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| I find that the idea of eating raw food is more appealing when you think of it as partaking of choices at a giant salad bar. Raw spinach may not appeal, but a
More Than Skin Deep
Your skin acts as a barometer of what's happening inside your body. As you proceed through Diet Evolution, you'll almost definitely notice a difference in your skin. One of my coronary bypass patients also suffered from diabetes and hypertension, until I convinced him to practice Diet Evolution, which he has now done for the past two years. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 These motions can even create electromagnetic fields that, because they are networked together like a giant web, send energy and information to every part of the body. Confirmation of this theory has come from many fronts, but a representative study is one that was carried out in 1991 by K.J. Pienta and D. S. Coffey.20 They suggest that the cytoskeleton of cells may act as coupled harmonic oscillators, allowing information from the outside of cells to be sent deep into the interior of cells, and even into DNA itself. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| In a news release dated 2004, the AIDS Foundation filed an antitrust and restraint of trade lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories. Novir, the "old" AIDS drug, underwent a five-fold increase (from $50/month to $250/ month). Abbott's "new" drug, which had Novir as a significant component, remained unchanged in price. Novir was considered the better product for some AIDS patients. Because of the cost increase, these patients were forced to the cheaper, diluted Novir product called Kaletra. |
| When given names such as Huma-log, Lantus, or NovoRapid by giant corporations, a foreign protein is no longer "foreign" but is instead a wonderful "analog" of human insulin. The truth is that all three of these substances are foreign proteins — in some cases not even an insulin molecule. All could be considered new growth hormones with very little being known about long-term effects. Should diabetics apply for long-term guinea pig status?
Over the last 30 years, over 2,000 patents have been approved for various chemical compounds or processes used to normalize blood sugar metabolism. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The thousands of lawsuits pending against pharmaceutical giant Merck over the side effects of its painkiller Vioxx may have a profound effect on our public and private regulatory systems. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) already has tightened its protocols.
Influential medical journals are now calling for an international clinical trial medical registry. This is crucial. Right now, a pharmaceutical company can conduct a dozen trials for a new drug.. .only publish the positive-result trials... and then use those as evidence for drug approval or marketing. |
David R. Montgomery
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| These four once-rare plants now grow in giant single-species stands that cover more than half a billion hectares—twice the entire forested area of the United States, including Alaska. But how secure is the foundation of modern industrial agriculture?
Farmers, politicians, and environmental historians have used the term soil exhaustion to describe a wide range of circumstances. Technically, the concept refers to the end state following progressive reduction of crop yields when cultivated land no longer supports an adequate harvest. |
| Some of these species, notably wooly rhinos and giant elk, did not survive the transition to the postglacial climate.
Extreme environmental shifts also isolated human populations and helped differentiate people into the distinct appearances we know today as races. Skin shields our bodies and critical organs from ultraviolet radiation. But skin must also pass enough sunlight to support production of the vitamin D needed to make healthy bones. As our ancestors spread around the globe, these opposing pressures colored the skin of people in different tegions. |
| They organized theit modest farms around giant barns where cows turned fodder crops into milk and manure. Unlike most American farmers, they treated ditt like gold. Their land prospered, yielding bountiful harvests that astounded visitors from the South where publication of Edmund Ruffin's Essay on Calcareous Manures in 1832 initiated a revolution in American agriculture.
Better known to history as an early agitator for southern independence, Ruffin believed in the power of agrochemistry to restore soil fertility—and the South. |
Ray D. Strand
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 He was up against a political giant. But the truth is now clear. We are left to wonder why doctors are still so reluctant to check their patients' homocysteine levels and why they are not recommending B vitamins to all of their patients. What your doctor doesn't know may be killing you. Especially when you consider the fact that homocysteine is an important, if not a greater, risk factor for heart disease than cholesterol. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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• Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize the Humane Gene (2002) by Stephen Hall
• The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical giant (2003) by Fran Hawthorne
• Innocent Casualties: The FDA's War Against Humanity (1995) by Elaine Feuer
• Murder by Injection: The Medical Campaign Against America (1988) by Eustace Mullins
• The Medical Mafia (1995) by Guylaine Lanctot
• The Cancer Conspiracy (2002) by Barry Lynes
• Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2001) by Laurie Garrett
• The Drug Lords: America's Pharmaceutical Cartel (1997) by Tonda R. |
Richard Bartlett
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 You have just expanded the mind's window and taken a giant step into a larger world of possibility.
The point is that the points do not really mean a thing outside the meaning you assign them. Why not just make it up to mean that here is one reality, and it is intersecting and merging with this other reality to create something new and wonderful? And be respectful of your own unique process.
One example I like to use taken from my own clinical practice amply illustrates this point. One day a gentleman came to see me for elbow tendonitis and plantar fascitis. |
Melody Petersen
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 He pointed to how the Lambert Company, which eventually became the drug giant Warner-Lambert, had greatly expanded the market for Listerine in the 1920s by creating public anxiety about a serious-sounding condition called halitosis. The word, which was first used around 1874, comes from the Latin word halitus. While it sounds like a dreadful malady that might cause death and suffering, it simply means having bad breath. In 1921 Gerald Lambert, the son of the company's founder, began a mass advertising campaign based on the word. |
| The spot featured children frolicking with a zebra, as well as a giant wooden block with the letter Z painted on its side.
Pfizer even put Elmo, the show's furry Muppet star, on its corporate payroll. It paid the Children's Television Workshop, which produced Sesame Street, to make a video featuring Elmo going to the doctor with an ear infection. As part of the deal, Pfizer featured Elmo on its website (kidsears.com), where it gave away five thousand of those videos and promoted Zithromax. The company also held the How to Get to Sesame Street Sweepstakes. |
| The most visible sign of the state government's struggle to pay rising medical costs was the giant Vegas-style casino that opened in Council Bluffs in 2006. The Horseshoe Casino, with chandeliers and a gambling floor bigger than a football field, was the largest of the gaming houses that the government had recently allowed to be built all over the countryside. The gambling establishments were heavily taxed, meaning that the state was paying part of its medicine bill with casino chips.
The federal government had also been forced to shift more tax dollars to pay for medical care. |
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