Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ingredients lists don't include contaminants
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or other toxic substances found in the food. As a result, ingredients lists don't really list what's actually in the food, they only list what the manufacturer wants you to believe is in the food.
This is by design, of course. Requirements for listing food ingredients were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry (food corporations). |
Kevin Trudeau
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 You click on it and it lists every single method of curing prostate cancer anywhere in the world. It lists drugs; it lists surgery; it lists natural remedies; it lists everything. It tells you the exact true success rates of each treatment. It tells you the best places in the world to get those treatments. It gives you the unbiased, truthful facts so that you can make an informed decision. It also tells you the best doctors in the world to call and get advice. There is also a chat room where you can go and talk to other people and hear what they have to say. |
Mark Schapiro
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 You can take a look yourself and check the ingredient lists on the tubes and bottles on your own bathroom shelf against the toxicity reviews conducted by the European Union.
When the Environmental Working Group (EWG) compared the ingredient lists in over fourteen thousand personal-care products to lists of potential chemical hazards compiled by the EPA, FDA, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the European Chemicals Bureau, and thirty other scientific and regulatory institutions around the world, their discoveries were a revelation. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| It lists drugs; it lists surgery; it lists natural remedies; it lists everything. It tells you the exact true success rates of each treatment. It tells you the best places in the world to get those treatments. It gives you the unbiased, truthful facts so that you can make an informed decision. It also tells you the best doctors in the world to call and get advice. There is also a chat room where you can go and talk to other people and hear what they have to say. There is also a place you can type in a question and get an answer—all from an unbiased source with nothing to sell. |
Mark Schapiro
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| When the Environmental Working Group (EWG) compared the ingredient lists in over fourteen thousand personal-care products to lists of potential chemical hazards compiled by the EPA, FDA, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the European Chemicals Bureau, and thirty other scientific and regulatory institutions around the world, their discoveries were a revelation. The EWG found hundreds of varieties of skin and tanning lotions, nail polish and mascara and other personal-care products that contain known or possible carcinogens, mutagens, and reproductive toxins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 HealingFoodReference.com lists all the top healing foods along with the diseases or disorders they may help. It also lists the nutrients found in each food and which body systems may be helped (like the immune system or circulatory system). You can search for healing foods by food name or by disease name (like "osteoporosis").
HerbReference.com lists medicinal herbs and their uses, covering Amazon herbs, Western herbs, Chinese herbs and even medicinal mushrooms from Japan.
NutrientReference. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 When the traveler returned, a member of the PEAR staff would enter the data into a computer, which would compare checklists for the traveler and remote viewer, and also compare these lists with all others in the database.
In total, Jahn and Dunne performed 336 formal trials involving 48 recipients and distances between traveler and remote viewer of between 5 and 6000 miles, and worked out a highly detailed mathematical analytical assessment to judge the accuracy of the results. They even determined individual probability scores for arriving at the right answer by chance. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Peabody worried every time he referred a patient to one of the specialists on the managed care company lists, or sent blood samples to their designated laboratories. What if the lab made a mistake? What if the specialist was a jerk with kids, or worse, incompetent? In the old days, he sent patients to doctors he trusted. Now, he was sending them into the great unknown. On top of it all, making a referral or admitting a patient to the hospital required a telephone call to the insurer to get permission. It was 1 -800-MOTHER-MAY-I medicine. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The difference in approach can be seen in the way the two continents regulate cosmetics: The EU law has negative ingredient lists (of banned chemicals) and specific testing and data requirements for cosmetic ingredients. In contrast the US has few ingredient restrictions and the manufacturers are responsible for testing. "The EU model is taking over the world." Many countries have reproduced aspects of the EU Cosmetics Directive: approximately 50 countries have adopted the EU cosmetic definition; about 30 countries have adopted the EU "negative ingredient" lists. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| They punished primary care doctors who sent their patients to expensive specialists or prescribed high-priced drugs by
"deselecting" them, or dropping them from the in-network lists. Sometimes the plans based their decisions about what constituted too many tests and unnecessary drugs on good science. They tried to get doctors to refrain from ordering an MRI for uncomplicated back pain, or sending a patient with a suspected ulcer to a gastroenterologist without trying to treat him first with drugs. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Both patients and providers said that preau-thorization policies and preferred drug lists limit their access to effective asthma treatment. These procedures result in "undue suffering, poorly controlled symptoms, missed work and school days, delays in obtaining prescriptions and emergency department visits," both groups said.
Dr. Jennifer Kim, an allergist at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, says that preferred drug lists and preauthorization policies, such as those established by Medicaid, can definitely be a problem. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Look for lists of such evidence when you evaluate the Web site of a company selling a nutraceutical for CFS, FM, temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), and the like. Be sure that the list includes reports in scientific journals and not just reports at medical meetings. These latter have not received the careful, independent scrutiny of papers published in the scientific or medical literature. If the company Web site lists no studies or only a few reports at medical or scientific meetings, be skeptical about the company's claims. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Managed care companies sent them lists indicating which labs they could use for blood tests, which specialists were acceptable for referrals, and which hospitals their patients could be admitted to. And each company had its own list. The office began to fill up with three-ring binders to accommodate all the paper. They had to hire first one administrative assistant, then another, to handle it all.
Over the course of a decade, overhead costs went from 30 percent of their income to sixty. |
Mark Schapiro
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| When the Environmental Working Group (EWG) compared the ingredient lists in over fourteen thousand personal-care products to lists of potential chemical hazards compiled by the EPA, FDA, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the European Chemicals Bureau, and thirty other scientific and regulatory institutions around the world, their discoveries were a revelation. The EWG found hundreds of varieties of skin and tanning lotions, nail polish and mascara and other personal-care products that contain known or possible carcinogens, mutagens, and reproductive toxins. |
Jack Challem
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 There's a chance that you won't finish everything on your lists for today, so transfer your uncompleted tasks to tomorrow's list. Do the same each day. If the same task keeps getting moved each day for a week, consider whether you actually need to do it or whether it belongs on a broader to do list without any particular deadline. In making lists, always bear two things in mind. One, what must you do today? Two, what do you not have to do today?
Unclutter and Simplify Your Life
It's often hard to make time in our lives or figure out what's important when we're surrounded by too much clutter. |
| Make two lists for what you have to do today or tomorrow, one for work and another for home-related activities (such as grocery shopping).
Writing your to do list should take no more than a few minutes. Prioritize each item on your list by numbering it, then transcribe the prioritized list in numerical order to another slip of paper. Do the same for your home-related chores.
There's a chance that you won't finish everything on your lists for today, so transfer your uncompleted tasks to tomorrow's list. Do the same each day. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 For a more detailed ranking of which carbs are broken down most slowly, with extensive lists of foods with their GI and GL values, see www. diabetes. about. com/library/mendosagi/ngilists .htm.
Powered by Protein
Protein is made up of components called amino acids. It is the building block of all of the body's components, from hair and muscles to enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Eating protein can boost your metabolism by 25 percent, which really helps to burn the extra fat you've been wishing away in the mirror. |
| For a more detailed ranking of which carbs are broken down most slowly, with extensive lists of foods with their GI and GL values, see www.diabetes.about.com/library/mendosagi/ngilists.htm.
Powered by Protein
Protein is made up of components called amino acids. It is the building block of all of the body's components, from hair and muscles to enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Eating protein can boost your metabolism by 25 percent, which really helps to burn the extra fat you've been wishing away in the mirror. |
Stacy Malkan
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| They tracked down lists of known and suspected chemical health hazards from various government and academic sources — lists from the US FDA, EPA, National Toxicology Program, European Chemical Bureau and peer-reviewed academic journals — and merged them together into a common database.
If you'd expect the cosmetics industry to have a central list of product ingredients, you might suppose the government would already have a central database of hazard information about chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lisa Newman then provided a nutritional analysis and comment for each ingredient. Four lists were created:
1) Pet food ingredients by rating (from 5 stars down to 1 star, with 5 stars indicating the best quality ingredients).
2) Pet food ingredients by frequency (sorted by how frequently they appear in pet food products, from 96% down to 1%).
3) Pet food ingredients listed alphabetically (to make it easier for consumers to reference ingredients they're curious about).
4) Worst pet food ingredients (which lists all the 1-star ingredients, indicating low- quality or hazardous ingredients). |
Bottom Line Health
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| The FDA adds that products that have shortening or hydrogenated oils in their ingredient lists also contain some trans fats, and if they appear at the beginning of the ingredient list, the product contains more trans fats than if they are further down on the list.
However, both Heller and Schneeman emphasize that trans fats are only part of the picture. "You can't look at trans fat alone. Some manufacturers might have eliminated trans fat by using products that are high in saturated fat," says Schneeman. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Atkins' Diet Revolution, which first hit the bestseller lists in the 1970s, have repeated his self-described "favorite dictum: avoid sugar."
Although many people view the Atkins diet as one that pushes pork rinds, fatty red meat, and butter, they're completely missing the point.
To this day, the Atkins camp contends that the meal plan helps people "learn respect for carbohydrates," points out Colette Heimowitz, M.S., vice president of education and research at Atkins Nutritionals. |
Jack Challem
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| Although this maxim might sound like an oversimplification (along the lines of the "Just do it" advertising slogan), it actually lists steps that are necessary in the long-term effort to improve your moods, behavior, and quality of life. Don't let the long-term nature of the steps scare you off. You can begin working on all three steps almost immediately and simultaneously—even if you take only baby steps—and you'll quickly see the benefits. Selwitschka's view has been shaped by years of helping people with addictive and self-destructive moods and behavior patterns. |
| You'll most likely have to schedule your activities, work from lists, and ignore less essential pursuits.
• Resist the temptation to multitask. It is far more relaxing—and efficient—to focus on one task at a time. Use other activities as breaks to refresh your mind.
• Take the time to prepare your food without feeling rushed. Use fresh and wholesome ingredients, not packaged foods intended for microwave heating.
• Whether you eat at home or in restaurants, eat slowly and chew your food. |
| In making lists, always bear two things in mind. One, what must you do today? Two, what do you not have to do today?
Unclutter and Simplify Your Life
It's often hard to make time in our lives or figure out what's important when we're surrounded by too much clutter. Clutter is a distraction that keeps us from clearly focusing on more meaningful and less stressful activities. We must get rid of what isn't really necessary.
Our lives are cluttered with all sorts of things—clothing, electronic gadgets, tools, videos, and antique collections, to name just a few. |
| Any packaged food that lists "partially hydrogenated" vegetable oils also contains trans fats. Furthermore, be aware that trans fats don't have to be listed on a label if there is less than one-half gram per serving—a "gotcha" because people commonly eat more than one serving at a meal. Incredible as it might sound, trans fats are far more hazardous than saturated fats.
Guideline 10. |
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