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The Cure Con: how you're being deceived by charities that claim to be racing for the cure for cancer and other chronic diseases Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Some charities work against their stated mission Here's an interesting case that demonstrates the level of corruption present in many health-related charities and foundations. As reported on the Merrow Report (PBS), the foundation Children with Attention Deficit Disorder accepted $818,000 from a drug company to help produce a video that promoted Ritalin. This video was circulated widely in the U.S. public school system.

Their mission, as you can see, seems very different from the mission of some cancer charities, which seems to be the endless promotion of cancer treatments while ignoring prevention. The profits are in treatment, of course, where drug companies make billions and then turn around and offer grant money and sponsorships to the charities that "raised awareness" as a recruiting method to con yet more patients into expensive treatment facilities. In contrast, it's nice to see the Breast Cancer Action group taking an honest approach.

Not all health charities are bad Of course, there are many positive, proactive health charities that are actually helping patients in significant ways. In this article, we're highlighting some of the worst ones, but it doesn't mean there aren't honest, ethical operations that put your money to good use. One organization in San Francisco, Breast Cancer Action, disavows donations from companies that profit from cancer. That includes drug companies, tobacco companies, pesticide manufacturers and cancer treatment centers.

Aside from the fact that so many health charities seem to operate in unethical, dishonest ways, we still have to contend with the basic fact that there's no such thing as a cure for a fictitious disease in the first place. What do these organizations mean by a cure? Do they think they can reverse a metabolic result with a magic synthetic chemical? You can't reverse the laws of biochemistry You can suck the fat out of a patient with liposuction, but it doesn't make her fit. You can pump a diabetic full of insulin, but it doesn't make his insulin metabolism any punchier.

Some charities spend very little money actually helping people Take the National Cancer Center. For every dollar this foundation raises, only 29 cents goes to fund actual programs. (Source: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4946.htm) Similarly, the Childhood Leukemia Foundation spends only 13.5% of its budget on programs used to help children with leukemia. The rest of the money goes to administration (salaries and other costs) and fundraising (marketing and promotion). (Source: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/5459.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Politicians, heads of regulatory agencies, lobbyists, educators, researchers, media, charities, health care professionals, and others discussed elsewhere, have been placed in positions to assist in the accomplishment of corporate goals. Again, without insulin being treated as a biotech drug, without batch testing, without independent labs for analysis/ research, and even more importantly, with no accurate reporting results for adverse events, corporate dollars increase regardless of product efficacy.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

The nation's largest breast cancer charities fall in line with similar messages about early detection and cure, and divert public attention away from prevention strategies in ways that are sometimes not so subtle. The American Cancer Society (ACS), for instance, is frequently quoted in the press urging cautious interpretation of evidence linking chemicals to disease. As one example: a July 2005 New York Times story entitled "Should You Worry About the Chemicals in Your Makeup?" quoted Dr. Michael Thun, head of epidemiology at ACS, questioning the science on phthalates.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Charities, enjoying the benefits of tax exemption, should be required to direct 75% of charitable donations to the cause that provides the exemption. If the American Diabetes Association is "searching for a cure," donations (at least 75%) should go directly to cure research—not to fund raising, not to awareness raising, and not to unconscionable rewards for the upper echelon of organizational executives. Health Profits Corporations who profit heavily from the "disease business" should pay a surtax on the hefty profits they make.

Because of my interest in diabetes, I have researched many charities trying to find a cure for diabetes. Cure, without the use of further dependence on pharmaceutical drugs, is important. The Iacocca Foundation is focusing efforts on cure research. Insulin-Free World, an organization founded by Deb Butterfield, educates and advocates regarding pancreatic transplants. Do your own investigation, find research that needs money and contribute directly. Cut out the middle man, who, in essence, is corporate in nature.

A quote from John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) comes to mind when considering how the ADA (and charities for other diseases) regards their clientele. "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions [my emphasis]; and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." We must consider that the pharmaceutical corporations, in planning for expanded sales, enlist directors, presidents, and others in high places within advocacy associations.

Because the makers of the products support the celebrity hawking their products and also generously contribute to the ADA and other diabetes-related charities. The ada and "Tight Control" Before you buy into these glowing promises of well-being and success, let us first define "normal." Or rather, by looking at an individual diabetic, let's see what "normal" is not. Whether a diabetic uses pump therapy or practices tight control with conventional protocol, everything in a diabetic's life impacts the disease.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And still two more charities in Great Britain have been working hard to draw attention to what they believe is a mental health crisis caused by what people eat. The Mental Health Foundation, a London-based research and policy-influencing think tank, and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, jointly released a landmark 2006 report, "Changing Diets, Changing Minds: How Food Affects Mental Health and Behaviour.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

In the days before health insurance and Medicare, most hospitals were run by religious charities, which operated under the motto "No margin, no mission." Their mission, of course, was tending to the sick, regardless of the patient's ability to pay; they tried to earn a small margin on the patients who could pay in order to cover the cost of their mission.

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

Some of this information is available in forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service, but the documents are not easily accessible to the public and do not include a detailed list of the group's donors. The charities should also disclose the names of companies funding their activities in each of their press releases and publications. The organizations should face the loss of their nonprofit status if they fail to disclose the corporate donations. Some of these groups, which pay no taxes, have become little more than marketing arms of the drug industry.

Nonprofit groups should also be prevented from promoting medicines to the public without disclosing they have received money from the drugs'manufacturers. charities should be forced to disclose on their websites and in their annual reports how much each company has given them. Some of this information is available in forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service, but the documents are not easily accessible to the public and do not include a detailed list of the group's donors.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Consumers can purchase Organic Bouquet arrangements, and send a donation to the charity of the consumer's choice; there are currently ten charities to choose from. Organic Bouquet is also available nationwide in natural food stores, including Whole Foods Markets. www.organicbouquet.com Clothing Esperanza Threads Esperanza Threads is a project of the Grassroots Coalition for Economic and Environmental Justice of Ohio. It is a democratically operated cooperative that employs low-income individuals for manufacturing organic cotton clothing in Bedford, Ohio.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

Private charities, meanwhile, will see donations drop precipitously, as economic strains force those who might once have underwritten their efforts to scale back philanthropy. Numerous nonprofit organizations will likely go bankrupt trying to meet increased demands for assistance in anticipation of donations that never arrive. Unable to cope with the harsh new economic environment, growing numbers of Americans will end up on the streets—confused, homeless, and hungry. With that, begging will increase to previously unseen levels.

In place of welfare and other taxpayer-funded assistance programs, suffering families will have little choice but to turn to a shrinking universe of overburdened charities and informal support networks, such as "backpack clubs," where children fill up empty packs on Fridays with donated food so they will have something to eat over the weekend. During the early 1930s, families were forced to split up or move elsewhere in search of employment. Some ended up in shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles" after Herbert Hoover, who was president when the Great Depression began.

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Drug companies certainly aren't doing anything to prevent disease, and even the national cancer associations, diabetes associations and all these health charities are doing virtually nothing to actually prevent disease. Why is that? Because everybody's making money from disease, including the doctors, hospitals, medical imaging specialists, oncologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists and, of course, psychiatrists, who are now making money by imagining that people have all sorts of brain chemistry disorders like Road Rage Disorder that they claim need to be treated with prescription drugs.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

A global survey from Britain estimated that two-thirds of all patient advocacy groups and health charities now rely on funding from drug companies or device manufacturers. The most prolific sponsor, according to the survey results, is Johnson & Johnson and number two is Pfizer.39 While creating the appearance of corporate generosity, such sponsorship can bring many benefits to the sponsor as well as the recipient. Chief among them is that patient groups are a great way to help shape public opinion about the conditions your products are designed to treat.

As the global survey of health charities from Britain suggested, around two-thirds of these groups accept industry funds. Similarly, many work in alliance with industry to use the media to promote the need for greater recognition of their particular condition and more resources for treatment. But as Parry the marketing man makes clear, the alliances between companies and patient groups have another purpose, at least for the companies involved: to help change the way the public thinks about medical conditions in order to maximize the sales of medicines.

A survey from Britain estimated that two-thirds of global health charities and patient groups now accept support from drug or device manufacturers, though it is often hard to know exactly how much they receive.4 With ADD, as with other conditions, company-funded consumer groups provide a service to their sponsors by helping to paint a picture of an underdiagnosed medical disorder best treated with drugs and by giving a human face to that disorder. Unlike many other groups around the world, to its credit CHADD clearly discloses exactly how much it gets from drug companies.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

In the rural Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local government used funds from international charities to establish a parallel school system just for girls. Women in the community walk girls to school, parent-teacher associations and principals reach out to homes where children aren't enrolled, and local groups stress to mothers that schooling is a basic legal right. The program's goals are pretty straightforward: help these girls fulfill their potential, and end the cycle of female illiteracy and impoverishment. Haydi Ktzlar Okula!

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

They ran the local charities. They were invested in the history of a place and their living actions had to honor the memory of their forebears and the prospects of generations to come after. Every virtue that grew out of these local relations of person and place was traduced by the big-box national retail corporations, and the American public was absolutely complicit in the hosing that it got. This raises an interesting question: Is one led to a determinist view that this outcome was an inevitable result of circumstances?

Lluvia skin care line from Amazon Herb Company offers healthy skin solutions without toxic chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

She dedicates a percentage of her proceeds to charities, by the way. Here's how to reach her or purchase the Lluvia skin care products: Phone: (520) 247-1700 Toll-free USA: 1-866-693-8622 Website for purchases: http://www.amazondreams.amazonherb.net Amazon Herb ID# 95284 By the way, if you are already an Amazon Herb distributor, Truth Publishing has waived the copyrights on this article, so you reprint this as long as credit is given to the author (the Health Ranger) and www.NewsTarget.com.

The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell Luca Turin See book keywords and concepts

Since these maps were for the most part paid for by taxpayers and charities, it is fitting that they should be available to all for free. They can be downloaded from www.rcsb.org/pdb/ and viewed with any one of several free viewers. They are beautiful. If We can't simply look at these proteins in the microscope because light waves are just too big to see such tiny things. Imagine, for example, that you are watching waves coming towards a beach. You would not expect a small inflatable bobbing up and down on the sea to affect wave behaviour much, whereas a big boat will make a dent in the surf.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

I intend on selling off or giving away most of my assets to charities and foundations. d. I will not receive any compensation in any form, directly or indirectly, for any products that I endorse or recommend. With that said, I intend on: 1. Continuing to publish my newsletter called the "Natural Cures Newsletter," and selling subscriptions to this newsletter to people all around the world. 2. Continuing to produce NaturalCures.com. NaturalCures.com is a website where people can go to and must join to become a member.

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda Jacky Law See book keywords and concepts

In the UK, the industry funds more healthcare-related research than every other source combined - six times as much as the Department of Health, five times as much as medical charities, and eight times as much as the Medical Research Council.24 Pharma exerts a similar dominance everywhere it operates. The young companies with the freshest ideas want research contracts with a Pfizer or a Merck or a GlaxoSmithKline, just as a young starlet longs to hook up with a Hollywood major - and for the same reasons: so their full potential can be given the opportunity to shine on the global stage.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

Newman's Own is a well-known name in the natural foods world, thanks largely to its founder, Paul Newman, who donates company profits to various charities. By hitching itself to Newman's star-powered and philanthropic wagon, McDonald's ensures extra-bonus halo effect. Never mind that the creamy dressings are dismally high in fat while the low-fat varieties are very high in salt. For example, a 1.5-ounce portion of Newman's Own Low Fat Balsamic Vinaigrette contains almost one-third of the day's recommended salt.18 Natural does not always mean healthy.

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