Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to Linn, "We know that marketing is a factor in the childhood obesity epidemic. It is unconscionable that 8-12-year-olds see, on average, more than 7,600 food commercials a year -- the vast majority for candy, snacks, cereals, and fast food. This report is the latest indication that, when it comes to children, the food and advertising industries are incapable of policing themselves."
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, advocacy groups, educators, and parents. |
| REPPED: In the wake of findings that food is the most-advertised product on television programming viewed by children, the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood (CCFC) recently issued a statement calling for "policies that will protect children from junk food marketers."
CCFC's Dr. Susan Linn made the statement in response to the Kaiser Family Foundation's report, "Food for Thought: Television Food Advertising to Children in the United States. |
| The Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, advocacy groups, educators, and parents. CCFC has been active in the fight against BusRadio -- a commercially sponsored radio channel designed for a captive audience of children on school buses. Reflecting the marketing strategies of television advertising, BusRadio focuses on the "tween" market, promising advertisers "a unique and effective way to reach" children in this age group. |
Sue Palmer
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 The advice of every expert I spoke to while writing Toxic childhood pointed towards an authoritative parenting approach. According to psychologists, a successful balance between warmth and firmness should produce 'self-regulating' children, well balanced, resilient, with plenty of initiative, optimism and genuine self-esteem. Such children are likely to do well at school, make (and keep) plenty of friends, and go on to lead happy, successful lives.
Parents who are firm with their children but lacking in warmth are labelled authoritarian. |
| Indeed, in many cases they're missing you already, and toxic childhood is the result.
All the experts I've met and read on the subject of family welfare and social cohesion condemn the long-hours culture and commend flexible working practices. Families don't flourish unless their members spend time together, so it really is time that governments, businesses and individual human beings got their act together on this one - as the journalist Richard Reeves puts it, if our culture is to have a future we need to create family-friendly economies, not economy-friendly families. |
| But where families feel powerless to change children's life chances themselves, surely society has a responsibility to help them counter toxic childhood syndrome?
CHAPTER SIX
WHO'S LOOKING AFTER THE
However long the mommy wars rumble on, there's little doubt the results of our cultural revolution are here to stay. Family structures have changed, and working mothers are increasingly the norm, with more than half of all women in the developed world now in the workforce. In 2004 figures ranged between 80 per cent (France) and 40 per cent (Greece) and numbers are increasing all the time. |
| A fiercely competitive culture isn't appropriate for the under-tens - childhood is not a race - but neither should children be coddled, cosseted and shielded from the consequences of their actions. The capacity to co-exist with others (which is arguably in the long run the greatest of the must-have primary prizes) relies on children learning within a safe environment how to deal with success and failure, how to cope with playground politics and how to balance their own rights as individuals with their social responsibilities to others. |
| While human brains are extraordinarily plastic, and connections continue to be forged throughout childhood (and, indeed, throughout life), loving one-to-one care at the beginning of a child's life seems to be the most important element of all in creating a happy, balanced human being. Looking after a small child takes real commitment, and parents have more of a vested interest in summoning commitment for their own children than anyone else on earth. |
Mike Adams
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 Iron deficiency anemia is most common during childhood, adolescence and the later years of life. Additionally, heavy menstruation, pregnancy and lactation may cause anemia in women. During infancy, childhood and adolescence, the human body needs more iron than usual in order to support growth spurts. Unfortunately, during childhood and especially during adolescence, growing children and teenagers often eat more nutritionally poor junk foods than the iron-rich foods their bodies need. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The balance between benefit and harm of SSRI for depression in childhood has yet to be shown to be favorable."41
We would rephrase: In the treatment of childhood depression, SSRIs do more harm than good. Harm, of course, includes many outcomes— one of which may be the worst of all. Does the use of SSRIs lead to suicide? Unfortunately, the research findings are confusing and contradictory. Still, we can come to three conclusions. In reverse order of causality, they are:
First, there does not seem to be any relationship, or at least "no clear relationship," between SSRIs and suicide. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Wright believes that diseases as disparate as rheumatoid arthritis, childhood asthma, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, and depression all have in common low stomach acid. childhood asthma is a good case in point: More than 80 percent of children diagnosed with asthma have exhibited low HC1 levels. In fact, according to Wright, hydrochloric acid can be a significant part of the cure for children with asthma. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 But while one federal government agency plays fast and loose with what constitutes "disease," the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offers no confirmation of the "brain disease" for any childhood psychiatric diagnoses. For example, the CDC website offers categories for review, including "Childhood Diseases." One need only peruse the list of childhood diseases listed by the CDC to notice that not a single psychiatric diagnosis is listed. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 This statement is especially true in children, as studies have demonstrated that childhood obesity is associated more with inactivity than overeating. Strong evidence suggests that more than 86 percent of adult obesity begins in childhood. It could thus be concluded that lack of physical activity is the major cause of obesity in America today.
If you are trying to lose weight, you definitely need to exercise as well. When you cut back on your caloric intake, it lowers your basal metabolic rate (BMR)—in other words, your body slows down to compensate. |
Sue Palmer
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| The American Academy of Pediatrics therefore recommends that children under two shouldn't watch TV at all, but television is such a part of the furniture in twenty-first-century homes that this suggestion seems hopelessly unrealistic. Besides, there's also evidence that good educational TV can create a talking point between parent and child, and stimulate babies and toddlers to activity by copying the actions they see on screen. Once they're talking, the fun of television can interest children in words. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Childhood Struggles over Food Can Have a Lifelong Impact"
Sally Squires
Washington Post (Tuesday, October 31, 2006)
"Change the Way You Eat (Portion Control, the Best New Buzzword)"
Susan Bernstein
Excerpted from the Arthritis Foundation book Change Your Life!
Deception in Weight Loss Advertising
2003 Federal Trade Commission Report (PDF File)
"Fast Food Linked to childhood Obesity"
CBS News, Health Watch (January 5, 2003)
FTC Advertising Guidelines on Disclaimers www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/ad-faqs. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In fact, Linn's group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children), represents a national coalition of health-care professionals, educators, advocacy groups, and concerned parents. Another big player is Commercial Alert, which seeks to keep commercialism from "exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity, and democracy. |
| We regulate marketing to kids less than any industrialized democracy," adds Linn, a Harvard Medical School psychiatry instructor, who, in 2000, co-founded the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood (CCFC), whose long-term goal is to put an end to targeting kids with potentially harmful advertising messages.
"The food industry is clearly under a lot of pressure," she says. "They're acting a lot like the tobacco industry did in the 1990s. There's a possibility that [down the line], we'll have regulation of junk food marketing to kids. |
| And in early 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood, and two Massachusetts parents, Sherri Carlson of Wakefield and Andrew Leong of Brookline, publicly announced plans to file a lawsuit in a Massachusetts court against Viacom, which owns the children's TV giant Nickelodeon, and the Kellogg Company to stop them from marketing sugary, fatty, salty, nutrient-lacking foods to young children.
"Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children," said CSPI executive director Michael F. |
| Campaign for a Commercial-Free childhood. "CCFC Member Organizations." http://www
.commercialexploitation.org/memberorgs.htm. -. "Junk-Food Pushers on Defensive as Kids' Advocates Push Back." http://www
.commercialexploitation.org/news/junkfooddefensive.htm. -. "Marketers See Babies' Noses as Pathway to Profits." http://www.commercialexploitation
.org/news/articles/babiesnoses.htm. -. "Marketing to Children: An Overview." http://www.commercialexploitation.org/factsheets/ ccfc-facts%20overview.pdf. -. "TV Ads Market Junk Food to Kids, New Study Finds." http://www.commercialexploitation. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Kids who consume non-organic foods can retain as much as 8 times as many organophosphates13and this overload can cause birth defects, childhood leukemia and other cancers, brain tumors, neuromuscular damage, metabolic impairment, asthma and other bronchial disorders, digestive difficulties, and a variety of developmental delays.14
DEFINITION
Neurotoxic:
Any toxic substance (manufactured or natural) that can adversely affect the neurological structure or function of the human nervous system (including the brain).
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| People of Euro-Caucasian or Jewish ancestry (and ranging in age from childhood to young adulthood) possess a significantly higher risk for developing Colitis. As with Crohn's disease, being related to someone with Colitis also increases one's risk for being diagnosed with it.25
How Does Regular Colon Cleansing Help Prevent Ulcerative Colitis? |
| Poor adult health can often be traced to unhealthful habits developed during childhood.
What do these findings tell us? Obviously, we are raising obese children that become obese adults; but if we read between the lines, they also tell us generations of Americans are spending their entire lives facing constipation. Without intervention, obesity can become a lifelong problem. We can put an end to this crisis and prevent children from becoming obese by teaching them about proper diet and exercise.
What does any of that have to do with a toxic colon? |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Babson's obsession with gravity dates back to his childhood, when his sister drowned in a river. He blamed gravity for her death and resolved to free humanity from its fatal pull. In his book Gravity—Our Enemy No. 1, Babson described the benefits to be derived from an insulator against gravity. It would reduce the weight of airplanes and increase their speed; it could even be used in the soles of shoes to lighten weight when walking. |
Richard Bartlett
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 I've been raised doing remote healing work since childhood, and adding the Matrix Energetics cross-pollinated frequencies and modules was an efficient way to play with the idea of inviting back the former vibe of a healthy, happy, vibrant Jak.
I could hardly wait until the next morning to check in with the vet. When I called her she sounded a little hesitant, and insisted on keeping Jak another day, saying that a weird thing had happened. I asked her what was up. |
| I could be working on an incident from her childhood with the Time Travel Technique or harmonizing her for a food allergy. The chosen contacts are not important—the intent is!
26; Two-Point Sequence
Feel the quantum wobble in this picture. Do not attempt to drive while looking at this picture. When you collapse the wave of the pattern that you desire to change, other things can collapse as well.
3B: Two-Point Sequence
Here we track changes in her energy field. We are connected via the concept of quantum entanglement, and we ore both changing as a result of our interaction. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| If you can link misleading advertising to childhood disease, you've got yourself not only a lawsuit, but a movement," continues the founder of
Coale Cooley, a Washington, D.C.-based mass tort law firm. "We're not bringing down the food industry next Tuesday, but there are legitimate legal issues here."
Companies Unveil Antiobesity Programs As Threats of Legal Action Loom Large
Despite the fact that food sellers publicly proclaim such lawsuits "frivolous," they appear to be taking the risk of litigation very seriously. |
Joseph Campbell
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| One is bound in by the walls of childhood; the father and mother stand as threshold guardians, and the timorous soul, fearful of some punishment,17 fails to make the passage through the door and come to birth in the world without.
Dr. Jung has reported a dream that resembles very closely the image of the myth of Daphne. The dreamer is the same young man who found himself (supra, p. 55) in the land of the sheep?the land, that is to say, of unindependence. |
Charles Barber
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 Even patients with serious disorders that stem from such things as childhood sexual abuse are being limited to just a few visits. That's if they are being seen by a therapist at all . . . The only area of mental health coverage that employers and HMOs seem interested in funding is drug therapy. They'd rather just throw Prozac, or better yet, some generic substitute costing pennies a pill, at mental health problems."16 The strong likelihood is that the nightly fluttering of the two or three pills down her throat will be the extent of Julie's "mental health treatment. |
| Z'44 In 1944, Menninger issued a bulletin for army physicians, "Neuropsychiatry for the General Medical Officer," in which the role of the subconscious in symptoms was explained, as well as the influence of infancy and childhood on adult character. Men-ninger's recommended treatment methods for war neurosis included hypnosis and psychoanalytic therapy.
In 1945, Menninger introduced an entirely new diagnostic nomenclature for the field. |
| As if we needed further proof, these studies provide a biological explanation for the efficacy of early childhood social and educational programs.19
The most immediately applicable implication of Kandel's work is also exquisitely ironic. Neuroplasticity supports the efficacy of old-fashioned psychotherapy, which, of course, has continued to decline in the age of the Serotonin Empire. Who would have thought neuro-science would show that psychotherapy is a robust treatment capable of working at a biological level? |
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