Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So far, it sounds like college-level economics 101, right? But here's where the theory goes wrong: in reality, resources flow to those companies who are best able to EXPLOIT consumers, not serve them.
Case in point: pharmaceutical companies. These organizations -- and all the companies that feed off them (like pharmacies) -- offer nothing of real benefit to consumers. Their drugs cause untold harm to consumers and are right now the 4th leading cause of death in the United States. And yet they are hugely profitable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I realize this is a simplified description of economics, human decision processes and complexities in health care today, so this is not a serious proposal of reform. This is just an exploration of ideas of how we might turn things around by altering the way incentives are applied.
Modern medicine is an utter failure
What's very clear today is that the current system we have has utterly failed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Understand the basic laws of economics and how debt is manufactured and sold. (A good book on that is called the Concise Guide to economics and it's available free at http://www.conciseguidetoeconomics.com ). Teach yourself the basic principles of sustainable living, green living and "hippie wisdom." These are the things that will get you through the tough times ahead.
In terms of financial news, be sure to read the Daily Reckoning (www.DailyReckoning.com) if you want to hear the truth about world financial news. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 AFTERWORD: RAYS OF HOPE AND SIGNS OF PROMISE
Ascribe Business and economics News Service. "Parents, Socially Conscious Food Companies Team Up to Promote Healthy Eating at Home," September 25, 2005. www.highbeam.com/browse/Business-Finance-AScribe+Business+~A~+Economics+News+Service/September-2005-pl-65k.
Brent Zook, Kristal. "We Can't Let the Obesity Epidemic Claim Our Children." Essence, April 2005. http://www.findarticles.eom/p/articles/mi_ml264/is_12_35/ai_nl3596183.
Calhoun School website, http://www.calhoun.org.
CBS News. "Cookie Monster Changes His Tune," April 8, 2005. http://www. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Whether you believe in health freedom, anti-war philosophies, honest economics or protecting the U.S. Constitution, Ron Paul delivers in all counts. He's the only candidate who has been able to unite people from the far left (anti-war) to the far right (economics). That's why he's the choice of thinking people everywhere.
Don't be an idiot and vote for mainstream candidates. Be smart. Vote for real change. Join the Ron Paul Revolution. Watch the People of this nation take it back from the criminals, fat cats, war mongers and corporate crooks who now run it. |
Roberta Bivins
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 They faced substantial obstacles of race, class, and economics to an allopathic career: the Indian Medical Service was reluctant to employ and promote Indian doctors; the private practice of western medicine was fiercely competitive, with an increasing number of 'regulars' chasing the business of the Anglo-Indian community; and the cost-barriers to allopathy were high, both for would-be doctors (who had to pay for their educations) and willing patients. Homeopathy offered an easier entree to 'modern' medical knowledge and practice with its higher status and often higher fees. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| One researcher even claims that economics (i.e., sweets are cheap) is responsible for hooking people on sugary foods.
Here's a closer look at the cutting-edge dopamine/genetics theory. Many experts believe that substance abusers turn to sugar, drugs, or alcohol to compensate for faulty biochemistry, such as lower levels of dopamine, serotonin, or beta-endorphins.
Dopamine is released when you experience pleasure, which may be when you eat sweets or when you make love, and that dopamine rush makes you want to repeat the activity that caused it again and again. |
Jack Challem
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 Many other people wield far greater power in politics, eating habits, and economics than we do, and we are no match for the billions of dollars that junk food companies spend on marketing and advertising. Yet we can make a difference as individuals.
How can we do this?
I have long believed that positive, long-lasting social change—characterized by greater patience, tolerance, and fairness—is best accomplished on a grassroots, one-to-one basis. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Family economics and Nutrition Review. 1999;12(2).
Brandi G et al. Mechanisms of action and antiproliferative properties of Brassica oler-acea juice in human breast cancer cell lines. J Nutr. 2005 Iun;135(6):1503-1509. Cerhan J, Criswell L, Merlino L, Mikuls T, Saag K. Antioxidant micronutrients and risk of rheumatoid arthritis in a cohort of older women. Am J Epidemiol. 2003; 157:345-354.
Fan S, Meng Q, Auborn K, Carter T, Rosen EM. BRCA1 and BRCA2 as molecular targets for phytochemicals indole-3-carbinol and genistein in breast and prostate cancer cells. Br] Cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It changes the economics of sending spam. Let's face it: Spam is really an economic question. The only reason spammers are sending spam is because it pays off. If you can change the economics so that it no longer pays off, then they will stop sending spam. They will go off and do something else to con people out of money, but they won't be sending spam.
Right now, spam is profitable, and that's why it persists. It's profitable because it's cheap to send and because some foolish people still click on spam and buy products from spammers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once you understand the economics and the motives of the parties involved here, the junk science con becomes quite obvious: Pushers of pharmaceuticals will always use dirty tricks to discredit nutritional supplements because it is in their financial interests to do so.
My own financial interests, by the way, are squeaky clean. I sell no supplements, I earn no money from supplement companies, and in fact I am not even paid by NewsTarget for my work on these articles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Countries can be controlled through economics, intellectual property law, banking and finance systems. Consumers can be controlled through advertising, publicity and corporate-fabricated fake news.
The corporations, as always, rake in the profits while the consumers pay the price all over the world. They eat their American hamburgers, drink their American sodas, take their American medicines and think they're cool, sophisticated consumers even while their internal organs are beginning to fail from all the toxic chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We have mastered the economics of delivering nutritionally devoid calories to a nutritionally ignorant population, and we've even managed to wrap Holidays around the whole consumption racket, forever imprinting each subsequent generation of children with the belief that Halloween = Candy, Thanksgiving = Turkey and Christmas = Cookies.
This holiday season, be amazed. Look around at what's happening with the eyes of a visitor from outer space (someone who has no knowledge of our bizarre customs and holidays). Then ask yourself: What the heck is behind all this? |
David R. Montgomery
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 While environmental degradation alone did not trigger the outright collapse of these civilizations, the history of their dirt set the stage upon which economics, climate extremes, and war influenced their fate. Rome didn't so much collapse as it crumbled, wearing away as erosion sapped the productivity of its homeland.
In a broad sense, the history of many civilizations follows a common story line. Initially, agriculture in fertile valley bottoms allowed populations to grow to the point where they came to rely on farming sloping land. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They can't find their way back to the hive…if [scientists] don't get a handle on this, the economics are going to get real bad."
And yet, this shortage of honeybees in the continental U.S. has already proven to be an economic hardship on crop owners from California to the New England states, and it will most likely continue to affect even more of the American public in immeasurable ways if a solution is not found soon. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But smart-minded economics like Stephen Leeb saw this coming well ahead of the masses. If you want to know what's in the picture for the near future, I recommend Leeb's newest book: The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel. You can get it, ironically, at Amazon.com, the very online retailer where the feds were trying to snoop into customer records:
Meanwhile, the Fed is pumping money into the economy in a desperate move to delay the inevitable popping of the massive U.S. debt bubble. |
Michael Pollan
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 Still, medicalizing the whole problem of the Western diet instead of working to overturn it (whether at the level of the patient or politics) is exactly what you'd expect from a health care community that is sympathetic to nutritionism as a matter of temperament, philosophy, and economics. You would not expect such a medical community to be sensitive to the cultural or ecological dimensions of the food problem—and it isn't. We'll know this has changed when doctors kick the fast-food franchises out of the hospitals. |
Charles Barber
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 He self-righteously proclaimed in January 2001: "The more you yield to economics, the more you're falling to a business model that undercuts arguments for professionalism." Sounds good, but there's a problem with Caplan's moral high horse: he himself consults for the drug and biotech industries and runs a center funded in part by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Schering-Plough. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The only class that I can recall that was even remotely related to nutrition and proper food intake was Home economics where I learned how to bake cookies filled with fat and sugar.
The position of Dr. Demas is simple: "We can no longer afford on any level not to put food in the curriculum. Ignoring food or just serving the foods that we think are the ones that kids will eat has had incredibly dire consequences. There has to be a new paradigm in terms of how we place food into the school curriculums. |
Anne Harrington
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 This was a much more classically Durkheimian way of understanding the relationship between modern social values and health than the concept of social support had been, and it pointed toward a new kind of social critique: one that was less about community and more about capitalist economics. In the words of Ichiro Kawachi, director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, and Harvard School of Public Health professor Bruce P. Kennedy, "striving after fame and fortune should come with a government health warning. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet everything we know about the socialization into the surgical profession, the economics of practice, and the sureties of professionaliza-tion leads us to believe that underuse is unlikely. It seems more likely to us—and to Wenneberg—that high rate areas are cities with considerable unnecessary surgeries.
Writing about unnecessary surgery reminds me of my tonsillectomy. Proust was right. When nothing else subsists from the past, the smell and taste of things gain entry "into the immense edifice of memory. |
Bill Sardi
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 Journal Health economics 24: 277-97, 2005]
It was estimated that the deterrent effect caused by cigarette taxes implemented in 1983 would increase the number of people living to the age of 65 by 100,000 persons. [British Journal Addiction 84: 1217-34, 1989] But over two decades later, 160,000 Americans still die every year from lung cancer, with most of the deaths occurring among adults over age 65. Since lung cancer has a about a 20-year incubation period, any large decline in smoking will take years to produce a significant drop in mortality rates. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Sad to say, we are caught in the ripple effects of the economics of medicine. Could this possibly have been the underlying reason that Dr. Kilmer McCully lost his research funds and his job at Harvard?
Dr. McCully takes his own follow-the-money approach, asking who stands the most to gain by not educating people about the dangers of homocysteine. "The most dramatic improvements in longevity over the last couple of hundred years have been through public health, not through medicine," he says. "But public health is notoriously unprofitable. People don't make a profit preventing disease. |
| Unfortunately, economics is the driving force behind American agriculture, causing farmers to be more concerned about bushels per acre than the nutrient content of the food they harvest.
Few would argue about the quality of our foods and its decline compared to foods of a generation or two ago. Hybrid grains, vegetables, and fruits have increased in popularity. These hybrid seeds boast big, luscious products that are more resistant to diseases. The nutrient content of hybrids, however, is significandy less than that of their natural counterparts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Almost everybody was swept up by Groupthink, believing that the laws of economics had changed forever. CNBC became the cheerleader of unbridled greed, and brainwashed idiots at the American Enterprise Institute were publishing books predicting a Dow of 36,000 that would create infinite wealth requiring no effort or productive work. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 But then there are the economics. Seeing many patients every hour makes it difficult to empathize or to even know much about the patient. After filling out a long questionnaire, we find the doctor entering the treatment room scanning the file, unable to really take in the essentials about us. History is another victim in current therapy, both medical and psychological. Today, psychiatry has become an arm of the pharmaceutical industry. They tell us what drugs work and we use them. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The new post is in that other rising powerhouse, India, and the mandate is the same: climate change, chemicals and more sustainable economics. The man appointed to head that effort is Robert Donkers, who in September 2007 moved from Washington to the Indian Capital of New Delhi.
The New Diplomats: Power & Pitfalls
Stacy Vandeveer at Brown University has seen a disconcerting change over the past several years in his graduate students: they don't believe him when he describes the groundbreaking role once played by the United States. "My students," he told me ruefully, "have no memory of U.S. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 According to the Concise Encyclopedia of economics, one consequence "was the appearance of large, bizarre 'sculptures' adjacent to businesses." These included a 12-foot tall, 16-ton gorilla clutching a real Volkswagen Beetie placed next to a car dealer, and a 19-foot genie holding a rolled carpet as he emerged from a smoking teapot, which was erected near a store that sold floor coverings.
Not exactly what lawmakers had intended when they had passed the measure. |
| After unsuccessfully trying to solve problems that they played a starring role in creating, Washington and state and local governments will inevitably attempt to rectify matters with disastrous "solutions" that further defy the laws of economics. From underreporting, distorting, or hiding inflation and money supply statistics, to implementing wage and price controls, to limiting access to one's own funds, lawmakers and government agencies will try every trick in the book—except to decrease the supply of worthless currency—to turn things around. |
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