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What's best? Soy milk, cow's milk, raw milk and fermented milk (kefir) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's no surprise, then, that raw milk is under attack by both federal regulators and some members of the processed milk industry. They don't want people to find a "superior" milk that isn't as profitable to sell (because it has reduced shelf life), so they're trying to destroy the raw milk market and limit consumer choice to processed, dead milk. (The same is true in the almond industry, where the Almond Board of California is now trying to irradiate all almonds grown in the state, yet have them labeled as "raw" even when they're dead.

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

Yet as of this writing, fours years later, McDonald's has failed to fulfill its pledge and has suffered no penalties for this inaction from federal regulators. Self-regulation perpetuates such lack of accountability. Only adding to the confusion Another problem with self-regulation is the potential for increased confusion in the marketplace due to lack of standardization. Food companies are now free to craft their own nutrition guidelines, leaving consumers without any clear guidance from federal regulators on how to assess these claims.

Food Scam: Almond Board of California to falsely label pasteurized almonds as "raw" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It is also interesting that there is absolutely no effort by state or federal regulators to remove the additives and ingredients in foods that kill consumers through cancer, heart disease, diabetes and liver disorders. Sodium nitrite, for example, remains perfectly legal to add to processed meat products, even though it substantially increases the risk of pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and even breast cancer. Hydrogenated oils, aspartame, petroleum-derived food coloring chemicals and cancer-causing preservative chemicals all remain legal as well.

New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent; cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And curing cancer is a threat to all the criminals participating in that industry: The non-profit employees, oncologists, doctors, federal regulators, drug company executives, med school propaganda teachers, pharmaceutical reps and many others. These people cannot allow cancer to be prevented or cured. Their jobs and careers are at stake. Another outstanding source for learning more about the evils of the cancer industry is G. Edward Griffin. Click here to read our article about Griffin or click here for his website.

Health Begins in the Colon Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN See book keywords and concepts

Neither federal regulators nor consumer watch groups monitor the safety of sucralose.43 Without sufficient monitoring, the effects of harmful substances can go largely undetected. Due to a lack of epidemiological research, it took decades for government agencies to finally agree there were countless tobacco-related deaths. Without monitoring and research, it is impossible to determine the safety of substances such as sucralose. To help avoid damage to your intestinal lining, avoid all products containing this artificial compound. What Do I Need to Know About Aspartame?

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

The company had sent out press releases when federal regulators approved the new drug, declaring it an "important advance." But inside the company, executives knew they had a problem. Their new brand of medicine was little different from two other time-released pills already selling fast. While the old Ritalin had been an original—that is, the first methylphenidate product approved to treat inattentive children—the company's new pill was nothing more than a me-too, an imitator aiming to grab a piece of an already crowded market.

Both Novartis and Fujisawa had continued these animated promotional antics in the weeks following an announcement by federal regulators in the spring of 2005 that the prescription creams, which worked by suppressing the immune system, could cause cancer. The regulators said the creams had been shown to cause cancer in monkeys and mice and that they had received thirteen reports of skin cancer and lymphoma in humans, including children. Other drug companies also targeted children and teens with free games, storybooks, and toys.

The nation's medicines do not perform as promised by the advertisements because federal regulators demand little proof of their effectiveness before approving them for sale. In most cases, a company must show only that its product can outperform a sugar pill to some small degree. That is, it must show that its medicine is better than nothing. This can be understood by listening to a conversation between an FDA physician who was considering whether to approve the allergy drug Claritin and a scientist who was working for Schering-Plough, the drug's maker. The FDA medical officer, Dr. Sherwin D.

Over the years, federal regulators tried to police all the promotional noise created by Pharmacia and its competitors. Between 1999 and 2001, the FDA repeatedly sent letters to both Pharmacia and Alza, warning them that their promotion was illegal because it described the pills as safer and more effective than they really were. The regulators found that the companies were making claims that were not backed by scientific studies. In 1999, for instance, Pharmacia claimed in an ad aimed at physicians that Detrol worked more selectively on a patient's bladder than on her salivary glands.

While many journalists used these statistics in their news reports, federal regulators were less than pleased when the company used results from one of its surveys in a sales brochure. The brochure featured photos of smiling men and women and claimed that patients taking Detrol had reported "an improved sense of well being." According to the brochure, 74 percent of the patients taking the pill "felt more confident when going out," while 73 percent "felt free from concern about their overactive bladder.

The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith See book keywords and concepts

I just hope that federal regulators continue to keep the standards high when it comes to the term organic. Now that corporate food giants such as Dole, General Mills, Kraft, and ConAgra have gotten into the "organic" game, they have, as part of an industry-wide group, lobbied hard to change the rules about what it means to be "organic." If they win at getting synthetic chemicals like ripening agents and thickeners added to the list of allowable ingredients, or even genetic engineering to pass muster, then "organic" will move further and further away from "pure.

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

By 1999 Johnson & Johnson had received almost three hundred reports that the drug had caused serious arrhythmias and other heart problems in adults and children, including eighty-seven who had died. federal regulators began to question whether the serious risks of taking Propulsid were worth the benefits the company claimed it provided. In a private meeting with Johnson & Johnson executives in 1998, FDA officials had shown a slide that asked, "Is it acceptable for your nighttime heartburn medicine (i.e., something for which you could take Turns) to have the potential to kill you?

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

Groups such as CSPI, which has grown increasingly frustrated with inaction on the part of federal regulators, are turning to the court system for relief. As CSPI's litigation director Steve Gardner says, "Lawsuits are not the best way to resolve a dispute, but sometimes they are the only way."22 In January 2006, CSPI and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) announced their intention to sue Kellogg and Viacom (the parent company of Nickelodeon) for marketing junk food to children.

The health dangers of trans fats have been known for decades, yet food companies still poison customers with hydrogenated oils Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Companies that put poison into their food bear full responsibility for the health results that emerge as a result of the widespread consumption of those poisons. federal regulators, whose job it is to police these industries, are criminally negligent in allowing the ongoing use of toxic ingredients in consumer products of all kinds. The new FDA food labeling requirement for trans fats is a tiny step in the right direction, but in no way does that step represent what the FDA is legally required to do in this situation, which is to ban this ingredient from all food and beverage products.

Health Ranger hails CPSI effort to stop Kellogg Co. from marketing junk food to children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That our federal regulators, both the FDA and FTC, continue to allow these harmful foods to be aggressively marketed to children is both unconscionable and unacceptable," Adams adds. "No nation should allow its children to be harmed simply to appease the private sector." Adams is also on the record accusing the FDA and even many media organizations of "selling out" to the financial and political influence of food companies.

Big Pharma and profit priorities: why business ethics never trickle up Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Here's a question for those people reading this who actually work for drug companies, hospitals, medical clinics or federal regulators: maybe it's time you looked at the bigger picture here. What system are you contributing to? If you were a German citizen living in the time of Nazi rule, would you have accepted a job managing a bullet factory? Would you have taken a job as an accountant for the Nazi party? If your company was awarded the winning contract on the manufacture of gas chambers, would you have accepted the bid if it meant millions of dollars in personal wealth?

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Cars with no safety systems (no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones) would be declared perfectly safe by federal regulators. Car companies, rather than address this lack of safety features, would focus on publicizing the dangers of riding bicycles. Explanation: the FDA currently approves deadly drugs as "safe." Meanwhile, drug companies ignore the dangers of their own drugs and, instead, try to get people to believe that herbs or vitamins are dangerous. 5.

Lawn health warning: screen your lawn for Brown's Grass Disease and grasseoporosis Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is fully approved by federal regulators. Everybody's okay with this, and everybody's using it. Go ahead and use it." I said, "Okay, no problem. I'll take this home and start spraying this on the lawn." Treating the grasseoporosis I took the treatment home and started spraying it. Sure enough, it was a kind of liquid, glue-like substance. I coated the grass with this glue, and it was supposed to dry overnight. The next morning, the lawn was not only green, since we had solved the Brown’s Grass Disease problem, but the grass was now intact and was no longer being blown away.

What would happen if doctors were car mechanics Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Fortunately, some of the doctors are getting together with the American Automobile Health Association and some federal regulators, and cracking down on this kind of con-artist activity. Thankfully, for our protection, they're seeking out these companies selling these cons; these so-called "oil changes," and they're cracking down on them, and putting some of them behind bars where, frankly, they belong. You need people who are certified to be working on your car.

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

The arrogance of politicians, federal regulators, and the media is that only a person who is an "M.D." is qualified to write a book or talk about health or ways to treat, prevent, and cure disease. This is the great lie. This is the brainwashing that the American Medical Association has purposely perpetuated throughout America. The American Medical Association, a union owned and controlled by the drug industry, wants to have a monopoly on what is true relating to health. They want you to believe that only an M.D. should be listened to regarding your health.

Medicine at gunpoint: Seattle mother arrested for "kidnapping" her own baby to seek alternative treatments Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

FDA actions are increasingly seen as oppressive and even tyrannical by an increasing number of patients and doctors, and the public's trust of pharmaceutical companies, who have been caught inventing fictitious diseases and misleading federal regulators about drug safety trials, is at an all-time low.

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

Food companies are now free to craft their own nutrition guidelines, leaving consumers without any clear guidance from federal regulators on how to assess these claims. So now consumers—many of whom are already extremely bewildered by nutrition—are expected to figure it out for themselves. For example, we are seeing various new corporate "seal of approval" nutrition programs, which are impossible to evaluate without the benefit of any government-issued, universally recognized criteria.

Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

And with the increased use of antidepressants came an ever-increasing number of personal tragedies and horror stories believed to be associated with antidepressant use, and the public once again looked to federal regulators and policymakers for intervention. But it wasn't until the end of 2003 when the British Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM)—an arm of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the United Kingdom's equivalent of the FDA—effectively banned the use of seven of the top-selling antidepressants for children younger than 18 that the FDA took action.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Merck's Willful Disregard of Human Rights On April 11, a New Jersey jury granted a 77-year-old New Jersey man an award after finding that Merck: •* Knowingly withheld information about the drug's risks from federal regulators. «•* Showed "wanton and willful disregard of another's rights" through its actions. •* Committed consumer fraud in misrepresenting the medicine's risk to prescribing physicians. Superior health doesn't require a prescription With natural health, there are no drugs required, no prescriptions needed, and no surgical procedures.

There has already been talk about banning the discussion of health topics on the internet unless they are approved by federal regulators. This encroachment on the freedom of speech will no doubt continue because the drug companies, the FDA, and all the promoters of conventional medicine realize that as long as people are free to tell the truth on the internet, they cannot win their war of oppression, disinformation, and censorship. They must ban health information from appearing on the internet if they are going to complete their domination of the health consumer.

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

The FDA now has stated that the ads for Levitra and Zyrtec® are false, misleading, and full of unsubstantiated claims. The federal regulators have ordered the ads be pulled. The FDA says that the ads make unprovable claims and fail to highlight side effects and FDA warnings as to the dangerous nature of the drugs. The ads for Zyrtec compare two people—one obviously sick, sneezing and wiping her nose, and another who looks perfectly healthy. The captions of the ads imply that the healthy and alert person has taken Zyrtec; the sickly and unhappy one has taken a different medication.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Drug companies caught in price-fixing scams, for example, somehow always manage to reach a settlement with federal regulators by paying a fine rather than being convicted of fraud (which would drop them from the list of approved government medical suppliers). Americans pay the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere in the world. This is accomplished through the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy that: Violates free-market economics by attempting to ban cost-effective online pharmacies, prescription drug sales from Canada, drug tourism to Mexico, etc.

The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman Peter Rost See book keywords and concepts

The Act protected employees who take "lawful acts" to disclose information or otherwise assist criminal investigators, federal regulators, Congress, or the employee's supervisors. Protection is given under the new law as long as the employee "reasonably believes" the employer's conduct is a violation of federal securities law, even if the questioned conduct is later determined to be lawful. I realized that I had already given Partland & Longhorn documents that would place me under the umbrella protection of this act, but I needed to be able to prove that I had actually done so.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In fact, I think it would collude or conspire with federal regulators to make sure there is a drug-friendly environment in this country that discredits alternatives. You can call it a conspiracy if you want, but I just call it straight old-fashioned corporate greed. It's all about money, and there's a lot of money changing hands in the drug racket now operating in this country. It's a swell deal if you're the guy at the top, pocketing the take, and if you don't have any ethics.

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Our federal regulators have said consuming milk and meat from bGH-treated cows is safe. . . . It's not an issue to us or the FDA. . . . This is not something that knowledgeable people have concerns about."1 But Akre did have concerns. She and her husband, investigative reporter Steve Wilson, worked for three months, digging deep into broken promises, cancer links, corporate lies, and influence in the FDA. Nothing was yet proven, but the red flags were there, especially concerning human health issues. All this and more was to be revealed to the public in a four-part news series.

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