Bill Sardi
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 Health Physics 75:428-30, 1998]
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The EPA says: "Although some scientists dispute the precise number of deaths due to radon, all the major health organizations (like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Lung Association and the American Medical Association) agree with estimates that radon causes thousands of preventable lung cancer deaths every year. This is especially true among smokers, since the risk to smokers is much greater than to non-smokers. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Thanks to the enlightening report, From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Super Sizing, issued by a coalition of health organizations, here's an idea of how saying yes to supersizing piles on the calories:
For example, if you opt for a Classic Cinnabon instead of a Minibon, you pay "only" 48 cents more but get 370 extra calories or 123 percent more. Or, if you move from a regular portion to 7-Eleven DoubleGulp Coke, you pay a mere 37 cents more, but get an extra 450 extra calories, more than you'd get in a McDonald's Quarter Pounder. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Public health agencies, communities, government, health organizations, the media, and the food and health industry must form alliances if we are to combat obesity.
Education
?Provide federal funding to state public health department for mass media health promotion campaigns that emphasize healthful eating and physical activity patterns.
?Require instruction in nutrition and weight management as part of the school curriculum for future health education teachers.
?Make a plant-based diet the focus of dietary guidance.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It’s a major concern for hospitals and doctors, and there was a tremendous effort placed in the 1990s through the American Academy of Pediatrics and various health organizations to make people aware of the overuse of antibiotics on viral colds. Through that ten-year period they were really excited to see that antibiotic use had dropped by one-third. But what was really interesting was that the office visits for those same problems dropped by one-third. So what really happened was that the people, the parents, became more aware of what was a virus and was not. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Their doctors don't tell them; the media doesn't tell them; even the national health organizations don't tell people this. The big message is that you can prevent prostate cancer by getting sunlight. This is not rocket science folks! If you go out and regularly get sunlight on your skin -- as a child, as a teenager, and as an adult, you will not get prostate cancer.
Of course, the darker your skin, the more sunlight you need. This is another point I've said over 100 times on this website. People with dark skin have a natural adaptation that blocks more ultraviolet rays. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| It also lines up with official health organizations' recommendations for acceptable intakes of fat and carbohydrates.
Prepared meal plans. These programs deliver pre-cooked balanced meals — usually low-fat and low-calorie — directly to your door. Research shows this approach can work, resulting in weight loss, improved heart health, and perhaps most importantly, an improved quality of life.
Liquid and supplement diets. Replacing one to three meals a day with just a shake can be a hard regimen to stick to. But research shows if you're diligent it can work — even over the long-term. |
Michele Simon
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 Truth be told, I haven't had much confidence in the integrity of the major health organizations since attempting to volunteer with my local branch of the American Heart
Association in 1996. Then I was the sole dissenting voice on a conference planning committee and wound up quitting, disgusted that my objections to the group's decision to accept funding from the California Beef Council were not taken seriously. Even so, I find the ADA's involvement with Cadbury even more dispiriting, because of its outright shamelessness—not to mention Richard Kahn's utter clue-lessness. |
| Even more disturbing, this partnership is but one indicator of how low America's leading health organizations and professionals are prepared to stoop in exchange for a hefty cash payout from Big Food.
While research has a critical role to play in the ongoing
—Attorney Carol Hogan, advising food companies to waste no time in hiring scientific experts wii^m* .....nrrfp' policy debate around food and health, increasingly, nutrition science is being co-opted by the powerful forces that stand to benefit most from obfuscation of the truth. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| While the conclusion that oats should be grouped together with wheat and systematically avoided in a wheat-free diet is not supported by some research studies, most public health organizations continue to place wheat and oats together in the category of "gluten grains" and recommend elimination of oats along with wheat for wheat-sensitive individuals. Celiac disease, also known as "nontropical sprue," is an intestinal disorder caused by an inability to utilize gluten. |
Michele Simon
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| Remember that these days, even well-known and highly respected health organizations like the American Diabetes Association are finding it increasingly difficult not to compromise their integrity in exchange for corporate funding. Be wary of their statements and positions. Truly unbiased groups will clearly state that they take no corporate funding.
9. Stay on top of industry efforts to co-opt science and health experts. Professionals and organizations you can trust today may get bought off tomorrow. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 The bottom line is this: Despite the comments in psychology textbooks, explanations in the literature of non-profit mental health organizations (funded by drug companies), and what most doctors and the public have come to believe, the "chemical imbalance causes mental problems" philosophy is marketing, not science. Denmark's leading researcher in this field put it to me like this in 2005: "Today we cannot quantify the absolute amount of any neurotransmitter in the living brain, but research will probably eventually succeed in doing it if enough time and money is invested in the project. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 The American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health and the World health organizations have agreed with the FDA that milk from bST-supplemented cows is the same and is safe.
Others in the news media who attended Epstein's press conference or reviewed his study—such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post— chose not to run this "story" because they believed his theories lacked scientific evidence. |
Michele Simon
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| Also, many advocacy groups, such as the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Commercial Alert, have demanded congressional action, as have prominent health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and the American Psychological Association (APA).
The recommendations of APA's Task Force on Advertising and Children are particularly compelling:
Considerable research has examined advertising's cumulative effect on children's eating habits. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| Weltner may not know that Samuel Epstein has no standing among his peers in the scientific community and no credibility with the leading health organizations in this country. He has no training in endocrinology or in oncology. He has conducted no original research and his study cites no new research. All that can be said of his "study" is that it takes the work of legitimate scientists out of context. Epstein's interpretations have often been rejected by the very researchers he cites, as well as by leading experts in endocrinology and oncology. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 By 2000, approximately 16 million prescriptions were written for either methylphenidate or amphetamine for the alleged mental abnormality ADHD—mind-altering drugs that the DEA and other world health organizations consider to "have the highest abuse potential and dependence profile of all drugs that have medical utility."4 Methylphenidate (Ritalin and Concerta) and amphetamine (Adderall) are listed by the DEA as Schedule II drugs along with morphine, opium, cocaine and the heroin substitute methadone. |
| Although the "chemical imbalance" theory is bandied about as fact by a number of pharmaceutical companies, mental health organizations and an untold number of physicians and psychiatrists, "chemical imbalance" is today, despite decades of research, still a theory and even the NIMH refrains from elevating the theory to the status of medical/scientific fact.
Naturally one wonders how Pfizer got away with the unqualified statement that the company's mind-altering drug/"medicine," Zoloft, "helps correct the chemical imbalance of serotonin in the brain. |
| In fact, the "chemical imbalance" theory is rampant among private mental health organizations and even in the top echelon of the mental-health experts in the federal government.
For example, the National Alliance for the Mentally 111 (NAMI), which boasts it is "The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness," states, in part, on its website that although "there is no single cause of major depression...whatever the specific causes of depression, scientific research has firmly established that major depression is a biological brain disorder. |
| In fact, the APA, governmental bodies, pharmaceutical companies and private mental health organizations have spent billions on advertising campaigns to educate and reassure those afflicted with the reported psychiatric mental illnesses that it isn't their fault and that they shouldn't be stigmatized. |
| More importantly, though, one has to seriously consider just how much "better" a child, or an adult for that matter, can be after years of ingesting a prescribed psychiatric drug such as Ritalin-a stimulant (speed), and a drug the federal government, along with other world health organizations, categorizes as a Schedule II controlled substance, just like morphine, opium, cocaine and the heroin substitute methadone. |
| Given that the FDA and health organizations around the world have either effectively banned the use of mind-altering psychiatric drugs for children or, at a minimum, posted public warnings about their potential for suicide and other harmful behaviors for those taking the drugs, Hogan's response that "meds are quite safe and effective" seems ignorant.
But Hogan's support of the drug flowchart algorithm appears to waiver when it becomes apparent that the mass-drugging plan sharply increased the state's Medicaid budget. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Americans currently get a paltry amount of fiber in their diets, estimated at 10 grams a day. Most health organizations like the American Cancer Society recommend about 30 grams, and our caveman ancestors got much more (maybe around 50 or 60 grams). You can—and should— add fiber by eating as many fibrous vegetables and fruits as you can, but it's doubtful you'll get enough to have the kind of therapeutic effect I'm talking about. So eat those vegetables, but supplement your intake as well. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 By visiting libraries and bookstores and contacting health organizations that focus on cancer, you should be able to find a number of comprehensive, up-to-date books that provide additional information about alternative treatments.
Once you have a better idea of the therapy or therapies that would best serve your needs, contact educational organizations and patient-referral services that provide information on these treatments. (See Part Three, remedies and therapies, for further information about alternative treatments. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Healthy Greens and other food supplements by agreeing to pay $600,000, divided equally, to three different health organizations.3 This was a small price for the company to pay, considering the ultimate revenues that were generated by the exploding nutrient supplement market.
FOCUS ON FAT
The focus on individual nutrients instead of whole foods has become commonplace in the past two decades, and part of the blame can be put on our 1982 report. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| The letter also claimed that Epstein had "no standing among his peers in the scientific community and no credibility with the leading health organizations in this country." It also said that " USA Today was the only newspaper to print these allegations and we recently held a heated meeting with them." We will know next week if The Boston Globe is in the same league as The New York Times or if it is down there with USA Today.
Dairy Coalition vs. USA Today
On Wednesday (2/7/96), representatives of the Dairy Coalition met with reporter Anita Manning and her editor at USA Today. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Osteoporosis: Both health organizations and individuals must act now to avoid an impending epidemic. Press Release WHO/58, 11 October 1999.
67. RiffeeJM. Osteoporosis: Prevention and management. Amer Pharm 1992;NS32;8:61-72.
68. Stand UP to Osteoporosis. Washington, D.C. National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1995.
69. Stand UP to Osteoporosis. Washington, D.C. National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1995.
70. RiffeeJM. Osteoporosis: Prevention and management. Amer Pharm 1992;NS32;8:61-72.
71. Stand UP to Osteoporosis. Washington, D.C. National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1995.
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Michele Simon
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| CCF has even developed a Web site called ActivistCash, which claims to "expose" the funding sources of various environmental and public health organizations. (Never mind that such information is already publicly available.)
Also on this site, you'll find a guide to the "key players" in nutrition advocacy. Among the people singled out is New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle, who is described as "one of the country's most hysterical anti-food-industry fanatics," a food cop with "radical goals. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Present governmental and national heath organization guidelines do not provide a maximal opportunity to either arrest or prevent coronary artery disease. Studies demonstrate persons following present guidelines will have increased rates of disease progression when compared to persons achieving lower serum lipid levels through diet and/or lipid-lowering drugs.
"A diet which would achieve superior results in reducing atherosclerosis would be a 10-15 percent fat diet provided largely by grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruit. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The letter claimed Epstein had "no standing among his peers in the scientific community and no credibility with the leading health organizations in this country." It said that "USA Today was the only newspaper to print these allegations and we recendy held a heated meeting with them."9
At USA Today, coalition members had met with health reporter Anita Manning and her editor, after Manning had written an article that cited Epstein's concerns. The Coalition attacked Epstein's credentials. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Surgeon General and many professional health organizations recommend a diet containing 20 to 35 grams of fiber a day.69 The average American consumes half that—about 10 to 15 grams daily. The best way to up your fiber intake is to eat more complex low-GI carbohydrates, but go slowly. A large increase in fiber over a short period can result in bloating, diarrhea, gas, and general discomfort, so it's important to add fiber gradually over a period of three weeks or so to avoid abdominal problems.
Animal products like meat, cheese, and eggs contain zero fiber. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
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 The safety of aspartame has been affirmed not only by the FDA, but also by numerous health organizations such as the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA—the scientific advisory body to the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization), the Scientific Committee for Food of the European Union, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Dietetic Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. |
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