Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: Every once in a while, a really smart movie comes along that shows you just how stupid modern society is by shoving it in your face. "Idiocracy" is precisely such a film. Filled with purposeful profanity (it actually drives the storyline) and brilliant parody, Idiocracy manages to cough up nearly 90 minutes of hilarious commentary on just how stupid modern society has become today.
The storyline is simple: A career military desk jockey of average intelligence is cocooned in an experimental hibernation machine for 500 years. (By accident, of course. | | The fact is, most people just don't have the IQ to handle living in modern society, at least not when there are financial decisions that need to be made.
So thumbs up to Mike Judge for showing us the way our world really is by depicting a future world that might actually come to pass. You may or may not find the movie funny, depending on your tolerance for ass jokes, but if you can get past the toilet humor and see the real message about how stupid modern society really is, you'll probably laugh your head off. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  As Benson told a journalist at this time, "In modern society this fight or flight response is often an anachronism, and such stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system may lead to diseases like hypertension. TM appears at the present time to be the easiest and most rapid way of turning on an opposite response."31
Benson was personally persuaded of the importance of TM, but he remained nervous about the wider implications of what he was doing. | | Alongside the need to develop one's capacity for positive thinking, he told his readers, was the need to do something about a growing problem of modern society: the problem of "stress." What did this unfamiliar word mean? Peale helped his readers understand by telling them a little story:
A friend of mine is a pilot for one of the great airlines. He flies a big DC-6 and, when I fly with him, I enjoy the privilege of spending some time with him in the cockpit.
On one of these trips he was discussing the use of engine power. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | For better or worse, modern society relies on electronics. If we want to keep all these gadgets and live wherever we want, we'll just have to protect ourselves as much as we can from cellular towers, fault lines, and underground sources emitting negative radiation. We can take measures to limit the amount of daily electromagnetic radiation to which we and our loved ones are exposed. By following the recommendations in the chart below, I believe you can reduce your daily radiation exposure by up to 80%. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We are learning that natural botanical medicine is all the medicine you need to prevent every major disease now ravaging modern society.
Plant-based medicines are the answer to diabetes, obesity, cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, kidney stones, depression and psychosis, behavioral disorders, liver disease, kidney disease, urinary tract infections, skin problems, bad breath, body odor, Alzheimer's, eye health, longevity, colorectal cancer, Crohn's Disease, asthma and too many other health conditions to name. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The internet is the last bastion of freedom in modern society, and that's exactly why you will continue to see it attacked in the years ahead. They've already attacked sunlight, herbs and nutrition. You can fully expect the internet to be increasingly attacked and discredited by the mainstream media, which continues to lose readers and viewers by the day. It is only the internet that offers any real hope of reform or revolution in the years ahead. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Perhaps in some parallel universe all businesses act with integrity and compassion for the Earth, but here in modern society today, the Amazon Herb Company is a rare find.
I encourage everyone to take a close look at what this company (and its products) can do for you. I've been researching these products for quite some time and recently took a trip to South America to interview people and research these herbs first hand. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, osteoarthritis, a disease that is rampant in modern society, is said to be caused at least in part by a calcium sheath that builds up around the tendons, especially at the joints. The bioenergetic approach, however, is not to address the muscles and joints directly, but instead to address the information networks that affect these body areas. So, in the case of arthritis, you might have to address the efficiency of the liver by taking Energetic Integrator 8 Infoceutical and bioenergetically improve oxygenation efficiency in the body by taking Energetic Integrator 2 Infoceutical. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | You may or may not find the movie funny, depending on your tolerance for ass jokes, but if you can get past the toilet humor and see the real message about how stupid modern society really is, you'll probably laugh your head off.
The acting is great (especially Terry Crews, who gives an energetic and appropriately outrageous performance as President), the CG work is outstanding (the indoors shots of Costco are mind-blowing), and the script is smart and tight. Idiocracy is at least as much fun as Office Space, but with a far more ambitious message. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  The Toll of Chronic Stress on Blood Glucose
Stress triggers the fight-or-flight response, an evolutionary adaptation that helped our ancestors to mobilize the stress hormones adrenaline and Cortisol when fighting the wooly mammoth and the cave bear, but this response is maladaptive in modern society. The fight-or-flight response involves a host of bodily changes triggered by a surge in adrenaline and Cortisol levels that impact blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and heart rate, as well as a slowdown in the activity of the gastrointestinal tract (intestines, stomach). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Filled with purposeful profanity (it actually drives the storyline) and brilliant parody, Idiocracy manages to cough up nearly 90 minutes of hilarious commentary on just how stupid modern society has become today.
The storyline is simple: A career military desk jockey of average intelligence is cocooned in an experimental hibernation machine for 500 years. (By accident, of course. It's the military we're talking about here. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  One of the most common ways that distractibility and impulsiveness play out in modern society is with our eating habits. With plenty to do at home and at work, people often don't plan ahead for substantial, healthy meals. So when we do get hungry (that is, when our blood sugar is low and we're already short on neuronutrients), we are especially susceptible to making impulsive decisions about where to quickly get our next meal—such as choosing between the drive-through line at McDonald's or at Taco Bell. In a real sense, eating has become an impulsive act. | | Reducing Distractible and Impulsive ADHD-like Behavior
Many people in modern society seem distracted, impulsive, bored or addicted to certain types of distractible behavior. These traits are often ascribed to children with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Today, many children with ADHD have become adults with either ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms because they do not consume adequate neuronutrients. The problem with this type of behavior is that it reduces our ability to clearly focus, hurts our productivity and relationships, and, at times, it risks serious injury. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  In exploring the fundamental role of soil in human history, the key lesson is as simple as it is clear: modern society risks repeating mistakes that hastened the demise of past civilizations. Mortgaging our grandchildren's future by consuming soil faster than it forms, we face the dilemma that sometimes the slowest changes prove most difficult to stop.
For most of recorded history, soil occupied a central place in human cultures. Some of the earliest books were agricultural manuals that passed on knowledge of soils and farming methods. | | That soil abuse remains a threat to modern society is clear from the plight of environmental refugees driven from the southern plains' Dust Bowl in the 1930s, the African Sahel in the 1970s, and across the Amazon basin today. While the world's population keeps growing, the amount of productive farmland began declining in the 1970s and the supply of cheap fossil fuels used to make synthetic fertilizers will run out later this century. | | Still, it is ironic that in retreating from the socialist agenda, this isolated island became the first modern society to adopt widespread organic and biologically intensive fanning. Cuba's necessity-driven move toward agricultural self-sufficiency provides a preview of what may come on a larger scale once we burn through the supply of cheap oil that ptesently drives modern agriculrure. And it is somewhat comforting to know that on at least one island the experiment has already been run without social collapse. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I believe that Kunstler is correct in his assessment of the structure of modern society and its dependence on oil. Unless we can cultivate a new source of cost-efficient energy, we are no doubt doomed to roll the clock back to much a simpler time. He convincingly explores the rather startling ramifications of the end of cheap fuel. However, there's one area where I hope the author is incorrect: the search for alternative energy sources. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
See book keywords and concepts |  Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging. | | Pioneers such as the American psychiatrist David Rothschild made it clear that the bleak neuropathologization of aging could be damaging to modern society: "Too exclusive a preoccupation with the cerebral pathology," he argued, had "led to a tendency to forget that the changes are occurring in living, mentally functioning persons."2 The perils of aging were hard enough without reductionist disease labels like AD making it more difficult to deal with, Rothschild seemed to be saying. |
David De Angelis
See book keywords and concepts |  For how long will we, our children, and our grandchildren be victims of ignorance on this issue? modern society could have correct statements on refractive errors if politicians or leaders in health care intervened. Maybe, such revolution in the optic industry could be born, informing and awakening every single person who is interested in really treating his or her own sight.
The project of informing people of their power and the possibilities of preventing or, at least, decreasing the spread of myopia, should contain the following phases:
? | | According to this theory, our modern society, requiring much near-work, leads people to many different refractive errors (particularly myopia).
Skeffington postulated that long periods of intense concentration, immobilization, and mental effort, associated with near-work (like studying, reading, and other cognitive processes) lead to the focusing system adapting to very short distances—with the eye developing a negative focal status as a consequence. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts |  As a result, obesity, diabetes, and other disorders of blood sugar regulation are among the most common diseases of modern society.
THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBOHYDRATES IN WEIGHT MANAGEMENT Low-carb and no-carb diets have enjoyed tremendous popularity as a weight-loss strategy. Often they can produce quick and dramatic results, but those short-term benefits are outweighed by rebound weight gain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The "Earth" frequency as a basis for healing
With modern society bombarding us with so much electromagnetic energy, it seems increasingly obvious that getting more in tune with the "Earth energy" is universally healing. People who leave big, noisy cities and move out to the country enjoy spectacular health improvements. People who contact the earth through gardening, outdoors activities or consuming natural foods are far healthier than those who don't. And almost everyone agrees that a lush, green forest, humming with life, is calming and healing to both the mind and body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Given that virtually every person living in modern society today has hundreds of synthetic chemicals in their bodies that do not belong there, and with the documented proof that combining Natural Cellular Defense with a simple juice fast can remove 88 percent of those chemicals from the body, this is research of tremendous importance. Its importance cannot be overstated when discussing the prevention of cancer, Alzheimer's, birth defects and even diabetes.
For anyone interested in acquiring Natural Cellular Defense products, contact information is listed at the end of this report. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Even if they were using genuine natural fluoride, there are no studies that show the ingestion of fluoride decreases the incidence of dental caries in modern society. Yet this myth persists in the dental community, and the American Dental Association stands firmly behind this national poisoning agenda. They will call anybody who disagrees with it a "nut," and they will say that every population must be fluoridated -- for their own good, of course. That's the only way to ensure they have healthy teeth, the logic goes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And here it is: based on what I've learned from spending more than 5,000 hours studying nutrition and the healing gifts of nature, I believe that these products can not only help prevent nearly every major chronic disease we are seeing in modern society today, but that they can also reverse many of those diseases, especially the early stages of those diseases.
Beyond that, I believe that these products have the potential to even alter the mindset of our population, to bring greater calm and reduce aggression in our population. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Organized medicine has no benefit whatsoever in modern society, except if you've been in a car crash or something. If an iron girder from a steel building falls on you and you need some surgery, then definitely get some surgery. American surgeons are some of the best in the world. They can stop the bleeding from gunshot wounds and put you back together. However, they can't prevent chronic diseases and they have no clue how to treat them.
Don't believe me? Observe this for yourself...
If you're skeptical of everything I've said so far, here's a little experiment you can run. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Rather, these diseases only "exist" in modern society because of consensus hallucination.
What is consensus hallucination? It's when a large group of people all agree to hallucinate something that isn't there. IED doesn't exist in the real world, of course. You can't find it in nature, nor in the body or brain tissues of a human being. It only exists as a false concept, an idea that is being hyped as real even though it isn't. |
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