Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But it really is nothing more complicated than unjustified belief in the mythology of prescription drugs. | | Rather than self-discipline, wisdom or education taking a role in the person's outcome, the only factor that counts, according to the mythology, is the name of the drug you choose to take.
Of course, Americans absolutely love this story. They love it because there is a great unwillingness in Western societies, but especially in America, to take responsibility for shaping one's own health outcome. In America, we like to blame everybody else for our situation. We don't want to admit that we put ourselves into the health condition we are currently experiencing. | | The mythology of the drug has become a living story. And regardless of whether or not the story is true, it is a seductive story. Perhaps you've heard it yourself. The story goes something like this:
If you take this drug, Acomplia, you will automatically eat less because your hunger will be turned off. And when you start losing weight, the first place you will lose body fat is your mid-section. The pounds will just melt away. And better yet, your cholesterol will go down and your blood pressure will return to healthy levels.
But that's not all. | | As people take Acomplia in a desperate effort to pursue the mythology of this drug, they are only going to do themselves more harm. They are going to wind up in a situation where they are still obese, they still have body fat, they still have high cholesterol, they still have diabetes and heart disease and cancer. And now they're spending $400/month on a synthetic chemical that has other side effects that are yet unknown.
That's the reality of the situation. | | And of course, there is nothing in the mythology that is true. In fact, there is not a single clinical trial proving a single one of these suggestions. The drug hasn’t been shown to result in permanent weight loss, lower cholesterol, reduce smoking addiction, or help people stop drinking alcohol. None of these things have been demonstrated with the drug.
So why is Acomplia so remarkably popular even before it has been approved by the FDA? The reason it’s popular has nothing whatsoever to do with science or nutrition or health. | | It will be a financial success because people are willing to pay almost anything to perpetuate the mythology that prescription drugs can release us from a lifetime of poor decisions.
But there's more to this story! Acomplia will likely be a very popular drug, and five or ten years down the road, after tens of millions of Americans have taken it, we may begin to find some problems with it, in the same way that we found serious health problems with Vioxx, Baycol, NSAIDs and antidepressants. People may be harmed by Acomplia in ways that modern doctors and the makers of Acomplia cannot foresee. |
Ray Dodd
See book keywords and concepts |  Our mythology is the stories we tell ourselves and anyone who will listen about our personal history, our ideals, our opinions, our family, our friends, and even our enemies. Our mythology is the way we explain the world and our place in it, a mythology that forms a real and unmistakable boundary. That boundary is everything we know.
Some call this boundary an island of safety. I call it "the island of the known." On this island everything is explained. Whatever happens, we can assimilate it into something we know and have an opinion about it. |
Joseph Campbell
See book keywords and concepts | | For when scrutinized in terms not of what it is but of how it functions, of how it has served mankind in the past, of how it may serve today, mythology shows itself to be as amenable as life itself to the obsessions and requirements of the individual, the race, the age.
2.
The Function of Myth, Cult, and Meditation
In his life-form the individual is necessarily only a fraction and distortion of the total image of man. He is limited either as male 2 Ibid., IV, 400-406. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Indeed, they've played a prominent role in mythology and religion. The ancient Egyptians, for example, considered the ear a receptacle of life's breath. They believed that the "air of life" entered the right ear, while the "air of death" entered the left. And the Egyptians, like people in many other ancient cultures, pierced their ears, believing that metal kept evil spirits from invading the body. Centuries later, sailors pierced their ears thinking it would improve their eyesight. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
See book keywords and concepts |  Not surprisingly, there is a rich mythology surrounding the history of tea and its important role in many cultures around the world.
While a "nice cup of tea" is inextricably linked to our modern concept of tea, not all cultures have made a cup of tea in the same way or even served it in a cup. In fact, the archeological record indicates that wild tea may first have been used as a food, not a beverage. |
Ray Dodd
See book keywords and concepts | | Our mythology is the way we explain the world and our place in it, a mythology that forms a real and unmistakable boundary. That boundary is everything we know.
Some call this boundary an island of safety. I call it "the island of the known." On this island everything is explained. Whatever happens, we can assimilate it into something we know and have an opinion about it. And if we don't know, we assume we do and frequently develop an expectation about how it should be.
There are two very interesting things about the island of the known. First, it's almost invisible. | | In the same way, we all have a personal mythology that now guides us through our life that contains every belief, rule, and agreement we've assembled.
We each have a worldview supported by a body of personal myths associated with every event, every person we've ever met, and every situation we've experienced. Our mythology is the stories we tell ourselves and anyone who will listen about our personal history, our ideals, our opinions, our family, our friends, and even our enemies. | | Whatever it is, through our experiences we develop a belief system that is, in its essence, our mythology.
We have been taught that myths are either half-truths or legends about larger-than-life gods and goddesses battling it out using the forces of nature in supernatural ways. Myths are really made-up stories that explain life. In the same way, we all have a personal mythology that now guides us through our life that contains every belief, rule, and agreement we've assembled. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Indeed, the idea that ancient peoples lived in harmony with the environment remains deeply rooted in the mythology of Western civilizations, enshrined in the biblical imagery of the garden of Eden and notions of a golden age of ancient Greece. Yet few societies managed to conserve their soil—whether deliberately or through traditions that defined how people treated their land while farms filled in the landscape and villages coalesced into towns and cities. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Wheat gods and goddesses existed in Roman, Sumerian, and Greek mythology. Today, in parts of China, wheat is still considered sacred. It was introduced to the Western
Wheat (Triticum spp.)
TELLING THE "WHOLE" TRUTH
Hemisphere in the fifteenth century when Columbus came to the New World. Wheat was not cultivated in the United States until the late nineteenth century. About one-third of the world's population is dependent on wheat for nourishment.
Along with modern technology, refinement of whole wheat blossomed. White bread became a status symbol among the Greeks and Romans. By 50 a.d. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  The genus name of European pennyroyal, Mentha, is taken from that of Minthe, in Greek mythology a nymph taken by Pluto as a lover; Pluto's jealous wife, Persephone, turned Minthe into a peppermint plant. The common name pennyroyal derives from an old Anglo-French name for this plant, puliol real. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | Greek mythology reveals
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
CHEW ON THIS! that fennel was favored by Dionysus, the Greek god of food and wine, and that knowledge of the gods was passed on to man via a fennel stalk.
Where Is Fennel Grown?
Wild fennel is the form mainly cultivated in central and eastern Europe, while sweet fennel is grown mainly in France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Much of the seed of European commerce comes from India. In the U.S., California and Arizona are the top producers.
Why Should I Eat Fennel?
Fennel is a source of fiber, folate, and potassium. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts | | TANSY
Botanical Name
Tanacetum vulgare (formerly Chrysanthemum vulgare)
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy Family) Etymology
The genus name Tanacetum and common name tansy derive from the Greek athanasia, in Greek mythology the name of an immortality drink given to the youth Ganymede so that he might serve Zeus as his cupbearer for all time. The species name vulgare is Latin for "common. |
Joseph Campbell
See book keywords and concepts | | In the Orient, a great point is made of the danger of undertaking the
5 John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, his mythology and Traditions (Wellington, 1886-89), Vol. II, pp. 167-171.
Fig. 9 A. Gorgon-Sister Pursuing Perseus, Who Is Fleeing with the Head of Medusa psychologically disturbing practices of yoga without competent supervision. The meditations of the postulant have to be adjusted to his progress, so that the imagination may be defended at every step by devatas (envisioned, adequate deities) until the moment comes for the prepared spirit to step alone beyond. As Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Interval Training for Fat Loss
HOLD ON TO your seats because I'm about to burst one of the biggest bubbles in exercise mythology The "fat-burning zone" is an urban legend.
Like most urban legends, slaying it is easier said than done. Treadmill manufacturers continue to insist on putting "fat-burning" programs on their machines, and legions of aerobic teachers continue to teach people that they must achieve some mythical heart rate zone during exercise to lose weight and burn fat. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | The pomegranate appears in Egyptian mythology and art, and was carried by Egyptians in the desert because of its thirst-quenching juice. The ancient city of Granada in Spain was renamed after the fruit during the Moorish period. Spanish conquistadors brought the fruit to the Americas in the early 1500s. found in the fruit is the exact same number of commandments in the
Where Are Pomegranates Grown?
Pomegranates grow abundantly throughout Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, and the United States. California's San Joaquin Valley is home to most pomegranate orchards. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts | | Etymology
The genus name, Mentha, is taken from that of Minthe, in Greek mythology a nymph taken by Pluto as a lover. Pluto's jealous wife, Persephone, turned Minthe into a peppermint plant. The species name piperita is Latin for "like a pepper," in reference to the plant's peppery taste. The species name spicata is Latin for "like a spire," in reference to the terminal spikes of flowers.
Also Known As
Arabic: eqama (M. x piperita), nana (M. x piperita) Armenian: ananookh (M. x piperita) Bulgarian: giozum (M. spicata), menta
(M. x piperita) Cantonese: liu lan xiang (M. | | VIOLET
Botanical Name
Viola odorata
Family
Violaceae (Violet) Family Etymology
The genus name Viola, from which the common name violet derives, itself derives from that of lone (or Io), in Greek mythology a woman whom Zeus took as a lover. Zeus's wife, Hera, was jealous. To hide lone from Hera, Zeus turned her into a white heifer. lone wept, and Zeus turned her tears into violets to give her something wonderful to graze upon. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |  Our mythology repeats that; we do not have stories where anyone lives happily ever after."8
Because depression was not considered a negative condition, SSRIs have been slow to take hold in Japan. No SSRIs were sold there until 1999. In order to create a market, pharmaceutical companies had to actually invent a phrase for mild depression: kokoro no kaze, which, roughly translated, means one's soul catching cold. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Apparently, protecting Earth is not high on the priorities list for an agency that has become the Science mythology Department of the United States government. Ever since Bush appointed NASA administrator Michael Griffin to the head post in 2005, NASA's scientific reputation has nosedived into the ground faster than a poorly programmed Mars orbiter. The question on everybody's mind is, simply: What the heck happened to NASA? And why is the agency's top bureaucrat now officially denying that global warming is a problem? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Essentially, Big Pharma must find a way to disconnect the Chinese from their heritage, turning them all into depressed, diseased "white" consumers whose medical mythology worships the falsehoods of western reductionism.
Consequences of the great American invasion
All around the world, America is invading nations through its foods, medicines, consumer products, dangerous economic practices, synthetic chemicals and intellectual property. And everywhere that American products are adopted, widespread disease and death soon follows. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They think it makes them immune to viruses and bacteria that might be found in their bathrooms or kitchens, and thus they believe in the mythology of using antimicrobial soaps to create a sterile environment in their own homes.
This mythology has been promoted by the manufacturers of these products who, through clever advertising, propagate the distortion that bacteria on the kitchen counter and in the bathroom are responsible for making people sick. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts | | Sea buckthorn was said to have been the preferred food of Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  With the energy released by this understanding comes the determination to change our lifestyle, our dietary patterns, to achieve this result. The mythology supported by the allopathic treatment approach, which has indeed not been particularly successful, is that diabetes is a one-way, downhill road to death involving multiple complications. The statistics show that diabetes as currently treated will take off 10-19 years from a person's life. |
Joseph Campbell
See book keywords and concepts | | Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know. As he progresses in the slow initiation which is life, the form of the goddess undergoes for him a series of transfigurations: she can never be greater than himself, though she can always promise more than he is yet capable of comprehending. She lures, she guides, she bids him burst his fetters. And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation. Woman is the guide to the sublime acme of sensuous adventure. |
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