Charles Barber
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 There is a daily drumbeat emanating from the TV and the newspapers informing us that behavior is genetic, hardwired, strictly biological. newspapers, which hardly reported health news thirty years ago, report study after study showing that behavior is biologically inherited and determined. Headlines scream "Man's Genes Made Him Kill, His Lawyers Claim," or ask "Are Your Genes to Blame?" or simply state, as The New York Times did, "Lack Direction? Evaluate Your Brain's C.E.O.": "You can be truly smart and still struggle in life if you lack the ability to plan, [and] organize time and space . . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mainstream media sources are hopelessly influenced by politics and corporate interests, and newsstand magazines, newspapers and cable news shows have devolved into little more than sensationalized shouting matches and commercially-influenced propaganda.
The internet is now the place that intelligent people go to get their information. newspapers, magazines and cable news programs remain primary information sources only for those brainwashed masses that prefer to avoid thinking for themselves. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Chemical Reaction
In the late 1990s, newspapers in Denmark and the Netherlands reported that infants were being routinely exposed to carcinogens and neurotoxins. Babies were sleeping in pajamas treated with poly-brominated flame retardants; they were sucking on bottles laced with phthalate-containing polyvinyl chloride; their diapers were glued together with tributyltin, a neurotoxin normally used to line the bottom of ships to kill algae. The same chemical, it would later be revealed in German newspapers, was used in the jerseys of Germany's national soccer team. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And why, by God, do the readers of all these newspapers just swallow all this information without a single skeptical thought?
This is what baffles me. I guess on the Planet of the Idiots, people just don't think to question anything they read in the newspaper. The internet, they're told, is where all the inaccurate information comes from. But newspapers and magazines? They only report solid facts!
Facts like depression actually causes osteoporosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Old school newspapers -- the kind printed on dead trees -- are dinosaurs. Even TIME Magazine is slashing staff these days, and readers are abandoning printed newspapers in a steady march towards online information. Thumbs up to Wikipedia, the Public Library of Science (PLoS journals) and other open-source projects that engage readers and decentralize information rather than trying to dictate it. |
Charles Barber
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| There is a daily drumbeat emanating from the TV and the newspapers informing us that behavior is genetic, hardwired, strictly biological. newspapers, which hardly reported health news thirty years ago, report study after study showing that behavior is biologically inherited and determined. Headlines scream "Man's Genes Made Him Kill, His Lawyers Claim," or ask "Are Your Genes to Blame?" or simply state, as The New York Times did, "Lack Direction? Evaluate Your Brain's C.E.O.": "You can be truly smart and still struggle in life if you lack the ability to plan, [and] organize time and space . . . |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined," Eric Schlosser reveals in Fast Food Nation.
What's more, in almost all cases, as noted earlier, all this dining out means people also are unknowingly putting into their bodies processed foods often pumped with hidden sugars. "People are consuming products that they wouldn't even dream have sugar in them," says food scientist Russ Bianchi.
"The perfect example is roaster chickens, which are injected with water, salt, sugar, fructose, starch, and preservatives. |
| Why weren't our nation's newspapers, magazines, and TV talk shows brimming with stories containing hard-hitting warnings about the potential for problems that often plague dessert delighters? i
Since my startling sugar discovery in 1998, I've learned that I have a lot of company. Millions of Americans suffer similar fates at the hands of sweets or much-like-sugar carbs.
But emotional turmoil is only part of the story. Your reaction to eating quickie carbs might be less obvious and quite different from my overly emotional Sugar Shrew, hypoglycemic meltdown. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 The headlines in the newspapers across the country suggested that important, new information had come to light on the use of conventional hormones.
Since the WHI made such an impact nationwide, the question to ask is: What were the new findings in the WHI that made so many women and their physicians question the benefits of taking conventional hormone replacement therapy?
The answer to the above question can be summed up in one word: nothing. There was no new information in the WHI that wasn't already available in the past. |
Jack Challem
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 An extreme example is a person who, over many years, has kept thousands of newspapers and magazines—so many that paths between rooms are practically like tunnels. More minor examples of obsessive-compulsive acts include needless hoarding, such as keeping hundreds of rubber bands in a kitchen drawer (rationalized, for example, by saying you'll donate them to a charitable organization, as if it really needs those rubber bands).
Frugality. There's nothing wrong with being careful how you spend your money, but obsessive-compulsive people can take frugality to an extreme. |
| A photograph of her chatting on a cell phone during a holdup was published in newspapers around the country, and soon after that, she was arrested.
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. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Susan Finn, chairwoman of the American Council for Fitness and Nutrition, said, according to a Knight-Ridder newspapers account.
Another influential, outspoken lobbying group is the Center for Consumer Freedom, which Dr. Kelly Brownell describes in Food Fight. "Dressed up to appear to defend consumers and basic freedoms, the Center for Consumer Freedom opposes actions that would hurt food or tobacco companies," Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The internet is now the place that intelligent people go to get their information. newspapers, magazines and cable news programs remain primary information sources only for those brainwashed masses that prefer to avoid thinking for themselves. That's why we're thrilled to be able to offer a program like this Citizen Journalism project: It empowers individuals to take part in the "information democracy" that makes the internet so important for the future of human rights, free speech, government accountability, corporate ethics and so much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A huge load of newspapers on a cart was also pulled right passed the guard and a floor cleaner was pushed by without any inspection. Even a guy with his bike just showed his ID and was able to ride through with his crate on the back, never checked.
Airport security expert Larry Wansley said this needs to be fixed immediately.
"You've got all sorts of items that are going into the secure part of an airport unchecked," he said. "I think that presents a very, very dangerous situation that can be exploited that can lead to disaster. That concerns me. |
Ray D. Strand
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 They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.5
All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system.
Nutritional medicine protects our health by enhancing the natural defense systems God has created for a polluted world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The results of a limited study at Landau University have been reported in newspapers around the world, stating that radiation coming from cell phones may be directly responsible for the disappearance of bee populations around the globe.
However, according to the researchers of the German study its results were based on cordless phones, which work on a different type of radiation than cell phones. The study investigated the influence of electromagnetic fields on the learning ability of bees. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| This meant I often had to reread sections of documents and newspapers so they'd make sense. Meanwhile, my nagging forgetfulness occasionally got me into trouble, like the time it simply slipped my mind to meet my friend Helen for dinner. (Furious, she ended our friendship.)
My dazed mental state also made me accident prone. On one embarrassing occasion, I actually sprained my ankle merely walking down a ramp while covering a film premiere for a national magazine.
\jkjoi i wvyr\: quick guide td the words "sugar," "sugars," etc. |
Jack Challem
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| For example, I read my newspapers under a full-spectrum lamp immediately after waking up, and I feel that doing so helps to sharpen my mind.
Another option is to take melatonin supplements, which are sold without a prescription at most health food stores and pharmacies. You'll have to experiment with the dosage—too little won't help and too much may leave you feeling drowsy. Start with a low dose, such as 250 to 500 meg (0.25 to 0.5 mg), about one to two hours before you go to bed. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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| During this time, there were headlines in the newspapers which consistently pointed to the positive effects of conventional HRT therapy. Doctors went to conferences sponsored by Big
Pharma informing them that nearly every woman could benefit from conventional HRT therapy. The lead articles in the most prestigious medical journals reported on the benefits of conventional hormones. Anyone questioning the use of conventional HRT therapy was roundly criticized.
However, when the truth finally became apparent to all, the use of synthetic hormones did not look so good. |
Ann N. Martin
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 If the company refuses to divulge this information, contact the media, preferably an investigative reporter or team at newspapers, television stations, and radio. Express your concerns and suggest that this might be a viable story for them to cover.
If you would like to join a group concerned with the health and welfare of animals, I have listed some of the groups that have fought numerous battles for animal companions along many avenues. (See Resources.) In the United States many groups exist in every state. |
David R. Montgomery
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 He arrived just as Californians began shaking off gold rush fever to worry about how to farm rhe Central Valley's alkali soils—salty ground unlike anything back East. newspapers were full of accounts of crops that withered mysteriously or produced marginal yields.
The extent of alkali soils increased as irrigation spread across the golden state. Every new irrigated field raised the local groundwater table a little more. Each summer, evaporation pumped more salt up into the soil. Hilgard realized that, like a lamp's wick, clay soils brought the salt closer to the surface. |
| Rutal newspapers across the country carried the remarks of retired president James Madison on the front page when he addressed Virginia's Albemarie County Agricultural Society in May 1818. Madison cautioned that the nation's westward expansion did not necessarily mean progress. Building a nation with a future required caring for and improving the land. Neglect of manure, working the land too hard by cultivating it continuously, and plowing straight up and down hills would rob land of its fertility. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The glut of negative information coming our way from TV, radio, newspapers, the Internet, etc., can hurt the psyche, causing stress and fatigue. Reduce the amount of time you spend watching, listening to or reading the news, and focus on things that bring you joy.
•Be social. Studies show that isolation can lead to depression and early death. We gain energy by being with others (both humans and animals). Make time for family, friends and pets.
•Explore your creativity. Boredom leads to a lack of motivation and energy. Finding a creative outlet that absorbs you is invigorating. |
Michael Pollan
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 Which was itself drifting downward as the women allowed to eat as much fat as they wanted presumably read the newspapers and the food product labels and absorbed the culture's enthusiasm for all things low fat. (This corruption of a control group by popular dietary advice is called the treatment effect.) So it's hardly surprising that the health outcomes of the two groups would not greatly differ—by the end, they might have been consuming pretty much the same diet.
I say "might have been" because we actually have little idea what these women were really eating. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When that didn't work, newspapers came up with the bright idea of charging readers three bucks to read each archived news article.
With that idea buried deeper than a John Deere tractor in a Mississippi swamp, newspapers have now decided they can commit financial suicide by suing search engines to stop linking to their stories. Apparently, none of them have figured out they can simply email Google and asked to be removed from the Google News database. Last time I checked, that was a lot easier than filing a lawsuit. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 It makes a mighty fine name for newspapers, yoga positions, and basketball teams from Phoenix. And it can also help you prevent cancer and osteoporosis.
Yet we also know that that bright little bugger can be a real sun of a gun.
Stare into it, and you'll be blinded by the light (just try to get that song out of your head now). Or bathe in it, and you'll be lobstered in no time at all. The ultimate symbol of life can also be a major generator of death (or at least a heck of a lot of wrinkles). |
Stacy Malkan
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 Europe's Fashion Sense
Helena Norm was flipping through newspapers in her office in Stockholm, Sweden, on a cold November day. She could hardly believe her eyes. The story about phthalates in cosmetics was in every major newspaper in the country, and all over the radio and TV. In 30 years of environmental organizing, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation had never seen so much press coverage of one of their issues. They had just released their new report Pretty Nasty, a European version of the Not Too Pretty report. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The Times also reported that other newspapers use "medical reporters," who are paid to introduce a new product. This practice gives the illusion of "educating" the public, but since it is nothing more than bought-and-paid-for advertising, the words collusion and fraud come to mind. The New York Times, (May 7, 2003) says that pharmaceutical corporations use this method of "reporting" to skirt the law. Such manipulation of the news media reduces the credibility of all investigative reporting. |
| If you watch television or read newspapers and magazines, the glossy, professional advertisements that engulf you present one facet of the pharmaceutical corporations. Their advertisements would lead you to believe that pharmaceutical corporations are doing everything in their power to alleviate your suffering. They spend huge amounts of money on research and development; they support programs for the underprivileged and the elderly; they finance advocacy groups that "educate" the public. What wonderful corporate citizens they are! |
| Enter the "Not-so-good Guys"
Besides the fact that they are tarnishing their own reputations by using these law-skirting tactics, do the reporters/editors/ newspapers deserve a seat with the other suspects by perpetrating these harmful activities? They cannot plead ignorance of the subject matter. They must somehow justify to themselves that "education" and truthful reporting are not necessarily the same. By enabling the distribution of distorted, biased, and/or untruthful information, they certainly should be expected to shoulder a portion of guilt. |
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