Ron Garner
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 Taking personal responsibility for where we are in life is the first step toward improving our attitudes.
Healing on the mental/emotional side comes from being grateful and forgiving, as well as accepting responsibility for the consequences of our own decisions and actions. It is when we run into difficulties that we should be asking ourselves: "What can I learn from this? What am I doing wrong that should be changed?" Challenges and setbacks are opportunities to change our attitudes and beliefs.
Why does our life unfold the way it does? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The last action will require personal responsibility, political action, and corporate accountability. If we do these things, autoimmunity will be a cluster of rare diseases that we treat with effective medicines. If we don't, autoimmune diseases will increasingly devastate families, including five-month-old babies, and will increasingly tax our health-care system. If we don't act now, it will be too late.
The book that follows is astounding. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 There is no getting around the fact that the lack of personal responsibility is the number one cause of people getting fat. Poor food intake combined with the lack of physical activity to burn calories and fat are the primary reasons we are in such bad shape. Our bodies operate on fuel, which is the food we eat. When our cars need gas, we get to choose from three fuel grades: regular, medium and premium. For human beings there are thousands of choices of fuel (food) and various grades that we have to choose from when we need to fuel up — most of it is below grade. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet some ctitics have gone further, suggesting that personal responsibility for health should be imposed by outside authority. Such imposition might be promulgated by employers refusing to hire smokers or drinkers, or by health care providers refusing to insure such people.25 We understand the impulse. Yet we fear that the proposed cure might be more dangerous than the disease, for to implement such a policy might seriously compromise our rights of privacy, which Fran and I, along with many others, hold quite dear. |
| Even more, the emphasis on personal responsibility misses the point almost completely. As I wrote some time ago, the decision to begin smoking is one embedded in cultural practices. Yet these behaviors can and have been influenced by government action, particularly the regulation of advertising. Prohibiting television ads, and at the same time allowing antismoking ads, surely reduced the number of new and continuing smokers.26 The personal really is the political.
The appropriate collective response to the data on cigarette-related mortality is to regulate smoking behavior. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 While women should do their best to take excellent care of themselves during pregnancy, they must not assume personal responsibility for vagaries of biology like miscarriages and rare abnormalities. Ninety-eight percent or more of babies are born healthy. Keep that number in mind as you read through this information. Remember that fetuses are strong little creatures. They pull what they need from our bodies pretty effectively. It is the woman carrying the child, in all but extreme cases, who suffers from any deficiencies in nutrition or health—the fetus gets preferential treatment. |
Jack Challem
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 They absolve themselves of any personal responsibility for what's wrong and then go home and only half-heartedly follow the doctor's advice. We call this "poor compliance."
At the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International, Dr. Ron encourages patients to become "co-learners" who get actively involved in identifying the causes of and the solutions to their health problems. They become passionate about regaining and maintaining good health. Over and over again, Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is not merely a dangerous course of action to pursue, it is the ultimate surrender of personal responsibility for one's own health. It also admits to a male-dominated medical system that womanhood is, indeed, some sort of terrible disease that requires treatment.
Note that the words hysteria and hysterectomy (the surgical removal of the uterus) have the same word roots. That's because a hysterectomy was a procedure originally developed by men and used as a surgical weapon to make women "less hysterical." It was long believed that the uterus was an organ that caused insanity! |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The change needs to take the forms of personal responsibility and societal change. Companies should have to determine the effect of chemicals in developing autoimmunity as well as cancer, and state and federal legislation is needed to compel corporations to make this happen. This book will inspire you to want to do something to protect yourselves and your loved ones; to do what you can to restore a healthy balance between our environment and our bodies. What that something is will vary depending on the individual. |
Ron Garner
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| In short, most of us do not understand how the body operates, and we do not take personal responsibility for staying healthy. We want a quick fix without having to suffer, to take time off the job, or to change our habits of eating, drinking, exercising, and thinking.
RISKING OUR HEALTH
When we become ill and seek medical treatment, we place our lives in the hands of someone else. Except for unexpected trauma situations, do we really want to give total control to someone else? |
| However, for our general health and to avoid developing diseases, we need to become informed and accept personal responsibility for our own health. We need to understand that disease is a process and not a "happening." It is our lifestyle choices that determine whether a health process or a disease process takes hold in our bodies.
In 1994, I began in earnest to change my own nutritional program under the initial guidance of Dr. Robbins. It required hard work and determination to get to where I am now, but it was worth it. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Second, it's all about the power of personal responsibility. Joe wasn't healthy when he started with me, but he resisted a passive "take care of me" attitude, made the effort, never gave up, and became healthier as he aged. He added quality years to his life—and so can you. That's what healthy aging is all about.
I believe a whole new field in cardiovascular diseases is on the horizon—one that can give enormous hope to patients with heart disease. Sustaining cardiac energy metabolism may be a problem, but it's also the solution. |
David De Angelis
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 Hippocrates
Natural healing of refractive errors occurs through education and informing people of their personal responsibility for their own health. More importance should be given to prevention rather than treatment.
Yet, any disease is viewed as something that happens beyond your will, despite preventive medicine and simple rules of living (correct diet, physical training, suitable vitamins, stress lessening) that could bring about not only the decrease of psychosomatic disease (like refractive errors) but also increasing the level of personal well-being and living standards. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Of course we have to take personal responsibility for the aspects of our health that we can control. According to large-scale national research among adults ages 20-74 years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 15 percent in the late 1970s to 32.9 percent in the early 2000s. But pause and think for a minute: Why is it that we are seeing an obesity epidemic today, an eplidemic that has more than doubled \n a mere 3 decades?1
Could it be that people in recent years have lost all sense of self-control? |
David De Angelis
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| The concept of legal ownership and personal responsibility is currently broken by the traditional use of the minus lens as a quick fix.
Glossary
Accommodation: Capability of correctly adjusting images at any distance.
Accommotrac Vision Trainer: Patented system of visual reeducation by machine, which sets up a visual/sound biofeedback system, to let you get used to the correct adjustments at different distances. |
Stacy Malkan
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 We're told to take personal responsibility and make good lifestyle choices, such as eating right and exercising. But there's barely a whisper about industry's responsibility to reduce pollution and use precaution. Tugging the ends of the pink ribbon, one starts to unravel some reasons why.
Raining Ribbons
The pink ribbon was originally neither pink nor was it intended to be used as a marketing tool. It was a peach ribbon developed in the early 1990s by Charlotte Haley, who watched her daughter, sister and grandmother suffer breast cancer. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Some industry observers insist that when food corporations bombard would-be, unsuspecting customers with sensual, pleasurable images or messages about cereals, fast foods, cookies, candies, chips, ice cream, and other junk foods, they may be to blame because, in a way, they're thwarting people's sense of personal responsibility and choice.
In fact, scientists affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom released a study in the Journal of Neuroscience in May 2006, which supports this point of view. |
David Steinman
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 Not only does our current system of agriculture violate concepts of private property and personal responsibility, but the chemicals we use are poisoning our environment and the very intellectual capabilities of our future generations—and their schools.
Given what we know about the ecological impacts of pesticides and fertilizers, particularly on our drinking water, it might seem incredible that some twenty-nine of fifty U.S. states provide exemptions from sales taxes for agricultural chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 As a flower essence, willow helps users to take personal responsibility for their actions and to have increased optimism. It is useful for those feeling bitterness or resentment or tending to blame others.
Edible Uses
Young willow shoots and leaves and the inner bark can be gathered in spring as edibles, they are rich in vitamin C. The inner bark can be eaten raw but is best if dried and made into flour. |
Ron Garner
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| When we take personal responsibility for our health, educate ourselves to understand what is helpful and what is harmful to the body, and change our lifestyle practices and beliefs, we begin to help the body heal. In time, it will reward us with increased vitality.
When we are young, our health is formed by the nutritional and attitu-dinal environments provided by our parents. In adolescence, we start to make our own choices. As adults, our health is created by our beliefs, and by the lifestyle choices we make. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You're talking about taking on personal responsibility, and you've stepped up to the plate and taken this responsibility, and you understand the power that comes with being in a position that you're in -- being able to reach out to so many people. I think that's admirable. My question is: How did you find the strength and the courage to be able to write that first book, to go through that disease transformation process and then be able to just blatantly put it all out there for the world to see?
Rubin: I found my strength and courage in one place, and it's really one word, and it's faith. |
Michele Simon
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 Rather, CCF is more invested in depicting government regulation as a threat to the very notion of personal responsibility.
One goal of this approach is to frame the issue in starkly black-and-white terms: people, CCF insists, are simply wrong to blame others for their own problems.
But of course it's not that simple. Those of us who advocate policy-based solutions do not believe that individual behavior is irrelevant. I certainly don't. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 How to Find a Health-care Practitioner Who Doesn't Use Drugs and Surgery
The most important thing you can do if you want to prevent and cure illness and disease without drugs and surgery is to take personal responsibility for your health! Truly, the miracle for every illness and disease, and virtually every problem you will ever experience in your life, is to take personal responsibility. You need to know that the government is not going to take care of you. Your friends are not going to take care of you. Your family does not have the responsibility to take care of you. |
Michele Simon
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| Myth: Marketing has little impact on food choices
What also often gets lost in the personal responsibility discussion is the fact that the food industry spend upwards of $36 billion annually to market its products. The food business is extremely competitive. While most of us like to think we're immune to advertising, the truth is that corporations do not keep spending that kind of cash without expecting a handsome return on their investment.
The reality is that we are all influenced by advertising, whether we know it or not, or whether we care to admit it or not. |
Jacky Law
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 This was a story that embraced new brain science and profound issues of personal responsibility; competitive business practices in contracting markets and endemic workplace stress; the American mania for civil-liability suits and high-stakes contingency litigation. Crucially, it involved the gulf between authentic public health needs and the commercial goals of the pharmaceutical industry; the public's right to know the unadorned truth about medication and the pharmaceutical industry's tendency to withhold secretive information in the interest of corporate aims. |
Michele Simon
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| They're Not Holding a Gun to Your Head (but Almost)
An overarching theme of industry's personal responsibility argument goes something like this: "Food companies aren't holding a gun to anyone's head." Technically, this is of course true, but the rhetoric rings hollow upon closer inspection. Brandishing a firearm isn't the only way to get someone to behave in a way that goes against her own best interests. Indeed, food marketers have discovered countless other subtler, but nevertheless highly effective, strategies for achieving the same end. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 I will provide an example shortly, but first note how industry messages provide an excuse for depression, lessen personal responsibility and keep doctors from seeking out the real causes of the depression. Take note of these comments from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, one of many drug-industry-financed "not for profit" organizations.
People with cancer aren't expected to heal themselves. People with diabetes can't will themselves out of needing insulin. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 This is a much greater level of personal responsibility, especially in non-emergency situations. This means understanding options, doing personal research on the pros and cons of any important decision, fitting the information discovered into a workable way of thinking about optimum health, and initiating life skills adequate to implement knowledge so as to get healthy results.
Scientific health discoveries are happening at a breakneck pace. It is sometimes years before essential discoveries are implemented in day-to-day health care. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 It has become the socially accepted norm to speak about various issues associated with diet, dis-ease, and our popular food culture in a manner that skirts personal responsibility and diminishes, or completely denies the role of nutrition. Refraining from such language in every day conversations is another valuable way of helping both yourself and others to move in a healthier, more honest direction. To do otherwise is to contribute to the spread and perpetuation of the kind of world in which our old friend Mr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And I've seen others reverse those diseases with medicinal herbs, healing foods, and a transformation in personal beliefs and personal responsibility. The Amazon Herb Company can help people overcome chronic disease and expand their understanding of the true healing potential found inside each of us.
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Part of the reason I'm doing this is because I want to see the Amazon Herb Company succeed. I want to see this product in the hands of 10 million Americans in the next 3 years. |
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